Chapter 8 Walk into the Dark

About two hours later. Su Li got up from Meiji's side with her bare body. Her body was still a little painful because of the right **, but time was running out. She found pen and paper to write through the light of the kerosene lamp. After a while, she folded the letter paper and put it beside Meiji, and then stood up.

The light of the kerosene lamp became dim and dim, and finally flashed out. The room became dark, but the girl's eyes reflected the surrounding scene like a cat. Zia is still in a coma, and Megi has fallen into a deep sleep. She can even see that the headless knight outside the dark door is still walking irregularly, and outside is the deepest darkness before dawn.

She walked to the statue of Shadin and knelt down. The face of the dark evil god seemed to change in the dark, mocking, sneering, or cruel and crazy twisting. She lowered her head and whispered the dark prayer. Dimly, she remembered what her father said when he told her the prayer before he died. He said: Son, I really hope you will never use it. But if there is such a day when you have to choose between life and death, I hope that even if you live in the dark forever, you will let yourself live. As long as you are still alive, there will always be hope...

Is there really hope? Should she really let herself live in the eternal darkness for the invisible hope? If it's just for herself, she would rather die. However, she can't be so selfish that she can't let Megy and Zia die with her because of her selfishness.

She raised her head and reached out to dig out her two eyes. The tingling in her eyes is far less than the sadness in her heart. The girl raised her eyes in the face of the statue and whispered:

"The melancholy rose blooms with Shastine's cold voice,

The bloody full moon predicts the eternal travel of the demon realm,

Demise, red spring and cold existence,

Mock, the black ghost flying in the world.

Two eyes flashed and then disappeared from the palm of her hand. Several rays outlined a huge figure in front of her, which looked very similar to the statue. The human light contains deep to cold darkness, and the darkness surges, as if trying to break through the outline outlined by the light bar.

"Are you calling me? Girl." A strange sound came from its body.

"My name is Sully Fit, the daughter of Mary Sullen Ewell," the girl raised her head, and the blood and tears from her eyes fell on her *, like a bloody pearl. "I want to ask you to see through the dark eyes."

"Only when you enter the darkness can you see through the darkness," the phantom of the god bent down and paid attention to her face. "So, did you bring the sacrifice? Your mother gave me the hearts of 33 children in order to get the strength she wanted. What about you? Are you going to offer the teenagers and girls around you? No, no, you want to protect them, right?

"I don't give life, but soul." Su Li said calmly, "I would like to hand over the dead spirit outside into your hands with the black power you gave me. I would like to give my soul to you as a tentacle and weapon to bring your power to the earth again. I would like to use these eyes that have lost their light to accommodate the darkness you have given me, and I will no longer cry or be confused until someone comes to save me.

"It's a very interesting statement," said the dark phantom, "the dead are what I hate, and your soul is what I need. And if someone can save you, it is when my strength has been further weakened or strong enough to no longer need you. Mary Sulen Ewell's daughter, you are smarter than I thought. Blind worship and hypocritical lies are not what I need, and I am very satisfied with your contract. However, this is not enough."

"What else do you need?"

"The tempering, the tempering of the soul." The dark god said, "Your will is not strong enough, and you have weakness in your heart. You don't have your mother's determination and desire to get what you want even if you abandon everything. This prevents you from reaching the height she has. There is always hesitation in your heart. Even at the moment before calling me, you still had the idea of exchanging your two companions for your life, right?

"...yes."

"Very good, admitting your weakness is the first step to be stronger," said the black phantom. "I will take you through the most horrible or tragic moment in thousands of years. I will let you witness the dusk of the gods in the dark century and let you know what is the saddest death and the most helpless survival. I will hone your will with deep pain and wash your soul with dark blood. I won't take away your hope, but you will never see it. I won't devour your existence, but you will never touch it again. In this way, are you still willing to hand yourself over to me?"

"Yes... I do."

"Good," said the god of darkness, "the evil god also has the mercy of the evil god, just as there is light hidden in the deepest darkness. Or many years later, you will look back and find that the choice at this moment is more worth it than you originally thought. Come here, Sully Fit, stop calling yourself the daughter of Mary Sulen Eviell, because you will be stronger than her."

