Chapter 33 I am not a bug!
Going home.
Ulu never thought that twenty years later, his home would still be here, nor did he expect that he would return home in this way.
He clearly did not find his home during the day when he could still see, but at night when it was pitch black and he lost his vision, he relied on instinct to return to this place.
Curled up in the ruins, he didn't dare look back. He didn't dare to think whether there was still someone buried under the ruins... He didn't dare to think about it, and could only keep reminding himself in his heart: "This is not my home. My home is gone long ago. This is an illusion."
The sound of Ulu's heart shaking was so loud that Bai Wei could hear it clearly. He raised his head in surprise and looked at Ulu, then looked at the ruins around him, but said nothing.
To be honest, "going home" was not in Bai Wei's plan. After all, no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't know where Ulu's home was. But Ulu's reaction at this time was still within Bai Wei's expectations.
All the experiences today have brought Uru to the point of complete emotional breakdown.
It's like a volcano about to erupt.
There is only one last step left.
And this last step... Bai Wei turned his "gaze" to the small wooden house not far away and waited silently.
Soon, a noise came from the direction where Uru came from. Uru turned around and saw knights walking towards him with torches.
Ulu quickly hid his body deeper, completely hiding under the ruins.
These dilapidated charcoal gave Ulu an indescribable sense of security, just as if it had not yet become a ruin.
Ulu was shocked by this thought, and then he shook his head repeatedly, trying to get rid of these things from his mind.
…
Kelsey stood in front of the dozens of houses, as if he remembered something, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "This place..."
The knight standing next to him turned and looked at him: "Master Knight, what did you find?"
"No." Kelsey shook his head, "I just feel that this place is a little familiar."
He recollected it briefly, and then remembered.
"Ah, isn't this where that guy Uru used to live? I heard that old bastard Luji mention it before. There are dozens of families outside the town. It seems that this is the place."
Thinking of this, Kelse couldn't help but curl his lips into a scornful arc.
"Have you gone home to see your mother at a time like this? What a pity, your mother died a long time ago."
The knights looked at each other, not knowing what Kelse meant. Kelse was too lazy to explain. He just waved his hand and said, "I know this village. There is really no way out. There is only this one road leading to the town. Let's do this. I will guard here, and you split into several groups to search, door to door. See where that guy is hiding. Once you find him, send me a signal immediately. You may not be able to deal with him, but I can."
"Yes! Sir Knight Commander!"
All the knights obeyed the order, including the two servants captured by the knights. Although they were reluctant to help, under Kelse's intimidation, they still followed the knights fearfully into this small village with only dozens of households.
The flames suddenly broke into this quiet village, as if they were going to set the entire village on fire.
Seeing this scene, Ulu actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Because his home... No, because there were no houses around the ruins where he was, so the knights didn't even go this way.
And his position was at the front of the village. Only when all the knights entered the village would he have the opportunity to run back to the town along the same route.
The only problem was that the one guarding the way here was Kelce.
Kelse stood there quietly, with his hands on the hilt of the holy sword, like a mountain, a mountain that Uru dared not even look at.
Therefore, Ulu could only hope that this village could cause some commotion and attract Kelse to find it. In this way, he could take the opportunity to escape. But in this small village with only dozens of households, where at least half of the people died in the disaster, could there really be anything that could attract Kelse's attention?
Uru didn't know, so he could only pray and wait, wait for fate to favor him, wait for the God of the Rhine...ah, he had already betrayed the Rhine.
Just when Uru was troubled by such strange thoughts again, the first team of knights had broken into the house closest to Uru, and then dragged two people out of the house.
Ulu subconsciously glanced over there, and then his eyes widened immediately.
Because he was very familiar with the people who were dragged out by the knight...it was the little boy and his sister.
It was then that Ulu suddenly realized that the house closest to him was actually the home of that little devil!
At this moment, Ulu's heart was beating rapidly.
How could this be that little devil's home? ! How could this be that little devil's home? !
…
"Kid!" A knight impatiently tapped the boy's face with his holy sword. The sharp edge of the sword instantly cut the boy's face. "I ask you, have you seen a priest?"
The little boy raised his head, looked at the knight who asked the question in confusion, then looked at the other knights, and then shook his head slowly: "No."
"You don't have it or you don't want to say it!" The knight said viciously, "If you dare to hide it, I will kill you! So think it through!"
The little boy was frightened by the knight, but he still said weakly: "Yes, indeed not."
Then the knight turned to look at his sister and patted her face in the same way: "Have you seen a priest?"
The younger sister also stared at the knight blankly. She was even more dumb than her brother, as if she didn't even understand what the knight said.
