Chapter 4 Hateful and Crazy! Night Watchman
With a bang, the wooden table collapsed, frightening the gong beater.
Looking at the debris on the ground, Li Hua couldn't help but recall the past, and those emotions turned into murderous intent.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, as if trying to control his out-of-control emotions.
He didn't understand that he was the eldest son of the largest family in the town, with fine clothes and food, amazing talent, awakened at the age of three, reached the peak of the evolution period at the age of five, entered the recovery period at the age of ten, and even awakened rare life patterns and spells.
However, he was destined to be brilliant, but he had been living in the shadow of Langren since he was a child.
Compared with Langren, who awakened the blood of the night watchman since he was a child, his achievements could never be surpassed.
In the hearts of many people, although the town is remote and secluded, it has two respectable identities. The first is the supreme bronze statue of the priest, who can support the holy light field when the sun sets and the strange night falls, and dispel the invading darkness and evil spirits. It is the guardian god in everyone's mind.
The other is the night watchman, who can protect everyone from sleeping peacefully when the strange night falls, and dispel some rotten corpses and mutants wandering outside the light curtain. The night watchman is extremely rare, rarely seen in a hundred years. He has the natural ability to be immune to darkness and is not afraid of the strange night. He is hand-picked by the bronze priest statue. In the whole town, only Langren is born with the awakened blood of the night watchman, which shows his importance.
The so-called ability to be immune to darkness means that he has the same holy light field as the priest, which can protect the people of the town.
However, the law of nature is conserved, and this abnormal ability makes it extremely difficult to awaken. This is why Langren can only stand guard and disperse the rotten corpses for more than ten years. However, once this ability is awakened, it is equivalent to having the ability of a priest, and a walking priest!
Because of this, the residents of the town respect and value Langren very much, including Li Hua's father, who also values Langren and tries to make friends with him. He repeatedly tells him to build a good relationship. After all, there is no shortage of masters with high realms in the town, but everyone wants to have a guardian god alone.
That's all. Li Hua couldn't compare with him in terms of appearance or bloodline. Although he was jealous, he could only accept the reality.
But what he couldn't accept the most was that the girl from the Tang family, whom he loved since childhood, had always liked Langren. Since Langren disappeared, she lost her appetite and cried every night.
When Langren disappeared, Li Hua felt that his chance had finally come. He proposed to the girl from the Tang family, but was rejected repeatedly. He even threatened to marry Langren in this life and threatened to die.
For a guy whose life and death were uncertain, he was so cruelly rejected that he was angry.
Yes! He was ashamed of Langren's appearance. In addition to the blood of the night watchman, it can be said that there was no young girl in the town who didn't like him. After all, if she was pregnant with the flesh and blood of the night watchman, there was a high probability that the child born might be a night watchman. If she was lucky enough to awaken, it would be a matter of honor for the family.
If a family had two night watchmen, they could even enclose a piece of land as the mayor and become a super family!
But he hated it. He hated that he was obviously equally good, but everyone was discussing how important the Night Watchman was, but they didn't notice his halo.
He was obviously just a useless person who couldn't awaken, why, why did everyone care about him so much?
Li Hua was unwilling, but he had no choice. Until Lang Ren disappeared in the strange night for a long time, his jealousy finally couldn't help but burst out. He wanted to take back that person's halo, take back that person's beloved, and take back everything that belonged to him!
"So what if you have the blood of the Night Watchman? You are still an unawakened watchdog."
The cold laughter echoed in the living room.
Off the stage, the gong beater froze, and his eyes flashed with disgust and anger in his lowered head.
Although he came for the benefit, he was disgusted by the words that insulted the Night Watchman.
As the saying goes, one should not forget the well digger when drinking water. In this place, realm strength is not ranked first. Only those who can fight against the mysterious and unknown strange night are truly convincing.
