Chapter 269 Your Most Important Thing

The middle-aged drunk frowned. After the old man in black robe finished explaining the details of the gambling, he turned and left, then suddenly disappeared in the crowd.

After he left there, he kept muttering to himself.

"I didn't fucking agree to it! Humph, that old man, what the hell is that thing? I didn't agree to it at all!"

"Damn it! This kind of bet can't be established at all! I didn't agree to it!"

Having said that, he was still filled with fear deep in his heart, because there were too many strange and mysterious powers in this world, and people generally would rather believe in them than not believe in them.

Even if he did not agree, the bet might have been established and involved some mysterious and terrifying forces.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged drunk shuddered.

He recalled the details of the bet.

"Until the new day comes, do not touch any liquids..."

What on earth is this?

The middle-aged drunk was filled with deep fear. He took a deep breath and then decided to be as careful as possible and not touch any liquid for the rest of the time.

It is now afternoon and there is still some time before night, so I must hold on.

"careful!"

Suddenly, the door of a nearby room opened, and the fat maid poured the dirty water in the bucket directly out of the house.

He was so frightened that he dodged violently and barely avoided it. Fortunately, he was not splashed with a drop of water.

"Pay your damn attention!"

"Fuck you! Can't you hide?"

This street was originally a gathering place for outsiders, and the people there were tough. The fat maid did not hesitate to yell at him, causing the surrounding citizens to laugh.

The middle-aged man was completely sober. He took a deep breath, frowned, and began to avoid all kinds of liquids very carefully.

"Be careful and go home now. There will be too many unexpected situations if you stay outside."

He touched his pocket and decided that he had stolen enough money today, so he went home.

However, after walking down this street, he saw several familiar drunk friends coming towards him, with smiles on their faces, small wine barrels in their hands, and staggering towards him.

The drunken friends said loudly, reeking of alcohol:

"You want to drink? Hahahaha, let us buy you a drink!"

"Come on, come on! Drink, drink, drink!"

The middle-aged man was horrified. He immediately stepped back and then ran as fast as he could towards his home. He didn't want to stay outside any longer.

"Hey, why did this guy run away?"

Those drunks were completely confused. They had never encountered such a situation before. How could someone offer them a drink but they still refused?

“Huff, huff, huff…”

"boom!"

He was running and gasping for breath. Suddenly he heard a thunder. He looked up and saw that the sky had become gloomy, as if it was going to rain soon!

He suddenly felt fear deep down inside.

It was a clear sky just now, but it suddenly seemed like it was going to rain. Why did this happen?

"boom!"

Thunder rumbled and dark clouds gathered in the sky.

Not sure if it was an illusion, but the middle-aged man suddenly stopped. He was extremely shocked to see a pair of cold yellow snake eyes in the dark clouds in the sky. The coldness contained in the eyes made him feel extremely frightened in his heart. For a moment, a kind of horrible chill instantly flowed to his fingertips.

It gazes at the tiny humans on the ground.

That is...

What the hell!

"ah!"

He let out a loud roar almost in collapse, and ran as fast as he could. He finally arrived at his home door a few minutes later and knocked on it repeatedly.

“Boom boom boom!”

"Open the door! Open the door quickly, Dad is back! Open the door quickly!"

After knocking for a while, the thirteen-year-old daughter immediately opened the door and looked at her father with joy on her face.

"Dad, you're back!"

"Boom!" The thunder sounded again.

The middle-aged man took a deep breath and walked quickly into the room, cold sweat pouring down his face because he soon saw traces of raindrops falling on the ground outside.

“Wow.”

It's raining.

He was terrified.

It was that thing that was causing all this trouble. It actually, actually made it rain!

The middle-aged man locked the door tightly and didn't want to leave the house again.

"Dad, do you want some water?" The daughter came over with water.

He immediately shouted in fear:

"No, I don't want anything to drink!"

"oh."

After a long time, the middle-aged man just felt sleepy and weak, and his body wanted to sleep very much.

So tired.

Drunk, beaten, frightened, and running wildly, his limited physical strength had completely reached its limit. He could no longer hold on and fell on the bed dizzy.

It's getting close to midnight now.

I'm afraid that in another hour, I will win.

Finally, he couldn't resist the sleepiness that kept coming, so he turned to look at his daughter and said, "Daddy needs to have a good rest. Don't let anyone in before tomorrow, okay? Baby."

