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Chapter 158 157: [Forgotten Garden] Welcome back

Charles planned to talk with Angie while walking.

But Angie didn't buy it, and just stared at him coldly and asked, "Did Elijah and Sean go to the cemetery with you?"

"They were worried that something would happen to you, so they came to find you together..." Charles quickly explained, and put forward his thoughts to Angie, "It is also difficult to find them in this situation. You can go to Etherine's house with us to try your luck first, maybe the two of them will wait for you there."

Then, he walked to the side of Estherine, who was sitting on the ground crying in pain, and tried to pull her up with his hands, but the other party clapped his hands away violently and shouted: "Don't touch me!"

He immediately stepped back half a step, and was wondering what to do, when he heard Anji say seriously:

"I'll go find them, you take Estherin back first."

Etherine's crying stopped suddenly.While sobbing, she looked at Angie in disbelief, even stood up regardless of the pain, and threw herself directly into Angie's arms.

Angie was dumbfounded.

She glanced at Charles who was as shocked as herself in surprise, and felt that Estherine was hugging her tightly with one hand, rubbing her face vigorously in her arms while crying and saying:

"Don't go, don't go!"

"You... don't hurt anymore?" Angie choked out such a sentence after a long time.

"It hurts! Don't you leave me if it hurts!" Estherine said in an extremely excited tone, looking up at Angie with red eyes, "I want to go too!"

"Hey, wait a minute...the outside is already in chaos, don't just walk around!" Charles quickly persuaded them, "Now the village has fallen, and only candles can illuminate the white mist that is invisible to the naked eye! Without the protection of beeswax candles, all kinds of creatures will mutate in the white mist. Now there are all such mutated people and animals outside, and even those strange trees... Oh, anyway! You can't go out casually!"

"Then Elijah and Sean are more dangerous?" Angie gritted his teeth, looking at Charles with obvious hostility, "Don't stop me, I want you to go alone."

Charles was troubled.

He deliberately didn't mention the things that Elijah had conflicted with them, because he felt that these things would only make Angie feel unnecessary apologies to them.But now it seems that the biggest problem has become Angie - this usually calm girl will become less calm when it comes to her companions.

"Sorry, but it's really inconvenient for us to find them now," he gazed into Angie's eyes, and sincerely persuaded her, "It's too dangerous outside, and we don't know where they are now, so we may miss each other if we rush out to find them. We'd better meet Lauren and them first, and then go to Elijah and Sean—"

Angie's eyes gradually turned cold: "They went to the farm to find me, didn't they?"

"...Yes," Charles answered her with difficulty, and at the same time took a step towards her calmly, "They didn't find you, they will definitely realize that you are not there, and then they will go back to the village or Etherine's house to check the situation, so let's go first—"

"You are too optimistic!"

Angie interrupted him suddenly.She lost her temper in a rare way, with obvious anger on her face: "The farm is full of animals. If the situation outside is as you said, these animals will also mutate in the white mist, but they will just go in and look for me regardless of safety! Get out of the way! I don't have time to reason with you!"

At this moment, she was not only worried about the safety of the two of them, but also cared about Elena's situation—since Cesar had deliberately mentioned Elena to her, I'm afraid this girl was in danger.

Seeing that Angie had made up his mind, Charles quickly stopped in front of Angie, and before he could speak, he saw her dragging Iseline and running a few steps aside.

He walked forward quickly, stopped her again, and said loudly resolutely: "If you really want to go, then I will go with you-but we will have to wait until we get back to the ground. I will take you out along the way I came, and I will explain other things to you on the way, okay?"

Angie's expression didn't soften in any way.She noticed the charred lips of the other party, and knew that the other party must have experienced a lot of things, but he said, "I want to go with her to find Sean and Elijah", so there was a high probability that he was lying to her.

Elijah and Sean are just her companions.Originally, we just met by chance. If the outside is really as dangerous as he said, why does this Charles go to accompany her to find someone regardless of his own safety?
But there is no point in continuing the stalemate like this - she really doesn't know how to get out, and doesn't know whether these tunnels lead to the farm, so she can only temporarily choose to trust Charles.

