The Demon Hunter

When they entered the forest, many villagers came to watch. The legendary beast—Hans, nephew of the village chief—also appeared. He was the owner of the only mill in the village. He was fat and fat. The pair of small eyes on the round face are smiling, and the surface looks almost mistaken for a gentle person.

And before the village chief introduced this Hans, Cologne still looked at him, because of a very strange fluctuation, not due to smell, appearance or any other external feeling, but an indescribable... ...In short, the first time I saw that person, there was a voice in my mind saying to Cologne, "It's almost ripe, and the taste should be good."

It's like a person who likes to eat fruit. Seeing the fruit that is about to ripen on the tree is too weird and disgusting. After all, the other party is an ugly fat man.He paid attention to the others, except for Ansel who glared at him because of his looking around, Evan had an unconcealable disgust on his face, and Lance was always calm.

Perhaps only by actively asking questions can we know whether they have similar feelings, but that is something that Cologne will never do. Last night, Ansel's wonderful speech about the devil almost still echoed in his ears.Cologne didn't know how the demons ate souls, but he knew that his body's reactions definitely belonged to the category of being classified as monsters.

So, stay silent.

They walked into the woods, this time Ansel did not follow them like last time, but let them stand on guard, and then he went alone, and after making sure that there was no danger, he summoned them with the cry of a cuckoo advance.

"It's long overdue," said Ansel, sitting on a tree stump with his legs stretched out during the noon break, "and you needy fools, you're not so useless—you remember how to use two legs to walk."

Evan looked dazed and a little aggrieved, until Coloin touched his shoulder: "That guy just has habitual bad breath, so he doesn't need to be serious."

"Thank you." Evan still knew that Cologne was comforting him, and he nodded gratefully and smiled.

"Hey! I'll be gargling with coarse salt tomorrow! Don't be like yourself and think that other people have the same bad hygiene habits!"

Cologne shrugged at Evan, ignored Ansel's yelling, and continued to prepare their lunch.

They walked around the forest for two days. It has to be said that although Ansel is always a bit noisy, in this kind of place that is not human territory, his noise makes people feel that the surroundings are not so quiet, nor does it feel too much. alone.

Until the evening of the next day, those devil boys came to the door by themselves.

A few ugly red monsters in clothes, wielding small torches, screamed strangely to drive away a herd of deer.If it was daytime, the deer herd would not be so alarmed, after all, these devil boys are too short.But now it was night, and all they could see was flames, flames that terrified wild animals.

Then they were driven into a trap, and several deer had their necks broken. The devil boys were not greedy, but tied up the smallest one with rattan and dragged it home.The demon hunters who were awakened were already ready to go, and followed behind them. The small flickering flames in the darkness were the signposts.

"They are bolder and smarter than the legends, and they still wear clothes?" Evan whispered.

"Martha seems to be with them." Ansel nodded without saying anything.

They walked for an hour or more in the dark, and finally the demon boys brought them to a cave. Outside the cave was obviously a clearing, and there was something similar to a door curtain woven with vines hanging at the entrance of the cave. Traces of traps can still be seen outside the cave.

Ansel made a gesture, and everyone stepped back a distance: "We have to wait until the devil boys go out again, or Martha leaves the cave before attacking."

No one objected, since these devil boys were different from what was recorded in the books, who knew if they would have the ability to hurt that poor woman?Waiting is indeed the best option.Everyone is prepared not to start a fire, not to take a bath, to drink cold water and eat cold food, to be bitten by mosquitoes and even some small animals, and then these will last for several days.

The creation gods of this world, at least when the demon hunters are hunting, still take good care of them.The next morning, at around nine o'clock, the curtain was lifted, and a strange but obviously human woman came out of the cave, and she was holding a two-year-old child in her arms.

This woman was already pregnant when she was driven away...

A devil boy followed her, still screaming and screaming, but unlike yesterday's manic hunting, today it was obviously very happy.Martha seemed to be talking to it, and she smiled from time to time, but they were too far away to hear what Martha said.

Ansel produced a rope with a small piece of leather tied to it, and he stuffed a stone into the leather, swung the rope around, and when it stopped, the stone flew out with a terrible wind. !

