piratefiction Chapter 15 The Truth
Chapter 15 The Truth
"Can you say no?" Zhou Lingke asked seriously, even if Xia En sleeps in, it won't be too long, and he will wake up in half an hour at most, and he still wants to make breakfast for him.
Old John raised his eyebrows: "No."
"Then please speak."
"You should be honored to come to drink porridge!" Old John stroked his mustache, apparently taken aback by someone's ignorance.
"It's a great honor." Zhou Lingke nodded, but he didn't hide the expression on his face at all, and what he expressed was different from what he said.
But Old John didn't care about Zhou Lingke's expression, he wanted to talk to someone, and it was enough for this person to stand here and listen to him.Taking a deep breath to build up his emotions, Old John pulled the gray skeleton and sat on the stairs of the carriage. As for Zhou Lingke, it seemed that he could only stand.
"Do you know who he is?"
"Your dead love."
"You know?" Old John was surprised now.
"I'm not blind." This is the lowest level of skeleton soldiers. When Zhou Lingke was first brought over by the bone dragon, he had seen many of them, but recently there have been fewer and fewer. He and Xia En guessed that they should be successful part of the altar.Of the skeleton soldiers they saw, only the one next to Old John was wearing clothes.Moreover, Old John didn't hide anything about his behavior towards this skeleton soldier.In daily life, he touches his face, holds hands, and prepares two portions for meals. He sits opposite the skeleton.It's strange if you can't guess it.
"Aren't you curious?"
"I'm curious, but I know some things are better not to be curious about."
"How old are you?"
"28, it should be almost 29."
"Huh?!" Old John was startled, "I thought you only had one!"
"... Shall we get to the point first?" He is indeed not a baby face, but compared to Westerners, he does look much smaller.
"Don't be impatient, young man, you know that an old man always likes to talk. However, you are 28 years old, otherwise you don't have so much curiosity. Although there are still some edges and corners, you have learned to be patient. It would be nice if I was older at that time, but unfortunately, time cannot be turned back.”
Old John read in bits and pieces, but he finally got to the point.
In fact, his story is very bloody. When Old John was still Little John, he was a young man with bad background but very talented.At the age of eight, he left home because of an aptitude test and entered a national magic school. When I was 13, I met a 23-year-old guard at the school.
Of course, the guard is not a pedophile, and the two of them were friends at the beginning. It should be said that the guard treats Little John like a younger brother.
Little John loves magic and alchemy. He originally thought that he would spend his whole life in school doing research, until the vice-principal, whom he always respected as his second father, stole his research results.No one inside the school stepped forward to help him, so Little John left angrily.
Afterwards, little John was intercepted by the deputy principal's subordinates in a small town only one day away from school.Many of these people who waved swords at him were also people he was familiar with.At this time, the guards appeared, saved his life, and took Little John on the escape road.
His relationship with the guards became "beyond friendship", which also happened on this escape road.
Little John, who entered the magic school at a young age, is obviously unsophisticated.He was right in thinking about justice, but he believed in the wrong people.Things are getting worse and worse. In the end, even Little John's biological parents were killed in a series of incidents, and Little John and his guards had to flee the country together.
At this time, what Little John wants is not justice, but revenge.
At the beginning, life in a foreign country was equally difficult.The two could only rent a house in the countryside that was rumored to be a haunted house.There is no one who can serve as a guarantor for the guard in this place, so he can no longer be a guard, so at first he can only earn money by doing physical work.
Little John is already John, he is still a genius, but when he is at the bottom of society, his genius is not very acceptable - after all, the level of people he comes into contact with is too high, it is difficult for him to meet and understand His people, let alone those who are willing to spend a lot of money on him.He is proficient in alchemy, but they are so poor that they don't even have the principal to buy the crudest alchemy equipment.There are only theories, no finished products, and it is even more difficult to be convincing.
But John is proud, he can't bow his head to be a family magician like a clown for those arrogant and vulgar businessmen.
