Chapter 34 chapter Five
We can't go any further.So we went into the woods at one end of the basin.
"Would it be better to go back to Iramus City? Miss Xie Renier."
Hearing Carl's question, Iluli shook her haggard face.
"It doesn't matter. Tomorrow should be much better. Going back to Eramus is just more time-consuming. And more importantly, the woods are the most comfortable place for me. Back to Eramus City, yes For me, it will not be better, but it will be more difficult to go back.”
"Is that so? Then I know."
Although Iluli said that she is an elf, no matter what kind of climate she is in, she will not feel very uncomfortable, but that is when she is healthy.So we decided to prepare more firewood.Shan Sen picked up the hand axe and looked at the surrounding trees, but made a frustrated expression.Although it is located on a plateau, the terrain is a basin, and the wind is probably not strong, so there are all tall trees.Even the smallest of them is about a palm in diameter.If you want to chop with a small hand axe, it may take a whole day.I stood up.
"Can this tree be chopped down with a giant sword?"
"Your blade will become dull."
"Then I'll have to imitate the bear."
Nelia looked at me with a strange expression.I spat on my palm, wiped it, and slammed into the tree with all my might.Crunch!After my first impact, the roots of the tree rose up.Then the other parts fell by themselves due to the weight of the tree.boom!Nelia opened her mouth wide in surprise, unable to speak.
I took the ax from Shan Sen and chopped it into the tree.Then I hit the back of the ax with my fist, and the tree broke in two.In this way I split a long log horizontally into several pieces, and then straight again, and in less than an hour I had a pile of firewood.Nelia started asking me questions.
"Aren't you human?"
"It was discovered by you. This matter is regarded as a secret between you and me."
Hearing my idiot's answer, Nelia couldn't help laughing.Karl sat next to Iluli, who was sitting with her back against the tree, and looked around the basin worriedly.
"If it's night... this terrain is a terrain where monsters from all around can swarm. There are mountains all around. And here is a flat land in the mountains, so there is no way to do it."
Shan Sen and I also sat next to them.
"Would you like to build a fence?"
"Well, Brother Fisher. What's the score of the monsters in the Brown Mountains?"
Shan Sen took out the book from his backpack, sat down on the ground, and spread the book on his lap.
"Ah, this is not a joke. Although people often come to exterminate monsters in the place where the Central Avenue passes, it is known that there are still unconfirmed monsters appearing. The brown mountain range is too wide, with plains, rocky terrain, and hilly terrain in the middle There are a variety of terrains and tree types, so it is also a suitable environment for the survival of various monsters. Although the road we walked was the shortest, it took two or three days to ride on horseback. From this, we can know that this area has How vast."
"What about the monsters that appear frequently?"
Shan Sen touched his brow, turned a few more pages, and began to read:
"The deep red dragon Klad Meso known as the flame gun..."
"what?"
I almost rolled my eyes.There is a dragon!And it's still a deep red dragon!But Shan Sen continued reading leisurely.
"This is the most famous monster, but it is still sleeping."
Carl and I both breathed a sigh of relief.Shan Sen seemed to have read something interesting, and read the contents of the book enthusiastically.
"Wow! Before it went to sleep, its dragon spirit died. So it went berserk and left everything in the brown mountains and the central woodlands in ruins. It must have been miserable then, right? As a result, people were very concerned about the crusade. It didn't even dare to think about it, and in the end it was Klad Meso who entered the sleep period by himself, and the destruction came to an end."
Calgan bit it a few times and said:
"Hmm, although learning new knowledge is a pleasant thing, please go back to the reality we care about and find out which monsters are threatening us, okay?"
"Yes. Ah, besides that, stone giants and ogres are also occasionally found... It's a bit unexpected that someone has actually found these kinds of monsters. They are distributed along the six ridges branched off from the main ridge, Prey on wild animals. Ogres may hunt animals, but sometimes trolls attack travelers. Orcs and goblins travel between mountains only because they need to climb over the mountains. There are also pterosaurs and hybrids. Beast. There are also human-faced pintail lions here."
After hearing what Shan Sen said, my mood got worse and worse.But he wasn't done reading.
"There are several kinds of snakes that are very scary, but they have already started to hibernate in late autumn... Insect monsters don't seem to appear in autumn. Plant monsters don't move, so it doesn't matter. There are giant fleas here Like the Slime series, there are various other monsters, but none of them will come to the place where the avenue passes by, but will only appear deeper in the mountain. Wow, there are even unicorns? In addition There are fairy-like races, elves, dryads, and water elves, but since they don't attack humans, it doesn't matter. Other monsters with gentle personalities don't matter. Anyway, monsters who like mountains or woods can be said to be all here. Have."
He actually said...all of them.Wow ha ha ha ha.
"But! There is also this sentence written here: 'These contents are written based on the reports of survivors. Please note that if there are no monsters left alive, there will be no records here. I suggest that if you If you encounter a monster on the road, it must be a monster strong enough to run on the road and attack humans, please be careful." Well, I think this sentence is right. Anyway, it is more or less like this."
