caged robin

"Please pass me the coat, thank you."

Abner froze for a moment, then handed the red coat to Memphis.

At this time, Memphis braided her loose red hair into a strand, with a copper bell tied at the end, and combed the broken hair on her forehead meticulously.

The shirts of the priests are all rusted with red thread dragon patterns, the cuffs of the lanterns have lace, and are adorned with tiny copper bells.The neckline is also intricately lace, and a red dragon emblem is pinned to the throat.The red coat, on the other hand, was sleeveless, with a spirit fire embroidered with gold thread along the side, and a loose black belt was sewn at the waist.Below is a pair of tight breeches, and straight black leather boots wrap the entire calf.

Abner always believed that the salary of the Fire Priest was so low because all the money was spent on clothes.

But I have to admit that the Priest of the Fire Spirit's sacrificial costume is really gorgeous enough to make a gaudy-looking person like Memphis look like a character.

Memphis put on his last red cloak. It was made of thick satin and looked a little hot, but he put on the hood of the cloak anyway and fastened two ropes around his chest.Memphis held a tall cane, which was made of ebony, with a red dragon with wings spread out at the top, and those two wings looked like a pair of horns from a distance.

Memphis stood in front of Abner and hit the ground with his cane, and the copper bells on his body and on the cane rang.The sound did not disappear immediately in the open field, but lingered around for a long time.

"Ahem," Memphis asked Abner softly, "What do you think of me?"

The corner of Abner's mouth twitched, and he said, "Priest Meimei, with all due respect, aren't you so hot?"

Memphis paused, immediately took off his hat, took out a notebook and quill from somewhere, opened the notebook, and wrote something.

"Priest Meimei, what are you doing?" Abner asked.

Mephis said seriously: "I'm writing down your opinion. Since you said it looks hot, I'll go back and discuss it with my superiors to make a change."

Abner: "..."

Abner couldn't laugh or cry and said, "It's fine if you don't feel the heat, why is it so troublesome?"

Mephis carefully put away his notebook and pen, and said, "A good sacrificial attire can attract more young people to become fire priests. Master Abner, are you interested in becoming a priest?"

The corner of Abner's mouth twitched violently, "No, Priest Meimei, can we continue?"

Abner pointed to the drawn spiritual fire formation.

"Come here, come here..." Memphis stepped forward with a cane.

"Priest Meimei, don't you wear a hat?" Abner asked patiently with a smile.The fire priests he saw all wore cloaks and hats when performing rituals.

Memphis waved his hand, "It's too hot, I don't want to wear it."

Abner: "..."

Abner took Oreas and Wens to stand back, for fear that the priest's method would fail and the land would be scorched.

Mephis chanted a strange incantation, and then waved his stick in front of the spiritual fire array. The spiritual fire array emitted a dark red beam of light, which went straight to the night sky. Suddenly, the dark clouds gathered, and the strong wind hit, and the bell on the staff was ringing crazily , the sound became louder and denser, as if hundreds of bells were shaking in the wind at the same time, and the strand of hair that Memphis had braided was shaking in the wind.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed in the sky, and then from all directions in the night sky, bright spots quickly floated one after another. Seeing that the undead was getting closer, Mephis was about to wave his stick again, when the undead passed through his head, he turned around, I saw Oreas holding a shiny object in his hand, and the undead was being sucked into it.

After going on like this for a while, the spirit fire formation dimmed, and so did Aureas' bone of the son of God.

"Is this enough?!" Abner's voice was excited.

Oreas chuckled, "Yes."

"Ah...brother, what is that shiny bauble of yours?" Mephis walked over, staring curiously at the Bone of the Son of God in Oreas' hand.

Oreas glanced at him, put away the bones of the Son of God, and ignored him.

Memphis: "..."

He flicked the braid, and the bells on it jingled.

Suddenly Mephis' face changed, and he shouted: "Oops!"

Abner took a step back in fright.

Memphis fumbled in his pocket for a while, took out a pocket bronze mirror, then held it up in front of himself, squinting his eyes at the mirror.

"Priest Meimei, what's wrong?" Abner asked, he was really afraid that this unreliable priest would lead to a bigger disaster.

Mephis looked at the mirror carefully for a while, frowned, grabbed the cane and touched the ground, the red dragon on the cane actually trembled, but there was no other movement.

"Huh?" He slapped Chiron's head hard, and Abner was so scared that he thought he was going to break Chiron's head.

