Chapter 5

Early the next morning, Isabel, who was anxious to find out the truth, could not sleep and fidgeted, she was anxious to find out the truth about her father's visit, but I refused, and then she promised me that she was just going to see and would not continue to find out the truth, so I agreed to her little request. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as Scat and Emily had fallen asleep, I left a note on the table and left Lordam with Isabel.

The streets were deserted, everything was dead silent, and the dark and cold sky hung over the filthy old city, with flocks of crows hovering in the air, and a few still fighting for the dead corpses of rats.

We came to the alley across from the apartment Green had entered last night. Isabel was nervous, she wished I had seen the wrong person last night.

I pointed to the apartment, "That's where your father got out of the car last night and walked in with McCain. ”

"Are you seeing my father's side or front?" she asked.

"I've seen it all, it must be your father, you can't be wrong. Believe me, Scat and I couldn't have been sleepwalking. ”

She didn't seem to want to pursue the matter for the time being, but at this time she seemed to be held back by some kind of force, and she seemed to force herself to see what kind of people lived in the apartment.

To calm her down, I squeezed her wrist and said, "Isabel, it's time for us to go back." ”

She hesitated, looking like she didn't want to leave yet, "Can I be alone for a while?"

"No, we have to get out of here right now. We can't let Scat and Emily worry about us. ”

"Okay. ”

Suddenly, two box trucks drove in the distance. We immediately took refuge behind a corner, and the van stopped outside the main entrance of the apartment. I heard the door open and someone coming out of the car, and the footsteps sounded like there were two people. I heard someone say, "I guess it's probably in Lordham." ”

Another said, "It won't be a few days before it will come to light." ”

But one of them's voice sounded a little familiar to me, as if I had heard it somewhere, a bit like Schuster, and I poked half my face out to see what was going on. This look, as I thought, Schuster and Crankens. Odd. If I'm not mistaken, there's only one possibility, and that's to find the Dark Elemental Shards. If the Dark Elemental Fragment is really on Tox Island, then where should it be?

When Schuster and Crankens entered the apartment, I wondered how the people who came here were all people I knew? I looked around. I found Scat and Emily waving at me from the roof not far away. I also pointed them to the suspicious apartment.

They jumped off the roof and came to the apartment vigilantly. What do they want to do? Are they crazy? I gestured to them many times, motioning for them to leave. At this moment, thunderstorm clouds quickly gathered in the sky, and a howling wind blew on the ground.

"Scat, come here. I shouted.

"I'm going to hunt them all down this time, and they can't get away. Scat said.

Emily pulls out two violet bursts and prepares to kill all the people in the apartment. But at the moment when she was about to drop the bomb. The apartment suddenly exploded with a deafening loud bang. Scat and Emily are also pushed far away by the huge air current. Dust filled the area. Rubble rained down from the sky. I hugged Isabel and buried her head in my chest with both arms so that she wouldn't get hit by a rock.

The entire apartment was bombed to the ground and five people appeared in the rubble, standing there unharmed. The wind quickly blew away the dust, allowing me to see the faces of the men. I saw Greene, McCain, Schuster, Crankens, and one man who turned out to be my father.

Isabel finally saw her father, so she looked surprised. "Father. She muttered.

I was also surprised, "Why is my father here?"

We didn't show our heads, hiding behind the corner and watching what happened.

Scat and Emily got up from the rubble-strewn ground and looked at my father in amazement.

"Miss Olony, you're really uninvited. My father said.

Emily pulled out her bloodsucking knife and prepared to fight, "Henks, I was looking for you. ”

"It's useless, you'll know in a little while whose command you should follow. If you don't come, I'm really having a hard time finding what I need. ”

"What do you need?"

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, it should be on both of you. "My father took out a black crystal, and the surface of the black crystal emitted a black aura. I thought: it must be the Dark Element. My father continued: "This is the dark element I want, but there is still a little fragment missing, and it is also the most important fragment, and when the fragment gets closer to it, its reaction will be greater, and judging from its reaction, the fragment is on you two, you give the fragment to me, obey my orders, I promise to make you one of the rulers of the world, I can share it with your continent and the sea, and help you develop your own paradise, isn't it?"

