I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

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When Rick came back to his senses, he realized that the table had been smashed to pieces. The fist that smashed the wood had been pierced deeply by sharp pieces of wood, and the blood reflected a dazzling red.

The hot blood rushing to his head finally cooled down, and he regained his calm thinking. Rick asked his heart: "Have you fought enough?"

—Yes, how could it be possible?

don't you cry

—Yes, if crying can change anything.

I don't have the right to cry. If I want to cry, I might as well bleed.

For a scum, scum, liar, that's more appropriate.

Compared with something noble like tears, bloody hands are more suitable for me.

Rick closed his eyes, put his hands on his chest, and imagined that.

A click.

A heavy voice sounded,

Buckle the [Heart Lock].

This is done.

Restored as usual, in line with everyone's needs, like a disguise, calculating and cold appearance.

But he did not forget to bring hope to people, the "adult" with a heart of steel - Rick.

finished.

Outside the door, Kelong squatted on the ground with his back against the wall, and buried his head deeply in his arms.

She heard it all.

It was like this every time, and it was for this reason that she agreed to leave Rick alone.

This is the time to sort out the mood. In order for Rick's heart to accept the fact of sacrificing and killing Ivan, this is a necessary ritual.

Rick, his younger brother needs this ceremony, otherwise, he will definitely collapse.

.....

Or, he might have already collapsed.

But Kelong didn't say anything, he could only listen outside the door like this.

A young boy should be considered a child's age, but he bears the fate and choices of 2000 people in the settlement, all of which are entrusted to him. This situation is not right no matter how you think about it.

However, there was no one else.

As the leader of the disheartened group of 2000 people, the guide who chooses the best option when necessary, carrying the legacy of the fallen, and still moving forward——

[Swear to the will. 】

A man who can make his heart like steel like that, in this kind of world, there is only Rick.

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There was a sound of getting up in the room, and the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer to the door. Kelong quickly got up and hid himself in the corner of the passage as if fleeing.

The wooden door was opened, and Rick walked out slowly, walking towards the bathroom without looking back.

The torch was burning quietly on the dark cave wall, and he didn't seem to care about the blood dripping from his hands at all, and he just left here step by step.

Tick ​​tock...tick tock...

Kelon covered his mouth and stared at the blood on the ground with painful eyes. After watching Rick's figure go away, he slowly walked out of the corner where he was hiding and came to his room.

She saw the broken table, splattered with Rick's own blood on the dark brown rock floor, merging with it over time.

But the three maps were carefully folded and stored aside, without any stains.

With the light of the oil lamp, Kelong touched the folded map as if stroking a feather that was about to shatter, but then he withdrew his hand suddenly as if he had been scalded.

After a long silence, Kelong finally moved his body again, cleaned up Rick's room, picked up the "table" that was about to be shattered into sawdust, closed the door and left.

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Just like that, another two days later.

Rick's hands were wrapped in bandages, and he knelt on the ground and deciphered the strategic plan in his hands by the dim light.

There was a knock on the door, and Ke Long's voice came.

"Rick, it's lunch time!"

It was a lively and energetic voice as before, and my sister also kept this despair and heaviness in her heart, showing everyone her hopeful and beautiful side.

"Just put it outside the door," Rick replied.

"Then you must eat on time!"

"know."

The quill was soaked in ink, and Rick marked the message sentence by sentence on the other copy map.

Everything is as detailed as possible, because this is something that bears the hope of more living people, and it is also something that bears the legacy of the dead.

No mistakes are allowed.

Even for the exact same copy, Rick prepared three identical copies overnight, for fear of any accident that would damage this information.

Crohn's footsteps faded away.

But not long after, she ran back in a hurry, slamming on the door as if she was very excited, making a loud noise.

"Rick... Rick!!"

I clearly said not to bother myself, but this idiot always...

"Ivan...Ivan is back!" Kelong's choked up voice slammed into Rick's mind.

This kind of thing...

Rick's breathing stopped for a moment.

Ewan?

...Ewan! ?

what!

Rick's hands trembled violently, and a drop of black ink broke free and dripped onto the paper in front of him, slowly spreading.

But he didn't feel any regrets about scrapping a dungeon strategy map. He just immediately put down the pen in his hand and bounced it off the ground.

The door in front of him was pulled open abruptly, and Rick grasped Crohn's hand before he could retract it.

"What did you say?!"

With a relieved smile on Crone's panting face, she stared into Rick's black eyes.

"Ewan, he's back! He's not dead...he's alive!"

"how is this possible?"

Rick subconsciously denied it at first, and then immediately ran quickly to the settlement square with Croon. He wanted to confirm with his own eyes whether Evan was alive.

But before he ran out of the passage of the cave, Rick heard the cheers of the people, and the voice of Nonna crying loudly——

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

It was a heart-piercing cry, and it was also the joy of regaining what was lost.

Rick's footsteps suddenly

Slowing down, Kelon didn't even have time to brake and hit him on the back.

"Ah~!"

"... Rick?"

The lock in my heart trembled violently.

Rick couldn't help pressing his chest, and asked himself silently: "Hello..."

"You guy, what expression and attitude are you going to use now to face Ivan?"

How about facing the companion who you ordered to die but miraculously survived? !

do not know.

so....

Click!

The heavy voice echoed in his mind, and he could only lock his heart tightly again.

Then there is no problem.....

After taking a few deep breaths, Rick regained his composure, and finally moved towards the square again with his almost stiff legs.

To welcome the return of the "Remnants".

Chapter 7 seems to be shattered

Before Cheng Rang followed Yiwang back to the "settlement" he called, he was already mentally prepared.

There are only a few dozen people huddled in the cave, lingering, which should be the case in this cruel world.

But the scene in front of you is that the wide underground square is brightly illuminated by the glowing stones, the passages extending in all directions and the multi-layer structure of the living room are scattered, people are performing their duties, and there are even children playing and chasing each other. .

Although the overall atmosphere is inevitably a bit depressing due to being in a closed cave, compared with the outside, this place is like a paradise.

"Are you scared? There are 2000 people living here!"

Cheng Rang couldn't help being even more surprised.

"2000 people... Are there actually [-] humans living here!?"

The people who surrounded him warmly greeted her, and Iwan, who had "resurrected from the dead", hugged his daughter vigorously and rushed towards him.

"father!"

"Nonna, you must be good!"

When the father and daughter reunited, the petite Nonna shrank in Ivan's arms and burst into tears, unable to answer this question at all.He just held onto Yiwang's body tightly with his hands, fearing that his father would suddenly disappear again in the next second.

Cheng Rang couldn't bear to disturb the warm scene, just stood aside with a smile, watching everything in front of him.

But it was impossible for others to ignore this stranger. When Cheng Rang pulled off the cloak, he was immediately held by a young man with light brown hair.

"You worked hard! You must be the one who saved Ivan?"

This matter spread throughout the settlement long after the two passed through the gatekeeper.

—Ewan was saved by another stranger.

"Well, it's easy to do."

"How can you say that! Everything you do can be described as great!"

This excited young man was named Yalei. In the introduction later, Cheng Rang learned that he was one of the two who escaped from the ruins.

"That's a demon species! How did you do it?"

Just when Cheng Rang was still considering whether to answer truthfully, which no one would believe, the crowd suddenly became noisy not far away.

"Rick is here!"

Such a name was shouted out, and then the crowd around Cheng Rang spontaneously parted ways.