Tokyo underground city

Chapter 241 Eight Brave Men

"It's an arena match."

Lu calmly told Lin Huaien and the others the answer.

It’s lunch time now. Teams of White Wolf maids came in carrying large piles of barbecued meats and fruits. Strangely speaking, these barbecued meats were translucent when they were in the hands of the maids, but when they were placed on Lin Huaien’s hands, they were all translucent. In front of me, it turned into an entity.

"The entire Brave Festival lasts for ten days. The first two days are performances and parades. Starting from the third day, the "Eternal Night Kingdom" will send out white wolf warriors to fight against human warriors. The victorious warrior will receive the Challenge Saint. Mr. Wang’s qualifications.”

“Is that okay with all the winners?”

Lin Huai'en smelled the barbecue in his hand. It was fragrant and steaming, exuding the burnt aroma of barbecue.

"Only one person can."

"Lu" shook his head: "In previous years, there were only a few human braves, so we didn't expect so many people to come."

"But according to the regulations, there can be at most one human hero who can challenge the Holy King every year."

"And if there are many human braves, then these human braves must decide the winner first."

When Lu said this, she nodded: "That's the 'Challenge Competition'."

"The arena competition can last for three days. On the sixth day, regardless of whether the strongest one is determined, the Wolf King must select one from the surviving brave men to enter the 'final duel'."

"The 'Final Duel' will last for three days. If the selected hero fails to survive until the third day, he will be resurrected and challenge again."

When he heard that the brave man could actually be resurrected, Lin Huai'en's eyelids twitched slightly, and he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart——

"If... I'm just saying what if."

Lin Huai'en considered the words: "What would happen if I assassinated the Holy King a few days before the Warrior Festival?"

"Nothing will happen."

Lu shook her head: "In the "Kingdom of Eternal Night", the Holy King is an immortal existence - unless the Holy King leaves the "Kingdom of Eternal Night", it can continue to be resurrected."

"Because the "Kingdom of Eternal Night" is the Holy King, and the Holy King is the "Kingdom of Eternal Night"."

"The only way to kill the Holy King is to kill it in the 'Final Duel' - as long as you can kill it once, the "Eternal Night Kingdom" will completely collapse and you will be released."

"...Aren't you afraid? If we kill the Holy King, won't you be completely exterminated?"

Lin Huai'en was silent for a while and then asked suddenly.

The White Wolf Saint just looked at Lin Huai'en tenderly: "We have lived for too long... Your life span is still short, so you cannot see through life and death."

She looked out at the scenery outside the courtyard: "No matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of it, and no matter how beautiful the singing, you will get tired of it."

"In the Kingdom of Eternal Night, we have endless food and festivals that are held all the time."

"As long as we are willing, we can completely let humans or other races become our slaves and be toyed with and killed by us."

"But if you live this kind of life for decades or hundreds of years, you will eventually find that all of this is not important."

"Is there anything else important to you?"

Lin Huai'en listened to all this in silence, a little hard to understand, but vaguely understandable.

And Lu looked at him and smiled: "The reproduction of the race."

This answer surprised Lin Huai'en, but it was so natural.

"Because of Lord Brave's massacre, our White Wolf clan has completely disappeared. Lord Holy King desperately killed Lord Brave and obtained the 'power of destiny' belonging to the underground city from him."

"But no matter how prosperous and magnificent "The Kingdom of Eternal Night" is, it is ultimately just a false feast."

"The real White Wolf clan has been destroyed. The existence of "Eternal Night Kingdom" is the last carnival for us."

Lu's expression was very calm: "Killing you will give the White Wolf clan a chance to repopulate, but all of this will be just a passing cloud after all."

She lowered her head, as if she had seen through everything: "Even if the "Eternal Night Kingdom" can be resurrected, what awaits us is just another massacre - no matter what kind of race it is, it cannot last forever."

"One day, we will disappear in the long river of time."

"The Holy King will not accept this fact, and many of us do not want the bloodline of the White Wolf clan to be cut off in the hands of our own generation."

"That's why we raised our claws and swung our blades at you mercilessly."

Lu looked at Lin Huai'en with sad and calm eyes: "Please don't blame us, because this is the mission that each of us, every race, and every species has to undertake——"

"That is the survival of competing species on the larger stage of the underground city."

"I feel happy talking with you, and I at least hope that in this unprecedented battle of species, the ones who survive to the end will be the beings that my race has talked to, loved, and hated."

Lu, raised his hand, the white wolf claw slowly turned into the right hand of the human girl in the slow ripples.

Then she put her right hand on Lin Huaien's chest——

"Whether you stand in front of the Holy King, or someone else stands in front of the Holy King..."

"I hope he is someone you can recognize from the bottom of your heart."

"If you can understand this... you will naturally understand our clan's thoughts and attitude towards you."

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"Treat us the same way you treat soldiers..."

Lin Huai'en lay on the stone bed, looking up at the unfamiliar ceiling.

Aside from the cold, life in the Kingdom of Evernight is pretty comfortable.

Just like the White Wolf Saint said, the supplies here are abundant and there is no shortage of anything. Even the White Wolf Knight, after being nervous for two days, relaxed his vigilance and showed kindness to Lin Huaien and the others when they saw them walking out of the room. smile.

