The night was already deep, and after Garlan and the others walked for a while in the mountains, they found a flat area as a place to camp tonight. There are rocks or dense trees all around, blocking the night wind, and there is a stream near the flat ground. Shulos wandered around the vicinity and checked, and found no traces of beasts, it should be very safe.
The bonfire was lit, Garlan sat beside the bonfire, the crimson fire reflected on his face, he sighed slightly.
For the past few days, he had been sleeping in the open air. He thought that he could have a soft bed tonight to sleep well, but he couldn't help but meddle in his own business, so that neither he nor Shulos could even enter the city.
Speaking of which, why couldn't he always hold back
Garland was a little depressed.
When he was a prince in the past, he always felt that as long as he was a prince, these people were his own people and his responsibility, so every time he encountered something, he would take care of it subconsciously.
He also always thought that when he left the palace and stepped down as a prince, without that responsibility, he would not be so busy.
Who knows, today is still subconsciously passed...
He rubbed his head, feeling a little headache.
He himself knew that it would not go on like this.
Now that he no longer has the identity of a prince, and he has no backers and helpers like Kaihos and Xie Muer, he will capsize sooner or later if he encounters a similar incident and has to make a move. This time, I solved the matter with cleverness and bluffing. It does not mean that it will be so smooth in the future, and not everyone is so easy to fool.
Just when Garlan felt a headache, a hand reached out, picked up the long hair on his cheek, touched his fingertips, and pinched his earlobe.
The bard's rough fingers rubbed the malachite earrings on Garlan's earlobe.
"... Malachite."
Shulos sighed with emotion.
It seems that this noble young master's status is not low.
He was well-informed, and it was not the first time he had seen such a precious gem.
Retracting his hand, he said, "How do you know that team rate will find your earrings? What if he doesn't notice?"
"He'll notice. If it's a man of integrity, he might not notice, but he's clearly a villain."
Garlan shrugged and said, "In order to please people, this kind of person is very observant, and is very keen on some unusual things."
"makes sense."
Shulos threw a dead branch into the fire.
He said, "Gal, you say you want to be a bard like me, don't you?"
"Yes, that's what I thought."
Now that he has decided to travel to the mainland, the status of a bard is the most convenient.
… Well, he still learned a little bit of the lute from Kaijos, and he should be able to handle the occasions where he needs to play it.
"Then, I'll tell you right now, the first thing you must do when walking on the continent as a bard is to ignore the things that will cause you trouble."
"what?"
"You are lucky this time. You only encountered a small team rate, and you can easily get rid of it, but what about in the future?"
Shulos asked, "What would you do if you met someone stronger, smarter, and crueler than him, or even someone you couldn't defeat at all? Moths to the flames?"
"… "
"No matter what you see, pretend you don't see it. Only in this way can you live long."
He fiddled with the fire with the dead branches in his hand, and a little spark exploded in the flames, reflecting in Shulos' pupils, as if sparks had spread out from the bottom of his eyes.
"Nowadays, the world is not very peaceful. The rich and powerful are living a life of luxury, while the commoners are suffering... Every moment there are people who are suffering in different ways. Let's just say now, during the period of our conversation, in this film. On the earth, there may be many people who are suffering."
"In this world, injustice abounds, and people who suffer are everywhere."
In the light of the fire, Shu Luos' handsome face was full of indifference and indifference at the moment.
He has traveled all over this land, and has long been used to seeing life and death, injustice and pain.
"There are so many people, you can't save them."
The bard's voice at the moment was low, with a rhythm that almost melted into the night, as if it could penetrate the deepest part of the human heart.
"You alone, who can you help? Who can you save? You save one, and thousands of other people are still suffering. What's the use of saving that one? Who cares about that tiny thing like a grain of sand? one person?"
He said that in a clear and clear voice, his words were cold to the core.
"In the future, you will understand, Gal, that no one cares at all."
The night was silent, the temperature seemed to have dropped, and there was a bit of chill in the air.
The open space was extremely quiet at this moment, and only the sound of running water could be heard not far away.
"wrong."
Garland said, looking sideways at Shulos.
The firelight reflected in his pupils, making his eyes glow like amber wrapped in flames.
"No matter how many people don't care, but Shulos, the one I helped, he cares."
He looked at Shulos seriously and said, "He must care."
Shulos choked for a moment.
He opened his mouth to say something, but found that nothing could be said.
He couldn't refute.
That person may be just an inconspicuous grain of sand among all beings, but to that person, his life is his own.
No one cared about him, but he certainly did.
