There were not many pedestrians at night, the road was clear, and the ox cart was familiar with the road, and from the west out of the city of Nellas, the coachman hung two lamps on the horns of the oxen, and drove the cart to the outskirts.

Wren, who had basically expected what to expect, asked Dami again if he wanted to go back, and still received a "no" answer.

After thinking about it, he decided to take Dami with him anyway.

This little kid has shown a maturity far beyond his peers, and maybe there are things that he should know.

The two men accompanied the night and followed behind the ox cart.

The ox cart walked a few miles to the west, and finally stopped in front of a cliff, where the driver turned around, aimed the rear end of the cart at the cliff, and then got off the cart, lifted the covered cloth, jumped on the cart, and swept the "peach heart" off the cart with the shovel from before.

After shoveling, the driver squatted down again and picked up the remaining fragments of "peach hearts" with his hands and threw them off the cliff.

Then he led the ox cart to the side, sat down against a nearby tree, and began to rest.

After Wren and Dami had seen it all, he took the child around the cliff, and the two of them looked down.

It turned out that this cliff was actually a large pit, more than ten meters high, but it was not completely dark.

Huge rats several meters long move at the bottom of the pit, their eyes glowing with a faint white light, illuminating the ground in front of them.

Wren looked down from above, and saw that there were not only "peach hearts" that had just fallen at the bottom of the pit, but also all kinds of messy things.

Garbage, to be exact.

The big rats were scurrying around in the garbage heap, and after the ox cart poured the "peach heart" down, a mouse immediately surrounded it, swallowed it in one bite, and then slipped into the depths of the big pit.

"Are our wishes rubbish?"

Standing next to the pit, Dami asked suddenly.

"No...... Not exactly, at least yours isn't. Wren replied.

A little child, full of longing, made a wish in front of the sacred tree he worshipped the most, hoping to see his mother again, but in the blink of an eye, this wish was thrown into the garbage heap, which is really a bit too cruel.

Wren put his hand on Dami's shoulder, "I found someone, go see if it's your father." ”

With that, he grabbed Dami and jumped into the pit.

The rat that had just eaten the "peach heart" stopped in front of a small hill after walking a little towards the center of the pit.

Under the light from the mouse's eyes, there was a figure kneeling on the top of the mound, and the big mouse squeaked at him twice, as if to intimidate him, but the other party yelled at the mouse twice, and kept waving his fist, and the big mouse saw this, and screamed twice, and slipped deeper into the pit.

When the big mouse was gone, Wren took Dami to the bottom of the small hill, and when he got closer, he realized that the entire hill was actually made of the "peach hearts" of the light of hope. Many of them were broken or even rotten, and it looked like the rat would have upside down the oxcart and carried it here.

As soon as the rat left, Wren could only see the bottom part of the "peach heart" pile with the help of some glowing plants nearby, and the pile a few meters high was pitch black again, and a figure on the top could be faintly seen by the moonlight, as if he was rummaging for something.

Dami whispered upwards, "Father? ”

There was no response, Wren led him up, and he shouted again: "Father? ”

But the person on top was still doing his own, he knelt on the pile of "peach hearts", his hands kept turning, and the "peach hearts" on the surface were pushed away, and many "peach hearts" slid down the slope and rolled to the feet of the two of Rennes.

Suddenly, the person above seemed to have discovered something, but he was accidentally pulled down by himself, and he chased down with a rolling belt, and finally caught something that fell under the feet of Rennes.

It was a red "peach heart". Green

Wren also saw clearly at this time, the figure that fell in front of him was a man, the sky was too dark to see the specific condition of his body, but through the other party's messy hair, he could also imagine his sloppy appearance at this time.

The man held the red "peach heart" he had just discovered, patted it carefully, and then slammed the "peach heart" to the ground.

"Not this!"

"Father?" Dami finally confirmed that the man in front of him was his father Fermo, "It's really you!" ”

The man lying on the ground, that is, Fermo, tilted his head and looked at Dami for a few seconds, as if his mind had not yet turned.

Then he grabbed Dami's ankle and said excitedly: "Dami, you came just in time, quickly, help me find my wish." Just find it and your mother will be resurrected!! ”

Dami was taken aback by his father's sudden move, he shrunk his neck, but nodded anyway, "Okay, father." ”

Wren stepped up at this point, and he felt that something was not quite right in Fermo's situation.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Fillmore, huh? I would like to ask, are you sure your wish is here? ”

Lying on the ground, Fermo turned his head to Wren, and in the darkness he could only see that it was a tall, muscular man, as if wearing strange armor.

Maybe it was because of his lack of mental condition, or maybe he was immersed in prayers and wishes day and night, but Fermo didn't realize that the person in front of him was a monster in armor.

He asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm just a passer-by who happened to be here, and I met your son while walking in the evening, and I heard that he was looking for his missing father, so I brought him to you. Mr. Fillmore, I still want to ask, how do you know your desire is here. ”

Fermo got up from the ground, took Dammy by the way, and walked to the top of the "Peach Heart" pile.

"There can be no mistake, yesterday when I made a wish under the sacred tree, I reverently looked at the light of hope, expecting it to hear my sincere wishes. Then, in that instant, I felt it! ”

Fermore's tone was very excited, as if he was speaking to his own son.

"I felt that the sacred tree had noticed me, that it was pleased with my long worship, that it had favored me. I saw it, and just as I was making my wish, I saw a bright red 'heart' appear on the sacred tree. It's so dazzling, it must be my wish, and there can be no mistake! ”

Fermo was sure, but Wren felt that he might just be overthinking.

The Light of Hope may be able to listen to people's wishes and produce "hearts", and it's not surprising that some magical plants can do this, and it may even be that the thing is just reacting to surrounding sounds or human activity.

But there are so many people who make wishes during the day, who knows which "peach heart" will bear whom.

Fermo probably knelt under the tree every day for several years and made a wish, and was stunned, and under the strong hint in his heart, he thought that the "peach heart" that grew at that time was himself.

Wren is noncommittal, his mission is to help Dammy find his father, and if Fermo can avoid the light of hope and spend time with his family, maybe it will be a good thing.

But......

"And then?" Wren followed Fermo and asked, "Why did you come here today?" ”

The question touched Fermo's anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "After seeing my 'heart', I kept looking at it, waiting for it to fulfill my wish, until the wishing table closed and I was kicked out." ”

"I wandered outside the wishing table for a long time, I didn't want to leave, I even had the intention of finding a hidden place to climb over the wall to guard my wish, although in the end I dismissed this idea, but it was precisely because of this that I found the ox cart going up from the back mountain. I didn't think much about it at the time and went back home. ”

"Then I spent a torturous night, and I couldn't sleep all night thinking that soon I would be reunited with my love. I ran to the Wishing Stand early this morning, but I didn't see my heart in the light of hope, not even on the ground. I immediately thought of the ox cart that had gone up the mountain last night! ”

Fermo takes Dammy and begins to look for his so-called "heart", and he doesn't need to explain what happens next......