Doomsday Mage Summons the Undead.

Chapter 262 Ideal and Hope

In the mayor's study, the curtains were fluttering in the cold wind.

After the mayor watched the precious magic plants wither on the table, as if he had made up his mind, he raised his hand and gently pulled a silver bell on the table.

Lao Shi, who was always vigilant in the house, quickly found out that the silver bell was just an ordinary tool to summon the waiter outside the house, and reported it to Qi Lin.

"actually."

The mayor glanced at Qi Lin, who remained calm, and continued with a smile: "The lord asked me to entertain you. In fact, even without that lord's request, believer, you came all the way from the city of yellow sand and worked hard to deliver the letter. I will also treat you well."

"It's not just hospitality. If a believer needs anything, as long as I have it, just ask."

"No need." Qi Lin raised his hand to interrupt the mayor's words, and said directly without any hint of worldliness: "You just need to tell me."

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A knock on the door interrupted Qi Lin's words.

The servant who had led the way stood at the door and bent down, "My lord, the supper is ready."

"Oh!" The town yelled, and he looked up at the clock on the wall. It already pointed to midnight, so he waved to the waiter and said, "Let's eat here."

Then he looked at Qi Lin and smiled: "It's just supper time, and it won't take long to have a meal."

"We can talk while we eat, okay?"

The tone of the mayor did not have a high position that could not be refused, but some were just inexplicable pleadings.

But the strange thing is that before Qi Lin could answer, the mayor continued: "The journey is long, but believers come all the way."

The mayor glanced at Lao Jiu behind Qi Lin, who was looking around like a curious baby, looking at the study decorations, and asked Qi Lin with a smile: "Is this the only guard?"

Qi Lin looked at the mayor, and said after a while: "Good luck."

The mayor smiled inexplicably: "Haha, luck is just the modesty of the strong."

At the same time, the mayor also winked at the servant who returned to the door to wait.

The latter looked at Lao Jiu understandingly and nodded slightly.

When the first servant in maid uniform wheeled the first dining cart into the study.

The mayor raised his hand and tapped his desk, indicating to it: "Just use this as a dining table and tidy it up."

At the same time, he said to the servant at the door: "Our guests' time is precious, tell the chef not to bother with the complicated order of serving meals, and just bring them all up."

"Believer, do you think this is okay?" After the mayor finished his instructions, he looked at Qi Lin for advice.

Qi Lin just nodded slightly, raising his hand without hitting the smiling face, he had nothing to say.

In the mayor's spacious and tidy study, the aroma fills the air and the lighting is soft.

This was the first time that the mayor's study was filled with the aroma of food.

The desk was quickly organized and used as a makeshift dining table.

The servants who jumped in moved quickly and tacitly, and one after another pushed the ornately decorated dining table slowly closer.

The servants deftly set the table and set about professionally setting the tableware.

The shining silver tableware is arranged neatly, and the knives and forks stand elegantly on the dinner plate, like works of art.

The choice of ingredients is even more high-end and luxurious.

Carefully selected top-quality ingredients are placed on the table, including rare black hair beef, fresh salmon sashimi, delicious ice shrimp preserved in crystal food boxes with magic patterns, various desserts, and fragrant and colorful seasonal dishes. fruit.

What is particularly eye-catching are the three giant lobsters that are alive and kicking. They proudly display their splendor, as if they are showing the wealth and glory of the noble family to the guests.

The servants walked around the desk with ease and placed the mouth-watering delicacies on the table with exquisite skill.

They carefully adjust the position of each dish to ensure that the visual presentation of the entire banquet is flawless.

All this shows the professionalism of the servants and the daily living habits of the mayor.

"The town is remote and the conditions are limited. We have wronged our guests."

The mayor smiled apologetically at Qi Lin. Qi Lin didn't react at all. Only Lao Jiu behind him glanced at the ingredients and chewed them. He chewed them thoughtfully, not his mouth. Hungry smash it.

The mayor discovered this keenly, then thought about it and smiled: "The guests may not know that when I was very young, hunger was my loyal companion, and he was inseparable from me."

