Chapter 51: Monologues
The moonlight is like water, and the cool breeze is light.
In the mountains and wilderness, frogs and insects chirp.
One dirt road, three carriages.
There were corpses everywhere, and there was no one to be found.
Chen An bandaged the wound on the little girl's neck and then put it in the carriage to rest, he took off his blood-stained clothes, only to feel a hot pain in his back, but he silently wiped the blood stains on his body with his clothes, and only threw it aside after the whole dress was dyed blood-red.
In a moment, he began to gather the corpses around him, knives, and after carefully searching all the useful things on the corpses, and stripping them of the complete clothes of the corpses, he piled them up into a small mountain of corpses, except for the little girl's mother, and then he threw the fire on the corpse mountain.
Looking at the burning corpse pile in front of him, Chen An's face did not have a trace of expression, he turned around and returned to the carriage, and found the medicine bag with the word stop bleeding written on it from the pile of miscellaneous items that he had just searched for the corpse, he opened the medicine bag and poured out the powder inside, and then gritted his teeth and smeared the knife wound on his back with his hands, there were a lot of medicine bags, although a lot was wasted, but at least Chen An's wounds were smeared.
At last he found a piece of silk in the carriage, and tore it into strips and bandaged himself simply, and when he had done it all, he changed into his garment, and leaned on the wheels in exhaustion.
Looking up at the night sky, Chen An did not feel a trace of sleep.
He didn't know whether to lament the impermanence of the world, one moment he was still thinking about his future life in front of his bed, and the next he was transformed into a murderous executioner.
Chen An never thought that he would become a mad murderer, look at the people he killed, several of them were bitten to death under his irrational madness, he was a human, not a beast, but at that time he could only use this extreme way to vent his collapsed anger.
When he saw the robbery leader's brutality against the mother and daughter in the carriage, he didn't know why he had jumped out, but there seemed to be a voice in his heart that said, "Save them!"
Chen An doesn't want to be a coward, but he doesn't want to die in vain!
However, the voice said that you have the power to save them, but you are still a coward who can only escape!
Why? This is the first of the three whys he has issued?
Why did it happen to me that I was killing people and sacrificing my life for righteousness?
I don't have such noble sentiments, and I don't want to be a hero, I just want to be an ordinary person!
Why do you have to force me to choose?
The voice said.
I am not forcing you to choose, but your own conscience and morality are urging you to make a choice.
If you don't save yourself from death, you'll feel guilty for the rest of your life.
Living in a modern society where people's hearts are gradually becoming indifferent, when righteous and courageous actions will be blackmailed, slandered, and ridiculed, even if you can choose to stand by and watch, but when you encounter difficulties, I hope you will not desperately shout that someone will help me and someone will save me.
If no one shows up, it means that everyone around you has become the person who once stood by and watched.
The heroes you prayed to have died long since your indifference.
Result β
Chen An stood up and stopped the brutality of the bandit leader.
He was terrified in his heart, because he knew that he would probably die next.
But at the moment of life and death, he awakened Rachel's memory of teaching him martial arts, activated the body that the Soinlands had strengthened him, and he began to become more and more calm and confident in the battle, and the next actions of the clinker bandit leader directly crushed his sanity!
Why? This is his second why?
If the leader of the robbers were still alive, he would have said, "Little bald donkey, this is the real evil."
Violating human nature, trampling on human nature, and destroying human nature.
Actually, what's the difference between you and us who fell into madness at the end?
Your righteousness is nothing but an excuse for indulging in killing.
After killing so many people, Chen An's psychology naturally changed.
Since he was a child, he has been taught that killing people is illegal, forbidden, and wrong, but the cruel reality tells him that if you don't kill people, people will kill you, and in the end no one can save you.
People are selfish, if you are not a messenger of justice, you can choose not to offend me, I will not offend, or a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood.
Different positions naturally lead to different concepts.
And Chen An gave his own answer by the bloodiest means.
Although there was a large reason for his own emotional breakdown, this aspect undoubtedly had a profound impact on his psyche.
He may never be able to go back to the past.
He may no longer be the Chen An he once was.
"Ahem, ahemβ"
At this time, the little girl's slight cough sounded in the carriage, Chen An, who had not slept with his eyes open, hurriedly got up and got into the carriage, the box was too dark, he couldn't see the little girl's face clearly, but when he reached out to touch the little girl's head, he felt the symptoms of fever and heat, there is no doubt that the girl is sick!
What to do?
He anxiously thought about what to do, and at last he covered the little girl with all the bedding in the carriage, and immediately looked around for water after finding a vessel for water.
