boy and bone

The crumbling spiral staircase, the spikes embedded in the wall supporting the staircase burst out one by one, and the breakage began from the end, like invisible ghosts' footsteps rushing towards the two people who were fleeing along the patio.

From the top of the courtyard, everything on the ground, such as trees, rocks, altar statues, etc., fell one after another, and they were all attracted by the talisman array in the abyss.

The two surviving people who jumped out of the courtyard at the last moment just watched everything collapse and nothing remained.

After a long silence, Gray opened his eyes, surrounded by looks he missed. He stood in a spacious and bright corridor, in front of the gate of Cosmoto Palace, and he was familiar with all the relief patterns on that palace gate.

He raised his hand and pushed it away again after a long absence.

Inside was the church on the day of his wedding, which was ventilated in all directions but also shone with bright light.

Someone was waiting for him in front of the statue of the god with the bird droppings in its hand.

Waiting for him to say the oath.

"Tonight will never be forgotten." He said softly.The man went into his arms, full of all the brilliance in memory.

Gray walked up the steps step by step, approaching the man in front of the statue: "Am I late?"

"It's just the beginning, mine." The soft voice was the same as before.

Gray's eyes turned red, and he resisted to look away: "This place is very clean, have you cleaned it?"

"As usual, I'm in charge of cleaning the room, and you clean the windows," the man said.

Gray laughed and said, "Where is there a window here?"

As soon as the words were finished, windows were erected on the surrounding walls of the church, and the light coming in from all directions made Gray unable to open his eyes.

"Now there is." Curis said with a smile.

"So much, I can't wipe it off in 100 years." The salty taste of tears swirled on the tip of Grai's tongue.

"Then I'll give you 1000, 1 years," Curris said.

Gray laughed out loud, and he raised his hand to stroke the hair and face of the man opposite him: "Is this heaven?"

"Heaven is for others, we are not suitable." Kuris looked into his eyes: "But I didn't find you in hell, so I think I should wait for you here."

Grai's eyes flashed with light, and he said, "Then what is this place?"

Curris smiled slightly and said, "It's a dream. Your dream, your past, my Grai, this is not a permanent place."

Gray suddenly smiled: "If you can only live in the past, then I will never go to the future."

Curris stared at him quietly with his calm gaze: "You should go."

Gray said stubbornly, "No, I'm not going anywhere."

"What I want is forever, Gray. 'Forever' that includes the past, present, and future." Curris nodded slightly, and kissed his forehead: "Wake up. I will find a way."

Just when Gray couldn't figure out what the other party meant, Gray's body instantly turned into fine sand and fell from Kuris' embrace.

A stretcher outside the church gate was rushing to the treatment room in the church. A doctor who had just relaxed and was about to have a meal saw this scene, complained, put down the knife and fork, put the lid on the lunch box, put on the Light green medical gowns rushed into the treatment room.

"What's the situation?" The doctor asked while putting medical metal bracelets and anklets on the teenager on the stretcher.

"He was injured by a heavy object and fell into a coma." Someone said on the side.

The repair doctor slightly raised the boy's head with his hands and touched the back of the boy's head, and ruled it out: "There is no injury to the back of the head...Where is the most serious trauma?"

"none."

"Then the blood on his body?" The doctor looked at the boy's clothes covered with blood and had already lost its original color. However, when the nurse beside him picked up a sponge and wiped the large area of ​​blood on the boy's legs After the dried blood was wiped off, it was found that the skin there was intact.

"He doesn't have any wounds, and I don't know where he got so much blood." Someone on the side has already noticed: "He is just unconscious."

The doctor Xiu was suspicious in her heart, she said conservatively: "Give a shot of clearing agent first to stabilize the flow of his mana."

"...the doctor, the crystal needle can't go in." The nurse held a needle-like long silver crystal-colored tube in his hand, and a thin stream of liquid flowed through the long tube.

The doctor took the crystal needle and tried to pierce the boy's skin, but she couldn't pierce the boy's skin no matter what, but this is impossible. This kind of crystal needle is currently the thinnest and the most pure in magic introduction. The magic tool for medicine should be easily absorbed by the human body. The doctor held the crystal needle and finally stabbed it into the boy's arm with all his strength. Unexpectedly, her strength was too strong, and the crystal needle was broken twice when it touched the boy's skin. Half.

The nurse next to him hastily ordered the helper, "Hurry up and get a new tube of cleanser!"

But the doctor was staring thoughtfully at the boy's iron-like impenetrable shoulder, where there was not even a needle mark left.

