Tides: Years of Dawn

(21) The Dying Prisoner

Summary of this chapter: There is a pool of blood in the room, and a lump of meat is piled on the blood

If Tristan knew there was such a thing in the room, he must be very motivated to open the door.It's a pity that he didn't know it before, so he retreated many times.

After all, he is not an enthusiastic person. The fool has already caused a lot of trouble for the two of them. He doesn't know if they can get out of trouble if they continue to do so.

Especially after Tristan didn't remember the spell very much, and after making mistakes several times in a row and hurting his other hand, he felt like giving up.

It's not that the spell didn't go from the arm to the palm to the fingertips, and finally landed on the doorknob.Instead, he had already walked all the way, and returned from the doorknob with lightning speed.

"The door can't be opened, I can't open it anyway, I feel my arm is twisted." Tristan withdrew his hand, and when he turned around, he met Gareth and the fool's expectant eyes.

"You can do it, come on!" Gareth encouraged, pinching Tristan's other injured arm.

Tristan groaned in pain, shook off Gareth, and had to concentrate again.He decides to try again, just once, and then no matter how angelic they look at him, it doesn't work anymore.

The idiot also seemed to understand the importance of giving the technicians a quiet working environment, so he obediently stayed by the side, looking expectant and worried.

The door was huge, almost as wide as the corridor.It was very clean, with no trace of decorative lines.This makes it look weird and abrupt in a house with complicated patterns, and it is not a serious door at first glance.

"What's in there?" Gareth asked, pulling the fool a little away, while waiting for Tristan to figure out how to turn the spell into wire and pick the tight lock.

"Master," said the fool, looking at Gareth very frankly.

Gareth was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked at Tristan, hoping that the other party would hear this and look at him, then Gareth would definitely give him a look of "Am I a bit awesome", and said Tell Tristan—you are not the only one who can be the master, even a bastard like me who works hard can turn himself over.

Unfortunately, Tristan was so absorbed in fiddling with the doorknob that he had no idea what the two of them were talking about.

As a last resort, Gareth had to turn his face around again, smiled and touched the fool's head in a friendly way, "Good boy."

After this long journey and Tristan's fragmented explanation, Gareth slowly accepted that he was once a beast.

But even if he is a beast, he must be the king of beasts.Otherwise, how could the fool only understand what he said, but not what Tristan said.

However, Gareth was flattered by the idiot calling himself "Master". Such a shock made him feel that he was much taller for a moment.No wonder Tristan sometimes infused him with mana and let him call himself that. This is indeed a magical word that can improve combat effectiveness.

"Let's talk about this later," Gareth didn't forget his own question. He firmly believed that he was not a person who would be overwhelmed by excitement, so he got to the point and asked again—"Tell me first, what's in it?"

"Master." The fool called again obediently.

"Good, so you answer the master's words, this room—" Garret pointed to the big wooden door—"is there something or someone?"

This is basically the case when Gareth and Tristan team up, with Tristan making strategic decisions and Gareth leading the charge.He had to be ready before the door opened, no matter what rushed out from inside, he would be the first to stop Tristan.

He didn't know when he developed the habit, but he always felt that although Tristan had a better brain than him, his five senses were not as sharp as his own.

This is probably the characteristic of animals.

According to this, as long as Gareth improves his IQ, at least to the level of Tristan, he will definitely be able to beat Tristan——

"Master." The fool said the third time.

Gareth clicked his tongue and turned to look at Tristan——"Damn it, why does he always..."

"...Are you fucking stupid?! He said that his master is locked inside!" Tristan cursed, the curse was combined with a crisp "click", and the door opened.

The fool immediately rushed to the door excitedly, but Tristan was very cautious. He opened the door slightly, took a look and then quickly closed the door.

Seeing Tristan's careful movements, Gareth also wiped away the previous feeling of being slapped in the face for not pretending to be coquettish, and walked forward curiously and vigilantly—"What's wrong?"

Tristan looked at the fool, and then at Gareth—"There's something about it."

Although he had made sufficient psychological preparations, when Gareth saw a ///a trace of///not///hanging///a person covered in blood, he still felt that the person was too dead died.Because the moment the door opened, he didn't even see that it was a person.

