Verse 429: The heart is like stone and iron (3)
Fate depicts everyone's life, someone's life is smooth sailing, his parents are complete, his elders are kind, all the good things in the world are displayed in front of him, and there are countless roads under his feet, each of which is the Golden Strip, and each leads to the Promised Land. But on the other hand, someone's life is not like this, the elders have passed away, both parents have died, all the good things in the world have nothing to do with him, his feet are full of thorns, and every step needs to be hard, and outsiders are insignificant.
There are many reasons for all this, Marin's last life was extremely difficult, the world is so painful, and there is only one sentence that supports Marin.
We're going to grow old, right?
Yes, definitely, even if I am white-headed alone, it is the fulfillment of our agreement.
Later, when he came to this world, Marin was still living for others, for Maya, for Faye, for Cross...... For every girl who trusts him and helps him.
Living for himself sounds great, but Marin doesn't know how to live for himself, because for a long time in his life, all he had to do was go to work, get off work, drink tea, and surf the Internet to pass the time and sleep.
The so-called life is as light as water, and it seems that this is the case.
So, Marlin...... Won't live for himself, because he can't find such meaning.
That kid should be the same.
Looking at the teardrop-shaped burning marks under his feet, Marlin watched in silence, watching as the trails entered the depths of the Black Forest until they disappeared after passing a stream, leaving only the hideous footprints of Chaos.
Child, I can feel your pain, but you are on the wrong path.
I understand you, but I had to kill you, walking over the top of the hill and watching the footsteps turn into footprints, looking at the footprint-like fragments of straw sandals, Marin got down on one knee, picked up the fragments, and retrieved them into his satchel.
Here, Marin sees the whole process of a child's transformation, which gradually distorts in despair.
May the Lord have mercy on him, and may I ring the evening bell for this child.
"Your Excellency......" Hearing the warning cry of the Heavenly Hound in front of him, the head of the substitute came to Marin's side.
"Expand the queue." The order was given, and Marin walked to the top of the hill.
"Marlin, are you okay?" Nova walked over a little nervously, she should have sensed something, Marin shook her head: "It's okay...... then he looked at Maya: "What about you, Maya." ”
"I feel the sadness in your heart, let me come." Maya looked at Marin with sorrow on her face.
"That's not good, I'm the red-robed priest of the church, and this matter should be let me come." Marin rubbed her head, then strode up to the top of the hill.
On there, Marin saw the poor child...... He could no longer be described as a child, in Marin's eyes, it was already a giant twisted monster - it was rickety, but it was still almost two and a half meters tall, with a pair of recurved hoofed feet, the left arm had been twisted into a terrifying claw-like chelicera, and the right hand, although still humanoid, had a distorted palm, and only tentacle-like twists existed.
The child's skull had completely mutated into a mass of flesh, and the sharp gums were exposed.
"Chaos Egg...... No, it's the Forsaken, this kid is too weak. Nova whispered.
Chaos Egg, because it can't bear the blessing of chaos and mutates, but Nova is not wrong, in Marin's opinion, this child's body is too weak to stand such a strong aberration, chaos said that it was a blessing for him, but the unbearable price is to become such a terrible thing.
Marin thought for a moment, handed the gun to Maya, handed it over, and Fio turned into a long knife and fell into Marin's hand.
"Let me come."
Marin rejected the kindness of the person in charge and walked over to the child.
"Tom." He called the child's name.
This is the elder brother, and he also has a younger brother named Tommy, and the two children depend on each other.
Marlin's call was exchanged for this distorted chaotic roar, and it pounced on Marin, the tentacle at the tip of his right arm lengthened, and swept towards Marin like a whip, and Marlin easily gave way to the blow, and the flesh whip could only sweep the remnants of Marin's flickering.
"High-level sword dance?" The wild elves in the Substitute Punishment Force turned their heads to look at their leader.
The latter shook his head, motioning for him not to break the duel-like battle...... Although the identities of the two sides are not comparable.
Appearing on the left side of the distorted chaos, Marin raised his left hand and sliced the left arm of the chaos into pieces with a blade rolled up in paper, and the psionic blades even cut into its ribs.
But the injury didn't stop its attack, and it roared and turned, trying to kill Marlin with its crusts, but it was still a flickering remnant, and on his right side, Marin's World Tree Knife had severed his right arm.
Black blood spurted out, but it didn't touch Marin.
