Chapter 50: The Off-Topic
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The road of life is full of all kinds of accidents, good and bad, and the result is joy, anger and sorrow.
Accidents sometimes happen inexplicably, or, rather, unpredictable.
One day, I just left my home happily to go somewhere, and the next second I accidentally died under the wheel of a runaway carriage.
I don't know what will happen in the next moment, and I don't even think about it.
Sometimes, however, accidents can be avoided.
From others, from oneself, consciously, unconsciously, the branches of fate go to the final choice of oneself.
Arling and Palau.
If at a normal age of life, they are halfway through two-thirds of the way, that is, one-third has passed and two-thirds has not arrived.
At their age, they are perhaps happier than many people, because they have a stable life, a career.
The only regret is that they don't have a family of their own.
They came from civilian backgrounds.
There is injustice in this world, or in other words, the world itself is unfair.
Some people are born into noble and wealthy families, some people are born into poor families, and some people even die the second they are born.
Complaining about the sky and others will not change the status quo.
Arlin and Palau, they are very ordinary, like passers-by who can be seen everywhere on the streets of the royal capital.
If there is something special about them, if there is something they are good at, they can be said to be hard-working.
They graduated from an ordinary academy, and they were tested by countless failed parties to enter the Royal Capital Security Department, starting as a small security officer in a certain area, and now they have been promoted to the Investigation Section of the Royal Capital Security Department.
In the investigation department, they are not the oldest, they are not the youngest, but their abilities are the most ordinary, and the reason why they can be promoted comes from their more than ten years of hard work.
If the Ambofen case had not happened, they might have toiled like this, with hard work but no talent, and their life peaks had reached its peak.
After being in charge of investigating the case, they seem to have found a new future, press down their chips, and gamble on a qiē.
Life is so ordinary, if you are unwilling, it is better to give it a go.
Even if they fail, they just lose their ordinary life in the future.
From the time the hotel tracks the target, until the other party enters the Wang Li Zhongyāng Academy.
They did not enter, for Palau suddenly remembered that yesterday Master Lotlyn seemed to have warned them that they would not pay attention if they entered the Academy.
They just have to wait, wait for each other to come out.
They didn't ask why, they didn't have the courage to fail once, or rather, they weren't qualified to ask.
Doubts were in their minds, so they chose a long and boring wait.
It wasn't until the shocking news of the explosion suddenly spread in the square of Wangdu College that they looked at each other in disbelief.
Wang Li zhongyāng College is under a tree somewhere on the street opposite.
"Arling, what the hell is going on? I felt as if something terrible had happened to me. Looking at the chaotic array of noble guards across the street, Palau said with wide eyes.
"I don't know, maybe it's a rumor." Arlin clutched his forehead in disbelief.
"But—" said Palau, pointing to a certain part of the street, "the word that has just come out appears to be that of a minister of the kingdom who has climbed into a carriage and fled. ”
"I see it." Arlin felt a mess in his brain, he shook his head, and said, "You say, should we go back and report the news to the Royal Capital Guard Department and Lord Lotlyn?" ”
"But what about the people we are following? If the news is true and the target has an accident—" Palau thought with a frown.
"Look!"
Suddenly, Arlin slapped Palau on the shoulder and shouted at the academy gates.
When some of the noble guards began to break through the gates of the academy, more and more noble guards continued to pour in with this trend, and the chaos of the scene was staggering.
"Whether the news is true or not, we'd better follow and enter the academy now." Arlin grabbed his companion and walked through the street with some anxious steps.
"But didn't Lord Lothlin tell us to wait outside?" Palau broke free of Arling's grasp and looked at him as he walked.
"Of course, but that's normal, but now that something like this has happened, do you think it's important or is the goal important?"
"This—" Hearing Arlin's question, Palau struggled, "If that's the case, why don't you and I split up and report back to Lord Lothlin while entering the academy." ”
Pouring into the chaotic and noisy ranks of noble guards, Arlin didn't seem to hear Palau's voice, he turned to look at him and said, "What were you talking about?" If you don't enter now, I'm afraid you won't have a chance. ”
Palau sighed and followed closely.
In Investigative Cory, his relationship with Arling is the best because they are the same kind of people.
Arlin was a few years older than him, and unlike his mediocre and weak character, Arlin often had a decisiveness in dealing with people and things that he lacked.
