Book 1: Reading is not a Confucian sour Chapter 48 Burning
In Huangyun City, Light Leizi and Ying Tianchang looked at each other, and no one could say the next word.
In the end, Ying Tian let out a long sigh and said, "These things are not something that we can say the answer to in a moment. ”
Qing Leizi's expression also returned to the appearance of the city's head, and said, "That's why I have to finish this part of the road." ”
Ying Tianchang looked up at the falling raindrops, although these raindrops could not wash away the damage of the monsters to the people of Huangyun City and the darkness of Huangyun City, they could extinguish the fire under the cauldron. The heat in the air was long gone, and in place of the flames of the endless firewood under the cauldron were wisps of green smoke.
Ying Tianchang said: "Even if we see the answer in the end, we may not be able to convince each other, and we can't even convince ourselves." ”
And that answer is not necessarily correct. ”
"From now on, you're kind of like those people who want to read books. A smile tugged at the corner of Light Leizi's mouth, "But I don't care about that, after walking the northwest, your answer convinces me that you will die." ”
Until yesterday, Ying Tianchang still believed that his life was determined by whether he could see what Light Leizi wanted him to see in the Northwest Rebellion, but at this time, Ying Tianchang didn't think so. In the end, even if his answer couldn't satisfy Qing Leizi, he felt that this little Lei Gong would not kill him.
Ying Tianchang didn't say anything more, turned around and wanted to release the living people who were tied to the torture rack behind him, and then the people of Huangyun City in the countless cages surrounding the cauldron.
Those living people who were bound to the torture rack watched Ying Tianchang walking towards him, and the trembling of his body turned into a struggle, but he still didn't dare to make a sound, and even pressed against his teeth, so that he couldn't even breathe.
Ying Tianchang felt a hint of ridiculousness in this, and he also laughed with his own feelings. There was a mockery in that smile. But he knew he shouldn't have made such a mockery of these poor people, who were ordinary people. These fears and despairs, as well as the desire to survive, are their most normal emotions.
But Ying Tianchang couldn't suppress himself, which can be called a crazy smile.
He didn't know why he was laughing, but he knew he wasn't laughing at these people of Yellow Cloud City.
Touching the coldness of the iron chain, Ying Tianchang's consciousness gradually woke up. He looked at the man he had just slapped, who gritted his teeth, and the fear seeped from under his closed eyelids.
Ying Tianchang tried to move the chains, and the muscles of the man's face twitched, and his body couldn't help but curl up. But because of the relationship between being fixed on the torture rack, it is still immovable.
The chains are almost connected to the flesh and skin of men, and I guess this is the case for everyone after that.
Ying Tianchang said: "It will hurt a lot, bear with it." ”
After a scream, the man rolled off the rack. He fell to the ground, the pain in his body that prevented him from getting up, but also made him feel that he was truly free at the moment.
"You don't have to hold back, you can shout and cry as much as you want. Ying Tianchang squatted in front of him and whispered.
Before he could finish the sentence, the man who was already in tears let out a heart-rending roar. Ying Tianchang was silent, and in the rain he looked at the man, who closed his eyes tightly in pain. The cry of his disgust had made him feel calmer than ever.
In this peace, there is also a trace of sadness.
It was exactly the same grief in the man's hoarse voice.
After the man cried bitterly, the living people on the torture rack and the people watching all this in the cage realized that the two people who had come here really came to save them, and all their emotions were released at this moment.
The cry drowned Huangyun City like the sea.
The cries were mixed with screams, and after each scream, one person was set free.
After freeing the people bound on the torture rack, Ying Tianchang walked to the cages.
"You're not so troublesome?" asked Qing Leizi after Ying Tianchang, both he and Ying Tianchang had the means to release everyone here in an instant.
Ying Tianchang did not answer Qingleizi's question, and said, "I should have drunk with you for a while in the city." ”
That's the answer. Qing Leizi thought so, and did not help Ying Tianchang.
Ying Tianchang walked through every cage in Huangyun City, and started to break those cages and smash those shackles.
More and more people followed him, more and more, until they finally returned with him to the cauldron.
Although the fire under the pot has been extinguished, the boiled meat is still in the cauldron.
Human flesh.
It could be the son or daughter of someone present, or the father or mother of someone present.
Friends and family, all among them.
Ying Tianchang glanced back at the cauldron, maybe it is not possible, it is certain, it is inevitable.
He didn't want to say anything, he wasn't the savior, he wasn't the leader of these people. After he broke the cages, these people should have done their own thing, or what they felt they should do now, instead of following him and finally gathering in front of this cauldron.
Cries, rain, sighs.
Ying Tianchang didn't feel that he had brought anything to these people in Huangyun City, maybe these people felt that what they should do was to follow behind them, and he Ying Tianchang would be able to bring them freedom, the light of tomorrow, and the shelter from pain. But that's not what he should have done.
