In the dark sentry room, the middle-aged man was still stroking the little beast's head, minding his own business, not paying any attention to Wu Kai's departure. But it was the little stuffed animal, after the treasure offering was rejected, it bared its teeth and screamed strangely. Suddenly its mouth became strangely big, and it swallowed the mass of flesh and blood essence in one gulp, and then the "thud" changed again. A metal ball sank into the man's body.
"Ahem, you are not him after all." The middle-aged man raised the metal palm that had just transformed into shape, and lamented with a voice of endearment but mixed with extreme disappointment.
The man's mind seemed to go back to twenty-nine years ago, when he was young and alone, wandering aimlessly in a desert that was so desolate that only bare soil and windy sand remained. He was only five years old that year, and he had forgotten many things before. Even he himself could not remember why he was wandering. The only thing I can remember is that I was so hungry that I couldn't even walk.
Just when the boy felt the imminence of death so clearly for the first time in his life, there was a giant beast with a metallic luster all over his body running towards him.
'It's better to let it eat than to starve to death slowly here. 'The child who was on the verge of collapse thought so at the time. However, what awaits him in the future does not seem to be the death that is destined to come. Just before the boy was about to starve to death and fall into a coma, a metal ball floated down from the back of the mighty giant beast. The cold ball slowly and gently wrapped his whole body. "Quack, quack, found a cub."
The time that followed was so happy, and every time a man recalled it, it always brought a smile to his lips. Abba, who called himself "Gai", took him to too many places along the way and taught him too many things. Together they reached the vast blue sea, climbed over the towering mountains, and looked at the extremely cold and boundless snowfields. In the end, the two of them came to the picturesque water town in spring, and then they stopped.
Abba has long become a man’s spiritual support and an inseparable and important part of his life. Because of his father's presence, the man never felt hungry or lonely again. He even thought that his father would never leave him, and the two of them stayed together until he slowly grew old. go.
That year, he was twenty-one years old and already a strong young man. One day, his father told him that he had received a call from the tribe and needed to leave for a while. This is already the sixteenth year since they have lived together. Originally, they thought this was just a very brief separation, but the man waited for a long, long time, but still could not wait for the news that his father would come back. "It's been too long, Abba." The man who was deep in memories muttered to himself.
It was not until two and a half years later that news came from outside the water town, saying that Huazhou, its powerful neighbor to the east, had been invaded by a terrifying alien army. The country is about to be destroyed. Although there are inevitably some exaggerations in the news, the man knows that this alien is talking about Abba and his family.
Abba must be in Huazhou Kingdom, the man is very sure. He had to find it, even though he was already married, the longing for his father still drove him to say goodbye to his wife who was about to give birth, and embarked on the road to find relatives in a foreign country alone.
In the long journey, for the first time without the protection of my father, the journey was so difficult. The little money I had with me was robbed by wild bandits not long after I left the house. If he hadn't learned some wilderness survival skills from his father, the man might not have been able to reach Huazhou Kingdom without his life.
'I'm too slow,' the man thought. The hard work of crossing the mountains seemed to have left no memory. All he could remember was a little bit of what he had seen when he arrived in Huazhou Kingdom. It was a world shrouded in flames of war and ruins. The most terrifying thing was that there were only charred ruins everywhere, and there were only dry and hungry corpses everywhere. But the people there's hatred for the Key Clan seems to be engraved in their bones. Even if they are wailing when they are hungry, they can still have the flames of revenge in their eyes, and use their exhausted souls to curse the aliens who destroyed their homes over and over again.
The distant memories of his childhood seemed to come back to his mind. At that time, the man simply could not believe that this hell on earth was actually the result of the karma caused by Abba and his tribe. But facts are always the most convincing evidence. The huge guilt that he didn't know came from made him have to do something to make up for it. He no longer cared about looking for his father.
In this way, with his relatively strong physique, the man enlisted in the army and became a Haitang soldier in this completely unfamiliar land. However, when he joined the army, he never thought about being promoted to the Fierce Armor Legion. On the contrary, I most like to take on some field rescue work. He devoted himself to self-salvation for five years, using all the things his Abba taught him, and helped many, many people, so many that even he can no longer remember them clearly.
Time can always create extraordinary miracles. The scars left by the war are slowly erased bit by bit through people's hard work. He had unconsciously fallen in love with the land for which he had worked so hard, so much so that he finally asked someone to send a letter back to the water town, hoping that his wife could come with their children.
