Longmen Memoirs

Theresa nodded slightly.

"I have been hesitating in the past, hesitating that this war will bring more separation and suffering to Kazdaele. This war will make me farther and farther away from my ideals. In fact, I understand that my ideals Maybe I will never wait for the day when it comes true. I also understand that the suffering on this land will never come to an end, but I still choose this way because we do not choose to do this for a reason or to guarantee success. of."

"What I pursue is just an unrealistic dream that fills me with hope and longing." She said and looked at Kelsey: "Kelsey, you actually don't agree with my ideas, right?"

"...Your pursuit is correct, Theresia." Kelsey neither admitted nor denied it.

"But my pursuit has always ignored Kazdel and Sakaz. As the leader of the Sakaz, what I should do more is to change their lives and experiences. All the Sakaz kings have been working towards this goal. And move forward, but I gave up on it and chose something more distant." Theresia lowered her eyes: "I shouldn't forget my responsibilities, nor should I hesitate because of worries. The same is true for Sakaz. They are part of this land, and they are the foundation on which I should rely.”

Theresia said, slightly looking at the little Custer child sitting on the sofa.

"Mr. Chen Mo has a saying that I think is right. Rather than changing the distant ideal of the earth, what I should do is to change my country first, change the Sakaz first, and let this land become the place where those A place for people who have the same ideas as me, let this land become the soil for breaking stereotypes, and protect these seeds from germinating in this soil. This is also what I want to do, not It is cowardly to put your hope in a few people, looking for a savior that does not exist.”

Theresia's words made Kelsey startled.

She didn't expect Theresa would suddenly have such an idea, so when she heard these words, Kelsey was a little lost.

"I remember we talked about this before," Kelsey said.

"But no one told me at that time what kind of future we would face after making this choice." Theresa said: "No one came to tell us clearly about these problems that have appeared on this land. and the causes of suffering and how we can address it.”

"Is it different now?" Kelsey asked.

"At least we can foresee part of the future, right? What we can see is no longer darkness, because someone has actually walked in front of us and pointed out the direction for us to go. Maybe we still need to walk the road ourselves. Let’s go, but we already know where this road will lead.” Theresia said, reaching out to Kelsey: “I have been waiting for you to come back, Kelsey, I may have to ask you again.”

The successive kings of Sakaz have led the Sakaz through a long period of time, so the Sakaz are accustomed to the leadership of the monarch and are used to gathering under the monarch's banner. But correspondingly, once the monarch falls, , they can't find a way to fight for it.

Theresia knew very well what her existence meant to the Tower of Babel and the entire South, but precisely because of this, the method Chen Mo proposed for her was what made her truly determined.

And Kelsey also knew very well why Theresia made this decision.

"Have you decided?"

Theresia no longer hesitated, her eyes showed determination.

"I've decided, I won't wait any longer. If this war cannot be avoided, if the terminal illness cannot be cured, and there is no end to wandering, even if I fall, the Tower of Babel will dissipate, but Kazdaele at that time The people of Sakaz will take a new path, they will fight for themselves, and the Tower of Babel will continue in another way."

They will embark on a path where they decide their own destiny, and it will no longer matter whether I am there or not.

Chen Mo didn't know how Tracy would feel when he heard the news, but when Kelsey hurried to Gray and threw the large stack of reports in front of him, Chen Mo felt a little guilty.

Because during the time Kelsey left the Tower of Babel, this guy had been egging Theresa on, and now the real owner is back to cause trouble.

Chapter 1 Ms. Kelsey said I am a god

The process of forming the army in Grai was smoother than expected. Participating in the work after the Grai incident[#

After experiencing the Gray Incident and the spontaneous resistance of local workers' groups to the lords' officials and guards who came to accept the city, the Eastern Front Defense Zone and the local lords gave up testing the two cities out of wait-and-see attitudes toward the Tower of Babel. , and the Tower of Babel has also claimed that it will send people to take over these two cities.

