Chapter 430: Funeral
The days of preparation are passing day by day, and a new game will soon begin.
People who did not participate in the war, began to shift positions.
"Mom, won't Dad come with us?" A child asked innocently.
The mother took the child's hand, glanced at the man in armor in the distance, and nodded emphatically: "Your father is going to fight, and he is going to snatch the food back from the monster so that you can eat the canned." ”
"Really? Then I'm going to help Daddy too! The child said loudly, his eyes sparkling.
The woman touched the corners of her eyes and said with a smile: "This is a very dangerous thing, you can only go when you grow up." ”
Zhou Xiaoxiao walked in the evacuated crowd, looking at these similar scenes, his mood was very complicated, at this time, who should live?
He thought that a sober-minded person like himself would be able to save more people after he lived, and people like him should live.
But what is the situation now?
Those who could have saved more people have done nothing, and those who seem to have no potential have risked their lives to save those who have retreated into the background and given up the fight.
Theoretically, it seems that the best people can save more people, but in reality, these blacksmiths in armor and five big and three thick have put salvation into action, and more people have been saved than him...... There is a huge difference between theory and reality.
Perhaps, it should not be you who survives.
When she arrived at the place to rest temporarily, Zhou Xiaoxiao sat alone in the corner, thinking about the questions she had thought about countless times before.
Whether he is the one who must live or not, what is Su Ming observing.
He wanted the god of Tyre to give him clearer guidance, but at this time, the god of Tyre was slow to appear.
Raising his head and observing the surroundings, relying on his ability to observe, Zhou Xiaoxiao suddenly found that the surrounding environment had changed, people's faces were less suspicious and worried, adults no longer prevented children from playing together, people sat close to each other, some were praying for their husbands who went to the battlefield, and some were talking about the past.
The women were much more relaxed than the men, and Zhou Xiaoxiao saw that most of the men were gathered together, thinking in silence, and occasionally someone said a word or two.
The faces of these people are full of tangles, they want to participate in this battle with an extremely high mortality rate, but the survival instinct prevents this self-sacrificial act.
Everyone has changed, and it was clear that they were all intrigues with each other and didn't trust each other at all.
Why did the same people change so much? Is it just because of that last battle?
Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't understand, although he could see through other people's thoughts, he couldn't know why the other party thought like this.
"They're back!"
"They're back!!"
Someone suddenly shouted in the distance, Zhou Xiaoxiao suddenly woke up from his contemplation, thinking that this time it was solved so quickly, could it be that this time the monster was particularly easy to kill?
When the people around heard that the battle was over, they all got up and rushed in the direction where the soldiers had returned, and Zhou Xiaoxiao stood up in a daze and walked forward after him.
After walking a few steps, I heard heart-rending cries from the forefront, both the cries of women and the cries of children, children who had lost their fathers and women who had lost their husbands.
"Let's go! Excuse me, it's time for us to get out of the way! ”
The old man behind him spoke in a deep voice, Zhou Xiaoxiao subconsciously leaned over to get out of the way, and a group of old people behind him went straight through the crowd and walked to the front.
Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't have time to follow, but saw a large group of people carrying a few people with blood-stained armor into a room next to them, and the old people also followed in.
"Let it go, let it go, let it go." Zhou Xiaoxiao shouted as he squeezed through the crowd and came to the front.
He saw more than a dozen corpses, and in the distance, others were carrying more back.
The bodies of the dead men were well wrapped in iron armor, and the incredible strength of the godsteel protected the integrity of their bodies, and they were almost all shocked to death, although they looked complete on the outside, the bones and internal organs under the inner armor may have been rotten.
More corpses were transported back, and Zhou Xiaoxiao counted them, and there were more than thirty people, almost half of the combatants.
Inside the house, Su Ming was healing the injuries of the surviving people, and the people receiving the treatment saw that Su Ming was going to transfer his injuries to the old man, so he held his injured body and said, "It's okay, it's enough for me to arrive!" No need to continue treating me! ”
"What nonsense! Shut your mouth and lie down! You have your battles, and we have ours! The old man roared angrily and directly suppressed the other party.