"Please ask the patient's entourage to wait in the ward." The little repair doctor pointed to the two people who rushed in with the stretcher: "Our attending doctor is doing his best to rescue him, please rest assured. We will lift the patient up after the cursive ceremony is completed." to the ward."

The ferret tightly held on to the black silk robe that was balled into a ball, and forced a smile, "Okay."

The ferret held a tunic in its hand, which seemed to contain an extremely manic rabbit jumping around alive and well.

Under the suspicious eyes of the little doctor Xiu, Man Man said in a timely manner: "Where is the ward, we will go by ourselves."

As soon as he stepped into the ward, the ferret couldn't control it anymore. He felt that the thing in his hand had a tendency to break free, so he hurriedly threw the robe in his hand away, and the robe hit the wall, and the magic bone fell from it. The moment it landed, It instantly released a curse and gathered into a demon, rushing towards the two people at the door.

The ferret hurriedly said, "Calm down, calm down. Gray will be right back, right away. He wants you to calm down."

The demon envoy paused for a moment, and the curse suddenly dissipated and returned to the appearance of the demon bone. He stopped talking to Liman and the ferret, turned around and got under the robe on the ground, and bursts of resentment came out from under the robe, As if to blame someone for abandoning it.

In other words, with the presence of the demon, how could Grai be easily buried under the altar? When Man and Ferret thought they were going to hold a funeral for this little guy who they knew not long ago but seemed to have been with him half their life, they never There was some reluctance in my heart. Although I didn't want to admit it, I was still a little sad.

Until the talisman array at the bottom dissipated, and when everything was falling, the demon envoy who was going upstream carried the unconscious Grai and jumped out of the pit as always, far away from the land of right and wrong, far away from death the edge of.

It seems that this little friend is destined to be stationed in the life of Man and Ferret... Maybe, he will be pointed at for the elderly?But that's all for later.

After the treatment was over, a bell rang outside the herbalism room with the door closed, and a young boy who was still sleeping was carried out on a stretcher. After waiting for everyone to leave, he walked to the hospital bed, which attracted the attention of the other two people who had been waiting in the ward.She said, "Excuse me, are you the guardians of Gray Tanley Burns?"

"It's like this. He's not in any danger. You don't have to worry. I just have some questions that are inconvenient to ask in public. I don't think you want others to know, so I will stay alone and ask you."

From the corner of Man Man's eyes, he saw Gray being lifted onto the bed, and Mogu Bian quickly got into his hospital bed, but fortunately, no one noticed, so Man Man relaxed his mind a little, and concentrated on answering the doctor's question. talk.

"What's his relationship with you?" The doctor asked.

The ferret and Man looked at each other, and the ferret hesitated: "I'm from... from..."

The doctor's suspicious eyes immediately understood: "I know you two adopted one because of...?"

Frowning, he always felt that there was something wrong with this sentence.

And because the ferret couldn't think of a lie that could be fulfilled immediately, it immediately followed the doctor's opinion: "Yes, it's just like what you said."

The doctor repaired and said: "First of all, I would like to express my sincere admiration for the kindness of the two of you. Even though this child is a stone wall person, you still take care of him unswervingly. He is really lucky."

The ferret opened its mouth slightly: "What?"

"He is from Shibi, and he suffers from incurable Shibi disease...don't you know?" The doctor asked strangely, "Didn't you check his physical condition before adopting him?"

Surprised: "No, he is not a pet dog."

"Okay, I'm sorry. I thought you knew it beforehand." The doctor suddenly realized what he had said wrong, and immediately became serious again: "But you know it now, I hope you don't ignore it because of this, once you decide If you adopt it, you must take care of it for a lifetime."

The ferret was a little confused, he said: "We will take care of him, but please explain, what is stone wall disease? I have never heard of it."

The doctor said: "Stone wall disease is a very rare disease. It will not appear under normal circumstances. Only the union of direct relatives will lead to the birth of this kind of child, so it is congenital. So far there is no cure. It is named Stone wall disease It is because the skin of people suffering from this disease is like a stone wall, not that their skin is hard, but that their skin is impermeable." The doctor slowly explained: "Every part of our normal skin Each pore can filter the magic elements in our surrounding environment, which enables our body to absorb the magic elements from the outside world, and can also release our own magic energy, which also enables us to mobilize and The reason that affects the magic elements in the surrounding air is the reason why we can use magic... Oh, by the way, research has proved that nocturnal species can also release magic through the skin, but because this release is Passive, and in a small amount, so nocturnal species still need to use magic tools if they want to use magic. Simply put, as long as you can use magic, you can accept magic."

