Book Two: The Human World Chapter Nineteen: Xiaoyi
Xiaoyi lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
The beds in the hotel are roughly made of wood to form a large frame, which is covered with a few wooden boards and some hay. But this bed actually has a layer of linen on it, a piece of cotton can be used as a quilt, and a hay weave.
The pillows are already the most high-end facilities in this hotel.
Of course, the feeling of sleeping on it is very different from lying on a bed covered with goose down and fine cotton in the Duke's Palace, but Xiaoyi doesn't care about this. She has been to everything from cold and damp caves in the mountains to Feilong Desert where you can bake eggs.
.No matter what kind of place it is, it is much better than the Duke's Palace where you have to wear gorgeous and cumbersome clothes to deal with etiquette and entertainment.
Duke Mrak is not a hereditary title. The Duke was born into a local squire family. He was awarded the title because of his outstanding military exploits in the war between the empire and the southern countries twenty years ago. He then relied on his outstanding personal ability and means to step forward.
He climbed up to his current status step by step. Xiaoyi did not grow up immersed in glory and wealth like other children of wealthy families, but was cultivated by his father's hard-working experience and his careful education in the early years.
It shows her independent character. She has no ambition like her father. Her mature character also makes her particularly tired of the nihilistic and corrupt life of the upper class nobles. She is more willing to use her energy in some concrete and practical places. In order to
To get rid of the boring princess status, she simply went to work in the pharmacy affiliated to the Magic Academy. She often went out to explore and take risks, and the satisfaction of discovering new things that no one had discovered before made her feel very fulfilled.
She was very unhappy when her father arranged for her to get married. Under her father's strict teachings, she rarely thought about things like love, let alone marriage, and the rules of a wealthy family like the Erni family were very strict.
. She also hated her fiancé who only had the word "power" in his eyes, but she did not resist. She knew very well that this was just a very common political marriage among aristocratic families, and she also knew that this marriage was very important to her father. Moreover,
She has always been a very knowledgeable and sensible daughter, and she also loves her father very much.
So before her wedding, she set out to travel and have adventures all over the mainland under the pretext of helping the dispensary to collect herbs and study medicinal properties. She wanted to live a truly and completely free life in the last time that belonged to her. For this reason, she even planned to go to the most dangerous place in the mainland.
Regional adventure travel. Forget it if you die, she sometimes thinks like this with a bit of self-deprecation.
As a result, she almost died in the Lizard Swamp. When she knew that her injuries were so severe that she could only lie down on the bed and wait for death, she didn't feel sad when she looked at her somewhat confused father and her still indifferent fiancé. However,
When she saw the man firmly saying that he must find a way to save her again, she suddenly became completely weak and felt that even if she died like this, it would be worth it.
When she later woke up from her long-term coma, she found that she had miraculously recovered completely. She learned from her father that the man had really found a miraculous medicine for her. She knew that her wedding was not far away.
and her father would never allow her to go out alone again, but she strongly wanted to see him. This was just a very simple and strong desire. She quietly ran out again and finally found him in Bracada
He seemed to arrive in this strange city with him naturally.
She was very happy these days, and she had never been so happy. Everything here was so novel, there were endless strange scenes every day, and everything seemed vibrant and orderly, as if she had come to a free and carefree place.
A new world. What's more important is having him by your side.
He can tell from the clues on the ground what beast passed here half a day ago, and he can also tell what kind of weather there will be from the smell of the wind and the clouds in the sky. He also knows how to make red smoke bark.
How to make condiments that can make people have diarrhea, know what kind of earth mushrooms can make people laugh to death, know how to burn the butt of a dog to make it delicious, and know that the one-eyed lizard actually has a good taste that is not commensurate with its appearance.
…You’ll never get tired of these novel topics.
He is a very simple person. He is as ignorant as if he suddenly jumped into this world from an isolated forest. He does not know literature or poetry, nor does he believe in gods. He is completely ignorant of many seemingly common sense issues.
She doesn't understand, sometimes showing childlike innocence and naivety, but when needed, she can always show the most sophisticated tact and calm profundity. As if they have a tacit understanding, both of them never say anything about the fact that he saved her in the past.
Mention. After a day or two, there was no longer any barrier between the two of them. They spoke and behaved as naturally as if they had been together for many years. Even the old thief felt that they were indeed lovers.
Although they were getting along very naturally, as time went by, she could still feel that the intimacy between them was increasing day by day. It was not until yesterday when the two of them cuddled together that she was sure that she liked him very much and he also liked her.
The feeling that was more intoxicating than all the wine in the world and sweeter than all the honey immediately surrounded her completely. She was completely immersed in it.
But today she knew that she would leave here tomorrow and go back to the empire.
Her father, marriage, fiancé, life in the royal capital, and responsibilities, which she had almost completely forgotten, all came together to cover her up, as if they had been discussed and ambushed together. Before starting this journey.
, she was still mentally prepared to go back, but then the new environment and new mood made her quickly forget these things.
But forgetting does not mean that these things do not exist. The feeling of falling when you suddenly discover these things in the corner in the cloud of happiness is even more unprepared.
For the first time in her life, she had the thought of completely abandoning her father and family responsibilities. But the thought only flashed by and was immediately extinguished by herself in a hurry. Her mother died early, and her father gave birth to her and raised her, even while working on official duties.
Even though she was very busy with social activities, she never neglected her education. She loved her father very much and knew the importance of this marriage to her father. As a daughter, she had the responsibility to do this.
