A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The night was already very dark, and after they walked some way in the mountains, Gallan found a flat ground as a place to camp tonight. Surrounded by rocks or lush trees, the night wind was blocked, and there was a stream near the flat ground. Shulos wandered around and looked around. No traces of beasts were found. It should be safe.

The bonfire lit, and Garlan sat next to the bonfire, his red light reflecting on his face, and he sighed slightly.

Those who have been sleeping in the past few days thought he could have a soft bed to sleep well tonight, but he couldn't help himself to do much fuss, making him and Shulos unable to enter the city.

Having said that, why can't he always bear it?

Garland was a little depressed.

When he was a prince before, he always felt that as long as he was a prince for a day, these people were his own people and his own responsibilities, so every time he encountered something, he took care of it subconsciously.

He also always believed that when he left the palace and removed his identity as a prince, he would not have been so busy with no responsibility.

Who knows, today is still subconscious...

He rubbed his head and felt a little brain pain.

He himself knew that this would not work.

Now that he has lost the status of prince, and without Kehuos and Xiemuer as their backing and helpers, he will overturn the boat sooner or later if something similar happens. This time, with the help of clever bluffs to solve the problem, it does not mean that it will be so smooth in the future, nor that everyone is so easy to fool.

Just when Gallan felt a headache, he stretched out a hand and lifted the long hair on his cheek, and with a fingertip, he pinched his earlobe.

The bard's rough fingers rubbed the malachite earrings on Gallan's earlobe.

"...Malachite."

Shu Luosi said with emotion.

It seems that this noble young master's status is not low.

He is well-informed and not the first time he has seen this precious gem.

Withdrawing his hand, he said, "How do you know that team rate will find your earrings? In case he didn't notice?"

"He will notice. It may not be noticed by someone with an upright personality, but that person is obviously a villain."

Garland shrugged his shoulders and said, "In order to please people, this kind of people are very perceptive, and very keen on some unusual things."

"makes sense."

Shulos threw a dead branch into the fire.

He said, "Gar, you said, you want to be a bard like me, do you?"

"Yes, I think so."

Now that you have decided to travel to the mainland, the identity of a minstrel is the most convenient.

...Well, anyway, he learned a bit of Rute from Kehos, and he should be able to cope with it when he needs to play it.

"So, I will tell you now that the first thing you have to do when walking on the mainland as a minstrel is to ignore those things that will cause you trouble."

"what?"

"This time it was your luck. I only encountered a small team rate and it was easy to kill, but what about in the future?"

Shulos asked, "If you meet someone stronger, smarter, and more cruel than him, or even someone you can't overcome at all, what do you do? Do moths catch fire?"

"........."

"No matter what you see, you pretend not to see it. Only in this way can you live long."

Fiddled with the dead branches in his hand, a spark blasted in the flames, reflected in Shulos' pupils, as if there were sparks spreading under his eyes.

"Now this world is not peaceful, the dignitaries have been drunk, but the civilians are suffering... Everyone will suffer different sufferings at all times, just say now, during this period of our dialogue, in this On the land, there may be many people suffering."

"In this world, injustices abound, and painful people are everywhere."

In the light of fire, Shu Luosi's handsome face was now filled with indifference, and, indifferently.

He has traveled all over the land, and has long been accustomed to life and death, injustice and pain.

"So many people, you can't save it."

The bard’s voice is low at the moment, with a rhythm that almost melts into the night, as if it can penetrate the deepest part of the heart.

"Who are you alone, who can help, who can be saved? You saved one, and thousands of other people are still suffering. What use do you save that one? Who cares about the tiny sand-like ones? A person?"

He said that the clear and clear voice, but the words were indifferent to the bones.

"Wait later, you will understand, Gal, that nobody cares at all."

The night was still, the temperature seemed to have dropped, and there was a little chill in the air.

At this moment, the open space was extremely quiet, and only the sound of flowing water from the stream not far away could be heard.

"wrong."

Garland said he looked sideways at Shulos.

The light of fire reflected in his pupils, making his eyes look like amber wrapped in flames, always glowing with light.

"No matter how many people don't care, but Shulos, the one I helped, he cares."

He looked at Shulos seriously and said, "He must care."

Shu Luosi choked for a moment.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but found nothing to say.

He couldn't refute.

That person may just be a humble grain of sand among all living beings, but for that person, his life is all about himself.

No one cares about him, but he must care.

