Two children, a boy and a girl. About seven or eight years old, her tender face is covered with oil and black dirt. They were very thin, their skinny bodies shivering in the cold. Wrapped in a tattered blanket, they stared straight at Zero and their barbecue on the stone. The boy swallowed, sticking out his tongue to lick his split lips.
"Want to eat?" Feng asked with a smile.
The boy nodded.
Feng picked up a few pieces of roast meat with a dagger, and put them on the clean stone. The two children immediately reached out to catch it, not afraid of being burned. After catching it, he shrank to a rock pile not far from the cave and squatted down, blowing air on the barbecue with his small mouth. When their temperature drops a little, they can't wait to send the roast meat into their mouths. For a while, a few pieces of barbecue were eaten clean.
Su shook his head and said, "You shouldn't have given them something to eat."
Feng spread his hands and said: "Don't be like this, they are just two children. Besides the meat, we can't finish it."
"How long do you think they haven't eaten?" Su asked.
Feng shook his head: "Who knows, two days? Or three days? Does it matter?"
"It's been too long since I tasted the aroma of meat. Once I eat it, I can't stop. You give them just a few pieces of meat, but you will turn them from humans into devils." Su said softly.
Feng seemed to understand what she meant, and when he looked again, the two children had disappeared.
Zero kept smiling and did not interfere with the conversation between his two partners. He also ate a piece of barbecue, and then said: "Pack up your things."
"Now?"
"What do you think?" Zero asked.
Feng still wanted to say something, but a human voice came from the wind. More and more footsteps approached here, as if a pack of wolves smelled the smell of meat and were surrounding them. In the wind, a child screamed faintly: "Those people have something to eat! A lot!"
Hearing this sentence, Feng couldn't help showing a bitter expression: "It seems that I have stayed in the civilized world for too long, and I have forgotten the rules of the barbaric world."
"It's okay, it's good to review occasionally." Ling patted him on the shoulder and said.
Soon, a group of refugees surrounded the entrance of the cave. There were dozens of them. All of them had red eyes, more or less mutated tissues on their bodies, and iron rods or knives in their hands. A fat man walking in the front with a gun on his waist seemed to be the leader of these people. Two children squeezed out from behind him, the boy pointed at Feng and said, "Look, they still have meat!"
"Understood, brat. Go away, I'll give you a piece of barbecue later." The fat man took out the revolver and said.
The boy was stunned, and corrected: "We agreed just now, my sister and I are alone!"
The fat man slapped him to the ground: "You son of a bitch, you have no place to speak here. If you don't leave, I will kill you two."
The girl hurriedly helped her brother out of the crowd. The fat man grinned and said, "My name is Luce. My people and I have been hungry for two days. It seems that you have something to eat..."
Zero smiled and said: "I'm here for you, please get out of the way, we're leaving now."
Fatty was taken aback, he didn't expect Zero to be so generous. His eyes rolled up, seeing him like this, he sighed inwardly. Sometimes people are like this, get what they want, but want more. Greed is a bottomless pit. Some people will never know how to be satisfied, just like the fat man in front of them.
Luce smiled and said, "You are so generous. Why don't you keep your weapons. Wait, there is that woman. Yes. If you leave it like this, you two can get out of here."
Anger welled up in Su's eyes, and he wanted to reach for the Titan epee that was placed beside him and wrapped with cloth strips. Zero had already stood up one step ahead of him, looked at the fat man and said, "Your name is Lu Si, right? If I were you, I wouldn't be so pushy. It's still the same sentence, I'll give you the food, let's go, everyone can save it." Less trouble."
Luce looked at Zero seriously, then laughed after a while, turned his head and winked at the people behind, and said, "Look, this monkey is still trying to scare me."
He turned his head sharply, and *moaned towards Ling's brow: "It's a pity that I was scared too much!"
Zero raised his hand, and suddenly there was a white light flashing in the hole. A dagger jumped into Zero's hand, first slashing through Luce's wrist. His revolver and his palm were chopped off, and then the white light flashed again, and the dagger plunged into Luce's chest. When it was pulled out again, Luce's eyes were wide open, and the breathless corpse fell to the ground with a "bang".
No one thought that Ling, who had a friendly face just now, would suddenly draw his sword and kill someone. And the speed was so fast, when they saw the smile on Zero's face again, the refugees began to back away fearfully. They finally realized that they had provoked someone they couldn't afford.
Wiping off the blood on the short knife, Zero put away the knife and said: "Get out of the way."
With a sound of swiping, the refugees gave way to the passage. Zero winked at the two people behind him, and the three left calmly. After they got out of the crowd, the refugees poured into the cave, scrambling for the barbecue, and even wrestled with each other because of it. At this time, no one took a look at Luce's body.