"My life at that time was a long-term struggle with this ruthless friend." Although the mayor's tone was somewhat nostalgic when he spoke, his eyes were always fixed on the expressions of Qi Lin and Lao Jiu.

But unfortunately, Qi Lin always looked indifferent to everything. Only the guard who was wearing a tattered cloak but was not easy to mess with looked a bit contemptuous.

He seemed not to believe what the mayor said.

The mayor's eyes flashed slightly, he smiled, and turned to look at the few main dishes that had not yet been served, and that Qi Lin did not show any sign of sitting down to eat.

So he smiled and chatted with Qi Lin: "The guest must not believe that as the head of a town, I will still go hungry?"

Qi Lin shrugged, noncommittal.

The mayor sighed slightly, and recalled with a smile on his eyes: "When I was young, my mother had to pull peanuts every year."

"She doesn't grow many peanuts. It's not that there aren't many peanuts. It's just that my mother doesn't have much land."

"It is said that it is the mother's land, but in fact, the mother has never had any land"

The mayor's tone was inexplicably sad when he said: "The deserted corners that others look down upon are my mother's land."

"Sometimes my mother worked hard to weed and loosen the soil, and finally sorted out a small piece, and others would take it back."

"Of course, you can't say that it's occupied, because it belongs to someone else."

The mayor smiled and shook his head, a little helpless: "They originally looked down on those little corners, but after my mother tidied it up and made it presentable, they started looking at it again."

"It's always been like this. Some inconspicuous things, once others take a look at them, become good things."

"As long as I can remember, my mother has been raking the land everywhere. The small piece of land that was finally leveled was taken back as soon as others told her to take it."

The mayor sighed and gently touched the withered fragments of the magic plant. The old man, who should not have been covered with age spots at this age, seemed to be trembling slightly. He didn't know if it was because his hands were shaking or something else.

"My mother seems to be used to it. If it doesn't work here, go elsewhere."

"My mother used these discarded corners that others despised to support me who my parents despised and discarded."

"No one is plowing the thin land, and there are people fighting for the plowed land. From that time on, I thought it would be great if I could help everyone have land to farm in the future."

When the mayor spoke, his smile was very bright, and it was very bright from the heart.

However, the smile quickly solidified.

"What about your mother now?" Lao Jiu asked Qi Lin for permission in the soul link, and asked outright and curiously: "Isn't she coming for dinner?"

Qi Lin: .
Mayor:.
Lao Jiu just asked Qi Lin if he could talk, and Qi Lin didn't care about it and said it was casual.

Neither Qi Lin nor the mayor expected Lao Jiu to ask such a question.

Qi Lin didn't speak, just closed his eyes and rested.

After the mayor's smile solidified, he remained silent for a moment and said softly: "When I was a child, my mother was beaten to death by the local village bully."

This time, Lao Jiu, who had a simple brain circuit, finally didn't ask the reason and just listened quietly.

But within the soul link, the other ghosts started discussing.

"Brother Ten, what do you think?" a ghost asked.

The old ten replied directly: "There must be ghosts in repeated words, and there must be demands in excess of enthusiasm."

"Brother Ten, Brother Ten! Look at me! Did you learn from the books in the master's world again?" asked a ghost.

"But, according to Master's understanding of this world, aren't we undead ghosts?"

Old Shi paused and replied: "It's just a metaphor."

"What is a metaphor?" The ghosts asked one after another, perfectly executing Qi Lin's order to ask if he didn't understand.

"It seems that I want to tell the master that you should go to the school to spend a few more days to retake the nine-year compulsory education." After Lao Shi finished speaking, he stopped paying attention to them and turned to some of the ghosts directly in the school and ordered: "Re-collect I have some information about the mayor, I always feel that there is something wrong with the mayor."

"Understood, Principal, which part needs special attention?" the school ghost replied.

"I want to read all the information, especially the past, and report to the master again."

The old ten snorted coldly, and stared at the mayor in the air: "You don't speak your heart when you meet people, and you muddy the water before you meet. I don't think you are a person who speaks your heart when you meet people, so you can go to this day. , you want to muddy the water."

Naturally, the mayor didn’t know what the ghosts were saying.

