"Then what?" Li Mo asked.
"Then..." the forest guard sighed, waved his hand and turned away, "Forget it, let's not talk about it."
"Why are not you talking?"
"I said it, maybe I stopped saying it in the middle of the sentence." The old man shrugged and continued, "Besides, the next story...it's not hard to guess who the young forest guard was talking about. Don’t you understand?”
"It's easy to guess...but that person is now..."
Li Mo couldn't finish the question.
He suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling, as if he had a sudden heat stroke in the middle of the night. His mouth and ears felt like they were filled with sand, which was extremely uncomfortable.
"He couldn't come out." The old man's answer confirmed Li Mo's uneasiness. He was silent for a while, as if he was waiting for the crackling campfire to quiet down. "I don't know how many days passed when I was rescued. ..."
At that time, the soil was dug up bit by bit, and light came in, slowly washing away the despair.
I no longer conserved my energy and started calling desperately for that person.
We are saved, we are saved.
I kept shouting like this, and then I also heard that person calling me, sharing the same joy as me.
But the voice calling me began to get smaller and then fade away. A few seconds later, a burning sensation and unimaginable pain rushed straight into my brain. The light I hadn’t seen for so long blinded my eyes. He couldn't even tell the difference between up and down, and his consciousness began to gradually disappear.
but......
But before I lost consciousness and lost sight completely, I caught a glimpse of the despair that I could never shake off in my life.
That guy was dug out long before me.
It was just that a huge rock covered his body, and blood flowed out from between the cracks in the rocks. The surrounding area was dyed black and red, and countless pieces of rotten flesh were scattered everywhere. It was because of the blood he shed that people Found us.
He is long dead.
"You know?" The old man's eyes were full of despair. He grinned and forced a smile, but the more he did it, the more he couldn't hide the pain. "At that time, he was still smiling at me and comforting me who had nothing to do with me. !”
"Has he understood his situation?"
"It can obviously be simpler!"
"It's obviously not worth it!"
"Obviously you don't have to try your best like this!"
"Obviously...obviously I told him this a long time ago..."
The gray-haired old man roared heartbreakingly.
Those things happened before Li Mo was born, but for him, the memories of that time must be vivid in his mind. Like a sarcoma, even if it is cut off with a knife, it will regrow with a lot of blood. He couldn't breathe.
"Many people told me afterwards that those were just my hallucinations. That kind of injury could not survive even for a few seconds. How could I say so many words? It's just that I was too scared, so I imagined him. Still alive to talk to me.”
The old man calmed down, wiped his nose, and looked a little embarrassed.
"But I understand him. He is not an ordinary person. He is better than anyone else. He is definitely alive. It's just those people who don't understand him..."
"Stop their bullshit!" Because he didn't educate the Demon King well, it was rare for Li Mo to swear. But it was rare tonight, so he indulged himself a little, "Old man, you must have heard something else, seen something Something so you can prove he was definitely alive at the time.”
"Hahahaha, you are really smart."
The old man smiled heartily again. He sat next to Li Mo again and rubbed Li Mo's hair with his hands.
"Yeah, I heard it without a doubt at that time, and heard what he couldn't finish at that time. It was a warning for my life."
I still clearly remember the despair I glimpsed before I lost consciousness, but after I glimpsed the despair, what was at the bottom of Pandora's box was the last glimmer of redemption.
"We must find the dragon."
He told me the words that he couldn't finish before with the most peaceful smile at the last moment.
That's when I discovered it.
Only this senior, who had not been able to get along well with each other for decades, truly understood his pain and loneliness.
Because we are by our side, we understand each other.
It's just that I discovered it too late.
I swear, I will do a good job and become the outstanding junior he calls me, no matter what.
Gradually, his shadow appeared on me.
No matter what I do, I try to be passionate, no matter what I do, I rush forward regardless of everything, no matter what I do, I hold hope and be a person who stands upright.
"But, it's like there is a layer of fog between me and him. No matter how much I run towards him, that layer of fog is always there, making it difficult for me to see his figure clearly. After all, I am not him after all."
"How come, some people may say that General Ghost is not a good person, but no one will say that General Ghost is not a good general." Li Mo replied.
"Haha, you've changed too much, kid." The old man relaxed his brows and put his hand on Li Mo's head again, "The truly outstanding general is actually you, kid. It's your excellence that tolerates me. Being clumsy will make you think I am excellent."
He understood how incompetent he was. He left his job as a forest guard to join the army. He finally became a general and harmed countless brothers. In the end, he shamelessly escaped with his tail between his legs. Not one of his oaths was broken. Didn't do it.
After thinking a lot, the old man suddenly understood that he had made a mistake many years ago.
It was not that he fled the battlefield unwillingly, nor that he killed three thousand soldiers because of his own incompetence. It was a more serious mistake than these.
"Sure enough, I still can't be the same as that person."
The old man suddenly said sarcastically.
"Um?"
Li Mo didn't understand something.
"Boy, do you remember what I asked you when we first met?"
"Young man, I have about 4,000 surrendered troops here. To be honest, as a vanguard team, it is too heavy a burden to provide food rations for such a number of people. If it were you, what would you do?"
Every word is correct.
"You remember it quite clearly." The old man was quite surprised.
"Forced by helplessness." Li Mo shrugged.
"I also remember how you responded at the time, 'Wouldn't it be better to kill them all?'"
"You remember it quite clearly."
"I have no choice but to do so." The old man imitated his behavior, "To be honest, when I heard the answer that was not in line with my expectations, I began to hate you, and even resented you. I felt that you had made trouble for me. In the entire army, I don't have a longer perspective to see your future as a child, and I can't see your growth. Also as a senior, compared with him, I am far behind."
"That's not necessarily true. Maybe you, old man, are very good at judging people. If you ask me the same question now, I will answer you with the same answer. I still haven't grown up at all. I will hand over the future of the country or the demon clan. Does it really not matter if it’s in the hands of someone like me?”
"Who knows, I am no longer a general. I only know that there are still people in this country who are so bored that they would break into the forest and sit here and chat with an old man like me. That's all."
"What a cunning answer." Li Mo smiled.
"Cunning is the privilege of old gingers like us." The old man accompanied Li Mo and smiled heartily, "I really want to know what happened to make that child change so much."
"I told you that I haven't changed." Li Mo spread his hands helplessly, "There is just such a story. I wonder if you are willing to hear it, old man."
"It's not a long story, so let's hear it."
"It's not long enough for me to tell you more. It's just a boring story. A long time ago, there was a particularly annoying girl. She was obviously the big problem, but she always liked to meddle in other people's business. She often begged the boy to help her. But that boy was an out-and-out villain, and he would mock her from the bottom of his heart every time. One day, the girl stopped begging him, and would never beg him again, but the boy felt a little uncomfortable, so the boy Every time I hear begging, I feel like I can’t just ignore it.”
"Wow, it's really short and boring." The old man showed a disgusted expression.
"I have declared this a long time ago."
Li Mo smiled.
