Alomitsu - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Nightmare (2)

I used to think whether or not it was within our control every time human beings wake up? When we accidentally recall the meaning in the dream during the day, what do they represent?

There was a saying in the East that there were thoughts on the day and dreams at night, but the end of the dreams was completely irrelevant to our reality. They were full of temptation and fear, just like the scenes depicted in the fairy tales. It was real but intangible. It existed in each of our brains.

When I woke up, I thought of the hidden worlds hidden in dreams. In fact, they were just wonderful projections of the real world. The refined and ethereal qualities occasionally made us use dreams to become our topic.

This was an unfamiliar spiritual realm, but the importance of this spiritual realm was not inferior to that of the real world. In a sense, it represented the potential within our human body.

I was standing by the withered flower bed with a twisted and irregular tree standing in the center of the flower bed. The flowers around it were lost. I was surrounded by a dilapidated small town. It seems that this poor small town has gone through something, it’s like an old scroll with dark yellow. There was no color other than the faded color.

Every building, every plant, including my body, were floating with tiny particles, which were like the ashes of burning straw moving towards the sky.

According to the dilapidated scenery, it was obviously autumn. Beside the flowerbeds was an old abandoned cemetery. Pieces of dilapidated and damaged tombstones were slanted in the cemetery. Every piece of tombstone was covered with weeds. They were very similar. People who thought under the shadow of the tombstone are thinking about the indescribable life and death.

In the middle of the cemetery is an old tree that has died. Its sturdy trunk almost obscures the sky of these tombstones. Its rhizomes once took root in this cemetery and drilled into the soil, in this ancient soil with corpses everywhere. It drew those ghastly and horrible nutrients that should not be mentioned.

Silent, there were no creatures except me. The dark yellow clouds did not move, nor could I hear the crickets that are characteristic of autumn.

The pain that has been unknown for a long time was calling me. It wanted to wake me from this strange dream, the surrounding scenery will turn into darkness in the next moment, and I began to hear the man’s words clearly.

I opened my eyes and felt numbness all over my body. What caught my eyes was Bruyer, the brave Gaul.

“Oh, God, you finally woke up.” Bruyer shook his arms excitedly. He was wrapping cloth around my legs. He would never become a doctor in his life, he could only become a butcher. He only knew how to entangle my wound hard, and the wound was dragged so hard that I felt a sharp pain in my leg.

“Bruyer, don’t wrap it around, ah!” I yelled in pain. “It’s so tight, the wound will become suppurative because it can’t breathe.”

“This is when Rui told me to change the gauze and wash the gauze on time before leaving. I am like a maid. Apart from taking care of you, I chop wood and go to the mountains to grab herbs.” Bruyer’s words were full of complaints.

“Rui!” Bruyer’s words made me wake up, and I found that there was no Rui in this room, and the smile on Bruyer’s face turned into a serious expression.

“Where did Rui go?” I asked Bruyer anxiously. Now, Bruyer just gently wrapped a clean cloth and sat on the stool in front of the fireplace.

There were cracks on the stool where Bruyer was sitting. I suspected that the stool was pressed by Bruyer’s tall body. Bruyer remained silent. He just looked at the flames burning in the fireplace.

I noticed the room at the moment. The room where Bruyer and I were located was a wooden house with cut-off tree trunks stacked on top of each other. The bed on which I laid was made up of rough wooden boards and covered with a thick layer. The grasses had a musty smell, just like the smell of grass in a horse farm.

The only thing built with stones is the fireplace. This fireplace was so small that it could even be called a stove. Do you want to light the fireplace in summer? I was full of doubts about what I saw when I woke up.

Pl~Pl~

The burning wood in the fireplace made a crisp sound, and the yellow light of the flame reflected Bruyer’s face into orange. Bruyer was a Gaul with a standard body, and he was strong. His physique and height of about 1.8 meters, and his rugged beard made him exude a wild and rude aura.

This wild man showed a worried look.

“Reeves Dante. This is your name, right?”

“Yes, you can call me Reeves or Dante.”

Dangdang~

Bruyer picked up a piece of wood and threw it into the fireplace. He moved his lips again, “Dante, I didn’t want to tell you the news when you woke up. I know, on the pirate ship that you are a smart person. You are brave and not afraid of threats, even my soul is telling me that you are a trustworthy smart person. Concealing things will only make you hate. I don’t want to be like that in your eyes.”