There was no need for them to send troops to seize two mobile cities of little interest. At the same time, it caused the displeasure of Babel and Theresa, and what happened in Grai was regarded as an industrial accident that had happened many times in history. * and riots did not attract enough attention from anyone.

So when Chen Mo came to this city, it became a matter of course. However, the local lords and the army commanders in this area did not send anyone to contact the two cities after that. The battle sequence of the defense line These two cities were not included.

Chen Mo could imagine that when these two cities faced invasion or problems, they would not receive any assistance, and these problems could be caused by Sakaz mercenaries wandering in this area, or by people who crossed the border. The sporadic northern soldiers brought along the defense line. As for how they crossed the defense line, after all, anything could happen in the war zone.

After coming to Grai, Chen Mo had already encountered several armed fights caused by disputes between Sakaz workers, and these were slowly alleviated after the city's security forces began to go online.

The formation of the city garrison seems to have found a direction for this group of Sakaz who felt secretive and uneasy after being driven away from their lords by the riots. At least in the city's documents, Chen Mo promised to give all Sakaz workers in Grai With corresponding treatment, we guarantee that after Grai joins the Southern Front, every citizen who survives in Grai will be given adequate food and clothing supplies and reasonable working hours. At the same time, every citizen of Grai will be required to provide adequate food and clothing when necessary. Can take up arms to defend the city.

This document has, to a certain extent, eased the tense street atmosphere in Glei and the extent to which workers in Sakaz gathered to cause trouble.

But this was not enough. Chen Mo knew it was far from enough. But after all, Chen Mo had no administrative experience in governing a city, so he handed over the administration of the city to Su Enyang and some workers' leaders who had outstanding performance after the Ge Lai incident. After the formation of the city garrison, Lai implemented a semi-military governance policy.

In fact, the Sakaz people do not pursue much. As long as it can prevent them from starving to death and meet their most basic living material needs, they rarely pursue more things. Of course, this refers to most of the Sakaz people. Khaz workers and civilians, not including mercenaries and lord's guards.

The city garrison formed by Grai and Kebaril had a total of only 800 people, divided into three battalions of 200 people, a city security brigade of [-] people, and a logistics department of [-] people.

This is also the upper limit of the troops that these two cities can accommodate.

Chen Mo never thought that these workers and Sakaz civilians who had just laid down their weapons could step onto the battlefield after a short training. In fact, Chen Mo never thought of using them on the battlefield, at least in his first According to the plan, the battlefield for these people is not on the front line.

He recruited a group of experienced veterans and technicians from the Tower of Babel to serve as instructors for the newly formed city defense regiment, teaching them weapons, demolition, lurking, battlefield first aid, reconnaissance, counter-reconnaissance, A series of professional knowledge such as drawing and team combat, as well as the application and mastery of Originium skills.

This reminded Chen Mo of the days when he was training at Black Steel International, but the difference is that his current identity is not an intern of Black Steel, but the commander of this garrison.

Because of Originium Disease, most of the workers are actually not in very good physical condition, and many of them even have symptoms of Originium Disease. However, it is precisely because of this that in the process of learning and mastering Originium techniques, , they show faster and more efficient learning efficiency than ordinary people.

Originium disease deprived them of the upper limit of their lives, but at the same time gave them a shortcut to obtain this power, even if this shortcut may require their lives to repay it.

At the same time, Chen Mo also tried to implement workers' night schools in Gelei and Kebaril. This was a content he specially added after improving workers' working hours. Workers who did not participate in workers' night schools must continue to work in the factory for a period of time. , this measure caused a violent response from the Sakaz workers, but under the leadership of Grai and the labor leaders who implemented semi-military control, this response was quickly quelled.

The literacy rate among the Sakaz people is appalling.

At the beginning of the night school, Chen Mo was trying to teach his workers' union theory to the army and the citizens of Grai. He and Theresia discussed this several times in their letters. In private, the doctor also continued He used the actual situation of Sakaz to refute the possibility of his theory. This made Chen Mo make some modifications to the original theory after fully considering the actual situation of Kazdaele and the Sakaz people.

