Chapter Eighty-Three: The Weight of the Burden!
"Teacher, we're leaving!"
After a long time, Bradna's voice came from outside the door, and her tone didn't seem to change, but Chen Xi could feel some slight changes.
It seems that what happened in my dreams is also expressed outside!
Without too many expressions of words, Chen Xi put on his leather armor and walked out of the tent.
The folding convenient triangular tent was quickly put away, Chen Xi did not speak, and neither did the people around him, not only Bradna, but also Luo Lan and others.
Knowing that the stream had become gentler and that a mound had been crossed, the former fishing town had reappeared in front of the army!
Closing his eyes slightly and feeling the scorching heat of the sun on his face, Chen Xi didn't know how long it would take him to find his way home, but he only felt that he was getting more and more depressed!
"Teacher, you're carrying a lot of stuff on your back!"
I don't know when, Bradna has come to Chen Xi's side, she said slowly, trying to comfort Chen Xi in an extremely clumsy way.
"Once upon a time, our family lived in the north, further north than the Drune, and our village lived by hunting sea beasts in the northern ice oceans, for generations!"
"But the brutal barbarians attacked our tribe, and they not only plundered our village, killed my parents, but also took all our children captive!"
"At that time, I was just seven years old, and I didn't know whether I should hate or fear first, and I watched as the houses in the village burned down and then covered in snow!"
"Later, I became a slave-like existence in the barbarian tribe, and they used us as bait to lure the ice beasts or giant white bears in the ice field, and many people died!"
"Those who survive by luck will become slaves of suffering, and women will become tools for procreation! Three girls older than me have already been taken away! At that time, I was afraid!"
"But, fortunately, the general appeared, and although he was also a prisoner, he never gave up!"
"He was looking for companions among us, because he was unfamiliar with the layout of the tribe, but we were all numb, numb enough to accept everything!"
"Time passed slowly, until the biggest girl except me was caught, and I was pulled out of my numbness by fear, and I promised the general!"
"We spent half a month planning, and escaped in a dark and snowy night, we crossed the pine forest, the bitter cold season, the world where even the claws of winter did not dare to fight, we crossed the snow slopes of the Iron Thorn Mountains, and fought for the snow wolves!"
"That time, the general was glorified, and I had the scar of inferiority that followed me, and we killed a lot of wolves, many, many wolves, until they didn't dare to come forward again, and even began to run away!"
"We used the wolf's carcass as a foreshadowing, and slept all night, the raw wolf meat was not delicious, but I had to swallow it! At that moment, I had never had the desire to survive, extremely strong!"
"I survived! I joined the general's team, trying to learn how to charge, how to block with a shield with less effort, how to throw a spear farther, how to keep the killing snow from splashing on my body, or splashing on my body!"
"I have only one goal, to erase all humiliation, all hatred!
"After that, we showed up at Fort Dig again, and just when I thought I had a chance to get revenge, we just built the walls and evacuated!"
Bradna told her story slowly, in the voice of others.
"After that, I understood that I was different from the general, the general fought for the glory of the empire!
"So, I began to learn to let go of hatred, I was not in the front, I tried to look at every battle from the perspective of a bystander, and I found that every place where we overcame, every child, every living person, had a different color, there was fear, there was hatred, there was confusion!"
"Just like I did at the beginning!"
Chen Xi turned his head and looked at Bradna, if her guess was right, what she said was when Boisnay was fighting!
"Teacher, until a few days ago, I was still trying not to forget hatred, I tried to take the glory of the empire as an obsession, but I found that time has worn out all hatred, and each of us is an executioner stained with blood, and the hatred that each and every one of us carries is so heavy that people can't breathe, and people can't see the glory!
"So, I gave up! I don't want to be a soldier anymore, I want to be a soldier!"
"Teacher, I know that you may be carrying a lot of heavy things!
At this moment, Bradna's eyes were like white clouds reflecting the sky, her eyes were bright, and after telling all her misery, she squinted her eyes and laughed, and the breeze slowly blew her hair, revealing the scar!
Chen Xi was stunned and stood in place, at this time it was the top of the mound, the sea breeze along the low concave stream, with a little saltiness, mixed with the fishy smell of the fishing town, poured into Chen Xi's nostrils!
What a fresh breath! This long-lost sunshine, like a flame scorching on his heart, dispelled most of the gloom in Chen Xi's heart!
"Nana!"
Chen Xi laughed, and slowly stroked her short hair with his hand, just like a long time ago, caressing Xiaoxiao's stubborn tears.
"You are very brave! However, what I carry is not hatred, it is promise! It is the fate of another person! Promises are often more difficult to let go of than hatred!"
Chen Xi looked at the sky, took a deep breath, and let his apprentice enlighten himself, it was enough to be ashamed!
"Okay! Let's go, no matter where we go, we have to move forward!"
Chen Xi slowly followed the team, Bradna behind him looked at Chen Xi's back, her eyes were complicated, after a long time, her eyes were slightly bent, and she followed Chen Xi's steps and slowly chased after her!
No matter where the road ahead, there is always a way forward!
The army was victorious, and the fish rushed into the fishing town, and the garrison here had already prepared everything.
The wounded were placed, and a ship departed from here, and on board were soldiers with their eyes closed, dressed in glorious armor and helmets by their pillows, slowly moving towards the place where they came!
"How lucky they are!"
On the side, Sver sighed, Chen Xi couldn't help but turn his head and look at Swell, looking puzzled.
Do you know, I have been in the army for seven years, from the beginning of the simplest infantry slowly upward, my comrades-in-arms, died one pile after another, most of their corpses can only be simply buried in a different place, and then a stone tablet was erected on it, engraved with vague names...... War~"
As if he understood Chen Xi's doubts, Swell said slowly, in his eyes, there was no look of the commander, and some were just the emotion of a veteran who survived from the pile of corpses!
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(End of chapter!)