1277: Bone Whip(1/2)
1279: Rose Knight
Zhenyan looked at Ming Fen and said, his unfriendly eyes made Ming Fen blush, "Is it because he has never been attacked by the enemy as he said?"
Ming Fen scratched his scalp with a little difficulty, and the dander flew away with the wind, "Hehe, junior brother, it is unlikely that you can visit girls, because except for a few lonely and helpless guys like me, some of my residents have been slaughtered by corpse bees and invading demon enemies!"
"So it's almost dead, so you still say it's safe and reliable? Hey, little demon general, I don't know how you survived!" Susaker's tone was quite fierce.1(1)
"Well, this is auspicious person who has a natural appearance. I haven't encountered the enemy's attacks in the past few times. Two times, the little thing Xue Linglong noticed the danger in advance and let me escape in advance. Three times, I was away from home, or I was roasting the fire at the gathering point to exchange for food. Our luck is quite good. Just follow me and ensure safety!" Ming Fen patted his chest proudly.
The recent enemy attacks he mentioned were actually something that happened in more than a month. It was so remote that he was attacked frequently. It is conceivable that other parts of the territory were harassed and attacked more times!
Apart from the back and forth harassment and cleaning between major forces, most of these attacks are caused by personal grudges between exiles, resulting in the occurrence of bloodshed and deaths. The Ten Thousand Demons Caves are so barren and dangerous that if you want to survive here, you can quickly strengthen your strength through killing and hunting here. Naturally, every exiled person will offend many enemies.
During the day, most exiled people go to the real dangerous areas inside the forbidden area of the Ten Thousand Demons Caves. Explore the ruins of demons and hunt down strange monsters and beasts derived from the demons. On the one hand, they improve their cultivation and combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, they can obtain food for hunger by hunting fleshy beasts.
If you are lucky, if you encounter an injured person who is alone, or an exile or adventurer with poor strength, you will naturally take action to massacre and make unexpected fortunes; if you are not lucky, you will be encountered by a powerful demon and you will be unable to protect yourself.
"Since you come, you will be at ease. As long as the foreign enemy invades, I am afraid that I will be too lonely and cannot collect a few more demon souls to refine the killing weapon!"
Even though the desolate and safe place is not high. But Zhenyan knows that the "newcomers" who were rejected by Shi Wuzhuo and the forces behind him still have no good choice except to find a remote corner like Ming Fen.
Now he comforted Susaker's blood demon Goethe and other demon servants, but Zhenyan followed Mingfen to the little black mountain.
This Black Mountain is like other Wanmo Cave Mountain. It is deserted and barren, without vitality, and is even more rugged with strange rocks. There are not many complete and smooth stone walls that can be used to chisel caves.
Fortunately, there are twenty or thirty ready-made abandoned caves. Zhenyan, Chi Zhenren and Susaker can be selected. In the end, Zhenyan chose three or five caves next to Mingfen's messy and sloppy cave with a strong smell.
Zhenyan himself has a cave, and he is used to purity, and practicing the blood-coagulation and divine artifact is even more of his secret; the fire demon Susaker and his mistress Party Fu Shuang and the big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big and big
The blood demon Goethe lives in a small cave below the Mantra. He is neighbors with Chi Zhenren. Mantra values the development potential of the Blood Demon. Let him get close to him and summon him at any time, or protect him when foreign enemies invade. The cold-poul Laojun and the big-bellied demon Millerfu live on the side of the love nest of the big fire demon Susaker. I believe that you can hear the excited and enthusiastic sound of sobbing every night, which is a kind of pain and enjoyment.
After arranging the residence of the demon servant and my younger brother, Zhenyan also cleaned up his cave.
This cave is relatively clean, nearly twenty meters deep into the extremely hard black rock layer, narrow outside and spacious inside. There are some stone tables, stone benches and decorated cylinders inside. Zhenyan took out more than a dozen gorgeous gems the size of eggs, and inlaid these gems with bright and colorful light on the cave walls in turn, which immediately swept away the darkness and turbidity of the cold cave.
Some gray-white bones were scattered in the cave. It was supposed to be the remains of the masters of the cave before hunting monsters. The mantra also found a bone in a white robe in the spacious circular hall at the innermost part of the cave. It seemed that the owner of the previous cave was attacked and killed in the nest by the enemy.
