Longmen Memoirs

Chen Mo said, looking at Shuang Xing: "This is a very simple truth. You think I know more about this than you and am more suitable to lead this camp than you. So in your opinion, what about Tallulah? Is she also better than you? Understand these things better, Patriot, is your father, under the same circumstances, able to lead your stronghold to overcome these problems?"

"Everyone has things they are good at and things they are not good at. These are never static. Maybe they have been like you, feeling that they are inadequate, that they can't lead everyone, that they are not enough, and that they can't do it well. But they spent more time, they tried to change, they worked hard for it, they experienced it, and they had difficulties, so they were able to deal with it slowly."

"I didn't ask you to comfort me."

"It's not a comfort, but a fact. In fact, in my opinion, you are at this stage now. If you don't go through this, you will always be the frost star you are now, staying in place. When facing these, You never know how to solve it, so don’t deny yourself easily, Miss Shuangxing, every experience as a person grows up is a valuable asset."

"Are you trying to say I'm too young?"

Shuangxing stopped talking slightly, as if he suddenly understood what Chen Mo meant.

"Being young is a good thing."

"You don't either."

"The truth is very simple when spoken, and everyone can understand it. The difficulty is not how to say it, who to tell it to, but how to do it and how to make yourself do it."

"..."

"I don't know you, Chen Mo, so I don't know how to answer your question."

"No one can truly understand a person, Froststar, except himself."

"Huh... maybe."

Shuangxing breathed a sigh of relief. Although Chen Mo's words were irrefutable, Shuangxing was still not used to chatting with people like him. She had the same feeling as when facing her father.

It makes people feel heavy and depressing, but the difference is that Shuangxing can still ignore Patriot's words to a certain extent, because Patriot is her father and the most trusted relative in her subconscious. Shuangxing can deny it. Him, because even if she denies it, Patriot is still her father.

But Chen Mo couldn't do it. Perhaps it was because Chen Mo was an outsider that when he said these words in a patriot tone, Shuangxing felt recognized and difficult to refute.

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"Fortunately, Tallulah, we listened to you and didn't want to ambush the advance team on the snowy ridge. As expected, they sent out reconnaissance magicians and built several observation posts on the mountain."

The returning scout team members happily said these words to Tallulah.

"That's an open sentinel. There must be a reconnaissance team lurking somewhere where you didn't see it." Tallulah answered, and then asked, "Have you confirmed their team?"

"Before we came back, we saw a huge army passing through the valley. It should be the advance team you mentioned, Tallulah. Those people are different from the pickets we used to deal with. I can't describe the feeling, but I feel The black bugs are definitely no match for them. This time...can we really win?"

"It's very difficult. I don't want to lie to you, so I tell you the truth, we can't win, at least there is no chance of winning now."

"Even you said that."

The infected person was a little frustrated. He thought Tallulah would have a different answer.

"But we will not lose. Our purpose is not to defeat them, but to hold them back. As long as we can hold them back, the infected people in the camp can be evacuated to a safe place." Tallulah shook her head and said: "Understood Are you ready? There are guerrillas with us this time. They are the main force, but we cannot be underestimated by the guerrillas. "

"Tallulah is still Tallulah. When you say that, I feel relieved."

"Is everything ready?" Tallulah asked again.

"Everything is ready. Those explosives are enough to trigger an avalanche and temporarily block the valley's passage for a period of time."

"Confirm again, there can't be any mistakes, I will go there myself."

Tallulah stood up, and the warrior suddenly called his name.

"Tallulah...if, I mean if, we all survive this time, can I...I mean, can I..."

After all, he didn't have the courage to finish the rest of his words.

Because that's Tallulah.Although everyone was infected, Tallulah was different from them, and he felt different.

Proud, confident, seems to know everything.

But Tallulah already knew what he wanted to say.

It wasn't the first time she noticed that look, it was more than just trust. Tallulah was about to reply, but she suddenly remembered that she didn't seem to see a similar look in Chen Mo's eyes.

Not since I met him.

there has never been.

Did I ignore it, or am I just used to it, Tallulah thought.

Maybe she knew the answer in her heart, but she just didn't want to let herself think that way, thinking that there was only that little important thing left between them.

"Don't worry, we will survive."

She looked seriously at the young infected warrior who was looking at her, and then moved her gaze to the others.

"Whether it's you or me, we will survive, and the days ahead will be long."

