Verse 270: Thoughts
Although the reputation of the Sage is now circulating throughout the north-central part of the kingdom, whether it is a friend who has actually been in contact with Norman, or who has heard the news from others, or even an enemy of Norman, who thinks that this is a true great man, a sage who has the mercy of all the world, in fact everyone is wrong.
In their eyes, this Sage with the noble character of the Glorious Age was actually not as great as they saw.
Whether it is burning himself and leading everyone out of the labyrinth of ether, or killing the army of 10,000 people with blood sacrifice, or even saving all the people in the judgment of the kingdom of heaven later, it is actually just a coincidence, Norman has no one else in his heart, everything he does is just for himself.
Not to mention the Sage, he is not even a hero in the traditional sense.
This is a thorough egoist.
So even though his only friend, Chen Qinghe, was about to die in front of him soon, Norman didn't think of stepping forward and trading his friend's life for the price of his return to the Father's Cult and the storm that caught him in the upper echelons of the kingdom.
In this respect, this Sage Lord is not even a good person in the traditional sense, after all, he only paid a price that could be dangerous, but he was able to save a life of his friend.
That's not a good person.
But that's exactly what the Templars wanted to see.
For the Knights Templar, Norman is the only one, Norman's life is the most important, everything else can be put aside, and it is also under their deliberate training that Norman is the way he is now.
So Norman just looked at Chen Qinghe now, and finally nodded.
"Good. β
Chen Qinghe seemed to have seen through Norman as he said, so he didn't have any surprise when he saw Norman finally agree, but said with relief: "Thank you." Then he closed his eyes and closed his eyes.
Norman didn't speak, and after helping Ji Ruoxi, who was knocked out by himself, to the chair and sit upright, he walked to the bed alone and looked out the window silently.
The room they stayed in was on the second floor of the Rose Inn, probably because the first floor also doubled as a restaurant, and the second floor of the hotel was erected higher than the usual second floor, and from the window, you could see the scenery of this generation.
Compared with the capitals of CΓ‘rdenas and Nicarlo, the scale of the city of Douala can be seen from the surrounding buildings: from a distant view, most of the buildings in the city are mainly bungalows, there are not many small buildings on the second floor, and the tall buildings that are often seen in Nicaro like the third and fourth floors are even rarer, and only a small and very tall fortress can be seen in the extreme distance of sight, which should be the location of the city lord's palace.
For this part of the north, it was already winter, the sun was thin, and most of it was hidden behind the clouds, and the sky was a little dark, just like Norman's mood at the moment.
After he learned that Chen Qinghe had predicted that his death was approaching, he also had the idea of saving Chen Qinghe in his heart, but according to the current situation, if he wanted to save Chen Qinghe, the safest way was for him to take the initiative to expose his identity.
News from the top always spreads faster than from below, and he believes that both Kingdom institutions such as the Municipal Council and the local branch of the Church of God already know what is happening in the City of Arts. As long as he took the initiative to show up and asked them to collect those materials on his behalf as a saint, I believe that he would soon be able to collect all of them.
However, as the Templars had had on him, the idea was immediately discarded by Norman.
If you do this, it will be really "I don't go to purgatory, who will go to purgatory".
It's okay to say that, but it's absolutely impossible to do.
But Norman still didn't give up the idea of saving Chen Qinghe, after all, this was his only friend, and he really wanted to save him.
Then he thought of another idea, which was what Ji Ruoxi reminded him of just now: Although it is impossible to rob, it is too easy to expose, but is it possible to steal?
Compared with robbery, although stealing is also very risky, it should be more hidden, as for morality or something...... Is that still a thing for Norman?
But after thinking about it again, this idea was also temporarily pressed by Norman as a backup option.
After that, Norman finally thought of a formal channel, that is, to find a way to make some money first, and then to buy materials.
Compared with the two plans of robbing and stealing, this plan is safer and has the first priority, but there are also two questions to consider, that is, does Douala have the materials they need? After all, judging by Chen Qinghe's tone just now, his current situation is already very dangerous, and if Douala materials are not enough, he really doesn't know if he will be able to survive to the next city.
After all, the prices of the remaining materials are not cheap, judging by the news that Norman heard about buying materials before, there are not dozens of Quintalan that cannot be lowered.
Let's hope Pirnault's paintings are worth a little money, after all, he is also a famous painter who lives in the art capital......
Norman could only hope for this, and at the same time admired the foresight of the Templars: after leaving the capital of the arts, it was the Templars who suggested that he take Pirno with him, otherwise Norman would have left the painter and the two dragons to run away secretly for the sake of safety at the time.
However, apart from praying that Pirno would return with a large sum of money, he could not be idle.
Thinking of this, Norman turned around and said to Chen Qinghe, who was recuperating with his eyes closed on the bed: "I have something to do and go out for a while, you look at her, but I think she shouldn't be able to wake up before nightfall." β
Chen Qinghe opened his eyes, glanced at Norman, nodded, and then Norman went out.
As soon as he walked out of the room, Norman instantly changed into a feminine posture, and with some twisting in his stride, he went downstairs and out of the hotel.
He was going to take a look around Douala to see if there was an antidote to buy the other half of the materials in Douala .
And as soon as he stepped out of the inn door, Lancelot's voice rang in his heart.
"If you're going to ask about the antidote, then I warn you once again that it's very risky. β
Among all the people in the other world, the Templars' data analysis of Norman's character model is definitely the most comprehensive and detailed, so much so that Norman did some actions many times without saying a word, and they were able to roughly guess Norman's mental activity at the moment.
Norman walked down the street and said to Lancelot in an extremely faint voice, "But don't forget, you also think that going to the Northland is a good idea, but if you want to go to the Northland, I need the Dragons' 'protectors', that is, I must save them. β
Lancelot said helplessly: "But as I said before, things have changed as we expected. β
"The antidote itself is a double-edged sword, allowing you to save these two dragons and increase your intimacy among the dragons, but it is also a decoy left by the enemy. They only need to pay close attention to the sales of those ingredients in the antidote, and it is possible to find out where you are along this line, so the production of the antidote had to be pressed in our original plan. β
This is indeed what Lancelot once said to Norman, but the plan does not keep up with the changes.