Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 350 Hunting (5)

  I don't know if the little lion forgot to report it or did it deliberately. When Winters stepped over the curtain, besides the white lion, there were many nobles from the Chihe tribe sitting in the big tent.

   I still remember that the nobles from the Chihe tribe who were the champions of Palatu were either angry or surprised, but when they saw the white lion stand up and greeted first, they restrained and did not make any drastic actions.

   The upstart Akagawa, who didn't recognize the champion of Platoon, whispered a few words to the others, and his eyes on Winters were also a bit complicated.

   Winters never thought that he would appear in this way, nor that the white lion would put his posture so equal.

   In return, Winters took off his hat and put it on his chest, and returned the salute solemnly.

   Got the sign of the white lion, and the nobles of the Chihe tribe avoided them one after another, and even the guards withdrew. Only Winters and the white lion were left in the big tent, and the little lion was guarding outside the tent.

  After the others left, the body language of the white lion became obviously much more relaxed.

   He propped himself up, slowly sat down on a legless chair, and gestured to invite Winters to sit too.

   As soon as he spoke, the white lion easily asked a difficult question: "Have you seen Erlun?"

   Winters' body instantly stiffened.

   He came to the White Lion to negotiate with an extremely serious attitude. Facing the White Lion’s unexpected question, he didn’t know how to answer it.

   And he couldn't guess for a while whether this was White Lion's negotiation strategy, or White Lion just wanted to ask casually.

  Winters, who was full of emotions, shook his head calmly: "She is also in Qingqiu?"

   "Of course." The white lion replied calmly: "This is the safest place."

"Oh."

   Then there was a few seconds of silence, and the white lion seemed to be waiting.

   Winters took a deep breath, looked the white lion in the eyes, and asked, "Can we do business now?"

  The white lion sighed softly, imperceptibly, and responded with a serious tone: "No...but at least we can talk."

  Winters checked his bargaining chips for the last time in his mind. There are only three things worth putting on the negotiating table: gold, trade routes and iron ore. The rest are icing on the cake and optional.

   And he wants only one thing - people.

   Winters didn't speak rashly. When he was still considering which card to play first, the white lion picked up a scroll from the case and handed it to him directly.

   Although puzzled, Winters politely took the scroll.

   He slowly unfolded the shaft, and unfamiliar names, ages, and military ranks flowed out row by row.

   A list, a list of captives.

   "All the prisoners that can be found are on it." The white lion's magnetic and mellow voice sounded: "There are still some people in the hands of [Haidong] and [Suz], and there is no way to do it for the time being."

   Winters put away the scroll and asked calmly: "They are also in Qingqiu now?"

"Do not."

"where?"

  White Lion smiled: "It should be almost time to reach Tiefeng County. Don't worry, someone will **** them."

   Winters held the scroll and fell silent.

   After a while, he asked the white lion seriously: "What do you want?"

   "Nothing." The white lion nodded lightly: "You are a guest, please treat it as a gift."

   Winters insisted, "What should I give you in return?"

   "I have already received your gift in advance." The white lion said casually: "In the grasslands, exchanging gifts means friendship. If you are unwilling to accept friendship, you can also use it as a reward."

   Another moment of silence.

   Winters gritted his teeth and played the biggest card: "The gold sacrificial man from Teltown is in my hands."

   "I know." The white lion didn't care: "You already told me, didn't you?"

   "I can give it to you."

   The white lion clasped his hands and laughed. He looked at Winters as if he was admiring a proud horse: "At that time, Dexuechan thought I wanted to recruit you, and said that you are the karmic fire that burns all things, and staying by your side will only bring Disaster, persuade me to let you go back to Palatu. In fact, De Xuechan thought wrong, when I saw you at first glance, I knew you would never give in."

   Hearing the white lion talking about the old god, Winters was not very comfortable, so he didn't answer.

  The white lion patiently asked Winters: "Do you think the golden man is very important to me?"

   Winters still didn't speak.

   "The people who make sacrifices to the sky are not important." With a smile in the eyes of the white lion, he asked himself and answered: "There are no people who make sacrifices to the sky - it's very important to me."

  …

  …

  [Camp of the Iron Peak envoys, Winters' felt tent]

The   wood bathtub was less than one meter in diameter, and Winters had to use a "wronged" knee-tuck sitting position to take a bath.

   When washing Winters' hair, Anna felt that Winters was a little depressed.

