Chapter 123 The Courage to Live
Inai Town, Blockade
“Please wait a moment and let the child relax.”
Mo Tan said to a pale orc The woman whispered an instruction, then raised the cross in her hand and shook it gently.
The pale golden holy light gradually lit up on the cross, exuding bursts of warmth, and Mo Tan's pure black eyes gradually overflowed with wisps of light.
The originally clear vision gradually became hazy, and the target Mo Tan was looking at gradually became blurry. The trembling orc child hiding in his mother's arms had turned into a hazy white outline in his eyes.
[Fortunately it was just malnutrition...]
Mo Tan slowly put down the cross, smiled at the boy who had regained his sight, and then nodded to the orc woman. : "No problem."
"Thank God! Thank God!" The haggard-looking orc woman burst into tears of joy. Her legs softened and she knelt down on the spot, hugging herself tightly. The child whispered to Mo Tan: "Thank you, distinguished pastor, thank you, thank you!"
Mo Tan just shook his head: "It's just a little effort, then the next one is..."
"My husband!" The woman leaned over and picked up the child, pointed at the tall orc man at the front of the team, and whispered to Mo Tan: "Since the child and I are fine, he should be healthy too, right? ?”
Mo Tan nodded slightly and said, “I hope so, please wait a moment...Are you ready?”
The last sentence was addressed to the orc who had already walked up to him. Said.
"Yes, I'm ready, Pastor." The other party nodded respectfully, and then showed a naive smile to the mother and daughter who had crossed the blockade.
“Be careful...”
The sound of the dice reached Mo Tan's ears at this moment: "The guy in front of you has a weapon on his sleeves. You'd better call him to me and Barcelona!"
Mo Tan looked out of the corner of his eye. The dwarf thief not far away was looking at him warily Here, he also made several gestures to himself, but he didn't seem to hear it. He just raised the cross in his hand again, and rather awkwardly, he moved the little 'magic' left in his body to his right hand at the same time. with both eyes, and then activated the skill.
[Eye of Dawn]
Holy Light Sect Active Skills
Mastery Requirements: Possess Holy Light Knowledge, Believe in 'Dawn Goddess Pakosi', and have a priest profession< br>
Consumption/limitation: 15 mana/second, no astigmatism
Effect: Launch Eyes of Dawn on a target, causing you to obtain the 'Hazy Gaze' effect within the duration. During the duration of this effect, you The perception of all units outside the current target is reduced by 90%. The moment the skill is activated, you can randomly observe a buff or debuff on the target. There is a certain chance for every five seconds the duration of 'Light Gaze' increases. Provide you with a small amount of information about the target, cooling time: 30 minutes
※Hyperlink※
1. This skill will inevitably advance after the proficiency reaches 300. The current proficiency is 3.6/300
2. If you choose to reject the observation conclusion directly given by the system, the cooling time of this skill will be reduced by 99%
3. During the activation of this skill, you will lose the ability to see normally
[Remarks: True purity is the absence of codes in the eyes and codes in the heart]
The remarks are very charming, but this Not the point...
[Eye of Dawn] This skill was taught to Mo Tan by Pastor Owen, who had been responsible for checking everyone before, because the old pastor had already Almost all the magic power in the body was exhausted, and Mo Tan immediately stopped the former who wanted to continue to perform his duties, and asked the other party if he, who was also a priest, could help...
Then He learned the skill of Eye of Dawn and triggered a side mission, the content of which was to carry out identification work on behalf of Owen during the next inspection period without making any wrong judgments.
So the scene at the beginning of this chapter appeared...
[Eye of Dawn] cannot be said to be a cool and good skill, and its actual combat value is close to zero. First of all, it can only be activated on one target. Moreover, during this process, the caster's field of vision will mutate. Everything except the current target will become a mosaic, and the target will become...a less blurry mosaic, and the cost is not small.
However, the effect is quite good in this kind of simple identification work, and Mo Tan also has the talent of 'Piety', which allows him to quickly restore his magic value while staying still, and his battery life is also guaranteed. .
