Diablo Destruction

"Actually, being invited to the First World this time has fulfilled Lina and I's wish."

Gott lowered his head, his unfocused eyes falling on the snow. The deep sadness in his words was like the white snow reflected in his pupils.

I glanced at him doubtfully and said nothing. In silence, I waited for his next explanation.

Sure enough, after hesitating for a moment, Gott continued to speak. He scratched his head and forced his usual silly smile.

"Oh my, my, it started to feel heavy before I knew it. I really still can't get used to this atmosphere."

Although he said this, his forced giggle gave people more weight and helplessness, followed by a long sigh, looking up at the blood moon, Gaut murmured.

"Wu, you also know that everyone in our team has now broken through to the pseudo-realm realm."

I nodded. This happened on the first day when the Gotts came to Camp Rogge. A few days after they met their former enemy Seattle K., Gott occasionally told me about their team and the fight against Seattle K. I mentioned it when I was talking about the grievances between us.

"Yes, time is really impatient. The happy time with Khan and the others in the training camp is still vivid in my mind. Before I know it, I have come here. My partners are already so strong. I have always dreamed of it. The strength that I thought was out of reach seemed to be trampled under my feet in the blink of an eye. Those innocent thoughts were submerged again and again in the cruel reality. Every time I thought of this, I felt an uneasy feeling. The sense of reality is as if I am in a dream now. After waking up from the dream, I will still be the knight student who trained hard under the teacher's stern gaze."

As he spoke, a layer of crystal sparkled in Gao Te's eyes, which reflected a faint red light against the blood moon. They looked like blood pupils, making people feel the deep nostalgia and sadness in them.

Light and shadow are like arrows. For Gaut, although these decades or hundreds of years have only left a mature mark on his face and a handful of neat beard, many things have left behind. It has become the past, the missed, regretful, sad, joyful, and happy things are being taken away bit by bit by the thing called time. You can’t catch it no matter what. No matter how you linger, you can only watch it. These precious things are branded with the past and will never be returned.

Then suddenly, I realized that my heart had become old and numb at some point. I gave up the struggle and grabbed those precious things that I couldn't keep or miss. I turned around suddenly and felt as if I had done something. A dream.

Maybe in a few years, I will be like Gott now.

"Ha, ah hahahaha, sorry, sorry, why did you drag me so much?" Gao Te wiped his eyes violently, sat on the snow with a majestic look, and continued with a serious and depressed expression. said.

"Yes, we have come here without knowing it. We have reached a place that we could not even imagine before. We have strength that we could not even imagine before. Our team has now passed the top of Arreat."

Turning his head, he gave me an ugly smile.

"Although it's a bit bragging, with the current strength of our team, it shouldn't be a problem to defeat Barr's clone. If nothing else happens, it should be very easy..."

This was originally something to be happy about, but Gott's tone became increasingly low and sad.

Because this means that they are not far away from going to the third world, the real cruel world that adventurers long for but fear.

"Eh? Hey! I seem to have gone off topic again. Sorry, sorry."

In vain, Gao Te found himself falling into depression again. He grabbed a handful of cold snow and patted his cheeks to cheer up again.

"Anyway, that's it. If we calculate it, we will leave for the third world in less than a year. During this time, Lina kept crying and murmuring in my ear [I really want to go back] Home, I really want to go home and take a look] In this case, there is really nothing we can do to her, no wonder they say women are made of water."

Gott shrugged his shoulders pretending to be relaxed, and then his shoulders slumped helplessly. He sighed deeply and covered his forehead to prevent others from seeing his expression.

"I...I also want to go home and see how my brothers are doing, see if anyone has cleaned up my parents' graves, see if the village has changed, and see if my former playmates are still alive, but ...But Lina and I are both weak people. We are afraid that after we go back, our hard-earned determination will be easily broken, and we never want to leave again!!!"

Gott, who had been struggling to cheer up intermittently, this tall and strong paladin who was as calm as a mountain when he was not speaking, finally choked up at this moment, tears streaming down his chin that could not be covered by his palms. This was different. In the past, he used to cry cheap tears like jumping off buildings and selling them every day, but instead they were full of emotion and warmth, falling on the snow, and even the ice and snow cried for them.

Gao Te's choking sounds were particularly desolate in this windless and silent snowy night. Each sound echoed in the distance, just like the low whine of the lonely wolf facing the blood moon in the night sky. It makes people feel the extraordinary vicissitudes and helplessness.

