Chapter 349 Daughter of Darkness·Anne
Noxus Empire.
Northland border, Iron Thorn Mountains.
The endless mountains look like sleeping horned dragons, crawling on the earth.
Scattered snowflakes have not yet melted, decorating the mountains in the cold air.
Huo Jixing walked along the winding and rugged mountain road, looking at the ice and snow scene in front of him, feeling emotional.
After a few years, he returned to the place where he first fought.
After arriving in a familiar environment, the snow-white Poro in his arms also popped up and made excited sounds.
Huo Jixing's steps were light, and the terrain that was once difficult to walk was now like flat ground.
When he left the capital this time, he thought that he was facing the Black Rose, so he did not borrow [Noxtra] for fear of leaving any clues.
Instead, he relied on his own speed to directly cross the small half of the Noxus Empire.
On the way, he visited several marked locations based on the information investigated by the Reiser Guard Corps.
However, when Huo Jixing followed the trail, what he saw made him frown.
These places have long been reduced to ruins, and the former secret experimental base seems to have suffered a devastating blow.
Among the ruins, no traces related to the magic experiment were left, as if all the secrets had been completely erased by invisible hands.
After several consecutive locations were like this.
Huo Jixing immediately decided to abandon all the locations marked later and go straight to the Iron Thorn Mountains.
In front of the empty village.
Huo Jixing exhaled a breath of cold air, looked up at the red flag dancing in the cold wind above his head, and stepped inside.
He walked on the stone road paved with earth and stones, looked around at the almost unchanged houses and buildings, and came to the familiar location.
"Huh?"
Huo Jixing slowly stopped and stared at the broken scene in front of him.
The two-story wooden building in my memory disappeared, leaving behind a ruin and ashes all over the ground.
Huo Jixing raised his eyebrows, and a cold look appeared in his pupils.
The surrounding low walls of earth and stone have long since collapsed, and the scattered stones are stained with black marks, as if they have been roasted by fire.
He took a deep breath, crossed the low wall, and entered the ruins of the small building, trying to find some clues.
But it has been a long time, coupled with the erosion of wind and snow, there are almost no useful clues in this ruins.
Huo Jixing held the [Lingfeng] on his waist, squatted down, and picked up the soil on the ground, as if he was sensing something, but found nothing.
He touched the low earth and stone wall again, and could only feel the rough and hard texture, as well as the traces of flames remaining on it.
In the end, he looked helpless.
Time has erased too many details, and this ruin cannot reveal any more information.
Huo Jixing straightened up, swept his eyes across the ruins on the ground, and turned to leave.
He is going to the village to ask other villagers what happened here?
Half an hour later.
Huo Jixing left this northern village with a solemn expression and rushed to a nearby town.
He got the information he needed to know, about Amorine and Gregory.
"Missing?"
He whispered softly, his eyes looking extremely cold, escaping into the vast wind and snow.
Huo Jixing's inquiring made some villagers recognize his identity and then revealed the news about Gregory and Amorin.
It also allowed him to piece together what happened after he left.
Gregory and Amorin lived a happy life in the village. Their love and understanding made the surrounding villagers envious.
Mrs. Amorin is not only gentle and kind, but also gave birth to a lovely girl for Master Gregory.
The arrival of the little girl added some joy to the village, and Master Gregory was even more delighted.
He gave each villager a carefully prepared gift to celebrate the birth of his daughter.
However, just last year, a sudden change broke this tranquility.
Madame Amorin suddenly disappeared.
Master Gregory was extremely anxious. He and the nearby villagers searched the mountains but could not find any trace of Mrs. Amorin.
With such a strange thing, the villagers speculated that Mrs. Amorin might have encountered misfortune or been kidnapped.
Later, villagers would often see Annie playing alone in the small wooden building, holding a teddy bear in her arms, looking lonely and silent.
However, something even more shocking happened.
One night, the two-story wooden building suddenly caught fire. The fire illuminated the village and burned everything.
The villagers have different opinions about the fire.
Some people say that Gregory and Anne were buried in the flames and could not escape this sudden disaster.
It is also said that in order to avoid seeing things and missing people, Gregory left with Anne and went to a nearby town to start a new life.
“What exactly happened that night? Or was everything caused by the thing in Amorin’s body?”
Huo Jixing thought about it and remembered that he had come into contact with the things in Amorin's body through [Nanli Fire].
Thinking of this, he understood that only after meeting Gregory could he understand everything that happened.
Yes, Huo Jixing did not believe that with Gregory's strength, he would fall into the sea of fire together with Annie.
He remembered the [Noxian Calendar] he had seen in Gregory's study.
An ordinary member of the secret society possesses a book like the [Noxian Calendar]?
You must know that the [Noxian Calendar] records the major events of Valoran in detail, which is definitely not available to ordinary secret society members.
“Now that I think about it, both Gregory and Amorin are not simple!” Huo Jixing shook his head gently.
Buzz! Buzz!
The wind and snow trembled, and Huo Jixing's forward speed suddenly accelerated, as if flying at a low altitude, ignoring the terrain, and rushed to the small town in the north.
Xueling Town.
This is a newly established town on the northern border of the Noxus Empire.
It was once a large village with a population of a hundred households.
With the pacification of the Northland, more and more colonists came here, eventually forming a prosperous small town.
In the center of the town, a tavern is opening its doors, and customers will come in from time to time.
As the owner of a tavern, if there is anything Marcin is good at, it must be how to keep his head down and retreat.
In front of him, noisy voices mixed with the sounds of large wine glasses clinking and beer spilling.
Every once in a while, someone will shout for drinks.
As soon as their coins landed on the bar, Marcin slid a full wine glass in front of their waiting hands.
His quick and quiet service did not attract any attention to him.
