Violent roars echoed throughout the snow; the white snow was soaked by the hot blood and melted into red spots.
The monster's heavy body fell to the ground, its chest and abdomen were torn open, and its organs fell to the ground.
After crushing the heart of the monster that was still beating not long ago, Muri stood there gasping for breath. The boiling blood in his body was like melted snow, flowing rapidly.
He tried to calm down his unreasonable rage and murderous intent, but his face remained ferocious, blood kept dripping from his sharp teeth, and he could not retract the sharp claws on his palms.
He seemed to have lost his mind, but also seemed to be more rational than before. The animal side of his body took over.
The call in the wind became clearer. Murray stared into the distance for a long time, his chest rising and falling. Suddenly, he ran in the direction where the voice came from, getting farther and farther away from the lighthouse.
Mary has never been able to figure out the time in the polar regions. Unlike the outside world, this place has a special situation called "polar night". The sun has lost its time indicator, and Mary can only roughly estimate whether it is morning or evening.
Every day when Murray came back, it was evening.
Tonight, she felt like she had waited for a very long time, but Murray never came back.
The sky was still as dark as ever. She sat on the platform above the lighthouse, holding her bow and arrow, and looked down, but she could not see the figure of Muri returning.
She had many bad guesses in her mind. Sometimes she thought of his falling hair, and sometimes she thought of his trembling body at night.
Her hands and feet were numb with cold. She went downstairs and sat by the fire, looking at the monster bones burning in the flames. She rubbed the animal skin covering her legs absentmindedly, twisting a corner of the skin into wrinkles.
Murray had never been away so late before. Although he was young, he seemed to be born knowing how to take responsibility. He took on the responsibility that she had picked up halfway without a single complaint.
She stood up twice, wanting to go out with her bow and arrow to look for it, but she finally sat back down and continued to wait. She knew that she was still a fragile human being who could not protect herself. If she left here, she would not even be able to find a way back.
Going out to look for it now would only temporarily relieve her anxiety, but she couldn't do anything meaningful. So she suppressed her anxiety, like burying a dark fire with ashes, and waited silently.
Time passed slowly, and Meili guessed from the feeling of hunger in her body that it was already the next day. The door was suddenly pushed open, and Murray appeared at the door with an icy breath.
He was shaking violently and pursed his lips tightly, trying to hide his fangs and not let them show and scare others.
Mary jumped up in shock beside the fire, ran over to grab him, and then she realized that he was different. He had a frantic and exhausted aura, like a volcano that was about to erupt at any time.
Muri lost consciousness last night and ran towards the calling voice all night. He ran to the edge of the glacier. He woke up under the splash of cold river water. He was dazed for a moment, but soon remembered the lighthouse in his heart, gritted his teeth, turned around and ran back.
For a whole day and night, he kept running fast, struggling with his own body.
Seeing Meili running over, he howled subconsciously in extreme pain and exhaustion. The calls of animals are always full of emotions, and this howl was soft, like the sound of a cub, which didn't match his current ferocious state.
Mary held him and watched him rest for a long time.
"It's okay, it will be over soon." She ran her hands through his cold, icy hair and brushed away the broken ice for him.
Murray closed his eyes tightly and his throat kept moving.
He had a good sleep and regained some energy.
He stood up, picked up Merry's bow and arrows, put a bag of gold coins into her quiver, wrapped her in a thick blanket, picked her up, and walked out of the lighthouse.
Meili thought he was going to take her out hunting today, but she didn't expect that he was going to the outside of the lighthouse, the outer part of the polar region, instead of the inner part of the polar region.
Meili looked at the bag of gold coins and responded, "You're sending me away from the polar region?"
Murray hummed briefly.
If he didn't send her away, he was afraid something terrible would happen.
Last night, he slept on her lap. She trusted him so much and was not afraid of any abnormality he showed. But all he could think of was jumping up, tearing off her head, and clawing open her chest with his claws - just like he would treat those monsters.
Her hands gently fell on him and helped him comb his hair, but he wanted to turn around several times, open his mouth wide, bite off her hand, chew it up and swallow it.
He could still control himself now, but he was worried that he would lose control during the brief period when he lost his mind.
He imagined that he had eaten her, and when he woke up and saw the scattered body parts, he felt the pain in his bones become more intense.
"I'll take you back to where humans are."
There had never been a moment when Murray felt that Mary in his arms was so heavy.
Meili didn't want to leave the polar region, but she guessed that he was going to pursue the voice that called him, and it would be inappropriate for him to take her with him. She opened her mouth and asked, "When you are okay, can you come to see me again?"
"Okay!" Murray agreed quickly. He had always thought so. When he was well again, he would definitely come to see her again.
He always felt comfortable with her.
If he wasn't worried that he might accidentally eat her, he wouldn't have felt comfortable sending her back to the human world. There were so many people there, and what if she went back and he couldn't find her anymore
When they reached the outer edge of the polar region, many low-level monsters appeared. Affected by the tide, they were more frantic than the mid-level monsters, and they could tear each other apart if they accidentally bumped into each other. Muri was worried about leaving Meili here, so he carried her to the city wall closer to humans.
There are the remains of the city wall left over from the previous war, which was reinforced after the arrival of winter. Behind the city wall is a temporary settlement of humans, which now gathers many Templar Knights and priests, as well as many hunters and mercenary groups who want to make a fortune by hunting monsters.
