In this world, a tragic story happened.

"Guardian Shield", an unsung hero. Thirty years earlier, he had been a pioneer in resisting the most aggressive "dead country" of the time.

Under his influence, many people who were accustomed to living under oppression began to rebel and walk with him at the forefront.

March, assimilation, protest...... Under his leadership, the first city belonging to them was successfully liberated. On that day, people were given unprecedented freedom and felt extremely happy.

When the Liberation War began, he has been active in the front line, liberating several cities successively, and freeing them from the control of the "dead country".

During the war, he was often portrayed as a man carrying a heavy machine gun, wearing a fur coat sewn by his supporters, and wearing bullet chains. Although he is full of muscles, he looks like a fierce man who is difficult to approach. In fact, he was much gentler than he thought.

For those children, he always blended into them like a child, and like a mother to people, he showed a gentleness that was completely inconsistent with his tough guy temperament.

And, by a coincidence, he saved a bird that was accidentally wounded by a bullet.

The little bird was a sparrow whose wings had been grazed by bullets and temporarily lost the ability to fly. In his spare time, he began to take care of it carefully, watching it turn from timidity to natural, and from time to time he stretched out his fingers to tease it.

The way this fierce man takes care of a little sparrow is really like a macho man with his head on the sky sewing clothes.

When it was time to start fighting, he would carry medical supplies with him, including a lot of painkillers.

Seeing his heroic posture on the battlefield like a mobile fortress to defeat the enemy, people thought that the painkiller was used to anesthetize themselves and make them brave to move forward.

In fact, he only used it to help the wounded, and he never used it himself. Even when he was shot, he gritted his teeth and moved forward, as if the pain was a hormone used to boost his potential and make him brave the more he fought.

After the war finally ended and the "fallen country" temporarily abandoned their attack on them, they took it and settled down in the first liberated city.

There he was given a title - "Guardian Shield". In his honor, the city was called "Guardian City".

At this point in the story, you must wonder, where is the tragedy of this story? In fact, the real story has just begun, and what we want to tell is not the success of this hero, but the fall of this hero......

——A novel adapted from a true event by a writer in Black Lake City, the prologue of "The Fall of Heroes".

The bustling city is still running like a machine, and on the streets where people come and go, Nangong Yu is running desperately. Fear penetrated deep into her heart and spread from her, and in her world, the puppeteers of passers-by seemed to cast hateful glances.

Those unjust spirits, perhaps, seemed to be possessed by every passerby, and they seemed to lodge in her brain.

So, is that all that doing wrong right? I really shouldn't be doing that, right?

Countless questions clung to the back of her neck, as if questioning her and reprimanding her.

"But......" Nangong Yu muttered to herself, and on her face, which was trying to suppress her emotions, she couldn't see any expression at this time, "but I really can't hold on anymore...... Leave me alone...... I don't want to be a 'watchman' anymore......"

Suddenly, an inexplicable feeling prompted Nangong Yu to stop and look at the façade beside him.

This is a bookstore, yes, it is Boss Wu's bookstore. At that moment, those complaints and fears slowly moved away from her and disappeared into the corner.

Looking at the middle-aged man inside, Nangong Yu decided to go in and have a look.

She quietly pushed the door open and walked slowly past the counter like a kitten without making a sound. However, the moment she walked to the exit behind the counter, Boss Wu sensed someone approaching and spotted her.

Looking at Nangong Yu, who had changed into new clothes and dressed up a little, Boss Wu didn't recognize it for a while, but looked for the appearance of this "customer" in his memories.

"Boss Wu......" Nangong Yu greeted with that soft voice like cotton candy, "Hehe......"

With a familiar look and a familiar voice, Boss Wu suddenly realized that the cute girl in front of him was Nangong Yu.

"Eh, how did you find this place? Sit down, sit down. Boss Wu was very enthusiastic and asked Nangong Yu to sit on the recliner in the corner behind him, and glanced her up and down a few times. Boss Wu seemed to be looking at the effect of this dress on Nangong Yu, but in fact, what he wanted to do more was to make sure that Nangong Yu was not injured.

