CHAPTER XX: Life and Liberty
While everyone in the hospital was chatting about the relationship between the Adventurers' Guild and the country, many fishermen were gathering on the broad flat at the entrance of the village, all with their heads bowed and their faces heavy.
Fisherman A: "I've been fishing for so many years, I've never seen such a monster, you look at that mouth, that leg, that body, it's really terrifying, I'm a little afraid of the sea!"
Fisherman B: "Isn't it? Today is considered a win, but tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, what will we do if we meet again?"
Fisherman C: "Anyway, I don't dare to go into the sea, don't you see, those powerful adventurers are all injured, what else can we ordinary people do?
Fisherman Ding: "Anyway, I plan to leave here and go to the city to earn a living, and saving my life is the most important thing!"
Fisherman E: "What about your wife and children when you go to the city? Even if you take them there, you can only fish, and you have no other skills, what can you do? Instead of suffering all kinds of hardships, maybe at that time, you might as well die?"
Fisherman: "You have forgotten, we have a medicine saint, he is so powerful, he will not stand idly by!"
Fisherman Geng: "Medicine Sage, don't you see today's situation clearly, how much can a Medicine Sage withstand? How long can he end? Besides, he is not from the village in the first place, maybe he will leave one day, and you still expect others to guard you for a lifetime?"
Fisherman Xin: "What should I do? I can't go, I can't stay, do I have to sit and wait for death?"
Fisherman: "Why don't we join forces with people from several surrounding fishing villages to go to sea together?"
Fisherman: "You are stupid, is this a problem of a large number of people? In today's situation, how many people are the head?"
The village official held a pipe in his mouth, muttered for a while, and sighed: "It would be nice if there was a country, as long as the country is there, it can be guarded for generations!"
Fisherman A: "Didn't the City Lord's Mansion also say that it would protect us?"
The village official smiled: "City Lord's Mansion, everything is up to them, he said to help, he said to help, he said not to help, if he didn't help, if the City Lord's Mansion was willing to help, would we still be so remote and desolate here?"
Fisherman B: "Even if we don't have the City Lord's Mansion, we still have the Adventurer's Guild, so it's the same to ask them for help!"
The village official replied, "Adventurer's Guild, that's a god, there is always a difference between a god and a man!"
Fisherman C: "What is the difference between the Adventurer's Guild, the City Lord's Mansion and the country?"
The village official said: "The Adventurer's Guild is a god, and the god is capricious, they can come when they want, they can go when they want, advocate absolute freedom, let's just say how long have they not been back from the village, five, ten, or twenty years? Do you rest assured that you will hand yourself over to them? In the past, it didn't matter if it was peaceful, but now, it's different. City Lord's Mansion, absolute right, just look at our current situation to know what kind of existence it is. The country is different, if we apply for protection from the state, they will definitely send people to be stationed here to protect us forever."
Fisherman Ding: "But then you won't be free, they say that after joining the country, there will be no freedom!"
The village official asked: "Which do you choose, life or freedom, if you choose life, you can gain relative freedom, if you choose absolute freedom, you will easily lose your life!"
All the fishermen smiled in unison.
The village official continued: "Come to think of it, you have already made a choice and tell you the news, Fengyuan City is about to belong to the Bronze Kingdom, and we don't have to leave our hometown!"
As night fell, the fishermen returned to their homes with their thoughts.
It was night, the moonlight was as quiet as water, the wind swept through the branches, and on the stone table in the small courtyard of the medical hall, two pots of turbid wine and a few dishes were placed, and Shangguan Tong and Guan Lujie sat and drank opposite each other, expressing their loneliness. From Tiannan to Haibei, from the East to the West, the topic turned to the recent situation.
Guan Lujie raised his glass to look at the moon and sighed: "They are disturbing the world, how can they compare the Qingzhu Cup under the moon!"
Shangguan Tong smiled and replied: "There is nothing in the world, mediocre people disturb themselves, I don't know what happened when Brother Guan became a mediocre?"
Guan Lujie took a sip and said, "What else can I do, for me, breaking through to the Great Yang Realm is the most important, but now, the situation is here, and people without soul power can't break through!"
Shangguan Tong smiled and said, "I'm afraid you heard the wind from somewhere?"
Guan Lujie said embarrassedly, "Indeed, I heard that Brother Shangguan got the magic medicine 'Ice Blue Spirit' two and a half years ago, so he ......"
Shangguan Tong shook his head and said, "It's your style to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, but this medicine is so precious, how can it be up to you!"
Guan Lujie asked, "As long as Brother Shangguan gives me medicine, everything will be on me!"
Shangguan Tong groaned for a moment and said, "You don't need to say anything, you just need to promise three things!"
Guan Lujie said: "Which three?"
Shangguan Tong smiled and said, "First, send Luo Yansheng to the Cangyuan Adventurer's Guild and hand him over to your master!Second, protect him until his strength reaches the Dao Holy Moon Realm, and third, when he reaches your current strength realm, bring him back safely!"
