animal ears

"What the hell is..." He couldn't help clenching the bone knife in his hand.

The other party didn't seem to feel any pain at all. Those cloudy pupils stared at Cole, and the exposed muscles on his face throbbed gently with the flow of blood. The stinky liquid flowed down his body and landed on the soil because he took off the mask. On the ground, wisps of white smoke were released, emitting a burnt smell.

What the hell is this? !

After a moment of shock, Cole immediately returned to calm. He raised the bone knife again. In order to protect Palanch and Norman, he had to calm down.

No matter what it is, he can't back down!

Just as he was in shock, the man rushed behind Cole, pointing his claws at the unconscious Palanch and Norman. Cole was shocked, and hurriedly turned around to chase after them, blocking in front of the two, facing the pair of hands directly. The claws did not dodge to dodge, but took the opportunity to raise their legs and kicked the man's jaw.

The bloody mandible fell off immediately, and the whole mouth fell to the ground with blood, and more stinky liquid flowed out from the wound.

Rotten blood.

A scene of unspeakable horror.

However, the man seemed to be unaffected at all, still standing there blankly, as if feeling no pain, his two bloody eyes turned to Cole, and in an instant, he clasped Cole's shoulder with his backhand, Cole naturally blocked it, but his arm Accidentally touched by the dripping liquid, there was a sharp pain on the skin. Looking carefully, the place where the liquid was rubbed was already a little black, as if it had been burned by fire.

Danger.

It seems that you must be especially careful in melee combat. Cole stared at the opponent's movements, took a few steps back to keep a distance, and then frowned and asked, "What the hell are you!"

His answer was only a slight twitch of the muscles under the mask, and another confrontation began.

Cole took the lead to attack, and the opponent dodged very fast, which was beyond the visual range of the eyes, but there was that stench of blood on his body. Cole followed the smell, and finally caught the opponent's shadow with his eyes, but Soon, it disappeared again.

The man's movements didn't slow down at all. Suddenly, he started to attack from the back, and the moves were aimed at Cole's vitals, but Cole didn't let him succeed. Since he probably grasped the opponent's trajectory, he could Try to avoid his attack, but it is not so easy to counterattack.

More and more stinky blood flowed from the rotten cheek, and it was almost flowing all over the body.

Does he feel no pain?

Cole thought about it calmly, and then looked at the opposite party's lifeless eyes. Although they were also red pupils, they were not born with him. Instead, they seemed to be congested with blood after some kind of intense stimulation, and then turned into the eyes in front of him. , it's almost like...

monster.

There was a strange feeling in his heart, Cole clenched his fists, his pupils shrank, grabbed his shadow, and then attacked him violently.

He raised the bone knife, pointed the blades at each other, and threw it like flying. As expected, the bone knife pierced the man's chest hard, and then nailed it hard to the tree.Cole hoped to restrain his actions, but unexpectedly, the man raised his hand, took out the blade from his chest and threw it on the ground, jumped to the ground like a normal person, and stood up again.

Cole couldn't help being surprised, he clearly pierced the opponent's heart!

Looking past him, Cole found that black rancid liquid continued to flow out of his chest, and he couldn't see a drop of blood. Not only that, but with such a serious injury, the other party didn't even have any expression of pain, and he couldn't even feel it. He twitched a little.

No heartbeat, no blood, no pain felt.

Like... dead people.

Dead man, how is it possible? !

The place where the liquid was splashed was very painful, and my hands were shaking.

Cole couldn't believe it, and rushed over, grabbed his front, ignored the pain of being corroded by the liquid, and stared fiercely at the man in front of him. His entire face was rotten, and he had no pulse, but he was still able to move. , and has stretched out its claws, coming towards Cole's throat.

At this critical moment, there was a whistling sound suddenly through the air, and then he watched the man's head being completely cut off by a sharp blade that came from nowhere. At this moment, Cole stared at the pair of eyes that had long been dead. Eyes, his heart jumped, and the next moment, Cole felt dizzy, and then he took a closer look and found that he was hugged horizontally away from the position just now.

The wind was blowing, and then came the familiar, faint smell of herbs, covering up the rotten smell.

About to suffocate.

In the moments before dawn, everything is quiet.

Cole stared blankly at the man who was holding him across the forest, waiting for the first ray of sunlight to shine on his gray and smooth long hair, and lightly pass by his eyes, with a perfectly curved jaw and raised golden pupils Still sad and gentle, with a soft smile on the corner of his mouth.

It's... Ley!

Cole was dumbfounded, unable to believe that it was really Ley, his eyes hurt slightly from the dawn light, but he didn't dare to blink, and kept staring blankly at Ley, as if afraid that this was a dream.

After taking Cole to a safe place, Ley lowered his head slightly, scratched the tip of Cole's nose with his hand, and said with a smile, "Why do you see me looking like I'm about to cry?"

After Ley finished speaking, Cole couldn't help but hugged him tightly.

"Ley...!" Thousands of words left, only this call remained.

Alive, is alive.

This warm body, the real touch, is by my side.

Cole hugged Ley fiercely, trembling, guilty, sad, joyful, all kinds of emotions mixed together, he wanted to say a lot, but his throat was so choked up that he couldn't say a word because of the pain Words, breathing seems to disappear, only the consciousness is still clear to tell himself to hold him tightly.

Ley sighed softly, comforted Cole's back with his hands, and then held Cole's hand, which had the scars burned by the human body fluid during the battle just now. Ley squatted down distressedly, letting Cole Er reached out to heal his wound, and he said, "You always make yourself hurt."

