I stand under a billion lives

Chapter 72

Three months later...

In the heavy blood-red rain, faint footprints suddenly appeared one after another in an empty place, but it was not long before they were covered by the blood rain, washing away all traces.

The footprints point to the front, and a hole almost buried in the red soil can be vaguely seen.

In the cave, under the light of a few candles, Mordred, dressed in tatters, held Chen Fan, who had half-grown limbs, in his arms. He covered his mouth with one hand, and patted his chest with the other. Still humming a weird nursery rhyme:
"London bridge is falling down,

falling down, falling down.
London bridge is falling down,

my fair lady .
Build it up with iron bars,

iron bars, iron bars.
Build it up with iron bars,

my fair lady.
Iron bars will bend and break,

bend and break, bend and break.
Iron bars will bend and break,

my fair lady.
Build it up with gold and silver,

gold and silver, gold and silver.
Build it up with gold and silver,

my fair lady.
gold and silver I've not got,

I've not got, I've not got.
gold and silver I've not got,

my fair lady.”

As soon as the song was over, blood dripped from the air onto the cave floor. When Mordred raised his head, Beria suddenly appeared, carrying a large hell like a wild boar on his shoulders, shaking the bloody transparent cloak.

Throwing the hell seed to the ground casually, Beria, who had a horrible wound on her left face at some point, bent down, and pushed two bowls made of polished stones, one large and one small, in front of Mordred.

Nodding slightly, Mordred stopped slapping Chen Fan, and instead laid him down on the ground, covering his mouth with one hand, and transformed into a huge red sword with the other hand, cutting open him neatly. his neck.

The gushing blood continued to sprinkle into the stone bowls, and the two bowls were completely filled in a short while. At this time, Mordred slowly stopped cutting Chen Fan's neck with his sword blade in order to prevent regeneration.

Reaching out and handing the small bowl to Belia, Mordred then stood up and poured the blood from the big bowl onto the body of the wild boar hellspawn.

The moment the blood came into contact with the wild boar hell, it sounded like cold water entering hot oil, and white smoke rose up. It didn't take long for the wild boar hell to shrink a whole circle, leaving only blood in its body Edible meat for hula rub.

It wasn't until this time that Chen Fan fully recovered. After turning his face to himself, he began to roll his eyes: "Let me tell you, can we make it look like a thriller every time we purify food? It's scary, okay?"

"Who are you scaring? There are only three of us here, and we all know the basics. It would be hell to be scared." With a disdainful spit, Mordred began to skillfully divide the wild boar hell.

"Readers, they will be startled." Seeing that Mordred didn't really want to talk to him, the whimpering Chen Fan turned to sit next to Beria, "What's the matter with your face?" ? Was attacked?"

"No," Beria shook her head while wiping the wound with Chen Fan's blood. The pink and tender granulation grew out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and quickly healed the palm-sized wound without leaving any scars." There is something wrong with the rain outside, it is too corrosive, the invisibility cloak you made has a hole, and the rain of blood dripped down and burned me."

As she spoke, Beria picked up the invisibility cloak and shook it twice to let Chen Fan see more clearly.

With a click of his tongue in displeasure, Chen Fan directly bit the corner of the invisibility cloak with his mouth, and the continuous spiritual power quickly filled it in, making the damaged hole quickly return to its original state.

"Not to mention, your ability is really useful." After cutting up the wild boar hell, Mordred walked over with three pieces of meat that were still bleeding, and first stuffed them into Chen Fan's mouth randomly. One piece, and then handed the other piece to Belia, tearing up his own piece of flesh with her sharp teeth while she thanked her.

With his sharp teeth, he crushed pieces of meat and swallowed them. Chen Fan waved his limbs, which had only recovered to half their length, and asked Belia to hug him and looked at Mordred triumphantly: "Of course!" , I’m different from Xiao Mo, Beria and you fighting madmen, but I’m an expert in many aspects!”

"Then try to turn yourself into a human stick, right?" In the past three months, Mordred brought it up every time Chen Fan was stunned, and then began to admire his deflated expression.

Sure enough, Chen Fan immediately drooped his face: "It's almost a hundred days, I said, Xiao Mo, can you stop talking about this?"

