Awakening of Rebirth

Ron Bernard is not to be trusted.

Although there is no evidence, judging from certain details, it is basically certain that Ron's motive for helping is impure.Just imagine whether Vodo or Wagron's guardians are not extremely capable, but are more or less disturbed by the consciousness of the black dragon. How can the protector of the country who is also at the center of the seal be alone?

The more ignorant he looked, the more suspicious he exposed.

Anotar, like Waldo and Wagron, had already fallen, if not worse.Because their guardian has become the minion of the black dragon, and wants to use the Changsheng to obtain the keel, so as to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Lackey is Ron's old friend when he was young, and it is understandable to help Ron do things, but does he know nothing about Ron's changes?If not, what is his position?If so, how would you choose after knowing it?These were things that Jiang Zheng didn't dare to judge lightly.

She wasn't afraid to tear herself apart with Ron, after all, from the very beginning, she didn't believe that her group came here smoothly, and could go back so smoothly.

Even if this is a game, she will never allow anyone to easily control Chang Sheng's life.Since Ron sent them here, he should know one thing, the chess pieces thousands of miles away will no longer be manipulated as easily as before.

So her temptation to Lackey was on the surface from the very beginning, and she didn't worry about his correspondence with Ron.

Seeing that his expression was blank at first, then hesitant, and finally changed the subject calmly, she could basically guess his position.

Whether it is out of trust or complicity, this person is no longer credible.But regardless of trust or not, the last layer of window paper has not been pierced, and each other can still get what they need as if nothing had happened.

Now that he personally clicked through the last bit of tacit understanding, Jiang Zheng was no longer polite, raised his eyes and replied coldly: "Yes."

"Then you definitely won't believe me." Lackey laughed.

Jiang Zheng didn't respond, but just smiled back, while Changsheng and Baozi looked at each other without saying a word.Blind had already put his hand on the short bow behind him calmly, but at this moment he suddenly clenched it tightly, and the atmosphere suddenly became dignified.

Lackey was silent for a moment, then stood up and walked into the room on the left under Jiang Zheng's vigilant eyes.

The four of them only heard the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets from inside, and they were completely confused for a while.

"Could it be some secret weapon to deal with us?" Baozi asked in a low voice.

"Impossible..." Jiang Zheng said: "Besides, the four of us, he just consumed a wave of mana, what are you afraid of?"

"Yeah!" Baozi looked "I think what you said makes sense" on his face, and silently took out bottles and cans from the package that seemed to be self-defense. Can't stop asking: "What is a wave?"

Jiang Zheng was stunned for a moment, but before he could think about how to explain Baozi's doubts, Lagi came out of the house holding the things he had just found out in one hand and wiping his sweat in the other hand.

"Young people shouldn't be so impulsive. It's not good to threaten people with force." He said as he walked to the table and spread the blank parchment in his hand on the uneven table: "This is not Ainota, Even if I don’t mention my grandpa’s grandpa was an official in his generation, now that you’re out of this alley, there’s a market outside, if you outsiders really fight with me here, you won’t get any benefits.”

As Lagi spoke, he raised his hand from the paper and whispered an incomprehensible incantation.

I saw a blue light glowing in his palm, and a blurry pattern suddenly appeared on the blank parchment, which gradually became clearer.

That's a map.

"Here is the central area of ​​Statar, Jiakalun Palace."

The existence of Jakaron Palace is like the Talan Palace in Talan City. It is a symbol of royal power, and those who can freely enter and exit are high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

Before Chang Sheng could take a closer look, Lackey covered half of the map with his hand, and said, "Ron said that you have something important to do. This matter is related to the legendary dead black dragon. Is it true?"

"That's what he told you?" Jiang Zheng asked back.

"Is it true?" Lackey seemed to only want to confirm this question.

Chang Sheng glanced at Jiang Zheng who was frowning slightly, and nodded after a moment of silence.

"I'm very surprised. Ron asked me to help you, and what you are going to do is exactly what he said. You don't trust him even though you are on the same road. I have been away from Taran for a long time. I don't know what he has done all these years. I don’t know why you have such big prejudices against him, but I believe he will never lie to me.” Lackey said, “I don’t care about any misunderstandings between you, since the matter is agreed to him, I will not break my word, and now I have only one last question."

"You ask." Jiang Zheng said.

"Is it bad for Eggert if you want to do something?"

"Of course not." Jiang Zheng answered without thinking.

But at the same time, Chang Sheng also whispered: "I don't know."

