Chapter 1105 "Lord of the Flies"

Evil comes from man as honey comes from bees.

——Gao Ting

A fly flew into the house through the open window.

Everything in this room is dark, including the curtains, marble floors and furniture. Only the narcissus in the gold vase brings some lively color to the darkness.

10-year-old Nadia Vasika watched it fly on the ceiling for a while, and then it followed a certain smell and flew towards the curtain. But because there was a gauze blocking it, it could not continue to fly forward, so it

A colorful fly lay on it, together with hundreds of other flies.

It was dark behind the curtain, but when the wind blew, maybe it blew the curtains that blocked the sun, Nadia still saw a figure.

He was sitting in a high-backed chair, like a king.

"Let her come here," said the man inside the curtain.

"Come on, honey." Nadia's mother took her hand and walked forward.

"Stop." The person inside said, Nadia and her mother immediately stopped and "Let her come here alone."

Nadia's mother let go of her hand, but Nadia didn't move.

For some unknown reason, she was afraid of the person behind the curtain.

Nadia's mother gently pushed her back, so Nadia walked slowly to the curtain. The flies flew up after noticing her arrival, but they hovered and did not leave, making a "buzzing" sound.

"the sound of.

The man sitting on the high-backed chair stood up and slowly approached Nadia.

The indescribable stench became stronger, smelling like rotting mice. It was this smell that attracted the flies.

Then the man squatted down, and Nadia subconsciously took a step back.

"Do you know why you come here?" the person in the curtain asked.

"Yes." Nadia said tremblingly.

"Tell me about it." The man continued to ask.

"Become...become the next 'village chief' of Parodo." Nadia said.

"That's what your parents told you. I want to hear what you think?" The man asked again, "Do you know where this place is?"

"Yes." Nadia continued tremblingly.

"Tell me about it." The man asked patiently.

"The temple of Hades." Nadia said fearfully.

"So you are..." the man asked again.

"Priest of Hades." Nadia answered with tears.

The man seemed to smile.

"Good girl." The person in the curtain praised softly, "You can go now."

Nadia immediately turned around and ran to her mother's side and hugged her.

"Do you think... do you think she is suitable?" Nadia's mother asked in awe.

"You will know after I have made my decision. Now, please step aside." The man inside the curtain said.

"Yes." Nadia's mother bowed humbly.

"Wait a minute." Just as the mother and daughter were about to leave, the people in Vimri asked, "Did you sacrifice any black animals?"

"Yes, Messenger." Nadia's mother replied.

"I don't have any more questions," the man said.

This time Nadia and her mother finally left that place.

When she returned to the sun again, Nadia felt extremely happy, because other people said how calm they were in front of "him", and her performance was definitely not as good as others.

In this way, she can leave Parodo and go to a magic school to study.

"I'm finally free!" The little girl in a floral skirt shouted with great excitement, spinning briskly on the ancient stone streets.

"I'm finally going to be free." A 30-year-old woman wearing a dark gold armor whispered silently while standing on the rock, her eyes staring at the maze shrouded in black gauze not far away.

"What should we do next?" asked the man standing under the rock.

Nadia picked up a golden compass, or rather it was a miniature of the maze, and two blue light spots slowly disappeared in front of her eyes.

"Galen and Enzo are dead." Nadia put away the compass.

"Do you think the people in the maze and the people who attacked the village are the same group?" the man asked.

"We won't know until we catch them." Nadia hung the compass on her belt, "Let the big-headed monster go in first and see what other traps they have set."

The man took the order and left.

Not long after, the big-headed monsters in the passage rushed towards the maze like a tide, but they all carefully walked around the rock where Nadia was standing. The team split into two here and moved quickly towards the entrance of the maze.

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There was a "pop", and Severus put away his wand and continued reading as if he had done something normal.

The fly that smelled the smell of dragon dung stopped buzzing and there was a fly corpse on the ground in the greenhouse.

"Did you do that?" Pomona asked.

"What?" Severus asked without raising his head.

