Chapter 343 Don’t Forget Your Original Intention

Upon hearing Su Mo's words, Shangguan Li's pupils dilated violently and looked extremely shocked. She subconsciously wanted to ask something, but soon realized that it was an image and Su Mo couldn't hear it, so she could only close her mouth and continue listening.

Su Mo looked straight ahead, at the right angle, and the two people's eyes met together, as if they were staring at each other.

Su Mo said deeply: "To be honest, I really don't want you to see this video, because when you see it, it means that either I am dead or I have been out of contact for a long time."

"In other words, I failed. Maybe temporarily, maybe completely, I don't know."

"But one thing is for sure. I have lost contact with the outside world now and can no longer make any judgment."

"What's going on outside? Can they withstand the wolf attack? Has the rust wall been opened? Have millions of border people evacuated to a safe place? I don't even know."

Su Mo smiled bitterly when he said this: "I am not a god, I am not everything, and I am not omnipotent. I am able to reach this point not only by myself, but also by the efforts of all my companions around me."

"Shangguan, do you know? In fact, in my heart, you are not a peer, a competitor, or an ordinary friend."

A sincere smile appeared on Su Mo's face, and his next words made Shangguan Li stunned for a long time: "In my heart, you are also my companion."

"Although we are two teams, we have experienced many ups and downs together, especially that time when you risked your life to save her. From that moment on, I knew that you must be a companion I can trust. "

Su Mo sighed softly and said with some sadness: "Now, the whole Crescent City must be in a mess, right?"

"I bet that the giant companies must have run away. The city council didn't care about the lives of the people on the border. The big mercenary groups like Death Scythe have probably been running away with us for many years. They have always been like this."

"What about you, Shangguan, in this moment of complete chaos, what are you going to do? Where do you want to take Mo Xue?"

Shangguan Li pursed her lips and lowered her head in shame. Even though Su Mo was just an image at this moment, she didn't dare to look into his eyes.

Su Mo seemed to have anticipated Shangguan Li's embarrassment. He chuckled and said slowly, "Don't be nervous. This is not an inner torture. I just want to say some heart-to-heart words to you."

"No matter what decision you make, even if it's selfish, it doesn't matter."

"You may not know that I am actually a very selfish person. Looking back on the things I have done before, there are really many selfish things."

At this point, Su Mo's eyes became profound: "But one thing I can be sure of is that no matter what decision I made, whether it was glorious or dishonorable, I never violated my original intention. ”

"Original intention." Shangguanli muttered these two words.

Suddenly, she felt a sense of disorientation, and she actually felt that these two words were unfamiliar.

It seems that I haven’t thought about these two words for a long time.

Su Mo smiled and talked about his past with Shangguan Lishu: "Many people say that we live in a depressive and unideal world. I think this statement is wrong."

"Actually, many people in this world have ideals. When I first started my career, I met a game-making otaku who only thought about making good games. As a result, he had an interest dispute with someone and was kidnapped. "

"Haha, you didn't see it. It's really outrageous. He was so frightened that he became incontinent on the spot and peed all over his pants. But no matter how those people threatened him or beat him, he didn't let go even if his pants were wet."

"Because he has his own principles, which is to stick to his original intention. I admire such people very much. They are valuable, but they must be in the minority."

"The vast majority of people will encounter various troubles and temptations as they grow up. They will become farther and farther away from their childhood selves, and finally fall into a kind of confusion where they don't know where to go."

"Especially at a critical moment, when faced with a fork in the road in life, this confusion will be infinitely magnified. Fog is shrouded in all directions. The road ahead can no longer be seen clearly, and the road behind can no longer be seen clearly. In the end, we can only drift aimlessly with the flow. ”

Su Mo's gaze was deep, as if penetrating Shangguan Li's heart: "Shangguan, I think you are also facing this kind of confusion at this moment, right?"

"It's okay, everyone will be confused. I have been confused before."

"Every time like this, it's better to think about your original self and what you once said."

The surroundings became silent, Su Mo said nothing, and Shangguanli also closed his eyes silently and began to think about the past.

original self

Where should I start to remember?

The silence was penetrating. In this silent chamber, she felt her consciousness sinking, falling into the ocean of memories that recorded all the past events.

The first thing that came to mind was the breeze caressing the bamboo forest, the tinkling sound of the spring water, and the self in white clothes practicing swordplay in the mountain spring at dawn.

