Harry Potter: I Am a Legend - v6 Chapter 4

In the high tower at night, West Xavier remained motionless. This was the second autumn he was locked here. At this time, he had just turned sixteen, and he was far from the day of adulthood set by his father for him. Two years.

With the sound of soft footsteps, the prince woke up from concentrated meditation, a candlelight lit up in the darkness, although there was only a little light, it made West Xavier frowned in pain.

In front of me was a woman with a silver dinner plate. She was graceful and slender, with neatly combed blonde hair, and a palm-sized mask on her face, but she still couldn’t hide the red lips under the mask, and she was as straight as a knife. bridge of the nose.

It’s his personal female officer.

Accompanying me for more than ten years, she has taken care of her close female officials since she was a little girl.

“His Royal Highness, it’s time for dinner.”

“I’m not hungry.”

West Xavier said that he is really not hungry at all. In fact, he hasn’t moved much for more than a year, and his body consumes very little energy. If he can, he only wants to eat one meal a day. But the rule of the royal family is to eat three times a day, and he can’t change it.

The close female officer ignored his request and placed the silver plate in front of him. Arranged the exquisite dinner food, helped him clean up the books and parchment scattered on the table, knelt down behind him, rubbed his shoulders and said, “Why don’t I help you move first?”

Feeling the warmth and softness behind him, West Xavier couldn’t raise any interest. He shook his head, “No.”

The hand on his shoulder paused, and then he squeezed it gently, “Should I change someone? The female officer said softly: “Today I’m looking for a few new maids for you. Would you like to meet them? “

“Did you find it for me or did my father find it for me?”

“what differences are there?”

The female officer squeezed her shoulder and moved her hand to the prince’s thigh and gently massaged it.

“There is indeed no difference.”

West Xavier laughed mockingly: “Look at what, look at the mask?”

“I can just put out the candle.”

The female officer smiled and said in his ear, “It’s all the same.”

“Different.”

West Xavier said coldly.

He loves the woman behind him very much, but he knows that the other party’s loyalty to his father is much higher than his loyalty. In order to keep him honestly staying in the tower and not going out, she can do everything.

“Let’s go, don’t disturb me to rest.”

He wanted to get up and drive away the female officer.

But the female officer always had a way. She kissed West Xavier’s ear and gently pushed him on the carpet with ease. I don’t know when the clothes on his body have been untied.

“Damn it, can you take off that **** mask?”

West Xavier lay on the ground, cursing feebly, he no longer remembers how many times he had asked her to take off the mask.

“No,” the female officer kissed him. “When you become a king, you can change the order at will.”

Si Xavier was pressed down, frowned and said, “I had a dream last night.”

“dream…?”

The female officer bit his ear, a little absent-minded.

“I dreamed of a white light that flooded everything. In the white light, there was a boy as old as me. I wanted to kill him. I really want to, I really want to!”

Recalling last night’s dream, West Xavier hugged the female officer tightly, a certain wild call rang through his heart, making him tremble with excitement, his eyes staring round and looking at the darkness on the ceiling, rare. Take the initiative once.

The female officer replied: “Wait for you~Wait for you~ Become a king…who you want to kill…erh…anyone can kill you~”

It was a similar answer again, and it was a similar day. She couldn’t understand what West Xavier was talking about after all, maybe no one could understand.

After a short exercise, the female officer fed the food to the prince’s mouth in a gentle but incontrovertible manner. Then she dressed her clothes skillfully, cleaned the room, and left the tower. With West Xavier, facing the unchanging spire room alone.

The long-term loneliness gave him the strength to sober, but the more sober he was, the more he realized that all this was not what he wanted. The father, King Ramiro I, who was far away in the sky, his expectations of himself and the West Xavier’s inner turmoil went in the opposite direction.

“The king… did the king come here like this… really a laborious job…” Wan Lai said to himself in silence.

For some reason, he recalled the dream of last night, in which he laughed and his soul was trembling on the edge of bliss. That is the call from the wild.