Su Li stood up, walked slowly forward, passed through the outline outlined by the light, and melted herself naked into the absolute darkness...

A loud noise woke Megee from his sleep. He got up in a panic and didn't have time to put on his clothes, so he looked around. The faint light from the stone steps should be bright, and there was a series of impact sounds outside the dark door, but Su Li was not by his side.

He walked lightly, carefully walked up the stone steps and looked out, and then saw the confrontation between Su Li and the headless knight. Su Li is still**, and her concave and convex body is moving lightly. What she held in her hand was not the thin sword, but a long sword that was shockingly black. The top of the stone room was pierced by a big hole, and the sun scattered on the headless knight. Su Li swam around it, and every time the black sword hits the headless knight, it will flash a firelight, making its black armor overflow with fishy mud.

When Suli walked around in the direction where Meggie could see her face clearly, he was stunned. Su Li's face still has bloody tears, and there is a kind of darkness in her eyes that wants to spiral all colors into it. Her expression is solemn and indifferent, and the place where she has moved will always leave a black shadow. The headless knight's giant sword could not hit her, and could only make her body gradually become mutilated under the attack of the girl. Meggie didn't know what happened to her, and she didn't know why she suddenly became so weird and terrible. The headless knight's counterattack became more and more powerless, and his horse slowly melted into mud. A dark shadow tried to escape from the mud, but it was cut off by the girl's shining sword and disappeared after a sad scream.

The girl stood there motionless, and the black vortex in her eyes and the black sword in her hand began to dissipate. Her eyes are gone, and there are still blood stains falling from her face. Her legs were together, and the sparse * still stuck together because of some kind of ** left last night.

"Suli..." Meji whispered to her.

The girl suddenly fell down.

"Suli." Meiji quickly rushed out and knelt to the ground* She hugged her and called her in a low voice.

"Meggie...is that you?" Su Li's voice was very weak. She opened her empty eyes and raised a hand to touch his face.

"It's me," Meiji was so anxious that she wanted to cry and grabbed her hand to cover her face. "What's wrong with you? And your eyes, your eyes..."

The girl just showed a smile that she couldn't tell whether she was happy or sorry: "Meggie, if... I mean if... if you can see my sister... help her..."

"I don't help anything," Meiji burst into tears. "Say it yourself, meet the princess yourself, and find your sister yourself..."

"You have to tell her for me... I miss her very much..." The smile condensed, and the girl's hand hung softly.

"Suli..." Meiji held her body tightly and cried bitterly.

*

All day, Meggie fell into a confused mental state. He moved Zia outside and let the sun shine on her wound cut by the headless knight. He dug three graves on the edge of the altar and buried Sully, Novak and Steele in them. He moved the dead masked people outside Stonehenge and let the flying sand to bury them. He threw the letter Suli wrote to Princess Sophia into a ball, then picked it up again, and then threw it away after a while, and then picked it up again...

The black shadow on Zia's wound slowly disappeared, and Meggie applied the Druid herbs she carried with her to help her recover.

He did a lot of things, but at the same time he didn't seem to have done anything. He didn't know what was wrong with him or what to do next. Return to Sol Village and live your own life as indifferently as before?

And then?

In a faint time, he seemed to hear Su Li ask him: What about ten years later? What about 20 years later?

That night, he had been guarding Ziya in the stone room. Ziya's injury has healed a lot, but she hasn't woken up yet. Suddenly, there were rustling footsteps outside. He held the thin sword left by Su Li tightly, and panic flashed in his heart.

What if it is an enemy? What can he do? How can he protect himself and Zia?

He walked to the door with his sword and saw the man standing under the moonlight. It was a teenager about the same age as him, with a huge sword on his back and a blue ribbon on his head. He looked at Meji and showed a smile that was a little uncomfortable because he hadn't appeared for a long time.

Meggie looked at him and felt a little choked: "Jory..."

"Meggie." The teenager with a huge sword looked at him and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time."

" Joshua, why are you here?"

Joshua shook his head: "You'd better not know."

Zia is inside. She is injured. She has always asked me to go to you with her, because she wants to be your bride..."

"I know." Joshua whispered.

"Do you know?"

