Byron's Blade

The Gaiden series is online again, this time telling what happened to Mu Li when he was a child, the things everyone is curious about will be answered soon.

When I was seven years old, I never thought that a decision I made would completely change the trajectory of my life, my family, and the lives of many people around me.

My name is Jiang Muli, and I am a direct descendant of Jiang Family, one of the three major families in China. When I was young, I was a wealthy lady who had no worries about food and clothing. After practicing martial arts at the age of four, because of my extremely powerful martial arts talent, I quickly became a rising star in Jiang Family's martial arts , and was even praised by his grandfather as the revitalizing power of Chinese martial arts.The second mother said that I am the purest child in the world, just like the light of dawn, clear and bright, clear and strong penetrating the night sky, illuminating the earth.

My eldest mother, named Mu Xin, was born in a wealthy middle-class businessman's family and belonged to Jiang's business group.The eldest mother was sent to the Jiang family by her parents as a registered disciple when she was very young. Later, because of her outstanding talent, she was favored by the head of the family at that time, that is, my grandfather, and became the head's direct disciple.

She and my second mother, Jiang Siyan, were playmates and competitors since childhood.After being favored by his grandfather, he also gained the status of the son-in-law of the eldest daughter of the Jiang family.But the two didn't get along very well until their eldest mother left the house to join the army.But only when they are separated can they appreciate each other's goodness. Since the eldest mother went to join the army, the two seem to have realized the status of each other in their hearts.The long separation slowly brewed a sweet and slightly bitter lovesickness, and also a crisis.Because the eldest mother refused to marry the second mother for a long time, the grandfather gradually wavered in the idea of ​​letting the eldest mother marry, and began to find another good son-in-law.

The eldest mother finally couldn't sit still, gave up her career in the army, resolutely retired, and returned to the Jiang family.On the night of returning to Jiang's house, he was very drunk and stayed in the second mother's room, completely possessing each other with the second mother.

Then got married, and then there was me.

My growth experience until I was seven and a half years old, in fact, there is nothing to say, it is very simple, as if I was guided by the heavens, everything is natural, without any accidents.Unsurprisingly, he was naughty and active when he was young, and he was obsessed with martial arts as a child.And, not surprisingly, he became a partner of justice, a stinky little guy who loves to play hero games.Enlightened by the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic, and then reciting the classics and reciting poems, what I received was a decent education from a sage and a gentleman, and what I learned was the style of a chivalrous man who is indomitable.

Heroes are not something anyone can be.The price a hero has to pay is much heavier than imagined, and not one person in tens of millions can bear it.But when I was young, I didn't understand this truth.I just dream of being a hero with all my heart, dreaming that one day, I can save the people in dire straits and create a beautiful new world.

When I was young, I often listened to my grandfather, eldest mother, second mother, and uncle talking about current affairs. They always said that the world was corrupt to the depths, but neither the people nor the government pretended to see it.Everyone only thinks about safeguarding their own interests, and no one takes the initiative to change this situation.

Uncles and aunts who are doing business outside often come to the house as guests, and at the dinner table, they always mention some recent knowledge.I sat on the sidelines and listened to each other. For example, the Jiushen system has been upgraded, and the monitoring regulations have become more stringent; where the common people have been bullied by the soldiers and have nowhere to appeal; where the taxes have increased, and the common people can no longer live. ; how the church deceived the common people; money is enlisted, in short, there is no good thing.

I was young at the time, and I half-understood it. I simply understood that the government and the army were bad, they always bullied the people, and they were all bad people, so they had to be overthrown and reformed.It's funny to think about it. At the age of 7, I don't even understand the meaning of the word "reform".At that time, I didn’t know where I read a sentence. It was like being possessed, and I kept talking about it every day. I still remember it:

"To save the common people, who can give up to me; my sons and daughters, united as one."

I still remember that I foolishly wrote this sentence on a white towel, and then thought I was very handsome, tied the towel on my forehead, and ran around the house to show off.

The grown-ups just laughed at me when I was young and ignorant.The older ones would even smile and praise me. Like my eldest mother, I have a heart to help the world, and I am a promising person.I am also quite proud of it. Should I say "not ashamed, but proud"?Even if it's a bit of a misnomer, that's probably what it means.

Some things, even if generally believed to be correct, often have the opposite effect.It seems that no one will accuse it of being wrong, but once you stick to it wholeheartedly, it will often lead to very bad results in the end, and it can even be said to be a disaster.

My eldest mother, Mu Xin, is a person who truly cares about the world. Even if she has a wife and daughter, she has many things that she values ​​selfishly.But she still couldn't bury her fiery heart for the country and the people.She is a very great woman, she is worthy of all the common people she has sacrificed for, but the only one who is sorry is her wife and daughter.Many people don't understand her, they just feel that she is naive, hypocritical, and just talking in the vernacular. Actually, I don't understand her either. Heroes are often extremely lonely.I used to regard her as an idol, ignorant and only knew to imitate her.

"For the sake of the country and the people, sacrifice everything at all costs." It's too easy to say this verbally, but only when you actually practice it will you know the pain, which is really extraordinary and unbearable.

When I was three years old, the general Christian Friesman, known as the "Statue of Liberty", passed away. After that, the weather in the entire city of Artemis was sluggish for several years.Everyone is missing that great general and the free spirit and bright heart she brought.Her death seemed to cast a haze over the entire Federation. The economy was in decline, the shipbuilding industry was completely stagnant, the people lost their ideals and light, and lost the support to pursue freedom.

As if losing the protection of the goddess, that year became a year of catastrophe.The outer area of ​​Ares, the city of Athena, encountered a huge insect swarm for the first time in a century. The disaster area was in a mess, with countless casualties and panic.It was at this time that my eldest mother gave up the idea of ​​hesitation and made up her mind to get in touch with an old friend of hers.He went on a business trip for five consecutive months to provide disaster relief in the disaster area.

Her old friend is exactly the comrade-in-arms she knew when she was still in the army, and also the new general who just took over the post of the garrison general of Gaia, the main city——Chuck Friesman.Back then, Chuck Friesman was training in a certain unit of the Central Army, and he happened to be in the same unit as my eldest mother.However, because of his noble background, Chuck Friesman is the officer who descended directly, and my eldest mother is an officer who climbed up through her own ability. as a bosom friend.

I don't know about the friendship between them, the eldest mother never talked about it.It may be that the two often sit together to talk about current affairs, and the relationship has become better and better, so that they have reached the point of heart-to-heart.Chuck Friesman told my eldest mother many secrets of high society, and told my eldest mother about his aspirations and ideals, the goals he wanted to achieve.He sent an invitation to his eldest mother, hoping that his eldest mother could help him and become his help.

But these words are too crazy. Although my eldest mother is willing to believe him, there are still many fetters that cannot be thrown away. At that time, she felt that she could not do it, and she could not do it, so she refused.

But this matter still haunts her.Retiring from the army, marrying my second mother, giving birth to me, and inheriting the Jiang family, everything went smoothly, and the days passed day by day, but this incident became my eldest mother's heart disease. She couldn't forget it, and she had nowhere to say it.

I was born in March. When I was three years old, my eldest mother celebrated my birthday and went to the disaster area with a backpack on my back.She didn't come back until the end of August, she lost a lot of weight and was tanned.After that, I have to go on long-term business trips almost every year, ranging from two months to four or five months, and I don’t know what to do in other places.Listening to the discussion of uncles and aunts, it seems that the eldest mother is not only busy with the Jiang family's business affairs, she always communicates with a group of high-ranking soldiers, and occasionally gathers with some local officials and politicians, and she doesn't know what she is doing.

When I was seven years old, she didn't go out for an unusual year and stayed at home with my second mother and me.At that time, I was very happy, because my eldest mother was always there, so I kept pestering her, asking her to teach me Kung Fu, read and write, and tell me stories and reasoning.Children who like to listen to their mother's reasoning are really rare in this world, and I am one of them.

In October, that year coincided with the 150th anniversary of Generalissimo Rudolf's birthday, General Gaia's Mansion sent an invitation to Jiang's family, hoping to invite someone from Jiang's family to celebrate the New Year with them this year, and by the way, to catch up on the old days and connect the friendship between the two families.Since the marriage several decades ago, the relationship between the two families has been quite flat, but it is reasonable.At that time, my eldest mother took the initiative to apply for this "fellowship", and my second mother also felt that she hadn't been to Gaia for a long time, so she readily agreed.

This is the first time in my life that I have traveled far away, and it was also this trip, and I have never returned home.This journey is of great significance to my life. I met the love of my future life, and since then I have lost two mothers, my home, and everything.

We arrived at the General's Mansion in mid-October of that year, and for more than a month after that, the eldest mother followed General Friesman around and often discussed matters together, and rarely took time to accompany my mother and me.During that time, my mother lived very comfortably in the general's mansion. She often took me to read in the library of the general's mansion, and occasionally took me to Aunt Mo's place to sit and chat.I was still young at that time, with a childlike nature, I couldn't sit still.Although he keeps the rules in mind and pays attention to his words and deeds, he always has a playful nature.

Aunt Mo wanted me to play with Lan Ni on purpose, but Lan Ni hated me, although I don't know why, anyway, I was rejected by Lan Ni afterwards.At that time, Mo Kexin also came. I had a few words with her and felt that she was much easier to get along with than Lanny.Later, I accidentally ran into the incident in the well, and it was precisely because of that incident that it became a point of divergence in my life.