Werewolf civilians came and went on the street. Everyone laughed as hard as they could, played cheerful dance music, joined the parade freely, and left freely.

When outsiders like Lin Huai'en walk on the streets of the Evernight Kingdom, various white wolf residents will climb on the windows and watch them.

Lin Huai'en could feel that there was no surprise in their eyes, but only scrutiny and regret.

It was as if they were already corpses lying on the ground.

But the conversation with Lu also made Lin Huai'en realize the determination of the White Wolf clan.

"There is nothing more difficult to deal with than a 'martyr'..."

"Because they know that there is nothingness ahead, but they still 'live towards death'."

"They are not working hard because they firmly believe that there is meaning ahead."

“It’s that we know that ‘there is nothing ahead’, but in order to open up even a trace of ‘possibility’ in this ‘nothing’... we keep moving forward.”

"Eternal generations..."

Lin Huai'en thought about Lu's conversation and then thought about human history.

How many people feel that the prosperous times can last forever, even though history has proven countless times that when the prosperous times arrive, it is a precursor to the end of the world.

But there are still countless people who firmly hope, or 'expect', even if it lasts just a second longer, so that the prosperous age can continue as long as possible.

This kind of "expectation" is like "Lu"'s surprise towards Yuan Ximu. It is a "beauty" that only people who are also in a prosperous age can "feel".

Thinking of this, he put on his clothes and opened the attic window of the white courtyard.

He saw that the streets in the distance were brightly lit, and the grand parade that would never end was still going on day and night.

But in order to take care of outsiders like them, the White Wolf clan deliberately stayed away from the courtyard so as not to disturb their rest.

Leaning on the window sill and unscrewing the fruit wine bottle left by the maid, Lin Huai'en could hardly explain the inexplicable absurd feeling in his heart.

Perhaps, after he lived to be a hundred years old and turned into a ghost, watching his family play, play and sing, and send his coffin into the grave in a lively procession, he would feel the way he felt at this moment.

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"Today is the Brave Festival. Apart from the eight of you, there will be no subsequent Braves to join..."

Early the next morning, Lu and the maids brought breakfast in on time.

It was a fruit pancake similar to cheese and honey scones. It seems that because they are in a cold place, every member of the White Wolf tribe likes these fruit products that are only produced in the tropics.

"Barbecue" is their "essence".

"Fruit" is their "beautiful wish".

The two combined together form the absurd and magnificent "Kingdom of Eternal Night".

Eating the honey cheese fruit tart in his hand, Lin Huai'en has clearly realized this after spending these three days together——

No matter how sweet and delicious it looks on the surface, the essence of the White Wolf clan is still that it was bred from the land irrigated by ice and snow, similar to Tanya's barbecue nation.

Each of them is a warrior at heart.

The will to "live toward death" was brought into full play.

In order to pay tribute to these soldiers who "lived to death", Lin Huai'en was also mentally prepared——

"What are the arrangements next?"

He stuffed the last fruit tart into his mouth, clapped his hands, and held onto the martyr sword at his waist.

"The Brave Festival will start at noon and will last for 6 hours with a grand parade, and there will be a bonfire party in the evening. At dusk of the next day, the parade will enter the grand arena and take their seats. At that time, the Holy King and the eight dueling White Wolf clan members will The warriors, as well as all human warriors, will appear together and sit in the VIP seats to watch the performance."

Lu was a little hurriedly flipping through a long roll of parchment, "At around 8 p.m., everyone who is still competing can leave on their own, but the performance in the arena will continue until four in the morning."

"At around 10 o'clock in the morning on the third day, the duel can begin. Each white wolf warrior and a human warrior will fight against each other until one side is defeated."

"If a human warrior is killed, he will be resurrected after death. If a White Wolf warrior dies in battle, he will leave the Holy King and completely return to his origins."

"This duel will continue until all the White Wolf warriors are killed, so that the remaining human warriors will automatically be qualified to challenge the Wolf King."

"If until the last human hero dies, there are still warriors from the White Wolf clan surviving, then all human warriors will automatically fail."

"What will happen if all humans fail prematurely?"

Lin Huaien asked subconsciously.

"Will be burned to death."

Lu replied without hesitation: "Because there is no warrior among the human braves who can rival the Holy King. Therefore, it will be regarded as a humiliation to the White Wolf clan, so the most painful punishment will be imposed on all of you."

"...What if it just failed normally?" Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment.

"Everyone except the brave will be beheaded, and the brave will be devoured by the Holy King."

Lu replied calmly.

It was only in moments like this that she acted like a dungeon monster.

"I see."

Lin Huaien nodded and took a deep breath: "Can I go see some other brave men in advance?"

"Can."

Lu nodded: "But don't start a fight. Violence is prohibited in "Eternal Night Kingdom" and all battles must be resolved in the ring."

After hearing Lu's last seemingly absurd instructions, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head.

In a sense, he could really feel that to him, the white wolves were both cute and terrifying.

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"Are you going to see Tanya?"

Yuan Ximu looked at Lin Huai'en, tilted her head and asked.

"Yes, Lu suggested that we not visit the other heroes before the Brave Festival begins, but we thought it was time to tell them, so we came with them."

Lin Huaien sighed and replied.