Chapter 167: Assumption
As the night grew darker, the colorful night sky once again revealed its mysterious and magical face, and no matter how many times he watched it, Leon still felt that this scene had a great impact on him.
Like heavy oil paint poured onto the canvas, the colors flow slowly but surely, most notably red, blue, white, green, and the original black of the night sky, and then at the edges of them are mottled and variegated. The direction of these colours is not fixed, but the night sky is generally dark in the south and green in the north, with the remaining three colors covering most of the rest.
This scene only occurs at night, and every morning, as soon as the sun jumps out and shines its rays, this colorful scene begins to fade until it disappears.
Is this a star cluster or a halo of galaxies? Leon wasn't sure, because he didn't pay much attention to astronomy in his previous life, because as he got older, he could see fewer and fewer stars at night in the city, and even if he did, it would be useless.
But the only thing that is certain is that the air quality in this world must be so good that it must be explosive.
Leon sighed, gave up thinking about the question that he couldn't explain, and turned his attention to what Captain Matt had just said.
"Several nobles were assassinated more than a month ago, including my grandfather......" he thought with a frown, "Is there a connection?"
If there is no connection, it will definitely not make sense, because from Leon's study over the years, it seems that there is no such intensive assassination of nobles except for some turbulent years in the history of the kingdom. However, once it is related, it means that the conspiracy under such scope and influence is definitely not something that can be confronted by one's current strength.
But Leon also found out from Captain Matt's news that it was quite beneficial to himself - these bloody cases occurred intensively in a short period of time, and the turmoil caused by it must be not small. Now all the big names in the kingdom should pay attention to this matter, whether it is paying attention to Cheng dù or the level of security will increase geometrically, and the probability of similar events happening again in a short period of time will be extremely small, otherwise they will have to commit crimes against the wind under such pressure, either their brains are broken, or they think that their strength can ignore the entire kingdom, but in that case, it would be good to kill them directly, and what are you doing assassination?
Another thing he didn't know was that several other nobles who were killed were also killed like Redfield, which probably meant that the target was only themselves, and what happened to their own family......
Leon's thoughts flashed back to the scene where a fierce fight came from the castle, and after a while, the memorable black light split the castle in two, disappeared into the night sky, and then all kinds of light bloomed in all directions.
Suddenly, his mind shone like these lights, and he felt as if he had grasped some crucial point—this massacre was probably only because of his grandfather's fighting strength, but it caused a lot of casualties to these assassins, so they were angry and took revenge by slaughtering everyone!
"It must be like this......" Li Ang felt that this guess should be eight or nine or ten, if this is the case, it is unlikely that these powerful or powerful mysterious people will fight again for a young man like himself.
"But who are they, what are their purposes, and are they related to the kingdom?"
Questions like these appeared in his mind one by one, making Leon feel more and more unable to speculate.
"Forget it, no matter how detailed I think about it, there is nothing I can do about them, now I need to focus on how to achieve my goal step by step, and before I have further strength, try not to touch these conspiracies, and I have no heart and lungs to be worthy of the reputation of Li Ang, a gentleman little nobleman, isn't it?"
Thinking of this, his gaze turned to the veteran not far away, "Jack's side is not a big problem, so let's see if the first step plan works." ”
Leon paced back slowly, the veteran had just finished eating, and there was no food left in the lunch box.
Jack wiped his mouth with his sleeve, "That young man's cooking skills are really good, this meal is the most comfortable I have ever eaten in my life." ”
"The cooking skills are good, but the most important reason is the mood, right?" said Leon.
Jack was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly, and said with a relaxed expression that Leon had never seen on this old man's face: "The ashes of the comrades-in-arms have been recovered, and the bloodline of the old captain has also been seen, but it's not!"
"Come with me, Jack. Leon extended the invitation again.
The veteran picked up a fallen piece of rice from the front of the placket, put it in his mouth, and shook his head with a smile.