Fantastic.

Quack! Quack! Quack!

A hoarse bird song tore through the tranquility of the night, and Prince West Xavier suddenly turned and sat up. He found a night owl outside the window, staring at him without blinking.

It has a round head, a sharp beak, pointed feet, and black and white feathers. It looks absolutely majestic.

Ga, quack, quack!

Ye Xiao yelled at him three times.

At this time, West Xavier unexpectedly understood Ye Xiao’s language.

He was asking himself if he had any water, and he was thirsty.

West Xavier raised the glass on his table and asked curiously: “Do you want to drink water?”

Huh!

Ye Xiao flapped its wings, shook off a few feathers, and flew in from the only window of the tower.

Although its pointed beak did not make a human voice, West Xavier accurately captured what Ye Xiao wanted to express through its eyes and body language.

Yes, it needs water.

This feeling made West Xavier very novel, and it was a hundred times, thousand times more exciting than the short-term happiness that the female officer had just brought him. As if he had discovered a new world, he climbed up from the ground.

He poured a glass of water for Ye Xiao and even a glass of red wine for him.

Ye Xiao immediately put his head into the glass of water, and drank hungry.

“Are you hungry? I… I have a lot to eat…”

West Xavier asked in a bewildered manner next to Ye Xiao. He had never spoken to Owl. He believed that the other party would definitely understand his speech. It felt so strange.

“Quah, quack… (What are you afraid of?

“I’m afraid you will fly away.”

West Xavier wanted to touch Ye Xiao’s feathers with his hands.

“Hey, brat, take your hand away.”

Ye Xiao Guaqua said, “I’m eating, take it out, or I’ll fly away right away.”

West Xavier hurriedly rushed to the box in the room, opened the box, and poured out the food in it in an old-fashioned manner. He took out all the dried fruit, meat, preserved bread and so on.

Ye Xiao was only interested in jerky, and it was not polite. After pulling a few times with his paws, he feasted on his table, eating and pulling a bubble of white feces without any scruples.

West Xavier stared at the magical animal next to him and asked, “Who are you and where do you come from?”

“I am not a human being, I pass by a long way.”

Ye Xiao said without raising his head: “Last year there was no tower here, but there will be one this year. I was curious to come and take a look.”

“Can you communicate with anyone?”

West Xavier is curious.

“Of course not.” Ye Xiao looked at him strangely, “Why do you think so, of course I only communicate with people who can communicate.”

“Why can you understand me?”

“I can understand anyone, but most ordinary people don’t understand me-go away!” Owl jumped over West Xavier’s arm, put his head in the red wine glass and took a swig: “Extremely big Some people have lost their spirituality in this world.”

“Then me, then I’m like this…is it normal?”

West Xavier asked the question he was most concerned about. For more than ten years, he always felt that he was different from others, but he couldn’t tell.

“you…..?”

The black and white bird turned his head and looked at him. After watching for a while, he was suddenly surprised: “Ah, wait a minute, you are a wizard who can communicate with animals, why are you staying here!?”

“Wait! What did you say? Wizard!?”

West Xavier jumped three feet high, then slammed his mouth and listened attentively—his body maid was probably already asleep, and came up to look for himself without hearing a sound.

“You answer my question first, why are you staying here.”

Ye Xiao asked.

“Why don’t I stay here?”

West Xavier asked rhetorically.

“Why are you staying here?”

Ye Xiao continued to ask.

“Why don’t I stay here?”

West Xavier repeated.

“Why are you staying here?”

Ye Xiao repeated too.

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“Why don’t I stay here?”

“Why are you staying here?”

“Why don’t I stay here?”

“Why are you staying here?”

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“Why don’t I stay here?”

“Why are you staying here?”

“Why don’t I stay here?”

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“Why are you staying here?”

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Repeating the same question for one person and one bird at least a hundred times, until Prince Xavier’s mouth was dry and dizzy, and he felt that he could never repeat it anymore. The owl seemed determined to stay with him to the end. Finally, he changed his mouth. No longer ask why.

