We will eventually embark on various forms of journeys for various reasons.
This kind of journey not only exists in physical form, but may also be a spiritual journey.
The people and things you meet along the way will become the nutrients that shape your personality. The ideas that you thought were indestructible before departure will sometimes be shaken and changed - but sometimes, in turn, you will be strengthened by what you see and hear during the trip. the opinion of.
The young master and eldest daughter, who is ignorant of the sufferings of the world, are more cautious and reliable in making decisions after experiencing adventures. The common girl who once only saw the trivial matters in daily life has now grown into an adventurer with rich experience and outstanding abilities.
Have tasted all the flavors of life and walked into a wider world.
Build bonds and make memories.
But one day we will have to part ways.
And when people face separation again after a journey, their moods tend to be different.
——The red-haired swordsman decided to leave.
And our Mr. Sage still did not stop him this time, although Joshua's departure this time may mean that he will not return.
He wanted to re-enter the inner world.
He did not explain the reason for this, but he could more or less guess it from the fact that he consulted Henry about whether the reverberation of memories in the other world was real and whether all creatures in the world would leave traces in it. .
"It is a wonderful space, a place that condenses the residue of millions of years of memories. So, even if it is an illusion, maybe you can still be in it." Although the sage did not stop him, when he answered Obviously, I am choosing my words more carefully than before——
"Meet her."
"The chance may be only one in a billion because it contains so many things, it's like trying to find the scales of a specific fish in the entire ocean." He emphasized the slim possibility.
But these words did not shake the swordsman's will.
"Although I can't understand what you're after, it's probably something great." The pony-tailed swordsman held his tachi and took the powdered fossil handed over by the sage. After a long time, the two adventurers from Rigar, whose swordsmanship was at the top, had a heart-to-heart talk again. The situation was paradoxical, and the moods of both parties may have changed.
"But I'm not one to see that broadly," he said, while Henry and the others around him listened quietly.
"I'm a very ordinary person."
"I'm not good at words, and I don't have big dreams. I can only focus on one thing and do what I can do."
"She used to drag me around all the time."
“I feel like I’m a very slow, slow person.”
"It's only now that I finally understand that the important thing about some things is not the thing itself, but who is by your side when doing these things."
"At that time, everything seemed to be very happy and fresh."
"But maybe what made me happy and fresh was her reaction."
"The more things I see, the wider the world I visit, and the more people I meet, even if I meet you again."
"It still feels like something is missing." He raised his hand, clenched and opened it in front of his chest, and repeated it several times.
"Does that count as living?"
"Even if it's just a chance of one in a few hundred million, even if it's just a residue, an echo, an illusion left by the past."
"That's her too."
"Nothing was left behind. I didn't remember it until I got to the beach. It just turned into ashes and left nothing behind."
"Why weren't the things from the past properly preserved? Because I thought they would continue to be like this in the future, so I treated them as ordinary things and didn't cherish them." He lowered his head.
Henry was silent, and Ling asked in a low voice what happened to Galeva, but Leng Touqing only joined the team later, so he didn't know much.
However, the smart doctor lady has more or less guessed something, but everyone has had some sad things, and now is really not a good time to discuss the causes and consequences in detail.
The only people who knew about it were Henry, Mira and Joshua who had experienced it before.
And our Luoan girl bit her lip, her expression went through surprise, confusion, anguish, sadness, and finally she clenched her fist several times and then unclenched it, then turned her head in resignation rather than relief.
She still couldn't be as calm as the sage.
"It would be nice if I didn't know all this"
"It would be nice if I wasn't affected by the remnants of the inner world and the teacher didn't have to tell the truth about all this."
"It would be better if I didn't give him hope."
But is that really good?
Even if there is no goal or desire, is it right to just live numbly? Is it right to live first no matter what?
After meeting again, Joshua became even more taciturn than before. Even to old acquaintances, he no longer had many words or smiles. His life once only had two important things, but now only his skill with a sword remains.
The result of blindly pursuing skills is that a person no longer possesses anything but skills. He becomes like a tool and only needs to do these things.
"Is that still considered alive?" The question was not directed at anyone, it was more like a soliloquy of his.