Shan Sen finished reading this passage calmly, but Carl, Wen Chai and I all turned pale with fright.I looked around and suddenly felt a little cold, so I asked Shan Sen:
"Then what are we going to do now?"
"What else can I do, just follow what I usually do, take turns to watch at night, and then burn the fire desperately."
"what?"
Shan Sen seemed to think everything was easy, smiled gently and said:
"Even if you set up a wooden village, it can't stop flying things. However, since this is a forest, flying things shouldn't matter. Things that burrow into the ground, because the roots of the trees spread everywhere. It shouldn't matter. Although there are still some monsters approaching, monsters that come out at night hate fire. Haven't you already chopped up a pile of firewood like a hill? Just burn it as hard as you want. Otherwise, don't we know what monsters will come , can you still prepare in advance?"
Although Shan Sen's words sounded insincere, but thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was no other way.If you knew something was coming, you could figure out a way to prepare first, but that's not the case, so there's nothing you can do about it.Because we have enough firewood, burning the fire with all our might is probably the best solution.
But Nelia seemed to be more concerned with other things.
"Hey, Shan Sen, how much is your book worth? I really want it."
"This is a book compiled by the Royal Institute of Geography and then distributed to the territories. Even if you pay, you can't buy it."
Then Shan Sen smiled slightly.
"Really, you wouldn't pay for things in the first place, would you?"
Nelia pursed her lips when she heard this.Shan Sen closed the book and said:
"Don't worry about this, the things that should be done are almost done now, let's have lunch and listen to your business."
"my business?"
"How can you give us the money back?"
ah?Nelia and I were startled at the same time.Nelia looked at me, but I shook my head.Then Shan Sen immediately said:
"Isn't that obvious? Who else would you be? Even an idiot can figure it out. What makes me most curious is why Xiu Qi didn't explain clearly. What's going on? If the source of the money If it is suspicious, I will be very sad."
Nelia opened her mouth wide in surprise, and stared at me and Shansen in turn. My face blushed suddenly, and I turned my head to avoid her sight.Shan Sen found that the two of us had suddenly turned into idiots, so he looked at us with strange eyes.
"Ah, let's listen to this slowly. You did this with good intentions, and I don't think you will do anything too bad. Xiu Qi! Get out your lunch and let's get started, huh?"
Shan Sen rubbed his stomach, using his whole body to express the most urgent thing for him at the moment.I hurried to the food basket tied to the horse.I took a sneak peek back, and Nelia was sitting at a loss, avoiding Shan Sen's eyes.
Shansen seemed to want to say something to Nelia, but before that, I took the food basket over.Then Shan Sen left everything behind and began to attack those foods violently.It wasn't until there were no survivors left that Shan Sen took a nap, showed a blissful expression, and sat down by the tree.I think Shanson Fisher should be added to the list of monsters that haunt the Brown Mountains.
Name: Shanson Fisher (Male) Occurrence frequency: only one Appearance area / time: any terrain / mainly during the day Characteristics: This tenacious and ferocious creature has an infinite vengeance towards food, and will cruelly and violently devour any food that enters its field of vision.
While I was thinking about these things, Shan Sen said to Yi Luli: "Iluli, do you want to eat more?" Iluli smiled slightly, and I said ironically: "You didn't leave any food at all, how dare you say that?" "Is there no other basket?" "That's for dinner!" "What's the matter? Anyway, I have a lot of time today, so I'll let you show off your cooking skills, wouldn't it be fine?" "Stop it, stop it! Don't go too far. Please live like a human being!" Shan Sen awkwardly picked up the wine bottle.He took bowls from his backpack, distributed them to everyone, and started pouring. "Iluli, can you drink? It might be harmful to your wound recovery..." "No, it's okay. My healing process is over." It wouldn't be bad if it could restore some color to Iluli's face.Although I don't know if the injured can drink, but the injured who was bitten by the pterosaur can still sit here as if nothing happened, so drinking a glass of wine probably won't kill him.I was worried that Shansen would start asking Nelia questions, so I tried to focus on Iluli. "That medicine is really good. You call it a healing potion? It's really expensive." Ellie nodded. "That's right. Adventurers often go to the temple, not because they want to pray for the safety of the adventure, but more often to buy healing potions. Because this medicine is too expensive, except for adventurers who live on the edge of danger every day Besides, most people probably don’t have the ability to buy it.” "That's right, a bottle costs a hundred sarye! If it's a hundred sarya... let's do the math, if it's a five-cent candle, you can buy two thousand. Huh! If you make fifty a day, It will take one month and ten days to make 2,000. However, the cost of materials and living expenses must be deducted. Hey, hello!" Nelia opened her eyes wide and said: "Candle?" Her expression seemed to be saying, why do I mention a candle when I don't mention anything else?I smiled and replied: "It's my professionalism. I'm a candlemaker." "Candlemaker?" Nelia's expression became even more confused.I blinked and said: "Hey, there is no distinction between high and low professions! If you despise candlemakers because you think you are a handsome nighthawk, I am not convinced. One of the former sages once referred to us like this: 'You are Seiko Master of Light'." "Master of Light? Sounds awesome. But are you a candlemaker? Are all candlemakers so strong?" "That's my personality, not the candlemaker's."
