Chapter 223: Secret Ritual among Girls (Part 1)
After the initial joy of hearing the news, the girl calmed down again.
In fact, on this island, no one can actually reach the cliff, not even the only fifth-level lord in the entire port city.
Therefore, she could not verify whether the old man's words were true or not.
In this closed port city, the residents are very conservative and xenophobic.
Because of her unique hair and eye color, as well as her slightly strange dreams, the girl is often isolated and rejected by her playmates of the same age on the island.
They called her a wild child, a bastard, a monster, threw stones at her, tore her clothes, poured dirty water on her, and frightened her with snakes they caught in the sea.
Until one day, a real explorer from the outside world arrived on the island.
He drove away the kids of the same age who were bullying the girl, and told the curious girl about things in the outside world.
Then the explorer left, and the girl never saw him again.
But on the evening of the day she met the explorer, the children bullied her even more severely.
They vented their anger at being driven away by the explorer on the girl, punching and kicking her. Regardless of her violent struggles and resistance, they tied her up with a found rope and threw her into the ruins of the building that was said to be haunted by ghosts.
Many people had disappeared in that suddenly appeared ruined area, and the adults on the island designated it as a forbidden area and avoided it like the plague.
Even if she could break free from the ropes, the night had already fallen on the island. No one dared to walk on the streets at night, so she could only choose to spend the night in the haunted house.
The cold night wind blew through the dark rocks of the ruins. The tightly bound girl was wearing only a torn and dirty dress.
She was cold, hungry, and in pain all over. The surrounding darkness seemed to have a life of its own, gradually engulfing the girl's consciousness.
But after the night fell completely on the island, she suddenly saw in the dim light that an orange-red light suddenly appeared in the direction of the house in the center of the ruins, which was originally pitch black.
When she woke up again, she was already in this magnificent house.
Nothing in the room would change. She tried moving some of the furniture around and even breaking vases, but over time they would all return to their original places.
Rona thought she was dead, but when she saw the familiar island environment outside the window, she realized that she remained in this world in a new way of existence.
Perhaps due to her obsession, she found that she no longer felt cold and hungry, and had the ability to change her clothes and make objects float by relying on her thoughts.
However, the house had a strange power that prevented her from leaving the ruins.
In a corner of the ruins, Rona found her message in a bottle.
The children who bullied her threw her message in the bottle into the ruins. Fortunately, it fell into a clump of weeds and was not broken.
Unable to leave, the girl had to live alone in the house.
From the initial loneliness to the gradual adaptation later.
The only pleasure every day is to observe the pedestrians passing by outside the ruins.
But gradually, she began to notice something unusual about this port city.
The scenes repeat endlessly, and the cycle restarts every time the full moon comes...
Moreover, she couldn't remember who her family was. Her memory was completely blank.
Occasionally, someone would mistakenly come here, and Rona discovered another ability of hers: she could see the invisible halos on these outsiders.
If you stay in this house for too long, the halo will slowly turn black. The speed of the transformation is determined by the brightness, and the brightness of the halo is related to the strength of the outsider.
But when this 'light' turns into a midnight-like black color, outsiders can no longer leave.
For some reason, the weaker outsiders would run away in fear when they saw her, while the stronger outsiders would attack her directly when they met her.
They called her a monster.
Even after death, she couldn't get rid of this title.
After several terrifying experiences of having her consciousness fall into darkness, whenever she encountered a powerful outsider, she would carefully hide in the fireplace, hoping not to be discovered.
This kind of time has lasted for so long that even Rona herself couldn't remember how long it had lasted. Until a few days ago, a half-elf girl with the faintest aura she had ever seen suddenly broke into her life...
She doesn't look very smart and has no sense of crisis. No one knows how she grew so big.
Not only did he completely ignore her warnings, he even slept in front of her without any precautions.
Unlike other outsiders before, the girl was not afraid of her sitting in front of the window, and even took the trouble to try to chat with her.
However, she often said things that were hard to understand, such as 'NPC', 'mission', 'copy', 'dog planning', etc. The last one was probably some special kind of alienated monster?
In the following time, Rona further confirmed her judgment.
He would treat her as an ordinary girl who was trapped by the ruins like himself. He would even look at her with sympathy and tell her what he saw and heard during the day.
For the sake of her, with whom he had only been together for a few days, he would stand like a fool in front of the attack of that powerful outsider, even though his body was shaking so much that he could hardly stand.
Even after learning her true identity, he still calls her a friend, not a monster.
The girl was like a ray of light, illuminating her originally dull life.
So, Rona wanted to give her a little gift in return.
She remembered the half-elf girl's favorite thing.
Vivian once told her that it was called "mission reward"? "...Everything here cannot be moved."
"Vivian, I'm glad to have met you."
"I know, it's pretty ordinary and can't compare to your other 'mission rewards'."
Looking at the surprised look in the light green eyes of the summer night firefly in front of her, Rona's eyes slowly dropped, as if she felt a little lost.
"But this is all I have left to give you..."
"No, Lorna, I love your gift!"
Aroused with overflowing sympathy, Xia Ye Yinghuo couldn't help but suddenly hug Rona, burying her light body in his warm arms.
The latter's small body trembled suddenly, and then quickly broke free from the girl's arms.
At this moment, the health points on the half-elf girl's panel dropped significantly in an instant.
“Don’t touch!”
The girl with dark eyes shrank back with some heartache as she looked at the fireflies on the summer night whose glow suddenly dimmed.
"Excuse me for interrupting you two."
At the same time, Anvis brought Joem back here.
"Well, Miss Traveler, let me ask you one last time, do you really want to get her out of here?"
After taking a look at Xia Ye Yinghuo's embrace which had been raised by 20%, Avis turned to Xia Ye Yinghuo and confirmed it in a serious tone.
"Yes, Avis, is there any way?"
Looking at Rona beside him, Xia Yeyinghuo nodded affirmatively.
"Don't worry."
Avis smiled and turned his gaze to Rona beside him.
"So, what about you? Are you willing to follow her out of here?"
Also looking at the fireflies in the summer night, the little girl with black eyes nodded vigorously.
"I...will..."
"very good."
Avis nodded.
In this case, the conditions for the ceremony are met.
Cuckoo--
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