Awakening of Rebirth

Relying on the connections he had accumulated in Eggert over the years, Mogg arranged a route to leave Eggert in advance. The road he pointed to was very remote. The five of them fled along the route he provided. At first it went smoothly, but later But for some reason, he was suddenly caught by the pursuers. Fortunately, he did not chase too tightly. After a few days of detour, he was finally able to get rid of it, and hurriedly fled to the resting place arranged by Mogg in advance.

Hidden here in the mountains and forests, they were met by a dwarf couple with mutilated faces and disabilities.The woman has no legs, and the husband has no right arm. It seems that it is inconvenient to do anything, but they help each other to keep a small forest hut in order.

While chatting, the five people learned that the couple had lost their only son due to malicious arson more than ten years ago, and they almost died in the sea of ​​fire. Accompanying them to recover from their injuries for several months has allowed them to regain their hope of life.Since then, the two of them have lived in a remote mountain village for a long time, knowing little about what happened outside, and they don't know and don't care about the identity of the people they help.

In their view, the young man who has been running around for them for a long time is not only a benefactor, but also a relative.Even though they never knew each other, they helped them wholeheartedly under such a difficult and unrequited situation. This kind of love will never be cleared in a lifetime.

After the meal, the couple casually asked how Mogg was doing and how soon they would come to see them. Everyone fell silent because of this question. In the end, only Jiang Zheng responded, "He's gone to sea."

"Go to sea?"

"Well, he heard that there are other continents on the other side of the sea, and Erhe is just a corner of the world, so he wants to take a look around."

"Will you come back?"

"Yes, it will bring back many strange stories that we have never heard of, and tell us one by one."

After hearing this, the dwarf couple looked at each other and smiled, and the wife couldn't help but sighed, "That child is still so young. Back then, it was the same for our husband and wife..."

At that moment, Chang Sheng only felt that what was engraved on the broken faces of the two who had been burned by the fire was not pain, but an enviable plainness and warmth.Mogg dragged them out of the abyss, and the years kissed their scars, and healed all the pain in their hearts year after year.

Before going back to the room to rest, Jiang Zheng was pulled by Baozi's cuff, turned around and saw him hesitant to speak, and took him to a corner.

"What's the matter? It's been weird recently."

"I..." Baozi thought for a while, then finally shook his head and said, "It's fine."

"Is it okay?" Jiang Zheng stretched out his hand and flicked Baozi's forehead. Seeing that he was in pain, he put his hands on his hips and said, "You wrote the word 'concern' on your face, and you still told me it's okay? I saw him a few days ago. There is something wrong with you, I have always wanted to wait for you to take the initiative to speak, now that you have called me over, you still want to pretend nothing happened?"

There was a flash of panic in Baozi's eyes, and he restrained himself in the next second. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Jiang Zheng, something is wrong with Changsheng... that day at the seal, when the phoenix helped you get the keel, she...she It's weird..."

"How strange?" Jiang Zheng asked with a frown.

"For a moment, the red pupils grew scales, and he didn't look like a person... Could it be affected by the black dragon like Senior Mogg said?"

"Impossible!" Although Jiang Zheng was firm in his mouth, he was confused in his heart. After hesitating for a moment, he patted Baozi's shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, I'll ask her." After finishing speaking, Walk quickly to the guest room.

Baozi couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief when he saw that Jiang Zheng was gone, but when he turned around, he met Laki's gaze, and was startled suddenly: "Ex, senior!"

"Jiang Zheng is smart, but she is easily flustered when it comes to Changsheng. Even though you changed the subject so obviously, she didn't notice..." Lackey glanced at Jiang Zheng who was walking away, and whispered to Baozi's ear. Said: "This is not what you want to tell her, why did you decide to speak up, but finally lie again?"

"..." Baozi froze on the spot and didn't dare to speak. His cleverness had fooled Chang Sheng, but not Laki.

Seeing that Baozi didn't respond, Lackey frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Is it because you can't trust them, or are you no longer worthy of their trust?"

"..." Baozi lowered his head and remained silent.

"Why don't you talk? Your behavior has become more and more strange these days. What is the reason?"

"..."

"The route arranged by Mog should have been a blind spot for the pursuers, but we have been spotted many times. Does this have something to do with you?" Lagi said, stepped forward and grabbed Baozi's wrist, and said, "You want to Say, or should I arrest you and let everyone force you to speak?"

Baozi raised his head slowly, and finally met Lagi's gaze calmly: "Senior, do you suspect that I was the one who tipped off the demons?"

"They trust you and don't doubt you. That's their business. I don't know you very well." Lackey spoke very shamelessly.

"But I didn't." Baozi argued.

"Then can you explain, what exactly are you trying to do recently?" Lackey asked.

Baozi gritted his teeth and said, "I really want to say something important, but I can only tell it to one person, a person who is willing to trust me and will definitely keep his mouth shut for me."

Jiang Zheng was the first choice in his heart. After all, she can hide secrets better than anyone else, but there is one thing that makes him hesitate. Jiang Zheng's mind has always been complicated, and thinking too much will make him suspicious, and probably won't give him enough. trust.

"Senior, can you trust me, promise me, and never tell them?"

Lackey couldn't help being taken aback, and after a long silence, he nodded cautiously.

***

"You didn't talk just now, what were you thinking?" This was the first sentence Jiang Zheng said after pushing the door open, as direct as always, making Chang Sheng, who hadn't recovered from the long meditation, a little dumbfounded.

