Chapter 155: The Silence of Mortals

Central Empire.

This is Lenghu Province, which is close to the southern border. Between the rolling hills, large and small mountain springs, and the dark river rushes down on the rocks in the mountains, washing out a lake of different sizes.

The lake water is like transparent, you can clearly see the delicate rocks of various colors below, if you put your hand into it, you can feel a cold touch.

Now, under a sloping hidden rock, Charan Lotte woke up from her sleep.

Looking at the unfamiliar rock walls, stones, and the stream flowing between the large pebbles not far away, the girl was a little surprised, and it took a while to realize that she had escaped from the vortex in the southern border. .

Looking back, she saw the female knight lying not far from her, Charanlot sat up, put the thin blanket on her body, and then came to her side to check her injuries a little. Seeing the air knight getting better, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In other words, who rescued the two of them that day, she didn't know the person who brought her here.

Rubbing her hungry stomach, Charan Lotte tried to get out of this hidden rock crevice and went out to find something to eat.

As soon as she walked out of this huge rock, she saw several people not far away working seriously. Some of them were mending clothes, some were overhauling weapons, and some were cooking small earthenware pots.

A man in brown leather armor saw the girl poking her head, smiled a little, and walked over.

"Are you awake? Are you feeling better? It's a pity that there is a lack of medicines here, so many times you can only fight it by yourself."

He had a brief conversation with Charan Lotte, and then greeted a 14-year-old girl, "Nika, come here, help this sister get acquainted, she just arrived."

"Okay, I'll be right there, Dad." The girl was working on a woven basket and looked like she was just a few steps away.

"This is my daughter. She is very clear about the situation here. It is estimated that it will be a lot easier for you to communicate."

"Thank you." Xialan Luo nodded and looked at the rock wall and the woods beside the stream. Light yellow and reddish-brown leaves are sparsely distributed in the canopy, and a few new shoots can be seen among them. The ground seems to have been cleaned briefly. There are not many fallen leaves, and the dark brown and soft soil can be seen directly.

"Hello, my name is Nika, how about you?" The girl was a little lively and jumped over.

Afterwards, he led Charanlot to take a look around.

"That night, my father received news that a companion was being hunted, so he ran over to help."

"It turned out that you and another sister were found, so they were rescued."

"Probably the enemy of the enemy is the friend. I heard what Uncle Baide said. He taught me a lot of words and proverbs."

The girl took Charan Lotte along the stream, walking on the raised stones of the stream with her two feet, trying her best to balance with both hands, and seemed to like this kind of fun.

Seeing how she almost fell several times, Charan Lotte wanted to help her but didn't dare to help, for fear of making the little girl unhappy.

"It's alright, I have a good balance. In fact, this is also a kind of exercise." She occasionally turned around and smiled when she saw Charanlot's worried look.

"My sister was hunted down by the soldiers of the empire. It must have caused a lot of trouble. But so are we. Because we didn't obey the lord's jurisdiction, we escaped and are now wandering around."

"Although it looks embarrassing, everyone is slowly getting used to it."

"It's always not good about the nobles. I think my sister should have experienced it, so I will no longer recall those sad things."

"This, too." Sharanrot nodded silently behind, feeling that she was also within range.

"I don't understand the big truth. I used to hear what my father and friends said about freedom and equality."

"In their eyes, we are probably the black sheep, haha."

"Because many people saw that we had a good time, they joined in, which is regarded as digging a lot of corners of the empire."

"Now scattered in this forest, everyone lives a semi-reclusive life. Because the mountains are difficult to walk, some monsters live in it, and those nobles don't want to spend a lot of money to hunt us down, so they gradually let it go."

"Oh, there are fish there." The girl who was talking to Xia Lanrot pointed to a small water hole in front of it. It was a small harbor formed by stones in several streams. One of the white river fish was quiet. Stay in it quietly.

The girl then approached cautiously, and then a thud jumped into the water.

There was a splash and splash, and soon after, she stood up in the stream holding the big white fish.

"Sister is here to help, it's too slippery~" she said as she seemed to hold the body of the fish, but the fishtail that jumped and flapped from time to time splashed all kinds of water, making Nika unable to open her eyes.

"Okay, I'll come here." Xialanluo put the thin blanket on the dry stone aside, and then jumped in. The two were in a hurry for a while, and it took a while to finally get the fish ashore.

"Huh—" Lying on the grass beside the stream, the clothes of the two of them were already soaking wet, and a burst of dampness and coldness came.

"I'm sorry, I hurt Sister Lottie." Nika stuck out her tongue, and then got up again.

"Let's take the fish to the camp first, and then take a bath."

"Ok."

As the two of them relayed the fish to the camp hundreds of meters away, Nika was taught a few words by her mother before releasing it.

"I'm sorry, I asked Nika to trouble you." A woman with brown chestnut dreadlocks came over. She was probably in her 30s or 40s. She didn't look old, but there were many scars on her hands after labor.

"It's alright." Charan Lotte shook her head. Compared to the beginning, she would be much more relaxed.

