prynovel Chapter 4397 Taking Down the Enemy
Chapter 4397 Taking Down the Enemy
Chapter 4397 Taking Down the Enemy
A hollow tree trunk.
The moment the one-eyed man awoke, a cold sweat broke out on his back.
He was in a daze for a while, looked around, and confirmed that he was in the tree hole before realizing that he had just had a nightmare.
The one-eyed man had almost forgotten what that nightmare was like; the only thing he remembered was how incredibly real it felt.
It felt as if I had actually drawn a bow and arrow, and shot it at the wandering evil spirit, and then...
My memory became a blank.
My heart was pounding, as if I had just gone through an unspeakable terrifying journey.
One-Eyed Dragon rubbed his temples. Despite having just slept, he didn't feel any energy restored. Instead, he felt extremely tired and even weak.
"Boss, are you alright?" a voice rang out from the side.
The one-eyed man turned around and saw that it was one of his subordinates who had asked the question. He shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired lately."
"Yes, I'm exhausted. I wish we could leave sooner," another subordinate said quietly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he was glared at by several sharp eyes: "We are great thieves with lofty beliefs, so stop thinking about enjoying life all day long."
"That's right! Once we find the extraordinary secrets of the evil spirits, we won't just be ordinary thieves, we'll be immortal thieves!"
When his subordinates mentioned the extraordinary thief, the one-eyed man subconsciously touched the stone slab beneath him; its uneven surface had a certain warm, smooth feel to it.
"That's right, heh heh, then we won't have to worry about being besieged anymore. Those bastards from the Radiant Church, just wait..."
"His-"
Before the other subordinate could finish his exclamation, a clear hissing sound suddenly came from deep within the tree hollow.
Everyone stopped their discussion and looked in the direction of the sound.
The sound came from a thin man who had one distinctive feature: he only had one ear.
One-Ear looked as if he had just woken up, still holding his forehead and gasping for breath. It wasn't until the surroundings were completely silent that he sensed something was wrong, let go of his hand, and looked around.
Many eyes were fixed on him.
He was a little confused: "What kind of looks are those?"
One-Eyed Dragon said irritably, "Second Brother, before you ask them, ask yourself first. You're the one who's been whining the whole time."
After making a complaint, One-Eyed Dragon noticed the faint dark circles under his eye and couldn't help but ask with concern, "What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well like me?"
One-Ear pressed his temples: "I didn't sleep well, I just had a dream."
"You had nightmares too?" the one-eyed man asked in surprise.
One-Ear paused for a moment, then turned its head: "Uh... not exactly a nightmare."
He dreamt that he became the boss and received a huge amount of supplies for free; it was incredibly prestigious. From his perspective, even if it was just a fleeting moment, it was still a wonderful dream.
As for what happened next, it seems he died? But he forgot how he died; his memory was mostly stuck on the moment he became the boss.
"It wasn't a nightmare?" One-Eyed Dragon was clearly disappointed. He had thought that his second brother was trapped in a nightmare like him... but it turned out that only he had a nightmare. "If it wasn't a nightmare, why are you whining?"
One-Ear sighed helplessly, "I didn't even realize I made a sound. I just felt like I hadn't slept well and my head was really dizzy."
Not only was I dizzy, but I also felt physically weak, as if my soul had been reduced to its limit.
He couldn't say these things out loud. After all, as a master thief, if he said he was physically weak and mentally frail, he might be replaced... He had worked so hard to climb to the position of second-in-command, and he absolutely couldn't afford to make any mistakes in the details.
"Sigh, I feel dizzy when I wake up today." One-Eyed Dragon looked at the cramped space around him and sighed, "It's probably because there are too many of us and this tree hole is too small."
"Little Four, Little Five, Little Six..." One-Eyed Dragon called out more than ten people in one breath: "You will stay with the scout team at the camp outside today and let the air circulate in the tree hole."
No one objected; they were getting depressed from being underground and actually wanted to go outside.
The third leader had previously said that the extraordinary stone slab was cold and might have an evil aura. Since we were all men, it would be best to sit on it with the strength of hot-blooded men to suppress that evil aura.
One-Eyed Dragon thought it made sense, because when he was studying the stone slab alone, he always felt that the surroundings were very gloomy, and he even experienced auditory hallucinations.
