Chapter 965 A new day
Game time AM08:19
Outskirts of the Golden City, main hall of the kobold settlement patriarch’s house
“Just kidding, my friends .”
The Jialion patriarch, who had just played a trick with his nephew, blinked, moved his body deep in the large sofa, and showed a warm and friendly smile to the Wangwang team sitting opposite: "It seems that everyone has already used It’s time for breakfast~”
Mo Tan smiled, nodded sincerely and said, "I've already eaten. Thank you very much for your hospitality."
"What are you talking about? You are little Hogg's benefactors, even more so. He is the benefactor of the Heipi family, so don’t be polite to these simple meals, let alone..."
Carion stretched out her hand and rubbed Hogg’s head next to her, and smiled: "Those Everything is made by Hogg. This kid has been in the family for a long time and has been good at cooking a few years ago.”
The kobold boy shrank his neck shyly, looking a little embarrassed.
The two members of the Heipi family did not dine with the Paw Paw team. Among them, Ms. Carion stayed in bed because she went to bed late yesterday, while Hogg stayed in bed before six o'clock. He got up, ate something briefly after cooking, and then went out with Wang Badan.
As for the reason, it is naturally to confirm whether the 'curse' has really faded away. This is what everyone has been doing during this time.
Cordoba, Fimiguel and Aliang had left two days ago, and the reason why the Wang Wang team headed by Mo Tan has stayed in this settlement until now is I want to verify whether the two remaining fruits of the Blackskin family, the Carion matriarch and Hogg, have gotten rid of the curse and are completely 'off duty' like their ancestor named Severn Ink Blackskin.
The specific test process is to accompany the two of them to do some things that theoretically will cause big problems if the Black Skin family does it, such as taking Hogg to where he accidentally teleported himself to an alien plane. The place to visit again.
Although the leader of the Jialion clan did not want to cooperate at first, in view of the fact that his nephew made up his mind after hearing what Mo Tan and others experienced in the ruins, he put on a ten-headed bull show. Unable to regain his composure, he finally reluctantly agreed.
The first experiment was to ask Hogg to go to the place where the snakes were chasing him and make a cut on himself, and drop two drops of blood under the root of the big tree, but nothing happened.
In the subsequent experiments, the Wang Wang team, together with Carrie Ang, who rarely went out, went for a walk around the places where the ancestors of the Black Skin family had been 'disappeared' in the records. In the process, the patriarch The lady has been spreading her blood in the center of the protective circle of the Paw Paw Team, but nothing unusual has happened.
It was only then that Jia Liang finally began to believe what the Wang Wang team had said before about 'her ancestors getting off work'. She was not a stupid person, so naturally she would not insist on insisting that those contents were Mo Tan and others made it up. After all, these people had no motive, and they had saved Hogg's life before.
Finally, just the night before, the Jialion patriarch made an extremely courageous decision. She put some medicine in Hogg's dinner, so that the child would get sleepy and go back to the house to sleep in advance, and After that, he resolutely asked Mo Tan and others to take him to a place fifteen miles away from the settlement.
The point of this matter is not ‘a certain place’, but the ‘fifteen miles away’ in front.
Here to help you recall, when Mo Tan and Ji Xiaoge met the Jialion matriarch for the first time, the latter mentioned it when her mental state was not stable. , anyone with the surname "Heipi" may disappear as long as they leave the village, even if they are active in the surrounding area. Not only that, if the straight-line distance from the village exceeds fifteen miles, they will immediately suffer cardiac arrest and die.
This may not be a curse, but it is more domineering than those real curses!
The basic theory of the former has been guessed by Mo Tan and others. It is probably that people with black skin bloodline have some special 'qualifications', which allows them to obtain some relatively basic permissions, such as from Somewhere on the surface was conveniently teleported to the No. 7 database, just like Hogg before.
