Chapter 314: The Price of Imlessity
Even though it had been a long time since he first met Bayi Yonglin, every time he recalled this incident, Feng Longde would fall into deep confusion.
Why did his body produce that state similar to a battle reaction when he saw Bayi Yonglin? And his soul would tense uncontrollably? It was like seeing an old rival? Feng Longde thought about it for a long time, and for this reason, he also shared this memory with Caroline through the soul connection to help analyze it, but there is no follow-up until now, I don't know if Caroline really hasn't researched anything, or if he feels that it is not the time to say it now, so he will inevitably have a big head when he thinks about this problem.
Not only that, Feng Longde also remembered that when he first saw Moon Rabbit Lingxian, he would almost be unable to control his emotions, but it was not as exaggerated as he was when he saw Bayi Yonglin, combined with Shangmei Hong's situation that she had an indescribable sense of familiarity when she met her, Feng Longde found that he seemed to be vaguely about to find the truth of the facts, but he couldn't find a clue yet.
"Sure enough, Feng Longde, you must have seen that moon man, right?" Seeing Feng Longde's silent appearance, Mei Hong thought that he also had a similar experience like herself, and her tone sounded a little excited, "Feng Longde, did you feel the same strange familiarity as me when you first met me?
"I do have a strange sense of familiarity when I meet you, but it's too faint for me to be aware of if I hadn't brought it up. Feng Longde rubbed his forehead, thanks to the fact that the inside of the plate armor gloves he was wearing on his hands were made of heavy chain armor instead of plate armor pieces, otherwise, even if he could control the strength of his hands, the sharp plate armor pieces would very likely cut through his forehead. "But I didn't really feel that familiarity."
"No matter how you feel, you have a strange feeling for me and that guy from Bayi Yonglin, that's right!" Mei Hong directly interrupted Feng Longde's words, now she looked a little overexcited, Feng Longde wondered if she was really starting to get active because of the alcohol effect of Spiatus distilled vodka. "If I have a chance, I'll see if I can ask you to go with that guy next time I fight that guy Kaguya, if you feel the same way about that bastard Kaguya, then you're my kind!"
"Not to mention for the time being, my whole person's situation doesn't have much overlap with Penglai immortals, why are you suddenly so obsessed with me being your kind, or rather, the same kind of Penglai immortals?" Feng Longde knocked on the table, and the sound of the metal plate armor pieces on the plate armor gloves hitting the bamboo table made Mei Hong calm down a little, "Can you explain?"
"Feng Longde, do you have any friends?" Mei Hong took a few deep breaths and calmed down, and asked Feng Longde.
Feng Longde tilted his neck: "There are several." Although I don't like to have too much contact with outsiders, there are definitely friends and friends, but they are all in the outside world now. ”
"So, do you have any friends in Gensokyo?"
"Half of it, because he's my subordinate, but he can talk to me about all sorts of nonsense. Feng Longde replied without a long thought, his left hand rubbing his chin and looking thoughtful. "That guy is a Chinese young man, two years older than me. It's just that his mouth is too cheap.,Sometimes if I don't give him something powerful.,It's easy for him to kick his nose in the face.;As for the other guys, I'm basically soaking in the tavern in the world when I'm resting.,There are a few drinking friends who can still drink and talk.,Sometimes I'll go to Suzuna-an to find Honju Kosuzu to trade with each other in terms of the books they own.,Or go to the barnyard field mansion to find the barnyard field A.,Ask for some historical classics.。 The rest of the time, the rest of me is to sit in the Teutonic camp to deal with affairs and exercise my abilities, and the rest of the time I am used to being alone."
"It's so good, I'm happier than I am. Looking at Feng Longde, who was bored with himself, Mei Hong muttered quietly.
"Much happier than you?" although Mei Hong's muttering voice was very small, Feng Longde's ears could still hear it. He asked curiously.
"Yes, you're a lot happier than I am now. Mei Hong reiterated the word 'happiness' again, and then she looked directly into Feng Longde's eyes: "Feng Longde, I remember Huiyin said, you are only eighteen years old this year, right?
"Yes, I'm just eighteen years old today, because today is my birthday. Feng Longde nodded.
"Then I wish you a happy birthday, and a Merry Christmas. Mei Hong replied, her attitude becoming a little kind, but she quickly reverted to that solemn-looking expression.
"Thank you. Feng Longde scratched his hair, and the plate armor pieces on the plate armor gloves rubbed against his hair to make a sound of Xi Xi Suosuo, "But I'm only eighteen years old now, does it have anything to do with the problem we are talking about now?"
"It's relevant, and it's very important. Mei Hong's tone suddenly became serious, "Because you still don't know what immortality looks like." ”
Feng Longde was stunned.
