Chapter 30 third quarter
In the completely dark "Basuo" cell, Lian Shou was lying on the cold stone floor, his whole body was bound by iron shackles. Only the heart remains free. During the time he was imprisoned for an unknown period of time, he recalled many things.Thoughts fly to many places, one by one, every single person he has ever killed or hugged. What was once so sincerely pursued, what was once lost. At least, all the joy and pain experienced was real, he told himself. —I have no regrets. When he was thinking like this, his memory suddenly stayed in a certain place and refused to leave. He remembered that there were many people standing there.But it was very quiet all around, no one spoke and talked. He squeezed in the middle, sniffing the smell of sweat from countless human bodies, a smell that only the most ordinary human body can emit. Their gazes were all in the same direction, and they were all looking forward to something. He remembered that it was the small square in front of the Yamen of the Eastern Capital.He hid in the crowd, ready to ambush the man named Cao Gong.This was just a small thing in his past turbulent experience, but at this moment he remembered it very clearly. It's the farmers.Standing one by one, all facing the gate of the yamen.The long-term malnourished thin faces were expressionless, but they all waited very quietly. They did nothing.But when gathered together, it seems to condense an invisible thing. --strength. Sickles head suddenly dripped with cold sweat. He imagined: If I started in Zizhen that day and used this kind of power, what would happen? ... a hundred people.a thousand people.Ten thousand people.one million.Ten million... What would have happened if I hadn't launched another war, but just gathered together in silence...to the capital together...like those people in the square? ... —Is that so? ... His bitter laughter echoed in the cell. "I thought I was leading the lamb against the wolf." He muttered to himself. "Unknowingly, I raised the lambs into another pack of wolves... and I'm proud of their victory..." He realized that he had been wrong from the beginning. But there is no room for regret, the world will not give him a second chance. He, after all, is only one person. The iron door of the cell opened, and the light that penetrated made the sickle unable to open his eyes. it's time. Lian Shou's heart was relieved instead. At least, there is no need to wait in this endless darkness.