Chapter 518 The gravedigger makes an appointment...
Chapter 518 The gravedigger makes an appointment...
"Sir, please don't be anxious... let me think about it." Tolena thought, stroking her round chin.
Rico stood aside, his expression a little changeable.
He probably couldn't go back, after all, his body was so injured that he might never wake up again.
Maybe staying here is a good choice too.
After thinking about this, Rico looked at Torina. "actually……"
"Oh! I thought of it!" Tolena suddenly interrupted Rico's words. "I can take you out of the dream together!"
After Tolena finished speaking, she began to draw a ritual formation on the ground. This ritual was mainly to connect the two people.
This is a ritual that Tolena uses specifically to connect to Marlenia. It's just that this ritual is also in the testing stage and is not easy to use.
After Tolena finished drawing the ritual, she stood in the ritual formation.
"Come on!" She waved her little hand, signaling Rico to come in.
"..." Rico thought for a moment and then stood in.
The old dog also stood in...
There was a flash of light, and the three of them disappeared at the same time.
A sharp pain came over...
Caught off guard, Michaela yelled.
"Wow! It hurts!"
"Wang"
"Am I not dead yet?"
Three voices came out of Rico's body at the same time.
"..." Li Ke was speechless.
"Why is everyone in my body?"
"Oh! Sorry! I left..." Michaela said and went offline.
"Wang Wang!"
"..." Rico's expression was a little incomprehensible.
Michaela is gone, but the dog is still there! ! !
Rico looked at Gouzi's body subconsciously.
He probed the dog's nose. At this time, the dog was no longer alive.
"Wow!" Rico's body shed tears.
"Please don't control my body at will! Thank you!" Rico was a little helpless.
What is it like to share a body with a puppy?
"Hmm...it's actually quite interesting." Rico felt that his sense of smell had improved qualitatively.
Now in his eyes, the world becomes colorful.
These colors correspond to various flavors.
If he focuses his attention on a color, then this color will become a path, indicating the person or thing that has this flavor.
"So this is what dogs feel like? It's really amazing." Rico was a little surprised.
He struggled to get up, he didn't want to die now.
"We must find medicinal materials to stop bleeding... There are many broken bones, and we also need to find some plasters that can heal quickly..."
Rico shrugged the tip of his nose, stumbled over the bodies of the gangsters, walked out of the alley, and entered a house.
A young girl was drinking tea in a residential building.
Rico, covered in blood, suddenly appeared, scaring her so much that she screamed.
"Shh! Ma'am! I need a little help, just give me some medicine!"
Seeing that the girl had no intention of being violent with her, she hurriedly ran to the side, took out the medicine box and pushed it to the other party.
"Please get out of here, or I won't be polite!" The girl was very scared.
"Thank you! You should get a new lock. This lock is not safe." Rico picked up the medicine box and walked out. He closed the door of the girl's house.
He judged through his sense of smell that there was only one person in the house, and it was most likely a woman. So he pried open the door and got in.
Shortly after he left, the girl ran outside crying and asked for help.
At this time, Rico ran to an abandoned house.
There were several people sleeping on the ground in the house. These were people who had lost their homes due to the war. Most of them are people from villages outside the city.
They didn't make a fuss when they saw Rico. After all, they had seen many people who were even more embarrassed than Rico.
Rico found a dark corner at random, and then began to deal with his injuries in detail.
"Little brother, why is it like this? Is there another war outside?" a one-eyed old man asked weakly.
"I don't know, there is another reason for my injury." Rico replied coldly.
The old man sighed, and then he whispered: "Little brother, I want to ask you something... I am dying. I hope that after I die, you can help me bury my body in the cemetery in XX Village outside the city. Go in."
Rico gave him a surprised look. "Why do you want my help?"
"Because of your eyes...your eyes are still clear." The old man looked directly into Rico's eyes and said.
Rico also looked into the old man's eyes. Those were turbid and dim eyes, and even the light of blessing could not penetrate that layer of turbidity.
Rico was silent for a while. "If I had the chance, I would do it."
"Thank you..." The old man smiled, then lay aside and fell asleep.
Others around him moved further away.
They knew that the old man was probably going to die soon.
Rico looked at the old man and inexplicably remembered the drink he drank before. It seemed that it was because of drinking that drink that he entered that incredible dream.