"Hahaha, Nika is amazing, I found another big fish today." An uncle in the camp gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Of course, that's me, hum." The girl wasn't shy, she patted her chest, saying yes.

"Haha, this child Nika." A burst of laughter came from the shade of the sun, and several women who were busy with their work covered their mouths and smiled at the girl.

Charanlot noticed the pale white fiber string in their hands, and a curiosity emerged in her heart.

"Come with me, let's take a shower first." Nika came over with clean clothes and grabbed a white fruit in her hand.

The two walked up the hillside while talking.

"Although the stream is clean, it's still too cold, and some people can't stand it, so we found a place between the higher mountain walls." Said the two of them climbed the temporary 'staircase', which is a few blocks. The steps barely raised by the stones make up for the gaps in the stone crevices.

After walking like this for a while, Nika pointed to a puddle and said, "Here it is."

The light-colored rocks are very mottled, and among such rubble, a small pool is formed, in which there is a thin stream of water that falls from a height and flows into it, causing small ripples.

"The terrain here is relatively high, so you don't have to worry about people peeping. I'll go feed that big snapping turtle. This guy is always greedy." After that, Nika used her hands and feet to climb up the higher mountain wall.

snapping turtle? Xia Lanrote had doubts in her heart, but after a while, she saw that the falling water began to emit bursts of white gas, becoming hot and hot.

At this time, a flow of magic power was also felt by her.

It's probably at the level of Sequence 3, and it's not strong, but it seems to be a fire-type monster. She analyzed it in her heart, and then saw Nika jump down.

She tested the water temperature with her hand and nodded.

"Okay, you can simply wash it first. After the water in the pool is hot, let's go in and bubble."

After more than ten minutes, the two finished cleaning and walked into the warm pool. A comfortable feeling came from their feet and legs. At this time, the upper body was still a little cold.

Then the two did not enter, and Nika also appeared to enjoy it.

"Just now you said that snapping turtle was a monster."

"Well, yes, Dad found it by accident and put it here."

"It is a fire snapping turtle of the original sequence 3. It is relatively lazy. As long as it is not hungry, it will not run around. If you negotiate with it and feed it, it will heat up and boil the water around it. very convenient."

"It's amazing." Sharanrot thought to herself, how did she reach such a tacit understanding for the first time.

Lying in the warm water pool for a while to relax, Charanlot felt that the tiredness and tension that had been pressing on her heart had finally dissipated a lot.

I closed my eyes for a while in the water.

After taking a shower, the two put on clean, light-colored linen, jumped off the stone, and returned to the camp.

At this time, it was getting dark, and the smell of food began to spread in the forest.

"Come and eat." Someone beckoned, and then Nika jumped up and responded happily, taking Lottie with him.

"Drink some, just boiled hot soup." An old woman brought Tao Wan, and the fish soup in it was accompanied by a few vegetables, exuding a fragrance.

"Thank you." Xia Lanrote thought to herself, and she owed a lot of favors.

Sitting by the fire, drinking fish soup, eating a few pieces of fish meat, and then putting a few pieces of baked wheat pancakes into his mouth, the fluffy and browned yellow that just came out of the oven made Sharanrot feel that it was better than many large meals. eat.

"I'm sorry, the food is not rich now, and everyone can only eat half full." After eating the small pieces of noodles, the uncle came over and explained briefly that he still had the unfinished fish soup in his hand. Very bland, no meat.

"It's nothing, I'm very satisfied to be alive." Charan Lotte shook her head.

Then finally curiously asked about their origins.

"This is very complicated to say." The uncle looked at the bright yellow bonfire, added some firewood, and then said slowly.

"Maybe many outsiders think we are some kind of uprising army, revolutionary army, etc., but in fact it is not like this."

"It's just that they couldn't live in the original territory, so everyone escaped and huddled together to keep warm."

"But in order to deal with the chasing troops and possible attacks, we also had to learn to arm ourselves, so we slowly got in touch with the real rebels, and then we got connected."

"Now you insist that we rebel against the empire, and that is undeniable, because our actions are indeed out of the laws of the empire."

"Miss Lottie is being chased by those soldiers, so she should be able to appreciate it."

"Yeah." Xia Lanrot lowered her head.

Afterwards, the two chatted a little about the life here, and the uncle was very interested in introducing them one by one.

"Although I am often worried, I have to say that it has been a happy thing since I opened a camp in this forest."

"No longer have to worry about those tax collectors knocking on the door, soldiers blackmailing, noble gentlemen disturbing, everyone lives a simple and harmonious life, I feel myself

They are a lot younger, haha. "

"Originally, there were a lot of monsters in the mountains. Although we have dealt with some of them, we usually just drive away the rest and won't kill them."

"Why?" Charanlot asked curiously, in her mind, monsters are all destructive guys.

"There are many reasons. For example, if there is no magical beast to become very safe, it will become an ideal fief in the hearts of nobles, and then drive us away."

"In addition, some of our needs also need magical beasts to achieve, such as the big snapping turtle that boiled water where you just took a bath."