At this time, Beria, who had finished eating the meat before Mordred, hugged Chen Fan, and patted his head lightly: "But Xiao Mo is right, if you didn't bother at the beginning, you don't have to do it now." If you want to talk to her on an equal footing, you have to hug her."

Unlike Yan Fan who cut off his wrists and ankles before, this time Chen Fan, whose limbs were cut off from the thighs and shoulders, tried to put aside the subject depressedly after listening to Beria's words: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, little boy!" Mo, what the hell is the song you sing, why is it so scary."

"Ah?" Mordred looked puzzled, "Is it scary? This is a well-known nursery rhyme in our Holy Rome."

"Bah! Whose nursery rhyme is like this?" Chen Fan repeated a piece of Mordred's ballad, "London Bridge is falling down, (London Bridge is falling down)
Falling down falling down, (fall down, fall down)
London Bridge bridge is falling down, (London Bridge collapsed, collapsed)
My fair lady. (Dear friend)

Take a key and lock her up, (take a key and lock her up)
lock her up, lock her up, (lock her up, lock her up)
Take a key and lock her up, (take a key and lock her up)
My fair lady. (Dear friend)

Listen to it yourself, where is there such a dark nursery rhyme? !What's the big problem with your Holy Roman designations. "

When Chen Fan repeated this, Mordred also came to his senses, stroking his ponytail thoughtfully: "So you mean this, it is indeed a bit dark, because it is said that this song has two origins, One theory is that the nursery rhyme alludes to the "fall" of Anne Boleyn, once the second queen of England's King Henry VIII. She was accused of adultery and incest, and eventually , and put to death for treason."

"Another way of saying it?" Chen Fan was still curious.

"Another theory is even more frightening. It is said that this highly sung British nursery rhyme records a legendary and cruel building sacrifice ceremony: when a building is first completed, if a living child is sealed into the building, Then his soul will forever guard the building from falling down..." Mordred stretched out his hand to Chen Fan while speaking, and his white and slender green fingers kept twisting in front of him.

However, Chen Fan was not afraid of this at all, and even wanted to laugh: "What are you, a few days ago, I had a good chat with Jack the Ripper, the serial killer in Holy Rome, and I also knew his story Whole picture, do you want to hear it?"

"Tch, isn't it the Salieri family's shitty thing? It's been known to everyone because of your bald deputy director of the Central Plains. I guess only you Central Plains people don't know about it." Maude waved his hand carelessly. Red also pointed to Beria, "If you don't believe me, just ask her."

Curiously raising his face, Chen Fan got an affirmative answer from Beria with a slight nod.

Now, he suddenly felt dull.

But soon, Chen Fan found a new way of entertainment: "But having said that, the pork this time is really raw, I guess Diarmuid will be killed if he encounters it, hahaha."

Mordred of Holy Rome looked at Chen Fan blankly after hearing this hell joke, but Beria was curious: "Who is Diarmuid?"

Chen Fan found out that Beria didn't know about Diarmuid's situation, so he immediately got excited: "He is a hero in the legend of the Holy Roman Empire. He is the most famous legendary hero in Ireland, Finn McCool. One of the most famous members of Ona Knights, and he is also Finn's most valuable friend. He is the adopted son of Angus Mac Ogg, the god of love, and he is a young hero who values ​​love, justice, and is brave and good at fighting.

At the engagement banquet between Finn, the leader of Fiona, and Princess Granny, the daughter of King Conmark, Diarmuid was forced by Princess Granny to elope with her commandments.After a lengthy 16 years on the run, he reconciled with Finn under the mediation of his adoptive father, Angus.

But Finn didn't really forgive Diarmuid.He knew that Diarmuid had been cursed to die from the wild boar that his half-brother turned into, so he deliberately created the encounter between Diarmuid and the wild boar.

Diarmuid begged Finn to heal him, as he had healed many of Fianar's knights before.Ossian and Oscar also begged Finn to save Diarmuid. They knew that as long as Diarmuid could drink water from Finn's palm, his wound would be healed.Reluctantly, Finn fetched water for the hero from the brook that was only nine paces away.But when he returned to Diarmuid with water in his hand, he remembered how his rival had eloped with Granny.The memory ignited his jealousy, so he let the water slip through his fingers.Diarmuid watched Finn's actions in pain, and he and his companions pleaded with Finn again.Diarmuid tells the leader of the Knights of Fiona that Granny has given him a commandment and that he has no choice but to elope with her.

