Longmen Memoirs

But he didn't care about the truth, and now Kelsey's words reminded him of these things, of his vaguely remembered parents, and of his specious words when he was kicked out of the Dragon Gate.

Thinking about it now, there are too many questions and doubts.

There was no need for him to be taken so seriously by that majestic man, and there was no need to kick him out of the dragon gate and give him those choices just because he was close to Tallulah and Chen.

Now it seems that he is about to know the reason.

"What is it?" Chen Mo asked, failing to notice his stagnant breathing and suddenly clenched palms.

"The God of Yan Country." Kelsey replied softly.

"God...such a thing really exists?"

It's like waiting in line for a long time and when you are about to sell your favorite product, a "sold out" sign suddenly goes up.

Chen Mo looked at Kelxi strangely.

He didn't expect that Kelsi would actually tell this answer, and she looked very serious, not like she was bluffing.

"Otherwise, how can we explain the characteristics that appear on you? There are many doubts about you. Some people know the answers to these doubts, but I don't know. I can only speculate..." Kelsey said. "There are many unexplainable things on this land. The Yan Kingdom did have gods. The gods of the Yan Kingdom have long been expelled from the territory by the Yan Kingdom, and there have been many casualties. But it cannot be denied that they did have such a thing. exist and are still living in exile.”

"Okay, God... let it be like this, whether it is God as you said or not, or something else, Ms. Kelsey, tell me what do you want?"

"I once thought about imprisoning you, but Theresia stopped me." Kelsey replied: "She wouldn't do such a thing for herself...I can't, I need you to assist me in my experiment, even if it's just Maybe, it’s also because, as you said, no matter what you choose after knowing this clue, the existence of the Tower of Babel and Theresa’s survival will become your strength, and you know very well what to do.”

Yes, Chen Mo knew it very well.

Even though Kelsey's answer still made him unbelievable, even though Kelsey's words sounded incredible to him, Kelsey had no reason to deceive him.

Regardless of whether it is what Kelsey said.

Chen Mo knew very well that when he left Longmen, he might not be as simple as he thought.

He actually had no choice.

He just suddenly felt that maybe Kelsey was not as indifferent as she showed, even though the choice she gave actually had no room for bargaining.

Chapter 1: Brother Kelu Hill, you still owe me two battalions of equipment ([-])

The new shoots of the birch leaves on the streets of Glei seem to herald the passing of this winter. There is still a slight chill in the air, and the thick smoke rising from the blast furnace adds a deeper color to the hazy sky in Kazdaele, but the streets But the grayness and gloom that comes when winter is gone is gone.

The blood-stained long street has long been cleaned up. You can't smell the blood, and you can't see the bodies that fell at that time. The blood of Sakaz is soaked in this street. However, when the Sakaz people are walking on the street, they leave their homes and walk towards the factory. , when he saw Sakaz walking in the same direction as him, he would smile unconsciously and talk about yesterday's experience and the problems he encountered in night school.

There was more yearning and life in his eyes than Sakaz could see in the past.

People are always good at forgetting, and they will forget the blood left on this land, because the living will yearn for a better life.

If the fighting and bloodshed are to welcome the arrival of this life earlier, then all sacrifices and deaths will become the seeds of new life and beauty, and people will welcome a better future in this blood-soaked land.

They never lack this toughness.

Chen Mo has seen the same thing happen in that country more than once.

The coffee placed on the desk has cooled down for an unknown amount of time. The man sitting behind the desk looked out the window at the branches with new buds. From time to time, training slogans and instructions came from far away in the cold air. The cries of the soldiers slightly dispelled some of them. The chill and sleepiness of spring.

After the lady from the Tower of Babel left, he had maintained this trance-like behavior for almost an afternoon.

Ni Yan carefully reviewed the documents on her desk. Since she became Chen Mo's adjutant two months ago and took off her heavy armor and put on light armor and military uniforms, after experiencing the initial period of being unaccustomed to it, she has Adapted to my new identity and new job.

The people in the mercenary team did not expect that their captain was actually a girl. Her voice was thick and small under the visor. The heavy warhammer and the tall heavy armor filled with Originium technology between the buffer materials made everyone see it. Her people had misjudged her size and strength.

They were a newly formed team due to the employment of the original lord. Except for a few old friends who knew the identity of Mud Rock, it was not until Babel sent a medical team to examine the new recruits who joined the garrison that she took off her heavy armor. , the members of the team looked at the true face of their captain with stunned expressions.