"Stop dreaming. Scat said.

"Scat, I knew you wouldn't really join our Dark Realm Society, didn't you just want to stop Marko's ambition to occupy Poppy Island? ”

"No one will believe your nonsense. ”

"If you say so, then I can only pray for your soul. ”

Green, McCain, Schuster, and Crankens rush up to capture Emily and Scout alive. Emily threw a few throwing knives at Grimm, but Grimm nimbly dodged them. In desperation, they had to fight to the death, but they were not opponents at all, and they were knocked to the ground by Green and his gang in a row, and they were quickly subdued. The two were beaten to the ground, and McCain stomped on Scato's head and Emily's back. "It's over, my dear, I've been eyeing you for a long time in Lordam. Hand over the shards, and spare you from dying. ”

"Search. My father gave the order.

Scat and Emily were dragged up, facing the wall, with their hands on the wall, and then fully searched.

The lustful Schuster also took the opportunity to grope Emily and deliberately take advantage of her. Emily couldn't take it anymore, so she kicked Schuster in the crotch. He fell to the ground in agony.

McCain laughed at the agonized Schuster as he pulled the pendant off Emily's chest and handed it to my father. The pendant was nothing more than a dark crystal. But it's not like the dark crystal, because it seems to exude some kind of mysterious power, more like a supernatural substance.

My father happily placed the dark crystal in the gap of the dark element, and saw that the small black crystal was tightly attached to the gap. Fits perfectly with the notch. Could it be that this dark crystal is a dark elemental fragment? The dark elemental emitted countless intense black beams. Even Emily couldn't believe that her humble piece of jewelry turned out to be my father's dream treasure.

My father got his wish, and it is likely that he will destroy or rule the whole world in order to achieve his ends. In this way, more than half of the curses on the slabs of the underwater city were fulfilled.

"Father. I shouted, and walked out from behind the wall with Isabel.

When my father saw me, he looked surprised, "Alex, is it really you?"

"Yes. I walked up to him.

"If I'm not mistaken, you must be looking for a dark elemental fragment for me. My good son, I have found it. ”

"Isabel. My baby. Green looked embarrassed when he saw his daughter, "I'm sorry, my daughter, for making you suffer." ”

I gave my father a crying laugh, "Father, why don't you ask Frank and Anthony about them?"

As if he remembered something, he immediately smiled back and asked, "What about Frank?"

I immediately retracted my expression, "They died innocently for your Dark Elemental Fragments. ”

But the father did not feel sad for the death of his son and his men, but smiled, "It's okay, I don't need them anymore, before leaving the Night Island, Emilia, an ungrateful, betrayed me, and she also stole one of my airships with a small group of people, and disappeared." Later I killed all the people who tried to betray me, and in the end only a few people remained, and I don't want you to betray me too, dear. He looked at the shimmering dark element in his hand, "With it, I don't need anything anymore." ”

My tone became tough, "Father, what's the point of this? For the sake of a fragment, you have lost your love, and I suddenly find that I am a stranger to you." ”

"You should be happy, I'm fighting for the living space of our bloodline, humans have ruled the earth for so many years, it's time to change the new master. ”

"I really didn't expect my father, who once made me proud, to be a devil. ”

"Are you crazy, Alex?"

"I'm not crazy, I'm going to stop you. The devil mentioned on the slabs of the underwater city is you, my father. ”

He was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into a burst of maniacal laughter, "Do you hear? My stupid son wants to stop me, he dares to rebel against his father, you see how bold he is, and he dares to say that his father is a devil." ”

I remember Michael saying that no one can control the potential power of the dark element, and that it is meaningless for everyone to get the dark element. Thinking about this, my heart relaxes a lot.

Thunderstorm clouds were rolling, Catatumbo lightning was flickering, and thunder was beating my eardrums like demonic roars. I saw my father holding the dark element high, like a crazy careerist, more like a tyrant about to ascend the throne. A large shadow gradually appeared on the ground, quickly obscuring most of the sky.

I looked up and it was an island floating in the air, the foundation of which was a cone of earth and rock, but I couldn't see what was on top of the island. "Oh my God! what's that?" I asked, surprised.

