Chapter 38: The One Who Looks
Mono accepted the innkeeper's conditions without the slightest hesitation, and he didn't even think about waiting for tomorrow after the rain had passed and the sky was clear before setting off, after all, the time of the streamer was running out. The priest did not object, and allowed him to do what he wanted.
Before Moye's back completely disappeared outside the door in the rainy night, Shi Jiayan turned around and saw those blue eyes facing her, and she couldn't help but be stunned. Except for a simple white robe and a black cloak resting beside him, this streamer has no noble decorations around him, but he is so gorgeous that people dare not look at it directly, both his appearance and demeanor show the strength and wisdom of this race. Shi Jiadi's heart was shocked, it turned out that this was the real streamer! No wonder she could leave such an unforgettable guilt on her ancestors of the Feiji tribe.
The logbooks left behind by the ancient Fiji people record many remorseful histories of that generation of navigators, as well as indelible self-reproach even to death, and have been passed down to this day. It is a pity that for more than a thousand years, the apologies of the ancient Fiji navigators have never had the opportunity to convey to those who once rescued them in danger, but later lost their homeland because of them.
Although it wasn't his fault, as a descendant of the Fiji people, at this moment, Shi Jiayan really didn't know what expression to use to face the streamers. In this world, whether it is the Eastern Continent or the Western Continent, people regard the Streamers as malicious intruders and have always hated them. In the more than 1,000 years before today, the Feiji and Streamer people who really understood the truth of that period of history had no intersection.
Although the Fiji and the Streamer are both people who have lost their homeland, as long as the Streamer is still in this world, the Fiji people don't seem to have much position to complain about their unsatisfactory situation. Because, the Fiji people know better than anyone that they indirectly caused the streamers to lose their homes, and they have no shame to complain in front of the streamers. After more than a thousand years, we finally met again, but for Shi Jiayan, this was a very ashamed and embarrassing moment!
Did she really have the audacity to offer the Streamer people a condition to help? Shi Jiayan could only smile bitterly. In order to protect their homeland and people, the Fiji people have indeed been ashamed of the Streamers, and this guilt cannot be made up for at all. Now that something like this is happening again, how does she choose, and why does history keep repeating itself with strikingly similar stories?
Shi Jiadi is not only the leader of the Fijian pirates, but also the leader of the entire Fijian tribe. To this day, her people are still adrift on the oceans, and she carries the future of all Fiji people on her shoulders. She could predict that Mono's request would never be an easy matter. Considering that it is very likely that this will involve the interests of the Sava people in the Western Continent and the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent in the future, and the plight of the Fiji people who are still unable to protect themselves, does she still have the strength to help these Streamers who once rescued her ancestors, but were indirectly destroyed by them?
What to say in the first sentence? Shi Jiayan had no idea at all. Because, the Fiji people have no way of knowing, since the catastrophe, how the streamers have viewed them? All the Fiji people present couldn't help but fall into a nervous and embarrassed mood, and as soon as Moye went out, the room suddenly fell silent. But the streamer was as still as water, and did not show the slightest gloom.
After a thousand twists and turns, he suddenly remembered the description of the streamers by the ancient navigators, so Shi Jiayan decided to shake off all his self-righteous scruples and simply asked bluntly, "How do you need my help?"
"We need boats to cross the West Sea from here. Priest Sylven stated calmly.
His expression was indifferent, his tone was calm, and it was impossible to capture the slightest emotional fluctuation, and he did not deliberately lower his posture because he needed the help of the other party, just as he did not pose as a victim or a resentful look because the Fiji people had indirectly harmed the streamers and lost their homeland, and he was always calm and unresentful. Even if he has been exiled from the other world for thousands of years, he cannot erase the innate elegance and nobility in his soul. He only bowed his head slightly, and with those eyes full of magic power, he looked at the petite leader of the Fiji tribe in front of him calmly.
Shi Jiayan couldn't help but sigh secretly, in the ancient logbook, there was such a record: Streamers are immortal and have an almost infinite lifespan. I wonder if he will compare the Fiji people in front of him with those who had been to the Streamer Star more than a thousand years ago? It was truly an incomparably wonderful experience, the eyes in front of her that shone with a blue light, the ancestors who might have looked at her like this more than a thousand years ago, and now, those eyes were looking at her, and a thousand words were not enough to describe the feeling at this moment. For the streamers, is the life of the Fiji people like a small drop of water in the vast ocean? In the blink of an eye, it has been evaporated by the sun......
Unconsciously, his thoughts drifted away again, Shi Jiayan quickly sorted out his thoughts and asked, "Are you going to the Eastern Continent?"
