"Today's young people are too proud."

"Refusing to bow your head is something that looks great, but is actually very stupid. Because people's necks are ordinary bones and muscles, it is impossible to always rise, otherwise it will break after a long time. ”

"It's a very simple thing to be too rigid and easy to break, but it's clear that you young people don't understand it. With a lot of strength, he was not afraid of the sky and the earth, so he thought he was very powerful. But this kind of power is superficial, like porcelain, and it will shatter when touched. Once broken, you will really see the world as it is, and you will truly realize what strength is and what gap is called. ”

"It's actually a sad thing."

"If you're lucky, you proud teenagers may survive when your pride is broken. But more often, it will simply die. ”

"You've faced death for so long, and you naturally understand what it means. It was a place of ignorance, of non-existence. To be dead is to be dead, to have no more knowledge and feelings, no more to any hope or desire, nothing but darkness. Actually, you don't even recognize the darkness. Because you're dead. ”

"It's a very sad thing."

"But you proud young men think that you have a sword in your hand, that you can break through the sky, that you can break this fate."

"But pride is pride, and facts are facts. It's something that can't be broken anyway. Just like everyone dies, it's a fate that can't be broken. ”

The old man said so much that even he didn't understand it. Why do you suddenly say so much.

He didn't understand, but Xie Xiaoman did, so he laughed more and more proudly.

"So you're the one." The smile on Xie Xiaoman's face was very bright, "You are the one who was broken with pride and lived more and more humblely." ”

In this world, there has been no one who dares to say that Chu madmen are humble.

So the Chu madman laughed wildly. Momentum like a rainbow: "What do you know?" You're just a half-grown kid, and there's so much you haven't seen and too many things you don't understand! The world is full of compromises and exchanges. Do you think that with your pride, you can change the world? ”

Xie Xiaoman was not afraid, and still spoke loudly: "I know that this world may not change because of me." But at the very least. I don't want to change myself because of this world! ”

"I know what compromise is and what the big picture is. Perhaps, in the face of those things, I will also choose the path you have taken. However, I will only choose what I think is the right path, and I will not choose the path that others force me to take. I choose, and I will be responsible for my choice. ”

"Maybe the end of this path is broken pride, maybe death. But since chosen. I won't regret it. Even if I die, I die with pride. Man is inherently dead. It is better to die than to steal life. ”

"I know that this kind of talk may sound too ridiculous and naïve, but after all, this is the little bit of blood that remains in everyone's heart."

Xie Xiaoman chuckled lightly and muttered in a low voice: "Even when Wang Jingwei was young, he also wrote 'Draw the knife into a fast, live up to the head of the youth'." Although things didn't go as well as expected, pride is pride after all, even if it's only for a moment, it's good......"

"Exchanging life for ephemeral pride? Even if the pride itself is wrong? The Chu madman asked, chuckling.

Xie Xiaoman shook his head: "My Uncle Anshi said that in this world, there is no right or wrong. ”

This is a conversation that just happened yesterday, and Xie Xiaoman thought so.

The old man fell silent.

The old man is no longer a Chu madman, that was his name when he was young, and now, he is just an old man, an ordinary, dry and decayed, occasionally holding the huqin and playing and singing some dumb and mocking tunes, and occasionally opening his eyes to look at the old man in the world.

He knew his current situation, so he didn't deny Xie Xiaoman's words, but he was angry, angry at himself, and then turned lonely.

The old man laughed, laughing self-deprecatingly.

"I'm not going to kill you, because I'm not a dog under Rouran's feet." The old man looked into Xie Xiaoman's eyes, "But I won't save you either, because what you said is right, I can't save you." ”

The old man was a little vicissitudes, and the wrinkles on his face began to become deep.

Xie Xiaoman looked at his face and suddenly felt a little remorseful.

What are you fighting for? The other party is just an old man, and if he takes the bus, he will give up his seat, why is he facing it like this now, but he is so angry?

"I don't have the power to save you, I can only watch you fend for yourself, and it's really my fault." The old man looked up at the sky. Because the roof has been destroyed by the aura he just emitted, it looks convenient to look up at the sky now, "We actually had an agreement with Rouran at that time, and we ruled by rowing the river, and we didn't care about the affairs of his side, and he was not allowed to interfere in the affairs of this side." But your existence is a variable......"