"Have you forgotten?" said the father, "well, then let me tell you, it was the science center of the Isle of Night, and I gave it a loud name, 'Future Free City,' and I will proclaim to the whole world on the day I rule the world, 'I am the master of the world,' at that time." Isn't it good that human beings will become our own kind and coexist with the world?"

Schuster and Crankens couldn't wait to get over to my dad. I wanted to absorb some of the power of the dark element, but my ambitious father simply couldn't tolerate them, and used the dark element to quickly drain their energy and blood until they turned into a pile of charcoal ashes.

My father laughed wildly and hovered in the air, lightning bolts striking the dark elemental in his hand in succession, as if to provide it with energy.

Suddenly, the dark element emitted an intense, blinding white light. It makes it impossible to open the eyes at all, as if the whole world has turned white. After dozens of seconds, it gradually returned to normal. Our eyes slowly opened. The dark elemental had gradually formed a cloud of black gas that had gradually entered my father's body, making him seem invincible and full of evil.

Countless grimaces dragging black smoke suddenly flew into the roaring sky. They shuttle quickly through the air. One after another, it entered my father's body, and his eyes became blood-red, his bloody teeth and nails grew longer, and the bulging blood vessels were black, and he seemed to be filled with infinite energy. He had already become one with the dark element, and he looked at his hands with boundless mana, and a wicked smile appeared on his face, "It's perfect, it's a thousand, ten thousand times more powerful than I imagined." ”

There are countless battles in my life, I have fought against the Evil Spirits on Poppy Island, defeated Baroque and Ralph, witnessed Catherine's tragic death, witnessed the defeat of Samael and Lilith, and there is nothing more ridiculous than the fact that I am facing my own father today.

Emily picked up a few throwing knives and threw them at my father. But the knives all turned into gas in the process of flying.

My father didn't care, but said to me in that cold voice, "Follow my father on his journey!"

"Nope. I said. "You're not my father anymore. ”

"Isabel. Green held out his hand to his daughter, "Come, come to Father." ”

Isabel looked at Green with a stern gaze and asked suspiciously, "Why didn't my mother come?"

Green was stunned for a moment and replied, "She hasn't wanted to see you since you left Night Island." ”

"What? ”

"I'm right, trust me, she never wants to see you again, never!

"No, Mom would never think like that. ”

Green took two steps forward, "Obedient, dear. ”

"Stop. ”

Instinctively stopped, looking a little annoyed, "I'm your father, how can you talk to me in such a tone?." ”

"Tell me, where is my mother?"

"She betrayed us. ”

"How is it possible? The word 'betrayer' can only be applied to you. ”

"Isabel, you're being presumptuous. My father rebuked, "How bold you are to disrespect your father." ”

"I see, you killed her, right?"

"She's seriously violated the rules of the organization, she's dead, and if I hadn't found out in time, your father would have been nearly poisoned by her. ”

"Nonsense, that's because she sees through the truth about your group of demons. ”

"I originally wanted to dominate the world with everyone after the deed was completed, so that everyone could share the fruits of victory, but there are many people who don't know the current affairs, your mother is the one who doesn't know the current affairs, she wants to poison your father, and she also wants to assassinate me, but your father and I are deeply favored by God, and we did not let her plot succeed, and finally ...... McCain killed her, reportedly leaving her with not even a single corpse. Is that so, McCain?"

McCain smiled evilly and nodded, "Yes." ”

Isabel glared at McCain, tears of anger in her eyes, "You demons, hell won't accept you." Then she jumped high and tried to attack my father.

My father was furious and made just a forward push motion when we were pushed out by a strong air current. His dark power grew, and every time he walked, the buildings behind him would instantly turn to char, then collapse, and the plants would wither in an instant. The strange thing is: how can he control the power of the dark element? Could it be that the Holy Blood of Christ in his body works? He radiated dark energy composed of countless particles from the palm of his hand, easily turning many surrounding buildings into scorched earth, and he also shot dark energy at us mercilessly, but fortunately we reacted in time and dodged his deadly attacks again and again. Isabel then pulled out her pistol and shot him repeatedly. Until the bullets are gone, but the bullets turn into smoke and dust in the air.