In fact, Chen Mo didn't remember much about that theory in his mind. He was like a tinker, piecing together one or several specious things.

Chen Mo didn't expect these theories to cause much repercussions in the future. As long as they could achieve his original most basic purpose, it was enough.

Gray is just an attempt made by Chen Mo. The existence of the Tower of Babel and Theresia's influence in the south gave Chen Mo the basis for this attempt, which allowed him to steadily promote these theories in these two cities. There is no need to worry about external intervention, or there is not enough supplies and assistance he needs.

This was something that Ursus could not achieve and provide many years later.

When Kelsey came to Grai, Grai was in the process of connecting with the mobile city of Kribar. Under the guidance of the engineering team sent by the Tower of Babel, they cleaned up the interface and damaged mobile city parts, and moved In addition to the buildings originally built near the connection, Chen Mo plans to combine the two cities into a small and medium-sized mobile city.

This kind of work is not uncommon on this land. Many small mobile cities are large mobile city-states formed by this union, such as Longmen, Londinium, Nureiburg...

Kelsey's expression still didn't show any change, but it was hard not to notice her indifferent eyes.

The last time I met her was more than half a year ago. At that time, Chen Mo was still a half-captive rescued by the migration team from the Tower of Babel. Now Chen Mo is considered the de facto ruler of Grai and Kebaril, even though most of these rights The acquiescence from Theresa of Babel.

"Mudrock, please bring me two cups of coffee, thank you."

"Yes."

In the temporary city guard station, Miss Sakaz, who had been standing upright behind Chen Mo, nodded slightly, opened the door and walked out.

Now the identity of this Sakaz girl is Chen Mo's adjutant.

After Niyan left, Chen Mo looked at Kelsey sitting in front of his desk.

"Ms. Kelsey, long time no see."

Kelsey's eyes looked at Chen Mo, then passed him and landed on the red flag hanging on the wall behind him, and looked back.

"It's been a long time indeed. Now it seems that your original purpose has been achieved?"

There was a touch of sarcasm in Kelsey's words.

What she was talking about was that in the conversation between Chen Mo and her, Chen Mo said that he chose to stay at the Tower of Babel. He was seeking an opportunity here and seeking enough power and allies for Sakaz.

And now it seems that while Kelsey was away, Chen Mo did get the rights he wanted and Theresa's trust through the doctor.

"Ms. Kelsey, are you mocking me?"

"Is not it."

"You should know exactly why I do what I do."

"This is the reason why you bewitched Theresia." Kelsey asked coldly in a low voice.He reached out and took out a stack of thick pages from the document bag he brought and threw them in front of Chen Mo's desk.

Chen Mo took a look.

"Do you think His Highness will be deceived by my words?" Chen Mo asked in confusion: "Ms. Kelsey, you know His Highness better than I do. You also understand that His Highness is not someone who will be easily shaken. Why did you say Say something like this."

"It is precisely because I understand what kind of person Theresa is that I know how fatal those theories you told her are to her." Kelsey replied coldly.

"But you also know very well that a theory is just a theory after all. It is dead. The choice is still a decision made by the person himself. If it weren't for His Highness's original thoughts, how could these words of mine change His Highness? idea.”

Chen Mo never thought that just a few words could make someone like Theresia change her mind, but if Theresia hadn't considered a similar path herself, how could she have made the decision.

"You think you know Theresa very well." Kelsey suddenly asked with a sneer, with disdain and contempt in her eyes.

Chen Mo didn't feel any dissatisfaction with Kelxi's disdain.

He shook his head calmly.

"I just feel that as the leader of Sakaz, Theresa, who is so admired by Sakaz, cannot be someone who will sit back and watch Sakaz suffer because of unrealistic ideals that she knows well." Chen Mo said: "I don't know Theresa well enough. I don't even know what she likes and dislikes, but during the time when I became His Highness's escort, I can understand that she is not an idealist."