"But the stone wall people can't, they can't accept magic, and they can't use magic. Their skin is naturally extremely repellent to magic. The heart of the stone wall people is the main source of their crippled bodies. No matter Whether their biological mother is a higher species or a nocturnal species, when they give birth to a Shibi baby, they will leave a small amount of magic in the heart of the baby to form a germ. We also call it a magic germ. For normal people, this is our future. One of the necessary physiological conditions for using magic, but for the stone wall people, this is the root cause of their underdeveloped hearts."

"The existence of 'germ' in the heart means that the stone wall people's heart is the same as that of a normal person, and they also need the full supply of magic elements to maintain their vitality. However, their own hearts are not fully developed in the mother's womb. , so the germs in their hearts cannot produce magic energy independently, and their stone wall skin prevents them from absorbing external magic elements to fill their own needs."

"When the stone wall babies are born, there is only a small amount of magic inherited from the mother's womb in their bodies to keep their hearts active. Once they use up this point, what awaits them is exhaustion and death. There is no cure. ...You can't peel their skins, right? Because of their repellency to magic elements, even if you perform skinning operations, you have to use blunt tools without a little magic purity to cut through their skin, without a little magic , which means that even the runes of anesthesia and coma cannot be used, and they must be peeled off alive..." As he spoke, the doctor repaired himself and shook his head in pain: "They are doomed to tragedy from birth, just like tying up a person. tied his hands and feet around his neck and trapped him in a dungeon, and then put a bowl of water and a piece of bread where he couldn't reach... This world is cruel to them... only the little magic brought by the mother's womb They don't live very long, so typically a child with this condition doesn't live past the age of seven."

"Because of their disgraceful backgrounds, most of the stone-walled people were abandoned or strangled in their cradles. Their real lifespan was even shorter than seven years..."

The ferret seemed to be unable to accept the shocking remarks towards the doctor: "But... look at him, he is at least a teenager, and he is already a young boy. He is very lively every day I see... "

There was some joy on the doctor's face at this time: "Yes, that's why I came here to ask you two, how did you do it? To tell you the truth, I found out that this child has stone wall disease. At that time, I was also full... Oh my god, I don't know what to say, this will be a pioneering work. I thought it was you two who used some method to treat him, but I just found out that you didn't know it beforehand... So I want you guys to help me, I want to do a physical examination of him, or when he wakes up I want to talk to him about how exactly this happened, how he managed to survive for so long, can you? I As a doctor, saving more lives is my lifelong pursuit. I believe I can find a way to save people like him from him..."

Man Si said: "Please let us discuss it first, we need to wait for Gray to wake up and then ask him about his own wishes."

The doctor felt that he was acting too aggressively, so he restrained himself and said, "Okay, of course, it should be."

"Then I won't bother you." With that said, the doctor took out a piece of paper from the shoulder and arm pocket of the doctor's robe, and handed it to Man and Ferret: "This is my star map, and I look forward to seeing yours." Connect. Believe me, he can save more people."

After finishing speaking, the doctor bowed to Man and the ferret, and then quietly bid farewell to the drowsy young man who had settled down on the bed: "Goodbye, little Grai."

After sending away the doctor who was extremely enthusiastic about various intractable diseases, Man and Ferret were left in the room, still filtering the news they just received in their minds.

"Is it really a disease?" asked the ferret.

Man Dao: "This disease was indeed recorded in some ancient books. The ancient royal family more than 3000 years ago chose to marry close relatives in order to ensure the purity of their blood. But when they found that their offspring had this problem, they explicitly abolished close relative marriage."

Ferret frowned: "There is no royal family now, and there is no need for pure blood, why would there be..."

"Do you want to ask?" Man looked at the unconscious young man on the hospital bed and said, the magic bone curled up on his chest, rising and falling gently with the chest of the sleeping person.

The ferret sighed, "At least he's healthy now."

Nodding his head, he looked at the devil bone lying on Grai's body like a little cat, and recalled in his mind the life experience of the young man in front of him that was full of unsolvable contradictions and mysteries that the doctor had just talked about. Giving up, he said: "He is weird enough, are you afraid of being weirder? Even if someone tells me tomorrow that he is the reincarnation of the devil king, I can accept it calmly."

The ferret lowered his head and smiled, "Me too."

On the second day, Man and Ferret quietly discharged Grai from the hospital. They left the bustling but troubled old royal capital in a carriage, and returned to the quiet coastal city of Fujindu. Send the still unconscious Grai back to a healing church in Fujindu for treatment and observation. Grai didn't recover until the end of the holiday stipulated by the college. When he smelled the familiar smell of sea salted fish again, he Then he couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: His old life is really tough...