It can be seen that my father's dark power is growing and unstoppable. He then used his powerful magic to draw Isabel to him, and with one hand he grabbed her by the neck, lifted her above his head, and said, "Isabel, you fool, it seems that my son has brought you badly." When he saw Isabel's pain, he was very proud. "I think your mother must miss you very much, may your mother and daughter be reunited and die. ”

Green saw his daughter being tortured so much. He was so uncomfortable that he tried to stop my father, but he didn't dare to come forward. It seems that the prediction in the prophetic pool is correct. My father did want to kill Isabel. If she hadn't stopped it in time, she would have died.

"Stop. I shouted, "Father, please don't hurt the innocent, I admit my mistake." "In order not to let the prophecy come true, I also had to bow my head.

My father smiled evilly at me again, "Did you figure it out?"

I know very well that if it continues like this. Not only will we not be able to save the world, but we will risk our own lives in vain. So I feigned submission. In this case, he will not kill Isabel for the time being. I walked up to him, and as I walked up to him, I knelt on the ground, looking helpless, and said in a pleading tone, "Forgive me, Father!"

He threw Isabel to the ground with all his might, then kicked her far away in hatred, then gently stroked my head with his cold hand, and said coldly, "You are not my son, and I am no longer your father." ”

I wanted to take the opportunity to pierce his heart with a silver stake, but I felt a sudden heat in my body, the figure of the fallen angel flashed in my mind from time to time, the five-pointed star the size of a coin also appeared in my palm again, I felt wings grow on my back, and demonic lines appeared on my face, could it be that my hellish power has regained? I stood up and prepared to fight my wicked father to the death.

My father was amazed to see me like this. He focused his dark forces on me again, and I fired back with a red beam. Suddenly, sand flew in the air, and the earth began to shake. The forces of hell fight the forces of the dark elements, and the fate of the world once again hangs by a thread. We all go out of our way to attack, and we only want to kill each other simply.

After several hours of dueling, a thunderbolt "clicked" and split a long crack in the ground, splitting the entire island of Tox in half, and raging groundwater gushing out of the crack, forming a hundred-meter-high wall of water separating my father from me.

Through the wall of water, I saw my father staring at me with devilish eyes, Green lying on the ground with his head in his hands, never daring to look up, and McCain was left with only a pair of tattered leather boots standing on the ground, which I presumably had inadvertently burned to death with a red beam during the duel. I looked back to see that Scat and Emily were lying in a deep pit, and Isabel was pinned down in a narrow corner of a ruined wall by countless flying stones.

My father and I looked at each other with hatred for nearly half an hour, but we didn't react. The wall of water gradually decreases, and finally gradually retracts into the crack. My father's eyes were astonished, he didn't know that I had left the Isle of Night with something more precious than the Dark Elemental Shard, and that was Lucifer's blood, and that the forces of Hell had saved me again at this critical moment.

"What the hell are you?" my father asked me in surprise.

"Don't think you're the only one who is the most powerful in the world. I said, "The laws of the universe are balanced, and if you have great ambitions and want to destroy the world, there will naturally be some people who will stop you." ”

"I can't kill you, because you're my son. He roared into the sky, and a wall of blue flames encircled him in the center. The sky gradually turned blood red, and a little fire appeared in the clouds, and the points of light gradually grew larger, as if something was falling. When I took a closer look, it turned out to be a rain of meteorites and fires falling from the sky.

The whole land turned into hell in an instant, and Green was accidentally hit by a meteorite rain, wrapped in flames, screaming in pain, and was soon burned to ashes. Scato, Emily, and Isabel also hid in the sewers.

My devilish father laughed and said to me, "Just watch the world be destroyed, fool." ”

And I don't care about the father-son relationship anymore, I'm going to do everything I can to stop him, I'm not betraying. but for the sake of heaven. So I struck my father far away with a red beam, only to see him fall to the ground motionless, could he be dead?

He stood up. He smiled at me and then suddenly radiated a dark force at me, knocking me far away, and my body slammed into the ground like a meteorite, but I quickly stood up, instantly came up to him, and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with him. The dark element is cosmic supermatter. He's already fused with the dark element, so it's hard to deal with. Suddenly, he grabbed me by the hair. Baring his bloody teeth and biting down on my neck so hard that I was in excruciating pain and almost fainted. He pushed me to the ground. Mocked: "You fool. You can't win, don't forget that I single-handedly cultivated you. After saying that, he suddenly withdrew his smiling face, stood there motionless, looking very stunned, the muscles on his face contracted slightly, and gradually showed a very painful look, and said in a trembling voice: "No." Your blood ......"

