Chapter 9: I just want to go home
Claire turned around slowly and saw Wade standing not far away waiting for him, obviously not intending to enter the city.
Claire wasn't surprised that Wade would talk to him.
After all, his performance in this skirmish was far beyond the combat power of a second-order knight, and it was impossible not to make people doubt it.
Earl Wright, because there are more important matters, has not carefully scrutinized the details, so he has not reacted for the time being.
But Wade, who has experienced everything firsthand, is naturally different. What's more, Wade grew up with the original owner since he was a child, and he has a deeper understanding of the original owner.
However, Claire is not worried about her identity being exposed, to put it bluntly, if he hadn't experienced this kind of thing personally, he wouldn't have believed it, it was too.
Even if he told Wade the truth, Wade wouldn't believe it.
"Well, what do you want to say?" Claire asked knowingly.
Wade didn't speak, just stared at Claire's eyes, Claire didn't show weakness, and looked at the other party calmly.
I don't know how long it took, but Wade, who was less than twenty years old, was still not as calm as Claire, who was a person in two lives, looked away, and spoke first.
"Claire, you... Your performance today was a bit unexpected to me, I didn't expect you to have such strength. ”
"There are some things that there is no need to say."
"You—" Wade opened his mouth and silently spat out a few words, but the voice was so weak that even Claire couldn't hear it clearly.
After that, Wade fell into a long silence.
Claire frowned, after the previous battle, his physical condition was not too good, and he needed to find a quiet place to recuperate alone, and he didn't want to play this boring game with Wade here at all.
What do you mean, wooden man, no one is allowed to speak or move.
If you have anything to say, just ask, I'm so quibble, no, explain it well.
As if sensing Claire's displeasure, Wade spoke again, this time much louder.
"You must be tired after hiding for so long."
This sentence must not be what Wade wanted to say before.
After Claire heard this, she had a judgment in her heart.
For Wade, Claire is still a little complicated, on the one hand, this is a friend of the original owner, and he has no intersection, in a sense, the two sides can be regarded as strangers.
On the other hand, Wade is also a very talented person, and he really helped Claire, and the concern revealed is not fake. From the bottom of her heart, Claire still thinks Wade is a talent that can be used.
After thinking about it, Claire felt that it would be better to have something to say directly. Since he is about to have his own territory, it is necessary to reserve talents for the future, although he is optimistic about Wade, but if he can't come together, it is better to part ways early.
"In fact, the biggest problem with getting along with people is that after a long time, both parties think they know each other very well, but in fact, they don't know each other's true thoughts at all.
It's the same with friends, sometimes you don't have to know each other's bits and pieces, as long as you recognize each other, even if you have different paths and different ideas, you can still be friends. Of course, it would be best if two people could choose the same path.
Wade, you are my friend, but perhaps, the path between us is different. ”
Wade's face changed for a moment before asking.
"What's your path like?"
"Me?" Claire smiled self-deprecatingly and looked at the crowd of people lining up to enter the city not far away. "Do you believe me when I say I want to lead people out of the planet and into the universe?"
"What?" Wade was a little dazed.
Claire shrugged, it was normal for Wade to not understand these words, with the level of civilization in this world, what planet and universe are too far away from them.
"I mean, I want to be strong, I want to be powerful, I want to be the most powerful person in the world."
"And then?"
"Then eliminate racial contradictions, so that everyone can be fed, clothed, and live like people." Claire smiled nonchalantly and pointed to the ragged slave being whipped by her master in the distance. "At the very least, you don't have to live like you are."
Following Claire's fingers, Wade also saw the slave, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
In the kingdom, slavery was ostensibly forbidden by law. But in fact, there are many people who have become slaves for various reasons, but they are not called slaves, such as domestic servants, servants, attached farmers, and so on.
Wade, unlike Claire, is from a civilian background, so he is naturally more disgusted by these things.
Wade subconsciously wanted to walk over and stop this behavior, but was stopped by Claire.
"Don't go, can you save one person, can you save everyone?"
Wade paused as he had just taken a step and asked rhetorically.
"Can you?"
"I don't know." Claire looked at the sky, trying to find the direction of her hometown, but she was at a loss. "I don't know if I can save everyone, but at least I know how to save them."
Wade turned his head abruptly and stared at Claire.
"What's the solution?"
"Now that I've said it, you don't understand it." Claire spreads her hands. "To put it simply, it is the relationship between the social system and the productive forces, speaking of which, even if the productive forces are sufficient, classes will still appear, to put it bluntly, especially in the super-capable society."
"Are you kidding me?" Wade could hear it in a fog, but he still understood what he didn't understand.
"What am I kidding you?" Claire shook her head and smiled bitterly, what he said was the truth. In his previous life, his civilization had reached the point where he could colonize the stars and open up the entire universe, but the gap between ordinary people and magic cultivators was still bigger than the chasm.
Even if ordinary people can rely on magic guide weapons to easily kill a profound magic cultivator, there is still no way to change this.
But at least, the life of ordinary people is much stronger than the so-called aristocratic life of this world.
"Forget it." Claire didn't intend to convince Wade either, in fact, this conversation was also the release of his suppressed emotions after he came to this world.
He just wanted to take this opportunity to say something from his heart.
Friends and relatives from previous lives, as well as their mentors, are now gone.
Of course, he is not completely hopeless, if he can reach the immortal realm, there is no longer a limit to lifespan, and then the civilization of this world will be elevated. Perhaps, there is a real chance to return to his hometown.
In the previous life, didn't the empire also start trying to open up other universes?
At the end of the day, Claire is not a saint, and he has no intention of changing this society and making life better for others. He has only been in this world for a few days, and he has no feelings for this world at all.
And raising the level of civilization in this world, so that they can truly use magical energy, can naturally improve their lives and situations, all of this is just incidental.
Claire knows very well that there is no going back by relying on his personal strength, and the only hope is to rely on the power of a civilization.
When he came here, he had only one thought, and that was to go home.
That's it, how can I tell Wade.
"So be it. Wade, no matter what you want to ask, then I'll tell you an answer, the current Claire is no longer the original Claire. ”