The vacant land was quiet again, and Shulos was silent, his face no longer indifferent. The fire was burning, and the dead branches crackled.

After a long silence, Shulos spoke again.

"Actually, I did the same thing as you."

He says,

"Long ago, when I was very young..."

…………

At that time, he was just an adult.

Young, young and full of spirits.

The world of young people is too simple and too straightforward. I just think that black is black and white is white. There is justice and justice in the world.

Along the way, it is always easy to get upset. When I see someone in trouble, I go to help and rescue. I look at the gratitude of those who have been saved by myself. The gratitude to myself when I fell down is more and more floating, and I feel myself more. It is a hero who saves people from fire and water.

That day was actually the same as today. He passed by a small village and saw a team of soldiers clashing with the civilians in the village.

When he stepped forward, he knew from the cries of the civilians that he was in a rush.

A lot of people died in a mine collapse near a lord. Now the mines are understaffed. The soldiers want to grab a dozen young people from the village and throw them away. However, the mine is still very dangerous, coupled with the extreme harshness of the miners, almost all have the fate of being tortured to death. Those young people and their loved ones are naturally unwilling to struggle desperately to go.

Hearing this, he said nothing, and arrogantly shot the leading team and several soldiers, and drove those soldiers away.

Those rescued and their loved ones are naturally grateful to him.

When he was satisfied, he saw the old village leader looking at him with a pale face, his dry lips were trembling, and then he drove him away with no politeness.

At that time, he was very uneasy in his heart, and felt that he was their life-saving benefactor. The old man treated himself like this.

However, that night, he found that he had accidentally dropped an important personal item, guessing that it might have been lost during a round-about battle with the soldiers at noon.

So, early in the morning, he quickly rushed back to the village, trying to get things back.

But once he got there, he was stupid.

I saw that the small village that was quite quiet yesterday was almost razed to the ground. The village was full of thick dust after the fire, the burnt broken wood, and a little smoke was still rising.

Yesterday, the civilians who thanked him were still around him, most of them were lying in the fire at the moment, and became a charred body. There are still few people alive, kneeling next to the bodies of their loved ones, weeping mournfully, look desperate, and do not know how long they have been crying, the cries are all intermittent, and the throat has long been crying.

The scene of corpses everywhere was extremely tragic, and his mind was blank at this moment.

why?

he thinks.

Why is this happening?

A stone hit him, hitting his forehead dumbly.

He only felt a headache, and bright red blood flowed down his forehead into the corners of his eyes.

auzw.com He turned his head and stared blankly at the villagers who were still alive and surrounded him.

Those people looked at him, no longer grateful eyes, their faces twisted, their eyes full of hatred and resentment.

"It's you... if it weren't for you to kill those soldiers... it would not anger the noble adults..."

"It's you who made us this way!"

"Without you-without you, my brother will not die, he will not die!"

"We become like this, it's all yours!"

Those who survived screamed in a crying voice, surrounded him, and picked up stones to hit him.

The sharp stones smashed on him, and there were two more bruises on his face. He hid from left to right, and finally escaped from the group in embarrassment.

He fled in vain because he didn't know what to do and what he could do, as if he could hear the shouting cry of those people from afar, like a haunted ghost, for a long time in his mind He was lingering and made him sleepless all night.

Yes, if it were not for him to use his own force to kill the soldiers under the nobility and anger the nobility, this village would not end so miserably.

If he doesn't do much business, the village will lose at least a dozen young people, and the others can live well and safely.

Those who survived were right in saying that he sent the entire village to Huangquan Road.

But what can he do now?

He can do nothing.

The other party is a high-ranking nobleman, and he is a small minstrel who can't even avenge those in the village and can only flee.

At first, the spirit of anger was now in disarray.

...

Later, he has been walking on the earth.

The injustice, the injustice, and the many things that have been seen too much, experienced too much, and gradually become numb.

The young man, full of blood and sharp edge, always feels that there is nothing difficult in this world, and always feels that he is a heroic hero who can easily save people from fire and water.

I always feel that the sword in my hands can do everything I can.

It wasn't until one day that I hit my head and broke the blood in this brutal world of weak meat and strong food, and broke the sword, before I knew what reality is.

After that, he was smoothed out by reality, his blood was cold, he grew up, matured, and looked down, he learned to stand by and watch.

In this troubled world, there are too many injustices. How much can he manage and how many can he help?

In his identity, more often than not, he will harm others.

It's better to stand by and watch.

He smirked and scolded, and the world was so romantic, but he was already indifferent to the world.

