"Actually, being invited to the First World this time has fulfilled Lina and I's wish.
Gott lowered his head. His unfocused eyes fell on the snow, and there was deep sadness in his words. It was as white as snow reflected in his pupils.
I glanced at him doubtfully and said nothing. In silence, I waited for his next explanation.
Sure enough, after hesitating for a moment, Gott continued to speak. He scratched his head and forced his usual silly smile.
"Oh my, my, it started to feel heavy before I knew it. I really still can't get used to this atmosphere."
Although that is what is said. But his forced giggle. But it gives people more heaviness and helplessness. Then there was a long sigh, looking up at the blood moon, Gaut murmured.
"Wu, you know, our team. Now everyone has broken through to the pseudo-realm.
I nodded. This happened on the first day when the Gotts came to Camp Rogge. After a few days of fierce collision with their former enemy Seattle, Gott occasionally told me about their team and Seattle. I mentioned the grievances between Gramps.
"Yes, time is really impatient. The happy moments with Khan and the others in the training camp are still vivid in my mind. Before I knew it, I had come here. My partners are already so strong. I used to be The strength that we longed for and thought was out of reach seemed to be trampled under our feet in the blink of an eye. Those innocent thoughts were submerged again and again in the cruel reality. Every time I thought of this, there would be a thought. A sense of unreality. It's as if I'm in a dream now. After waking up from the dream, I will still be the knight student training hard under the teacher's stern gaze.
As he spoke, a layer of crystal sparkled in Gao Te's eyes, which reflected a faint red light against the blood moon. They looked like blood pupils, making people feel the deep nostalgia and sadness in them.
Light and shadow are like arrows. For Gaut, although these decades and hundreds of years have only left a mature mark on his face and a handful of neat beard, many of those things have become a thing of the past. Nostalgic, regretful, sad, joyful, happy. Little by little, something called time was taken away. No matter how you cannot grasp them, no matter how much you cherish them, you can only watch these precious things being branded with the past and gone forever.
Then suddenly, I realized that my heart had become old and numb at some point. Give up the struggle. To grab those precious things that can't be saved or cherished, and suddenly turn around, it's like having a dream in my heart.
Maybe in a few years, I will be like Gott now.
"Ha, ah hahahaha, sorry, sorry, why did you drag me so much?" Gao Te wiped his eyes suddenly and sat on the snow with a serious and depressed expression. continued.
"Yes, we have come here unknowingly. We have reached places that we could not even imagine before. We have strength that we could not even imagine before. Our team has now passed the Cross of Arreat."
Turning his head, he gave me an ugly smile. "Although it's a bit boastful, with the current strength of our team, it shouldn't be a problem to defeat Barr's clone. If nothing else happens, it should be very easy."
This would have been something to be happy about. But Gott's tone became more and more low and sad.
Because this means that they are not far away from going to the third world, the real cruel world that adventurers long for but fear.
"Huh? Oh! I seem to have gone off topic again. Sorry, sorry
In vain, Gao Te found himself falling into depression again. He grabbed a handful of cold snow and patted his cheeks to cheer up again.
"Anyway, that's it. If we calculate it, we will leave for the third world in less than a year. During this time, Lina kept crying in my ear and murmuring that she really wanted to go home. , I really want to go home and take a look like this. I really can’t do anything about her. No wonder they say women are made of water.
Gott shrugged his shoulders pretending to be relaxed. Then, his shoulders slumped helplessly and he sighed deeply. He covered his forehead to prevent others from seeing his expression.
"I" I also want to go home and see how my brothers are doing, see if anyone has cleaned up my parents' graves, see if the village has changed, and see if my former playmates are still alive, but " But Lina and I are both weak people. We are afraid that after we go back, our hard-earned determination will be easily broken, and we never want to leave again!!"
Gott, who had been struggling to cheer up intermittently. This tall and strong young paladin, who was as calm as a mountain when he didn't speak, finally choked up at this moment, and tears flowed from his chin that could not be covered by his palms. These were different from the cheap tears he used to make when he jumped off the building every day. Instead, it is full of emotion and temperature, low in the snow, and even the ice and snow cry for it.
