131. What does it taste like? Qingxian: Thank you for your invitation......
The remains of the old hunter of Levin were quickly burned.
Li Ting personally lit the fire, and the flickering flames shone into the furrows of the skin on his face, making him look as if he was a few years older. Li Qingxian hid behind Nance, his eyes glancing at his father's location from time to time.
Miss Su picked a bouquet of wildflowers and placed them in front of the fire.
The campfire was blazing, the atmosphere in the camp was somewhat oppressive, and everyone was silent.
The snowflakes that floated in the sky were blown away by the wind for a while, as if they didn't dare to approach......
After the humble funeral, the sentry continued to go to the sentry, and those who did not have a night duty went back to the tent to rest. The whispered conversations and slight footsteps of people faded into the wind and snow until they disappeared completely.
"He's a good hunter." Nance and Li Ting said.
"Hunting skills are superb, and the heart is good." A look of remembrance flashed on Li Ting's face, "I often receive prey from him. β
"What a pity."
"It's a little ......"
Li Ting sighed.
After a while, he asked again, "Do you know the situation in Shin-Yokohama?" β
"I don't know exactly, after all, the signal here is not very ......," Nance replied, "I can find a signal occasionally, and the news I receive is endless, but I know that the whole city is in a state of shutdown." β
"It's time for you to go back." Li Ting looked at his figure.
"I have such a plan, and you are almost going back to Southbay Town." Nance nodded, "Someone told me yesterday that some of the alien beasts had been disturbed by the team entering the mountain and had migrated south. β
"Yes, the young and middle-aged people have entered the mountains, and the town is now empty of garrisons, so they are going to rush back."
"By the way, I have a question." Nance asked suddenly.
"What's the problem?"
"Where does courage come from? There is no doubt that man is capable of great deeds. But if he does not possess a noble feeling, what is it that drives him to do great things? β
Hearing his words, Li Ting pursed his lips, and then looked at him again: "Then what drove you to do these things?" β
After the words fell, Li Qingxian pricked up his ears.
Miss Su next to her was also listening carefully.
"I, I think, I should have noble feelings." Nance hesitated a little, but still did not waver, said, "The world I know, although not perfect, is much better than it is now. I can't accept the world as I am, so as long as I have the ability, I can't sit idly by...... It's not unavoidable to call this heroism. β
Hearing this answer, Li Ting smiled.
"According to you, if a person suffers for a long time, is it not possible to do great deeds?"
Nance frowned. Judging from his thoughts, Lao Tzu has been living so hard, so don't care what kind of flood you have.
Li Ting asked again: "Can you die for irrelevant people?" β
"Not at the moment."
"Yes, you don't die for irrelevant people, but you can die for your ideals, that's a clear thing. I've seen enough of people who die for their ideals, and I don't think it's unusual. I am not averse to heroism, but relatively speaking, I prefer to turn "heroism" into "human nature". β
"Human nature ......," Nance repeated.
"Listen, my friend......" Li Ting looked at him with a pleasant face, "There are few people who are not afraid of death, but in the face of great calamity, there are still many people who go to meet their own deaths one after another, and do not stop because of fear. β
"Is this what it is like to be human?"
"Heroism is celebrated, but the only way to overcome disaster is through the common feelings of countless such people. For example, the death of Levin's old hunter......" Li Ting's gaze turned to the pair of bonfires that were about to burn out, "Mr. Adel, you don't have to put the shackles of a hero on yourself, that's all I have to say." Think of yourself as an ordinary person, and before you encounter a problem, think more about the words "human nature", and what choices to make will suddenly become clear. β
"So you just stayed in Nanwan Town for the sake of "human nature", instead of going to Shin-Yokohama to be a "hero"? β
"I didn't let you learn from me." Li Ting laughed, "Tens of millions of people in New Yokohama are still waiting for you to take the prescription back to be a hero, don't be delayed because of the hundreds of people in Nanwan Town." β
Nance shrugged and quipped, "You're quite eloquent, why can't you even say "I'm sorry" or "I love you" in front of your daughter?" β
Hearing this, the faces of the father and daughter stiffened.