Now that the Sun Dynasty has completely cooled down, those fully automatic puppets that have been in disrepair have already developed a large number of problems, including but not limited to 'logic confusion', 'instruction errors', etc., and these problems are enough to make They shouted "Praise to the Sun" while hacking to death those unlucky ones who accidentally teleported themselves into the library.
Had Mo Tan not been stuck fighting in the corridor that day, and the Wang Wang team and the beautiful girl mercenary group were inexplicably teleported to the same place with a drop of dog blood, Hogg would have died long ago.
Of course, after two days of verification, it is basically certain that there will be no more mistransmissions. After all, Carion has visited almost every place where the ancestors disappeared mysteriously in the records. He tried eating, drinking, urinating, cutting his wrists and dripping blood, etc., but it did not trigger any supernatural phenomena.
And the second quality of the 'curse' is so domineering that even people like Mo Tan, Ji Xiaoge and Dabus who can confirm that the mission has been completed are a little uneasy.
He died of cardiac arrest more than fifteen miles away from the village. To put it simply, he died suddenly!
This is where the curse is so sharp. If not, the Black Skin Lineage could have migrated carefully in the past years, away from this land that could make them disappear at any time. Even if something strange might be activated on the road, as long as you are careful enough, there won't be much of a problem.
But sudden death if the distance is more than fifteen miles has nothing to do with carelessness.
"I believe you, and I believe that what you told me and Hogg before is true."
Nine hours before the game time, Carion, who secretly left the village with the Paw Paw team, took a deep breath, draped in the hazy moonlight like silver gauze, bowed deeply to the benefactors in front of her, and then grinned: "But everything is possible, so... if something happens to me, Please comfort my nephew, and if possible, take care of him for a while."
After that, he strode out of the 'safe area' in the family records and stepped into it. That's the 'death line' that will kill you suddenly as long as you have black skin blood flowing through your body.
It turned out that nothing happened.
Carion shivered violently at first, and then carefully took the second step. As a result, nothing happened. There was no sudden sharp pain from the chest, no tragic bleeding from the seven orifices, There is no sudden death, no long life flashback, nothing!
Then, the patriarch lady began to fall into a state of confusion like a convulsion. She first knocked down two saplings with a flying swoop, then spun, jumped, and rattled. He was so mobile that he jumped up and down like an epileptic gas tank, and made all kinds of strange screams that had no logic or meaning. At first glance, he looked like he had just gone crazy.
But everyone present knew that Carion was not crazy, but fell into a kind of ecstasy that was difficult for others to empathize with. The joy of breaking the curse, the joy of surviving the disaster, and the joy of breaking free from the shackles surged through the blood vessels and body. The joy in her soul, coupled with the pursuit of freedom that is inherent in every intelligent life that she has suppressed for who knows how many years, the mentality of this matriarch who is deep in the city and rational enough in most cases finally finally I collapsed and started burning my calories like crazy.
Although this flexible fat man jumping up and down is not very lethal, the visual impact is not bad, and it made everyone look stupid on the spot.
After a long time, Carion finally calmed down, and she knelt down on the ground, raising her head in a daze and talking to herself, constantly mumbling something...
Mo Tan and others People heard fragmentary words such as 'Father', 'Mother', and 'Barcyon', and the last one was the name of Hogg's father, the previous patriarch before Carion.
The crowd did not come forward to disturb, but dispersed in tacit agreement, setting up a cordon in this not-so-dangerous place, creating an undisturbed environment for Carion. It was not until dawn that Jia Liang, who seemed to be fine, found Mo Tan, patted the latter's butt to show that he was fine, and then quietly returned to the settlement with everyone.
Not long after, Hogg got up energetically after a good sleep, quickly prepared a sumptuous breakfast for everyone, and then sneaked out with Wang Badan.
The target is any place more than fifteen miles away from the village. Hogg, who is ready to use his life to prove whether the curse is really gone, sets out!
What the boy didn't know was that a certain tortoise he thought he had become familiar with during this period had sold him long ago, and the reason why he was acquiesced in this little adventure was, It was even more because Jialiang had practiced it personally last night and confirmed that even if he crossed the 'death line', there would be no problems before letting him slip away.
