Longmen Memoirs

Tallulah smiled.

"Of course not, Alina, without you I wouldn't have time to collect resources and information."

"Who is the person you correspond with? Can you tell me?"

Tallulah fell silent and looked at Alina.

Alina seemed to understand something.

"...You suspect that I am Ursus's spy?"

Tallulah took a sip of water from the wooden cup.

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"I was wondering if I could get you involved in these things."

"When we are infected, our lives cannot get any worse. Whether you want it or not, I have become one of you, Tallulah."

"You are right." Tallulah said: "I will contact the infected people in other cities. I am trying to learn more about the city's trends from them faster, so as to help the infected people living on the tundra as much as possible. We We are not alone, but this force is too scattered.”

"You are doing a great thing." Alina said, and she asked puzzledly: "Where did your strong sense of justice come from? Is it because someone taught you this before?"

"No, the education I received was both vicious and crazy, full of the arrogance of rule and the terror of power." Tallulah said, "So I decided to go in the opposite direction. I wanted to peel off their polite skin and open it. The noble cities they are proud of, tell the truth to everyone, everyone in the snowfield..."

Her fingers clenched.

"Then we decide our own destiny. We go to reclaim this land and build our own home. If anyone doesn't let us do this, we will overthrow them."

"Part of this land belongs to the infected... Just like many places in this land, it belongs to everyone."

Alina frowned.

"...Be realistic, Tallulah, you're going a little too far."

Alina couldn't even imagine that scene. She could only focus on what was in front of her. Tallulah was a person with far-reaching ideals, but Alina didn't have such great ideals.

"Tallulah, if you do this, this village will be completely destroyed. They will have nowhere to go, and the pickets will always be behind them."

"If I don't do this, the village will gradually become deserted, and the pickets will come to our door day by day until we have no retreat and can only let them attack us. I will never sit still and wait for death."

"Not everyone can be called a warrior, the elderly, children, and the sick and injured. If they give up what they depend on for survival, even if it is barren land, they will not be able to survive." Alina said: "You This idea is too scary, Tallulah, they can’t even afford weapons and food to fill their bellies, even if everyone is willing to follow you, what can we do to fight against you.”

"I know, Alina, so we are going to find a new place." Tallulah said, she stood up: "Come, follow me, Alina, we have a place to stay tonight."

"what……"

Dinner was a simple meal of boiled potatoes, dried wild vegetables and moldy moss.

"Thank you for entertaining us." Tallulah thanked her around the bonfire that had not yet been extinguished.

"No way, without you we might all be dead, although it's not much different from dead now." He waved his hand and said: "I'm sorry for treating you like that at the beginning, and I was going to beat you. It's all my fault. Can you?" There’s nothing left to entertain you, so let’s just eat some wheat porridge.”

He said, handing Alina the last bit of thin, pathetic porridge in the bowl.

Alina waved her hand and pushed away.

"Thank you very much, sir. It's not necessary."

He didn't take it back.

"No, it's nothing. Anyway, that's all that's left. It looks like you haven't had a good meal in a long time. The next few days will be just a few days. It doesn't make any difference."

Watching Alina take the bowl.He glanced at the surrounding villagers and used branches to spread the bonfire.

"It's no use trying to build a village, even if it's this far away."

He whispered: "We can't escape. Ursus is so big that it's useless to go anywhere. There are pickets everywhere... Others will not accept us. We have nowhere to go."

"Then, come with me." Tallulah said suddenly.

"...Where to go? Now?" he asked subconsciously.

"It doesn't have to be now. When you think about it clearly, or you are really forced to have no way out, if you still want to live, come to me or my brother."

Tallulah said: "If you go to the wilderness, life in the tundra... is really bad, but we have a place to go, we have uncivilized land, and we look for a place where we can cultivate and harvest."

She stood up, her voice getting louder and louder, attracting the attention of everyone around her.

They looked at her together, she was as clear as a bonfire shining before them.

"...We still have many people who will help each village do business and earn income."