"Others are the Dunfoot Elephant who helped us cut stones, the Color Feather tit that would raise a warning if a large number of outsiders entered the mountain, and the dead branch deer who occasionally looked at the mood to help."

"These monsters are very smart, which means that you can try to communicate easily. Although there are many failures, but you can always find a few people who are easy to get along with."

"The monsters also need us in places, such as they have no hands, it is difficult to build a comfortable nest, as well as cleaning the parasites on their bodies, grooming their hair and so on. Occasionally they also like the food we feed and are willing to make a little effort to use it. exchange."

"In this way, we outsiders who lack clothing and food are barely able to live in this remote mountain." After speaking, the uncle sighed again.

"What about in the future, aren't you going out?" At the same time as Xialanrot was curious, there seemed to be some vague expectation in her heart.

It seems that as long as you stay in this isolated place, you can stay away from the hatred and disputes of the past and live a stable life.

"Maybe I will go out occasionally, but I won't go out most of the time." The uncle said briefly.

"I feel that the empire looks very wrong. Although those nobles are still so powerful and cannot be defeated, there is always a feeling that they can't see the future." The uncle sighed briefly and added a few more firewood to the bonfire.

"By the way, I haven't said what I did."

"Actually, there's nothing special about it. It's just to help the nobleman to look after the door."

"It stands to reason that such a position can be familiar in front of big people every day, and it should not be bad, but in fact, uh, the reality is a bit cruel, it is not important in the eyes of others."

"I don't think you are important just because I see you every day. After all, it's just a gatekeeper, it's not worth taking it seriously."

"However, thanks to the large number of big people I saw, I gradually understood it."

"It's not where a little guy like me lives."

"Actually, I have read a lot of books in my spare time and know the establishment and history of the empire."

"The nobility system has continued from the era of the True Red Empire, and the 'Red Prince' Yalin has continued to improve on this basis, setting up detailed grades and a military merit system."

"I understand that he did this to deal with the plight of the country in the early days, to stimulate people's desire with the noble class, and to help the empire unify the continent step by step."

"I have to say that this method was really useful in the early days, and it also made the empire strong for hundreds of years in the early days. It gradually grew and annexed countries one by one."

"The imperial royal family with the blessing of the twins, the two emperors are mirrors of each other, so as to ensure that the level of governance is not too bad, and at the worst, it can keep the power roughly stable, and it will not suddenly go crazy or be too paranoid."

"Originally, all the scripts have been written, but who would have thought that the development of future generations far exceeds the background of the original design."

"The territory of the empire is indeed getting bigger and bigger, and the fair military merit system has indeed gradually integrated the newly joined nations into the same system, and the royal family has both human and elves' noble blood, which also makes many people yearn for new life. Willingly move closer to it.”

"Even such a strong and upward situation has finally gradually reached the end of the peak."

"The time of peace is getting longer and longer, the population is getting bigger and bigger, the big nobles have begun to absorb the small nobles, and finally they have reached the current situation of conflict."

"You asked me how to solve it, sorry, I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be hiding here, haha." The uncle smiled, but there was a bit of loss in that smile.

"But didn't you also open up a new way of life?" Charanlot encouraged a little.

"It is also very beautiful to be able to live in peace with Warcraft, and to benefit from each other."

"It's not like that." The uncle sighed, putting his hands on the back of his head and looking at the sky.

"It's just an escape."

"It's like blindfolding yourself and not looking at certain things. This mountain and forest that we can live in will eventually usher in that day like the empire."

"When there are more and more people, when resources are gradually exhausted, and when time is too long, it can no longer cover up its own existence."

"The trial will come eventually."

"Cross the past and usher in a new life."

"If you can't get over it, it will fall. Like the current empire, it will collapse step by step."

"Are you saying that nobles are very bad? That's not true. I have also seen very kind and wise nobles. They have a good family style."

"But what if there were such people."

"The tide of the times is surging step by step, constantly beating, and it is impossible to solve the problem by relying on the conscience of this small group of people."

"I have learned a lot from the history of Crancia, and I have gradually seen through the empire today."

"However, even the most wise and wise people must submit to the king. There is wisdom and insight, and if you cannot realize it, it is just empty talk, and it will not be because you know too much.

Just be superior. "

"I have talked to many leaders of uprisings and rebellions, but unfortunately, despite their passion, they have never been able to explore the right path."

"The empire is not Crancia, and it cannot be conquered and innovated only by the blood of everyone. It has to face even more severe challenges."

"I'm just a small person. There are actually quite a few people who see it as clearly as I do, but why is this still the case? It's just that everyone is in it, and they can't change it."

"Heroes come from millions of people, but not all of them can become heroes. The courage, perseverance, luck, wisdom, etc. required in this are all so rare and rare..."

"After I failed several times, I clearly understood that I can only do it here. I am not the one chosen by fate, nor do I have that kind of vision and courage."

"I can't see through the fog of history, and I don't understand how to unite everyone willingly under the same dream."

"I just hope that when such a person appears, I am still alive and can step forward, stand behind him, and run towards that magnificent ideal future with him."

"Maybe, at that time, even if you can't be called a hero, you can finally have a clear conscience."