I didn’t speak, and I didn’t offer any words of comfort. At this time, any language is pale. In this world, as we say, only the word cruelty is the most suitable prefix, whether it is for a beggar, Either a commoner, a noble, a king, an adventurer like Gott, or me, a savior wearing various imperial crowns, or even an old fox like Akara, this cruel world leaves us with choices. There are not many roads, and they are often not what we want. We can only be forced to choose one of the two roads where we cannot see the future and are covered with corpses. We cannot give up, or even There wasn't even time to hesitate and think.

If given a choice, how many people would be willing to live in this kind of never-ending battle and killing?

After a while, Gott's choking finally stopped. In these days, he also suffered a lot of pressure, whether it was his longing for his relatives in his hometown or his wife Karina crying in his ear. He murmured, all weighing on his heart like a heavy weight.

Karina also knows this, but at this time, a woman is the most vulnerable. Even though she knows it will bring pressure to her husband, she still can't help but talk like a baby and rely on him.

The sky was above the man's head. At this moment, Gao Te, who secretly choked up with Karina behind his back, surprisingly gave me such a feeling.

"Sorry...sorry, don't laugh at me, and don't tell Lina."

Wiping his red eyes, his suppressed heart was released. Gaut was in a much better mood now than before. He laughed sheepishly, stretched out his palm, and our two hands touched each other in mid-air. With a crisp sound, it was an agreement that he would not tell anyone.

"So, originally we were still hesitating whether to come back or not. We were worried about it every day and couldn't even eat my favorite banana. At this time, a letter from the great elder Akara helped us. You made your choice, so actually it should be us and my wife who want to thank you."

Gott finally said this. He always felt that there was something to complain about in this sentence, but he still let it go.

"So...how was it? Did you go back and watch?" I asked cautiously.

"Yes, I did. I took a sneak peek during the few days I stayed in the camp."

Gott nodded vigorously, his expression not as sad as I expected, but full of fearlessness and determination.

"We were originally afraid that we would be shaken after we came back. We ourselves felt very strange. It seems that the most difficult thing for people to understand is indeed ourselves."

With a self-deprecating laugh, Gott said slowly.

"We first went to Karina's house. Her father, my father-in-law, died twelve years ago. Her mother is still alive and is the oldest in her village. There is also Lina. My brothers and sisters are all gray-haired old men, and I have a lot of nephews and grandsons."

Making a gesture of hugging a pig's nest, we both laughed at the same time.

"So, did sister Lina show up?" I asked.

"No." Gott shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Don't look at my Lina who is usually as fierce as a tigress. In fact, she is very emotional and fragile. She doesn't dare to show up. She is afraid..."

After a pause, Gaote's voice deepened slightly and became bitter.

"She hadn't seen each other for decades. She was afraid of seeing the other person's tears, and she was also afraid that she would cry. Of course, what she was most afraid of was... what she was most afraid of was that when she appeared, the other person would no longer be able to recognize her."

"yes."

I murmured something, thinking about it personally, there is indeed such a fear.

"But in the end, with my persuasion, she still met with her old mother-in-law. At that time, the two of them burst into tears. I couldn't help but wipe my eyes."

Gaut said with a smile, although he said it in a very relaxed tone, but he had to imagine that kind of scene, and he would not be relaxed anyway.

"After she came back, she cried loudly in front of me again, and then just looked away."

"I didn't expect that so many things happened to you in those few days. I'm sorry, I didn't even notice." I smiled sheepishly.

"Forget it, we would be embarrassed if you noticed it. After all, this is not something worth talking about."

Gott gave up and suddenly whispered, cautiously looking at me with pitiful eyes.

"Wu, you must not tell Lina that I told you this. If she knows that I told her these embarrassing things, she will have to skin me."

"no problem."

I gave a hearty thumbs up.

"As long as you fulfill your agreement, just shout [Gote is the stupid orangutan king] a hundred times from the rooftop of Mara ***."

"No! I never made such an agreement, you bastard!!" Gott yelled.

"No, you see, didn't we just make a [snap], high-five and make a promise?"

"Eh? The high five just now was actually that agreement?! I don't know, I don't know at all, bastard! If I knew, I would never do this, so it doesn't count!!"