After all, the Eastern Continent was far more dangerous than the Western Continent, whether it was for the Fiji or the Streamers.
"Go find the scattered people, and then return to their homeland together. The priest said.
"Homeland, isn't the Streamer Star gone?" said Shi Jiayan in surprise. In the historical suicide note of the Fiji people, the thrilling tragedy was described in great detail, and she had already remembered it word for word.
"Well," the priest said, with a light nodding, "but not being seen does not mean not being there. ”
Shi Jiadi was full of confusion, and the priest's words were like intractable riddles, short but not simple, and she could not find out the mystery for the time being. Although the Streamers must be well aware of the predicament they will face, Shi Jiayan still couldn't help but remind: "The Eastern Continent is no better than the Western Continent, maybe the war has already begun before you can land." ”
"Resolutely move forward. The priest expressed the determination of the streamers in a few numbers.
Hearing this, Shi Jiayan couldn't help but be in awe. What kind of belief is this? At this moment, Shi Jiayan was already very sure that he wanted to build a ship for them, and was even willing to personally send them across the West Sea. She almost nodded her head in agreement, but suddenly remembered that there were many people waiting for her behind her.
Suddenly looking back, she found that the innkeeper, Assi, and the dozen or so young people were all looking at her, and they looked at each other silently for a long time, but no one said anything. Shi Jia Yan realized that they might not have any opinion on this, and were obviously willing to listen to her arrangement, but after all, this was only her personal will, how could she make such a selfish decision? If she wanted to build a ship for the Streamers, she would inevitably bring a large number of shipwrights from the city of New Fidai in the West Sea to Honia, but in this way, it would attract the attention of the Sava people, and even be suppressed by those Lepelian people in the Eastern Continent, and the consequences could be imagined. The Fiji are sparsely populated, and although they have learned the lessons of the past and tried to become stronger in order to survive for more than a thousand years, once a great war breaks out, it is still far from sacrificial......
However, if she had been so timid, wouldn't the Fiji people continue to drift on the ocean? How long would her heart's wish be fulfilled? Shi Jiayan withdrew his gaze from the familiar faces with difficulty, and turned to look at the streamer who was still as still as water, as if he could accept it calmly whether she agreed or not.
With a lot of confusion in his heart, Shi Jiayan couldn't decide for a while, so he said: "Let me think about it, and I'll answer you tomorrow morning......"
Priestess Sylven nodded, and there was not the slightest hint of displeasure on his moving face.
"Whether it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you can't promise him!"
At this moment, an anxious shout suddenly came from behind him, which successfully attracted everyone's attention. The person who shouted was the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lepelian who stood with the Fiji pirates, and his expression was filled with obvious indignation and anxiety.
"In any case, you can't help the aliens cross the sea, that will harm the inhabitants of the Eastern Continent! Haven't they suffered enough wars? It took three hundred years to calm down......" The young man's handsome face was distorted by the hostility in his heart, and he indignantly pointed to the streamer in front of him, who had always been calm, but his eyes were fixed on Shi Jiayan, and he reprimanded solemnly, "The aliens are cruel and cunning, don't believe their lies!" How could those cruel invaders, whose real purpose was to invade the fertile land of the Eastern Continent, easily return to their hometowns? Think about how many wars and disasters have been caused by aliens over the past thousand years? Have you forgotten the blood and tears left by your ancestors in the history books?"
Shi Jiayan glanced deeply at the righteous and awe-inspiring young man, his expression was quite complicated, and he wanted to stop talking, but after all, he turned around and left without saying anything. She slowly ascended the inner staircase to the row of rooms that the pirates used to use, until the preoccupied back disappeared from everyone's sight completely, and she never looked back.
Was she angry? Shi Jiayan's unusual attitude caught the blond young man off guard, and he was completely stunned, much stronger than the shock of meeting an alien. Because, in the nine years since he was rescued from the sea by Shi Jiayan at the age of thirteen, it was the first time he had seen such an incomprehensible look in those warm blue eyes. For him, it was like a bolt from the blue.
"Why? Am I not right?" the unknown young man stared at the vanishing figure in a daze, and the rest of the companions followed closely with complicated expressions, silently walking to their respective rooms. He panicked and angry, and didn't understand what was going on. The alien sat there unmoved, with a look of indifference, as if all the previous reproaches had nothing to do with him.
The indignation in the young man's heart was difficult to vent, and the confusion was indescribable, which made him suffer and at a loss. Eventually, he looked away in hatred, turned his back on the gleaming alien, clenched his trembling fists, and followed the pirates up the stairs briskly.