"Don't worry, Boss Wu...... I'm fine...... I came here by accident......" Nangong Yu said, his eyes were attracted by the half-closed book in Boss Wu's hand, "Boss Wu...... What kind of book is this......"

Boss Wu glanced at the book in his hand and smiled and pointed the cover at Nangong Yu. The book was very plainly packaged, a novel called "The Fall of Heroes".

This book is different from the biographies of heroes on weekdays, it is not about how powerful a hero is, nor how heroic a hero's sacrifice is.

This book is about a powerful hero who fought for peace and humanity, and became a criminal and was innocently executed amid people's rumors.

The story it tells is like a hymn, more like an accusation.

To sing praises is to praise the selflessness of this hero, to praise his fearlessness, and to praise his resoluteness in not defecting even if he was framed by people. Accusation, on the other hand, is an accusation of people's selfishness, an accusation of those who are jealous, and an accusation of the dark side of human beings.

"The prototype of this hero is indeed a person, he has appeared. Boss Wu sighed, "He is a very good person, but he was forced to be burned at the stake because of those two-faced people." ”

Boss Wu was talking to himself, and suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with Nangong Yu's expression.

An unspeakable pain clung to her neck like a rope on a gallows. Even before the execution began, the fear and pressure of death had already overwhelmed her, and she was almost on the verge of life and death.

Boss Wu tilted his head curiously to look at Nangong Yu's eyes, and in an instant, a terrifying picture flashed through her eyes.

The lovely eyes that reflected the tiled floor suddenly reflected a gray city.

In that city, there was a huge square that was crowded. In the midst of the crowd, a gallows was placed on a high platform, and next to the gallows, was a desperate white-haired girl.

"It's the best thing to do, I'm sorry. ”

The executioner put a rope around her neck, and she somehow didn't react at all, and just stood stiff.

The gray sunlight illuminated the gray crowd, and the crowd of onlookers sat and watched, as if they were puppets watching a play, indifferently watching her step by step up the steps of death.

The executioner asked her last words, and she hesitated stiffly for a long time, and finally only said the words that she repeated countless times.

"You ...... Really misunderstood me......"

As soon as the words fell, the girl felt the soles of her feet hanging, and she couldn't make any sound. Before the execution, those fears and grievances were already like the ropes that oppressed her at the moment, making her unable to breathe.

What people saw was that the executioner had her executed. As everyone knows, it was not only the executioner who pushed her down from the abyss of death, but also the onlookers.

At that moment, the gray city was stained with blood, and the girl's eyes were bright red, and she could no longer see the world clearly.

When Boss Wu came back to his senses, Nangong Yu had already waved his hand in front of him for a long time.

Was that a hallucination? But the immediacy was too strong. Thinking so, Boss Wu cleared his throat.

"Ah...... Sorry, I just sent a stunned moment. Boss Wu was in a trance at the moment, as if he had just woken up.

"That's right...... Boss Wu ...... You said...... That hero, in such a situation, is not the only way to get the best ending by defecting. ”

As soon as Boss Wu's words fell, Nangong Yu opened his mouth immediately. She seemed decisive, but in fact she had been hesitating for a long time, struggling with pain for a long time.

Nangong Yu thought that Boss Wu would give a resolute negative, but in the end, what she got was an answer that she didn't expect.

"If those people are really hopelessly wretched people in the quagmire, then that hero doesn't need to protect them anymore. Because heroes exist only for justice and kindness, not for absolute cover-up. ”

Boss Wu's answer went deep into Nangong Yu's heart word by word, and after a long silence, Nangong Yu's words seemed to come from a strange cave, from a ghost's question to the traveler.

"But...... What if most of these people were not completely malicious, but simply lost themselves in rumors?"

