forest country

In the morning, the world is already bright.

But in the dimly lit room, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the curtains were fully drawn, completely blocking the outside light, and the only light came from the TV screen.

The person on the screen is sitting in a carriage, going to a polluted place with a group of people.

On the TV screen, you can clearly see the person's magnified face and his expression looking out of the glass window.

Senior has been sitting here for a week, and his eyes are blackened due to not resting for a long time, and his golden hair, which should be dazzling, has also dimmed.The flickering light reflected on the face of the man sitting on the opposite sofa, his complexion was gloomy, as cold as iron, and his whole body exuded a dark aura.

"What am I doing..."

Senior asked himself.

This is the first time he has questioned himself since he was born.

For a long time, he knew exactly what he wanted, what to do and what to pay for it.

He was born at the intersection of Glory City and Polluted Land, where there are few people and houses are desolate, and there are more empty houses than people.He had a broken leg when he was born, and since he can remember, he has seen too much indifference and numbness around him. They have no hope for life, and they receive a fixed amount of food at a fixed time, and they can live day by day.

When Senior saw them, it was as if he saw himself decades later. He didn't want to, and he wanted to do his best to survive.When he was young, he had no money to install prosthetics, so he limped and went to fights to win money. He was bruised all over his body and used the money he won to buy prosthetics for himself. That was the first time he felt the power of his feet on the ground, and became The only "able-bodied" person around.

On the way home, he felt the envious eyes and listened to the yearning words of the little friends who grew up together. At that time, he understood that he didn't need to envy others, he could have what others should have.

You can't choose your own birth and place. If you don't have the capital owned by others, you will fight with your life, and what you fight for is your own.

There will be rewards only if you pay, and everything is an equivalent exchange, he always thinks so.

When he knew the word "tower master", that distant position that seemed to be the horizon made his blood surge, and at the same time became the goal of his efforts.

Every fight, the baptism of flesh and blood, brought him one step closer to that position.No one knows whether the life is still there at the end, but as long as you are still alive, you can keep fighting forever!

This is belief.

It is also the driving force that supports him all the way to the top.

But after taking the position of Tower Master, everything seems to have changed...

Dazed for no reason.

He is already sitting here, stronger than everyone else, he doesn't know what to do tomorrow, and he doesn't know what he wants to do again.

One day I even stood at the highest point on the top of the tower, felt the strong wind blowing over my body, and looked down at the city.

Makes him want to jump.

At this time, the once-in-ten-year battle between the six tower masters started, and this news also pulled Senior.

The city of the final winner will become the first city in the next ten years, and the rest of the cities will also be ranked according to this, and the benefits received by all cities will also be divided according to this ranking from most to least.

At the same time, the No.1 tower owner will receive another benefit, a ticket to go out. This reward is only for the tower owner, and only the tower owner who participated in the battle will know.

Senior got No.1 without suspense.

He had a great time playing, but the ticket was not attractive to him, so he was ready to tear it up.

"Wait a moment!"

The tower owner of the water lake tower called to stop him.

"Ok?"

"I can make an exchange with you, I have a child that you will definitely be interested in!"

In this way, Senior gave up No.1, and got a child with healthy limbs from outside, 11 years old, whose name was randomly chosen by Master Shuihu Tata, Mizusawa.

At first he was very interested, but soon found that this kid seemed a little silly, and he was in a daze all day long except for eating.

Can't speak, and doesn't respond to changes in surrounding scenes and people.

At this time, a mercenary group came to kill him, and Senior was very angry. His life could only be in his own hands, and he could make his own decisions.

Originally, I wanted to kill the entire mercenary group, but before I gave the order, I suddenly thought of that silly child. If an outsider gets together with someone here, what kind of child will he give birth to?Like the people here, the body will gradually deteriorate, or like the people outside, have a healthy body.

This idea made Senior very excited, like when he heard the word tower master for the first time when he was a child.

He gave the child the forest that was half built according to the book.

People continued to build it, and a small village was built inside.After all, there were only thirty members of the mercenary group, which was still too few, so he let some of his men live outside the village, so that he could provide them with convenience at any time and keep an eye on their actions.

He provides him with life, and he confirms his conjecture for him, which is also an equivalent exchange.

After everything was arranged, Senior no longer paid attention to the other side of the forest.

Because he discovered another more interesting thing, the Gelia spar, produced in a polluted place, and the mayors of all cities are buying this.

Until two years ago, when Joe and Adela talked about what they wanted to do every day, he thought of the forest that he had forgotten for a long time.Let the two of them be responsible for monitoring, after all, this is the easiest job in his hands.

At the same time, Senior also thought of the forgotten child. After all, he was an outsider, so he was a little concerned, so he also went to watch the surveillance.

Only then did I realize that the child had already grown up, and it was completely different from when he was a child, and he couldn't see the stupidity of the past at all.

It also made him a little interested, so he went over to take a look when he was free.

At first it was once a month, then once a week.

After that, I want to go and see it every day.

Like an addiction.

He didn't know why he was like this, but he could sit and watch for hours or even a day just watching a person's actions.

Look at his smile, look at his body.

Look at him, even when everyone around him is tired of life in the forest, he still finds a lot of fun in it and lives every day seriously and responsibly.

Watch him repairing the roof of a neighbor's house when it rains, watch him take care of the injured animals in the forest seriously, watch him being teased secretly by the people in the mercenary group, and after he gets up, he smiles and says it's nothing.

It seems that life is not difficult for him, everything is comfortable and easy.

The arc of his eyes bent when he smiled, seemed to fit perfectly with the sunlight leaking through the gaps in the leaves, warm and shining.