The man lay down obediently, and Su Ming continued to treat, his expression did not change from beginning to end.
This time the battle proved that his guess was completely correct, although this monster was stronger and more difficult to deal with than the iron spider last time, but after sixty ordinary people participated in the battle, this battle turned out to be easier than the last time to deal with the iron spider.
You know, the people who take part in the battle are not real warriors, they are just ordinary blacksmiths before they put on their armor.
These people were very unfamiliar with how to swing their swords and stab their guns, but even so, they still caused great trauma to the monster.
The speculation is right, and the path taken now is not wrong, but Su Ming is still a little worried, after all, impulse and consciousness are different, and impulse and consciousness will make people do a difficult thing.
But enlightened people are still bold when they see the terrible consequences of this event, while people who are impulsive may cower after seeing the terrible consequences.
Now that they've all seen the consequences of participating in the battle, how many more will be awakened afterward?
Su Ming healed the wounded one by one in order, and said to the old butler beside him, "Elton, ask someone to make a coffin." ”
"Yes."
Su Ming got up and walked outside, the woman was still sobbing, the child was crying, at a loss, and the atmosphere of sadness was pervasive.
Walking out with Su Ming, there were also those soldiers who had recovered from their injuries, and they couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw the families of the victims crying.
One by one, the warriors took off their armor and took the initiative to comfort them, as if they were comforting their own relatives.
"Lao Zhang helped me block a kick and died! If there is no Lao Zhang, then I must be a dead man now, sister-in-law, your business in the future will be my business, and Lao Zhang's son will be my son...... I ......"
The warrior had promised to protect them in the future, but the thought that no one would survive here, and that only thirteen people would survive, stopped his words.
As a blacksmith with a low level of education and who has only been able to make iron and weapons since he was a child, he can't think of a suitable rhetoric, and helping his dead brother take care of his family is the most important thing he can think of, but unfortunately in this place, he can't do what he can do with his best in reality.
Su Ming's gaze quietly swept over everyone present, everyone's mood was much better than he imagined, although he was sad, he still accepted it.
In the end, Su Ming's gaze fell on Zhou Xiaoxiao, who was sitting alone in the corner, with his head down, as if he was thinking about something, he looked confused.
It seems that it was correct not to solve Lao Zhou at the beginning, Lao Zhou is different from other people who trade with the devil, Su Ming thought to himself.
"What are you going to do next?" Cao Fengling walked up to Su Ming and asked.
Cao Fengchi's tone was a little heavy, and in this battle, she had lost one of her beloved men.
Although she was mentally prepared when she first participated in the war, when this incident really happened in front of her, she was a little difficult to accept.
In Cao Fengchi's imagination, it has always been her boss who is one step ahead of her younger brothers, but now the result is like this.
"Hold a funeral and mourn the deceased." Su Ming replied succinctly.
"Really?" Cao Fengling nodded faintly and walked over to a shirtless corpse, he looked at the angry face, tears sliding from the corners of his eyes.
"Condolences and change." Su Ming gently patted Cao Fengchi's shoulder.
……
On the humble coffin, there is a grass ring woven of grass, and you can't find such a beautiful thing as flowers in this place, but this grass ring is enough to express the gratitude of the living to the dead.
In the coffin, the sleeping warriors who gave their lives for the unrelated were forever asleep under this strange land, and perhaps in the future, their bodies would return to the Molten Iron City with the end of the strange phenomenon, but at this moment, they were in a foreign land.
In this devil's realm, God is not saving us, but we are still saving ourselves.
Even in such a desperate situation, love and kindness are still not far away.
Even now, the devil is still baffled by your courage and fearlessness, let it behold, humans have never been such incomprehensible creatures.
I will carry on your legacy, thank you for your trust in me, and I will take care of everyone until I go to you and meet again. ”
Su Ming said lightly in front of the neat rows of coffins, like a young priest.
