"When, when, when", the heavy bell rang on the bell tower, the bell startled the birds perched on the top of the bell tower, and the flock of birds screamed and rushed into the night sky, wandering around the clock tower blankly and flying. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There was silence around the central square of the city, and all the buildings had turned off their lighting, plunging the whole area into darkness, except for the faint light on the square, and the light of thousands of candles gathered in the square like swarms of fireflies, illuminating everyone's face.

Thousands of citizens gathered in the square, each with a candle in his hand, and under the candlelight, everyone's face was solemn, and only sorrow and sadness could be seen on their tense faces. In the darkness, there were occasional bursts of sobbing, and the sobbing sound was tried to restrain it, but it only added a bit of depression and heaviness to the dim square.

Suddenly, the lights came on, and several searchlights focused on a corner of the square, and more than a hundred soldiers of the city guard lined up in a tight line, and almost all of the soldiers could see the traces of bandaging, and if you closed the distance, you could smell the pungent smell of blood and medicine. But even with their scars, they stood upright in the light, receiving the gaze of the citizens, an honor that the warriors deserved after the test of life and death.

After the queue, more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers in wheelchairs followed closely with the help of medical personnel, and among them, a few lucky people were able to get back on their feet, but most of them will always be with wheelchairs in the future. Indeed, in this era, a few cities have sufficient medical technology to fit prosthetic limbs for the disabled, but the Brocade City does not have this ability, even if the city comes forward to send these people to the medical city for treatment, due to the long distance, they will also lose the last opportunity for treatment. However, these people do not have to worry about their future, for these disabled fighters, the city will arrange for them to take the easiest jobs, and cover all the expenses of their medical care and living until the end of their lives.

The searchlight followed the soldiers' procession until they reached the middle of the square, where they rearranged the queue and stood in the light. On the platform behind their queue, dozens of black coffins can be seen through the darkness, the lid of the coffin is closed, covered with red cotton cloth, and there are pictures of each person.

After the queue of the city guards stopped, the same searchlight was lit in another corner of the square, and less than a hundred private soldiers who survived the battle appeared in the light. The queue of these private soldiers was not neat, and their expressions were not as solemn as the soldiers of the city guards, everyone was scattered, but these people also shed blood for the sake of Brocade City, so every living private soldier was paid handsomely, and at the same time, he was given the power of the limelight.

The scattered queue of private soldiers came to the right side of the city guard lineup and stopped, there were also black coffins behind them, but there were only a dozen sparse ones, on the one hand, because many corpses were taken away by the retreating black wolves, on the other hand, most of the private soldiers were unsatisfactory low-level mercenaries or even hyenas who had reformed themselves, in the world of these two kinds of people, the honor after death is a joke, they are the same as the female leopard Rose These mercenaries, what they pursue is the enjoyment and excitement of life, as for what will happen after death, whether the corpse will be eaten by wild beasts, who will care about it。

As a result, the bodies of the private soldiers were buried directly in the cemetery with the consent of their teammates, and only a dozen or so attended the farewell ceremony.

The third group of spotlights shined directly on the left side of the city guard lineup, where there were no coffins, and the strength of the brocade city could not prepare so many coffins in a small half a day, so the corpses and corpse fragments of the citizens were also parked in the training ground of the city guards, and at this farewell ceremony, only the photos and relics of each deceased were placed on the ground, representing the deceased to accept the mourning of the citizens.

"When, when, when. The bell rang again, and the mournful song sounded from the darkness, the singing was in line with the solemnity of the scene, with a strong contagion, and quickly transmitted to the hearts of each participant, and the citizens holding candles, under the infection of the song, couldn't help but sing along, and while singing, tears soaked their eyes.

On the makeshift rostrum in the square, Zhang Lu stood in the center with a candle in her hand, leading the people to sing a sad elegy to see off the city's heroes and innocent victims.

However, according to the practice of Brocade City, on the occasion of this kind of group gathering, all the official positions will not come forward, such as the crow as the acting city lord, such as the patriarch of the major families, such as the heads of all functional departments. It is said that this practice was formed to prevent all the principal managers from being caught in an accident at the same time, and to prevent no one from dealing with an accident in the unlikely event that something happens. Whatever the reason, the city's most important officials did not show up, but that doesn't mean they didn't pay attention, because they were all watching the venue in their own way.

For example, the crow, he squatted on the roof of a high-rise building, overlooking the venue, dressed in black and swaying lightly in the wind, which had blended into the night. Behind him, the purple-clothed Xiao Wu lowered her head and stepped on his shadow, motionless like a stone statue. The female leopard and the crow are in the same position, squatting beside her with a burning cigar in her mouth, lazily looking at the singing crowd below, like a lazy cat lying on the roof basking in the sun after eating and drinking. Between the crow and the leopard female, roses separated the two, delicate roses leaning against a huge case, bright roses appearing between their fingers.

"Xiao Wu. Raven sighed softly, "You should be in the queue below." ”

"No, I'm going to be by the Lord's side. It was the first time that the girl had directly disobeyed the Lord's order, which made her a little nervous, "The Lord promised me. ”

"Well, whatever you want. The crow shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's becoming more and more disobedient, have you forgotten the lesson of the previous night?"

"Hey. The girl blushed and snickered when she lowered her head, but there was always a shadow between her brows that could not be dissipated.

"Due to my status, I never had the opportunity to see their memorial services when I went to other cities. The raven tilted his head to the two ladies and said, "You must have seen it, are the rituals of those cities so dull?"

"It makes no difference. The female leopard yawned lazily and said boredly, "In general, it is a group of living people gathered together, crying for a group of dead people with various thoughts, and after crying, everyone goes their own way, as if nothing happened." Believe me, there is nothing more xx than participating in this xx ceremony. ”

"In that case, how about we do something that isn't boring?" the crow raised an ambiguous eyebrow at the female leopard, but immediately heard a light cough from the rose, so she had to give up her plan to continue teasing the cat, and said with a smile, "Go and complete the penultimate piece of the puzzle." ”