Chapter 14: The Unforgivable
Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Xi Ke suppressed the Night King in the underground temple, and his whole body had become a rag, and he was captured alive by the Staff of Light. Serena faked an escape and then hid him.
Soon after, he still looked like a rag and actually had visitors. The man, wearing an old but unbroken cloak, entered the house with Seren. If it weren't for Seren's shouting at Tick to tell Tick that he could be trusted, and Rick judged that the voice was not being held hostage, Rick would have been barefoot at the back door preparing to flee.
Afterwards, Rick sat in the room with the man, drinking the hot ginger tea that Seren had brought. The place where he was hiding was an abandoned farmhouse overgrown with weeds, holes in the walls barely stuffed with mud and grass, and beds made of three wooden boxes side by side. Although Serian thought it was okay and got the coal, he didn't dare to risk using the fireplace, for fear that someone might find out about the burning smoke. As a result, it was freezing inside the house, hardly much better than outside.
The man should have been sixty or seventy years old, male, with a full head of gray hair tied behind his head and draped over his back. His face was ruddy and healthy, and his eyes were bright. His muscles are full and strong, and he walks with a steady pace, and it seems that he will not have a problem living for another twenty years. His chin was pointy and his skeleton was thin. He took off his old cloak and folded it on the bucket with a steady and careful motion, which he had done every day for decades.
He wears a dark green mage robe embroidered with lizard and fern motifs. The robe was of high quality, and it could be seen that the owner had cherished it for many years, and the fabric showed a heartwarming sense of fading. The man was like an archmage who had stepped out of a classical novel and helped the wise king defeat the tyrant.
The man had not chanted a mantra, and Syk had not seen any fire or fire spirits, and the room suddenly warmed up, like five burning stoves. After that, the warmth remained in the house for the rest of the winter, until the weather outside was pleasantly warm.
The man sat down on both sides, and after taking a large sip of ginger tea greedily, he asked Rick, "What's your name?" His voice had the same magic as the spell he had just cast, and it was warm. His magnetic voice is very gentle.
"Rick Tregg. Rick felt his figure in the eyes of the man: a boy of seventeen years old and covered in scars.
The man nodded, and even this movement made people feel steady, and said, "I'm from the Staff of Light. Don't be afraid, I'm not here to arrest you, I just want to talk to you and talk about yourself. 」
"I don't have much to say. Rick frowned.
The man gave Serena a look, and Seren, unfortunately, went outside to stand guard in the snowstorm. Fortunately, the paladin was physically stronger than the average person, and he could not have been injured just because of the cold.
The man spoke to Rick and asked, "I've seen your record. Are you used to killing people with poison?"
"yes. The corners of his mouth were deliberately sharpened, revealing a sinister smile: "Poisons are fast, convenient, and some are cheap!"
The man didn't look stunned or frightened, as Rick had expected, but continued to ask, "You like fast-lethal poisons, don't you? The type that kills people in five seconds?"
"It's two seconds. Sick thought that the old man might have seen more of the world and was not easily frightened, and he was going to say something even more terrifying: "I only need two seconds to make the medicine. And it doesn't take half a second to go into the throat and fall to the ground and fall unconscious. 」
But the man just nodded and continued to say in a kind voice, "Weishenme chose to kill people in such a quick way?"
Xi Ke glared at the man, and the tone of the man made him inexplicably anxious, as if a needle was faintly poking him, and he began to exaggerate what he had done, and talked about the occasional things as if they happened every day: "Because it's convenient and fast! I kill several people a day, and if each of them is there struggling slowly, I don't have to do anything!
"Your classmates kill several people a day, and they think it's better to stay awake for as long as possible. 」
When the man said this, Rick looked visibly disgusted, "They like inefficient practices. 」
"As far as I know, the Order of the Night worships torture. Your alumni will beat the sacrifice to the point of dying before the sacrifice, and often before they can use it. They believe that the pain inflicted on the victim will make both them and the victim become God's people. The doctrine of the Order of the Night holds that submission to the King of the Night is the most important virtue in the world. As a result, soldiers loyal to the Night King can serve as ministers in the Night Kingdom, and those who are sacrificed will travel to the Night Kingdom to become a people ruled by their courtiers. Those who were not sacrificed to the Night King, or even those who were stupid enough to rebel against the Order, were sent to Hell. The man asked Rick, "But you don't. Do you not follow the teachings, is it really for convenience?"
"Of course, or else?" said Rick, who slammed to his feet and knocked his chair down.
"Maybe it's because you don't like to hear wails? You don't like to see people struggling in pools of blood. Unaffected, the man continued in a plain tone, "You have to kill, or you're the next sacrifice." So, in your way, you try to give them the compassion that you can.
"I know your business very well. Because you were unwilling to cater to the atmosphere of the Order, you were questioned by teachers and excluded by your classmates, and your ranking was once unable to rise because of this, but you still insisted on not changing. The reason you give them is this: convenience. But I don't think that's the real reason. 」
"You're completely mistaken! It's not like that! You're so wrong!" Rick snarled at the man, "I'm happy to kill, I'm not afraid to torture!"
"You're afraid. You are afraid of screams, and you are also afraid of the scene of people lying dying in a sea of blood. You've been scared. The man's brow furrowed, and he stood up, straightening up. In fact, the man was a head shorter than Syck, but at this time he looked like a giant who was high in the sky.
Rick can't step back on his own. The man approached Syk and wouldn't let him escape.
The man said, "You're afraid of killing! You don't want to kill at all!"
