I Will Be the Son of Man

"The messenger and the prince..."

The woman looked at Lixiang and his party, then focused on the pure white toddler, and immediately said with a smile.

"If you come from Uruk, it must be very hard to go through the dense forest. Welcome to Ur!"

"Fortunately, everyone here seems to be fine. If that's the case, then I'll go back and contact King Gilgamesh immediately, and ask Uruk to send a rescue team over."

Li Xiang responded with a reassuring smile, but the woman opposite was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said with some hesitation.

"No, no need, we don't need the rescue team, because Ur is a very safe city."

is it safe......

Merlin stood at the end of the line and didn't say anything, because he knew that he still needed to confirm some things before he could finalize his guess.

At dusk, Merlin took the initiative to ask for the task of inspection, and started to investigate the streets together with Anna and Hill.

But what to say.

They were obviously people from the supporting city, but the citizens of Ur chose to avoid them after seeing the existence of themselves and others.

And if you look at the population of a city alone, there are too few young adults in this city.

It's like, a part of it disappeared on purpose.

Knowing this in his heart, Merlin returned to Lixiang and Matthew with a magic wand in his hand.

"Thank you for patrolling."

"Hmm...But, I want to ask you one thing, Fujimaru."

Meilin looked at Lixiang and said seriously.

"Tomorrow, please gather everyone in the square."

"If you don't want to, you can ask His Royal Highness Hill to come forward."

"Because I have something to say."

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PS1: The second update is here, please sign for it!

PS2: Regarding the reference to the pure white toddler, I have thought about it. I originally wanted to create a character impression in the early stage, but it seems a little overdone, sorry!Therefore, in the following chapters, this reference will only be used when people who don't know Hill appear on the scene, or when some specific writing is used, and the rest will use the name. ???????

PS3: In addition, there is a cutie who asks the meaning of the son of man. The author Ji doesn't know and dare not talk about things that are too philosophical. I can only say that this is a story of growing up, a story of gradually becoming a human being. Please look forward to it! ╰（￣▽￣）╭

Chapter 042: The Smell of Hunting

The next day, the sky began to lightly rain, and faint thunder echoed in the clouds.

Under the gray sky, the entire city of Ur seemed a little depressing.

On the square, because of the call of Lixiang and others, and the relationship with Hill's identity, the people of the whole city of Ur gathered here.

"I've been waiting for a long time, Prince of Uruk, and King Gilgamesh's envoy, I don't know what you want to say?"

A woman with gray hair, who was obviously the speaker of the city, walked out of the building in front of the square, looked at Merlin and asked.

"I really want to ask something. I heard that you don't need support. Can you tell me the reason?"

Merlin stepped forward, looking directly at him from under the hood.

"Ur is safe, as long as this dense forest is here, monsters will not be able to run in."

"No, that's right, as long as we follow the rules of the forest goddess, we can..."

Next to the woman talking, the two women took the lead in answering.

It's just that the content of his words immediately caught Lixiang's attention.

"The forest goddess, is that the forest goddess, senior?"

Matthew recalled the claim of the orange existence, and asked Lixiang with his head tilted.

"It's only possible that it's that guy... But, according to what they said, we didn't encounter monsters all the way in the dense forest. Is it really thanks to that goddess?"

Lixiang had some doubts on her face, and she frowned, always feeling that there was something inside that she hadn't noticed.

"Goddess of the forest... I see, that's why you exchanged living sacrifices for your own safety?"

With the last clue in hand, Merlin told the cruel truth that has been haunting the people of Ur.

"Live... offerings?"

Some couldn't believe that he heard the word, Lixiang raised his head and looked at the speaker on the steps.

However, there was no need to wait for the other party to answer. In fact, after Merlin's inference was uttered, the entire square was already in commotion, as if it was right.

"You, what are you talking about, how can there be living sacrifices!"

The woman who was talking about the matter said with a stiff expression, but Merlin looked around the square as if he didn't hear it, and then said.

