Picked up by the Protagonist of a Tormented! MC Novel

The rust smell in his mouth became more and more intense. As a normal person, Kino certainly wouldn’t like to drink blood, and he’s not a vampire. He overestimated his endurance, and resisted the desire to vomit the blood out of his mouth. With the light of the bonfire, he found Xi Wei's lips accurately, and Kino almost couldn't wait to rush towards them.

Xi Wei hadn't fallen into a deep sleep at all, and there were two strangers beside him. If it wasn't for the unfamiliarity of the place and the fear of losing his way in the huge forest, he would never take the risk of staying, so although his consciousness gradually became blurred, he still kept Be sensible.

Of course, he felt that Kino was moving restlessly. Although the child had tried his best to relax his hands and feet, Xi Wei, who was no longer what he used to be, could basically feel his movements. He knew that Kino had touched his belongings. Dagger, and then he didn't know what he was doing. After being quiet for a while, Xi Wei suddenly felt a heavy weight in his chest, and something hit him, followed by his lips covered with a strong smell of blood.

Xi Wei opened his eyes almost instantly, and Kino, who had his eyes closed, didn't realize it, and tried hard to get the blood across.

"You..." As soon as Xi Wei opened his mouth, he felt his entire mouth was filled with the smell of rust, and he swallowed it like he was choking on water.

Kino felt that the liquid in his mouth had become less, and opened his eyes while thinking that he had succeeded. The only right eye he could see was facing Xi Wei's cold eyes.

"Pfft! Cough cough cough!" At the very moment, Kino still remembered to turn his head so as not to spray it on Xi Wei's face.

Xi Wei wiped the corner of his lips with his hand, and when he took a closer look, it was indeed the color of blood.

The bonfire was burning quietly, and the princess and prince of the Mia Empire fell into a deep sleep because they had no vigilance. Xi Wei sat up slowly, looking at Kino with guarded eyes for the first time.

Can a five or six-year-old child with such a strong sense of autonomy understand what that strange Xia An said?

Although Xi Wei has never raised other children, he also knows that this is not a normal behavior. In fact, if you think carefully, you can find more clues. For example, this child was able to accurately call Old George's name to help them escape. , Another example is that he is too precocious and quiet and sensible.

In the few years in the mercenary union, although I have been doing such trivial things as odd jobs, I can also learn more about the world from the conversations of the mercenaries. For example, the mental power of magicians is higher than that of ordinary people It is much higher, and generally talented mages will show wisdom beyond ordinary people at an early age.

According to what the dark mage said back then, Kino has huge spiritual potential and should be extremely intelligent. However, he has always behaved more stupidly than ordinary children, but he is unusually calm when encountering a crisis , and will make the best coping strategy.

Thinking of this, it became obvious that this "child" was just pretending to be stupid.

Xi Wei is afraid of all unknown things, including precocious children who are close to demons.

Originally, he thought that the baby might be the only creature in the world without scheming, but the existence of Kino broke his cognition.

Kino bared his blood-red teeth, not knowing that a catastrophe was imminent.

As Xi Wei saw it, he had never felt that the child he brought up with his own hands was so scary. He moved his feet, and had an urge to flee here immediately.

It seemed that something hard was stepped on under his feet, and there was a sound. Xi Wei looked down and saw that it was the dagger he had used for many years. The edge of the dagger was stained with blood stains. With the open wound on Kino's wrist again, Xi Wei suddenly felt a bit of softness in his rock-solid heart.

He walked over slowly, held Kino's wrist silently, and wrapped it with the only remaining black cloth strip on his body. This strip was the product of dividing Kino's mother's cloak back then, and it was washed a little too many times. Bai, because Xi Wei is often injured, Xi Wei always has a belt with him.

His bandaging technique was very crude, but his movements were very skillful, and he wrapped the wound tightly and stopped the bleeding in a short while.

However, this soft heart was soon shattered by his rationality. No matter what the starting point was, this child was not as pure as he appeared on the surface.

