Silent Crown Chapter 40: Compensation

　　 "Hug, sorry, this gentleman and lady...Do you know where Hilda Alley is?"

　　The lost old woman opened her eyes wide and stared at the two in front of her with hope.

　　 This old woman is wrapped in an old headscarf. She looks very old, her face is yellow, and the white hair that leaks from under the headscarf is unkempt. Holding a small package in his arms. It seemed that she had been lost for a long time, she crouched on the square, but was treated as a beggar and waved away impatiently.

　　 her lips were whistling, not knowing what to say, her voice stammered: "Please help me, I have been looking for it for a day."

　　 "I don't know, find it myself."

　　 The little girl gave her a white look and waved her hand unhappily: "I am very busy and have no time."

　　"Bai Xi."

　　 Ye Qingxuan raised his voice, his eyes serious: "Pay attention to politeness."

　　Bai Xi looked at him, and his expression gradually collapsed impatiently. In the end, he turned helpless. He stretched out his hand reluctantly and pointed in a random direction:

　　 "There."

　　 Ye Qingxuan sighed, put her random fingers away, sighed, and looked at the old woman: "Hilda Alley is on our way back. If we don't dislike us, we will be slower If so, how about I take you there?"

　　 The old woman seemed to be stunned, and she closed her lips twice, not knowing what to say. The muddy eyes are full of gratitude: "Thank you, kind sir, otherwise I have...I don't know what to do."

　　 "It's okay, come with me."

　　 Ye Qingxuan smiled and led the way with a cane. Bai Ximan followed unhappily, quietly glared at the old woman, and muttered in a low voice: "Avalon has thousands of lost people every day, can you help?"

　　 Ye Qingxuan knocked her on the head without speaking.

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　　"Is this your first time to Avalon?"

　　 On the way back, Ye Qingxuan casually chatted with the old woman.

　　 "You can call me Emma."

　　 The old woman hobbled behind, her eyes sad: "I have kept sheep in the highlands for a lifetime, and have never left. My daughter passed away a few days ago, and my son-in-law kicked me out. My nephew I wrote to tell me that I could come here, but after I came here, I couldn't find him..."

　　 Ye Qingxuan was taken aback, and pursed his lips: "Sorry."

　　 "Nothing to be sorry." Emma's mother-in-law shook her head slightly: "My husband told me before that people always have so many misfortunes when they are alive, and sometimes...tolerance is just fine. So many hard days. , He has been with me. It’s much better now than before, and I won’t be able to hold on any longer."

　　 Bai Xi curled his mouth and snorted, but said nothing.

　　The old woman Emma didn’t care, she just smiled flatteringly, and asked softly: "Are you and your sister local?"

　　"Sister?" Ye Qingxuan glanced at Bai Xi and chuckled softly: "Almost, but she has been in Avalon for a long time, and I just came here."

　　 During the long journey, Ye Qingxuan stopped, turned into the alley behind a row of shops, and pointed to the corner not far in front: "I will arrive after passing here. I remember Hilda Alley. There are no people living in, it will be easier for you to find"

　　The old woman Emma stopped and looked at Ye Qingxuan gratefully: "Thank you for showing me the way. I really don't know what to do without you."

　　 "It's nothing, people always have to help each other." Ye Qingxuan smiled and nodded goodbye.

　　"Please come and sit with me. My nephew is a good boy, and he will repay you." Granny Emma grabbed his hand and gratefully retained: "You are a kind person, if you don’t get rewarded It would make me feel uncomfortable."

　　 "No need." Ye Qingxuan smiled, trying to draw his hand, but couldn't draw it out.

　　 He smoked again, only to find that the old woman grabbed his hand, stubbornly. There was a dead snake-like soft and slippery texture on the rotten palm, which made him unable to escape.

　　 He was stunned, and looked up at the old woman. The old woman Emma was still smiling, her wrinkled face filled with joy, but her squinted green eyes didn't have the lonely panic, but were full of creepy shame.

　　 "As you said, people always have to help each other."

　　 She grabbed Ye Qingxuan's hand, nails embedded in his skin, her hoarse voice was still full of hypocritical gratitude: "Sir, you are a good person, why don't you do me a favor?"

　　 She opened her mouth and said something softly. There was a sound of cracking ice ridges in the air.

　　 Ye Qingxuan's eyes turned black, as if snow wind swept up from under his feet, and the momentary chill seemed to drain all his strength, causing his legs to soften and he almost fell to his knees.

　　 "Hey! What are you doing, old woman?!"

　　Bai Xi finally realized something was wrong, and rushed to break her hand, but was held back by her palm: "Be polite, little girl, impolite kid, can’t sell it for a good price."

　　 Emma's voice changed from hoarse to shrill. In the last rays of the setting sun, her eyes faintly revealed a green light, like a monster. Regardless of Bai Xi's hard kicking, she stretched out her hand to pinch her chin and looked carefully: "It looks like..."

　　 She chuckled softly: "It looks like it."

　　During the kick, a folded white paper fell from her sleeve, and a profile portrait was engraved on the white paper. The white paper fell into the water, and the mud and traces blackened the face of the girl in the portrait and Bai Xi's face.

