Roland hates war, and hates hiding in a safe place to glorify war and encourage others to go to the battlefield to die.

To put it so high-soundingly, you and your families should go to the front line to experience what sacrifice is, and practice what it means to achieve great things!

- Every time he hears those words that advocate war, Roland's heart growls like this.

He couldn't scream out what he really felt inside.

Not only can they not speak, but they also have to go up to the platform after the advocates have spoken to the point where their lips are scorched, play the role of "heroes" in front of the public, become the accomplices of those brazen people, tell the people under the podium who are enthusiastic and thirsty for heroes and miracles, such childish heroic concepts as "heroes are needed no matter what era is", encourage more people to go to the battlefield to die, say that those who are injured in battle and die on the battlefield are heroes, and in the end, even glorify war!

This is no different from the brainwashing of the church, which is also to use beautiful language and beautiful visions to lure others, cheapen the value of life, and then let these people with the idea of "I am part of a great cause", "I am a hero", etc., go to the battlefield and become one of the many corpses covering the entire battlefield......

"What do you say, 'you won't run away and you won't hide'...... When you actually face it, you can't put pen to paper, do you......"

Facing the dozen or so letters spread out in front of him, Roland muttered to himself in a low voice.

It was already two o'clock in the morning, and most of the letters had been answered three hours earlier, leaving a dozen letters that plagued Roland like an unsolvable problem, unable to ignore, inescapable, and unsure of what to do. Just sat at the desk and stared at the letters.

- Give me back my son!

- Murderer!

- When you were talking nonsense, did you ever think that someone would die because of your words?!

- How many people do you have to die before you are satisfied?

- Curse you! Even if you die, you devils who suck blood on corpses!

Words like these stained the letterheads, along with blood and tears, and the voices of grief and indignation made these letters "different" among the many letters of praise and praise.

In the face of these fierce and real voices, in the face of those heartfelt pain, Roland was speechless.

It cannot be ruled out that these letters were the result of instigation, or simply forged to undermine Roland's prestige and confidence. However, there is a cause and an effect, if there are no ordinary people who are dissatisfied and angry with the "Holy Maiden", no matter how strong the incitement ability of others is, no matter how exquisite the eloquence is, I am afraid that they will not be able to set off the storm. However, it is true that there are people who aspire to join the army because of the speech of the Holy Maiden, and those who die on the battlefield and family members who grieve and weep for their deaths. The scolding in those letters may be rude, biased, and harsh, but they are not contrived.

Roland was not unprepared for this kind of voice, nor was he unenlightened.

From the moment he made up his mind to confront the ambitions of the Church and Li Lin's plans, Roland was already aware of the path he had taken, and knew that until the final end, there would be people who would continue to fall into misfortune and even lose their lives because of his words and actions. Among them, there are those who are innocent and innocent, and there must be innocent people who are implicated.

Whether innocent or not, the dead will not condemn him, but the living family of the deceased will, and so will Roland's own conscience and guilt.

Once he really faces those voices, Roland will understand that any psychological construction and preparation in advance are useless.

Even if you brazenly say like war brokers that this is a war, this is a hellish war, there will always be sacrifices in the war, everything is a bad war, all because the enemy is not good, and it is also because the dead are unlucky, so please forgive me with grief and so on, the dead will not be resurrected, and the family of the deceased will not bow their heads and say, "This is no way", and then forgive him.

Because he is a "holy maiden", a hero who saves the country, and a person who instigates hope in the crowd with his own existence.

For people, it doesn't matter whether he deliberately looks like a "hero" or whether he exaggerates propaganda. All hope and reverence are focused on Roland, who can only fulfill his responsibilities by giving back what is expected of them. Roland will only be ...... if he is completely saved from his worshippers Acknowledgment and acceptance.

Heroes don't let people down, heroes can't let people down.

That's all.

However.

Although it was not Roland's wish, it was true that because of him, someone lost an important family member.

There is no way, it is too pale and powerless to convince the grieving and angry family members.

It doesn't even have to do with whether there is a way to do it, and that kind of intellectual truth is meaningless. Able to go beyond the limits of common sense and ordinary people to achieve the impossible...... This is the hero, and the justification of ordinary people does not apply to the hero.