"Nothing." Pomona was a little surprised, but didn't pay much attention. She thought he killed the fly by accident.

That insect is very small and fast, so it's not that easy to target it.

What's more, she still had so many mandrakes that needed to be repotted, so she quickly forgot about this trivial matter.

Pomona used a growth-increasing spell to make the dragon's claw vines quickly cover an intersection.

Its defensive role is limited, and it will not launch an attack until all its tentacles are filled with prey.

The big-headed monsters are not big, but there are many of them, and since she is only one person, she has no time to arrange the other side of the maze.

"Felix!" she shouted. The map of the maze was now in Severus's hand. The last time she looked at the map, she realized that he was nearby, but she didn't know the specific location of the little Obscurus.

It was stupid to do this. Her shouting would give away her position, but she had no other choice.

Neither gold galleons nor crystals have any effect in the maze, and there is no other way to communicate except talking.

There is a book about a group of children, the oldest of whom are under 12 years old, who were stranded on a desert island due to a plane crash.

In normal people's minds, when encountering this kind of dilemma, they should cooperate with each other to leave the desert island, but this group of children divided into two groups.

The group headed by the captain's son Ralph proposed to light a fire to seek help, while the other group, headed by Jack, believed that they should hunt wild boars to survive. Although there were no adults around to protect or assist, the climate on the island was suitable and there were no ferocious beasts.

There is still enough fresh water and wild fruits to eat. There is actually no immediate danger to the children's survival. As long as an effective cooperation and division of labor mechanism and a general code of conduct are established, they can live in a civilized and orderly manner on the island.

Survive.

But everyone wants to eat meat, and it is cooked meat, which requires a fire, and also requires glasses for a weak, far-sighted boy.

As time goes by, the hope of being rescued becomes increasingly slim. In contrast, the temptation to eat meat and live a comfortable life is obviously greater for other children. Support Jack and become a "savage"

There are more and more people, and in an environment without adults, children are like wild weeds, growing up by nature.

What was shown in that book was not cooperation and courage when encountering difficulties, nor wisdom and kindness, but the fact that in the process of leaving the constraints of civilization, children gradually fell into unknown anxiety, fear of the dark, and finally moved step by step towards disputes and confrontation.

, violence, and even killing each other, this is what people don’t want to see.

But this is the choice made by a group of children in a strange environment with no laws and no moral control, who have only a very vague concept of the division of labor mechanism and code of conduct, and even what is good and bad and right and wrong. Children all have the kind of eating, drinking and having fun.

They have an instinctive tendency to be indolent and indolent, while older children have the primitive nature of following the strong and pursuing excitement.

In the end, the autocratic faction that advocates instinct overwhelms the rational democrats. After unconsciously killing two people, Jack wipes out the last trace of humanity and even burns down the entire island in order to hunt down Ralph.

Instinct can bring great power, but it can also easily lose control. Ever since arriving on the island, the younger children have continued to have nightmares, thinking that there are terrifying monsters hiding in the dark.

This fear gradually spread to the older children.

So in the darkness and in fear, they accidentally killed a companion who suddenly appeared and had no time to reveal his identity. At this moment, they went from crossing the psychological bottom line of hunting wild boars to crossing the psychological bottom line of killing their companions, which is the limit of civilized society.

All taboos and rationality finally ceased to exist, leaving only various barbaric behaviors based on instinct and adaptation to the environment.

A person's choices under stress determine his life or death.

Although it is risky to shout loudly, Felix must be very scared when he comes to such a scary place for the first time. This is not the streets of London. Although street life is cruel, it is orderly.

If she didn't reveal her identity, she would probably be killed the moment she found Felix.

She once had a dream in which a little boy with black hair was crying in a bathroom full of blood.

She couldn't remember what the child's face looked like.

But she remembered that she wanted to hold his hand and lead him out of this dark corner.

She wandered around the maze for a while, and found Felix in a corridor, shrouded in darkness. He was curled up and crying, looking extremely scared, although the Obscurus on him looked dangerous and terrifying.
To be continued...