However, the man's original abandonment of his wife and child had already broken the woman's heart, and the letter filled with regret and begging did not receive any understanding. What awaited was the news that the woman had already remarried someone else with her children.
'I am too selfish'. Women and children are the regrets that he cannot erase in his life. The man is not even qualified to blame. It is because he has never considered the feelings of women.
In the forty-second year of the Huazhou calendar, he had just turned thirty that year, and it had only been a year since he joined the Peony Club. After receiving the news that the woman had remarried and was living well, the man seemed to have put aside all his cares and devoted himself to the ongoing post-disaster construction of Lijuan Mansion. He soon gained the love of the masses and As a foreigner, he was crowned by the Lijuan Mansion and was selected to join the Peony Society. If you can stay in Lijuan Mansion like this until you die of old age, it might be a good choice. But fate always does not go as expected.
During a visit to the slums, he met a member of his Abba's tribe. This was also the first time he met the Key Clan in the nine years after he separated from his father. It was the aura of his body that attracted it. It was that key that brought news of Abba to this lonely man who had lost contact with his companion key for many years.
"Gai, he was caught." This was the message the key told him.
The key will not lie, this is what Abba told the man.
"I want to rescue my father." The incomparable longing for his relatives finally defeated the kindness in his heart. After repeated struggles with pain and suffering, he finally chose to betray the land he fell in love with. In the forty-third year of the Hua Zhou Kingdom, with his help, the Yao Clan successfully attacked the largest grain storage city in Lijuan Mansion. Of course, he must not be the only one who helps the Key Clan. The man clearly knows that he is not that capable.
A food crisis sweeping the country broke out in Huazhou, putting this land that had only had a brief rest since the war was once again on the verge of being subverted. This was the last major counterattack of the Yao tribe. However, under the targeted force suppression of the Fierce Armor Legion, the Key Clan's counterattack seemed so powerless. However, the man has no chance to choose, and rescuing his father will be his only belief in the future.
"And now, this belief is so ridiculous, cough cough cough." The man looked at his metal palm with disappointment, as if he wanted to use his fingertips to scratch out the fragments in the passing time, but he couldn't. Seeing the brokenness that had been mixed into his life, the sad emotions touched the wound again, making him unable to hold back the coughing.
The metal hand seemed to sense his sadness, and with a click, it transformed back into the furry little beast. "Oooo--!" The little beast rubbed the man's chest with pity, but the man used his other hand to forcefully throw him away, and his chubby body rolled far away on the ground.
"Go away! You are not him after all! Cough cough cough." The man seemed to be aroused by the little beast's mercy. "Oh!" The little beast scratched his head helplessly and roared with aggrieved face.
Looking at the aggrieved Key Beast on the ground, the man couldn't bear it. Although the interference of the sacrificial refining led to the final failure and all the previous memories of the key core had been erased, it was still the key core left behind by Abba. Now it doesn't understand anything, just like a newborn child, seeing itself as its only support.
"That's all, that's all." The man waved his only hand, forced himself to prop up his somewhat weak body, and stood up with difficulty. When the little beast saw the man stand up, it suddenly turned into a metallic stream of light, and then turned into the man's metal palm.
Now that I have decided to break up with the Flower Burial Society, I can't stay here any longer. He needs to find a safe place to rest, the man planned, and prepared to walk out of the house. Just when he was walking past where Wu Kai had just sat, he discovered that the thoughtful man had left a dot matrix card on the stool at some point.
This was left intentionally by Wu Kai. The man picked up the dot matrix card and took a look at it, smiled disdainfully, turned it over to the back again, and looked at it again, his expression suddenly changed. The front of the sign was engraved with the deployment details of the eastern camp, while the back was simply two names and an address, and at the bottom there was a sentence engraved by Wu Kai:
/Maybe you have other options. /
"Maybe I have other choices! Cough cough cough..." The man coughed violently and muttered repeatedly, "Maybe I have other choices! Cough cough cough... Maybe I have other choices. !”
The man's coughing became louder and louder, as if he couldn't stop at all.
"Ho--!" "Ho--!" "Ho--!"
"Woo——!" "Woo——!" "Woo——!"
Outside the stone hillock, the group of beasts hiding in the forest seemed to be affected by the emotions of their owners, and they began to roar one after another. The roar of the beasts became louder and louder, like a strong wind blowing across the mounds deep in the dense forest.
"Wu Kai! I will still be used by you until the end!" The man gritted his teeth, and a mouthful of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