Chapter 20 After that, start to reflect

Later, I gradually understood that right and wrong can never be generalized.

It's like a good person who has done good things all his life and finally does a bad thing, then he is a bad person.

It's like an evil person who does many evil things, but one day he saves countless people, and then he becomes a good person.

No, never.

Merits and faults cannot be offset, right is right and wrong is wrong.

A good person who has done good things throughout his life should be punished for the evil things he has done.

A wicked person who has done many evil things has reason to be praised by people for that good thing.

But this has always been a rational and objective statement. In reality, the latter is often said to be evil, and the former is generally called the exposure of one's true nature.

People can always think of others with the greatest malice.

So much so that it doesn't actually matter whether something is right or wrong. What matters is just how much people can see, how much they should be allowed to see, and whether they can agree with it.

If people don't think something is right, even if you put the word "correct" in front of them, they will choose to turn a blind eye.

Axioms, there are never absolute axioms in this world. Anything related to the word absolute should be reduced to power, and axioms should be based on power. The two never conflict.

The power of Ursus has established a stable order, using the infected as a breakthrough point to maintain the fragile balance and contradictions in the country. However, in this matter, the biggest problem lies not in the attitudes of the upper and lower levels, but in the middle. Among the Ursus civilians who have a large base and support this country, how do they view the existence of infected people, and how do they view the impact of the infected people's resistance struggle.

Their attitude, even if it is just what they think it is.

From the beginning, Tallulah chose the wrong direction. She tried to let the infected class fight against the entire Ursus, and to fight against the many non-infected people and upper-class dignitaries in Ursus.

To deal with the Ursus power class who oppressed them, including some of the Ursus people who support this theory.

Maybe she forgot, or maybe she only saw this. Chen Mo didn't know the existence of the black snake. Of course, he didn't know either. Tallulah was just deliberately led astray. From her and Cosiche's perspective, From the moment she started betting on the infected, she had no chance of winning.

He asked Tallulah to fight against the entire Ursus based on infected people. Chen Mo didn't know how many infected people there were in Ursus, but Chen Mo knew that the number of infected people must be far less than ordinary people, no matter where they are. In a city, the most widely spread people are definitely not infected people. Moreover, their status, their abilities, and their distribution are far less widespread than ordinary people.

In other words, the infected people in Ursus are not the masters of this country. The masters of this country are still its people, and the infected people are just part of the people of Ursus. Among the transferred class contradictions, A part of the society that is shaped by the upper class to alleviate class conflicts.

The problem of infected people is just one of the many problems in Ursus itself, and solving this problem alone cannot determine the direction and destiny of this country, nor can it determine the situation of infected people in Ursus.

Could it be that after the infected are not oppressed, Ursus becomes a country where the infected call the shots? No, the point has never been whether the infected are oppressed. It should not just be the infected who are oppressed by Ursus, but Ursus. The origin of the concept of oppressing the infected in Ursus itself. Only by seeing this clearly can it be possible to change the situation of the infected in Ursus.

This is far from comparable to Kazdaele.

In Kazdael, the infected are Sakaz first, and the infected second. There is a big difference between them. The most critical point is that basically all Sakaz recognize Thearesia to a greater or lesser extent. The concept of recognizing their Sakaz monarch does not depend on whether Thearesia is infected.

The problem of Sarkaz is not the oppression of the infected by Kazdare, but the civil war between Sarkaz, the conflict between two different monarch theories in a broken country, the division of the land and the rampant mercenary groups. .

This is far more complicated than what Ursus and Tallulah faced, but from another perspective, in terms of conflicts in the upper-level power structure, it is far easier to solve than the problem of infected people in Ursus.

Watching Shuang Xing leave, Chen Mo was still sitting in front of the bonfire.

He didn't mention these to Froststar, and he also didn't think of mentioning these to Tallulah for the time being. It was not the time yet, at least before they could settle down and make some progress, it was still too early to ask these questions.

But Chen Mo is used to thinking.

Rather, he is used to weighing the pros and cons of something, and is also used to considering the origin of the matter, and these often require a certain degree of cognition and experience. It just so happens that Chen Mo does not lack these now, and he also There is no shortage of time for now.

If you only mention something that you have never experienced or experienced but only heard about, it will only be considered as unrealistic rhetoric.

The truth is not difficult to understand. There has never been a system, theory or doctrine that is applicable to any thing or rule in this world. If there is, then there is and is only one system that conforms to the development of the times and makes choices based on the current situation. The current situation is a concept born from practice.

