The sun is approaching dusk, and the twilight is vast. Red clouds like cotton wool pass across the dim sky, as if they have made a blood-colored hole in the sky. The cloud wings dyed red and hanging down from the sky are as lonely as a lonely goose bleeding.
The lone goose hovered over the devastated land, staring sadly and solemnly at the city that was about to collapse.
The crowds of people fleeing under the city gate were crowded together, with a look of fear and despair on their faces.
Dense crowds gathered like ants before the storm, fleeing the city along the obscure twilight toward the vast wilderness. They were surrounded by family members, but the atmosphere at the moment was not warm. Even the presence of relatives and friends could not give them any peace of mind. Some are just sad, angry and uneasy.
A disaster is coming, and human lives are like ants.
The horn before the siege may be the only kindness of the black cavalry.
"well……"
Looking at the crowds of people leaving the city, on the corner of the city wall, a young soldier wearing rusty armor pointed his spear and sighed slightly, "They all say that the war will cause the people to suffer, but at least they have a chance to escape... We will I can only stand on the top of this city and wait for death."
"This is different."
A slightly older veteran on the side leaned against the city wall.
Unlike the young soldiers around him, all he saw was the black cavalry outside the city.
"If you are afraid, you can take advantage of the chaos and sneak away. When the situation is chaotic and your armor is taken off, who knows whether you are a commoner or a soldier? But look, is there anyone escaping on this wall?"
"..."
The young soldiers looked around in silence at their comrades. Their faces were haggard, and some were even trembling with fear, but none of them mentioned wanting to 'escape'.
"Alas...among the people who fled are your family members, right?"
The veteran then sighed, "So it's not that we didn't have a chance to escape, we just chose to stay. Isn't it the same for you?"
"..."
The young soldier didn't speak, but looked at the crowded crowd in the city with some confusion and at the cavalry outside the city that was getting ready to go.
He didn't understand that he was also a human being, what was the meaning of such a war?
While the soldiers at the top of the city looked at each other and prepared silently, there was a faint commotion at the crowded city gate behind where the people were evacuating.
A gorgeous carriage galloped from a distance, scattering many panicked crowds.
The owner of the car was yelling and cursing, while the driver was driving the car frantically, whipping the horses neighing and galloping, as if something terrible was chasing them behind them.
Everyone knows that that thing is probably 'death' or 'fear'.
No matter which era it is, it is the same. Noble people will always have some advantages over ordinary people when facing difficulties, such as the people who are anxiously preparing to leave now carrying the carriage.
Faced with the collision of the carriage, the crowds on both sides could only retreat like a tide. They did not want to die in the war, let alone die inexplicably under the hooves of the horses.
Although most people can react to the sound of galloping hooves and the noise, there are always old people with limited legs or children in the crowd who don't know what is going on.
Just as the gorgeous carriage was about to rush through the narrow city gate, a child of about two or three years old suddenly appeared in the crowd. Perhaps because the situation was too chaotic, he did not have time to grab his mother's hand and was left alone on the road. central.
Hearing the inexplicable sound coming from behind, the child turned around in confusion. Although he saw the carriage rushing towards him, perhaps because he had no concept of 'death', he did not see fear in his eyes, but With curiosity.
The child stretched out his hand as if to touch the flying mane of the galloping horse.
The driver on the chariot did not see the little child in the middle of the road. Even if he saw it, there would be nowhere to turn, and of course the galloping horse would not have time to stop.
Tragedy seemed destined to happen. Seeing that the horse's hoof held high was about to fall on the child's fragile body, everyone around them stopped and held their breath to stare at the horrific scene. Before the city was broken, was there blood? How sad.
The shadow gradually enveloped, perhaps finally feeling the danger. The child under the iron hooves grew up, his mouth widened and panicked, and there was deathly silence around him. Only the screams of the child's mother were left.
The bloody sunset covered the sky and cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.
This damn war.
Suddenly, a black shadow rushed out of the crowd and passed through the middle of the road like lightning.
The horse's hooves seemed to be pushed aside and forced to change direction, and the frightened children also disappeared from the place following the black shadow.
