Heartbreaker

The crow shrunk into small balls on the ground, only a pair of blood agate-like eyes stared at me.The dull horseshoes trampled over the dead branches and leaves of the desolate bone swamp, and the crows flew wildly from the ground like a curtain of black pearls, passing me noisily.

I rode my horse all the way to the castle of the dead.Long time no see, this rotten place is as haunted as ever.The moon is hooked on the night like a pale claw, and the stars are blinking at me mysteriously.I took the tattered undead off the horse and kicked open the wooden door that was in disrepair and only decorated with cobwebs.

"Mage." I strode up the spiral staircase and shouted, "I have something to ask."

As soon as I stepped through the door, a sticky bloody hand slapped against the wall behind me.The woman was still crouching in front of the stone table, with a bloody stretched spring on her wrist, which was connected to the sticky severed hand at the end.

It seems that she really wants to give me a disgusting greeting gift.

"You are not welcome here, Lemon Bone Spur. Leave immediately."

She glanced at me coldly, and then saw Luo in my arms, her indifferent thin lips parted, "What happened to my little sun?"

I stared straight at her and said, "I warn you, he's not yours."

"But something happened to him."

The necromancer slowly stood up from the stone table, walked to my side, and looked at Luo's lifeless face.I waited silently for her to come forward, and while she was leaning over, Leng Buding pressed a cold dagger against her neck!

The female mage paused, looked at the dagger that appeared suddenly and sneered, "...Oh?"

I stared at her with bloodshot eyes, "Before that, please answer my question."

This damned woman squinted at me and said coldly, "I thought you really asked me for something."

"I just want to know one thing." I clenched the dagger tightly, and the knuckles were squeezed out with force, "Eliot's undead...was it you who summoned it?"

The necromancer suddenly laughed, "So what if you are, so what if you are not?...I said that I would hide the news of all clients. Yes or no, why should I tell you?"

I stared at her and said, "If it's really you, I'll kill you right now."

The female mage said, "A dagger can't kill me."

I still looked straight at her, with a bloody grin on the corner of my mouth, "Why don't we try?"

She stared at me for a long time, burst into laughter, her smile was alluring and disdainful, but she had no fear or embarrassment.My dagger was tightly attached to her skin, and this damn woman straightened up indifferently, and said calmly, "I thought you would be smarter, and you would turn your face and deny it when the troublesome things with me were over. .Do you not want Luo to return to normal?"

"..." I stared at her quietly without speaking.The female mage shrugged her shoulders and said, "I can't beat you, not to mention it's no good to fight with you... Elliott is not one of my clients." She stepped on the cold moonlight and said in a diffuse voice, "That The undead were summoned by Gesun."

I said, "I guess there is something tricky in it. Who is Gerson Renssel? He is also a necromancer? Was the collapse of the Wanjiang Empire back then a conspiracy between him and Elliott?"

The female mage said indifferently, "What are you asking me for? After you catch Elliott, question him. I am a necromancer, and I don't want to get involved in your grievances. Take away your murder weapon and force me, a man who is far away from the world. What are you, woman?"

I had a lump in my throat, and I wanted to yell, but I had nothing to say.She stroked Luo's broken face, and sighed regretfully, "It's a pity, my dear little sun... If he hadn't been picked out by you, a wolf-hearted guy, he would be my gentle and handsome lover now."

"Don't make me say it again." I retracted the dagger by my waist and said coldly, "He's mine."

We went from the attic to the basement.The female mage took Luo from my arms, took off his cloak and clothes, and placed him in an empty crystal coffin one person high.His naked body was shrouded in a faint blue halo, and his fair skin was crystal clear, making the white bones under the broken skin even more terrifying.

Although I had already seen his body in Vulture City, but at this moment he was completely naked, lying lifeless in the cold crystal coffin, and I realized how badly he was damaged.The female mage looked at his wound carefully, frowned and said, "This scar should be pulled out by him to get rid of the shackles of the 'wild thorns'. The corrosion caused by the magic thorns is difficult to heal, so his body cannot grow new flesh. .Who tied him up?"

This made me angry, and I asked aggressively, "Who do you think can bind an undead with the magic thorns that grow in the Desolate Swamp?"

She looked up at me, seemed to have guessed a bit, and glanced at me with disdain, "I said earlier that you are not suitable, because you insisted that he be your undead. I warned you at that time that your souls are not very suitable. If you match, I’m afraid you will fall into the abyss of eternal doom... Now it seems that my guess is only half right, Luo was made like this by you, but you are alive and kicking. Lemon Bone Spur, you played a good hand."

"Stop talking nonsense." I stared at her and paused every word, "Just tell me how Luo can recover."

"Yo, you're quite upright. Don't you know what you did to yourself?" The female mage sneered, her eyes seemed to be filled with anger, and her sharp fingers almost poked my nose, saying every word. He paused, gritted his teeth and said, "I handed over my dear 'child' to you, and you treat him like this?"