Jiang Zheng looked straight into her eyes, as if she wanted to understand all the thoughts in her heart. She felt that there was nowhere to escape, and she sighed softly and replied softly: "Everyone's life should not be taken away easily. There is hope, there are people by your side, no matter how hard it is, if you get through it, you can get your own happiness... right?"

"It depends on yourself." Jiang Zheng replied, "Some people can't accept it. Living is better than dying. Some people can accept it. Living is more important than anything else."

She said, lowering her head: "Sometimes I feel that I am so bad, no matter how much I have experienced, I am still not strong enough to protect the person I want to protect. Baozi feels extremely guilty for Irene's death, why don't I? If I have the ability to save Irene, Baozi will not be so depressed. If I have the ability to help senior Mogg escape together, I can come here with us and meet their husband and wife... Such a person that no one can protect I can really do it..."

Jiang Zheng directly interrupted Chang Sheng: "If you can slap the black dragon to death with one slap, I don't have to listen to you here if you come and if you pass."

Chang Sheng couldn't help smiling wryly: "I thought you would encourage me."

"It's meaningless to say too much nonsense. Children who fall and get up on their own will wipe away their tears, but those who are lifted up will continue to cry, no matter how much they coax them." Jiang Zheng said, sitting up Beside Chang Sheng, said: "If you are strong enough, then do the former, if you can't, I will wipe away your tears."

Chang Sheng couldn't help being surprised.

"Changsheng, listen." At that moment, Changsheng felt that Jiang Zheng's tone was much tougher than usual, so he raised his eyes and heard her say: "Don't always let the doubts about yourself in your heart hinder you. Even if you are a car with a mantis arm, there are so many people and things that must be protected by you behind you, you are not allowed to take half a step back. Senior Mogg said that you should grow up, sacrifices are always inevitable, we all have to learn Choices. From the moment you learn the secret of the black dragon, whether you are lost or sad, you have to go on this path if you choose it.”

"Azheng..."

"The Changsheng I know, even if he lost his father and younger brother, he didn't lose hope! At that time, the city of perishing was destroyed, the demons cut off their retreat, the Far East fell completely, the morale of the army was shattered, and deserters kept appearing. It was she who stood up Taking on a big responsibility, she promised tens of thousands of demoralized disabled soldiers that she would bring them back to Taran alive. Although reinforcements were waiting for a long time, and they seemed to be abandoned by the homeland she guarded, she still did not give up on those wounded who survived. The disabled soldiers, boosting their morale, fought alone in the Far East and held on for several months! Finally, she succeeded, and those soldiers who followed her left the Far East battlefield alive under her leadership, not because they won, but because Because those in power in Taran signed a humiliating treaty ceding the territory."

"They were the elite troops who had resisted the demons for hundreds of years, but they were attacked by the powerful and terrifying demons led by the black dragon, which is unimaginable and incomprehensible to those who are in peace. Despite this, they still stick to that piece of land, looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements day after day, even if what they finally waited for was the humiliation of defeat, they did not give up their beliefs because of this."

"They stood under the city of Taran, weeping bitterly, not knowing where the despised loser would go. They all looked at you with trust and expectation in their eyes."

Jiang Zheng asked seriously: "Do you still remember what you said to them at that time?"

——The Far East Army is Ainota’s most solid barrier against the demons for hundreds of years. Now that we have lost the Far East in battle, we can cry and be hated and insulted by those who don’t understand us, but we must never fall down!

——I brought you back from the battlefield, and when you recover, I will bring you back to regain everything that was lost this time!

Of course she remembered the promise made at that time, but she couldn't keep it in the end.

"That day, they swear to follow your oath to the sky, and I will never forget it in my life." Jiang Zheng said, putting his hands on Chang Sheng's shoulders, and said: "Chang Sheng, you can cry in pain, but you can't cry. You can fall down, this is what you said!"

"Yes." Chang Sheng couldn't help smiling wryly.

She has experienced such cruel wars, and she has seen so many sacrifices, but at that time, she was not as concerned about gains and losses as she is now.

Perhaps, what she fears the most is not losing everything, but getting it back and losing it again.If someone or something is destined to be lost, it is better to never get it, let alone lose it a second time?

"I won't think about it any more."

"I'm not afraid of your wild thoughts, but I'm afraid that you'll suffocate yourself if you don't speak out after thinking about it." Jiang Zheng said seriously, "There shouldn't be a secret between me and you, right?"

"No."

"Really?" Jiang Zheng's eyes were burning brightly, making Chang Sheng very guilty.

She pondered for a moment, and said: "The night I escaped from the Jiakalun Palace, I heard the voice of the black dragon..."

Jiang Zheng couldn't help frowning, Baozi was right.

"He said that I have no ability to protect the people around me, and said that he would accept me, but if I continue to fight against him, I will lose everything. That's why... I wonder if I really can't do it."

"Fuck, the big villain who likes to pretend like this usually doesn't end well!" Jiang Zheng said, glaring at Chang Sheng, and angrily grabbed her shoulder and shook her back and forth: "In the future, if this kind of thing happens, don't worry about it!" Keep it from me! Do you hear me!"

"Did you hear that! Did you hear that! Did you hear that!"

Chang Sheng was dizzy from the shaking, so he quickly responded without thinking.

Seeing her answer, Jiang Zheng finally stopped, saying: "It's settled, I'm better at deceiving people than you are, if you want to hide anything from me, I'll lie to you to death."

Chang Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he could only nod his head repeatedly.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Zheng finally felt relieved, lay down and thought for a while, recalling Baozi's expression just now, he always felt that he still had something to say, but he lost his position because of Changsheng, so he didn't continue to ask...

My brain is really getting worse and worse, and I don't know if it will be too late to ask later.