Before the crowd around them had time to scream, they saw the galloping horse neighing and falling to the ground, and the gorgeous carriage crashed into the city wall. As for the life or death of the people inside, it was unknown.
The boy gently asked the child to be placed among the crowd not far from his mother, and then left quietly, with a little Taoist priest in shabby clothes following behind him.
The little Taoist priest looked at the actions of the young man in front of him and smiled slightly.
He knew that the young man in front of him was not actually a human being, but a dragon that everyone shouted to kill.
However, just now, a dragon, regarded as an enemy by the world, saved an ignorant child who knew nothing.
He has been following this dragon for a long time. At the beginning, the dragon's head was always hit by continuous heavy rain and thunder, but now it seems to have been able to calm down.
This seems to mean that the boy from the dragon tribe is gradually trying to integrate into the human world, but for some reason, no matter how hard he tries, the back figure still looks lonely and out of place.
One person and one dragon left the city and came to a high hillside.
At this moment, the sounds of fighting could be heard around the city.
The boy from the dragon tribe looked at the crowd fighting together in silence, his eyes full of confusion.
This is a cruel battlefield.
The boy from the dragon clan stared blankly at the scene in front of him.
One horse, ten horses, a hundred horses, a thousand horses, or ten thousand horses? He lost count. In just a short moment, a vast sea of troops charged on the battlefield.
On one side were bright battle armors, with all-black horses sitting on them. They charged forward, like an army from the Nine Netherworld, but in fact the boy could feel that these guys were all human beings.
And their target... is also humans.
The young man looked at the human army on the other side. Their faces with blood on their faces were slightly tired, but their formations were neat and majestic. They did not have the hard-looking armor of the army just now, nor the ridiculously strong horses. Both sides The strength seems to be very different. But they did not retreat, they guarded their position and refused to give an inch.
This is a battlefield between humans and humans, and it is a completely unequal war. No, it should be said to be just pure massacre.
"Why... do they want to fight each other? They are all human beings... and why do these people still want to fight even though they know they can't beat them?"
"Just like your dragon clan, don't similar species still fight each other?"
The little Taoist priest on the side looked at the battlefield below and shook his head slightly, his face full of sadness and helplessness, "Just like you who are being hunted, don't you think you can stop fighting if you don't want to fight?"
"..."
The young man from the Dragon Clan was silent when he heard this.
After a moment, he turned around and left, leaving the bloody storm behind.
Seeing this, the little Taoist priest behind him followed, matching the young man's pace, and walked towards the mountains and fields.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and I don’t know how much time has passed.
There were more corpses at the feet of the dragon boy.
It's a human being who comes to your door.
After the battle, the little Taoist priest returned to him again as if nothing had happened.
But this time the young man from the dragon clan did not set off immediately, but looked at the little Taoist priest.
He has been having a problem.
"They are the same kind as you."
"Um."
The little Taoist priest nodded slightly when he heard this, glanced at the corpse at his feet, and sighed helplessly, "What a sin..."
"Don't you feel uncomfortable watching me kill your kind?" the dragon boy asked.
"Alas... murderers will always be killed."
After sighing, the little Taoist priest calmly replied, "They wanted to kill you, but you were killed in the end. This is your own fault."
"Let me ask another question..."
The dragon boy thought for a moment and felt that there was something wrong with his way of expression. The human failed to understand, "Watching me kill your kind, won't you be scared?"
"Afraid? Why?"
The little Taoist priest seemed to have heard something ridiculous and couldn't help but smile and asked, "Do you know why they killed you?"
"I don't know...I've been thinking about this too."
The boy from the dragon clan frowned, "You know?"
"Of course, the reason is actually very simple."
The little Taoist priest chuckled, "Because they are afraid of you, afraid of you! Whether they are humans or dragons, they are actually the same. They will instinctively feel fear when facing creatures that are stronger than themselves. They instinctively feel threatened because of fear. Because I'm afraid of this threat, I... want to get rid of you. The opposite is also true. If they are stronger than you, then your life and death may not be so important... It's like you don't care about the life and death of these guys at all..."
