Back to the Future 1999: Raining at the Same Time

Looking at the place where Lovell disappeared, Lovis sat there all night, and she did not chase after him directly.

On the one hand, the supplies will be delivered tomorrow morning, and I have to organize the distribution; on the other hand, it is the real responsibility of this town - the barrier of the forest.

As a barrier to block the unpleasant things in the forest, the food distributed to the people in the center every month is just enough to keep them from starving to death. After all, this town may become food for the monsters in the forest at any time.

So in a year of poor harvest like this, this town was the first to run out of food, and the first to become inhumane.

Lovis wanted to change this place, to drive those things out, so that this place could really hold its head up, so that it could really become like a place where people lived.

But every year, they are exhausted just by meeting the basic needs of the townspeople, so how can they have the energy to organize people to fight back against the forest?

But now... the strange man who suddenly extended a helping hand, Xiao Luo who inexplicably rioted, perhaps the changes that he had been expecting had appeared.

From the day Lovell appeared at his door, Lovis could sense the breath of the forest on her, so maybe that was her true appearance, and that was why she could enter the forest again and again and come back with food?

Reason told her so, told her to put the overall situation first, but her already old limbs unconsciously tensed up, trying to pull her up from the ground and plunge her into the endless darkness.

Now, the old woman is fighting with herself, torn by her human emotions, and forgetting time.

Until the sky turned pale, until someone called her.

"teacher?"

Rabe's question brought her back to consciousness, and Lovis realized that tears had already overflowed from her eyes and fell to the ground in a string.

He sniffed, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and asked with forced calmness:

"what happened?"

"A truckload of black bread has arrived from outside the town, and more and more townspeople are gathering around it. If you don't go now, there might be looting..."

Before he finished speaking, Lovis quickly adjusted his state and rushed over there in a hurry.

……

To be honest, Chen Xi didn't like this town. If it weren't for Xu Hai's influence before, he might have left here directly.

The first step from the wasteland filled with the faint fragrance of green grass to here, there is a faint smell of blood in the air, and all you can see are shabby, rotten humans with the smell of numbness and death.

Chen Xi stroked Dao Wu and An Ma at his waist with one hand, and held Anya tightly with the other hand, protecting her behind him.

Perhaps it was Chen Xi's harmless appearance, or perhaps it was the nervous expression on his face, but he attracted more and more intrusive glances from people around him.

This aggressive gaze swept over his skin, face, neck, and body. Besides looking at him, it was more of a scrutiny, a scrutiny of the food.

Holding Anya's hand, Chen Xi just wanted to leave quickly, find someone who could take care of things here, hand Lovell over to the other person, and then leave.

However, there was a gaze that passed him and fell greedily on Anya from afar.

"call."

Chen Xi suddenly stopped and let out a breath. Invisible air blades flew out, causing everyone present to tremble. However, what happened next was more than just a shock.

"Eyes, my eyes! Ahh ...!"

In the shadows, a thin man covered his bleeding eye socket and rolled on the ground.

Chen Xi flashed over, staring coldly at the man rolling on the ground. Feeling someone approaching, he stopped his initial ugly behavior. The pain burned out a piercing anger in his other eye. The eye socket, which was already sunken due to hunger, was now covered with scarlet bloodshot.

His dry and chapped lips were whispering and slightly opened as if he wanted to say something. However, before he could make a sound, Chen Xi kicked him in the mouth, blocking all the words that were about to come out.

"I don't want those words to dirty my ears, so, can you be quiet for a moment, sir?

And the eyes, remember to pay more attention next time."

He raised his foot, swung it out, and turned to leave. A muffled thud was followed by the sound of someone coughing up blood. However, as the footsteps faded away, another wind blade struck, slicing through his other eyeball.

"what!!!!!"

The shrill screams echoed throughout the entire block, but no one dared to look at the boy.

"Chen Xi..."

"fine."

After returning to Anya, Chen Xi touched her head first, signaling her not to worry.

"You are my most precious treasure. I will not allow such eyes to fall on you."

After saying this, as if declaring something, he leaned close to Anya's ear and used his breath with body temperature to convey his truest feelings at the moment.

"Ever since I left the forest, you have been protecting me and guarding me, yet I have left without saying goodbye time and time again.

Now that I'm back, let me protect you. I will never let anyone separate you and me again. Let's create many memories together, you and me, together."

……

"Boss."

"Ah."

Giles looked at the man in front of him whose eyes had been gouged out and who had already died. His expression became slightly solemn. He waved his hand and asked his men to carry the body away. Another younger brother came forward and reported the characteristics of Chen Xi and the other two.

"Occultist?"

Ironically, even though he had fallen to the point of cannibalism, when he heard this term, undisguised disgust and disdain still appeared in his eyes.

"How did those freaks appear here?"

He spat as if to get rid of bad luck and ordered the younger brother beside him:

"Next time we see them, just kill them. There are only two of them anyway. There are so many of us. A single spit from each of us can drown them."

……

In the distance, on the top of the clock tower at the edge of the town, Oris adjusted his slightly drooping eye and looked at the townspeople who were gathering like locusts around the edge of the supplies he had delivered, his eyes cold.

The crowd stirred restlessly. A white-haired figure could be seen trying to maintain order. But after stopping one person, more beasts pounced, viciously tearing off a piece of the black "meat" before quickly retreating, or being tackled again, engaging in a fight; or disappearing into the crowd, never to be seen again...

Light footsteps sounded behind him. "My Lord Viscount, everything you requested has been thoroughly investigated."

"The atmosphere of the occult has indeed increased significantly here."

"Well, back off."

Oris's eyes were fixed on the dwindling food below, and he didn't move his eyes away even a bit because of this report.

He saw several times that a faint stream of light had gathered in Lovis's hands, but it eventually dissipated.

With the disappearance of the last piece of bread, the farce in the town for today finally ended. As the only spectator, Oris walked step by step into the darkness of the attic where no light could penetrate, and slowly spoke:

"Come on, Lovis, let's make a deal. Let's solve all the problems once and for all. Then, this town can disappear from this territory forever."

As if sensing something, after the crowd dispersed, Lovis glanced at the bell tower in the distance, but she saw nothing except the same dilapidated and desperate scene as before.

Thus, the small town returned to peace again.

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How should I put it? This is more of a patch for this chapter (face covering). Because the author never paid attention to the outline when writing before, so a lot of times I wrote casually, and now I am gradually unable to do it (crying). So I thought carefully about how to write this chapter, and then patched it up for the script I had in mind (face covering). After this chapter is finished, I will have to sort out the outline carefully. Maybe then I can update faster? (painting cakes, hey)

Anyway, love you guys~