Thinking of this, Anji adjusted his expression, pretended to let go of his guard, and said calmly: "Lead the way, please."

However, Charles' expression became a little complicated.

He said good-bye lightly, turned around and walked in the tunnel, led the way with a candle in his hand, and said with a heavy heart:

"Perhaps you don't think I'm trustworthy? I'm not going to defend myself, but if you insist on going to them, I'll go with you—I'm just worried that you'll not only miss out on them, but put yourself in unnecessary danger, that's all."

"Even if we didn't know each other before?"

Angie led Iseline to walk behind Charles, looked around, and found that this was a tunnel going up, and Iseline kept her head down and followed Charles closely, probably because she was afraid of stepping on the trap again.

"Well, it's not important, is it?" Charles looked back at Angie, with a hint of bitterness in his bright smile, "I want to get out alive, but this doesn't conflict with my desire to save the person in front of me. Although I claim to be more of an adventurer, I also have the pride of being a knight. If you don't even save people who can be saved, aren't you just a selfish coward?"

"In my opinion, selfish cowards are normal." Angie said calmly.

"But, you're obviously not?" Charles looked back at Angie as he walked, and smiled again, and then saw the latter say with a blank expression: "We don't know each other well, don't you think it's too quick to draw conclusions?"

"Well... But your behavior can already explain a lot of things, I think I'm quite accurate in judging people~"

As he said this, he looked at Angie holding Iselin's hand again, and asked curiously: "It feels like the relationship between you two has suddenly become very good? Did something happen?"

"Obviously a lot happened, are you blind!"

Estherine scolded in disgust, but her tone was light, as if her body was still a little weak.

"Oh, yes, hehe."

Charles smiled awkwardly, his eyes drifted involuntarily to their injured arms, and then he heard Angie ask, "Did you not encounter any traps when you came?"

"No? But just now I heard a rumbling sound and a strong shock. Did you trigger some kind of trap?"

"Well, I almost died."

Anji said lightly, and saw the charred lips of the other party again, after thinking about it, he asked, "What's the matter with your mouth?"

"Haha, it was burned by a candle," he said with a smile, his tone and steps were brisk, "but it doesn't hurt much now, it's nothing compared to your hands~
Seeing that he didn't seem to take the previous conflicts to heart at all, Anji hesitated for a while, and forced a faint smile back at him.

During the time they were chatting, Estherine's pace gradually became more natural.She glanced at the hand she held with Anji, squeezed the other's hand slightly harder, and whispered at the same time:
"Your words are quite good..."

"Which one?"

Angie asked, seeing Estherine lower her head slightly, she whispered embarrassingly:
"It's just...we won't touch each other's wounds when we walk together...that sentence."

"Oh, we can make a match, right?" She couldn't help laughing.

"Don't you keep talking so scary?!" Estherine jumped up on the spot, "What exactly did you go through to become such a character?"

"Haha, that would be a long story."

Angie smiled, and then saw Charles, who was walking in front, turn his head to look at them again, and interjected with a smile: "Hey, now the three of us can get three arms together~"

"Can you skip this topic, hell!"

Etherine was very emotional.When she turned her head, she saw Angie's expression of holding back a smile, and angrily accused the other party on the spot: "You still have the nerve to laugh!"

"I think what he said is right..." Anji smiled so much that she rolled her eyes, and deliberately said in a coaxing tone, "Little sister, don't be afraid, the brothers and sisters who have lost their arms will protect you together."

"I don't think you two can do it at all," Estherine was not fooled at all, and looked at them with disgust on her face, "Although you seem to be very big... But here, I am the oldest, right?!"

Angie and Charles glanced at each other, then laughed together, and said to Etherine in unison: "Well, you are the biggest~"

Estherine felt even more helpless.She decided not to pursue the two guys who suddenly united front, and took the initiative to bring up the business: "So Charles, how is it going outside now?"

"Well... there's good news and bad news."

Speaking of this, he immediately restrained his expression, and explained to them while walking ahead and leading the team: "First of all, we got the coffin very smoothly, and it shouldn't be a problem to go outside the village by boat.

It's just strange that there is no body in the coffin, and judging from the current situation, it is difficult for us to take this thing to the other side of the river.The whole village was on the verge of falling when I came down, and it must be worse now.

