Chapter Seventy-Three: Branch Point
"I agreed. ”
"What?"
Lan Meng couldn't believe her ears, and she looked at the mage in surprise, realizing that the expression on the latter's face didn't seem to be fake.
"Go and meet the gray robe. After a simple reply, Alexei turned around and motioned with his eyes for the girl to follow, "I don't want to say it a second time." ”
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After a few moments, the two of them sat back in the car and listened to the noise outside. Frimrin cursed loudly at the Aksudia siblings from the new realm, criticizing them for their treacherous shamelessness and femme fatale. Regardless of his kindness to the two of them, he teamed up with robbers to plunder the caravan. In his mouth, Alexei and Lan Meng almost became the incarnation of the legendary demons, and unbearable words abounded, making Lan Meng frown, and she couldn't help asking:
"Why don't you explain it to him?"
The girl fidgeted a little in the steady stream of scolding: "This should be a very simple thing." Just one sentence can shut him up. ”
"But why should I explain it to him?"
Alexei was very curious, and he asked rhetorically, "Wouldn't it be better if you wanted to shut him up?"
As he spoke, he knocked on the wall of the carriage with his backhand, making a thumping sound. Soon, there seemed to be the sound of people running outside the car, followed by a scream, and then the Fremlin's scolding was no longer heard in the car.
"What did they do to him?"
As the scolding disappeared, Lan Meng's eyebrows were even more melancholy, and her eyes kept rolling around in the car, searching, trying to find a small hole for her to look at.
Unfortunately, this carriage is completely enclosed, except for the entrance.
"Don't worry. ”
Alexei placed two bottles of jam on the table and pulled out a piece of looted white bread. He slanted upwards to see Lan Meng's involuntarily sideways gaze, smiled, opened the bottle cap, and smeared the thick plum sauce with bread: "The boys of the black stork are reluctant to break him, as long as he is not injured, or if he is seriously injured, he will not die." He's still going to have a little effect. ”
"Sell to the blue coat. ”
Staring at the bread, I smelled the aroma of plum sauce again.
Lan Meng's face turned red, and she suddenly noticed that the saliva secreted in her mouth was increasing, and her empty stomach was growling.
The thin-faced girl quickly looked away. She deliberately moved her ass away from Alexey to get farther away from Alex, clutching her stomach and grabbing a piece of flesh in an attempt to calm it down with pain.
But it didn't work.
She was still hungry.
Hungry, she didn't recall the details of her previous conversation with the Black Stork until Alexey finished speaking, almost half a minute later.
"I didn't expect that even if they arrived in Darune, they still couldn't change their bad habits in Kherson. ”
She sighed a little.
Thinking that when she first arrived in Kherson, she had just escaped from Norv and saw the miserable situation of the slaves. Lan Meng wanted to change something, but after Lan Meng focused all her energy on the production of the Olmea Golem, she could only remember the little extracurricular entertainment in her spare time.
After all, rather than fighting for a self-proving career, decisions made on the spur of the moment are more likely to be silently forgotten in a quiet life.
Unless, she can once again touch the point that can trigger her state of mind at that time - compassion, or a kind of empathy that touches her childhood.
However, at that time, just before she met Burcente of the Black Stork Gang, in just three hours, she did nothing.
She just imagined it.
Shame on you?
As long as you don't say it, no one will know.
Blue Dream is only ashamed of herself.
Useless people.
She found a word to describe herself, and after years of working in vain, starting with the academy, then obtaining Olmea, and ending with the holy water, her self-righteous nirvana was met with the greatest Waterloo - Alexey.
Blue Dream, nothing has been done.
Not even a single thing.
She recognized this fact, and in turn, she was even more disgusted with the submission that sprouted from the bottom of her heart.
Before reaching out for his hand, Lan Meng didn't realize that he really wanted to take the bread handed by Alexey.
Even though the white bread with plum sauce looked fluffy and fluffy, it was delicious.
That's right, nothing owners are fearless. But Lan Meng is not enough to reach this level, she still wants to maintain a little princess decency.
So, the girl snorted and didn't accept it.
She was tempted to add, "Do you think I'm your dog?"
But in the end, she just moved her lips and didn't speak.
Presumably, I want to keep a little hope.
I didn't think it was when I didn't have food just now, but now that I see the delicious food, the hunger is really a bit unbearable.
"Why don't you eat it?"
Although a mage can read many esoteric magic books, it is difficult for Alexei, who has been used to it all his life, to understand the girl's mind.
She struggled to maintain what little pride she had left in a corner that Alexei wouldn't notice at all.
This thing looks ridiculous, and it sounds ridiculous to say, but in fact...... It's just as ridiculous.
But it is indeed a good way to ensure that in all aspects of control, the self will not be lost and become dependent on the perpetrator.
If a wolf is caught in a hunter's trap and put in a cage. How can it not be domesticated by the whipping and feeding it day after day?
Stick to yourself and stick to the bottom line.
Lan Meng couldn't imagine that one day, she would wagging her tail and begging for mercy against Alexey, the brother-killing enemy. It's one of the few things she can do right now.
Even if it doesn't work, she will still persevere.
Just to stab the dagger into the heart of the enemy at a certain moment.
The car moved.
"I sometimes force you to eat things you don't like. Seeing that the girl would not come to take it, Alexei put the bread back on the table, and said to Blue Dream, "But from this day onwards, I won't." ”
"I'll tell you a few words of truth. ”
Alexei looked very calm, and his flat tone was unwavering: "I've got the Infinite Grail, and the place where Olmea is buried. ”
"The only thing you can bring me is your identity. ”
"And it's taken too long to monetize this identity. Unless it's about me, I don't really have much interest in you. ”
At this time, Lan Meng suddenly said, "If you want to give me freedom, I will be very grateful to you." ”
"Of course, if you want to kill me, I'll gladly accept it too. ”
"I know that we, as mages, have to leave no future troubles. You're a mentor who knows this better than I do, right?"
Lan Meng smiled slightly and stabbed: "You have always shown a tough face before, but now you have suddenly changed your attitude, which really flatters me." ”
She was too composed, and she was judging by her previous performance. Alexei looked at her twice, and realized that Lan Meng had indeed mastered something, which gave her confidence.
Alexey wouldn't really kill her.
"You can talk to me in an open and open manner. Alexey, who understood this, lowered his eyes and hid the emotions in his eyes from his eyelids, "But please don't say anything that neither of us believes, we should be honest." It's not bad for you. ”
"Am I not sincere enough?Elemental Child, what do you want to say?Can I still object to the decision made by me, a captive?"
"In that case, I will no longer hide it. Blue Dream, I want you to help me integrate the Black Stork and the Blue Brotherhood and build a new gang in Darune. ”