The atmosphere was suddenly awkward, and Chang Sheng continued to speak in silence: "I can't promise you anything, all I know is that if we fail, the peace of the entire continent will cease to exist... Do you believe it?"

"Such words, coming from a little girl like you, really have no credibility." Lackey smiled wryly and pondered for a moment, moved his hands away to no longer cover the map, and tapped one of them with his fingertips, where a Entrance to the secret passage: "From here you can enter the depths of the Statar underground."

"What's underneath?" Jiang Zheng asked.

"The source of Statar's indestructibility, the place where all the power gathers...maybe it will be the core of the seal you are looking for."

"You really know a lot." Jiang Zheng can't trust the person in front of him. The more he knows, the more inappropriate he feels.I have been led by the nose many times since this journey. If this person's guidance is also in line with Ron's wishes, wouldn't it be true?

Lackey shook his head and said with emotion: "It's not because of my grandpa's grandpa's grandpa..." As he spoke, he seemed to be a little confused, so he simply cleared his throat and said, "Anyway, I know I've said everything, and the ancestral map is here too, believe it or not."

After that, he took down a small dagger from the wall beside him, put it on the map, and said, "Not everyone can enter the Garkalun Palace in Statel, you came here secretly, and you didn't bring anything with you." Something that can prove your identity? Bring this, and no one will stop you."

"..."

"What are you doing looking at me in such shock? Do you look down on blacksmiths? Let's not go too far, only my grandfather's generation is still a celebrity in front of His Majesty!"

"..."

In this case, coupled with such a poorly furnished room, and the bare-chested and bare-chested dress of the middle-aged dwarf, it is really... not convincing at all.

***

The place where Laki lives is a town called Cosmond in Eggert, not far from Statel. It was swallowed by a volcanic eruption 800 years ago, and was later rebuilt on the ruins.

The population of the city is not large, but since Cosmon is the only way to go to Statar, Eggert and Ainota have good friends all year round, and there will be Ainota businessmen and tourists coming to trade or play, so with The inhabitants of the city are very friendly to humans, not hostile in any way like the elves and giants of Voldo and Vagron.

The elves have not stepped out of Vodo for thousands of years. In order not to attract people's eyes, they blindly put on a hooded cloak, and let down their long hair to cover their ears, which are easily exposed.

The four left Lagi's residence, rushed to the city post, bought two fast horses, asked the direction of Statar, and set off on the road.

On the way, Jiang Zheng hugged Chang Sheng's waist with one hand, and played with and observed the dagger given by Lagi with the other.

"This looks great."

When the index finger pushed the sheath away, an unusually sharp blue cold light seeped out, and the instant chill shocked her so that she hurriedly put the dagger back into the sheath.

"This thing looks very unusual." Jiang Zheng pursed his lips, and said, "That Lagi said it was a token, tell me, what is his identity?"

"What do you think?" Chang Sheng couldn't figure it out himself.

A dwarf mage who once studied at Taran and had a close friendship with Ron Bernard, now works as an unknown blacksmith in a small town, and he has detailed drawings of the interior of Gakaron, and the so-called The identity token that was blocked by someone...

This person is really too mysterious, so mysterious that people can't believe it.

"I always feel that if we really do what he said, we might be caught by the minions of the black dragon before we see the seal." Jiang Zheng said, throwing the dagger in the direction of Baozi: "Baozi, put it away!" !"

The two horses were galloping one after the other across the wilderness, when Jiang Zheng suddenly turned around and threw something over, scaring Baozi with a frightened face, he hurriedly stretched out his hands to catch it, then grabbed the reins in a panic, whispering Complained: "You are not afraid that I will not be able to handle it..."

The complaint was blown away by the wind in an instant, and it didn't reach Jiang Zheng's ears at all, and only the blind man behind him smiled softly.

The barely audible laughter made Baozi stunned.

He was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "Blind, do you mind... talking to me?"

"Why did you ask so?"

Baozi didn't know how to respond for a moment. In his eyes, Changsheng and Jiang Zheng were easy-going people, but the elf from Wodo behind him seemed to have an aura of repelling people thousands of miles away. She is always the one who talks the least, and sometimes he even feels that Blind is very strange, and there seems to be nothing except the friendship along the way.

If she would not speak, no one would know what was going on in her mind.

But just now, she laughed, and I don't know if it was an illusion, Baozi suddenly felt that the distance between each other was not so deep: "I just think you are usually silent, like an elder, not easy to get along with Look, don't you like talking to people?"

"I am indeed old enough to be your elder." Blind said, as if feeling Baozi's sudden embarrassment, he smiled and said, "It's not that I don't like talking to people, it's just that no one talks to me. "

"Uh... eh?"