And those should be the things they should actively pursue. Instead of following someone and hoping to get everything from that person, hoping that person to sow the good hope of the world on everyone. Even if that person is him, he should grow himself.
Ying Tianchang sat down a little depressed, sitting on the blood stains and sins that the rain had not yet washed away and could never be washed away. Beside him, there was a mountain of white bones, and under this mountain of bones, there were broken intestines and broken livers.
The people who watched him cried even more, but Ying Tianchang could no longer understand the meaning of their cries.
Light Leizi came to Ying Tianchang and sat down, which was also a little strange.
Heroes don't show such fatigue, and heroes don't fall.
Ying Tianchang knows this, and he knows even more that he is not a hero. That's why he was able to do that.
Suddenly, the flames under the cauldron behind them were rekindled, and they were extremely violent.
The heat that swept in the air again made Ying Tianchang look at the light thunder beside him, but the light thunder zi's slightly surprised expression told Ying Tianchang that it was not made by the light thunder.
But Ying Tianchang still asked out loud: "What's the matter?"
Light Leizi shook his head and said, "I don't know, but this flame can't burn for no reason." ”
His expression was a little solemn, and the only person who could do this kind of thing under his light thunder nose and let him not notice it was that black king Qin Guan.
All eyes were on the raging fire.
But then, a person's scream attracted everyone's attention, including Ying Tianchang and Light Leizi.
That person spontaneously combusted in the rain for no reason, first a small flame, but it was such a small flame that even the autumn rain could not extinguish it.
The flames grew stronger and stronger, enveloping the man, turning him into a burning man and then into ashes.
After a brief period of freedom and happiness, fear once again permeates people.
Then, flames appeared on the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth...... Behind him is not only the fire raging, but also in front of Ying Tianchang and Light Thunder.
The density of people makes the eyes become a wall of fire connected together, and the screams and pain are transmitted to Ying Tianchang's body along with the high temperature. Ying Tianchang stood up from the ground again, and he shouted: "Heavy rain!"
Instantly it rained heavily.
But the fire did not decrease but increased, rising into the sky.
Some of the voices disappeared.
Ying Tianchang looked at the crowd wrapped in flames, and the raging fire made Ying Tianchang unable to see their faces that had become hideous from the burning of the fire. The spiritual power in his hands gathered and turned into a column of water, trying to extinguish the flames on those people.
But after the water column released by Ying Tianchang touched the flame, it seemed to add fuel to the fire. The man was reduced to ashes and fell to the ground in an instant.
Ying Tianchang hurriedly stopped, but his hands were in the air.
The light in Ying Tianchang's eyes gradually faded, and then turned into a hollow. It was then that he realized what it was like to be truly powerless and helpless.
With Light Thunder behind him, he couldn't see the painful faces of the people in the flames clearly, but he could see the despair that filled Ying Tianchang beside him.
This desperation appeared at the moment after Ying Tianchang shattered their cage. If Ying Tianchang had not untied their chains and shackles, these people would have died.
As far as the genius is concerned, he saved these people, but he didn't save these people.
He also harmed these people.
But for Light Leizi, these people are still dead. It's the same even if it's a youkai.
So when Ying Tianchang turned his attention to light thunder for help, light thunder did not move. Just like when Ying Tianchang rescued these people before, he didn't help.
Ying Tianchang quickly withdrew his gaze, and did not open his mouth to ask for the assistance of Light Leizi. He just sat back on the ground again.
His surroundings are white bones and internal organs.
Now there are more ashes burned by the living.
Now the decay on Ying Tianchang's body is visible to the naked eye, like a withered weed.
But instead of bowing his head or closing his eyes to escape what had happened, he stared directly at the fire, fueled by man, until the last scream disappeared between heaven and earth, and the last man turned into dust on the ground.
Then, the entire Yellow Cloud City burned, whether it was the houses or the city walls, whether it was the rubble or the grass and trees, as well as the cauldron behind it and the iron chains and shackles on the ground.
Ying Tianchang sat in the rain and the fire, feeling the cold and heat of the world, motionless.
Light Leizi stood beside Ying Tianchang and didn't say a word.
It wasn't until the early morning of the second day that the sun broke through the haze and cast the first rays of light on Ying Tianchang's face.
The rain stopped and the fire was extinguished.
Ying Tianchang sat in the dust and ashes, looking up at the world with only a ray of sunshine. He knew that the evil and darkness that could not be eliminated in Huangyun City no longer existed.
And his Ying Tianchang's heart is pregnant with something at the moment.
A terrible "what" that even he didn't know.
"Who did that?" Ying Tianchang was silent all night, his voice a little hoarse at the moment.
Qing Leizi said: "I don't know, but I don't know, there is only the Black King Qin Guan in the northwest." Of course, it may not be him, but with his ability, he should be aware of it. ”
"Good. Ying Tianchang said, "Take me to him." ”
Ying Tianchang got up and supported his body by a wave of mighty energy.