Chapter 1972 Hypocritical Benevolence and Righteousness!

There was complete silence all around, and everyone waited with bated breath for Gu Zhengyang's decision. ?? ?

Gu Zhengyang didn't even look at the saber under his feet, and said lightly: "I won't kill you."

Zhao Lie coughed violently again, spat out pieces of blood clots that were almost solidified, and finally stood up tremblingly, stared at Gu Zhengyang for a while with a complicated expression, and walked out without turning his head.

"Zhao Lie, you can still stay in Taiping Walled City and continue to be your exploration leader."

Gu Zhengyang shouted, "No one will drive you away, you are indeed a very qualified exploration leader!"

Zhao Lie turned a deaf ear and staggered forward. When he walked outside the armored chariot, he looked at the wounded soldiers all over the ground near and far, and suddenly asked: "Village chief, after the fierce battle last night, many wounded soldiers were left behind. In addition to people, there are people from other villages who are too late to take them away, how are you going to deal with them, kill them all?"

Gu Zhengyang was slightly stunned, shook his head and said: "You know, I won't kill them, just throw them to the red line, that's all."

Zhao Lie smiled and continued to ask: "You won't kill the old, weak, sick, women and children in other villages?"

Gu Zhengyang still shook his head: "Of course I won't kill women and children."

Zhao Lie's gaze sharpened again: "Even if these women and children participated in last night's battle, they killed our soldiers?"

Gu Zhengyang hesitated for a moment, sighed and said: "I said it just now, it is too risky to attack rashly. Now I just want to bring my brothers and supplies and go back to Taiping Walled City as soon as possible."

"Haha, hahahaha!"

Zhao Lie suddenly raised his head and laughed, the laughter was both shrill and tragic, he turned his head and pointed at Gu Zhengyang's nose and said, "Village chief, do you think it's an act of righteousness if you don't kill these remnants and defeated generals and their wives and children with your own hands? ,Yes or no?

"As everyone knows, these seriously injured people don't have enough medicine to treat them, and don't have a lot of food to recover, so they are still "dead"!

"And without the protection of these young and middle-aged people, how can those old, weak, sick, women and children survive on the evil land? Either starve to death, or be enslaved by bandits and other big villages and become slave soldiers With a prostitute, you will end up in a life that is worse than death!

"Hmph, killing them with one knife now is actually giving them a pleasure, but your 'benevolent act' is actually cutting them into pieces, slowly torturing them, and enduring a hundred times more pain than death!

"Have you really never thought about this? Or are you just insisting on some boring morality and don't want your hands to be stained with blood?

"It's useless. We are in the evil land. Your hands and mine are already covered with the blood of countless old, weak, women and children. No matter how you wash them, you can't clean them!"

Gu Zhengyang was not knocked down by Zhao Lie's blood claws just now, but now he seemed to have been severely injured by his words, he groaned, and his face turned pale.

"You let me go today, from my own point of view, of course I should thank you for letting me go."

Zhao Lie paused every word, and said incomparably viciously, "However, from the perspective of the Taiping Walled City, it proves that you are a coward who is indecisive, timid, and vacillating. People like you are not qualified to be the Taiping Walled City." The village chief, you are not capable of protecting so many people, no matter how strong you are!

"I'll ask you one last time. The knife is at your feet, and my neck is here. To kill, or not to kill?"

Gu Zhengyang clenched his teeth tightly, his forehead burst out with veins, struggled for a long time, but still spit out a word as hard as iron: "Get lost!"

"You will regret this."

After saying this, Zhao Lie walked out step by step like an eagle with a broken wing without looking back.

Zhao Chong stared dumbfounded for a long time, stared at Gu Zhengyang and Han Te with incomparable resentment, stomped his feet fiercely, chased after him, and supported his father.

The two father and son leaned on each other and disappeared in the billowing wind and dust, deep in the ruins.

Many villagers hesitated to speak, but Gu Zhengyang waved his hand to stop them: "Don't say anything, bandage the wounded, gather supplies, and go back to Taiping Walled City as quickly as possible!"

...

Although the casualties were heavy in this Godsend Ceremony, the gains were also more than in previous years. It took a full day to move all the supplies back to the big iron-hulled ship in the Taiping City Walled City, and then activated the power array at the bottom of the ship to drive the big ship back Anchor in the middle of the lake.

However, Gu Zhengyang seemed to have been severely injured. After the fierce battle, he recovered his sickly appearance, handed over the chores to others, and plunged into the greenhouse full of golden barley by himself, and never came out again.

When Han Te and Liuli took Li Yao in to check, he was holding a golden barley plant, smelling the full fragrance, motionless like a statue.

"Dad, are you okay!"

Liuli was the first to rush forward, grabbing Gu Zhengyang's big, scarred hand very worriedly.

"Don't worry, it's fine."

