Longmen Memoirs

Chen Huijie leaned against the window and looked at the gloomy sky. Raindrops fell into her palms one after another, with a cold touch just like her silent mood at the moment.

This was a week after entering Ursus.

The road in the wilderness was more difficult than Chen originally expected. If he hadn't changed the vehicle and prepared more supplies due to Wolper before setting off, Chen might not have been able to walk so fast.

Chen Huijie had already been prepared. This level of frustration was within her expectations. There was still some distance from Chernobog, and Ursus's treatment of infected people was far harsher than Chen Huijie expected.

If Longmen's way of treating infected people is cruel enough, then Ursus's attitude towards infected people is simply ruthless.

Chen got into trouble, not long after entering Ursus. She rescued a squad of infected people who were being hunted by Ursus pickets. Unfortunately, she was not able to annihilate them all. There is a picket team, so she is wanted at the moment.

There were countless infected people wanted by Ursa, and Chen didn't care about this, but what bothered her was that the team she rescued actually tried to steal her supplies at night.

Chen, who was alone outside, never dared to slack off at all.

She did not criticize those white-eyed wolves who repaid kindness with revenge, nor did she take their lives. However, this incident once again refreshed Chen's understanding of the infected. She could understand the reason why they did this. Maybe understanding did not mean that It's acceptable, what if she's just an ordinary person, what if she lets her guard down.

Chen didn't dare to think about what would happen next, so that she suddenly understood that the hostility of the Longmen people towards the infected had its origin, and even the infected could not be generalized. She should have understood these reasons long ago.

It doesn't matter whether you are infected or not, what matters is how you are as a person.

So she left the infected people in the night and left. She was afraid of what she would do if she continued to stay there, but this incident always became a thorn in Chen Huijie's heart.

It reminded her that even if they were infected, the infected people outside the dragon gate were different from the infected people she thought, and of course they were different.

No, maybe even in Longmen, she will understand this truth sooner or later.

It's just a matter of time. What happened to the infected people in this land, but because of the infected people's experiences, they made many forced choices, which aggravated the harsh punishment people originally had for them. It was a vicious cycle that would never end.

Alone, the further away from Longmen, the more malice this land can show to Chen. Because she is no longer Superintendent Chen of Longmen, every bit of negligence can kill her, because Chi Xiao and Wei Yanwu Because of her, she has the ability to wander the wilderness alone, but this ability is just a starting point.

The longer a person wanders in the wilderness, the easier it is to discover a fatal weakness, which is loneliness. Being a lone ranger sounds very gimmicky, but there are a few people who can really survive on their own.

It's not like working in the field, but I know that maybe this is the reluctance left in my heart when I never come back. Various pictures of the past flash through my mind, so that even though everything seemed ordinary at the time, It all seems heartwarming and weak now.

Chen knew that she was in a wrong state, but she had no way to avoid it. She once tried her best to escape from Longmen, but now that she left Longmen, she left her heart in that city.

People in the city and outside the city have never been able to distinguish easily.

There are her friends in the city, everything she is familiar with, every bit of her life, her memories and feelings, but outside the city is the wilderness, the vast wilderness, the cold and deserted night.

Chen gently stroked Chi Xiao's scabbard hidden in the strap. Chi Xiao's presence gave her a sense of peace of mind. With the warm and bright light in the hotel room, Chen unfolded the map and planned her trip to Qicheng. .

The night gradually deepened.

Chen Huijie, who came out of the bathroom, could finally have a good night's rest on her short and hurried journey. She didn't know what tomorrow would bring. Chen Huijie didn't know that she was still some distance away from Chernobog.

She also didn't know if she would find Tallulah there.

She didn't know if her trip would be fruitless.

Chen Huijie didn't know many things.

She could only hope.

But after looking forward to it, I haven't thought about what to say to Xiaota when I see her again. It's been a long time, but... I'm here to find you, sister.

Chen has not called out this unfamiliar name for a long time. Ten years, maybe more than ten years, time always makes things that many people thought were familiar become different. People usually feel that they can transcend time and span more than ten years. After years of separation and alienation, people usually succumb to time until they finally convince themselves.

This is the way things are.

Even if she found Xiaota, what could she do?