...

"Shuluos? What's wrong with you?"

Garlan's voice awakened Shulos from his memory.

He tranced for a moment, and looked up to see Gallan.

Under the firelight, the boy's appearance became more and more beautiful, but no matter how beautiful it looked, he couldn't compare with those bright eyes.

He once thought that a teenager is his past.

He thought that one day, this young man will grow up, mature, compromise with reality, and lose that young heart.

But he was wrong. This teenager is different from the past.

Very different.

"You said you encountered the same thing as me, and then?"

"……Can not remember."

"what?"

"It was a long time ago, so I haven't remembered it very well, hahaha."

Shulos waved his hand at random. "It's late at night. Go to sleep. It's only halfway up the mountain. I'm going uphill tomorrow morning."

He thought about it and told him, "I will talk about it later, but since you have done it this time, be careful not to get close to the city of Twillor, otherwise you will be in trouble."

"Oh."

Garland nodded and got up to clean up, but when he just got up, the black horse tethered to the side suddenly screamed, it was desperately digging its hoof, its head swaying desperately, restless.

Gallan hurried forward to appease it and watched it pull the reins vigorously, irrespective of which reins would strangle him. He was afraid that it would hurt himself, and he quickly pacified it and released the reins.

A loud hissing sound came one after another, and the brown horse on Shulos's side seemed to have the same problem, struggling restlessly, and it was useless for Shulos to appease.

"what happened?"

Garland asked.

Shulos dragged the reins dead and answered, "I don't know, I checked. There is no breath of fierce beasts nearby. How could they be scared like this?"

Suddenly, Gallan felt himself shaking, and then the trees around him shook slightly. He was startled, and a sudden conversation with the team not long ago flashed in his head. The team said that the area of ​​Twirlor City had moved a while ago.

Is this...

Suddenly there was a sudden violent shaking, and the hissing horse became even more agitated. Although the reins were pulled by Gallan, all four hooves began to trample on them.

Moved!

Gallan also wanted to grasp the reins, but the ground beneath his feet shook even more. He stood reluctantly, and the dark horse struggled harder and harder.

There was another violent shaking, he stumbled, almost fell, his hand reins loose, the irritable black horse broke free of his hand, a long hissing, drove away, and soon disappeared on the shaking ground .

Garland had no idea to control the horse that had run away, because the ground was shaking too hard, and he was unable to stand. He grabbed the big tree just tethered to the horse so that he didn't fall to the ground.

Suddenly, a huge and dull roar echoed through the mountain, like the sound of a huge rock breaking suddenly.

He was so dizzy that he couldn't pay attention to the noise at all.

"Gal!"

Suddenly someone shouted, and he looked up and saw Shulos rushing at him.

He was pushed so hard that he couldn't catch the tree trunk anymore, and the whole person fell backward and fell heavily on the ground.

A huge crackling sounded in his ears, the ground shook violently, Gallan's pupil suddenly enlarged, and he saw a huge crack split open on the ground.

With the crackle, the crack quickly moved from far to near, like lightning, and the ground that was flat for the first second instantly cracked a fierce crack.

The tree he had just grabbed had fallen into a dark rift, and Shulos, who pushed him away, stepped on the edge of the crack because he helped him slow down a step, and the whole person fell in. gap.

Gallan had no time to think about it, rushed over and grabbed Shulos's hand.

He was lying on the edge of the crack, pulling Shulos tightly with one hand, tightly buckling the rocks around him, and the green bars on the back of the hand were stretched out.

He pulled Shuluo's hand loose, and he didn't see Shuluo looked up at him with a little surprise when he was caught by him.

The ground was still shaking violently, and the rubble rolled away from Shulos.

He dangled in the air, under his feet was an abyss that could not see the end.

But at this moment, his lips raised slightly.

It was at this moment that Shulos, who had originally picked up a good-looking, boring piece of fun, really regarded Galland as his companion.

A companion worthy of his trust.

After raising the corner of his mouth, he extended his right hand to grab the rock beside him.

With a vigorous effort, one turned over, and he quickly leaped onto the ground.

The ground is still shaking.

The whole mountain roared and shook.

The rocks collapsed, the ground cracked, the giant trees collapsed, the rocks rolled down, and the gravel splashed. Countless animals swiftly walked through them, as if they were falling apart, terrified.

The author has something to say: 　　Minstrels also have stories.

And, the bard's attributes should have been lucky.

however……

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