Behind him, people stood side by side, family members still weeping, comforting and encouraging each other.
Cao Fengchi, who was originally emotionally stable, suddenly lost control of his emotions when Li Daniu was about to be buried, rushed to Li Daniu's coffin, overturned the coffin board, and yelled at Li Daniu's corpse lying inside: "Fuck your mother! Didn't you say you could handle it! Didn't you say you wouldn't die! Did I tell you not to be strong! Did I tell you!! ”
"Big sister! Sister, calm down! ”
"Eldest sister, Brother Niu is gone, you can't be like this."
The other younger brothers stepped forward and dragged Cao Fengchi, who was angrily questioning the corpse, and one by one burst into tears, crying profusely.
Su Ming's expression was complicated, and he patiently waited for the others to pull Cao Fengchi away, and then waved his hand.
More than 30 coffins were slowly lifted and lowered into the pit that had been dug long ago, and the earth was slowly buried, and finally a wooden tombstone with each person's name written on it was inserted.
Su Ming asked Elton to take out the new food and distribute it to everyone in full.
Finally, in front of everyone, he said:
"There is still a feast tonight, and each of them does not want you to grieve too much for their deaths, as those who survive know best...... At the banquet I would read their suicide notes, some of them to the family members, which I would deliver privately, and some of which they wanted to say to everyone.
When the time comes, let's listen while eating. ”
……
As night falls, a bonfire is lit.
Without the laughter and laughter of the past, everyone had little appetite, and the servants continued to serve delicious dinners according to Su Ming's instructions, as one of the richest people in the rich area, the former owner of this manor was quite well stocked, plus the houses of other rich people often had a lot of food in stock, so the food was completely sufficient.
The biggest contributor to being able to eat such delicious food today is Elton.
The manor that Su Ming bought itself has an underground freezer, which contains a large number of frozen ingredients.
Originally, after the power outage, all the ingredients inside would be scrapped, but because there was a generator, and it happened that Su Ming did not use the generator, Elton took it upon himself to keep the food frozen.
Because of this, everyone can now eat hot pork and beef.
However, although the dinner was sumptuous, everyone's appetite was not very good, and everyone's expressions were solemn, as if they couldn't eat anything.
At this time, Su Ming took the stage with a suicide note.
"Ahem!"
Su Ming cleared his throat.
"It's ...... Brother Zhang's suicide note was written to everyone.
[Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Ming, some people know me, and some people don't know me.
Uncle Elton asked me to write this suicide note casually, regardless of what other people think, but after thinking about it, I still feel that I should take into account the feelings of the person who listened to the suicide note, and if someone cried while listening to Mr. Xia read this suicide note, I would be very upset, so I will tell you a joke in advance.
But before I tell a joke, I have some serious things to say, first of all to my daughter-in-law. 】
When Su Ming read this, he paused for a moment before continuing: "[Daughter-in-law, after I'm gone, can you not look for a man? Although I know that in such a terrible environment, it is a bit difficult to ask you to do this, but in fact, patience passes quickly.
You have murdered me all my life, just satisfy me once this time, and give me a little bit of manly dignity. 】”
As soon as Su Ming's words fell, a woman about thirty years old below slapped the table and scolded: "I'm ****!" Zhang Ming, I have served you for so many years, when have I ever done something sorry for you! You're dead and you say something like that to me! I-"
The angry scolding echoed, and the scene was extremely embarrassing.
Seeing this, Su Ming hurriedly added the next sentence: "[This is the joke I said, daughter-in-law, you are tired, let you cooperate with me, I trust you the most, even if I die, I still love you." 】”
"Hahahaha!"
"Hahahaha!"
There was a burst of laughter, and the woman blushed and sat down again, feeling a little sour, but also a little moved.
In these two short sentences, the originally heavy atmosphere suddenly changed, and the atmosphere softened a lot, Su Ming suddenly admired the person who wrote this suicide note, although the cultural level does not seem to be high, but the down-to-earth words are very influential.
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