Chen didn't know what she could do. She only knew that for more than ten years, the things she wanted to do and the people she wanted to see were now in front of her. She had hesitated and escaped for more than ten years. No matter what the outcome, she should come.

Frost Star and the others arrived around Qicheng almost at the same time as the advance troops of the Ursus Third Army. The news from Red's messenger said that he and his team had successfully received the group of infected people, but their condition was very poor. , some wounded people lacked food and medicine and had no way to travel far, so they could only temporarily hide in the mountains and forests. Fortunately, winter has passed and the situation will not become worse, but the weather is still cold.

Red and his team could no longer reach Chernobog, and at the same time they hoped to distribute some supplies so that the group of infected could move closer to the camp after a short period of repair.

Tallulah did not veto this proposal. Vatov and Pavel's team rushed to the direction of Red with supplies. However, Tallulah suggested that they move north after the dispute between Ursus and the Yan Kingdom officially broke out. , because Ursus' troops are now gathering to the southwest, the risk of exposure to the infected is too great, and they do not have the ability to move quickly, so it will be difficult to escape once discovered by Ursus' scouts.

The messenger left Chernobog with Tallulah's orders and rushed to Vatov and Pavel's location.

When the next morning, after discussing the evacuation plan with several temporarily elected representatives of the infected people in Checheng and Lyudmila, they returned to the lower city.

The streets in the lower city have been blocked by the city's military police and military police. Standing outside the crowd of onlookers, Tallulah covered her conspicuous silver hair with the hood of her coat. She saw that the residential area she was usually familiar with had been cut off. The city was surrounded by military police.

Amidst the noise of the crowd, Tallulah heard someone reporting that there were infected people hiding here.

Tallulah was just glad that she had sent Alina out of the city yesterday morning. Her eyes looking around the crowd became colder and colder. Draco didn't want to know who reported their whereabouts to the Ursus military police. Maybe those people also It's not sure if the infected person lives here, and Chernobog doesn't care.

Because of the quota, there have been countless incidents of them arbitrarily identifying non-infected people as infected people over the years. The record officer only needs to register the person as an infected person at the door of a certain household, and the military police of Ursus will register the person as an infected person. The family was arrested and taken into the mine.

Nobody cares.

As long as it's not them, no one cares.

Therefore, it is not without reason that Chernobog-infected people hate Chernobog people, even if they were originally Chernobog people, even if they were originally members of the crowd.

But... people's sufferings are incompatible with each other, and people's sufferings can never be felt in the same way.

Tallulah didn't have much anger.

Even though the Chernobogs "betrayed" her, and even though the Ursus military police brutally destroyed her home, she still wasn't angry. Drake was a rational person, or in other words, the long frozen land in the northwest of Ursus Drak's anger had long been extinguished in the cold life.

Her anger will no longer break out over trivial matters. Her anger will burn away the coldness and indifference of the Ursus people in this desolate land, bring warmth to those who trust them, and bring destruction to those who oppress them.

She was angry only for this reason, and the rest were not worth mentioning.

That's what he said, but now Draco has become a homeless person. Maybe it can't be called a home. A place without people he cares about cannot be called a home.

Tallulah slowly withdrew from the crowd.

The loud voices of the military police and the noise of the crowd faded away with her footsteps. She never looked back and walked into the dark alleys of Qicheng. Soon it was a bright day.

Drake was sitting on a bench in the park in Midtown Ursus. Her eyes were looking at the school across the street. With her eyesight, she could clearly see the students fighting during recess.

Draco liked this image.

She couldn't remember when she had such a side. Those memories had become thinner after entering the orphanage. The sun fell through the gaps in the golden ginkgo leaves at her feet, and she just looked at it. , the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious.

Isn't it just for these things that they brought the infected people all the way to the south, to this city, to the place where the Ursus people are densest?

In order that one day in the future, infected people can have their own schools, land, and have the ability and technology to reclaim materials buried in the vast frozen soil, and support themselves, and the children of infected people can be like the students in Chernobog School. , receive education and grow up happily and healthily.

There is still a long way to go, but they are already on the road, so they are not afraid of high mountains and dangerous roads.

