The Andes Mountains are the tallest and longest mountain range in this ancient and magical continent of Middle-earth, which stretches for thousands of miles, and the north-south span divides the continent into east and west. There are 14 countries in the east, eight of which form the Eastern Union, and 15 countries in the west, 11 of which form the Western Union. Although they are both inhabitants of the same continent, the open and secret rivalry between the two alliances has never stopped. Compared to the hustle and bustle of human society, a deciduous forest near the sea in the southwest of the Andes is much quieter. This forest is located on the southern side of the Central Continent by the sea, so the climate is mild and evergreen.

One silent afternoon, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the quiet woods, and a tattered carriage staggered by, startling a crowd of birds. There were six people in the cramped car, a driver and five passengers. The eldest looked to be over forty, and the youngest looked to be eight years old, a little boy.

The carriage was very bumpy, but it did not affect their sleepiness in the slightest, and the boy fell asleep exaggeratedly.

"The universe represents the four directions, i.e., all the space, and the universe represents the past and the present, i.e., all time. Universe: Infinite space, Universe: Infinite time, infinite time and infinite space make up our world, which is the universe. A hollow voice sounded softly in the darkness, sounding so ethereal, as if it were coming from far, far away in the sky. "When you grasp the mysteries of time and space, you will become the master of this world. Come, child!Awaken the black blood, summon the blue flames, bring the artifact Frost Tears......" The hollow voice came again, so annoying, it felt as if it had come from far away, trembling and trembling, as if it was about to break but could not be broken.

"The will of Stamoko will live forever!"

"You're bothered!!" the little boy roared, an action that immediately drew the eyes of the four people in the car. But when everyone saw that it was an eight-year-old little ghost, they didn't care.

The atmosphere fell silent again, and the monotonous sound of wheels came back to blow into people's ears. Maybe it was too boring, and someone began to look at the screaming child. I saw that he was dressed in a burlap coat, with black hair and black eyes, typical of the eastern Andes, a pointed nose embedded in his small black and thin face, and most of all his eyes, which were covered with lifeless and confused eyes under his long hair, which were not the eyes of a seven- or eight-year-old child. But when I thought that he was fleeing like myself, I was relieved.

"Wake up, little ghost, what strange dreams are you having again?" The little boy heard someone talking to him. He was looking for prestige, and it was a middle-aged man with a kind face sitting at the door of the carriage.

The little boy didn't say anything, but shrunk back into the carriage, wrapping himself in a ball as much as he could.

The people next to him also began to talk: "Hey, that kid is pitiful! Wars, it's all damn wars! A child who is only seven or eight years old is about to start a life of exile." ”

"yes, yes...... After that, it will be full and hungry...... Don't starve, thank goodness......"

"Damn Byzantium! If Lao Tzu were a general, he would definitely lead thousands of troops and horses to their imperial capital, and kill all their men and women!"

The atmosphere was hot, but everyone felt that there was a deep despair hidden in the warm atmosphere. The little boy shook his head, as if trying to shake out the noise around him, to calm himself down.

Take a deep breath and recall what happened a week ago, and his miserable life began then:

In the calm afternoon, I played in the pile of toys as usual. I don't know why my parents, who had always been kind, suddenly had a dark cloud on their faces, and my father forcibly pulled him out of the pile of toys and stuffed him into a carriage full of strangers. Then a piercing scream rang out, and at the end of the street rushed a group of strange people wielding dangerous swords and shouting in an incomprehensible language.

He instinctively wanted to scream, but he couldn't, as if he was choked by an inexplicable plug in his throat, and he couldn't scream. He could only stay in the car and watch the cold white light pierce his mother's body, and watch his father be pierced by one sharp arrow after another. He wanted to reach for it, he didn't want to be separated from his parents, but he couldn't move, as if he had been caught in some legendary magic.

Cui, who was playing with the coachman's life, drove the horses, and the car rushed out like crazy.