"She knew exactly what the people gathered at the Tower of Babel wanted her to do, so she kept up the war, kept listening to the Doctor, because Sarkaz needed her to keep up the war, because it wasn't just hers Ideal is also her responsibility as the leader of Sakaz, but she knows very well that this persistence may not get anything back in the end." Chen Mo said, and then asked: "Ms. Kelsey, even if the Tower of Babel wins this war , With Theresia’s body, how long can she hold on, and once she falls, who do you think has the qualifications and ability to rebuild the situation in Sakaz?”

"So tell Theresa about constitutional monarchy and republic, and give her a chance to see it."

"Hope without results is poisonous, Ms. Kelsey, so I told Her Highness the Republic and the Constitutional Monarchy, letting her know that even if she falls, the Tower of Babel she expected can still continue in Kazdaele in another way." Chen Mo said: "So when the incident in Grai matched the history I told His Highness, I would take the opportunity to use those dialectical theories of materialism in the report to remind Your Highness of the laws of historical evolution of this land and the contradictions born out of it. The universality and unity of opposites, this is what happens in any era, and it will not change because of someone’s personal will, even if that person is Theresia.”

After Chen Mo finished speaking, he looked at Kelsi.

"Your Highness just needs a reason, a motive, an excuse that can convince her and tell her that the decision she made is not wrong." Chen Mo said: "Ms. Kelsey, each of us needs this excuse. We need An excuse that allows us to make concessions, allow us to accept, and allow us to make choices, even if it is just self-deception, but everyone needs to deceive themselves.”

After Chen Mo finished speaking, he gently spread his hands and pressed them on the desk.

"So, I created an excuse for Her Highness to deceive herself, so that she would not have to worry about her choice that might lead the Tower of Babel in the wrong direction, but in fact, neither you, Ms. Kelsey, nor Your Highness can guarantee that The decision you make is the right one." Chen Mo said: "No one can predict the future, and no one can guarantee that they will not make mistakes, and I... I just try to use the correct paths that I have seen. Guide His Highness to the path that I want and the path that most Sakaz want to see."

Chen Mo said that her words suddenly reminded Kelxi of the conversation she had with Chen Mo.

[People sitting at the gambling table can hardly guarantee that they can win forever. If I was afraid of death, I could leave now, but I chose to stay. 】

[Do you think Theresia will let you stay after knowing your intentions? 】

[Yes, because you still exist. 】

[Why do you think that if you stay, you will be able to get what you want? 】

[I'm not sure, so I'll try. 】

[Even if you cause a war, even if your conspiracy causes Theresia to make a choice. 】

[I can’t guarantee, Ms. Kelsey, but how long do you think this calm can last? 】

The scene in front of me is very much like the answer to the conversation at that time.

So I will try, and Chen Mo is indeed trying. During the time when Kelsey left, he got close to Theresia and kept telling Theresia his theories, which triggered the current situation.

This caused a war, leading to Theresa finally making a choice.

And Kelsey also understood very well that even if Theresia did not make a choice, the calm maintained during the civil war would become more intense as Theresia's condition worsened.

"Yes, it's really selfish." Chen Mo did not deny or defend: "In your eyes, I may have become a conspiratorial despicable person, but Your Highness is the Highness of Sakaz, Ms. Kelsey, if Your Highness Just a common Sakaz, I would not say such a thing, and you, you know that.”

Chen Mo looks like he deserves a beating now.

Chen Mo didn't know that Kelxi didn't regret it. Maybe Kelxi should have kicked him out from the moment he met him, otherwise Kelxi wouldn't have been in this situation today.

But Chen Mo has never heard Kelsey say anything about regret, not in the past, and never in the future. Kelsey may look back, but she will never regret it, and she will never go back.

