Chapter 24 Lies
"Sister Kanis, Sister Kanis. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
A call echoed in Arcanis' ears.
A familiar figure appeared in the darkness, and by the faint white light, Arcanis saw a child with a dusty face and a black blood on his belly, slowly walking towards her.
Little Ramon's death-white face emerged from the darkness, and on it hung a familiar childlike smile of Arcanis. The cold wind blew on the white-haired girl's face, and the wind carried the characteristic smell of death in the closed tomb, and she stared at little Ramon in astonishment, speechless.
"Sister Kanis, where is the King?"
Arcanis, who was just about to speak, felt as if his throat was blocked by something. She stared at little Ramon, who was looking up and smiling at her, speechless.
"Where's Daddy? I can't find Daddy, and I don't have a cat to take me. He said, "I have a hole in my stomach, the wind is blowing, I am so cold, so hungry, so lonely, Sister Kanis, will you come with me to the king?"
Little Ramon's smiling face became more and more distorted, and it became closer and closer.
Arcanis wanted to retreat, but his stiff body couldn't move.
"You're looking closely, there's a kind of cat..."
"You're lying to me!" little Ramon screamed and pounced, "It's so cold, so lonely, stay with me!"
He pounced on the white-haired girl's face and gnawed on her face,
"Liar! Liar!"
Arcarnes' eyes were dark, and little Ramon's angry accusation echoed in her ears. She struggled, screaming, explaining. I don't know how long it took, but she finally opened her eyes violently and saw a pair of pale green cat's eyes.
The grumpy, fluffy creature she was holding at the hind leg (her new habit) was leaning back on her paws when she saw Arcanis, who also had green eyes, open her eyes, and she retracted her paws and meowed.
Enemies?
Arcanis immediately sat up alertly, listening intently, only to hear the whirring cold wind and the cry of a child coming out of nowhere. It's normal, nothing out of the ordinary.
"What's wrong, Melly?"
Melly gave her a slap with her paw, and Arcanis subconsciously smacked it on the head. The wise cat barked discontentedly and pointed to the side.
The white-haired girl turned her head, the cold wind was blowing on her face, and she was much more sober before she realized that something was wrong. Theoretically, there shouldn't be that much cold wind in the house, but theories often don't catch up with reality, for example, the Empire doesn't theoretically show their people the power of a "fire wand".
There was a big hole in the wall of the house that could theoretically shelter from the wind and rain, and last week it was only a crack in the wall that could only allow Melly to get out. It turned out that it was not too happy to adhere to the overly strict "theory", the crack widened and became another door to the house. Arcanis could even hear the faint cracking sound.
"Damn it. ”
The white-haired girl scolded in a low voice, for fear that if the voice was louder, the house would collapse.
Troublesome things are really one after another, and finally I only need to work ten hours a day, and I get some information at night. The house was not happy, and wanted to give her a color to see.
"Find a new place to rent tomorrow. ”
She hugged Melly, packed her things, and walked out of the house, stepping on the thick dirt of the street, leaning her back against the wall, looking up at the sky, but not seeing the stars. Lead-gray clouds obscured her view of the starlight. She reached for the extradimensional pouch around her waist, where little Ramon's body was placed, and she had wanted to find a chance to bury it.
But....
Liar!
The nightmare echoed in her ears, and she touched Melly's cold back, the shivering cat curled up in her arms for warmth.
Did I risk my life to come back here just to kill a few of the people who planned this? and to get to know the dirty insider?" she thought, little Ramon's dying smile kept coming to her mind. She closed her eyes in agony, lies, lies. What's the use of putting a perfect story? What's the use of putting a beautiful cloak on a dark and rancid reality? The Ramon father and son are still swallowed up by the darkness, and the lie is as fragile as a piece of paper in the face of the truth.
It's obviously a little bit closer, as long as she realizes that something is wrong earlier and makes a little more effort, the tragedy will not happen. Not to mention that ridiculous lie.
She clenched her fists, and suddenly realized that the lie that had soothed little Ramon was only out of guilt, not some sacred virtue. It's more like it was born to relieve one's own pain.
"Hehehe..."
The blue wolf opened his eyes and chuckled.
"Don't grieve over this, brain. Kazkaz suddenly said, "You don't even have a clue now, you don't know anything, revenge is too far away for you." ”
"Shut up!"