Draco reached into his bag, and when he took it out, there was a yellowed diary in his hand.

She sat under the bench and read the diary in her hand under the gentle sunshine. She turned the pages very carefully, for fear of breaking the yellowed pages.

It carries another person’s past.

The closer the time is, the greater the gap between diary records. It seems that it takes a long time before he remembers what to write. Drake seems to be able to think of his situation every time he writes a diary or letter.

From his life in Black Steel, all the way to what happened to Kazdel, Theresia and Sarkaz's life and his views on these things, perhaps only at this time would he not bring any lies in his words. .

Tallulah's eyes became softer.

Petrova said that she is becoming more and more like Chen Mo. Tallulah does not deny it. Maybe she is gradually becoming more and more like Chen Mo. If a person always has another person living in his heart, he will inevitably not chase him. shadow.

This is Tallulah's rare moment of peace. She knows the ending left to her. She has had the consciousness to face and bear whatever happens to her as a result of the choices she makes.

Chen is still walking south.

She followed a caravan heading to Chernobog.

Along the way, she had seen several different types of Ursus armies passing through the main road beside them. Even farther away, she could still feel the vibration of the huge land battleships rolling over the ground.

The people in the caravan said that it was the battleship of the Third Army. The huge figure of the steel behemoth under the clear sky was spectacular, and the ferocious muzzles on the deck were pointed at the sky. This was the most terrifying thing that people on earth could create. Weapons of war.

The Ursus cavalry and heavy troops marched solemnly and neatly. They were not much weaker than the Yanguo army formation that Chen had seen at Longmen. Chen could not compare the two horizontally.

The people in the caravan told her that the destination of the Third Army was also Chernobog, and they would be stationed in Chernobog to rest and prepare for the upcoming Yanwu conflict.

It seems that everyone in Ursus knows that Ursus is going to war with the Yan Kingdom, but no one in Ursus has a pessimistic view of this war.

Chen didn't know how to evaluate it, but as an infected person who left Longmen, both Yan Guo and Ursus were the same in her eyes.

Her heart grew heavier as regular Ursus troops were entering Chernobog, and Tallulah might be among them.

Chapter 37 The Integration Movement and its Leaders

The next day, seven kilometers outside Chernobog

10:15P.M

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Under the gloomy sky, you can clearly see the huge mobile city parked in the Gobi wilderness. The long boundary line at the end of the horizon echoes the huge outline of the city. Even though it is still some distance away, you can still feel the artificial city. The grandeur of the city-state.

The Wendigo team is stationed in a birch forest seven kilometers away from Chernobog. Their small number makes it easier to hide. As a streamlined team, the Wendigo team does not have any encumbrances or burdens.

After parting ways with Red midway, the snow monsters followed the established route to Checheng. Due to the need to avoid Ursus's scout cavalry and vanguard troops on the main road, the path the snow monsters chose was very rugged.

Many of the original gathering places for infected people had to relocate in advance because of Ursus' large-scale military operation. Fortunately, this time Ursus' destination was near the southeastern border, and their original camp Located in the south of the northwest snowfield, it is not consistent with the direction of Ursus' large-scale march.

It's just that many infected stations and villages in the south are not so lucky. Although Ursus's army is not as despised as the infected pickets, the villages and towns along the way are still obliged to pay tribute to the Ursus on the march. Sass troops provided supplies and resting areas.

Of course, this specifically refers to the local nobles and serf owners, not the so-called village farmers, although in the end these supplies ultimately fell on the latter.

Along the way, the snow monsters have seen more than one village suffer harsh treatment due to the march of Ursus' army, but now the people they are harshly treating are not infected people.

To be honest, no one in Ursus is living a good life. Except for the group of people in the city, there are a few people living outside the city who are really living a good life. Their life is a little better than that of the infected, but every time the tax collector It's only so good when you come with a whip.

Ursus imposed heavy taxes on his farmers, and more than half of the harvest had to be handed over to local landlords and cities, so that all that was left for the Ursus farmers to eat was a little bit of moss porridge. During the war, Ursus The Ursus people need everyone to bear the conscription of military service, but all Ursus young people of appropriate age have the obligation and responsibility to join the army and fight for the empire and the Ursus Emperor when the empire needs it.

