Chapter 1266 Completely Different

Some people are alive, but they are dead, and some people are dead, but they are still alive.

Carter Adams has disappeared, most likely a dead soul, but his reputation is still alive.

Although Carter Rodney was alive, the media said he was dead, so everyone thought he was dead.

"I can tell you responsibly that Rodney is still alive."

"But" I changed the topic: "You can't see him."

"Why?" Achilles glared at me: "If I can't see him, how can I be sure that he is still alive?"

"Because I can't believe you."

I poured the last drop of wine into my mouth and threw it away. The bottle shattered on the ground. Looking at the broken glass shards on the ground, I said, "I'm not sure whether you will kill him or not."

"How could I kill Adams' descendants!" Achilles said excitedly.

"I'm not you, so I don't know and I don't believe it." I exhaled softly and said, "If you really want to see him, now is not a good time. You have to wait."

"How long do you want me to wait?" Achilles pressed. "How long do you want me to wait?"

"You will see him when he leads his crowd to stand outside Airui City, when he confronts Carter Scott, the eldest young master, and the Lord of Airui City."

"What do you mean by this?" Achilles took a step forward and said with an imposing tone, "You mean that the descendants of Adams will kill each other!"

"Are you surprised?" I looked at him without any fear: "Perhaps Adams's children, and even his grandsons, believe in Carter Adams' original intention, but after several generations, this original intention has become vague and fragile. , like silk, which breaks when pulled."

"This is impossible, this is impossible, why is this happening, why... you lied to me!" Achilles pointed at me, stared at me, and asked me.

"I don't need to deceive you," I said, "Besides, what's the use of deceiving you? Can I fool you into my camp? Impossible, at least, until Carter Rodney appears in front of you alive. , you won’t even join my camp. I don’t expect you to join my camp, and I don’t have any plans for you, so why should I deceive you?”

Smiling slightly, I continued: "What I said is history and facts. It is true that some members of the Carter family died at the hands of foreigners, but only a few, and they also died at the hands of their own people because of the war. There are countless descendants of the Carter family. Otherwise, do you think the current Lord of Airui City will really only have four children? Moreover, haven’t you ever thought about why none of the Lord’s brothers and sisters are still alive? They all have short lifespans? Or did they go through a brutal war?”

"None of them." I shook my head: "The real cause of their death is internal struggle, the endless struggle for power. The Lord of Airui City is just the winner among many contenders. As for the losers, they are all dead."

Achilles' body trembled, his eyes dropped, and his intimidating momentum disappeared without a trace.

His expression was complicated, showing pain and contemplation.

"Maybe I said it a little early, but it's good to give you a warning." I said: "The ignition of the war is inevitable. As for which side ignited it, I don't know. During the war, you should You will meet Carter Rodney, and most likely as an enemy. At that time, it will be up to you whether you choose to let the decaying Airey City continue to survive or choose to regenerate it."

Leaving behind the miserable Achilles, he waved to the little red fish: "Come with me for a walk. Let me experience the decay of the streets of Airui City that are full of decay."

Walking on the streets of Airui City no longer feels like it did back then.

Some shops have closed, but some have grown. What was once popular is now deserted, and what was once deserted is now popular.

Walking to the end of the civilian block, there is a casino there. Business is booming, but the boss is not there.

Their boss, in Moonlight City, is my guy.

"Ren has been missing for a long time." Little Red Fish's eyes wandered, looking at the casino, and said: "Some people say that he is dead, but I don't believe it."

As he said that, he turned to me again and said, "Do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it either."

The little red fish smiled: "I'm just telling you, that dead old ghost won't die."

Stepping into the slum area, I couldn't help but stop. The slums now are completely different from those before.

The slums of the past were called slums, but they were relatively poor, but not without housing or clothing.

Looking now, there are many leaky and shabby paper houses made of cardboard boxes, in which couples of men, women and their children live. The adults are emaciated because of hunger, the children are skinny because of hunger, and the babies cry incessantly because of hunger.

The streets are littered with garbage because no one cleans them.

As the night wind blew, the rotting garbage gave off a strong odor, comparable to the body odor of a rotten flesh puppet.

This is truly a slum!

"It's miserable here, isn't it?" Little Red Fish covered his mouth and nose and whispered.

“It wasn’t a miserable place originally, it was just relatively poor, but we had food to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in.”

After watching it for a while, I turned around and left, but the indelible tragedy was imprinted in my mind.

"Aren't you going to help them?" Little Red Fish asked, "Aren't you going to give some money?"

I shook my head: "No matter how much money you give, they will still be poor. Maybe it will cause them greater sorrow."

"Oh?" Little Red Fish didn't understand.

"Giving copper coins will not help. Giving silver coins will lead to questioning. Giving gold coins will lead to disaster." I said calmly: "Because, in the eyes of those in power, they are just miserable worms and do not deserve to have silver or gold coins. Even, even Copper coins were given to them as charity just because they were of the lowest value. As for silver and gold coins, once they were found to have them, they would be immediately regarded as thieves. It would be a trivial matter to torture them, but at worst, they might not be executed on the spot. cannot."

"Then you're not going to rescue them?" Little Red Fish asked.

"How to rescue?" I laughed: "How to rescue, and why should we rescue?"

"The reason why they are getting worse and worse is not only because of the oppression of those in power, but also because they are unwilling to fight and fight for it. In their view, as long as they still have food to eat, as long as they still have lives, they will To continue to make do with it, even until the day of their tragic death, they never thought about it, or did not dare to think about it, and resisted."

"Since they didn't think about resisting, it's normal for them to end up like this."

"But once they resist, they will die," said the little red fish, "and many people will die, and they will die miserably."

"If they don't resist, will they die comfortably?" I said hehe: "If they don't resist, they won't die a lot of people? Think of those skinny children, think of those hungry and crying babies, you can be sure that they Can you survive a month?"

The little red fish shook his head.

"Then, even if there is no resistance, there are not many people who died here?" I said lightly, and then sighed deeply.