At that time, all three of our children were seriously injured and were all sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.I was unconscious, but later when I heard my eldest mother and mother quarreling, my mother mentioned that after receiving treatment, I had undergone a general physical examination for an unknown purpose, so I was transferred to the military research institute. A medical research institution in the United States was pushed into a strange-looking instrument.Mom is not a medical professional and doesn't know what it is. The doctor said it was just an MRI, but Mom had a hunch it wasn't.

Later, my eldest mother explained to my mother that the instrument was the latest research result of the Military Research Institute, with a long list of names, which I no longer remember.But the main purpose is to test the purity of the soul.I don't understand what the purity of the soul is and what it is used to measure. In fact, it is estimated that few people in this world can understand it.

The eldest mother said that the purity of the soul represents the ability to escape the monitoring of the Jiushen system.The higher the purity, the easier it is to escape the monitoring of the Jiushen system.Because the Jiushen system's monitoring of the human brain's emotions and thoughts relies entirely on a set of complex algorithms for brain nerve fluctuations.The higher the purity of the soul, the less likely the brain fluctuations will be detected.The specific principle is really unclear, but it is such a mechanism.

The Jiushen system can see the highly generalized changes in thoughts and emotions of the human body, such as "joy and excitement", "sadness and depression", "confusion and confusion", "anger and anger", etc., and classify them into several levels.Especially when people are extremely angry, most of them will act irrationally.The brain fluctuations during the occurrence of some criminal acts are specially recorded, made into a database, and sent to the recognition database of the Nine Gods System, so that the Nine Gods System can judge "intent to kill", "intent to steal", "intent to commit crimes" and "intent to betray". " and other generalized criminal intent, so as to mark the target and issue a warning.

In fact, the purity of the soul can be regarded as a great discovery of the century, but it was deliberately concealed by General Friesman and was not made public.From the very beginning of the Nine Gods system, many people have actually discovered that some people's mood swings are easily monitored, while others are hardly detected, and they have always maintained a stable situation.The difference in this is actually the purity of the soul.It's just that the research on this difference by various research institutions has mostly stagnated and there has been no progress.The achievements of the military research institute can be said to span the century.

And when I was rescued in the hospital, my attending physician was actually a member of the study.At that time, he found that my brain waves were unusual, so without the consent of me and my family, he directly took the brain waves for analysis, and found that I was probably the person with the highest purity of soul in history.After that, he united with many research colleagues and strongly demanded a detailed examination of me from General Friesman and my eldest mother.General Friesman agreed in spite of my eldest mother's objection, and that's why I was later transferred to another hospital for examination.

Later, my eldest mother had a conversation with General Friesman. The conversation was held in the hospital, but I didn’t hear the content. I also knew this from the quarrel between my eldest mother and my mother.After that conversation, the eldest mother's attitude changed, and she seemed to have made an amazing decision.This decision was firmly opposed by her mother, but she still had no hesitation.

My eldest mother decided to take me into a secret plan of General Friesman. The first step of the plan was to annihilate my eldest mother and all my social identities from birth to the present, and completely become another person.For this, we had to be separated from our mother forcibly, and never see each other again.

When I was almost healed from my injuries, my eldest mother and mother came to me for a very important conversation.My eldest mother explained everything to me in detail. At that time, I seemed to understand, but I only knew that I was going to participate in a project with my eldest mother, that I was going to play another person, and that I had to be separated from my mother.My eldest mother asked me, would you like it?

I was very confused, looking at my mother's hopeful eyes, that patient and longing look; and seeing my eldest mother's unshakable attitude, I don't know who I should choose.It's as if a child is as confused as to whom to choose when his parents are divorced.

"Son, your choice will determine whether you can save the world. If you choose to follow me, you choose to save the world. If you choose to follow your mother, you choose your family and loved ones. Good boy, tell me who you choose ?”

"Do you have to choose?" I asked.

She nodded.

"If you follow your mother, can you save the world?"

"Son, mother doesn't lie to you. I can't guarantee that I can save the world. This is an extremely difficult task. You will give up many, many things and sacrifice many, many happiness that you deserve. The future is full of thorns, and it is almost impossible to see There is no light. But if you choose to go with your mother, you will be the same as now, with delicious food, beautiful clothes to wear, mother who loves you, can learn kung fu, and grow up happily. Children... Don't worry, you must think carefully."

I looked at them, my eldest mother was on my right and my mother was on my left.

I stretched out my right hand, grabbed the eldest mother's hand, and said innocently and righteously:

"Mother, I want to save the world."

This sentence became the beginning of all suffering.