There is only one problem...
That is, he cannot draw conclusions directly from the system, otherwise the Eye of Dawn will enter a 30-minute cooling time, which undoubtedly significantly increases the difficulty of the task. .
We must know that clicking the keyboard in front of the computer to activate skills is completely different from traveling to a magical world to create fireballs. In the former, you only need to choose a position and move your fingers to complete, but in the latter, you need to sense the day to know what is going on. What are the elements of virtue, and then strictly follow the correct steps to cast the spell, and the difficulty is definitely two concepts.
So Mo Tan was even a little desperate at first...
But it turned out that the actual operation was not as difficult as he imagined.
First of all, regardless of whether the system will give a conclusion or not, the judgment that 'a gain or debuff effect will be observed the moment the skill is activated' is absolute, so if there is nothing unusual about the opponent after the skill is activated, That's okay.
When any unknown effect is observed, the outline of the current target in Mo Tan's field of vision will change. Based on repeated confirmation with Father Owen before, he has been able to basically determine the origin of the plague-infected person. The specific characteristic is-green!
If there is green anywhere on the snow-white outline, whether it is dark green, light green, grass green or turquoise, it basically means that the other person is infected. A terminally ill person will be covered in green, while a person who is infected in certain locations and has not yet spread will have green areas... …
Fortunately, the old man has not yet contracted the disease on his forehead, otherwise it would be too miserable.
It is not easy to judge the other characteristics of Motan, but based on the situation of the person being observed, such as the many refugees with sallow faces and skinny muscles in the past, he can roughly guess part of it. The specific manifestation of malnutrition is that it originally exudes fluorescence. The white outline gradually becomes transparent. If you starve for a particularly long time, your stomach will turn gray, just like the orc child before.
And his father...
[As expected...]
Mo Tan just observed it for a few seconds before he lowered the cross in his hand. He sighed softly, shook his head at the still smiling orc man in front of him and said, "I'm sorry."
"What!?"
“Dad!”
The orc woman, who had been relieved a little, suddenly felt like she was struck by lightning. Her hands holding her son tightly were trembling, and her red and swollen brown eyes were filled with tears. Bloodshot, hoarse voice with a hint of crying: "No way, no way, Pastor... You must have read it wrong. My child and I are fine. My husband can't be infected! Isn't that right! Isn't that right? ?”
When she said the last few words, the wife burst into tears.
"Mom?" The boy who was startled by his mother asked with some panic: "What's wrong? Dad can't come with us..."
The orc man shrugged, right? The child in the distance smiled fondly: "Yes, Dad can't go with you. You have to listen to your mother. Although she is often unreasonable, loses her temper, is unreasonable, makes a fuss out of a molehill, and acts out over nothing..." But you, the brat, still have to be patient.”
“Come here!” The wife said loudly with red eyes, “I’ll beat you to death...”
"I can't get through." The husband put on an unusual expression that he didn't deserve a beating, hehehe Zhile: "You can't get through~"
Mo Tan quietly activated the [Eye of Dawn] again, staring at He looked at the tall and strong orc man in front of him, but the result was no different from before. Even as the duration of the skill increased, the few green spots on the outline gradually became one...< br>
Severe infection without a doubt. "Master Priest! Please take another look, and... check him again..." The wife could no longer hold back the vicious expression on her face, and while sobbing, she begged Mo Tan: "Once, just once. Okay..."
But her husband waved his hand at Mo Tan, turned to the woman and said: "Don't let the priest waste your efforts. I know my body well. It's very... I just haven't told you two. I started vomiting blood the night before yesterday. I also started to lose feeling in my left arm at noon yesterday. I think it will be dead in two days. Don't worry about it. Come on, hurry up and take the child away."
"I'll accompany you..." The wife took a shaky step forward, and then...
"Don't come over!" But the husband said. With a sharp shout, he reached out and pulled out a tattered short knife with a wooden handle from his cuff, and before the flying dice arrived...
Aiming it at his chest.
The wife was stunned.
