Law of the Devil Chapter 570: [Ten thousand years of faith]

Chapter 57th [faith of ten thousand years]

Rohat looked at the "breakfast" in front of him.

This is a turquoise bowl-shaped leaf filled with a shallow, crystal clear liquid.

The elves' habits are their breakfast.

This tent is where the elven king falls.

He was hanging on the pan that day, and Rohat thought he was dead. In his opinion, it is not necessary for the enemy to keep such a captive, let alone, these enemies are not "humans". Since the beginning of this war, they have no habit of retaining captives. Every human being caught has only one end in the end: being killed and becoming the ration of these guys.

Rohat is not afraid of dying, but he still has some fear of turning into these monster rations, so the most thing he does every day now is silent prayer to strengthen his faith.

After being released from the pan that day, Rohart was actually soaked with sweat. And, to be honest, if it wasn't for him not drinking water after being captured, I'm afraid that scene, he really can urinate on the spot without any shame, but a normal physiological reaction. This is not to say that he is not brave, but in fact, the so-called "warriors" are not those great glorious images that have been deliberately beautified. Even brave people will be afraid and afraid before they die, but they have a stronger faith to support themselves. It does not mean that the fear disappears, but that the power of faith overwhelms fear.

But ... he didn't die!

Also, he has been locked in the elven king's account, and lives to this day.

Luo Xue's attitude towards him is strange: On the one hand. Luo Xue did not force him to ask him anything. Even, compared with the status of "captive", Rohat was also treated to a certain degree of favor. The elven king told Rohat that as long as he was in this tent, he could walk around freely, and even look at everything in the tent, he could also look around as long as he didn't leave the tent. Almost enjoyed the treatment of guests.

Except ... the food I eat every day is a bit worse.

Do these elves seem to eat no meat?

Drinking dew in the morning, but it is changing the pattern, rose dew, lily dew ... but it is only dew after all.

At noon, they will eat something weirdly pancake-like, and the taste also seems to be ground out with some kind of plant. And at night ... they will produce some fresh and tender plants and fungi ...

Rohart remembers that when he woke up, to this day, none of these elves have made themselves hungry. But the food sent by the elves really made Rohat feel that he was about to turn into a rabbit and graze.

Although the elven king also said that he could order the orcs to send some meat over. However, Rohat rejected this kind intention (or temptation?) Resolutely.

Because Rohat is frightened: those orcs eat all flesh, including human flesh! God knows whether the ground meat they brought was from an animal or ...

This tent has a certain amount of magic. This is what Rohat has gradually learned in the past two days.

At this moment in the northern part of the continent, winter has begun. However, this fairy tent is just like a huge mushroom. It is indeed a huge mushroom with magic properties. The umbrella-like edge has been dragged to the ground. A round handle in the middle supports the roof high.

This is something made by the special magic seeds of the elves. The temperature is very comfortable inside, cold wind is blowing outside, and inside. Rohat didn't feel the slightest chill.

This huge tent is divided into two inside and out. The elf king seems to live outside, and the falling snow will spend an hour or two every day chatting with Rohat. At the beginning, this chat situation was just talking unilaterally, and Rohat either shut up and didn't answer, or scolded or sneered.

But gradually, Rohart was surprised. This elf's patience is so ridiculous that even if he has a bad attitude, the other party doesn't look angry or angry. And ... the knowledge of falling snow is really amazing!

The content of the talk, falling snow, was very careful, and it never involved the military situation of human beings. However, falling snow from the astronomical geography and humanities knowledge of the human Roland Empire to the history and culture, they talked about casually all the way. Often the topics are wild. Think of what to say ...

Although Rohat is the son of a carpenter, he has since joined the empty riding group of the Tulip family. He also experienced some cultural studies. After all, Du Wei believes that qualified officers must not be illiterate. In the Tulip family, there have been systematic and stipulated education courses for officers at the military level.

Rohart has been in the Northwest for three years, and he is no longer the carpenter's son who can only write his own name. At least, he did well in history. However, when chatting with this elf, he often feels ... humiliated and ashamed.

Yes, shame!

This elf talks about the history of the human Roland Empire. The head is the history of the civilization of which era, the rise and fall of which dynasty, and even the history of the Roland Empire from its founding to the present. Some important national policies and the political system of the empire. Wait, when this elf often talks, he just picks it up and talks about it. Even if Rohart hates these enemies no matter how much he hates, he has to admit that this guy has to learn, I am afraid that he is far better than himself. In the northwest, the teacher who taught himself was much stronger!

