Chapter 318: Death Crow

Chapter 318: Death Crow

Chapter 318: Death Crow

"quack!"

After hearing the mournful crow's cry overhead, Leon instinctively looked in the direction of the sound, but what he saw was not the familiar blue sky and white clouds, but an entire expanse of empty dark gray filled with deathly silence.

The pale sun without a trace of warmth, like the pupil of a dying old man, hung above the sky covered with dark clouds, quietly gazing at the turbulent and muddy river below.

Above this dim and noisy river, a road paved with countless old bones, which is white with a slight yellowish hue, is carrying the wailing dead one by one, winding towards the deep and quiet world of the dead.

"This is the realm of the dead, where everyone goes after they die."

After looking at Leon who was walking out of the crocodile's mouth carrying Emma and observing the dead world with shocked eyes, the red-haired director observed the situation of Leon and the other two while speaking:

"When you come out of this crocodile's mouth, your bodies will enter the realm of the dead. Some crows will fly over to you. Remember not to attack them. Just stand still where you are."

"Ah, okay!"

After nodding a little dazedly, Leon remembered Senior Emma who was still unconscious behind him, and quickly asked for help:

"Director, Senior Emma is seriously injured..."

"Don't worry, she's fine."

After looking at Emma's emerald soul, the red-haired director breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Although the Goddess of Fortune dealt a heavy blow, Emma's soul is very strong. She will be fine after a period of recuperation. Only the partially emerald body is a bit troublesome... What about you? How do you feel?"

"There's nothing wrong with me."

After hearing the red-haired director's words, Leon shook his head slightly, then subconsciously reached out and touched the two small bald spots on his head.

Although I suffered a lot of injuries during this operation, I have already used the [Infected Blood Belt] to heal those injuries. The only thing is the two small pieces of hair that were squeezed out after the horns grew on my head. There is no way for the [Infected Blood Belt] to restore them. So if I have to say, this should be my only injury this time.

……

"Chief, he has no problem, but I have a problem, and it's a big problem!"

Just as Leon was touching his hair, a head suddenly raised from the crocodile's mouth behind him. The lazy young man lying on the crocodile's tongue said with a sad face:
"I lost more than half of my bones. Now I can only move my neck and buttocks. Can you..."

“Is this also called an injury?”

After glancing at Tom, the red-haired director waved his hand and said indifferently:
"You must have already set up the return ceremony in advance, right? Wouldn't it be enough to revive this kind of injury once?"

"It's OK... but it hurts a little..."

"Hey, it's just a matter of wiping your neck, don't be so squeamish, grown man!"

After sending the lazy young man away with three sentences, the red-haired director took away the hair tied around the crocodile god's neck, then walked behind Leon, put Emma down from his back, and directly carried her horizontally, then urged:

"Come on, come on, don't stay in this crocodile's mouth, go outside!"

"Oh……"

Following the red-haired chief's request, after walking out of the crocodile god's mouth that brought him to the world of the dead, before Leon could open his mouth to ask her why she wanted him to come to the world of the dead, a large number of noisy and shrill crows sounded again.

Unlike the few crows just now, the crow sounds this time were more mixed and dense. When Leon looked closely, he found that there were about six or seven hundred red-eyed crows flying from a distance. Unlike the other crows before, they did not fly all together to the depths of the dead world, but circled above the three people's heads.

"This bird is called the Death Crow. It is a pet raised by one of the rulers of the dead world. Whenever a new dead soul appears, they will fly up from their roost, open their eyes and fly all the way to the deepest part of the dead world, announcing the birth of the deceased." After briefly explaining the meaning of these crows, the red-haired director continued with a meaningful tone:

"And if there is a living person who has not yet died and enters the realm of the dead with his body intact, his death-announcement crow will not fly deep into the realm of the dead, but will directly find the person it is staring at, hovering over him, or even landing directly on his shoulder."

"Isn't it right?"

After looking up at the red-eyed crows circling in the sky, Leon said in surprise:
"There are only three of us, and if you count Senior Tom who didn't come out, there are only four of us, but there are nearly 700 crows up there, right?"

"To be precise, it should be six hundred and sixty-six."

After glancing at Emma in his arms and confirming that she had not woken up yet and would not hear what he said, the red-haired director explained softly:

"You should have heard about Emma's origins. Her people launched a coup and wanted to overthrow the current royal family. As a result, because someone informed on them, all of them except Emma were executed. The execution ground was set up in front of the gate of Baohua Manor, and the redwood tree was dyed red.

Her immortality was also born during that execution.

More than 600 members of the tribe were executed, leaving her with more than 600 lives to replace. She had to be killed 666 times in one day to be completely killed.

When she inherited the lives of those tribesmen, she also inherited their crows that herald death. These crows that herald death above us are actually here for her."

"..."

That's it...

After listening to Senior Emma's past experiences, Leon couldn't help but fall into a brief silence. Although he had already had similar speculations about Senior Emma's immortality, he was still shocked when he suddenly heard such a bloody fact.

During the time when Leon was silent, the red-haired director looked at him carefully from head to toe, again and again, which made Leon feel uncomfortable. He couldn't help but ask:

"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on me?"

"No, the reason why I look at you like this is precisely because you have nothing on you."

After looking at Leon meaningfully, the red-haired chief asked:

"Leon, where is your crow?"

"???"

Being slightly startled by the red-haired director’s question, Leon asked back in confusion:

"There are so many crows flying above us, isn't mine among them?"

"I just said that all the crows above our heads are here for Emma. You and I are not among them."

Staring closely at Leon's eyes, the red-haired director slowed down his speech and said seriously:
“When my Lyon value reached 60 points and my status was equal to that of a true god, my death-announcement crow lost its ability to sense my death and flew directly into the depths of the dead world with its eyes closed.

But your Lyon value is only about 6 points, and you don't have the ability to get rid of the death crow's death perception, so the death crow that belongs to you should still be perched at the entrance to the dead world."

"..."

"Leon, can you tell me, you clearly entered the realm of the dead physically, but why hasn't your death-reporting crow come to you?"

(End of this chapter)