Strange Star Witch

The next day, Rudolph and the other three set out to find for Cooper the bones that he had failed to collect last night.

They tried to avoid the place where the two armies fought last night. There were collapsed houses everywhere, masonry fragments piled in the corners, and the blood flowing out from the gaps in the masonry had dried up and turned black after a night of evaporation.

There are also disabled people groaning in the ruins, and soldiers from the Restoration Army are checking them one by one. If they are one of their own, they will save them. If not, then let the moaning stop. The last scream before death always makes people feel sad.

Want to hide far away.

After walking for a long time, they finally reached the place where they fought last night. The three of them lowered their heads and rummaged around on the ground.

This was not easy. After they left, there was another battle. The ground was blown up by artillery shells, and the smelly soil underneath was turned up.

After searching for half an hour, Rudolf felt that he was too tired to bend over, so he sat on a stone nearby to rest. After resting for more than ten minutes, he saw that Cooper was also tired. He asked Cooper: "Have you found your facial skull and brain skull?"

Yet?"

"It's not mine, it's the alchemist's corpse."

"Isn't that yours too? You are a living corpse. Wouldn't it be equally useful to remove a piece or two from other corpses?"

"Roadside accessories are certainly not as good as the originals."

Rudolf shook his head. It was too difficult to find a bone the size of a finger. The place had changed a lot. There were many corpses on the roadside that had been chopped with axes, pierced by lances, and shot through by bullets.

"Perhaps the broken bones of a certain corpse will be mixed in, and then you can install an accessory."

Cooper felt that the fishy smell pouring into his nostrils was very pungent, so he didn't say much.

When Rudolf looked into the distance, he suddenly saw a pair of eyes in the ruins of a nearby house.

It was a house with no roof and only four walls. The second floor slab disappeared, making the interior of the house as bright as the street outside.

The gable wall of the house, that is, the side wall, is no longer vertical and has a slight inclination outward. This causes a crack to appear between the gable wall and the front wall, and the eyes are hidden in the crack.

This house was only more than twenty meters away from Rudolf, and Rudolf and those eyes looked at each other through the gap in the wall.

The height of those eyes was a little low, which made Rudolph hesitate and did not take action immediately.

A black shadow flew into the air and was thrown towards Rudolph.

It was a grenade, but the grenade only flew three to five meters before falling to the ground and rolling on the ground.

The grenade exploded between Rudolf and the eyes, much closer.

Smoke and dust filled the air, and shrapnel shot out, obscuring the sight of both sides.

After the explosion, the eyes in the crack in the wall looked outside again. After waiting for a long time, the smoke and dust finally disappeared, but there was no one on the street outside.

The man lying on the crack in the wall suddenly had a bad premonition and turned his head while his scalp was numb.

A tall young man stood in front of him.

"Child, you don't want to play with the things in your hands..."

When Rudolf saw his turned face, he was stunned. Last night, he seemed to have made a move to disable the child's grenade.

The reason for some uncertainty is that the expressions of the two children are so different that Rudolph cannot be sure whether they are the same person.

The child last night had sparkling eyes and was full of curiosity about Rudolph's magic. At first, he kept wondering where Rudolph had hidden the grenade. Later, after learning that he was being teased, he pestered Rudolph for the grenade and even wanted to use one.

The candy gives him two grenades in exchange.

Today's child is obviously so young, less than ten years old, but the corners of his eyes have drooped, he is biting his cheek with all his strength, and his face is gloomy. What's more important is his eyes. There is no light in those eyes, only hatred.

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He held his last grenade tightly. The safety of the grenade had been turned on, and he pulled the tab without hesitation.

This was his last weapon and his last chance. He cherished this grenade so much that he did not throw the grenade at Rudolph, but rushed towards Rudolph holding the grenade.

There were ruins of buildings under his feet. He did not notice that there was a broken window in front of his feet, and the wooden lattice of the window caught his feet.

After all, he still fell, but when he fell, he still moved his hands forward and sent the grenade to Rudolph's feet, completely ignoring his face and rubbing it fiercely with the rubble on the ground.

"Let me do another magic trick for you!" Rudolph waved his hand, and the grenade in the child's hand disappeared.

Under the influence of wind magic, the grenade rolled further away. There was an explosion behind him and the sound of rocks being shot. Rudolph blocked it all with his back and just looked down.

This kid.

The child wiped his face with blood on the rubble, looked up at Rudolph, and finally recognized who he was.

"Magician! You are a circus magician!"

"Guessed it right!"

Rudolph helped the child up: "Didn't the clown and trainer of the circus place you somewhere else last night?"

Hearing the magician's question, the child lowered his head, as if remembering some bad memory, and then raised his head and said: "Later, a rout of the Constitutional Army happened to enter where we were hiding, and they asked us to continue fighting."

Rudolf was a little confused and asked: "Where is the squad leader?"

"died."

"Where are your parents?"

"died."

Rudolf didn't know what to say.

"May I have your name?"

"Kiyan."

He wanted to give the child a piece of bread. Maybe a piece of bread was more important to the child at this time, but the three of them didn't bring any food with them when they went out.

The sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and Rudolf hurriedly said: "Kiyan, run! Go and hide! Come out in a few days!"

They had just captured a city, and the Restoration Army had suffered huge losses. They had just experienced a bloody battle, and were now in a blood-soaked madness. They were unable to maintain military discipline. If the Restoration Army saw this child with a weapon, they would definitely not let him go.

He just shot it casually.

"You must hide it! Never come out again!"

A small detachment of cavalry from the Restoration Army stopped outside the house. Rudolf went out and took out the tutor's certificate from Count Pallu's castle, which had the coat of arms of the Count on it.

"It's okay here, you go somewhere else."

The cavalry saw the count's coat of arms and left quickly.

There were sporadic gunshots and shouts of death all around, making Rudolf sigh.

Hatred, the alchemists have already planted hatred here. Instead of training skilled soldiers to go to the battlefield, they gave guns to every civilian and cultivated hatred with the so-called freedom of holding guns.

After this little chaos ended, Cooper looked for his brain and facial bones again. Rudolph and Yin Fenggna didn't know what shape of bones these two terms represented, so they could only search together. Fortunately, Cooper was lucky enough.

Two bones were recovered.

When Rudolf returned to the cabin on the beach, he found Viscount Paulus already waiting outside the cabin.

"Mr. Rudolf, these are the relics we collected last night. We can't handle these relics. Thank you for your trouble."

"No hard work, no hard work, keeping promises is the basic rule."

Rudolf thought a lot of sad things to prevent himself from laughing.

Viscount Paulus only thought that Rudolf had a headache after seeing a box of relics. This was not a small project, it was very tiring.

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