Midnight Forced Marriage

Chapter 365 Wu Gui's Greed and Desire
"After you were finally free from oppression, you didn't become grateful and kind. On the contrary, after defeating the Qi people in one fell swoop, you were aroused with deeper desires and greed." I quietly told the old man what he said. Unspeakable old things, "You have changed from a small tribe that has been oppressed by a big country for many years, to a bloodthirsty tribe that wants to expand its territory and invade wildly."

"Yes!" The old man spoke earnestly, his voice full of helplessness and aloofness from seeing all the vicissitudes and vicissitudes. I was also afraid. But this fear did not suppress the desire in our hearts. Everyone said, since we can kill Qi State, how can we not kill Chu State, a plain country that does not advocate spiritual power? So everyone Almost without much discussion, it was agreed to go down the mountain and attack."

"So it's really you." Chu Yue breathed a long sigh of relief, "We always thought it was Qi Guo. If we didn't come here, who would have thought that there is such a big secret inside?"

"Prince Chu, we know that you went to Wuxiang, which has a good diplomatic relationship, to rescue soldiers." The old man said, "But what everyone is saying is that you found that our offensive trend is too great, and you are afraid that you can't bear it alone." , so I didn’t go to Wu Xiangguo, I just fled alone, not even bringing a personal entourage with me.”

"No!" I interrupted him, afraid that he would irritate Chu Yue, "Grandpa, things are not what you think..."

"Chu'er!" Chu Yue interrupted my defense, and took a step forward, "Old man, what happened after that, why are you the only one left in the whole Wugui, and you can still live till now?"

"Me..." the old man sighed, then chuckled again, "Maybe it's just to meet you and tell everything?"

"Ok?"

"Because of what happened back then, three ethnic groups were involved, and they all perished." When the old man said, his expression was a loneliness and loneliness that no one had ever experienced before, "And the only one who survived was me with you."

Chu Yue frowned, then nodded in agreement.

"I was the youngest in the tribe that year, and I didn't participate in these two battles. That year..." The old man recalled, his eyes looked over the invisible air and looked at the distant nothingness, as if what happened that year was still vivid in the past. However, he has always been an outsider.To him, that tragic and bloody war may really be just a story.Maybe he himself has always regarded himself as a poet collector?Perhaps it is because of this that he will live until now?

"My Wugui tribe killed all the Qi people almost effortlessly. Our deployment at that time was that those with profound spiritual power commanded the battle in the rear, and those who were brave and skilled in combat killed the enemy in front. That is why we rushed into the palace to kill people. They didn't quite understand why there were so few living people in Qi State, they thought that many people had died due to the plague and had been buried, and the rest were dying, and they still felt that killing was not enough and revenge was not fun. "The old man said, sighed, as if he was indisputable, "However, the wizards commanding in the rear are already desperate..."

"It was already too late when they found out that all the dead people in Qi State had arrived in the mirage?"

"Yes." The old man said a little numbly, as if these things had been repeated in his mind over and over again over the years, "We can't do anything, they have delivered their souls to another spirit world, and In the not-too-distant future, after we die, we will definitely be sucked into that illusion with their evil spiritual power, and we will not be able to enter reincarnation, but will have to be enslaved and tortured by them just like when we were alive."

"It's the same for the people of Chu today." Chu Yue said suddenly, with a solemn and distant voice.

"Chu Yue." I looked up at him cautiously, but didn't know what to say.

"Our sorcerer thought of a way to make us so sinful that we dare not even call ourselves Wugui people, because our sins are too heavy." The old man said, "The sorcerers at that time knew that they wanted to reincarnate after death. It must be ensured that we will not be caught by the Qi people after we die. However, when we kill them, we have already been cursed by them with a deep evil. The only way is to commit crimes worse than theirs when we are alive. Only with deeper crimes can we have more evil power to resist them."

I frowned, "Is that so? Evil can prevail, why don't you exchange it with atonement?"

"If we had the ability to predict, of course we would choose to atone for our sins." The old man said earnestly, and his tone was full of helplessness, "At that time, our wizards didn't quite understand. Influenced by Confucianism and Taoism, we didn’t even have much writing and language at that time.”

The old man sighed, looked up at the sky, and continued, "Now I can communicate with you, which is also a task left to me by the wizards. I was deliberately left behind by them. Leave a mouth alive, so that one day in the future, we can tell these unspeakable stories that make us ashamed to those we are ashamed of, such as you, the prince of Chu."

"I'm no longer the prince of Chu State." Chu Yue smiled wryly, "I'm now the eternal sinner of Chu State in the mouth of the three citizens."

"Chu Yue..."

"It doesn't matter, no matter what the misunderstanding is, it has been misunderstanding for 500 years, who cares." Chu Yue said calmly, patted me on the shoulder, and comforted me, "Wuhu is still my people after all, I am The state of Chu, which left as a prince, will now go back as a prince. I believe that if the people of the three countries are all in a mirage, they must be fighting more now than when they were alive."

"That's right, and they've been fighting for hundreds of years." The old man gave an affirmative answer, "Back then, when I Wugui found out that the Qi people had sold their souls to evil spirits in exchange for a place in the mirage, They were terrified in their hearts, and thought that they would be strong enough to dissolve this enmity. So they attacked the neighboring state of Chu in the name of the people of Qi, and believed that they would sacrifice the heads and blood of the people of Chu to the state of Qi. However, they originally wanted to leave The next hegemony, but unexpectedly, it was destroyed. And Chu State, which we thought was easy to bully, actually put all their eggs in one basket, adopted the same method as Qi State, and died together with us."

"It turned out to be like this..." I sighed after hearing this, it turned out to be like this.

"We were wrong, everything was wrong. From the very beginning, we shouldn't have taken advantage of others' danger. If we had really relied on our strength and spiritual power, we might have won them when Qi State was strong or average. Maybe that would be the case. They will not take that evil path, we are responsible for everything, and the old man smiled sadly and solemnly, "We have harmed ourselves as well as others!"

(End of this chapter)