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Sai Leng and Hai Yue'er floated back from a short distance away and said to Latis, who was hiding behind a small mound:
"Some of them seem to have soul bones. Should we avoid them and find another route into the town?"
"let me see."
Latis nodded to the two spirit girls, letting them return to his body, then looked at Don Koko beside him and said:
"Sir, shall we fight our way in or take a detour?"
Tang Keke flicked his spear, pondered for a moment, and said:
"Let's face them head-on! If those skeletons have no reason, they'll harm people sooner or later. Let's just eliminate them now!"
Latis's brow twitched, a strange sense of sympathy welling up inside him. He immediately realized what it meant, pondering for a moment who this inexplicable sympathy was directed at, before hesitating for a second before saying:
"Maybe... those wanderers are residents of the town? Yes, I think it's quite possible."
"Residents..."
Tang Keke glanced at the rusty tip of his spear, remained silent for a moment, and then said decisively:
"The memories they've lost will never come back, but I will live on with theirs."
“…I understand.” Latis took a deep breath and immediately changed his mindset to prepare for battle.
However, before the battle, he needed to change the "safe words" entry... After all, "small fish" was just too ridiculous! Especially when he was being intimate with Haiyue'er, he felt like he was turning into a little devil!
Let's get some more exciting terms, oh dear!
Latis closed his eyes and prayed for a while, then opened them, awakening his "Safe Word" talent.
Several lines of text of varying lengths appeared before his eyes:
"Have you come in yet?"
"Crazy Thursday v Me 50"
"Now comes the moment to witness a miracle."
"Gu, just kill me."
"Yamete"
"..." Latis was silent for a while, imagining various pre-battle trash talk scenarios in his mind, and then resolutely chose "The moment to witness a miracle is about to begin."
The main problem is... everything else is just too weird!! He doesn't want to yell "Yamete!" when the enemy's halberd is stabbing right in front of him!
"...Anyway, let's begin!"
Latis stood up, stretched his limbs, picked up his shield and spear, nodded to Donkoko, and then muttered to himself:
"Now comes the moment to witness a miracle... Haiyue'er, let the battle song begin!"
boom!
Amidst the mermaid's soaring song that seemed to reach the heavens, Latis, even faster than Tang Keke's bone horse, plunged his spear into the chest of the wandering skeleton.
……
After a relatively mild battle, you cleared out the skeletons near the town.
[Approximately eighteen rogues, two mutant skeletons, and three unit skeletons in total.]
The three skeleton units possess spirit bones representing a spear, armor, and a horse, respectively. You examine the horse's spirit bone with some curiosity, and Sai Leng tells you that this type of spirit bone is mobile and relatively rare. In Bone Taming competitions, mobile spirit bones usually offer a significant advantage.
[However, according to her, mobile spirit bones usually transform the user into a corresponding form when activated; a horse spirit bone would likely result in the growth of additional legs. Recalling your experience of transforming into Urgot's crab legs, it doesn't seem so unacceptable.]
After seeing you take the soul bones, Tang Keke turned around and buried the three troop skeletons. Seeing this, you went to help him and asked him why he did this.
He told you that even if the skeletons are killed, they will revive after the next white moon, but they will still have no memory of what happened. In other words, today's scene will repeat itself.
"So you buried them to prevent them from reviving?" you asked.
"Probably," Tang Keke said, glancing at the mound of earth that had been piled up. "As warriors who once possessed soul bones, they deserve to rest in peace."
You nodded knowingly. After these skeleton soldiers had their soul bones removed, they would revert to ordinary rogues upon resurrection. It was normal for Don Keke, as a knight, to show some retro-style respect to his enemies.
As we spoke, you approached the town. Calling it a town was a stretch; in reality, only ruins remained. However, compared to the state of Void Spirit City, this town wasn't particularly dilapidated.
[That makes sense, though. According to Haiyue'er, she passed through the town on the river two white moons ago, when there should still have been some residents. So it seems that the town was destroyed by the flood between those two white moons, and the residents scattered.]
"There really isn't a single place in the Bone Spirit Realm that's peaceful forever!" you thought.
[Tang Keke tells you that some residents use containers in their homes to store their memories. Although memories in containers like water jugs are very likely to be mercilessly washed away during the White Moon, there is still at least a glimmer of hope.]
Therefore, if the bone dragon hadn't occupied the town, the residents would probably have been able to return gradually. However, things have come to this, and they can only regretfully watch as the town's ruins gradually disappear under the following white moon, eventually being razed to the ground.
You shook your head helplessly. These things were too far removed from your reality. As a simulated body, all you could do was try your best to send Sai Leng and Hai Yue'er out of the Star Sea before the next White Moon arrived.
You have arrived at the edge of a cliff. At the top of this cliff, which is like a vertical cut, a waterfall more than ten meters wide cascades down, forming a tributary of the Bailongchuan River. Just a hundred meters away from the cliff, a small town suddenly appears before your eyes.