I am afraid that the only person who has met the elves in terms of academic knowledge is the Duke of Tulips himself, and Philip, the chief administrative officer of the Northwest, in order to vigorously promote the culture of military officers studying in the Northwest. At that time, as an example, Du Wei once taught these officers, and Philip also taught these officers.

But the erudition of Lord Duke Tulip is famous for the Empire! Lord Philip is often called the prime minister. And he is also a well-known college student Mr. Blue Ocean.

The most important thing is ... they are all human!

But this elf ... As an elf, he knows so well about human civilization. Obviously, he didn't do it casually. It must have been carefully studied with a strong purpose!

Even talking about some famous buildings in the Roland Empire, such as the city walls of the imperial capital, and the six magic star building of the imperial magic union. The pottery pillared hall of the temple of light and so on. When Luo Xue talked, he could even go from the origin of this architectural style to the historical origin, the background of the times, and so on ...

These topics are obviously not understandable by rough text.

There are some brilliant poems left by famous poets in human history, those wonderful chapters, magnificent epics, beautiful operas and so on ...

It even gave Rohart an illusion: this world. What else is this elf doesn't know?

He was very annoyed that as a human being, when the other elf talked to himself about his splendid culture, he often said nothing, even many things. Either I know nothing about it, or I have never heard of it!

Luo Xue can even recite some ancient poems in more than two ancient languages ​​of the Roland continent. Rohat could not understand a single word.

But ... I am human! It's just an alien! !!

"I have read the general history of your continent thirty-one times. There are also versions from different ages and versions before the revision ... Well, the last time I came to your empire, in the north In some cities, I got a lot of books. I brought back about 4,600 books in total. "

Luo Xue sat casually in front of Rohat, with an expression and tone as if chatting with an old friend: "To be honest, I admire you humans. You have indeed created a brilliant civilization."

"You have so much trouble learning our human civilization. What is peace in Andy?" Rohart said coldly.

"A thousand years ago, the founding emperor of the Roland Empire, Aragon, once said: To defeat your enemies, you must first understand your enemies thoroughly. Well, the original words recorded in the history books should be: know yourself, There are no battles. "

(If Du Wei is here, he will definitely despise his past life and plagiarize his grandson's great warfare.)

"Huh. So you are not at ease. The harder you study our human civilization, the more wicked your heart becomes." Rohat shook his head.

"No. Actually, the opposite is true." Luo Xue shook her head, with a faint smile on her face: "Rohart, I tell you a secret, do you want to listen?"

"You are free." Rohart said indifferently: "What you are willing to say will naturally be said, but I will not tell you any of my secrets."

Luo Xue's smile contained a hint of mockery: "For me, there is no secret on your body, Rohat."

After speaking, Luoxue stood up, waved his hand gently, and the tent door closed silently. Turning his head, the elven king looked at the human captive with a faint tone:

"The more I learn about your human civilization, the more my thoughts come out. Although we are now enemies, but with my understanding of your race, I think more and more, maybe, on the battlefield. You can, but ... it is impossible to completely defeat humanity, or to exterminate your race. "

When he said this, his eyes were clear and calm.

As the commander-in-chief of the invaders, it said something like this, leaving Rohat a stay.

"You remember what I told you the other day, long, long ago, our races were expelled from this continent."

"Well, 10,000 years ago, you were evicted ..." Rohat shook his head: "Of course I remember."

Luo Xue nodded.

Its subsequent voice, with a hint of drift ...

"When I was born, far, far north, across your frozen forest, across a huge ice field, over a mountain guarded by dragons, across an endless wasteland. Always North, there is the place where I was born. Unlike your fertile continent, it is a barren land. There is a lack of water there, and the land is far from describing even with the words 'barren'. You will understand that you are squatting on the ground and grasping the soil with a strong hand, you will find. Half of your hands are hard gravel. There is also a dangerous mountain, but most of the mountains are hard stones. Iron ore is extremely rare and rare. Even the woods that are common on your continent ... we don't have it, even if the magical seeds of our elves are planted, it is faint.

There is a cold wind all year round, and when it is winter, the strong wind permeates people's eyes. Even strong Orcs cannot go out. Because the wind can roll people directly into the sky. That kind of wind blows for about two months every year.

Since I was born ... or earlier, from the earliest deportation of our races there, food has always been scarce.

With us. The orcs are very thorough. When an orc is old and frail, when it reaches a certain age, it will take the initiative to bid farewell to its family members and walk into the depths of the wilderness alone. Then quietly died to reduce food waste!