Perhaps it was because what happened to Grai changed Sakaz's past views on Kazdaele, and the arrival of Chen Mo and the new Grai made Sakaz, who still had hope for Kazdaele, think about his future prospects. The direction was no longer so confusing. Under certain circumstances, she accepted Chen Mo's invitation and joined the city of Grai with the mercenaries who stayed and did not choose to leave. At the same time, she also became Chen Mo's adjutant to train her. Handle the camp and some matters submitted here from the municipal government on his behalf.

She has a focused expression, and her black military uniform and light armor set off her conspicuous long white hair. As a mercenary, she is determined, but at certain times she will show surprising expressions because of trivial matters.

When Chen Mo came back to his senses, Ni Yan was placing a document in front of his desk.

"You're distracted, sir."

"I'm thinking about something." Chen Mo put down the cooling coffee cup in his hand.

"Is it because of the arrival of the lady this morning?"

"Some of the things she said made me a little concerned." Chen Mo said. As he picked up the document, he hesitated and asked, "Do you believe there are gods on this land, Mud Rock."

"God?" Ni Yan asked puzzledly.

"God, um... the kind of god in the legend, omnipotent and omnipresent." Chen Mo didn't know how to describe such absurd things.

"You mean the faith in Rutland?" Mudrock asked.

"Rutland? Well, Rutland, do you believe such a thing exists?"

Kelsey's words have been lingering in Chen Mo's mind. Objectively speaking, Chen Mo is not willing to believe Kelsey's statement, even if she said that it is just a speculation of hers. If she is a god, maybe There is no other god in the world as incompetent and useless as himself.

Chen Mo felt that Kelxi told him this on purpose, with some purpose that Chen Mo didn't know. It was not as simple as an experiment as he said on the surface, but this idea lingered no matter what. After all, this land With something similar to magic like Origin Stone skills, it might not be so unreasonable for another god to appear.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain the reason why in the past five years, no matter what kind of detector Black Steel used, it could not determine that he was an infected person without seeing the Originium crystal on his body.

Before entering Black Steel, Chen Mo not only used the most direct and simple method to remove the control chip implanted in his body, but also forcefully tore off several Originium crystals growing on his waist.

He originally thought that Heigang had detected his identity as an infected person, but in fact, when he got the physical examination report, even Chen Mo couldn't believe the word "non-infected".

Over the years, he had kept this secret hidden until Kelsey pointed it out when he was first captured. Perhaps Kelsey had been paying attention to it since then.

While Chen Mo couldn't accept the results that Kelsey deduced, he couldn't help but think of everything the man said to him when he was a child.

In fact, when the woman left, Chen Mo was vaguely aware of it, but he had been avoiding this thought.

These secrets were tangled in Chen Mo's mind like a web, making him want to believe them but subconsciously reject them.

Chen Mo does not believe in God, and he will not choose to believe in an illusory thing.

Chen Mo's words were puzzling.

"I have seen some descriptions of gods in some classics." Mudyan said uncertainly: "I'm not sure if this kind of thing really exists, sir, but the Laterans often preach about their miracles. However, if there really were gods, those Laterans and their caravans would not have died at the hands of Sarkaz."

"So, God doesn't exist?"

Mud Rock nodded, then shook his head.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know if gods exist. We, Sakaz, have always been called demons. The king of Sakaz is also called the Demon King. Maybe God is a title similar to the Demon King."

"Devil..." Chen Mo repeated softly.

Ni Yan asked again: "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Nothing, just think I'm curious."

Chen Mo thought of Kelxi's words again.

[Do you know what the monarch of Sakaz is called?The Demon King, and even the Demon King cannot stop the erosion of the Source Stone, but you can. This is enough to show that you are more special than the Demon King. In Longmen, or the Yan Kingdom in my memory, there is only one thing that can have something similar. Characteristics, but that kind of thing cannot be as weak as you, so you may have some of their characteristics, and after this characteristic is combined with your body, it creates the possibility of resisting the invasion of the Origin Stone. 】

He suddenly thought of the man with horns like a lion in Longmen.

Perhaps only he can answer Chen Mo's doubts.

But before that, he had to go back to the Tower of Babel.

"Sir, documents." Ni Yan reminded in a low voice.

Chen Mo browsed the documents in his hand.

The content of the document is about the opinions and handling methods of the municipal unification and management of the two cities after the merger of Grai and Kribar. Chen Mo glanced at it briefly and found that Su Enyang's processing framework was not bad. After absorbing the legacy left by the original municipal government of Kribar A part of the personnel merged with the municipal government of Glei and united the labor leaders of Glei and Kribar to form a workers group that could participate in the municipal audit and provide opinions to manage and avoid the loosening of workers and citizens after the merger of the two cities. caused problems.