The old man sighed slightly: "The scattering of Rouran will fall to the left of the river, which is an unusual thing in itself. We may be able to protect you, but it will take all our might. The power of Rouran...... You should know, it's much stronger than me......"

"I understand," Xie Xiaoman lowered his head and looked at his hands, "Such a sacrifice is too big, and it is not worth burying the lives of tens of millions of people for my own sake." ”

The old man did not speak, and fell silent.

"I'm sorry." Xie Xiaoman lowered his eyes and apologized a little abruptly.

She struggled to straighten up and looked at the old man's respectful salute: "Fang is my mistake." Originally, you were not obligated to save me, and I should not have persecuted anything. And...... Respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and my attitude is really not very good. ”

The old man felt a little speechless, and reached out to straighten his robe.

"That's it! Farewell! Xie Xiaoman turned around and left, endured the pain on his body and walked a few steps, then he remembered something, turned around and asked, "Is the Ten Thousand Thunder Array aimed at Rouran?" Is there anything else in this city? I'll steer clear of it. ”

"No," the old man pointed to the faint spiritual wall outside the courtyard, "this is the only one, and there is no other semicolon." ”

……

……

"That little girl has a poem, and there is a sentence in the word that describes you as if you are just right, called 'It's too cold in a high place'. You've been staying in a place like Kunlun, not to mention people, and you can't even see a few birds and beasts, so you'll be lonely, right? ”

"It's been lonely for a long time. There is only such a little thing in the world that goes back and forth endlessly, and thousands of years have been so reincarnated, how can it not be lonely? By the way, the sentence you said, 'The height is not cold', is Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Head" in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was copied by the little girl to the wedding blessing, which is too overkill, killing chickens and knives. ”

“…… Thousands of years are under our feet, and everything is in our eyes. Even just thinking about it makes me feel bored. ”

"Life is suffering, no matter how you live, it is all the same."

The old man sat alone on the ruins, the sun had set, and there was no one around.

He seemed to be talking to himself, but he was facing the northwest direction.

"Sparing that little girl's life shouldn't be a big deal for you. Rouran is the god of eternal life, and even if one of the seventy-seven pieces is missing, it can be reborn, isn't it? ”

"There are billions of lives in this world, but Er'er, why should I favor one over the other?"

The indifferent voice came into the ears of the old man, and although he could not see the person who made the voice, he could also feel the indifference of the owner of the voice.

The old man sometimes thinks that "Lao Tzu" says that "heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs", but in fact, there is not much difference between Rouran itself and heaven and earth, and this kind of indifference is also an inevitability.

It's just that Xie Xiaoman...... After all, it's just a simple girl, why do you have to bear all this? As the girl herself said, this is really unfair......

"Then," said the old man, whose face also faded, "let her end her life quickly, and it will be a relief for her." ”

"Don't you think it's interesting?"

"What's interesting?" The old man frowned.

"Isn't it interesting to watch people struggle with death?"

The old man got up angrily: "Even if you treat human life as an ant, you shouldn't play with it like this!"

"Death is a gift, so is life, and it is also a gift to experience joy and pain. What is my gift to your people, and what is to you? ”

"She is my Jin Xie Xiaoman, the bloodline is different, but she inherited your bloodline by chance! How can you be called your people? The old man was furious.

"Jinren?" Rou Ran chuckled, like a god, "She's just one of billions of living beings, and her soul is floating here, and it happens to be contaminated with my soul." You can ask her for yourself whether she regards this place as her hometown, or if she sees herself as a guest of the Jin Dynasty. ”

The old man fell silent.

Rou Ran continued to chuckle, "These things may be too complicated for you. After all, in your eyes, there is only this world. It's really sad to live a simple life in a four-dimensional world. ”

"Don't forget! You Rouran was just a simple life in this world at first! Because of his anger, the green tendons on the old man's forehead have flare.

Soft smiled indifferently: "Summer insects can't talk about ice." ”

With just this sentence, Rouran didn't say anything more, and disappeared from the old man's consciousness.

This was the first conversation between the old man and Rouran after that war.

purpose, but just for an ordinary girl. (To be continued.) )