He hit it again, and the red dragon suddenly spewed out a small fire. He raised the flame to his head, then raised the small bronze mirror, looked carefully for a while, then put down the mirror with satisfaction, and took another picture of the red dragon. head, the fire went out.

Abner frowned and asked, "Priest Meimei, what just happened?"

Mephis replied: "Ah... I just thought that the spiritual fire array messed up my hairstyle, I was going to take a look in the mirror, but there was no fire to illuminate, so I borrowed a walking stick to use it."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Abner coughed twice, and said, "Priest Meimei, how does the Chief Priest get along with you? I mean, what does he think of your way of life?"

Memphis grinned, "That old man can't do it."

Abner raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, Priest Meimei, I really bothered you just now. I will pay you the gold coins after we have collected the souls, is that okay?"

"Of course no problem," Memphis glanced at Aureas and said, "What do you use to collect souls, do you use that shiny stone? Maybe I can help collect them, but I need some people, at this price... ..."

"No, Priest Meimei, we can do it ourselves. You have worked hard, we brought you a roasted duck with onions, Wen Si...give it to Priest Meimei."

Wen Si spread a layer of cloth on the ground, and put a roast duck and a bottle of "Tianxia Tanuki", "Priest, please."

Mephis sat on the cloth in a daze, opened the delicious roast duck hesitantly, and said, "There is no poison in this duck..."

The corner of Abner's mouth twitched, and he said, "Of course not, Priest Meimei, if you die in Silver Bow City, we will be in big trouble."

Memphis thought it was reasonable, he tore open the duck generously, and ate it without raising his head.

Wen Si poked Abner and said in a low voice, "My lords, this method is really good, and it really doesn't make any noise."

Abner chuckled, "Although it seems unreliable, it's still possible to collect souls."

The three threw the empusae into a huge pot, which was set over a firewood, then filled the pot with water, submerged the empusae a little, and set the fire on fire.When they smelled the smell of dead leaves, Aureas saw that the water in the pot had dried up, and each of them took a long wooden stick to smash the empusae, and soon the pot was full of thick flower juice. The smell of dead leaves is very strong.

Oreas lit the torch and threw it into the jar, and suddenly a very high deep purple flame shot out from the jar, hanging the bone of the Son of God on the shelf.Wen Si looked up at the flames that seemed to be soaring into the sky, and said, "Fortunately, it's the curfew time, otherwise it will definitely attract a group of spectators."

Abner laughed and said, "After I came to see it, I also saw a fire priest who was burying his head in eating a duck, haha."

Wins: "..."

Maybe it was because there were enough empusae, and soon many undead emerged from the ground, and the dark ground was full of white dots, floating towards him.Abner looked at it and trembled all over.

But Wen Si couldn't see anything. Seeing that Abner's expression was not very good, he asked, "Are you here?"

"Here we come, many." Abner didn't look like he was joking.

Although Wen Si couldn't see, he also felt a chill down his back.

In the silence of the night, it seems that everything is still, only these faint white undead are following the purple flames, looking for their destination.

"Oh my god...there is a ghost..." A scream broke the silence, and an undead just rose from the bottom of the roast duck, and Mephis, who was opening his mouth wide, fell to the ground in fright.

Abner: "..."

"..."

"..."

Memphis left the roast duck behind, ran over, looked around in horror, and stammered: "This, this, this, this..."

Abner glanced at the oil in his hand, couldn't help but took a step back, and said, "Priest Meimei, what are you afraid of, it's just undead."

Mephis twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "We are not responsible for summoning these ghosts! We just bet on it!"

"Put it down?"

Memphis stomped his feet, pointed to his feet, and said, "Yeah, let them move around here."

Abner: "..."

"Activity?" Wen Si heard even more creepy.

Mephis said: "Yes, they will definitely be awakened after the practice, so we have to seal them below first. Now the entire Red Dragon City and Blue Spring City have been sealed."

"Then what are they doing down here..." Vince asked.

"Probably..." Mephis scratched his head, "If you feel uncomfortable down here, go somewhere else..."

"Where are you going?"

"Silver Bow City... Black Rock City..." Mephis lowered his head consciously and laughed.

Abner: "..."

Wen Si glared at Priest of the Fire Spirit, trembling with his hands on the sword.

Perhaps it was because of enough flames, the souls were collected extremely quickly. For a long time, Abner felt that he was about to be overwhelmed by the undead everywhere. He stood beside Aureas and couldn't help but grab Two fingers of Aureas.Seeing that his expression was not very good, Oreas held his hand behind his back and held him in his arms.

