Chapter Seventy-Four: Talking
Time returned to the conversation in the giant treehouse and just ended.
At this time, the four leaders led by Aro discussed how to persuade Li Fan to refuse peace, and Li Fan returned to the house under the pretext of making up for sleep to start the simulation, while Le Lianxue, as an ambassador of peace, went to the territory of his own people led by the old patriarch with a difficult task to negotiate.
It was five o'clock in the morning, the sun had not yet risen in the wilderness, and most of Skull Town was still sleeping in the dark, with only a few main roads in the center patrolling in small groups.
Le Lianxue stood in place, watching the light of the torch go from far to near, and from near to far.
She was aware of a serious problem.
She had no idea where the old patriarch lived.
The huge treehouse was originally the residence of the old patriarch, but since the leaders of the wanderers such as Ah Luo moved in, the old patriarch rarely came, and in recent days, he has not come at all.
It is said that the old patriarch lived in the homes of key people in his own people, so that important matters could be discussed every night.
But unfortunately, she didn't even know who the key people in her own people were, let alone where they were.
Le Lianxue walked forward, thinking that she could expend her psionic energy to search the entire area of Skull Town.
If you really can't, you can ask when the team passes by.
She was about to pray for a miracle when she heard a voice.
The voice was crisp like a child, very noisy like a fight, she looked in the direction of the sound, across the street, and saw a few boys bullying a girl under the torches planted in the street.
They are all small children, nearly ten years old, the girl is lying on the ground curled up, her hands are hard to protect her underneath, while the three boys next to her are pulling her, trying to snatch the things in her hands.
This scene reminded Le Lianxue of an unpleasant past.
It was in junior high school, and the little boys of this age could already realize the beauty of the opposite sex, and she had been very beautiful since she was a child, naturally, a few boys stopped her one day after school, confessed first, and wanted to do something after being rejected.
I forgot how many boys there were, but it should be no less than five, and for normal girls, at this time they can only run away or ask for help from the nearest adult.
But Le Lianxue is different, she is a natural engraver, and from the moment she was born, spiritual energy has flowed in her blood.
Later, the boys were in the hospital for two months, and for those two months they cried to the doctor every day, saying that they would have the same dream at night, in which several fat, horrible-looking women stopped themselves on their way from school......
This situation disappeared after the boys were discharged from the hospital, but it left a shadow on them for a lifetime, and one of them even now does not dare to talk to the girl.
Le Lianxue succeeded in taking revenge on the other party, but this did not alleviate her disgust at this behavior.
What if the girl who was stopped at the time was not her, but someone else, or if she was stopped at the time was not the engraver, but just an ordinary girl?
Whenever she thought about this, she could only feel that the current punishment for these bastards was too light.
Le Lianxue walked over and stopped the boys, it was easy to subdue the three little children with her strength, she moved her fingers, and the stones thrown by the three children bounced back, hitting each of them in the head.
"You're in the same league as Li Fan!" They shouted angrily.
There is no saying about civilization and new wind in the wilderness, and it is very common for children who grew up here to be full of swear words since childhood, and when they were stopped just now, the ugly words in the mouths of these three children made Le Lianxue want to wash his ears immediately.
So she was a little surprised that when the three children were hit by the ejected rocks, they were extremely angry, and they shouted such low aggressive words.
But when these three people shouted this sentence, the hatred in their eyes was just as amazing, as if for them, this sentence was really the most insulting sentence.
After they shouted this sentence, they covered their heads and ran, Le Lianxue stood, thought about the "dirty words" about Li Fan for a while, lowered her head, and looked at the little girl who got up carefully.
The girl's face was stained with tears and a few scratches, and the long skirt she was wearing was also loose in the pull.
But the girl smiled as she looked at the handkerchief in her hands, wrapped in something that had not been snatched.
She looked up and wanted to thank her, but when she saw who had saved her, fear and hatred flowed from her eyes.
Although this hatred was very shallow, it still made Le Lianxue frown.
"Are you from your own people?" She noticed the one-eyed Afang family logo on the group of girls, and only her own people liked to sew the logo on their clothes.
The girl nodded.
"Do you know where the patriarch is?" She asked.
The girl shook her head, paused and said, "My father knows that he often goes to the patriarch. ”
Le Lianxue asked the girl to lead the way in front, and the girl hesitated a little but still complied.
After arriving home, the girl said that she ran out secretly, and she had to quietly not wake up her mother when she went back, but Le Lianxue said that she didn't need to, your mother had found out that you ran out at night and was sitting in the living room waiting for you to go back.
The door was not locked, and when I entered, I could see a woman of nearly thirty years old, who was quite beautiful, but her body looked uncomfortable, and her face was pale and sickly.
The woman first looked at the wound on the little girl's face very distressed, and then lectured her very angrily, but the little girl didn't care, but proudly opened the handkerchief, revealing the tender green plants inside.
"Mom, look, this is a four-leaf clover, you just need to make it into tea and drink it, and you will be cured!"