But the drink has been used up and can no longer be shared with the old man.
For some reason, Rico suddenly wanted to know where the businessman got that drink.
Rico took care of his injuries roughly, and then fell into a deep sleep.
With the support of the herbal medicine, he should not die, but recovery will still take time.
Falling into dreamland again, Rico saw the familiar and pretty figure again.
But what's strange is that he didn't find the dog around.
Didn't the dog fall asleep? Rico thought subconsciously.
But he didn't care much about that.
He walked towards Torina, who was expanding her dream.
"Lady Torena, I probably know how I entered your dream."
"Oh! Really? Can you tell me?" Tolena stopped what she was doing and looked at Rico seriously.
"I guess it was because I drank some kind of grape drink that I entered your dream."
"I stole that drink from a businessman. Did you sell those drinks to him?" Rico asked.
"Grape drink?" Tolena was a little surprised. The current wine has not yet completed fermentation, so why does Rico drink grape beverage?
Then Tolena thought of her missing foot washing water.
"Uh..." Her little face suddenly turned red.
She was smart and had already thought of the cause and effect of the matter. But she didn't expect that the businessman would be so strange. Not stealing grapes, but stealing her foot-washing water.
"Well... I'm not sure yet whether it's the drink. If you have time, I have a lot of grape drinks here. You can let others try it." Tolena said.
"Okay." Rico agreed.
Then he became curious about the work Torina did. "Are you constructing a dream? How can I help?"
"It's a bit difficult to construct a dream, but I've thought of a good way." Tolena took out a pickaxe and handed it to Rico.
"There are various materials in this pickaxe. You just need to build it according to this engineering drawing."
Rico took the engineering drawing, which didn't look too difficult.
So he wielded a pickaxe and began to construct a dream with Torina.
In reality, Rico's body suddenly moved.
He stuck out his tongue and gasped, and then his two big black eyes began to look around.
Sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff~
Rico got on all fours and ran out of the dilapidated house lightly.
No one else in the house even noticed he was gone.
Rico kept crawling all the way and trotted to the window of a family. He squatted there, waiting for the window to open.
Because in its impression, the hostess of this house would often throw some food to it.
That's right, it's Gouzi who controls Rico's body now.
In the room, a plump lady's eyes were full of sorrow. Her husband, a soldier, has been missing for several months now.
She looked at the prepared meal with infinite sadness in her heart.
"Woof woof!" A familiar voice came from outside the window.
The wife was slightly startled. She had not seen the old dog for a long time. She thought the dog was dead. I didn't expect to hear it again this time.
"Maybe one day I can hear my husband's voice..." The wife thought this was a good sign.
She opened the window and looked around, but she didn't see the dog.
Instead, a very suspicious-looking person was squatting there, sticking out his tongue at her.
"Ah!!!" she screamed and closed the window.
She was so frightened that her heart was pounding. The man looked obviously not normal.
"Woof!" the man barked.
After hearing this, the wife immediately felt chills running down her spine, and she felt her legs were a little weak.
It seemed that she had really encountered a pervert, and she wanted to ask her neighbors for help. But most of the neighbors nearby are also women...
Thinking of this, my wife couldn't help crying with sadness.
In troubled times, it is really difficult for women.
The dog was still wondering why he wasn't fed.
It whimpered and made a sad sound.
And the lady had already been so frightened that she collapsed on the ground and became stiff...
The dog squatted there for nearly an hour, and finally left helplessly.
It's back to that shabby house again.
It sniffed the hardened old man on the ground. The old man was dead.
"Woooo~" Gouzi groaned and sat down.
Its sound disturbed those sleeping next to it.
"What's wrong? Is he dead?" The people next to him seemed to have expected it.
Gouzi couldn't understand their words, but he could also feel the sadness around him.
It lay next to the old man and whimpered.
Others were startled by Rico's strange behavior. They thought that this little brother might have been stimulated and was not mentally normal.
"Death is inevitable, and returning to the golden tree is a beautiful thing..." the people around comforted him.
At this moment, Rico suddenly got up from the ground, his face looked a little ugly.
Only now did he realize that Gouzi would take control of his body when he was not around.
"Did I...do something strange?" Rico couldn't help but ask.
"It's okay. It's normal to be unable to bear the pressure." People around comforted him.