Gao Te's choking sound, in this silent and windless snowy night. It looked particularly desolate, with sounds echoing in the distance, just like the low whine of the lonely wolf facing the blood moon in the night sky, which made people feel
I didn't speak, nor did I offer any words of comfort. At this time, any language was pale. In this world, as we say, no matter what, only the word cruelty is the most suitable prefix, whether it is for a beggar, a commoner, a noble, a king, an adventurer like Gott, or me This savior who wears various imperial crowns, even an old fox like Akara, this. In this cruel world, there are not many roads left for us to choose, and they are often not what we want. We can only be forced to choose one or two roads that cannot see the future and are paved with corpses. Choose one of them and you cannot abstain. There wasn't even time to hesitate and think.
If given a choice, how many people would be willing to live in this kind of never-ending battle and killing?
After a while, Gott's choking finally stopped. In these days, he also suffered a lot of pressure, whether it was his longing for his relatives in his hometown or his wife Karina crying in his ear. He murmured, all weighing on his heart like a heavy weight.
Karina also knows this, but at this time, a woman is the most vulnerable. Even though she knows it will bring pressure to her husband, she still can't help but talk like a baby and rely on him.
The sky was above the man's head. At this moment, Gao Te, who secretly choked up with Karina behind his back, surprisingly gave me such a feeling.
"Sorry" Sorry, don't laugh at me, and don't tell Lina. "
Wiped his red eyes. The suppressed heart was released, and Gott was obviously in a much better mood now than before. He laughed sheepishly, stretched out his palms, and our two small hands hit each other in mid-air, making a crisp sound. It was an agreement not to tell anyone.
"So, originally we were still hesitating about whether Zhutong should come back, and we were worried about it every day. Even my favorite bananas couldn't be eaten. At this time, a letter from the great elder Akara helped We made the choice, so it should actually be us and my wife who want to thank you."
Gott finally said this. He always felt that there was something to complain about in this sentence, but he still let it go.
How about "so"? Have you gone back and watched it? "I asked cautiously.
"Yes, I did. I took a sneak peek during the few days I stayed in the camp."
Gott nodded vigorously, his expression not as sad as I expected, but full of fearlessness and determination.
"We were originally afraid that we would be shaken after we came back. We ourselves felt very strange. It seems that the most difficult thing for people to understand is indeed ourselves."
With a self-deprecating laugh, Gott said slowly.
"We went to Karina's house first. Her father, my father-in-law, died twelve years ago. Her mother is still alive and is the oldest in her village. And Lina My brothers and sisters are all gray-haired old men, and I have a lot of nephews and grandsons."
Make a gesture of hugging a pig's nest. We both laughed at the same time.
"So, did sister Lina show up?" I asked.
"No.
"Gaut shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Don't look at my Lina who is usually as fierce as a tigress, but she is actually very emotional and fragile. She doesn't dare to show up, she is afraid."
After a pause, Gaote's voice deepened slightly and became bitter.
"She hadn't seen each other for decades, and she was afraid to see the other person's tears, and she was also afraid that she would cry. Of course, the most fearful thing was that after she appeared, the other person would no longer recognize her." "
"yes."
I muttered. Think about it immersively. This fear does exist.
"But in the end, after my persuasion, she met her old mother-in-law. At that time, the two little people burst into tears, and I couldn't help but wipe my eyes."
Gaut said with a smile, although he said it in a very relaxed tone, but he had to imagine that kind of scene, and he would not be relaxed anyway.
"After she came back, she burst into tears at me again. Then she just looked away."
"I didn't expect that so many things happened to you in those few days. I'm sorry, I didn't even notice." I smiled sheepishly.
"Forget it. We would be embarrassed if you noticed it. After all, this is not something worth talking about."
Gao Te stopped and suddenly whispered. He looked at me cautiously with pitiful eyes.
"Wu, you must not tell Lina that I told you this. If she knows that I told her these embarrassing things, she will have to skin me."
"no problem."
I gave a hearty thumbs up.
"As long as you fulfill your agreement and shout a hundred times from the rooftop of the Mala *** that Gott is the stupid orangutan king, that will be all."
"No! I never made such an agreement, you bastard!!" Gott yelled.
"No, didn't you see that we just made a high-five and made a promise like this?"
"Eh? The high five just now was actually that agreement?! I don't know, I don't know at all, bastard! If I knew, I would never do this. So it doesn't count!!"
Gott was shocked, and the face of the stupid orangutan was exposed again.
