Doubt is like a seed.
Whether it’s wind, rain, summer or winter, a rock is still a rock.
But once the seeds are buried, a crack will open in the rock by the power of germination. Green branches and vines will emerge from the cracks, and eventually poisonous flowers will bloom.
So, when Ling Linhan suddenly discovered that a crack appeared in the world he knew, revealing an unfamiliar picture
——Even if he couldn't verify whether it was an illusion, it didn't stop him from starting to doubt whether everything in front of him was real.
This sense of dislocation from reality would even make him doubt everyone around him.
But at the same time, he was eager to find a breakthrough point that could verify the truth.
At this time, he had never come into contact with before, or even potential enemies - such people made him even more trustworthy.
For example, Xiao Jinian is also a student of Shenlong Academy, but has a close relationship with Ling Yao.
Of course, his relationship with Xiao Jinnian was not so good that Xiao Jinnian told them all about his life experience and his mentor not long after they had known each other for a long time.
So the reason why he came into contact with Xiao Zhiliang...
It was because he followed Xiao Jinnian.
Although it seems a bit unkind to do so. But at that time, avoiding the true and false sources around him-tracking and monitoring someone was the most authentic and comprehensive way he could think of to understand the other person.
(Having said that, children...no, readers, no one should learn from it, okay?)
And it was precisely because of this that he came into contact with Xiao Zhiliang through Xiao Jinian, and thus learned a secret about the "Heavenly Favored One".
That time, Xiao Jinian seemed to have parted ways with his mentor after meeting him on bad terms.
Ling Linhan quietly followed Xiao Jinnian after he left, wanting to meet Xiao Jinnian's teacher.
"I told you not to come again!...? You are?"
And this was the first thing Xiao Zhiliang said to Ling Linhan when he met Xiao Zhiliang for the first time,
"The Blessed One? Why did they let you appear here?"
But he seemed to remember something, and suddenly looked around nervously, as if he was afraid of being discovered by others.
Xiao Zhiliang's behavior undoubtedly aggravated Ling Linhan's doubts and curiosity.
——What is a favored one? Who do they refer to?
However, before he could ask anything, Xiao Zhiliang suddenly opened his eyes and dragged Ling Linhan, who was leaning on the window to peek, into the house:
"I can't let them discover you, I can't let them discover you... This is God helping me! This may be the only chance!"
He pressed Ling Linhan's shoulders, and the tired look on his face was wiped away, leaving only a dazzling and passionate light in his blue and black eyes:
“Time is limited, you must listen to everything I say next!
"Don't trust the teachers at Shenlong Academy! Don't trust Tian Xi! They just want to get your inheritance!
"Don't use the Nine Heavens Chongyun Tower again. Don't let yourself or anyone follow the path of Patriarch Tianxin!
"The end of that road is not a world where all living beings are equal at all! As a human being, pursuing the spirit and realm of the Creator God is disaster and destruction!
"Leave here. Leave the academy! If you don't want to stay in this invisible cage and be manipulated for the rest of your life!
"You can go anywhere, as long as you leave Wolong Kingdom and escape the control of Shenlong Academy... then you will see this real world..."
…
"Wait a minute, what did he tell you not to use? Whose path will you inherit? You should make it clear!"
Ling Yao rolled his eyes after listening to the blocked version of the dialogue.
Both he and Xiao Jinian had guessed that the research project that Xiao Zhiliang came into contact with back then was probably closely related to the Renjie Era and Patriarch Tianxin.
It's a pity that Xiao Zhiliang kept silent and said nothing, for fear that Xiao Jinian would fall into this muddy water.
And if you want to know the truth about the past, then every word Xiao Zhiliang said is crucial.
As a result, the little brat's memories were turned on, and the dialogue was mosaic.
Facing Ling Yao's direct inquiry, Ling Linhan frowned, hesitated again and again, gritted his teeth and said it:
"Anyway, now...it doesn't matter if I tell you. It's Patriarch Tianxin! The inheritance place we entered was created by him."
"But at that time, many people had obtained the secret techniques of the inheritance place, right? Why did he think that you had the ability to inherit the complete path of Patriarch Tianxin?"
As soon as Ling Yao asked the question, he suddenly thought of something and was a little dumbfounded.
——Could it be that things are so bloody, just as he once thought...
"Because...because I had a chance with Patriarch Tianxin before I entered the place of inheritance. But I didn't expect that the people at Shenlong Academy actually knew..."