Throwing away all these corpses and ragged things. Zhenyan just sat down cross-legged and planned to refer to the weapon refining manual to trick the demonic souls of the madmen of the Jueyin Temple, Ming Fen came to visit with five or six very depressed exiles.
"The senior brother came from afar, but we didn't go to greet him. I'm really disrespectful. Please forgive me. In the future, we will follow the leader of the senior brother Zhenyan and take care of each other here!" These exiles with pale faces, thin skinny skin and bones, visited the new strong man Zhenyan with a very humble attitude.
They are four men and two women, all of them are dark and have weak auras. However, the second and third levels of the demon generals are still in poor injuries. They are undoubtedly the worst, least capable, and most miserable exiled disciples in the territory of the Ten Thousand Demon Caves.
Ming Fen introduced that these six fellow disciples who were tragic and sad, only came here two years ago. If they continue to live in a state of scarcity of survival materials, they will not be able to survive the end of this year, or be hunted by other demons when they go out.
In fact, with the qualifications of these exiled people with pale faces, thin skin and dark bodies, they all have been in Bitian Palace for hundreds or thousands of years, and their seniority is far above the truth. But at this time, it is different from that time, and this place is not each other. They survive in the Ten Thousand Demons' Cave, ignore their seniority, and those with stronger strength are the real bosses.
"Hey, why are you doing so miserable? Do other classmates help you? I see that your magic energy is extremely weak, and I'm afraid you will not make any progress in the future!" Seeing these exiled classmates as if they were withered, the girl who once had white and delicate skin was even more yellow and skinny, her face was even more scorching and bony. Zhenyan couldn't help but feel pity and doubt.
He did not have these poor and poor exiles who were weak and turned away. On the contrary, he had a rare gentle look on his face. This made Ming Fen and the six exiled disciples very grateful. The poor and unlucky exiled disciples cheered up a little as if they saw hope.
An exiled man whose left arm was cut off but seemed to have combat power above the other five fellow disciples must have some prestige among these people. He quickly felt grateful, ashamed, and humbly answered: "We are actually disciples of various departments, but because of careful consideration, offending powerful people, or being dissatisfied with their distribution of interests, he was isolated and survived extremely difficult. Survival here is extremely difficult, and our strength and cultivation are not high. Brother Qing Shitian and others are indifferent to us. How can they help us?"
"Like this junior sister Lu Ruyan, but because her good sister was raped by Shi Wujin, the bastard, and then ruthlessly eaten, she was attacked with anger. She was attacked by Shi Wujin and his accomplices and broke the main vein of the demon body, and then was isolated. Her cultivation level could not be improved!" The exiled man whose left arm had just been cut off was named Gu Ming, pointing to a female exiled man with a weak breath. Her tone was angry, but she was weak and helpless.
Although the female exile named Lu Ruyan looked haggard and dark, her face and body outline still retained the softness she used to be. It was just a mere two-year exile career, and her beautiful appearance was withered.
The other exiled people also briefly talked about their tragic experiences. They all knew that they were rejected and isolated by their fellow disciples in the territory. Their tone and expression were filled with depression, anger, and helpless sadness.
After speaking their respective situations, the exiles on the bottom of these territory all looked at the silent mantra, their eyes full of hope, hope, and begging.
"They want to survive, otherwise they will not be able to withstand the self-destructing soul god!" Ming Fen whispered from the side. "So I hope you can help them with Zhenyan. I think you have an ambition. Although these fellow disciples have not yet achieved their cultivation for the time being, they are bloody and more loyal!"
Yes. The first rule of the Earth Demon Realm: Survival is the most important!
In order to survive, a demon must work hard throughout his life; in order to survive, they are willing to do anything they can.**(..)
That evening, after having dinner in the fort, he walked alone on his way back to his room.
The departure time was set for tomorrow night. According to the plan, he should go to the market with Emma to buy the items he needed tomorrow, but Emma said that she would leave all the things to do, so Megi had to let her.
