Chapter 40: No Return
The monster seemed to be stimulated by something, and grabbed Liu Ye's neck in annoyance, Liu Ye was startled by it a few times, and he was a little immune, and hurriedly explained to himself.
"As a fellow Han Chinese, I just care about you, and no one doesn't want to go back to their hometown, right?"
"Hometown, hometown......" The monster read this long-lost word, slowly let go of his hand, and his tone began to choke, "No one doesn't miss their hometown, no one ...... But am I still a human being......
Liu Ye stroked his neck that had suffered one after another, and continued to comfort it: "You are a hero who has made meritorious contributions to the Han Dynasty, even if there is any misunderstanding, everyone will forgive your ......"
Before the words fell, the monster suddenly went crazy and kicked over the stone bed next to him, only to hear a "crackling" sound, and the surrounding stones were splashing, Liu Ye squatted down with his head in his hands, and barely escaped. It's a good thing that the monster didn't get angry with her when he went crazy, otherwise, she would have ended up like a shattered slate.
"No one forgives, no one forgive...... "The monster roared hoarsely, accompanied by a heavy gasp, and could vaguely hear it sobbing, "even my father won't forgive me, he's going to kill me, he's going to kill me, I'm his son, the only relative in the world, and he won't even forgive me...... Oh my God, I'm wronged, why doesn't anyone believe me, I didn't poison General Huo, I dare to swear to God, in my mind, General Huo is a god-like existence, even if I kill myself, it is impossible to poison him, why no one believes me, why ......"
Liu Ye heard some clues from its intermittent crying, it should still be working for the big man in the military camp before it became a monster, someone poisoned it with the intention of murdering General Huo Quai, and everyone mistakenly thought it was the murderer, even its father did not believe that it was innocent, and even wanted to clean up the portal.
No wonder it is so emotional, and it is very uncomfortable to be misunderstood, especially by close relatives. But is what the monster says credible? Liu Ye couldn't help but hesitate, if its nature was pure, why did it become a man-eating monster?
The monster roared for a long time, smashing everything around it and venting its anger, and it finally calmed down. He walked up to Liu Ye again and told his only listener about the unbearable past.
"When we won the battle, General Huo ordered to camp in place and wait to meet General Wei. The captured Xiongnu generals and soldiers were guarded by us in turn, and we worked tirelessly day and night to fulfill our duties, for fear that because of our own mistakes, we would cause trouble for General Huo. After those Hun bandits were captured, they naturally refused to convince our Han, cursed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and General Huo from morning to night, and would rather die than eat and drink. ”
"They were originally bandits, robbing our Han of food every year, and I wish they were all starving to death of thirst. But General Huo was kind-hearted, and he did not allow us to abuse the prisoners of war, but the barracks had limited food and grass, and if we used it to feed them, we would have to starve. Fortunately, there was a Hun leader who took the lead in the hunger strike, so we would not disobey the military order, and they deserved to starve to death. ”
"The Hun bandits shouted and scolded all day long and did not eat or drink, and within a few days they saw the king of Hades one after another, and hundreds or thousands of corpses were carried out of the prisoner of war camp every day, and my task at that time was to dig pits and bury the corpses, and I can't remember how many pits were dug or how many corpses were buried. Gradually, we saw the corpse numbness, smelled the stench of the corpse, couldn't eat during the day, couldn't sleep at night, didn't know the pain when the skin of our hands was worn out, and the palms were bloody. ”
"One day, I didn't know where I got the guts, so I went to my father to discuss, my father was a guard next to General Huo, and I hoped that he could tell General Huo if he could change a group of people to dig the pit, and if it went on like this, I was really afraid that my hands would be wasted. Alas, you don't have to think about it to know that my father won't ask General Huo for me, I'm digging a hole and digging confused. Unexpectedly, this word still reached General Huo, who sympathized with our hard work and immediately ordered us to be replaced and let us recuperate. ”
"I thought I could finally catch my breath, but, who knows......" The monster whimpered and slapped its body hard, the sound of "clang" was palpitating.
Liu Ye didn't dare to interrupt its train of thought, didn't interject, and listened to it continue: "Who knew that this was the beginning of a nightmare!" I might as well dig a pit and bury myself! Woohoo......"
The monster cried sadly and aggrieved, Liu Ye believed that it was really sad and regretful at this time, but he didn't know what had happened, which made it still so sad to look back on it after many years.