He closed his eyes in despair, thinking that it was just a nightmare, that it would be good not to think about anything, and that the more he thought about it, the more painful it became.

The truth always cruelly shattered the dream, and in the following week, he learned more and more from the mouths of the adults around him: the invasion of the Xuanqing Kingdom by the Byzantine Empire army in March 435 of the Central Continent calendar. The weak Xuanqing Kingdom surrendered with only a little resistance on the border, isolated and helpless. The Byzantine Empire issued a treaty of surrender to the Xuanqing Kingdom, stating that it would stop attacking as long as these conditions were accepted. The treaty included many humiliating items, such as the Xuanqing Empire's accession to the Eastern Alliance as a vassal state of the Byzantine Empire, and the annual payment of one-half of the national taxes. Dissolve all the current armed forces of the Xuanqing State, the Xuanqing State is not allowed to have its own army, and the Byzantine army is stationed in the Xuanqing State for national defense. Under the huge pressure of the Byzantine Empire, the royal family of Xuanqing Kingdom reluctantly agreed. On March 14, the Byzantine army entered the imperial capital, and then the brutal Byzantine army began a brutal massacre, first killing all the members of the Xuanqing Imperial Family and hanging the head of the Xuanqing Emperor at the entrance of the palace. People were stunned when they saw this scene, the Byzantine treaty was just a dead letter, and it was a trap to let the army enter the Xuanqing Kingdom. After killing all the members of the imperial family, Byzantium turned its target to the common people of the Xuanqing Kingdom. The massacre officially kicked off, and for a time there were mountains of corpses, rivers of blood, and the streets and alleys were in ruins.

There were no more normal people, only frenzied Byzantine soldiers with sabers poking at a bloody corpse. --- excerpt from the Union Morning Post. (Alliance Morning Post: Published by Alliance Newspaper.) The newspaper adheres to a neutral position and does not participate in the political actions of any government. The headquarters of the Alliance are located in Kevin Lalier, the capital of Kevin Russ. ）

In this way, his home is gone, and he has been lonely since he was a child, except for his parents, he only has his toys as companions, and now the two people he loves the most have left him...... The little boy shook his head in pain, he wanted to shake off the pain, if the pain could be eliminated like this, there would be no need for churches and priests in the world. He held his head in his hands and thought, "Why should I survive?" Where can I go in this carriage? Thinking about it, he fell asleep again in a dazed state.

After some time, our little hero felt the speed of the car gradually slow down, and he heard the driver turn back to the five people in the car and say, "It's getting dark, get out of the car and rest! At this rate, it is estimated that Kevin Russ will be there tomorrow afternoon. ”

"Good class, hard work!" said the kind-looking middle-aged man sitting at the door of the carriage got up and got out of the car and said to the driver. The others also got out of the car to stretch their muscles, after all, it was not pleasant to sit in a low, narrow compartment for a day.

"Now only the neutral Kevin Rasken has taken us in. ”

"Why is it that only one Kevin Rasken has to take us in? The Eastern Alliance and so many neutral countries have to take us in, at least out of humanitarianism? Why is it that the neutral countries in the western Andes have taken us in because of the war?"

"You don't understand this, because of military strength! How can those small countries risk offending the Byzantine Empire to take us in?"

"What is the Eastern Alliance, the Eastern Alliance is the backyard of the Byzantine family, do you understand? ”

"There's no way around it, who calls people the Byzantine Empire too powerful! The entire Eastern Alliance is actually a dog raised by the Byzantine Empire. ”

The coachman and the four men who got out of the carriage talked eloquently, and they did not see the fatigue after the long journey, probably because of the excitement of escaping death? The kind-looking middle-aged man said, "Okay, okay, I think we should prepare for today's dinner!" ”

"Ha Lu Ha Lei, do you know how to eat?" a tall and thin man teased, "I don't think you can even eat pigs! You have to eat the dry food of me and Cheng Feng every time!"