"Tsk, what a fool." The knight retracted his sword in disdain and waved his hand, "Next, but you are not allowed to go back. Wait here first!"
Seeing that these knights did not do anything more outrageous to the little ghost brother and sister, Uruna's heart relaxed a little.
Although Ulu didn't know why the kid said he had never seen him, he could clearly say he had seen him during the day... Maybe the kid was not stupid and knew that it would be troublesome if he said he had seen him.
This can only be the reason, what else could it be?
Ulu didn't want to think too much, he just watched quietly, waiting for the situation to change.
As the knights advanced deeper, family after family was dragged out of their houses and questioned one after another.
And these people had indeed never seen Ulu. Even if they had seen him, it was during the day. When Ulu ran over just now, he was not discovered by anyone, so naturally no one would know that Ulu was hiding in the ruins and watching.
I have asked all the villagers and they all said they have never seen Uru. Is that the end of it?
Uru, who was also a clergyman of the Rhine, knew that this was naturally impossible, and the next step was to conduct a real search.
The knights entered every house and smashed everything in the villagers' homes, even the earthen bowls and pots, as if they were afraid that Uru might be hiding inside.
Faced with such atrocities, the villagers did not dare to resist, or they did not have the strength to resist. They had long been numb. They just sat there stupidly, like the little ghost's sister, with no life in their eyes. After all, there was no food, so what was the use of other things?
Ulu, who was hiding in the ruins, was also frantically thinking about how to escape. If the villagers couldn't find him after searching all their houses, they would definitely expand the search range, and then he would not be able to hide here anymore.
At this time, Kelsey was still standing at the entrance. Although his expression was a little impatient, he was still waiting.
Hurry, anyone will do, just lead him away, just lead him away!
Ulu prayed in his heart again.
At this moment, he heard someone shouting excitedly: "I found it, I found it, that guy was definitely here!"
Ulu was stunned, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, then his eyes widened.
Because he saw that the landlord's servant, whom he had beaten before, was holding a bag of bloody food in his hand.
From that little devil's house.
…
"What's going on?" Looking at the bag of grain in the servant's hand, the knight frowned slightly, "What is this?"
"Sir Knight, this is the food that the priest stole from us during the day!" The servant shouted excitedly, "It's this bag! We found it in this kid's house. The priest must have been here."
Hearing this, the knights' eyes immediately focused on the little boy's face.
"What's the matter?" the knight asked calmly, "You just said that you had never seen the priest."
The little boy immediately lowered his head and whispered, "I picked it up."
"Picked it up?" The knight winked at the servant.
The servant understood and immediately walked forward and kicked the little boy, knocking him down.
"Picked it up? You're still lying until now?!" The servant pinched the boy's neck hard, "How dare you lie in front of the respected Knight?!"
The knight also spoke coldly: "I ask you again, where did this bag of food come from? And where is the priest?"
The little boy still shook his head: "I picked this up. I have never seen any priest."
"...Very good." The knight nodded, waved to the servant, and turned around.
The two servants naturally understood what the knights meant, so they started punching and kicking the little boy again.
"You damn bastard, why don't you tell the truth?!"
"Don't lie to my Lord Knight! Have you ever considered the consequences?!"
The little boy just held his head with his hands and let them beat him without any reaction.
This scene was naturally seen by Ulu.
"Why doesn't he admit it?" Ulu muttered, "Why doesn't he admit that he has seen me?"
Ulu couldn't understand why the little boy didn't tell anyone that he had seen him during the day. Why did he keep such a thing secret?
Bai Wei said slowly, "Because you helped him bury his mother."
Wu Lu's body trembled slightly, and then he immediately shook his head: "No, this is impossible. No one would..."
He couldn't say the second half of the sentence, because the little boy was indeed doing this. The two servants were very cruel and beat him until he was covered in blood in just a few hits, but he still stubbornly kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
But it is obvious that he just needs to tell the truth, saying that he saw Ulu during the day but not at night, and that will be enough.
Why not say it?
"Stupid, idiot..." Ulu cursed the little boy in a trembling voice, "What an idiot."
Bai Wei didn't say anything after hearing Wu Lu's scolding. He just looked at the little boy quietly while listening to Wu Lu trying to justify himself: "Oh no, he's not stupid. He's smart. He knows that if he admits that he saw me during the day, these guys will definitely ask him to find out where I am now, which will put him in even more trouble. So he might as well just say that he hasn't seen me. That way..."
Ulu himself was at a loss for words after coming to this conclusion.
And at this moment, he finally heard the voice he had been waiting for for a long time.
"What's going on?"
It's Kelsey.
