This brave man is a scumbag

Chapter 447 The Price of Truth

"Sixty miles north of this mountain, there is a mine."

With a dying cigarette in his mouth, the faint light made Arthur's eyes flicker.He pointed forward, and said in a melancholy tone, "That mine used to belong to us, or rather, it belonged to our friends."

"He is a bad guy. We were the ones who stole his cows first, but he still gave us a piece of land to live in. We set up camp in the Shang Dynasty, and he saw that our girls didn't have suitable clothes, so he sent us a piece of land to live in. His dead daughter's clothes were given to us."

"Later we contacted a few times, and the Van der Lin gang stopped robbing. We helped him guard the mine, helped him drive away those monsters, and prevented other gangs from robbing the mine."

Having said that, Arthur snuffed out the cigarette butt with his fingers and threw it away.He folded his arms, and said in a sad voice, "This kid is a fool, so stupid that we don't even know how he survived in this ghost place in the west. Here, kindness is stupidity, and badness is the qualification to live."

"You know, I always thought of myself as a moral role model before."

Looking at Zhou Li with a strange expression, Arthur smiled helplessly and said, "Don't laugh, what I said is true."

"The Van der Lin gang has always had the rule of three no-robbing. Don't grab the old, the weak, women and children, don't grab life-saving money, and don't grab scholars who study crystal tricks, so our reputation in the west has always been good, at least compared to those who strip other people's skins and eat human flesh. As a gang, we're not too bad."

"A cool look."

Regarding Arthur's explanation, Zhou Li scoffed and said with disdain: "The old, the weak, women and children are a bunch of poor people, and they don't have much money if they rob them. If you rob them of life-saving money, you will be enraged for a lifetime. If you don't kill them, you will be killed later." .As for the scholars."

After looking at the pistol on Arthur's waist, Zhou Li sneered, "Your broken gun can't even break through people's defenses."

"Yes."

Arthur smiled wryly. He pulled out the rusty revolver. The magazine used to hold the professional energy on it was full of traces of energy disorder. "We are just a group of dogs planing in the wilderness. No matter how sharp the teeth of a dog are, They will also be killed by human guns."

"Three years ago, the ranch was attacked by crystal ghosts. There were 26 of them in total. We only had ten guns in our hands. We fought with ten guns for two full days. Later, the ranch fell and we escaped."

Holding the handle of the revolver tightly, grief appeared in Arthur's blue eyes, he was a cowboy, he didn't need to hide his feelings, "Idiots are idiots, in order to save an old man in our gang, die Under Jing Gui's crystal thorns. The old man also died, but he couldn't be rescued, and the pasture was completely destroyed."

"Later, Jing Gui took hold of that farm. We rushed twice, but failed, and his body was not brought out. I erected a stone monument on that hill, threw some of his clothes, Never mind."

There was not much sadness on Arthur's expression, only a touch of melancholy and relief on the rough skin eroded by the western wind and sand.He looked at the mountain in the distance, and said to Zhou Li: "I said this, not to make you sympathize with anyone. Most of the time, I deserve it."

"I have investigated before, why there are so many pastures around, but that idiot's pasture was attacked by so many crystal ghosts. Later, I found out that those crystal ghosts were not roaming aimlessly, they seemed to be guarding something. But again More than that, I can't see it."

Pinching his knuckles, the calluses on them were very hard, Arthur looked at his hands full of calluses, and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to avenge him, and now only John and Dach are left with my brothers who used those ten guns. Those crystal ghosts are very strong, I can throw my head and blood, rush in and take away a few crystal ghosts and then be torn to pieces. But Van der Lin can't help, they can't do without me."

"So, I just told you that those crystal ghosts gathered near the ranch, and they are guarding something, that's all."

Raising his head, his cloudy eyes were rarely clear. Arthur stared at Zhou Li and said calmly, "I will work for you and help you find what you want. What I want is the truth. "

There was no answer, and Zhou Li did not immediately make a promise.Arthur is very strange, he is the strangest person Zhou Li has ever seen.

