In the silence of the night, Gavin took them back to his residence and brought in two chairs from the yard.

"Please sit down."

After all, he went to the kitchen and brought out two bowls of warm water.

"I don't know what you want to ask."

Gavin looked a little tired, Orika looked at him and smiled slightly, but the temperature didn't reach his eyes.

"I want to ask a lot, for example, about your sister and mother, and...about me."

Gavin rubbed the space between his brows, but didn't answer immediately.

There was a momentary silence in the room, but no one was in a hurry to break the silence.

Bai Xiaoxiao has been frowning since she entered the room, she looked at Gavin who was sitting opposite, her nose moved slightly.

[Oreka, this Gavin is a bit strange, and he gradually has the smell of corruption, just like Dorona. 】

Orika's hand holding the wooden bowl lightly rubbed the edge of the bowl. She observed Gavin's slight expression and suddenly smiled.

"Did I disappoint you?"

"what……"

Gavin moved his hand away and looked at Orika with some doubts.

"I get the feeling you're disappointed..."

Orika picked up the water and took a sip, then put the bowl back on the table, her tone was very light, but the words she uttered made Gavin tremble subconsciously.

"About the fact that Dorona is still alive."

[The rotten smell intensifies. 】

Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes turned into vertical pupils at some point, and those black, mayfly-like things that surrounded Gavin were reflected in the icy blue eyes.

And these bugs also appeared on Dorona's body.

"What nonsense are you talking about, that's my sister!"

Gavin's eyes were bloodshot, his arms were bulging with veins, but he didn't dare to look into Orika's eyes.

This kind of evasive performance didn't even require Aurika to guess more. To be honest, she had seen this kind of thing a lot.

"I know, but in your opinion, it would be easier for many Lorna to die, whether it is for you or her."

Gavin opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.

Bai Xiaoxiao watched the conversation stagnate for a moment, and quietly leaned towards Orika.

[How about it, do you need me to deal with it now? 】

Just like dealing with Dorona just now, with a "snap", very quickly.

Orika looked at Gavin who was shaking more and more, and sighed silently.

[Dabai, play him. ]

【okay! 】

Bai Xiaoxiao leaned forward, propped one hand on the table, and stretched out the other to Gavin.

"what are you going to do."

Gavin just broke away from the struggle of thinking, when he raised his eyes, he saw a cold white hand.

I saw Bai Xiaoxiao's middle finger slightly bent, gently sticking to the pulp of her thumb, and the middle finger suddenly exerted force.

"Snapped!"

Gavin was a little dazed after being hit, he looked at Bai Xiaoxiao, then Orika, held back for a long time, and only said one sentence: "Why did you hit me".

Seeing the bugs being scattered, Bai Xiaoxiao calmly withdrew her hand against Gavin's strange gaze.

Don't ask, I don't understand.

Orika: Why do I feel that you understand.

Bai Xiaoxiao: Social Dire Wolf refuses to explain this embarrassing behavior face to face.

As long as I can't understand, it's Gavin who is embarrassed.

Gavin was really embarrassed. He touched his forehead, thinking that this girl has really strong hands.

But being flicked by the other party like this, I don't know if it was his illusion, I always feel that I am not as irritable as before.

The clasped hands were clenched and loosened, and Gavin looked at Orika and let out a wry smile.

"You're right, I do... Sometimes, I think that way. If there is no Dorona, I will be more relaxed."

"But it's not true, Dorona... she became like that for me. She bears my share of the curse, so I can remain normal."

"curse?"

Are you referring to those bugs?

Orika glanced at Bai Xiaoxiao, and found that she had already started yawning.

The bugs that only Dabai can see should not be at the level of orcs.

Could it be the power directly from the gods?

Gavin nodded painfully, with an unusually low tone:

"This is the price for our betrayal of the Wolf God."

He looked at Orika and sighed deeply.

"From the first day I heard your name, I knew there would be such a day. It was expected that you would come to Gray Fox Village."

"It looks like I'm quite famous."

Orika smiled, showing no doubt or curiosity.

It was her indifferent attitude that made Gavin feel powerless without the slightest advantage.

Maybe it's useless to have an advantage, he glanced at the bored-looking silver-haired woman next to him, and looked away before he was noticed.

One can say, the other can fight, eh, forget it.

Not wanting to trouble himself, Gavin quickly cut to the chase.

"You should have heard the legend about the wolf god."

Orika's eyes drooped slightly, and she remembered the unpleasant story again, and just said:

"There are many versions of the legend about the wolf god, and I only know one of them."

"Then how much do you know about that priest?"

"Well, not much."

Orika tapped her fingers, as if thinking, but also remembering.

"They say that the priest is the fault of the wolf god's anger. I don't believe it."

Perhaps because she was the first person to say "do not believe" so firmly, Gavin had a feeling:

The crimes that have been concealed for thousands of years will finally be revealed today.

He smiled, feeling a little relieved.

"There is indeed something hidden in the matter, but it is really helpless to push the mistake on the priest."

"The villagers of Huihu Village are the descendants of the first batch of orcs, and our ancestors are the priest's tribe."

"Those who were supposed to be the closest to God, because of delusion, ruined themselves and ruined future generations."

Orika glanced at the expressionless Bai Xiaoxiao next to her. The other party hadn't said anything since the beginning. Worried that she would be too boring, Orika poked her arm lightly.

[Things suddenly become complicated, I will translate for you. ]

【ah!What! 】

Bai Xiaoxiao's pupils trembled suddenly, and refocused from the original state of blur.

Orika: ...So you fell asleep with your eyes open just now, right?

