Chapter 28: Anger
"What do you say? you say again?" asked Kordak, somewhat incredulous.
"I ...... I don't dare ......," said Regner, trembling, his heart was now filled with fear and puzzlement, how could a strong man who had been walking around for a day with two large backpacks an hour ago suddenly never move again?
Although Regner was an orphan who had seen the warmth of human affection since childhood, the fact that it was so bloody and heartless was beyond his psychological endurance.
Selenos' death caused Regner to have an unprecedented fear of death and orcs. All he wanted now was that it was just a nightmare, but even with his eyes closed, he could still smell the lingering smell of blood in his breath. So he wanted to escape, and under the pressure of fear, he had completely lost the courage to face those terrible orcs.
"Smack!" Kordak slapped Regner in the face, his eyes flashing with anger and disappointment, staring viciously at Regner as he fell to the ground.
"You're going to fucking tell me again?" Kordak's voice was like a roaring lion: "You said yes, you didn't dare? Why didn't you dare when you broke into the Silver Moon Forest alone? Without the three of us, you're just a fucking bubble of shit pulled out by the Swift Shadow Dragon, and a day ago, Lao Tzu risked his life to save you from the clutches of the Red Blood Bear, and you don't dare to tell me now? You dare to say such shameless words, you still don't dare? Fuck the people that the Moonshadow Thieves Guild fancies, what kind of bullshit, the Moonshadow Thieves Guild has taken a fancy to you like a soft goods? We risked our lives to save you twice, and now that we're in trouble, you don't dare to give me a word? Don't you dare your uncle!!!!!"
The more Cordack spoke, the more angry he became, and he flew up and kicked Regna in the chin, directly kicking the skinny Regna upside down.
Regner crawled to Kordak on his knees and cried out, "Boss, hit me, but I really don't dare, I'm afraid of death!" Brother Celenos died so suddenly, he only killed three orcs here, and there are more than a dozen over there! I really don't dare! To go like this is to send me to death! I am just a small person, an orphan, not a hero in the biography of novels, I don't have their courage, let alone the ability that they can't fight to death. I'm just an orphan that no one wants! I finally got out of the slum, I don't want to die here......!
The corners of Regner's mouth and nostrils were kicked by Kordak and blood flew out, mixed with a steady stream of tears and dirt on the ground, and his face was the same as in the slums.
Kordak looked at Regner coldly, a large bright red palm print on the left side of his face was clearly visible, and his immature face was full of fear and shame.
Kordaq watched as his heart softened, anyway, he was only a fifteen-year-old boy, and he would be scared and tremble by everything in front of him at that age, right?
He slowly calmed down his anger, sighed, and gently helped Regner up: "Okay, Xiao Lei, I was wrong just now, I shouldn't be angry with you, I'm sorry." ”
"Boss, it's me who is wrong, I ...... I'm a coward......" Regner muttered.
He could now finally understand the pain that Vera had endured over the years, the pain of abandoning important people was not intense, but it was tormenting people's hearts all the time. But if that alone gave him the courage to face the hideous orcs, Regner still couldn't do it.
Kordak put his hands on Regner's shoulders and said: "This matter is indeed very risky, whether you have it or not, I am afraid that it will not succeed, you are still young, and it is a little unreasonable to lose your life for this, I understand you." ”
"Then boss, ...... you" Regner wanted to say and stopped, he wanted to persuade Cordak to give up too, but he couldn't, he himself was already a coward, how could he have the face to let Cordak run away with him? Not to mention really abandon Vera? This is a very tangled and complicated question, and Ragner himself does not know what to do.
"You don't have to persuade me. Cordak smiled: "Anyway, Vera is also the woman I fancie, and I will go this trip no matter what." ”
"Boss...... I...... I'm sorry......" Regner really didn't know what to do now, on the one hand, he hated his cowardice very much, and on the other hand, he was very afraid of the possible death, he kept wandering between the two paths, but found that he could not say that either side led to the abyss.
"Can you do me a favor, bury Selenos here, then go back to Meteor City and wait for me, if I don't come back within ten days, you can report the death of the three of us to the Mercenary Alliance, and they will take care of the rest of the matter." Kordak made the final arrangement.
Regner cried again when he heard the "wow", and Kordak hugged Regner and whispered in his ear: "People always have to work hard for something, otherwise they will live too pitifully." ”
After saying that, he stopped looking at Regner and turned away silently.
Looking at Kordak's back in the distance, Regner took his steps several times, but he took them all back.
Regnar began to dispose of Selenos' body according to Kordak's instructions, he wiped Selenos's face clean with water, and then forced his nausea to do some simple treatment of his wounds, which also made Selenos look more decent when he was buried.
When he had done this, Regner looked around and saw that there was no one around except the corpses of Selenos and the three orcs, and as before, he was a man again.
"I'm a person again. Regner thought, he began to reminisce about the time he had been on the Eastern Continent, Hans's first mate, second mate, captain, the trio of prisoners of Aemon, Lowry, and Kirrik, their faces all appeared in front of Regner's eyes, they always looked at him with a kind of contempt, always so annoying.
Then Regner thought back to Cordak, Vera, and the dead Selenos, who had always been so sincere and so friendly, that Regner had been filled with joy to think that since the old man and Irene, he had at last friends, companions, and three at a time.
But now that he's lost Selenos, and Vera and Kordaq are about to disappear, he's going to be nothing, he's going to be alone, is that really going to be like this?
"It can't !!!," Regner roared suddenly, a fury gushing from his heart like a volcanic eruption. The old man is dead, Erin is gone, he finally has Kordak and Vera and Selenos again, and now that Selenos is dead, is he just watching Kordak and Vera die?
Ragner suddenly thought of many things, he thought of the kindness of the three Kordaks to him, he thought of the three companions he had secretly sworn in the night never to lose the three companions he had so hard to gain, he thought of how painful the old man had been when he died, when Irene was gone, the feeling of being alone, the pain of having nothing, that made life worse than death! He thought of what the old man had said to him about "gain" and "loss".
He was only ten years old at the time, and the old man once said to him in a tone that had been through many vicissitudes: "Any gain is accompanied by loss, and any loss is accompanied by gain, such as begging, when you accept other people's money, you get other people's money, but you lose your own dignity." When the old man had finished speaking, he nodded with a sneer at the man who threw the copper coin.
Regner thought about the present, he had lost his companion again, what had he gained? he had only gained pain and loneliness, something he had tasted for fifteen years, and he had tasted enough. Why do you always lose what you want and gain what you don't want?
Regner looked at himself, he had nothing left, so what if he still wanted to get the old time, the companions who gave him happiness, the mercenary squad that gave him a sense of belonging?
What to exchange? What to get? With your own life! Since you are so poor that you have nothing but still want to get something, then you should fight with your life! That is the only thing you have, and the only thing you can exchange.
Ragnar had once scuffled with wild dogs over a piece of bread in the garbage heap, and now he felt that the orcs were like wild dogs robbing him of bread, and they were about to take the last of their "bread", so why not take it back?
"Lao Tzu hates the wild dogs who rob me of bread the most, let me die!" A wicked smile that did not match his age appeared on Regner's immature face, his eyes changed from dark blue to pure black again, and a pure black fighting spirit burst out from his body, instantly extinguishing all the flames.
Ragnar calmly sorted out his gear, and then sped off in the direction Cordak had left.