"That's right. I said, "You drank the blood that was shed on the cross." Now you drink my blood again, not only do you drink my blood, you also drink Lucifer's blood, the blood on the cross and Lucifer's blood are anti-grammatic, plus you have added the power of the dark element to your body, multiple supernatural forces collide with each other in your body, and there is a strong reaction, in short, you are insatiable, and in the end you eat the fruit and destroy it in the hands of your most beloved thing. ”

"No ......"

"No one can save you. ”

"No...... You liar, you dare to deceive me, I am unwilling, I am unwilling. "Tiny cracks began to appear in his body, and black liquid flowed out of those cracks, causing the flesh to fester, eventually cracking like a burst of stone, and purple beams of light shot out from the cracks in his body. His face was hideous, and he looked up to the sky and howled, and he was in agony. Hideous grimaces emerged from his body and vanished in the light of purple beams.

At that moment, a bolt of lightning descended vertically, striking him right on the head, turning him into a scattered droplet in an instant.

There was a loud bang in the sky, and when I looked up, there was an explosion in what my father called the "City of the Future of Freedom", which quickly became a sea of flames, and the bottom began to break into countless pieces of rubble and fall into the sea. Eventually, the "Future Free City" suddenly exploded, and a powerful shockwave covered the entire island. For a time, the waves splashed and the sand flew away.

It was all over, and my "devil" father was finally dead.

Isabel, Scatott, and Emily also crawl out of the sewers, and everyone is finally safe, and the world is finally calm. My infernal power is also gradually disappearing, and the demon lines on my face are also disappearing very quickly. I quickly got back to my original appearance.

Buildings on Tox Island have been razed to the ground, and many sleeping vampires have died in their sleep, and the surrounding scene is in ruins, as if they had experienced a catastrophe.

"I didn't expect that dark crystal I picked up to be a dark elemental fragment!" Emily muttered.

"Actually, Schuster found it first. I said, "He got lost on his way to the Alps, and you just happened to pick it up." It's good that you picked it up, but if my father picked it up first, it would be troublesome. ”

"You're a good guy, Alex. All the tragedies were caused by your father, and now that he is dead, I hope we can ...... Get back together and work together to rebuild your home. ”

"What you said is exactly what I wanted. ”

I could have avoided a lot of bloodshed and tragedy, but it happened in the end, and it all seemed like it was meant for me. I looked at the poppy island in the distance and was ready to return to our hometown, because that was the only place where we could live happily.

We found a wooden boat in the harbor and it took us almost half an hour to reach Poppy Island. After getting off the boat, I looked at this beautiful sacred place. Isabel exclaimed, "It's so beautiful, it's the same as before!"

"No, it's more beautiful now than before, and the thousand-year-old ruins of the ancient buildings have blended in with the scenery of the island. Emily said.

It looks like it's just rained, and a rainbow appears halfway up the waterfall and the mountainside. When I finally came back, I knelt on the ground with a "plop", closed my eyes, opened my arms, and received the baptism of the spring breeze on Poppy Island.

We first arrive on the outskirts of Santa Freya, where the hills that were fought thousands of years ago and ended in the so-called "Last War of the Poppy Island", and the bloody war is still fresh in our minds, and although there is no sign of the battlefield here, the smell of this place is always so chilling. It makes people feel that war is everywhere.

We walked through the wilderness of rejuvenation, along a green field outside the dark forest towards Santa Freya. The dark forest was no stranger to me, for since I was seventeen years old, I had often gone there with Hayek Harold, the most famous wizard and astrologer of the Dark Society, to gather strange flowers and antidotes. Hayek was a great figure in the area. Some say that he can understand animals and even predict the future of the universe. I thought: in addition to the good preparation of medicines, he only knows some astrology, not as amazing as people say, he is not the kind of person who is not ashamed to speak. Now I want to see him pop out of the blue from behind some big tree and scare me.