"We don't know much about what happened thousands of years ago. We can only speculate what happened back then from the stone slabs left by the previous village chiefs."

Gavin got up and led them into a utility room.

After pushing away those stacked wooden boxes, what was revealed was a black slate on the wall.

There are no words on the slate, only some scratches that look like pictures.

Gavin pointed to a part of the picture above, and roughly restored to them what happened thousands of years ago.

"For thousands of years, there has been only one god in this world, and that is the Beast God."

"But one day, another god visited this world and gave the promise to the ancestors."

"As long as you sacrifice that priest, everyone can have eternal life."

Orika frowned, her first reaction was that the god was lying.

The orcs are the creations of the wolf god, and only the wolf god can give them eternal life.

"It seems that your ancestors were deceived."

Gavin hesitated for a moment, and pulled the corner of his mouth lightly.

"It's not completely cheated..."

He pointed to the people on the slate that were different from the others and had more distorted lines.

"In a sense, they did achieve immortality. But obviously, not in the form of normal humans."

What those ancestors turned into is beyond question, but the chaotic lines on the stone slabs make people feel physically uncomfortable and frightened when they see them.

[Well, apparently Evernight polluted them with her power. ]

The sudden sound of the system made Orika stunned for a moment.

【pollute? 】

[As I said before, the Goddess of the Night cannot surpass the wolf god to empower the orcs, but she can use her own power to pollute them. ]

[Of course, since it is said to be "pollution", there must be some negative effects. ]

The power of the gods is not something ordinary humans can bear.

In the end, those "favored" human beings can only survive by watching their own ugly posture for a long time, hey, that person is really as bad as ever.

"It's not so much eternal life, it's more like being cursed. The wolf god was unwilling to give mercy because of their betrayal, and the ancestors struggled in pain for hundreds of years until they died."

Gavin touched the slate lightly, and his face became a little pale.

"However, the curse did not end with the death of the ancestors. Their descendants became short-lived and crazy because of the curse. Today, the only people who still bear the curse are me and Dorona."

Orika looked at Bai Xiaoxiao, only to see that the other party bent her fingers and made a bouncing motion.

It appears that the curse issue is resolved.

Gavin was unaware of the changes on his body, and led the two of them to look at the last part of the slate.

"At that time, the person who betrayed the priest and the wolf god was the leader of the village, and most of the villagers didn't know about it."

"After the wolf god left, natural disasters continued. If other people knew the truth, maybe the whole village would be sacrificed by orcs from other tribes."

Orika looked at the villain kneeling on the stone slab with no expression on his face.

"That's why you blamed all the mistakes on the priest who has disappeared."

Strictly speaking, it was not missing. At that time, the priest had been taken away by the Evernight Goddess.

"...This is just to protect the innocent people in the village."

Looking at the stone slab, Gavin finally heaved a sigh of relief. The secret he had been carrying all this time was finally revealed.

"Our mother prophesied before going completely mad: 'Whether it's forgiveness or punishment, it's salvation until the priest returns to the village.'"

redemption...

Orika looked at Gavin who was unknowingly undid the curse, and nodded in agreement.

Perhaps the priest and the wolf god didn't really forgive the orcs, but the results were similar.

[I feel that the Wolf God is simply unhappy with the remaining power of the Evernight Goddess. 】

[Indeed, those two had a very tense fight back then. ]

The system looked at the memory package left by 01, and silently sorted out the database that it was frightened into garbled characters.

At the beginning, the wolf god went crazy and was killed by the gods, and the goddess of the night was also deprived of part of her power, and she has not recovered all these years.

Bai Xiaoxiao kept staring at the stone slab without saying a word. She looked at the notches on it, and suddenly stepped forward, tapping lightly on the pattern representing the Evernight Goddess.

"This slate is..."

The voice in Gavin's throat suddenly froze, as if something pinched his neck and he couldn't make a sound.

I saw cracks on the thick stone slab, centered on the god of lies, spreading rapidly.

In Gavin's eyes, that stone slab was like the earth under a natural disaster thousands of years ago, gradually cracking, swallowing the sinners on the stone slab bit by bit.

[It really makes people angry just looking at it. 】

Bai Xiaoxiao muttered irritably, but in the end she still didn't break the stone slab completely.

【Um?What's wrong with this man? 】

She looked at Gavin who was frozen in place, and then looked back at the slate, only then did she realize that she seemed to have destroyed something in the village.

Bai Xiaoxiao: ...Ah, what can I do.

She reached out her hand guiltily, and patted Gavin's shoulder lightly, intending to discuss the matter of compensation, but unexpectedly, the pat made the other party tremble.

Bai Xiaoxiao: ...?

Gavin: ...is this woman really human?

"Well...it's already very late, why don't you go back and rest first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow if you have any questions."

With a forced smile on his face, Gavin sent the two to the door.

The two people who were invited out stood outside the village chief's house and looked at each other.

Bai Xiaoxiao coughed lightly, thinking that Oreka probably still had something to ask, otherwise she should go in and find the village chief again.

【Do I want to...】

Orika knew what she was going to say as soon as she heard it, and pressed her index finger against her light-colored lips.

"Farewell, the village head was quite frightened today, so don't provoke him any more."

Feeling the touch between her lips, Bai Xiaoxiao nodded obediently, and licked her pink tongue subconsciously.

Orika:!

"Go back, go back!"

Seeing Orika walking away with a blushing face, Bai Xiaoxiao touched her lips belatedly, showing a faint smile.

【Orika, wait for me! 】

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The author has something to say:

Gavin: I suspect this woman is going to hit me

Bai Xiaoxiao: I suspect that the village chief is not a good person (moves his wrist)

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