animal ears

"Keer, please leave our village." The patriarch, including everyone, meant this.

Obvious, impatient, expulsion.

Cole was bleeding from his chest.

I wanted to live this life well, but I didn't expect it to be more difficult than before.

No, maybe fate is doomed long ago. No matter how I change it, how I prepare, my evasion will only make fate give me a more severe punishment. Even the "ordinary" who endured humiliation in the past is stingy and takes it back. Cole bit With chapped lips and the smell of blood on the tip of his tongue, he wondered if he had chosen to leave with Sarah before, would he not have encountered this situation?It won't make it so difficult for Ali.

Although, being protected by Eli and Norman like this, he was so happy that he wanted to cry, but he also knew that he couldn't be so selfish. Thinking of this, Cole's mood sank, and when he was about to speak, he was caught by Norman next to him. After taking the words away, Norman held Cole's hand tightly and said, "If Cole leaves, I will too!"

His gaze was determined, without hesitation.

Cole was surprised, but after being surprised, he was slightly helpless and moved. He could feel the strength brought by those soft little hands, even though his master said such willful words.However, what shocked him even more was that Eli silently picked up Cole and Norman, walked across the crowd, and walked past the patriarch without saying a word.

Yitzhak reached out to stop his partner, squinted his eyes, and asked, "Where are you going?"

Silently, Eli raised his head, looked at Yitzhak with stagnant eyes, and said, "Leave this village."

Hearing this, Yizhak quickly grabbed Ai Li's wrist, seeing the determination in Ai Li's eyes, his brows frowned deeper, and Yi Zhak said angrily: "Do you like this monster so much? You want to do it because of him?" leave here?"

Eli pulled away his arm, looked at Yitzhak coldly, and sneered numbly: "Hehe, I didn't expect that you have always thought of Cole as a monster in your heart for so many years, Yitzhak, you really know how to lie. "

Faced with Eli's indifferent accusation, Yitzhak was speechless.

"Let go." Sneered a few times, Ali shouted, but Yitzhak remained indifferent, and Eli didn't want to entangle, so he threw off Yitzhak's shackles and walked straight home with the two children in his arms. went.

"Ellie!"

Just as he was about to catch up with Aili, the patriarch stopped Yizhak. He said to Yizhak, "Ai Li is going in the direction of your home. He will not leave the village. Let him think alone."

"That's right, would any female have the guts to bring two children into a dangerous jungle to survive? Besides, she would also have to bear the danger of being chased and killed by bloody bees." The female named Lydia shook her head and said, "But Eli also loves that monster too much, Yitzhak, you have to talk about him when you go back."

"I will," Yitzhak said.

In fact, Yitzhak also felt that Eli would not leave.

However, he was wrong.

Ai Li didn't go home at all. He followed that road directly into the jungle behind the village. After walking silently for a while, he saw that he was far away from the village, so he found a place to carefully apply the medicine to Cole, and then took the medicine from his neck. He took off the animal bone necklace he had been wearing all the time and put it on Cole's neck, touched Cole's head apologetically, and said pitifully: "Cole, I'm sorry that this happened to you, but I promise, I will never be able to bully you again."

"Me too!" Norman jumped out and took Cole's hand and said.

Cole looked at the animal bone necklace around his neck, then looked up at Eli, then lowered his head and said, "Uncle Ali, I'm sorry."

"Why do you say that?" Ali asked.

After a moment of silence, Cole said, "I know that Uncle Eli treats me well, but I don't want Uncle Eli to leave the village for me..."

With a sneer, Eli gritted his teeth and replied: "There is no need to stay in that kind of village. Even if you go back, it will be a bunch of villains who bully the weak, fear the hard and have prejudices!" At this time, Eli turned his head, grabbed Cole's hand and said, "And I promised your parents to take care of you, and what I said must be kept."

Hearing Eli's resolute voice, Cole didn't know how to respond. His mood was very complicated. He felt sorry for Eli, but he was glad that Eli was willing to abandon the village for him. Even if he knew that life would not be easy in the future, but At least there are people around who care about themselves.

And, of course, little Norman.

Thinking of this, Cole remembered Sarah's words before, so he raised his head and asked Eli, "Uncle Eli, what kind of people are my parents...?"

He was taken aback by Cole's words, but recovered quickly. Gradually, an indescribable emotion appeared between Ai Li's eyebrows. After a long time, Ai Li heaved a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and finally said: "Your parents... are the same as you."

