"Oh, Thatch, my son..."

"Father..."

"Sister..."

When Link and Dennis returned to the village to tell their people about the tragic misfortune of their companions, the whole village was plunged into great grief: the families of those who died were crying out, and we, the survivors, bowed our heads and fell silent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 InfoLink slowly walked up to me and Neil and said, "Thank you very much, my friend, without your help, I and the others would not have been able to come back alive, now you are the benefactor of our village, please rest here tonight!"

Sophia also ran over at this time, and although she looked sad, she still took Neil's hands and me and said reluctantly: "You guys just stay, big brothers~"

However, there were still opposing voices, and several unknown black goblins next to them began to shout: "No, we have already set the village rules that we will never interact with humans, these are all summed up through our blood lessons, although these two boys saved some of us today, but humans are human beings after all, and I don't know when they will do something bad tonight!"

"How can you speak so to our benefactor?" Dennis rushed over to hold us up.

"Are we wrong? How many human losses have we suffered? There are so many more dead than in this incident!" said someone in the crowd.

At this moment, Neil and I were standing in the crowd in the village and felt a lot of people staring at us angrily, and we felt extremely embarrassed. Because of the bad things done by those scum a long time ago, now we have to bear this accusation, what a grain of rat poop spoils a pot of porridge!

While Dennis, Link, and the others were arguing with the villagers for us, an elderly man on crutches appeared, and she looked very old as a black elf: with a saddled back, loose skin, heavy bags under her eyes, squinting, and even her silver hair was dry and dull. She walked to the center of the crowd and waved her hand, and everyone suddenly fell silent, it seemed that this elder should be a figure like the village chief or elder.

I only heard her say slowly: "Don't quarrel, everyone, these two human teenagers saved the people in our village, they are indeed our benefactors, and we can't repay virtue with resentment." But we will not forget how humans treated us before, these are the memories of blood, and we also moved here because of this, and fell into the treacherous environment of fighting against these monsters all day long. So," the elder turned his head to me and Neil, and said, "you can stay in the village tonight and rest," she said in an accentuated tone, "you must leave tomorrow when the sun rises, understand?"

Neil and I nodded at the same time, and the old man waved at everyone, letting the crowd disperse, ending the argument and asking Link to come and take us to the resting place.

Link led us to a small log cabin in the southeast corner of the village. When I opened the door, the interior was plainly decorated, all of which were made of wood, and there were two beds in the room. I couldn't wait to throw away the steel gun and luggage in my hand and lie on one of the beds, well, I can finally relax, today has been a fierce battle since the afternoon, and there are many dangers: first I was chased and intercepted by the slime army in the mine, and I finally escaped and had to be a good person, helping the black goblins save their companions, and was almost eaten by the disgusting spiders. I'm so tired~ I must have a good night's sleep tonight to replenish my strength.

Link walked over to the fireplace and lit the firewood, filling the room with light and warmth. Neil slowly walked to the other bed, put down his luggage, longbow and quiver, and said to Link, "It's cosy here, I'm really bothering you." ”

Link turned back to us and said, "The owners of this room are brothers and my best friends, but they're no longer here tonight... But I'm sure they'll be happy to let you live in their house. ”

When I heard Link's words, I lost my excitement and slowly sat up from the bed and said to him, "I'm sorry, Link, tonight was a tragedy. ”

Link said in a low voice, "It's okay, we have to happen to this kind of thing a few times a year. I've been used to having to fight for our lives against such ferocious and cunning monsters ever since we moved into the Black Forest. ”

Neil walked up to him and said, "You can move out of this damn place, it's too dangerous here, and it's not the same outside now. Most of the people out there are still very friendly people, and the people you used to meet were just some vicious bad guys. ”

Link shook his head, "We don't trust humans anymore, and you don't know how deeply we've been hurt by you. We believed in the gift from your humans, only to find out that it was the culprit of the mass death of our people......"

"No, at least I know you're trying to trust us humans. I walked up to Link and stared at his green eyes and said, "When Neil and I asked for help to save people, you were a little hesitant at first, but I could tell you still wanted to believe us. You know in your heart that we're not bad people, so trust us to help you, and we do. If you didn't believe us, like Ted, we wouldn't be talking here. Link, you're not like the other black elves. I can see that you want to believe us humans, but you are still afraid inside, and the fear of being hurt again is why you are so indifferent to our appearance. Am I right, Link?"

At this time, I saw Link's eyes twitch a little, and his expression changed slightly. He stopped talking, turned his gaze to the ground, crouched down and picked up my steel gun. The gun has been the victim of two great battles: first the acid corrosion of the slimes, then the wheel warfare of the spiders, and now it is in tatters. He looked at my gun and said, "This gun is no longer usable, I'll ask Dennis's father to make you a new one! Then he turned his head to Neil and said, "You have not much bow and arrows left, so I will make them up for you tomorrow morning!"

Just as he was about to go out, I pressed his shoulder: "Link, the world is so big, don't you want to go and see it? This world is actually not so bad, living in fear and hatred forever is not life, at most it can be regarded as survival!" Link still didn't speak, and then broke free of my hand and walked into the night. Neil and I didn't catch up, but just watched the "lonely" black elf quietly in the house...