"I think that day won't be far away, right?"
He gently stroked Xiwang's face and spoke softly.
"……Pooh."
All he got in response was Xi Wang's disdainful saliva.
"...Very good, I like you like this."
The [Priest] was not annoyed. He just wiped his saliva, then took out an iron rod from the toolbox and threw it into a basin, while throwing black charcoal into it one by one.
"After all, we have a lot of time. I believe that one day, we will reach a consensus with each other."
He lit the fire slowly, and when one end of the iron rod was burning red, he held the other end and put the hot iron rod close to Xiwang's face, letting him feel the heat.
"Let's slow down."
It was not applied directly to Xiwang's face, but little by little, allowing him to fully feel the heat, and then it was applied to his skin to feel the unique burning pain.
Perhaps it was because Xi Wang's resistance today made him feel amused, so today's torture lasted particularly long. It was not until late at night that he packed up and left. Before leaving, he left the unburned brazier in the room, because he felt the room was too damp and cold, and he left it to Xi Wang to drive away the cold.
As a price, Xi Wang was not let down by him and was hung in the air for a whole day.
There is no need to elaborate on the days that followed, and there is no need to appreciate the torture that was like torture.
Xi Wang spent day after day, full of blood, in this boring and tasteless torture. Although the pain did not decrease, he gradually got used to it.
Xi Wang was still alive, living quietly day after day, without crying or complaining, and apart from occasional resistance, he did not make any unnecessary movements.
Xi Wang looked out the window at another sunny day and closed his eyes quietly. As for the laughter of children and the complaints of those "bad kids" coming from outside the house, he had already ignored them.
She, the girl like flying flowers, will come one day.
She would bring a real priest to her and take her away from this dark room.
Wait and hope.
…………
But...she didn't come.
And it seems like a long time has passed...
"Not today..."
Xiwang looked at the little golden sunlight that squeezed in through the cracks on the ground, remaining on the blood- and dust-stained ground.
It's another sunny day, which is really annoying.
Xi Wang tried to move his arms, but was unable to do so because his tendons were severed. He could only slowly crawl on the ground.
However, with his efforts, he still moved himself into the faint light, and the tiny golden rays shone on his face, bringing a little warmth.
"Probably tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow..."
Xi Wang squinted his eyes, murmured unconsciously, and then fell into a deep sleep.
…………
How much time has passed... I don't know anymore.
Anyway, every day I watch the sunrise and sunset, then endure the pain at night, and then see the sunny day in the haze.
The room was also switching back and forth between damp and dry... Come to think of it, an overly humid environment was too threatening to me. Although that [Priest] always liked to torture myself, he would also heal himself, and liked to torture myself to death if he couldn't kill me.
After all, he regarded me as his [private property], and it would be bad if I died.
By the way, some time ago, that guy learned a new [game trick] from somewhere. He locked himself in a coffin, and then threw himself into a pit in the cemetery and left him there, only hanging a nutrient solution to prevent himself from dying.
After a few days, he got himself out again and stuffed himself back into this room. I don't know what he was thinking...
"…………ha."
Slowly, Xiwang moved to the corner of the room and sniffed the slightly cleaner air. With the help of the tiny sunlight, he noticed that the traces on the ground seemed to have become extremely faint. Xiwang suddenly chuckled.
Someone is coming... Someone has been here... He felt that the person he was afraid of was coming, so he had to hide himself and even dealt with all the traces. Only after that person left, he dared to bring himself back. He should have thought of it earlier, but he didn't realize it because his consciousness was still a little fuzzy.
Haha, it turns out that there are people who are afraid of a disgusting guy like him...
Perhaps because he was happy about this matter, Xiwang kept smiling throughout the night, and there was an inexplicable mockery in his eyes when he looked at the "Father".
However, the [Priest] was not angry. He just made him as weak as possible and threw hot charcoal on him, so that his weak breathing was a little hot, but soon became cold due to his weak body.
Then, as the night was about to pass and dawn was about to come, the [Priest] came again.
He rarely brought Xi Wang out of the room, dragged him to the cemetery, and then lifted his head and forced his eyes open, making him look at the corpse in the pit.
What Xi Wang remembered was the appearance of that priest, the real priest who always wanted to help him.
He was dead in a miserable state, his chest had been cut open, his internal organs had been turned out, and blood had accumulated at the bottom of the pit, staining the surrounding soil and the priest's clothes.
He should have been the one who saved himself, but at this moment he has passed away in such a tragic way.
Then, the [Priest] manipulated Xi Wang's hands, picked up the shovel beside him, and controlled him like a puppet, shoveling up the soil next to him bit by bit, slowly burying the priest's body. Finally, he patted the soil with the shovel to make sure that it had been compacted.
There was no tombstone, and no mound of earth was piled where the body was; it was simply filled in.
Xiwang no longer remembered what happened that day. He was in a daze, as if his consciousness had become scattered.
Xiwang realized that she would not come because she had already been here.
After that, no one will pay attention to me and I won’t be able to go out.
Since then, Xi Wang's response to pain has become weaker and weaker, and the "Priest"'s behavior has become more and more crazy. He stopped treating his wounds and bringing him food.
[The Priest] was trying to push him to the brink of death, but Xiwang had no reaction.
tick-
It was the sound of blood dripping, so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar.
tick-
[The Priest] sat leisurely aside, admiring his own "masterpiece" and looking at the increasingly weak Xi Wang with satisfaction.
tick-
There were many wounds on his body, new, old, and unhealed, intertwined, cuts, burns, and piercings mixed together, bright red blood flowing out of them, gradually gathering in the basin below.
