Chapter 250 Chapter 257 Friends

Arkanis lay on a large rock, looking up at the rocky ceiling of the Underdark cave. Lots of fluorescent moss grows there, which looks like a bright starry sky at first glance.

The King of Assassins loved looking at the stars, but since there were no stars in the Underdark, he could only do the next best thing and look at the glowing ceiling of the cave to relieve his boredom.

A year has passed. Since the last time he went on a date with Bredero, Arkanis has not killed anyone for more than a year. He feels that he is useless and cannot help Bredero.

That man is very busy now, leading a large group of gray dwarves and underground dwarves to build the base every day. In more than a year, Rockfall Village has undergone earth-shaking changes.

After the water veins were clearly explored, clean water was dug out from wells. Water-lifting steam engines were installed at the mouths of the wells to continuously extract water from deep wells and transport it through iron pipes to arsenals, textile factories and mushroom farms that needed water.

The textile factory is a new factory opened by Luo Feng. The textile factory can produce three types of cloth. One is mushroom cloth made by extracting fibers from the bark of giant mushroom trees and using a steam-powered spinning machine. The other is made by capturing underground spiders for domestication and spinning. Woven spider silk cloth, and the last one is felt cloth and woolen cloth woven from Los animal hair.

Each of the three types of cloth has its own functions: mushroom cloth is durable and strong, spider silk cloth is beautiful and smooth, and felt cloth and woolen cloth are comfortable and warm.

The red faith spreads far faster than expected. In the Underdark, a place shrouded by the power of the Spider Queen Rose, gray dwarves, swarf gnomes, kobolds and goblins who are not protected by any gods are eager to place their faith in a place that allows them to survive. A better supreme being.

In the Underdark, even if his thinking is chaotic, the ooze god Ghaunadaur, who can't even distinguish between blessing and divine punishment when faced with the worship of believers, can gather a large number of believers.

Spider Queen Rose only protected the drow, and other races found a new service object like "Red Faith" and couldn't wait to join in it.

The gray dwarf political commissars traveled around with advanced production technology and actors from the cultural troupe, going to villages of weak races. While helping the villagers develop production and improve their lives, they performed programs, spread red beliefs, and attracted more underground party members with progressive ideas.

Now, the drow in Menzoberranzan don't know that red flags have been planted all around this dark city, and it has already fallen into a network of rural siege.

Bredreau didn't say a word to him for another year. Arkanis was very disappointed and confused. He knew that he was being treated as a knife.

But people are not swords, people have feelings. Even a person like him who is accustomed to silence and has a strong mind still needs a little warmth in his cold heart, and an outlet to release his suppressed emotions.

But he didn't. He had a murderous aura condensed in him, and no one wanted to be around him.

The members of the Bradlow troupe always looked at him strangely and never got close to him.

He could only carry everything by himself as much as possible, suppress the volcanic lava-like emotions under the granite layer, let loneliness become his friend and confidant, and quietly look at the man who would never respond to him.

"Uncle, what are you looking at?"

Suddenly, a little girl's words rang next to her.

Arkanis sighed secretly. He had not killed anyone for a long time and was content with dull and boring waiting and watching from afar. His keen and alert senses had deteriorated, and he did not even notice that a little girl was approaching.

The Assassin King sat up and looked at the sound. The person who spoke was a dwarf girl. She was not cute. Gray dwarf children have been round since childhood. The folds on their faces were like sarcomas, which looked like they were covered with flesh.

"Look at the stars..."

Perhaps he had been silent for too long, and Akanis couldn't help but want to talk to someone, so he actually answered her question.

"What are stars?"

Akanis couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and explained: "Stars are strange objects that shine in the night sky on the surface world. People can only see those lights, but the most knowledgeable people don't know what stars are. Stars are beautiful , watching the twinkling stars, the more I think about it, the more magical it becomes, and the more awe-filled my heart becomes.”

"oh……"

The little gray dwarf girl opened her mouth and sighed at Akanis' inaccurate account: "I remembered it, just like the song that Sister Tang Xiaotian taught us to sing, and the song that Teacher Klein taught us in the nature class."

"Twinkle twinkle little stars, how I wonder where you are……"

As she spoke, she sang in a childish voice: "Teacher Klein said that if we study hard, we will have the opportunity to go to the surface world to see the stars with our own eyes in the future. We can even invent a 'spaceship' by learning scientific knowledge and sit on it." I’m taking the spaceship to the stars! I must study hard with Teacher Klein, so that I can see the stars and even touch them in the future!”

Arkanis's troubled mood gradually calmed down. He had been following Bredero for more than three years and had never understood what the man was doing.

He had watched "Orphans of Jindu" and when he heard the little girl say such words, he suddenly seemed to understand something.

Akanis's childhood experience is very similar to that of the protagonist Oliver in "Orphans of Jindu". However, the assassin king failed to control his innocent heart, nor did he look up at the stars above his head, and came up with the idea of ​​​​inventing a spaceship to fly to the stars. , he picked up the knife and lowered his head, only to see a bloody road leading to the White Bone Mountains under his feet.

Orphans, orphans who have no one to pity, can only survive in the world by relying on the dagger in their hands and showing an attitude that is ten thousand times more ferocious than others.

This is Akanis’s understanding of the path he has taken.

Now, he saw another way, the way to the stars.

His former brothers, Ellen and Renault, believed that in such a world, only the more ruthless, vicious, and despicable people could reach the pinnacle of power step by step, because they did not have the good fortune of the nobles or the hypocrisy of the priests. Without the innate intelligence of a mage, he could climb up from the quagmire at the bottom to a higher place. If his hands were not stained with filthy blood, he could only become part of the quagmire of flesh and blood.

He once believed this deeply and took it as his life creed. He believed that only by becoming a big shot could he change the situation of countless orphans with tragic fate like himself.

Now he knows that he was wrong. Ellen and Renault have become big shots, but they have become the kind of people they once hated the most.

"Uncle, I have noticed for a long time that you always have a sad face. I heard from Sister Tang Xiaotian that you are worried all day long because the person you like doesn't like you."

Children's thinking is very quick, and they suddenly jump to topics that embarrass Akanis.

The dwarf girl, who looked like a little adult, took out a bouquet of flowers from her back. The flowers were not bright, they were wrinkled, and the flowers had a strange shape.

"You can give her flowers, maybe she will be moved by it!"

The little girl handed the bouquet of flowers to Akanis: "This is heather, a few shade-tolerant plants that rarely grow in dark areas. If the brothers in the village like any sister, they will pick it and give it to them." she."

Akanis's heart felt inexplicably warm. He took the bouquet of flowers with a smile and said to her seriously: "Thank you, I will give the flowers to him. I hope it will impress him as you said... "

"My name is Mia Bronzehelm, what's your name?"

"Arkanis-Gath."

"can we be friends?"

"We're friends already, Mia."