She said: "We can always survive!"

"What if the pickets come?" someone suddenly asked.

"We beat them."

"Ah? What did you just say?"

The infected person who asked the question looked in disbelief.

"I can do it, and so can you." Tallulah looked at the infected in front of her: "You were right to take up the weapon against me just now. Once someone comes to plunder us, we will unite to fight them off. The infected It’s powerful.”

"We infected people will regain our lives, bread, fire, and... dignity little by little!"

What she said was so sonorous and powerful, and she was convinced. In this cold and dark night, her words were like a torch lighting up the confusing and dusty road.

The future does not seem so far away, it seems within reach.

But not everyone is willing to believe her words, they are just... desperate.

[Hui Jie:

Where did I go from last time?

By the way, I met a group of infected people who were being oppressed by pickets, and I rescued them.

I decided to integrate the scattered infected people on this snowfield. They are definitely more than what I saw. The land of Ursus is too big. There are countless infected people in this land who are unaware of the difficulties like us. They are deeply affected by it. Harmful.

What I can't do alone, but together we might be able to.

My plan is going very smoothly, it really works, according to my idea, soon this group of infected people will unite and more people will join us.

Hui Jie, I don’t think I will go back again. You will definitely feel disappointed. Maybe I did have the opportunity to go back, if then.

I hope everything is well with you, Hui Jie. If the liar comes back... he probably won't come back. 】

Chapter 30 She is looking for her own justice

I hope you never find your own justice, Xiaota, but you will always grow up, and one day you will finally no longer need me. I should have been by your side, spending time with you as you grew older. of joy, anger, sorrow and joy.

[Hui Jie:

No one will provide assistance to the infected.

We are not rebels, let alone Mikhail the Great [@|

"We have Originium growing in our bodies, we hold few weapons in our hands, snow melts in our mouths and becomes water, and our stomachs are filled with grass seeds and bark."

That’s how they sing, and I’ve been learning a lot lately.

We are just some infected people with nowhere to go. I feel more and more that it is right to come to the North Plains first. Compared with the south where Alina and I are, there are nowhere to go and nowhere to go. people.

The infected people and people in the city will be divided, and various countries will be suspicious of each other because of their racial differences. Only in the snowfield will people become simpler.

I want to go back to the south, but I won’t be alone this time.

There is a difference between an infected person freezing to death and starving to death in a snowfield and an infected person dying of illness on his own land.

There is no land on this earth that can accommodate our survival. The infected should develop their own cities. If Ursus does not allow it, this Ursus should be changed.

Exile, flee, leave this country, and in the end they are just displaced. The places on this earth that accept infected people are just fairy tales.

If infected people want to regain their dignity, they need strength, unity, and a change in the status quo.

If we can get the support of the guerrillas, then our trip may have more chances of success.

What is needed is to regain the confidence of infected people. The key is to make our lives meaningful and understand why we live. 】

1090/9/13

The team of infected people finally stopped and stayed in an abandoned city in the wilderness.

"Yes, it's here. Those pickets have re-established outposts in this abandoned city. The poisonous insects in black clothes and black armor... gnaw at the crops, leaving no roots for us."

Tallulah closed the open directory and looked at the abandoned ruins everywhere: "...This city has been abandoned for probably more than ten years. The core equipment has been taken away, and not a single resident is left. The buildings and buildings left behind I don’t know when the land will be completely demolished.”

"Is this originally the territory of a noble lord?" An infected warrior behind kicked the rubble on the ground and asked curiously.

"Baron Neva Mountain was stabbed to death with random knives, and all those who could inherit his legacy within hundreds of miles were uprooted."

Tallulah said that Koscich indeed taught her a lot of knowledge, allowing her to more clearly distinguish the situation she was in, and also made the infected people who followed her involuntarily choose to listen to her opinions.

But she wouldn't be grateful, not ever.

"Who did it? It's so cruel."

"Loyalists, there are many of them in the First Army."