"I've been nearby..." Joshua said, "Meggie, take her back to the fog forest. The outside world is not suitable for you and her.

"What about you?"

"The fog forest is not suitable for me. It has always rejected me." Joshua slowly turned around and was ready to leave.

"Where are you going?" Meiji asked loudly, "Don't you wait for Ziya to wake up?"

Joshua shook his head with his back to him.

"Then why did you appear here?" Meiji was angry. He felt that the partner he had known since he was a child seemed to have changed.

Joshua did not look back, but said without any emotion, "I came here to kill you. If the headless knight can't kill Sully Fit, I will complete the task in his place and kill everyone present.

Meji calmed for a moment and whispered, "But you didn't do it. You didn't kill me or Ziya."

"Yes," Joshua's voice was a little bitter. "From the beginning, I didn't expect you to be here. When I noticed you, I didn't know what to do. I hide nearby and don't show up, just hoping that my hands won't be stained with your blood. But I didn't expect that Suri Fitt could die with that dead spirit, which made me have to face you in person.

" Joshua..." Meiji's heart was a little tingling, "Where have you been in the past two years? Why did you do these things?"

"Bear Zia back, Megsy," Joshua did not answer, but just walked forward slowly. "In fact, I'm glad that you and Zia can survive. Tell Zia not to come to me. She should be your bride. You are more suitable for her than me.

"She will definitely go to you," Meiji shouted at him. "I will also go to you with her. You know we will go. No matter where you go, we will find you.

Joshua stopped for a moment, suddenly pulled out his huge sword and waved it gently. The lightning flashed, and countless huge stones suddenly shattered and scattered circles around him.

"It's useless, Meiji... You will never keep up with my footsteps..."

After saying that, he strode away in such a hurry, as if he would stop for something with a little hesitation.

Bear him, Meiji was quiet for a long time, and then said softly, "Follow me, Joshua, I will take Zia to catch up with you... because you are my friend..."

*

The next morning...

"How dare you let him go like this?" Zia, who turned into a bear, threw Meiji to the ground at once, "You won't let him wait for me to wake up?"

"Wait a minute," Meggie shouted, "I asked him to wait, but it's useless."

"Let's go after him. He must not have gone far."

"He has been gone for most of the night. How can he catch up? Besides, the ghost knows where he is going. Meiji said, "What's more, your injury hasn't healed yet..."

"It doesn't matter if it hurts," Qi Ya squeezed her lips. "Then tell me, how can we catch him?"

"You get up and talk about it first."

"I can't get up..."

"Okay, okay, listen to me," Meggie said helplessly. "I think it's useless for us to find him by ourselves. It's better to go to the royal city first and help Suli give the letter to Su... Ya... What princess, and then let that princess help us find it. She turned out to be a princess. She must have more people than us. Isn't it easy to find a guy like Joshua who carries a huge sword all day long?

"Okay, let's go now." Zi Ya agreed without thinking about it. Anyway, as long as you can find Joshua, everything will be fine.

"Wait a minute, do you know how to get to Wangcheng?"

"Don't you have a star compass? Can't you check it?" Qi Ya turned back to a girl and jumped away.

Meji took out the star compass depressedly and turned around. After a while, he said, "That...Ziya, what's the name of Wang Cheng?"

"How do I know?" Zia answered very simply.

"It seems that Ge... Lu... Ge... what Shu..." Meggie became more and more depressed.

"Have you checked it yet?"

"I haven't been there, and I can't remember what it's called. How can I check it?" Meiji sighed, "Forget it, let's ask someone after entering the kingdom from the border."

"It's really useless. Meggie, you're getting more and more useless. You're not as good as Joshua at all."

"Hey..." Meiji was extremely depressed.

After re-preparing, they finally decided to set off. Originally, Meggie wanted to let Ziya go back to her village to rest for a while, but she refused, so she decided to go directly to the territory of the Fair Kingdom from the southern part of the fog forest.

Before leaving, Meiji stood quietly in front of Suli's grave for a while and said nothing. It was not until the Drui girl was a little impatient to wait that she left the bronze heart altar with his big pocket on her back.

On the night he left, Su Li's grave suddenly cracked and a hand reached out...