Chen Mo only believed this.

He has long passed the age of innocence. This land has told him many truths, many truths that are simple but make him feel powerless. Just like when he was in Kazdale, he understood his innocence and understood that some things were not suitable. This land is not suitable for the people here.

It's not that it's wrong, or that it's bad, it's just that the problems they face can never be generalized.

The problem of infected people is one of the most common problems in Ursus, or this land. However, the most important problem of this land is never just the infected people. The most important problem of this land is its vastness. Most people, those who show numbness, indifference, and even ignorance in the face of infection and many social conflicts, are due to the corruption of upper-level power, the indifference of those in power and people.

The problem of infected people is only the most obvious one, and the problem of infected people is also happening to ordinary people to some extent, but they don't realize this, they don't realize that infected people are ordinary people and have no consciousness. Realize that what happened to the infected will one day happen to them. Once they become infected, everything they did to the infected in the past will happen to them again.

This is a war about ideas. The premise of this war is to liberate the minds of the general public, not just to defeat the Ursus army that oppresses the infected.

The key to victory or defeat is to make ordinary people realize that the infected are not their enemies, and to make ordinary people realize that even if they become infected, their lives will not need to change further.

If Tallulah could do this...

in case……

Chen Mo didn't think about it anymore.

He sighed lightly.

This is no longer a difficult question.

The more deeply he thinks about this problem, the more powerless Chen Mo will feel. When one thing is extrapolated to the entire land, people will realize their own insignificance.

Could it be that those unfair and unreasonable things have happened so many times that people have become accustomed to them?

If Ursus accepted the resistance of the infected and gave them power and their due status, it would be impossible. Then the fragile balance of this country would be disintegrated in an instant. Emperor Ursus did not have the guts to do so. He had the guts to oppose the angry people and did not have the guts to give the military powers a chance to oust him from the throne.

Infected person, infected person...

They are sick, black crystals are growing on their bodies, and they don’t have much time left, so they deserve to die because the disease is contagious, so they deserve to be discriminated against and oppressed?

But Ursus, most Ursus people, or rather, many people on this land, do not feel that they are doing an evil thing, nor do they feel that there is anything wrong with what they are doing.

Before they become infected, and even after they become infected.

Right and wrong are often just a matter of people's thoughts. The word right and wrong are defined by people themselves, axioms, principles, and justice. This has always been the case.

April 12

After the snow stops.

The camp decided to move south again yesterday evening. This news caused a brief discussion in the camp, but no one objected because Froststar and the soldiers made a guarantee to the infected and promised not to abandon anyone. They would take those infected with them on the road, which would of course slow down the team's progress, but no one dared to object to this proposal.

Because if you think about it, no one wants to be abandoned.

Alina and his education team helped a lot. Thanks to their presence, they were able to calm everyone's emotions. Froststar went to the tent where the infected people were temporarily isolated.

The high fever aggravated the already bad condition of the infected people. Most of these infected people were in severe malnutrition. There was a lack of medicines and even means of keeping out the cold in the camp. To put it bluntly, they could only rely on these infected people. They can hold on, but how long can they hold on?

The evening of the second day after departure.

April 12

After the blizzard passed, the road was still difficult to navigate. The snow monsters were scouting a few miles ahead, and their legs were stuck in the snow, making every step extremely difficult.

When he heard the news, Chen Mo was not surprised.

The sky is dark, the light in the distance is slowly fading, and winter nights always come too quickly and too cold.

Frost Star's expression was gloomy. She stood in the snow wearing a cloak, with snow monsters and infected warriors standing beside her. The scene in front of her was depressing and solemn.

The wind blew up the snowflakes on the ground.

On the snowy ground, white cloth covered the hideous and dazzling Originium crystals. The soldiers lit the pile of wood, and the gradually rising firelight illuminated everyone's figure. They watched the flames grow bigger and sparks float into the dim and gloomy sky.

"When did it happen?" Chen Mo stopped next to Shuangxing.

Froststar didn't answer, the firelight reflected in her gray eyes.

After several seconds, she spoke.

"This afternoon, shortly after the team stopped, the infected person who was responsible for caring for the patients came and told me the news."

"so……"

"I knew this would happen, but I still wanted to..."

"You don't have to think about it. Even if you stay, it's the same. It's not your fault."