"Forget it, knowing that you are still alive, the Earl has not lost the inheritance, I am already very happy, I know that you are for those combat skills that I have taught you, or for the return of the ruins of the castle, but there is really no need, I am a disabled old man, I can't help you. ”
He raised his head, his eyes bright, "If my body is intact and I am a teenager younger, I will go with you without saying a word, now...... I'm really useless. ”
"Jack, don't always think of yourself as a useless person," Leon put his hand on the veteran's shoulder, and said very calmly, "I said that you can help me, and it is a very important matter that needs your help. ”
Leon's serious gaze made Jack inexplicably uncomfortable, he lowered his head and twisted his body, but stopped halfway, raised his head again and said to Leon, "Really?"
There was already a hint of expectation in his tone at this time.
The veteran's heart was already desperate for his situation, poverty was only a small part of it, and his body was severely disabled, with no relatives or friends around him, and this loneliness was actually the most tormenting.
He also longs to be needed, even if it is to do chores for others, but intellectually he also knows that this is impossible, and he is ready to be lonely until death, so he starts to drink heavily, so that at least he can forget this qiē for a while every day.
But he has always refused Leon's invitation, although he longs to be noticed, eager to be needed, but he does not need pity, at least he is alive, and many soldiers can't even do this, they are the ones who really need pity.
However, when he heard Li Ang personally say that there was something and something important that needed him, the veteran was moved, and he even thought that he had heard it wrong, so he confirmed it again.
"It's true. ”
The other party repeated what he said in an affirmative tone, and Jack's eyes began to glow, "What is it?"
Either out of excitement, or perhaps out of nervousness, the veteran involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"I want to start a veterans' association......"
This is one of Leon's goals, after he found out about Jack's situation, he vaguely had such an idea, and then in the experience of this time, he had manpower, funds, and found that there was indeed no similar organization in the Kingdom of Sver, so this idea became clearer and clearer.
These soldiers had to leave the army for their bloody battles on the battlefield, many of whom were left with lifelong disabilities and even psychological shadows. Such a person kingdom has a compensation and a pension paid in a centralized manner every year, although it is not much together, but if it is reasonably distributed, there is generally no problem in surviving.
However, this is based on the fact that the officials who distribute it will not enrich themselves, and this situation is not uncommon in the kingdom, so not much is actually distributed in the hands. In addition, from their personality and experience, it is impossible to know how to manage money, but they spend money very lavistly, and most of them spend all the money in their hands after a long time, and the annual pension can only quench their thirst for a while.
And many of these people, because of their disabilities or other reasons, are not married, so they have no children, and they are likely to be like Jack in old age, tormented by poverty, pain, loneliness, and memories.
However, the kingdom did not pay much attention to this situation, as long as they paid the money that should be paid, the others were not under their jurisdiction, and there was no organization in the entire kingdom that specifically targeted these veterans, but it gave Leon a chance.
In his first memory, the main purpose of an organization like the Veterans Association was to take care of veterans' physical and mental disabilities, provide vocational training and social counseling, so he was going to move with a slight change.
The first is to help veterans reasonably distribute their belongings and adjust their mental state, and the second is to provide a channel for these veterans to communicate and vent, so that they have something to do, psychologically eliminate the feeling of loneliness and helplessness, of course, there are many other ideas, but this kind of thing has to be done little by little in terms of scale and scope, and it cannot be achieved overnight.
And the purpose of this whole set of ideas was, of course, not because of the sudden explosion of Leon's own virgin attributes, but because even if these veterans had difficulties of one kind or another, they did not hinder their own influence. Every soldier has comrades-in-arms, superiors and subordinates, and more or less network channels, and these are their hidden influences, just imagine, if hundreds of veterans use these channels to make their own voices, that kind of volume will be obvious, so obvious that the big people can't ignore it.
Because of this, this matter must not be too obvious, otherwise it will definitely attract relevant suspicions and attacks, and it must be low-key and low-key, so that when the voice is made at a certain time, it will be more eye-catching.
The idea of preparing for the establishment of the Veterans Association is one of the "self-defense weapons" that Li Ang finally decided to build for himself after continuous consideration.