Looking at this surging waterfall and the river below, it's hard to imagine that such a magnificent sight contains endless killing intent... No, it can't be called killing intent, that's only for you who still have flesh and blood. For the waterfall itself, it's simply hurling the memories of trillions of living beings from a height of hundreds of meters.
Tang Keke shouldered his spear and stepped into the town with you. After exchanging a glance, without a word, he charged out and shouted in the center of the town, "Bone Dragon, I've come to defeat you!"
You hide in the shadows, watching Tang Keke pacing back and forth in the center of the town, shouting. After about half a minute, a pale figure suddenly sweeps across the sky above the town, accompanied by a fierce roar that makes your ears ring.
[Tang Keke immediately summoned his bone horse, leaped into the air, and sped off in the direction the bone dragon had flown. Seeing this, you immediately peeked out from behind the wall, intending to search for Tang Keke's companions, as he had instructed.]
……
"A middle-aged man with blond hair and brown eyes, a young woman with brown hair and blue eyes, and a girl with black hair and black eyes..."
Latis silently recited the description of his companion's appearance from Doncoco's account. He first searched the houses in the center of town, but found nothing except some wanderers. So he began to explore the houses on the outskirts of town.
"Mr. Latis! Come and see this!"
Haiyue'er's cry rang out not far away. Latis stopped and waved to Sailen, who had just floated out of another house. The two of them ran together toward the house where Haiyue'er was.
"Haiyue'er, what have you discovered?"
Latis pushed open the door and looked at the lovely-looking mermaid in the air, and couldn't help but smile.
“It’s this!” Haiyue’er sat back on Latis’s shoulder and pointed to something on top of a water jar.
“This is…” Latis scratched his head, stepped forward, and picked up the blackened, round object covering the water vat.
Wow!
As the lid was removed, the water tank shook for a moment, and a small amount of pale water flowed out from the bottom.
Latis then realized that something had probably knocked a hole in the bottom of the water tank, causing almost all the water inside to leak out.
"I wonder whose memories these are..."
Latis muttered something under his breath, held up the object in his hand and examined it for a moment, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise and uncertainty:
"Wait...this is it?"
The dark brown, round object had a handle in the middle. When Latis picked it up by the handle earlier, he thought it was the handle of the lid, but now that he held it upright, it looked a little strange.
It looks a bit like... a shield.
He hesitated for a moment, then placed the shield back on the water vat and searched the dilapidated house.
After searching for a long time without finding anything useful, he was about to leave the house when he suddenly noticed a few blurry characters engraved on the bricks on the ground.
He crouched down and took a look, and could roughly make out the words "Tang Keke wants to become a knight idol!"
"Damn it, your name really is Tang Keke?"
Latis was a little tense. He put the floor tiles back on, looked around the house again, and guessed that this might be the house where Don Keke used to live.
He stroked his chin and muttered to himself:
"Since Tang Keke's house is here, his companions should be living nearby as well. Let's search a bit more; we might find some clues..."
Latis made up his mind, nodded, and then opened the door.
Click...
A huge bone dragon head appeared behind the door. It turned its head slightly and looked at Latis.
boom!
Latis slammed the door shut, glanced back at Haiyue'er and Saileng, his face twitched slightly, and asked:
"Did I see it wrong?"
“Mr. Bones, you’re not mistaken, there really is a dragon outside.”
Seren floated forward, wiped the sweat from Latis's forehead with his half-solidified little hand, then burrowed into his body, squeezed his spine, and said:
"Mr. Bones, if you are intimidated by the dragon's might, I will help you escape immediately!"
"...Ah!" Haiyue'er suddenly realized what was happening. She quickly floated to Latis's side, gave him a cheering punch, kissed his cheek, and said:
"Mr. Latis, if you fight a dragon, I'll sing for you to give you a buff. Good luck!"
Seeing that both spirit girls had shrunk into his body, Latis shook his head helplessly and couldn't help but complain in his heart:
"Is it true that I can fight the Bone Dragon with a completely new character?"
However, the three soul bones he had absorbed earlier gave him some confidence. He took a deep breath, reached out and pressed against the doorknob, and muttered to himself:
"Then it's time to witness the miracle."
He then opened the door.
Amidst the chaotic ruins, a massive bone dragon crouches, its empty eye sockets reflecting a pale light, as if it were a microcosm of this world filled with death.
Its bony wings, comparable in size to several houses, extended outwards, lightly shattering a few sections of broken wall. Then, it lowered its head, and a series of faint vibrations emanated from between its bones, the vibrations forming a single sentence:
"Human, are you here to punish me too?"
Chapter 245 Heads may crack, blood may flow, but Da Niu cannot be lost.
“I am… wait!” Latis frowned, looking at the skeletal dragon whose entire body was covered in smooth bones, and asked in confusion:
"You can speak...you have consciousness?"
The skeletal dragon lowered its head, staring at Latis with its empty eye sockets for a moment, then vibrated its skeleton and said:
"I am a bone dragon."
“Yes, I noticed.” Latis scratched his head and asked:
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