I Like This Dream!

This year's beast tide on the Tibes defense line did not live up to the name of the "big beast tide" that occurs once every ten years.

The number of alien beasts born before winter has exceeded that in previous years. If any researchers can carefully count, they will find that the beasts with crystal cores are more numerous, grow faster, and are more bloodthirsty. The situation is even worse than the previous big beast wave. Be scary. Not to mention that the first snow fell nearly half a month in advance, and many preparations had not been completed. In fact, the commander of the defense line was not on the fort when the first snow fell. As if a horror movie has ended its long prelude, the god of death has wandered over the defense line, waiting for a good harvest.

However, if you were to interview the residents of the Thebes Defense Line about their thoughts on this beast wave, the most common feedback you would get is: What is this? Is this the end?

The once-in-a-decade tide of beasts came with great force and went away as fast as the wind. It was such an anticlimactic event that the civilians and soldiers who were prepared to shed blood and tears were confused. The first snow came, and hordes of strange beasts came, hordes of strange beasts... No, no, no, they didn't leave, they died! Light! Got it!

Everyone in the city could see a light that was so bright that it could blind people. After the light ended, the densely packed strange beasts on the city wall were cleared. Even the city wall itself was missing a piece, as if there was a very impatient person in the sky. The cleaners found it troublesome to clean up one by one, so they dug up all the strange beasts, including the walls and a large area of ​​the ground. Then the snow stopped, and the snowy clouds that had refused to move for hours in the past fled away, running so fast! The onlookers swore that the big guy seemed to be being pushed from behind, flying non-stop towards the south at a speed that was so fast that it fell apart. Many clouds fell behind in embarrassment and were torn apart and stayed in place. It rained several times. The snow dispersed into ordinary clouds.

The weather in this generation of defense seems to have forgotten that it has already entered winter, and the temperature actually rose a few degrees again. It was not until a month later that the next snow came, and it was a warm, wet snow that melted quickly. The surviving beasts were doing whatever they were supposed to do. They were not as crazy as they usually were when hunting in the wind and snow. They actually hid when they saw people. The residents of the Theban Line ushered in the first winter in history that they could spend hunting and admiring the snow.

If it weren't for the old, weak, sick, and pregnant women who don't have crystal nuclei in the beasts, they wouldn't be incited by the beast tide. Anxu's two cannons would be enough to cause some problems for the ecological balance of Tibes.

Anxu was woken up by a strong feeling of hunger and found herself lying on the ground, with Lydia and Jane looking at her about two meters away.

"You finally woke up." Lydia said flatly, "Are you okay?"

An Xu was stunned for a while, remembering the content of the joke he had made with Lidya when he woke up from his sleep, and couldn't help but laugh at the way the other party recited standard lines seriously. "It's okay, I'm hungry." She stretched out and felt something hard under her butt, "Damn, I'm sleeping on a rock? Why don't you give me a quilt?"

"I gave you a quilt," Jane said helplessly, "but you burned the quilt."

Lidia went out and brought food and water. Anxu sat on the ground and devoured it. While touching the ground behind her, she found that it was not a stone or a floor, but a bit like glass. Why did she sleep on the glass? Looking up again, she saw that this was not her room, but more like a makeshift shack.

"We can't move you." Jane explained, "Besides, it's almost spring."

"Huh?"

"When I came back, you were already lying here. Lidya was unconscious before and I don't know for sure. Let the people who have been present tell you." Jane waved to the outside, and a young soldier walked in. Looking at An Xu, he looked so excited that he almost lost his breath.

He took a few breaths, and said as if he was attending an idol handshake meeting, "My Lady Thunder Queen..."

"……ha?"

The soldier quickly changed his words: "Then, then, my lady goddess..."

Jane slapped the soldier on the back, making him stagger.

An Xu took two steps back with goosebumps all over his body. He had no idea when his settings had changed drastically. It's just a dream fragment, why is the title he got later even more middle-class than before? A very ordinary looking person calling you a goddess in public is as scary as a courier shouting "Miss Evil Eye, please come down and pick up the courier" downstairs!

"As you can see, everyone, um, admires you." Jane said awkwardly, patting the soldier again, "Let's get to the point!"

The soldier began to tell a story.

The savior descended from the sky and rushed into the battlefield to save the people who were caught off guard and attacked by a tide of beasts. However, she herself was over-consumed and fell down covered in blood. She was struck back by the lightning and is still struggling on the line of life and death. In this story, there are no white birds and black priests, no falling fire and running sheep, only the savior who fell to the ground shortly after the city wall collapsed. The thunder and lightning with its claws wrapped her in a cocoon. From time to time, the remaining alien beasts would jump into the cocoon and be electrocuted into coke. The rescued people were helpless and could only build a sheltered hut for her and pray every day that she would be safe.

The soldiers' descriptions lack literary flair, but the passion in their sentences more than makes up for it. His voice was trembling as he repeatedly said how grateful the people on the defense line were to her and how many people she had saved with her merciful rescue. His eyes actually turned red after talking about it. Jane patted him on the shoulder and asked him to go back. The soldier saluted her before leaving, and also gave a military salute to An Xu.

"His team was standing guard on the city wall. More than half of them died. If you hadn't come, the other half wouldn't be alive." Jane said, "Lydia was thrown out when you fell. She suffered a slight fracture, but it healed The doctor cured her. Your 'cocoon' just disappeared this morning, so you're fine."