In the two years since Lang Ren disappeared, he played the role of night watchman and gong beater, accompanied by terror, and was nervous every night, and felt the difficulty of night watchman. Fortunately, with the presence of the priest Bronze, he had no danger in the past two years. However, Li Shao's words at this moment undoubtedly included him calling him a "watchdog".
This made him secretly curse the ungrateful wolf in his heart.
At the same time, by the stream.
Lang Ren stood quietly in front of the gate, looking at the courtyard in front of him, and his heart was a little uneasy for a while.
The creeping grass and moss on the courtyard wall, and some mottled brick walls, proved all the time that this place was no longer the familiar one in his memory.
"It seems that two years have really passed."
A hoarse and bitter sigh fell.
After sorting out his mood, Lang Ren took a deep breath and was about to walk forward and push the door in.
"Dang!"
Suddenly, the door of the house opened, and a girl came out with a wooden basin. The girl looked up and saw Langren coming towards her. The wooden basin in her hand fell to the ground and rolled twice on the ground, and the clothes inside fell to the ground.
Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, but her face was extremely pale, and her slightly trembling and cracked lips, the excited expression froze the smile on Langren's face.
Looking at the girl's limping steps, a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind.
"Brother!"
Accompanied by the sound of crying, the girl's body fragrance came to his face. The next moment, Lang Ren was hugged tightly by the girl. He was stiff for two seconds. His hands slowly hugged the girl's back, patted her gently, and whispered: "Bai Luo, I'm back."
"Brother, you are finally back. Where have you been? Have you been well in the past two years? I thought I would never see you again..." Bai Luo cried with tears in her eyes. Her tears wet her hair and she choked intermittently.
Taking a deep breath of the familiar figure that had disappeared for two years, Bai Luo almost forgot how she had spent that dark time.
During that time, not only she, but also Lang Ren's adoptive mother was so anxious that she cried all day long.
A living person disappeared without a trace, and there was not even a corpse.
She couldn't accept the sudden departure of her familiar relatives, and couldn't accept such bad news. She always believed that her brother was still alive, but had gone far away. She believed that he would come back one day. Now, the brother she thought about day and night actually came back.
If this moment was a dream, she would rather hope that she would never wake up.
Lang Ren didn't say anything, but just turned his head slightly and looked at her arm.
He could feel that Bai Luo was not holding him with both hands, but only one slender arm.
Why was she holding herself with only one arm?
Why did she run over with a limp just now?
"What's wrong with your hands and feet?" Lang Ren frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice.
"It's okay, it's okay. Now I'm used to doing housework with one hand." Hearing this, Bai Luo wiped the tears from her face, smiled strongly with red eyes, and seemed to avoid this question.
Doing housework with one hand?
For a moment, Lang Ren felt his heartbeat slow down by half a beat and trembled.
"Tell me, has anyone bullied you? I'll help you sit down first, and let me see your injuries." Seeing his beloved sister become like this, Lang Ren's breathing was a little hurried. He picked up the scattered clothes and wooden basin from the ground, put his arm around her shoulders and was about to walk into the house.
However, the thin shoulder conveyed the power of resistance.
"This place...is no longer our home."
"My mother and I live in an abandoned temple in the back mountain." Bai Luo bit her lip, lowered her head, and big tears fell from her red eyes. The surging emotions and grievances were surging wildly in front of her loved ones. She couldn't help but want to pour out, but was choked in her throat.
"What...this place is not our home anymore?"
Lang Ren's heart trembled, his mind seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, there was a buzzing sound, his fists were creaking, and his breathing gradually became heavy.
The abandoned temple next to the back mountain was a mud house where servants didn't live! It started to leak every time it rained, and there were spider webs and rats everywhere!
He couldn't figure it out. Too many questions were stuck in his heart, and he was filled with hatred!
Why was his sister's hand broken?
Why did his sister's foot become like this?
Why were his most beloved sister and adoptive mother driven away to a dilapidated temple?
Why did it become like this?
Who is harming their family! Who would harm two old and weak women! Who is it? !