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"Wait a minute." Coming to the secret room Barton mentioned, Cole took a step forward and stopped Simon who was about to push away the stone.

Simon turned his head in doubt and looked at Cole.

"Let him come."

Faintly, Cole didn't turn his head, but Simon clearly saw Palanche who had already followed behind the two of them, those lifeless pupils still made him tremble from the bottom of his heart.

However, Simon still didn't understand what Cole meant, but seeing Cole's resolute gaze, he stopped and stepped back, stood beside Cole, and looked at Palanch carefully and steadily.

And, very calm Cole.

──Why are you so calm?

Those cold red pupils were so calm, even when they were looking at Palanch, they were so calm, it was just... a different person from before.

Why.

He felt strange in his heart, but he didn't ask carefully, just watched quietly.

I saw Cole stepping forward, biting his fingertips suddenly, leaving a red mark on the stone. As expected, Palanch stepped forward and bit Cole's wrist in an instant. The skin was pierced once, and bright red blood came out through the wound, then flowed from Palanch's teeth to his chin, and dripped on the ground.

"Please remove this stone." Cole lowered his eyes and said softly, as if he couldn't feel the pain.

The ferocious werewolf didn't let go at first, his distorted face was directly facing Cole's colorless face, the smell of blood radiated, vaguely, buried in the cave full of humid air, it was still so dim All around, there is only a smear of fire in the distance that casts a shadow on him and guides the road hidden behind the boulder, and... who can know whether it is the road to hell.

The four eyes met, and after a long time, the sharp teeth finally loosened.

"Please." Let go of his hand, looking at the bleeding fingertips, Cole smiled faintly.

It's as if... the blood is always cold.

Not a moment later, the person in front of him raised his head suddenly, and then there was a loud noise, and the stone door was knocked open.

hard.

But at this time, at the moment when the stone door was broken, a row of sharpened bones that had been ambushed fell from the top of his head, just piercing into Palanch's arm and chest. With a backhand force, his entire arm was broken, but Because there were too many, the bones in the chest could not be removed, and they were fixed there.

Simon stared at this scene dumbfounded, then looked at Palanch whose arm was hanging down, as if his bones were broken, blinked, turned back to Cole and said, "He..."

"Yeah." Cole answered calmly, looking at Palanch.

Frowning, Simon asked in disbelief, "You... on purpose?"

"Aren't you afraid that he will go crazy, so it won't happen." After saying this, Cole didn't say any more, just turned around and entered the blocked cave passage, leaving the struggling Palan behind. Odd, didn't even look at it.

Simon followed quickly, and said inexplicably, "How could you just leave him like this?"

"Otherwise what?" He stopped, turned his head silently, and asked back.

Suddenly I couldn't respond, because I already had problems asking this way, how could I sympathize with a living dead?However, Simon still didn't understand. According to what he had been following Cole for the past few days, Cole was a soft-hearted person. Just before they entered the cave, when they talked about Palanki, there was a smile in his red pupils. The sadness and intolerance revealed were not feigned, but why...became so indifferent now?

Even if he is himself, facing Berg who has become a living dead, he can't just watch him suffer.

Smiling, Cole didn't understand what Simon was thinking. He just looked back slightly and said lightly, "As you said, dead things can't come back, no matter how much they cherish them, they can't come back."

"Cole..."

"So, I want to protect more." His eyes were deep and distant.

Protect?

protect... what?

child?Norman?Clan... or something else?

Now Simon was even more puzzled, fixedly looking at Cole's smiling side face, not knowing why, but worried.

Laughing so... so painfully.

Simon shook his head, did not respond to Cole, but quietly followed behind, looked up at his back, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Barton wasn't lying.

At the end of the secret room is a cage, and the person he is looking for is there.

However, when Cole saw the cage standing in the middle of a large pool of stinking blood, he couldn't help but sigh slightly for the person's painstaking efforts.

Looking from a distance, there are two people imprisoned in a cage in the distance, one is Sarah who is pregnant, and the other... is not Norman, however, the unkempt figure is unexpectedly familiar.Both of them seemed to be in a coma, and the unkempt man had a bone knife stuck in his back.

Cole thought about it, checked the size with his eyes, turned around and said to Simon, "I probably can't jump over here, I'll go through here." Pointing to the blood pool with a rancid smell, "You wait for me here."

After saying that, he jumped off the pool of blood.

"Hello---"

Shocked, Simon had no time to stop him, and watched as Cole slowly approached the cage in the middle of the blood pool in the pungent blood. Nose, with some kind of weird fragrance in it.

fragrance?

Simon was taken aback for a moment, and began to look around for the source of the scent.

On the other side, Cole was already close to the cage, and slowly got up from the disgusting stench, his expression remained the same, he went straight to the cage, those fragile railings couldn't stop him at all, but when he got closer, he found that Sarah's legs have been picked hamstrings.

Not only the hamstring, but also the hand was broken.

The wound was horrifying, as if that person had a deep hatred for him...

"Sarah!" Sara, who was dying on the ground, was lifted up. He looked worse than before, with a bloodless face and a cold body, and he couldn't even breathe.

Anxiously, Cole looked at Sarah, then at the other person.

An old orc.

So he leaned over and stared at his face carefully, and when Cole saw his appearance clearly, he couldn't help but gasped.

This is……

Fingers froze in mid-air.

"... Podoka?"?