This method of handling was some feasible measures that Chen Mo told him after Su Enyang and Chen Mo discussed it for a period of time. As for the specific facts, Chen Mo handed it over to Su Enyang and his new batch of city officials.

"Have you seen it?" Chen Mo asked.

Ni Yan nodded, but hesitated to speak.

"Yes."

"Any ideas?" Chen Mo put the document on the table, opened it to the end, and picked up the pen. The mudstone figure standing on the left side of the desk blocked some of the sunlight outside the window.

"I've never seen a city give its citizens so much power. Sir, do you really think this approach will work in Kazdaele?"

"You are trying to say that except for the city of Gele, other towns cannot implement Gele's administrative method, because Gele has no lords. It is actually controlled by me and the workers of Gele, while other cities , there are still a large number of troops and mercenaries supporting the lord."

"Yes, it is impossible for those cities to treat their workers and citizens as tolerantly as you and Grai do." Mudyan said that as a mercenary, her experience told her that the lords of Kazdale are not like other cities. Might become like Gray.

Chen Mo put down his pen and closed the signed document.

"You're right." Chen Mo picked up the document, and Ni Yan reached out and held the document in his hand.

"But do you still remember how Gray became what it is today? What happened on the streets of Gray before I came." Chen Mo asked: "At that time, Gray also had lords, guards, and mercenaries. Soldiers, but now, those things are no longer here. It was the Sakaz people who drove them out of the city themselves, so Gele became what it is now."

"But that's just Grai, sir. There is more than one Grai in Kazdale. Other cities have stronger walls than Grai. [/

Ni Yan wanted to refute, or in other words, she looked at Chen Mo, hoping that Chen Mo could give her an answer.

This Sakaz girl is more persistent than imagined, or a certain kind of persistence.

"It is precisely because of what you said that the experiences that will happen in Ge Lai in the future may be more and more tragic than that of Ge Lai. Countless workers will die in the long streets of a certain city like the day you saw them. and under the swords of the lord guards." Chen Mo did not deny: "These bloodshed and sacrifices are inevitable, Mud Rock. When a group of oppressed and suffering people with nothing to stand up and want to resist, they must face the decadent but The enemy is countless times more powerful than themselves, so they will naturally pay sacrifices and deaths many times more than the enemy to make up for their own disadvantages."

Chen Mo spoke very lightly and calmly, as if he was not talking about the lives and deaths of countless people, but about a simple truth.

Perhaps this is the reason why Theresia has been reluctant to trigger a more intense war.

"But..." Ni Yan hesitated. She couldn't accept this answer for a while, because occasionally when she dreamed, she could still see the scene of the mountains of corpses and sea of ​​blood on Grai Street in her dreams. She could never forget that tragic scene. picture.

"This is a very cruel fact, Mud Rock." Chen Mo looked at his hesitant adjutant: "Because when a social structure has problems and most people's lives are not satisfied within this social framework, a few people hoard a large amount of money. Wealth and power will cause various problems in this society. The composition of this social structure itself has serious problems and is brewing all kinds of visible ills and crises. To solve this problem, it is necessary to start from the original It is impossible to find a way out in terms of social structure, because the few people who have control of power and wealth will become the most solid resistance."

Chen Mo said:

"Just like what you see now in Kazdaele, the lord and the mercenaries under the lord control the wealth and power of the city, while most of the Sarkaz civilians and Sarkaz infected people are in the control of this power and wealth. Hungry and cold under oppression, they used food and survival to force people to work for them and seize wealth, but these wealth were used by them to squander and fight, leading to the poverty and division of Sakaz today."

Ni Yan held the document harder. She wanted to refute Chen Mo's words, but those words left her unable to find a reason to refute.

"Sarkazi has always been here like this, sir. Since I can remember, the Sarkarz people have been living under the command of the lord, obeying the lord's orders, working and fighting for the lord." Niyan said: "You just said that Grai The sacrifices that occurred are inevitable, can this change the current situation of Kazdaele?"

"This is a way, not a purpose, Mud Rock." Chen Mo shook his head: "To change the current situation in Kazdaele, we can't just rely on sacrifice. At the same time, you must know why you are sacrificing, not bleeding in vain. There is no The death of meaning is not called sacrifice. The movement of the Grai workers is essentially pursuing the redistribution of social wealth, regaining some of the rights and wealth that should have been obtained by themselves, and removing the redundant lords and cities from their hands. The wealth and rights should be appropriately distributed to this group of hungry and cold-blooded people to maintain social stability and resolve the class conflicts caused by this."

"Like what you told the workers' group?" Mud Yan asked.

