Chapter 700 (1/2)
The wind outside the window is getting louder and louder.
A bright yellow flame was burning in the brazier, crackling and smoky.
Saibo sat in front of the brazier and looked curiously at the combustibles in the brazier. It should be the grease peeled off from some kind of monster. When it burns, it has a strange smell.
He looked around again. What he saw was the room, which was in good order, though it was dilapidated. It was only because of the gray and greasy dirt on the wall that it was not so clean.
There are many shelves on the wall of the room, which are full of various fragmentary items. Cyber can vaguely identify some tools and decorations with obvious elf style, in addition to many blackened bones and bottles and cans with unknown things.
The ground was covered with many clay dishes filled with thick black fluid, on which was inserted what seemed to be some kind of insect thread. It was burning with flame, shining brightly, like oil lamps.
The lovely fairy girl Esther is squatting down, carefully blowing out the ”oil lamps” one by one, collecting the black fluid, putting it into a bag, and then folding the mud dishes one by one.
At this time, cyber also understood why when he was outdoors, he felt that the light in the windows of this house was brighter than that of other houses. It should be these ”oil lamps” that were shining.
There was no one in the room except elves, father and daughter, and cyber.
Obviously, Esther, the elf girl, should have stayed at home alone until Dory came back.
Cyber didn't ask where the girl's mother was.
He was afraid to ask a sad story.
Dory was sitting on the other side of the brazier, dealing with the spoils he had brought back. Most of them were black pieces of meat with a bad smell, which made cyber frown.
However, Dorey seems to be used to it.
The ugly looking ice elf is cross legged, skillfully cutting the meat with a rusty dagger, shaving off the sticky grease and putting it into the prepared bottle.
Looking at the thick liquid, cyber felt that he should know what the fuel to light those ”oil lamps” and braziers was.
Esther soon cleaned up the oil lamp.
Then, in cyberspace's curious eyes, her figure disappeared into another room with a little dim light.
Because Dory sitting on the other side just blocked his sight, he could not see the situation of the other room clearly. He could only hear the girl's light footstep, the humming tune, and occasionally some water.
She seems to be in a good mood.
After a while, Esther's figure appeared in cyberspace's sight again. This time, she had a clay pot with patterns and three pitted cups in her hands.
She flew to them like a cheerful butterfly, knelt down and poured a cup of tea for cyber, Dorey and herself.
”Dad, guest, it's been a hard journey. Drink some water!”
Her voice was crisp and pleasant, like a oriole.
And after that, she disappeared into the dark like a happy little rabbit.
What a lovely child
That's what cyber thought.
Along the way, he felt thirsty, so he picked up the cup.
However, when he picked up the cup, looking at the unknown liquid in the cup, he hesitated slightly.
It was a turbid liquid, which seemed to be covered with a light layer of oil, emitting an indescribable fishy smell.
Cyber
This is water?!
Cyber's sense of smell told him that his body was rejecting the unknown liquid.
When he looked at Dory, he found that he had already picked up the cup and drank it all.
The expression of this silent ice elf is very normal. It seems that he is not affected by the smell of tea at all.
Cyber
He twitched the corners of his mouth and admired each other from the bottom of his heart.
This ”tea” He just smelled it, and he felt nauseous.
”Guests? Is it not to your taste? ”
At this moment, Esther's voice came again.
Saibo subconsciously looked over, and saw the fairy girl standing at the door of the inner room, holding a tray with three clay bowls.
She was looking at cyber with her big, shining eyes, her little head tilted.
The pure eyes like newborn animals make it difficult for cyber to say ”no”.
”It's the juice of the abyss worm. It's been purified.”
At this time, Dory's low voice came.
With that, he coughed violently again and took a few deep breaths.SEB noticed that the abscess on his face had cracked more and more, and yellow pus was flowing out.