She was only 5 years old that year. In order to become a warrior like her father when she grew up, she would dance to the sound of chickens every dawn and practice in this mountain spring.

Suddenly, she seemed to have returned to her childhood and became her childhood self again.

One day at noon, her father brought a basket of osmanthus cakes and looked at her kindly by the spring: "Ali, it's time to take a rest. Come and eat the osmanthus cakes."

"Okay~" She washed her hands with spring water, trotted to the stone platform, and ate the freshly baked sweet-scented osmanthus cake with her father.

The autumn wind brought bursts of coolness, her beloved father was beside her, and the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus lingered in her mouth. She would never forget that scene in her life.

While eating, she looked at the mercenary uniform on her father's body and asked curiously: "Dad, I heard from my uncle and aunt that you are a mercenary. You have never told me what a mercenary does?"

My father smiled and said, "Mercenaries are actually just like nannies, they work for others."

She tilted her head thoughtfully: "Mercenaries. Soldiers. Ancient books say that soldiers are deadly weapons. Aren't mercenaries very dangerous?"

Her father nodded and did not lie to her: "It is very dangerous. Every day is a knife-edge licking blood. There are always endless battles."

After hearing this, she became a little anxious, grabbed her father's sleeve, and said pitifully: "Dad, why do you want to be a mercenary? Stop doing this, okay?"

The father smiled softly, rubbed her little head, and said deeply: "Dad became a mercenary not for himself, but for you."

"Actually, with my father's skills, I can definitely work as a security guard, be someone else's bodyguard, or open a martial arts gym to make some money."

"That kind of money can allow you to live an ordinary life, but it will only leave you ordinary."

"Ordinary, it sounds beautiful, but it is actually very painful, because ordinary people can only follow the trend, cannot decide their own destiny, and have no ability to choose the path they want to take."

"Dad doesn't want this. Dad hopes to make a lot of money, so much that you don't have to be bound by reality, and then you can pursue the life you want."

She blinked in confusion. She was too young at the time and could not understand how heavy this father's love was like a mountain.

She smiled and said to her father innocently: "Then, the life I want is to become a legendary hero in the world!"

His father burst out laughing and asked in a seductive way: "Then Ali, tell me, what kind of person can be called a hero?"

She raised her little fist high, and her childish voice was full of energy: "A chivalrous person, of course, is to hoe the strong and support the weak, and to act chivalrously and righteously!"

Her father touched her little head and said with a sincere smile: "A Li's words are very good, but he is still a little superficial and did not see the two things behind the word "Xia" - ability and responsibility."

She clapped her hands and said, "I know, I know, I've heard that saying - with great power comes great responsibility!"

Surprisingly, my father shook his head: "Dad thinks this sentence is wrong."

"Unless they are in some special position, everyone is born with equal responsibilities. More responsibilities acquired are not given by ability, but given by oneself."

These words were obviously a bit profound for a 5-year-old child. She rubbed the back of her head in distress, unable to understand the meaning.

Her father didn't urge her, he just held her and enjoyed the gentle breeze in the bamboo forest, letting her think for a long time.

I don’t know how long it took, but she asked tentatively: "Dad, if a person has no ability and is unwilling to take on more responsibilities, then who is he?"

The father replied: "A very ordinary ordinary person."

She asked: "Then if a person has strong abilities but is unwilling to take on more responsibilities, then who is he?"

The father replied: "A self-interested ordinary person."

She asked: "Then if a person has the courage to take on more responsibilities, but has no matching ability, then who is he?"

The father replied: "A noble ordinary person."

She thought for a long time and asked the last sentence: "Then if a person has strong abilities and is willing to take on more responsibilities, then who is he?"

A knowing smile appeared on her father's face and he gave her an answer she would never forget.

"That's Xia."

"A great hero has great responsibilities and abilities."

"You are capable but unwilling to take responsibility. This is snobbery. Although it is human nature and understandable, in the end you are just a philistine."

"Being willing to take on responsibilities but lacking in ability is a sign of having a high level of ambition but a low level of skill. Although one has a righteous heart, one's ambitions and talents are ultimately lacking. In the end, I'm afraid nothing can be accomplished."

"Only a person who has extraordinary abilities and is willing to shoulder responsibilities that are not his own, walking proudly in the world with his feet on the dirt and the sky above his head, can be called a hero!"