The mayor at the moment is like a friend reminiscing with the guests. After a long silence, he continued: "After my mother died, my sister"

"That is, the mother's biological daughter."

"She sold me."

As soon as these words came out, Qi Lin, who had closed his eyes to rest, raised his eyebrows slightly, opened his eyes and looked at the mayor.

According to the relevant information collected, didn't the mayor sell his sister in exchange for the opportunity to go to the City of Yellow Sand?

The mayor continued: "Just to get a chance to escape from her hometown, she stripped me naked and showed me to the slave traders." "I can understand her."

"I don't hate her."

When the mayor spoke, his tone was gentle and without any hatred.

"Without the backbone of the family, there are only two children left. Sooner or later, they will be devoured. However, the wilderness is dangerous. If you want to reach your destination safely, you have to spend money to find someone to protect you. So, she had to sell me to raise funds." This opportunity only comes with travel expenses.”

"I don't hate her, because of my mother." The mayor glanced at Qi Lin and said seriously: "When she is alive, there are traces of her mother's existence."

"Perhaps you have heard some rumors about me in the City of Yellow Sand."

The mayor smiled and said: "Those rumors are true, most of them are true."

"It's just that I am the protagonist."

"And the most interesting thing is that at that time, if I didn't know the text of some alien cities, no one would buy me, because I was too thin."

"Of course, even if they bought me, they also castrated me."

The mayor smiled, as if he was talking about a very small thing, his tone was light, without any anger that he should have.

"Because they thought that a castrated child who knew how to write would probably be interested in some big shots."

"The children of those great people will not only compare whose dog's fur is shiny, whose bird's song is gentle, but also whose little slave can know some words."

"Especially in the city of yellow sand, there are many alien monuments in the restricted area of ​​the sea of ​​blood in that city, so the culture of aliens is more prevalent there, so I have the value of being valued by slave owners."

Lao Jiu, who was not familiar with the world, asked in confusion: "Slave? Then how did you become such a high official? And why did you leave that yellow sand city and come here to be a bad guy?"

Qi Lin: .
Mayor:.
Qi Lin resisted the urge to look back at Lao Jiu.

The mayor was a little surprised, he guessed that the guard was a bit ignorant, but he must be very strong, otherwise he wouldn't be brought by Qi Lin's side.

But Lao Jiu's words were still a bit too ignorant of the world.

How can someone call someone a bad guy to their face?
After the mayor was surprised for a moment, his expression soon returned to normal. He looked at Lao Jiu with a smile and said, "Because of my ideal."

"Huh? Bad guys also have ideals?" Lao Jiu asked doubtfully.

Lao Jiu was really confused, not deliberately looking for trouble to give Qi Lin a reason to take action.

After a moment of silence, the mayor said: "Of course, no matter good or bad, good or bad, they all have goals and ideals."

Without waiting for Lao Jiu to ask questions, the mayor took the initiative to say: "Because of my mother, my ideal is very simple."

"Fields for those who till the soil, houses for those who live in them"

When the mayor talked about his ideals, his voice was very soft.

That slightness that you can't even hear if you don't listen carefully.

Like mosquitoes whispering.

The mayor exhaled softly and returned to a normal tone and said: "It's just that this ideal is too difficult."

"The reason is very simple." The mayor looked up at Lao Jiu who was waiting for the next step and smiled: "Some people don't want me to make trouble."

"They have come to me overtly or covertly. Some have confronted me, some have murdered me, some have put a knife on my neck in my sleep, some have sent women to plead with me, and some have gone to the city lord to persuade and put pressure on me."

"All of them have a high degree of unanimity: stop making trouble."

The mayor smiled inexplicably, as if he was mocking himself: "Yes, why are you making such a fuss?"

"I have clearly climbed to a position below one person and above ten thousand people. I have overwhelmed many, many people!"

"I can occupy land! Gather wealth! Cultivate party members! Support subordinates!"

"As long as I don't cause trouble for everyone, no one will resist me!"

The mayor's passionate words made Qi Lin regain his interest and look at the information. He was about 45 years old, but he looked very old. From the mayor's words, he seemed to be in his prime.
It seems that the words are not something that a mere mayor can say.
The enigmatic mayor.