I don't know where the little girl listened to the home remedies, the woman looked happy, angry and helpless, and didn't know what to do to the little girl for a while, so she could only put her eyes on Le Lianxue first, and after listening to the origin, she said:
"The head of the family has already gone to the patriarch, but he will be back soon, you can come in and sit down, I haven't seriously thanked you for helping my daughter."
Le Lianxue wanted to refuse, but the woman said:
"The patriarch is not the only place where he lives, if you go to ask others, they may not know, let's come in and sit for a while, the head of the house usually comes back at this point, and waits for ten minutes at most."
The other side said so, Le Lianxue went in and sat down, and easily stopped the woman from pouring tea and fruit for her.
Le Lianxue looked at the woman with a kind face who was holding the sleepy little girl, and asked:
"You're from the other side of the wall?"
"Can you tell?" The woman was surprised, "Yes, I turned out to be from the 11th area." ”
She recalled: "Three years ago, I was kidnapped and trafficked into the wilderness, and I thought that the rest of my life would be ruined, and then I met the master. ”
The woman's expression at this time was unexpectedly like a little girl, with a little shyness: "The head of the family saved me, and then treated me very well, my parents died very early, leaving me alone, so I decided to follow him, married two years ago." ”
Le Lianxue looked at the little girl in the woman's arms, who was nearly ten years old.
"This was rescued by the head of the family when he rescued me, I felt that she was pitiful, so I stayed with her, and the head of the house also agreed." The woman looked inside, "We have a child, just turned a year old, sleeping, let's talk softly, don't wake him." ”
The woman hesitated for a while, and said to Le Lianxue in embarrassment: "Wait for the head of the house to come back, I hope you don't say that your daughter brought you over, otherwise your daughter will be scolded again." ”
The woman sighed: "The people of this tribe are a bit extreme, they often beat and scold their descendants, and then blame all the fault on the child named Li Fan and the foreign wanderer, so that the descendants have never been in contact with Li Fan, but they also hate it, and even the word 'Li Fan' has become the most insulting word." ”
"It was okay to be in charge of the family, at least in front of my daughter, but in recent months, he seems to have changed as a person, he talks about revenge every day, and he has instilled hatred in his daughter several times, and he is still angry when I stop him...... My people are now particularly reluctant to outsiders, and even I have been cold-eyed several times, and if the head of the family knows that his daughter brought you here, he will definitely lose his temper. ”
At this time, the little girl who was sleeping in the woman's arms muttered: "Levan ...... It's the bad guys...... To kill ...... Revenge ......"
The woman put her cheek on the girl with some distress, and said, "I know the story about Levan that the child was once chosen as a sacrifice to be killed, and when he escaped, he set a fire and burned many people...... I don't really understand whether that kid is a bad person or not, and I can't tell who is right and who is wrong, there is too much hatred and hatred involved. ”
"But I really hope that the things of the previous generation can end in the previous generation, and not let the hatred spread to the next generation, and at the same time I am also afraid, the situation in the town has become more and more tense recently, and I am really afraid of losing the ...... when I finally have a home."
The woman's voice grew softer and softer, and her body trembled slightly.
The sound of a key inserting into the lock was heard.
The woman woke up from her anxiety and said apologetically to Le Lianxue: "I'm sorry for listening to so many complaints, I haven't seen people on the other side of the wall for a long time, and I was a little excited to see it for a while, plus I have been under a lot of pressure recently...... Please forgive me, and please don't mention that your daughter brought you here. ”
The man with burn marks on half of his face came in, he was very excited, but he was stunned when he saw Le Lianxue, and then quickly turned into rejection and vigilance.
"I heard that you know where the patriarch is, so I came here, and it just so happened that you were not at home." Le Lianxue didn't say that the little girl brought her here, "I want you to take me to see the patriarch, I have something important to discuss with him." ”
The man first talked to the women for a few words, and after making sure that they were not hurt, he nodded to Le Lianxue:
"You come with me."
Le Lianxue glanced at the four-leaf clover on the handkerchief, she had already seen that the woman's lungs were some cancerous, so she prayed that the clover had a miraculous effect, and if it was soaked in water and drunk, it would at least increase the woman's resistance.
After doing this, she followed the man out.
In the end, the patriarch was seen in a relatively empty room on the edge of the town, the patriarch sat on a soft cushion, the layers of robes covered his body, only his head was exposed, his cloudy eyes were staring at Le Lianxue, and with a wave of his hand, everyone else in the room left, and the door closed, leaving only the two of them.
"Outsider, tell me where you came from." The patriarch's voice was hoarse.
Le Lianxue was straightforward: "I want your support to resolve the conflict between the outsiders and my own people, so that the two sides can coexist peacefully within the Afang family." ”
"Peace?" The patriarch let out a terrible laugh, "Okay, return what belongs to us, and we will promise peace." ”
Have you started talking about the conditions...... Le Lianxue asked, "What do you want?" ”
"Everything." The patriarch replied with a blank face.
Le Lianxue frowned.
"All that the outsiders have is ours, and we will not stop until we get our stuff back." The patriarch suddenly asked, "Are you willing to be on an equal footing with dogs?" ”
Le Lianxue initially thought that the patriarch was humiliating the alien wanderer, but gradually, she felt that it was not, the patriarch really treated the alien wanderer as a dog, or a lower existence than humans, in their cognition, the alien wanderer was a slave wearing a collar, the slave was the master's finances, and everything created by the slave should also belong to the master.