”Daddy
Esther let out a low cry, put down the tray in his hand, ”step on” ran to Dorey's face, knelt down on the ground, took out the cloth strip that could not distinguish the color, and gently wiped the pus on Dorey's face.
The girl's movements are very gentle.
”Does it hurt
Her voice trembled and her face was full of worry.
However, Dory gently pushed her away and said in a flurried way:
”don't Don't touch me, dirty. ”
Under the shadow of the fire, Esther's delicate profile is in sharp contrast to Dory's ferocious appearance. The worry in the girl's eyes and her father's helplessness reflect each other and merge into one under the fire.
Looking at this scene, cyber's nose is inexplicably sour.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and drank the juice out of the glass.
It stinks.
Hot and sour.
However, it can't compare with the depression in cyber's heart now.
He didn't understand what these elves had suffered before they were reduced to such a state.
The abyss worm
Here Is it the abyss?
The fire in the brazier crackled, and the door was banged by the wind.
Esther stood up, lifted up the tray again, hid his worry and put on a smile like the sunshine in spring:
”Dad, guest, are you hungry? Esther is ready to eat. Fill up
With that, she brought the clay bowl on the tray to them.
After listening to Esther's words, cyber also felt hungry, but with the previous ”tea” in front, he had a little psychological preparation in his heart.
He looked down at the food that the girl handed him.
It's pieces of dried meat, black.
Different from the delicious dried meat, which is often used as dry food by cyber, these black dried meat also exudes a faint smell and disgusting.
In addition, there are some strange lumps that seem to be fungi, and the smell is not flattering.
Cyber doesn't want to think about why the elves start eating meat without the influence of players.
He doubted whether there would be something wrong with these smelly things
Cyber is holding the mud bowl with a hesitant look, but Esther and Dorey have already taken action.
They put the clay bowl in front of their chest and closed their eyes gently, looking quiet and devout.
Their lips moved and they prayed.
The flames in the brazier were flashing and crackling.
Their whispering prayer also came into the ears of the keen hearing cyber:
”merciful and Great Mother God...”
”You are the master of life, you are the mother of nature...”
”May you bless your confused people and find the true light in the dark...”
Cyberspace opened his mouth slightly and looked surprised.
Life dominates
Mother of nature
This is the name of Eve!
But Why did the goddess not respond?
At this time, cyber suddenly regretted that although he was a semi leisure party, he did not have a deep understanding of the plot behind Elven Kingdom
Could it be that Is it because this is the abyss, so the goddess's eyes can not gaze here?
He couldn't help guessing.
The two ice elves soon finished their prayer, drew a crooked symbol on their chest and began to eat.
They eat very slowly and chew very carefully. It seems that they are very rare.
At this time, Saibo suddenly remembered that he had heard someone mention that the goddess had changed the symbol of prayer in the previous internal tests
Is Is it because the symbols are inconsistent that the goddess did not receive their prayers?
Saibo guessed again.
”Guests? Isn't it to your taste? ”
Just as SEB's thoughts were flying, Esther's voice like a Oriole sounded again.
SEB looked over and saw the girl looking at his food.
He noticed that the clay bowl in the girl's hand was no longer known when it was empty.
How fast!
There was something unexpected about cyber.
However, when Yu Guang noticed Dorena's unfinished jerky on the other side, and Estelle's expression, he suddenly felt a twinkle in his heart.
It's not that the girl eats fast, but I'm afraid she doesn't have much food there.
Obviously, Esther prepared the food in advance.It is impossible for a girl to know her arrival in advance.
So At the beginning, she only prepared food for two people. Now she should give most of her food to his guest.
I'm afraid food is also quite scarce here.
For a moment, the bitterness in cyber's heart was even worse.
He took a deep breath, forced out a smile and said:
”no, it's delicious.”
At the end of his speech, he lifted up the mud bowl and wolfed down the dried meat and fungi.
I'm so patient I didn't spit it out.
”Cough...”
He coughed violently, as if eating too fast.