Chapter 152: Grievances
The man sighed, "I don't know, it's been twenty years, maybe I'll never see my daughter again...... But I dare say that one day we will throw a lot of northerners here and let them taste hunger and death, just like you do now. Ha ha. ”
He chuckled under his breath, a deep hatred in his eyes.
"I'm not your enemy." Bai Yan asked quietly, "Tell me, where is Mednaqi?" ”
The man was stunned: "You want to see our king?" He pointed to an iron door and a prisoner standing in front of it, and said, "Go talk to Pokur, maybe he will let you through, or trample your body into the dirt." ”
Bai Yan had never seen a tall and burly guy like the orc Pokur, he was a lot taller than himself, I saw him bow his head and smile, crack his big mouth, his two fangs were very scary, he asked, "Boy, what do you want to do?" ”
"I want to see Mednaqi." Others may be intimidated by this orc, but Bai Yan is fearless, he turns into a giant dragon form that is more than ten meters tall, and humans are just small ants in front of him.
"You want to see our king?" Pokul clasped his two thick arms like tree trunks in front of his chest, and said arrogantly, "Then you must pass my level first, I am not an oathbreaker, but I am the king's guard." Now you tell me, why should I let you in to meet him? How do I know if you have bad intentions or good intentions towards him, unless you win me, or convince me. ”
"Are you sure?"
"Sure."
"Okay."
Then this orc was beaten by Bai Yan, and punched him in the stomach, Pokur was so painful that he instantly bowed down and covered his abdomen, his forehead was bruised, and he felt that he was about to vomit bile, and he could see that he was in pain, and his face was distorted.
Bai Yan said helplessly: "Just open the door obediently, why kill yourself?" Am I now counting as beating you? ”
"Count...."Pokul struggled to squeeze out a word from between his teeth, and finally relieved himself, how could he have thought that Bai Yan's punch was so heavy? It's incredible, I didn't pretend to be forced if I knew it.
Pokul graciously opened the iron door, revealing a passage, Bai Yan entered with his head held high, at the end of the passage was a small room, with a bed, a desk and chair, and two barrels, on which were placed wine and rabbit meat, although this place was extremely simple, but compared to the outside of the mine, Bai Yan already felt that he had come to a luxury hotel.
An old man sat at his desk and wrote, without raising his head, and said, "You can actually solve Pokur, you are really not an ordinary person, etc." ”
The man's voice was low and hoarse, as if it had been poisoned by the dusty air of the mine for a long time.
Bai Yan walked up to him and sneered, "Mednachi, the king of the oathbreakers, I have finally seen you. ”
Mednach turned his head towards Bai Yan, and the two looked at each other.
Mednach's hair was long and dirty, and his withered face was filthy and dirty, but his eyes were sharp and majestic: "Yes, you have seen me at last, and your countrymen have sent you to be my companion." Shouldn't you be grateful for the opportunity they gave you? ”
"Don't be grateful to them, I'm here because I'm here myself." If Bai Yan doesn't want to come, who can arrest him and put him in prison?
"You're right, how can those pus-filled Marcus guards hold someone like you!" Mednaqi's tone was a little annoyed, and he added, "You're not here to undergo labor reform, are you?" ”
"That's true, I've seen Nepps, as long as I get you out, after destroying the Silver Blood Family, promise to give up hatred and live peacefully with the northerners, after all, you have killed enough people, and the people are innocent."
"How dare Nepps make such a promise!? Give up hate? Peaceful coexistence with northerners? I advise you not to worry, in fact, we all have common enemies - the Silverblood Family and the Marcus Guard, and I still have some plans, we can work together, and it will be good for you. Mednach stared at Bai Yan: "I propose that you walk around the mines, get to know everyone, and hear about their past, especially Blaji, and maybe you will understand why we can't let go of our hatred." ”
"Okay, I'll listen to what the blood feud is."
Bai Yan finally did as Mednach said, and went to meet the other oathbreakers who were serving their sentences in the mines, their faces were gloomy and their manners were perverse, and they all had unusually developed muscles due to the heavy work of mining every day, except for one person, who caught Bai Yan's attention.
The man named Griswa was very thin, he had been sentenced to life hard labor for stealing many times, his eyes were rolling, and he always had a smiling face when he spoke, and the others obviously looked down on him, and he didn't care.
After talking one by one, Bai Yan sneered in his heart: "How can they have any stories worth hearing?" It's nothing more than being innocent and then forced to become an oathbreaker, so I'd better go to Briggie. ”
Blegge the Oathbreaker was already old, and he was only interested in mining with a black face, ignoring Bai Yan.
"I don't want to talk to you, but Mednach wants me to hear your story." Bai Yan said frankly.
Breggie paused and muttered, "My story? I don't have a particular story, my story is what can happen to every Indigenous family. ”
Bai Yan asked impatiently, "Then what happened to your family?" ”
"I've been mining here for more than 20 years, and I've forgotten a lot of things, but there's one thing that still feels like it happened yesterday. What Mednage wants you to ask must be this, something I would wake up from in my dreams. He paused and looked at Bai Yan: "Do you have children?" ”
Bai Yan shook his head.
Blegg sighed, "Then you don't necessarily understand my feelings. I once had a daughter, who had just turned eighteen that year, and I was captured by the northerners when our revolt had failed, and they wanted to kill me, and before she was executed, she knelt at the executioner's feet and begged for her life. ”
Bai Yan couldn't help but be in awe and asked, "Well, what happened later?" ”
Blaji looked at the pickaxe in his hand and said slowly: "They agreed, so she took the initiative to kneel in front of the guillotine, and the northerners forced me to stand by and watch, and then cut off her head and threw her head off the cliff. As for me, I was thrown here to mine for the northerners. ”
His hands began to tremble: "Can you imagine that every night when I close my eyes, I can see her smiling at me for the last time with her head sideways, and laughing so sadly, because it was her last moment; But I'm so happy because I can survive. And I could only watch, neither crying nor shouting, I only hated myself for why I had survived, I was a cowardly father...... Here, I mine the most every day because I work hardest, but do you know why? ”
Bai Yan did not answer.
Blegge suddenly dug hard at the veins and shouted, "Just because I think these stones are the heads of northerners!" ”