Harry Potter: I Am a Legend - v6 Chapter 8
In 945, the Iberian Peninsula-Aragon Plain.
The stream winds along the forest. On the rock by the stream, a rather young man sits, squatting by the river to wash his face. He has short gray hair with branches stuck to it, and there are many gaps in the hem of his clothes that are cut by thorns. It seems very messy.
It was the prince who fled, West Xavier.
After running all night, he escaped from the control of the manor and climbed several high mountains and several forests. He didn’t believe that his female officer could catch up at this moment.
But even if he catches up with Xi Xavier, he is not very worried, because he has Night Owl, who can help him out in the sky, and anyone who is close to him a thousand steps can receive a warning.
After flying for a day, Ye Xiao was also tired. He was combing his feathers on the branch at the moment. It was daytime, and it looked a little languid.
“What’s your name?” West Xavier asked Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao concentrated on combing his fur and ignored him.
West Xavier drew a handful of water from the stream and threw it to Ye Xiao. It jumped to avoid it, croaking unhappily, “What are you doing?”
“What’s your name?” West Xavier asked again.
“No name.” Ye Xiao answered listlessly.
“Why don’t you have a name?”
“Because I don’t need it.”
Ye Xiao said coldly.
“Why not, we all have names.”
“Where do you come from so many why?”
Ye Xiao croaked and said: “Even if there is, I will not tell you the real name. Knowing the real name of a thing, you can completely control it, as a wizard, you won’t even know this.”
“I don’t know, no one taught me.”
West Xavier said honestly.
“Nuo, now you know.” Ye Xiao croaked, continuing to comb her hair.
“Although you are very esoteric, but…” West Xavier’s eyes rolled: “But…you always croak when you speak, let me call you a frog.”
“Crack!?”
Ye Xiao jumped a little angry and protested.
“Frog frog, quack quack quack~”
“Shut up, stupid. Do you want to go to Pandora to find a wizard?”
“Yes,” said West Xavier, “otherwise what should I do with you?”
“I’m hungry,” Ye Xiao said frankly, “Go and find food for me. If you can find some food for me, I will be happy to set off early and take you to Pandora.”
food…
When Ye Xiao said so, West Xavier felt hungry. After running for the whole night, he didn’t pay attention, and now he stopped, he heard his stomach growl.
He had experienced this feeling for the first time since he was under the care of countless people. Because he was afraid that the female officer would lead someone to catch up, he hardly brought any luggage and went into battle alone. This resulted in him not having any food reserves.
“Brother Frog, what would you like to eat?”
“Snakes, mice, rabbits, as long as they are not mushrooms.”
“Do frogs eat?”
“Crack!” Ye Xiao flapped his wings and stretched out his paw fiercely to pounce at him.
Nishizawal laughed, avoiding Ye Xiao’s claws, and ran out easily.
Ye Xiao didn’t want to pay attention to him, put his head in his wings and started to sleep.
Hunger surged again after not running far.
Cuckoo…
West Xavier’s stomach screamed even more fiercely. He didn’t dare to play around. He quickly got up and broke a branch, sharpened it with a personal knife, and got up and walked into the woods.
The forest is not rich in resources. After ten minutes of searching, he found a small animal on the ground eating berries in the forest.
This little animal looked very similar to a rabbit, but did not have the three-petal mouth and long ears of a rabbit, only a pair of round ears that looked like a mouse and two bony black eyes.
West Xavier had learned riding, shooting and hunting with the chief guard in the manor on weekdays, and he was confident in his body.
He held his breath and walked forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Under his feet are the litter that has accumulated for many years. It is soft and even flexible when stepping on it. It completely absorbs the sound of his footsteps and makes a little sound when stepping on it. nor.
Then, when he was close to about five meters away, he suddenly jumped out and launched an attack. Before the little beast could react, he was stabbed in his leg by the pointed tip of the stick.
It struggled and convulsed and ran in the other direction. West Xavier jumped on it, pressed it, drew the knife, pressed the animal’s vein, and said, “I’m sorry.”