"If that's the case, that's pretty weird."

"Obviously there has been no battle here, but don't you think the number of men is a bit too small?"

Such a rhetorical question directly blocked the explanation of the woman who was talking.

When Lixiang and Matthew heard the words, they also looked at the crowd gathered in the square, and found that the number of men, especially the number of young and middle-aged men, was strangely small.

"Living sacrifices or something, why are you doing this?"

Li Xiang, who was not used to this kind of practice, immediately questioned the speaker.

"What can people from the outside understand, and we don't want to do that! If we don't follow the requirements of that demonic forest goddess, we won't be able to survive at all!"

The heavy pressure and burden had already crushed the talkative woman, and all the cathartic words were uttered at this moment.

"How, why is this..."

Li Xiang clenched his fist unconsciously, his eyes were full of reconciliation.

However, at this moment, accompanied by a thunder in the sky, a familiar voice sounded again.

"Meow ha ha ha! That's it!"

"However, don't worry! Those living sacrifices were all escorted to the Temple of Eridu for forced labor!"

"After all, if I kill her, let's not talk about that woman Kukuer, first of all I will be ridiculed by others as an old-fashioned meow!"

Sounding like a person, after the figure of the leopard man standing on the roof appeared, all the people of Ur City in the square fled in panic because of fear.

Soon, the situation turned into a confrontation between Leopard and Lixiang and his party.

However, what Lixiang cared most about at this time was not Leopard's appearance, but what the other party said just now.

"Forced labor? Wait! You mean those people are still alive?!"

"Of course! As a gourmet, I can only eat the heart of a brave man!"

The leopard man said these words with his waist in his arms, his face full of pride.

"That would be great, senior..."

After saying something because of the survivors, Mash couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"But even if that's the case, it's too early for you to be happy meow!"

The orange figure jumped down from the roof and stepped heavily on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"If you want to ask why, of course it's because—"

"I'm a beautiful forest goddess, leopard man, meow!"

Standing on the ground and posing in a majestic posture, the leopard man looked at Lixiang and the others with a proud smile.

"Merlin, something strange has appeared again."

Hill looked at the strange orange creature that appeared again, and said.

"It's not a strange thing! It's said to be a beautiful leopard man, leopard man!"

The leopard man retorted subconsciously, but in the next second, a toy-like gun stick with a huge meatball paw print on the front end was called out in her hand, and she twirled flexibly.

"Hmph! Although that white child over there is really cute, but if you want to stop the living sacrifice, I won't allow it, meow!"

"This is our world, the land of spiraling snakes, human beings who cannot discern the definition of God, there is still time to leave now!"

The leopard man's eyes became serious, and under the playful puppet-shaped hood, there was a face without a smile.

"In this case... Matthew, get ready to fight! Anna, I'm counting on you too!"

Lixiang made up his mind to stop this absurd act of living sacrifice, and immediately gained the aura of being a master.

Similarly, Matthew and Anna each summoned their own armor and weapons, ready to fight at any time.

"Why don't you go...then at least bring some greetings when you come here, idiots!"

The golden magic cluster on the gun stick was shining, and the leopard man smashed the stone slab under his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Matthew.

The strange spear tip pierced the shield with magical brilliance, but the impact Mash expected did not come.

At that moment, the orange-yellow figure seemed to be trying to avoid something, and suddenly did a backflip, widening the distance from Matthew and the others.

And the second the leopard man withdrew, a white magic snake swept past.But because of the detection of the leopard man, he was dodged in advance.

"This is, Your Highness Hill?"

Matthew turned his face and glanced at Hill, who was supposed to be at the back of the team, and found that the magic snake was extending from the opponent's body at this time.

"This is, hunting."

"I smell it, the smell of hunting."

The pure white toddler stepped forward, different from his usual quiet appearance, his golden pupils almost formed a straight line at this moment.

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