But the desire to continue living such a carefree and sweet life grew and spread in her heart. Without making the slightest concession with her strong sense of responsibility and heavy fatherly love, she finally couldn't make a choice on her own. So she made a good decision.
It's like a completely ridiculous decision: tell him the matter and let him make the decision. If he doesn't want to go back by himself, then he will really forget everything and follow him to travel all over the continent...
But when he heard that she was going to get married when she returned, he just said oh and closed his eyes in the pile of hay as usual. She was very sad and quietly shed tears after blowing out the lamp.
She couldn't fall asleep no matter what she was lying on the bed, and she knew from his breathing that he wasn't asleep either. When she heard the sound of hay and heard him standing up and walking quietly over, her heart almost jumped out of her throat.
Jumped out.
But he just walked past the bed and quietly walked out of the door, and then the sound gradually faded away, as if he was walking out of the hotel.
She didn't even have the strength to be curious anymore, so she slowly sat up from the bed, sat in front of the window and stared at the starry sky outside in shock.
The beauty of the starry sky on the plateau is something that people who have never seen it can never imagine. Only when they know that no matter the vicissitudes of life, that kind of beauty will last forever, can the viewer realize the insignificance of human beings, so all the sadness makes people feel sad.
There is a reason to endure.
I don’t know how long I watched it, but suddenly there was a loud noise, and a huge spark exploded in the distant sky. The brilliance illuminated the entire city of Oufu. At that moment, even the starry sky was eclipsed.
She is not a sentimental person. But when she saw this huge and beautiful flame, she suddenly felt that it was a person's life.
Compared with the eternal starry sky, this is completely insignificant. It is just a blink of an eye. But in this blink of an eye, it is the most beautiful thing.
It is beautiful because it is short-lived. I don’t know whether it is beauty created by short-term or beauty is destined to be short-lived. She thought of her short life and shed tears again.
This kind of beautiful and plaintive language is what my sister usually likes to talk about. She often lectures her sister, who are just neurotic and idle people, moaning and complaining about themselves for fun. But she didn't expect that she would feel these things at this time.
This loud noise woke up the entire city of Eufor. The orcs walked out of the houses and looked towards the place where the noise came from. However, it didn't take long for the orcs to start lighting torches to tell the orcs that it was just a magic experiment by the city lord.
, it’s no big deal, everyone can go back to sleep.
While the commotion in the city gradually subsided, the orc owner of the hotel brought another orc and a werewolf to the thieves' room to question them, and then quickly found her.
"The city lord has something important to ask you to come over." The orc said respectfully.
The werewolf carried her on his shoulders and ran towards the place where the flames had just come out. The wind was so strong that she couldn't open her eyes.
She didn't like the smell of the werewolf, it reminded her of things in the Lizard Swamp, it was full of death and fear, and she vaguely felt a very ominous premonition.
Arriving at the place where the explosion occurred, many orcs were in front of a stone house. The place was completely illuminated by torches, and an old human man with silver beard and hair was waiting for her there.
"Mr. Cedros, why are you here?" She recognized this old man. When she was a child, this old man named Cedros came to live with her for a while. He was good friends with her father and was a great and famous scholar.
and Adventurer, whose magic she also learned under his tutelage.
When Cedros saw her, his face became heavier in surprise. He nodded without saying a word and led her towards the stone house. Only now did she realize that the roof of this house was completely gone, leaving only four walls.
Approaching the door of the stone house, she smelled a strong smell of blood, and she immediately stopped. This smell overlapped with the ominous feeling in her heart, and she subconsciously began to step back.
It was not that she had never seen corpses and bloody Miss Jiao, but for some reason, her stomach was shrinking. She wanted to vomit.
"Miss Mrak, come here." Cedros waved.
She took a deep breath to calm down, but the smell of blood became stronger in her nose, seeming to penetrate deeper into her body.
After standing there for a moment, she finally calmed down a little and walked into the roofless stone house.
The blood on the ground had solidified, occupying a large area of the ground. There was a bed in the corner, and lying on the bed was a man covered in blood. The man's head and face were completely covered in blood, but she could still recognize him.
That was the person who quietly walked past her bed just now, making her heart almost jump out of her throat.
Her feet suddenly became weak, as if the tendons inside them had been suddenly pulled out.
Cedros quickly stretched out his hand to support her. He didn't need to ask anymore, he knew what was going on when he saw her reaction.
But she immediately used all her strength to stand up again, and in a few steps she rushed to the bed and stretched out her hand to the person on the bed to use recovery magic. She was reluctant to cut off her hand so that the magic power could be released without any obstacles.
come out.
There was a dent in his forehead, making his face look a little deformed. One hand was almost nailed to his own chest, and the palm and the clothes there were sunken into the muscles, and blood oozed out.
The bones, muscles and clothes have all been condensed into one piece.
She wanted to feel his pulse, but found that his other hand had been squeezed hard like a roasted sweet potato. The fine bones spread to the skin, the blood had coagulated, and the skin in some places
and muscles are completely indistinguishable from each other.
Her hands were already stained with his blood, and tears were falling down. Her whole body was shaking violently, and her hands were shaking even more. She no longer knew where to use her meager healing magic power.
. She bit her teeth hard not to cry.
Finally she mustered up all the courage to feel his pulse. Fortunately, although it was very weak, there were still signs of life fluctuating.
"I have also used healing spells, but he was really injured too seriously, and the damage caused by the fighting spirit made the spell ineffective. He relied entirely on his own life force to hold on." Cedros said beside him.
"How could this happen..." She finally started crying.
Cedros was silent for a while, then said a perfunctory answer in a heavy tone: "It's just a misunderstanding."