He made up his mind to bleed himself, sucked it and then passed it by mouth. This kind of thinking is no longer what a five or six-year-old child should have.

Xi Wei closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were cold, "Follow me."

Kino was still out of the situation, and when he heard the protagonist's order, he reflexively followed.

Xishan Forest is just an ordinary forest, there are neither powerful monsters nor dangerous creatures in it, the most common ones are small animals like red-eyed magic rabbits, it can be said that it is relatively safe, walking in it at night, even though one foot is deep and one foot is shallow Easy to trip over, but not that difficult either.

Walking out of the warm windproof magic circle, Kino couldn't help but sneezed and shrunk his neck.

Xi Wei walked in front quietly, and Kino looked at his back and was a little puzzled. Something was wrong with the protagonist. If he didn't know Xi Wei, he would have thought it was the rhythm of killing people and abandoning corpses.

Finally Xi Wei stopped, but did not turn around.

Kino hesitated for a moment, and decided to take the cute route to try it out, so he reached out his hand to Laxiwei's cuff full of holes, "Ba ba."

Xi Wei dodged.

Kino was dumbfounded, this was the first time Xi Wei avoided his touch on his own initiative.

"Who are you?" Kino heard the protagonist ask.

"I'm Kino, Baba." He replied blankly.

"I'm not your father." Xi Wei's voice was cold and emotionless.

Kino was taken aback. He really didn't expect Xi Wei to choose this moment to show his cards. He was not an idiot. After thinking about it for a while, he understood why Xi Wei said that, and fell silent.

Xi Wei turned around and saw that the silly smile on Kino's face was gone, replaced by deep thought and a hint of fear.

What is he afraid of?Are you afraid of the fate of tearing the disguise?

At this moment, Xi Wei became extremely calm. He seemed to have escaped from his body, and listened to what he said, "I will send you to Puluo Academy."

Kino didn't know whether he should be thankful that he knew Xi Wei so well, he fully understood just these two sentences.

I am not your father, so I have no obligation to support you. I will send you to Puluo College, and I will have nothing to do with you from then on.

Even though he had expected it a long time ago, he tried his best to pretend to be stupid.

Although very reluctant, but can not find a reason to stay.

Their lives should have been two parallel lines, shouldn't they?

Kino opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

If he was just an ordinary child, he could be taken care of, but he is not, he has the soul and mind of an adult, because of the weakness of the baby's body when he first crossed, and because Xi Wei is the only object he is familiar with, he can Lay by Xi Wei's side with peace of mind.

Now that Xi Wei said that he was going to be sent to the General Academy, what reason is there to stay?

Xi Wei may take care of a child who is ignorant and helpless, but he dare not continue to bring a dangerous magician.

Kino felt cold, and the cold winter wind was blowing, chilling him to the bone.

"Go back." Xi Wei's voice was flat.

The two of them are still in front of each other. In the past, Xi Wei would bend slightly and hold Kino's hand. Kino was only half a step behind. Now, he can only look at Xi Wei's back from a distance of three steps. .

Everything is destined, no one can help.

In the early morning of the next day, Evan woke up after stretching himself, only to find that the two father and son on the opposite side of the campfire were very separated, and they were still cuddling each other when they slept yesterday.

Evan rubbed his chin and thought, could it be that they slept too badly?

He wanted to think about it, but he still pinched Jonia's nose first. Seeing his sister's cheeks flushed and then waking up with difficulty breathing, he said with a smile, "Good morning, my dear sister."

"It's too early for you, dead Evan!" Jonia was furious, crackling and chanting a series of spells, only to see three light blue wind blades condense at the same time, and they all rushed towards Evan with a whimper. If you hit it, you will be disabled if you don't die.

Evan is obviously very familiar with this routine. While twisting and bending over, he completed several unimaginably difficult movements, and in a posture that almost twisted himself into a twist, he was able to slip through the gap between the three wind blades, while mouthing I still don't forget about poverty, "Jonia, you have made progress today, you can quickly shoot three wind blades."