The little girl nodded and said very obediently: "Okay, Dad, I understand."

Everything will be fine when he wakes up. Maybe he will really get a pound of gold. He was so nervous and scared that he wanted to sleep because as long as he fell asleep, he would no longer be anxious.

Just like in normal days, as long as you get drunk, all the bad things in reality will disappear.

if only……

Finally, the middle-aged man fell into a deep sleep.

Before he knew it, he actually felt a cool and damp feeling on his face.

"ah!"

The middle-aged man suddenly woke up and sat up, then was shocked to find that it was his daughter standing beside him crying!

“Woo…”

The crying girl looked at her father, still holding some coins in her hand, and said in pain:

"Dad, you work so hard outside and earn so much money. You're injured, but I can't help you at all. I feel so useless."

"Can you please not get hurt again, Dad?"

She looked at her father earnestly and begged.

"I don't want you to get hurt, Dad. I don't mind if I don't have bread. I can eat beans."

He touched the tears on his face in a daze and was speechless for a long time.

I……

All along, the middle-aged man deceived his daughter, saying that he earned his money through hard work and never revealed the fact that he was a thief.

She is proud of her father.

Therefore, I feel like a useless burden.

But how could she be a burden?

He was originally useless, with no wife, no family, no children. It was she who suddenly appeared at the door, the baby on that snowy night that gave him hope and courage...

I didn't save her, she saved me.

Then, he realized something horrible!

I lost the bet and the most important thing is about to be taken away!

The next moment, without any warning, the middle-aged man saw the old man in black robe standing behind his daughter.

"You lose."

His voice was extremely cold, without even a trace of human emotion. He slowly stretched out his old scaly hand and gently placed it on the girl's head.

An unprecedented fear rose in the middle-aged man's heart, and he suddenly stood up and howled loudly!

“No, no, no, no! Please, give me one more chance! No, ahhhhh! No!”

Almost in the blink of an eye, my daughter's body turned into a lifelike stone sculpture, but even so, she was still as beautiful as when she was flesh and blood.

"Aaaaaaaaah! No!"

The middle-aged man's tears burst out madly. He hugged the stone sculpture of his daughter in agony, and kept praying and repenting, wanting the old man in black robe to give him another chance.

“Hahahahahahahahaha!”

The old man in black robe laughed mockingly and ignored the man completely.

The next moment, he opened the door and walked out, then turned into a huge and powerful black dragon, flew directly into the sky, and left the city called Rus.

——

Half a month later.

A dirty and completely crazy middle-aged man was sitting on the street, holding a stone sculpture of a girl and muttering to himself.

"No, no... give me another chance... no..."

His eyes were confused and completely lifeless.

It looks like a body of flesh and blood that has been dead for a long time but is still moving.

Many people expressed sympathy, but ordinary people would avoid the stone sculpture when they saw it. They did not dare to provoke powerful supernatural beings and unpredictable mysterious existences.

“This is it.”

Two men walked out from the crowd coming and going on the street. They came to the middle-aged man who was completely crazy, and one of the "old men" squatted down.

He was an "old man" with deep nasolabial folds, a head of snow-white hair, and deep eyes full of wisdom.

Behind him was a very handsome middle-aged man with silver hair.

They were so different. Just standing in the crowd, their superior temperament made them different from the people on the street and they attracted everyone's attention inadvertently.

"Hello, I'm Byrne Fischer."

The "old man" smiled, stared deeply into the madman's cloudy and confused eyes, and continued:

"Let me get straight to the point, my friend. I want to ask you something... about a black dragon."

"That old lizard also did something very cruel to my father. For decades, we have been looking for his whereabouts... I hope I can get your help."

The crazy middle-aged man remained unmoved and did not react at all. Byrne narrowed his eyes and began to think.

Until Byrne came to his ear and whispered.

"Trust us, tell us everything you know. Please understand one thing, that will be the only chance for your daughter to 'come back to life'."

Finally, a hint of clarity gradually emerged in the madman's eyes.

"You, what did you say?"

"Can she still survive?"

Byrne nodded slowly, and then he stood up again from where he was squatting. Standing next to Chris, he was like an invisible mountain.

"At least I can be sure that your daughter is not completely dead."

(End of this chapter)