Blood of the Hunting God

Xuerong turned to look at Tardiff curiously.

"..."

The bounty hunter didn't give an answer right away at this moment, so more children looked at him curiously, and pairs of big bright eyes silently fixed on Tardif's face.

tsk...

Such a posture.

It seems that even if you want to say it or not, it may not be enough.

How the hell do I know what a ghost story is? Isn't it embarrassing me to ask a rough person like me to tell such a thing?

However, in terms of horror stories...

Tardiff frowned at this moment and thought deeply, and then suddenly remembered something.

"I used to stay in the polluted desert for a while, and once I took a night watch job in the outskirts of the Town of Tears, and I did it with two other hunters. Well, yes, some things did happen at that time Things should be considered a little bit scary."

Tardiff stroked his chin and said with an expression of reminiscence.

"Then you should speak out."

Disma also showed a slightly interested expression. He knew that this bounty hunter had been to many places, but he didn't expect that he had set foot in the border town on the other side of the Dream Capital, but he didn't know what it was like. experience.

"If you want to hear me speak well, just keep your mouth shut. Your sluggish mouth can easily interrupt my train of thought."

The dark-faced Tardif stared at Disma and said a warning, and then, this time, he really started to think seriously and recalled, and started to tell the story.

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【Tardif's Story】

Lao Tzu has traveled all over his life, relying on his strength and martial arts to accept commissions, and he can be regarded as supporting himself by his own ability.

Pollute the desert, pollute the swamp, corrupt the field. "

After all, I have been to the territory of four old gods, and I can be considered lucky to be able to continue to live until now.

However, if you want to say the weirdest and scariest place, I'm afraid it has to be in the polluted desert where the power of the twin gods spreads. It's the most evil place I've ever been to in my life.The filthy monsters there are different from other places.

They will pretend to be...

they think...

I heard that this is the characteristic of the power of the twin gods. Their power makes the monsters infected with mutations gradually become completely different, allowing them to hunt and kill humans more rationally, and develop all kinds of weird and strange things. To be honest, every monster I met every day there often made me frightened.

However, what really impressed me the most was the experience outside the Town of Tears.

Different from the Star God Barriers of the Kingdom of Stars, all the dream barriers on the border of the Kingdom of Dreams are more fragile and more likely to be infiltrated by monsters, and when the barriers are penetrated, there is generally no major reaction, so that they do not Camping close to the border made it impossible to notice what was going on inside.

This is a very boring and tedious job, but also very dangerous.

Because you don't know when those things will appear, you can only maintain high-intensity alert all the time, if it wasn't for Class Three

In terms of rotation, I guess no one can stand this kind of life.

But fortunately, although the dream barrier is fragile, it is only vulnerable to low-level monsters. The stronger the monster, the less likely it is to cross the barrier. This is determined by the characteristics of the barrier itself. It makes sense. But in fact, it is more or less useful.

[Disma: Can you stop swearing in front of children? 】

[Tardif: Shut up, don't interfere with my thoughts]

In short, I took such a night watch task that day. I was on the last shift, and the other two were with me. Well, I can’t remember the names. Let’s just call them No. [-] and No. [-], anyway. It's dead and doesn't matter anymore.

[Disma: Is this name too casual? 】

[Tardif: If you interrupt my train of thought one more time, I will put this candle in your eyes, believe it or not? 】

No. [-] is a very enthusiastic young man. Like me, he is a hunter traveling in other places, and he has just come to the polluted desert. He has never seen how evil the things here are.I think it's really unreliable to let this kind of guy guard the first shift, but on the [-]nd, the local man told me that the reason for letting the unreliable guard the first shift is because when the moon just set, the nearby monsters basically The first shift is basically the safest, and their physical strength is also abundant in this shift, so if the worst person is allowed to guard, the fault tolerance rate is relatively higher. something will happen.

As we all know, in the story, the more you say nothing will happen, the more things will happen.

At the beginning, I really didn't notice anything wrong.

The young man was sitting outside the tent, on the sandy ground, chatting with Lao Tzu without saying a word.I was supposed to sleep, but I haven't slept on the sand very much, and I couldn't sleep that night. Now that I think about it, it's fortunate that I couldn't sleep.

I was chatting with that young man at that time, and I said:

"Where did you come from, how did you think of running to such a ghostly place?"

The young man stared in the direction of the Oneiroi barrier, just in case something came in, and then said to me casually:

"I just want to look around. If I stay in one place all the time, I always feel like I'm going to get rusty."

Listen, this guy is still a bit dreamy, unlike some people who only know how to drink and sharpen their knives all day long, grinding out their brains.

[Disma: Hello! 】

Then I will continue to chat with him, and I will say:

"You can't come to this kind of place to see anything. This place is a place for desperadoes to earn money. People like you are here to deliver food to monsters."

He was quite dissatisfied, so he told me:

"Uncle, don't look at me as if I'm quite young and have no skills. When the vigil is over and we make gestures, you'll know whether I'm good or not."

So I was only about 27 or [-] years old at the time, how did I become an uncle?

But that's not important. In short, when it was a little later, it was almost time for the second person to change shifts. As a result, the local person couldn't get up, and fell asleep and snored a little.

This pissed me off. We are guarding the night in the border area here. How dare we sleep so dead in such a dangerous job?At that time, I didn't think anything was wrong. After all, his complexion looked the same as that of a normal person, so I didn't think too much about it.

Then the boy stopped me and said:

"Let him sleep slowly. I'm in good spirits, and I won't have any problem staying there for a while."

