Chapter 23: Lina's Achievements
"Click, click", heavy footsteps kept echoing at Chester's home. McVillin, the liaison officer of the Bailong clan, and the mayor of the town, had already returned, but Lao Dake refused to leave and insisted on waiting here for the end of treatment so that his daughter could be brought home. Several people persuaded him to leave, and could only force him to pull him into a bedroom outside the basement, let him wait outside. After all, there is a stove in the upper space, which can be warmer. Even if Lao Dake got into the room, he couldn't sit still, and kept spinning in the room, and the wooden floor with heavy steps kept making creaking sounds.
Time passed little by little, and the three moons rose from the horizon, crossed the dark sky, and slowly fell from the other end. A white dawn began to appear on the edge of the dark night sky. Unconsciously, the night had passed and another morning came.
As the murderer, Chester was also taken from the basement to the ground. He was now curled up in a corner of the room, holding his head and falling into a semi-coma. His legs were bruised and swollen at the broken bones, twisting abnormally, and looked quite miserable. However, as long as he thought about what he had done with his own hands, no one present would sympathize with his experience.
The five people from the adventure group also gathered in this room. Freya sat beside the bed in the bedroom, holding an oval metal part in front of her eyes with one hand, and holding a sharp tool in the other hand, pushing the tool into the small hole of the part, as if she was debugging something. Vivian was in poor physical strength, and the spread notebook was covered in front of her chest. Her hands and feet were hanging limply under the bed, and her head rested on Freya's soft and loose thighs, entering a deep sleep. Catherine was still
She was wearing armor, swords and shields, and sat aside with dignity on the chair, solemnly like a female knight posing in the studio. Most of her attention was focused on Chester, and even if Chester was already in a semi-coma, she would not relax. Obviously, the incident of Elard escaping in the flash forest had taught her enough lessons. Since then, the Knight Girl will no longer relax because of underestimating the enemy, which will cause irreversible results.
In another corner of the room, Panis and Eva sat on several soft animal skins spliced together. Eva formed a ball with long golden hair covering her body, like a golden ball of hair. It was also pillowing on Panis's folded legs. Panis stroked Eva's blonde hair with one hand, just like comforting a sleeping kitten, and holding a copper coin in the other hand. The copper coin circled and scattered at his fingertips. Of course, he originally wanted to play this game with gold coins, but after careful consideration, he changed it to copper coins in order to protect his property. Although his hands had their own movements, his eyes were staring out the window. Looking at the sky that was constantly brightening outside the window,
I don't know what I was thinking. As I thought about it, his eyes gradually became gloomy. His expression became a little more depressed, and even the movements on his hands slowed down. The first person to find out the change was Eva. The little girl let out a dissatisfaction whimper, closed her eyes and grabbed it in the air with her backhand. After grabbing Pannis's hand, she pressed it on her head again, and moved her head and rubbed it a few times. Pannis was stunned. She looked at Catherine, who was attracted by the sound, and couldn't help but shake her head and laughed. She began to continue to touch the little girl's blonde hair. Only then did Eva mumble with satisfaction, rubbed her head against Pannis's leg, and fell asleep again in a more comfortable position.
The room was very quiet. Apart from the footsteps that Lao Dake made when he was walking, there was only Chester's intermittent and faint **. If it weren't for knowing in advance, no one could have imagined that the tragedy of inhumanity had happened in this peaceful and peaceful house for a few days. No one would have thought that this house was part of the ceremony venue for the believers of the evil gods a day ago.
Gradually, the barking of dogs began to sound in the quiet town, and then the sound of people moving came. It was a new day, and a new life was welcoming everyone. However, the old Dark in the room did not have the joy of ushering in a new day. Instead, he felt more and more depressed in his heart. The longer the time passed, the deeper the old man felt a deeper fear in his heart. He really wanted to rush over to ask the people in the adventure group, what was going on, and whether Betty could save him. However, the old man also knew in his heart that the people in the adventure group had nothing to do with his daughter. Even if he didn't care about Betty, no one could blame them. If it weren't for pity, they could let Betty die and didn't have to spend more than ten hours to treat him. Understanding this, the old man suppressed his thoughts of asking and continued to wait anxiously for the passage of time.
