Chapter Erqi: Heavy dreams

It's painful...... My head hurts. It was as if he had been guillotined, stuck in the neck, waiting for the guillotine to fall directly above his head. The body is heavy and has little strength. The wolf orc Lin woke up and opened his eyes, and Lu next to him was still asleep, and everything around him was dim and obscure, and he couldn't see clearly.

It should still be early in the morning. He scribbled the time according to his biological clock and yawned heavily. This also shows that in a few hours, they will be on the execution table and forced to end their lives.

They've been deceived after all...... Stepping into this land of opportunity with hope, only to be caught in a dead end because of his own stupidity; The child who appeared gave them a meager glow in the darkness, and he tried with all his might to catch it, only to find in the tent, which was filled with death and the stench of death, that the light was only a phanteur of his imagination.

His throat thumped, and the corners of his eyes were indescribably sour. In case, if he took advantage of this time to escape, would he let his compatriots ...... What about the orcs who are not even their fellow citizens? He didn't understand, and he wasn't going to understand. He wanted to run away. But where can you run to it? Even if they escape, how can they survive?

Lin gently lifted the curtain of the tent, bent down, and cautiously got out. Taking advantage of this time, he hopes to go outside for a walk. What kind of guards to go to him, what kind of escorts to go to him! Anyway, I'm going to die, so I can do whatever I want with this rotten life, right?

It was empty outside, there were no guards walking around outside as he had imagined, no blades that flickered with fire, only the light of the stars that shone at night. He swallowed his saliva, wiped the tears that could not help but flow from his eyes with his elbow, and in the blur, he saw a man in front of him.

It's the kid.

"Why did you get out?" The little boy turned around, only to see a strange blue-purple light emitting from his pupils, "There's still a lot of time, don't rush." ”

There was also a milky white ball of light suspended in his hand, and the wolf orc cautiously stepped forward, trying to see the contents of the ball of light, but was blocked by a small hand.

The boy yawned, a light smile still rippling at the corner of his mouth: "Do you think you can live?" ”

"You said you would save us." Lin clenched his fists and said word by word, "You'll save us, won't you?" ”

"Yes, yes, save you, save you...... Can't you ask something interesting? The ball of light in Merlin's hand suddenly shrank to the size of a marble, and with a strong toss, the small ball of light disappeared in the air, "For example—"

"Please." The wolf orc looked deeply at Merlin's face and swallowed, "Help us." ”

The smile on Merlin's face vanished, and his lips pursed, "I don't understand you. I don't understand death either. I'm just a kid, I'm just a kid, there's no need to ......"

"Save Our ......"

The boy's feet snapped back, and a small pile of mud and sand suddenly rose from the place where he had been standing, and the wolf orc blinked in confusion, only to find that the shining eyes had filled his vision. He took a half step back, but there was no way to pull it out of the lilac. Lin rolled his eyes, only to feel that the sky was spinning, and he leaned back with a bang and fell to the ground.

"You...... Didn't you say it, it's not time yet. So, let's get some sleep. Merlin spoke faintly, the long hair behind him slowly floating backwards, the lilac of nightmares slowly dyeing the ends of his hair.

Now is not the time.

The sky slowly brightened, and Lin woke up from the tent in a daze, and found that Lu was still lying beside him, and he always felt that this scene was familiar. He twitched his ears, and always felt as if his head had been knocked more than a hundred times by a hammer, and it hurt to death......

Today should be the last day left on earth...... No, it's probably the last morning. Because they have been condemned by humans as participants in the orc rebellion and are about to be put to death.

Lin covered his head, his face was hideous, and a hand came out in front of him, and he stood up with this hand dangling. He seems to have forgotten something, forget it, at this point, there is no need to think about it anymore.

The orcs were asked to line up in two lines, and before they even had time to eat the last severed meal, they were escorted to the over-packed guillotine like a dog. Along the way, no one wailed, no one shouted to resist, and no one was willing to make any noise. Even the usual talkers and jokers kept their mouths tightly shut today, occasionally glancing to see if any orcs wanted to escape behind them.

Sadly and sadly, none of them ran away, as if they had decided that they were lambs to the slaughter. To be honest, they won't care if they run around one or two here, who would spend so much effort to find an orc in such a large area? If you don't have the money, you want them to do such a thankless job, which is obviously a fool's dream.

On the other hand, the orc race seems to be born with a lack of tendon in its head, and it is simple to the point of cruelty. They don't know what hypocrisy is, and they probably don't know what deception means until they die. No matter how downhill they are, they will only carry everything on their own shoulders and will not blame others.

The building in front of them was large, but the door was small, and some of the taller orcs had to bend down to enter through the opening.

Sheldon didn't want Merlin to see the bloody scene, so he left Merlin in the empty tent, and the execution was only for an hour or two anyway. It's ridiculous, it took them more than ten or twenty years to grow so big, but it only took a dozen seconds to kill them, and it only took dozens of minutes to kill them.

"You didn't bring your little Marlin to see the execution, you are really incompetent, didn't you say anything to show him?" Plylius teased Sheldon as he raised an eyebrow, "This errand turned out to be so much easier than originally expected, and I even feel a little embarrassed to collect this money." ”

"I like money, you can give it to me if you don't want it." Sheldon smiled at him, "And, I can choose what 'my' son can and don't see." ”

He put a special emphasis on the word "I" and made Prilius stunned for a moment.

The man, who was half a head shorter than Sheldon, said stupidly, "Tsk, you can't ...... a joke."

Merlin is Sheldon's minefield and is not to be touched by anyone. Because he is...... Merlin's Hope. He is also a very important person.