The devil boy next to Martha suddenly fainted. Martha was startled. She didn't notice that a stone hit the devil boy on the back of the head. When she was at a loss, the demon hunters appeared .

"Martha?" Ansel asked.

Martha responded with a scream and hugged the boy reflexively.

"We won't hurt you, we just bring you back to the human world."

Martha looked terrified, and grabbed the devil boy on the ground as fast as she could, and hugged her child together, then she backed away slowly.

"I think she's afraid of you, Ansel." Cologne said, it's natural for women who have experienced all that to be afraid of all adult men.

Ansel was actually aware of this, so he stopped, and Martha finally stopped after taking a few steps back. She lowered her head, not looking at the demon hunters. After a long time , said hoarsely: "No...not going back."

Ansel scratched his hair, obviously not used to such a situation, in fact, he was thinking seriously, should he just knock Martha unconscious?

"Boy, or girl?" Ke Luoyin didn't know when he found a rock and sat down, playing with a small flower in his hand.

Martha was taken aback, and took a sneak peek at Cologne. A certain pretty boy gave her a smile, as if to express that I am a naive child who is not afraid of danger.

"Boy," said Martha, kissing the little boy on the cheek.

"He's cute." Chloe continued to laugh.

"Thank you." Martha finally smiled, a little bit of shyness and mother's pride.

"He'll be a handsome guy when he grows up, and I'm sure you'll give him a heart as lovely as he looks, and he'll have a lot of girls falling for him, and he'll find his one, and he'll Protecting her, no matter what happens, will make her happy."

"Yes, yes." Martha held her son tighter, her voice choked.

"The premise is that if he has that chance. After all, he can't find a girl in this place, or do you think he can marry his playmate? Like the other one in your arms now, the little red thing?"

Most women are fragile, but mothers who love their children are strong—of course, except for a small number of motherless people—Martha fled the crowd because of her own painful experience, but when she thought of her son's In the future, she put the devil boy on the ground: "I, I will leave with you, but please don't hurt them, they are very kind."

Ansel gave Cologne a thumbs up secretly, this was the first time he had shown him a compliment, and then he made a gesture of invitation to Martha: "We will not hurt you, and we will definitely take care of you. Place yours, ma'am."

"No no, please don't do this, I'm just a village woman." Martha was frightened again, and Coloin simply grabbed Evan and pushed him out. For some nerds who can always apply rote in case of emergencies, the simple and generous little pastor is more suitable to comfort Martha.

Sure enough, under the comfort of Evan, Martha told her experience in the woods for three years. In the first year, her consciousness was vague. She guessed that she was crazy during that time, and she only remembered that she was going around Looked for her little daughter, and she found her, and worked hard to take care of her.

Until her son Ben was born, she didn't even know how she gave birth, but when Ben cried for the first time, her sanity recovered miraculously.Only then did she realize that her "daughters" weren't even human beings. She was scared at first, but those little things were friendly, at least friendlier than humans.

So Masha quickly settled down and helped them deal with prey, making food, clothing and other sundries.

"I'm very happy, it's like I really have a group of children, don't hurt them, please." Martha said to them, the most sincere and demanding.

"Of course, we're not that rigid." Ansel replied, and Coloin handed Martha a glass of warm water at the right time. Martha drank it gratefully, and lost consciousness the next second.

The demon hunters picked up their weapons, and the leaves made a rustling sound as they rubbed against each other. A group of demon boys emerged from the shadows...

When Martha woke up, it was early morning.The witchers brought her hot food, and Martha was still a little stiff and frightened, but she was trying to adjust, for her son.

"Martha, when we go back, we will tell the village chief that we haven't found those devil boys, and then we will take you to a nearby church."

"That's really, thank you very much." Martha was flattered, because she was indeed just a village woman, and she still worked for the church in a big city, which was already a high-class occupation for her.

So they continued on the road, and Martha didn't know that those little monsters who had accompanied her for three years were lying on the ground less than four meters away, and they were all dead—maybe they were more dead because they lived with humans. They are smarter and more united, but they are devil boys after all, there are only twelve of them, and what they have to face is not panicked deer but human beings waiting for their prey. Killed.

Of course, after Martha settled down, they would come back again and take the devil boy's head to another city to find a priest to register.