"Big brother, when you go to look for your companions, can you help me find my parents along the way?" Jessica looked at Roland expectantly.

"Absolutely." Roland stroked the little girl's hair and asked her softly, "But I don't know what your parents' names are, what their characteristics are, and how can I win their trust." ”

"Mom's name is Anna, Dad's name is Hendrick, my dad has a magic lyre, playing it can change the terrain to cast a house, this shelter was built by Dad with a magic piano, Dad also helped Lord Hormonsk build many bigger shelters, but there are more and more maniacs in the city, Dad said that the bigger the shelter, the more it will become the target ......of the siege of the fanatics, but it is not as safe as our home" Jessica patted her head, as if she remembered something from her father's advice, and smiled at Roland: "Big brother, Wait, I'll show you something and I'll be right back!" ”

Jessica turned and ran into the house, as if rummaging for something, and soon returned to the window and handed out a music box: "This is a musical instrument made by my father, and when he and his mother hear the music coming out of it, they will know that you are my friend." ”

Roland took the music box, opened the lid, and a simple but beautiful melody played, which made him lose his mind......

After listening to the music repeat twice, Roland closed the lid and put the beautiful toy in a storage bag, thinking that Jessica's father would make a music box and a magical lyre, and that he was probably a high-ranking bard, and that he should be much better at self-preservation than Jessica's mother.

"Jessica, there are no clues about your father's whereabouts yet, I plan to go to find your mother first, you just said she went to the clinic?"

"Dr. Yusefka's clinic is the milky white building at the end of the street, and the doctor is a kind aunt who wants her and her mother to be well." Jessica reached out of the window to show Roland the way.

"Alright, I'll go to the clinic to find your mother, and ask the female doctor named Yusevka about the whereabouts of my companion." Roland makes a decision.

"There are a lot of cruel fanatics lurking in the streets, you must be careful, I will pray for you at home, and I wish you a safe return." The little girl pressed her hands crossed to her chest and lowered her eyes, not knowing which god she was praying to.

Roland waved goodbye to Jessica and turned to walk in the direction of Yusefka's clinic. As he moved away from the "lamp of reason", the psionic light shining on him gradually dimmed, and when his body completely melted into the darkness, the rabid dog that had followed him all the way finally couldn't resist the bloodthirsty urge and howled and pounced.

Roland turned to face the pathetic creature, activated his "Divine Flight", and took a step forward. Even though it was only one step, the impact beyond the speed of sound was enough to create a violent shock wave, and the squeezed air in front of it emitted a sharp sonic boom, like an invisible cannonball blasting towards the oncoming rabid dog.

The rabid dog was blasted backwards in the air by the shockwave, and fell into the roadside gutter with a long wail.

The air flow calmed down, and the dust that was blown up into the sky by the shock wave slowly fell. Roland dusted off his shoulders and was about to turn away, when the wail in the gutter suddenly became sharp and high-pitched, and the rabid dog that he had shaken away seemed to be suffering so cruelly that it let out such a terrified scream.

Roland frowned slightly, walked to the side of the road with light steps, looked down at the deep gutter, and a foul smell came to his nose. The gutter is like a pot of boiling porridge at this time, the sewage and silt are churning violently, and the rabid dog is struggling desperately in this extremely dirty and smelly "porridge", but whenever its front paws pick up the ditch wall and try to climb out of the gutter, it will always be pulled by a group of wriggling creatures under it, and it will be pulled back to the gutter again and again, and let out a desperate wail.

In order to see the situation at the bottom of the ditch, Roland raised his hand to shoot a "light technique", this simple 0 ring magic technique is like a torch, and the light emitted illuminates the gutter.

Roland stared down with the help of the magic light, quickly covered his mouth, retched for a while, and almost vomited the overnight meal.

The creatures that dragged and bitten rabid dogs in the gutter, he thought they were mutant mice, and only then did he see clearly in the light that they were a huge maggots with white flowers. If that's all there is to it, it won't make him sick, these maggots are all five feet long, a puffy face grows at the front end of the white fat body, and the contours of the facial features still retain human features, there are men and women, old people and children, all crowded in the stinky gutter, desperately squirming their bodies to squeeze away their companions and pounce on the rabid dog, opening their mouths to bite and gnaw on flesh and blood.

The rabid dog was besieged by a large group of maggots, tried several attempts to escape, and finally gave up resistance, and its cry gradually became weaker, and it was suppressed by the sound of gnawing in the gutter, and was gnawed into a white bone in less than two minutes.

Roland raised his left hand, the scorching divine energy gathered in the palm of his hand, hesitated for a moment, then slowly lowered his palm, sighed, and turned to leave.

It is miserable enough for a good person to live like a maggot, and he can neither bear nor disdain to kill these maggots.

Walking along the side of the road, Roland glanced into the gutter from time to time, and realized that the gutter was the most densely populated and active community in this empty city—if the gutter could be a community, the maggots could be a person.

Maggots may also have their own unique social ecology, and with their intelligence, which is so degraded that even wild beasts can only understand the three things of eating, excreting, and mating, they may be more pleasant to live in the gutter than they are as humans. But as an intelligent higher primate, Roland couldn't help but feel sad to see his own kind degenerate and degenerate to such a point.

The prosperous, wealthy, and hospitable dream city of Akron in "Two Dreams" probably only exists in the author's imagination, and the real Akron in front of him is just the embodiment of the nightmare, what is the origin of the evil god who created this nightmare city and many desolate creatures, and what is it thinking in its crazy head?

Roland didn't know the answer, he only felt that time was pressing, and no matter what, he had to find his companions before they degenerated into "madmen" or even "maggots", and took them and Jessica with him to leave this nightmare city.

Roland hurried forward in the blood-colored moonlight of Akron, following the direction Jessica had pointed out for a full hour, and the street that circled the city had not yet seen an end, and just as he began to suspect that he was going the wrong way, a milky white two-story building appeared in front of him, and a banner with a snake staff on it still hung in the window, which was the "Yussevka Clinic" that Jessica described to him.