His words were like an earthquake, and Xi Ke was about to lose his feet, and he felt as if the earth's crust had turned over and pressed on him, and the whole shijie was dark. He preferred to cut himself off to avoid the pressure, and when he was about to lose it, the man hugged him. The man's voice suddenly became as gentle as the song his mother sang by the cradle: "The Order is gone, you don't need to deceive yourself anymore. 」
Rick still remembers the warmth that came from that man. He was so embarrassed that he cried like a little baby, and he couldn't stop crying for hours, and that was the only time he cried until his whole body was out of strength.
The man stayed next to Rick, who could no longer say anything, and said, "There are two acts that cannot be forgiven. One kills for one's own benefit, and the other kills for one's own pleasure. You're neither. You still have to take responsibility for what you have done, but it is enough for you to repay what you did in the Ancient Temple. Xiexie, you protected my men. 」
Rick cried so much that he didn't even know how he fell asleep or when the man left. A few weeks later, he received a pardon declaring that he would not be held accountable for what he had done in the Order and that he would be granted citizenship. Almost at the same time, he learned from the newspaper that the man turned out to be the head of the administration department of the Demon Court.
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"There are two kinds of behavior that cannot be forgiven. One kills for one's own benefit, and the other kills for one's own pleasure. Twenty-year-old Rick muttered a repetition of what he had heard three years ago.
"Yes, so the First Intelligence Department of the Mage is unforgivable! They kill people on their pay, and they kill people to make themselves feel good!" said Kuo He excitedly.
Xi Ke didn't respond to his words, he looked at Kuo and remembered the Night Order, when the teacher found out that a student who didn't dare to kill in the past had tortured people to death because of his teachings. At this moment, looking at Xi Ke's broadness, there is no Xi Ke in his eyes, only his own "educational success" is his only focus.
Xi Ke's eyes widened and he said, "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Huh?" Kuo was stunned.
"Nopig doesn't kill people and rob property for profit, the First Intelligence Department receives a salary and arrests criminals for profit; Nopig doesn't kill people for fun, but it is for happiness to let the victim's family live in peace. Xi Ke looked at Kuo, there was no anger or ridicule in his eyes, only endless questions.
He said, "Of course. It's not his fault that Nopige had been hurt and caused him to be psychologically distorted. 」
"I've been hurt too. This was the first time that Rick had ever acknowledged it verbally, and he had never said anything like "I was hurt" before, neither to gain sympathy nor to use it as an excuse. Even when Queen Riot describes his past, Syk doesn't take the initiative to mention the hurt he's suffered. Because he doesn't think it's a reason.
He is saying this now to refute Kuo.
Kuo He's answer was much more than Xi Ke expected, and Kuo He said, "You are nothing at all. 」
"I'm a Sony-language mage, and you should know that the Sony-language mages are all now—" Syk didn't know what to say, he wasn't good at talking about his pain. The current Soni mages are all from the Night Order, and they all have a very tragic past.
Kuo He made an impatient expression and waved his hand: "There is nothing to mention about the research results in your spare time. 」
Xi Ke was stunned for a moment before he understood what he meant, and he thought that the reason why Xi Ke would use the Sini language spell was because it was his interest.
"That's not right. Rick shook his head.
"You are the strong side of this society, so you don't understand the feelings of the weak. He continued, "People sin because they have been hurt. The reason why you don't sin is because you are cared for by good haode. This is the weishenme, you should protect Norpige from continuing to be a victim of this society. 」
What is the reasoning behind this? It took a long time for Rick's head to come up with the results.
Kuo He believes that a criminal act can prove that a person has been injured, and the absence of a criminal act proves that a person has not been injured. That is, it is believed that crime is proof of a person's ups and downs, and that not committing a crime is proof that the person has taken advantage of it. This leads to the conclusion that the offender should be helped, while the non-guilty should not. In other words, if a person wants to be cared for, the condition is to go down the wrong path.
People like Xi Ke who have a tragic past and are now in a bleak situation but refuse to commit crimes, as well as people like Big Brother Abandoned Cat who bear unreasonable treatment alone and refuse to vent on irrelevant people, are the lowest people in Kuo's mind. People like Rick and Big Brother Abandoned Cat are not helped, and they must be held accountable for the crimes of people like Norpig, and they are obediently killed.
"When someone kills someone, the more evil he is, the more innocent he is, what is the truth about that?" Rick couldn't help but say, "What the hell is wrong with you?
Kuo stared at Xi Ke defensively, and Xi Ke's figure finally returned to his eyes again. He said, "Each of us has made mistakes, so who is right to judge them?"
"So you're just going to let Norpig kill people? You're a man who doesn't even protect your own subordinates, and you don't do your job well and go to philosophy?"
"I really misjudged you!" Kuo stood up.
He was strong and tall, but to Rick, this man gave him less oppression than a knee-high clump of aloe vera.
Kuohe's face turned red, and he scolded Xi Ke: "I thought you were a civilized person, but it turns out that you are also a barbarian who can only use violence! Get out, you low-level operator!"
Xi Ke glanced at Kuo He Zuihou with disdain, turned his head and left.
It seems that the "Employee Care Room" is a well-known danger zone for the employees here, and they are always monitoring the movements there in order to detect who is not good for them.
For a while, all the employees were friendly to Xike. It could be admiration, or sympathy for the fact that he would soon be expelled. The most common reason for the accident is because they all like to hear that they are in a bad mood.
After that, Xi Ke worked hard to work as an operator in the wiring room, and no longer thought about protecting Kuo or anything. In his opinion, Kuo He should share the responsibility for the killing of so many employees with Norpig, and it is obviously the responsibility of the operator to ensure the safety of the workplace!
He decided that when Norpig reappeared in the future, he would definitely not come to his rescue. He will put all his energy into protecting his employees. He even forgot to ask Naimo how the guys on Namo's side were fighting Norpige when he was at the hotel. Rick didn't see Norpig, and Nemo's group was stationed in front, and they should have run into each other.
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