"Like me?" Cole blinked.

With a faint smile, Eli suddenly put his hand on Cole's head, rubbed the pair of ears lightly, and said softly, "Adoma also has these ears on his head."

Adoma?Is it the names of my parents?

Cole looked at Ai Li seriously, but Ai Li withdrew his hand bitterly, lost in memory.

"I remember at the beginning, because I was naughty and lost in the jungle and didn't know what to do. I was cold, hungry and scared. It was Adoma who found me crying. When I first saw him, I thought that I had two animal ears. He is a monster, so he cursed and beat him, but he was not angry at all, instead he led me to his residence, gave me food, and gave me a place to rest..."

There were tears in Ali's eyes.

"I lived with him for a while, and found that he is actually a very gentle person, and then I fell in love with him without knowing it..." Ai Li shook his head, and said with some self-deprecation, "It's really true to like a female or something." It’s very ironic, but I didn’t violate my heart and told him my feelings, he first looked at me stupidly, and then told me that he also liked me, and he said he was willing to become an orc for me.”

Eh?

Cole and Norman were stunned by the news.

Suddenly I remembered the "beast ear tribe" that Sara said, that female race that can turn into orcs.

It turns out... is it true?

Ai Li's words continued: "At first I thought he was joking, but later he told me that his people will have a chance to choose to be a female or an orc after they reach adulthood, but he has to go back to his hometown to become an orc. So he asked me to wait for him for three years, and he said he would come back to me after three years."

Ali's hands gripped so tightly that his nails sank into the flesh.

"However, I waited for three years, but he didn't show up...five years, eight years...I thought he forgot the agreement, so I was discouraged, married someone else, and had a child..." Speaking of here , Ai Li’s eyes were full of sadness, “Then again, I went to pick fruit with others and was attacked by a herd of beasts. Thinking that he appeared and rescued us, but he was bitten by a wild beast... At that time, he was still a female, and he did not turn into a beastman. I was very angry. I felt that he was lying to me. Years of resentment Let me see death without saving him, let me just leave the injured him alone..."

Tears of pain and regret wet Ai Li's eyes. Time can't kill the grief, but can only hide it deeper. When I suddenly remembered it one day, I realized that the pain was so fragile that it could be triggered at any moment.

"It was I who killed Adoma!" Ai Li covered his face and wept. Cole didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only lean against Ai Li gently, and was hugged by Ai Li, "When I went back to find him At that time, he was dying, but before he died, he cried and apologized to me. He said that he never forgot the agreement, but he couldn’t help himself, and then he begged me to take care of his child... and only then did I realize that, There is a child behind him all the time, a child with animal ears like him."

Eli turned to look at Cole, and said with tears on his face, "And that child is you, Cole."

Facing Eli's pityful gaze, Cole was stunned, not knowing what to say.

It turned out to be the case.

It turns out that he is really a "beast ear clan".

After a pause, Eli said with tears in his eyes: "Cole, I know I'm not qualified, but if you can, please call me mother and father, okay?"

Cole opened his eyes wide and looked up.

"Hmph, no wonder I said you care so much about this monster, Aili, you said I lied to you, haven't you been lying to me for so many years?" The gloomy voice came, and Yitzhak walked out of the shade with cold eyebrows. After walking out, he stared viciously at this side, looking at Cole with killing intent.

"Yizhak." Sensing the danger, Ali stood up and protected the children behind him.

Yitzhak snorted coldly: "Originally, I just wanted to take you and Norman back, but now that I know the truth, I must kill that little monster and stop your thoughts!"

"If you hurt Cole, I won't let you go!" Eli shouted with all his might.

The anger in Yitzhak's eyes grew stronger, and he said furiously and calmly: "Aili, don't forget that I am your partner, do you really want to fight against me for that monster? Ah, yes, You like the mother and father of that little monster, big monster? Huh, that's disgusting!"

Watching Yitzhak's every move closely, Eli suddenly grabbed Cole and Norman and ran away.

"Want to run?!" Yitzhak quickly chased after him.

Ai Li tried his best to run towards the dense forest with the two children, but Yitzhak followed closely, and soon, the three of them were chased to the edge of the cliff.

The towering cliffs were pitch black and bottomless, and there was no place to hide nearby. Seeing this, the three of them were nervous and at a loss. Seeing Yitzhak chasing him, Norman suddenly roared and turned his head. He threw himself at his father, biting Yitzhak's arm, and refused to let him go, but he was weak at all, and he was directly thrown on the rock by the furious Yitzhak, twitching on the ground in pain.