Gott was shocked, and the face of the stupid orangutan was exposed again.

"Moreover, is it my imagination? There seems to be a difference from the unreasonable request last time. It seems to have become more excessive!!"

"Okay, just take it as such, it's getting late."

I patted my butt and stood up from the snow with difficulty. Finally, with the help of Gott, I managed to stand up.

"Obviously there is no such thing."

Gott was still complaining endlessly.

"By the way, after walking a few steps, I suddenly turned around and looked at Gaut, who stayed and planned to continue looking at the moon for a while before talking, and asked.

"Speaking of which, you almost brushed me off and I didn't even ask how you were doing."

"My situation, what is my situation?"

The orangutan turned around and asked pretending to be stupid.

"After returning home...after all, your home is in the forest."

"It's in the village! It's normal to be in a village without orangutans!! No bananas are grown!! The name doesn't match the word "gorilla", it's normal to be in a village!!"

Gaote bared his teeth and claws angrily again and again. If it weren't for my current weakness and his pitiful self-esteem, and his unwillingness to bully the patient, he would have had to pounce on me and fight to the death.

"So... how about it?"

Looking at Gott who roared angrily and looked like he wanted to roll me into a snowball from here to Harrogas, I calmly smiled and continued to ask.

"How about...that's it."

With a stunned expression, Gao Te put down his arrogant posture, turned around, and looked up sideways. His figure, like the blood moon hanging alone in the night sky, exuded an aura of loneliness.

"My parents are dead, and there are several brothers in the family. Like Lina, they are all gray-haired. I have nephews and grandnephews."

He showed a somewhat lonely smile, and then wiped his nose proudly.

"Me, I'm a man, not as timid as Lina, so when I returned to the village, I met them directly. At the entrance of the village, I met one of my younger brothers who walked up to them."

"Then, did you enjoy the happiness of family reunion?"

As soon as I asked the question, I wanted to give myself a slap. If this was the case, why would this orangutan have such a lonely expression?

"Yes, the whole family is reunited..."

Gao Te looked up at the night sky in trance and murmured quietly.

"I originally thought that he had received the news and came specially to welcome me."

He turned around and gave me a complicated smile.

"At that time, I said "Yo, Gat", and he bowed to me respectfully and said something like "Dear Sir, do you have any instructions?" Hahahahaha, it's very strange, obviously. It's a brother who looked like that and said those words. I remember when he was a child, he was not afraid of anything and he would even dare to provoke a rotting corpse."

After speaking, Gott slowly lowered his head and fell into speechlessness.

"It's okay, that's fine."

Before I could think of words to comfort him, he raised his head again and comforted me, who was looking thoughtful.

"It doesn't matter if we don't know each other anymore. In this case, even if I leave at the last moment, I won't feel too sad. As long as they are still alive and well, that's fine for me."

"maybe……"

Gott suddenly gave me a silly smile.

"Actually, thinking about it, there is no need to be so inseparable. It's still uncertain now. Maybe Lina and I will take a step ahead of my mother-in-law."

"Will not."

Enduring the screams of muscles and bones in my arms, I patted Gott on the shoulder.

"Live well, at least until I come to see you. Then it's up to you whether you want to live or die."

"Hey, hey, you are too callous and indifferent, you bastard!!"

Gott slapped my hand away dissatisfied.

"I will survive, and I will live well to show this guy like you."

After saying that, we both laughed at the same time.

"However, with your current status, can you really go to the third world?"

"Yes, I don't know when it will happen, but there will definitely come a day, and it won't be too long."

"Why are you so sure? I really don't think Great Elder Akara will let you take risks easily. You know, even in the realm of domain, it may not be safe in the third world."

"There is indeed no reason, but this is probably... the so-called man's sixth sense."

Pointing to my head, I turned around and looked at Gott.

"Go to bed, go to sleep, I have to practice tomorrow, it's really exhausting."

"Wu, remember my words, don't try too hard."

Behind the scenes, Gott's words came.

"I know, I know, how many times do you want me to say it."

"That's not what I meant, I mean, don't worry those girls."

After a pause, I turned around in surprise.

"Do you think that even I can see your suppressed acting skills, and you think you can hide it from those smart and careful girls who get along with you day and night?"

Gott gave me a "Are you a fool" sneer, and then gave me a straight thumbs up.

"Man, with the sky above your head, work hard."