Chapter Thirteen: Prison Break
"To be honest, my worldview has been subverted a lot this year. I saw the restrained revenge of a vampire that everyone hates, and also saw the dark side of the church that everyone respects. To be honest, after seeing these things, I don't want to say anything about justice and evil, and I no longer believe in justice and evil..." Eric said slowly in an indescribable heavy tone. "But I know that there is a clear voice in my heart that tells me that I must never watch it all without being indifferent!"
"Why did so many people die?!" Ashu Rufat asked.
"Hunger, labor, and various diseases!" Eric replied. "If you stay here for a few days, you will have an illusion, that is, how can people die so easily? You must know that on the battlefield, even if you are seriously injured like a spear, you have a certain chance of surviving."
He sighed, looking at Ashu Rufate head-on this time. To be honest, the young swordsman looked familiar, but Eric couldn't say whether he had seen this person or his temperament seemed familiar. Baron Pinold sent him over, probably because he had some confidence in his strength. However, being able to sneak in quietly from outside the excavation site is the best proof of his own strength.
Every vampires who survived the Battle of Kalean seem to be able to be looked down upon.
"I get it," Ash Rufate replied. "It's really convincing... OK, tell me what you want to do? And, what's going on with this girl?"
"This girl, her name is Fei. I believe this is not her real name, but what is her real name is no longer important. Because I cannot be sure that Baron Pinold will send someone, so I must make other preparations."
"You are very good at it." Ashu Rufat remembered the fighting just now. If it were to consider the gender and age, Fei was already very good at it. If it weren't for him just now... Well, even if he was a skilled warrior, Fei would have half the chance to win.
"Yes, very talented. Don't look at her now, but three months ago, I couldn't even hold a weapon."
"Master, this girl, is a little unusual." Carrie said quietly in her mind. "But we will discuss this later. I conducted a simple lie test on Eric, and the test result was that he should not have lie."
"So tell me what I need to help with?"
"It's just a jailbreak plan," Eric replied. "Actually, what you need to do is simple... but it's hard to find someone as reliable and good at fighting as you! It's still a little too early to say this."
"Oh, there's still some time?"
"Well, the time is scheduled to be about fifteen days later. Fifteen days later... the rainy season will arrive. According to what I found out, there will be a period of heavy rain at this time of year. Landslides will inevitably occur in the rainstorm of several days, and many people will be buried alive... This is like this every year... If you want the group of people to escape without being discovered, the heavy rain is the best cover."
Those guys said something about "the faster the better". Ashu Rufate couldn't help but complain in his stomach. He said such words casually without understanding them at all.
"Then during this waiting period..."
"To be honest, I can't provide a hiding place," Eric replied. "This place can be regarded as a prison no matter how you say it. I don't have the confidence to hide you without being discovered... As for other aspects, you can do whatever you want, and I can only make one request, that is, you can meet me here when the rainstorm begins."
Ash Rufate keenly realized what the other party said. It is not feasible to leave the excavation site first and then sneak in. It would be okay to postpone the heavy rain, but it would be worse if it was in advance. Eric meant that he wanted to find a way to hide here for about fifteen days with his own strength.
"But I can provide the food," Eric said. "This is the gravekeeper's hut... so basically no one comes. You just need to come here through the gaps where no one comes, Fei can..."
"No need." Ashu Rufate subconsciously felt a thirst in his throat. This reminded him of the fact that he hadn't drunk blood for quite some time. But he immediately drove the idea away from his mind. "I will solve it myself."
While speaking, he couldn't help but glance at Fei. The minstrel's poems often have the same "red hair as fire", but usually the color of red hair and flame is not similar (the color is actually closer to that kind of red clay). This girl named Fei's light red hair looks like her. Although Fei is standing next to Eric at the moment and faces him, because her face is covered with a lot of dirt and dirt (because she was pressed to the ground just now, half of her face is mud), she can't tell her true appearance. She can only tell that the girl is not old and will not be over twenty years old.
To be honest, apart from the flame-like hair, the girl's eyes were also deeply impressed. The girl had a fight with him just now, but she was very calm at this time. Even the soldiers who had been through the battlefield for a long time did not have such eyes. No, it was not so much a kind of calmness, but rather a kind of determination. A normal person should be savoring the previous battle at this time, and she did not seem to feel the humiliation and fear of the failure just now. She did not wipe the mud on her face, as if even the woman's nature of a clean person had disappeared from her.