Later, he hit the struggling prey with a single blow.
With blood infiltrating the tree trunk, West Xavier raised his trophy and couldn’t help but grinned with a smile. This was his first killing, but he did not resist.
A small achievement made him feel very good. He obtained the qualification to survive with his own hands. The past manor couldn’t give him such a feeling.
Just as he was about to go back to have lunch with Ye Xiao, he suddenly noticed something next to him looking at him, and looked down. It turned out to be a black and green python, hiding in the grass and hissing letters.
“Hey!”
West Xavier took the prey and gave the python a fierce look: “I found this first!”
The python spit out the letter, then turned and left slowly.
I don’t know if it was the illusion of West Xavier, he always felt that the look in the snake’s eyes was sarcasm before he left.
The hunger in his abdomen dilutes his other thoughts. He hurried back with his prey, Pidianpidian’er, having thought of more than a hundred ways to cook it, although he knew nothing about cooking.
After walking back for about half an hour, West Xavier’s footsteps gradually slowed down. He remembered that he only spent about ten minutes when he came, but it took more than three times to go back.
Not only that, but the creek where he was washing his face was nowhere to be seen at the moment, it was obviously nearby just now.
The surrounding scenery is very similar to when I just passed by here, except that the trees are trees, but they are not exactly the same.
But he couldn’t tell where the specifics were different.
“strange.”
He touched his head, thought about it, and moved forward in small steps in the direction he believed.
Walked for another ten minutes.
The stream separating Ye Xiao was still missing, which made him puzzled. Then, he stopped abruptly and took two steps back.
I saw a beech on his left hand side, and there was a pool of red blood at the black roots of the beech tree.
When he saw the blood on the beech tree, his brow furrowed deeply, for no reason. This was where he had just stabbed the prey to death. The blood stains were all in exactly the same shape.
Obviously he was walking back just now, but how did he go back to where he was when he was walking? West Xavier did not understand.
Looking around, the weather is getting late and the sun is gradually setting. The gloomy north wind blows the shadows of the trees, like a hideous living creature. He feels that he is being watched by an inexplicable thing that is cold and has no affection for him, which makes him unavailable. The avoidable tension grew.
Where and how?
The sense of direction is a bit confusing.
And also a little scared…
But then I think again, I am a wizard, and I can still talk to Ye Xiao. It is also mysterious. Why should he be afraid of the mystery?
He made two gestures with his hands and decided that it would be better to move on to the same place.
Starting again, this time he steps firmly and decisively, pressing his feet, turning his head every few steps, taking a look at his footprints on the ground, and making sure that he is walking in a straight line.
But ten minutes later, he still failed to return to the creek where he first washed his face. Not only that, there was even a row of footprints in front of him, and he followed the row of footprints in a dumbfounded manner. After a while, he again Back to the position of the blood-stained beech.
The shape of the blood stain on the beech is exactly the same as it was ten minutes ago, but it is a bit dry.
A cold wind blew by, and the air seemed to freeze, and there was a certain magical whisper in the wind: “Hiss…hiss…you took away what doesn’t belong to you…hisshhhh. ….”
No matter how brave the person was, he couldn’t stretch it anymore. The corners of his mouth twitched twice. He shuddered and ran away. Want to escape this weird place quickly.
He didn’t choose his direction anymore. On the contrary, he twisted left and right constantly to change direction. The trees were quickly left behind by him, and he jumped over all obstacles that could stop him.
However, after running for five minutes, he braked sharply to a halt. For no other reason, West Xavier still returned to a similar position. The **** beech tree was like a maggot attached to a bone, and it couldn’t be shaken away.
“Wow! What happened?”
He cried out alone.
Thinking of the stories that the close female officer once read with him, thinking of the mysterious phenomena that the Hugo fellow once told him, West Xavier couldn’t help but sweat his forehead. Could it be that the ghost of the rabbit came to the door?
