Son of the Olden Days

"Clang...clang..."

The bell of the monastery rang suddenly, leaving a dull echo in the silent night sky.

In the invisible darkness, Saul subconsciously rolled over and suddenly woke up from a night of chaotic dreams.

The surroundings were quiet, and there was a faint damp musty smell in the air. He tried to listen carefully, but there was no response from the surrounding darkness.

When the sleepiness subsided, Sol was in a daze to remember that he was in a deserted well at the moment, and the bell that seemed far and near was actually just his own illusion.

In fact, the bell of the monastery hasn't ringed for a long time. The handyman who rings the bell may have died long ago, or he may be shivering in a corner, who knows.

Before he had time to think more, Thor felt that deep hunger rushed to occupy his consciousness, and then various sequelae such as dizziness and weakness caused by long-term deep hunger also recovered in the body. .

After swallowing hard, Saul could only endure silently while remaining lying on his back.

I don't know if my eyes in the dark are still bright and firm at this moment, or if they have already lost the light like a dead firefly.

But obviously, this **** life will continue...

When it was almost night last night, Sol found a mushroom.

In the cemetery behind the monastery, in an area that I already knew very well, a mushroom appeared magically and unexpectedly in the bush next to a certain tombstone, as if it had always been there.

Before that, Sol hadn't eaten anything for three days.

Is this a timely lucky? The mercy of the gods? Or what bullshit's destiny guide?

When Thor stretched his hand through the long barbed bushes, endured the splitting of the skin, uprooted the mushroom and held it in his hand carefully, the joy of discovery was soon buried by loss.

The whole mushroom is dead gray, slightly smaller than the palm, the stem is thin, and the surface of the mushroom cap is scattered with irregular bright green patches.

This kind of weird and aesthetically lacking color matching is really hard to associate it with food.

Saul was pretty sure that he had never seen this mushroom in any grocery store in Grayscreen, and it was obviously impossible to judge whether the thing in his hand was toxic only based on his short experience as a potion apprentice.

But what does it matter?

Even if dying of a poisonous mushroom is not very decent, at least it is an ending.

So Sol was ready not to wake up again, and stuffed this ugly mushroom into his mouth.

It's like swallowing some kind of fat bug.

The terrible taste is not much better than expected. It is bland and tasteless, but sticky and juicy.

Shaking and shivering, Thor didn't even dare to chew hard, so he frowned and let it slip into his already shriveled stomach, then got into a pile of rags and fell asleep with nausea.

Saul is not a world-weary person, or with his twelve-year-old age and his pitiful life experience, he can't reach that kind of discouraged state, but he is indeed tired and wants to Sleep forever.

Six months ago, a plague broke out in Gray Screen town.

Most of the unlucky spirits died in time.

They died with their own characteristics, on the road, in their dreams, at the wine table, suddenly fell down without warning.

The head slowly split like a crushed sweet potato, and the thick, fishy black blood flowed out, and the body rotted rapidly from the inside to the outside, becoming a happy nest for many excited insects.

The terrible disease and panic kept infecting the people around. During that time, the unique smell of barbecue from burning corpses could be smelled almost everywhere in Gray Screen.

At first, some people speculated that the spread of the plague came from the resistance and revenge of the pagans. A few scholars believed that this unknown plague was not a plague at all, but the wanton buying and selling of corpses in Gray Screen finally angered the Lord God and lowered some kind of punishment.

Later, as more people followed the **** of death, all kinds of doubts gradually disappeared.

Before the plague, Sol had been living in the Phoenix Monastery.

As an unremarkable one of many orphans, he is thin, withdrawn, and helpless, and is often the object of bullying and pleasure from other half-old children.

After the disaster struck, the orphans were all restricted in their freedom and strictly prohibited from going out.

The priests of the monastery agreed that it is only right to stay in the sacred sanctuary of the monastery. As long as they continue to pray to the gods, everyone will be saved.

Perhaps this is indeed the case, at least in this disaster, the entire monastery miraculously no one died of the disease or infection.

When the chaos in the town began to sprout, the priests blocked the news that the monastery was safe, and decisively closed the backyard, promptly isolating the living area of ​​the backyard of the monastery from the outside world.

It's dangerous outside. Not everyone who died has died of the plague. Murders and plunders taking advantage of the chaos are always happening.

Only the main hall, a slightly larger sacred auditorium, remains open to the outer monastery. Priests regularly hold some seemingly mysterious ceremonies here to appease the feared townspeople.

At the gesture of the obese named bishop, the nuns and deacons rejected all applications for admission to the monastery for asylum, and then quietly retrieved from the outside a few skeletons that had been burned beyond recognition.

After that, the monastery would pack these unnamed bones with a shroud every once in a while, and then hold solemn and painful funerals in full view, so that outsiders would feel that the monastery was also affected by this disaster. Suffer.

These concealed tricks did finally get some results, no matter how crazy outside, the whole monastery was quiet in secret.

When the population of the town dropped sharply to more than half, the plague finally came to an end.

However, those who survived by chance have entered a new round of disasters, famines.

In addition to humans, a large number of livestock died in this epidemic. The severe shortage of labor has caused the barrenness of farmland. Most of the food in the town has been consumed in the first few months, and the food has become more precious than gold.