The open space was quiet again, Shulos was silent, and the casual look on his face was gone. The fire was burning and the dead branches were crackling.
After a long silence, Shulos spoke again.
"Actually, I did the same thing as you."
He says,
"A long time ago, when I was very young..."
…
At that time, he was just an adult.
Young people, young and vigorous, high-spirited.
The world of young people is too simple and too straightforward. They only think that black is black and white and white. There is justice and fairness in the world.
Along the way, it is always easy to fight for injustice. When I see people in difficulty, I go to help and rescue them. I look at the grateful eyes of those who have been saved by me, and the thankful voice when I bow down to myself. He is a hero who saves lives.
That day, in fact, was the same as today. Passing by a small village, he saw a group of soldiers clashing with the civilians in the village.
As soon as he stepped forward to ask, he could tell from the cries of the commoners.
Because a nearby lord's mine collapsed and a lot of people died, and now there are not enough people to open the mine, that team of soldiers is going to grab a dozen young people from the village and throw them into the mine to open the mine. However, the mine was still very dangerous, and it was extremely harsh on the miners, and almost all of them were rubbed to death. Those young people and their relatives were naturally reluctant, struggling desperately not to go.
Hearing this, without saying a word, he shot and killed the leading team and a few soldiers, and drove those soldiers away.
Those who were rescued and their relatives were naturally grateful to him.
Just when he was complacent, he saw that the old village chief looked at him with a pale face, his chapped lips were trembling, and then he drove him away unceremoniously.
At that time, he was still very angry, feeling that he was their savior, that the old man actually treated him like this, it was really a kind of revenge.
However, that night, he found that he had accidentally dropped an important personal item, and guessed that it might have been dropped while fighting with the group of soldiers at noon.
So, early in the morning, he hurried back to the village, trying to get his things back.
But when he got there, he was completely stupid.
I saw that the small village that was quiet yesterday has almost been razed to the ground. The village is full of thick dust after the fire, charred broken wood and debris, and a little smoke is still rising.
And yesterday, the civilians who were still around him thanking him, at this moment, most of them collapsed into the fire, becoming scorched corpses. There are very few people who are still alive, kneeling beside the bodies of their loved ones, weeping and looking desperate, and they don’t know how long they have cried.
The scene of the dead bodies everywhere was extremely tragic, and his mind went blank at this moment.
Why
he thinks.
Why is this happening
A stone came over and smashed heavily on his forehead, who was dumbfounded.
He only felt a headache, and bright red blood flowed down his forehead into the corners of his eyes.
He turned his head and stared blankly at the villagers who were still alive and surrounded him.
Those people looked at him, their eyes were no longer grateful, their faces were contorted, and their eyes were full of hatred and resentment.
"It's all you... If you hadn't killed those soldiers... I wouldn't have angered the nobles..."
"It's you who made us do this!"
"If it weren't for you—without you, my brother wouldn't die, he wouldn't die!"
"We've become like this, and it's all your fault!"
Those who survived roared with hoarse voices, surrounded him, picked up stones and threw them at him.
The sharp stones hit him blue and purple, and there were two more scratches on his face. He ducked from side to side, and finally fled from the front of the group of people in embarrassment.
He fled in a hurry, because he didn't know what to do or what he could do. From a distance, he seemed to be able to hear the screams of those people, like a ghost that could not be entangled. For a long time, in his mind, It kept him awake all night.
Yes, if he hadn't used his own force to kill the soldiers under the nobleman's command and angered the nobleman, this village would not have ended up in such a miserable end.
If he didn't mind his own business, the village would lose at most a dozen young people, and the others would still be able to live well and safely.
Those who survived were right, he sent the entire village to Huangquan Road.
But what can he do now
He can't do anything.
The other party is a high-ranking dignitary. He is a little bard who can't even avenge the people in those villages, so he can only flee in a hurry.
What used to be high-spirited, has now become a mess.
…
Later, he has been walking on the earth.
The injustices, the grievances, and the many things I have seen too much, experienced too much, and gradually became numb.
The young man, full of enthusiasm and sharp-edged, always feels that there is nothing difficult in this world, and always feels that he is a hero who can easily save people from misfortune.
I always feel that the sword in my hand can cut through all injustices.
Until one day, in this cruel world where the weak and the strong prey on the strong, he bumped his head and broke his blood and broke his sword, that he knew what reality was.
After that, when the edge was smoothed by reality, the blood became cold, and when I grew up, matured, and looked down on it, I learned to watch from the sidelines.
In this troubled world, there are too many injustices, how much can he manage and how much can he help
In his capacity, most of the time, he will only harm others and harm himself like that one time.