He walked absentmindedly to the door of the room, and was about to open it when suddenly an arm reached from behind him and pressed quickly across his neck, making him almost breathless in pain. In just an instant, he knew who the person behind him was, and that strong and familiar aura was something he could never forget no matter what. Besides, with his current ability, only that person could approach so easily that he didn't even notice it.
Immediately after, his body was forcefully wrenched by the man, forcing his back against the cold hard wall by the door. Before he could catch his breath, the powerful arm pressed across his neck again. Suddenly, he saw Assi's blue eyes, which had always been smiling, glaring at him coldly at the moment, and there was only a fist between them, and the two faces were so close that they almost gave the illusion of intimacy. However, the two tear-like red freckles under Assi's eyes made him look extremely fierce and cold. It is impossible to use beauty and ugliness to describe this face that cannot distinguish between good and evil, because Axi's appearance and momentum have subverted the category of beauty and ugliness and good and evil. He is like a hot and cold light, strong and contradictory, as if it can penetrate the cold skin and directly ignite the hearts of others.
"What kind of history books are you talking about? Do you have a history book written by Lepelian? Don't judge history with your narrow view of justice. Do you think your national culture is excellent and worthy of pride? Don't be self-righteous! In fact, your history is full of lies and violence, and if you can't look at historical issues from a national standpoint, you will never know how stupid you really are!" Hmph, the Lepelian people have always been unable to change their narrow-mindedness and arrogance, since ancient times, they have been keen to criticize others, but they have never reflected on themselves, no matter how evil they do, they always insist that they are the righteous and good side, and the more ignorant they are, the more arrogant they are! Don't forget, it was the Lepelian people who forced you into the sea! Even if the Eastern Continent is destroyed, I don't care, but if you dare to point fingers at her again, I will pinch your neck, remember? Future Sukaranna!
Sukarlana ...... The words that came out of Asi's mouth made the young man suddenly shocked. All these years, he had thought that he had covered it well, but he did not expect that this nightmarish word would be pronounced so easily from Assy's mouth, as if to laugh at his self-righteousness, which made him sad. For nine years, he had deliberately thought of himself as an ordinary person named "Future", pretending to have forgotten that this name was followed by the surname of one of the most prominent nobles in the history of Lepelian.
"What? are you surprised that I know your secret?" Assi smiled harshly, as if to push the young man in front of him to the edge of the precipice in his heart, and continued, "Actually, not only do I know, but she also knows ......"
Sure enough, the future was lost in a flash.
But Assi didn't intend to let him go, and smiled coldly: "At that time, after I fished you out of the sea, you were still in a coma with serious injuries. In those days, she personally changed your clothes and dressings for you, and wiped your body repeatedly with hot water to ward off the cold. So...... You must also know what will appear on your back after being wiped with hot water, right?"
At the end of the point, Assi did not continue. He withdrew his hand from his neck, took two steps back, distanced themselves from each other, and then changed to his usual smiling expression, and turned away as if nothing had happened, and went back to his room.
Looking at Assi's closed door, Future turned around in despair, his clenched fist slamming against the wall. The rough and cold stone wall burst through his flesh, but he didn't feel the slightest pain, because the sore feeling in his heart had already overshadowed his numb arm. Leaning against the wall, he slid to the ground, hiding his face with his hands, wanting to cry without tears: "It turns out that he knows, and he knows the secrets I have been trying to hide......"
The future knows that if Assi really wants to kill him, then he will definitely not be able to hide. For Assi is the most terrible and inscrutable of all the Fijian people, and he is also the one he can never surpass, and can only look up to.
The future feelings for Assi are very complicated, there are longing, jealousy, and envy, and Assi can always easily ignite his emotions. When he was a teenager who almost had to tilt his head when he talked to the pirates on board, he was now twenty-two years old, taller than many people, and even about the same size as Assi. However, deep down, he could only look up to Assi. Assi can't use common sense to conclude at all, he can't win Assi no matter what, think about it, the only thing that is superior to Assi is just the surname of a famous nobleman in history next to his name.
In the Eastern Continent, only nobles have surnames, which are symbols of noble blood, and slaves do not have surnames. In ancient times, the world's earliest civilization originated in the central region of the Eastern Continent, and the Savoyard people in the north and the Fiji people in the south were regarded as uncivilized and inferior peoples, so they also had no surname, and this is still the case today.
Now, for the first time, he put aside the noble surname "Sukaranna" and thought about himself alone, and it dawned on him that he had nothing but self-righteous pride and self-esteem. All along, he looked down on these lowly Fijian people in his heart, thinking that they were strong but willing to degenerate, and were obsessed with those murderous and oversold goods. Therefore, even though the Fiji people had rescued him from the sea who was seriously injured and took him in homeless for many years, he still couldn't put down the pride of the nobles and lived in peace with them.