If we want to go out, we have to take this silver plate and avoid monsters along the way.These monsters include not only mutated villagers, but also some animals from the forest, so it is almost an impossible task. "

Iselin couldn't help but exclaimed: "How did the village become like this?! Isn't this more dangerous than the tunnel!!"

"Well, so I don't want you to act alone..." Charles said hesitantly, then looked at Angie, his expression became firm again: "If I must go to them, I hope I can go with you."

Angie was silent for a long time.She really wanted to believe this warm-hearted boy, but she was afraid that this was just a wrong choice she made to escape reality.

If it wasn't for Iserine's ability to draw a magic circle, she would definitely let Charles take Iserine away, and go find Elijah and Sean by herself.But in order to increase the success rate, she had to choose to drag this girl who trusted herself into the water, and she had to persuade herself, "This is Estherine who followed her voluntarily, and everyone has to be responsible for their own choices."

She was afraid that some of her choices would lead to irreversible consequences.

If...if she could use her abilities here, everything would be different.

Thinking of this, Anji exerted force unconsciously, closed his eyes, and carefully recalled the feeling of using the ability.

But the familiar and warm light did not respond for a long time, as if this inexplicable ability disappeared again inexplicably.

This has been the case since she came to this Knowlson.Angie couldn't help becoming irritable, and walked on the road expressionlessly, while Etherine and Charles secretly looked at her from time to time, and neither of them spoke again.

Soon, this silent journey was broken by two footsteps running towards here.

The moment they heard the voice, the three of them stopped in place and looked warily at the fork in the road not far ahead.

Angie immediately pulled Etherine behind her, lowered her voice and asked Charles, "Do you have a weapon?"

"Only the knife you gave me..." Charles said, took out the knife and walked to the front, looking warily at the dark tunnel in front of him, "but I think I can try calling out."

Angie didn't answer immediately.Hearing the sound of those two footsteps approaching gradually, she was heartbroken and shouted loudly over there:
"Elia!! Sean!!! Is it you?!"

There was a sudden pause in footsteps.

Then, the two footsteps suddenly accelerated, and at the same time there were two familiar voices:
"Master!! It's me!!" "Angie!! Are you there?!!"

Listening to their calls, at this moment, the stone in Anji's heart finally fell to the ground.

She smiled brightly, watching the bright candlelight appear at the end of the fork, and enthusiastically waved and shouted to the two people rushing over:
"Here here!!"

The moment they saw Angie, the worries that Elijah and Sean had kept in their hearts disappeared instantly.

They happily ran over, smiled and waved in response to Angie, and then the smiles froze on their faces—because Angie's bloody half arm was so obvious!

They hurried to Angie's side, and Elijah pushed Iselin aside, and asked anxiously while feeling distressed: "Master, what happened to your hand? Who did it?"

"Hey, it's going to be late all day, so this is the only thing I can't get through, right?"

Yesselin yelled and squeezed back unconvinced.After Angie became happy, her emotions were greatly affected, so she hugged Angie's remaining arm, and at the same time pointed at the two teammates who returned suddenly: "Let's listen to the business first! Anyway, our arms are just like this, so we won't come back!"

Seeing her haughty appearance, Elijah shouted angrily on the spot: "You—"

"Okay, Estherine is right, let's talk as we walk."

Angie reluctantly interrupted Elijah's momentum of wanting to quarrel.At the same time, she looked at him and Sean carefully, and found that the two were not injured, so she laughed again and said softly to them:

"Welcome back."

Elijah and Sean were taken aback for a moment, then laughed brightly, and responded in unison:
"Ok!"

　Posted very late today...

　　Because I changed the plot of this chapter a lot. Before, it felt logical and inconsistent with the characters. Now it is much better, and then the number of words has soared from more than 2000 to more than 4000...

　　And because my mind was full of unfinished manuscripts, I took out my mobile phone from time to time and frantically corrected them, so I forgot to print my off-duty card (fortunately, I found it in time), and I took the subway again to pass the station.

　　I can probably be regarded as a hard-working person (smile bitterly), and I hope that one day more people will see this place.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)