"After all, there is only the quicksand priest under the tree of life." Blind said lightly, as if the matter had nothing to do with him: "It's been more than 50 years."

For more than 50 years, everything can become a habit, even if the life span is as long as an elf, it cannot be avoided.

Being expelled by the tribe and taken in by the priest, she began to get used to avoiding, getting used to being silent, and getting used to obeying. In the end of these habits, it was inevitable that she would forget all the habits before getting used to it.

She used to talk to others when she was helpless, she used to like to share her happiness and anger in the lively crowd, once her eyes followed a figure, full of selfish desires, trying to break some rules that should not be broken ...

But it was all once.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Baozi was suddenly at a loss.

"Back then, I was used by the black dragon. I lost my mind, hurt my clansmen, broke my seal, and made a big mistake. The priest always said, I don't blame me for that, but the judgment of my clan is there. It is an eternal expulsion, a death order not to set foot in Voldo again. Even if the priest keeps me, I cannot forgive myself."

Baozi said: "But...it's really not your fault."

"It's my fault. If people's selfish desires are so strong, how can they be easily manipulated by the seeds of desire?" Blind sighed and shook his head, and continued: "Do you know what it feels like to like someone? I handed over my heart, and it no longer belongs to me, if I want to get it back, I have to tear it hard until it is finally broken into two halves, and it will never be complete."

"She is a God-appointed spiritual girl, the one who is destined to protect Wodo, and she cannot be with anyone. But I was so afraid of pain at that time, how could I be willing to suffer from that incomprehensible lovesickness... I have been working so hard, trying to make myself stronger, thinking that I have enough strength to protect Wodo, and I don’t need her to protect me, so I can be with her.”

"But I... just can't reach that step. Even if I become the pride of the clan, it's still not enough, not enough to take off the burden on her, not enough to resist everything for her." She said, "I'm guilty , inescapable... No one knows, but I know that that year, I took the initiative to sacrifice my soul to the black dragon, because the black dragon said that he could give me what I wanted, so I had no principles Betrayed everything...Since then, nothing has been the same. Even if...the priest forgave me, Wodo didn't forgive me, she forgave me, but I couldn't forgive myself."

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"In order to save my life, she stabbed my eyes blindly as a punishment. Now that I think about it, I can't see, and gradually I don't think about it anymore." She said, no longer speaking, just silent for a while Afterwards, he suddenly murmured to himself in a low voice: "Isn't it?"

The word lightly is a heavy and long self-relieving.

The passing years told her that if you don't look down on something, don't look at it again, and one day it will fade away.

Baozi was silent for a long time, and said: "I... I may not be able to understand your pain, but there is one thing, although no one knows, but I will never forgive myself."

Blind way: "Exchange secrets? Promise each other and never tell the third person."

Baozi raised his eyes to look at the horses of Chang Sheng and Jiang Zheng not far ahead, slowed down deliberately, and kept a certain distance from them.

He said: "When I was eight years old, I took my sister and sneaked out of the village to play. We met two people..."

"Those two claimed to be alchemists who returned from studying in Eggert. They are currently researching a subject that can make a fragile human body very strong. They said that the research has basically been successful, but there are no test subjects. Ask us Would you like to witness their achievements?" Baozi said, with uncontrollable anger in his tone: "They also said that as long as they are willing to help them do a small experiment, they will not get sick, will not be afraid of pain, and will not be sick again. Being bullied."

"My sister is only five years old and doesn't understand anything. I kept shaking my head and turned around to take her home. But those two people followed us, coaxing us non-stop, and even grabbed my sister and gave her sweets. I think Something was wrong, so I dragged my sister and started running, but we couldn't run past the two adults, and we were finally arrested."

"They took my sister and me to a cave. I saw several wooden cages in the cave. Inside were some creatures that I had never seen before. They had human-like hair and could make calls and voices. It is very similar to the cry of a human child, but it is not human."

"They tied up my sister and me, lit a fire beside them, and discussed topics I couldn't understand... Sometimes they complained, sometimes they laughed wildly. I cut the rope on my wrist, I felt very painful, my wrist seemed to be bleeding, and finally I broke the rope."

"That night, when they were resting, I wanted to secretly untie the rope tied to my feet, and wanted to take my sister away, but suddenly someone woke up, and he yelled loudly. I was so scared that I couldn't do anything. I didn’t pay attention, turned around and started running...I kept running, kept running, I don’t know how long I ran, it was very dark, and it was raining heavily outside the cave, when I stopped, my heart suddenly became cold.”