From this point of view, it can be seen that Eric chose this girl as an assistant for a reason.
"Then it's just a promise," said Ashu Rufate. "When the heavy rain begins, I'll wait for you here." He stretched out a hand forward.
"If things succeed, I will follow the agreement," Eric grabbed the other party's hand, "played for Baron Pinold!"
After doing this symbolic action, Ashu Rufate stood up and left, and at this time, only Eric and Fei were left in the cabin.
"You are too reckless," Eric criticized without hesitation. "If I hadn't happened to observe there, you would have been in danger."
"I almost just now..." Fei seemed unwilling to accept it.
"There is no small part of the difference!" Eric replied. "Didn't you find that he hasn't drawn his sword? After your first surprise attack, he already had the chance to draw his sword! But he didn't. The difference between you and him is too great... If Ashu Rufate didn't want to capture you alive, you have died many times!"
Fei wanted to argue, but in the end he didn't say it out.
"But why did such an excellent warrior as he defect to the vampire? At this age, he should have been training in combat since he was a child and received guidance from famous teachers... and he should also have enough practical experience... he should be from a noble family from a certain country..."
"It's not for the cursed eternal life!" When talking about this topic, Fei showed a look of disdain. "I heard that as long as you drink the blood of a vampire... humans will become vampires."
"Just rumours on the streets and alleys," Eric replied. "When they were Kalyan, they said that the queen turned humans into vampires through a method called 'Blood Kiss'. If the 'Blood Kiss' just let humans drink a little blood, when we attack Kalyan, we will not face more than a thousand vampires, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of vampires! I don't believe that the vampires queen is still holding on to the point of death!"
"If I don't talk about this, I'm going to check there to see if there is any movement at the gate... and see how he got in." Eric whispered. "Fei, I guess the corpse transport truck will come today. If that Ash Rufate hasn't gone far, you have to pay attention to protecting him."
Ashu Rufate sat in a nest of half a person tall grass. Entered from the gate of the excavator, there was a pasture, a farm, and then the real excavator site. Although it was all flat on the map, it was a mountainous area after all, so it was normal to leave some deserted and forested land (but not large in area). Ashu Rufate's current place is not very far from the gravekeeper's hut, and you can still see the hut.
"Stay here for fifteen days...tsk..." At first, Ashu Rufate wanted to leave this excavation site, but in the end he thought it would be better to stay here for a while.
"Master, why don't we go there to see what they are digging?" Carrie tried hard to encourage.
"No!" Ashu Rufate answered firmly. He had enough of what happened in Oren City. He inexplicably threw a thing about "go to complete this task, or die." If he remembered correctly, that "antimass engine" was excavated from Sivania, and most of the time it was dug here.
"By the way, you said Fei was very unusual just now. What does it mean?"
"When you were entangled with her, I unexpectedly discovered that she had strong vitality... This is one of the rare individuals in her race."
"Very strong vitality? What does it mean?"
"To give a specific example... the poison that can kill an ordinary person immediately can only make her fall asleep in bed and fall into a coma for about a day; the injury that can make it difficult for an ordinary person to recover in a year can only take one or two months; if an ordinary person starves to death for twenty days, it will take about thirty-five days to starve to death... It is probably this level."
"That means having strong resilience?"
"It's not just the ability to recover, regardless of strength, endurance, or speed, she is much stronger than she seems. For example, her strength. Although she is a girl and her physique is not very tall, her physical strength should not be inferior to those big and thick men. Don't you feel that her strength is actually quite strong? So Eric chose her very vision."
"So that's what it means..."
"This kind of special individual is very rare. If possible, I suggest you choose her as your servant. And she is a woman, which is more appropriate."
Ashu Rufate was about to speak, but he heard a sound of wheels coming from the front. He looked out through the grass and saw a considerable caravan walking along the road under the guidance of two horses. There was nothing to pay special attention to, but Ashu Rufate saw a white hand sticking out from the edge of the caravan.
The hand was so pale that it was lifeless, and it could be seen at a glance that it was the dead man's hand.
Chapter completed!