"I don't understand, Tallulah. A few days ago, didn't you say that the great rebellion was caused by the current emperor and the noble men who served as soldiers?" Someone asked strangely: "Then why are there troops helping the emperor? Kill the nobles?"

"It is not difficult to understand that those who led the rebellion during the Great Rebellion were the noble generals who took advantage of the expansion of Ursus in the previous era." Tallulah said as she walked: "After the new emperor ascends the throne, Naturally, these people had to spit out the resources, cities and residents they had swallowed up. At that time, most of Ursus's army was under the control of aristocratic generals, but the royalists were also very smart, with less mouth and more money. "

"Kill those nobles, and the money will go into their own pockets. Although the risk is very high, they still have the capital to take risks. The first army is an army established by the royalists. Therefore, during the great rebellion, except for the major forces who wisely protected themselves, The worst blows suffered by the cities and rebellious families may have been caused by the royalists."

Everyone still looked confused. They didn't quite understand the twists and turns of the cultural people.

Tallulah sighed.

"Let's put it this way, if the rebels gained the advantage in the war during the great rebellion, the result could only be that the royalists were hanged, the emperor was placed under house arrest, and he was forced to agree with these old nobles in the army who smelled sour. Privileges." Tallulah said: "Each grand duke and various armies will divide Ursus into several territories and rule them separately. At least secretly, this is definitely the case. And realistically speaking, during the great rebellion and after the rebellion, it rose steadily. Don’t think that these young officers are all looking for the new emperor, they might just be looking for money."

The soldiers nodded.

Suddenly realized.

"...I understand. In the end, the fight is just for money."

"That's right."

"Ha." The recognized warrior laughed and joked: "Can you answer everything, Tallulah?"

"...That's not all. The people who taught me these things were so arrogant that they didn't care how much I learned. What I know, it's definitely okay to say it casually."

She said modestly, but couldn't hide the smile that curled up at the corner of her mouth.

"Come on, you're really smart."

The leading infected warrior said with admiration. The young men behind him couldn't hide their yearning when they looked at the girl. The Ursus people have always been bold, but Tallulah was too far away compared to the girls they had seen before. .

The frost can't cover up this girl's beauty, but her tenacity is more eye-catching than her beauty. She has not yet considered love, something that should be brilliant at her age. She has ideals that she wants to pursue more than love. .

"What are you here for? You said that there is no place for people to live. How did you hear it from the crazy words of those people on the road these days... Well, poisonous insects in black clothes and armor, how did you hear it? Are you here to picket?"

"The surrounding villages are planning to move. If there is no natural disaster coming, there is only one reason." Tallulah explained: "These corrupt pickets are stationed. If a certain army passes by, the village will not move. Yes, probably because it was just after the harvest season, and the pickets chose this time to conduct routine inspections, but they noticed that the tax collectors had not yet entered the village."

Tallulah's index finger lightly clasped the belt of the sword at her waist.

"The nearest functioning city, Schratsburg, is a city dominated by light industry. Most people who stop here just want to purchase resources. Most of the nearby villages are not protected by landowners. Corrupt pickets have traveled thousands of miles to get here. He must have thought there was money to be made."

She sighed and said sarcastically: "...the gangsters who were originally organized to hunt down infected people after the great rebellion have now become lords who run rampant in the countryside and do all kinds of evil. They don't dare to provoke soldiers and landowners, so they can only look for those who don't have them." The villages we were protecting were taken action.”

"Then we have to kill them." The infected soldier said fiercely: "This way we will have a lot of peace of mind when we are nearby. We should fight!"

"We don't have the ability."

Tallulah's words seemed to pour cold water on the morale that had just been raised.

Everyone stayed.

I’m not going to beat you up for saying it’s been so long.

"Huh? Then what are we doing here?"

"Shield," Tallulah said. "I've received word that Shield is attacking this outpost."

"...Guerrillas?"

"Yes."

The warrior who spoke was startled and touched his chin.

"The guerrillas of the infected?! That's...the emperor..."

He didn't know how to describe his inner surprise.