Volume II: The Frontier Chapter XVII A Long Story

Mu Chen and Jia Yue didn't understand each other because of their different views on human beings, especially Jia Yue's-for-tat words made Mu Chen unable to answer, so the two of them remained quiet and fell into deep thought.

"Am I going too far, those people deserve to die, but they shouldn't be directed against him, and he didn't do anything wrong. ”

"If he hadn't brought Chunyue out, there wouldn't have been the current situation, waiting for a long time, there was such an unreliable group of people who came, they should have been killed. ”

"But Chunyue was not kidnapped by him, she came voluntarily, and he kept running around trying to find a way after the person was lost, these people have nothing to do with him, and he was also deceived by those two prison markets. ”

"He still came up with the idea, if he hadn't believed those two liar brokers, would it have become what it is now?"

"Jiayue, Jiayue, what are you hesitating about, no one has forced you to come here from the beginning, the mercenary who was opposed in the wilderness not only didn't kill you, but also took you to find your sister, even if Chunyue is lost and related to him, then you should also rely on your own ability to find it, you have always only believed in yourself, and have been facing all the problems alone, and now you choose to believe in him, choose to rely on him, and when there is a disagreement, you will speak ill of people, and the responsibility is all on him, is this still the you I know? You are not the kind of person who is easily controlled by emotions and cannot distinguish between right and wrong. You should apologize for your unbridled words, quick, go and apologize. ”

The good and evil in Jiayue's mind refuted each other, and finally jumped out of it, figured it all out, and after getting the answer, she peeked at Mu Chen in shame, not knowing how to speak.

Mu Chen, on the other side, sat in place after cleaning up the corpse, holding a piece of weeds in his hand and shaking back and forth, his expression was a little sad and a little self-blamed.

"Hmm... Are you hungry?" Jia Yue plucked up the courage to ask, but the question was irrelevant.

"I'm not hungry, if you're hungry, I'll go into the mountains to look for prey. Mu Chen stood up.

"No, sit down, I'm not hungry. Jiayue hadn't put down her body yet, she wanted to take the initiative to explain but was afraid of embarrassment and embarrassment, so she said these two sentences, and it was quiet for a while.

"Junyue's matter is my fault, whether you believe it or not, I will definitely get her back. Mu Chen threw away the grass in his hand and spoke first.

"That's not what I said when I said that, I don't blame you, you don't have to control your emotions, you don't have to blame yourself. ”

"It's really my fault, if I had been more careful, I wouldn't have encountered these things. ”

"Everything can be planned in advance seamlessly, so is there any accident in this world? I really don't blame you, what will we do tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow I'm going to look for people on the black market, and you can release the rest of the people first. Mu Chen remembered the drunks he saw in the mountains and guessed that they were still being detained.

"Are you still going to the black market to find someone? are you still looking for those two liars?" Jia Yue only responded to the first half of the sentence, she knew in her heart that she would not kill that group of drunks in the end, but she didn't want to mention it now, and she didn't want to discuss it.

"It is the most efficient way to let the village name go into the mountains to find people, and as for Luo Crocodile, I must hear a satisfactory explanation. ”

"You're not going to kill them or punish them, just one explanation?" Jia Yue didn't blame Mu Chen, but she hated Luo Crocodile and Li Jackal, she didn't understand that the ruthless mercenaries who had gone to great lengths to search for the entire tribe in the Boundary Map Department in order not to leave a single one alive only needed an explanation after being deceived.

"You won't understand, they are human, a race that is born cursed. ”

"I don't understand what you mean, what is the difference between human beings, why are they born cursed? If human beings are like those two brokers, they deserve to be cursed. ”

"Let's talk calmly, let's not talk about them, what races do you know this world is made of?"

"Wastelanders, mercenaries, humans, monsters, dragons, and..."

"Okay, dragons, monsters and us are different species, and they are too different from humans in every way, so I won't compare them. Let's compare you, me, and ordinary humans. ”

"Okay, you say, I'm going to hear what makes you so different. ”