So, what should I do now? He thought about it, it would be a little too early to go back to the room to sleep. If possible, he would really want to run to a Rose Knight Miss room to "tell stories". Unfortunately, those ladies have been caught by Leot these days for training. Of course, Meggie also understood the intention of General Lone Wolf. The chaos in the kingdom was only the beginning. Dilu County could not be immune to it after all. Only by conducting more rigorous training can they protect Princess Sophia's safety in the future. In fact, let alone them, Molly was arrested for training, and even became the captain of the Rose Knights. After all, although she was not the Rose Knight, just breaking into Pingxia Island to challenge the Shadow Blood Dragon is enough to make her respected by those ladies. Moreover, her strength is the strongest among them.
Of course, without them, Meggy felt that this castle was really boring.
At this time, a maid came over and told him that His Royal Highness the Princess wanted to meet him.
Sophia? Megi followed her.
Since entering the White Sand Castle, he and Sophia have almost never been alone. On the one hand, this place is not Sophia's Rose Dew Manor, and there are many rules to be followed. He cannot run to His Royal Highness's room for no reason. On the other hand, although everyone could see that Sophia was very depressed, General Leot still reported everything to her and handed her many problems that could have been solved by herself. On several occasions, Earl Felain got angry because of her heart's pity. Earl Felain is the uncle of Sophia and Prince Louis. Among his sister's children, only Sophia is the most loved by him. Seeing her having to deal with a lot of affairs after suffering from the pain of being defamated and disability, he naturally felt very distressed and almost duel with Leot.
However, after Leote talked to him for a while in private, he finally just sighed and stopped interfering.
After arriving at Sophia's room, the maid opened the door and closed it from outside after Megi entered.
Sophia was sitting at the table, rummaging through a pile of documents in the light of a crystal. After hearing the sound, she turned her head and the black veil covered on her face gently shaking. After coming to the White Sand Castle, her burnt arm had been cut off by a doctor's surgery. Some white spots and water on her skin were also recovered under the healing of the most outstanding priest in Dilu County. However, the deep sword mark on her face always existed.
Meggie walked over, squatted at her feet, and reached out and gently pulled away the veil from her face.
"Don't look." Sophia covered her cheek with her only hand.
"What are you afraid of? You are much more beautiful than my mother." Meggie grabbed her hand and moved it away.
Sophia sighed: "You don't need to comfort me like this. How could I be more than your mother now... um..." She suddenly remembered that Meggie's "mother" was Black Anise. Although Sophia had never seen the real Black Anise. But she at least knew that Black Anise was also called the one-eyed witch, and it is said that its "one-eyed" was particularly large. It occupied half of its face.
Although Sophia's face was broken, if we looked at it from a human perspective, it would still be much better than a witch with only one extra-large eye? In this way, Meggie was actually telling the truth, not making up a lie to comfort her...
But why did she want to cry more? Could it be that she really wanted to compete with a witch with only one eye?
"For a long time, I thought a beautiful woman should have only one eye, and those with two eyes were all ugly." Meiji sighed. It was a really unbearable past.
Sophia finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"That's it, it looks much better when you smile."
"Stop messing around..."
"It's not a big deal." Meiji walked around her back, and his hands were around her neck from behind. His face was pressed against the princess' ears. Sophia hesitated for a moment before hooking his finger with her right hand and leaning against him lightly.
The two of them were silent like this, for a long time...
Time passes by bit by bit.
A sense of security that has never appeared since she escaped from the royal city slowly filled Sophia's heart. No matter how strong she was in front of others, in her heart, she could not forget the terrible memories that happened in the royal city. The scorching flames, the corpses all over the ground, the misunderstanding of family affection and the pain of homelessness. She knew very clearly that if Leote had not found a lot of things for her and had not had enough time to think too much, she would have collapsed long ago.
Moreover, she is also a woman, and she was once a beautiful woman... How many beautiful women can tolerate that they are no longer beautiful?
Drops of tears fell on Meiji's arm...
She finally could cry...
...
The night is getting deeper.
They lie side by side on the bed and don’t do much. Sometimes, just by snuggling with each other like this, they can give each other support.
This is the atmosphere...
But—
"Don't touch it, it's so itchy..."
Someone is destroying the atmosphere.
"Well, I just slid my hand."
"Slide into my clothes?"
