Luo Wei sat in the dark room, only the tiny white candle in front of him emitted a faint orange light, and his red eyes stared directly at the flames, reflecting the only light in the darkness.

How many people have you killed in the past two years? I can't count, I really can't count.

There may be hundreds of evolutionaries in the cube team, but what about the wilderness outcasts who don't want to surrender? Thousands?

Luo Wei remembers very clearly that it was the cold winter of the 8th year of Honkai, and he led the soldiers of the military region to pursue a group of wilderness outcasts, who had no thugs, no criminal records, and no threats, just some poor displaced people.

However, in the purge order issued at the beginning of the year, such displaced people who are unwilling to return to the city and must wander into the wilderness, even if they are not cube squads, are still regarded as potential threats and will be eliminated if they refuse to surrender.

In order to survive, the displaced people were very desperate, really desperate, they fled day and night, eating the rotting corpses of animals in the forest when the supplies were destroyed, filling the kettle with raw water contaminated by unknown levels of radiation when it was empty, carrying it on their backs when they couldn't run, and even if someone's leg was broken, it was carried by two or three people together, without leaving anyone behind.

In the long-distance pursuit, their number of people became fewer and fewer, and the fighters, in order to protect their companions, suicidally recoil the pursuing troops, and all died under the red umbrella.

In order to give the team a chance to live, their captain voluntarily tied a bomb and threw himself on Luo Wei to blow himself up, delaying for about three seconds.

There was also an elderly couple, whose old arms could not stop Luo Wei's advance, so they held his legs, bit his shoes with their teeth, and both were shot.

When Luo Wei finally caught up with this team, the other party was basically dead, and he would not forget that the young girl in the team had clear tears in her eyes, and asked him hoarsely why she wanted to kill them all, they just didn't want to leave the wilderness and live the way they wanted.

Luo Wei wouldn't answer, and he didn't know how to answer, and when the girl died under his gun, he suddenly remembered Ling.

If it weren't for the mission in Honkai Impact 7 years and meeting Ling, if it weren't for the fact that the mission target was the survivor base, Ling might still be a wilderness outcast, maybe he wouldn't want to enter the city with high walls, maybe he would have been put on the purge list, maybe... Just happened to die at the hands of Luo Wei.

People in the wilderness seem to have a common characteristic, they don't want to live under the command of others, and they yearn for the freedom that is difficult to obtain under the constraints of the old times, real freedom.

But this word is destined to be distant for Luo Wei, and from the moment of separation in the first year of collapse, the word freedom has never had anything to do with Luo Wei.

Luo Wei is Luo Wei's hope for life, and this love is destined to become a shackle that Luo Wei can't get rid of, binding everything in him, and he can only move forward in this life.

For Luo Wei, his path is not left or right, there is only a path to slim hope, and he can only go to the dark and die on this road, and he has no choice.

But on this road, Luo Wei, who has been immersed in his head, will occasionally raise his head, and will also look at those roads that do not belong to him, and will unconsciously fantasize about how good it would be if he could change his way of living.

When more and more people die at their own hands, family letters, letters, rings, freedom, love... When these beautiful things are destroyed by their own hands...

Luo Wei may not only be killing the wilderness forces, he is also killing "himself" again and again...

...

Just as Luo Wei stared at the white candle, in the hazy darkness that the orange light could not dissolve, a vague figure loomed, and when the afterglow sprinkled on the pale skin, like a dancing light veil climbing up the blood-colored red lips, Cecia gently stretched out her hands, walked behind Luo Wei, and gently put them on his face.

If someone else approached Luo Wu from behind, he would have paid the price of blood at this time, but Luo Wu was still staring at the candlelight at this time, motionless, and said lightly: "You came out by yourself again." ”

I don't know when it began, although Cecia is still Luo Wei's subordinate, but she can already come out without Luo Wei being summoned, at first he was very uncomfortable with this, but now he is slowly getting used to it.

Cethea gently rested her chin on Luo Wei's shoulder, lazily leaning her red lips into his ear, "Does it make you sad to kill those people?" ”

Luo Wei replied lightly: "No." ”

"If you don't want to do these things yourself, you can leave it all to me."

"Yes, no."

"Have you forgotten one thing, as a servant, I can feel your psychological ups and downs, you can't fool me." Cethia stretched out her slender fingers, poked Luo Wei's cheek, and quipped, "You're getting more and more arrogant." ”

"It's not."

"Duplicity, and it is not tsundere."

“...”

I don't know why, since Cethia was reborn in the ancestor incident and began to have a sense of autonomy, she has often teased Luo Wei and enjoyed it.

It's just that Luo Wei is not an interesting person, he ignored Cescia, just stared at the candlelight, and his eyes seemed to tremble with the flames: "Others have countless choices, but for me, there is only one way, but... I don't know if I'm still on that path. ”

"Fear of the future? I don't know if the girl is still alive, I don't know if everything I have done is meaningful, I am afraid that all my hopes will be in vain in the end, and I am afraid that everything I did in the first half of my life is in vain. Suddenly, her arms went around Luo Wei's neck and waist, and she held him in her arms, and said softly, "There may be no one in front of you, but you should know that I will always be behind you." ”

Luo Wei didn't like to be held like this, especially in this mood, he felt like a pitiful puppy.

Self-righteous pity, this is the most hated thing for Luo Wei.

However, after Luo Wei struggled for a while, Cethia gently stretched out a hand, blindfolded Luo Wei's eyes, and buried his head in her arms, as if melting him into the gentle township, and her red lips whispered in her ear: "You don't have to be deliberately strong, at least not in front of me..."

After these words, Luo Yu's body stiffened for a while, slowly relaxed, and leaned gently into Cethea's arms, I don't know if he was really tired, or touched by this long-lost tenderness.

"If you feel like you're going in the wrong direction, go back to where you started." Cethia brought her red lips to Luo Wei's ear, leaving a light kiss on the soft earlobe, and an intoxicating smile appeared on her face, "I will walk with you, a thousand times." ”

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