"Human beings have a lifespan of several decades, and in the middle, they have to fight ignorance, disease, and aging. We are born adults and can understand the world in a short time, while human beings can only be independent after twenty or thirty years of learning and getting along with each other while being protected. When they were teenagers, they could not express anything but basic desires, they looked so savage and unreasonable, but they were powerless to resist in the face of danger, they were slaughtered by others, and they grew up in a completely different way from us, can we really understand it? We hardly get sick, except for injuries, nothing can bring about changes in our bodies, while human beings are tormented by all kinds of diseases in this world, some of which last for decades until they die. Once sick, it will become a burden, emaciated, listless, bedridden for a long time, even relatives and friends, obviously the pillar of the middle-aged family, not only understand the world, but also have enough survival skills, but also control the fate of himself and even the entire family, but once sick, everything will change, he has to comfort himself all the time, to persevere for the condition that does not know when to heal, to understand that the occasional disgusted gaze is not malicious, to balance the contradiction between healthy thoughts and weak bodies, and even to convince himself that being given up is the best choice, these changes may only happen in a few yearsWe don't grow old, we can't understand the pain of life dying and you are powerless to resist, we can't understand the frustration that the ambition in our chest can't be completed because of the aging body, we can't understand the helplessness of your loved ones leaving one after another and you can't even release your grief to your heart's content, just because you are old, you are restricted in what you do, and the care and care for you on the surface is to hide the hope in their hearts waiting for you to die. Have you ever seen the eyes of a child in the courtyard of the rising sun and the back of a barren land in the field at sunset?

Jiayue thought that he only lived in the human continent all the year round, and he had special feelings for humans, so he was biased, but she didn't expect that in the face of his rhetorical questions, she was speechless, no one had ever discussed similar issues with her in the wasteland, and no one cared about the human race.

"Human beings live in a much harsher environment than ours, they have to face natural disasters, power exploitation, monster invasion, etc., whenever these happen, they can only be forced to play the role of lambs to the slaughter, once they escape or resist, they basically have no chance of life. Humans always experience famine, fighting for their lives for a bag of food, but they are helpless in the face of their relatives who are starving to death. Lords and nobles will punish you for not paying enough taxes, and although you have a thousand reasons, and although your underpayment will not affect him in any way, the person who bears the butcher's knife will always be obliged to judge in the eyes of others for the sake of right. Villages that have no money or ability to defend themselves against the invasion of Warcraft can only watch them run rampant and ravage your home over and over again. When you finally remember that you are a man and not a lamb, you either run away for help, or resist to the end, and those who ask for help are looked down upon, and those who fight bravely are scorned. If fate favors you, there is really someone to help you and someone to support you, then you must succeed, once you fail, you are no longer in the world, everyone will become a demon. ”

Jia Yue couldn't hide her sad expression, and she didn't say a word from Mu Chen's tirade, she watched and listened quietly, as if she was going through this.

"I know you may be a little confused, it is not only the innate factors that cause this sad fate of mankind, but also that human beings are hostile to themselves, if you have done all the wrong things, then don't you deserve to die? Their lives are not easy, but they never give up. A poor farmer who could not support his family did not choose to accept his fate, but worked diligently in the fields regardless of black and white, and the starvation days he experienced during the harvest were not worth mentioning, even if the harvest only solved the urgent need. A skilled hunter with poor equipment did not put down his bow and crossbow, but persevered in the mountains to hunt, and when the fur was sold, the new bow and crossbow would accompany him to continue to appear in the mountains, even if his income did not increase. A young man who had studied carpentry since childhood, living in a village that did not require this work, did not choose to change careers, but practiced his skills diligently, and when the notice was posted, he would enter the city in high spirits, just to see with his own eyes the grandeur and prosperity that the adults of his childhood had called, even if the city was only a few dozen kilometers away. The farmer for food, the hunter for money, the young man for the long journey, and the abundant grain, the new bow and crossbow, and the waiting notice may be the prize for them to adhere to the ideal, and their cursed life is survived by these small achievements in stages, but it is not worth mentioning in our eyes. So Luo Crocodile and Li Jackal lied to me, I only think that it is the prize for their survival, and it is true that hurting others will be punished, but for the entire human race, they are like flames swaying in the wind, tenacious and fragile, no matter what it burns, I will not extinguish it. ”

After Mu Chen finished speaking, he looked at Jiayue with a calm expression, and after staring at it for two seconds, he showed a hint of a smile.

Jiayue was still in a trance, but it could be seen that he smiled and asked him, "What are you laughing at, I understand." ”

"Hahahaha, it doesn't matter if you understand it or not, these are all things I use to convince myself, maybe the crux of the problem is that I live in the human continent but I'm not a human being, it's so simple, you don't have to care, I have to thank you for being willing to listen to my nonsense here for a long time. ”

"Come back. I summoned all the skeleton soldiers who watched the drunks, and I don't care if they can get out of the mountains or not. I'm not going to be hostile to humans anymore, but..."

"I understand, you can understand me. Hungry, I'll go into the mountains to hunt, and you can make a fire. Mu Chen interrupted Jiayue's words, maybe he was talking too much, and he didn't want to explain anymore. Summoning Cerberus and entering the mountain, Katsuki watched his back until it was blurred, then got up to make a fire, and for them, this unquiet night was finally over.