Welcome to Nightmare Game III

The Legion is ready to go to the rescue.

The captain of the team wanted to dissuade Ning Zhou, because his injuries were not serious, and he was unable to rescue the team, but Ning Zhou insisted on going.

"I promised them to bring reinforcements back." When he said these words, there were suppressed tears in his eyes.

"Captain, let him go." An acquaintance in the team said.

It was Sero, his opponent in the final round of the fencing tournament two years ago, and now he has graduated from the missionary school, and instead of going to the Knights, he is serving in the Legion.

"Thank you." Ning Zhou thanked him.

"Sai Luo, keep an eye on him. When you go in later, let him go at the back. If the scene... stop him and don't let him go in." The captain told Sai Luo.

"Yes!"

Everyone in the legion has seen how terrifying the scene of demons attacking humans is, but this boy has not.He was lucky to be born in Twilight Land, and grew up safely under the wings of the court and his mother. Now Neverland regards him as a treasure, and dare not let him face the world outside the territory early.

But he will always meet the bloody reality and face this human world defeated by demons.

Ning Zhou hurried along with the soldiers of the legion. The wound left by the fierce battle with the devil last night was open. He was sweating and bleeding. Every step he took seemed to be floating in the clouds, and it was like stepping on thorns. Same sting.He gritted his teeth and insisted, only a belief in his heart supported him.

"I'll carry you on my back." Selo said to him.

Ning Zhou shook his head, but before he could utter a word of refusal, his feet went limp and he fell to the ground, his wound was so painful that he couldn't get up.

Selo sighed: "Come on, we don't have time to wait for you."

Sai Luo carried Ning Zhou on his back, and the stubborn boy fell asleep on his back after a while.

In pain and exhaustion, he was brought into yet another nightmare.

He dreamed that he rushed to the burning church with the soldiers of the legion, but it was too late...he rushed into the sea of ​​fire regardless of the soldiers' resistance, so he saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life— —

He saw the real world beyond the Twilight Land and Neverland.

There is no laughter and warmth, no compassion and benevolence, only the most straightforward and cruel death, destroying all good things.

He knelt down in the blood and fire, crying like a newborn baby.

He was baptized not by new life, but by death.

Weakness is sinful, sinful in not being able to protect others.

He is guilty.

In the dream, he couldn't call out the names of those classmates, but later he could.

He only met his classmates after their death.

He visited every classmate's family, confessed to their relatives, and pieced together the appearance of these teenagers from their weeping narrations. He finally remembered their names, personalities, families, lives and dreams. , always remember.

He couldn't help but regret, if he could muster up the courage, it would be great to know them earlier.

In front of the graveyard of the old church, he sent flowers to them one by one.

He tried to search for those bits and pieces that he didn't pay attention to from his memory.He vaguely saw them playing childish games in the forest, their laughter and laughter stopped the moment they saw him, they looked at him in fear, but he just walked away indifferently.

Now, they walked away together, and he stood alone, placing the last bouquet of flowers in front of Teacher Teresa's grave.

He couldn't forget the last look that Teacher Teresa gave him, expecting a miracle in those eyes.

But in the end he did not bring them a miracle.

He failed everyone.

Before he left, he went to see his little penguin. The wooden cross on the tombstone was made by him. It has become much old in the past two years, but the picture of the little penguin in his palm seemed like yesterday.

He didn't feed that little life, he didn't protect his teacher and classmates, he didn't save anyone.

When he left the old church, he wanted to say hello to the deaf old priest and apologize for stealing the wine in the cellar.The door of the church was locked, and he entered through the window, and finally saw the old priest lying on the bed in a small room.

He was old and feeble, and long dead.

No one noticed, no one cared, no one collected it, only maggots peacefully gnawed at the rotting bones.

It turns out that this is the world.

………………

When Ning Zhou woke up, his face was covered with frozen tears. He was woken up by the military doctor.

Sai Luo asked: "Is it better? If you can't hold on, I will send someone to send you back to the legion station."

Ning Zhou made a hoarse voice from his throat: "I'm fine."

"Don't let him fall asleep again." The military doctor reminded, "The temperature is too low now, and it's easy to wake up after falling asleep. I have some wine here, let him have a sip."

"No! I don't drink!" Ning Zhou seemed to be awakened, and refused in horror.

What happened last night is still a thorn in his heart.If he hadn't slipped to the tavern last night, he wouldn't have found those demons, and he wouldn't have hurt his teachers and classmates...

His selfish desires have brought unimaginable consequences.

Saylo said, "He's not an adult yet, he can't drink strong alcohol."

The military doctor smiled: "Well, following the precepts is a good thing."

Ning Zhou recovered a little strength and was able to walk independently.Healing helped alleviate his injuries, and the medic marveled at his own resilience, which he considered some kind of rare gift.

"But correspondingly, the effect of the healing technique on you is not as good as that on other people." The military doctor reminded.

Ning Zhou nodded silently, he knew about this a long time ago.