But Finn is once again seized by jealousy, knocking over the water before Diarmuid can drink.Seeing this, Oscar knew that Finn had deliberately put Diarmuid to death, so he threatened his grandfather that if he did not save Diarmuid he would not let him leave the mountain alive.Fearing his grandson's wrath, the aged leader of Fianna went to fetch water for the third time, but this time it was too late, and Diarmuid was breathless, leaving with the last regret and endless sorrow.Oscar held his comrade's corpse and glared at Finn fiercely, cursing his grandfather, and Finn's actions made the Fiona Warriors lose the reins of the battle.

Diarmuid's death not only made Fiona members feel sad, but also let them deeply remember Finn's abandonment of this loyal subordinate, and also remembered the dark side of this always just and benevolent leader . "

"It's really miserable." Beria thought deeply, "It's understandable to be revenged, but why did he bear the curse of being killed by a wild boar, or did he become his own half-brother?"

Now Chen Fan was stuck, and looked at Mordred for help.

Sighing softly, Mordred wiped his mouth, frowned and recalled the stories he had heard: "This has to start with his life experience. Diarmuid is the son of Don, and Don is the son of Fiona. The son of Odina in the Warriors. Diarmuid's mother is Clonewt, and Finn is a close relative. When Diarmuid was born, Dunn was exiled because of a quarrel with the members of the Warriors, so love and The god of youth, Angus Mac Ogg, took the child back to Brunerborn to raise him.

Not long after, Clonewt became pregnant with another child, the father of Angus' steward, Locke Diocane.So Locke asked Dunn if he would like to adopt the child like Angus raised Diarmuid, but Dunn said that he would not let a commoner's son into the house, so Angus took him away.

One day, Finn was on the Almein Mountain in Leinster Province, and besides Donn, there were only a few poets and scholars from the Fiona Warriors, and their hunting dogs.At this time Bran Baker reminded Finn that he had promised not to stay in Almein for more than ten nights.

Finn asked his entourage where they could spend the night, and Donn replied, "Please let me lead you to Brunerborn, the residence of Dagda's son Angus, where my son is fostered."

So the group came to Brunerborn.Little Diarmuid was very much loved by Angus there.The steward's son was there that night, and the people there treated him as well as Angus had treated Diarmuid, much to Don's annoyance.

After a while, the opportunity came for him to vent his anger.Two of Finn's hounds fought over a piece of meat, and the women and civilians ran away, while others stood up and tried to pull the dogs apart.

In the chaos, the chief steward's son ran past Dong En's crotch, and Dong En pulled his knees back with all his strength, killing him immediately.To avoid exposure, Donn threw his body at the paws of two dogs.

When the commotion subsided, the steward wailed when he found his son's body, and he said to Finn, "No one in this riot tonight has suffered more than I, the only son I had, and he was killed. How will you make it up to me, Finn?"

"See if there's any dog's teeth or paws on him," said Finn, "and if there are, I'll make it up to your satisfaction."

So they examined the boy's body, which was completely free of claw marks and tooth marks.The chief steward puts a druid curse on Finn and asks him to name the murderer.

Finn wanted a chessboard and a golden basin filled with water, and saw the truth in the water mirror.He intends to decide by himself, but the supervisor is dissatisfied with this and forces him to name the murderer.When he learned that the murderer was Dong En, the chief in charge said: "It's too easy to take revenge, because his son is here, and I want to treat his son like that. If the boy can escape safely, I will forgive him."

Both the director's words and Don's behavior made Angus very angry. If Finn hadn't pulled him away, he would have knocked off Don's head.Afterwards, the chief steward returned to the scene with the druid's staff, tapped his son's body with the staff, and turned him into a magic pig without mane, ears and tail.Then the steward casts the druid's most vicious curse: "I give you a ban: you will lead Diarmuid, grandson of Odina, to death; long."

The wild boar who accepted the restraint jumped up and ran out of the wide open door.It came to be known as 'The Cursed Boar of Sliver Guillion', and it was it that ultimately led Diarmuid to his death. "

After hearing this story, Chen Fan made a conclusion: "So, a woman is a disaster."

Then he was beaten up by two beauties.

(End of this chapter)