The turning point finally appeared. An accident made him get the appreciation of a powerful person. When John thought everything was fine, the guards began to become abnormal.He always burned the bread or the meat, and the soup tasted weird.The home is no longer always clean and tidy, with dirty laundry piled up in the corner.
John had a bad premonition, and he also secretly investigated, which made him think that the guard had a woman.John, who had experienced a betrayal, thought about killing the guard, but in the end he chose to ignore it.Finally one day, the guard did not wait for him at home, and never appeared in front of John again.
John felt that he should be happy, because the guards just left and did not betray him.Wiping away his tears, John continued on his way.He married the powerful sister who helped him, he had capital, and became stronger, more famous, and more powerful.
In No. 15 years after leaving his hometown, John completed his revenge, but the blood of the enemy did not make him feel very happy.He didn't know why, but suddenly remembered the haunted cabin where he lived with the guards for a while.He didn't tell anyone, and went back secretly. The former hut had been destroyed by fire in a thunderstorm, but someone built another house nearby.
And coincidentally, the mistress of the house is the woman John thought was the guard, but her husband is not the guard.John was outraged, but the hostess told him some other truths.
The guard is on the hillside not far behind the house.Because it was requested by the guard who was seriously ill at the time. He wanted to continue looking at this place where he spent the happiest time of his life after he died. The guard has always been here and never left.In this regard, John didn't know whether to be sad or happy.
However, John is no longer that ignorant young man. He returned to his home and soon learned some other truths that the hostess did not know—the guard was poisoned to death because John thought it was his benefactor. The rich and powerful really valued John's ability, but he couldn't tolerate a man who was so close to him by John's side.He asked the guard to choose whether to leave with the money or take poison, and the guard chose the latter.
"If you were the guard and your partner was John, how would you choose?" Old John asked suddenly.
"Tell you the truth." It seems that Old John is not going to continue to explain the follow-up of the story, such as how he treated the benefactor and his wife, but Zhou Lingke always feels that the result will not be "too" good, after all, this old man His personality is persistent, even paranoid.He is like this now at his age, and it can be imagined when he was younger.
"Don't you think it's selfish? It's tantamount to giving John a choice between revenge and the life of his lover."
Frowning, Zhou Lingke felt that it was really difficult to understand how other people's brains think: "It would be selfish not to speak, so now you can only be with his bones."
"But... if it hadn't happened, I wouldn't love him so much. In my life, besides my parents, he is the only one who loves me with his life. No, I am more than his life more important."
"..." Watching an old man fall in love with a skeleton at dusk, to be honest, it's quite heavy.It’s true that he was moved, but he strangled him to death right after he was born—he sort of guessed why Old John wanted to become a lich, because the magic of the undead system is the best shortcut to resurrection .
However, resurrection is extremely difficult, not to mention that the only trace left by the guards is a skeleton soldier.
An ordinary farmer can use a dung fork one-on-one when facing a skeleton soldier, after all, the skeleton frame is too loose.Moreover, what drives the activities of the skeleton soldiers is a low-level native species called "spiritual touch" obtained through magic summoning. This thing controls the killing of skeletons, and one day it will grow and evolve into a ghost, but this ghost and The soul of the dead is basically two things.
Only the higher undead have the soul of the past.But there is a prerequisite, that is, the deceased must have a super strong obsession with not wanting to leave.Although the guard was poisoned, he didn't have much obsession when he died.And John didn't remember to look for him until the No. 15 year when the guard died, and summoned the body of the guard. I don't know how many years have passed, and the only obsession of the guard has probably faded with time. Empty.
These understandings all come from Old John's wisdom inheritance, that is to say, this is also Old John's cognition. He understands that the person standing beside him is no longer a guard, but just a ... bone frame for him to comfort himself.
Without a soul, what is resurrected is just a human doll.And John should have exhausted all means, becoming a lich, gaining greater, even the power of the legendary law, this is already his last resort.
How great is it to destroy the world for your lover?Zhou Lingke sneered in his heart, as a member who might be destroyed, he didn't dare to move at all.