Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"So, we were saved by the masked man?"

Seth hugged Xiu and came to the hot spring, took off Xiu's clothes, untied his bandages, and immersed him in warm water: "I don't know if this is rescue or kidnapping, at least we didn't Freedom is restricted, and this place is also very hidden and safe.”

Seth also took off his clothes and sat in the hot spring to wash his body.

The two were silent with each other, and the sound of rushing water echoed in the pit.

Xiu sat quietly in Seth's arms, Seth helped Xiu wash without the slightest desire, then hugged Xiu from behind and buried his head in his shoulder.

After a long time, Seth said guiltily, "I'm sorry..."

Xiu didn't look back: "Because of what?"

"If it wasn't for me, you and Nemo..."

"Seth, it's over, I don't want to continue this topic."

Xiu interrupted Seth's words, and the calm words contained resistance and refusal.

Seth stopped talking, and tightened his arms around Xiu: "Xiu, if you want to cry, just cry, it will make you feel better."

Xiu held Seth's hand, looked down at the blurred reflections of the two in the water, and slightly moved the corners of his mouth, only to find that the shadow in the water smiled uglier than crying.

"Fool, I'm fine," Xiu turned his head and kissed Seth's lips, "Leave me alone, okay?"

Seite nodded, kissed Xiu on the face before getting up, then let go, put Xiu's clothes and towels by the hot spring, and left in straw sandals.

Xiu sat in the water, staring blankly at the glaring sunlight in the water, and suddenly buried his face under the water, until he was about to suffocate, then he raised his head, panting heavily so that the water stains covered his cheeks.

"Nemo..."

Dusk was much earlier than before, and the red afterglow of the setting sun fell into the cave, and it became dark in a blink of an eye.

Seth was flicking the bonfire in the pit. Seeing Xiu coming back, he put down the branch in his hand, patted the ashes on his hands, pulled Xiu back to the stone bed, took off the towel on his shoulders, and dried his wet hair.

"Seth."

"kindness?"

"I'm hungry," Xiu said, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Wait a minute," said Seth, "there will be food."

Without asking why, Xiu closed his eyes and lay down in Seth's arms.

After a while, he heard a sound of flapping wings.

When he opened his eyes, a chubby snowy owl stood on the stone window, its feathers were dyed a dull red by the firelight in the hole, and it held two hares in its mouth.

"Today's dinner is here."

The snowy owl stared at the round eyes, and the moment it saw Xiu, it was obviously stunned for two seconds, then looked at Xiu carefully, spit the hare on the ground as usual, flapped its wings, and flew away.

Seth took it for granted, picked up two hares and prepared to kill them, then kicked the dead mouse mixed into the fire: "Two hares are enough, this thing likes to trap a mouse every time. "

"That's a field mouse," Xiu said, "you can eat it."

"I know," said Seth, "but I don't like seeing this thing."

Without saying anything, Xiu used a branch to pull the field mouse out of the fire, and then took the rabbit and the knife from Seth's hand: "Come on, take care of me for so many days, go and rest for a while."

Before Seth could speak, Xiu had already left.

When they came back, the hares and voles had been skewered, washed and killed, and put on the fire that had been made.

Seth didn't intervene in the whole process, and watched Xiu turn the branch, the knife cut small holes in the flesh, and the smell of oil soon permeated the cave.

The taste is very fragrant, but Seth has no appetite at all.

He looked at Xiu, half of his face reflected by the firelight was bright, and half was dark.

He wanted to capture Xiu's emotions, but Xiu had a calm expression from the beginning to the end, the movements of his hands were clean and neat, and his eyes were gray, just like when he first saw him.

To be alive, but to separate oneself from the outside world, to seal up one's heart and emotions.

But something is different from the previous situation.

Xiu's family and clan were killed, but Nemo... died by his own hands.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?"

"Huh? What?"

Seth came back to his senses, and in front of him was a roasted rabbit.

"Ah, what? I've been calling you for a long time. If you don't eat it, it should be cold."

"Oh."

Seth took the roasted hare, and when he brought it closer to his mouth, the faint smell of burnt and fatty meat faintly aroused the glutton in his stomach.

He sighed in his heart, and while thinking about repairing, he gnawed on the roasted hare.

And Xiu Xiu ate the roasted vole deliciously. The vole was roasted until it became crispy, and it made a crackling sound when it was bitten into the mouth, and the bones were crispy.

"Eat, what are you looking at me for?"

The voles were more than half eaten, and Xiu noticed Seth staring at him with a horrified expression.

"I, I'll eat later."

Xiu licked the corner of his mouth and held back a smile: "Are you scared?"

"No, no," Seth scratched her head timidly, "I'm just not very hungry, hehe..."

"It's okay, this stuff doesn't take up your stomach."

After finishing speaking, Xiu broke off a vole leg and stuffed it into Seth's hand: "Try it, I'm sure you will like the taste."

