A strange world

Chapter 636 Section 33. I want to help you

Leaving the basement where he had been sheltered for the night, Annan continued towards the second city wall.

There are traces of weird patterns, they only appear at night and in places without light. As long as Annan doesn't get close to the houses on both sides of the street, he won't encounter strange things...

Before noon, Annan finally passed the second wall of Yiwen City and entered the inner city.

The streets and houses are much more spacious and refined than those in the outer city, but the unsettling silence and lingering coldness are clearer, and the falling sunlight has no warmth at all.

puff--

Several weapons were thrown in front of the house not far ahead, and a bone was spat out from the upstairs window from time to time.

Annan passed through a straight alley and bypassed it.

If the skeleton horse was still there, he should have rushed into the royal city. Annan thought. But if it were that simple, the southern countries outside should be holding a banquet to rescue the princess.

In any case, the leaves of the World Tree allowed Annan to avoid many unnecessary troubles. He was walking on deserted streets as if he were sightseeing in a lost city.

The only ones following him were the shadow and the charred girl. One is reflected on the back and the other is reflected on the wall.

As time passed, Annan's shadow grew narrower. The charred girl appeared again, and after forcing away the strange creature that quietly approached Annan, he suddenly looked at the second shadow on the wall in confusion.

The Burnt Girl is right next to her... Then whose shadow belongs to her?

"It's following me."

Annan pointed to the second shadow on the wall.

The charred girl walked towards the wall, touched Annan's "shadow", and started a fight that Annan couldn't understand. Not long after, she looked back and Annan understood her thoughts and quickly left here holding the burnt blanket.

Not long after he ran away, the burnt girl was caught by the shadow and thrown into the wall.

After Annan ran two streets away, the burnt girl climbed out of the blanket in her arms. He looked at his own shadow, but no second one appeared.

Seems to be thrown away...

"Let's find a place to stay first."

It's not yet dusk, but strange and difficult things have begun to appear...

The shelter Annan chose this time was a manor with a wide view. Although the gardens and flower beds were withered, it seemed that they had not been destroyed by strange things.

But when he stepped onto the steps, a scene suddenly appeared in front of him:

The carriage carrying the barrel passed through the flower-filled garden and stopped in front of the stairs. The family members gathered in front of the steps and looked at a giant snow-white shell sitting in a wooden barrel filled with sea water. A boy in rags came up and said something to the shell. The shell slowly opened, revealing a timid naked girl sitting in the shell, as beautiful as a pearl.

Annan blinked, and the surroundings suddenly returned to the grayness and coldness of reality.

The Burnt Girl looked at him as if asking whether to stay or leave.

"Take another look..."

Annan took the initiative to step into the door. The hall, which was full of signs of collapse and damage, was filled with an unspeakable stench. Either a grown-up banquet had just taken place here, or thousands of fish were rotting.

The illusion reappeared: at a banquet in the hall where guests were gathered, servants carried huge shells to the banquet, and the guests who gathered around made no sound.

The young man who had changed into clean clothes opened the shell and said something to the girl in the shell. She shook her head to express her unwillingness. The anxious young man stretched out his hand, grabbed the girl's arm and twisted it hard.

The girl in the shell began to cry, and pearls slipped from the corners of her eyes.

The surrounding guests exclaimed silently, and with the owner's proud expression, Jubei was pushed out of the hall by the servant.

In the dilapidated hall, Annan saw the door where Jubei was taken away, and continued to follow him.

Passing the stairs leading to the wine cellar, Annan once again saw the vision of the past:

A well-dressed, much fatter boy stood in front of a pile of torture instruments, holding a whip and roaring ferociously at the giant shell in front of him.

The girl in the shell was covered in bruises and was no longer as beautiful as before. Seeing that she was unwilling to contribute any more pearls, the fat boy threw away the whip furiously, leaned his whole body into the giant shell, crawled towards the naked girl, and stretched out his hand to dig into the girl's bright and round eyes like pearls. The girl opened her mouth in pain and let out a silent scream. The severe pain caused the giant shell to tremble and close suddenly.

The legs trapped outside the giant shell kicked a few times and stopped moving.

I don’t know how much time passed before the giant shell opened again. There was no figure of the fat boy in the shell. Only the sad and painful girl and dozens of magnificent pearls as scarlet as blood rolled out.

One of them hit a boot and was picked up by a thick hand through a handkerchief and held up in front of the face. The brilliant brilliance of the gold tooth hidden under the hooked nose overshadowed the blood of the pearl and the girl curled up in the shell...

clatter--

After stepping out of the last step, Annan raised the magic lamp to match the wine cellar in the illusion just now.

It should be right here, the existence that lured him here.

"I began to wonder what the nature of the weirdness was..."

Annan whispered softly, telling the burnt girl and the being who showed him these images: "Both you and she... are just victims of bullying..."

The Burnt Girl didn't respond, and Annan continued talking to himself.

"Perhaps weirdness is just a manifestation of emotion? The princess evacuated the people in the city not because of how dangerous it is, but because tragedy will make it thrive?"

Gululu——

Annan suddenly kicked something, and a shiny blood pearl rolled into the depths of the wine cellar. His eyes followed the blood pearl, and he stopped when he saw it hit something. Annan raised the oil lamp and saw mountains of blood pearls piled up in the wine cellar. Under the illumination of the magic lamp, they turned into eyes.

Annan fell into an illusion again. This time he turned into the hook-nosed man and came to the wine cellar. The shabby clothes of servants and captured tramps were scattered in front of the giant shell. The girl in the shell sat there blankly, while the surrounding blood pearls were about to submerge the giant shell.

"The family will be revived soon..." Annan made a voice that did not belong to him and walked towards Jubei involuntarily.

The surrounding pearls began to roll down and submerge themselves, while "Annan" continued to walk towards the giant shell with great difficulty.

"Annan" was getting closer and closer to the giant shell and the girl. When he was about to touch them, he suddenly smelled a burning smell.

This is...the girl from the cabin in the woods?

Annan suddenly woke up from the illusion. At some point, he was deeply immersed in the blood pearls that submerged his waist, and he was very close to the giant shell that was open and full of blood stains. Sitting within the shell was a rotten silhouette, reaching out as if in a hug.

The charred girl had been submerged in the blood pearls, and only one charred hand was left holding on to the corner of his clothes.

Annan had no fear, on the contrary, his black eyes showed sadness and tenderness. He took out a leaf from a tree from another world, put his hand into the giant shell, leaned against it and leaned in the shell, lowering his head, as if he was dead and exuded a rotten smell. girl.

Said softly: "I have no ill intentions towards you...I don't want those things...I just want to help you..."

"Let you stop crying."