Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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The next day, the three repacked their luggage, filled up their supplies, and left the surviving place.

Dorset's off-road vehicle was smashed by an armored vehicle, and then was dismantled by the bandits. This car is a bit smaller than the previous one and has no rear trunk, but it is very spacious inside and supplies Putting it in the rear compartment, there is no need to worry about getting wet in the rain, which can be regarded as making up for the loss.

After a thrilling day, the speed of the three of them slowed down significantly.

Prin lost the excitement when he left the dark alley, and fell asleep on the back seat. Xiu sat in the co-pilot studying the map, and fell asleep after a while.Seth closed the car windows for the two of them, leaving some slits for ventilation on his own side, while adapting to the feel of the new car. The off-road vehicle was driving on the vast plains with no one, the sun was just right, the wind was beautiful, and it was careless and leisurely.

A day passed slowly.

At night, the off-road vehicle was parked beside a stream.

Pullin set up a pot by the campfire to prepare dinner, and Xiu sat by the stream to help Seth with the medicine.

"Hiss, baby, take it easy."

Seth grinned hoarsely in pain, Xiu saw through his exaggerated acting skills at a glance, but he still controlled the strength with his hands.

"This is the price you pay for pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. Let's see if you dare to pretend to be crazy in the future."

"My name is to suffer from hardship. Look at my neck, my back, and the blisters on my hands. Without my sacrifice, can I take them all together? Hiss, lightly, lightly..."

"Yes, yes, you are the greatest, don't move, turn around."

Xiu didn't bother arguing with Seth and concentrated on giving him medicine.

There are several shocking welts on Seth's back, the scars have turned purple and are slightly swollen, when Seth touches them, he will subconsciously shrink back.

"It's a shame you can bear it."

"What do you say?"

"I said," Xiu Chang said, "Aren't you afraid that they will torture you to death?"

"Hey, my heart hurts...Ah! You murdered your own husband!"

Seth jumped up suddenly, scratching his ears and cheeks to cover the wound on his back, but he couldn't touch it, so he could only jump on the spot and stare at Xiu with resentment.

"Let you talk nonsense again," Xiu said nonchalantly, "I'll freeze your mouth sooner or later."

Seth put on the vest, sat back beside Xiu, and complained in a low voice, "Inhumanity."

"Why am I inhumane?"

"You see me being forced to work by them, being whipped by them, wearing that iron collar, and not giving food, you don't feel a little bit distressed? Look, my neck and collarbone are worn out. gone."

"Okay, okay, you just have some scratches, and you'll be fine in two days. Sit down, and I'll help you put medicine on your face."

"Oh."

Seth was sitting facing Xiu, his slender hands were so worn that fingerprints could hardly be seen, carefully applying medicine to his wound with a rag dipped in medicinal wine.

"Gen, that's the one who talked to us last night."

"kindness."

"Before he left, he told me that they decided to keep the she-wolf and the cubs and try to raise them up."

"yes."

Xiu rubbed the medicinal wine on Seth intently, as if he didn't listen to what he was saying, and was just responding politely.

"You don't need to tell me this kind of thing."

Seth lowered his eyes slightly, observing Xiu's expression carefully: "I thought you would want to know. Last night, you..."

"Just tell me what you want to ask."

There was no expression on Xiu's face, but the harmonious atmosphere between the two of them disappeared immediately: "You want to ask, why can I tame a strange beast?"

Xiu spoke bluntly, and Seth stopped being secretive, and asked straight to the point: "Do you know how to tame strange beasts, or do all Albionians tame strange beasts?"

Xiu suddenly stopped, his hands froze in the air, and he stared at Seth with vigilance and resistance: "What made you have such an illusion."

"Your attitude now, and your reaction to that black-maned wolf."

Seth said: "In the eyes of the outside world, the direct cause of Albion's demise is the invasion of alien beasts. Ordinary people's attitude towards alien beasts is either to flee or kill them. Under the circumstances, the alien beasts are killed first and then quickly. As the only survivor of Albion, your attitude towards the alien beasts is exactly the opposite, so my guess is not an illusion."

Xiu didn't speak, but got up and left, and Seth grabbed him.

"Can you tell me what happened that night in Albion?"

"I do not want to say."

Seth didn't force Xiu, but just grabbed Xiu's hand and looked into his eyes: "I know I'm not reliable, but we have experienced life and death together twice, so we should still be trustworthy."

Xiu still didn't speak, lowered his head, broke away from Seth's hand, and stuffed the medicinal wine back into his hand: "The rest, you can take the medicine yourself."

After speaking, go downstream along the flowing water.

"Okay, if you don't say it, let me guess the reason why you don't want to say it."