   "What's the matter?" Anna asked softly, "You seem to be unhappy since you came back."

   Winters answered without hesitation: "Nothing."

  Anna hugged the bad thing's neck from behind: "You can tell me."

  Out of self-esteem, Winters wanted to answer "nothing", but he recalled that Anna had said "I want to know more about you".

   Winters laughed at himself: "You'll laugh at me."

   "Don't think like that!" Anna bit the bad thing's ear.

  So, Winters endured the discomfort and told Anna all the things that happened in the prison, the white lion, and the palace tent in the Chihe Department.

As    told, Winters continued to turn his back to Anna, neither looking nor seeing Anna's expression.

When    listened, Anna didn't give any judgment, just hugged Winters quietly.

After listening to all   , Anna asked inexplicably: "Hasn't your goal been achieved? Why are you unhappy?"

   "The goal may be achieved." Winters' mood at the moment was like a chess player who was instructed step by step to win a chess game. He said angrily: "But I... always feel like I have lost."

Anna, who was playing with Winters' hair, let out a "puchi" laugh: "It's some kind of manly aggressiveness, right? It's like a puppy grabbing a bone, it's not enough to eat a bone, you must grab the other's one. Bones are happy."

  Winters wanted to refute, but couldn't think of how to refute it, so he had to defend himself aggrievedly: "I wasn't taken away by the white lion! And it's not because of the bones that I'm unhappy."

"Okay, okay, I believe that if you really grab your bones, the opponent will definitely not be able to grab you." Anna continued to scoop water to rinse Winters' hair: "I still believe that although you think you have lost now, one day you will be able to surpass you. Him. So... why are you unhappy?"

   Winters' mood dropped again in an instant, and he whispered, "It's nothing."

  Anna noticed the change in Winters and encouraged: "But you saved your comrades, didn't you? Isn't this something to be happy about?"

After listening to Anna's compliment, Winters felt the need to explain: "If the white lion didn't lie to me, the 'falling into the hands of the Chihe Department' and the 'the Chihe Department can buy' have already left the wasteland. There are also some people who are slaves in other tribes, those tribes have deep hostility to the Chihe Department, and the white lion can't do anything, but he promises to help as much as possible. The situation is roughly like this..."

The more    Winters explained, the more silent Anna became, until in the end she didn't speak at all and the movement of her hands stopped.

"I don't understand..." Anna asked with some distress: "Why do you deliberately demean yourself? You deliberately avoid the word 'rescue', and you also deliberately avoid the word 'comrade-in-arms' - you are deliberately dividing you and the people you rescued. "

  "I didn't avoid it." Winters tried to explain: "The word 'rescue' is too serious, as for the word 'comrade'..."

   He paused and sighed wearily: "I don't know if I'm still their comrade-in-arms or not."

"You did a good thing." Anna kissed the 'good' thing on the cheek: "And you did it better than a lot of people. There are people with more power than you who do nothing. There are a lot of people who should The ones responsible, they didn't do anything. When you try to do something, you're better than them."

   Winters turned to look at Anna: "You are so kind."

  Ana feigned anger: "You just know?"

   "But I'm not as good as you think." Winters' tone was calm, but there was pain in his eyes: "Do you really want to know me?"

   "Of course." Anna felt a little uneasy: "What's wrong?"

"Okay, then I'll tell you." Winters took a deep breath, summoned up a lot of courage, and for the first time in his life said the deepest and darkest thoughts in his heart: "Actually, I'm not noble at all. "

   "Today I was in the palace tent of the Chihe Department. When I saw the list, I discovered the fact that there is no one on the list that I know, and they probably don't know me either."

   "It was at that moment that I suddenly couldn't understand, why should I 'save' them? Save a group of strangers?"

   "I will save my men because I have an emotional bond with them. They entrust their lives to me, and I have to do my part."

   "But what about the others? They don't know me, and I don't know them, so why should I save them?"

   "Just because you fought in an army? Well, that's not a good enough reason."

   "So I can't help but wonder, am I really 'saving' them? Am I really 'saving' them to 'save' them?"

   "Or to take advantage of them? Give me some sweetness to make them work for me, and then use them to avenge those who owe me."

   "Or for self-gratification? For my vanity to be a savior? For my desire to be appreciated, worshipped, and praised?"

   "Maybe it's even impulsive? Do you just do it when your brain is hot?"

   "I don't know, and I don't understand."

