"We elves are different from you humans. We can really communicate with each other's minds. You are not an elf, so don't jump to conclusions." Elena strongly denied.
Yang Yu really wanted to retort, "You are not a human, how do you know that I don't know whether you elves have the same thoughts?" But after thinking about it, he decided not to. What if the Elf Queen retorted, it would be endless.
Yang Yu smiled, chose to avoid the topic, and said:
“It seems that Her Majesty the Queen knows that there is nothing she can do, but she wants to affirm everything she has done.
It doesn’t matter, let me try another way and expose your scars.
Your Majesty, do you understand the seriousness of what has happened in recent days
As far as I know, almost all of your food comes from this rich elven forest.
In order for the elves to gather enough food, they lived in scattered villages of varying sizes.
But that situation has been broken due to what happened a year ago.
The small country with few people that you originally imagined is now caught in an unprecedented food crisis.
And this crisis will bring even more tragic consequences.
How much food was burned in the temporary village? Not even a trace was left in the fire.
There was also a hunting team responsible for hunting. I tried my best, but I could only save a small number of the hunting team.
I’m afraid this hunting team is not even one-tenth of the hunting team sent out
Without those skilled hunters, do you think the novice hunters who know little about hunting can travel long distances and deliver a large amount of prey here
Even if it can be delivered, how many people can it serve as food
In order to protect the people, they tacitly allowed them to settle near the City of Fallen Feathers, only thinking about maintaining their own dignity and influence without considering the consequences of doing so. Or, in other words, they knew the consequences but still chose to let them continue to settle there.
How many elves will die this winter because of your decision
How many people died of starvation, or were frozen to death in the snow and wind, or were eaten by monsters because they were unfamiliar with hunting
Your Majesty, what are you going to do this winter? You really don't think that you can survive this cold winter by relying on mutual understanding, do you
How did you spend last winter
It is clearly a harvest season, but you are being so frugal. You must have seen the cruelty of last winter!"
"Please don't say anymore"
Elena lowered her head and covered her ears unconsciously. Everything Yang Yu said hit the softest part of her heart.
"No, I just have to keep going, and this is all an attempt to avoid the situation becoming irreversible.
My partner risked her life to save the lives of those elves, and I didn't want to see her efforts go to waste.
Queen Elena, you once said that the older the elves are, the more obsessed they are with certain things.
They are more likely to easily sacrifice their lives for something.
But why, even though a belief system has been established, there are not many elderly elves staying in the Elf Forest
There are no elves over a thousand years old, and elves over five hundred years old are also rare.
As far as I know, the elves living in the Elf Forest are generally under 400 years old. "
"Why would you know that?"
"I asked someone to gather some information. I was a little interested after reading "Chronicles of the Elves". The current forest of elves is full of contradictions, which aroused my interest, so I did some research.
I found some interesting things.”
Taking out the Chronicle of the Elves, Yang Yu opened the first page.
“The elves are a race favored by the goddess. There are records of ascension in the distant past, but in the official history of the elves, the first record of ascension was not found until more than 400 years ago.
If the idea that 'you can ascend to heaven without leaving the village and living a peaceful life' existed from the beginning, why are there so many detailed descriptions of things that do not belong to the Elf Forest in the "Chronicle of the Elves"
So what if this kind of "closing the country to the outside world" and using faith to bind the elves did not exist at all before Queen Elena came to power
When humans are not so harsh towards elves and other races and can coexist peacefully, can you elves also be seen everywhere like other races and experience adventures in this world
Therefore, there are elves who die for a certain belief, which is rare in today's environment.
Your Majesty, the Queen must be well aware of this.
Then, he used the belief that "as long as you can live in peace, you will be able to go to the goddess" to bind countless elves, making them complacent and stay in this forest.
While eliminating the risk of their death, it also eliminates their desire to seek knowledge and experience the outside world.
If you don't have any spiritual pursuits, it is extremely easy to be satisfied.
I heard a saying.
It is the heartfelt words of the suffering people, or perhaps it is the fierce words of the emperor.
It means "As long as the people can have enough food, who would want to cause trouble?"
Your Majesty Queen Elena, you have done what you have done.
He is a tyrannical and cowardly emperor."
Yang Yu spoke passionately. Looking back on the past and present in his world, he felt deeply moved. The nine years of compulsory education taught him a lot.
However, as he was young and ignorant, he had thought that most of what he learned was useless and he just studied it hastily to pass the exams.
When he was in college, he often hovered on the edge of failing the course, but thinking that if he failed, he would have to make up for the lessons, which would delay his gaming, he still tried to pass it.
But as he grew up and his mind gradually matured, Yang Yu realized how important nine years of compulsory education was.
Otherwise, he would have been stuck in a puzzle game and wanted to die, so how could he make money by writing guides for others? Moreover, he definitely couldn't say such flowery words to save face now.
"Domineering yet cowardly, why do you think I am a coward? Do you know how determined I was to do this
I have lived for a long time and have witnessed countless people disappear before my eyes, including my father, mother, and Queen Mingtu Saiqiute who loved me so much.
But now I am the only one left, I am the only one left here."
Elena finally couldn't hold back her voice.
"We agreed to go to the goddess together and live happily ever after, but in the end I'm the only one left!"
Facing the queen's roar, Yang Yu's eyes were filled with sadness. "So you put all the blame on the outside world that tempted them? This is what I call cowardice."
"I just want to protect my people, to keep them alive, and to fabricate something that is not true. I will only embellish the facts. No one can prove that I am wrong."
"But no one can prove that you are right. It is commendable that you want more elves to live, but you have eliminated the possibility of elves in this way, and there is no flexibility to deal with external changes. This is not the happiness you imagined, but a tragedy."
(End of this chapter)