After listening to her father's words, she felt a surge in her mind, and a fire that had never appeared before burned in her heart.

She clenched her little fists and said with great enthusiasm: "From today on, I will practice martial arts more seriously and make myself stronger so that I can take on more responsibilities when I grow up! To become a real hero!"

Her father caressed her face lovingly, his brows full of tenderness: "You can think so, Dad is really happy. But, Ali, this road is difficult to walk."

"Life is like a circle. In the beginning, the circle was very small, with very few things it came into contact with. It was clean and simple."

"But as people continue to grow, this circle becomes larger and larger. The more things they come into contact with, the more temptations and obstacles they encounter."

“Some people will get stuck by those obstacles, become discouraged after failing again and again, and eventually stagnate.”

"There are also some people who are seduced by fame and fortune. They may have thought at first - I am just chasing fame and fortune to take advantage of the situation. This is forced by reality. When I get over it, I will continue to pursue my dream."

"But the reality is often that people gradually lose their way while running in the fame and fortune market. They chase profit for the sake of profit, and eventually forget their original intention."

"Ali, there are many things in this world that must be accomplished by relying on fame and fortune. Dad will never object to your pursuit of fame and fortune, and will even encourage you to do so, because wealth, status, and fame, like power, are all pursuits of dreams. realistic basis.”

"But Dad doesn't want to see you trapped in the fame and fortune fair, getting stronger and stronger, and gaining more and more status, but in the end you become like those common people, moving up for the sake of advancement, forgetting why you did what you did in the first place."

She nodded seriously and said to her father sincerely: "Understood! Ali promised dad that when I grow up, I will stick to my original intention and become a true knight!"

Her father smiled happily and held her tightly in his arms, his voice full of endless tenderness: "Okay, then daddy will wait for the little knight to grow up."

This is her first memory with her father.

In her impression, her father's body was not majestic, he was small and thin, and he could not be said to be very strong, because he often came back from missions with injuries all over his body.

But she just felt that her father was the greatest person in the world, because he made her understand the meaning of chivalry and gave her a direction in life at a very young age.

However, she never thought that such a great father could actually lie.

Her father cheated on her.

It was clearly promised back then that he would wait until she grew up.

But when she was 10 years old, the figure waiting for her on the road of life disappeared forever.

It was a rainy night and it happened to be her birthday. She had prepared a cake at home.

The cake was very small, only for two people. Her mother passed away when she was young, and she only had one relative: her father, so only a small cake was enough for every birthday.

She just waited and waited and waited.

The last thing to wait was the news of his father's death.

My father’s friends said that my father received a large order and participated in a commission involving a giant company. When doing the aftermath, he found some traces that he could not deal with, so he went to Amir for help.

That Amir was the ruling member of the city council at the time, and also his father's close brother. He came to the house as a guest several times, and his friendly appearance was very endearing.

But it was such a good brother whom his father trusted the most. In order to gain the favor of a giant company, he betrayed his father and killed him alive.

On the day his father died, his former comrades were eager to distance themselves from each other, and no one dared to help him bury him.

It was she who dug a hole in the back hill with her bloody hands and buried her father in the soil.

After burying her father, she knelt down in front of the tomb, kowtowed three times, and made three oaths.

"My lord father, I, Shangguan Li, swear an oath here!"

"First, I put a log pillow on my head, hear the chickens dancing, cultivate my mind internally, strengthen my body externally, and move forward bravely in this mortal world!"

"Secondly, the hatred for killing my father is irreconcilable. One day, I will use the blood of the traitor to comfort my father. I will not be a human being unless I avenge this revenge!"

"Third, I will remember the promise I made to my father, never forget my original intention in life, fight against the strong and help the weak, and act chivalrously and righteously!"

Memories of the past were changing like fireworks, and numerous scenes emerged in Shangguanli's mind, and before he knew it, he was bursting into tears.

Su Mo had a gentle smile on his face, and his eyes and voice were full of the power of trust: "Shangguan, just like Dongdong and the others, you are a companion I can trust, and you are more experienced and mature than them. ”

"Now that I have lost contact and cannot give any instructions, my companions must be confused. Therefore, I entrust my team to you, and you will judge the situation outside for me and make a decision."

"That Red Umbrella badge is my token. Before I wake up, you will be the leader of the Edge. All funds, equipment, and personnel of the Edge will be at your disposal."

"Bring our common strength and do what you think is right." (End of Chapter)