"Okay, I won't force you, Qingxian and I will go back first." Nan Si took Li Qingxian's little hand and walked back to his tent, "There is still the last bit of medicine left, I will sleep after refining, and I ......will return tomorrow."
Li Qingxian's lips squirmed, and he muttered something.
Nance didn't hear it clearly, but he was probably cursing again, after all, he was a little hedgehog.
After returning to the tent, eating something, and chatting for a while, Susa and Li Qingxian fell asleep one after another. Nance had refined the last few potions, and time passed little by little, and during the break, Shadow brought a basin of hot water and shaved his beard under his chin with a razor blade.
Nance tilted her chin and tapped her fingers on the tabletop, staring at the dark night sky.
The starlight was cold, and the hazy clouds pressed down on the foothills and stretched into the distance, like a sea tumbling in a hurricane. Looking at such a snowy night, he imagined the bitter cold of Nanwan Town, where the people who had lived here for generations were fighting to defend their homeland......
"It's almost New Year's......" he muttered.
"Don't move!"
The shadow's small hand held his jaw in place, and he moved the razor intently.
Nance stopped talking.
There was a moment of silence in the room, and the wind was still ringing outside.
After a while, the beard that had been rising wildly these days was shaved clean, and Shadow took a hot towel to help him carefully wipe his face clean.
"The shadow is quite virtuous." Nance said with a smile.
The shadow glanced at him boredly, took the water out of the tent and poured it out, and sat on his lap when he returned. Her body smelled of perfume and sweat like her body. The smell would naturally drift onto Nance's nose, giving him the urge to smell it well.
At this time, the shadow can't speak, just tense up all over his body, and let Nance tell him a story or something. Occasionally, she would chim-in, then smile or nod. All I could think about was when my uncle's hand would wrap around my back, when I would rub my head, and when I would hold my chin...... Uh-huh, the last one doesn't count.
As Nance put his arm around her shoulder, she leaned into Nance's arms.
"I'm about to go back to Shin-Yokohama."
"Well, ah, that......'s good," Shadow sniffed, "Sister should be awake, right?" β
"Not yet."
"What the hell is going on?"
ββ¦β¦ Hibernation? Nance wasn't sure.
"You're hibernating!" The shadow raised his hand and poked the tip of his nose, "Stupid! My sister is a human being, not a snake, and she will not hibernate. β
Nance rubbed her head vigorously: "If you scold me again, I'll wake up my body!" β
ββ¦β¦β
The shadow suddenly became docile.
Her head rested against Nance's chest, her gaze towards her body.
By the light of the kerosene lamp, you can see that the whole body is shrunk in the sleeping bag, and only the red fluttering little face is exposed.
Breathing weakly, I slept very soundly.
"Every time I take advantage of the shadow while the body is asleep, Uncle is so bad!" Shadow's tone was slightly annoyed.
For her behavior of wanting to cover up and beat a rake, Nance just smiled, and it was too unadult-bearing to care about this with children. The wind blew, the light of the oil lamp swayed faintly, a piece of eyelashes trembled slightly, and Li Qingxian's eyes cracked a thin slit, looking at this scene quietly......
Diagonally opposite, Nance and Shadow suddenly discussed the topic of whether the "robot" should be on property insurance or life insurance, and during the conversation, he said a bad joke, and Shadow laughed and coughed a few times.
Nance glared at her in disbelief, "Is it so funny?" β
"Hehe~" The shadow curled up and looked up at his little face: "Since my sister was arrested, no one has ever told me jokes, so I can even laugh so happily at such a boring joke." β
Nance was stunned, then hugged her to her lap and gently pinched her cheek with his hand: "I'll be full of cold jokes in the future." β
"Forget it, I won't be able to laugh so easily in the future." The shadow habitually made a pouting gesture of disdain, and the uncle's hand rested on his shoulder, and involuntarily, a strong burst of warmth expanded from his shoulder to his arm......
She wanted to laugh again.
Biting his lip, he thought this would not work.
The body is sleeping, how can you be so happy to be held by the uncle under the nose of the body......
Maybe it's because of the swaying oil lamp, the outline of the shadow's face is much brighter than before, and in Li Qingxian's eyes, his other half is more lazy and relaxed than before, more like a fifteen-year-old girl...... The feeling is the same, she can feel the heat of the uncle's fingertips touching her fingertips from the shadow, and when he touches her head, she will feel shy and proud, infinitely sweet.
