Chapter 34: Memories [I]
Sun Chenghuan and Li Yaer have not liked to recall the experience of that period of time since many years ago. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's not a pleasant memory for them.
Some of the images, they may even feel a little ashamed.
For example, three big men...... Well, although it was a boy at the time...... One by one, they burst into tears.
Although the result is that three people who were originally in different worlds have become best friends, but that process is really not very pleasant.
Therefore, whenever Erin brings the topic to related things, Sun Chenghuan will pull the topic away.
This time, in front of Li Yaer, Sun Chenghuan was embarrassed to ignore Erin, and he adopted another strategy.
"Lear, tell Miss Erin about it, and I'll see if Jarro is interested in coming over and we'll talk about the old days. ”
After saying such a sentence, Sun Chenghuan ran away.
Only Liar, who was a little embarrassed there, was left.
"Is it a shame?" said Erin, looking at Liar a little helplessly.
"It's a little ......" Li Yaer shook his head with a smile, "Not only is he ashamed, but the three of us actually feel a little ashamed......"
"If it's really hard to say, don't say it. Erin had an understanding look on her face.
It's just a curious feeling in his eyes, no less at all.
"There's nothing that can't be said......" The words were rushed to this by Erin, and if she said anything like that, it was estimated that Li Yaer would feel blushing herself.
Smiling, Li Yaer opened the conversation here.
......
Time goes back five years.
At that time, Li Yaer, who was studying at Yingao Academy, was a very ordinary person.
Although his father was a big businessman in Yingao City, he could enter the local character class to study, but he was not dazzling at all among his peers.
His academic performance has been stable at the third or second place all year round, and he is not the best person in terms of magical talent, martial arts, or various daily knowledge learning.
Until that day, it was summer vacation, and Li Yaer, who was idle at home and had nothing to do, planned to go out of the city to play by himself.
His father was very busy, he basically didn't have time to take care of him, he didn't have any friends at school, and he was not a big nobleman at home, so naturally there were no servants to follow behind him to protect his safety, and Li Yaer was used to playing alone.
It's just that that day, at the gate of the city, he met Sun Chenghuan, who was also studying at Yingao Academy.
Unlike Li Yaer, who has always adhered to the principle of keeping a low profile from his father since childhood, Sun Chenghuan is a person who is more prominent than him in the Yingao Academy.
The most famous one in the Xuanzi class.
When they were at school, they only knew each other's existence, and they didn't have any contact. It's just that when Sun Chenghuan, who is kind to people, and Li Yaer, who has always been kind to others, get together, they will definitely not break up unhappily.
They all wanted to go out of the city, so they just stopped by the way.
The content of the conversation along the way was very polite, from the weather to studies and the like.
There is little common ground. So, they really didn't expect that they would become very good friends in the future.
After leaving the city gate, the two men separated.
Sun Chenghuan said that he was going to the forest to cut some wood, go home and repair some broken table legs or something, Li Yaer didn't pay much attention to it, but went to the small river outside Yingao City.
Fishing.
It is not easy for a child in his early teens to have such a hobby, but it is one of Lial's favorite leisure times, and it is still today, five years later.
Sitting in the shade of a tree by the river, leaning against a tree, watching the fish drift and thinking about things, or reading a book, enjoying the silence.
He could sit by the river and fish all day......
It's just that that day, he couldn't spend it so leisurely.
After a long day of fishing by the river, I was taking out the rice balls and dry food that I had brought with me from my bag, and I was going to make up a lunch just like that, when something strange happened.
On the other side of the river, in the largest forest in Yingao City, something seemed to have happened.
Leaning against the tree and munching on rice balls, Li Yaer suddenly felt the ground shake slightly.
The vibration seemed to come from the forest.
Li Yaer, who felt that something was wrong, began to pack his fishing rod and put it into his backpack, but before he could leave, something strange happened.
He saw dozens of bears that were far more than two or three times taller than the thirteen-year-old Liar, as well as an unknown number of leopards, deer, and wild boars...... And all kinds of wild animals, as if they were being driven by something, rushed to the edge of the forest.
Mighty, like an army.
Thankfully, there is such a river.
It wasn't particularly wide, but it made the animals stop when they rushed to the river.