The Ursus people are tough. Harsh rule and harsh climate have allowed them to develop a tough character. At the same time, they are also numb and fanatical. Their numbness is reflected in their tolerance for their own injustice. Their fanaticism lies in being called Ursus and In the name of the Emperor, the Ursans are always blind and irrational.

Ursus ruled her people in the harshest way, teaching her people the law of the jungle, maintaining the strength of Ursus' military force and arrogant will to conquer foreign countries, and using lies and fallacies to make them succumb to the emperor and the imperial nobles. Hereditary rights tame the rebellious spirit in their bones.

Now in the past few years, this fanaticism and blindness have receded, leaving Ursus with only countless contradictions, diseases and hidden dangers.

The various parties within the Imperial Parliament were constantly fighting for power. The military lost trust in the emperor and his court, and was wary of and even rejected the emperor's policies. Fyodor and Werther were unable to change the status quo. At the same time, they hoped to curb the expansion of the military's power and take it into the hands of the nobles. authority.

The new aristocrats were dissatisfied with their political status. The young generation of officers in the army admired the glory of the previous emperor's period. Ursus's economy had become increasingly weak over the years. The emperor was powerless and helpless before the struggle between the emperor and parliament and military power could be completely resolved. Dare to change the status quo.

As a result, the power of the current Ursus Empire is in a stalemate, and the civil and middle classes are becoming more and more fester.

Those evil diseases were like thickly bleeding malignant sores. In the eyes of the emperor, the nobles and military powers were malignant tumors. After the great rebellion, the nobles and military powers regarded the emperor as a butcher who picked up a knife and wanted to kill their flesh.

No one can convince anyone, and no one is willing or dare to give in.

Witte has been dealing with it for more than ten years. He is the last reason of this huge Ursus Empire and the reins of the empire. Without Witte to control all the forces, Ursus has long been like a wild beast that has escaped from the reins and crashed into nowhere. , or perhaps his own destruction.

Young people don't understand this.

They long for war, long for the establishment of achievements, long for the glory and splendor of the former emperor's era, long for the protagonists of the conquest legends in the previous stories to become themselves.

As a result, the entire Ursus fell into some kind of abnormal fanaticism in the early stages of the Yanwu War. After the Battle of Blood Front, Ursus had not launched any external conquests or wars for many years. They were mentally longing for a hearty war. Victory, the young officers are gearing up, and this time, their opponents are them, Yan Guo, who the late emperor longed for but could not find a fighter.

The many conflicts in Ursus seemed to have a breakthrough all of a sudden and swarmed towards the battlefield border in the southeast. So much so that the most common remarks Tallulah heard during her time in Checheng were nothing more than young people talking about this war. Beautiful thoughts about war.

None of them seemed to consider losing.

They seemed to remember that the strength of Ursus in the era of the previous emperor would surely shine on the land of Ursus again.

Tallulah just thought it was ridiculous.

The Ursus government and the Chernobog authorities did not curb the development of this trend, nor did they promote it, but allowed it to intensify, which also revealed a problem to Tallulah.

The conflict between the upper echelons of Ursus has come to a conclusion for the time being, and Ursus is now facing many domestic conflicts and is in urgent need of a breakthrough. How many of the soldiers who went to the battlefield would have guessed that they were just pawns in the power struggle.

In other words, even if you guessed what they have the ability to change, who is not a chess piece on this land.

Kosich taught her to look at everything around her, this land and this country with a critical eye. Tallulah once scoffed, but now she could not deny that what the old black snake said might indeed have some truth.

It's a pity that he is already dead, otherwise I could kill him again.

Tallulah shook her head.

She no longer paid attention to the group of Chernobog youths who gathered together to talk loudly about current affairs. She crossed the street, stepped over the tram track, turned up the collar of her coat, and Draco merged into the crowd, heading towards the industrial area of ​​Chernobog. Go.

Stopped at the door of a closed tavern in the lower city.

Tallulah raised her hand and knocked on the door.

Not long after, a voice came from inside and said, "Sorry, customer, our store is closed."

"I ordered a box of Bakut here yesterday, and the agreed delivery date is today."

"Is there such a thing?"