Withered

They are on the top floor of the clock tower, which is the place closest to the sun in the whole of Hader Town. From this, we can see that Hader Town is shrouded in sunlight, but the sunlight that comes in from the windows cannot drive away the long-term gloom here. .

Morton asked, "Why do you say that?"

Nosley sat on the ground, he touched his terrible face, and said after a while: "My scars are caused by Bessie, she is guilty of me, so she treats me so well, but in fact, I My sisters have always hated me. Being nice to me makes them feel better. That's the truth."

After a while, Morton closed his eyes and said, "You have been coming to this clock tower for many years, have you ever actually seen what it looks like?"

Nosley looked around suspiciously, it was always so silent and gloomy, it was so tall, but it had almost no sense of presence, even though the police in the entire Hard Town were looking for Nosley, almost no one thought that they might hide it's here.

"When it first started, the walls were white." Morton said softly, "Pure white and holy. In Harder Town, all newlyweds are willing to come here to receive the blessing of time."

"There was a young couple who had just come out of church when they got married and came here."

Here stood the handsome Earl of Eswick and his beautiful lady, with a clock that was considered exquisite workmanship in those days hanging on the tower, and they stood there, smiling and receiving blessings from people, and everyone said, look! , they look like a match made in heaven.

Soon, the countess gave birth to a little boy, who didn't look like his parents—better than his parents. Every time the Earl of Eswicks went out, he would receive everyone's compliments on little Eswicks. Everyone is so envious of such a happy family.

A few years later, the lady gave birth to another child, a boy, just like the expectations of little Eswicks. He always hoped that he could have a brother, but this child died shortly after birth, because he was in the While sleeping, the quilt covered his nose, but the adults didn't notice, and the next day, he was out of breath.

This is really sad news. In Hadfield Manor, the countess fainted, and the earl drank a lot of wine that day. When he came back, he saw little Eswicks and suddenly smiled at him.The next day, they quarreled.The Countess accused her husband of suffocating the child, and the Earl cried out ungentlemanly, "It's fine if the first one isn't mine! Neither is the second one! Don't think I can't see that it's Vic." Grandson! Alice! You really don't think much of me!" the Countess cried bitterly.

Little Eswicks, standing behind the door, heard it.

However, Earl Eswick's troubles were far from over. A terrible Black Death hit the entire Rocky County. Of course, Harder Town could not avoid it. He went out every day to take care of the people who were afflicted by the Black Death. He even took little Eswickes with him, but the countess would not agree, it was too dangerous, and the two quarreled all the time, trying to bring the other into submission.

The black death did not last for a while, it came prepared, and beat the whole town of Hader to the ground. Eswick was deeply saddened, and he called on people to fight against the terrible disease, and concentrated the wounded in the The clock tower, because the clock tower is large enough, it is more convenient to manage.

The busy town of Harder is shrouded in the shadow of death, and everyone is immersed in the fear brought about by the Black Death and Dr. Beak.

Of course, when everyone was worried about whether the earl would also be infected, it was Eswick who was infected, and he was sent to the clock tower full of death.

The earl wore a pointed beak and a white robe, trying to isolate the virus of the black plague like those doctors. He looked at little Eswick and said sadly: "Goodbye, my child."

That night, all patients who were dying or who had died were sent to the Clock Tower. In order to "completely" eliminate the Black Death and prevent it from spreading again, a fire buried them and the entire Clock Tower.

Nosley swallowed, looked into Morton's blue eyes, and asked, "You are here, you are him, right?"

"Nosley, I was 15 years old at the time." Morton knelt down, held North's face in his hands, and said, "You know, being eaten away by the scorching fire..."

"No! Let us out!" People wailed and screamed, there was hell on earth, a strange and disgusting burning smell filled the entire clock tower, the gate and all the windows were nailed to death The dead, the people beat and begged, were burned alive.

Little Eswick was on the top floor of the clock tower, and he looked down, choked by puffs of smoke, and cursed at the earl, so that he could not say to anyone what he wanted to say most: "I Very healthy, I didn't get the bubonic plague."

It was impossible for the relentless, raging fire to hear him, and the heat made it hard for him to breathe, and he desperately called to his parents, but it was all to no avail.

The suspicious Earl of Eswicks always believed that his wife had betrayed him, and he even became mentally ill because of it. One night, he smothered his youngest son to death with his own hands. He didn't think it could be his child, and he couldn't accept the evidence that Alice betrayed him.

In order to reassure her husband, Alice let him take little Eswick away, even though she knew he would personally send the child to hell.

Fire, fire.Little Eswicks was not reconciled. Since he was bound to suffer such torture, why did he have to be born?For the dirty and superfluous suspicions of man?

He bit his finger at the clock tower and wrote his name in blood.

A gust of wind rose from the ground, and the dust on the ground was blown away, and several black characters were printed there: Morton Acewicks.

Nosley lightly touched those words, and he suddenly felt as if an unbearable scalding hit him, a raging fire hit him, the hatred in his chest, the painful scream beside his ear …Nosri twitched his hand, quickly took it back, and said, "So you became a vampire after that?"

Morton kissed Nosley's scald and said, "I sold my life to the devil."

"Nosri, I am just like you, so I will always be by your side."

"Do demons exist?" Nosri asked softly.

"He's there, he's always there," Morton said.