It seems that Gerost is a bit like him.But in fact, they are two completely different people.Gerost's kindness is engraved in his bones, and his every move has a love for life. Whenever he puts himself in a rule, he lets himself do things according to the rule.

But Arthur is different, he is not a kind person, because a kind person cannot survive in the west.

He killed people, killed many people.The evil deeds he has done will be sentenced to death in any country, which is enough to die for three days and three nights.He is a robber, a desperado, at best, a desperado with a ridiculous bottom line.

But if it was really just like this, Arthur wouldn't be able to live now.He had been casually killed by Zhou Li when he was robbing the underground black market.Of course, maybe those black pupils with strange power saved his life, but it was Arthur's eyes that made Zhou Li choose to let him go temporarily.

Guilt, despair, but no numbness.

Zhou Li knew that the west would not allow good people to survive, and anyone who valued etiquette, righteousness and shame would die in the west.In the West, a good-looking woman may have several lives at her hands.That place is a barren land, a desolation beyond the reach of civilization.

However, in Arthur's eyes, there was still guilt and despair, and there was no numbness.This is a very miraculous phenomenon, because if there is guilt in the eyes of a person who has committed a crime, there must be numbness.Because they have committed crimes, but they dare not atone with their lives, so they cover themselves with numbness.

Arthur was different. Even when death was approaching, there was still guilt in his eyes.Despair did not make him let go of the bottom line of everything, until death, he seemed to be looking for something.

But now, Zhou Li knew what he was looking for.What Arthur is looking for is the rare thing that may not exist in the entire West-redemption.

After smoking the last cigarette and putting it out, Arthur closed his eyes, drooped his eyelids, and said to Zhou Li with a wry smile: "If you want my life, you can do it anytime. I have been preparing for a long time. In fact, I have Just get ready, and when you see me, I'll kill myself."

"Then why isn't it dead?"

Zhou Li has always spoken very straightforwardly, especially to people like Arthur, "You know, I won't kill everyone in the Van der Lin gang. I feel that death is a relief for you."

"maybe."

Arthur smiled. He looked at the crow in the distance with a relieved expression, but he also laughed at himself a bit: "You are right, death may be a relief for me. I don't like killing people, and I don't like robbery either. Although I can't read a few big words, I really like to write poetry. Living in the west is really a kind of torture for me."

"Daqi said that I am hypocritical, that I have no cowboy spirit, and that my brain has been corroded by the sugar-coated shells of the civilized world. But I also understand that I can't go back to Tariq, the blood on my hands, the bullets in the barrel , reminding me all the time that I am a cowboy, a cowboy walking on the edge of gray."

"So, I really thought about suicide."

Looking at Zhou Li, a self-deprecating smile appeared on Arthur's not-so-handsome face, "But when you told me that I have relatives who are still alive, I suddenly hesitated. I began to imagine my parents, imagined Relatives who never appeared in my life, and then, I began to expect extravagantly."

"I want the truth."

Staring at Zhou Li, Arthur expressed his desire, "I want to know why Jinggui wanted to kill William, and why he looted the land that had nothing. I want to know, who is my family? what."

"Two truths, in exchange for your life, do you think it's worth it?"

Zhou Li raised his eyebrows and asked with interest: "Actually, you don't need to tell me so much, you have to understand that my trip to the west is not easy, and some things are more terrifying than you imagined. .”

"I know."

Arthur smiled mysteriously and pointed to the sky, "You are interested in the sky, I know."

"Then you are still going to sell this life to me?"

Facing Zhou Li's question, Arthur turned around. He looked at the tents with oil lamps hanging behind him, and the vigilant eyes of Dach and John in the wooden house. He didn't smile, and his expression was a little gloomy.

"I've returned everything I could to them."

Putting the pistol back into the holster, Arthur shook his head at John, and then said to Zhou Li, "Now, I'm going to find the truth."

"Even if you die?"

"But worth it."

Arthur's smile was bitter and relieved.He looked at Zhou Li, his rough face was full of silence.

"This fucking West is really more expensive than life."

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Standing at the gate of the airport, Huang Yi looked at the brightly lit airport, his eyes flickering.

"Ready to go?"