"I actually left my sister behind."

As Baozi spoke, he choked up.

"I dare not go home alone. I wandered around for a long time, finally picked up the sharp stones on the ground, and ran back in the direction I escaped from."

"But, it's too late..."

He said that it was too late for him to go back. Those two people had been looking for children who were alone to do animal-like human experiments. After he escaped, they felt that the stronghold was exposed, so they decided to get rid of their sister and leave directly, changing to another place.

And when he went back, the experiment was just halfway through, and he saw with his own eyes the two men inject a strange potion into his sister's limbs, and use a magic technique to make her very painful.

He didn't know where he got the courage, and while the two of them were focusing on his younger sister, he sneaked up and opened the wooden cage on the side. One after another, the strange creatures in the cage turned red-eyed and looked towards the two. The man rushed forward, biting desperately.

He ran to his sister who was in pain, and saw that her body changed little by little starting from her limbs.

He could vaguely predict what his sister would look like, and he was at a loss for what to do. At this moment, a "monster" with blood on the corner of his mouth came to his sister, opened his mouth and began to bite her left hand. Tried to drive it away, but saw that its eyes were no longer as blood red as before, but with tears of pleading.

He heard these "monsters" start to cry, and stepped forward to bite his sister's limbs.

"Cut... off..."

"quick……"

"That's too late……"

They spoke human words with difficulty. With trembling hands, he picked up the butcher knife left by the bad guy lying quietly on the ground beside him...

The younger sister who lost her arms and legs was so small and light. She was covered in blood, and she was in a coma for a long time after returning home.He didn't know how to tell the villagers all this. He didn't dare to let people know that his sister became like this. He found the cave with a knife and an axe, and killed all those "monsters", but he didn't dare to stop them.

It had been many days since the younger sister opened her eyes for the first time, she just said a word, and then passed out from the pain again.

"Don't blame brother..."

He squatted in a corner, staring blankly at his sister who was covered in gauze for a long, long time. Regret took root in his heart and could never be removed.

"After the accident, my sister's whole world stayed in that year forever. Maybe it was too much stimulation, or maybe those strange drugs affected her. Later, she lost the ability to speak like a normal person, and occasionally Waking up crying because of nightmares, and occasionally obedient like a child who will never grow up."

He learned alchemy because he had a secret in his heart, in case his sister's mind was really affected by drugs, he would find a way to cure her one day, so that she could regain the consciousness of ordinary people. I will do my best to protect her, accompany her, and never let her be wronged again.

Years of studying, let him know that among the various factions of alchemy, there is indeed a very unpopular biology department. Because their research is not convenient for life, they have always been ignored, until some people At the beginning, human beings were used as experimental products, and finally a big mistake was made, which was strictly banned by the country/country, and then gradually disappeared from people's vision and memory.

"..."

On the horseback, the two people who exchanged each other's secrets fell silent for a while.

Their friendship is not enough to survive their lives, but during a conversation, they got a glimpse of a secret that the other party has never told anyone in his life, and they made a promise that they would never reveal it in this life.

After an unknown amount of time, Baozi suddenly burst out laughing.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Zheng couldn't help but look back: "What are you doing?"

"Nothing." Baozi responded loudly.

"Thank you." He breathed a sigh of relief, grateful in a low voice.

Blind didn't say anything, just patted the dwarf boy on the shoulder.

None of us need to forgive ourselves.

Since those mistakes that make you regret your whole life cannot be changed, try your best to make up for them.Believe that one day, you and I will be saved.

"Tell me, what were Baozi and Blind talking about in the back just now?" Jiang Zheng leaned into Changsheng's ear and muttered, "I don't usually see them so familiar."

The hot breath in her ears made Chang Sheng a little uncomfortable, she turned her eyes to the distance, and replied, "Who knows?"

"Your ears seem a little hot?" Jiang Zheng said.

"You're too close, it's a little hot." Chang Sheng said.

"Oh." Jiang Zheng rolled her eyes, moved back a little, rested her head on her back, closed her eyes, and whispered, "I'm sleepy, I'll stay here for a while."

Chang Sheng worried: "Be careful not to fall."

"No, hold tight."

"..." Chang Sheng didn't seem to believe it, so he took out a hand and gently attached it to the back of her hand.

The horseshoes were chasing the sunset, and the wind kept blowing past the ears. Chang Sheng could clearly feel Jiang Zheng's body temperature and even breathing behind him, which was quiet and beautiful.

It's just that no one knows how many days this peace can stay by my side.