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Due to the intense impact of the explosion, several objects of different colors were embedded in the trunks of the trees in this area; they appeared to be bricks, stones, or shrapnel.
However, one of the things seems to be particularly large?
Payne straightened his stiff legs and staggered over to pull the thing off the tree.
It is thick at the bottom and thin at the top, with a right-angle bend in the middle.
It looks very familiar.
Looking at the things in his hands, he felt a wave of dizziness.
This thing...could it be...?
"Paine!!"
But before he could accept the truth, he felt someone bump into him from behind and hug him.
The arm's strength was very weak; it seems to be Mary.
"Are you alright?! Are you hurt?!"
Soon, a blond figure circled around to the front of Payne, looking him up and down anxiously.
"Ah...oh...um, I'm fine, I should be..." Payne replied, almost as if he were in a daze.
"That's good..." Miss Mary, with her blonde hair, breathed a sigh of relief, then looked around. "Your beastmen should be alright too, right?"
"Oh right, I forgot to introduce you to him..."
As if to escape the uncanny resemblance, Payne subconsciously pointed at the beast girls and began to speak:
“You know Ruby and Lacey. The white-haired horse-like beastman is named Stephen. He came after I wrote to you. I mentioned the white-haired sheep next to her in the letter. Her name is…”
But he had only just gotten to this point when he saw that Lacey probably thought Xiao En's face was too dirty, and she actually stuck out her tongue to try to lick her face!
"Don't lick it!!!! That's Grace!!!"
"
Hey~
The host's depressing jokes were detected.
Depression level: 100%
Funny level: 20%
Freshness: 100%
Note: Meets the reward distribution criteria
Points increased by 220
"
Chapter 123 CXXII. Looking at the grave, she was everywhere.
Startled by this sudden shout, Lacey immediately shut her mouth, glancing furtively at Payne with a look of fear and grievance.
Not only the beast girls, but even Miss Mary was stunned for a few seconds by the sudden roar before cautiously asking, "That sheep-like beastman... is that Grace?"
Payne, who had just shouted with almost all his might, was now panting so much that he couldn't say a word, only waving his hands and shaking his head.
As for Xiao En, she was the only one completely unaffected by Payne's roar, but she was in terrible condition. Her eyes were vacant as she stared at the ground, and her whole body was trembling uncontrollably. If Stephen hadn't been supporting her, she probably would have collapsed to the ground immediately.
Looking at the bloodstains on Xiao En's face, Payne felt like he was about to faint.
Stephen's voice seemed to come from afar: "Her name is Shawn."
"Ah... so she's Xiao En..." Mary's voice seemed to come from afar. After looking around, she asked, "There should be another orc, isn't her name Grace? Where is she?"
Right, where is Grace?
Not only Miss Mary, but Pine also wanted to ask this question.
Just a few minutes ago, Grace was sitting on a tree trunk talking to me about her animal life, and then Xiao En called her to the back of the little house to eat grass.
Just a few minutes ago, I could accurately describe her location: "She was sitting on a tree trunk," "She was behind the little house," but why suddenly...
How should I describe where she is now?
"pat".
The crowd (and the beasts) looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the bull horn that Payne had been holding had fallen to the ground.
Payne looked around. Whether it was the cow horn on the ground, the bloodstains on Xiao En that were not his own, the scorched marks in the shell craters, or the suspicious dark red splattered on the ruins, the ground, and the surrounding flowers and trees, they all pointed to one thing.
"Um...it seems like she's everywhere right now."
"
Hey~
The host's depressing jokes were detected.
Depression level: 200%
Funny level: 200%
Freshness: 200%
Note: 2-hit combo! Critical hit!
Points increased by 600
"
Only after the voice of the Depressing Joke System faded did Payne finally accept this fact:
Grace is dead.
Unfortunately, the shell struck her squarely on the head, completely obliterating her beast.
This is also why Payne couldn't find her body.
As for Xiao En, judging from the fact that she was covered in Grace's remains, she must have been standing with Grace at the time.
At such close range, it would have been very difficult for the sheep to survive, let alone be completely unharmed.
So, does that mean Grace discovered the cannonball heading straight for her at the last second, and pushed Shawn out?
It seems she was paying attention in class; she's such a good child.
"Whoosh-"
"Boom!"
A series of muffled sounds of shells whistling through the air and explosions rang out in the distance, startling the two people and four beasts who had just been shelled, causing them to shrink back in fright.
Payne snapped back to reality almost instantly and called to the remaining beasts, "Hurry up! Let's find the main force first!"
At this moment, Lacey realized what had happened and asked, "What about Grace? Are we just... just leaving her here?"
"So what do you plan to do?! Pick her up piece by piece, stuff her in your pockets, and take her back?!" Payne glared at her. "Get out of here!"
"
Hey~
The host's depressing jokes were detected.
Depression level: 300%
Funny level: 100%
Freshness: 300%
Note: 3-hit combo! Critical hit!
Points increased by 700
"
Ignoring the depressing joke system, Payne turned around and, pulling Miss Mary along, said as they ran:
"I'm so sorry, this happened at a time when we were supposed to be reunited after so long..."
Mary, realizing what had happened, turned deathly pale, but still managed to maintain her composure, saying, "No, it's not your fault..."
"That...about the interview..."
"Let's not talk about that now! Let's make sure we're safe first!"
"……Too."
Amidst the distant rumble of artillery fire, the two men and four beasts quickly ran out of the grove and headed towards the field hospital.
But they soon noticed something strange:
Whether it was the people they encountered along the way or the soldiers gathered near the field hospital, apart from casting a surprised glance at the two men and four beasts, they seemed to have no panic or thought of seeking cover from the shelling; they just went about their business.
As for Company B, they were even lining up in front of the mess cart to prepare for their meal.
Two nurses who had just come out of the field hospital looked quite anxious. They immediately spotted Stephen carrying Xiao En, who was covered in blood, and rushed to meet him.
"Over here! Over here! Where is she injured?"
“They’re not hurt! That’s not her blood!” Payne quickly replied. “Get us some water, we just need to rinse them off!”
So one nurse immediately went back to the hospital to get water, and another nurse helped Xiao En off Stephen's back and took off her clothes to examine her body.
However, even a nurse who was used to seeing all kinds of horrific wounds in the hospital still frowned deeply when she touched the sticky bits of flesh on Xiao En's clothes.
Soon, a nurse who had returned to the hospital brought a bucket of water and poured it over Xiao En's head.
But Xiao En seemed completely unaware of this. She continued to tremble as if she were having an epileptic seizure, without closing her eyes or holding her breath. As a result, when the water was poured over her, she immediately coughed violently as if she were drowning.
Oh, this poor child, watching helplessly as her companion smeared herself with smears must have terribly frightened her.
Payne was lost in thought for a few seconds, then realized he had something more important to ask the nurse: "What happened with this shelling?"
The nurse seemed completely unfazed: "Ah, it happens all the time. Ever since the fighting started, the French have been throwing shells here every now and then."
"However, probably because the situation at the front was unfavorable, very few shells were fired."
"You're the reinforcements, right? They did stop for two days after you arrived, but they resumed operations today."