As he said that, the little Taoist priest pointed to the corpses on the ground, "You shouldn't have felt anything when you killed them, right? It's just because they wanted to kill you, that's all."
"So...what about you?" The dragon boy's eyes flashed with gold, and he asked in a deep voice as he stared at the human in front of him.
"I?"
The little Taoist priest scratched his head, "I'm different from them."
"What's the difference?"
"I'm not afraid of you."
"Why aren't you afraid?"
"What a nonsense question..."
After saying this, a natural smile appeared on the little Taoist priest's face, "Of course because - you can't beat me."
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'You can't beat me. '
When the dragon boy heard such words for the first time, he actually wanted to laugh at them.
But soon he tried it and was beaten.
Really can't beat it.
So I had to believe it.
"Who are you?" After the fight, the dragon boy didn't seem to care much about other things. He only cared about this issue now.
The little Taoist priest's answer was still natural, "As you can see, I am a human being, just an ordinary person."
One person and one dragon continued to walk aimlessly in the world.
Later, the boy from the dragon tribe learned the name of this Taoist priest.
His name is Zhang Daoling.
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"So, you don't have to go back to your Taoist temple?"
One night, the two of them were sitting in front of the fire, and the dragon boy asked this question.
After the fight, the relationship between the two seemed to have become much closer.
He was very curious. They didn't know how long they had been walking, and they didn't pay much attention to the direction. They only knew that they had walked a long, long distance.
Why did this Taoist priest follow him all the way?
Isn't it really because of the tattered knife in his hand?
"How about guessing why I live in such a dilapidated and leaky Taoist temple?" Zhang Daoling just sat cross-legged on the ground, stretched out his hands to support his face and pouted slightly.
"..."
The dragon boy remained silent and stopped asking further questions.
Because he probably realized that this was a sad question.
Looking at Zhang Daoling's seemingly calm face looking a little lonely under the firelight, he knew that although they were not of the same race, they might be the same kind...
A dragon as powerful as himself is feared by the world, but what about a human being who is even more powerful than himself?
Such questions are simply stupid.
"So...what do you want to do by following me all the way?"
The dragon boy asked again.
He didn't understand that this human being who was more powerful than himself followed him not to kill him, so what exactly did he want to do?
"That's a good question."
Zhang Daoling suddenly became interested when he heard this question.
"Actually, I just thought you were interesting at first. You came to my place out of nowhere and fell asleep. After falling asleep, you are not as cruel as other dragons. As soon as they saw me, they pounced on me and wanted to kill me."
"..."
The dragon boy was speechless. "I've never quite understood why humans and dragons must fight each other as soon as they meet? So... you didn't attack me while I was sleeping, so I didn't attack you."
"That's why I think you are interesting." Zhang Daoling chuckled.
"Then...if I had attacked you..."
The dragon boy shook his head slightly when asked.
He realized that the question seemed silly.
"In short, I also want to understand why the creatures in this world always like to fight, and you... seem to be a good reference." Zhang Daoling held the wooden stick and stirred the fire in front of him, and the dancing sparks lit up the fire. His dark but mirror-like pupils said, "I want to find the answer from you... How should 'others' like us survive in this world?"
"What if... there's no answer?"
The dragon boy was a little silent.
Somehow, his intuition told him that such an answer simply did not exist.
There was a voice in his mind that kept reminding him... This is the fate of the 'abandoned clan'.
"if there is not……"
Zhang Daoling stood up with a deep thought, stretched out his hand to reach the sky, "Then keep looking! Why do people and people, people and dragons, everything in this world fight? When will the world be peaceful? I want to know the answers to these questions! There will always be answers. !”
"Why are you so sure?"
The dragon boy stared blankly at the human figure in front of him, wondering if it was an illusion.
He always felt that this person was special, just like this human being was wearing a Taoist robe full of holes, but it made him feel as if he could accommodate the sea of stars under his clothes.
"Heaven has given birth to all things, so why shouldn't it be tolerated?"
The human boy asked, holding the galaxy in his hand.
At this moment, it seemed that he was the Tao and the reason.