I managed to change the subject.I began to tell Nelia the story of our village, of our great lord, of Amtat, of Taiban, and of our travels, all at once. Carl seemed to enjoy hearing the things I had experienced with him described not from his point of view but from mine.He often tilts his head and expresses, 'So you think so? ', but he didn't interrupt me at all.It was also the first time Wen Chai heard these things, so he listened quietly and attentively.But Shan Sen keeps hindering me.It's been said that a story is three times harder to tell if two people are telling it at the same time, and it's true.The situation at that time was roughly like this: "So Iluli let those thirty guards fly into the sky..." As soon as I said that, Shan Sen would immediately interject: "That's not true, Xiu Qi. Baron Shilikan has thirty-two guards." "Huh, is that so? How do you count so fast?" "So you have to respect me. This is a compulsory course for becoming a guard. We count five five at a time." "Ah, is that so?" If I talk to him like this, Nelia will puff up her cheeks and say: "Hey, hello! What's so important? Is there a difference between thirty people and thirty-two people? What matters is what happened afterwards. Tell me quickly, Xiuqi."
I have been hindered in this way countless times in the process of telling the story, and it is impossible for me not to feel tired in the end.In any case, I managed to talk about the God's presence in the Karal territory, and Nilia seemed to be taken aback when she heard this.She seemed to think my words were deep. "Wait, wait a minute, what did you just say?" "I said that the gods have come to the ground. So the Karal territory has become the land of the gods..." "...does the candlemaker usually speak such difficult words?" "It's also my idiosyncrasy. May I go on?" "Huh? Ah, good. Go on." The story gets more and more interesting as time goes by.At any rate, the story, which began belatedly after lunch, continued into the dusky evening hours. Nelia is a very sincere listener.As the story progresses, she smiles and tenses at the right time, keeping the storyteller entertained.Somehow, I actually felt like I was being manipulated by Nelia?This is because I am not the only one who wants to divert the content of the topic to other places. "Hehehehe...that's interesting. So you are completely new to adventurers?" "We're not adventurers at all. We're not on the road looking for adventure." "That's beside the point. All men are adventurers. There's nothing more adventurous than being alive." Although this sentence is very common, but when Nelia said it, it implied a kind of solemnity.Generally speaking, if someone utters a tragic sentence, it will be difficult for others to respond.So Nelia hurriedly turned her head to Wenchai. "Then if you are arrested and taken to the capital, wouldn't you be dead?" Wen Chai didn't even look at Nelia.Nelia blinked her eyelashes a few times, jumped up suddenly, and stood next to Wenchai.Then she whispered into Wenchai's ear as if to blow: "How are you feeling now!?" Even the roots of Wen Chai's ears turned red, and he stood up suddenly.He made a movement as if he wanted to dodge, but Shan Sen purposely climbed onto the hilt of the long sword to show him.As soon as Wen Chai moved, Shan Sen threatened in a low voice: "Although we guarantee your freedom of movement, you are absolutely not allowed to leave my sight." Then Wen Chai came to my left and sat down, and started yelling at me: "Xiu Qi! Are all Byzos' women this slutty?" "what……?" Before I could answer, Nelia ran towards me and sat on my right.In the end, I was caught between Wenchai and Nelia.Nelia began to say to me: "Xiu Qi, how did those people in Jepen fall in love?" Before I could answer, Wen Chai put his mouth to my other ear and said loudly: "Xiu Qi, don't you think that the so-called sound love refers to the emotion that two mature people feel when they are faithful to each other? Do you think it is a woman's privilege to show sexual charm to anyone casually? What do you think about the fact that some women think it’s a good thing to please a man, so they deliberately wear revealing clothing and cleverly use lewd words to stimulate men?” I never got a chance to answer.Nelia said at once: "Xiu Qi, for a man who can't understand women, he blames all the lustful impulse he feels when he sees a woman on the woman's head, and regards it as a woman who deliberately radiates it. What do you think about this matter? ?Women act naturally and men get excited on their own. It's like being conceited and thinking 'the woman did it first. Why did she do it?' and blame all the faults on Woman. What do you think of such childish ugliness?" I sighed and said: "...You two, when you speak, please remove the word 'Xiuqi'. Now please continue."
My ears on both sides were buzzing.This is really ridiculous.Can't you two just talk to each other?Why must I be caught in the middle?But I didn't want Shansen to have the opportunity to ask Nelia how to return the money, so I had to quietly suffer this unreasonable disaster there.