Walk through a small wooded area on a green hill to see the ruins of the city of Santa Freya, the former most prosperous city on Poppy Island. The Misdem River, which flows through the middle of the city, still exists. The water inside is still crystal clear.

We walked into the city, and the weathered battlements did not erase the scars of the war. Today, although only a spectacular ruin remains of Santa Freya, it has become one with the surrounding greenery and forests. It's indeed more beautiful than before.

Isabel looked curiously at the ruins of the ancient city, which would have seemed strange to her since she had left when she was six years old. Only a third of the city was built. But for me, it's full of memories. When I climbed the battlements and came to the "Last War on Poppy Island", some of the defenses I had held on to still had rusty arrows stuck in the cracks of the walls, and the arrows had rotted away from the corrosion of time. I still remember the rows of sharp arrows that were fired at me when the enemy attacked the city. I remember once getting hit by an arrow, but only slightly injured.

Isabel also ascended the battlements. She stopped as she passed a broken wall, pointed down and asked, "What's that?"

I walked over and looked down, and it turned out to be a fragment of an iron ball with spines. I said: "Of course I know, it was fired by an enemy trebuchet with a large amount of gunpowder that could not be extinguished once ignited, and a huge explosion when hit a hard object was made," I said. "I remember I was on the side, and on that night of the war, the battlefield was in chaos, and a small stone could hit one of my own people. At that time, this iron ball was on fire, dragging a long tail of smoke, and flew towards this side with lightning speed, I shouted for the soldiers defending the city to hide quickly, but it was too late, the huge iron ball hit the battlements, and suddenly exploded, I was pushed far away by the powerful shock wave, and my ears seemed to be deaf, and for a few minutes I couldn't hear anything, only to see many soldiers being blown up into the sky, and some were blown up beyond recognition. At that time, I had an officer named Nawak Haiya, who lost an arm on the spot and was blind in one eye, but he still insisted on lifting me up, and then sending me to safety, and finally went into battle again, and then ...... I don't know if he's dead or alive. The sun came out of dawn that day, and all I knew was that many people were either killed or scorched by the sun, and where the sun shone only my father, who had drunk the Holy Blood, survived, and nine times out of ten Nahuak was roasted to death.

Emily seemed a little tired of hearing about the war, "Can we stop talking about the war?"

I gave her a smiley face, "Okay, don't talk about it." ”

Although it was a ruin, I found my former home, the ruins of my manor house are still a little outlined, overgrown with weeds, poppy seedlings growing out of the soil, the statue of the white horse that I used to touch as a child has been wrapped in vines, and everything in front of me reminds me of my past. Nowadays, no one knows about the former glory of Santa Freya, and it is only by combining these relics with memories that a scene that was once unforgettable can be conjured up in the mind.

We passed the ruins of the Siegfried family's old manor, which now only has its foundations and stone pillars, almost in harmony with its surroundings. We walked down a path paved with rough marble tiles, and the giant sequoia trees that had lived for thousands of years became the only iconic sight of Siegfried Manor.

The 6,000-metre-long garden that once made the Siegfried family so proud is now left with a spectacular ruin, estimated to be only 4,000 metres high, with a large amount of moss and vine-like plants growing on it, and a large area of rubble and rubble that has been shed by the erosion of time is scattered around it. It's a pity, it's a classic!

I don't know if I can rebuild the peak era of Poppy Island with my own meager strength? Looking back at Poppy Island in peacetime is like a dream. It was a time of swords and sorcery, and Santa Freya was bustling with hustle and bustle, with the occasional "clanging" sound of iron from Joseph Pike's blacksmith's shop on weekends. There would also be a large number of customers flocking to Groom's wine estate to place a large number of orders, and Groom's business was so hot that sometimes the wine for sale could not keep up with the orders delivered to his door, and he would always fall into the trouble of happiness, and I remember Miss Anna Kingsley's thriving night beer hall, and Anna was a very good female friend of mine, and a very humorous girl. Whenever she met me, she would always make some very humorous jokes with me, when I was depressed. Just go to her beer hall and chat with her for a while, and my mood will become cheerful. In addition, she is also the royal makeup artist of the Poppy Island Cultural Festival, and her makeup level is superb. Diagonally across from the Night Beer Hall is Delphi Cooper's Holiday of the Gods. It was a majestic building, the only bookstore in Santa Freya and the largest on Poppy Island, the size of a football field, with five floors, and Delphi Cooper's office on the fifth floor, which I visited seven times, and each time I went there I saw the astrologer Hayek Harold. He was responsible for writing 90 percent of the books in the bookstore related to astrology. It's a pity that there are no other ruins than ruins that can be seen now, but not all the people on the island are dead or left. We should try to find survivors on the island.