The dwarf thief who had already drawn his short blade and ran in front of him was also stunned.
"Sorry, bitch." He made a face at his wife and said with a smile: "Take care of that little bastard, he will do whatever you want. If you don't take care of him when he goes out, he will be beaten to death."
"Don't..."
"Sir, please help me stabilize that bitch, don't let her do stupid things." The big man glanced at Dice and Motan, held the dagger in his hand tightly, and then stabbed his chest hard: "I'll just..."
"No!"
Bang! !
A sharp light arrow hit the dagger impartially, ricocheting it away before it penetrated the owner's heart.
The big man was dumbfounded, and his wife, children, dice... I mean the dice on the side were all dumbfounded.
"Well, it is indeed much stronger than before."
Mo Tan, who still had a trace of residual light lingering between his fingers, nodded and smiled at the eight-foot tall man in front of him: "What do you think of this condensed light arrow?" How's it going?"
"Master Priest..." The man smiled bitterly at Mo Tan, who had just knocked away his weapon: "The power of your hair condensation thing just now is pretty good, but I'm not good at it. It’s so easy to muster up the courage to start! You’re so troublesome... I have to do some ideological work for myself again.”
Mo Tan glanced at him casually while playing with the cross in his hand. Really? Does it take a lot of courage to commit suicide? "
"Aren't you talking nonsense..." The man curled his lips: "I'm afraid of pain."
"It's easy to commit suicide." Mo Tan shook his head, then pointed at the dice next to him: "It's also easy to die painlessly. The skilled thief next to me can definitely make you jump off the street easily..."
"Hey, hey, hey!?" Dice rolled his eyes: "Do you think I am addicted to killing people?"
"Master Priest, you..." The orc woman had tears in her eyes.
"I don't want dad to lie on the street, Liang!" the child also shouted next to him.
“Look~” Mo Tan shrugged at the big man: “I think it takes more courage to live...”
The other party was silent.
Mo Tan glanced at him and continued: "Of course, you have been infected with the plague, and you will definitely not be able to leave here. And even if you don't die now, you may die in a few days, and your death will be even more painful. But... it’s not hopeless.”
“What do you want to say?” The big man scratched the back of his head and said with a smile. "Then shall I die or not."
"The two saints of the Dawn Sect have arrived in Misha County a few days ago." Mo Tan pointed to the distance and whispered: "They are in the north Hofer City, if..."
Dice coughed beside him: "You mean the west, man"
"Uh, sorry." Mo Tan smiled awkwardly, then pointed in the opposite direction, and said solemnly to the big man in front of him: "So you can go to the north to try your luck, and then... well, pray Goddess's blessing, despite the high probability of still dying, if you can make it there alive There, they will never hesitate to lend a helping hand."
The big orc man clenched his fist hard and said with a bitter smile: "This journey may become the last journey in my life..."< br>
Mo Tan nodded: "That's right, it's far better than you directly wiping Neck easy, you may be miserable, tortured along the way, and end up dead on the road or in a long queue without a miracle happening, but no matter what... there is still a glimmer of hope."
" I understand." The man nodded vigorously and then turned to his wife. Son, said seriously: "I plan to listen to the pastor and go to Hofer City to try my luck. If...I mean if...I am lucky enough not to die, you must..."
The wife exerted her strength He nodded and burst into tears: "I will definitely wait for you to come back..."
"You must forget what I just scolded you!" The man said sadly: "I really didn't mean it! I just wanted to have a good time before I died!"
Wife: "... …”
Motan: “…”
Dice: “…”
One minute later
"Go quickly!" A certain shaman who was called over urgently turned around and shouted to the man of the same race: "Why is your wife so strong! I can't stop you! Run!"
The orc man with weak legs nodded stiffly, looked at his wife who was stopped by Dice and others not far away, sighed softly, and bowed slightly to Mo Tan in front of him: "Thank you, Pastor... ”
“It’s okay, come on.”
“I have one last question.”
"You have been talking about going north before, but you have never pointed north once. So where should I go..."
Mo Tan: "..."
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