Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"Since Albion people are born to be companions of strange beasts, what happened the night you were massacred?"

"I do not know either."

Slender breathed a sigh of relief, recalling the experience of that night: "Everything happened too fast..."

"Xiu! Wake up! Wake up!"

"Huh? Brother, what's the matter?"

"Oh!"

An explosion woke up the young Xiu from his dream. He threw himself into his brother's arms, looking out of the window in horror at the raging fire and billowing black smoke.

"This, how could it be? Brother, what happened?!"

"It's okay, Xiu, don't be afraid."

The young man pretended to be calm, and hugged the shivering Xiu.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

There were explosions outside the house one after another, flames engulfed the night, thick smoke covered the sky, humans screamed, and strange beasts wailed.

An ordinary night that couldn't be more ordinary turned into a hell on earth without warning.

Xiu Shi hugged his brother tightly, praying for the end of the explosion, but in hell, all hopes would turn into despair.

"elder brother......"

"Xiu, don't be afraid, you have to be strong, the more dangerous you are, the less you can panic, you hear me!"

Xiu nodded in confusion, restraining the panic in his eyes: "Okay, I, I know."

"Oh!"

There was another explosion, and Xiu grabbed his brother's clothes tightly, and the two brothers hid under the bed. The room was shaking, the ground was shaking, dust and gravel fell on the top of their heads, as if the sky was falling apart.

"Brother, I, I'm afraid."

"Xiu, it's okay, with my brother here, my brother will protect you."

Xiu shrank into a ball in fear, unable to say a word: "Brother, where are Mom and Dad?"

The young man's heart tightened, he clenched his fists, as if he was comforting Xiu, but also comforting himself: "It's okay, parents will protect themselves, they won't..."

"Oh!"

Suddenly, a bang exploded in the ears of the two, shaking the ground, followed by a muffled sound, the sound of some kind of heavy object collapsing from inside the house, and then the scream of the mother.

"Mom! Brother, it's my mother's voice!"

"Xiu, stay here and don't move, I'll go out and have a look!"

"elder brother!"

The young man hugged Xia Xiu vigorously, and rushed out of the room resolutely against the rain of dust and gravel.Looking at the wide open door, Xiu suppressed the fear in his heart, gritted his teeth and got out of the bed, followed his brother's footsteps, and rushed to the first floor.

His father was lying in a pool of blood, and his body was pressed against the cabinet made by the three of them. His mother's white clothes were covered with blood and dirt, and she desperately tried to remove the cabinet that was pressed on his father.

"Dad! Mom!"

The two brothers immediately stepped forward, one lifted a corner of the cabinet, and the mother dragged the father out.

"Oh!"

There was another explosion, the doors and windows were shattered, and hot tongues of flame poured into the house. After a while, a raging fire ignited inside the house, and the thick smoke filled the air and choked the three of them almost.

"Quick! Ike, Xiu, get out!"

The young man set up his father's body and asked Xiu to take care of his mother.

The three of them had just stepped out of the house when the shock wave from the explosion knocked them over.

The ground is hot, and so is the wind, and the air is filled with the smell of fireworks and burnt minced meat.

Xiu's ears were buzzing, his mind went blank, he struggled to get up instinctively, he found himself in a world where only red and black blend and pollute each other, everything is so familiar yet so strange.

His father lay in the middle of the fire, turning into a charred corpse little by little before his eyes.

"Dad, Dad..."

Xiu stared at his father's corpse obsessively, completely unaware that he was stepping into the fire step by step.

"Fix! Be careful!"

Amid the exclamation, Xiu was pushed to the ground.

His mother stood in front of him, the bright red on his chest slowly spread, the warm and sticky liquid dripped on Xiu's face, and slowly slid down...

"mom!"

The young man hugged his mother's body, looking at the big hole in her chest helplessly, tears welled up in an instant: "Mom, mom!"

"Hoo, hoo, Ike..."

The mother's body temperature gradually receded, she looked at her son, gently wiped away the tears on his face with blood-stained hands: "Hurry up, let's go, leave us alone..."

"Mother!"

Xiu who just woke up from a dream knelt in front of his mother, tightly holding onto her hand.

"Silly, silly boy, don't, don't cry, this, this is not your fault..."

The mother used her last strength to hold the hands of the two children. Tears of unwillingness and heartache mixed with the filth of blood gradually stained the earth: "Eke, you are a brother, you must protect your brother..."

With tears in his eyes, the young man nodded desperately: "Mom, I understand, I will definitely protect my brother..."

"build......"

Xiu couldn't stop crying, and couldn't stop crying: "Mom, Mom, I'm here, I'm here."

"Xiu, live on, listen to brother, live well..."

