Ark's Journey to the Demon God

Tallulah speculated.

"It's hard to say, this may be very low." Alina shook her head and said: "Xiaota, you may not have seen the scene of pickets coming to collect taxes. If they don't receive enough food... they will kill people. !”

Don't think that the pickets will leave if they don't receive enough food. They will break into the villagers' cellars and warehouses unreasonably, knock over the bottles and cans in the houses, and even worse, they will even destroy some strong people.

The labor is taken away to fill the income.

As for the fact that the picket team finally discovered the grain hidden by the villagers in the village, and finally burned the village and massacred the villagers in a rage, it is not unheard of.

"Most villages in the Ursus wilderness should be like this, so I think this village is so special..."

"Maybe the village chief Ivan has some way to hide it from the soldiers?" Tallulah speculated: "It doesn't matter, we can't stay here for a few days anyway. When Mr. Maena catches up with us, we will You can leave now.”

"Well, you're right."

……

Ta…Ta…Ta…

In the darkness, a figure holding an Originium lantern walked through the village and left towards the north.

His steps were hurried and his expression was somewhat urgent. He looked back from time to time, trying to find the non-existent stalker.

huh... huh...

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the man took off the mask on his face after walking out of the village.

A face that was somewhat similar to that of Village Chief Ivan appeared under the moonlight. The expression was a bit struggling, which seemed to indicate that he was not at peace in his heart.

"Calm down, calm down, no one is following me, no one."

He has obviously done many similar things, but today, he was inexplicably hesitant.

The son of the village chief Ivan looked back at the village and the country road, and finally sighed.

"Hurry up, they may not stay long, I have to find it before then..."

Ta…Ta…Ta…

In the village, the light was still on in the master bedroom of Chief Ivan’s house. The old woman holding knitting in her hand opened the bedroom door and asked:

"Old man, where is our son?"

"...He went [North]."

"North?" The old woman blinked and then understood:

"You're crazy, old man! You want to..."

"What am I thinking? What am I thinking?!" Village Chief Ivan suddenly became excited. He couldn't restrain himself and said:

"I just want everyone to live a better life in this bastard world! What's wrong?!"

"Then you can't... They are not mercenaries who make a living by killing, nor are they wanderers with no bottom line, they are guerrillas!"

"Just because we are guerrillas, we have to...we have taken in guerrillas. What should we do if those black-clad soldiers find out about this? Do we expect them to listen to our explanation?"

"But they are guerrillas..." the old woman said, holding knitting tightly with both hands: "They fight for the poor..."

"If they are enlightened, they should help us."

Village Chief Ivan looked in the direction of the guerrilla camp and said: "If they really want us to live a good life, then don't resist when the pickets come!"

"But……"

"No but! My son is already gone! There is no way he can come back!"

"Just wait, our lives will return to peace soon."

……

On the mountain behind the village, Maena Linguang appeared from the darkness. He arrived in the evening, but he never joined the large army.

"Is this the unspeakable secret of this village?"

pat...

He lit the cigarette in his mouth and took a deep breath.

"Sure enough, I asked, how could such a wealthy village exist in Ursus?"

Maena took a step forward, stepped on the soft ground, and scraped with her foot.

The skeleton covered with Originium crystals was exposed to the air, and the struggling posture seemed to tell endless grievances.

"Is it Sarkaz, or an infected person..."

The ranger raised his head. In front of him, there was a flat wasteland with no grass growing on it. From time to time, there was a rotten smell wafting past the tip of his nose.

"The land where the infected bones are buried cannot grow plants..."

Throwing the cigarette butt on the ground, Maena tightened the armor on her right hand.

"It seems that there are always many differences between ideal and reality..."

Chapter 26 Human nature?It's just an excuse

"A banquet?"

Tallulah looked at the submissive villagers in front of her with confusion and said, "What did you say? Today is Village Chief Ivan's birthday?"

"Yes, yes." The villager nodded and said, "Village Chief Ivan wants to invite all the guerrillas to a birthday party..."

His words were trembling, and "problem" was almost engraved on his face, but Tallulah still smiled and stretched out her hand to shake his.

"Please tell Village Chief Ivan that we will send a representative there."

"Yes Yes…"

Watching the nervous villager leave, Alina shook her head and said:

"Xiaota, there's something wrong with this."

"...Of course I can see it...Alina."

The dragon girl, who was always as enthusiastic as fire, felt a little depressed at this moment. She sat there in silence. After a while, she whispered:

"Alina, why do you think Village Chief Ivan did this?"

"We are guerrillas, not the imperial pickets. We were fighting for them, but they would rather report us to the pickets than accept us..."

Tallulah picked up a souvenir from beside her. It was information from Maena... Calculating the time, the pickets and soldiers found by the son of village chief Ivan should have arrived soon.