"This is called gravity." Meiji said while holding Sophia's still erect Haoqiu in his hand. Although Sophia did lose her beauty, for some reason, in Meji's heart, she still occupies the most important position. His feelings for Sophia are completely different from those for others, and even from Suli, Anna and others. He can't tell what this emotion is, love? It's not very similar. Family affection, cough, he doesn't quite understand what family affection is...
"Okay, but you have to listen to me carefully. I had a strange dream last night...what are you doing?"
"Listen to you... mumble... talk... gulp... ah..."
"Don't tear my clothes."
"Gu...gu...you keep talking..."
"Well, I can't be sure if that's really just a dream. I remember that I suddenly came to a strange forest. There was no daytime in that forest. There were always round moons hanging in the sky. There were many glowing little people on the trees. They kept falling down, and after falling on the ground, they shook their heads and disappeared. I kept running there, but I couldn't find the way..."
At this time, Meggie had stopped the action that should have been only for babies, and came out of Sophia's clothes, looking up at her in surprise.
"Then, a woman appeared. She was wearing a beautiful green dress, very beautiful. Her ears were pointed and her back had a pair of wings like butterflies. Many people were kneeling to her, and even sacrificed the lives of sinners to her..."
"Driads?"
"Is there really such a person?" The princess lowered her head in surprise and looked at the boy half lying on her chest.
"Not a human, but a god." Meggie explained to her, "She is a goddess in the Mist Girl Forest, the gods sacrificed by Druids. It is said that she can cultivate forests from nothingness with clear water, and is also the guardian of nature. When she was in the ruins of the garden in the sky, she appeared with the war god Gulevia and saved us..."
"I heard Molly say this." Sophia whispered. "So, what I saw in my dream is the Mist Girl Forest?"
"Hmm." Meggy asked, "and what? What else do you dream about?"
"She brought me to a mysterious place. There was a beautiful brown tung tree, and a giant red feathered bird perched there. Suddenly, the brown tung tree burned, and the feathers on the giant bird all turned into flames. I was very scared at the time, and I realized that I might be dreaming. So I struggled to wake up. But the beautiful woman with wings said to me: The rebirth that once every five hundred years is about to begin. In the early Spring Festival next year, I will bring your future husband here and be reborn like it. Then I woke up."
"That bird should be a fire phoenix. It and Cachedetro are the most terrifying in the Mist Girl Forest... Wait a minute, this is not the point. Your future husband? Who is he?" Meggy became jealous. When he thought that other men would lie on Sophia in the future and play with baby sucking like him, he felt very uncomfortable.
However, Sophia just looked at him steadily, her eyes were very strange.
"...Is it me?" Meggy asked in a low voice.
Sophia sighed and gently hugged him with that hand.
Indeed, in the prophecy of the old man Urenos, Megi would become the one she would marry in the future. However, after experiencing the battle of the royal city that almost killed her, she was no longer the beautiful princess who easily believed in the so-called fate. In fact, just calm down and think about it, you can find that the two prophecies made by Mr. Uno to her are really problematic.
He predicted that he would become the hope of the kingdom, so let's not talk about this for now. After all, no one can be sure of what the future will be like. But he predicted that he would become one of Megi's harems. On the surface, this prophecy was almost fulfilled. But when he looked back, what would happen if Mr. Uno had not told her this prophecy?
Then, when she was in Longenburg, she would not care too much about this rogue of unknown origin, and would not even take a look at him. The series of things that happened later would have nothing to do with him. She would not let Meiji move into her Rose Dew Manor, and would have him involved in the incident of the snake-haired banshee, and arranged for him to join the team to assassinate Wu Chen. Without this series of contact, Meiji would not enter the royal city in the midst of war in order to save her, so she would probably have died...
In other words, it was precisely because the former court magician told her that prophecy and she believed it that things were moving forward step by step according to the so-called fate. If she didn't believe it from the beginning, would that prophecy be fulfilled?
In this way, it is not that "prophecy" predicts "destiny", but because of the existence of that "prophecy", the so-called "destiny" becomes real!
"What are you thinking?" Meggy looked at her who was in silence in confusion.
"I'm thinking..." Sophia suddenly lifted up her dress and put his whole head in, "You can't escape..."
To be continued...