"After my parents passed away, the fire burned every inch of Albion. My brother took me to escape in the fire. Before we knew it, we both went up the cliff, and then he pushed me into the sea."

Seth listened quietly, he held Xiu's hand: "Your brother is not with you..."

"No," Xiu lowered his head, and a tear fell on the back of Seth's hand. "When I noticed, he was covered in bruises. I, I didn't even know when he was injured. He gave me the only way of life, Then, then..."

Seth gently wiped away Xiu's tears, and hugged him tightly.

"After I fell into the sea, I was rescued by a strange beast. It carried me away from Albion and drifted on the sea for a day and a night. It threw me on the seashore. My parents, brothers, and friends lost everything. I I also thought about it, but I still remember what my mother and brother said before they died, "You must live, you must live." So, I started wandering, wandering on this continent like a ghost for five years, and then You know all about it.

After telling his own story, Xiu raised his head and blinked vigorously, then took a deep breath and looked at the bonfire burning in the fireplace.

"Is there anything else you want to know?"

"So, what exactly hurt you?"

"do not know."

Xiu said: "From the beginning to the end, I didn't see any strange figures. I only knew that the other party was massacring the city indiscriminately. Whether it was humans or alien beasts, they all died overnight, even those in the sea. I still remember that when I fell into the sea, I felt like I fell into a pool of blood, the smell of blood soared into the sky, and the corpses of strange beasts floating on the sea were all around me. I think many people in the tribe may not know It happened, and died in a dream indistinctly, fortunately, it may be that their death was not painful at all."

"The so-called old friend?"

"It's a strange beast," Xiu said. "It's a black fin whale. We grew up together. After saving me, it disappeared. I thought it was dead too, but..."

"But you heard it cry."

"Yes, it was also the one that saved us in the sea just now."

Seth asked puzzled, "But since it's still alive, why doesn't it come out to meet you?"

"I don't know, or maybe it's just a black fin whale that looks very similar to it."

"Will wild black fin whales save lives?"

"Yes," Xiu said, "it's their nature, just like the nature of the Albion people is to coexist with alien beasts."

Although these are unbelievable, after knowing the truth about the city of Albion, Seth feels that his three views have been greatly impacted.

"When we were fighting alien beasts, who would have thought that in the northern cape, there would be a land where humans and alien beasts coexist. I really don't know whether to feel envious or call it ridiculous."

Xiu didn't care how Seth commented on all this, he just lowered his head lonely and took out the small white ball from his arms: "After I woke up, this was hit by the waves. It’s related to the massacre of Albion. But I’ve been to the surviving place of human beings, and I’ve been inquiring about it for so long, but I still haven’t figured out what it is. Maybe it’s just rubbish, but I treat it as a treasure.”

Xiu casually threw the ball into the fire. The ball hit the edge of the fireplace, bounced back, and was caught by Seth.

"Keep it," Seth handed the ball to Xiu, "at least it has been with you for so long."

"If you like it, I will give it to you."

"Then I'll take it for you first."

Seth played with the white ball, and asked Xiu thoughtfully: "According to what you said, only Albion knows these things, why does the masked man know?"

Xiu shook his head: "I don't know. In my impression, there is no such person in Albion, and I have never seen his clothes before."

"However, what is certain is that Albion's demise is far from as simple as we thought."

"Unfortunately, five years have passed, and now we want to find out, but we have no chance."

The night was late, the flames were slowly extinguished, and the chill gradually penetrated into the house, Seth shivered unexpectedly.

Xiu lifted a corner of the thin blanket and put it on Seth's shoulder: "You'll get half of it, don't catch a cold."

"Heh, aren't you afraid that I'll take advantage of you?"

Just after Seth finished speaking, the two recalled the kiss on the beach at the same time, and an ambiguous and awkward atmosphere suddenly lingered between them.

Seth coughed twice, grabbed a corner of the thin blanket with one hand, and picked up firewood with a knife with the other, then picked up a few sweet potatoes and threw them into the fireplace.

Xiu silently watched Seth's every move, the faint fire in the fireplace reflected his handsome side face, from the straight bridge of the nose to the slightly stubbled lips...

"What are you looking at?"

"No, nothing."

Xiu quickly lowered his head, his heart was beating fast, like a child who did something wrong.

Seth chuckled, the two leaned together, neither of them spoke, quietly listening to the occasional crackling sound from the fireplace.

"Okay, you can eat."

Seth picked out the sweet potatoes thrown in from the fireplace, but what Xiu saw were a few pieces of blackened coke.

"Ahaha, it's overheated, maybe it's a little burnt."

Xiu twisted his nose, and could vaguely smell a burnt smell: "Are you sure it's called a little burnt?"