The mayor lowered his head and whispered: "But at that time, I wanted to do something like the emperor breaking the law and the common people sharing the same crime!"

"I just want to measure the land so that they can't evade taxes at will!"

"I want to hold some kind of selection test so that those people can't be lazy!"

The mayor's voice paused, as if he felt that he had lost his composure, and raised his head again, "I made too much noise."

"So they came to me and said: We are all officials and have vested interests. The life and death of the people has nothing to do with us. Why do you want to help them?"

"Why are you torturing us?"

The mayor laughed, mocking in an undisguised tone: "Because they don't understand, I'm different from them!"

"I know that poor people are human beings too. They also have parents, wives and children, and they also want to live!"

"I believe there is justice and justice in this world!"

"I believe that in this world, all people, regardless of high or low, have the right to survive!"

The mayor looked up at Lao Jiu, and then at Qi Lin, who was looking at him: "This is my dream. For decades, I have never given up for a day!!!"

The ghosts have already discussed it within the soul link.

Because along the way, from what I saw and heard, the mayor was not what he said.

Lao Jiu, on the other hand, said with unabashed honesty: "What you said is better than what you said! But the people in the villages around you, I feel that their lives are not as good as what you said."

Qi Lin twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, determined to let Lao Jiu read the book again after this incident.

The mayor nodded and did not refute Lao Jiu's statement, but he seemed to refute Lao Jiu's statement: "If I had a choice, I could be better than all of them!"

"Except for the apostles, those people have never been afraid of heaven or earth."

"As long as you are too different from them, you are too bad! They will destroy you!"

"If you are too cowardly, they will step on you, but if you are too good or too strong."

"They are not worried either!"

"They will suppress you! Alienate you!"

The mayor sighed, seemingly helpless: "Only if you are similar to them, they will accept you with peace of mind."

"So the most carefree people in the world, who can achieve their goals, find ways to disguise themselves as people like them."

The mayor changed his words: "I understand the difficulties of the people at the bottom all too well. The people at the bottom are not stupid or lazy, they just need to spend more energy and time on making a living."

"If they don't work, they won't have food to eat tomorrow. It will be difficult to create and change."

"Of course, I can complain about my unfair fate, but this is not the reason for me to stay where I am."

Lao Jiu was still very confused and asked: "Didn't you say that Natasha is your backstage? Why don't you ask her for help?"

Qi Lin: .
The mayor's eyes widened because he noticed that Lao Jiu didn't add any honorific when talking about Natasha.

Lao Jiu's unintentional words made the mayor take another look at Qi Lin, who was also looking at himself.

This believer seems to be different from what he expected.

He is not an errand boy.

Even, it was not the order of that adult.
Thinking of this, the mayor glanced at the withered fragments of magic plants from the corner of his eye, with hope shining in his eyes.

The mayor forced himself not to look at Qi Lin, but looked at Lao Jiu and continued to speak passionately:

"This world is a pool of stagnant water!"

"The son of the mayor will become the mayor, the son of the city lord will become the mayor, and the son of the president of the chamber of commerce will become the president of the chamber of commerce!"

"If this continues, no matter how long it takes, the world will still not change!"

"When a person is born, he has already decided his life. Just like beautiful clothes, he will choose the person who wears it. Those who are not selected are drooling enviously, just look at it with their fingers in their mouths. Already!"

"When I think about those children inheriting their parents' careers and becoming the upper class of the world in the future, the future of this world is really disappointing!"

The mayor sighed, but soon became full of fighting spirit: "So! I want to change this stagnant pool of water!"

"So, I have to disguise myself!"

"So, here I am!"

"As for why you didn't find Lady Natasha?"

The mayor Yu Guang looked at that Zhu Mozhi again, and said cruelly: "Unfortunately, Master Apostle doesn't care about this at all!"

"To the apostles, we are just dispensable ants!"

"I'm so happy. Say a word and let you achieve a leap in life!"

"If you are unhappy, just one word, everything you have will collapse like gravel!"

(End of this chapter)