"There should be one more person on the island. Scat said.

"Who?" asked Emily.

"Veronica, if I'm not mistaken. Isabel said.

"You can look for it. I said.

"In fact, you can find more than one person, maybe you can find a lot, who will leave this beautiful paradise easily?"

"Let's look and see, as much as we can find, whose home is closest to here?"

"I don't remember exactly. ”

"Alex, you know all famous people, so they don't live in the city, they all have their own land, they should go outside the city, the closest to Santa Freya should be Eric Ian Grant's house. Emily said.

"Really? I said.

"You want to find your old acquaintances, and I want to find my old acquaintances, so let's find each of us now. ”

"That's a good idea. ”

So Isabel and I went out of town, intending to find it at Eric's house, hoping that Veronica was safe.

I quickly found Ian Grant Manor, located on the shore of Canglong Bay, on the shore of Canglong Bay, which was Eric's home, and although Eric's courtyard looked a little old, it was still well preserved, and it looked like someone lived there. We approached the courtyard and tried to find out Veronica's whereabouts.

The courtyard was empty, overgrown with weeds and covered with cobwebs, exuding an eerie aura, not like it was inhabited. It is estimated that after Eric's death, it has been left unattended.

We ventured inside, and the occasional rat snuck through the gloomy hallways and stairwells. To test if there was anyone living here, I symbolically shouted, "Hey, anyone?"

There was no response after a long time, and it seems that the owner is not at home. In this way, we can't just hang out inside while the owner is not at home. So I decided to wait outside until the owner of the manor appeared, and just as I was about to go out, Isabel said, "Wait." She pointed to the stairs, "What's that?"

I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw fresh blood on the stairs, and as I got closer, I smelled rat blood. I looked closely, and the blood was spreading up the stairs, and we curiously followed the blood up the stairs, and not only was there blood on the ground, but there were also bloody handprints on the handrails of the stairs, which were probably left by the owner of the place. I also found the carcasses of several rats, their blood had been sucked dry, and it seems that the owner of the house had to rely on rat blood to feed and clothe in order to survive.

Guided by the bloodstains, we found an attic with an unlocked door, which I gently pushed open and walked in, followed by Isabel.

The attic had a large hole in the roof, and in the corner lay a broken coffin with an open lid.

Suddenly, a woman's sobbing voice came from a dark corner, occasionally revealing a hint of fear: "Please, don't hurt me." ”

We looked into the dark corner where the sound came from, and saw a girl in tattered clothes curled up there. She hugged her calves tightly with her arms and pressed her face to her knees, looking weak.

"Who are you?" asked her.

She didn't answer. Still sobbing there.

We boldly stepped forward and tried to see what she looked like. She was pale-skinned and had two fat, dead rats beside her. She slowly looked up, revealing her eyes that looked like they had severe cataracts, and I realized that she couldn't see, so I concluded that she was Veronica. Although she can't see, she can sense everything around her with her keen hearing. She begged us not to hurt her. The fear of the unknown caused her body to tremble.

"Veronica. Isabel said.

The blind girl was stunned for a moment, as if she realized something, and her body no longer trembled. A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, and her neck stretched slightly, as if she was listening, as if she was collecting the scent around her. "It's a familiar tone. You know my name. Do you know me?" she asked calmly.

"We met when we were kids. ”

"I'm sorry, I can't really say your name. ”

"Veronica, you must remember me. I said.

"Sir, are you ......?" she asked, speculatively, as if she had suddenly remembered something, "Are you Alex?"

"I'll tell you the truth, I'm Alex, I didn't expect you to remember my voice. ”

"In a blink of an eye. Thousands of years have passed, so many years. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, I'm next to Isabel Siegfried. ”

"Could it be that she's Green's daughter?"