She was silent for a moment, and An Xu didn't answer, still immersed in the silence of "Who is the noble savior that the soldier said?" The general walked up to her and bent deeply.

"I'm sorry." Jane said, "I used to hate you and thought you were a bastard who didn't care about the life or death of the people here. Prejudice has covered my eyes, and I want to apologize for that."

"It's okay." An Xu said casually, feeling that he had never been troubled by this. Isn't it normal that if you refuse to join the camp, you will lose your favor?

"Thank you, for your forgiveness and selfless help to us." The general straightened up and smiled self-deprecatingly, "To be honest, I don't know how to thank you. You don't plan to marry my sister and don't want my allegiance. , the wealth and status of the Stewart family probably have little appeal to you. You are so powerful that I, or even all of us, seem to have no place to help you. What do you want, Miss Sullivan? Without damaging the defense line Under the premise of keeping the relationship with the Stewart family, I will do my best."

Oh, and get the bonus link. An Xu thought clearly. She thought for a moment and said, "Just be friends with me."

Jane looked at her in shock and blurted out: "What?"

"I said, you and I should be friends." An Xu replied.

This is the result of careful consideration. It may seem like freedom to choose rewards independently, but in fact there are restrictions on the party that must issue the rewards. What could Jane give her? As she said, wealth and status were of little use to Anxu, and she had no intention of competing for hegemony. As for things like "Jane's Promise", it's similar to exchanging favors. It's not cost-effective to turn favorability into a disposable item.

Therefore, retaining your favorability so that you can receive tasks from the other party in the future without joining the camp is undoubtedly the most cost-effective option.

Jane was stunned for a moment, laughed and nodded. She was shocked by the other party's thoughtfulness without asking for anything in return, and at this moment she truly regarded Anna Sullivan as a friend.

After the general left, someone else walked in.

Lidia stared at the door coldly, David smiled bitterly at her and saluted Anxu solemnly.

An Xu was touching the glassy ground, thinking that the birds, weirdos, and sheep from before were probably fragments of another dream. It was gratifying that he had returned to the dream here. Obviously, this dream was happier. Speaking of which, the high temperature that can make the ground look like this is really terrifying. In addition, I have been unconscious for so long, but I am still safe and refreshed. It is good to dream, but in reality I would have died and turned into a scum... She wandered for a while before He was startled when he found the adjutant who was silently maintaining his saluting posture.

"What's wrong with you?" she asked.

"I don't ask for your forgiveness. Everything is my own decision and has nothing to do with the general." The adjutant said.

An Xu looked at him blankly, feeling that there were so many people talking to themselves today.

"Your identity as the last Sullivan and God's Favorite is very important. When you drove away the strange beasts as you pleased and regarded the criminals as subhuman, I foolishly thought that you had malicious intentions towards the border people and were determined to frame you."

"Frame me?" An Xu asked. She actually wanted to ask what the guilty people were, but she thought it would be better to find the key points.

"Yes. Thank you for your generous rescue. I am willing to use my life..."

"Wait a minute!" An Xu saw that the knife was placed on his neck and quickly interrupted, "Why did you frame me?"

"I bribed the priest and put bait that could attract strange beasts into the ascetic monk's herb bag. After you found out..." The adjutant choked up when he looked at An Xu's blank expression, "You, you didn't know?"

Lidya also stared at An Xu with a strange look on her face.

"Forget it, that's not the point!" An Xu waved his hand and asked eagerly, "Is there such bait?"

"A wandering herbalist accidentally concocted it. The herbalist has wandered to nowhere."

"Where's the bait?"

"I have burned it." The adjutant said with regret.

"Why did you burn it?" An Xu wailed.

What a great prop! You don’t have to chase the alien beasts to attract them! Just burn it, burn it! She was immersed in the grief that she had completed the main plot without completing the branch plot, so she could not get the rewards she wanted. David saw her slapping her thighs sadly and kept slapping her thighs. She was not stabbed with the knife that was blocked, nor was she put down, so he had to be careful. He called out: "Lord, God's Favored One?"

"What are you doing?" An Xu said wearily, "If nothing happens, you can leave."

"Aren't you going to punish me?" David asked in surprise.

"Why would I want your life if I have nothing to do?" An Xu asked back.

"But I framed you..."

"I'm fine." An Xu said nonchalantly, "Your life is of no use to me. If you have the time, you might as well find another bait for me."

The natural confidence in her words left David speechless for a moment. That was another kind of confidence that was different from Jane's, as if a lion laughed at an ant's trap. Those favored by God are indeed qualified to do so, and everyone who has experienced that day will think so.

Blood Anna's name was replaced by "Thunder Queen". In fact, if the monastery hadn't tried hard to stop her, more people would have called her "Thunder Goddess". Her majesty spread across the border, and the mountain people called her as if they were calling the name of a god. When Eve received the news, she understood that she was completely wrong. As powerful as Anna Sullivan, her identity and title were no longer the most important thing.

Lydia's gaze became more piercing, and for a moment David saw sarcasm in it. Does she know more? Does the one she follows know all the tricks? David was not sure. Perhaps all speculations on the thoughts of God's favored ones would end in failure. He was also shocked by the thunder and lightning that day. Even a person like him who advocates wisdom over strength had to admit that many common sense cannot be applied to this girl.

The adjutant saluted again with mixed emotions and exited the temporary cabin.