Anyway, I don't know how it ended, the scolding between Wen Chai and Nelia finally came to an end.Because I didn't pay attention to what the two of them said, I don't know what their main points and conclusions are.The two don't talk to each other anymore, and while they still talk to me, it's just a soliloquy.It seems impossible for this kind of soliloquy to come to any decent conclusion.In particular, these two people are very stubborn and have a very stubborn side, so there is no need to expect any conclusions. Anyway, the sun was down now, and dinner was over.According to Carl's suggestion, Nelia decided to go with us until we crossed the Brown Mountains. "Is that all right, uncle? Don't you already know what I do?" Hearing this sentence with a somewhat challenging tone, Carl smiled slightly. "Well, I don't know what's going on with Miss Nelia. If it were me, I would definitely not target the items brought by this poor person. Are you pitiful?" Hearing Carl's gentle answer, Nelia blushed.It turned out that Karl would say the same thing.The meaning seems to be saying: these people caught you and let you go, and risked your life to save you when you were chased by pterosaurs, how could you do anything to their things? "...Thank you. Well, I hope I can help everyone between now and the time we cross the brown mountains." Our group went to bed early in order to make up for the lost time tomorrow.I was the first to be on the watch.I threw the firewood into the fire and looked around at our party. Shan Sen kicked off the entire blanket, and he was lying in a large shape, snoring.I helped him put the blanket on again before, and now it's like this again.I was wondering, should I wrap him in a blanket and tie him up with rope?Hey, forget it.With his physique, even if he sleeps like this, he probably won't catch a cold.On the other side, Karl was sleeping peacefully like a dead man.Iluli and Nelia were wrapped in the same blanket and were sleeping warmly. When Wen Chai slept, his ankles were tied to a tree.I looked at his face, his eyes were still open. "Aren't you going to sleep?" "Can't sleep. It's still early." "Just try to sleep." "Don't worry about me. I don't need a night watch. Prisoners have comfort too." That's right.It is impossible for us to keep Wen Chai on vigil, so I, Shan Sen and Karl take turns.Iluli was seriously injured, and she had to get enough sleep to memorize magic in the morning.Nelia?She is also unlikely.It would be better not to exclude her than to end up acting like we can't trust her. "Shu Qi." Wen Chai spoke to me.I threw another piece of wood into the fire, and looked at him. "Let me go." "...I can't do this." "I'll give you a thank you gift. I promise you. Let me go." "no." "Do you really want to take me to Baizos Imperial City and let me go to the gallows?" Although I can't bear it, that's all I can do, isn't it?I'm not too happy to say: "When you became a spy, you should have been mentally prepared, shouldn't you?" "I am also mentally prepared to survive." "...Do you want to live? It is difficult to treat you as an ordinary war criminal. Because you have carried out espionage activities. And think about what bad things you have done in the Karal territory. You still want to live like this go down?" "Those were done by that woman. We are just that woman's guards. We just built a secret base there and waited for her arrival." "During the trial, if you didn't stop it, you must be regarded as an accomplice. Should it be considered a crime of helping?" Wen Chai looked directly at me and said: "Although this is true, it is also not true. I have never touched many things. It is impossible for me to take responsibility for all the things in the world. From what I hear, because you are a resident of the western woods far away from the battlefield, so You hardly care about the war between Byzos and Jepen, just live like this. But if Jepen invades Byzos and burns your homeland to ruins, your king will kill you for not preventing our country from invading , what would you say?" "What you want to express is that the people below are just pawns on the chessboard. When something goes wrong, these people will die first, right?" "Isn't this unfair?" "Not at all." "...Tell me what the reason is." "If I continue to think in this way, maybe I can't fly like an eagle, and I will feel wronged. I can't breathe in water like a fish, and I will feel wronged." "You are not an eagle, you are not a fish, you are a human being. Your kings, nobles, and generals are all the same human beings as you. They are all human beings, so why should only those below pay the price? I am also human, send me The officer who came to Byzos is also human. But I came here only because of this order, and I died because of it, and then my officer started to breed another spy, and he is still living his life with a full stomach. Than Isn't that guy worse than me?" "All the same people? Ha! How ridiculous." Hearing my answer, Wen Chai made a surprised expression.He pointed to his body and said: "Why am I not human anymore?" "Only a fool would say something like that. Saying that everyone is the same. Hey, where are the same people in this world? There is nothing stupider than putting everyone else into the same mold as yourself. If you think about things in this way, you will easily scold those royal families and nobles. 'Damn, they are all human, why do I only eat coarse bread and a bowl of water when I wake up in the morning, but those guys have The beauties are serving and eating delicacies from mountains and seas.’ If you really feel wronged because of this, go build a country and become a king yourself. If you don’t want to do it, then shut your mouth and sit obediently.” "What did you say...is it troublesome?" "Isn't it troublesome? If according to your statement, everyone is the same, then you can also become a king like King Jepen? Although I don't know if you call the leader a king. If you have This kind of ability, if you don't do it, is it troublesome?" "Is it because it's too troublesome to not do it? It's because it's impossible..." "Oops. You're ignoring the fact that people are all the same now. You're such a bad way of speaking. When you complain, just say that people are the same, and when you compare yourself to those people, you He also said that he is different from them. No matter who he is, he will not be in a good mood when he is compared with others and is criticized. You have to look at it in the same way. If you say that people are the same, then You just go to a corner of this vast land and build a country. Now you should want to ask me why I don't do it?" "I really want to ask." "I don't do it because I think it's troublesome. It's more comfortable for me to continue to be the future candlemaker of the Hetante territory. I can do this because I don't have ambitions. Sometimes I also have the mood to be a nobleman, but I After all, I won’t do it. However, no one will scold me—this is just the self-consolation of people who have no ambition and no ability.’Hmph, although you are ambitious, you are incapable, so you humbly rationalize yourself Don't you?' Isn't that stupid? Those guys probably think that ambition is a human instinct. They risk their lives for it themselves, so they assume everyone else is too. Those guys can't understand people .Hey, generally speaking, this is the kind of people who become kings and heroes, so what? If the heroes want to call me incompetent and mean, I will ask them to make candles. Then I will tell them Said: 'You can't even make a candle. That should throw you in a corner of the market and starve to death.' Then they should be very angry? But those heroes really don't seem to be able to feed themselves with their own hands All they have is the ability to become kings and command others because of their unlimited ambitions. I don’t have this kind of ambition, but instead, I can make a living with my own hands.” Wen Chai looked at me with sharp eyes.Why do I say this?It really hurts my head to speak in such half-toned eloquence.How to draw conclusions?Hey, it's a bit sketchy, but that's it. "This is the true meaning of 'We are all human'. It begins with the acknowledgment that I cannot be someone else and that no one else can be me. The phrase 'We are all human' can only be true. You cannot become the person you were sent to. Come here sir. What would you do if someone told you to put aside your family, your memories, your love, everything you held dear in the past, and to take that sir's place? Can you do it? ? If you want to call your officer's wife 'wife' and his child 'son' or 'daughter', can you tell?" "...my officer is still single." I had to laugh out loud.Wen Chai also chuckled. "Don't worry. Although I don't know what's going on, but according to what Ferrell said, you are an important person." "VIP?" "What did he say? You are the living proof that the doves in our country, that is, the main peace faction, can be transformed into the main war faction. So your testimony is very important. If you arrive in the capital, please tell yourself I regret doing those things. You just say that you did it because of an order from the officer, and you did it as a last resort.” "Will I be able to live like this?" "So you can serve your country to the last moment and die with honor on the scaffold." Wen Chai made a depressed expression. "You put it so simply." "I say it so simply because this is a simple decision you have to make. Please make your own decision. If you want to survive, please defect, stand at the forefront of propaganda and instigate rebellion, and curse your motherland .If you can’t, please die with your head held high. But don’t ask me to help you. Find a way to escape by yourself.” Wen Chai laughed when he heard what I said, and lay down again. "I see. There is nothing to say to the irresponsible brat. I will find a way to escape by myself." "This is a better attitude. You try hard. I will take a good look at you. Do you want me to give you some advice? Shan Sen's heart is actually surprisingly soft. Wait until Shan Sen is on vigil, you go try Then talk to him. Just say that there is a girl waiting for you in your hometown, so he should be shaken." Ah, I shouldn't have said that.Maybe Shan Sen is really the same as what I said, this suggestion is too dangerous.Wen Chai looked at me with a blank expression, I coughed a few times, turned around and ignored him. At this time, I found that Shan Sen had sat up, and I was extremely surprised. "Hey, ah, why are you up?" "You bastard, you actually revealed such an insidious plan. This plan is so terrible that I get goosebumps in the blanket. But because there are more important things now, I will deal with you later." "Are you going to pee?" "Just now, with my ears on the ground, I heard the footsteps of something." I quickly straightened my waist and turned into a half-squat position.Shan Sen put on the leather armor (he moves really fast in putting on the leather armor. It is probably the result of training.) He picked up the long sword in one hand and gestured to me. "Just sit there and don't move. I'll go scout and come back." "Do you want to wake up the others?" "Don't make any noise." I nodded and woke up Carl, Iluli and Nelia quietly.In the process of shaking them awake and telling them to be silent, Shan Sen had disappeared among the trees in the forest. "Footsteps?" Iluli turned her head while lying down, and pressed her ears to the ground.She frowned and said: "Well... there are really. And there are a lot of them." We all rose carefully, grabbing our weapons.Soon after, Shan Sen came back.Gritting his teeth, he said: "Damn it! Those orcs."
Name: Shanson Fisher (Male) Occurrence frequency: only one Appearance area / time: any terrain / mainly during the day Characteristics: This tenacious and ferocious creature has an infinite vengeance towards food, and will cruelly and violently devour any food that enters its field of vision.
