Whether it was the pain of losing the people around him, or the fear of death, Liu He couldn't tell at all, the depressed feeling that was about to suffocate him always filled his chest, and he smashed punch after punch to his chest, trying in vain to drive this feeling out of his body, after all, it was in vain.

A thought popped into his mind.

He wanted to end it all, now, right now.

He looked back at the soldiers who were hurrying by, but he didn't see the familiar faces.

He let out a sigh of relief, a relieved smile on his tired face, and then took a step forward and jumped into the Night.

It is not easy for a person who understands the nature of water to drown, but this does not stump a person who is bent on dying.

After Liu He deliberately inhaled a large mouthful of water in the river water, he instinctively struggled a few times, and then quickly lost consciousness.

"Do you think that once you die, you can really be a hundred?"

Liu He, who had regained consciousness, was not surprised by the white-robed old man standing in front of him, but showed a surprisingly calm and said coldly: "You have appeared in front of me three or four times, and you are all my most unlucky time, who are you?" What is the purpose? ”

The old man didn't seem to care about Liu He's slightly hostile gaze, and said with a smile: "It seems that you still don't understand, it wasn't me who took the initiative to appear in front of you, but you summoned me." I am the soul of the book, in this book, I am everywhere, omnipotent, I can do whatever you think in your heart, for example, resurrect your brothers who died in battle. ”

A glimmer of brilliance flashed in Liu He's eyes, and then dimmed, and he said in a deep voice: "What about the conditions? ”

The old man laughed loudly when he heard this, twisted his long beard in his hand, and said with a smile: "You can teach you, it seems that you have also understood the truth that everything has to be paid." The conditions are simple, I can bring them all back to life, but all the consequences caused by this will be borne by you alone. ”

"The consequences?" Liu He frowned, "What do you mean by consequences?" ”

The old man suddenly restrained his smile, and said: "Let this matter go for a while, you answer me a question first, things have come to this point today, do you still think that what you have been doing is right?" ”

Liu He said proudly: "Don't talk about right or wrong, at least I have a clear conscience." ”

"What a clear conscience!" The white-robed old man looked angry, "Okay, let me ask you, how can you be Zhuge Kongming's teacher?" Why did he give orders to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei? Your Tianji Battalion, how can you recruit so many masters? Cao Cao's generation of heroes, why did he bow to you, promise a tripartite reconciliation, and participate in the ridiculous tripartite battle you came up with? ”

Liu He was speechless.

It's not that he hasn't thought about these problems, since he came into this world, everything has gone too smoothly, and he has hardly encountered any setbacks except for small obstacles in the details.

In just a few words, he got a master's status, and Zhuge Liang admired him from the beginning, to call him a brother and a brother later.

He set up the Tianji Battalion in Liu Bei's army, and all the rules were set by him, in other words, he was basically out of Liu Bei's control, but Liu Bei never mentioned it and never interfered with it.

Cao Cao is also the first person in Wen Taowu throughout the ages, but he seems to be in a dilemma in front of him, wavering, and even compromising with him again and again.

These things could have been impossible, but he did everything and did it smoothly.

Behind this smoothness, there was obviously some reason hidden that he couldn't imagine, he vaguely noticed it in his heart, but he couldn't think of what was wrong, and even put it behind him for a while, and stopped thinking about it, until the old man in the white robe raised it again, and these questions were put on the table again.

"I don't know." Liu He's answer was straightforward, and he was a little lacking in confidence.

The old man's expression gradually calmed down, and he said calmly: "This is in the book, everything will be carried out according to your will, even if your ideas are very naïve, the plot will still unfold according to what you want in your heart." With the way you behave in the world, if you put it in the real Three Kingdoms period, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get out of Xiangyang City at the beginning, and you can live to this day, thanks to the fact that you are not facing reality, but just a world you imagined. ”

"What does the real world look like?" Liu He blurted out.

The old man glanced at Liu He meaningfully and said: "The real world will never appear in books, and in books, you will never see the cruelest side of this world. The reason is very simple, those who can write a pen and write a book still have at least a trace of fantasy about the world, and the people who are really tortured by life are all dead, some are crazy, and a few who are still sober have long been disheartened and never say anything about everything, let alone write down what they have experienced so that others can see their naked wounds. ”

There was a long silence again.

Liu He, who cleared his thoughts, only felt exhausted, he was born in an era of peace, grew up when the country took off, cruelty for him, just an old man begging on the side of the road, the big water in the south and the abducted children, he is like a flower in a greenhouse, he has never felt the wind and rain, the cold and the heat.

So he can come to this day with his assumptions and self-righteous enthusiasm, but what the real world is like, Liu He has never seen it.

Ghost sorrow may be the cruelest place in the depths of his consciousness, but he still let all the people inside come out, and burned all the cruelty with a fire.

But will the cruelty of this world really disappear so easily?

The answer is clearly no.

Everything comes from those good wishes, well-intentioned expectations, and ignorance that has never experienced the warmth and coldness of the world.

"My conditions are very simple, if you want them to come back to life, you have to face the real world, but I want to remind you that you will face a situation that may be more difficult to choose than life and death, and you have to think clearly before making a decision."

After that, the white-robed old man stared at Liu He, quietly waiting for his reply.

Liu He thought for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "I want to try." ”

The white-robed old man nodded and said calmly: "If you can't hold on, you can die again, in that case, everything will return to the way it was, remember?" ”

Liu He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you mean by restoring to the original state?" ”

The white-robed old man didn't answer Liu He's question, and said coldly: "Tell me when you're ready." ”