Chapter 21 Live or Die
"We're meeting again, little girl." Lina leaned against the wall engraved with magic circles, looking at Betty in a miserable state with a cold expression, and said indifferently: "What about me, in theory, is here to save you, but after saying a few words to you, I ran away crying and threw my body to me, so whether to save you or not is up to me to decide."
"You are different from when you were on it just now. Strange, this is what they said. Did someone suddenly change?" Even though he saw the miserable Betty, Eva's expression was still calm and her voice did not fluctuate at all, like a machine without emotion: "Now, Lina is no longer in your body, but has become another soul? Has the humans in the Quaternary era mastered the technology of directly replacing the soul?"
"We are special, not souls." Lina snorted, not denying that she had just replaced someone secretly. She leaned against the wall and said calmly: "That coward is an idiot. I can't stand it when I see such a scene? It's ridiculous. I should throw her onto the battlefield in the Third Age. Then she will know that when the intelligent creatures are crazy, they can do anything terrible. A timid person like her can't survive on the battlefield for a day. Humph, I shouldn't help her control her body, so I threw her there and forced her to face it myself."
"But you still worry about her, so even if you say that, you will help her." Eva said very directly: "And if you want to force her to face it yourself, you are actually caring about her for her own good."
"Who will care about her or not?" Lina said, turning her head and saying, "What does it have to do with me if she will die in the future? I didn't rely on her to exist. I just wanted to see if she continued to do such stupid things with that Catherine. What kind of results will be obtained in the end? If she doesn't care about her now, she might not be able to see it, so I helped her control her body."
"Is that?" Eva blinked in confusion, unable to figure out what Lina was thinking, and finally could only throw her doubts aside and continue to ask, "What are you going to do now? Are you helping this injured woman?"
"Hmph." Lina snorted heavily. Her shoulders were pressing against the wall, changing from leaning to upright. She still walked to the altar with her hands in her chest, and looked calmly at the little girl who could only be considered a pile of slowly squirming muscles in front of her. She moved the iron ring that fixed her head and took off the metal ring from her mouth. She released her head, and at the same time released a light green magic technique. With the assistance of this magic technique obviously from the forest and the life magic, the blood oozing out of the little girl's muscles condensed again. After doing all this, Lina said lightly: "It's very painful, little girl, I can imagine the feeling in your heart now, pain and despair, um, anger and hatred, which is exactly what this ritual pursues. I have to say. Although they are semi-dead, the ritual was very good."
Betty's head was freed and immediately shaking due to physical pain, but the shaking neck pulled the damaged muscles, causing her to suffer greater pain, making her relatively slightly more complete face twisted due to pain. Lina just hugged her arms and looked coldly. It was not until she started to hit the altar with the back of her head in pain that she waved her hand and released another light green magic trick. It temporarily relieved Betty's pain. Seeing Betty immediately calmed down and did not dare to move again, Lina continued: "Now you know the pain, lie down and don't move casually. Now, I said, listen, when I asked the question, agree, you open your mouth three times, disagree, and then close your mouth without moving. If you don't know if you agree, then open your mouth and don't move. Now, do you understand?"
Betty slowly opened and closed her mouth, indicating that she had understood. Lina nodded with satisfaction and asked, "I don't know when that beast dug up your eyes. I think it should be very early. He shouldn't be completely crazy at the beginning, so he was a little afraid of your eyes. But these have nothing to do with it. What I want to ask is, do you know how serious your injury is?"
Betty moved his mouth and signaled that he knew that although this action was still painful, with the blessing of magic, the pain was already slightly more painful. Lina's mouth showed a sarcastic smile and said with a sneer: "It was done perfectly. By detailed description of the sacrifice, it can increase the fear and despair of the sacrifice. I'm afraid this was taught by the half-dead spirits. I don't think that beast could come up with such an effective way to torture. Oh, this is not a question. You don't need to answer, you can close your mouth. I know you don't know. The second question below is good. I can tell you clearly that Lina can save you, the one who just cried and talked to you. No, no, that's not me. There is no need to explain these. You just know that she can save you. So, do you want her to save you?"