Cannibalism first occurred in slums, and then quickly spread among the crowds.

This is not surprising, even before the plague, Gray Screen has always been a place with no moral bottom line.

The situation in the town is getting more and more tense, and news comes from afar through letter crows from time to time.

It is said that Lord Savien sent Yujun from the territory. Later, Yujun encountered an enemy attack while passing through the dark wilderness. After paying a certain number of casualties, they had to withdraw with rescue supplies.

The people in Gray Screen didn't care what **** monsters the Lord Yujun encountered in the dark wilderness, after all, everyone has long been accustomed to such things.

What really defeated everyone's defense was the news of the rescue retracement, which means that in the coming days, due to the shortage of supplies and the obstruction of the dark wilderness, the entire Gray Screen Town will fall into a predicament of self-destruction.

The situation finally collapsed completely.

The timid and lucky people chose to stay in the small town and continue to struggle in doom.

A small number of people who thought they were brave decided to surrender their lives to luck. They spontaneously formed a team of adventurers, leaving the town and stepping into the dark wilderness to find a way out.

Whether it's life or death, these gamblers with little chance to win never come back.

The town of Gray Screen is located at the southernmost tip of the entire continent. As a small part of the continent of Salvinia, this lonely border town has never been noticed by the world.

In the hundreds of years since entering the dark calendar, this continent has been submerged by heavy darkness all day long. People live in this land that is not as bright as day after day, and day becomes a continuation of night.

A large number of plants die one after another, and more strange plants emerge, and the tenacious life will always find its own way out. But for humans, this dark world is no longer friendly.

The difficult living environment has led to the continuous loss of population, the lack of resources, and the shrinking of gathering places, and human beings are also increasingly declining.

On this land of eternal night, the dark wilderness around towns has always been a nightmare for everyone.

It is said that countless beasts and monsters inhabit the wilderness, ghouls and tree spirits wander aimlessly, and hosts in swamps and lakes are always looking forward to the flesh and blood of strayed people.

It undoubtedly requires a lot of courage to step into the dark wilderness. Except for some adventurers and businessmen who are willing to take risks for profit, the residents of Gray Screen rarely leave the town.

Even so, the population in the small town is never stable, new lives are born, and there are always many quiet and bizarre deaths.

Many people come and go, and it's impossible to say who one day disappears with a "swish" suddenly, as if they had never appeared before.

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Hunger is still threatening everyone who stays in Gray Screen, and the monastery is finally no longer sacred.

From time to time, some mobs rushed into the room and searched everywhere with blood-red hungry eyes. When two nuns and three orphans died in chaos, the priests of the monastery finally realized that the world's fear of God had been shaken.

Facing the persecution of survival, faith is just a joke.

God may occasionally give out a little divine light to blind someone's eyes, but no one has seen him give out food.

For food, the orphans had to start to go out in groups.

The boys begged everywhere in the town, or went to steal them. The girls took to the streets under the leadership of a few nuns, relying on selling their bodies to survive.

The small town shrouded in darkness is now full of dangers.

Many boys disappeared after leaving the monastery, and betraying their bodies is no longer an advantage for women. Most of them ended up being played with and then cut into pieces and stuffed into someone's pot.

The number of people in the monastery is decreasing.

By this time, the thin Saul had left the monastery.

Just like a little mouse disappearing in a wheat field, Sol's departure didn't disturb anyone. After all, no one didn't bother to waste their eyes on his dispensable existence.

Saul knew that he hadn't left because of cleverness and foresight, and to be precise, it was more like a helpless escape. He knew very well how dangerous it would be to continue to be exposed to others' sight, even far more terrifying than hunger itself.

From then on, a twelve-year-old child had to face the survival alone, but food, shelter, safety..., too many problems to face were enough to overwhelm him.

Thor's original plan was to see if he could find a chance to follow a team of adventurers to try his luck in the dark wilderness, regardless of his status, handyman, servant, or even slave did not matter.

But in the end he had to give up, because he knew he did not have the capital to go desperately in the wilderness.

In addition to not being taken seriously by his age, his thin body is not even as strong as a wild dog. It is not difficult to foresee that a useless drag will hardly have a better ending besides becoming someone's food halfway.

As for the other reason, in the bottom of Thor's heart, he may not be optimistic about the team of adventurers formed in a hurry.

Although Sol has always lived in a small town and has never set foot in the wilderness outside the town, he has read a book.

The title of that book is "What's in the Darkness?" "The author is a person who signed Horn, a liar.

The whole book is full of joking and ironic tone, using a lot of space to describe the various encounters of adventurers in the dark wilderness and the strange ways of death when facing monsters.

At first, Sol just read it with amusement, and even sneered at it many times because of the author's wild imagination that day. But with repeated reading and deepening of understanding, he suddenly realized that the content of this book is likely to be true.

Because only those who have personally experienced it can write these detailed descriptions.

Saul had no interest in speculating about what kind of person the author of the signed liar Horne was, whether he escaped death by luck and flinching in countless adventures.

What really frightened Saul was that as long as half of the content in the book is true, it is enough to imagine how dangerous the dark wilderness outside has been for hundreds of years after entering the dark history.

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