At the time of the birth of the young orc, the baby ’s constitution was strictly checked in the clan. If it is agreed that the baby ’s constitution is very weak, and he may not be able to become a strong force when he grows up, then the parents must bear With sorrow and despair, kill the weak baby, or ... send someone from the tribe. Use a broken car from a distance to advance into the depths of the wilderness ...

Every autumn ... for you humans, it is a festival to celebrate the harvest.

Oh, right, you humans also have a major festival called Qingfeng Festival, but with us, what you do n’t know is: Autumn, for us. It means: war!

The food harvested every year is very scarce. Never enough! So, it's autumn. Many tribes and tribes will start a war. In order to take away the winter food, those tribes will fight each other and **** a little bit of food in the other hand ...

Kill to kill, kill to the end, there is never a winner! Because the war subtracts a lot of people, every year after the war in the autumn, a large number of people die, and the remaining people have enough food to survive the winter.

I read from the book that when you humans celebrate the Harvest Festival every year, you sing and dance and make a lot of wine ... But with us, as soon as winter, the strong people in the orc tribe, we must say goodbye His wife and children, and then gathered in batches, went to the battlefield to die. When they leave, no one knows whether they can come back alive or live this winter.

You who live in this fertile continent may never experience the pain and cruelty. "

Although in a hostile position, Rohat couldn't help but move when he heard this!

The sound of falling snow is still so faint, it seems a hint of sadness in its tone ...

"All the orcs, dwarves, and our elves, including me. When we are born, each of these races, when we come to this world, after being sensible, our elders will tell us: We are not Born to live in such a barren world. Our ancestors once lived on a fertile continent, where there were countless sweet and clear lakes, countless rivers, dense forests, and fertile grabs, A pinch can even pinch out the fat soil! With abundant rainfall, soft wind and warm sunlight, our ancestors once lived on such a beautiful land.

But we lost that land.

We were defeated by a race called "humanity". Evil and greedy human beings drove us away and occupied the continent, so that our children and grandchildren were forced to live in this hungry and cold world!

Generation, generation after generation!

Each of us is instilled with these things from the beginning. Then, every time the elders tell, they will tell us with a long-awaited tone: we must work hard, and one day in the future, after we are strong, we will return to the fertile land to avenge our ancestors and kill Just those greedy and evil humans, reclaim our home! "

Stop here. Luo Xue clenched his fists: "Every orc, dwarf, elven, was inculcated from childhood to the day they died!"

Rohat is moving.

Although he is only the son of a carpenter, he can still feel the shock of these words!

This ... countless generations have repeatedly instilled this idea. After a thousand years of longing, hatred ... when it erupts, what a terrible energy it will be? !!

Now humans ... do you have this almost crazy belief? ?

"I am the King of the Elves." Luo Xue said gently, "I was born to be destined to bear this responsibility. I will bear the future destiny of my tribe on my shoulders. My father is King, my grandfather is king, and my great-grandfather is also king. I ... too! So, as a king of every generation, we are always looking for ways to return.

It was snowing the day I was born. The name my father gave me is called falling snow. And before I was an adult, my father died ... He left the tribe and took the strong men of several tribe to the human world.

I know ... he must have died at the foot of the mountain guarded by the Dragon.

In fact, we ‘sinners’. Each generation of leaders will take the strongest in the tribe to venture into your human world and try to open the way home. but. Every generation, no one can come back alive. "

"I used to hate humans so much." Luo Xue smiled, and her smile mocked with a touch of sneer: "Just like the thought I was imbued with when I was a kid: Humans are robbers, they are greedy and evil races. Our homeland. And our sinners, the only goal is to kill back! Kill all of you humans! Completely exterminate your race! Otherwise, it will not be enough to blood-wash the tragic fate we have suffered for nearly 10,000 years. Also It is not enough to make up for the past ten thousand years. Those old people who have committed suicide in the wasteland after being old, those cowardly small lives who have been killed just after birth .... Ten thousand years later, this blood debt is too big. The scale is huge, there is no room for relaxation unless it is cleaned with blood !!! "

"I used to hold this strong conviction: Kill all humans! Exterminate the human race! But ..."

Luo Xue shook her head slightly, and her smile was a little strange: "But. Now I don't think so ... because. As I learn your human civilization, I have to force myself to accept a fact: You, such a race, cannot be extinct! At least, we, the races, can't do it! Maybe we can defeat it, but it can't be extinct! "

Speaking, Luo Xue sighed softly, its voice gradually lowered down: "But my thoughts are just myself ... the orcs, they don't think so. Orcs have been Until now, we have insisted that only by killing and exterminating human beings can we have a way to live ... but I am very pessimistic that this goal will never be possible even if the war lasts for ten, fifty or one hundred years ... ... all impossible!