The width of the building is fully appreciated when you enter the building, the central execution table occupies only a small part of the open space, and the rest of the place is crammed with dense seats, as if the original intention of the building was to make many people watch and have fun.

It's such a wide place, but the overall atmosphere seems to be as cramped as a small box, making everyone subconsciously want to escape. At this time, the orcs also reacted, but they were all roped in advance, even so tight that they were strangled into the flesh, and as long as they moved, blood was dripping.

Mr. Lin felt as if he had forgotten something, and this premonition became stronger and stronger as he approached the rusty guillotine.

"I always feel like there's something missing here." Lin said softly to Lu, who puffed up his chest beside him, "But I can't remember ...... clearly."

"Did you take the wrong medicine?" Lu glanced at Lin suspiciously, "Or are you sick?" Your face doesn't look good in the morning. I'm about to die, what do you want to do so much? It's better to puff out your chest and ...... honorably as an orc."

Dead, yes, dead.

Lin also puffed up his chest and didn't think about it, after all, only when they died, could they exchange the right of the orcs to live in Yaris. In fact, this is all self-consolation, self-inflicted. He knows it all. Everyone doesn't want to die.

Because the guillotine has not been used for too long, it has become rusty, and it is estimated that the speed of sliding down will be greatly slowed down, and the mercenaries have spent a lot of effort to polish the rust off the surface. The orcs did not dare to listen to the sound of "pong" when sharpening their knives, as if they would cut off their ears just by listening to this sound.

There are only two guillotines. Watching one's companion die is also a difficult and painful act.

The two orcs struggled to be pinned under the guillotine, the wooden frame locked up and down, and there was no way to break free.

The people in the audience seemed to be looking at two writhing bugs, and above the bugs was a guillotine with a cold glow, and a rope was held above the guillotine, and the executioner stood beside the rope, holding the axe in his hand with a blank face.

"The first batch!" The official slashed his hand up and down, shouting loudly for him to do it.

Zheng! The thick rope was cut at once, and the cold cold light increased sharply from top to bottom, and even split the surrounding air, making a whirring sound!

"Absolutely unyielding—"

Sincere! The sound was cut off here, but it echoed leisurely and cruelly in the vast space. The eyes of the two hideous heads protruded, and the mouth was full of blood foam, and a large stream of thick, bright red blood first spurted out from the fracture, and then slowly flowed out along the incision.

The executioner's thick legs slammed into the headless shell, and the smell of blood suddenly spread through the air. The blood of orcs is more than two or three times heavier than that of humans.

It's like a kitchen knife slashing on a chopping board, and the headless body is pressed one by one. Lin saw his own people being kicked under the guillotine by the executioner, and his body trembled slightly.

Even in the back, the corpses were piled up too high, and they had to be removed with the help of men. No one wanted to touch the dirt, and in the end, the orcs were left to do it themselves. Even if they free their hands, they still carry a pair of invisible, extremely oppressive psychological shackles on their bodies.

Lin began to cry, his body was covered in blood that was gradually cooling, and his hair was clumping.

The strongest wolf orcs and tiger orcs are the final finale. The wolf orcs did not face their heads to the ground like the previous orcs, but to the sky, facing the blood-soaked blade. A few drops of blood fell ironically on his forehead, and he stared in amazement at the cut of the blade, on which his head was reflected, as if his body had left his body and rolled down from his bones in advance.

Click! The axe fell, another thick rope broke, and Lin only felt a flower in front of him, and an unreal burning sensation crossed his throat, and the world was turned upside down, and bright red flooded everything.

It hurts...... He seems to have forgotten something...... It hurts!

"Hmm!" Lin opened his eyes, and his eyes were still blood-red, but this red was fading out of his sight like a tide, "I'm ...... Already dead? ”

"Didn't you say you were begging me to save you?" The familiar and strange boy appeared in his sight, and said to him with a blank face, "Time is running out, let's go quickly." ”

Lin was surprised to touch the top and bottom of his body with both hands, so real that he couldn't believe that he had been beheaded.

Wait, haven't you been beheaded?

Merlin seemed to have guessed what he wanted to ask, and pushed him hard by the waist with both hands, trying to knock him out of the empty tent: "You just had a dream, a dream that was very real. You're the last one to wake up, hurry up and go, time is running out. ”

"How did you do that?" The wolf-orc, still a little startled, stood outside the tent and looked cautiously, and he saw that his companions, who had long been stiffened, came to life, some alone and some in groups leaving in different directions.

Merlin waved his hand, and the wolf orcs saw another flower, and the figures of the orcs who were gradually moving away began to blur until they were wiped away.

The little boy looked back worriedly and said, "It's a secret. They're coming back soon, you should leave quickly, or it will be okay for me to be caught again. ”

"Thank you very much." The wolf orc nodded heavily, "If you need any help in the future-"

"Come on." The little boy's face was full of disgust, "If there is anyone who calls himself 'Merlin' in the future, you can take care of him, and you should repay my kindness, if you don't leave, you will really be caught." ”

Only then did the wolf orc turn into a real wolf, and on all fours, he turned into a small lock of gray wind, and disappeared into the vast grassland. Of course, Merlin's illusion is indispensable to cover up.

"Why should he take care of the man who calls himself 'Merlin'?" Márquez asked Merlin.

"What if he is of some use to us in the future? Anyway, no one knows what will happen in the future. ”

The huge execution building also showed his original appearance at this time, and it seemed to be no different from before. It's just that in the center of the field, the layers of corpses have been secretly replaced with thatched grass that has been cut off, and they are piled high. However, as soon as the wind blew, it dispersed.

Corpses are not blown away by the wind, and neither is blood.