"Sai Luo, then you can chat with him, and be careful not to let him fall asleep again." The military doctor finally said.

After the military doctor left, Ning Zhou tried his best to keep up with the others. Sai Luo walked beside him and told him about his military career in the past two years.

"Last year I went to the two borders to serve. You haven't been to the border, there are dead people everywhere. Thousands of people are dying every day. The soldiers of the legion, the knights of the knight order, and the people on the border are killed by demons. Yes, some died of hunger and cold, and some were even hurt and plundered by the same kind... I haven’t seen those before, and you can’t imagine how cheap life is, and they died without names.”

"The closer to the border, the more desolate. Sometimes our whole team marched for several days and passed several villages without a single sound inside. They were all dead, and there was no one alive..."

Ning Zhou listened in a daze.He had heard of such things, but had never seen them, nor had they been seriously told to him.Maybe in a few years, after he graduates and enters the workforce, he will witness it with his own eyes, but at this time he is still just a well-protected 15-year-old boy.

Sai Luo looked at him and said, "I used to envy you very much. You live in heaven instead of the world. The Lord favors you, and everyone favors you. You have never seen the suffering in the world, so I envy you and even envy you."

"In the fencing competition two years ago, I lost to you, but you left the champion and ran away! At that time, I thought, why is my cherished honor not worth mentioning in your eyes? But you are more talented than me , why is this? You don’t need to understand the pain of mortals, you can have power that others don’t have, it’s not fair!”

"Now I think, if you never understand... because there are too many painful things in the world, and these pains will torture you all your life. But if you haven't experienced it and regretted it, how can you have it?" The determination at all costs? Ning Zhou, do you have the determination now? Tell me, where does your determination come from?"

Ning Zhou trembled in pain: "Many people died for me."

Selo patted him on the shoulder: "So you have to live for them."

Live for others, not for yourself.

Don't be Ning Zhou, be Ning Zhou in everyone's mind.

He is expected to be the sun that shines on the world, giving without asking for anything, devotion and sacrifice are what he must do, this is the price for him to be expected and loved by others.

There is no love that asks for nothing in this world, and everything he gets should be repaid with the rest of his life. 15-year-old Ning Zhou understood this truth.

He accepted this truth.

………………

"Is this the place?" The captain looked in shock at the corpses of demons all over the ground outside the cedar forest. "What are these demons?"

The death of these corpses shocked everyone. They seemed to have died at the same time. Every corpse had the same death appearance, and all of them had no heads.

"How did you do that?" Selo asked in surprise.

The captain was well-informed, and when he saw this scene, he suddenly had a premonition: "Maybe, some master passed by here. This kind of power to kill these demons in an instant... is at least half-field level. But there are no cardinals in this area." The bishop is stationed, and no cardinal has been notified of his arrival."

"Could it be those foreigners? Many of them are quite powerful." Someone asked.

The group of foreigners with strange origins and various magical abilities, most of them settled in the Twilight Land, but some of them traveled around the Northern Continent for various reasons.

The soldiers of the legion would occasionally see them, and their appearance was closer to that of the people from the Far Eastern Continent, so it was easy to tell them apart from their appearance.

The unexpected situation in front of him gave Ning Zhou a glimmer of hope. He rushed to the closed church and knocked hard on the door.

"Ms. Teresa! Are you there? Teacher? Lance?" He asked loudly, his heart beating like a drum.

He had already accepted the cruelty of reality, but now he harbored that one-in-a-million hope in his heart, and tried his best to hope for a miracle.

Lord, I sincerely beg you to grant me a miracle.

Don't leave me alone like in that nightmare.

The door opened slowly, and the person who opened the door raised his head, revealing the young man's bright and bewitching face.

At this moment, the people of the legion widened their eyes: Is this a human being, or a succubus?If it is a human being, he clearly exudes an intoxicating charm beyond reason, which is the breath of a succubus.But if he is a succubus, he is dressed dignifiedly and has no tail, which is very different from ordinary succubus... Ah, there seems to be someone in the legion who fits these characteristics, but isn't he at the border?

The moment Ning Zhou saw the person coming, his mind went blank.

The mixed blood succubus's eyes were bright and his smile was bright. He threw himself into Ning Zhou's arms: "Ning Zhou, I'm back!"

Teacher Teresa and her classmates came out from behind the door, dispelling the last guard of the legionnaires: "We are fine, it was the Qi Le people who saved us!"

"I got the information that there was a secret infiltration of demons in Shubei Diocese. When I arrived, I happened to meet everyone trapped in the church. It was so dangerous. At that time, the barrier seemed to be collapsing..." Qi Leren said, and an image appeared in his mind. What happened was the scene in the battle of Twilight City three years ago...

Ning Zhou hugged him tightly, the wound burst open but felt no pain.

"Thank you... Really, thank you..." He broke down in tears.

You saved me, again.

The author has something to say:

Ning Zhou is destined to become the sun that shines on everyone.But he has Le Mei who loves him for nothing, so he is not alone shining in the sky.