Chapter 8: The Tavern's Story and Face

Cherki's family lived in a dilapidated manor on the outskirts of the port district, and it is said that he bought the fairly decent courtyard from a wealthy merchant who was anxious to move to the aristocratic district.

Although this place is a little shabby, it is quiet and comfortable, and even because it is built on the edge of a sea cliff, it has a bit of a "sea view villa" feeling.

But this place was better than anything else, except that it was too far from the city, and every time Cherky wanted to go into the city, he had to drag his crippled leg for hours.

On that snowy night a few years ago, Cherky was on his way home from the tavern when he met what he said to be a very strange thing.

"I was so drunk that I don't know exactly when, but I remember that the moon hung in the sky so brightly, big and round, like... It's like that's big white N... Hahaha cough cough... Ay! ”

As he drank his wine, he described the situation vividly, laughed as he spoke, and then choked on the wine in his mouth, coughed for a long time before he recovered, and then his face showed a look of fear that did not seem to be fake.

"When I walked to the blacksmith shop on the edge of the city, I was violently blown by the cold wind of the night, and then the strength of the wine came up, and I hurriedly tried to find a wall to support and vomit for a while, so as not to vomit in a trance, and sink into what I vomited, do you understand?"

The old man grabbed the wine glass with both hands, a trace of cold sweat overflowed from his forehead, and the words in his mouth seemed to be very reluctant to look back on the original scene.

"Hey... Blessed by the fog girl, I didn't know which evil god I hit at the time (the saying of the Western Realm, through "which door of mold was poured"), there are so many small alleys next to the avenue, why did I choose that one......"

As he said this, Cherky took the glass and poured it as if he had been brave enough, and when he put it down again, the strange and bizarre experience finally poured out of his mouth.

"I was leaning against the wall and throwing up when I suddenly felt something creaking in the darkness of the alley, and at first I thought it was a rat, you know, it's all over the place......

At first I didn't pay attention to it, but soon I felt that something was wrong, because instead of getting quieter, the sound started to get louder.

But I still didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time, and I was drinking - oh my God! Misty Girl bless, I can't believe I really did that, I yelled at the alley with the strength of the wine, trying to scare the sneaky little things away! ”

Cherki shook his head violently, as if trying to shake his absurd behavior out of his mind.

Then, he took a sip of the wine in his glass, regained his courage and continued to tell Xue Hua.

"As soon as I had finished that roar, the crunching in the depths of the alley stopped, and I began to think that I had won and that I had really driven the away!

As a result, when I was about to walk out of the alley after vomiting, I inadvertently glanced out of the corner of my eye, and I saw that in the depths of the alley, there was a woman with a blue light floating in the middle of the alley, staring at me tightly with a pair of dead fish-like eyes! ”

At this point, Cherky was stunned, as if the shock caused by that scene at that time has not dissipated to this day.

Xue Hua didn't bother him either, judging from his reaction when he told the story, what this guy told still had some credibility.

Although he may not understand what exactly he is seeing.

After a while, the bartender refilled the old man's glass, and the sound of the wine being poured into the glass awakened Cherki's frozen mind, and he finally realized that he had left the terrible alley and sat down in a warm and cozy tavern.

"Ahem... I, um... I was terrified, really scared, and that little bit of drunkenness ran away when I saw that dead face... I wondered, maybe I ran into a demonic monster that sneaked into the city from outside the city? Then my old Cherki is destined to die here today!

But in the middle of my thoughts, the woman's face didn't pounce on me immediately, it just floated quietly in the middle of the alley, staring at me with a pair of straight eyes.

How many seconds have passed? Maybe a few minutes? Or maybe it's a few hours, and I don't have any sense of time anymore.

All in all, the creaking sound that had stopped before suddenly started again, and this time I heard it clearly, and it was coming from the darkness not far behind that face!

The sound woke me up, and I thought I should run right away! But the terrifying and weird scene at that time made my intact leg feel like it was filled with lead, and I couldn't move my step at all!

I struggled for a long time before I could barely get a little grunt out of my throat, but it was as low as a fly or a mosquito......"

Cherki's hands trembled again, and he grabbed the glass in his hand and tried to take a sip, but he spilled more than he poured into his mouth.

"I... Ay! For a moment, I felt like I was going to die, and it felt like my body wasn't my own at all......"

Saying this, the old man suddenly laughed.

"But I'm not dead, I'm still sitting here, I'm still alive, and I can gulp this damn bitter algae wine!"

Hearing his words, the bartender frowned, and wanted to come over and teach this old fellow a good lesson that he couldn't just talk about, but when he came to him, he found that the old harpooner, who had spent half his life on the sea hunting ship, actually shed tears in his eyes that mixed with happiness, fear, and ecstasy for the rest of his life.

The sea hunters who dare to go on the sea hunting ship are all guys who have made up their iron determination to risk their lives to beg for food, and in a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are outlaws.

can scare an old sea hunter who has been the first mate on a sea hunting ship for most of his life into this virtue today, which shows how frightened old Cherki was at that time.

"You... And finally, how... Hmm......" Xue Hua asked the old man with some curiosity while signaling the bartender not to care, but at the end of the question, he didn't know how to speak.

"What? How did you survive? I don't know, I really don't know, Misty Girl bless, the thing finally moved slowly towards me, it had a salty smell of seaweed, and a very strong rancid smell, whether it looked or smelled, it didn't look like a living person anyway.

However, all I saw was the blue glowing face, and just as it was about to reach the mouth of the alley, a torch suddenly came from behind me!

Misty girl, I've never loved those damn harbor patrols so much in my life... Even if the robbers took all the money I had on me that night, who was already paralyzed with fright... But they did happen to save my life.

Because that face, that damn face! The moment the members of the Harbor Patrol appeared at the mouth of the alley, they suddenly disappeared from front of me! ”