From the very basic logic, it is already difficult to communicate.
"War, is it good for you?" Le Lianxue thought of the mother who was afraid of losing her family just now, "My people are already weak in the face of foreign wanderers, and if there is really a war, and both sides pay a huge price, the possibility of their own people dying is the greatest." ”
"As a patriarch, shouldn't you think about the continuation of the race?"
The patriarch smiled again, with a strange smile: "The Afang family is a dignified family, and just asking us to coexist with dogs is enough for us to fight to the end. ”
"Moreover, there is a blood feud in this, which we cannot accept in any way."
"Miss Le, I know that you have a relationship with Li Fan, so I want to intercede for him, but he has killed so many people in the family, including my daughter, we will never allow him to live in the world, and we will never live with the lowly foreign wanderers who worship him!"
Le Lianxue wanted to refute, retorting that it wasn't all because your daughter deceived him first, and the clan first used him as a sacrifice, but she didn't open her mouth to understand that it was useless, in the eyes of her own people, foreign wanderers are not the same "people", and on this premise, the other party can't recognize their mistakes at all.
The patriarch continued: "Miss Le, this is an internal matter of our Afang family, you are an outsider, you don't need and are not qualified to participate. ”
"You want justice and peace, but only to satisfy your own vanity."
"You just want to show your strength and satisfy yourself by making peace between the two sides of the hatred under your coordination."
Le Lianxue didn't refute, not because she didn't have anything to refute, but because she knew that it would be useless to refute, and the other party wouldn't listen to it at all, and she wouldn't understand it.
If the other party is disobedient, she will beat the other party, and beat until the other party is obedient, and Li Fan's words suddenly echoed in her mind.
I really don't like that......
"I hope you can support peace." "This is the last persuasion, and I don't want to use violence. ”
"Violence?" The patriarch laughed and laughed loudly, "Miss Le, you have the badge of the Knights, and you have the power to walk alone in the wilderness, but do you really think that this power can let you do whatever you want?" ”
"You should have heard some rumors that in this world, there are special beings who surpass ordinary people and have the power of gods."
Le Lianxue's expression suddenly became strange.
The patriarch clapped his hands, and the door and wall were directly knocked open, and two heavily armored warriors walked in from it.
One of the warriors was silvery-white with crystal blue lines on his left chest, while the other was pitch-black with a crimson pattern in the center of his chest.
Super tall three meters tall and as muscular as a tank, the moment these two behemoths appeared, a sense of oppression filled the entire room.
Le Lianxue turned her head and looked at the two warriors, her eyes widening slightly.
The patriarch seemed to be very satisfied with Le Lianxue's reaction.
"Got it, that's our real strength!"
"Violence? You don't know what violence is. ”
"It's not the people of our own people who can't fight, it's the wanderers from outside!"
It is rare for the patriarch to be arrogant regardless of his image.
"Miss Le, you must know that there is an old saying, those who know the times are junjie, and it is not too late to join the camp of their own people."
It's a pity that Le Lianxue didn't listen at all.
"The Marker of Kumar." Le Lianxue chuckled, "I heard that you will appear in Skull Town, and after waiting for these days, it has finally arrived. ”
"I have something to ask you."
Seeing that Le Lianxue did not panic at all, the patriarch was confused.
"This is the true strength of your own people?" Le Lianxue asked the patriarch, "Is there anything else, if there is, let's use it all." ”
"If not, I'm going to be a little violent."
After saying that, she snapped her fingers, and the next moment, the hazy moonlight covered everything.
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Le Lixue strolled down the path on the edge of Skull Town, the sun had risen and was shining on the land.
There was a lot to gain, and he got the information he wanted from the marker and the exact location of the Kumar underground test base, and the patriarch was also enthusiastic that peace could be negotiated.
But she was not happy in her heart.
This time the matter is full of helplessness, she has found the essence of the conflict, but she does not know how to solve it.
In the eyes of the people, the alien wanderer is not a "human" at all.
The gap between the basic concepts of the two sides is too big to understand and communicate.
Peace is achieved under violence, Le Lianxue doesn't like this very much, this kind of result that only leaves the surface and cannot touch the essence is undoubtedly a failure for her.
She hates failure.
My sister's words will definitely succeed, and they can be solved without the help of violence, she thought.
Then the mood was lower.
Le Lianxue suddenly wanted to go to the cave to see, the blue fireflies gathered at the top, the beautiful cave like the sea of stars, such as the man-made landscape She prefers the magic of nature, looking at the beautiful and spectacular natural scene, the mood will slowly become stable.
Unfortunately, she overlooked one thing, that is, the creatures in the cave are often extremely timid and sensitive, and any slight external fluctuation will have a drastic effect on them, and after that gunshot, the blue fireflies all turn off the synthesis of luminous matter, and this effect may not be gone away for a long time.
So she didn't see what she expected.
But she saw people she hadn't expected.