Mei Hong sighed softly and said lightly: "Immortality is the highest gift that ordinary humans can dream of, but for those who are truly immortal, this is actually a very cruel punishment- Living forever, all important things will slowly disappear in front of you, and you can't stop or change When you live for a thousand years, everything around you, whether it's people or things, has been vicissitudes, and you still maintain the appearance of just drinking Penglai's immortal medicine, because the body will not produce any further changes at all, muscles, bones, physical strength, etc. will not grow again, but if you don't eat, you will still feel hungry, and you can feel pain when you are injured, but it doesn't help at all- Immortality is far more terrible than death itself, and any life is only a passing cloud in the eyes of the immortal, while he can live until the end of time. ”
"Immortal," Feng Longde muttered silently. Then he opened his mouth and said to his sister Hong: "I am a dragon spirit prototype body, my sister is a dragon spirit element body, and my subordinates are also deceased, we will also be immortal - the deceased only need to maintain the vigor of the soul, the dragon spirit element body also needs to have a stable supplement of various elements, and I only need to maintain the activity of the body in addition to this." We can all theoretically live forever as well. ”
"No, your situation is not the same as mine, or the Penglai Undead. Mei Hong shook her head slowly but firmly, "Although you can live forever, I can hear from your tone that if you are killed, you will not be resurrected, right? At least you said that you will die too, but it is much more difficult to kill than ordinary humans and monsters, isn't it?"
"That's right. Feng Longde was silent for a while. Nodding, "Whether it's my dragon spirit prototype, my sister Caroline's dragon spirit elemental body, or Yarman's and other deceased people, we will also die: only if we don't encounter natural and man-made disasters, we can live forever, such as my sister Caroline and Yarman and other guard knights, they have lived for at least hundreds of years to thousands of years."
"And you're only eighteen years old, but you have a sister who is likely to have lived no less than any big monster?"
"Uh" Feng Longde helplessly held his forehead. He looked a little embarrassed, "She bit me to death when she killed me, and I was his brother." And because of some things, I have to admit that it is very likely that I am his brother, and these things will be talked about when I have the opportunity, this is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words."
So back to our previous topic. Mei Hong's expression became serious again, and she paused, "The living will perish." It is the law of nature that all living creatures cannot escape death in the end, even you and your sister and those who have died, but if I say that, then when I drink that pot of Penglai immortal medicine, I am no longer alive?"
Feng Longde was silent.
"If Penglai is not dead, it is not alive. So is it pointless to do anything to survive?, so what should you continue to live for?" Mei Hong said in a calm tone, although she looked very indifferent now, Feng Longde felt that Mei Hong still felt a little touched by this, " This is what I was most confused about in the hundreds of years after I first transformed from an ordinary human aristocratic girl to an undead in Penglai, so during that time, I have been wandering around the world outside, and I have seen the ugliness of humans and monsters during the journey, so at that time, I began to hate the whole world, and hated my immortal body, challenging any monster I saw, because at that time, I wanted to seek the meaning of my existence in killing, to maintain that weak 'me', as a human ' Three hundred years had passed since that time, and I was so bored that I didn't have the motivation to do anything. ”
"It's not easy. After listening to Mei Hong's story, Feng Longde sighed after being silent for a while.
Is the price of immortality so great? Feng Longde didn't know that Fujiwara Meihong, What is the situation of the three immortal Penglai immortals, Bayi Yonglin and Penglai Mountain Huiye, but he still knows a lot about the deceased such as Caroline and Yarman: even after living for such a long time, they have not appeared in a situation similar to Mei Hong, on the contrary, Feng Longde feels that there is nothing special about the guards knights such as Yarman and other deceased people who have awakened from the state of the soul of silence, except for being particularly solemn and rigid at work, they are usually quite easy-going, and there are many quite funny
"No normal human would want to live with a humanoid monster that doesn't grow up, will never die, so I had to move from place to place, from a few years to a dozen years, and I had to leave before the locals became suspicious of me, so during that time, I was living a life of wandering. Mei Hong didn't know what Feng Longde thought of because of her words, she slowed down and continued: "According to Huiyin, human beings are social beings, and once they are separated from the group, ordinary humans will not be able to survive. However, I will not die, even if I have a strong hunger, I can live without eating or drinking, even if I am injured, I will only feel pain and will not endanger my life at all, even if I am really killed, in a long or short time, I can be resurrected again in the state when I drank Penglai immortal medicine, and in the last period of time, I can only run to the deep mountains away from the people, and live a life no different from a monster. ”
"It's been more than a thousand years, and you've always been alone?" Feng Longde asked softly.
If Mei Hong has been living alone for more than a thousand years, it is not uncommon to have this kind of emotion and situation- Basically, all intelligent beings are social creatures, and there are very few who are alone with each other, even if they like to live alone, there are exchanges and gatherings with each other from time to time, and it is impossible to live completely out of the group, so this is why Mei Hong has wandered alone in the outside world for more than a thousand years, and there will be so many psychological problems, while the original Teutonic Empire people such as Caroline and Yarman do not have the slightest similar situation: if they live in a normal social group, even if they are deceased, their daily lives are no different from ordinary life races, except for the fact that the deceased can live forever as long as they are not extremely unlucky enough to encounter natural and man-made disasters.
"Later, that's how it happened: fighting Kaguya every day, guiding the lost human inhabitants out of the lost bamboo forest or escorting the human inhabitants who needed medical treatment and medicine to the Eternal Pavilion, and sometimes cleaning up some monsters that would flood the world, just like today. Mei Hong sighed lightly, looking relieved, "What a beautiful thing it is to be alive."
After Mei Hong finally finished talking about her past, Feng Longde was silent for a while, and then nodded slowly but firmly.
"You're right, it's really good to be alive. (To be continued.) )