On the long way back, I don't see the high spirits when I came, and the three people who look like each other have their own thoughts, they can't guess, they can't tell, they can't understand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSay goodbye to the mountains that have experienced hardships, stay away from the barrenness of the poor countryside, gallop through the vast and rich plains, and return to the bustling and noisy civilization.

Ahead lies the town of Cologne, where trials begin and end.

"Green, what's next for you?"

In front of the city gate, Coretler stopped the emaciated horses under his crotch and turned his head to ask Xia Langong, who looked indifferent beside him.

"There is still a week before the deadline for the exams, and I am going to spend a few days in Cologne." Charandi rode slowly forward with his horses in his hands.

"Then Willy and I will return to the station first." Corrett said.

Charan waved her hand and stepped into the open gates of Cologne without looking back.

Looking at his fading back, Corrett shook his head and beckoned to the blank Willie, "Let's go." ”

Unexpectedly, Willy was indifferent, still staring ahead in a daze.

"Willy?!" Corrett frowned and urged.

"Corlett, I want to drink." Willie finally spoke.

"Willie, paralysis with alcohol won't solve anything." Colette said.

"I just want to get drunk once."

Willy turned his head and smiled at him, then rode towards Cologne without hesitation.

Colette sighed secretly, he could only follow silently because he also wanted to get drunk once, nothing else, as Willy said, just to get drunk and rest.

After finding a tavern with a quiet environment, sitting in a darkly lit corner, calling the bartender to bring the strongest pure ale, Corlet and Willy sat opposite each other, silent, only tacitly raised their glasses and drank them.

The stimulation of the mouth was spicy, and it was like a burning fire in the throat and stomach, and all the limbs were filled with heat, and he burped violently, and Corlett's face turned slightly red, and his brain was unconsciously a little dizzy, it was not the first time he had drunk, but he had never drunk such strong wine.

On the contrary, Willy's face did not change, as if he had drunk a normal glass of boiled water.

Some people like to talk after drinking, some people are silent after drinking, people who don't like to drink usually don't understand people who like to drink, they usually have a question, why do they like to drink when the wine is not good at all?

In fact, there are very few people who really like to drink, and most people like not the taste of alcohol, but the feeling of being drunk.

Avoidance, courage, and venting, although the three are not enough to summarize the reasons for people who buy drunk, but most people buy drunk nothing more than that.

Wine is a good thing.

At the very least, it gives people another outlet to express their feelings.

Glass after glass, the alcoholic Corlett tried to maintain the last trace of sobriety and not let himself fall asleep on the table, he shook his head, in the misty sight Willy was still drinking, and as soon as the words of persuasion and the like reached his mouth, a wine burp was sent back, maybe he was a little sober, thinking that since he was here to buy drunk, why should he persuade alcohol to affect the atmosphere?

As night fell, there were more and more people in the tavern, and all kinds of noisy voices could be heard everywhere, among which the most heated topic was the sudden accumulation of heavy troops in the area of Braunschweig-Sarus, as we all know, Braunschweig and Sarus are important border towns in the Radiant Sanctuary sphere of influence, and their strategic significance is equivalent to that of the Yannan Mountains to the Kingdom of Angelion, once the two fall, it means that the road to the Revelation Mountain will be completely flat.

What does the Heather Empire want to do? Could it be that the Heather Empire is so mad that it wants to go to war with the Radiant Sanctuary, a religious organization that has existed in Eldran for tens of thousands of years? The Dark Ages that have once again caused chaos have arrived? Of course, there are very few people who have this idea, after all, everyone knows that the Radiant Sanctuary is a decisive force in Elderland, as long as the royal family and nobles of the Heather Empire are in good hands, no one will dare to start a war with the Radiant Sanctuary!

Nowadays, the mainstream of the public is inclined to the Heather Empire, fearing that the Radiant Sanctuary will send the Knights to interfere with their aggressive pace of expansion and unification, so they have put a heavy force on the border to show their unyielding toughness.

The Glorious Templar, dedicated to peace, had recently sent a large delegation of envoys to the Heather Empire's capital, Drochchen, and the three white-clad patriarchs, under the escort of a knightly order of five hundred Templars, were preparing to start a series of negotiations. Now that the envoys are about to arrive in Drochchin, the entire continent is watching the outcome of this negotiation.

War or Peace?

Where will the fate of Elderland go in the future?

According to the latest military trends of the Heather Empire, the pace of their westward expansion has spread to the Duchy of Burburnel, and many port cities along the south coast of the mainland have been attacked by the Heather Empire's navy from time to time.

"Did you find out? Recently, more and more people have fled to the area of Revelation Mountain, and the city hall has been worried about this matter recently. ”

At the nearest table to Willy and Corlett, three or five well-dressed townsfolk were gathered together, but someone was worried.

"But it's not, you go to the green wheat neighborhood and take a look, now you can see idle-free faces everywhere on the street, theft and robbery and other crimes are frequent, and even two days ago there was a vicious murder, the holy light is above! Is this still our peaceful and beautiful Cologne? "One person at the same table can't bear to vomit bitterness." Now I don't dare to go out alone at night, and I am afraid that my life and property will be violated without someone to accompany me. ”

"I have a relative who works as a clerk in the town hall, and I heard him say that the town hall has been in turmoil for the past two days, and some people advocate the expulsion of the refugees from the city and the placement of all of them in makeshift huts outside the city; Others argued that it was not in line with the doctrine of charity of the Church, and as a result, the bureaucrats of the town hall were fighting every day, and now they went to the church of Baria to ask the bishop for a ruling. One of them poured out the wine in his glass.

