"You let two deer who came to help you block my [Worm Bite] for you. They died miserably, and you found a chance to kill me. Does this mean that you think your life is better than two deer?" life is important."
Sigrid in the rain bit her lips tightly, making Jenkins very worried that she would bite herself to bleed. He probably understood what happened in the past, he thought for a while and decided to say something to help his cousin, but at this moment, he heard a strange voice coming from the darkness far away from the creek and shallows.
Straightening up and looking towards the darkness, two four-legged animals came slowly, their hooves trampled on the cobblestones and made a dull and strange sound. Jenkins couldn't recognize what kind of animal it was, because their bodies were highly corrupted, and their fur was completely rotted. In the rain, white maggots could even be seen "swimming" back and forth in the corrupted flesh.
A feeling of nausea made Jenkins quickly stop observing them. His feeling for these two strange creatures was simply disgusting. Sigrid, who also heard the voice, turned her head, her face immediately turned pale, and her body trembled uncontrollably. Even in such a bad situation in the adventure of the mirror world, Sigrid did not show such a fear.
He dropped the cobblestone he had just picked up and walked to Sigrid's side. He gave the corpse a hard look, and then took her other hand:
"It doesn't matter. Remember, this is a strange place. The purpose of our coming here is to solve Nolan's son of the mist. This is all fake. These can't be those two deer back then."
"Yes, these can't be those two deer back then."
The corpse repeated Jenkins' words in an extremely malicious tone, which made Sigrid look even more frightened.
The two suspected deer creatures kept approaching the shoal, and the sound of the rain could not cover up the sound of their trampling. Jenkins' face was gloomy, and he pulled out his cane from the air and plunged it into the pebble beach in front of him. There was soft sand under the pebbles, so the cane could stand there smoothly.
A faint green light flickered on the surface of the cane, while the orb on the top of the cane emitted a cold white light, unable to penetrate the darkness, but able to illuminate the two deer. The deer's progress stopped, and it wandered in place a little uneasy. Jenkins looked at them, wondering whether to destroy them.
"Then, answer me, Sigrid Capet, have you ever regretted saving your own life with other lives? Do you think that your own life is more noble than the life of an animal?"
The corpse asked again, not urging, but it was because of this tone that made Sigrid even more sad.
"I regret it."
Jenkins couldn't tell whether it was raindrops or tears on her face, and he said:
"Where is there any superiority or inferiority?"
Without giving anyone or the corpse a chance to interject, he spoke quickly:
"As I said just now, nature is circulation, nature is balance, even if the soul and wisdom are different, but for the entire material world, who is not a pile of rotten meat that absorbs energy and transmits energy? We are all just a part of nature , is a link in the circular chain, there is no nobility and inferiority. The law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest are just the basic rules to maintain the balance of nature.”
He held Sigrid's hand tightly, feeling a little guilty for once again deceiving others with unreasonable reasons:
"Can you tell me why sheep eat grass and tigers eat sheep, but we can eat tigers?"
In fact, Jenkins has never heard of someone wanting to eat a tiger, but he believes that the other party understands the specific meaning.
"Because... what?"
"Because this is nature, this is the cycle, this is the balance. Is the sheep more noble than the grass? Is the tiger more noble than the sheep? No, it's just the rules. If it doesn't, the food chain... I mean, the cycle of energy and the Transmitting... That's probably what it means. This cycle will collapse, and the rules that have existed in the material world since its existence will be broken. From an individual point of view, we may say that human beings are superior to animals without intelligence, but As a species, we are all the same, just part of nature."
A flash of lightning suddenly fell from the sky, and Jenkins raised his head nervously again.
the corpse asked:
"But why would she be arrogant enough to risk a deer's life to save her own?"
"Because she wants to live. This is the basic and despicable instinct of life. It is the sin of all life since its birth, or the meaning of existence. Are you satisfied with this answer?"
The corpse let go of Sigrid's hand and stopped talking, and the thunder after the lightning also rumbled. In the bang, Sigrid wrapped his arms around Jenkins' neck and hugged him, which made Jenkins a little at a loss, and wanted to remind him that he was hugged so tightly and his cat was still in his pocket.
In the end, Chocolate was not injured, but stuck to the gap between the two, hooked Jenkins' coat with his small claws and climbed onto his shoulders. Reminded by the chocolate, the blond nun also let go of Jenkins. Judging from the redness and swelling of her eyes, she probably really cried.
"I'm not very good at comforting people..."
Jenkins said with some embarrassment:
"But it's not worth crying about. After all, it happened a long time ago, and I believe you have regretted it too. After we leave the strange place, you can pray to the righteous god [Spirit of Nature]. [Lord of Flowers] You can also pray, they will enlighten you."
Sigrid nodded, and wiped her face embarrassedly. The heavy rain covered up the traces of her crying just now, but the ladies still care about their faces:
"What you just said makes sense. This is my sin. I should face it."
If she wasn't so kind, and she wasn't a believer in [Spirit of Nature], she probably wouldn't care about it.
"I think I'll handle it, but the survival of the fittest you mentioned... is too cruel. I think this world is very gentle, and we don't have to think of the world as harsh."
"But that's part of the rules, it's not strictness, it's rigor and order."
Jenkins nodded, and seeing that she was in a better mood, he began to bury the body again. Looking at the edge of the darkness from the corner of the eye, the two rotting deer had long since disappeared, so he continued to work while asking the elf on the other side:
"You didn't say just now that such a situation will appear in this strange situation. The deer just now..."
"Even if you don't scare them, they won't come near you. This is just an indescribable thing caused by this lady's messy thoughts. If she can understand nature as clearly as you do, and have no nostalgia for her past, Certainly nothing like that will happen.”