When Zhan Mei was very young, she showed extraordinary curiosity about all the new things in the world.
Because her eldest brother Zhan Gui had served in the military a long time ago, Zhan Mei had also received the attention of the upper echelons of Lingwu very early on. After realizing that Zhan Mei had a very high talent, the Lingwu lord, who was only a half-grown loli at that time, specially approved her to enter the highest-level library in Lingwu "North Realm Collection Pavilion" to learn all kinds of knowledge.
Zhan Mei stayed there for five years.
In the past five years, she has almost never left there, and Zhan Gui has never visited her sister. Except for the old servant who delivers meals every day, there is only Zhan Mei's lonely figure in the courtyard of the deep house. Five years later, Zhan Mei's thirst for knowledge could no longer be satisfied by the contents of Zangshu Pavilion, so she came out of Zangshu Pavilion and returned to the outside world after a long absence.
That year, Zhan Gui had just assumed the post of Deputy General of Yuewei, and he was also the youngest Deputy General in the history of Lingwu Territory.
The General of Yuewei at that time was 47-year-old Long Tianzhu, a kind-looking man. After learning that Zhan Mei was very interested in the giant race, he personally tested Zhan Mei's knowledge and found that she was very interested in the giant race. Knowing that she has reached a high level of proficiency, she was specially allowed to stay in the army with her elder brother.
At that time, the power transition of Lingwu Yuewei already had a direction, Zhan Gui would take over Long Tianzhu's class, and Zhan Mei would take over his elder brother's position, which seemed to be a certainty.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that Long Tianzhu left earlier than expected. During a trip to the north, he chose to stay behind in order to cover the retreat of the recruits. After launching twelve charges against the giant army Exhausted and died. The red copper giant, the commander of the giant clan who presided over the battle at that time, ordered people to chop off Long Tianzhu's limbs, crumpled his torso and head into a ball and threw it back to Lingwu.
In that year, Zhan Gui was just a taciturn young man, and Zhan Mei was an unknown girl.
Even so, after the lord of Lingwu buried Long Tianzhu, he still appointed the brothers and sisters to corresponding positions.
Zhan Gui went through life and death several times, and gradually established his prestige. But the biggest problem of Zhan Mei was exposed—she didn't take human life seriously at all, and she didn't regard the sacrifice of the army as an important thing at all. She invested a lot of lives just to understand and confirm some things, and she had nothing to do with it. guilt.
The senior officials of Yuewei privately said that Zhan Mei should go to the hidden guard, and assassins don't need to care about human lives, but as a general, if he doesn't treat his soldiers as human beings, how can he expect them to work for her
At this time, Lord Lingwu came up with a solution.
She called Zhan Mei to a room, the inside was pitch black, only the four corners were lit with candles. At first there was only Zhan Gui in the room, standing there indifferently. Not long after, two soldiers escorted a human captive in from outside and forced the heavily bound man to kneel on the ground.
Then, let him tell his story.
These were captives borrowed from the Sunguard, most likely captured in conflict with other territories. The man looked dull at first, but after the soldier promised him a good speech and let him go, the man immediately said like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube:
"My name is Chenghua, I am thirty-two years old... I am an ordinary person with a humble family. My wife and I met twenty years ago and grew up together as childhood sweethearts. When I was in the army, she already had I was three months pregnant. I pressed against her belly and listened for a while, but I didn’t know if it was a boy or a girl. The priest at the entrance of the village said it would be a boy, but I thought it would be better to give birth to a girl, so as not to be like me in the future Running around endlessly, even my life is not in my own hands... "
"After all, she will be born in two months. I have told her many times not to wait for me at the entrance of the village every day, but people in the family sent a letter saying that she is looking forward to my return every day. Please do me a favor." , I don't want her to wait for someone who can't go back, and I don't want her to call my name in the most painful time, but I am not by her side at all. She is afraid of pain, if no one holds her hand, she will definitely suffer I can't feel the pain of childbirth... "
A man in his thirties knelt on the ground crying bitterly, kowtowing his head non-stop.
War Ghost asked his sister:
"Are you sad?"
Zhan Mei shook her head.
The war ghost raised the knife and fell, the man's head rolled to the ground, and blood sprayed on the wall of the room.
Zhan Mei suddenly widened her eyes.
War Ghost said lightly:
"Next."
This time it was a rough man who said that he had nothing to be afraid of, but that the old father at home was not in good health. I don’t know if he can hold on during his absence, so he begged Zhan Gui to allow him to write a letter , Just tell his father that he is doing well outside, don't let his father worry.
This time Zhan Ghost didn't ask Zhan Mei what he thought, and calmly chopped off his head after he finished speaking.