Now, Xiwang has grown up and no longer needs the broken bench to support himself. His height is enough for him to touch the ground with his toes in this situation. However, the [Priest] does not look old. Except for his hair becoming more gray and a few more wrinkles on his face, there is almost no change.
At this point, torturing Xi Wang has almost become the [Priest's] daily task, like some kind of habit. Now even if Xi Wang actively begs him, surrenders to him, and throws himself into his arms, he will refuse - he has had enough of it.
Now, he just wants to kill Xiwang.
So he stood up and walked closer to Xiwang.
tick-
It's the sound of liquid dripping.
"Oh——"
Xi Wang raised his head slightly and lifted his eyelids with difficulty. The priest who noticed his movement immediately stopped his actions and waited for his next reaction.
"Ha ha……"
Because his mouth had been cut and the wound had not yet healed completely, Xi Wang could only make some unclear sounds, but the mockery contained in his words was still heard by the [Priest].
"You, not him."
Xi Wang endured the pain and spoke bit by bit in an unclear voice.
tick-
The blood is still flowing.
"I am his private property. He would not want to kill me, let alone constantly and deliberately weaken me like you do."
tick-
The bright red blood was still dripping.
"He only knows how to play with me, that's all...you fake one."
tick-
Suddenly, a hint of dark blue mixed into the bright red liquid dripping down. It was as blue as the sea water, and it quickly permeated the surrounding bright red, eventually transforming the blood in the basin into a pool of dark blue liquid of unknown origin.
"........."
[The Priest] remained silent, but then smiled indifferently and pushed out a pile of flammable materials from the dark corner of the room using unknown methods.
Obviously, it no longer wants to install it, and there is no need to install it.
In front of Xiwang, it spread various flammable materials such as wooden boards, charcoal, oil, etc. on the ground little by little, then circled around Xiwang and poured the oil on him. The sticky oil and dark blue liquid mixed together and flowed into the basin under it.
Finally, it walked to the door, and before closing it, it looked leisurely at Xi Wang who was still hanging, and said with a chuckle.
[It doesn’t matter, after all… I won]
boom!
It locked the door, turned off the power, casually set the house on fire with a match, and then stood not far away, leisurely watching the gradually burning fire.
tick-
The dim room was gradually engulfed in flames, but the sound of dripping liquid continued.
"I will Survive……"
Xi Wang whispered to himself, the dark lines on his body flowing silently, and one of the "lines" quietly deviated from its original trajectory at this moment, just like the blood in his body, and began to flow downwards.
"I will Survive……"
Xi Wang murmured softly, and the "pattern" that had deviated from its trajectory began to quietly disintegrate, just like the wounds on his body, cracking open bit by bit, and then oozing out dark "blood".
This "line" passed away quietly and finally disappeared completely.
And beneath him, the pool of dark blue liquid began to move quietly and flow back autonomously, climbing up Xiwang's body, following the traces from whence it originally flowed, returning to the wound on Xiwang's body, and then returning to Xiwang's body.
Boom——
The house was destroyed by flames, the overhead beams were burned, and it collapsed with flames, burying Xi Wang's body.
But a similar sound was heard on the other side. When its sight shifted, it found that a Honkai beast had appeared beside it at some point, and it was rolling away in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
[What's wrong with you?! I didn't ask you to come out?!]
It was very angry. Although it did prepare the Honkai Beast as its last "trick", it did not listen to its orders and appeared directly, and even attacked it in turn. Was it looking for death?
In order to deal with this big trouble of Xi Wang, it had spent a lot of time and energy. Now it was about to succeed. As long as it could see the corpse and make him believe that he was [dead], it would be fine. Why did something unexpected happen? !
then……
tick-
It's the sound of raindrops falling.
[Wait...what?! ]
It began to panic. It knew very well how terrifying Xi Wang was when he had the home advantage of "rain", so much so that it had to remove the "rain" scene first and then suppress him.
tick-
However, the rain continued to fall.
[Damn it! Damn it! Stop it! I am the master of the spiritual world! Why don’t you listen to me?!]
The new grey-haired guy is the same, and so is this difficult guy. Why are they all so troublesome?! I'm supposed to be the strongest one here!
It used its abilities to try to stop the "rain", but it was unable to stop it, or even reduce the rain. It could only watch the rain grow heavier and heavier until it finally put out the fire in the house.
Then, in the slightly gloomy distance, a beam of light shone through the clouds to the ground. The bright golden color seemed so dazzling in such a deep night.
There was a slight sound, like that of a horn, and a faint sound, like the flapping of wings, and the scent of lilies lingered at the tip of my nose.
In a trance, I could see that it was a woman in a white robe, but I couldn't see her face clearly under the dazzling light of the wings. I could only see her long white hair behind her and the two [rings] on top of her head, one in gold and one in blue.
But in a trance, she lost her beautiful appearance again and turned into a horn with six broken wings. After blinking slightly, it was found that she was still the beautiful female appearance.
【………】
It was a little stunned, not because of her appearance, but because of her identity.
She is a [Honkai Beast], absolutely, without a doubt, but that is precisely why it is strange.
She was holding a pure white lily and slowly came to Xi Wang who was struggling to get up from the ruins. She calmly stretched out her hand and wanted to help him up.
