The teenagers walked heavily, supporting each other, and silently walked across the desolate land.
The worn-out straw boots left clear footprints one after another on the semi-sandy ground.
Yellow sand hits my face.
The howling wind also brought a sense of sadness.
"Leo, Elro, Little Nord..."
Sounds like mosquitoes sounded from time to time, and crystal light spots scattered in the air, leaving tiny holes on both sides of the footprints.
They didn't feel it during the battle. When the battle was over, the teenagers took care of their wounds and wanted to find their friends to brag about their 'bravery' in the battle. Only then did they suddenly realize that... their best friend was dead.
Old Charles walked alone at the end of the team, looking at the performance of the young people, his expression was inexplicably depressed.
However, he didn't say anything, he just observed the surroundings silently, keeping an eye on the surroundings for the teenagers who were immersed in sadness.
Not long after, a young man woke up from his sadness, noticed Old Charles's gloomy expression, deliberately slowed down his pace, and retreated to Old Charles' side.
"Father Charles, everyone is not blaming you. The Earl gave the order too hastily, and we only had two days of emergency training..."
Hearing the young man's endless complaints, Old Charles glanced back warningly, but when he saw the young man's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but froze.
The young man's eyes were reddish, and his face was covered with a layer of gray dust. He didn't know if it was dust or ashes. The dust on both sides of his cheeks had been specially wiped, but there were still some messy soil stains left in the form of dark brown semi-moist mud. Shaped, staggered and distributed, as funny as cat whiskers.
"Hami..."
Old Charles hesitated to speak.
He suddenly thought: The boy might not want to be seen by him... or even his companions looking embarrassed, so he wiped away his tears and came to look for him, so... he gave his companions such a ridiculous excuse. .
"Huh? What's the matter, Father Charles?" The young man pretended to smile carefree and asked unconsciously, but little did he know that his embarrassment had long been noticed by the old man.
Along the way there were no rivers or wells.
Apart from blood, there are only tears that can wet the dust on the face.
Old Charles shook his head, gave up scolding, and instead gently persuaded you: "The outbreak of war will not let you make all preparations. The soldiers in the territory, including your fathers, are all in the border town to resist foreign enemies." "Inside the territory. A disaster has occurred and the soldiers are unable to come back to help. If we don’t resist, how can we ask those monsters to kindly let us go?"
"Father Charles, no, I can leave! Why do we have to stay here..."
Old Charles looked at the sluggish young men in front of him and let out a long sigh, "It is better to die in battle than to die of starvation. You have never stopped talking about what people of our generation said about escaping into the earldom. "
"You have to know that such a good lord is very rare. Many things you think are commonplace are actually very precious."
"What," Hami argued in a low voice unconvinced, "The world is so big, which corner cannot be inhabited?"
"Father Charles, do you know what place is outside the earldom?"
Without waiting for the old man to interrupt, Hami continued to ask:
"Do you know where it is outside of the Kingdom of Llanelli and the Empire of San Fernando?"
"Do you know where the continent of Aners is?"
Hami hurriedly explained: "This is the continent of Aners! It's the land where we stand!"
"Do you know what the continent closest to us is called?"
"Do you know how many continents there are in the world?"
“There are countless, even new continents are discovered every year!”
Speaking of this, Hami's eyes were shining.
"You know, only those with an area exceeding 'five million square kilometers' can be called a continent. Those smaller than this area can only be called islands and will not be recorded at all!"
“The world is so big, where can’t people live there?”
Old Charles listened quietly, waited until the young man paused, and then asked: "Then what? Find a smaller, remote village, kill all of them, and then occupy it? You don't dare to seize our village with these people, kill them Do we dare to invade other people’s villages because we fight monsters from the same village?”
"Dad Charles, what are you talking about!" Hami was a little angry. Even the elders of the same village could not insult his ideals like this. "Can't we find a deserted corner and cultivate it ourselves?"
"Reclamation with peace of mind? Just a few of us? Do you want to take your aunt with you? Do you want to wait until your father comes back? If you don't care, just take your aunt with you. There are so many people, how should we arrange it on the way?"
"Then what if bandits come to rob us? After all, according to what you said, we left quietly, right? As long as we are not caught on the spot, even if others attack us, there won't be much trouble, right? As long as we are not caught on the spot, there will be no big trouble, right? If someone has evil intentions, we will always encounter enemies we cannot fight against."
"Let's not talk about what happened on the way, just talk about where we arrived."
"Will you meet anyone else?"
"Just like the current San Fernando Empire, they still have to find a reason to say that they are only targeting the Earl. This is because they don't want to go to war directly with Llanelli."
"If we go to a new place and the local or nearby people want to target those of us who have no support at all, do we still need to make excuses?"
"besides……"
"Even if we find a place, just like the monsters that appear here, if it is in other sparsely populated areas, there will definitely be jackals, tigers, leopards, and even all kinds of monsters, right?"
"Then what should we do?"
"Should we find a way to deal with them, or should we continue to escape and wait until we find the real 'paradise'?"
The young man talks about his ideals, but actually develops a kind of escape mentality.
The old man seemed to be following the young man's words, but he was teaching him to recognize reality.
Running away is indeed an easy choice, but it will not solve the problem and may even cause more and more serious problems.
"We haven't gone yet, how did you know there would be so much trouble?" Hami was obviously a little unconvinced, "I don't want to mention the location too far away. If we just find a corner in the jungle, who can find us?"
Young people are always indispensable for their 'I think, I think' nature.
Or maybe he was just being tough and unwilling to admit these things.
"Okay, okay," Old Charles patted the young man's shoulder and stopped trying to persuade him.
Some people will never look back until they hit the wall.
Some people may say they are unwilling to give in, but in fact they have taken it to heart.
"Hami, I'm ready to go back."
"Go back? Where?" Hami didn't know what he was thinking, and his reaction was obviously much slower.
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