Orc X Doom

Ammon smiled and said to the woman, "Oh, dear, we have guests."

The woman led them to Ammon, and Ammon introduced them to Barry, "This is my wife, Sally, and this boy is my son, David." Ammon compared him to the smaller one. The boy, and then patted the man who was blushing and hiccupping: "This is a new member who just joined my family today, and his name is John."

"Hi... glad to recognize you... hiccup... this stuff is awesome..." John was obviously drunk, and greeted everyone with a smirk.

Sally took out a glass, got a glass of wine, handed it to Zero, and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, are you also going to join our family? Try the wine I brewed? It tastes great."

Looking at the glass, the wine had a strange gray-white turbid color, and besides the unique pungent smell of wine, there was also an indescribable fishy smell.

"Oh, ma'am, thank you very much..." Zero looked at the drink, but he really didn't have the courage to drink it down, so he handed the drink to Sally: "But I can't drink much, sorry."

"Oh, you little bastard." John grabbed Zero's cup and drank it in two gulps. Then he wiped his mouth and said loudly, "You don't know how much this thing is..."

"John, you're drunk..." Ammon interrupted John, and then he turned to Sally and said, "These people are just passing by here and will be leaving soon...Sally, help John to Go there, everyone, I will go there after I finish talking."

"Oh, okay ~ come here quickly, we will continue singing." Sally handed the big bottle in her hand to David: "Honey, help me take it, I will help John."

David nodded, and after a few more glances, he turned around and walked towards the others with the big bottle in hand.

Watching David and Lisa leave, Ammon turned his head and smiled at Barry and the others and said, "Then, I think you guys should be very clear about our wishes, we're not going anywhere, just stay here. "

"...Okay, I understand." Barry nodded helplessly.

"Then, I wish you all the best and that you can leave this town smoothly..." Ammon smiled and gestured as a welcome sign, obviously ready to see off the guests.

Leading the crowd to the door, Ammon waved goodbye to the crowd, Barry still did not give up and said: "If you and your family change your mind, you can catch up at any time, the transport plane will arrive tomorrow..."

"Old Ai, come quickly, John is about to drink up all the wine!" At this time, someone shouted in the room, and Ammon turned around and shouted: "Here we come."

"We won't leave." Ammon still said with a smile on his face: "Then let's say goodbye, goodbye." Then he closed the door.

Zero patted Barry on the shoulder and comforted him, "Since they think it's best for them, so be it...you did your best, Barry."

Barry stared at the door for a while, nodded, and said to the two, "Let's go, everyone is still waiting for us outside."

The three of them walked back to the tunnel along the original road. When everyone saw Barry and others coming out, they immediately went up to meet them.

"What's the situation? Is anyone in there?" Colin asked.

"Yes, but..." Barry told everyone what happened on the road.

"What a strange group of people." Jimmy said, and then said with a smile: "But forget it, Captain, you try your best to persuade! Anyway, there are so many of them, if they all come, our transport plane may not be able to fit them! "

"Although Jimmy's words are ugly..." Vincent ignored Jimmy's accusing eyes, and continued: "But our transport plane does not have enough space, Captain."

"Maybe after we send the first batch of survivors away, we can come back and take a look?" Colin suggested, "If they didn't leave at that time, or if there was no accident and changed their minds, we can send another one." A transport plane came to pick them up."

Barry nodded and said, "Let's go, there is still a long way to go, let's move on."

Everyone continued to move forward, still silent along the way, only the sound of footsteps echoed in the tunnel and interweaved into background music.

After walking a certain distance, Zero suddenly said to Jimmy: "Did you notice?"

Jimmy nodded and said, "Well, I've been following you for a while."

After Zero and Jimmy looked at each other, Zero shouted forward: "Barry, please pause for a moment."

The line stopped, and Barry and Enoch came from the front of the line. Barry asked, "What's going on?"

"Someone is following us..." Zero said, and then he shone his flashlight into the darkness behind: "Please come out! We've spotted you."

A young man slowly walked out from the darkness, his eyes were half covered with his hands, apparently a little unable to adapt to the light.

"You are...David?" Zero asked clearly after seeing the boy's face clearly.

David nodded, and Barry then asked, "Are you alone? What about your family? Have you changed your mind and wanted to leave with us?"

David shook his head, he looked at Barry, seemed a little scared, and said in a low voice, "No... no... I'm here... to invite you... kind sir... please... help me family..."

"Hey, hey, little brother, it's not right for you to say that." Jimmy interjected, "It's not that we don't want to help, it's that your family members refuse to leave, otherwise what else can we do? Is it?"

"Quiet, Jimmy." Barry frowned at Jimmy and said, then turned to David and said, "Little brother, you were there at that time, I believe you also saw that your family rejected my proposal, It’s not that we don’t want to help…”

"It's not like this!" David said loudly, and then he shrank his neck in fear, and continued to say with a little cowardice: "They were confused, they were not like this before."

"I don't really understand what you mean." Zero said: "It means... Someone threatened your family? Are they not allowed to leave here?"

David nodded: "Yes...it's the "mother"...it doesn't let my family members leave, it treats us like livestock...it's convenient for it to slaughter and eat at any time..."

Then David started to cry, and he grabbed Barry by the corner of his shirt, whimpering: "I can't take it anymore! I don't know when it will be my parents and me, I'm scared, please help us!"

Barry squatted down, touched David's head, and said softly, "My dear boy, don't be so excited, just speak slowly, I don't quite understand..."

After David calmed down and stopped crying: "Barry continued to ask: "Did you mention "mother" just now?Meaning, your mother threatened or used some kind of control over your family...to keep them from leaving that place? "

David shook his head, "No...'mother' doesn't mean my mom, Lisa.I don't know what it is...I only know that my parents will murmur something after they come back from the ceremony...Thank you "Mother" for the reward... "Mother" has blessed us with a lot of saints today liquid... or something like that..."

Barry and the others glanced at each other, and continued to ask, "Talk about that 'ritual', what does that mean? "

"...my family will change into robes that are all patchwork and sewn every two days and go somewhere..." David said: "I know where that place is, but I have never been there, Ai Meng said that I am still too young, and I can only participate when I am older... Every time my family members hold a ceremony, one person will not come back. I asked Ammon, and he always told me... "Mother chose him as a sacrifice."