"Is this human nature? If this is what is called human nature, then what are we fighting for?

of? "

Tallulah thought of Cosich, a theory she had absolutely rejected:

[Tallulah, these people you see are fond of violence, killing everywhere, self-abuse, fear and selfishness. 】

[They have lived on this land for countless years. 】

[Tallulah, the land you have invested everything in does not want you. 】

[Everything you think and do will come to nothing, and they will spurn everything you respect. 】

[Tallulah, in this series of mediocre years,

They cannot accept equal treatment of each other. 】

[Disputes are inevitable and desires must conflict. 】

[This is...human nature! 】

Tallulah shook her head and said: "We can abandon our flesh and blood and souls and declare war on the exploiters, but...how can they do this..."

"No, Xiaota, this is not human nature." Alina shook her head and said, "Mr. Agaritu said that there is no such thing as human nature in this world."

"In this world, there is concrete human nature, but there is no abstract human nature."

"Everyone has their own humanity, and everyone is different. There are people who can understand us, and there are people who can't understand us right away. This is normal."

"So, from the beginning, the so-called [this is human nature] was biased."

Alina held Talulah's hand and encouraged her in a steady voice: "There will be darkness in front of us and haze behind us, but these are nothing..."

“Everything is just a temporary bump in the road, not an insurmountable obstacle.”

"They don't understand because they haven't received theoretical guidance... This is not an essential flaw, but something that can be changed. Our career also exists to change, doesn't it?"

"Alina..." Tallulah looked at Alina in front of her. After a while, she looked strangely and said, "Why have you become like the teacher?"

"Ah, is there any?"

"Yes, in the Dukedom of Cosiche, the teacher always spoke in this tone..." Tallulah tilted her head and joked: "I said, Alina, you can't do this, this way of speaking is too much. Looks old."

"What are you talking about?!" Alina stretched out her hand, grasped the amber-like dragon horn on Talulah's head, shook it hard and said: "I kindly enlighten you, but you call me old?! You female dragon, please correct yourself!" Attitude!”

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it itching, put it down now!!"

After making a fuss for a while, Tallula broke away with a blushing face. She rubbed her scattered white hair and said angrily: "Stop making trouble, Alina, we have to solve the predicament at hand!"

"Dilemma, is there any dilemma?" Alina blinked and said, "You mean, pickets?"

"Yes, we must have a countermeasure." Tallulah pointed to the door and said: "Village Chief Ivan has sent someone here, which means that the imperial picket team is about to arrive."

"That's okay, Xiaota." Alina shook her head and said, "Mr. Maena and the guerrillas are enough to deal with those people."

"It would be fine if it was an ordinary team, but what if..."

"Inner guard?" Alina thought for a while and said: "This may be very small, Xiaota, as the son of village chief Ivan, he cannot come into contact with the shadows of the empire, so he cannot threaten us. Seeing that Tallulah still seemed a little worried, Alina comforted her and said:

"Don't scare yourself. If you're worried, I'll go to the banquet later and I'll go with you."

"I'm not worried anymore. I just have to consider all possibilities!"

"Yes, yes, you are the leader, everything you say is right~"

"Alina!!"

……

"Why haven't the pickets arrived yet..."

Village Chief Ivan walked back and forth in front of the door, staring at the setting sun in the distance. However, the black-clad soldiers who often came here to show off their power in the past have yet to arrive.

"Isn't it already agreed...could it be that those guys didn't believe it?"

"Village Chief Ivan!"

A greeting made the old village chief tremble subconsciously.

"Village Chief Ivan, we are here."

Tallulah led Alina into the yard and greeted old Ivan cordially.

"Thank you for your invitation. On behalf of our comrades in the guerrillas, we would like to say hello to you."

"Ah, good...good..."

"I heard that today is your birthday, and we don't have anything to give you as a gift... I'll just leave you a book."

Alina took out a pamphlet, handed it to Old Ivan solemnly, and said, "I hope it will be helpful to you."

"Ah, thank you. It's a pity that I am too old and have bad eyesight. I can't see the words in the book clearly."

"It doesn't matter, Village Chief Ivan, you can also give it to the young people in the village."

"...Ah, let's not talk about the gifts. I am very happy that everyone can come. Please come in, you two."

Village Chief Ivan opened the door and let Tallulah and Alina into the house.

……

The light in the village chief's house is a little dim, and the old Source Stone lamp can no longer illuminate the entire house, but it can still be seen from the simple and worn-out items that this village is like most villages in the wasteland, but in Just barely surviving amidst natural and man-made disasters.

"No new guests have arrived in the village for a long time. This time is really rare..."

Old Ivan looked at the Originium clock on the wall, silently walked to the corner, and put the cabinet there

Open it and take out a bottle of liquor.

"I've been hiding this wine for a long time...I'll give it to you to drink today..."

"Village Chief Ivan, where are your wife and son?" Alina suddenly said: "I saw them clearly on the day we came, why weren't they here?"

"...They, they went a long way, and transportation in the wilderness was inconvenient, so they didn't come back."