Chapter 59: The Explorer
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"Mentor!" Seeing Hakara fall, the witches rushed forward in a panic.
"Fool! ahem......" She covered her wounds, only to feel that her lower body was completely unconscious, "Quick, go and kill that traitor for me!"
By this time, the nightingale had already escaped into the fog with Wendy.
Back at the fork in the road, she saw that Wendy's forearm had turned black in a coma, and the venom was gradually spreading, and she couldn't hesitate any longer. She gritted her teeth, lifted up the other man's sleeve, tied the upper edge of her arm tightly with a cloth band, and pulled out a handleless dagger from the sole of her shoe and stabbed it down hard.
It took half an hour for her to cut off Wendy's entire arm, take off her robe and wrap it carefully, and then pull out two straps and tie them behind her back. As long as she makes it back to the border town alive, Nanawa can keep the severed arm intact.
But...... Will you really be able to go back alive?
It took three days to come here on my own, and it only got slower to move behind people's backs. If she walked fast and accidentally slipped down the trail, she was not sure that she would be able to climb up.
Wendy's arm was still oozing blood, and it wouldn't last three or four days, but Nightingale had no choice, she couldn't leave Wendy alone—the other party was injured for herself.
"Need help?"
Hearing the sudden sound of inquiry, the nightingale unfurled the mist almost simultaneously and assumed a defensive posture.
But there was no one in front of her.
"Don't be nervous, I don't want to fight you. ”
Nightingale looked up and saw that the other party was actually floating in the air, "Who are you?"
"My name is Lightning, and I haven't been in the Mutual Aid Association for a long time, and I'm running outside every day, and it's normal for you to not know me. She pretended to smile lightly, "But I know you, the famous Nightingale, the killer of the shadows. ”
"Hakala sent you?"
"No, no, don't get me wrong," the lightning slowly fell, one foot on the ground, "I want to go with you." ”
Nightingale wondered for a moment if she had misheard, "What?"
"As you say, we should have the freedom to choose our own way of life," she paused, "I choose to follow you, it's as simple as that." ”
"For ...... What?" Nightingale had become so disillusioned with Mutual Aid that even Wendy couldn't fully believe in herself, and the girl in front of her—she was still a child, about fourteen or fifteen years old, about the same age as Nanawa. He has crisp and neat short blond hair, his face is radiant, and his words are full of confidence that does not match his age. Instead of wearing a Mutual Aid robe, she looked like a man with a set of close-fitting trousers for easy movement, a short leather coat full of pockets and patches, too old to tell the age, and two thick belts around her waist that had been picked up from nowhere.
"Because of the black machines that snort and spew white gas, which turn into stone-gray powder when touched by water, and the snow that can burst out with a thunderous sound, I want to see them. "I'm a man who aspires to be an explorer, and of course I want to go to interesting places." ”
What is the reason for this...... The nightingale was stunned, sounding unobtrusive, but the consciousness was telling herself that the other party was not lying.
"I don't understand...... If you want to be an adventurer, why did you join the Mutual Aid Society?"
"Not an adventurer, an explorer!" Lightning stressed, "I'm not like those who take money to do things. He said he was an adventurer, but in fact he was just a jackal who did any dirty work. And the explorer acts only for his interest!...... as to why he joined the Mutual Aid Society," she said with confidence, "is it not a great expedition to find the holy mountain?" but Hakhara did not understand the spirit of exploration, and she was completely obsessed with the ancient book, and related everything she found on the way to what was written in the ancient book. The stone gate that rises from the ground is nothing more than two weathered stone pillars. If she continued to look like this, she would never have found the true Holy Mountain. An explorer must be honest about everything he sees, and following the map is not what an explorer should do, this is what my father repeatedly emphasized!"
Although she really wanted to ask who her father really was to raise a daughter with such strange ideas, Nightingale knew that now was not the time for small talk, Wendy's life was in jeopardy, and since the other party had no malicious intentions, it would be good to have an extra helper.
"Is your ability to fly?"
"Uh-huh," Lightning nodded, "even if you two drag it on, you can move like the wind." ”
"I'm sorry for you," Nightingale strapped Wendy behind her with her hands and feet, and then climbed onto Lightning's back, wrapping her arms around her chest.
"Uh...... It's really heavy," the lightning gritted his teeth and slowly rose, "I think, probably, maybe, not like the wind." ”
......
The two of them alternated in this way, and when the lightning ran out of strength, the nightingale carried her through the mist. When she regained her strength, the nightingale hung on her back and let her fly forward.
It was only when both of them were exhausted and had to stop to rest that Nightingale would tentatively ask her some basic questions - such as her father, her family.
And Lightning called his father the world's greatest explorer, and his footprints traveled all over the oceans. He owned an ocean-going fleet, and the crew affectionately called him Thunder. Her mother, who died early when she was young, left few memories. During a stormy and rainy voyage, the ship ran aground and capsized, and she was washed up by the ocean current on a small island, losing contact with her father. On the island, Lightning spent nearly two months using the knowledge and skills imparted by his father, and awakened into a witch in the winter.
She then flew westward, across the Channel to the southern border of the Grey Keep, and after several rounds, she finally joined the Mutual Aid Society. She felt that if she kept exploring, she would one day meet her father again in some wonder - if he was still alive.
Nightingale doesn't get much useful information out of these conversations, and her abilities can only be used to tell if the other person is lying, not the truth of the content. In other words, as long as someone says that the sun is square and is convinced of it, the ability will also judge it to be true.
However, some information can be deduced, such as that she must have been born into a wealthy family, and that a family struggling to make ends meet could not have the leisure to go on an expedition, and that having an ocean-going fleet would be consistent with this judgment. Therefore, a wealthy businessman with a lot of money may be the true identity of Thunder. And the blonde hair of the lightning does not look like the bloodline of the kingdom continent, but more like the people of the fjord across the sea.
Wendy woke up a few times, and it took some effort for Nightingale to pour a few mouthfuls of water on her, and she quickly fell into a coma. Feeling the other party's body temperature getting lower and lower, the nightingale became more and more anxious.
Under the alternating rush of the two, the gorge trail, which originally took three days, was completed in only one and a half days. At the entrance, the horses from the prince were still tied to their place, and most of the straw heaped in front of them had been eaten.
The Nightingale carried Wendy on his back and rode towards the border town without stopping, leading the lightning bolt.
Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful!