Chapter 91
Chapter 91
A small number of those children are from middle-class families, most of them are poor, and there are also street orphans. They will all have an excellent future, a future that their original families can never provide them.Did the lives of tens of thousands of people create a group of heaven's proud sons?It's ironic.
Hogan rubbed his face again, harder than before, Leon glanced at him, his cheeks were flushed by himself: "At that time, Morifio gave them a chance to choose, stay or go? They don't want to go."
"I know..." Hogan stopped rubbing his face, covered his face with his hands, and whimpered, "I, I should have stayed, I thought... thought..."
"Think they'll go, or do you think we'll spend our energy persuading them to stay?"
"No, no, no, I thought... thought they trusted me..." Hogan was so big, especially now that he looked like a middle-aged uncle, but he hugged his knees with his hands and began to cry, "I have already said that , Let them go with you! They will listen to me when they say yes! Although I didn’t stay, but you pulled me away, I didn’t resist fiercely! You should see it! Why don’t you trust me! Why don’t you Trust you!"
This... is the depth of love and the depth of responsibility, right?
Hey?
There was a vision in front of Leon's eyes. There was a similar situation once, which was caused by Archbishop Herta, about his mother and family.However, this time it was a man wearing a dirty and torn camouflage uniform. The dirt on his body was obviously bloodstained besides the mud. He knelt on the ground and beat the ground: "Why go back! Why don't you come with us Ah! We really came to save you! Save you!"
His big hands were already full of dry and cracked wounds, and he beat the ground without any strength, leaving bloody fist marks on the ground one after another.
Hogan only made Leon feel a little sympathetic, but this crying man made Leon's nose sour and his eyes hot.
"Captain! Captain, let's go!" "Let's go!"
Some people in the same messy clothes appeared from Leon's side and pulled the man up.Leon saw the captain's face, but he couldn't see it completely. He knew that the man was crying ugly, his facial features were twisted together, his face was full of snot and tears, and when he was pulled up, his lips were blue-purple. The breathing rhythm is also obviously wrong.But if he was asked to describe in detail what the captain looked like, the size of his eyes, and the shape of his nose, but he couldn't describe it, his face would become so blurred again.
Someone put a hand on the captain's forehead, and the captain trembled and passed out.Someone picked up the captain, and everyone started to "walk".
Leon followed, not actively, but from his perspective. He seemed to be playing a game, and now it was the plot CG that was broadcast after clearing a certain mission.He could see their numbers, fifteen of them, four women and eleven men, they took turns carrying the captain on their backs, and then the captain came down...
The illusion became complicated. Leon didn't see them walking to a specific location, a certain base, or a certain camp. They kept walking, and the background was constantly changing: there were crumbling cities, not like Diller City Yes, it is a huge city on the earth, but the skyscrapers have become monsters' lairs, the residential areas are empty, and the team went to various warehouses and factories to obtain supplies or save people. Everyone will laugh happily .
They also went to rainforests, deserts, and even lava-filled places similar to places where demons descend.
They fought all kinds of monsters and plants, many monsters were even twisted and uglier than what Leon saw here.
Then, the first person in the line disappeared... Leon could only know that it was a small man. When the other person disappeared, he felt his heart beating again in his solid chest, but at that moment The beating brought him severe pain.
But this is just the beginning, people disappeared one after another, but there are still fifteen people in the team, because when the team stops to mourn for their teammates, when they start again, there will always be new people to add, everyone looks forward, No one looked back.
Disappears, replenishes, disappears, replenishes, and...
Captain, gone too...
Tears have completely blurred Leon's vision, and now standing at the front of the line is a young man, looking at that person's back, Leon thought: This person...is me.
The person who could only see the back suddenly turned around, and Leon saw his face...
No, I didn't see it, the illusion disappeared, and the face that Leon had clearly seen clearly became blurred with the disappearance of the illusion.
"Wow!! Leon, don't cry! I'm just... woooooooo!" Leon was startled by the sudden noise, it turned out that Hogan was holding him and crying loudly.Leon pushed Hogan twice, and Hogan hugged him even tighter, and Hogan himself cried harder.Forget it, just cry.