It may be possible to defeat a nation. But we must completely wipe out a race that has developed for tens of thousands of years and has a mature civilization ... this is definitely not something we can do. In my opinion, this is a dead end, this war will continue and it will continue! continue! I can't see the future direction, even the slightest hope. I am afraid that my generation, my next generation, and the next generation will continue to fight like this. Endlessly! "

Rohart heard this, and he frowned, and finally couldn't help asking Snowfall a question: "So, what do you want?"

"I?" Luo Xue smiled softly, and it looked at the human in front of it: "I want peace ... our elves have never been a warlike race, we just want peace. As long as we have a piece that allows us to reproduce Home, it's enough. "

Speaking, Luo Xue pointed outside the big account.

It smiled bitterly: "Just a few days ago, we have started to grow food in the land we have already occupied. For you humans, here is the northern part of the mainland. The land is not fertile, but for us to come Say, compared to the place where we have lived for generations, the land here is almost unbelievably fertile! They have begun to grow grain, and they will get the first harvest next year! Those grains will continue to supply our army to continue here Fight! On these lands that have already been occupied, we will hold on firmly here, unless we are all dead, we will never leave! We waited for 10,000 years to return here. Now there is no strength to let us Retreat! The grain has been planted this year, and it will continue next year! The following year, the next year ... the next year ... from generation to generation, the war will not stop! "

Rohart's expression intensified violently, he murmured, "I think, I understand what you want to say ... Huh!"

"This is a war destined to have no winner. There will never be a winner." Luo Xue said gently.

The Lancang Grand Canal.

A Roland Empire navy warship is moored next to the quay of the capital.

The porters on the dock were surprised that such a warship was actually moored at the Min Harbor, and that. Soon, in the imperial capital, a group of heavily armed King City Guards arrived and tightened the martial law.

For a whole day, no cargo was unloaded on this ship, and no one disembarked. And there were people who were watching around, and someone had seen it from afar, within a day. There were three court envoys dressed in court etiquette officials, who accompanied the Imperial Army to board the ship.

This new thing immediately caught the attention of many caring people.

At the same time, in the Imperial Palace. A fierce debate is underway.

"I firmly oppose!"

In the hall, an old man with white hair, wearing a very strict and wide robe, waving his hands excitedly. Arguing loudly.

He then looked up at the two men sitting high on the throne ... His empire's current emperor, Charlie, and his emperor's father, His Royal Highness the Regent.

"Your Majesty! Your Highness !!!" The old man yelled quickly and resolutely: "I am firmly opposed to giving those indigenous people extra-standard courtesies! They are different from those on the grassland! The grassland has confronted us for many generations. Although we are unwilling to admit it, we have to say that we have basically acquiesced to the fact that there is an independent regime on the prairie! They have the power to compete with us in local areas, and the empire as a compromise. The prairie lord has been recognized in that year ' The fact that the king is a king! In terms of etiquette, if it is the messenger of the prairie king, we can treat the territories as territories. But ... these Nanyang natives are definitely not OK! If we ... it is a kind of humiliation! The legality of the kingdom of these indigenous peoples in Nanyang! Your Majesty! Your Royal Highness! Some will be the second time! With the third time ... it will become the norm in the future! I think this This precedent must not be set! Otherwise, if any indigenous tribe on that island calls itself king in the future, and send people to the empire, we will all give a king Treatment messengers do ?? "

Along with it. It is some old men in the military. Many people still belong to the naval system.

"I agree with the Minister of Etiquette." An old military official bowed, his eyebrows with a trace of anger and distress: "Your Majesty. Your Highness! Once upon a time, our huge navy was invincible in Nanyang, and we won. Those Nanyang indigenous people can only bear our wantonly rubbing! Even now, they have never had the strength to compete with us, never! For these indigenous people, they are just the granary of the Imperial Nanyang, we You can go harvesting at any time when you need it. But now, we actually call it 'the country'! This is definitely something we can't admit! They are different from the prairie people. The prairie people have the ability to compete with us, but these Nanyang indigenous people do not ! "

"If we acknowledge that they are a" country, "then we must treat their country according to the empire's code and etiquette ... and there will be a lot of trouble in the future! We also need to consider public opinion Impact. If the Northwest Prairie knows this, they will sneer at us for being too weak !! Nanyang indigenous people are only worthy of our slaves, they are not worthy of being our guests! "

The Minister of Etiquette raised his fists and yelled.