"Do you know why I told the workers that knowledge and started a night school?" Chen Mo did not directly answer Mu Yan's question, but asked her.

Mudstone shook his head.

"Because even if someone told Sakaz in other cities this truth, they would not do it. They have not experienced what happened in Glei, so they will not choose to believe that these contents will bring about change for them."

"Ignorance?" Ni Yan didn't know why he thought of this word.

"Yes, ignorance." Chen Mo said: "This is the best way for the lords and the feudal class to rule people, and it is also the biggest shackles in the world. This is especially obvious among the Sakaz and the infected who are not accepted by the people. Although Since the birth of the Originium Engine, many people have come up with their own ideas, but Sakaz is different. The Sakaz war and the outside world's discrimination and prejudice against Sakaz have led to the poverty of the Sakaz people. They still know nothing about this land."

“But precisely because of this, they are more likely than others to be led and misled, convinced by distorted or correct facts and the words of people in the same situation as themselves.”

Chen Mo said that this was the reason why he chose to come to Gelai, because the people in Gelai have already experienced the situation caused by resistance. They have broken away from their original ideological shackles and are easier to be guided and changed.

"That's why you chose Gray."

"Grai is a kind of fire, mudstone, and the people here are the cornerstone of the fire." Chen Mo said: "The corrupt rulers try to use distorted facts and remarks to guide people's hatred of the infected to divert the consequences of their oppression. The social problems that have arisen in the past, and most of the Sakaz are infected and have suffered greatly, which has led to the increasingly difficult situation of Sakaz and the infected today. Some people understand these principles, but they have become rulers and oppressors. Compared to them, very few people are willing to sacrifice their own interests and lives for the demands of a group of unrelated and hopeless people, even the infected themselves."

"They don't ask for much, so they are naturally easy to be bribed and easily defeated by the rulers." Chen Mo said: "But the hidden problems and contradictions in society cannot be eliminated by suppression and reform. Sooner or later, they will erupt, and they will erupt more violently. Because this is the inevitable result.”

Chen Mo said:

"As you can see, I'm not a Sakaz, so I can't understand the suffering and torture that the Sakaz people go through, but I can know what they want, and for some reason, I know what they want, We also know how to achieve their wishes.”

Under the black military uniform, Ni Yan could see Chen Mo's young face looking out the window behind her.

Chen Mo failed to notice that Ni Yan's eyes gradually became firm and strange.

"But I can't change their lives and situations. The only people who can change Sakaz's experience are themselves, not a certain person or a certain theory." Chen Mo said calmly, the sky in Kazdale was gloomy and gray: "If everyone If they are not willing to take up arms, then no one will come to change their experience and suffering. Only when the Sakaz people are willing to stand up and resist their own fate and suffering, will they have the opportunity to win the life they want for themselves. Only They can fight for their opportunities and rights when they are willing to shed blood and sacrifice, rather than relying on avoidance, pity, and handouts from those in power.”

"But you are helping us now." Mudyan said: "You are telling the victims how to fight, instead of waiting until they have to take up arms and find that they have nothing."

"I may also be pushing them to a dead end in advance." Chen Mo said: "Rather, I am here with this idea in mind. Maybe in the future, there will be countless Sakaz because of my theory. Losing your life and gaining nothing, I can’t promise you anything.”

"You don't have to promise, sir. My experience and what I saw and heard on the battlefield tell me that what you do is to allow more people to survive and to allow more people to live better." Ni Yan said, She smiled, and the smile looked extremely gentle: "Although as you said, you are not a Sakaz."

"I often think of my experience as a mercenary wandering in Kazdaele, the soldiers and fallen companions who left me, and the things I saw in the city and the towns of Kazdare during the days when I was hired. I have lived the life and encounters of the Sarkaz people. We have been on the run. In order to survive, wandering without a fixed place and avoiding the pursuit of other mercenary groups. I once thought that Kazdaele would be the companion of my journey** , is also my end point." Ni Yan said, his smile slowly disappearing: "But... until I came to Gray, experienced everything that happened here, and then met you and heard your theory, I began to think about my own After seeing Grai’s changes through experiences and encounters, I clearly realized for the first time that I was really fighting for something, and I was no longer just living numbly for the sake of living.”

Mudstone had these ideas while fighting for the workers and civilians on Glei Street, but never as clearly as now.

Tell him clearly the origin of these encounters in Sakaz, clearly tell him how to change the situation of Sakaz's people, and clearly tell him the direction in which Sakaz is heading.

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"Sir, I'm just sorry that I didn't meet you earlier, and my dead companions and soldiers didn't meet you earlier either."