These heavy words came out of the mouth of the beautiful soul of such a flower season, which made Boss Wu feel uncomfortable.

What did she go through? Why did a person like her, who was supposed to live happily, say such heavy topics? Referring to her appearance when he first saw her, countless questions tugged at Boss Wu's heart over and over again, making him cautious every time he said a word, for fear that he would turn this fragile soul into pieces.

I remember that in the middle of the night, Boss Wu habitually got up to go to the toilet, and took a look at her room out of concern.

At that time, Boss Wu heard what she had been silently chanting in her mouth.

"Forgive...... Leave me alone...... Bar"

Even if it was a dream talk, Boss Wu seemed to be able to hear the crying in her words. She's certainly not just a simple, ordinary, homeless child.

After hesitating for a long time, Boss Wu opened his mouth again in a serious tone, but the topic still pointed to the hero:

"Born, eternal heroes never exist. Because, no matter how powerful a hero is, he can't beat the people, and when he loses the hearts of the people, he is no longer a hero. What can kill heroes is not how desperate the predicament is, not how powerful the force is, but the rumors and slander of the people. But ......"

Nangong Yu slowly raised his head, and there was a little expectation in his godless, heart-wrenching eyes. This makes Boss Wu's words at this time especially important, because these words may save a lost soul, or they may become the last hand that pushes her off the edge of the cliff.

"A hero, even if he is ruined, even if he has made a big mistake, as long as he is determined, he can one day become a new hero. After all, a hero is not a person, but a shadow of people's love. ”

In Boss Wu's resolute and trusting eyes, Nangong Yu seemed to see something, and suddenly felt a trace of comfort.

The time suddenly arrived in the afternoon, Nangong Yu left the bookstore and silently walked towards Boss Wu's house.

In her heart, there seemed to be something locked.

Half a year ago, in the mayor's office of Weidun City Government, a man asked to meet with the mayor. If it is an ordinary citizen, it is obviously impossible to meet the mayor in this way.

"Are you?" asked the mayor of Guardian City.

"I'm here to inform you of something. The man sat down without hesitation, as if he were in his own home, "For example, we are going to play a game with you." ”

"Games?"

The man took out a letter and handed it to the mayor, who opened it and found a business card inside. This business card is an "informant", and the man insists that the mayor must be able to use it.

Then, the man began to say something that seemed inexplicable to the mayor.

Suppose a mouse escapes from a laboratory and that mouse has strange powers. This power will kill anyone like a plague, which makes it like a bomb that will explode if you are not careful.

And this little mouse has just broken into your home, although it looks pitiful to ask you for help, but the things it carries may leave your family with no place to bury. In this case, you will choose to ignore it, catch it, or kill it outright.

Later, when someone from the lab comes to you and tells you that you want the guinea pig, what will you do?

"Why do you say this?"

"You answer first. ”

The mayor was silent, and wanted to blast him out as if he had nothing to do, but then, his intuition told him that it wasn't easy.

In the silence, the man added: "If you don't give it, then the people in the lab will make trouble in your house, and you are no match for them at all." ”

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the answer is already obvious, no matter who it is, the guinea pig used for experiments is dangerous. But the mayor thought, why do those people want that guinea pig so much?

The man said that the guinea pig would ask them for help, then the guinea pig was definitely not the Elizabeth rat who was doing the experiment literally, it must represent someone.

Was he testing the mayor, or was he really just bored? Or was he trying to tell something.

"Do you need to think about it? Avoid incidents, just hand it over, and you'll be fine. The man egged.

"Really...... Then hand it over. The mayor replied subconsciously.

At the moment when the mayor had just finished speaking, the man suddenly showed a strange joy, and then immediately sneered. This sneer made the mayor's hairs stand on end.

"Looks like you haven't figured it out yet...... But that's okay, you still have time. The man laughed, "Then you'll have to make a choice." ”

"What do you mean?" the mayor unconsciously became alert.

"Because...... The guinea pig...... It's already in your city......"