“Then where do you say I should go?”

Ye Xiao bowed his head and took a sip from his red wine glass, and said, “There is a city to the west, named Pandora, where there are top wizards. They are all the same as you. Let me say, people like you. It should be there.”

“wizard…”

West Xavier looked at his hand, his expression was horrified, and there was a hint of joy and excitement.

“what’s happenin?”

“My female officer told me that wizards are ferocious and terrifying monsters.” Sai Xavier said in a suppressed voice.

“That’s what she said?”

“Yes, she also said that the wizards are cunning and arrogant. They are thieves who traffic in human beings and kill people and set fires. They gang up on giants and ghouls. Their men take advantage of the night to abduct virgins, chop them up, cook them, and eat them. , Sipping blood with polished animal horns. Their women gang up with demons in the middle of the night and breed horrible offspring of half humans and half ghosts.”

Ye Xiao didn’t answer, it seemed to be fascinated by the delicious food offered by the prince.

“Is what she said is true?”

West Xavier asked uncertainly.

“Obviously, your female officer has some deviations in understanding.”

Ye Xiao raised his head and said calmly.

“Oh…”

West Xavier breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest, and muttered, “I knew…”

“The wizard is more terrifying than she said.”

Ye Xiao’s abrupt words made the little prince’s smile freeze on his face.

“In the west, further west, on my migration road, thirty thousand kilometers away, the wizard is at war with the crusaders of the church, where, on average, each wizard kills 16 ordinary men every day.

In the south, and further south, a group of wizards themselves are also at war. They use flames to burn their own kind to ashes, killing more than 500 people every day.

To the east and further east, an evil necromancer slaughtered his relatives and neighbors. There was no living mouth in the whole town, and the air was filled with the rancid smell of death. “

After Ye Xiao finished speaking, West Xavier was already stunned. He sat on the ground, his face pale: “Why… so…”

“It’s normal, do you think it’s wrong to eat beef?”

Ye Xiao held the dried meat in his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp: “Let me say that life and death are originally part of the world cycle. The important thing is not life and death itself, but what you do between life and death.

For some reason, Xi Xavier felt that Ye Xiao’s words were even more beautiful than those of his former teacher, Hugo Bachelor, and he quickly sat up straight.

“Who taught you these words?”

“Queen Pandora, the most amazing wizard in this area. She has given me a lot of benefits. Well, she likes feeding birds and young men the most. If you go to her, you will definitely get a lot of benefits.”

“Queen Pandora…Queen Pandora…”

West Xavier stood up, strode around in the tower room, a long-lost passion burned in his heart, he was eager to do something, eager to know who he was.

“Is she a wizard?”

“witch.”

The owl corrected him.

“Then she is also a king?”

“It should be counted. I don’t know how your human regime counts, but I’m not interested in it either.”

Owl was full of wine, and looked like he was going to set off again.

“Wait.”

West Xavier came to the window of the tower and glanced down.

In the middle of the night, Wan Lai was silent, the stars blinked in the sky, the guards fell asleep, and his maid fell asleep. Only in the distant Black Forest, unknown insects sang softly.

He retracted his head and asked the owl earnestly: “Can you take me there, take me out of here.”

Ye Xiao tilted his head: “One meal, one way, this deal is fair.”

West Xavier laughed happily. He walked to his four-poster bed, tore his own sheets, tied the sheets into a rope, and threw them through the tower window.

Ye Xiao reminded him: “You might die, leaving here, the outside world is terrifying and unimaginable.”

“I’m not afraid.”

West Xavier said: “It’s better than eating and waiting to die.”

“I’m not afraid.”

“Not afraid.”

“Hey,”

The night owl spreads its wings and flies high, screaming happy under the dark blue night sky.

On the grass, the barefoot prince rushed. Wearing a simple nightgown, he jumped over the river bank, climbed out of the manor, and jumped into an unknown destiny.