Rico's expression became even more difficult to watch. Because he found that his body was still in pain, and there were many broken scratches on his hands.
It looked like his hand had been in contact with the ground for a long time.
Rico sighed and sat silently.
It was still night, so the city gate was probably closed.
He needed to wait for dawn to leave the city and bury the old man's body.
He wanted to continue sleeping for a while, but he was afraid that the dog would do something strange.
But gradually, Gouzi seemed to have fallen into a dream, and Rishi quickly fell into a deep sleep.
In the dream, Rico was helping Tolena with her work while staring at Gouzi.
After these few switches between dreams and reality, Rico has mastered the trick. Even without Tolena's assistance, he could enter and exit the dream freely.
The dog looked a little depressed, and he didn't know what was sad.
Lee had no time to pay attention to it, he was too busy working.
He wants to build himself a house in this dream.
But after Rico had been working for a long time, Gouzi was still worried.
Rico finally stopped. He came to the dog and touched it.
"Forget about those troublesome things here! Come on, let me build you a doghouse!"
Rico led the dog and built a small kennel next to his house.
"Woof woof!" The dog finally forgot his worries and twirled his tail happily.
Early the next morning, Rico opened his eyes.
He returned to reality with his dog in tow.
He stood up holding on to the wall and moved his stiff body.
Then he carried the old man's body on his back and said goodbye to the people in the house.
"If you really can't survive, you can go to the manor farthest outside the city to seek help from Her Highness Michaela."
"Michaela? Are you talking about that demigod? I remember she should be a little girl, right?"
"Forget it, I heard that His Highness is also having a very unhappy life. Why should we bother others?"
People shook their heads.
They had also imagined that His Highness Michaela could stop the war, but that Highness was too young...
After Michaela's negotiations with the nobles failed, people no longer placed their hopes on her.
"..." Rico looked helpless at this scene.
In fact, not only these people, but also he thought Her Royal Highness Michaela was unreliable at the time.
Rico said nothing more, he carried the old man's body and left the house.
He wanted to keep his promise and let the old man's body be buried in his home.
Rico left the city and followed the road to the village the old man mentioned.
At this time, the sky had darkened, and Rico's stomach began to growl.
He hasn't eaten for a long time.
Ga! Ga! Crows gathered in the sky above the village and made an unpleasant sound.
The sun sets in the west and dyes the clouds in the sky red.
At this time, only the ruins of the village were left, and Rico quickly found the location of the cemetery by relying on the dog's sense of smell.
He put the old man's body aside, then picked up the worn wooden shovel next to the cemetery and began to dig a hole.
There are roots of the golden tree at the bottom of the cemetery. As long as people are buried here, their souls can enter the divine kingdom of the golden tree.
When the hole was dug, the sun had completely set.
Rico was a little exhausted.
He sat next to the pit and began to rest.
Sniff~ He sniffed the air, hoping to find some remaining food in the village.
Don't tell me, he really found it.
He found a package of food in an old stove.
Inside are dried pancakes.
Even after all this time, there is still no mold.
So he started gobbling it up.
After eating these foods, he finally regained his strength.
So he began to bury the old man and erected a tombstone for him.
After finishing everything, he sat on a millstone in a daze.
"A world full of pain like this really makes people not want to stay for a moment." Rico recalled the beautiful world in his dream.
Tap tap tap~
There was a chaotic sound of horse hooves, and Rico was instantly alarmed.
He secretly hid in an inconspicuous place.
Many injured knights passed through the village and ran into the distance. It looked like they had lost the battle, they didn't even put up the flag.
Li Ke waited for them to pass before coming out of the hiding place.
He continued walking in the opposite direction of the knights' advance.
His instinct told him that there might be an unswept battlefield ahead.
Sure enough, when he walked to the second half of the night, he smelled a lot of blood through his sense of smell.
Ahead is a fresh battlefield.
The scale of this battlefield is not large, and it seems that a small force of enemy knights should have infiltrated.
Rico got into the pile of dead people and began to skillfully search for their valuable belongings.
"This long knife is good. It can be kept so intact..." Rico picked up some useful equipment.
These equipment can be sold for a lot of money.
"Oh! How scary! Why are there so many dead?" A sudden voice came, startling Rico.
"Your Highness Tolena?" Li Ke was a little helpless. He found that his body seemed to have become public and anyone could occupy it.