Jonia was exhausted and rubbed her temples, "You'd better pray to the Goddess of Light every day, don't fall into my hands."

After finishing the "morning exercise", Evan felt a little cold behind him, turned his head to look, Xi Wei had woken up at some point, and was examining him cautiously.

Evan smiled kindly. He admired this ragged little dad. The martial arts he used were not fancy but very practical. Well, they suited his appetite very well. We can discuss them again when we have time.

As for yesterday's unhappiness, it was just an overreaction to encountering a stranger. His Highness Evan has never been such a stingy person. Since it was a misunderstanding, it would be nice to explain it clearly.

Kino's eyes were a little black and blue, obviously he didn't sleep well all night, the sudden exposure made him flustered, and he was either too complacent or didn't care if he was able to fall asleep in this situation.

But should he feel lucky, at least Xi Wei didn't send him to do research.

The siblings vaguely sensed that the atmosphere was a bit weird. The child who was so cocky yesterday was limp like a frost-beaten eggplant today, but it's still the same sentence, they are not too familiar with each other, and it is really not easy to intervene in other people's affairs.

Although Evan and Jonia didn't think that they were really father and son, they could indeed find the similarities when they looked closely. They were so curious that they could only think that Xi Wei was gifted.

Sure enough, as the siblings said, Puluo City is not too far from Xishan Forest, and they arrived at the most sacred city in the whole continent around noon.

Why do you say that, although they are both cities that don’t care about anything, Puluo City and Yesa City are completely different. Yesa City is a gathering place for criminals and refugees, but Puluo City has behemoths like the Temple and Puluo Academy, and the grades are instantly different.

As I said before, there are real gods in this continent, and among these gods, the oldest and most admired by the people of the mainland are the goddess of light and the goddess of darkness.

In many fantasy novels, the goddess of light and the goddess of darkness are incompatible existences, but here they are completely different. The so-called temple is divided into two parts, one part believes in the goddess of light, and the other part believes in the goddess of darkness. The two factions jointly manage the temple.

The Puluo Academy is on the left, and the Temple is on the right. The entire city is built around these two buildings. Every year, both sides spend huge sums of money to renovate their facades in an attempt to compare each other. However, this kind of childish rivalry is not appreciated by ordinary people. understand.

Puro City is very prosperous, so prosperous that a modern person like Kino would be amazed. He thought that the other world continent should be the old traditional western scene, but Puro City completely refreshed his three views.

The streets are neat and beautiful, with more perfect greenery than modern society. Even in winter, there are many people, and the happiness and satisfaction on everyone's faces will never be seen in Yesa City.

Chino even saw a hot pot restaurant, a welcoming lady, and a suspected supermarket building.

The most conspicuous people walking on the street are three kinds of people, one is boys and girls wearing similar school uniforms, the other is serious-looking guys in white robes, and the third is black robes, look at the styles of those clothes, Chino It quickly became clear who they were.

The school uniforms are the students of the General Academy, the white robes are the priests of the Temple of Light, and the ones in the black robes are naturally the priests of the Temple of Darkness.

However, the temple does not accept members of the royal families of various empires, which is something that everyone has tacitly understood.

Naturally, Evan and Jonia can only go to Puro Academy, which is also due to their extraordinary talents. It is already a rare genius to be able to do this at such a young age.

Most people with magical talents have difficulty even meditating to feel the magic element when they are seventeen or eighteen years old.

Puluo College has advertised in every conspicuous building, such as enrollment information hanging on the door of the hot pot restaurant, preferential policies and other things in the book.

Evan and Jonia had a clear goal and went straight to the admissions office. Chino followed Xi Wei silently, seemingly calm, but anxious. Judging by the protagonist's posture, it was clear that he was planning to send him to the academy.

What to be afraid of, it should be a long way, but after the two siblings paid the fee for the short-distance teleportation array, they arrived in an instant.

Watching the kind-hearted old magician at the registration office do the preliminary talent test, Chino expressed his appeal to the protagonist with his eyes: Please don't abandon me.