Seeing his daughter, Gu Zhengyang finally pulled a stiff smile on his face, stretched his five fingers and rubbed his daughter's head twice, then looked at Han Te and said, "Thanks to the change that Han Te encountered half a month ago , formed those strange electric currents running around in his body, I tried to figure out the running track of these electric currents, and I even had a faint understanding, and only then was I able to temporarily recover to the former state, barely defeating Zhao Lie."

"Master is the most powerful!"

Han Te took a look at Li Yao and grinned, "What 'Blood Eagle' Zhao Lie is, he's not just an old hen, of course he's not your opponent!"

"only"

Gu Zhengyang's smile faded, a dark cloud appeared on his face, his eyes were a little hollow, and he said softly, "Although I can defeat Zhao Lie, I can't convince him, or even...I can't convince myself.

"Am I really right, is Zhao Lie really wrong? At dawn today, shouldn't we raid the camp of the opposite village? At the last moment, should I really let Zhao Lie go?"

"dad!"

Liuli became anxious, "You, what are you talking about? Of course you are right. Don't you often say that we are good people, at least human beings, and we can't be like those crazy and evil guys!"

"But the result is the same."

Gu Zhengyang said sadly, "Zhao Lie is right, even if we don't kill those wounded soldiers and their wives and children, they, they won't live for long, either for the few supplies left to kill each other, or to be killed by others." Bandit gangs and other big villages were enslaved, and fell into a situation where they could not survive or die. In the end... no one could avoid death, no matter how powerful they were, they were destined to be swallowed by this evil land!

"If Zhao Lie is a real villain, then I am a complete hypocrite. I know that they will die, but I am indifferent. I just don't want to kill them with my own hands, and I don't want to dirty my hands."

In front of his daughter and apprentice, Gu Zhengyang's seemingly solid armor finally collapsed, and his voice trembled violently.

"That's not our fault!"

Han Te was so anxious that he waved his arms vigorously, "There are only so few supplies, but there are so many hungry people in the evil land, we can't even save ourselves, how can we spare the energy to save others? We have no choice!"

"Yes, I can't help it, we all... can't help it!"

Gu Zhengyang coughed again in pain, until the sky was dark and the sky was dark, and he almost coughed out his internal organs.

He seemed to have made a decision while coughing, pushed away the hands extended by his daughter and apprentice, and said, "I'm fine, Liuli, I... have something to tell you, Han Te, you might as well listen to it."

Han Te and Liuli looked at each other, and they could hear that Gu Zhengyang's voice was unprecedentedly serious.

"Or, it's a story, the story your mother told me before she died, about some very special people."

Gu Zhengyang paused word by word, "About, the story of a cultivator."

Li Yao's soul vibrated violently, almost overflowing the steel shell.

There is nowhere to look after breaking through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get here. I didn't expect to be discovered by him so soon as a cultivator dormant on the evil soil of the Wuying world!

He raised the perception of Yuanshen to the limit, not letting go of every heartbeat and pulse of Gu Zhengyang, to ensure that what he said was the truth.

Han Te and Liuli glanced at each other, apparently ignorant of the name "Cultivator": "Cultivator, what is that?"

"A illusory legend, a bizarre story, maybe some...indecisive, timid, soft-hearted cowards."

Gu Zhengyang leaned against the bulkhead, closed his eyes slightly, and murmured, "Originally, I have been hesitating whether to tell you about the cultivators, because these people include their stories, and evil soil, and the whole life of our lives. The world is too different, too out of place, it is a huge contradiction! I faintly feel that the stories of the cultivators will not bring you any benefits, but may bring you, the Taiping Walled City and even the whole area. Soil brings destructive disasters.

"but……"

He laughed miserably, and continued, "Now that I have figured it out, the evil soil is already like this, what disaster can make it worse?

"Furthermore, according to Zhao Lie, the bandits in Shuanglong Valley are planning to deal with the Taiping Walled City. If we don't tell you now, we may never have the chance.

"Liuli, do you want to know how your mother thought of planting golden barley in the first place to save everyone on the evil land? It was when she was very young, and she overheard a story. The story said that in a long, long, long time In the past, when Nietu was still known as the 'Martial Arts Realm', when there were still green mountains and green waters, and the fragrance of birds and flowers, there used to be a group of people called 'Cultivators'."

With a solemn expression, Gu Zhengyang took out an antique metal box from the leather pouch at his waist, and opened it carefully. Inside was a piece of very fine velvet, on which was placed a chip the size of a fingernail.

Li Yao scanned it with Yuanshen, and through the structure and nesting method of the hundreds of talisman arrays on the surface of the chip, he preliminarily analyzed that this should be some kind of storage chip, which is equivalent to a miniature jade slip.

Judging from the rubbing marks on the edge of the wafer, its history is very old, perhaps hundreds of years old.

There was also a shallow crack in the surface of the wafer, which caused irreversible damage to the structure. 8