When passing by the two children, Zero squatted down. The boy backed away in fear, but still stubbornly protected the girl behind. He trembled and said, "Sir, I called you. Please let my sister go."
"May I have your name?"
"Ender."
"Ender, you're very smart, but it's a pity you used it in the wrong place." Zero put a package of things wrapped in cloak fragments in front of his eyes: "Remember, to survive, you must first learn to control. Whether it's food , or your ambition. Now, take this thing and leave. I don’t think you would want those people inside to see these things.”
Patting Ander's head, Ling San walked away. Ender opened Bree's things a little. There were four or five roasts. He hastily and carefully put it away, and then pulled the girl far away from the cave occupied by refugees.
Not long after Lingsan and the two children left, a team quietly approached the cave. At this time, some of the refugees in the cave were already lying nearby to rest, while others were still carefully scraping the ointment from the baking stone, and then put it into their mouths to suck. So when a group of heavily armed soldiers appeared at the entrance of the cave, the refugees couldn't even react.
Several gunshots came from the direction of the cave, Ling turned his head, frowned and said, "That's the sound of a new type of weapon."
"Could it be someone from the council?" Feng wondered, "What are they doing?"
"Who knows, go, go back and have a look."
By the time they returned to the cave, the council soldiers and most of the refugees had disappeared. In the cave, there was only one skinny, one-legged refugee huddled in a corner. He held his head tightly, and he didn't know that the soldier had left until Zero pulled his hand.
"What happened?" Zero asked.
"Caught it! They caught everyone, those devils." The thin man was a little incoherent.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that he calmed down a bit. His name was Waley, and his leg had been bitten off by a corpse wolf. He had cursed such a fate before, but today, because of missing a leg, he was saved instead.
"Since autumn, they have been arresting people everywhere. Yes, those soldiers of the Dark Council." Waley said angrily: "At that time, the war had not yet spread to our settlements, but I have heard that they were in some small towns or villages. arrested young men."
"Catch someone?" Zero frowned.
"Yes, sir. After they captured people, they heard that they threw them into factories as coolies. Being a coolie is not bad, but it's a little bit harder. At least they can survive. Some unlucky ones were thrown into the army. , Each of them is given a broken gun and let these people go to the battlefield. They are not soldiers, let alone fighters, they are just cannon fodder to consume the enemy's ammunition!"
Weli put his head in his hands and said, "That was hell. Many settlements were disbanded early because of this. We all hid in the mountains, or went to further places. But these demons are still following us, and we will all die. They're all going to die! It's all this damn war!"
Feng and Ling found a place to bury Fatty Luce's body outside the cave, and when they returned to the cave, Willy had already fallen asleep. He huddled into a ball, his body wrapped under the thin blanket was shaking slightly. Looking at Waley is like looking at the silhouette of this era. The war has made these people's lives even worse. However, in this era, the voices of most people are hollow and powerless.
Only a small group of people are qualified to make their own voices in this era. A word from a big shot affects the fate of countless ordinary people. The impact of the war is even greater, and now that Proseus has escaped from prison, this situation will continue to worsen.
war of the Damned!
A small bonfire was built, Su leaned against the mountain wall, and fell asleep with his epee in his arms. Ling and Feng didn't feel sleepy, Wang Ling pulled the flames with dead branches to make them burn more vigorously, so as to drive away the cold air in the cave, Feng said: "Head, what do you think?"
"The parliament is arresting people, it's nothing more than the method of clearing the borders and opening up the wild, in order not to leave any vitality for the Hall of Valor. But this trick is very good, it seems that Oglock is going hard. After all, doing this kind of thing , It is tantamount to pushing people into the arms of the enemy. At this time, Asgard will use some gentle tactics, and they will almost stand on the side of the Hall of Valor." Ling said.
Feng shook his head and said, "So, isn't Oglok digging his own grave?"
"No, as long as Asgard is defeated before that happens, he will still be the winner. At that time, the refugees in the wilderness can only choose to cling to his wings. But once this happens, it can only show that Oglock I also want to end the war as soon as possible. Ben is right, he should feel it too."
"Proseus? Thinking about it gives me a headache. At this point, our Speaker still refuses to give up." Feng scratched his head and said.
"He is an ambitious person, but anyone who is ambitious will not be easily shaken. Perhaps it would be good for him to bring down the Hall of Valor, even if he is killed by Proseus the next moment."
Feng lost his voice: "What's the point of winning like that?"
"It's completely meaningless to other people, but to Oglock, that's the whole of life." Zero sighed, and said: "Ben said that Oglock has been proving himself right all his life." .”