Leon sighed and gave up struggling.
"Woooooo!" "Wow!"
However, why does it sound like Hogan is not the only one crying, but a chorus?Reluctantly, Leon's head was pressed tightly in his arms by Hogan. If he was a real child, he would probably have been suffocated to death...
Tentacles "grow" out of the ground, and Leon finds that a group of people around him are crying, and even Eldy is wiping their tears.It turns out that laughter can be contagious, and so can crying.Leon's crying immersed in the illusion made Hogan wail with self-blame, and his crying attracted other people. They surrounded Hogan, and they were still persuading at first, and their own tears followed It flowed down, and it is what it is now.
A group of men and women were crying in pain in various positions, and their cries attracted other people in the manor. It didn't take long before there was only crying inside and outside the manor.
This crying, I cried until the sun went down.
After running out from under the cover of the poisonous cloud, what they hate most is the night, and they will become irritable at dusk, but today, people wiping their tears and blowing their noses, looking at only a small half of the egg yolk , but feel tired.
"It's time to go to bed." Someone said.
"Hmm..." "Yes." "Go to bed."
They wobbled, half-closed their eyelids, like a group of deserters who had just experienced a rout, walked into the manor, climbed into their own beds, even found a chair or a table at random, sat, lay down, and lay down. He fell down and fell asleep.It has been more than a month since the disaster, and they still sleep every day, but today, it can be said that they fell asleep for the first time.
Eldi started to shake when he walked into the gate of the manor, and Leon carried him into the room of the two of them: "Fried... ice cream..." The moment he was put on the bed, Eldi gently tugged Leon's sleeve.
"Okay." It was originally agreed to eat it when it was safe, but when everyone around them had a gloomy face, the two of them could only shrink their necks, but now it seems that they can eat Yes.
Leon didn't sleep that night. He found Archbishop Abner and asked for a lot of milk and eggs.Archbishop Abner was happy to help, and... he looked at Leon with a strange look: "Leon, wait a minute." After ordering people to go to work, Archbishop Abner stopped Leon , "Can you tell me how you came up with this method?"
"Huh?" Leon was confused.
"You can rest assured that I have blocked the sound." Archbishop Abner's eyes became even weirder. "People outside can't hear what I said to you. I always feel that the atmosphere is too dull. I think a lot. method, but I think you probably didn’t pay attention, and neither did anyone else. I found delicious food, changed the bright curtains for the house, gave birth to the flowers and plants around the manor in advance, and even brought in the melodious nightingale, but unfortunately Yes, nothing works."
"..." Leon really didn't see it, "Does the delicacy you refer to include the sticky snot?"
What they had been eating lately were various meat pies and roasts, fish stews with a foul smell, and other things that they couldn't name.Leon really didn't see that it was a delicacy, he just thought it was the traditional food of the people nearby.Archbishop Abner didn't come before, and they didn't know who was responsible for the diet. Most people were immersed in a bad mood, and it didn't matter at all. They ate whatever they wanted, and their sense of taste had been abandoned by them.
"It's frog jelly. It's made with a kind of unique frog around here. It's a famous dish." Archbishop Abner explained seriously.
"……Oh."
"If you want to eat, I will give you..."
"No! I don't want to!" Although he can eat anything, the taste of that kind of food...is really not acceptable to normal people. It's hard to imagine how the locals imagined such a dish and put it It becomes a famous dish.However, we must respect the local customs, everyone's sense of taste and acceptance are different.
"……you are welcome."
"I do not……"
"Okay, let's stop arguing about that. Can I ask how you came up with the idea of putting everyone at ease in that way?"
Leon finally figured out what question Archbishop Abner was asking—he inadvertently made everyone howl and cry. Looking at the expression of this archbishop, he always felt that if he really told him that he was unintentional, then he... ...isn't it going to happen?
"coincide."
"Coincidence?" Archbishop Abner sighed with emotion, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Ah! I understand! You are the ones who have experienced everything together. You know what each other needs best, and you have the most Pure empathy! And as an outsider, no matter what I do, I always have a gap with you. Thank you, you let me learn a lot."
Leon: "..." All right, whatever you say is what you say.
"It's a pity, you guys will be leaving in a few days. Well... Actually, I think you can still try to be a priest. You have the ability to calm people's hearts. Would you like to train with me?"
"No, thank you, goodbye."
Archbishop Abner did not continue to persuade Leon, but he followed Leon in the name of helping, and Leon didn't care. He even generously showed him how to make ice cream and asked him to help: " Please go beat the eggs, thank you. Take this and keep beating in one direction. I say stop and stop."
Archbishop Abner was not angry about being arrested as a cook, but was a little excited.He worked hard to beat eggs, cream, and all kinds of what Leon asked him to beat.
Therefore, the people who were sleeping soundly were awakened by their own stomachs and noses in the sweet taste of baked desserts.Especially those who have not eaten anything for two or three days, and feel their stomach screaming at their throats.They put on something casually, and ran downstairs with a bang bang bang. They picked up the food on the dining table and stuffed it into their mouths. — These voices one after another can easily be misunderstood.
Eldy wakes up a bit late, because he has always had regular meals, and even if the food is bad occasionally, Leon will get him something else to ensure that he has enough nutrition during training.When he also went downstairs, only the backs of a group of men and women were left in the restaurant, and the tables were completely covered.
But Eldy was still not in a hurry. Sure enough, Leon waved to him from the side, and handed him a small basket covered with linen, which contained freshly baked fried ice cream. Only Eldy, the others No one!
After a comfortable sleep and another gluttony, Archbishop Abner also sent fine wine and barbecue. The survivors roared and had fun that day, and then slept for another night. When they woke up again, they were in a mental state. Significant improvement.They start to communicate with people normally, even if they just say hello or make a joke.The soldiers began to organize their equipment, began training, and began to fight against others.The priests began to pray, brewed potions, and communicated with the god of nature...
"Leon? Archbishop Abner said, you are the future person in charge? Hello, I'm Pantheon Murray." On the third day, Leon sat on his exclusive wooden pier again to watch Eldy train. At that time, someone came to him again.
"Captain?" They lived with the survivors of the Church of the God of Nature, and the Church of the Body of Nature did not drive them away, and treated them like Templars and priests.Leon saw them packing their luggage today, and Leon thought these people were leaving, "I heard that from your teammates calling you that."
"That's my nickname. We're used to being called that. In fact..." the captain hesitated. "Actually, we used to be the gray hyenas of Diller City. Everyone in the gray hyenas called each other by nicknames."
Because the Muller Alliance is trying to weaken the sense of existence of the awakened ones, the gray hyenas have become an official force that hides their heads and shows their tails. Even though they have stations in various districts, many people still question their existence, and even regard it as a kind of street weirdness. A third-rate character in the novel.
But Leon was "invited" by the gray hyena to cooperate, and he slept in a cemetery-like place and had a dream.After that, I also worked with gray hyenas, although the process of cooperation was not very pleasant.Of course he knew about the existence and status of this organization.
Leon also knew that they were gray hyenas, after all, he had live broadcasted them for a long time.That's why he didn't let these people leave, he was willing to let them eat and drink for nothing, and carefully consider where they were going.It stands to reason that they should go to other cities and return to the team as soon as possible.The gray hyenas in Diller City are over, and it's not that the Muller Federation has been wiped out.
However, now it seems that these people are planning to fall on his head?
"We know that you are about to go to the Principality of Gretel and become a lord. Would you... would you like to accept our follow?"
This means to be a follower, Leon has the final say, the priests of the God of Nature, except for Hogan, will leave, but the 45 circulation knights will follow him-Leon thinks that there should be There are some other things, otherwise, since we are looking for a calm place to change our mood, why only the knight followed, but not the priest.However, the arrangement of the Church of the God of Nature should not be malicious to him, so Leon is willing to ignore the doubts and not get to the bottom of it.
These knights are not just knights. By the standards of this world, they are all scholars, the more knowledgeable ones.
With strength and brains, he has also experienced a lot of sophistication, he has faith, integrity and bottom line. Relying on them, Leon can manage even a small city, let alone a small territory.
Leon really doesn't really need "outsiders", but Leon touched his chin, but he still needs some "entertainment programs", such as the story of a man and four men, and he can occasionally have fun with Eldi: " Did you abandon your current country just to follow me?" But there are still some things to ask.
This question is quite hurtful, Captain Murray's face turned pale: "We..." He wanted to explain, but in the end he just nodded: "Yes, we...abandoned our country."
"Please continue to speak, I am listening, you should know that unless it is some inferior people, no one is willing to accept a group of traitors as their followers."
"...I used to be an officer of the Third Legion. Three years ago, the Third Legion was disbanded. The officers could either be adventurers, or they could accept the re-enlistment of the country, or become gray hyenas. I chose the latter and came to the Diller City, and then, the gray hyenas in Diller City asked me to recruit my own team members, four places."
"The legion was disbanded? What did your legion do?" The reduction of armaments sounds familiar to Leon, but it should be something that can only be done in peacetime, right?
"I don't know, we just got off the front line and received an order to disband."
Leon raised his eyebrows, the Bonova family was completely ruined at about that time, right?After the hawks are finished, the doves will just dismantle the army?It seems that even if there is no evil disaster, they will stay in Diller City for a while: "Do you have any family?"
"No, I am an orphan adopted by the Legion."
Leon only felt that his heart began to show his sense of existence again. It beat wildly a few times, but just when Leon thought that he could see the illusion again, his heart calmed down again...
"Please continue. Have you recruited four players?"
"Yes, but their backgrounds are not very good. Erich Nostine is a descendant of nobles who wandered from other countries. He makes a living by... cheating women. Edward has a bit of Frost Giant blood, he is a …killer. Dandy is a thief. And Benjeet, who was arrested for assisting a group of gang members in a burglary.”
It turned out to be a group of liars and thieves. I always felt that this setting was a bit familiar, and Leon's ears trembled.Being able to tell the background of the four people candidly is also a manifestation of Captain Murray's sincerity.
"However, we have carried out the mission together for three years. They may have some flaws that are not in line with the righteous way, but they are all upright in their hearts. I swear on my knight's honor!"
"I am very willing to accept you, but please don't get me wrong. I think it is better to form a team of adventurers to be free adventurers from the perspective of your combination. I want to tell you that if you follow me, you will It's tough, and I have very strict rules."
"I understand what you mean." Captain Murray nodded. From the beginning of the conversation, he did not treat Leon as a child at all. His attitude was not only correct, but even a little low, "I I didn’t come here with a self-righteous attitude. Before I came, I had a frank discussion with them. In fact, we discussed it for more than a month. Should we go on an adventure by ourselves, or leave with you with the cheek. We choose to leave with you, they It is said that we may look forward to that kind of dangerous and exciting life, but...we are more yearning for a peaceful life."
"Are you sure you have peace with me?"
"At least the practice of the Church of the God of Nature... makes us feel more reliable than certain practices of the City Hall of Dillier City."
This sentence is the most true, and it also made Leon completely understand the choice of the five-member team.They completely lost trust in the Muller Federation, and they didn't want to run around outside by themselves. They wanted to find someone they could trust, and finally they focused on Leon and the Church of the God of Nature.Judging from the performance of the five-member team in the catastrophe, their morality is beyond words.Once someone is identified, it is enough to trust. Of course, the degree of trust is lower than that of the cycle knight, but it is enough.
"I accept your following."
"thank you very much."
——The person who followed the five-member team before, Legere also left after the two children were separated by the Church of the God of Light. He seemed to regard these two children as the pillars of his future life.Billy Rabbittooth suddenly left one day. Leon didn't know the reason and didn't investigate further.
In addition, Leon even got news from the family of the coachman Marcos.During the breakout, they separated from Leon's large group in the chaos, but followed another multi-church mixed force that also separated. Although he himself was slightly injured, his family All were lucky to survive.
It can be said that his family is safe in the disaster. This can be said to be his greatest luck.But Leon didn't let him come here again, the Church of the God of Nature will properly accommodate him, there is no need to let this ordinary coachman run around with him.
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