When Mo Tan and others came to the main hall after breakfast, they happened to catch up with Hogg, who was excitedly telling Carrie that the curse no longer existed.
Without telling Hogg the truth, Carion just watched lovingly as her nephew danced and took credit, and softly praised: "Good...very good, Hogg has really grown up..."
'Really What a good parent! ’
Ji Xiaoge pursed her lips and smiled, and sent a message to Mo Tan.
‘Agreed, Hogg is such a lucky kid. ’
Mo Tan nodded slightly and looked at the kobold boy with a shy smile and a straight waist without realizing it.
Obviously, without Carion saying that the concealment last night was the same, Hogg, who risked his life early this morning to test whether the sudden death curse was indeed ineffective, is a hero, a real hero!
This sense of achievement and satisfaction is exactly what Hogg, a child who has been constrained in the village since childhood and does not even have the freedom of other peers, lacks the most.
“Children of this age are all vain, especially boys.”
When he returned to the patriarch’s house early this morning, Jialion asked Mo Tan and others not to When he told Hogg about this, he said: "But he didn't even know the creek outside the village. I don’t know what kind of fish there are in it, just like me back then...I have developed this kind of virtue in self-destruction. A new life is about to begin. I can’t let that child be as depressed and depressed as I was. Inferiority ruins it!"
Carion clenched her fists, her eyes full of determination.
Mo Tan and others looked at each other, then nodded in unison.
Since people want to hide their merits and fame and build confidence and honor for their nephews, they will naturally not be ignorant to expose the unimportant truth, not to mention that no matter what Carion did What, at least little kid Hogg didn't know that he was doomed to be safe when he rushed towards the 'death line', other children were really risking their lives.
The pride in the young man's eyes is well-deserved and has no trace of moisture.
"Well, that's it, Madam Patriarch."
Mo Tan coughed lightly, stood up and said sternly to Jialion: "We have been harassing you for a long time. Now that the 'curse' in the Black Skin family's bloodline has been lifted, it's time for us to say goodbye."
Hogg whispered: "Ah, Brother Mo, are you leaving now!"
Children are emotional. Although Hogg is a very smart and precocious child, he also knows that Mo Tan and others will not He has always stayed here, but he was still very reluctant to say goodbye to these kind and friendly "outsiders, brothers, sisters, grandfathers and bastards". His eyes, which were quite big among kobolds, turned red at that time.
"Yes, now that you, little Hogg, have proven that the curse will no longer threaten you, it's time for us to continue traveling."
Ji Xiaoge flapped her wings. He jumped up to Hogg, rubbed the boy's head with a smile, and said with a smile: "You are also going to start a new life with your aunt. In the future, you must help Sister Jialion with all kinds of things, little man. "
Jadeka also said with a smile: "We will come back to see you when we have time."
"Wang hid two big bones in the room, and Wang only hid this one!"
Ya took out a big bone wrapped in oil paper from the bag on her waist and said sternly: " I left one for Wang Ge! Wang should save some!"< br>
"This is for you. It contains some short stories that I copied. They are all very philosophical, such as "The Two-Headed Ogre Let the Pear", "Three Little Goblins", "Seven Ink and the Four" "Top Ten Thieves", "Basic Physics", etc., when you have time You can read more."
Dabbs took out a thin booklet and handed it to Hogg, showing a smile that could be said to be predatory in the latter's eyes: "To become. A person who is useful to society.”
Hogg held the manuscript handed over by Dabus, cherished it in his arms, and nodded heavily with tears in his eyes: "I understand! You must come back when you have time! If you don't have time, you must write it. Write to me and my aunt.”
"Easy to say."
Everyone looked at each other and smiled, said goodbye to the aunt and nephew again, and then left the patriarch's house with a reluctant smile.
The sunshine outside is warm and the sky is blue.
It is a new day in every sense of the word, it has just begun.
Chapter 958: The End
(End of this chapter)