Arcanis slammed down the wall behind him with such force that his fingers clicked out of place. She didn't squeak and slowly "corrected" the fingers of her left hand. This monstrous left hand is not strictly a part of her body, so she doesn't feel much pain, and it heals itself and can be reborn, the only downside is that it is too ugly.
"I'm so angry, Alina. You don't deserve the name Arkanis. "All human suffering is essentially anger at one's own impotence." Is it angry, is it painful? Who called you such a weak, incompetent guy? ”
"I'm telling you to shut up. ”
She gritted her teeth and made a terrible grinding sound. Melly pricked up her ears and began to prepare to jump out of the wolf's arms at any moment.
The silence lasted for a few minutes, and Arcanis suppressed her anger as she raised her head and looked at the starless sky. The eyes shot a sharp gaze, trying to pass through the thick clouds....
The next day, the factory, lunch break.
Elena finds Arkanis in the break room,
"Hey, Arcanis would like to go for a snack together?"
"Huh?" said Arcanis, who sat across the table, munching on a mouthful of pancakes.
"Don't eat so much all the time, once a woman gets fat, she can't lose weight. ”
"Gollum.. Phew, I'm not going to get married anyway. Arcanis took a sip of water and flushed the pancake off his mouth.
"Women always have to marry. Elena said, "By the way, there's a free snack, do you want to eat it?" tomorrow. ”
"The house I rented had a big hole. Arcanis said, "I'll have to rent a house today." ”
"This snack is different, it was eaten at the Copperfield family's estate. Elena said in a mysterious tone, "Although, the banquet is a nasty blind date banquet, but as long as you stay in the corner obediently and don't make a sound, you can eat anything." ”
"Blind date banquet?"
"I'm sorry I accidentally told the essence of the matter. Elena said, "I've heard of 'Bloodline', although it is a banned book, many people have a copy at home. Except for the four eternal nobles, everyone is very concerned about the "elemental affinity" of their descendants, so they ...... ”
"The Science of Blood" Arcanis knew that it was a banned book. The main function of the book is to guide the nobles to give birth to offspring with a high elemental affinity, or to avoid giving birth to offspring with a very low elemental affinity, and the defeat of a family often begins with the birth of offspring with a low elemental affinity.
"So we need to screen out the right people among our group of women with good elemental affinity?"
"Yes, that's right. Elena's blue eyes blinked, "It's like breeding dogs, have you heard of it?" The author of "Bloodline", Mendet raised pure-blood dogs, and I don't know how much of his book was inspired by kennels. However, he has always claimed that the inspiration came from his family's peas. ”
"You sound disgusted by this behavior?"
"Of course. "Didn't Christina say that the nobility is not a virtue? ”
"She's talking nonsense. ”
"A, people are the flowers of Kazakhstan, and that is the real aristocracy. ”
"She also said that my capital outside of my ability is equal to zero. "In reality, she is nothing more than a noble lady of noble birth, and she thinks that everything in the world is good." ”
"A, jealousy of others is a bad character. The mild-mannered Elena said that Christina was her idol, and Arcarnes knew that she had a little poem with her, which was full of sonnets written by Christina.
Arcanis was silent, for she looked like jealousy as she was, and it was best not to contradict her friend too much.
"Wait. The blue wolf suddenly remembered something, "What family did you say just now?" ”
"The Copperfield family. She sighed, "You can't always remember people's names." ”
Copperfield... Arkanis silently recited the somewhat familiar name, if memory serves, this family is in charge of the selection of refugees. And several (1) "workhouses" were opened.
"Good idea for dim sum. Her excuse was blunt.
Elena smiled, "By the way, there's another thing, I've got rats in my house. So..."
"So?"
She blinked her blue eyes and said, "So borrow your cat." ”
"Sorry, Merry doesn't lend it. ”
"In that case, you can also move in with you. "I have a spare room in my house, and a girl shouldn't live in a slum all the time." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, someone suddenly shouted with a megaphone, "Extend the rest by half an hour, and postpone the end of work by half an hour." ”
Arcanis glanced at strangely, and when the announcer standing at the doorway turned to leave, she said something to her friend, and her keen ears caught a terrible word
“... Blue vulture..."
(1) Workhouse: A place for the poor to work, but many poor people do not want to go into it.