   "You say that I am nobler than many people, but I can't find any noble motives in my heart, only selfishness, vileness and cruelty..."

   Winters poured out all the depression in his chest, he vented without thinking, without hiding, and even he was shocked that he was so reckless.

   "What will Anna think after hearing this? Will she hate me?" Every time he thought about this, Winters' chest hurt like a sword was pierced.

   How can someone learn about another person's darkest side without being disgusted?

   But there was some kind of self-destructive desire that drove him to continue.

   Like a masochist, he brutally opened himself up, broke apart his ribs, dug out the dirtiest part and showed it to the other party, telling the other party: "Look, I'm such a person, are you disappointed?"

   At the end, when Winters fell silent, Anna's eyes were already full of tears.

   "You said you wanted to know me." Winters asked softly, "So do you know me now?"

   "I understand you, but you still don't understand yourself." Anna said with red eyes, "You saved them because you were kind."

  Winter sighed heavily, reached out and rubbed Anna's cheek: "Your sister is right, you really are a fool who is carried away by love."

   "No! You are not allowed to speak, just listen to me." Anna's tone could not be refuted or rejected. She held Winters' hand, very tightly: "In the winter when I was seven years old, my mother took me to the business as usual. When we got home, we met a beggar who was about to freeze to death outside the city. No money, neither did the coachman, so my mother took off the earring and gave it to the beggar."

   "Mrs. Navarre is very kind."

   "No." Anna looked at Winters with complicated eyes: "Mom found out later that the beggar froze to death on the way to **** earrings."

   Winters could see that, after so many years, this still made Anna very uncomfortable. He silently shook Anna's hand.

"I asked my mother, if we brought the beggar home, would he not freeze to death." Anna's words were fast, tears welling up in her eyes: "Mom said 'yes, but just bring strangers home' , our family may be in danger'."

   Winters wiped Anna's tears: "Actually, what Mrs. Navarre said makes sense."

"I don't want to tell you that 'my mother is right'!" Anna revealed her sincerity: "I want to tell you that my mother is the coldest and most ruthless businessman in Hailan and even Veneta! But even she will Do not hesitate to take off the earrings and give them to strange beggars. Even she has a kind and compassionate side."

   "Because kindness and kindness are human nature, God put kindness and kindness into our bodies when he created man after himself. If everyone had no kindness, the world would never be what it is today."

   "But when kindness and reason conflict, people always have to make a choice! My mother always listens to reason, so she gives earrings to strangers, but she doesn't take strangers home."

"And you? You're the one who still takes a beggar home after a lot of weighing, but your reason can't accept this behavior, so you have to make up a good enough reason for yourself - a selfish reason. I save He wants to use him', 'I saved him because I like him and appreciate me'. Reason can be persuaded because of selfish reasons."

"Dear, don't you understand yet?" Anna said with tears in her eyes, "You don't think of yourself as kind, because reason tells you that kindness is a flaw and means weakness. So you despise kindness, hate kindness, and blame kindness. "

Anna stepped into the bathtub and hugged Winters tightly: "But you are wrong, dear. Kindness is a precious quality. Especially after suffering, pain and betrayal, still choose kindness. You save you Your comrades, because of this. Your comrades are willing to believe in you, follow you, fight for you, die for you because of this. Nobility is not a motive, nobility is an outcome, and so is kindness."

   "Don't hate yourself." She gently stroked the wound on Winters' forehead: "No matter what, I will accompany you."

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  …

   Later, the bathing is over.

  The clothes that Anna brought Winters to replace: "Change into this set later."

   Looking at the new hunting outfit that Anna brought, an ominous foreboding flooded into Winters' heart. He said cautiously, "I don't seem to have this dress... Did I get the wrong luggage when I unloaded the truck?"

   "It's your size." Anna smiled like a flower, but her tone couldn't refuse: "Just wear it."

   [The content of this chapter can be summed up in two sentences: Although Yue Dong's expression is absolutely neutral, the underlying logic is actually lawful and kind (laughs)]

   [Wrong, the mechanical classification method of the Jiugongge camp should be knocked down and then stepped on 10,000 feet! ]

   [If possible, I would even include this in the chapter testimonials. Because there is no promotion of the plot at all... The emotional description of the large paragraph is also suspected of being watery]

   [The next chapter will definitely push the plot! ]

   [But who would have thought that "Hunting" was only intended to write a chapter? ]

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