Betty's mouth opened and closed a few times, and couldn't wait to express his thoughts of being rescued. But Lina said leisurely: "Don't rush to answer first. You will make a decision after listening to me. I mainly want to introduce you to the future. Compared to you, you know that it is almost impossible to completely cure such a serious injury. Even if it is cured, it will leave some remaining symptoms. I think it is better to explain it to you in advance. First, we have picked up your legs. You are lucky. The temperature outside freezes your legs, so they are very well preserved. However, you did not treat the wound in time, and the breaking time is too long. Even if you take it back, the leg will be relatively useless.
The force, reflected in your walking posture, is that one leg is limping. Secondly, the bones in your arm are broken too thoroughly. Lina will take ten hours of surgery to barely recover. During the operation, you will feel pain. Even if it is cured, your arm will be sore in the cold and humid environment in the future. Thirdly, your tongue can make it grow again, but the tongue cartilage inside cannot be restored, unless I use the broken limb to regenerate. To be honest, Lina can be used, but after use, it will fall into a period of weakness for several years. This is fatal to adventurers, so it cannot be used on you. In other words, you will be confused in your life in the future."
"Okay, after talking about these lifelong sequelae, let's talk about temporary ones. I've seen your eyes. Because the time is still short and the magic equipment has been processed automatically in time, it can still be restored. However, because your previous eyes were completely damaged, it takes three years to make the newborn's eyes grow after recovery. Therefore, during these three years, you must keep blinding your eyes and not see any light, otherwise the light will burn your newborn's eyes and it will be really helpless. In other words, you have to be a blind person for three years, even more careful than a real blind person."
"Then it's the muscles in your front body, which is also a big problem. Many of your muscles have been completely cut off. Lina's magic can regenerate your muscles, but the new muscles are very slender and in their original form. Therefore, the front of your body will become bumpy and uneven, even on your face. This situation may not last for a few years, more than ten years, or even decades. In other words, you are no longer the most beautiful Betty in the town, but become Betty as weird as a monster. Although it can be recovered in the end, the recovery time is unknown."
"I think you must know these things in advance. It is better to make a decision after knowing them." Lina still put her hands on her chest and snorted coldly, "Don't get it wrong. I just don't want the person I have worked hard to save. In a few days, I committed suicide because I couldn't bear the mental pressure caused by these disabilities. It would be a waste of time."
Betty was stunned. When she saw hope of rescue, she never considered whether she could be cured or what would become after curing. The only thing in her heart was the desire to survive. But Lina's words calmed down. When the desire to survive, all kinds of negative thoughts continued to emerge from her mind one by one. Disability, disfigurement, lifelong pain, and every thought was like a hammer, hitting her heart hard. Although her open mouth could be closed with a little force, she could never do such a simple action. The thought of dying that kept arisen in her heart when she was cruelly tortured before rose again. Perhaps death was the best result.
"How is it, have you hesitated?" Lina said coldly with a smile on her lips, "It's better to die, you don't have to live in a terrifying nightmare every night, you don't have to endure the pain that you shouldn't have to endure, you don't have to be inferior for your own ugliness. As long as you die, you can be completely relieved, right? Actually, I also think so. If you choose to die, Lina won't have to spend a lot of magic to save you. This is good for everyone, isn't it?"
"Ka, kha, kha." Betty's throat made a faint sound, not from the vocal cords, but from the sound that made the muscles tense because he wanted to speak too much. Lina said as if she didn't hear it, "However, that beast tortured you so much, and in the end she just wanted to die. If you really died like this, would you feel that he had fulfilled his wish? Well, this is a bit regretful. And there is another question. An old man almost lost the courage to live after hearing that his only daughter might have suffered misfortune. In just half a day, he was like he was a few decades old. I wonder if he would be sad after hearing that his daughter could survive, but he still chose to die. Or, will he still have a chance to continue to be sad?"
Chapter completed!