"Nine Heavens Chongyun Tower?"
Ling Yao blurted out.
If the people at Shenlong Academy had long known that Ling Linhan had such a treasure and the completed inheritance of Patriarch Tianxin, and then deliberately approached Ling Linhan to induce the little brat... wow, wouldn't that be a real scam story!
However……
"You, just, just, said, what, what?"
Ling Linhan suddenly stopped, turned around suddenly, blocked Ling Yao's way forward, and kicked Ling Yao hard with his eyes wide open.
Ling Yao: "I just said... uh... (=X=) I didn't say anything..."
Ruined! It goes smoothly! Exposed! !
Seeing Ling Linhan take out all the knives, Ling Yao saw that his pretending to be stupid was not effective, so he had no choice but to slap his head and bring up the old things again:
"Oh, isn't it the Nine Heavens Chongyun Tower! The one you used to hit my head with before! I still feel a headache when I think about it now, ouch..."
Ling Linhan's face flashed with guilt for a moment, but she quickly reacted:
"One code equals another! How do you know it's called the 'Nine Heavens Chongyun Tower'? Who told you?"
who? Who else could it be? A complainer told me four years ago!
But can you say this? Does anyone believe this?
It's like when he shouted to the people in Naxi village with his hands on his hips - "I am the direct descendant of Jianmen Yueyao Peak, Ling Yao!" - those people would just hold their stomachs and laugh, thinking he was an idiot.
In this case, don't blame him for ruthlessly using his secret skill of telling lies again.
Although he had the idea of "brother, take the blame for me", Ling Yao's first reaction was to drag Xiao Ji Nian out again.
But then I thought about it, he himself was still hiding the matter about Jiutian Chongyun Tower from Xiao Jinian. If this lie continues, there will be no way to get it back together again like last time.
So this time he had no choice but to blame Xiao Zhiliang:
"That something... you also know, Ah Nian, I mean Xiao Jinnian, he is very concerned about his teacher's affairs, but Xiao Zhiliang is not willing to tell him anything...
"So I thought, if I went to find Xiao Zhiliang without telling Xiao Jinnian, he might tell me something.
"But he only said this one word to me, so I can associate it with whatever you say... Yes, that's it."
Seeing Ling Yao nodding to himself, Ling Linhan cast an extremely suspicious look on him.
"Oh, by the way! Don't tell Xiao Jinnian about this. He doesn't know anything yet! It's safest not to know about this kind of thing!"
Anyway, Xiao Zhiliang was in solitary confinement, and Ling Linhan suddenly escaped this time. No matter how lucky Ling Linhan is, it is unlikely that he will sneak in and find Xiao Zhiliang himself to verify this matter when he returns.
In addition, he stopped Ling Linhan from asking Xiao Jinnian about the way...
Even if Ling Linhan was full of suspicion, he couldn't verify it - not to mention that this was an insignificant concealment.
Ling Yao gave himself a thumbs up in his heart: Plan pass.jpg.
Fortunately, Ling Linhan really had no intention of delving into this issue.
In addition to what Xiao Zhiliang said to him, he had naturally verified the authenticity of certain things personally, so that he had no idea about the inheritance of Patriarch Tianxin.
And since Ling Yao had known it for a long time, he had never revealed his intention to kill people and seize the treasure... Ling Linhan also wanted to believe this person for the time being.
after all……
"I don't know who I can trust anymore."
Ling Linhan lowered his head, sheathed his sword, as if mumbling to himself, or confiding,
"I used to sincerely... treat everyone around me as a good friend and good brother, and trust them wholeheartedly. But... Ling Feiyu is deceiving me, Xu Anyang is using me, Yue Qingying and Qi Xiangyun are hiding me, The other people are just chess pieces they placed around me, large and small, with different functions.
"They all stayed with me for their own benefit and pretended to be kind and sincere. The so-called conscientiousness was just wishful thinking on my part.
"In contrast, sometimes you really... don't want to talk about you anymore."
"No, tell me! What happens to me sometimes! Am I not good?!"
Ling Linhan looked at Ling Yao with an expression like "Look at what you look like" and said:
"At least you are a qualified collaborator and trader. If you don't have true feelings, I don't have to worry about mispaying your true intentions. Even if you deceive me, I won't feel sad.
"In short, I think Rukawa is the best choice, so I came. And here... I did see a world I have never seen before."
Ling Linhan suddenly fell silent for a while, then started walking.