Later, everyone came in, and once the place became lively, the chilly feeling disappeared.
After that, the large stone slab transformed into the shape of "a man covered in burly men".
After everyone left in a hurry, only the three leaders remained in the tree hole.
One-Eyed Dragon rubbed his throbbing temples, turned around, and lay down on the stone slab, intending to examine the patterns on it again and try to decipher their secrets.
Looking at the stick figures on the stone slab, for some reason, the one-eyed man felt a dizzying sensation before his eyes, and saw two images.
My already dizzy brain seemed to be under even more strain now.
He vaguely heard people talking about women.
Women... that's a pretty standard topic.
After all, they were all adults, and talking about women was almost a daily topic. One-Eyed Dragon had even fantasized about going to the red-light district of Evening Lights Harbor to indulge himself for a few days after he cracked the secret of the extraordinary. He was simply longing for Catherine's fair and beautiful face.
But today, this woman's topic seems to have gone a bit off-topic.
"Second Master, when we arrived here, there should have been a skeleton in the tree hollow, probably a woman's, right? Where was it dumped?"
"You're so indiscriminate, you even go after corpses. I didn't know this was handled by the third brother, was it?"
"Third Master, do you know where the remains are?"
"You mean that skeleton? It sank into the nearby swamp, and the boss and I moved it out and threw it away, right, boss?"
One-Eyed Dragon nodded vaguely. "Yes, we saw the evil spirit leave from the tree hole, and we sneaked in and found the female corpse. I remember that the female corpse was already skeletal, and judging from her clothes, she seemed to be the woman the priest was with."
"Anyway, later the third brother and I carried the female corpse and threw it into the swamp to the southeast."
After the one-eyed man finished speaking, he suddenly felt a little confused. Why did he suddenly recall the past and recount all these details?
Not right.
Suddenly, the one-eyed man seemed to have thought of something.
I clearly only left three people behind, so why did that person ask the second and third brothers, and now they're still asking me?
When did a new person appear in the tree hollow? If he's not the second or third son, then who is he?
The one-eyed man jolted awake, wanting to shout that something was wrong, but for some reason, the surrounding air suddenly became sticky, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Even his movement of looking up became slow.
But this slowness only lasted for a moment. After that, he felt that he was looking up very fast, so fast that his viewpoint instantly rose to three meters high, and he could even see the details of the soil on the top of the tree hole.
No, how can I see such a high place when I look up?
Immediately afterwards, the perspective drops.
The one-eyed man saw a headless body on the ground that looked exactly like his own.
It was only then that the one-eyed man realized: I... have been beheaded?
Before his head hit the ground, the one-eyed man saw that the second and third brothers around him also seemed to be headless...
Is the evil spirit back?
He tried his best to see who did it, but the rotation of his head gave him no chance to adjust. It wasn't until he crashed heavily onto the stone slab that the one-eyed man vaguely saw... a middle-aged man with gray hair holding a machete standing at the entrance of the tree hole.
The next moment, darkness descended, and the one-eyed dragon was trapped in an eternal prison of sin.
……
At the entrance to the tree hole.
Gulemo's hands were still trembling, and blood was still dripping from the cleaver marked with a moon.
He was panting heavily, and it took him a while to calm down a little.
He turned and bowed deeply to the Moon Lady, who was half-shadowed: "Thank you, for your knife..."
Lady Moon took the knife and casually tossed it into the shadows behind her. It looked like it would fall to the ground quickly, but a long time passed and there was no sound of anything falling from the shadows.
Although this wasn't the first time Guleimo had witnessed something extraordinary, he still felt a little dazed.
However, he quickly recovered. He used the machete to cut people as easily as slicing jelly, and from a distance of five or six meters, he could easily sever heads with a single swing, which was clearly extraordinary.
After experiencing the ordeal of beheading like chopping melons, everything else seems acceptable.
"It's alright, consider it payment for the lodging we've been bothering you with these past few days." Lady Moon waved her hand dismissively, then looked behind Guleimo. "Uriel's here. You two chat, I'll go check on that stone slab."
Lady Moon turned around and looked at the blood and corpses on the ground, as well as the filth that permeated the area. She paused for a moment, then raised her hand and waved it. All the discordant things, including the corpses, blood, stains, and even the invisible smells and mold, disappeared.