The third person to enter the arena was a female assassin from Anbu, an individual family territory, who seemed to be just over 30 years old this year. At the beginning, she tried to intercede with Zhan Mei, promising to use her own body as repayment. After being rejected, she smiled sadly. Looking at the blood stains in the room, she already knew her end and kowtowed deeply to Zhan Mei, begging to leave her A whole body.
Zhan Gui didn't refuse, nor did he agree, he drew his sword indifferently, blood spattered three feet.
His knife is fast and does not cause any pain.
After killing dozens of people in a row, Zhan Mei sat there blankly, tears suddenly began to fall down, and then she covered her face and wailed loudly.
Zhan Gui put away the knife and said to her:
"Whoever wants to die must go to death. This is discipline. Knowing that you will die, you must go forward. This is glory. If you die, you will never come back. This is the end of the story that has intersected with countless people. Human life. Lingwu's army must follow discipline and honor, but Lingwu's general must see the countless human lives behind it."
After that, every time when the word "life" was mentioned, Zhan Mei would restrain her smile and become very serious. This kind of pressure has been with her for many years. Although the simple and rude method left her with a deep memory in her soul, it also made her bear tremendous pressure every time she gave an order.
In the years that followed, she dreamed countless times of those who died in front of her. She dreamed that the woman who was pregnant with Liujia died of dystocia, dreamed that the father who was seriously ill died of depression, dreamed that the assassin had no head. The corpse crawled towards her staggeringly, and the cold hands were covered with sticky blood.
Zhan Mei has never told anyone about these things, she always shows a sunny smile in front of people, but in fact, in these years, Zhan Mei has felt that she has fallen into deep exhaustion many times, since she can show so much A warm smile, then her heart will definitely not be as cold as War Ghost, and she has not yet been able to send and receive emotions as freely as her brother.
This is also the reason why she has been known for her stability since then.
After all, Zhan Mei's body holding the sandworm's tentacles gradually lost her hold. The sound of the insect should have shattered some organs in her body, but now Zhan Mei doesn't know which parts are broken.
The huge sandworm crawled quickly on the ground while constantly swinging its body.
In everyone's eyes, Zhan Mei's body was thrown high, and then fell from the sky.
She was no different from other fallen human masters, that is, she fell peacefully and was about to die soon.
Is short life worth it? Did you get what you wanted? Have you become who you wanted to be when you were younger
Zhan Mei closed her eyes, her body kept falling downwards.
The wind was so loud that it blew away the answer.
I should be satisfied, but it is a pity that I am not as strong as I imagined. I thought I could go to see a wider world, see more strange things, and marvel at more unknown things.
After all, there are still regrets.
But knowing that there are regrets, he still shoulders his responsibilities without hesitation. This is Yuewei's deputy general!
At that moment, Zhan Mei suddenly heard a cry from below:
"Hey—open your eyes, I'll catch you!!"
A familiar voice. Zhan Mei took a little effort to understand that it was the voice of the boy she just met not long ago.
Then, the body was suddenly hugged.
The cold wind was cut off from the outside in an instant, and the momentum of the fall was slowly stopped.
Who saved me.
Escaped from the hands of death, and had the opportunity to make up for the many regrets in life.
Thinking that the time she had known Lide was very short, and that she was sent to him with a sense of surveillance, Zhan Mei felt that her eyes became a little moist all of a sudden. After experiencing this catastrophe of life and death, the past life was like a revolving lantern, and Zhan Mei suddenly felt that perhaps the most suitable person for her might not be Deputy General Yuewei. If she could retire alive in the future, she would be a pure explorer or researcher. , seems to work fine too.
Sighing softly, Zhan Mei put her hands on her soft chest, calmed down the emotion in her chest, and tried her best to open her eyes—
What I saw was the almost perfect profile of Lord Lingwu.
Zhan Mei froze there directly, the blood dripping from her body stained the Lingwu Lord Dahong's clothes. She blinked her eyes to confirm that she was not mistaken, the unkind Lingwu Lord was hugging her now, her black hair was scattered behind her, and all the snowflakes shunned. Just now the boy's voice started to become blurred, and she didn't know if she heard it wrong.
Maybe I heard it wrong, what a great honor it is for the Lord to come and save me.
Love it!
On the ground, Lid, who had already opened his arms, was also stunned there.
He looked from bottom to top at the Lingwu lord who suddenly appeared there, and coincidentally, the Lingwu lord holding the battle charm also glanced in his direction.
It was difficult for Lid to describe that look, but he felt as if he had seen it somewhere. After thinking for a while, Li De suddenly realized that when Liushi had just brought Amo to live in the city lord's mansion, once he planned to take Amo out to play, Liushi looked at him with this kind of eyes. that's the kind of—
The eyes of fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-leader!