　　 Ye Qingxuan was stunned, he opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't make a sound. There was something faintly wrapped around his neck, making him almost unable to breathe.

　　 Bai Xi's lips trembled, unable to resist.

　　 The rustically dressed old woman was whispering something, her lips opened and closed, but there was no sound. There was a black wind tunnel hidden in her lungs, and a steady stream of stench was blowing out, like a rotting corpse in the mud. That kind of strands of things like spider silk, silently entwined around the two of them, drawing away all the energy of movement.

　　 "Let me go and go back to where you should be. Someone has been waiting for you for a long time."

　　 Emma scratched the girl’s face with her sharp nails, looking at her eyes that spread out of fear: “Remember what I said? People always have so many misfortunes when they are alive.

　　Sometimes, you have to be patient. "

　　 She chuckled softly, in this deserted alley. The laughter echoed on the wall, the air was undulating, and there was a vague shadow swaying, entangled Ye Qingxuan's limbs and throat, like layers of seaweed entangled in the deep sea.

　　 Then, the pain became stronger, and I could only struggle with the pain of suffocation.

　　 "Don't..."

　　 Bai Xi's pupils dilated, and he whispered in a low voice.

　　 "Come on, don't be afraid, let me go."

　　 Emma smiled and held her hand. Bai Xi was involuntarily pulled by him like a puppet doll, and walked towards the gloomy alley.

　　 In suffocation, Ye Qingxuan climbed **** the ground, trying to grab her clothes, but he missed it. He had never seen Bai Xi look so scared, apprehensive, uneasy, as if he was going to **** or something more terrifying.

　　 "Don't..."

　　In the invisible shackles, the girl opened her lips and wanted to make a sound, but the voice was as weak as a dying last word, trembling, full of fear.

　　 "...Don't."

　　 Her face suddenly twisted, as if she was enduring great pain, and her body trembled violently.

　　 Emma's footsteps stopped, and she bowed her head in astonishment. There was something bulging in her sleeve, like hot water was boiling.

　　The sudden wind opened the wide sleeves, revealing her old skin, and the weird runes engraved on the skin...The notes implanted in the skin are constantly trembling and becoming blurred stand up.

　　 A huge power emerged from Bai Xi's body. It was not bound, but became more and more violent, colliding frantically, ignoring that Bai Xi's skin had broken during the collision.

　　 Her notes are almost out of control!

　　 Emma frowned, pressed her shoulder firmly, and the cry of a ghost suddenly echoed in her throat. Like a python trying to strangle its prey, Bai Xi's bones almost made a sound of collapse.

　　 Bai Xi's shoulders were trembling, staring at the palm of his shoulder, and finally made a complete sound, sharp and terrified:

　　"——Don’t touch me!!!"

　　 collapse!

　　 The violent impact seemed to burst from Bai Xi's body, shattering the invisible bondage. The burst of air at that moment was almost faintly visible, tearing a huge hole in her clothes.

　　 The cry of ghosts in Emma's mouth was completely interrupted, he let out a scream, took a step back like thunder, and bent down and coughed violently.

　　 A metal-cast broken tooth and sticky bloodshot spouted from his mouth and landed on the ground. In the last ray of light, the seven orifices on the broken bronze teeth appeared, and the breeze blew over and made a faint sound.

　　 Ye Qingxuan felt the **** disappear with the cry.

　　 Before he could think too much, he rushed forward, picked up Bai Xi who had fallen soft on the ground, and dived into the alley ahead.

　　 A burly man wanted to stand up at the alley, but before he stopped Ye Qingxuan, something came into his arms.

　　 It is a good walking stick. The polished pear wood exudes a slight woody fragrance, but now it is held in the hand by a young man, and it is stuck in the man's heart like a spear~IndoMTL. com~ Get out of here! "

　　The look of a boy is ferocious.

　　 For an instant, the young man's hands were like a bloodthirsty gangster on the street, as if something in his heart had awakened, his eyes were no longer kind, but... full of indescribable expressions. furious.

　　 When he stabbed the crutches out, he weighed all of himself and Bai Xi's weight, staggered the man in an instant, and fell to the ground, clutching his heart.

　　 He has no time to retrieve the cane, so he can only hold the girl in his arms.

　　 stumbling and fleeing.

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　　 staying in place, coughing, Emma bent down, picked up the tooth, and looked at it carefully.

　　 There are orifices like facial features on it, which at first glance looks like a deformed human face. It fell off because it had deformed and burst from the inside.

　　 Visible to the naked eye, the face of this old woman was distorted, and her green eyes were full of gloom, like crumpled dahlias.

　　 These teeth are forged from white copper and heavy iron. They are strong and wear-resistant. After the seven orifices are chiseled out by the musicians and craftsmen, it is a good musical instrument with the runes inscribed on the skin, even for ordinary people. It can also mobilize the power of a certain section of music, which is weird and secretive, making it hard to guard against.

　　 "Damn little **!!!"

　　 She roared hoarsely, and the corners of her mouth screamed, so there was a faint echo and resonance in the distance, making her green eyes full of hairy chill:

　　 "You can't run!"