"It doesn't hurt very much." Cole shook his head.

"But I'm in pain." Ley said with a smile, then slowly lowered his head, and said quietly, "The blood of those living dead is poisonous, and if you touch a drop of it on your body, you'd be in pain. How could it not hurt?"

After speaking, Ley raised his head, his golden eyes were full of worry, then he took out some medicine powder and carefully applied it to Cole's injured area.

"The living dead?" Cole asked after a pause.

"Ah, there are many such monsters in the southern tribes. They have no thoughts and no life, but they are extremely powerful and have already invaded many tribes." Ley said.

"What?!" Cole opened his eyes in disbelief.

Looking up, Ley looked at Cole and said flatly: "Many tribes disappeared after being attacked by them."

Cole frowned deeply: "What's the matter with the living dead?"

"I found out along the way that they were just ordinary orcs. They were fed a kind of poison by the tribes in the south. This poison was made by a pharmacist decades ago. It can make orcs become stronger quickly. But at the same time, they will be backlashed by the power of the poison, lose themselves, and then unknowingly become puppets of others...until their heads are cut off." Ley shook his head and looked at Cole.

"Cut off the head?" Cole gritted his teeth and asked.

"Well." Ley shook his head and said, "As long as the heads are cut off, they will die, otherwise, even if there is only one skeleton left, they will continue to fight."

Obviously the spirit is dead, but the body cannot sleep peacefully. It is a cruel poison.

Pursing his lips for a while, Cole lowered his eyes silently, and then asked, "Ley, after that day, you..."

"Abducted." Shaking his head lightly, Lay easily accepted Cole's words, then lowered his brows, and smiled helplessly, "Because his body was too weak, he was arrested before he could resist." After a while, Lai Yi slowly opened his eyes and said, "Fortunately, I escaped while they were resting, but I couldn't find you when I went back. I thought you fell into a trap, so I followed them all the way to the southern tribe. Unfortunately, there was no news. .I figured they were going to bother you again, so I followed them, and that's when I ran into you."

"I'm sorry, Rye," Cole said.

"Why do you apologize?"

"It hurt you before, and now it makes you so worried." Looking at the other party apologetically.

His mouth was gently covered, Ley came over, faced each other, shook his head, raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly: "Don't apologize, I should do everything for you, so don't apologize." Then he rubbed Ke Er's head.

But when Ley said that, Cole felt even more sad.

"But you," Ley asked at this moment, "where have you been these days?"

"Beast ears."

"Beast ear clan?" Ley raised his eyebrows curiously.

Nodding, Cole went on to say: "After that day, the people of the Orc Ears rescued me. They are Sarah and Palanch."

"Sara, Palanch?" His eyebrows moved slightly.

Cole is still going on here, he nodded and said: "Well, Sara told me that I would attack you suddenly because of the unstable animal blood in my body, so I followed Sara and Palanch back to the Beast Ear Tribe, The ritual of stabilizing the animal blood was performed."

"What ceremony." Keen, Ley interjected.

Thinking of Norman's reaction, Cole hesitated for a while, but said it anyway: "The partner's ceremony."

His pupils shrank slightly, and the corners of his lips moved. Ley looked at Cole fixedly, and asked after a long time, "Who is it?"

The voice was a little cold, but it was calmer than Norman's.

"Sarah," Cole said, "just a mate in name."

Ley fell into silence, his golden pupils half-closed, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I don't want to attack anyone anymore, especially you, Ley." Seeing that Ley was silent, Cole grabbed Ley's hand with his backhand and said seriously, "I don't want to explain, but you are the last thing I want Hurt people, even if you find me annoying or hate me, I want to be by your side."

Looking at Cole amusedly, Ley moved closer, lowered his eyes, stroked Cole's head tenderly, and said softly, "How can I find you annoying?" Close your eyes, take a deep breath, Ley One word at a time, he said slowly, "I only survived to see you."

Joking, but not in a joking tone.

"for me?"

"Ah." Standing up a little, Ley smiled at Cole.

This is Ley's usual style, Cole could only smile helplessly, and took a deep breath, but couldn't help but think of Norman and Palanch who had been forgotten in place.

"Let's go back." Cole stood up immediately and said.

"What's wrong?" Ley asked.

"Parange, and Norman."

"...Norman?" When he said the name silently, his golden pupils flickered slightly, but he quickly regained his composure.

"They just lost consciousness for some reason and have been unconscious." Cole didn't realize the change in Ley's tone, but was just worried.

Hearing this, Ley stepped forward and patted Cole on the shoulder, reassuring: "They will be fine."

"hope so."

Ley just nodded and smiled, no more words.

On the way back, Cole was very fast. Because he was worried about the two of them, he walked very fast. He wished he could go back to the original place and find the two of them immediately. Ley, who was following Cole, saw Cole's anxious back and kept walking. Remaining silent, but finally before returning to the camp, Ley couldn't help but raised his head and said, "Cole, are you..." but hesitated to speak.

"Huh?" Cole turned around.

Startled for a moment, Ley showed a faint smile and lowered his eyes: "No, I just want to ask if your hands are better."

Raising his arm, Ke Erwu moved automatically, and then said to Ley, "It's much better, the pain is gone."

"That's good." With the corners of his lips raised gently, Ley frowned and looked at Cole quietly.

With his back facing the rising sun, his golden pupils dimmed, and he closed his eyes quietly, but in the end he didn't say anything. ?