Volume 1 - The Leaf in the Wind and the Wandering Man Chapter 34 - Candlelight
Samuel didn't know about Draenor's big moves. His company has gone into liquidation, many of the heads of key positions have left, and the group's structure has long been incomplete. And the only person who could have told him the news was that Toft had been mysterious and nowhere to be found in the past few days, so knowing that Florina had personally told him the news, he knew that something had happened to Gureg.
By this moment it was night.
Unlike Carlin's capital, Nurenta, a city that has only recently emerged, is far from being lit up to the whole city, and most of the city is pitch black at night, with only a small amount of lighting. But at the moment, it is difficult to see half of the darkness in the whole Nurem Tower.
Samuel's tower is more than 200 meters high, and the terrain of the airport area is slightly higher than the rest of the city, so he can clearly see any corner of the Nullém Tower from his position.
At this moment, every street of the Nuremén Tower is covered with dots of fluorescent, densely packed like stars in the sky. Samuel knew that every bit of fluorescence represented a resident who was on his way to the fundraiser to make a donation.
The inhabitants of Nuremé Tower were not wealthy, and standardized magic lamps were not widely available, and most of the inhabitants relied on simple lighting tools such as torches and lanterns, while more residents relied on one or several candles for lighting - as an important source of candles, Nulent Tower's candles were of high quality and cheap.
The small light of these cheap candles may be insignificant, but when thousands of lights come together, they illuminate the entire Nurem Tower.
Samuel knew very well that if he was just a relative or friend of the trapped residents of Shadowsteel, he would not be able to make up so many people. As it stands, I'm afraid all the inhabitants of Nuremé Tower have come.
Without anyone calling for it, these Nurentals spontaneously went to the nearby fundraising point to help those trapped in Shadow Steel Town, whom they had never met.
Even Samuel, seeing such a scene, couldn't help but be moved. Just as Georgy couldn't understand why Delano would take such a risk for the beleaguered residents, Samuel couldn't understand why the residents of Nurenta would help people who weren't related to them.
Seeing the starry candlelight, he couldn't help muttering:
"Why ......"
Flominina, who was standing beside him, did not answer, and she was equally shocked by the scene before her.
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Russell, a middle-aged journalist, was standing on the streets of Nuremin Tower, watching people line up and move in an orderly manner to the fundraising points in front of them. When Draenor announced the start of fundraising, he left the newspaper newcomer behind and came here on his own, and his instincts, cultivated over the years, told him that he should and must come to the fundraising point immediately.
He held up his camera and pointed it at the fundraiser not far away. The men, women and children in the team looked different, some well-dressed and some in ragged clothes, but at this moment they were all moving towards the same goal. A young girl in the team saw the reporter, presumably because she had never faced the camera before, or because she was just innocent, and she excitedly raised the candle above her head and made a V-sign for victory.
Seeing this, Russell immediately pressed the shutter of the camera.
At this moment, no one knows that a picture that will forever be recorded in history has been born.
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Samuel and Flomina watched the Nurmé Tower below from the high platform. Unlike Russell, who was immersive, the two couldn't see the bustling crowd clearly, but they enjoyed a more magnificent panorama.
The two of them didn't say a word, each thinking about it, until their thoughts were interrupted by footsteps behind them.
It was Toft, whom Samuel hadn't seen in days.
"That...... I'm here to say goodbye to you," Toft thought for a moment before adding, "I just donated a sum of money to the Relief Fund, and I'm going to apply to be a volunteer for the Rescue. ”
Like Cliff, he thought to himself.
But compared to the thunderous storm in the face of Cliff, Samuel is quite calm at the moment. It was so calm that Toft was a little uncomfortable.
"Why?" he asked.
"Do you know the 'Blue Rose'," Toft didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.
Of course, I know that it was a famous prostitute in the Cloak Bay area, one of the many mistresses that Tove had chartered many years ago, and I am afraid that he had not been in contact for many years at this moment. Although Samuel didn't know Toft at all, it didn't prevent him from learning about the events years later from the archives established by the Military Intelligence Bureau.
"She has been dead for many years, but she gave birth to a daughter for me...... I also found out recently. Toft then added, "She's in Shadowsteel now. ”
Samuel didn't say a word, he didn't ask Toft if he knew that the rescue was almost impossible to succeed and that the volunteers' hopes of survival were very slim. Because he knew that the seasoned Toft was well aware of the dangers of action.
No one spoke.
The uncomfortable atmosphere lasted for two minutes, and Toft realized that Samuel probably wouldn't say anything more.
"......Then I'll go first, take care," he said to Samuel at last.
Flomina looked at Samuel with concern on several occasions, and had not spoken a word since Toft left.
Suddenly, Samuel raised his fist and slammed it hard against the iron railing, and when he didn't think it was enough, he kicked it hard. Then turn around and walk towards the stairs behind you.
Flomina was first frightened by Samuel's actions, and when she saw the latter leaving, she immediately asked:
"Where are you going?!"
Then I heard Samuel reply perfunctorily:
"Go for a walk"
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"I'll just say, you're thinking too complicated, Draenor might really just want to save those who are trapped. ”
"You didn't believe it before, but now you have nothing to say, right?"
"You have been in the human world for a long time, and you have long been corrupted by some struggle for fame and fortune, you should still be like me, be a simple and happy void life*@!"
Before Abdul-Jabbar could finish the second half, he was grabbed by Samuel and thrown into his coat pocket, and Samuel, who was already in a bad mood, was even more irritated by his nagging.
"By the way, the reason why you're so angry is because you accidentally made a bunch of 'stupid' friends, causing you to seriously doubt your own IQ?", Jabbar, who was already in his pocket, still didn't stop babbling, and he seemed to talk a lot tonight.
But Samuel ignored him.
Abdul-Jabbar continued his efforts: "Or is it because you see the righteous deeds of Delaenor, Cliff, and Toft that make you feel like a coward and a scumbag?"
Hearing this, Samuel finally reacted, and without saying a word, he zipped up his pocket, and Jabbar's words immediately turned into an unidentified syllable of the urn sound.
After walking for a while, Samuel found that he seemed to have lost his way, it was past midnight, the fundraiser was over, the residents had gone home, and the streets were empty, and there was not even one to ask for directions.
After a few more turns, Samuel finally found a landmark that he was familiar with.
It is a four-story cottage that is lit up in the middle of the night, and a sign hangs on the top of the palatial gate that reads "Midnight Golden Lotus".
This is a "high-end club", speaking of which, when I was in the Gureg War Zone, I often came here for "massages", and now a few years have passed, I wonder if the boss has recruited some new "princesses"?
Samuel, who had been out for a night's stroll, had lost most of his anger, and after a few hours of wandering in the cold weather, he felt a little tired.
"Welcome to Midnight Golden ......"
"General Samuel?!"
The foreman's manager saw the guests coming in and habitually entertained them, but soon found out that the visitors were actually his old acquaintances.
It is indeed an old acquaintance, this manager is called Tonya, and he is one of the "princesses" that Samuel once liked the most, but he didn't expect to see him for a few years, and this old acquaintance was promoted and became the manager of this store.