"...he is mine, and I can do whatever I want."

"It's a shame you still have the face to say such things." The female mage sneered, "Then I'll let you see what you have done to him."

As she spoke, she pierced a finger bone through the skin outside Luo's heart, then moved it to his brain, and drew a line of blood on his skull for measurement.A few strands of dark red blood oozed out from Luo's skin, and I saw her holding two sharp knives, cutting open Luo's fragile body bit by bit along the blood line...

"..."

I stared at Luo in the crystal coffin, clasped the edge of the coffin tightly with my fingers, and felt that the blood in my body was as heavy as lead, blocking the circuit leading to the heart.Luo's heart was contracting and oozing transparent body fluid, making a sound similar to vomiting, while the brain was covered with some kind of black silkworm, biting the pale pink folds bit by bit.

"There is no doubt that you destroyed his brain." The voice of the female mage was so cold that there was almost no emotion. The idea of ​​being as disgusting as a bedbug turned into a real tapeworm in his brain. As for his heart..."

I had no expression on my face, and let her mock me with cold eyes.The mage leaned down and tapped the twitching little heart lightly with his finger bones. The heart was startled, and stopped whimpering like vomiting. The folds stretched like a small open mouth, and he was saying something——

I yelled, "Don't touch it!"

"he loves you."

Caught off guard, this sentence pierced my consciousness like an iron awl.All of a sudden, I felt dizzy in my brain, and I almost couldn't stand still, and the eyes that looked at the necromancer shook several overlapping shadows.

"...It's unbelievable...Although it's not impossible, it's really rare..." The voice of the female mage was very hazy in my ears, "The heart of the undead should be pure and flawless...Blood poured into it before... There's already a strong feeling in his heart...it tells me it's 'love'...he's in love with you..."

I tried my best to keep calm, "...what did you say?"

"But he squeezed the blood out of his heart." The necromancer murmured, turning his head to look at me with an unbelievably complicated gaze, "Why is this happening?"

I shouted angrily, "How the hell do I know?! I came to ask you if Luo was saved, not for you to question me!"

Her questioning gaze almost burned me two holes, as if it was some strange anecdote that Luo fell in love with me or someone.She just stared at me for a long while, and said a few words from her rose-like red lips, "If I said that everything depends on your choice, what would you do?"

My eyes widen.She left the crystal coffin, stared straight at me and said, "Now you have two choices."

"what?"

"First, I revived him, but his brain was severely damaged. I'm not sure if his intelligence, thinking and other senses will be affected."

I said, "You mean... he might have become a cripple with a mental insufficiency?"

"That's right, because the brain controls the functions of most organs, so there is a high possibility that he will become blind or deaf." The mage said calmly, "At the same time, it will take ten years of your life to revive him." life."

I heard my own distorted and hoarse voice, "Use my ten years of life... to save a dead person who may become crippled or a fool..."

"There is a second choice." The mage said lightly, "I know that the current Luo must not be the undead that you want. Otherwise, you wouldn't use some taboo methods in the book to destroy his brain Forced thinking..."

Her gaze became deep and unpredictable, making my palms sweat.The necromancer opened and closed his lips and said, "I can give you another 'child', an undead that is more suitable for your soul. You will become the new master of that undead."

"What about Luo?"

"I will destroy him." The mage said casually, "Although he was a 'child' I carefully raised, as long as it is scrapped, I will not keep a useless corpse... After all, there must be better samples in the future, Is not it?"

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I sat outside the crystal coffin, took Luo's cold hand, and caressed the lines on his palm absently.Luo was sleeping deep in the ice coffin, with a peaceful and gentle face, and a touch of bright pale pink on his full lips, like a sleeping child.His brain had been taken out by the Necromancer, leaving only a dispirited white heart in his open chest.

"I really shouldn't have you, Rob."

I stared at his sleeping face and murmured, took his hand, brought his slender fingers to my lips and kissed him delicately, and bit his protruding knuckles in my mouth.The gold ring I gave him is still on his middle finger like a bling joke.

"Say, what do I want you to do?"

I was talking to myself, babbling on and on.

"I want revenge, I want to kill, what I want is a knife that can kill quickly, not a lover who is considerate...I want you to slaughter me with a sickle, not kiss me with your lips...I want You can't take what you want, and I can't give you what you want..."

"You said... why are we still together, torturing each other?..."

"are you ready?"

The Necromancer interrupted me, and moved another ice coffin, which was filled with thick and thick black juice, and had a strong lime-like earthy smell, which was almost suffocating.I frowned and stared at it, and the mage told me, "Before lying down, I will give you a can of sleeping soup... You will sleep in it for a while, and when you wake up, Luo Ye has successfully treated you."

I said in a vicious voice, "Sleeping soup? Ice coffin? I'm afraid I'll just die in it."

"Whether you like it or not, Lemon Bone Spur." She sneered, "Don't think that everyone is patient with you. If you put on a face of finding fault, I'll show you what it means to ask for it Bitter."