Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva!.

Chapter 626: Paradise of the Past
"Pu——"

Black tar was poured over the pile of bodies, then a fire was lit and it began to burn.

Standing upwind, their figures were stretched out in the night, and they watched the fire burning quietly, turning their distorted faces into blackened ones, and slowly turning them into indistinguishable substances.

"Ahem—" The young man holding the torch turned around. He was still wrapped in bandages stained with blood.

"My name is Guy, what's yours?" He had a pale face and blond hair.

"My name is Heshia, and this is my companion Ores." The girl introduced. The three of them stood in the cold night, feeling the heat from the fire in front of them, their faces alternating between light and dark in the firelight.

"Thank you for treating the boss." He was talking about how Tilan and Sura cleaned the wounds of the weak and injured moose boss and stopped the bleeding after they arrived in the evening.

"It was just a small help." Tilan shook her head. Compared to the tragic scene she saw today, she really didn't help much.

After that, the two had a brief conversation, and Tilan talked about how she met Sura in the jungle yesterday.

"So that's how we met. It looks like Sura is pretty lucky." He sighed, a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Several years ago, I was rescued by a girl because of a similar experience. Then I came here to recuperate, and then I gradually integrated and joined this place."

"Living in this world, it is rare to meet kind people."

"Come with me, let's sit far away for a while. The smell here is not good."

Afterwards, the three of them approached the exit of the col, and finally, under the leadership of Guy, they found a relatively hidden spot on the stone wall. Sitting here, they could have a good view of the scenery below, and it would be difficult for outsiders to notice them.

"I used to sit here when I had nothing to do, firstly to keep watch, and secondly because it was a relatively quiet environment with plenty of fresh air."

"I heard from Sura that you come from a very safe and large family. You seldom go out and don't know much about the outside world. I happen to have been to some places and maybe I can tell you about them." After sitting down, he placed the bow across his knees and stroked the scratches on the bow with his slightly rough fingers.

“I haven’t been to very far places, but I have visited a lot of this land of a thousand kilometers.”

"I was born in a caravan in my early years. My mother said she didn't know who my father was, but based on my guesses over the past few years, he might be a member of a new and more agile race, because I can run pretty fast."

"As I grew up, I got tired of the life of wandering around. I wanted to settle down in a larger stronghold and learn some skills, so I stayed in Xiaolin Fort, where the caravan passed by. The iron scale wood there is a famous specialty, and there are thousands of people living in the stronghold."

"There I learned the skills of using a bow and arrow, including making a longbow, nitrifying the animal tendons of the bowstring, sharpening arrows, etc. With this, I occasionally go hunting near Xiaolin Fort, or get hired as a guard for a caravan. Of course, the salary is not very high. If it is a big force, they have their own musket troops and don't need people like us who use bows."

"Later, I was hired to go to the remote Gray Tomb Wilderness to look for meteorites and rare materials, so I came here." "Unfortunately, the journey was not smooth, and I encountered patrolling war machines. During the battle, my employer and companions were killed by the sharp mantis sickles. I barely escaped. As I said before, I am indeed a fast runner."

"But the mantis' sickle was really sharp. The wound on my body couldn't stop bleeding. My body became weaker and weaker, and I fell to the ground with black vision."

"When I woke up later, I found that I was already here." He touched the rough yellow stone in front of him.

"Someone told me that I was found by Ji Ke, a girl with beautiful cat ears and healthy brown skin."

"'The grassland is very desolate and clean. It would be hard not to see a grown man like you lying there.' I asked her about it afterwards, and this is how she explained it. She said that she didn't want to save me at first, but was afraid that I would die there and my body would stink and attract bad things, so she dragged me back." As he spoke, the young man smiled with a hint of nostalgia.

"Jike is very stingy and greedy. He said that this is the nature of cat-tail species. He often steals my food."

"But she is really lively and has endless vitality. Because of her existence, my life has become more colorful."

"So, I occasionally helped everyone hunt and keep watch, occasionally made some interesting little things for her, or went out for a walk with her. We started to become inseparable, which made her a little unhappy."

“‘Because you follow me around every day, few people play with me anymore.’ Even though he said that, he didn’t really chase me away.”

"Originally, I thought this kind of life would last for a long time, until one day we were really together, but unfortunately it's impossible now." His voice was full of sadness, but also mixed with a hint of indifference.

"Living in this land, death is a common thing. My mother was surprised that I could live to adulthood. She actually had several children before her, but none of them grew up."

After that, Guy's topic gradually turned to the details of life, such as things to pay attention to when living and traveling in this land.

"First of all, you have to be careful about what you eat. Most of the food in the wild cannot be eaten directly. Animals can be eaten because they don't live long anyway, or they have mutated. If people eat too much, it will cause various chronic diseases and eventually lead to strange illnesses."

"Because this place was once the paradise residence of a holy sun, but he was defeated early, and later it was occupied by various forces, who also tried to use this planet to raise their own followers. Therefore, many new races were left on the earth, and some of them were captured as experimental subjects and research subjects, and now they are running all over the world."

"I don't know how many races there are on the planet, because no one has ever counted them. I heard that the most powerful new race is still living a prosperous and glorious life as before, but we have never seen their city. Maybe it's on the other side of the sea, or somewhere else."

"And the place we are standing on is the edge of the world. It is sparsely populated, food is precious, and life is difficult. But the good thing is that because it is barren, few big forces are willing to come and occupy it, so it gives many weak races room to survive."

Tilan listened to the other party's story, combining it with the history she had learned in her mind and thinking slowly. Ores, who was beside her, had already become drowsy from listening and leaned on her shoulder.

Under the night sky, the stars are still there, the fire burning in the valley is gradually extinguished, and the cool and clear wind blows slowly across the earth.

(End of this chapter)