Most low-level monsters couldn't get over the tightly guarded wall, but Muri could.
He even tried to send Merry directly to the human settlement in the city.
"No need, just drop me here, you will be discovered." Mary still remembered how the knights chased Muri.
Now Muri's body is undergoing unknown changes, and he cannot risk getting close to those Templar Knights.
Meili covered herself up completely, leaving only her eyes exposed. She held the bow and arrow and pushed Murray, "Go quickly. I'll wait here for you to come find me."
Murray stood in front of her, wearing the skull cap again. Although he was tall, he had a sense of loss, which made him look listless. He walked away slowly, looking back every step, not as fast as when he came just now.
He turned around and called out, "... Lily."
She had once said to him, "My name is Mary, you can call me Lily," but he had never called her by her name before. I don't know if he was embarrassed, but this was the first time he called her by her name.
Meili just laughed, "Yeah."
Murray called her by that name, and was shocked. "I will come to you before the tide ends at the latest, and then I can take you to see the purple tide."
Mellie: "Okay."
Murray looked at her deeply and quickly disappeared in front of her.
When she could no longer see him, Mary walked towards the city wall with her bow and arrow.
The city walls were built with various monster spikes and bricks, and were not regular. From time to time, warriors on horseback and mercenaries pushing fortress vehicles walked out of the open city gates. Meili walked around in a big circle to the entrance and exit, and sat nearby to observe those people.
Almost all the people who came here came as a team, and you would never see anyone acting alone. Once you encounter a monster, it is impossible for one person to defeat it. Even the Templar Knights who have been fighting monsters for so many years always go out with at least a small team.
So Mellie was watching the others, and the others were watching her.
"Why is that person here alone?"
"It seems to be a woman."
"Why is a woman like this here? Are you feeding the monsters?"
Several mercenaries were talking and laughing when they were suddenly whipped by a Templar who was riding a horse nearby and fell to the ground.
The dark-skinned female knight rode on her horse and grinned: "Come here, I'll send you to feed the monsters."
Noticing the high-level knight medal on her body and the blood-stained swords hanging on her horse, the mercenary who spoke did not dare to take action, but still muttered in a low voice, "I didn't say you..."
The knight grinned, whipped out a whip and hooked the mercenary's neck, dragged him on his horse without saying a word, and threw him into the area where monsters gathered.
Seeing their companion being taken away, the other mercenaries cried out in bad luck, "One of them is gone just after we came out. We need to find another one to make up the number."
Most of those who dare to come here to make money from Warcraft are desperate criminals and poor people who can't make a living and want to try their luck. I don't know how many lives are lost here every year.
Some were bitten to death by monsters, some were frozen to death, some died in fights, some were killed in robberies... There were so many different ways of dying. When a team member died, they would recruit new members. The strong ones could be the main force to hunt monsters, and those who didn't dare to take action were also useful, and could be used as bait to attract the attention of monsters.
"Well, why don't we go ask the guy over there and make up the number." The other mercenaries pointed in the direction of Meli.
Meli saw the mercenaries coming and grabbed her bow and arrow.
The men looked her up and down, and then they noticed that she had a nice figure under her clothes. They became more curious, "How is it? Is this your first time here? Do you want to join our mercenary group?"
The other kept looking at her covered face, as if he wanted to peel it open to get a clearer look. "Yes, you are a woman. If you join our mercenary group, the brothers will definitely take care of you!"
Meili shook her head. Those people were unwilling to leave like this. They approached her and asked her to go with them. Meili stood up to leave, but was stopped by those people again.
"If you don't want to fight Warcraft with us, forget it." One of them reached out to pull her and lifted the cloth on her face. "Let me see what you look like. If you look good, you can stay with us for a few nights."
This was originally a chaotic place without laws and regulations. There were many people around, but no one came to stop it, and many people were watching the fun.
"Aren't you here to kill monsters?" The female Templar Knight who was riding a horse came back again. She stopped behind the mercenaries with a human head wrapped around her whip.
The mercenaries turned their heads away in fear. She moved her hands and threw the head into their arms. "I took your companion to see the monster. Only the head is left. I'm returning it to you."
Several people were so scared that they ran away. The knight was too lazy to look at them and leaned down from his horse to look at Mary.
"If you don't know how to kill people, don't run here, otherwise you will encounter something more terrible than death. Go quickly and leave here." After saying this, he pulled the reins and was about to leave.
Meili whispered, "I have to wait for someone here. I can't leave. I can learn how to kill people."
The knight was a little surprised, and suddenly he clapped his hands and laughed, "Yes, you are right, you can learn it!"
After saying that, she pulled Meili up and pulled her onto her horse, "I like you, so I'll teach you today."
She rode her horse to catch up with the mercenaries and pointed at them with her whip: "Did you see that mercenary just now? He was the one who wanted to take you to their camp to sleep with you. Take out your bow and arrow and shoot him!"
Meli's bow and arrow were carefully wrapped in cloth and were inconspicuous. The female knight noticed that the bow showed signs of frequent use and she thought that she should know how to use a bow and arrow.
Seeing her hesitation, the female knight snorted and laughed: "If you can't do it, I'll throw you down."
Mary said nothing, drew her bow and arrow, and aimed at the mercenary who had just grabbed her.