Therefore, it is rare to get into any trouble.
But there are always troubles.
Compared to the one at the door, a belligerent boxer feels itchy without fighting.
A conversation between the hooded people turned into a dagger stuck in the throat.
Or, the most unexpected thing, a little girl pushed open the heavy wooden door of the pub and walked in.
Marqin watched the little girl humming and jumping all the way to the bar.
The wooden door slammed shut behind her, and the last ray of cool winter air blew through the room. The loud banging sound made several pairs of eyes that had not noticed her look over, and they all expressed doubts about her appearance.
The little girl climbed onto a high stool, her eyes barely above the bar.
Marqin saw her flaming red hair, holding a tattered doll in her hand, carrying a broken small bag on her back, the skirt on her body was mottled and ragged, and the sleeves were strangely short.
"What do you want to drink?" Marcin will not let go of any business, even a little girl.
The little girl was a little too petite, so she could only stand up on the stool, put the toy down on the bar with a pop, and glanced at the bottles on the shelf.
Marcin could recognize it as a stuffed bear, sewn with care and care.
After years of pulling at the sutures of the limbs, the stitches have been exposed. I don’t know when and where a button eye was lost.
"Excuse me, can you give me a glass of milk?"
Hearing this, Mal Qin raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.
He walked to the end of the bar to get the porcelain jug of milk.
“It’s so late at night, it’s not good to go out alone, huh?” came a rich voice.
Marqin sighed, one trouble always leads to more trouble.
He took the milk bottle from the shelf and looked back at the bar.
A huge man stood next to the little girl, looking down at her with his only good eye.
The little girl sitting directly in front of him was now like a small stone at the foot of a big mountain.
This man is simply a pile of muscle and scar tissue, with nooses, chains, and iron hooks hanging around his waist, and a sharp knife slung on his back.
Everything he saw loudly announced that he was a bounty hunter.
The little girl looked up at him, a smile flashed across her face.
"I'm not alone. Tibbers is with me."
She raised the stuffed teddy bear in her hand and smiled.
"Right, Tibbers?"
"Huh?"
The bounty hunter looked blank and suddenly laughed loudly.
"Your parents must miss you."
The little girl's hands dropped to her sides, her eyes looking downward.
“No!”
“Oh, it will definitely happen. And I think they will be willing to spend a lot of money to get you home safely.”
< br>Marqin could almost hear the sound of coins falling into the bounty hunter's mind.
This guy with a long history of evil has already begun to figure out the price for escorting her home.
"It's impossible. My mother is missing and my father is busy with something."
The little girl plopped back on the high stool and looked at the teddy bear's only remaining button eye.
The bounty hunter was about to speak again, when Marcin put the milk jug on the bar and deliberately made a heavy sound.
“The milk is here,” he said.
The little girl smiled happily at him, breaking the gloom just now.
"Thank you, sir!"
She put the bear on the table and reached into the backpack behind her.
Marqin waited patiently, planning to accept it silently no matter how many coins she put on the bar, treating it as a discount.
However, what he didn’t expect was a big bag full of money.
A few gold coins engraved with the Noxus Empire logo fell to the counter, and one of them was rolling towards the edge.
Malchin subconsciously reached out his hand and pressed the escaping gold coin with one finger.
He slowly picked up the gold coin from the bar. The weight and texture showed that it was a genuine Noxus coin.
“It fell!” the little girl said with a smile.
Marqin swallowed, his mouth suddenly went dry.
He stretched out his hand, trying to stuff the gold coins and money bag back into the little girl's backpack, so that no one else could see——
"Such a big little girl actually carries such a big money bag." The bounty hunter's deep voice was a little too loud.
"Tibbers found it."
The little girl didn't care and seemed to have no idea about money.
The bounty hunter sneered and looked at the tattered teddy bear.
“Really?”
The little girl took a sip of milk and looked at her teddy bear again.
"Found it on an uncle who stopped me on the road. He's a bad guy."
"That's too bad."
Bounty The hunter leaned forward on the stool and slid one hand towards the money bag.
The little girl looked up at him, with a sly and naughty smile on her face.
"Tibbers ate him."
For a moment, everything in the tavern seemed to have pressed a pause button and stopped.
Then, the bounty hunter’s laughter spread throughout the room.
“He’s really good at eating,”
He smiled, suddenly stretched out a huge hand, grabbed the teddy bear’s head, and snatched it from the little girl’s hand.
"This big ferocious monster."
"Let Tibbers go!"
The little girl shouted, reaching out to grab the little bear.
“He doesn’t like being pulled hard.”
“Haha! Haha!”
The bounty hunter laughed louder, and his fat muscles trembled.
Marqin put the gold coin in his hand into his pocket, avoided the attention of others, and stepped back.
He wishes he could help, but his survival today depends on his ability to get out in time.
But the little girl's voice made him freeze in place.
"I say. Let go."
"Tibbers!"
In the corner of the tavern.
Huo Jixing stopped watching the show and was about to stand up, but he stood there with a look of surprise.
“I remember that Amorin always suppresses the things in her body, but Annie.”
“She is completely unaffected by the things in her body and can control the power of fire magic at will?”< br>
He still remembers the scene when he helped Gregory suppress the thing in Amorin's body when she lost control.
As for meeting Annie here, it was indeed a coincidence.
Huo Jixing originally came to the tavern to inquire about news, hoping to get some clues and find out the whereabouts of Gregory, but he did not want to encounter what he was seeing.
He noticed that Annie's behavior and personality seemed a little weird, not like an ordinary little girl.
What happened in the tavern seemed to be caused by the little girl being inhumane.
But he knew that with every move and every word of Anne, all of this was developing in a certain direction.
“The daughter of darkness really did not give her the wrong name!”
(End of this chapter)