"I'm sorry, I'm really curious about the situation on your side, so I came to take a look. Please don't be angry." Michaela's voice came.
"Ha! It doesn't matter anymore. As long as you don't do weird things with my body." Rico accepted his fate.
In this way, the two men and the dog began to clean up the battlefield.
"It's so pitiful... they are all dead, there is no one alive," Mikayla said.
"Yes, the charge between knights is so dangerous. It is a great luck to be alive." Rico said pointedly.
"Woo~ Can I pray for them?" Michaela said.
"Well, you'd better hurry up. It's not a good place to stay for a long time." Rico said.
"Ok!"
Mikaela borrowed Rico's body and she cast a golden prayer.
This prayer allows the soul of the deceased to quickly return to the golden tree without having to bury the deceased in a tomb.
After everything was done, Micaila suggested that Rico go to her manor to have a look.
Rico is not opposed to this.
So he took the collected trophies and quickly set off along a path.
Shortly after he left, a large group of knights returned to the scene, and they began to collect the body and organize the relics.
On the other side, Rico relied on the dog's keen sense of smell to avoid the ambush of some wild animals.
After another day of trekking, Rico finally arrived at Michaela's manor.
And Michaela had already prepared fruits to welcome Rico.
Rico looked at Michaela and couldn't help but be curious. "Why are you different in reality and in your dreams?"
"Oh! This is a secret! I can't tell you yet!" Michaela said.
"...Okay." Li Ke didn't care, he started to pick up the fruit and wolfed it down.
It wasn't until he was full that he formally looked at Mikaela.
"What do you think? I don't believe that as a demigod, you would be willing to live in such a remote small manor."
Michaela was a little confused. "I think it's great here! It would be better if everyone could stop fighting!"
"You are really innocent." Li Ke felt helpless.
"Oh! By the way! Some wine will be made soon! I hope you can help me go to the city to sell some!" Michaela said.
"That magical drink? Okay, that one should be very popular." Rico agreed.
"How much are you going to sell it for?"
"do not know……"
"What's your output?"
"About this much..." Michaela gestured.
"It's too little. It seems it can only be retailed. Okay, I probably know how to do it." Rico nodded.
"By the way, there are many people without jobs in the city. Do you want to hire them to expand?"
"Oh! Okay! There are too few people here! And I remember that there are many homeless people in the city. This manor is very big, you can take them here to live!" Mikayla said excitedly.
"Well, that's not a problem. However, I heard that there are wild beasts nearby. Will there be any safety issues?"
"No, everyone is actually very good. As long as people don't enter their territory, they will not attack humans." Michaela said.
"And the big dog has given me its territory. This place used to be its territory." Michaela pointed to the manor and said.
"You can actually communicate with wild animals? It's amazing!" Rico was somewhat impressed.
"Well...but I can't communicate with those smiling adults. Although we speak the same language, I can't always understand what they say." Michaela showed a distressed look.
Rico showed a trace of ridicule upon hearing this. "It's normal. After all, those guys are worse than beasts."
After complaining to Michaela for a while, Rico finally felt much better.
He plans to stay here for a while in the next few days, and when the wine is ready, he will go to the city to sell it.
These few days are just enough for him to recover from his injuries.
Time passed by, and under Michaela's treatment, Rico's injuries healed very quickly.
And the first batch of wine was successfully brewed.
Rico tried drinking some, and he thought it tasted pretty good. Although the wine taste is very light, the sweetness is very memorable.
This was slightly different from the drink he drank last time. This one was obviously purer.
The most important thing is that after drinking this wine, he feels full of strength. Maybe some manual workers will like this wine very much.
"It's really good! Maybe I should thank that adult next time I see him!" Michaela also drank some, and she thought it was really delicious.
She now felt very grateful for the nobleman who had told her the wine recipe.
Rico didn't care much about this. He cleaned himself specially and put on a neat set of clothes.
He carried a barrel of wine on his back and some trophies collected on the battlefield and set off.
"I'll try to sell a barrel first and see how everyone responds," Rico said.
"Okay! I hope everything goes well for you!" Michaela waved her little hand to him.
Rico smiled slightly and set off on his journey. It is so comfortable to live with His Highness Michaela, and he has fallen in love with the life here.
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