Kelsey suddenly stopped talking and just looked at Chen Mo, as if she was getting to know the person who was rescued by the Tower of Babel again. But this time her eyes were no longer indifferent and ignored, but looked straight at Chen Mo as if Remember him as a person.

It's never a good thing to be noticed by Kelsey, such as Doctor.

Kelsey gently raised her hand, Chen Mo subconsciously ducked back, and Kelsey slowly lowered her raised hand.

"You are right. Maybe now I should re-examine your existence, Chen Mo." Kelsey said calmly: "Theresia is indeed struggling. In the past, there have been countless issues discussed in the Tower of Babel. The direction of Kazdaele and the problem of Sakaz. The establishment of Colombia once made us think that we saw opportunities, but the situation of Sakaz and Kazdare cannot replicate the experience of Colombia. Ore disease is an important reason why Sakaz encountered it first. One is the terrible stereotype brought about by ore disease. A kind of soil is needed to break the stereotype. Kazdaele may be that soil, because although this land is suffering from the harm of ore disease, it is precisely because of this that the stereotypes are relatively strong. reduce."

Kelsey raised her head slightly and looked at the red flag behind Chen Mo, seeming to remember something.

"But Theresia's illness and the poverty and weakness caused by the ongoing war in Sakaz, as well as the image of the Sakaz people in the eyes of the outside world, will become a huge obstacle. The Tower of Babel maintains Tracy's Based on Ya's prestige, once Theresia falls, many people will choose to leave and no longer simply serve Sakaz. Theresia has always known it." Kelsey said, she withdrew her gaze and looked at Chen Mo : "Actually, Theresia is already planning to leave this land. Leaving Kazdale, the birth of a seed does not necessarily require the soil of her hometown. After leaving Kazdale and getting rid of the identity of Sakaz, it will be much easier. She wants to finish what she can before her condition worsens, and the mission of the Tower of Babel will end at that time.”

Kelsey lowered her eyes and looked at her hands on her thighs.

"I can't accept this result, I can't accept Theresa's leaving, and I can't accept that I can only watch her die and be tortured by illness." Kelsey's words were still indifferent: "But I can't do anything for her. To do that, I can only accept her own choice."

"Theresia is the monarch of Sarkaz. She could not leave her people behind, so she chose to persist in this war, but she knew very well in this war that even if she won, Kazdaele would not be able to leave her people behind. It will eventually fall apart, so she is not persisting in this war to win, but because people want her to do so, so she has been persisting, but the time left for her to choose will continue to pass as her illness continues." Kyle Xi said and raised his head to look at Chen Mo: "Until you show up..."

"Because of your appearance, Theresia's mind changed, and because of me, I couldn't watch Theresia leave like this, even if she wouldn't complain about her ending."

"……What's the meaning?"

Chen Mo felt as if he was about to know the answer.

"Your appearance made both Theresa and I see the possibility. I knew very well that leaving you with Theresa would cause some problems, but I didn't stop it. It seems like it was right now." Kyle Xi said: "Now that you know Theresa's condition, she may not have much time left, and you, you have clues to solve this problem, so I let you contact Theresia, even if Know your purpose.”

Kelsey's words reminded Chen Mo of the experiment that took place in the black wall, but he still couldn't understand why Kelsey said this.

Kelsey has always been like this, not many people understand what she says.

Chen Mo didn't understand either, and Kelxi seemed to see his doubts.

"Think carefully, whether it is your father or mother, do they have no racial characteristics like you?" Kelsi asked: "I think not, because you are not their child, you know Saka Is this monarch called what? Demon King, and even the Demon King cannot stop the erosion of the Source Stone, but you can. This is enough to show that you are more special than the Demon King, and in Longmen, or the Yan Kingdom in my memory, Only one thing can have similar qualities, but that thing cannot be as weak as you, so you may have some of their qualities, and after this quality is combined with your body, it creates a resistance to the invasion of the Origin Stone. possible."

Chen Mo vaguely guessed something. He thought of that rainy night again and what the tall man told him.

the truth.