A lot of times when they act together, Arling takes the lead.
When he was in the service of Lord Lorthling, it was Arlin who approached him, perhaps out of help to his fellow kind, or perhaps out of loneliness, he pulled him onto this great ship in an unknown direction.
Everyone has their flaws, and Palau has them. He hates his current life, and even his current self.
In his young college life, he often became the target of bullying by his peers because of his weak personality, and he did not resist, he told himself in his heart that if he resisted, then the humiliation he suffered would be even more severe.
Or, he didn't have the courage to resist, and those words in his heart were just a comfort to himself.
After graduating from the academy, he came to the dream place of young people - the royal capital.
He was determined to enter the royal capital guard hall, as if only there could he find his lost courage.
No matter how many times he failed, he persevered until he succeeded.
But the failure is that he did not find his courage, and his character remains the same.
……
"Arling, do you believe in the afterlife?"
In a pool of blood, Palau smiled reluctantly and looked at the fallen Arling Road beside him.
"I don't know, I just know that I killed you." Arling's voice was small, weak, as if it could stop at any moment.
Palau couldn't see Arlin's face, because his face was facing away from him, and he no longer had the strength to turn his head away.
Follow a team of noble guards in different directions, watch them stalemate with the academy students in one block, watch them negotiate, watch their final conflict.
When they saw the students being disrupted and knocked down, they thought they would move forward.
Unbeknownst to him, a group of strangers hiding in black robes appeared, they were like ghosts, and they were like the blades of death harvesting the lives of each of the guards.
Arling and Palau had been in the Royal Capital Guard for many years, they had seen killings, they had seen dead people, but they had never seen such a reckless one-sided killing.
Blood soaked the earth, and blood flowed into a stream.
They were afraid, they were afraid that they would be a corpse in front of them.
As if forgetting jì a qiē, all they could think of was to flee for their lives.
But they didn't escape.
The black-robed man caught up with them, his sword slashing at them with ruthlessness.
In the face of death, Arlin had shouted out his identity, but that identity was more like a talisman.
The opponent's sword showed no mercy.
"Arling, you know what? Sometimes it's better to live than to die. Palau spat out blood and smiled bitterly.
"Really?"
It took a while for Arlin's voice to come slowly, as if it was his best effort to be able to speak.
"There were times when I thought about death, I thought about suicide, but I didn't die, I always, I always tried to live. Because, I want to change my cowardly life, but ...... I didn't make it. ”
"I used to envy people because I always felt that they were happier than me, and I thought about finding a woman to marry, but you know what? The woman I used to like is now someone else's wife, and I didn't have the courage to reveal my heart to her, and in the end, she fell in love with someone else. ”
"Every time I drink, every time I get drunk, I sneak to see that woman, I hide in the corner and watch her, she is very happy, maybe she made the right choice, so, I have no intention of getting married again, because-"
"Ahem—"
Palau clenched his fists with the last of his strength, inhaling the last air of this world.
"Because of what?"
For a long time, a long time, Arling's voice came.
This time, he never heard his response again.
Tears kept sliding from the corners of Arlin's eyes, and his friend, his best friend, was gone.
He closed his eyes, he felt so tired.
Darkness gradually swallowed up a qiē.
Remorse, guilt.
……
"Did you hear anything?" Ciel suddenly said to Xia Lan beside him.
"What did you hear?" Charland Road.
Cill shook his head and said, "It seems to be a human scream, but this is probably my delusion." ”
On the viewing platform, the nobles gathered together in twos and threes and whispered, and the academy students in the square made different slight noises.
When there are many people, the sound is also loud, and the loud sound is easy to affect one's hearing.
Xia Lan closed her eyes, and with the sense of qi, the upper swordsman on the viewing platform suddenly left the two not long ago.
Soon, his keen sense of hearing felt the mournful wail coming from afar.
When things go wrong, there must be demons.
He probably understood the purpose of the high-ranking swordsmen who had left, they were killing people.
At this time, some of the Blood Banner members in the square began to withdraw, and those who noticed it immediately informed their companions, and when the news spread, the discussion gradually increased.
In front of the ceremony, the vanished representative of the Blood Banner Society, Tirrant, reappeared on the stage.
"All the compatriots of the association, lift the siege of the square, and all the noble ministers will be detained and go to the college complex!"
"Our battle is about to begin in earnest!"