At this time, a beautiful girl's voice sounded from the side.Huang Yi turned his head and grinned, "Of course, I'm a classic deserter."

"Me too."

Izzy kept her business smile, her short hair draped over her shoulders, and her clothes were meticulous without any wrinkles.She looked at the disheveled man in front of her, and said in a crisp voice, "Now, I'm not a member of the Commercial Church."

"You sacrificed so much for me!"

Huang Yi's face turned one side, and he said in horror: "You won't fall in love with me!"

"Please don't have such self-excessive thoughts. No beautiful girl would choose a middle-aged man with a sloppy beard and an unshaved beard. Please respect my basic aesthetics."

After uttering a sentence that made Huang Yi look uncomfortable, Izzy smiled. This time, it was not the smile she learned under Yin Jue's hands, but a real smile.

"Nonsense, I understand if you don't tell me."

Seemingly satisfied with his slovenly and unshaven image, Huang Yi shook his head proudly, and then said disdainfully: "Fart your fart, don't let me take you away, air tickets are disgustingly expensive now. If it weren't for the fact that the border is not allowed to run over, if you want to find me now, you have to intercept me in the deep mountains and old forests."

"No, I don't mean to let you go."

Izzy shook her head, her satin-like short black hair fluttering slightly with her movements.She looked at Huang Yi, smiled and asked, "I'm here to let you stay."

"Believe me."

Looking at Izzy, Huang Yi said sincerely: "In a real fight, if you tie up ten of them, you won't be my opponent."

"Of course, I've heard of the name Chosen by the God of War."

Izzy nodded, and then she calmly said to Huang Yi, "So, I'm here to let you stay."

"I didn't betray Yinjue, nor did I betray the Church of Commerce. Everything I do now is driven by a secret order that His Royal Highness Yinjue left me before becoming a god."

There was no warrant or secret letter, Izzy just turned his back to the brightly lit airport, looked at Huang Yi standing in the darkness without street lights, and said slowly and clearly:

"If I choose to become a god to fight against Zhou Li in the end, then you must find Huang Yi and let him stay."

"Tell him, if the Commercial Church hypes up about Yinjue after he became a god, Huang Yi, you are doing the right thing. If the Commercial Church silently buries Yinjue after he dies, it means that human beings have no way out." gone."

"What the hell is he going to do?!"

Hearing this sentence, the blue veins on Huang Yi's neck were very conspicuous. At this moment, he was like a hungry tiger, choosing to eat someone.He stared at Izzy, and asked sharply, "What the hell is he trying to do?!"

"He wants to live."

Not afraid of those terrifying eyes, Izzy's voice remained flat, "He wants human beings to live."

"Then why did he fight against Zhou Li, why did he attack those people, why did he keep hiding those things?!"

Facing Huang Yi's pressing questions, Izzy only had pure indifference in his eyes, and the smile disappeared from his face.

"Why do you want to become the Pope of the Church of War, help those lunatic believers deal with the aftermath, and keep worshiping the God of War?"

"Because I am God's Chosen!"

Nodding his head, Izzy looked at Huang Yi who had a ferocious expression in front of him, and smiled, "Yin Jue is also God's Choice."

"So he will help the God of Commerce to cover up everything, help the God of Commerce to fight against Zhou Li, and help the God of Commerce to do everything."

Among the angry eyes, only Izzy's calm eyes remained.

"Thirty years ago, you killed the former Pope and your wife. His Royal Highness Yin Jue learned about this and mobilized one-third of the commercial church to investigate this matter."

"Later, His Royal Highness Yinjue discovered that when you killed those two, 60.00% of the war churches were summoned by the gods on the same day, but it was very short."

"It's a god, right?"

Izzy is a profit seeker who believes that for her everything can be measured in money.But it was because of her characteristic that Yin Jue chose to give her the truth.

Because Yinjue believed that, except for her, no one in this world could offer a higher price than him to make Izzy betray him.

Seeing the gradually silent Huang Yi in front of him, the corners of Izzy's mouth curled up, and then he told the truth.

"The God of War wants to descend into the world and start a war, right?"

(End of this chapter)