World War 23 The spirit of sacrifice
Averno and Edith looked at each other, then whispered a few words. Bai Lingche swallowed his sip and became faintly uneasy. What if something happened to Avinor? What if Edith killed the witch on impulse? What if the two of them were killed by the dragon? For a moment, he felt the urge to rush down and fight with them. It's not because he doesn't trust them, but because this is the first time they've fought separately, and he's still a little unused to it. Although he is a character in his novel, in the past three years, Bai Lingche has regarded Averigno and Edith as his most important people, and he is also used to being called "Albert" by others. He loved his life here and had a purpose for the first time in his life.
"Wait," Eric stopped him in time, Bai Lingche already had one leg outside the fence. In order to watch the election, the troops erected a tall viewing tower for the spectators. Bai Lingche's seat was in the fourth row, which was about the height of a building.
"What are you going to do? It's three stories in the air. ”
"But they are in danger. ”
"I know you're worried about them, but they're not children anymore, so trust them properly. ”
"......" Bai Lingche sat back in his seat uneasily. He was sweating profusely on his head and stared uneasily at the screen above the rostrum.
Aveno had already witnessed all this in the audience, and sighed: "He is still like this, always worried about us. ”
Edith glanced at him and took his hand. Avino shrank his hand: "...... What?"
"Instead of thinking about it here, why don't you do something practical to influence him?As long as we're together, there's nothing we can't solve?Avino?" Edith shook Avino's hand again, and Avino felt a surge of courage rise from the bottom of his heart. He nodded, ready for the battle that followed.
"I announce that the fifty-ninth test training for recruits is now open. With Robin's order, almost at that moment, all the members rushed into the forest in unison and disappeared, leaving Bai Lingche with nothing but gusts of dust that flew up as they ran.
It's still very bright outside, and the sun stays above the sky for a few more hours after winter. But at this time, the forest was strangely gloomy, and Avino's breath had condensed into white smoke, filling the air.
"How's it going?" asked Edith with concern.
"Ah, it's fine. Luckily, you reminded me to bring a jacket, so I put it in my backpack as a backup. There's something unusual about this air, isn't it spring?"
Edith watched Avino put on his protective coat and had already guessed in his mind: "As the chief said, it was the witch in the woods who did it." They probably wanted to test whether our pre-battle preparations were sufficient, and now they should be eliminating the first batch of men. ”
Edith thought exactly what most people expected. Almost all of the troops took out their coats as they entered the cold zone. Some of them simply wrapped themselves in rice dumplings, exposing only their two eyes outside, but this would only greatly reduce his mobility. Within ten minutes, several people froze to the ground, and in the worst case, a thin layer of smoothie appeared on their bodies, and all their muscles were a hard blue-purple color. Avenor was a little nervous, and the further he walked deeper into the woods, the more cold he felt, and it was useless that he had tightened his coat to the maximum limit. The coldness was slowly spreading inside him. Edith was also a little worried: "Do you want to wear another one?"
Avino shook his head: "Putting on one more will only make you colder, besides, don't you take off your coat for me when you say 'another one'?
Edith frowned, stubbornly took it off, and threw it on Avino's head: "If you want to wear it, you can wear it! ”
"Don't. Avino took his coat off his head as he began to undress as well. "It's better for two people to be eliminated together than to let you freeze alone. There are also a few unconscious teammates here. They can only wait to die in this forest full of monsters and witches. No one came back to save them. We can't die without help!"
Miraculously, when Avino finished covering the two of them, his whole body suddenly began to warm up. This is not a spiritual comfort, but the truest feeling of the whole body. The temperature he felt was about the same as it was outside.
"Strange ......," Avino muttered, looking at his hands.
"What?" Edith saw that Avino did not listen to the persuasion, so he had to dress himself.
"Don't get dressed yet. Ahh Suddenly remembered what she had learned in training Feather Charlene before.
"It's magic! It's all an illusion! It's the witch's magic, 'hot and cold!'" Avenor cried, and many of the recruits who had not yet fallen looked back at him.
"'Hot and cold disorders'?" I don't know if it's because the surroundings are too cold, Edith didn't react at first, tilting his head and staring at Avino in confusion. Avino began to shake her back and forth with hatred.
"Have you forgotten? 'Hot and cold disorder'! It's the 'hot and cold disorder'! That illusion magic can convert heat sensation into cold sensation magic, so that people keep wearing clothes in extremely hot places and know that they are suffocated to death! And you still feel cold! Have you forgotten all the knowledge you learned in the recruit school?"
Edith came to her senses and quickly began to take off the clothes she had worn to fight the cold. Averno also incited the rest of the team to do the same. In just five minutes, two-thirds of Covey had cracked the witch's magic. Dispels the illusion.
"It's hot!" was Edith's first words after escaping the illusion.
"Is it true that after getting out of the illusion, you will return to the original hot environment?" Avino's head began to sweat continuously, "I will catch a cold when I am cold and hot......"
"Why is this the first test? Doesn't it mean that we have enough stuff to prepare?and, how did you guess the solution?" said Edith and Averno. The next level is waiting for them not far away.
"Ah, I just guessed most of the meaning. I guess I want us to learn the spirit of sacrifice. Avino scratched his head embarrassedly and began to explain: "I have always heard Chief Diane say that in battle, you must learn to think about others, and you must unite to solve difficulties - although it is a familiar truth, its significance is not trivial. If we leave those soldiers alone today, we may not be able to solve the illusion either. Instead, they will die in this forest like them. The first truth that the demon hunters want to tell us may be that as long as we can think about others everywhere, we can solve problems. ”
Bai Lingche stared at the screen and couldn't help but shake his body. Avenor and Edith completed the task without him being needed, which was unexpected to him. He was happy for Avino, the first to discover the solution and the main truth, and generally did not score low. His thoughts about them also changed in that moment.
Eric tilted his mouth and patted Bai Lingche's back: "Look, they can do it themselves!"