Blood of Mercury

"You can see the third note, which shows that you didn't take my words to heart."

"Warning, your dad's patience is running out fast! I don't want to play this (handwriting covered in blood) game with my dear children!"

"Yes-yes! You heard that right! You will be liberated soon!"

"Listen to me: by the time you see this note, one of you is already in my hand! (The handwriting is covered with blood) There are still thirty seconds left, and when the time is up, he will commit suicide! "

"Father's big sword is too unbearable! Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up (the following handwriting is covered by blood

After reading the contents of the note softly, the surroundings were silent.

Oakley was slightly startled, and despite the chills in his heart, he shouted loudly: "Now! Immediately repeat the numbers you reported earlier! In order!"

There was silence all around.

"I said! Now immediately repeat the numbers that you previously reported in order!" He frowned and reiterated loudly.

But there was still no sound around.

After a few more seconds, a voice trembled and said, "...Two."

Then, after a pause for a few seconds, the next voice faintly sounded: "Three."

"Four."

"Fives."

…

"twenty one."

"…twenty-three."

"twenty four."

"...Okay, no need to report."

Oakley drank softly and stopped the increasingly trembling count. He basically realized who the missing one was when the first voice sounded.

Twenty-two should be the female Ashes who was nailed to death by the scarlet canine teeth. Well the first one that didn't respond...

Oakley closed his eyes in pain.

Now, it's almost thirty seconds.

Two minutes, one minute, thirty seconds...

Is the next one fifteen seconds? And seven seconds? In the end, everyone was killed instantly?

I don't know where to start, Oakley no longer doubts that person's ability. Now he just thinks that man is a lunatic, a total lunatic.

Along with that, Oakleaf couldn't help but feel some hatred in his heart for the Wind Whisperer who provokes such a lunatic.

"...Okay, everyone, spread out. With me as the center, spread out to find the missing No. 1. There must be at least one person within the visible range of everyone. If the target is lost, call out immediately. If you find something Shout out immediately."

Oakleaf waved his hands weakly, his voice a little hoarse: "Everyone, let's go."

The other Ashes looked at him with very complicated eyes, but they still obeyed Oakley's order and slowly dispersed to find the next dead person.

Yes, dead man. While Oakleaf opted for a slow and safe search, the rest of the Ashes knew what happened to the missing.

Although they already have the will to die in their hearts, they can still obey the orders of their superiors. This kind of quality is also extremely rare in the army of this era.

"...Damn, that lunatic..."

Oakley rubbed his forehead in pain.

How to deal with such a lunatic? His... game, let's call it a game, is there really a way to crack it...

No, probably not. According to what he said, he didn't say that if he wanted to solve his problem, he would be able to spare Oakleyford and others, but just used a tone like a notification. It was because the other Ashes heard this that they didn't complain about Oakleaf, who seemed incompetent and stupid.

Not only did they understand that even if they went up, the result would be the same, but once they deciphered the words of the madman, it might not be the end of the game, but they would instantly kill everyone in anger.

After all, he's a lunatic, so it's not surprising that he has any way of thinking.

Before they knew it, the Ashes' impression of the madman changed from a little guy who only played tricks to a powerful and cruel madman. The prospect of a bleak future comes to them at the thought that they are fighting against this kind of person—or even the organization in which this person belongs. Together with them, they even doubted whether Master Marco's choice to join the Ring of the South Wind was correct.

Whether...they are pure **** abandoners, should they stay away from those who worship evil gods?

The ultimate goal of the Ashes is to realize that the world is godless, and that human beings themselves will dominate the fate of human beings. What if those high-level gods created human beings? Humans now have their own civilization and their own ideas. The gods are not only not happy for the development of human beings, but they are afraid of the growing strength of human beings and try to curb the progress of human beings.

Joke! The destiny of mankind is not bound by anything other than man! The Ashes believe that with the development of human beings, we will step into a beautiful and happy future step by step. In that world, the gods who can subvert society by themselves are undoubtedly superfluous beings and enemies of mankind.

In order to achieve the independence of mankind, the Ashes will do whatever they can. Destroying temples and slaughtering priests is just trivial. Some Ashes infiltrated the top of the believers, corrupting the entire theocracy from within, making people feel disappointed in the temple from the bottom of their hearts.

And those gods who can't even tell the real devout believers or the mad believers disguised by the Ashes make the Ashes sure that the gods are by no means omnipotent.

Struggling for the sake of mankind for the rest of their lives, and even abandoning their own gods—the Ashes believe that they are noble and pure, and cannot be classified as ordinary cultists.

Wind Whisperer is indeed a great leader, but he worships an evil god. That kind of sacrifice in units of people, villages, and cities makes the Ashes disgusted. Even if nothing happened today, they would have to withdraw from the South Wind Ring sooner or later.

It's not just the problem of different ways, but the behavior of the South Wind Ring has provoked a large number of enemies. Like the lunatics who play them like toys at the moment.

While the Ashes were absent-mindedly searching for the body of their comrade, they were wary of the people around them.

They didn't forget that in the second game before, a comrade was killed by someone around him. Even if someone is controlled by that madman, but because of this, anyone around him has the possibility of suddenly losing consciousness and killing the Quartet.