"Yes. ”

"Thank you so much for coming here to see me. ”

"You've lived here for all these years?"

She fumbled to her feet, "Yes, but I don't live here, my father built me a secret room in the courtyard, and it's safe. ”

"Marco and his gang are dead, the war is over, you are safe now, no one will hurt you. By the way, are you alone here?"

"Yes, but every time my father was not at home, there was always a woman who took care of me, and she always didn't say a word, and she didn't answer any of my questions, and I still don't know who she is. ”

"This woman must care about you. ”

"Over the years, she has given me a lot, but I can't see her. ”

"Does your father know?"

"I didn't tell my father because the kind man used to hold my index finger and write on the table, 'Don't tell anyone,' and although I couldn't see it, I could still tell what was written by the touch and strokes of my fingers on the table. Since she didn't want me to tell anyone, I had to say yes to her. Okay, let's not talk about that, let's sit in my secret room. ”

Veronica takes us out of the attic, and her years of experience have given her a good idea of the directions in the courtyard, and she doesn't need to use her eyes or be guided to find exactly where the secret room is.

Entering the secret room, the first thing I saw was the portrait of Eric on the wall, the work of the famous painter Figaro Salva of the Poppy Island.

Veronica went to get a new outfit and brought us tea. It's a pity that a beautiful girl like an angel turned out to be blind, but she didn't feel inferior, but always maintained an optimistic attitude. "Do you have any plans for coming back this time?" she asked.

"The outside world is complicated and dangerous, so we will never leave again, never, never. I replied.

"I'd love to see what you look like, but it's a pity...... I can't see. ”

"There is a way. I took out the vial of potion that Raphael had given me, "I have a potion here, you drink it, and your eyes will be healed." ”

"You're kidding, I was born blind, and no one can cure my eyes. ”

Actually, I don't know if Raphael's potion works or not, so I can only let her try it first. "This medicine was given to me by a friend of mine, and I believe in his medical skills, and I hope you will believe it too. I pulled the cork from the vial and handed it to her.

She took the bottle and sniffed the golden liquid inside, "This is the first time I've smelled it." ”

"Drink it and your eyes will be fine. Isabel said.

Veronica gently poured the potion into her mouth and returned the remaining half of the bottle to me, "I'll drink a little more, maybe more people will need it." ”

She is really a kind girl, and she must think about others before treating herself. "What do you think?" I asked.

After a few seconds, she blinked, and the white substance in her eyeballs quickly faded, and the color of her eyeballs gradually returned to normal. She put her hands in front of her eyes, and with a look of surprise, she was suddenly a little overwhelmed with emotion, and it was a long time before she said, "I saw it, it was amazing, I saw it, I really saw it, is it true? Thank you so much, Alex!"

"Go look in the mirror and see your beautiful face. Isabel covered her eyes as she spoke, slowly pushing her to the mirror, trying to surprise her, and then suddenly removed her hands from her eyes.

Veronica was overwhelmed by herself in the mirror, she didn't dare to blink, for fear that in the blink of an eye, it would all turn into a dream. She stood in front of the mirror for a long time, as if reminiscing, as if in contemplation, and saw her burst into tears, "How can I thank you, Alex, and I will give you all the property that my father has left me." ”

"By all means, what do you think of me? I'm just trying to cure your eyes, and I don't want anything else. Now, I just want to be able to live with peace of mind. Your eyes are restored, and your father is relieved in heaven. I said.

"Thank you so much!"

"Veronica, how many people are there on the island?"

"I don't know, it shouldn't be a lot. ”

"One more thing I want to ask you, when does the woman who takes care of you usually come to you?"

"Estimated to get late at night. ”

"You must be important to her. ”

"I really want to know who she is. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, she could be your mom, Valerie. ”

"My mother?"

"Yes, there will be no one else but her. ”

"If it's really her, it couldn't be better. ”

"You were born blind and it has something to do with your mother. ”

"But I don't blame her, because she's always cared about me, and I really wanted to meet her and see what she was like. ”

"Be patient, if she is really your mother, I congratulate you on the reunion of mother and daughter. (To be continued.) )