And Lear?
I'm scared and my guts are about to break.
He was not a martial artist, and the magic he learned was also biased towards the healing ability of the light department, and more importantly, he was only thirteen years old at the time, if these wild animals in the rage rushed directly without the barrier of this river......
His chances of surviving are almost nil.
Not even caring about the fishing rod and bag, Li Yaer ran away from the place where he had been fishing for half a day.
I didn't even dare to rest all the way, and rushed directly to Yingao City.
At the city gate, he reported the incident to the guards guarding the city.
No one believed him.
This forest on the edge of Yingao City has always existed. Legend has it that before the emergence of Penglai Kingdom, this large area, including Yingao, was a lush forest.
It's just that the people of Penglai Kingdom built this city here in Yingao in order to make the traffic between them and the Ace continent smoother.
So, there are a lot of wild animals in this forest.
This is also the raw material of the famous dishes in Yingao City, which makes Yingao people proud.
The countless wild animals that Lear said rushed to the river, as if something was driving them away, was unheard of in the more than 1,000-year history of Yingao City.
Even in the entire history of the Ace Continent, except for the only few distant Saintess recorded in the Sacred Calendar, the summoning magic forbidden spell "Ten Thousand Beasts Running Wild" has caused this so-called "beast tide", this kind of thing has not happened.
"Beast tide"?
Magic has been in decline for almost two thousand years!
However, Li Yar did not intend to give up on persuading the guards.
He knew that the raging beasts couldn't just stay by that river. Either swim over, or find a way around.
Something dangerous must have happened in that forest.
Perhaps even more dangerous than this pack of out-of-control beasts.
He is a small child, he can't do anything, he can only count on these "adults".
It's just that things that are too terrifying will always seem equally too absurd, and the guards who were a little annoyed by Li Yaer's nagging for half an hour were going to drive people away.
At this time, Sun Chenghuan appeared.
There was also a man on his back.
A girl who was not short at all compared to Sun Chenghuan, who was twelve years old at the time. Although it looks like they are wearing something, they should be the same age as them.
It even looks like that girl is a little taller than Sun Chenghuan......
Because boys always start to grow later than girls! Li Yaer, who said dryly, pointed to the girl who was carried on Sun Chenghuan's back as if he had caught some evidence.
On the girl's face, there were three shocking scars, almost visible scars.
At first glance, it was scratched by a wild beast.
Such a deep wound to the bone is very rare, and generally speaking, even if a beast is forced to hurt someone, it usually does not slap its face like this.
According to the instinct of wild beasts, they attack people's throats, and there are far more fragile than faces......
Attacking not at the neck, but at the bone-covered face, it was clear that the beast that attacked the girl had gone berserk.
Such a bloody appearance naturally made the guards, who were not very attentive to it, suddenly nervous.
Even if it wasn't really the beast tide that Li Yaer said, the matter of beasts attacking people like this was already very serious.
What's more, Sun Chenghuan, who was carrying the girl on his back, also said that when he found this girl, there were several dead people around her.
Seeing the seriously injured girl, Li Yaer didn't say a word, and directly began to treat her.
And the two of them became familiar with each other.
What followed was relatively smooth.
The guards reported the matter to the commander of the city guard, and the commander immediately ordered people to go out of the city to investigate, and the result was that a large number of wild beasts had gathered at the edge of the forest, and all the wild beasts were very manic, as if they were rushing towards Yingao City, and only one of the four-man scouts sent out returned alive......
He also suffered a lot of injuries.
The matter reached the city lord, and Li Yaer and Sun Chenghuan, two people who found out about it, were also brought over.
There, Li Yaer knew that Sun Chenghuan had just planned to cut down a tree that was not so thick on the edge of the forest and return to the city, but he didn't expect to be attacked by a bear.
Relying on his magic and martial arts, he managed to repel the bear, but because he was curious why the bear appeared so close to the city, he moved a little further into the forest.
After that, he saw several people in the woods who had fallen to the ground.
They have all been killed by wild beasts.
The death was tragic.
Just when he was frightened by the tragic appearance and was about to run away, he found that the "pile of corpses" was actually moving.
Later, underneath the bodies of several people, he found the girl who was now being treated.
......