Seeing this, Cole turned back in a hurry, but unexpectedly, the angry Yitzhak grabbed his neck and pinned him to the ground. How could Eli agree to beat Yitzhak crazily, but Yitzhak was not hurt at all. Instead, the fingers tightened.

Due to suffocation, Cole's eyes appeared white, and his nose and throat were full of rusty smell.

Consciousness is getting thinner and thinner, am I going to die?

Cole couldn't help thinking.

In a hurry, Ai Li was quick to wit, and suddenly pulled out the beast knife from Yi Zhak's waist, and stabbed it into Yi Zha Ke's back fiercely, and Yi Zha Ke never dreamed that his female would actually want to kill him, and he was furious. Cole, who was unconscious, flicked hard, and grabbed Ai Li with his backhand.

"Do you want to kill me, Ali?" With a cold and bloodthirsty smile, the violent orc's eyes were bloodshot, "For that disgusting thing, you actually want to kill me?"

"Let go of mom and dad!" Seeing Eli being arrested, Norman endured the pain and rushed over to attack Yitzhak.

"Boy who gets in the way!" Yitzhak swung Norman again, and Norman fell to the ground and rolled several times. Then Yitzhak turned his head and said to the blue-faced Eli who had been pinched by him, "This is you A good son who has been raised, likes monsters just like you, don’t worry, when I kill you, I will kill them together... Then tell others that you were killed by wild beasts, are you satisfied? Hahahahaha ..."

Yitzhak has gone crazy!

Norman endured the pain and climbed up again. He looked at Cole, who was unconscious like paper, and his parents who were almost strangled to death. He knew that if he didn't do anything, he would be killed by his father today...Suddenly, Norman Man saw the beast knife still stuck in Yitzhak's stomach.

Norman rushed over without hesitation, pulled out the beast knife, and while Yitzhak turned his head, he stabbed the knife into his throat!

Suddenly, blood splattered everywhere!

Yitzhak stared at Norman with staring eyes, and fell to the ground in a short while, with blood oozing from his neck, and Eli, who was finally free, clutched his throat and lay on the ground non-stop. Coughing, panting.

"Father!" Norman ran over, while Eli shook his head to indicate that he was fine, and asked Norman to go and see Cole.

"Cole...cough cough...what's the matter?"

"It's just a coma," Norman replied.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Eli looked at Yitzhak on the ground, and turned to the two of them, "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go."

However, just as Eli was about to get up, Yitzhak, who should have fallen to the ground and died, suddenly stood up again, with the knife still stuck in his neck, blood gushing out, his face covered with blood, like a devil-like scene , I saw him suddenly grabbed Ai Li, Ai Li immediately resisted, and the two accidentally rolled to the edge of the cliff together!

Norman immediately grabbed Ai Li's hand, pulled it up desperately, gritted his teeth and said, "Hold on, Mom and Dad, I will definitely pull you up!"

But for a young orc, he couldn't support the weight of two people at all, and if he wasn't paying attention, he might be dragged down by Yitzhak.

How could Ali not know?

Yitzhak was determined to let himself die with him. He had already bit his arm tightly so that he could not struggle. In order not to drag Norman down, Eli let go of his hand and yelled at Norman: "Let go!"

"Don't!" Norman was still stubbornly grasping.

"Do you want to die with us?!" Ali yelled angrily, "If you die, what will you do if you leave Kerr alone in the forest?"

"...But!" Seeing that his fingers were getting looser and looser, Norman was so anxious that tears and snot flowed out together.

"Don't be self-willed! You brat!" Ai Li couldn't help being angry, but he couldn't help but shed tears from his eyes, uncontrollably, falling drop by drop, just like his own body that kept falling. He knew that this was probably his last Once scolded this unfulfilling son, so he seriously asked, "Treat Cole well, you know? I know you like him, remember, Norman, since you like him, you must protect him well, and you can't leave for a moment. , no matter what happens, stand by him, trust him, support him, wait for him, and most importantly, tell him you love him... just like, I love you, Norman."

After saying this, the hand that could no longer be grasped suddenly let go, and Eli raised his head, looked at Norman lovingly with tears in his eyes, and was dragged into the bottomless abyss by Yitzhak.

"Mother and father!"

Norman lay on the edge of the cliff and cried loudly towards the dark abyss, but what answered him was his own crying, and only his own crying. ?