hunt and eat

Chapter 429 It's a pity that I got to know you this way!

Hearing his name called out by the other party, the armored man's body froze at that moment, and then his first reaction was to look back to make sure the door was closed properly.

For this reaction, the purple-haired youth was not surprised at all, he just smiled and waited for the other party to complete a series of warning actions before speaking again.

"I'm Lorgar, do you still have any memory?"

"The little one who followed Brother Xiu Luo back then."

Seeing the armor man pondering for a long time and touching his head in embarrassment, the young man named Lorgar smiled helplessly.

"It's really heartless... It's clear that I was the one who brought you food back then."

The armored man lowered his head in shame, not daring to look at him for a while.

"Forget it, anyway, there will be opportunities to catch up on the old days anyway. By the way, Man Yue, it's relatively safe here, and no one comes here usually, so you can just take off your 'clothes'."

"You don't feel comfortable staying inside all the time, do you?"

Lorgar gently placed the animal skin book in his hand on the bench beside him, and said with a smile.

After hesitating for a moment, the armored man finally nodded and took off the helmet.

Soon, a huge silver "praying mantis" came out of the armor bit by bit.

Surprisingly, it was the very friendly male mantis that had appeared in the Dede Desert once.

After the fierce demon incident, it "borrowed" a considerable number of metal fragments from several other villages one after another, and finally pieced together the current pair of tall armor that can hide its body.

Of course, despite the fact that this armor looks complete, the various parts are actually scattered, all controlled and spliced ​​by the naturally strong viscous silk of the Ge Mantis.

Once the adhesion is lost, I am afraid that it will be scattered into a piece of scrap iron in an instant.

【Lorja, have you been staying here all this time? 】

Ge Mantis Full Moon, with his blue eyes, scanned the surroundings back and forth, silently writing on the whiteboard in front of him.

It doesn't look like it will last long here.

The inside might be a little better, but the outside looks like a dilapidated building, which might collapse one day.

Shaking his head, Lorgar said softly: "I haven't been back for more than three years. When I saw the church like this yesterday, I almost couldn't recognize it. I thought I went to the wrong place."

Moon Moon nodded empathetically.

If I remember correctly, this church was built by Xiu Luo's mother, a queen named Roanna, with the purpose of helping the poor and calming the restlessness after the war.

When I was still small, I would often ask Xiu Luo to bring me here to play.

At that time, it was much more beautiful here than it is now.

"Since Queen Roanna passed away, no one has taken care of it."

"Brother Xiu Yaluo once said that compared to these material commemorations, the realization of mother's ideal is the best memorial for her."

"So this place has been abandoned for a long time, but the surrounding residents still remember the goodness of the queen, even in the poorest time, they will not come here to steal things."

Lorgar lowered his head, and seemed to be immersed in the memories of the past, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

Although this smile completely dissipated in the next moment.

【Xialuo, isn't he here? 】

Looking at the line of small characters written by Man Yue on the whiteboard in front of him, Lorja's body froze suddenly.

A pair of feminine eyes flashed with complex emotions of pain, helplessness, and anxiety in an instant, and never dared to look at the blue eyes of the silver mantis in front of him.

In the silence, only Lorgar's violent breathing could be heard.

"Brother, he...forget it, you come with me."

When Lorgar raised his head again, his usual composure had returned to his face.

Following behind Lorgar who was leading the way, feeling the sudden uneasy atmosphere of the full moon, some bad thoughts vaguely flashed in his mind, but they were immediately dismissed by itself.

How is it possible, my human friend is the next king.

In this world, is there anyone safer than him?

Pushing open the gray stained iron gate behind the church, accompanied by a large amount of dazzling light from the outside, a flower garden with overgrown weeds and small birds inhabiting everywhere appeared in front of a person and a monster in an instant.

Their arrival caused chaos in the originally chattering garden.

Countless birds flew in all directions in an instant, and their messy feathers scattered all over the ground.

"I just chased away this group of damned miscellaneous birds yesterday, and they came back today." Lorgar's eyes swept across the white feces everywhere on the ground, and he was out of breath.

This group of birds seems to have settled down completely in this untended garden in the past ten years. It may not be possible to drive them away in a day or two.

Of course, even so, with his character, he would not have lost his composure in the first place.

Right now, more, maybe it is to cover up a certain emotion in my heart.

After all, the next thing to say is really not a topic that can be finished calmly.

Full Moon looked around curiously, trying to find a place consistent with past memories.

But it is a pity that even as an ancient species with a long lifespan, it is only 15 years old even when the full moon is full. Ten years is really not short for the current it.