I don't know the future, I don't know when it began, that gentle and cunning face always made him linger, and when he realized it, the figure of the leader of Fiji had already been deeply engraved in the depths of his heart, and it would not linger no matter what. She is brave and resolute, brave and brave the waves for her people, and does not hesitate to bear the stigma, playing the role of a pirate who does all kinds of evil. However, all this is just a "terrible and undeceivable" image she deliberately created for the Fiji people, intending to make the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent jealous of this sparsely populated people, and she wants to make the Lepeilian people dare not easily control their life and death as they did more than a thousand years ago. Therefore, she always laughs at those stigmaties, although even as a Lepeilian herself, she often can't help but feel indignant for her.
In fact, there is only one of the most feared pirates of the Fiji tribe, and that is the Assi who always has a mask-like smile on his face. He is fierce and mean, and has always shown no mercy to the ships of the Eastern Continent. Ever since he learned these facts, he couldn't help but feel resentful about Shi Jiayan in the future. It is clear that all the bad things are done by Assi, but the only one who is infamous is Shi Jiayan, and Assi has never been famous. Of course, what made him haunted the most was that no matter when and where, Assi could always naturally walk side by side with Shi Jiayan, and even did a frank and unscrupulous job of killing people and goods, while he could only be reserved and righteous, secretly envious and jealous.
Ah, by the way, he remembered! It was then that he began to develop hostility towards Assi, but at the same time he was damnly envious of him, eager to become a strong man like Assi. He still vividly remembers how he was often provoked by Assi during the first two years of his life on a pirate ship after being rescued by Shi Jiadi.
Once, when the Fiji hijacked a noble ship from the Eastern Continent, he couldn't help but criticize Assi for being too cruel and ruthless to those Lepeilian people who resisted. Assi always wore that mask-like smile, without guilt, and every time at that moment, the pair of tear-like red freckles under his eyes were particularly dazzling, and he sneered casually: "Cruel? Heh, we are just hunting to satisfy hunger, what is the difference between this and the Lepelian people destroying their families and slaughtering livestock?"
"But the Lepelians slaughtered wild beasts when they hunted, and you killed people! Besides, where there is war, there will be sacrifice, which is understandable, how can you belittle the sacrifice of the Great Patriotic War by slaughtering livestock?" replied the future indignantly.
I don't want Assi to laugh: "Do you think people are noble? Is war noble? But in my opinion, Lepeilian is the most ferocious beast in the world." Because they have never brought any benefit to this world except for their constant reproduction, they have never brought any benefit to this world, and how can the wild beasts in the mountains and forests compare to them? At least the wild beasts will not wantonly destroy the habitat, will not occupy other people's homes and then slaughter and exterminate the race, nor will they conduct virus experiments on other species!"
Future Dengshi was so angry that he couldn't even speak, and it was unreasonable for this hateful Assi to compare intelligent people with beasts and livestock without culture!
He had already seen how Assi dealt with the ships of the Eastern Continent, and he had also seen how the Lepeilian people of the Eastern Continent insulted Shi Jiayan, at that time, he was only a teenager, and he had repeatedly run to Shi Jiayan angrily to complain and complain for her. But the gentle and cunning man always laughed it off, and said disappreciatively: "I am a pirate by nature, and it is normal to be scolded." But Assi has his beliefs, everyone has their own things that they want to desperately protect, and I can't sway him. "Listen! I don't even mean to blame.
Assi comes from a humble background, but he is extremely powerful, which makes the future envious and jealous, but also desperate to become such a strong man. He has always wanted to impress Assi and gain the approval of the strong, but he always can't help but go toe-to-toe with Assy. Assi was like a scorching sun, hot and intense, always burning his heart, and Shi Jiayan was like a soft moonlight, able to soothe all the fire in his heart. Perhaps, for Future and Assi, Shi Jia Yan is a buffer between them, allowing them to endure each other and get along with contradictions.
But as he grew older, the future slowly discovered that Assi never really cared about his attitude, because all his indignation and accusations were meaningless in Assi's eyes, which only deepened his frustration. As Shi Jiayan said, Assi has his own beliefs and is always unswervingly focused on what he pursues and protects, and will not be shaken by any external circumstances and ideas. It is this simple attachment that creates an indestructible Asi.
It is only today that Miku realizes that he has had nothing but self-righteous, stupid self-esteem and an illusory sense of superiority for the past twenty years. With no home and country, no goals, no thinking about the meaning of their existence, and no understanding of how to love, it is as if it is just a walking corpse mass-produced with molds, and it doesn't know what it is living for. But it is ridiculous and pathetic that such an idealless self would brazenly accuse those who stick to their beliefs like a defender!