After a while, he returned to the carriage with a food box full of water, and then used the remaining silk he had just bandaged as a towel, dipped it in water, wrung it out and applied it to the little girl's head.
But he knew that if he didn't get to the hospital in time, the little girl's life might still be in danger, but he didn't know the place well, and it was night, so he couldn't rush at all, so he could only pray that the little girl could survive tonight's difficulties.
All night, Chen An took care of the little girl carefully, and the little girl kept calling for her mother, and in the middle of the night, she fell asleep and quieted down.
I don't know when, a ray of bright light penetrated the carriage and sprinkled on the face of Chen An, who was half-lying beside the little girl in the carriage, he slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and hurriedly reached out to the girl's head.
My breathing has stabilized a bit, and my fever has decreased a bit.
It seems that it was a success.
"Mom's ......"
Perhaps Chen An's movements disturbed the little girl, she muttered, and then slowly opened her eyes.
β......β
The two looked at each other with big eyes, and the little girl first showed a look of fear, and then seemed to see Chen An's appearance clearly, and recognized him as if he had been the one who had struggled to rescue herself and her mother.
"Uncle...... Did you save me and my mother?"
She hesitated for a moment before stumbling to ask.
"I saved you......"
After hearing the little girl's words, Chen An's heart twitched instantly, he looked at the little girl's innocent and cute appearance, but for a while it was difficult to tell the cruel truth that her mother was dead.
"What about Mommy? I want Mommy ......," the little girl coughed lightly.
"Your mother...... It's dead. β
Chen An clenched his fists, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and when he opened his eyes again, he slowly said this fact.
"No, Mommy won't die, I want Mommy, I want Mommy, I want Mommy......"
When the little girl heard this, her face immediately changed drastically and she began to cry.
Chen An carried the girl and the bedding wrapped around her body out of the carriage without saying a word, and walked into another carriage regardless of the little girl's beating, he opened the curtain of the carriage, and instantly revealed the little girl's mother lying peacefully inside.
"She's dead......"
After the little girl saw her mother, she desperately broke free from Chen An's arms and rushed into the carriage, she held her mother's face and kept crying and shouting, but Chen An stood in the carriage and watched quietly, she knew that the girl could not accept the fact of her mother's death, so he could only use the most ruthless means to make her accept this reality.
I don't know how long it took, the girl was tired of crying and crying hoarsely.
Chen An spoke.
"Your mother has been protecting you until she died, and I really want to save her, but I am one step slower after all......"
The little girl turned her head to look at him, and there was an extra hatred in her eyes, as if she hated Chen An for failing to save her mother.
"Are you hating me?"
Similarly, Chen An noticed the little girl's eyes.
β......β
The little girl didn't speak, just kept staring at him.
"It's dawn, we should go too, where is your home? β
Chen An turned around and no longer looked at the little girl's eyes.
β......β
The little girl remained silent.
"You can't let go of hatred?" said for a long time, Chen Andao.
β......β
This time, Chen An turned around and directly forcibly picked up the little girl, and he walked straight to the pile of corpses that had been burned into a pile of dried corpses and exuded a strong smell.
"Most of your enemies are in it, including the culprit who killed your mother. β
The little girl was so frightened when she saw the picture in front of her that it was like purgatory, her teeth chattered, and the hatred in her eyes had long since disappeared without a trace.
"Do you still hate? If you do, you can continue to crush them!"
As he spoke, Chen An put the little girl in front of the corpse.
And the little girl hugged his thighs tightly, her big round eyes were full of pitiful tears, and she looked up at Chen An.
"Uncle ......"
"Let's go. β
Chen An silently picked up the little girl again and walked back to the carriage and put her back in the carriage.
"Uncle, don't go!"
Seeing Chen An turn to leave, the little girl in the carriage hurriedly got out of the carriage and cried to him.
"I'm not leaving, it's just that I need to dispose of your mother's body. β
Chen An turned around and smiled slightly, picked up the knife he had picked up in his hand and began to dig up the soil in the weeds beside the dirt road.
By the time the day was three days old, he had already dug a pit large enough to bury people.
He returned to the carriage where the little girl's mother was placed, and lifted the curtain to see that the little girl was inside.
"Your mother should rest well. Chen Andao.
The little girl seemed to understand something, she nodded, and then watched Chen An pick up her mother's body and walk to the dirt pit in the distance, after putting the girl's mother's body in the dirt pit, Chen An was about to start filling the soil, he said to the little girl who came with him.
"You will bury your mother with the first earth. β