Chapter 168: What Must Be Done
Does Yuji have hatred in her heart? There should be.
She still remembers the scene she saw at sunset that day, when she came down from the lookout outside the village with her painting in her arms.
That tragedy was her eternal nightmare.
Yuji has always been a girl who is very good at discovering beauty, which is related to the environment she is in. Although the conditions in the desert are extremely harsh, the people here are very strong, not the kind of self-ridicule that is happy in suffering, but really love life, love this barren but beautiful desert.
In Yuji's impression, no one seems to have a desperate expression on their faces, even in the most difficult times, they are still smiling and holding on to hope. And their approach is not to kneel down and pray, but to strive to fight against those irresistible heavenly forces.
"Fortune and misfortune are fate, drought and rain are gifts from this desert. But Heaven will always send the rain down, and all we have to do is hold on until that time. That's nothing, it's simple. That year, a drought fell in this place, and there was not a drop of water all year round, but the neighbor's Abel always smiled and said, "Xiaoyu's painting is hope, very beautiful." ”
But Yu Ji knows that it is not their own paintings that give them hope, but their optimistic attitude that gives them a new understanding of beauty.
It was also because of this that she didn't want to let her heart be overwhelmed with hatred. Because if you fall into hatred, you will never be able to continue the creation of your favorite paintings, and you will have no sense of beauty. In fact, she couldn't write for three years after she left the village, and then she returned to the desert and painted the same painting that Song Rui and Tao Ran saw on the top of the cliff.
Later generations found that the three-year blank period was actually a turning point when they studied the paintings of the master Yu Ji. Three years ago, Yuji's paintings were also very beautiful, but there was a childish purity in the paintings, which not only referred to his painting methods, but also to the essence of his paintings.
To take Song Rui's words as an example, when Yuji saw the snow three years ago, the words that came to her mind were pure white, beautiful, and vigorous, and her paintings also faithfully reflected this, with a hint of illusion in the absolute beauty.
And three years later, Yuji has more flavor in the painting, which is still a very beautiful painting, but with a little more tenacity. Anyone who sees her paintings can draw the strength to move forward. Her paintings have given many people spiritual salvation in the future, but at the beginning, she was the first to redeem herself. Still using Song Rui's dimensional attributes as an example, that is, she recognizes the impurities and dust in the snow, but still expresses the extreme beauty of the snow in her paintings, and those impurities are not its stains, but a part of this beauty.
Someone once said that there is only one kind of heroism in this world, and that is to love life after seeing life clearly.
It's the same for Yuji. The beauty in her heart is that after seeing the impurities behind the beauty, she is still moved by this beauty. There is no dark side in the world, light and shadow are twins. She can gradually understand the sentence 'Fortune and misfortune are fate'.
Regarding revenge, she didn't know what the people of the village thought, and she didn't know if they would be happy with every choice she made, they were dead, and the dead would not feel anything, she just had to do what she had to do.
She will take revenge, but she will not let her heart be overwhelmed by hatred. She wants to keep the softest place in her heart, to place those former gentleness and this beautiful world.
She didn't know if Nitro had feelings, and she didn't know if that one Nitro would regret it. She doesn't need to know, she doesn't care, she just wants it to pay for what she does!
"By the way, Ranran, you have a string of sand crystals, right?" Yu Ji was silent for a while, looked at Tao Ran and asked.
"Ah, is this it?" Tao Ran stretched out his right hand, revealing a beautiful string of crystal yellow beads on his wrist.
"Yes, Sha Jing can open the door to the secret room of the twin flowers...... It's just a small mechanism, so you don't have to worry about it. Yu Ji looked at Song Rui and Tao Ran's expressions and said with a smile, "Sha Jing was turned into the tears of the desert by the people in the village, and people like the beautiful warmth of this spar, so they designed such a small mechanism." ”
"I see...... Yes! You say the twins are still here?! Song Rui and Tao Ran pinched their chins in the same posture and nodded, and suddenly reacted to what Yu Ji said, and Qi Qi put their heads in front of Yu Ji and shouted.
Yu Ji smiled dryly and pushed the skull that was very close, "Well, the twins were already dormant when I left the village, so I closed the entrance to the secret room...... Because I didn't want to come back, Sha Jing was also thrown away by me! But luckily you have a bunch, otherwise we would have had to break in. ”
"Oh-so you were looking at Ran Ran's wrist at that time?" Song Rui groaned, he was referring to the glance that Yuji glanced at Tao Ran when he first saw the ruins.
"Yuji." Tao Ran said, "Can we borrow the twin flowers?" There are very important things. Then she told Yuji about the hair.
Yu Ji was stunned for a moment, listened carefully to Tao Ran's words, and nodded, "Yes, the secret room is right below here, and it takes three years to use special materials...... It shouldn't have been damaged yet. ”
Yu Ji was indeed stunned for Tao Ran's formal request. She has also said before that she does not like food hunters and cooks, because these two types of people give him too bad senses, with an inexplicable sense of arrogance and superiority, strong aggression and greed.
Many of them are like picking up a grain of sand and thinking they have the whole ocean.
Every time you meet a food hunter or a cook, nothing good usually happens. Yuji had also seen a food hunter kill all the creatures in his way for a certain ingredient, not for food, but just to kill.
Yes, she thinks it's acceptable to hunt for food. But if hunting is not for food, it is no different from killing, it is just a thug who loves to kill.
The man reminded her of Nitro, the fiery, greedy, cruel creature controlled by her appetite. It was then that she realized that human beings were no less cruel than any living being.
In fact, what Yuji saw was also the current situation in the food industry. Although there are people like Ah Yu who stick to their principles, they are a minority after all, and because many people have no principles for catching ingredients, those who stick to their principles are even more valuable.
However, after meeting Song Rui and Tao Ran, Yu Ji also knew that there was such a combination of food hunter and chef.
Along the way, they had seen many desert creatures, and the Wild Crab was just one of them. However, for what can't be eaten and what can't be eaten, Song Rui and Tao Ran naturally want to avoid it, or run away. They never kill for the sake of killing, they don't pretend, they really think that way, and they do it. There is no complacency and self-promotion, as if he has just done the most ordinary and natural thing.