So he took off the prey hanging around his waist, looked at it hoarsely, and said, “Are you upset…? I want to eat you because I am hungry. If I don’t eat you, you will die. This is inevitable. Yes, I apologize too, why do you blame me?”
The prey didn’t answer, his tongue was stuck out, his eyes were hollow, he looked like death, lifeless, not as if it could cause wind and waves at all.
“Well, you are cruel…”
West Xavier gave up the prey and put the body of the prey back under the beech.
He stepped back and left the beech step by step.
When he retreated to about ten meters, there was a soft noise behind him.
Turning his head like lightning, he saw a black and green python burrow out of the bushes, grabbed the prey under the beech, turned his head and ran.
“I knew it was you who was making trouble!!!”
West Xavier was furious, he immediately rushed out of the bushes and shouted with his dagger. The humiliation of being played rushed to the door.
Although he didn’t know how he returned to the original point time and time again, he was certain that this snake must be doing the trick. A prince of his own dignity was turned around by a snake. It’s really outrageous.
The snake saw him coming fiercely, and swam away from the fallen leaves while swishing with the rabbit, fast.
“stop!
West Xavier followed firmly behind the python, running faster and faster.
In the end, there was a phantom, but he himself didn’t realize how fast he was.
Thinking that he had just been scared by the weird phenomenon, he was unavoidably ashamed of his fear. The Hugo Fellow taught him since he was a child that the true king should not change his face before the landslide. He believed that, but he did not do it.
Fortunately, the Hugo scholar also told him that he should never forgive his opponents easily. Only after victory can there be so-called kindness. He still has a chance to do this.
Now, he wants to get rid of the reptile that humiliated himself.
The python turned his head and glanced at him, and was frightened by his aura. It immediately did not dare to race with the boy, and found a seam to drill in.
West Xavier rushed over, and a second before the python entered the hole, he firmly grasped its tail, and then, his neck violently violently, trying to pull the python from the hole.
The python hissed in pain.
Then, the ground shook the mountain.
The ground shook violently, and the leaves and branches fell straight.
West Xavier was extremely focused. He didn’t care about any ground vibrations at all, he was going to drag out the snake that humiliated him today.
“Crack quack!”
At this moment, a night owl flew up from the sky desperately, shouting as he flew: “Go, fool, don’t pull it!”
When Xi Xavier looked up and saw Ye Xiao, he said happily: “You are here, come and help me!”
“Do you fart!”
Ye Xiao croaked almost crying, and it yelled anxiously: “Come on, we came to the wrong place, there are snakes here!”
“Nonsense, of course I know there are snakes here!”
West Xavier said that the snake was holding it in his hand.
But the ground was shaking more and more severely.
In the midst of the violent shock, West Xavier yelled intently: “Hey, Brother Frog, don’t just talk, but come and help! Grab it with your paws, and your dinner is in its mouth.”
“I won’t help you, idiot, please ask yourself more!”
Ye Xiao croaked, it flew upwards frantically.
“Hey, what!? Did you just fly away by yourself?”
West Xavier shouted angrily, dissatisfied with Ye Xiao’s unrighteous behavior.
However, Ye Xiao didn’t fly far.
It flew, and a big mountain bag was lifted on the ground in the distance. The big mountain bag covered the sky and blocked all the light. Not only that, the whole mountain bag reversed. Rumble, large chunks of dirt and trees fell to the ground.
“Jesus is on!”
West Xavier’s eyes widened.
He finally knew why he was lost.
A snake, a huge snake that jumped to the extreme, he couldn’t even think about how big it was.
The snake was on the ground, covered with mud, and overgrown with a forest. The back of the snake was a forest. When it awakened, it slowly moved its body, causing the forest to keep rotating, and it also caused itself walking in it to return to the starting point again and again.
I saw that huge mountain-like snake head slowly opened in the afterglow of the setting sun, but fell heavily with lightning speed.
Boom! !
Accompanied by the shake of the ground.
Ye Xiao, West Xavier, and the python he was holding were all swallowed by the huge snake.