I don't know why I think so!
The girl pulls her attention to the highest, and her hearing and vision are exerted to the extreme.
The tent was not big, and she knew the movements of Nance and the shadows clearly.
The other half of himself, like a baby, was gently lifted up by the uncle and held on his lap. She was smiling eating, her hands around her uncle's neck, her forehead resting on her forehead as if she was talking about something, as silly as a child!
But this picture looks so harmonious!
No one can destroy the relationship between the other half of himself and his uncle, Li Qingxian thinks so.
The most incredible thing is that Li Qingxian did not feel angry.
The shadow must be completely and completely subordinate to the will of the ontology, without any dissent. But the shadow didn't mention the events that happened at night, and if he wasn't awake, he wouldn't have experienced these feelings at all.
To some extent, this can be called its own NTR itself...... However, at this time, the shadow curled up in the uncle's arms, and her laughter came into her ears, Li Qingxian only felt very calm in his heart, and he didn't have the idea of blaming the shadow at all.
At the end of the day, the shadow is your other half.
In other words, the shadow is the projection of one's own heart, and those things that you want to do but can't pull your face down to do can be left to the shadow to do...... What did the shadow do, what did it matter to me, Li Qingxian, right?
That's it.
Li Qingxian thought to himself, it would be okay to let the shadow go and the uncle in pairs.
Leave what you want in your heart to the shadow, and then you can draw all kinds of fun from the whole process...... The pink-haired girl gradually liked this way of getting along, so she let her heart and uncle get closer and closer.
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Morning came.
This early morning in South Bay is exceptionally quiet.
There was no movement except for the sound of the wind and the falling snowflakes, as if everyone hadn't woken up yet. When Mrs. Li finished washing up and put on her clothes and went to the morning market, the genius was slightly bright.
Since the outbreak of the plague, there have been very few people to see on the streets of the town.
But today's atmosphere is even more deserted, and there is not a single person or stall in sight on the entire street.
Before Mrs. Li could discern this subtle change, a thick and rapid alarm suddenly sounded from the watchtower in the center of the town.
This is the warning signal of the whole assembly.
Mrs. Li looked slightly stunned, and subconsciously turned her head to look over.
Under the light sky and snow, the earth seemed to tremble.
Her body shrank slightly, and someone shouted loudly in the distance, and the mayor and the bishop of the monastery ran quickly towards the spire.
Beneath the rolling lead-gray clouds, snow fell on the rooftops. At the north gate of the town towards the mountain, a large cloud of dust was raised, and the elements of chaos and danger blew with the north wind.
The lookout on the top of the minaret looked pale to the north.
The vast earth climbed north along the slope, and in the distance, a group of unsightly animals ran wildly on the cold and hard earth.
The mayor climbed the spire and looked north.
At the end of the field of vision, a group of black beasts were approaching Nanwan Town, numbering about thirty or forty, all mutated wild boars. Mayor Mare was holding a shotgun, his palms wet, and the barrel was a little slippery.
"ββCome with me to the north gate!"
The mayor yelled at himself as if he had been emboldened.
At this moment, the wind and snow roared past the minaret, and his trembling and hoarse voice blew the horn to protect his homeland. Anyone who could afford to carry a gun spontaneously gathered at the north gate of the town and went up to the city wall with their weapons.
A restless breath mixed with falling snowflakes came.
All were loaded and kept on guard or aim.
The monsters were getting closer, and the mayor's not-so-good sight could almost count their numbers.
Those huge wild boars have porcupine-like spikes on their backs, and their bodies are covered tightly by hard armor, and they are full of a sense of destruction. When they were less than 150 meters from the walls, the whole earth seemed to tremble under their hard trotters.
Mayor Mare's lips licked his dry lips.
"Master Li, hurry up and bring someone back......"
He prayed to the north, then waved his hand and gave the command.
"Fireβ"
Several rockets burst out of the rusty barrels, dragged their long tails, and plunged directly into the herd of wild boars.
"Boom!"
The blood light and the roar of the beast erupted simultaneously on the snow.