"I am from Chang'an, I can cook a few authentic side dishes, and I have cooked for General Huo, and General Huo has praised my craftsmanship. So after being transferred back, I was responsible for serving General Huo's daily life. My mother left early, my father has been fighting outside all the year round, and I have lived alone since I was a child, I didn't expect that my cooking skills would give me the opportunity to serve General Huo, I was so happy. General Huo has been fighting for several months, and his body is already a little weak, so I change my tricks every day to make something delicious, hoping that he will be more energetic and healthier after eating the food I cooked. ”
"I am indeed kind-hearted, I admire General Huo too much, and I am willing to serve him for the rest of my life. Not to mention cooking, even if I am his horse, I am happy. But, but...... Since I took care of General Huo, his body has been getting worse day by day, and in less than half a month, the mighty and invincible General Huo can't even get out of bed. My father felt that something was wrong, so he invited a doctor to check General Huo's pulse, thinking it was an old injury, but it turned out to be poisoning. ”
The doctor said that someone poisoned General Huo's food, a chronic toxin that is usually difficult to find, but it can be fatal over time. Being in charge of General Huo's food has always been a cautious and cautious errand, so my father asked me to do it, but I never thought that because of eating the food I cooked, General Huo was poisoned. My father couldn't believe my intention to poison General Huo, and asked the doctor to inspect the room. This is a terrible sight, the pots and dishes in the room are poisonous, my father was dizzy, and ordered someone to arrest me for questioning, I didn't have to explain at all, and I don't know why this happened. ”
"Everyone in the barracks said that I was a traitor, I poisoned and murdered General Huo, my father was so angry that he didn't report to General Huo, and he wanted to deal with me in accordance with military law. It was useless for me to cry and beg him, and no one listened, and my father's knife, stained with the blood of the enemy, pierced me in the heart. ”
"When I woke up, I found myself being dumped in a mass grave, surrounded by a pit I had dug with Hun bandits. I never thought that this would be the end of my life, and what a shame it would be for me to let me lie down with the enemy, even though my father left me a whole body! ”
"I want to go back and tell my dad that I'm not dead and beg him to find out the truth. But I'm afraid that he won't believe it, and if I am stabbed again, I won't even have a chance to clarify for myself. I want to find out the truth myself, I covered the wound on my chest, endured severe pain and walked through the deep mountains, looking at the military camp below the mountain from a distance, tears couldn't stop flowing! That's when I met the guy who changed my destiny and put me in a situation from which I could never recover. ”
Speaking of this, the monster's breathing was particularly disordered, and it trembled and continued: "It's terrible, I've never seen such a terrible monster, it jumped down from the tree and held my head, grabbed my neck and bit down, the pain was worse than a knife piercing the heart, and I felt the blood in my body flow out, and the pain spread all over my body, and I felt that the whole person was about to be sucked by it." ”
"I thought I was going to die this time, and it was still on the grass, looking up at the sky, thinking that my grievances would have nowhere to be redressed in this life, and I would not be willing to die and become a ghost! I don't know if it's my fate, or if God doesn't think it's enough to torture me, and I'm not dead after being sucked by that monster. I will always remember the moon that night, the moon was blood red, the world in front of me turned blood red, I was not dead, but the monster that sucked my blood died, looking at its ugly body, I felt hunger like never before, and before I could realize what I had done, I ate it. ”
"I knew I had become a monster too, I didn't dare to look at myself, I was going to be scared to death by myself. But I still wanted to avenge my grievances, and I ran down the mountain in a hurry, and found that my body was much stronger than before, and I ran like flying. When I came to the barracks, I didn't dare to come close, I became like this, even my father couldn't recognize me as his son. I hid near the barracks for a few days and nights, without eating, drinking, sleeping or feeling any discomfort, I watched my father go in and out of General Huo's tent, at first he would read my name from time to time, and he would cry when he thought of me, and then he seemed to forget me, anyway, I was a traitor who murdered General Huo, and he forgot that I should be. ”
"I was very happy to learn that General Huo's body had recovered, and at the same time I wondered if I had really poisoned the food, otherwise why would General Huo be poisoned after eating the food I cooked! Thinking of this, I also began to feel guilty, and I didn't have the face to see my father, and I didn't even want to avenge myself. Until one day, the doctor who said I had poisoned me came again. ”
"The soldiers in the barracks died one after another, and they were very rare, because I knew all the soldiers, and they were all people who dug holes together. My dad called the doctor again, and this time he said that the soldiers had also been poisoned. My dad was stunned, he had already put me, the culprit, to death, who else poisoned the food? The doctor couldn't say why, he called many people to find the cause of death, and finally determined that the source of the poison was in the mass grave. It turned out that the Huns buried in the mass grave were not starved to death of thirst, but died of poison, which was a strange poison, and the toxins spread by the poisoned people infected the living people, and the living people continued to spread, so that the living people would die one after another. ”
"The doctor figured out a way to stop the spread of the toxin, and he set fire to burn the poisoned people to ashes so that no one would be poisoned. The reason why General Huo was poisoned was because he was infected by me, but fortunately, the treatment was timely and there was no worry about his life. My dad finally realized that he had wronged me, and he cried bitterly in the face of the blazing fire, and let me go all the way. I waited until the day when the truth was revealed, and seeing my father crying so sadly, I hesitated and showed up. I thought that even if I became a monster, I would still be his son, flesh and blood, and he would recognize me. ”
The monster let out a long breath and smiled miserably: "Flesh and blood affection? Ha, ha, I'm just plain ridiculous! I'm a monster, not even a person, how can my father recognize me! He didn't listen to me at all, he didn't believe that there was such a strange thing in the world! He would rather believe that his son was killed by him by mistake than that his son turned into a monster! ”
"I didn't expect that after the truth was revealed, he still didn't believe me, and he and the people who the doctor invited me blocked me on the mountain, and they went up the mountain to arrest me, and everyone wanted to put me to death. I cried and begged my father, but the sound was worse than the roar of a beast, and I tried to speak, but the words turned into air. Those were armed with all sorts of weapons, and some were chanting incantations that gave me headaches. I went to my dad with the last of my hope, but his knife pierced my heart again. ”
"This time I didn't feel any pain, maybe that's the benefit of being a monster. My eyes were red with my own blood, and I grabbed my dad's neck...... After my father fell, I hugged him and cried for a long time, and he finally recognized me before he died, and when those people came after me, he protected me with his body and begged them to let me go. ”
"No one believed my father, even if I used to be a human being, I couldn't change back again, they stepped on my father's corpse and chased me. My dad died, I don't care about anything anymore, I fight with them, I deserve to die as many people as I want, as long as I don't die......"
The monster stopped talking, and it was silent, perhaps remembering its father before he died, remembering that it had once been a human. When Liu Ye came back to his senses from the monster's narrative, his cheeks were already covered with tears, it was a heinous monster, but it was also a poor man who had been traumatized.