"Haha

"Well, it seems like there's one person missing. I remember there were five people in the car. The middle-aged man named Lei said.

"You mean that little ghost, don't you? Leave him alone, that guy knows how to clump himself in a corner all day long, and the only difference from the dead is to get out of the car hungry and get something to eat. The driver said.

"Leave him alone!" the tall lanky man chimed in.

"This can't be done, we can escape the pursuit of the Byzantine army in no time, and I don't know where Lu Dao will be assigned by the local government when we get to Kevenras, and I don't know if Lu Dao will have a chance to meet again in the future. So this time, let's ask him to get out of the car and have something to eat together. Ray paused and continued, "I'll go and call him, and you will prepare the food for the evening." With that, Ray went back to the car.

Seeing that the little ghost was still hiding in the corner, Ray walked over and leaned down and patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "Hey, it's dawn and get up!"

The boy ignored him and continued to curl up with his head down.

"It's time to eat, you're almost hungry after a day's journey, aren't you? Let's come down and have some food?"

The boy finally reacted, and he shook his head to say no, but then his stomach screamed "coo......

"Haha, friend, you have to be as honest as your belly, if you lie often, your nose will get longer. You'll be in Kevin Russ soon, so you can come down and have a bite to eat with the guys......"

The boy shook his head.

"Hehe!" said the middle-aged man named Lei with a dry smile, "Don't do this, maybe you feel very miserable now and can't eat, but your stomach still has to eat." Your body was given by your parents, you can be sorry for yourself, but you can't be sorry for your parents. With that, Lei looked meaningfully at the withdrawn little boy.

"My parents are dead, my home is gone, what can I say sorry for?" This can be said to be the first time he has spoken since he fled, "Maybe if I die, I can be with them." The immature voice was a little dry, probably because he hadn't spoken for a long time.

"What are you talking about! It's because your parents died that you should cherish yourself, don't you? Have you ever thought about why the two of them have to put you in the carriage even if they sacrifice themselves? That's because your parents want you to live a good life, not to give up on yourself like this. ”

"You're not me, how do you know my feelings?" the boy yelled unconvinced.

"I understand!" these three words almost roared, "I have two children, one is five years old and the other is only four years old, and I have my wife and my parents. They should have survived...... It's that I'm useless, why did I escape by myself? Why didn't I protect them?" Lei said as he began to sob, he took a deep breath to stabilize his emotions, "Maybe I was very useless, I was a coward at that time, but I will never be a coward for the rest of my life! If you die, you don't have to take responsibility, if you die, you can stay away from pain, and when you die, you can be free from worry! Do you think so? I thought so too, but that's the idea of a coward." If you abandon yourself like this, what's the point of what your parents have done for you? So you have to do something, don't you?" He grabbed the little boy's shoulders tightly with his trembling hands, as if he were afraid that he would run away as soon as he let go.

"And what can I do now?" replied the boy, still with his head still hanging down, in a lifeless tone.

"Then you have to be strong and live first, don't you?" Ray withdrew his hand and continued, "Come on, son, look up at me and tell me that I am no longer a coward." ”

Hearing the little boy's shoulders flutter, his head finally lifted up after a month of drooping. Although those immature eyes are still lifeless, they are a little less confused than before. He opened his mouth with difficulty and said in a soft voice: "I'm not a coward anymore!"

"That's what you say! That's what you want to be a human being, the more difficult you are, the stronger you are!" said Lei.

Suddenly, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves coming out of the carriage, followed by a commotion. "Ah......h

"What's wrong? what's going on?" Ray yelled out of the car.

"It's the army of the Byzantine Empire, everyone run, woo...... Ahh

The situation was not good, and Ray immediately turned back to the little boy and said, "Hide under the seat, there is a hidden box there." Remember, don't make a noise no matter what's going on outside?"

The little boy nodded.

"And can you tell me your name? It's been a week since we've been together, and I don't know what your name is!"

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