The impatient knight finally walked from the intersection to the boy's home. He looked at the boy who was beaten to death and asked coldly, "What happened?"
The opportunity has come!
Uru was instantly ecstatic.
He seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and immediately climbed out of the rubble carefully, ready to escape when the little boy attracted Kelsey's attention.
Because he was afraid of causing noise, Ulu moved very lightly, climbing quietly in the ruins, making him look like an... ugly insect.
"Are you going to escape?" Bai Wei's calm voice sounded.
"Of course! If we don't run away at this time, when will we run away?!" Ulu responded to Bai Wei as a matter of course.
"Is the child okay?"
Ulu's body trembled slightly, but soon returned to normal, allowing him to continue crawling forward, while thinking to himself: "What does this have to do with me?"
"He will die."
"So what?" Ulu gritted his teeth and said, "He will die because he doesn't know my whereabouts, so he was killed by Kelsey. What does this have to do with me? If he knew my whereabouts, I would be the one to die!"
"Really?"
“How else could it be…” A second before climbing out of the ruins, Ulu subconsciously looked back, and immediately felt his heart and lungs stop.
He saw the little boy, and the little boy saw him.
All the knights had their backs to him and were standing, so no one saw Uru crawling in the mud, except... the little boy who was beaten to the ground and was also in the mud.
Ulu was very sure that the little boy saw him, because the most distinctive feature of the little boy was his eyes, which could see very far away.
So, Ulu almost foresaw that the little boy would immediately raise his finger and point at him.
In this way, the little boy could stand up from the mud, but he would die in the mud forever, so he suffered cardiopulmonary arrest.
But what he didn't expect was that after looking at him, the little boy said nothing, did nothing, and even immediately retracted his gaze, hugged his head again, and buried himself deeply.
Shock, incomprehension, confusion... and many other emotions surged in Ulu's heart at the same time, making him open his mouth involuntarily, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.
In the end, all of this was overwhelmed by the stronger desire to survive, so he immediately turned his head back, then crawled out of the ruins, left the muddy place, and fled into the darkness.
Apart from escaping, he didn't want to think about anything else or do anything else.
Leave here, leave here forever.
Live, live at all costs.
Everything else has nothing to do with him.
Now, all we have to do is run into the night.
Looking at Ulu like this, Bai Wei knew that it was time.
"You really ran away like this." Bai Wei said slowly.
Uru did not respond.
"Honestly, I'm not surprised by your decision. Do you remember what I said to you a few hours ago? Or rather, do you remember what you said yourself?"
Ulu seemed not to hear it, but Bai Wei could feel that his steps became a little disordered.
"You said it before, you became like this because you met Luigi at the critical moment of life and death, and that little devil met you. You were originally the same person, but your different experiences turned you into different people."
"...Shut up!" Ulu's voice trembled in retort, "Stop talking."
"But I have a different opinion from you. Do you remember what I said to you? Different species will become different things under the same environment. This is innate."
"I told you to shut up, I told you to shut up!"
Bai Wei acted as if he hadn't heard anything and continued to talk to himself: "For example, some people are born flowers even though they all come out of the mud, just like that little devil..."
"Shut up!" Ulu stopped and grabbed the middle finger of his left hand tightly, as if he wanted to pull Bai Wei out.
But Bai Wei stood still, and even the little head with only fingerprints on it gave Ulu the feeling that it was smiling. This made Ulu feel scared, but not because of Bai Wei himself, but...
"Are you afraid of that fact? Afraid of the fact that I'm about to say." Bai Wei chuckled and said, "But the fact exists. Some people are born flowers..."
"Shut up ahhhh!" Ulu was almost going crazy.
Facing Ulu who was about to go berserk, Bai Wei's tone gradually turned cold and he said the words he least wanted to hear.
“But some people are born bugs.”
"Bugs, just bugs."
…
Kelsey found it boring.
This kid was inexplicably stubborn, but he was too lazy to do anything, so he just said to the two servants, "Kill his sister and see if he tells you anything."
"Yes, sir!"
The little boy immediately raised his head and looked at the two servants with horror as they held down his sister with a grin.
"No, don't..." The little boy finally spoke, his words full of pleading, "Please, don't..."
"You know how to beg for mercy now? It's too late!" The servant picked up the knife, "Who told you to... huh?"
He suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps, which made him subconsciously turn his head to see who was running.
Then, his head just flew off.
A rusty shovel cut off his neck and blood gushed out like a fountain.
Everyone was stunned.
They looked at the man who emerged from the darkness, wearing dirty priest clothes but looking like a devil, and roared at Knight Commander Kelse at the top of his lungs while being bathed in blood.
"I!"
"Not a bug!"
(End of this chapter)
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