Chapter Thirty-Eight Annie's New Friend
"Okay, put this aside in advance." Panis waved his hand indifferently: "You were sober forty-seven years ago, right?"
"Yeah, that's right." Xiaolu nodded vigorously: "I'm bored, so I count every year."
"As for Anne." Panis turned his gaze to the little banshee who was sitting next to the deer, and was curiously poking around the deer's ribs: "Can you still remember how long you woke up?"
"Ah? What?" Annie quickly retracted her fingers that were playing tricks and put on a serious position: "Ah, ah, I wake up, okay, I don't know. I spend most of the time sleeping, sometimes for several months, so I can't calculate the exact time myself. However, I guess it's fifty or sixty years, and it won't be longer."
"Fifty or sixty years." Panis nodded thoughtfully, touching his chin and silently.
"What's wrong with Penis?" Katherine asked with concern: "What did you think of?"
"I've said it before." Panis said: "In the past seventy or eighty years, the undead have recovered their minds much more."
"Yeah, said," Katherine said in agreement: "The indulgence and enthusiasm have told me the news before."
"But, have you heard of where the undead rage?" Panis asked, "Have anyone ever heard of a large-scale event like the undead war started by the corpse witch before?"
"Huh?" Several ladies looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: "You have never heard of this. In historical records, every time such conscious undead appears, it is indeed accompanied by disasters, so people are so afraid of conscious undead. But it is indeed as you said. The undead who has been concentratedly recovering in recent decades has not done anything terrible. We have met Anne and Little Deer, which are not scary at all. Instead, they are very cute. Is it because we are very lucky?"
"I'm afraid I can't just explain it with luck." Catherine unconsciously tapped the sword in her hand: "I really can't figure it out. Maybe these sensible undead happen to be particularly kind."
"Maybe." Panis looked weird, as if he was full of worries, and reluctantly said, "Maybe what you just said is the correct answer, no one can tell."
"Is that true?" The three girls in the adventure group injected Panis with strange eyes. After getting familiar with him, they easily discovered his abnormality. Catherine couldn't help but ask, "Are you okay? Is there anything difficult?"
"No, I'm fine." Panis woke up and grinned, "I was just thinking, after solving the problem, I secretly cooperated with Xiaolu. I developed this place into a tourist location, and every time I brought a few beauties to visit, before this time, Xiaolu would manipulate the skeleton to jump out of the bone pile, and then... hehehehehehehehehehehehe..."
"Idiot." The girls rolled their eyes at Panis neatly, but they all knew that he was deliberately changing the subject, so they did not have an excuse to pursue him for being extra stupid. They continued to ask Xiaolu: "Then do you remember the signs when you woke up for the first time? Or, do you have any special feelings?"
"No." Xiaolu shook her skull and said in a positive tone: "It just seemed like she woke up in a sleep and suddenly woke up. But when she woke up, she saw my own body and realized that she was dead."
"So, too, it seemed like I suddenly woke up." Anne stretched her little head to the deer and fought for Catherine's sight: "And it took me many years to realize that I was dead."
"What's there to be proud of?" Xiaolu shouted dissatisfiedly: "That only means you are slow, you are a slow fool."
"Hmph." Annie said with her waist crossed, "Only a little guy like you would make noise about such trivial things. I am already an adult. I won't bother with you."
Annie's words became the lead to igniting the war, so there was no doubt that the war broke out. The two undead quickly twisted together and rolled around on the ground. The adults did not stop the communication between the two children. Everyone could see the meaning behind Annie's actions. Facing a child who had been lonely for many years and was afraid for many years, Annie was clumsy in her own way to get the deer's attention away from the sad past. So no one interfered and let them fight together.
"Did you wake up suddenly?" Catherine murmured and said, "There must be some inducement that caused the same sudden awakening of a few undeads to occur in a short period of time."
"It's actually very obvious." Panis sighed and interrupted Catherine's entanglement: "The sudden appearance of multiple intelligent undeads all appeared in the last seventy or eighty years. If it takes some time from the incident to the actual impact of the undead, then we can push this time forward for another thirty or forty years."
"The disaster of the return of the dead?" Catherine's face changed, she stood up suddenly, stared at Pannis and said, "It actually has something to do with the disaster of the return of the dead?"