So the memory is inevitably blurred.

"We have arrived."

Lorgar's calm and slightly trembling voice suddenly rang in Man Yue's ear.

Slowly raising his head, what caught the mantis' eyes was a female sculpture carved out of unknown milky white rock surrounded by countless wisteria flowers, and a square stone tablet beneath it.

On the platform in front of the stele, there was a bouquet of purple flowers.

Judging by the color and freshness, it should have been placed last night or this morning.

The mantis full moon's gaze inadvertently glanced at a line of small characters in front of the stele.

[May there be stars in the sky and fall asleep with you]

If I remember correctly, the body buried here should be the body of Queen Roanna.

This line of characters was still engraved by it looking at Xiu Yaluo back then.

But why... Lorgar wants to say that Xiu Luo is here?
Full Moon turned her head in bewilderment, and looked at the young man beside her with a pair of jewel-like clear blue eyes.

"Brother Xiu Luo, it's right here."

After speaking so calmly that there was no trace of emotional ups and downs, Lorgar took the initiative to move half of his body away, revealing the things behind him.

It was a child carved with the same material, with a small crown and a little baby fat.

His face is full of joy from the heart, and his two small hands are tightly holding the left hand of the female statue, as if acting like a baby.

"Brother Xiu Luo, it's right here."

Lorgar lowered his head and repeated his words again.

The whole person began to tremble.

Looking at the sculpted face that was almost the same as in memory, Man Yue finally understood the meaning of Lorgar's words.

Almost at the same time, it also saw the barely visible line of small characters under the child's sculpture.

【The moonlight is so beautiful, mother】

Feeling dizzy like dizziness, the full moon staggered and fell backwards.

The uncontrollable sadness, mixed with the disbelief and doubts about the death of the friend, finally converged into a frantic hissing sound, which resounded extremely loudly in this dilapidated garden.

The uncontrollable original power originating from the ancient species of Mantis turned into endless blue flames, gushing out from the gaps in the silver-white carapace of the full moon.

This may not be a strange thing for a female mantis, but it is unprecedented for a male.

Or... a miracle!
According to scholars' research, the relationship between the female and the male of the mantis is somewhat similar to that of the heavy beetle and the beetle. The latter is almost like the former's slave, letting the other party drive it, and even being eaten directly by the other party when necessary , as an energy supply.

Of course, compared to the pheromone control used by heavy beetles, the upper and lower control methods used by the pavilion mantis, whose ecological niche is almost close to that of ancient dragons, are much more mysterious and powerful.

Every male mantis, at the moment when the eggs are formed, will be injected with a special substance that can limit the growth of its own strength by the female mantis as the mother.

Along with their hatching, this special substance will subconsciously make them tend to obey the orders of the mother and other female mantises, and even actively abandon their own lives.

Because of this, the full moon, who had been informed of this by the erudite Xiu Yaluo, would avoid the other side of the female pavilion mantis hiding in the desert, and would not even approach the other party's territory.

The limiter of his own strength is still second, the key is that once he really sees the other party, he may be "bewitched" by the other party in an instant, and eventually become a sad slave who has lost his freedom.

This is the most unbearable thing for the full moon who has always loved freedom.

But all in all, under the combined effect of extreme emotions and some unknown influences, the male mantis full moon has completely broken through the limiter that has been imposed since birth... no, the limiter that has been imposed since birth, and truly liberated himself ancient power.

From today onwards, the full moon has truly become the apex of the crustacean with potential not inferior to the ancient dragon species, the mantis of the pavilion of brilliance.

Looking at the arrogance of the same color as the sapphire eyes of the full moon, Lorgar, who knew the inside story, was stunned for a moment, and then felt more and more sad from the bottom of his heart.

Why did this kind of thing happen after brother Xiu Yaluo died!
Can't he see the moon of the new world? !
He who bears all the crimes and all the stigma, shouldn't end like this!
Clenching his fist tightly, Lorgar's lips were bitten out with bright red blood.

"Can you tell me... what happened?"

A tired voice suddenly sounded from behind Full Moon and Lorgar.

One person and one insect turned around, and saw a young man with long silver-white hair and a handsome face.

But that's not the point, the point is...

His appearance is so similar to the dead Xiu Yaluo!

"There's still time, both of you, let's sit down..."

"Let's have a good chat."

Sighing lightly, Ceperos glanced at the two statues, one large and one small behind him, with a look of loneliness and regret on his face at the same time.

Is this the man who created me?

Sorry to get to know you this way.

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(End of this chapter)