Guan Lujie was stunned for a moment and shouted: "You are asking me to be his bodyguard!"
Shangguan Tong smiled and said, "As long as you follow these three things, I will give you the 'Ice Blue Spirit' and let you successfully break through to the Great Yang Realm."
Guan Lujie said: "Your apprentice is a little stupid, how long will it take me to be here!"
Shangguan Tong said: "If he can't break through within twenty years, you can naturally let it go completely! Is this deal worth it?"
Guan Lujie thought for a while, raised his eyebrows, and said: "A word is a certainty! Anyway, Fengyuan City has been attached to the Bronze Kingdom, just leave the boss, and I will be his bodyguard for twenty years according to what you say."
Shangguan Tong nodded, and the two clinked glasses to each other.
"I don't understand, why are you so interested in him?" asked Guan Lujie.
Shangguan Tong sighed and said, "Because he appeared with the 'Ice Blue Spirit'!"
Guan Lujie was taken aback, his eyes were full of incredulity.
Yansheng lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling, thinking about the question given by the master - why do you want to be an adventurer? With his brain, he really can't answer, but, very strangely, all that comes to mind is the big battle on the sea today, he thinks that those sea monsters are really bad, and it is not a good thing to want to eat Big Brother Bailong and make the master injured.
The master once said, "If you become an adventurer, you can learn skills and become strong, and if you want to see the sea, you can see the sea, and if you want to see the mountains, you can see the mountains."
Yansheng thought that he could also defeat the sea monster, in that case, I want to learn, I want to be an adventurer. The fishermen were so good to themselves, and when they learned their skills, they helped them drive away all the sea monsters.
Yansheng found a reason to become an adventurer, and he fell asleep.
Early in the morning, Mu Tuqi led Long Tuo and the three of them to start working in the temporary shed, after all, once in six years, more than 200 people, after completing the registration and physical examination, I am afraid that I will be tired for a while, prepare early, and I will not be in a hurry for a while.
When everything was ready, Mutuqi said to the three of them: "Be energetic for a while, be quick, finish early, and finish early."
The three of them nodded one after another.
Mu Tuqi said again: "Yesterday, these fishermen saw the divine power of the adventurer, I am afraid that they are in high spirits, and after a while, you should try to put up some music and pretend, so that they know that the real adventurer is not so easy to be!"
The three of them looked at each other and smiled.
Bai Xian'er, Bai Long, Yansheng, and the three of them soon appeared.
Long Tuo shouted, "Hurry up, come on!" The three of them sat solemnly in front of the three tables, pretending to pick up the pen and write something on the paper.
Mu Tuqi shouted to Bai Xian'er and the three of them, "Each of them corresponds to a table, do a good job of registration!" and winked at Long Tuo and the three of them.
The three of Yansheng sat in front of Long Tuo and the three of them, preparing to register.
I only heard Long Tuo ask: "Before you register, tell me why you want to become an adventurer!"
Yansheng replied: "For the sake of the sea, in order to drive the sea monster away!"
Bai Xian'er replied: "For the sake of the high mountains, I want to see how high the real high mountains are!"
Bai Long replied: "For the sake of the grassland, I want to race with the fastest horse on the grassland!"
A black line appeared on the foreheads of the three Long Tuo and Mu Tuqi, and this unexpected answer made them feel that they were recruiting a group of 'fake adventurers'.
Mutuqi jumped out and shouted: "It's too small, the goal is too small, you don't have the spirit of exploration, how can you become a real adventurer in the future, no, answer again!"
Yansheng touched his head and said, "Fight the sea monster like you guys!"
Bai Xian'er said: "Like you, you can ride the wind and fog and learn skills!"
The white dragon said, "Like you, let people worship!"
"Hmm!" Mu Tuqi nodded with satisfaction, and said proudly: "Very good, is this right, the goal should be a little farther, don't be mountainous, water, grassland, such an answer is much more decent!"
After completing the registration, the physical examination began, and Mutuqi knew the condition of the three people, and after roughly asking them, he asked them to wait, and by the way, asked the three to help with the next physical examination.
From early morning to noon, from noon to sunset, there were no more applicants. Mutuqi was puzzled, couldn't killing the sea monster so hard yesterday awaken those young people's yearning for power?
Unfortunately, there really wasn't anyone signing up again.
Bai Xian'er approached Mu Tuqi and said: "Now this place already belongs to the Bronze Country, although your actions yesterday are very respectable, but you can't protect everyone here every day, the Bronze Kingdom can, they just made a choice in front of freedom and life!"
Mutuchi asked, "Then why did you choose freedom?"
Bai Xian'er said: "What we choose is not freedom, but the outside world, the master said, the outside world is different, then let's go and see, after all, freedom includes going home!"
Mutuche smiled bitterly, what could he say? Now that all the situation is beginning to become clear, the battle for freedom and life has begun.