Hoo~

I let out a sigh of relief and let my heart sink to listen to the words of the Gaul. In the end, things made the Gaul full of sorrow.

“After you fell asleep, no matter how we called you, you didn’t answer. I thought you were dead at the time, but Rui, he insisted that you still had a weak breath.

“We ran south with you on our back and found a small forest behind the beach. Rui is an excellent jungle survivor. He found a lot of herbs plants. He put these herbs on your wounds. There is also a part of the grass that Rui smashed with coconut fruit and let you eat the coconut milk.

“But you still have no response. Every time I want Rui to give up on you, I always don’t speak. Rui’s busy figure makes me unable to speak. He firmly believes that you can wake up.”

“Along the way, we took you cautiously, but luckily, we arrived in Goning half a month ago. After seeing that we were paupers, these damned bastard soldiers drove us out.

“We can’t get in. We are anxious to find a doctor to see you. Rui and I can’t do anything about it. If we go further, it will take a long distance. Your body can’t stand it, and your wounds start to get infected, and no plants are useful.

“When Rui and I were extremely anxious, we found an abandoned town northwest of the main city of Goning. The buildings here are dilapidated but in good condition.”

Bruyer stretched out his finger to point to the window covered by straw. It was snowing outside, which made me amazed.

“It’s weird. Rui and I were so surprised at the time.

“We discovered that it is obviously summer but it is snowing. The cold can prevent your wound from getting worse, and the town can also provide us with a refuge. We settled down with you who were unconscious.

“Until Rui and I took the hunting beasts to the entrance of Goning and waited for the merchants to arrive. We hope we can get necessities. What we can do is get news of the war between France and England. How many battles have been fought in this war? Ten years and we are still fighting. This time, it has spread to the village where Rui’s adoptive father is located, and his adoptive father is in that little unknown village.

“After Rui entrusted you to me, he left in a hurry. What I told you was that after he found his adoptive father, he would bring him to find us.

“Rui has taught me how to distinguish plants these days, and I rely on the methods he taught me to gather herbs, dress you, change cloth strips, and feed you broth.

“A peaceful town, there are only you and me. I even want to live here for a lifetime. It is quiet and there is no disturbance, there will be no robbers, and there will be no exploitation by the superiors, but I was wrong.”

Bruyer picked up a piece of meat and put it on a fork and roasted it in the flame. The fat on the meat made a “crack” sound.

“A few days after Rui left, I always heard sneaky sounds in the forest. This makes me very careful to hunt and gather herbs in the forest. When this sound appeared, within a few days, several Roman soldiers came here. They waved their swords fiercely and made conditions for me.

“One, leave immediately.

“Second, kill the demons in this small town, or they will drive us away. This is the order of the City Lord of Goning.

“The deadline is one month, and we will be homeless at that time.”

Speaking of this, Bruyer looked at the wooden house with nostalgia. It seems that this place really filled him with emotions. For the homeless, home was far more important than anything else.

“He wanted to kill us!” I yelled out these words excitedly and shut up. In a sense, we entered here without anyone’s consent and treated it as our own home life, and others drove away. There was nothing unreasonable.

“I chose the second one. I want to delay as much as possible. I am also looking for the devil, but I can’t find anything. Now that you woke up, I hope you can use your wisdom to help us through this crisis.”

Bruyer took up his fork and put the cooked meat in front of me.

“If you wake up, you will be very hungry.” Bruyer looked wild but had the care of a woman. I unceremoniously grabbed the fork and blew at the meat before putting the meat into my mouth. I was really hungry.

As for the city lord’s order, let’s talk about it in the daytime. I ate several pieces of meat in a row, but I didn’t know what animal it was because of my eagerness.

When I was full, I laid comfortably on the straw, which reminded me of the warm bed at home, and this message flashed in my mind instantly.

In my century, the Roman Empire had long been history. Was Bruyer deceiving me? I looked at Bruyer sitting on the cracked stool. He looked sadly at the barbecue in the flames and sighed.

As for whether his words are true or false, it’s yet to be verified. Rui also once said that this was 1364, and I wanted to believe him. But at this stupid time, everyone would be suspicious.

Crack

As I was lying on the straw thinking, there was a strange sound from outside the wooden house. Bruyer directly drew a basin of water into the fireplace, and a layer of smoke came out from the fire. With a pouncing sound, Bruyer’s face showed tension at the moment the flame went out.