Seth held the medicine bottle, kept a certain distance from Xiu, and followed slowly: "One, it's confusion, why everyone else is dead, but I'm still alive; two, it's regrets, thinking that if I did it in time or If you didn't do something, maybe it wouldn't be like this; three, it's guilt..."

Xiu suddenly quickened his pace, Seth didn't chase after him, but deliberately amplified his voice: "I feel that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, and I can only survive by stealing other people's lives, and I base my life on the death of others... ..."

"enough!"

Xiu shouted and interrupted Seth.

Seth stood still and sighed silently: "Xiu, it wasn't your fault, and you don't need to be responsible for their deaths."

Xiu was trembling.

Seth thought he was crying, but saw him slowly bending over, his hands on his knees, his body trembling more and more tiredly.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Seth hurried forward to hold Xiu's hand tightly, grabbed the back of his neck, and made him look at him.

"Baby, baby, look at me, look at me!"

Seth shouted anxiously, Xiu's pupils were full of fear, he was not looking at himself, his eyes were dull, deep in his own memories, his body was trembling, and cold sweat was breaking out uncontrollably.

At that moment, he was not a lonely and indifferent tramp, nor a sympathetic supernatural being, he turned back into a child.

A child about to drown in fear and memories.

"Fix! Fix!"

Seth yelled, trying to regain consciousness with his own voice: "Look at me, look at me! It's okay, it's okay! I'm here! I'm here! You're safe, nothing can hurt you!"

"me......"

"It's okay, it's okay, baby, look at me, take a deep breath, come on, take a deep breath with me, it's okay, it's going to be okay."

Slowly, Xiu regained some consciousness.

Seth hugged Xiu tightly, all the time comforting his emotions by his ears, and gently patted his back with his hands, as if coaxing a frightened child.

"It's okay, Xiu, it's okay."

Seth felt a little regretful. He thought this was a good opportunity to explore the destruction of Albion, but he almost collapsed the repair.

However, Xiu's reaction also explained a point.

In the past five years, he was not wandering, but escaping.

Run away from that night, run away from home, run away from memories, run away from everything about Albion, and tell no one.

Therefore, in the past five years, he has not returned to Albion once, and even forgot the way home.

"My comrade-in-arms died in an attack by a wave of alien beasts. Right in front of my eyes, the claws of the alien beasts directly penetrated his chest."

Seth hugged Xiu, and waited for the person in his arms to gradually calm down, and then slowly said: "I know, this past is not worth mentioning in front of you. But at that time, I was just like you now, regretful, self-satisfied. Blame, guilt, I always think, if, if I could have acted faster at that time, maybe he would not have died."

Xiu came out of Seth's arms, lowered his head, and said nothing.

Seth took out two documents from his pocket and handed them to Xiu. Then, with a light in his hand, he approached him and motioned for him to open them.

Xiu sniffed and opened the first book.

In the photo, Seth is wearing a military uniform. He is very young and young, with a clean face, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a high nose bridge, sharp facial features, and bright eyes. Compared with him now, he is a little less cynical and a little more The simplicity and toughness of the soldiers and the heroic demeanor make them look like two different people.

"Cetrick."

"This is my original name," Seth said, "I changed it after I left the Temple Tower, as a farewell to the past."

"You didn't say goodbye very thoroughly."

Seth smiled awkwardly: "Hehe, you saw it."

Xiu opened the second book.

The man in the photo is also wearing a military uniform, with fair skin, delicate features, gentle and handsome. If it weren't for the strength and determination in his eyes, Xiu really couldn't connect him with the soldiers who went to battle to kill the enemy.

"Carol."

Seth looked at the person in the photo, with deep nostalgia in his words: "You are very similar to him."

"Not at all." Xiu said.

"Your personalities are very similar."

Holding the fire in one hand, Seth scratched the tip of Xiu's nose with the other: "You are all kind and easy to be soft-hearted. If you are deceived the first time, you will be deceived the second time."

Xiu glared at Seth unhappily.

"But after getting along for a long time, I found that you are different from him," Seth smiled, "You are simpler than him."

"You mean I'm stupid?"

"Hahaha, that's okay to understand."

"Fuck you!"

Xiu raised his hand to hit him, but Seth didn't hide, and Xiu just poked his wound in retaliation.

"hiss......"

Tesai cried out in pain: "It's exactly the same about loving and holding grudges."

"Yeah, so, you'd better not mess with me."

Repair the two documents and put them back in Seth's hands.

Seth extinguished the fire in his hand, and the surroundings returned to dark silence, and the stars fell into the river, shining brightly.

"Actually, what I want to say is that you are more thoughtful than him."

Seth looked at Xiu, his blue pupils were as deep as the sea in the darkness of night.

"You know, some things, you don't force a person to fight hard."