"It's not funny, it's not funny at all. Al muttered to himself, looking at the stone tablet full of ridiculous words, but Al couldn't laugh at all. He originally wondered why Zhang Xi's narrative had as many as eight stone tablets, but now he knew that what was engraved on this stone tablet was not only his life experience, but also his lifelong mental journey.

Al squatted in front of the stone tablet, the little word "failure" deeply pierced his eyes, Zhang Xi has failed all his life, and Al has been reborn again and again, how many times has he failed? Even Al himself does not remember.

If their crossing is a choice of fate to save the world, then why do they choose ordinary people like them? Why not choose those born geniuses, national leaders, and military experts...... And pick ordinary people like them?

Coming to this other world, suffering pain, swallowing tears, experiencing loss, and encountering a fiasco, they silently licked their wounds, pretended to be strong, and played the role of "savior", but their hearts were already full of holes and overwhelmed.

Because they are ordinary people, they don't have steel and iron bones, and they don't have the heart of a stubborn stone, and they are just small citizens on the earth.

"Since then, we as human beings have suffered and suffered hardships, and have become cruel and cold to prove the stone nature of our flesh," is Thoreau's reflection on human nature in Walden.

So if you want to be a great man, if you want to succeed, if you want to turn things around in a world that is hostile to the world, do you have to turn your heart to stone?

The heart is still beating in a "bump", trying to send warm blood to all parts of the body. The lively beating sound seemed to prove to Al that this heart had not yet cooled, and it was still throbbing and jumping for something.

"How could I possibly laugh at you, my compatriot. Isn't laughing at you the same as laughing at myself?", Al slowly squatted in front of the stone tablet, touching the notches on the stone tablet with his fingertips, and through these nicks, it was as if Zhang Xi was face to face with himself through the stone tablet.

Not as a hero king, not as Silori Relot, but as a man named Zhang Xi.

"I'm not you, and I don't know what your feelings are deep down. But reading between your lines, I know that although you sympathize with the humans of this world and are willing to help them, you do not love them. You have been alone in this world, lonely until you are old. ”

"But I'm not like you, I love the world, and I love the people of this world. I've been through so much in this world, I've given too much and I've gotten too much. I'm not going to go out of my way to find a way to get back to Earth, and if there is, I'd like to go back when I'm too old to move, and I'll be content if I can go back to square one and see it again. Al chattered, as if he was at home with Zhang Xila.

In other words, it was to reassure Zhang Xi thousands of years ago, because he had already seen what was written on the stone tablet below.

"When these words are engraved on the stone tablet, I have reached the end of my life, and I hope that this place, where I have come to the origin of this world, will be my burial place. ”

"If there's anything I can't worry about, it's those dark magicians who have fled into the 100,000 mountains. Although I left the Holy Cult as my follower, can the Holy Cult withstand the counterattack and revenge of the dark mages? I still can't rest assured about this, so I secretly made a batch of special weapons and buried them in the depths of this snowy field. ”

"I hesitated for a long time about this decision, and I don't know if it's good or bad, and I don't know if you'll repeat my mistakes. But in the end I want to believe you, my compatriot, because you and I come from the same homeland. ”

"As for the scientific instruments, I buried them in my grave and will fall into a deep sleep with me. Please forgive me for being a little selfish as a researcher, and after thinking about it for so long, I am also convinced that these instruments are harmful to the world, so let the world develop quietly according to its original track. ”

"Finally, good luck, my compatriot. ”

"Zhang Xi, this is the last pen. ”

Al stood in front of the stone monument and was silent for a long time, until Medea came up and slapped him.

"After staring at it for so long, did you notice anything?"

Al came back to his senses, he smiled, "It's just a little emotional, the famous and dignified hero king will actually leave a trace in this kind of uninhabited barren land, if it is spread, I am afraid it will cause an uproar." ”

"But what did you find? I can't hide the smile on your face. ”

Medea smirked, "Originally, we all thought that this stone tablet was engraved with some kind of code, but after discovering these eight stone tablets, our opinion changed. If it is a code, so many codes are too complicated, some are unlikely, and Mr. Levy thinks that this is some kind of peculiar text, very different from our current lingua franca, but a kind of text that resembles a figure. ”

"Words? It's quite possible. ”

"But these words are so cumbersome that I was a little dizzy after reading them for a while. ", Medea complained.

"But it's beautiful, isn't it?" Al said as he looked at the square Chinese characters carved on the stone tablet, "This should be the most beautiful script in the world." ”

"It's really beautiful. Medea agreed, "They all seem to have a harmonious aesthetic, especially in terms of structure, which is very much in line with my aesthetics." If I were the king of the kingdom of St. Teresa, I would have decreed that this script should be made the lingua franca of the whole country. ”

"I think their pronunciation and meaning are as beautiful as their structure. However, if you promote such a difficult font across the country, I am afraid that the illiteracy rate in the country will rise a lot. ", Al joked.

"This kind of writing is very complicated at first glance, and it is not easy to think about grammar. ”

"Hmph, is there still a lot of illiterate people in this country, and as for those fools, who cares about them?", Medea said disdainfully.

After cleaning the entire snow field and making sure that there was nothing to be gained, Al and his party set off again with the nine stone tablets, ready to return to the camp. As they walked, they tagged each part of the journey and determined the route back and forth, so that there would be no risk of getting lost when entering and exiting the dense forest in the future.

As he left, Al took one last look at the snow, Zhang Xi should be buried in the depths of the snow, but Al had no intention of disturbing his long sleep, even if those scientific research tools were also very important to him.

This man named Zhang Xi has been tired all his life, so let him have a good rest.