Not only was everything spotless, but even the air was filled with a faint, pleasant fragrance.
Lady Moon took a light step forward, crossing six meters to reach the stone slab.
She stared at the stick figure-like inscription on the stone slab and fell into deep thought.
Meanwhile, Gulemo turned his head to look behind him.
Uriel also entered the cave carrying a machete.
"...Have they all been killed?" Gulemo looked at the man he had hated for years, unsure of how to respond, and could only ask dryly.
Uriel didn't seem to notice the harshness in Guleimo's tone and nodded emphatically: "They've all been killed."
Guleimo remained silent for a while before saying, "Thank you."
Uriel was taken aback.
"I mean, thank you for giving me the opportunity to kill my enemy."
On their way here, they had already decided to wipe out the Forty Thieves. However, they hadn't yet figured out exactly how to do it.
Upon arriving at the tree hollow, when Gulemo learned that the real mastermind behind his sister Rigota's death was inside, he offered to kill her himself.
After speaking, he looked at Uriel with particular concern, as if afraid that Uriel would try to take her away from him. —Although Gulemo hated Uriel, his hatred stemmed from Uriel's failure to protect Rigota. Aside from that, he knew that Uriel, like himself, deeply loved Rigota.
At that moment, Uriel's expression clearly showed some struggle, but in the end he took a deep breath and agreed to Gulemo's proposal.
Therefore, it was Guleimo who entered the tree hollow to attack the one-eyed man and his men this time. Meanwhile, Uriel took over the task of clearing out the bandits and their henchmen outside.
As soon as Uriel stepped into the tree hollow, the blood-stained machete flew into the shadows and disappeared.
Uriel quickly accepted this extraordinary act, after all... he had seen many extraordinary things in the dungeon and had gradually come to understand the real world.
“Oh, right.” Gulemo had been silent for a long time, then suddenly spoke again, but only said “Oh, right,” before pausing, seemingly hesitant about whether to continue.
Uriel did not urge him, but simply watched Guleimo quietly.
Several minutes later, Gulemo finally said, "Also, thank you for telling me this information and for bringing me here this time."
Uriel's lips were dry, and he shook his head: "No need to thank me, it's what I should do, after all... after all, we're family."
family.
In the past, Gulemo would have angrily retorted upon hearing this. But at this moment, in this situation, he remained silent.
Guleimo turned his head away, avoiding Uriel's expectant gaze, and said calmly, "Let's talk about it when Mr. Camillo and the others return. If I really get to see my sister again, then..."
Naguleimo didn't mind Uriel's description of them as "family".
But if I don't see my sister, then so be it.
Uriel was well aware of Guleimo's unspoken words, and he didn't argue, only saying softly, "What if Rigota can't be resurrected, or she becomes... becomes..."
Guleimo interrupted Uriel: "I know you want to say whether I would accept it if my sister became a man."
"I'm telling you, of course I accept."
"Whether she becomes a man or a woman, no matter what her appearance is, her inner essence will not change."
"She will always be my sister."
After Guleimo finished speaking, he looked back at Uriel with a meaningful gaze: "More than me, I want to know if you can accept this?"
Uriel nodded without the slightest hesitation: "Of course!"
Guleimo could see the sincerity in Uriel's expression. He smiled and said slowly, "I suddenly don't hate you as much as before."
Uriel was stunned, thinking he had misheard.
This brother-in-law, who had disliked him for years and even looked down on him before Rigota's accident, actually said he didn't dislike him anymore?
“I…” Uriel opened his mouth, unsure of how to respond.
Gulemo: "Stop talking nonsense. I just asked the Forty Thieves. They dumped my sister's remains in the swamp. We need to find a way to retrieve her."
Rigota's remains sank into the swamp?
Uriel's eyes widened in disbelief. No wonder there were no bones in the tree hollow of the dungeon.
He suspected at the time that the body had been disposed of by the Forty Thieves, and now that suspicion has been confirmed.
However, retrieving the remains from the swamp is proving to be quite difficult.
Uriel was at a loss for what to do.
Just as Uriel and Guleimo were pondering how to retrieve the body, heavy footsteps came from outside the tree hollow.