While I was thinking about these things, Shan Sen said to Yi Luli: "Iluli, do you want to eat more?" Iluli smiled slightly, and I said ironically: "You didn't leave any food at all, how dare you say that?" "Is there no other basket?" "That's for dinner!" "What's the matter? Anyway, I have a lot of time today, so I'll let you show off your cooking skills, wouldn't it be fine?" "Stop it, stop it! Don't go too far. Please live like a human being!" Shan Sen awkwardly picked up the wine bottle.He took bowls from his backpack, distributed them to everyone, and started pouring. "Iluli, can you drink? It might be harmful to your wound recovery..." "No, it's okay. My healing process is over." It wouldn't be bad if it could restore some color to Iluli's face.Although I don't know if the injured can drink, but the injured who was bitten by the pterosaur can still sit here as if nothing happened, so drinking a glass of wine probably won't kill him.I was worried that Shansen would start asking Nelia questions, so I tried to focus on Iluli. "That medicine is really good. You call it a healing potion? It's really expensive." Ellie nodded. "That's right. Adventurers often go to the temple, not because they want to pray for the safety of the adventure, but more often to buy healing potions. Because this medicine is too expensive, except for adventurers who live on the edge of danger every day Besides, most people probably don’t have the ability to buy it.” "That's right, a bottle costs a hundred sarye! If it's a hundred sarya... let's do the math, if it's a five-cent candle, you can buy two thousand. Huh! If you make fifty a day, It will take one month and ten days to make 2,000. However, the cost of materials and living expenses must be deducted. Hey, hello!" Nelia opened her eyes wide and said: "Candle?" Her expression seemed to be saying, why do I mention a candle when I don't mention anything else?I smiled and replied: "It's my professionalism. I'm a candlemaker." "Candlemaker?" Nelia's expression became even more confused.I blinked and said: "Hey, there is no distinction between high and low professions! If you despise candlemakers because you think you are a handsome nighthawk, I am not convinced. One of the former sages once referred to us like this: 'You are Seiko Master of Light'." "Master of Light? Sounds awesome. But are you a candlemaker? Are all candlemakers so strong?" "That's my personality, not the candlemaker's."
I managed to change the subject.I began to tell Nelia the story of our village, of our great lord, of Amtat, of Taiban, and of our travels, all at once. Carl seemed to enjoy hearing the things I had experienced with him described not from his point of view but from mine.He often tilts his head and expresses, 'So you think so? ', but he didn't interrupt me at all.It was also the first time Wen Chai heard these things, so he listened quietly and attentively.But Shan Sen keeps hindering me.It's been said that a story is three times harder to tell if two people are telling it at the same time, and it's true.The situation at that time was roughly like this: "So Iluli let those thirty guards fly into the sky..." As soon as I said that, Shan Sen would immediately interject: "That's not true, Xiu Qi. Baron Shilikan has thirty-two guards." "Huh, is that so? How do you count so fast?" "So you have to respect me. This is a compulsory course for becoming a guard. We count five five at a time." "Ah, is that so?" If I talk to him like this, Nelia will puff up her cheeks and say: "Hey, hello! What's so important? Is there a difference between thirty people and thirty-two people? What matters is what happened afterwards. Tell me quickly, Xiuqi."
I have been hindered in this way countless times in the process of telling the story, and it is impossible for me not to feel tired in the end.In any case, I managed to talk about the God's presence in the Karal territory, and Nilia seemed to be taken aback when she heard this.She seemed to think my words were deep. "Wait, wait a minute, what did you just say?" "I said that the gods have come to the ground. So the Karal territory has become the land of the gods..." "...does the candlemaker usually speak such difficult words?" "It's also my idiosyncrasy. May I go on?" "Huh? Ah, good. Go on." The story gets more and more interesting as time goes by.At any rate, the story, which began belatedly after lunch, continued into the dusky evening hours. Nelia is a very sincere listener.As the story progresses, she smiles and tenses at the right time, keeping the storyteller entertained.Somehow, I actually felt like I was being manipulated by Nelia?This is because I am not the only one who wants to divert the content of the topic to other places. "Hehehehe...that's interesting. So you are completely new to adventurers?" "We're not adventurers at all. We're not on the road looking for adventure." "That's beside the point. All men are adventurers. There's nothing more adventurous than being alive." Although this sentence is very common, but when Nelia said it, it implied a kind of solemnity.Generally speaking, if someone utters a tragic sentence, it will be difficult for others to respond.So Nelia hurriedly turned her head to Wenchai. "Then if you are arrested and taken to the capital, wouldn't you be dead?" Wen Chai didn't even look at Nelia.Nelia blinked her eyelashes a few times, jumped up suddenly, and stood next to Wenchai.Then she whispered into Wenchai's ear as if to blow: "How are you feeling now!?" Even the roots of Wen Chai's ears turned red, and he stood up suddenly.He made a movement as if he wanted to dodge, but Shan Sen purposely climbed onto the hilt of the long sword to show him.As soon as Wen Chai moved, Shan Sen threatened in a low voice: "Although we guarantee your freedom of movement, you are absolutely not allowed to leave my sight." Then Wen Chai came to my left and sat down, and started yelling at me: "Xiu Qi! Are all Byzos' women this slutty?" "what……?" Before I could answer, Nelia ran towards me and sat on my right.In the end, I was caught between Wenchai and Nelia.Nelia began to say to me: "Xiu Qi, how did those people in Jepen fall in love?" Before I could answer, Wen Chai put his mouth to my other ear and said loudly: "Xiu Qi, don't you think that the so-called sound love refers to the emotion that two mature people feel when they are faithful to each other? Do you think it is a woman's privilege to show sexual charm to anyone casually? What do you think about the fact that some women think it’s a good thing to please a man, so they deliberately wear revealing clothing and cleverly use lewd words to stimulate men?” I never got a chance to answer.Nelia said at once: "Xiu Qi, for a man who can't understand women, he blames all the lustful impulse he feels when he sees a woman on the woman's head, and regards it as a woman who deliberately radiates it. What do you think about this matter? ?Women act naturally and men get excited on their own. It's like being conceited and thinking 'the woman did it first. Why did she do it?' and blame all the faults on Woman. What do you think of such childish ugliness?" I sighed and said: "...You two, when you speak, please remove the word 'Xiuqi'. Now please continue."
