Chapter 247: Do you still want to be a coward and escape?
“That’s enough!”
Hawkwood, who was dragged towards the campfire by Xia Yu, grabbed the door frame with both hands and struggled hard to free his feet.
"If you want to challenge the King of Salary, then go ahead. It has nothing to do with me anyway."
Hawkwood got up from the ground, glanced at Xia Yu dejectedly, and walked towards the bar again with a hunched back.
"Are you still going to be a coward and escape?"
At this moment, Xia Yu's cold voice came. Hearing this, Hawkwood shuddered and did not look back.
"The captain of the Undead Squad is truly pathetic. He actually allowed a coward like you to join the Undead Squad. Ha, no wonder the Undead Squad refused to pass on the fire again and abandoned the world."
“What do you know!!”
Faced with this merciless ridicule, Hawkwood turned his head suddenly, his eyes bloodshot, and he growled in a hoarse voice.
"Do you know what it feels like to have your body burned by flames? What do you know about the pain that goes deep into your soul?!"
"The world has become like this, what can we do to change it? Even if the fire is transmitted successfully this time, what about next time? This broken world..."
As he was talking, Hawkwood knelt down weakly and pounded his fists on the ground, as if he was talking to Xia Yu, or complaining to someone.
"Why would you rather die than surrender? It's obvious that even if you try harder, the world won't get better. And even if you do nothing, the world won't get worse."
"Why... would you rather fight to the death than give up that impossible dream..."
Hawkwood's voice was choked. He hated himself for running away, but he hated this fucked up world even more. This world was hopeless. Why were those idiots still working hard for it?
Xia Yu stood silently by the side watching the helpless and furious Hawkwood. He was not good at comforting others with kind words, nor could he empathize with the other person's pain. Even his understanding of Hawkwood and the Undead Squad was what he had seen from the analysis posts of soul experts on the Internet.
But now that he has come here, he will not let the plot develop along the original line. All he can do is take Hawkwood to inherit the last wish of the Undead Team.
Only after Hawkwood's hysterical complaints subsided did Xia Yu walk forward and extend his hand to him.
"Since you can't figure it out, go and see it with your own eyes. The answer is there."
Looking at Xia Yu's outstretched hand, Hawkwood was a little dazed. He vaguely remembered that in the depths of his long-fuzzy memory, there was also such a hand reaching out to him.
"Since there is no place to go, why not join the Undead Corps? Although the requirements for joining the Corps are very strict."
Thinking back to what the captain had said to him and the hand Xia Yu had extended to him, Hawkwood's already discouraged, stagnant heart began to stir again.
"The pointed iron helmets that are seen by the world as a bad omen are worn on the head to protect more people. Even if they are not understood, we will not explain. This is the Undead Squad, the Faran Undead Squad!"
As Hawkwood murmured, he grabbed Xia Yu's outstretched hand and used the force to pull himself up.
"Although I still can't figure it out, I don't want escape anymore!"
Looking at Hawkwood's eyes, which were still confused but determined, Xia Yu smiled.
Sure enough, although Hawkwood always looks discouraged, he is still unwilling to give up in his heart, otherwise he would not choose to embark on the road of pursuing the power of the ancient dragon after the protagonist Ashes defeated the Undead Squad.
Thanks to his words, Hawkwood agreed to go to the Fran Fortress. If he still didn't agree, he would have to use some tough measures.
Because Hawkwood was an undead who had been burned once, he also turned into ashes, and ashes can be teleported to a lit bonfire.
Hawkwood chose to go to the Fran Fortress with Xia Yu, and directly used the campfire at the sacrificial site to teleport to the Fran Fortress.
As the flames rose, Xia Yu and Hawkwood disappeared in the flames of the campfire .
Fran Fortress, fortress ruins.
The once magnificent Fran Fortress is now reduced to ruins mired in a poisonous swamp, with broken buildings and filthy forests being the only sights here.
In every poisonous swamp, there are lumps of black and slimy flesh, which are slugs infected by the overflowing abyss.
These slugs are the most common creatures in the poisonous swamp, and deep in the forest, there are also half-human, half-beast mutant creatures with twisted horns on their heads and beast hair all over their bodies.
Beside the campfire, Hawkwood stood there silently, with pain in his eyes.
Returning to this sad place again, everything familiar brought back endless memories for him.
He still remembers the days when they built the Fran Fortress. At that time, they suppressed the abyss while honing their sword skills.
If I hadn't been chosen as the Cinderella King, then nothing here would have happened...
But if there is no Lord of Fire, then the world will fall into darkness. The reason is that it is all the world's fault!
"What's wrong?"
Seeing that Brother Huixin looked uncomfortable, Xia Yu patted him on the shoulder and asked.
"nothing."
Hawkwood shook his head and tightened the Farlan sword and shield in his hands. Although he decided to come back here again, he still couldn't put down the shield.
Seeing this, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows and didn't intend to say anything else.
"Fran's Undead Team has a unique test for joining the team. You need to extinguish the fires of the three altars in the fortress, so that the door to the wolf blood can be opened."
Hawkwood looked toward the three towering altars in the distance and spoke.
"If you want to challenge the Undead Squad, you need to unlock the seal of the entrance first. I know where the seal is. Follow me."
"etc."
Xia Yu suddenly called out to Hawkwood who was about to take a step. Under Hawkwood's puzzled gaze, Xia Yu spread his hands and said in a relaxed manner.
"I have already broken the seal and opened the gate. Now we just need to go find the Undead Corps. So, does this count as me joining the team? "
Hawkwood was a little surprised. After thinking about it, he nodded seriously.
"As long as you pass the test and meet Old Wolf Fran, you will join the Undead Team. However... if you want to join the team, you must get the captain's consent."
Hearing this, Xia Yu nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any more questions.
Is it just a matter of meeting the old wolf Fran instead of drinking the wolf's blood? It seems that the blood of the old wolf Fran, or its soul, has been exhausted.
I don’t know if it can be analyzed after the souls of all the Undead Squad members are merged into the Wolf Blood soul. If it can, the Undead Squad can be resurrected.
After all, the firewood of the Fire King is not equal to the soul. The qualification of the Undead Team to become the Fire King is the wolf blood.
In the game, the firewood of the Fire King and his soul are also two parts. Players can smelt the soul of the Fire King to obtain weapons, and the firewood will not disappear.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu turned his head and looked towards the distance of the poisonous swamp, where there was a huge stone gate that had already been opened.
"Let's go, let's give the Undead Squad the final relief."