Just when Ling Yao thought the topic was over, he suddenly spoke again:
"It's not that I have never killed monsters before, but I dare say that in the past I would only kill them when they provoked me first.
"So at the beginning, I thought they were cruel. After all, the word hunting itself has a bloody smell.
“But when I really lived here, I realized that the smell of blood here was not only the blood of monsters, but also the blood of humans.
"Humans hunt monsters, and monsters hunt humans. Everyone is innocent, but living here is destined not to be innocent.
"As long as I show any mercy to the monsters, the people in the hunting team will shed more blood or even lose one more life.
"If it were in the past, I would definitely not lick my face and ask for the corpse of a monster that you don't even care about. After all, in addition to the crystal core, the skin and bones of the monster may also be used as raw materials, but the meat is absolutely of burden.
"But now... that's food. In order to survive, they have to venture deep into the jungle and fight all kinds of monsters."
Ling Linhan drew a mold in the void.
"Such a large piece of meat can be eaten for several days. They can go out one less time, and maybe one less person will die...
"That's a living person who was joking with you just a moment ago. I've never had a teammate die in front of me before... before..."
Ling Yao said nothing.
Come to think of it, he actually complained about Ling Linhan's compassion for the rampant monsters a long time ago.
Whether it's some of the equipment they carry, the crystal cores they use, or even some of the food they eat... Behind every bit of their lives, there are the corpses of monsters everywhere.
To be honest, each of them is a "butcher".
But should this be blamed?
Those who condemn the hunting of monster beasts, can they do it without using the monster beast's skin and bones, eating the monster beast's flesh and blood, or using the monster beast's crystal core?
This is obviously impossible.
Because in the final analysis, human beings are not that noble - just like many monsters cannot get rid of the habit of hunting foreign races and humans. Everyone is just a link in the biological chain.
If you don't want to do something, then restrain yourself; if you don't know how to do it yourself, and you still have to blame others, that's really unnecessary.
But it’s actually easy to understand why Ling Linhan would have such thoughts.
Because Shenlong Academy protected him very well - you can understand it when you hear him dare to say that he has never seen a teammate die in front of him.
No matter how powerful he is, he can't guarantee that everyone traveling with him will not die due to accidents.
Ling Yao still remembered that when he was still in the Awakening Realm, he went on a mission with other older direct disciples for the first time, and he had the misfortune to encounter a fourth-level monster that far exceeded the overall strength of their team.
The senior brother who leads the team is actually at the peak of Danyang's strength. But in that mission, three of them died.
Never had a teammate die? To people like him, these words are either lies or protected by someone superior.
But in Ling Linhan's opinion, it was just because he was strong enough and lucky.
In Tucao's view, it is the protection of the "protagonist halo".
No companions died tragically at the hands of monsters, and there was no need to hunt monsters with one’s own hands to make a living;
Even if you think about it, you will know that the crystal cores used and the food you eat are from monster beasts, but as long as you don't see the corpse of the monster beast with your own eyes, the cruel and bloody facts can be subconsciously forgotten.
This gave him a feeling - I have never actively harmed a monster, and the monster may not come to hurt me. So why can't we just make peace and stop killing?
If not, it must be because other people's ideological realm is not high enough.
So when he arrived at Rukawa, his world was torn apart in an instant.
In Ling Yao's view, such a change in thinking is good and necessary.
Otherwise, Ling Linhan would really have to live forever within the framework set by Shenlong Academy and be incompatible with this world.
But...
Let that fifteen-year-old boy, who had been deceived since he was a child and had never seen anything in the world, face the truth for the first time, by witnessing the blood and death of his friends and teammates with his own eyes - in this way...
Ling Yao patted Ling Linhan on the shoulder.
It's cruel and makes people sigh.
===Conversation about me and my family’s idle proofreading===
Sister proofreader: This copy of yours is a bit long, with so much foreshadowing.
Me: If you are talking about the small copy of Thousand Poison Spider King, it will take a while to finish.
Me: If you are talking about the large dungeon in Ruchuan Forest Area, it is relatively long.
Me: If you are talking about the first world, it is really long... I can’t help but wonder if what I wrote is about the gods (I cried TUT)
Reviewer sister: Hahahahaha! (In fact, she laughed every time I finished a sentence) But it doesn’t matter, as long as 01 is handsome enough, if he is handsome, he can write a world as long as he wants.
Me: OK ^q^ (there seems to be a strange consensus on this)
