Alien Knights

"God bless you, my daughter" (singing)

"Let everything be hopeful, and nothing scare you"

"Recalling the golden years"

"From babbling to thriving"

"My daughter, in a beautiful wedding dress"

"O God-sent Gospel, bring comfort and joy"

"My daughter has grown up and is going to get married today"

"Huggins! For God's sake! Stop singing!" Todd, who was blindfolded by layers of gauze, was lying on a four-wheeled wooden cart, covering his ears with his hands, and was protesting sternly to the driver above his head.

Accompanied by the sound of the wooden wheel turning, a thick male voice came from the front: "Little guy! My singing voice was well-known in the village back then. It can make geese fold their wings and hares stop!"

"I think it's your voice that can scare wild geese into incontinence, and scare hares into Parkinson's, right? 』

With such slander, Todd raised his head slightly, pointed to the gauze in front of him, and asked Hudgens: "When can I take this thing off?!"

"You can try it now, but I can't guarantee that your eyes will be fine."

Reluctantly lowering his arms, Todd asked again: "Where are we going?"

"To where we belong."

"What will happen to me when I get there?"

"Little guy, that's up to you."

Putting his head heavily on the car, Todd gave up struggling and put his body into the shape of a "big" character: "Well, why do you give me the same answer every time?"

With good-natured ridicule, the deep voice rang in his ears again: "Why do you have to ask me the same question every time?"

He gestured his middle finger to the other party, and turned over in a fit of anger, feeling the bumpy road beneath him, and Todd recalled what happened in the past few days.

It has been seven days since he was brought out of the cellar. I spent the first three days in a coma, and when I woke up on the fourth day, I was lying on such a flatbed cart pulled by horses.

In the following period of time, the man who called himself Huggins took him on the road all the time, not even taking three steps away from the carriage even when eating, sleeping or even defecating. For such a long time, his eyes have not improved. Even if he secretly lifted the gauze, all he could see was darkness. The only consolation was that the pain in his brain was slowly fading away.

After asking several times, although the other party did not inform the direction and destination, Todd was able to tell that the carriage was heading south all the way through the direction changed by the light and warmth.

It’s not that he didn’t think about running away and hiding in the middle, but firstly, even if he could get away like this and walk on this strange land like a blind man, he would be committing suicide; secondly, through several conversations with Huggins, he could vaguely feel that this man didn’t seem to have any malicious intentions.

Regarding the two corpses in the hunter's cabin, Huggins never mentioned it from the beginning to the end, and Todd would naturally not be stupid enough to bring it up. On this topic, the two maintained a very tacit and tacit silence.

What's next?

In short, let’s take a step at a time.

"God bless you, my daughter~"

Hearing the singing sound like plastic foam rubbing against each other again, Todd shuddered, sat up from the car, raised his hands to the sky, and shouted: "God, please send down a lightning bolt to kill us!"

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This painful and boring journey lasted another day and night, just when Todd thought that it would be nice to just puncture the eardrum and be blind and deaf for the rest of his life.

The sound of a bell ringing in the distance attracted his attention.

Huggins' next sentence immediately made Todd understand the true meaning of the sound of nature.

"Here we are."

The carriage stopped on a flat brick and stone ground, and the man driving the carriage stretched out his hands wrapped in leather gloves, signaling Todd to grab his sleeves, and the two moved forward slowly, one behind the other.

Walking on the cobblestone path, with the sound of monks chanting, Todd smelled the fragrance of flowers, and asked the guide in front of him, "Where are we?"

no respond.

After walking for another ten minutes, Huggins led Todd to stop on a soft sand.

The thick voice seemed a bit reserved and awed: "Master Myris, I'm back."

An old voice came from afar: "Come in, my child."

Huggins tugged on La Todd's sleeve and said to him in an inaudible voice: "After you go in, don't talk nonsense."

Todd nodded noncommittally.

After crossing a threshold, he heard the old man's voice again: "This is...?"

Guiding Todd to stand still, Huggins said respectfully: "Master, this boy has unlocked the 'Box of Proverbs' with his own strength..."

"Oh? Is he an apprentice of the church? Or a child of a noble family?"

"No, he's just a child from an ordinary farmer's family. Also, he touched the "Sutherland Relic"..."

"Well... what are you talking about? It's impossible!"

"Master Myris, the boy who touched the relic is alive, but his eyes have lost their light."

Todd felt a big warm hand touching the top of his head, and the old voice came to him: "This is a lucky result. None of the people I know who touched the relics have survived."

Todd couldn't help it, and asked, "What exactly is the 'Sutherland Relic'?"

Huggins let out a cough.

Todd could imagine that there must be dissatisfaction on the man's face for his casual questioning.

The old man did not blame, but explained patiently: "The sage Sutherland is the greatest alchemist in the millennium. He laid down the three primordial foundations of alchemy and proposed the theory of origin. Later, he was burned at the stake by the fanatics, and his remains were divided into several parts and kept in various parts of the world..."

Todd's face is getting darker and darker, dare I be sprayed with the ashes of the dead? !

Master Myris continued to explain: "It is rumored that Sutherland's remains have incredible power, but after so many years, those who tried to touch the relics died unexpectedly and turned into dust."

With a tentative tone, Huggins asked the old man in a low voice: "So, is this boy going to be one of us?"

Master Myris' tone was uncertain: "I don't know, after all, there is no precedent to follow. First, let me try to heal his eyes..."

Confused, listening to the conversation between the two is like a book, Todd's face is full of doubts.

The old man put his hand over the latter's eyes.

Todd suddenly felt a warm force, stimulating the nerves around the eyeballs.

After a while, Master Myris moved his palm and untied the gauze wrapped around Todd's eyes.

Slowly opening his eyes, slowly adapting to the changing light, Todd, who saw the light again, was shocked to find that the scene he saw was completely different from the past. Through people's clothes, he can see the flesh and bones under the skin; through the wooden boards of the cabinet, he can see the folded bedding inside; through the masonry roof above his head, he can see the sun hanging in the sky.

Tilting his head, he found half a ham hidden in Huggins' bosom. Todd pointed to his pocket and said angrily, "Didn't you say this morning that there is no meat but bread?"

Seeing the man take the ham out of his arms in a dazed manner, Master Myris laughed loudly: "That's right, he is one of us."