"A hero or king is a vessel that holds the prayers of the people. ”

Looking at Roland's back through the crack in the curtain that leaked light, the spider said leisurely:

The dictator had said that to him, and if you think about it, it was. ”

"That bastard is always so right that he can't speak. ”

Pressing her swollen forehead, Valrhona sighed softly and changed her mind.

But this time, even if he was uncomfortable, he had to admit that this was the most humane sentence he had ever said. ”

Hero;

King;

This title is too heavy for the average person, and the facts attached to it are too cruel.

With his own actions, he will affect the fate of thousands of people, and sometimes take their lives - standing in such a position, under unimaginable pressure, probably an existence like Li Lin will not collapse.

From the outset, restrain oneself to be a "vessel" rather than flesh and blood, acting according to the will infused into it, accomplishing what people wish to do – so that of course they will not be overwhelmed by mental pressure.

But Roland is not a container, he is a living person, a human being who will be troubled and suffered. That's why he suffers from this.

"Really...... I can't stand it anymore. ”

Lifting the curtain, the spider stepped into the tent.

Without hesitating, she walked straight to Roland's side and put away the letters.

"Don't keep staring at the unfortunate. ”

Before Roland could question or reprimand, the spider pressed his finger to Roland's lips.

"Maybe they're really unlucky, maybe it's really a resentment that can't be quelled by using strong words like 'I can't help it' or 'I know someone less fortunate than you'. But we really can't help them more than words of comfort and relief within our means. This is war, this is reality. ”

"But ......!!"

"You did give a speech, you did play a hero, and you did because someone joined the military because of it. It's not that you ask them to join the army, they all make choices based on their own thinking and judgment. Do you want to take it away and bear it?"

It's like a person who uses alcohol to be emboldened to commit a crime and argues in court that "he did something foolish because he drank too much", and he didn't commit a crime because he drank alcohol. It is for the sake of sin, that the power of wine is borrowed. As a result, people blamed alcohol for the evil, shouting that in order to make society cleaner, they demanded legislation to ban alcoholic beverages. It's putting the cart before the horse.

"A man's actions can only be borne by himself, even if it will involve others in misfortune, he can only bear it. Not only you, but everyone else. ”

The spider propped up the table, his sharp eyes forced to look at Roland, and he smiled bitterly at Roland with no compromise.

"You're so strict. ”

"Maybe...... But I just can't get used to those who are obsessed with 'self-inflicted misfortune'. ”

His gaze drooped slightly, and the spider let out a long sigh, and a slightly softened tone shifted the topic in another direction.

"If you have to hear an unfortunate story, I have a ready-made story here. It all started more than a decade ago......"

That's a very common story.

Barren land, peasant families who can barely pay their taxes after hard work all year round, broken houses, livestock, family members, and land are all they have to live. In the event of famine or natural disasters, entire families can starve to death at any time and at any time.

In order to survive, or to survive as many families as possible, selling young girls to human traffickers is the only viable means – one less mouth to eat and two bags of flour.

"At that time, there was no chemical fertilizer, the agricultural technology, mechanical tools, and water conservancy projects of the consortium were not yet popularized, and two bags of flour were already quite expensive. What's more, the traffickers also promised to send the girl to a rich family to be a competent maid, and if she was lucky, she could become the playmate of the young master, and it was unknown how she would soar in the future. So the peasant family happily accepted the flour and pushed the youngest girl out of the door, without looking at her. ”

The spider took out two cups and filled the cups in front of Roland with brandy.

"The traffickers didn't take the girl to any big family, they sold her. In fact, as long as you think about it carefully, if there is really any big family that needs young maids, you can start with specially trained young maids from high-end trafficking organizations, why go to the second-class traffickers in the countryside and buy a wild girl who has never even seen a flush toilet? But that family and traffickers can't manage so much, as long as there is income, everything doesn't matter. After a few turns, the girl ended up in Stassy's training facility, where she became one of the many larvae waiting to hatch and metamorphose in the 'Worm Cage'. ”

The bottle slammed on the table, making a heavy, muffled sound.