"If you want me to say that you should expel all the refugees in the city and restore the peace of Cologne!" One said loudly.

"After all, there are still a lot of good people among the refugees, and we can't treat all good and bad people equally." One spoke out against it. "The doctrine of the Church teaches us to be humble in all things, to be gentle and patient, and to bear with one another in love!"

"If refugees hurt you and your family and affect your life, would you still show love and tolerance for them?" The man snorted coldly. "Do not forget that the doctrine also teaches us that we should not be false in our lovers, that we should hate evil, and that we should draw near to good!"

“……”

"Don't argue with each other." One person came out to play a round and said: "It's rare for everyone to come out to drink and relax, don't continue to talk about these heavy topics." ”

"Anyway, there has been a serious shortage of patrols in charge of law and order recently, and it seems that the city hall is planning to recruit a group of people, do any of you relatives want to go?" The man who had relatives at the town hall duly diverted the subject.

"Forget it, it's good for my nephew to help me in the store." One of them smiled and refused.

"I would like to recommend the second son of the family to go, but unfortunately he has been weak since he was a child, I am worried that he will not be able to stand the suffering of the patrol, you look at how busy the patrol has been during this time, just say that I am on the street in the patrol Lelin, busy until the early hours of the morning every day to go home, his wife has complained to the neighbors several times!" Someone shook his head and sighed.

"Hey! If you want me to say that the town hall can't just hire people this time, have you forgotten the Trialists who came to take the Templar exam? Their second round of evaluations seemed to be coming to an end, and perhaps the town hall would ask the church of Valia to pull them all out to make up for the lack of patrol personnel. Someone guessed.

"What are you kidding, how can those trial students who are going to become honorable Templars in the future succumb to a small patrol!" One immediately retorted.

"Of course, those trial students who are qualified to become Templars are impossible, but what about the trial students who are eliminated by the assessment?" The man said confidently.

"It's quite possible, according to what you say." The person who retorted suddenly came to his senses.

Corret, who had heard all the talk at the wine table, suddenly smiled bitterly, he supported his head with his hands, and his eyes fell on Willy, who was still drinking numbly, God knows how much he had drunk.

"Willy, do you think it's possible for us to be eliminated?"

Seeing that Willy didn't answer, Corette said to himself: "If we are eliminated, maybe joining the town's patrol is my best choice......"

He seemed to have something on his mind to talk about, but in the end he sighed deeply, raised the rest of the wine from the glass on the table, and drank it down.

"Willie, Corlett, long time no see."

At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them.

Corette looked up, and when his drunken eyes saw the person in his sight, he stood up suddenly, stretched out his hand and tugged at the other man's sleeve, and roared with a hideous face: "Ralph! You coward who abandoned his fellow men still have the face to come to us? ”

The person who came was none other than Ralph, who had not been heard from not long ago, and in the face of Corlett's fierce questioning, he just reached out and wiped the spit on the other party's face, and said with a calm and natural expression: "I'm a coward, aren't you?" ”

"What do you mean?" Corrett tugged at his sleeve again.

"What were you doing when Willie and Connell escaped from the village? What were you doing when they were ambushed? Ralph threw one sharp question after another at him, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with a sneer: "It's true that I'm a coward who escaped from the battle, but you who didn't want to turn your back on your companions and were brave and resolute are not much better, right?" ”

When Corette heard this, his pupils shrank, and the secret in his heart was exposed, and he immediately punched Ralph in the face.

Ralph didn't dodge, he took his blow hard, turned his head, he looked at Corette coldly, his body shook off the other party's cuffs, touched his red and swollen cheeks, he spat on the ground, left a word, and then turned away with disdain.

"If I'm unlucky enough to be eliminated this time, trust me, you won't be an exception."

His meaning is self-evident, if you dare to accuse me of abandoning my companions, I will return the color for the same reason, and no one will be better!

The brief farce only caused a moment of panic at the surrounding wine tables, and before the people in the tavern could come forward, it was already in a hurry, and in a moment, except for the occasional curious glance, the tavern once again resumed its normal noise.

Half-awake, Corrett sat back in his chair, gritting his teeth and looking at a numb Willie with a painful and guilty face.

"Willy! I was sorry for you and Connell in the first place, if I hadn't flinched......"

"No more." Willie interrupted his next apology softly. "It's in the past."

"Willy, don't you blame me?" Corrett was stunned.

“……”

Willie smiled slightly, and then poured heavily on the table.

He was already drunk, he had been drunk a long time ago.

It's just that he can't stop wanting to drink.

People are drunk, but the heart is not drunk.

Tomorrow, he will have a new beginning.

He will say goodbye to the past, to his companions, to himself.

The past is heartbreaking, companions are heart-wrenching, and oneself is disgusting.

Whether it's escape or weakness, it's all his choice in the end. (To be continued.) )