It was something that I had lost for many years, or it could be said that I had never owned it from the bottom of my heart.

Be mesmerized and forget about time.

Just looking at it like this can make you feel satisfied.

A strange emotion that Senior had never experienced before, grew in his heart little by little, and gradually spread and expanded under the indulgence of his master——

By the time it was discovered, it was already too late.

Senior didn't intend to let this uncontrollable emotion continue, so he wrote down his birthday wishes seriously on his 20th birthday and pressed the pause button.

He wanted to know what would happen to this person who had been living in the forest if the world suddenly collapsed, whether he would collapse, cry, and complain about injustice.

As a result, none of them happened.

This person just left the forest silently, looking for the next place to live.

Even if you are unfamiliar, even if you are deceived, you still don't escape from reality.

what a beautiful person...

Really more and more obsessed.

Originally, Senior planned to watch him in this monitoring room all the time, but he saw him sharing food with a person he had known for less than a day, and he was going to another city to wear a city bracelet that belonged to someone else .

This is the long-lost moment for Senior to be happy with his identity. He is the Tower Master of Guangyao City, and he can wear the bracelet of Guangyao City for him.

It's as if this person belongs to him.

……

Then why did you get so angry when you heard him say equivalent exchange that day, as if you would do something wrong if you didn't leave at that time.

Obviously, the equivalent exchange is a rule that I have always recognized and abided by, and it was also proposed by myself first.

why?

Why……

Inside the carriage of the Explosive Bear Mercenary Corps.

Mizusawa looked at the scenery moving backwards outside the window. He didn't see the two children on the road today, and he was not stopped when he entered the polluted place.

When he arrived at the place, he got out of the car with a bow and arrow on his back and followed behind the people of the mercenary group.

Shui Feijie is arranging the matters needing attention in the waiting meeting, and assigning each person the division of labor that needs to be responsible.Their main purpose is to drive back the mud monsters that ran out, not to kill them. After all, killing one is too time-consuming, and the reward is not as high as driving back a few more.

Mizusawa was a little distracted, thinking about what Grandma Shui said to him yesterday.

Granny Shui lost a leg, but she has never had a prosthesis installed. Unlike Shui Feijie, she doesn't need to install the expensive one of House A, it's just normal for her.It's not that she doesn't have money, but that she doesn't want to.

"It's the way I choose to live."

When she was talking, she was oiling Shui Feijie's prosthetic limbs for maintenance, very carefully, more seriously and carefully than treating the sketches in her yard.

"I never felt that I was defective without a leg. This is who I am. I still have two hands and one leg. I can use the work I can do to earn money to raise my son and live on my own. I I am no less happier than a person with both legs. I have always been like this, and I lost one leg. I accept this me, and I also recognize myself.”

"But someone like my son who has a prosthetic is no different from me. It's his choice. He wants to be a mercenary. He wants to fight and run. He needs prosthetics. I choose to be uneasy, he chooses to be safe, that's all. That's all."

"Everyone is born different. We have been different individuals since we were babies. It is not just reflected in different bodies, healthy or disabled. Our character, life attitude or pursuit are all part of the integrity of each of us. .”

"That distinguishes each of us, and likewise does not make us different."

Mizusawa felt that a layer of mist that had puzzled him for a long time was being wiped away bit by bit from his eyes.

When he left the forest and saw that people outside had more or less mechanical prosthetics on their bodies, he had already drawn an invisible dividing line between himself and the people here.

He didn't really integrate himself into this place, but just observed it as a bystander, looking for the difference between this place and himself.

What's the use of this?

Do you think that while you are observing the world, you are also being observed by others?

When walking, Mizusawa's swinging arm touched his pocket, which contained the note that he had been wanting to throw away but didn't throw away.

"Wait a minute!" Shui Feijie suddenly stopped, "Something is wrong."

Bill immediately stood next to Feijie and stood on guard, while Beth and Millai watched from both sides.

"Be careful, someone is coming!"

As soon as Shui Feijie finished speaking, more than a dozen people appeared around him, and at a glance, they turned out to be two or three mercenary regiments, among whom were acquaintances from the same street.

"Sami, what are you doing?!" Shui Feijie asked.

Sami chuckled, without trying to hide it at all: "Sorry, I offended you."

After speaking, they began to surround Shui Feijie and the others.

"Retreat! Let's go, get in the car!" Shui Feijie said quickly, the difference in numbers between them and the opponent was too big, it's better to retreat first when the situation is unknown.

Bill picked up the water and flew quickly, discarding the wheelchair, and several people rushed towards the parking place.

From time to time, Shui Feijie looked at the people who were getting closer and closer. Although they were carrying weapons, they didn't use them. They seemed to want to disperse the people on their side. Could it be that they wanted to destroy them one by one? More than yourself, there is no need to be so troublesome.

Shui Feijie frowned, it was too strange.

After they ran to the side of the car and jumped on it, the driver immediately stepped up the accelerator, and the chasing crowd slowly moved away, as if they had given up because they couldn't catch up.

"Call work, let's go drink."

Sammy whistled, what a good money today.

This strange feeling has been haunting Shui Feijie, he looked around and outside the car over and over again, and suddenly shouted, "Where is Shui Ze!"

Only then did they discover that Mizusawa left the team at some point and did not get in the car.

They had been with members of the same mercenary group for too long, and the tacit understanding cultivated in emergencies allowed them to complete one task after another, but at the same time, it also made them forget about an outsider who had just joined them.

In a dim room.

Senior looked at the person on the screen who shouldn't appear, and gritted his teeth.

"Edmund!"

The author has something to say: Don’t stay up late, you must go to bed early (from the bald wolf who stayed up all night and was dizzy for two days