"Don't worry, Mr. Dark." Although the old man didn't say that, Catherine, who was as good as a nobleman, had already noticed the old man's strangeness, and took his attention slightly from Chester and gave Old Dark a comforting smile: "If there is really a problem, Lina will definitely come up to tell us. No news is the best news. Until now, she hasn't come up yet, which means everything is going very smoothly. So don't worry, the time is almost done. She should be coming up soon. She will definitely hand over Little Betty to you safely, so you can wait."
There were constant sounds coming outside the window. It seemed that the mayor had told the people in the town last night what had happened. Some townspeople who passed by nearby people would stay a little while passing by, looking inward from the window for a while with the mood of comforting Lao Dake. However, the old people in the room were obviously in the mood to pay attention to them.
"Here you come." Panis moved his ears, patted Eva's head, and raised the volume and said, "Awake up, Lina is coming up. Although she is the only one, from the sound of footsteps, it should be successful. Get up and welcome our hero."
"Look, I said you don't have to worry." Catherine's smile, with the power to soothe the soul, slowly relaxed Lao Dark's trembling body. Seeing Lao Dark recovered from his calmness, Katherine said to everyone: "You guys go over, I'll stare at Chester here so that he won't run away in the chaos."
"What are you still staring at?" Freya walked over quickly, carried Chester's back collar and dragged him to the ground, and walked towards the room where the basement entrance was. The broken leg touched the ground, and the pain made Chester wake up from his coma and let out another tragic wail. However, since Catherine came up to briefly describe the following scene to them, no matter what she did, the girls would no longer have psychological burdens, so Freya dragged Chester away as if she had not heard the wail.
Catherine smiled bitterly. The Knight's belief made her unwilling to abuse the prisoner, but the belief in justice and the will of human nature told her that treating him like this was the result he deserved. In the conflict between the two beliefs, she could only smile helplessly and shake her head and follow Freya. As for Lao Dark, when Panis said that Lina had come up, she rushed out with an action that was completely inconsistent with her age and was the first to enter the basement. When everyone entered the basement, they saw Lao Dark standing beside Lina with his hands rubbed and looked at Lina expectantly like a child waiting for a gift, so nervous that he couldn't even say anything.
"Living." Lina looked tired, and the luster on her silver hair was a little dim. She held the Dharma book in her arms. She frowned as Lao Dake frowned, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Don't be here, go up there, let's go up if you want to go up, don't ask so many reasons, we need to clean up the things below."
Catherine immediately saw the ground covered with minced meat below, and a lot of tools used to torture Betty. She couldn't help but hopped around and pushed Old Dark and said, "You go up first. It's really not suitable for you to stay here. We will send Betty up there, so you can wait on it with confidence. Believe me, this is a knight's promise."
Until the old man left reluctantly, Lina suddenly breathed a deep breath, returned to her original expression, and said tiredly: "I'm so tired. I've never felt so tired. I never wanted to do such a thing again. Huh, it's tired and scary. Looking at the girl's appearance, I really want to turn around and run away. If they hadn't forced me to stay, I would have run away long ago."
"Thank you for your hard work." Catherine walked over and hugged Lina, asking her to support her body weight on her chest: "You helped everyone do things they want but couldn't do, we should all thank you."
"That's what I want to do. Although I'm tired, I'm still very happy." Lina raised her head and smiled at Catherine, her smile as pure as a perfect saint: "She is asleep now. She seems to have not slept for several days and has suffered all the tortures. She is so tired. Freya, please use your puppet to help bring her up to let them meet, so that Lao Dake will not be worried all the time."
"How is her situation?" Catherine asked, "Can her father bear it?"
"Actually, it's not bad. The legs must be lame. The arms cannot do too heavy work in the future. The eyes will not be able to see light for two or three years, and nothing else will be fine." Lina smiled evilly: "It's probably half a year that you can't go out to meet people. You can restore your original appearance in half a year."
"Yeah?" Catherine was stunned: "But Ava said just now, what you said to Betty..."
Chapter completed!