All right, if you are willing to work hard on yourself, I won't stop you.

But I lay down for a while, but I still couldn't sleep.

Lao Tzu couldn't explain what was going on, so he felt that something was wrong around him, something was wrong.

How should I put it, I have seen quite a few places where monsters haunt. To put it bluntly, these people who like to eat people usually have some sounds or smells when they come out and move around.

But that night, until most of the night, I still didn't hear or smell anything.

The Oneiroi barrier is quiet, and the desert is quiet, as if there is nothing inside.

I just feel... I don't look like I'm sleeping on the sand, I'm like sleeping in a coffin.

It's as if there are dead people lying around, and I don't know when I will become one of them. As soon as this thought comes up, I get goosebumps. I can't let it go, so I just sit up and go outside to sleep. Sitting on the ground.

I asked the boy:

"Did you see any movement?"

The young man stared at the front without turning his head, and said to me directly:

"I didn't see it, it's quite safe here."

He said it was all right, and I followed suit, and there was indeed no change in the Oneiroi barrier, as if it was all right.

But I can't get rid of this uncomfortable feeling in my heart, I was thinking, no, I can't sleep at all, and my heart is not at ease.

Then don't sleep at all, so I sat next to the young man.

At that time, I wondered, this guy talked quite a lot just now, why didn’t I react at all when I came over, and he didn’t even look at me, could he really be serious here, and planned to stare at him to death Stare at the direction all night, right?

I looked at him from the side, because I was sitting beside him, and I could only

Seeing half of his face, I saw this guy staring in the direction of the Oneiroi barrier. His eyes had been there for five or six minutes, but he hadn't blinked.

This person is terrible, if I don't blink for so long, I probably can't stand it long ago.

I asked him again:

"Why don't you keep staring at that thing without blinking your eyes?"

The young man replied after a while:

"It won't be fine."

I was also bored at the time, so I sat next to him and continued to say:

"I still feel that this place is unreliable. I always feel that it is too quiet, and I should come to something to fight."

Then the young man said:

"It won't be fine."

At that time, Lao Tzu didn’t respond, so I asked him again:

"How many places have you been to so far? How many monsters have you seen? To be honest, there are a lot of evil things in this thing, don't underestimate it."

In the end, the dog... ahem, in the end, the guy replied:

"It won't be good."

I was not happy at that time, this is perfunctory, is it so uncomfortable to talk to Lao Tzu?

"I just said turn your head away, you're kidding me, right? What do you mean by repeating that sentence?"

This time he was quiet for a while.

I didn't understand what was going on with him, so I got a little closer.

Then he spoke up.

他 说:

"I didn't see it, it's quite safe here."

I was stunned by what he said. This was completely wrong, and I didn't even know what he was talking about.

But after a while, I remembered that this sentence was actually a sentence he said not long ago. At that time, I asked him if he saw any movement, and he told me that I was not here.But that was the question I asked at the time, and he had no reason to repeat it, and when I asked a completely different question, did he?

The more I thought about it, the more something went wrong, and I recalled the tone of his speech just now, tsk, I remembered the feeling at that moment, how should I put it, it was like the feeling that he had recorded the previous sentence and played it again Same.The tone of his speech, the speed of his speech, everything was exactly the same at that time. It was not like a person said a sentence twice, but a sentence was recorded by something and played again, so the playback was the same as before. The same as the one.

I knew right away that it was broken, something was wrong.

I was wearing a full set of chain mail at the time, and I didn't take off my equipment neatly, so I went up directly with the ax in hand, grabbed the boy's clothes and pulled him over, and then I saw him s face……

[Tardif paused at this moment, took a sip of water, squinted his eyes as if he was thinking about how to describe it]

[After a short while, he breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to speak under the urging eyes of the people around him]

Half of that person's face has been eaten away.

The half of the face I looked at was still normal, but the other half of the face that I turned over had completely collapsed and left a hole.

I saw the thing inside, it was white, a bit like pure pig fat and white fat, it was moving all the time, moving bit by bit in the hole in the face, teeth, nose, tongue I can't see anything, and I can see a little white stuff in my mind, but it has been mixed with that lump of fat.

By this time, the young man was still talking to me in a daze:

"I didn't see it, it's pretty safe here."

This time he stumbled a bit, but I can understand it, because it is not he who is saying it anymore, but the thing that flowed into him, the thing that has eaten half of his head.That thing moved like that, holding his mouth open and moving there, and then the fat white fat seemed to open a second mouth, just imitating what the young man said just now and talking there .

Then, because I was also a little stunned at the time, I just grabbed his shoulder like that, and didn't move for a while.

Following that thing, maybe it found me, and I saw half of the young man's intact face, his eyes slowly bulged out, as if something was pushing inside, and he The eyes are squeezed out.

The eyes rolled to the ground, sticking to a pile of sand, and soon they didn't know where they rolled.

Then, the fat-like white thing gushed out from the eye socket, filling it up, and then an eye grew out of it, looking straight at me like that.

...I have seen a lot of evil things in my life.

However, the ghost thing I saw at that time was indeed very unusual.

Since then, I have also decided to stay away from the polluted desert. The filthy monsters there are different from other places, and they really cannot be approached casually.

【Disma: So then, can you stop talking halfway? 】

Then, I killed that thing and burned it to avenge the boy.

Do you still need to guess the ending of this thing?

Is it possible that you think that if a thing that pretends to be a ghost and eats people's heads scares me in front of me, this thing will kill me, right?What a joke, this ghost thing just caught me off guard, followed me with an ax