"Moreover, is it my imagination? There seems to be a difference from the unreasonable request last time. It seems to have become more excessive!!"
"All right
I patted my butt and stood up from the snow with difficulty. Finally, with the help of Gott, I managed to stand up.
"Obviously there is no such thing
Gott was still complaining endlessly.
"By the way, after walking a few steps, I suddenly turned around and looked at Gaut, who stayed and planned to continue looking at the moon for a while before talking, and asked.
"I said I was perfunctory by you, but I haven't even asked you how you are doing.
"My situation, what is my situation?"
The orangutan turned around and asked pretending to be stupid.
"After returning home, by the way. Your home is in the forest, right?
"It's in the village! It's normal to be in a village without orangutans!! No bananas are grown!! The name doesn't match the word "gorilla", it's normal to be in a village!!"
Brother Gaote opened his teeth and claws in anger. If it weren't for my current weakness and his pitiful self-esteem, and his unwillingness to bully the patient, he would have had to pounce on me and fight to the death.
How about "so"? .
Looking at Gott who roared angrily and looked like he wanted to roll me into a snowball from here to Harrogas, I calmly smiled and continued to ask.
That’s all “how”
With a stunned look on his face, Gao Te put down his arrogant gesture, turned around, and looked up sideways. The figure, like the blood moon hanging alone in the night sky, exuded an aura of loneliness.
"My parents are dead, and there are still a few brothers in the family. Like Lina, they are all gray-haired. I have nephews and grandnephews.
He showed a somewhat lonely smile, and then wiped his nose proudly.
"Me, I'm a man, not as brave as Lina, so when I returned to the village, I met them directly. At the entrance of the village, I met one of my younger brothers who walked up to them.
"Then, did you enjoy the happiness of family reunion?"
As soon as I asked the question, I wanted to slap myself. If that were the case, why would the orangutan have such a lonely expression?
"Yes, the whole family is reunited."
Gao Te looked up at the night sky in trance and murmured quietly.
"That's what I thought. I thought he had received the news and came specially to welcome me."
He turned around and gave me a complicated smile.
"At that time, I said, "Gate," and he bowed to me respectfully. He said, "Dear Sir, do you have any instructions?" In this case, hahahahaha, it's very strange. We are obviously brothers but With that look in his eyes and those words he said, I remember when he was a child, he was not afraid of anything, he even dared to provoke a rotting corpse.
Finished. Gott slowly lowered his head and fell into speechlessness.
"It's okay, this is fine
Before I could think of words of comfort, he raised his head again. On the contrary, it comforted me, who looked thoughtful.
"It doesn't matter if we don't know each other anymore. In this case, even if I leave at the last minute, I won't feel too sad. As long as they are still alive and well, that's fine for me."
"maybe"
Gott suddenly gave me a silly smile.
"Actually, if I think about it, there is no need to be so inseparable. We still don't know yet. Maybe Lina and I will take a step ahead of my mother-in-law."
"Will not
Enduring the screams of muscles and bones in my arms, I raised my hand and patted Gott's shoulder.
"Live well, at least until I come to see you. Then it's up to you whether you want to die or live."
"Hey, you are too callous. You are too indifferent, you bastard!!"
Gott slapped my hand away dissatisfied.
"I will survive, and I will definitely live well to show this guy like you.
After saying that, we both laughed at the same time.
"However, with your current status. Can you really go to the third world?"
"Yes, although I don't know when it will happen, there will definitely come a day. And it won't be too long.
"Why are you so sure? I really don't think Great Elder Akara will let you take risks easily, you know. Even if you are in the domain realm, it may not be safe in the third world."
"There is indeed no reason, but this is probably the so-called man's sixth sense."
Pointing to my head, I turned around and looked at Gott.
"Go to bed, go to sleep, I have to practice tomorrow, it's really exhausting."
"Wu, remember my words, don't try too hard. Xiao
Behind the scenes, Gott's words came.
“I know, I know, how many times do you want me to say it.
"That's not what I mean, I mean. Don't worry the girls
After a pause, I turned around in surprise. "Do you think that your suppressed acting skills, which even I can see, can be hidden from those smart and attentive girls who get along with you day and night?"
Gott gave me a "Are you a fool?" sneer, and then gave me a straight thumbs up.
"Man, with the sky above your head, work hard."
An inexplicable sense of crisis came over me. ”D