After receiving a return from the guards, the entire city of Yingao entered a state of emergency.
The city guards began to assemble, ready for the impending siege of the beast.
But they overthought it.
The beasts that had been "driven out" of the forest seemed to be crazy, but they had no intention of rushing towards the human settlement.
Even, no one knows where they went......
I didn't come to the vicinity of Yingao, and I didn't go back to the forest.
It's as if it's gone out of nowhere......
Moreover, since then, the forests outside Yingao City have been largely free of wild beasts. And Liar, who had always been haunted by this strange thing, spent a lot of time in the forest where there were not many beasts looking for the reason why the beasts fled there......
It wasn't until three years ago that he discovered the perched phoenix.
However, Li Yaer didn't tell Erin about Qi Fengwu.
The kind of things that were recorded in Liar's house, which were also not released, were said to be in the mythological story books handed down from Penglai Kingdom that were on the verge of being lost, and if it weren't for the fact that Ketlan and Sun Chenghuan had also read the books he gave them, they wouldn't know what they were.
It is said that where the phoenix appears, there will be a phoenix.
It is a mythical bird that exists in the myth of Penglai Kingdom.
If that's the case, it would explain why the beasts fled there......
That's the kind of speculation he wouldn't tell Erin.
Time goes back five years again.
In Yingao City, Li Yaer and Sun Chenghuan were treating the dying girl together. One of the two of them majored in light magic, and the other was simply a martial artist, if it was just an ordinary external injury, it would naturally not be a big problem to treat, but in this girl's situation, Li Yaer, who was only thirteen years old light magician, was indeed unable to catch it.
In this case, life magic is needed to restore life force from her body, and it is no longer enough to rely on light magic alone to heal external injuries and heal wounds.
It's not that there are no life magicians in Yingao City, it's just that Sun Chenghuan and Li Yaer don't know each other.
With the idea that to help people to the end, to save people must be saved, they thought of a way.
Before leaving the Castle Lord's Mansion, he found the Castle Lord's son, Cutland.
The most famous person in their class, and the greatest magical genius.
His teacher is the branch leader of the Magic Guild in Yingao City, and if he can get his teacher to step forward, he may be able to find a life mage to help.
Cutland was a little surprised that the two of them were willing to help a girl who had never known each other, and who couldn't even say thank you because she was still in a state of stupor.
Young people have a sense of pride, and when they see others helping them like this, if they don't ask, they will feel a little ashamed......
So, Cutland took Sun Chenghuan, who was carrying the girl on his back, and Li Yaer, who was helping by the side, to the Magic Guild to find his teacher Darsney.
As a result, Dustney was approached by the lord of the city to help prepare for a possible attack by the herd......
Not only Darsney, but almost all the magicians above the third level in Yingao City were sought out by the city lord.
The three half-baked magicians were in the magic union, waiting for Darsney to come back, and at the same time using light magic to treat the girl and continue her life.
It's just that without the help of the life magician, their way of sustaining their life for a short time is not a problem.
Seeing that, this girl's breath is getting weaker and weaker.
Although the death of people happens every day, and Sun Chenghuan just saw several dead people even in the woods, this girl was also turned out of the pile of corpses by him.
But watching a person die in front of him like this is a completely different experience.
One by one, the three boys cast the only healing spell they could now cast.
There was a feeling of helplessness.
Fortunately, just when all three of them were about to give up hope, a female magician happened to come to the Magic Guild to get something, and this female magician was named Fitz, a life magician......
Seeing the appearance of the three boys, the female magician did not bother to hurry back to the city wall to participate in the defense, and cast the healing magic of the highest level of natural magic she could cast on the poor girl.
The girl woke up.
The three boys were a little excited and a little tearful.
It's just that......
The first reaction of the girl who woke up was to scream.
"What's wrong with my face!"
Lear learned to paint sounds.
I have to say that he really has a talent for storytelling.
Erin listened with relish on the side.
It's just that......
“...... I'm not exaggerating, am I?"
At this time, a female voice sounded outside the door, interrupting Liar, who was about to continue telling the story.
Li Yaer was stunned for a moment.
"Sister Jarro has arrived. Erin laughed out loud.
"I guessed it. Lear's expression instantly became very strange......