Many thoughts passed through her mind, but she could never express her opinions.
Because all the opinions she puts forward are based on her own emotions and positions, and they are her opinions.
When she opened her mouth to obstruct, she just wanted to ask the other party to accept her point of view, to accept that this was correct from a broad perspective and would not change the status quo in any way.
"Even if you feel very painful, I don't think you can do this, and I'm right." No matter how she organized the words in her mind to try to prevent this from happening, she felt that all she could say in the end was It is a word with such meaning.
People in the world think that all this is inappropriate and that taking risks is inappropriate. She felt that all this meant death, that it was too slim a hope—perhaps more—
It's not worth taking the risk just for this little thing.
The memories of those who have passed away are precious, but those who survive can just embrace them and move on.
But after all, that's just her idea, the world's point of view.
Everyone has a steelyard in their heart. Some people are long-term and some are sentimental.
Being passionately in love with something or someone for a moment is like a person who doesn't know that ice is originally water and makes an eternal promise to a seemingly majestic iceberg, only to disappear when midsummer comes. It is a common example among humans that people once loved things and then became indifferent to them.
But at the same time, there are also many stories about people who only love one person and one thing throughout their lives, and those who stick to their beliefs and feelings for their whole life.
Which one is better or worse is like a person knowing whether the water is cold or warm.
People inherently have various thoughts and conclusions, and over-emphasis on one's own opinions and correctness is just a kind of conceit.
The teacher knew this exactly, so he didn't stop it.
She gradually felt that she could understand Henry's silence many times.
Even if it almost means death, it is the decision made by the other party himself.
He said everything he needed to say, but it didn't shake his will at all. So all he could do was to make all the preparations he could for this old friend, and warned him everything he knew about the dangers in the world - even though he or the druids knew nothing about it. Not many.
"Hope is a dangerous thing."
"It's elusive and elusive. It's such a small possibility that one has to sacrifice everything or spend one's life to pursue it." Because of cognitive differences with humans, the horse Joshua rides cannot be taken away. Henry said this as he unloaded the supplies from the saddle.
"But human beings are creatures who will do it no matter what." Joshua replied: "Even if you know it is wrong, you will persist all the way to the end."
"Who decides whether it is correct or not." The sage shrugged, as if he no longer cared: "It is a mysterious space, and we still don't know what exists in it. Maybe we left the eternal wasteland. There are still places where humans can survive. After all, there are also some wonderful alien-like creatures inside. Since they can survive, maybe humans can too."
"I hope so." After a night's rest, it was almost morning. The winter sun comes later, but he still needs to start early.
Because once it gets bright enough and it becomes difficult to confuse, maybe he will lose the opportunity to enter that space.
The swaying white flowers of the Dryas stand out against the brightening deep blue sky.
Henry and his party, who had basically confirmed their connection with the inner world, regarded it as a symbol of destruction and danger, and decided to guard against and avoid it in the future.
But Joshua walked towards it without looking back.
"Is he lonely when he is with us?" The girl Luo An was in a very low mood. Although she understood the reasons after thinking about it and decided to respect the other party's decision, she still couldn't accept it emotionally.
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She was still thinking about whether she had neglected the other party too much, whether she had had more opportunities to do more before, reflecting and thinking.
Henry reached out and rubbed the white hair that gradually grew to shoulder length.
"He is also an adult. If there is really anything we can do, he will speak up."
"The so-called destiny is the path that you will still take even if you know the outcome."
"It's just." The moment Joshua's figure disappeared at the end of the road in a daze, Henry slightly narrowed his blue eyes.
"If we could simply regard it as destruction and danger, the problem would be easier to solve. If this gives people hope, perhaps it cannot be solved simply by blocking and evading it." He seemed to be looking at more Something in the distance said this. Mira could understand that he was talking about the inner world, but she could not fully understand the content of the words.
"The impact of this incident may be greater than previously assumed. The druid's long-standing practices may cause a strong backlash in the human world thousands of years ago."
"Because people will go." The first rays of morning light fell, and he turned and walked towards the horses.
"No matter how dangerous it is or how unsuitable it is for survival, as long as it still has that unique magical power, people will still go there."