All he saw was a pool of blood in the room, and a pile of flesh on top of the blood.

Most of the bloodstains on the ground have turned yellow, and there is still a little bright red color left near the pile of meat.It was also this little bit of bright red that made the fool rush up like a madman, rubbing against the pool of flesh and blood on the ground, whimpering as if crying.

Gareth heard the sound of the chain as the fool bumped.He searched for the other end of the chain from the pile of meat, and finally found the prisoner's wrist.

The whole room exudes a stench, not only the smell of blood and rust, but also the smell of festering wounds, pus, and other unspeakable smells.

The messy smell mixed together, giving people a strong sense of suffocation in this small, almost airtight room.

"He's still alive." At this moment, Tristan was already surrounded by the prisoner with the idiot. He put his hand on the prisoner's neck and felt a weak pulse beating.This is a good sign, but he is not sure how long this tiny bit of life can last.

"Bring that bucket here." Tristan pointed to the bucket in the corner.

The bucket seemed to be prepared to keep waking up the prisoner for a new round of torture. The water in the bucket was not clear, and because of this, some of the wounds on the prisoner showed signs of infection.

Tristan used the fragment of the previous vase to cut a corner from the clothes, wiped the other person's face and wrists with water, then turned over and wiped his chest.

The tattoo on the chest that symbolized the identity of the owner was indeed in the shape of a sand leopard, exactly the same as the brand on the fool.There is no doubt that he is the owner of the fool, and he is also the only surviving young master of the Leopard family that was wiped out 20 years ago.

Twenty years ago, when Tristan was 20, he decided to take 21-year-old Gareth away from the spiders.That is, two months before he left, the Leopard family was rumored to have been murdered.

A fire burned down the Shabao old house, and only the fool who was not in the house and the young master who was only 17 years old survived.

Rumors swirled in the outside world, and at first there were all kinds of theories, but soon everyone decided that the most likely fact was that the Ying family, who had always been in constant conflict with the Leopard family, finally couldn't bear it and killed him.

No one has conclusive evidence, but there are too many rumors and the case is still pending. Over time, this has become the only truth.

But Tristan guessed otherwise.Because it didn't take long for the spider's family to receive the execution order.

That order came very suddenly, there had never been a similar precedent in the wizarding world before—yes, the order was to kill all the beasts.The reason is that they are out of control, so they are labeled as defective and destroyed.

People in the Spider family always only do things and don't get to the bottom of the cause, but Tristan knows that the root cause of the destruction of the Leopard family may have nothing to do with the Eagle family.Although these two families have always had small conflicts, they have never reached the point where they want to wipe out each other.

After all, the two families have very strong financial ties.The Eagle family is the main family that studies livestock, while the Leopard family is the biggest buyer.The Ying family would never be so stupid as to strangle their biggest client to death, that would be tantamount to cutting off the main source of income.

Back then, Tristan was also forced to join the ranks of killing those animals, but unfortunately, he escaped without killing any of them.And five years later, the Ying family was also exterminated, which made him more firm in his guess - it was the Ying family that the other families wanted to eliminate, and the Leopard family was just a fuse that was ignited, and they were complete victims.And the reason why the two families were eradicated one by one within five years, there must be a bigger secret hidden behind it.

But what exactly is the secret, Tristan has no idea.This matter has always been in Tristan's heart, not only because he did not get the final answer, but also because he knew the survivor.

It's a pity that he didn't have a chance to figure it out at the time, so he hurriedly crossed the line with Gareth.In the past 20 years, he gradually forgot the persistence of longing for the truth.

As fate would have it, Tristan finally made a detour and returned to the truth.Looking at the face he once knew, Tristan was filled with emotion.

Now he finally had to believe that all the tragedies happened because of the unfinished words of the wizard, and the potion that "can stabilize animals".

"Do you want to save him? He seems to be dying soon." Gareth also groped, and the prisoner's breath became weaker and weaker.

"Yes, it must be rescued." Tristan said firmly, as he said, he tightened the buckle of the chain that tied the prisoner. The environment was so pressing that he had to use the spell again.

Tristan took a deep breath, looked at Gareth seriously before casting the spell, and said solemnly—"Pray for him, Gareth, whether you can make up for your defects depends on whether he can survive .”

TBC