"In fact, some people have noticed this phenomenon a long time ago," said Panis. "And some people have linked this phenomenon to the tragic battle a hundred years ago. They believe that it was precisely because the door of death opened and the power of the soul fragment polluted by the energy of death that entered the Yara world through the door of death, which gradually interfered with the undead in the Yara world, causing new changes to the undead."
"Pennis is right." Vivian raised his head from the recording work and said, "I heard the president and the others mention it by chance before, but it was two years ago, and I only heard a few words, which is not something worth paying attention to, so I forgot it. As soon as Pannis said, I remembered that someone really paid attention to it, or at least he had paid attention to these changes."
"Then this kind of change..." Lina felt a little fascinated when she heard it, and then she reacted and asked, "Is this kind of change good or bad?"
"No one knows." Panis spread his hands and said irresponsibly: "Theoretically, it should be a good thing for the undead to slowly start to produce orderly individuals from disorderly groups. However, based on the experience of several events a long time ago, no good things happened, so the strong men who were paying attention were also observing and were not prepared to make a decision immediately. Otherwise, you think that you were hiding Anne in and out of the Adventurer Guild with pendants, and Odin would not be able to sense the existence of the undead? Don't underestimate the perception ability of the demigod."
"So that's how it is." Catherine's previous questions and doubts finally got answers, and she suddenly said with great enlightenment: "No wonder, I finally understand. In other words, at this stage, the powerful demigods have acquiesced to the existence of this wise undead?"
"Just observation is not considered acquiescence." Panis corrected: "And not all. Although most demigods and legendary powerhouses only observe the wisdom of the undead from the perspective of bystanders, there are still some radicals who insist on destroying them, so you should still be careful in the future. To be honest... just don't let Annie run on the street and the grass in her front yard at home."
"Well, as long as you don't see it directly, it's okay, right?" Catherine said happily: "I understand. When there is no one in the future, you can let Anne get some breath in the backyard of the Western Restaurant. It's great."
"But what are those people observing?" Vivian was very sensitive to research and asked, "Is it harmless to observe whether each of these intelligent undeads is harmless? It's not that simple."
"Yes, it's not that simple." Panis sighed: "They are more judging through observation and judging that these spiritual undeads do not have any attacks or killings. After all, those spiritual undeads from hundreds of years ago will always start wars for power, desires, or other things. As long as they give them a chance, they will create a great crisis. Now it suddenly becomes like this. They always have to know the reason and then make other judgments through this reason."
"Is the reason? I think it's related to Lord Neli." Catherine mentioned Neli, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she said in depression: "I heard from the legend that Lord Neli used his body as a container to trap the soul fragments and then self-destruct, and died with the soul fragments. It must be that the will of the soul fragments will only affect those kind-hearted undeads, and deliberately avoid those evil souls."
"Maybe, everything is just a guess." At this moment, Panis looked up at the sky a little lost. After a while, he said: "Okay, there has been too much time left. I don't know what will happen after passing through the soul tunnel. It will take two or three hours to get into the night. We must speed up and prepare to set off now."
"You, you, are you leaving?" I don't know when the two little undead stopped fighting and sat together again and were whispering intimately. Suddenly hearing Panis's words, the little deer said in a daze: "I'm leaving now? Can't you stay for a while?"
Annie secretly patted Xiaolu's hand, jumped over and said, "Sisters, and Brother Panis, I want to stay here to accompany Xiaolu for a while. Can you pick me up again in a while?"
"Oh?" Katherine looked at Anne with a smile, and asked interestingly, "What's the reason?"
"She has been here alone for so many years, so she is so lonely." Anne whispered: "I want to accompany her and leave her happy memories, even if it's only a while."
"So have you ever thought of a better way?" Catherine touched Anne's head and asked, "For example, inviting your new friend to live with her, so that you can stay with her all the time?"
"Huh?" The two little undead made a surprise voice at the same time, and asked in disbelief: "Is this really possible?"
"Why can't it?" Catherine asked back, stop teasing them anymore, and said with a smile: "But it's not now, you two should play here for a while. We have to go into the valley of the altar to solve the problem. When the trouble is solved, we will come out to pick you up and go home together."
Chapter completed!