The Chaos still didn't give up its attack, and this time, it craned its neck to bite Marin's body, its mouth open as if it were cracked.
This time the bite reasonably missed, and this time it didn't even use the flickering Marlin to its side, and the long knife raised in high fell to cut off the head of the chaos. 軒軒書
It fell to the ground, never to move again, and Marlin stabbed the World Tree twig into the corpse's back, allowing Fio to begin absorbing and purifying the chaotic husk.
"Have you confirmed the existence of coordinates?" Marin turned his head to look at the person in charge.
"No, Your Excellency." The person in charge stroked his chest and saluted.
Marin nodded, he turned to look at the headless body, noticing the black in the ragged pocket around its waist, and Lorraine fell from Marin's wrist to the ground, removing the small piece of black for Marin.
It was a small piece of brown bread.
There was also a very small bag with Happy Birthday written on it.
The child's younger brother is named Tommy.
Marlin took the bread, carefully purified it, then carefully packed it, and tied it with thin strips of young branches.
Why can't this world even fulfill the small wish of a child, why did Chaos come to this world, look at what they have done, look at the damage they have done to this world, if they are gods, then I must be the one to kill them.
"Marlin, are you okay?" Nova walked over, and she noticed the small bag in Marin's hand.
"It's okay, it's a little gift from an older brother for his younger brother...... Let's do it for him. Marin laughed when he said this, and he laughed sincerely.
If killing the Chaos so that they can no longer harm the world will cost me, I am willing to give it all.
I, Marin, swear.
………………
Back in the village, Marin digs a small grave for Tommy, purifies his remains, and places them with gifts from his brother and a small bottle of holy water from Marin.
"You don't have to do this, Lord Marin, in the wilderness, something like this happens all the time." The person in charge said as he stood beside Marin.
"I know, I always say, mortals will eventually exhaust their strength, mortals must have mortal realization, but I think...... I don't think all this should have happened, fate shouldn't have given these two children such a cruel ending, just because they were born differently, good things turned into bad things, and the originally beautiful tomorrow would never come...... It's all because of the Chaos Evil God...... How wonderful it would be if a world didn't exist without them, you think? ”
"That must be a happy land, I have dreamed of living in that kind of world, Your Excellency, although this is a bit arrogant, but in comparison, such a world is really beautiful, beautiful like a dream made by an evil god." The person in charge let out a long sigh when he said this, and Marin also sighed.
Yes, for this person in charge, the world without gods is like heaven, but for Marin, there is actually no difference.
Sometimes, people are more terrible than evil gods, just like Mr. Zhang said in his diary, those bastards in North America, they need justice but create unfairness at the same time, they need justice but create injustice at the same time, and they keep repenting while constantly creating their sins.
Now, true gods, come, count your sins to these evil gods of chaos and please them.
With this sigh, Marlin led the team back to Fort Carter, and before leaving, Marlin left a lot of jerky and vegetables for the agents who were here to deal with the aftermath - these things can be made up by Marlin in two doors, so there is no difficulty.
After coming back, maybe it was the girl who accompanied him who said something, Marin rarely did not take the spoon for dinner that day, but sat there and waited for the food, to which Marin had to explain again and again that he was really fine, but he couldn't stand the overflow of maternal love among the girls who listened to the story, and the story of the brothers was also the listener's tears.
The girls expressed their great satisfaction with Marin's fulfillment of their brother's wishes.
After the meal, Marin told Fio to wash the dishes, and then gathered the girls together and began to explain his situation, mainly to tell them that he was all right, and that the sadness had not yet overwhelmed him.
After listening to Marin's words, Faye and Nova looked at each other.
"It's late at night."
"yes, it's late at night."
Marin looked at the conversation between the two girls, took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "What time is it?" ”
Then he was hugged by Kloss's arm: "Sisters say that late at night is late at night, don't refute, and don't accept refutation." ”
"But we're mages." Marin replied uncomfortably.
"The mage pursues the truth, but never blindly follows the truth." Standing in front of Marin, Rivo replied as he pulled Marin's arm with Cross.
"It's too early to go to bed." Marin was a little puzzled.
"Go to bed early and wake up early, Mr. Marin, tomorrow we have to go to Rongma." Faye looked at Marin and said, "Don't delay your business." ”
“…… All right. Now that the matter has come to this, Marin will no longer refute it.