"Is it better now?" Oreas asked.

Abner leaned on Oreas' chest, nodded, and asked in a low voice: "Oreas, you will always be..."

"Damn, my darling... ghost..." Abner's words were suddenly interrupted by Mephis' scream, and Mephis dodged around in the crevices of the undead while grabbing his cane. In the eyes of Wen Si, who couldn't see the undead, he seemed to be dancing wildly.

Wens put his hand on the sword again, trembling slightly.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the flames turned white, and a few people faintly appeared in it, but obviously these people couldn't see Abner, they were trimming the branches of the tree, and the scenery behind them was extremely beautiful.

"Where is this..." Abner turned around, and was about to ask Aureas where this place was, when Aureas looked pale and stared blankly at the scene in the flames.

"Aureas?" Abner raised his hand and waved in front of Aureas.

Only then did Oreas slowly recover, and said, "This is our world."

Oreas slowly stretched out his hand towards the flame, "Hiss...", he withdrew his hand.

Abner was stunned, and looked back at the people in the flames, almost all of them had long hair decorated with fresh leaves and flowers, talking and laughing slowly, and suddenly one of them turned into a cat and jumped from the tree Down……

Abner was startled, seeing Oreas's eyes not only shocked, but also yearning.Abner swallowed back what he wanted to say, and silently moved away from the flame.

Mephis was still dodging the occasional undead, but suddenly he tripped over something, couldn't stand still, and fell into the big jar, and the scene in the flames suddenly disappeared.

"Priest Meimei!" Abner screamed.

But there was no sign of him there.

After a while, suddenly Memphis grabbed his cane, propped himself up, and stood in the flames, unscathed.

All three looked at him in shock.

"Oh my god...fire!" Mephis seemed to realize that he was standing in the fire, and immediately climbed out of the jar in fright, but a black hole was left in the flame.

Abner hurried over to help Mephis, he panted heavily and panted, "I, I, I... just went to that world, it's really beautiful, but I haven't caught my breath yet, just I was driven back by the people there..."

"Can you go there?" Oreas frowned.

Mephis nodded, "I don't know, maybe it's because... this cane, you see, the flame is drilled into a hole haha..."

Aureas put his hand into the hole and found that the flames spread like a stream of water as his body entered.

"Oreas, wait!" Abner suddenly shouted.

Oreas suddenly withdrew his hand and turned to look at Abner.

Abner felt a sore nose, and thousands of words stuck in his throat, but his mind was blank.

It's all too fast.

He swallowed, feeling his throat was hot, and then he smiled stiffly, "Let's keep it for another day, anyway, Priest Meimei is here, and there are still some empusae left, and the flame will definitely appear after burning tomorrow night. You are not Want to see my robin dance? Tomorrow I will do the last one, if you miss tomorrow, you will have no chance."

Oreas looked at Abner quietly, his golden eyes shimmering, and he remained silent.

You speak, why don't you speak, you can refuse or agree, why don't you speak.

Oreas still didn't speak, with complex emotions brewing in his eyes.

Abner clenched his fists, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "I'll feed you! I'll wear you! I'll sleep! I've fed you for so long! What's the matter with letting you stay for one more day? You fucking slap your ass now leave..."

A sudden gust of wind brushed back the broken hair on Abner's forehead, and Abner paused.

"How could I leave you..." Oreas hugged Abner tightly.

Night Breeze walked around the two of them, and Mephis' cane fell to the ground in shock. Wen Si quickly picked up his cane and pulled him away.

"But you...but you...don't answer..." Abner buried his face in Oreas' chest, choked up.

Oreas leaned over, kissed his hair, and said, "I'm just shocked why you think this way, how many times do you need me to repeat it before you can remember it."

"One hundred times... one thousand times... ten thousand times..." Abner's voice became smaller and smaller.

Oreas felt that his shirt was slightly wet, and he patted Abner's back, "Lance? Lance?"

No echo.

He lifted Abner's chin and raised his face, only to see that his eyes were already tearful and blurred.

"Lance?"

Still no reply.

Oreas panicked, bent down, pressed his forehead against Abner's, put his hands on the back of his neck, and a warm current flowed into Abner's body from his forehead and back neck.

Abner's eyes slowly opened, he looked at Aureas who was close at hand in a daze, stood on tiptoe, and lightly pecked on Aureas' lips.

Aureast paused, and suddenly let go of Abner, but Abner closed his eyes again, as if falling asleep.