It's better to watch from the sidelines.
He laughed and cursed, and played romantically in the world, but his heart was as hard as stone, and he was indifferent to the world.
…
"Shiros? What's wrong with you?"
Garlan's voice awakened Shulos from his memory.
He was dazed for a moment, then looked up and saw Garlan.
Under the firelight, the youth's appearance became more and more beautiful, but no matter how good-looking it was, it couldn't compare to those bright eyes.
He used to think that the boy was his past self.
He thought that one day, this young man will grow up, mature, compromise with reality, and lose his young heart.
But he was wrong, this young man is different from him in the past.
very different.
"You said you encountered the same thing as me, and then what?"
"… Can not remember."
"what?"
"It's been too long ago, so I don't remember it very clearly, hahaha."
Shuluos waved his hand casually, "It's late at night, go to sleep, it's only halfway up the mountain, and we have to go up the mountain tomorrow morning."
He thought about it for a while, and warned, "We'll talk about it later, but since you've done it this time, be careful and don't get close to Tverul City, or you'll be in trouble if you bump into those people."
"Oh."
Garlan nodded and got up to clean up, but just as he got up, the black horse tied to the side suddenly neighed. It was desperately digging its hoofs, its head swaying desperately, and it was restless.
Garland hurried forward to comfort it, watching it pulling the reins hard, completely ignoring that the reins would restrain him. He was afraid that it would hurt him, so he quickly relieved it and released the reins.
The neighing sounds came one after another, and the brown horse on Shulos' side seemed to have the same problem, struggling restlessly, and it was useless to appease Shulos.
"what happened?"
Garland asked.
Shulos stubbornly pulled the reins and replied, "I don't know, I checked, and there is no aura of beasts around here. How could they be so frightened?"
Suddenly, Garlan felt himself swaying, and then the surrounding trees swayed slightly. He was stunned for a moment, and a conversation with the team leader suddenly flashed in his mind not long ago. The team leader said that the area around Tverul City had been moved not long ago.
Is this...
Suddenly there was another violent sway, and the neighing horse became more restless. Although the reins were tightly pulled by Garlan, its hooves began to step on it hard.
Earth moved!
Garlan still wanted to hold on to the reins, but the ground under his feet shook even more, he was barely standing, and the dark horse struggled more and more fiercely.
There was another violent shaking, he stumbled and almost fell, the reins in his hand loosened, the black horse who had been irritable broke free from his hand, neighed and galloped away, and soon disappeared on the shaking ground. .
Garland didn't have the heart to care about the horse that ran away, because the ground shook so much that he couldn't stand still. He clung to the big tree that tied the horse just now, so that he didn't fall to the ground.
Suddenly, a huge and dull roar echoed through the entire mountain, like the sound of a boulder breaking apart suddenly.
He was so shaken that he couldn't even pay attention to the sound.
"Gal!"
Suddenly someone shouted, and when he looked up, he saw Shulos pounce on him.
He was pushed so hard that he could no longer grasp the tree trunk, and he fell backwards and fell heavily to the ground.
A huge crackling sound rang in his ears, the ground shook violently, Garlan's pupils suddenly enlarged, and he saw a huge crack burst open on the ground.
With the crackling sound, the cracks quickly moved from far to near, like lightning, and the ground that was flat a second ago split into a hideous crack in an instant.
The tree he was holding onto had already rolled and fell into the dark crack, and Shulos, who pushed him away, staggered at the edge of the crack because he helped him slow down, and the whole person fell into the crack. gap.
Garlan didn't have time to think, he swooped over and grabbed Shulos' hand.
He was lying on the edge of the crack, holding Shu Luos tightly with one hand, and clasping the rock around him with the other, so hard that the veins on the back of the hand stretched out.
He dragged Shuluos desperately and didn't let go, and he didn't see Shuluos looking up at him in surprise the moment he was caught.
The ground was still shaking violently, and the gravel tumbled from Shulos.
He was suspended in mid-air, with a bottomless abyss beneath his feet.
However, at this moment, his lips lifted slightly.
It was at this moment that Shulos, who had only picked up a good-looking, boring piece of fun, truly regarded Garlan as his companion.
A worthy companion.
After raising the corner of his mouth, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed the rock beside him.
With an effort, he turned over, and he swiftly jumped to the ground.
The earth is still shaking.
The whole mountain was roaring and shaking.
The rocks collapsed, the ground cracked, the giant trees collapsed, the rocks rolled down, the gravel splashed, and countless animals scurried away in it, as if the sky was cracking and the earth was cracking, and it was extremely terrifying.