In this situation where everyone had their own thoughts and was absent-minded, it took three or four minutes before someone shouted: "The body... the body has been found!"

Oakley Fauhoe raised his head, and dashed in that direction with three steps and two steps. Although it took three or four minutes to find someone, when Oakley saw a large group of people gathered together in silence, he only walked for less than half a minute.

When he got into the crowd, Oakley fell silent.

A middle-aged man in a robe of Ashes had a vine wrapped around his neck and hung high on a winged tree.

Finally, the raging anger burned in Oakley's chest.

The discovery of the body made him angry. Although he joined the Ashes with his own thoughts, he had already regarded everyone as his family during the six months of getting along. No, the people here are much gentler than those in his family.

At dinner last night, this middle-aged man still recited to him the words that the Ashes often said, and proudly showed him the photos of the two daughters at home. He even bought Banza's speciality for the children as far away as Farraro, which is now in Oakleaf's package.

But now he will never see his children. Even the method of death is so humiliating.

Hanging.

In any country, this is a punishment that can only be used by those who execute serious crimes. Above it, there are only three punishments: burning at the stake, crucifixion, and pouring silver.

The latter three are used to execute traitors, rioters and blasphemers respectively. These three sins are the most serious sins that are not forgiven in any country, and even an amnesty will bypass.

Even if he died by betting silver, Oakley wouldn't feel so angry. When they took the oath to become the Ashes, they cut the palm of their left hand with a silver knife and dropped a drop of mercury into it, indicating that they would not be afraid of the sin of pouring silver in this life.

Oakleaf clenched his fists, and at this moment, the person beside him silently handed him a note.

"Found it at his feet."

the man explained.

Oakley opened the note with trembling hands, but found that the handwriting was especially scribbled this time: "How about this surprise?

"Fifteen seconds - no! Ten seconds! Five seconds! Immediately!"

"I want you to see your father's anger—"

Before he even finished it, he felt someone touch his shoulder lightly behind him. Suddenly he shook violently, and the anger in his heart was instantly extinguished and turned into a stronger fear.

His neck was almost stiff and he turned around, but for some reason he was glad that he didn't see the scene of blood flowing into the river. At this moment, a young Ashes person trembled and supported his shoulders, trembling desperately and almost vomited.

"After...behind...just now...the corpse..."

He was shaking violently, his whole body was like a sieve.

Oakley immediately hugged him hard, although he was also full of fear, but he didn't show it on the outside, just patted the back of the teenage Ashes: "Tell me, Ake Ma, what happened next?"

"Broken... Broken! Listen... I heard something here, I just turned back... I turned back... Norton is broken! Broken!"

The young man named Akema said incoherently: "In the blink of an eye, I swear, in the blink of an eye, Norton was shredded by something! There was no sound or movement, and all the internal organs were intact. Before, the head was chopped to pieces... vomit..."

Having said that, he finally couldn't bear the nausea mixed with severe fear, and he lowered his head and vomited it out.

Oakley stood dumbfounded, feeling that the whole world was getting further and further away from him.

After finally regaining his senses, he felt his teeth tingling. Gently patted Akema on the shoulder, I wanted to give him some strength but I didn't want to tremble more.

In order to prevent the trembling of his voice from leaking out, he had to suppress his voice and ask, "There...is there a note on the ground? That's what it looks like."

"Right... I'm sorry, I didn't watch..."

"Then go back now and take a look at it for me, and get it if there is one. Norton can't be buried anymore. I'll try to get Uncle Charlie down from the tree first. I can't stand our comrade being hanged. die."

Saying so, Oakley went under the tree. The moment he walked around the tree inadvertently, as if he felt something, Oakley's eyes instantly widened.

The incredible joy paralyzed his brain. After another two or three seconds, he was determined, UU reading www. uukanshu.com turned back and shouted to the friends who were out of sight: "Everyone, come to me! The interference of the heart of nature has reached its limit here! Quick! Go out from here and find Lord Windtalker!"

Everyone is still immersed in the shadow of their partners dying one after another, and many people are even ready to die. But then Oakley's cry came suddenly. They were stunned for a few seconds at first, and after realizing the meaning of the words, they burst into the extreme speed and ran in that direction.

"Really!"

"I feel it again!"

The Ashes who escaped from the border were tantamount to escaping from death and wept with joy.

After standing in place and enjoying the hard-won safety, the Ashes suddenly remembered that there was a lunatic behind them. Although his legs were still a little weak, he also let go of the girl and ran on the way.

Even though their hearts are filled with hatred for the Wind Whisperer, at this moment his strength will be their only reliance.

They ran in chaos, completely losing the orderliness when they came. At this time, no one remembered Marco, and no one paid any attention to Oakleaf, so Oakleaf had to climb up the tree by himself, put the middle-aged man down, and ran out in the direction of freedom with his body on his back.

As for how they will tell the story to the remaining half of the Ashes after they go back, and what they will think of the Windspeakers and Howlers when they are safe, that is another matter.

At this time, as long as they looked back, they would find the dark eyes watching them leave on the branches of a certain winged tree.

The meaning in his eyes is unclear.