"Okay, okay."

Seth looked at the field mouse's leg with its small claws, and then at Xiu, feeling a little trembling in his heart, and after a few struggles, he tried to take a bite.

The taste...was okay, not as hard to swallow as he imagined, not much different from the taste of roasted rabbit, and the meat was a little more tender.

"How about it?"

Xiu looked at Seth.

Seth could feel the anticipation in his words, but his eyes were still gray, without any emotional ups and downs.

Sai Te nodded, hiding his uneasiness and worry in his heart, and raised the corners of his mouth: "It's delicious."

Xiu smiled: "That's right."

"Cuckoo..."

The snowy owl flew back, standing on the stone window with a fat body, holding a branch with a small red fruit in its mouth.

This time it didn't spit on the ground, but jumped out of the stone window, with its wings half-opened, revealing its round and white body, its sharp claws covered with white feathers, like wearing a pair of clothes a few sizes bigger with sharp claws The fluffy slippers, with a clumsy and funny posture, approached the two of them a little bit.

"Cuckoo..."

"Is this for me?"

Xiu bent down and reached out to remove the branch that the snowy owl was holding in its beak. As a courtesy, he fed it the remaining roasted voles.

Snowy Owl held the roasted field mouse in its mouth, and immediately took two steps back, staring at the two of them vigilantly, then pressed the field mouse to the ground, stepped on it with sharp claws, tore apart the piece of meat with its sharp black beak, and swallowed it up in two bites.

"Cuckoo..."

The snowy owl hooted twice, flapped its wings and flew away again.

The two filled their stomachs and sat for a while.

Seth helped Xiu apply the medicine again, and wrapped the bandage: "It's almost better, next time you don't need a bandage for the medicine."

"kindness."

Xiu Ying said, then yawned, felt a little sleepy, and went to sleep again.

Seth lay down with him and took him into his arms.

The fire was flickering, and the cave was very quiet, so quiet that you could hear the sound of running water from the hot springs.

Soon, Xiu's breathing became long and steady.

Just when Seth thought Xiu had fallen asleep, Xiu began to struggle uneasily, muttering to himself, and was haunted by the nightmare again.

"Nemo...no...don't...go...go..."

Seth could only hug Xiu tightly, comforting him constantly.

"Xiu, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The next day, the two woke up very early.

Coma plus sleep for eight days, as if I have slept all my life, and people sleep softly.

Seth and Xiu cleaned up briefly, and waited for the masked man in the cave.

But near noon, the masked man did not appear.

Just when Seth wondered if the masked man was playing tricks on him, the snowy owl appeared again, with a metal key ring hanging from its sharp beak, and a car key was attached to it.

Xiu took the key from the snowy owl's beak, and the snowy owl barked at him twice, then spread its wings and flapped it.

Through the stone window, Xiu saw the snowy owl fly out of the pit, stop at the edge of the sinkhole, and let out two urging calls.

Xiu looked back at Seth: "He wants us to follow?"

Seth took the car keys in Xiu's hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go, I'm a little curious about what kind of medicine is sold in this masked man's gourd."

"kindness."

Xiu summoned an ice ladder from the bottom of the pit, and the two left the pit to see the sun again.

This is a dense forest, there are no houses, and no one can be seen, let alone the figure of the masked man.

"Yeah~~~"

The snowy owl standing on the branch honked again.

Seth and Xiu followed the snowy owl around in the dense forest. After half an hour, they finally found a mountain road in the woods. A dark green off-road vehicle was parked beside the mountain road. The snowy owl stood on the roof with its head Turning back and forth, blinking his eyelids from time to time, he immediately spread his wings and flapped his wings when he saw the two, cooing.

Seth and Xiu didn't go there in a hurry. They probed around and made sure it wasn't a trap before they went down the mountain road, opened the car door with the key, and lit the fire.

"The car is a bit old, but it can be driven, and the fuel tank is full." After the inspection, Seth said.

Xiu opened the door of the rear seat, and there was a little food and a map on the seat.

There are two small triangles marked on the map. A yellow one indicates their current location. They are in a mountainous area in the north of the central part of the continent, thousands of miles away from the city of Tinis; The location where Fuka mentioned meeting the masked man is very close.

"He wants us to go here."

Xiu pointed the red triangle on the map to Seth, and Seth made a rough calculation: "From where we are now, it will take three days at the earliest."

"Go? Or go back?"

Xiu looked at the fuel tank indicator on the dashboard: "This fuel should be enough for us to return to Tinis City."

"It took a lot of time to prepare the invitation letter, there's no reason not to go," Seth chuckled, "We're going to meet the masked man, it's time to have a good talk with him."

"it is good."

Xiu got into the car, and before closing the door, the snowy owl also got into the car, stood on the back seat, and hooted at the two of them twice.

"Okay, sit down, let's go."