My ears on both sides were buzzing.This is really ridiculous.Can't you two just talk to each other?Why must I be caught in the middle?But I didn't want Shansen to have the opportunity to ask Nelia how to return the money, so I had to quietly suffer this unreasonable disaster there.
Anyway, I don't know how it ended, the scolding between Wen Chai and Nelia finally came to an end.Because I didn't pay attention to what the two of them said, I don't know what their main points and conclusions are.The two don't talk to each other anymore, and while they still talk to me, it's just a soliloquy.It seems impossible for this kind of soliloquy to come to any decent conclusion.In particular, these two people are very stubborn and have a very stubborn side, so there is no need to expect any conclusions. Anyway, the sun was down now, and dinner was over.According to Carl's suggestion, Nelia decided to go with us until we crossed the Brown Mountains. "Is that all right, uncle? Don't you already know what I do?" Hearing this sentence with a somewhat challenging tone, Carl smiled slightly. "Well, I don't know what's going on with Miss Nelia. If it were me, I would definitely not target the items brought by this poor person. Are you pitiful?" Hearing Carl's gentle answer, Nelia blushed.It turned out that Karl would say the same thing.The meaning seems to be saying: these people caught you and let you go, and risked your life to save you when you were chased by pterosaurs, how could you do anything to their things? "...Thank you. Well, I hope I can help everyone between now and the time we cross the brown mountains." Our group went to bed early in order to make up for the lost time tomorrow.I was the first to be on the watch.I threw the firewood into the fire and looked around at our party. Shan Sen kicked off the entire blanket, and he was lying in a large shape, snoring.I helped him put the blanket on again before, and now it's like this again.I was wondering, should I wrap him in a blanket and tie him up with rope?Hey, forget it.With his physique, even if he sleeps like this, he probably won't catch a cold.On the other side, Karl was sleeping peacefully like a dead man.Iluli and Nelia were wrapped in the same blanket and were sleeping warmly. When Wen Chai slept, his ankles were tied to a tree.I looked at his face, his eyes were still open. "Aren't you going to sleep?" "Can't sleep. It's still early." "Just try to sleep." "Don't worry about me. I don't need a night watch. Prisoners have comfort too." That's right.It is impossible for us to keep Wen Chai on vigil, so I, Shan Sen and Karl take turns.Iluli was seriously injured, and she had to get enough sleep to memorize magic in the morning.Nelia?She is also unlikely.It would be better not to exclude her than to end up acting like we can't trust her. "Shu Qi." Wen Chai spoke to me.I threw another piece of wood into the fire, and looked at him. "Let me go." "...I can't do this." "I'll give you a thank you gift. I promise you. Let me go." "no." "Do you really want to take me to Baizos Imperial City and let me go to the gallows?" Although I can't bear it, that's all I can do, isn't it?I'm not too happy to say: "When you became a spy, you should have been mentally prepared, shouldn't you?" "I am also mentally prepared to survive." "...Do you want to live? It is difficult to treat you as an ordinary war criminal. Because you have carried out espionage activities. And think about what bad things you have done in the Karal territory. You still want to live like this go down?" "Those were done by that woman. We are just that woman's guards. We just built a secret base there and waited for her arrival." "During the trial, if you didn't stop it, you must be regarded as an accomplice. Should it be considered a crime of helping?" Wen Chai looked directly at me and said: "Although this is true, it is also not true. I have never touched many things. It is impossible for me to take responsibility for all the things in the world. From what I hear, because you are a resident of the western woods far away from the battlefield, so You hardly care about the war between Byzos and Jepen, just live like this. But if Jepen invades Byzos and burns your homeland to ruins, your king will kill you for not preventing our country from invading , what would you say?" "What you want to express is that the people below are just pawns on the chessboard. When something goes wrong, these people will die first, right?" "Isn't this unfair?" "Not at all." "...Tell me what the reason is." "If I continue to think in this way, maybe I can't fly like an eagle, and I will feel wronged. I can't breathe in water like a fish, and I will feel wronged." "You are not an eagle, you are not a fish, you are a human being. Your kings, nobles, and generals are all the same human beings as you. They are all human beings, so why should only those below pay the price? I am also human, send me The officer who came to Byzos is also human. But I came here only because of this order, and I died because of it, and then my officer started to breed another spy, and he is still living his life with a full stomach. Than Isn't that guy worse than me?" "All the same people? Ha! How ridiculous." Hearing my answer, Wen Chai made a surprised expression.He pointed to his body and said: "Why am I not human anymore?" "Only a fool would say something like that. Saying that everyone is the same. Hey, where are the same people in this world? There is nothing stupider than putting everyone else into the same mold as yourself. If you think about things in this way, you will easily scold those royal families and nobles. 'Damn, they are all human, why do I only eat coarse bread and a bowl of water when I wake up in the morning, but those guys have The beauties are serving and eating delicacies from mountains and seas.’ If you really feel wronged because of this, go build a country and become a king yourself. If you don’t want to do it, then shut your mouth and sit obediently.” "What did you say...is it troublesome?" "Isn't it troublesome? If according to your statement, everyone is the same, then you can also become a king like King Jepen? Although I don't know if you call the leader a king. If you have This kind of ability, if you don't do it, is it troublesome?" "Is it because it's too troublesome to not do it? It's because it's impossible..." "Oops. You're ignoring the fact that people are all the same now. You're such a bad way of speaking. When you complain, just say that people are the same, and when you compare yourself to those people, you He also said that he is different from them. No matter who he is, he will not be in a good mood when he is compared with others and is criticized. You have to look at it in the same way. If you say that people are the same, then You just go to a corner of this vast land and build a country. Now you should want to ask me why I don't do it?" "I really want to ask." "I don't do it because I think it's troublesome. It's more comfortable for me to continue to be the future candlemaker of the Hetante territory. I can do this because I don't have ambitions. Sometimes I also have the mood to be a nobleman, but I After all, I won’t do it. However, no one will scold me—this is just the self-consolation of people who have no ambition and no ability.’Hmph, although you are ambitious, you are incapable, so you humbly rationalize yourself Don't you?' Isn't that stupid? Those guys probably think that ambition is a human instinct. They risk their lives for it themselves, so they assume everyone else is too. Those guys can't understand people .Hey, generally speaking, this is the kind of people who become kings and heroes, so what? If the heroes want to call me incompetent and mean, I will ask them to make candles. Then I will tell them Said: 'You can't even make a candle. That should throw you in a corner of the market and starve to death.' Then they should be very angry? But those heroes really don't seem to be able to feed themselves with their own hands All they have is the ability to become kings and command others because of their unlimited ambitions. I don’t have this kind of ambition, but instead, I can make a living with my own hands.” Wen Chai looked at me with sharp eyes.Why do I say this?It really hurts my head to speak in such half-toned eloquence.How to draw conclusions?Hey, it's a bit sketchy, but that's it. "This is the true meaning of 'We are all human'. It begins with the acknowledgment that I cannot be someone else and that no one else can be me. The phrase 'We are all human' can only be true. You cannot become the person you were sent to. Come here sir. What would you do if someone told you to put aside your family, your memories, your love, everything you held dear in the past, and to take that sir's place? Can you do it? ? If you want to call your officer's wife 'wife' and his child 'son' or 'daughter', can you tell?" "...my officer is still single." I had to laugh out loud.Wen Chai also chuckled. "Don't worry. Although I don't know what's going on, but according to what Ferrell said, you are an important person." "VIP?" "What did he say? You are the living proof that the doves in our country, that is, the main peace faction, can be transformed into the main war faction. So your testimony is very important. If you arrive in the capital, please tell yourself I regret doing those things. You just say that you did it because of an order from the officer, and you did it as a last resort.” "Will I be able to live like this?" "So you can serve your country to the last moment and die with honor on the scaffold." Wen Chai made a depressed expression. "You put it so simply." "I say it so simply because this is a simple decision you have to make. Please make your own decision. If you want to survive, please defect, stand at the forefront of propaganda and instigate rebellion, and curse your motherland .If you can’t, please die with your head held high. But don’t ask me to help you. Find a way to escape by yourself.” Wen Chai laughed when he heard what I said, and lay down again. "I see. There is nothing to say to the irresponsible brat. I will find a way to escape by myself." "This is a better attitude. You try hard. I will take a good look at you. Do you want me to give you some advice? Shan Sen's heart is actually surprisingly soft. Wait until Shan Sen is on vigil, you go try Then talk to him. Just say that there is a girl waiting for you in your hometown, so he should be shaken." Ah, I shouldn't have said that.Maybe Shan Sen is really the same as what I said, this suggestion is too dangerous.Wen Chai looked at me with a blank expression, I coughed a few times, turned around and ignored him. At this time, I found that Shan Sen had sat up, and I was extremely surprised. "Hey, ah, why are you up?" "You bastard, you actually revealed such an insidious plan. This plan is so terrible that I get goosebumps in the blanket. But because there are more important things now, I will deal with you later." "Are you going to pee?" "Just now, with my ears on the ground, I heard the footsteps of something." I quickly straightened my waist and turned into a half-squat position.Shan Sen put on the leather armor (he moves really fast in putting on the leather armor. It is probably the result of training.) He picked up the long sword in one hand and gestured to me. "Just sit there and don't move. I'll go scout and come back." "Do you want to wake up the others?" "Don't make any noise." I nodded and woke up Carl, Iluli and Nelia quietly.In the process of shaking them awake and telling them to be silent, Shan Sen had disappeared among the trees in the forest. "Footsteps?" Iluli turned her head while lying down, and pressed her ears to the ground.She frowned and said: "Well... there are really. And there are a lot of them." We all rose carefully, grabbing our weapons.Soon after, Shan Sen came back.Gritting his teeth, he said: "Damn it! Those orcs."