Between life and death [unlimited]

If the hunger from the organs is bearable, then the confusion in the spiritual world will make people lose their direction, like a lone boat walking alone, lost and wandering in the endless sea.

Jiang Shui, who only has consciousness but cannot control his body behavior, does not know whether he really traveled back to the key node in the "Original Sin" mission, or he just recalled the memory that he had selectively forgotten—in short, Through "his" eyes, Jiang Lai clearly saw the bloody blade in his hand at that time, the brothers and sisters of Shen Yu and Shen Yingying whose corpses lay beside him, and the final result that he had known for a long time.

——Jiang Xun, the only winner of this mission.

No matter how the whole thing happened, whether Jiang Lai had shot at Shen Yu, the final answer was in front of him, and it was so clear that it couldn't be clearer.

Standing in such a bloody scene, he suddenly realized that the bloodthirsty monster in Jiang Xun's heart seemed to be dormant again after eating and drinking, but instead, he was trapped in the weakness of his limbs and bones. And the complex emotions that suddenly surged up in his heart.

Originally, he didn't really understand what emotion is, and it can be said that he was completely blank in terms of family affection, love, friendship, and so on. He should be very unfamiliar with this complex emotion.

But since he entered the living space, met Si Yufeng, Zhang Jian, Shen Yingying and others, and experienced so many missions and incidents with them, Jiang Shui is like a ignorant person who has just begun to understand this strange and complicated world Child, in the company of these companions (if it can be called that), he has experienced many unique "landscapes" that he has never seen before, and it has also made him gradually understand some feelings that were once considered useless to him.

These vague unnamed emotions are like seedlings that have just poked their heads out of the soil. Like them, Jiang Lai is full of curiosity about the world—the mood when he eats desserts or completes tasks is like a rainbow Colored ice cream, and difficult things that are not easy to solve are like the peanuts that I ate that time.

But the intense emotion that suddenly surged up from the bottom of Jiang Xun's heart now made him feel a familiar and strange feeling again.

This made him feel helpless after eating moldy steamed buns soaked in water, suddenly shrinking his body back to his childhood.

In the past, when encountering those painful experiences that made him feel painful, Jiang Xun's brain automatically and deliberately chose to forget them, and carried out a perfect emotional isolation, which made him feel that he had never encountered these things—for example, he almost completely forgot about when he was a child. The things that happened, and the past that he never mentioned but he really couldn't adapt to the organization in the early days - but the scene that came to him now, this kind of semi-compulsive memory made him feel very real, so real that he even He was horrified and a little frightened.

Like an ugly scar that has been healed but not completely cured, the outer layer of camouflage has been lifted again, and Jiang Xun, who has nowhere to hide, can only resist but is forced to face these bloody realities.

This feeling of being forced to face the things you want to escape is not good. Compared with it, the adult Jiang Xun is more willing to fight the enemy with real guns, no matter how many injuries he suffers. .

However, if these old wounds that were rotten in his heart were to be completely healed, the process of tearing and debridement and suturing again was what he had to go through, right?

When the spiritual world was in pain, Jiang Lai endured it silently, and for some reason in his mind, he suddenly remembered a pair of star-like eyes—it was not so bright at first, but Jiang Lai remembered that he had seen them at close range. The stars in the sky are even more dazzling - and these eyes come from his no longer teammate, the former paladin "Feb", Si Yufeng.

When the children don't like to take medicine, there will be candy for them as a reward for bravery.Surrounded by loneliness and pain now, the "very ill" Jiang Xun felt that even the fake smile on Si Yufeng's face, which seemed to be full of hypocrisy, could be like driving away the cold sunshine, giving him Brings a lot of comfort.

Although he has long known that Si Yufeng's identity in the real world is actually just a liar, and he also knows that the smile that was shown to him is just an artifact after continuous training, but it is true that only Si Yufeng has brought him the longing for him. The long-awaited warmth.

Even if these warmths exist for a very short time.

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Humans are the most emotional animals on earth [1].

All aspects of our lives may be driven by emotions to varying degrees, so unlike basic subjects such as mathematics and physics, emotion is actually a rather complicated subject.

When Jiang Shou fell into the vortex of emotional entanglement, let us turn back the hands of the clock, and the screen will switch back to the mission of "disaster".

The rainwater from the atmospheric clouds is still falling very densely. They dripped and dripped on people's faces, shoulders and bodies, and at a rapid and intense speed, this remote place, which seems to be "eating people without spitting out bones, "The small mountain villages are all surrounded.

The villagers who have been educated since childhood to unite and fight against the enemy—no matter what they do is good or bad, as long as someone in the village is in trouble, the rest of the villagers will come out to support unconditionally—even at the last moment of their lives , These villagers also strictly abide by the rules that have been handed down from their ancestors.

The bloody massacre battlefield full of severed limbs and remains washed by the rain makes people feel as if they have returned to the ancient times, those distant times when only cold weapons were available, and fighting was all based on courage.

Now standing on the battlefield, only those elite knights from different worlds are left standing. Of course, there is one exception, that is Jiang Xun, who is lying in the mud without knowing his life or death.

The time for the system to announce the completion of the task is actually very short for normal people. The moment all the knights heard the cold voice in their ears, their movements, breathing, and injuries seemed to be frozen immediately.

Eric, who made the task complete and realized his wish, had a flattering expression on his face that seemed to be secretly delighted and invited for credit; while Jiang Ke beside him still maintained a haughty expression on his face, but her But her gaze was on Jiang Lai who was lying on the ground, and she couldn't tell the true emotion in her heart at the moment.

And the mysterious knight who was hiding outside the arena just now, but has been helping Jiang Ke secretly, was not affected like the knights in this small courtyard. Surprised, because he is used to the "special treatment" given by this system - this is also a place where NPCs in the living space enter the mission world, which is different from ordinary players.

This elite knight, who has been hiding since he entered the mission world to prevent others from discovering his existence, really exists like a human shadow.

Only when he is under the scorching sun (that is, the situation requires), he will hide in a dark corner and help secretly; but once encountering rainy weather, when he does not need to appear, he will never show up In front of others, just like the sun will pass and there will be no shadows behind human beings, they disappear without a trace.

This person, who was trained by Jiang Ke himself, doesn't understand emotions very well. His name is Hermes, the shadow knight who conveys information in ancient Greek mythology. He is also called the perfect version of "Jiang Shui" by Jiang Ke.After all the players were frozen, he still hid behind the bushes not far from Jiang Ke, outside the gate of Khazar's house.

Maybe because the scene was quite chaotic just now, except for the time when he made a move to expose himself, no one else knew of his existence.

In fact, this is also the first time he accompanied Jiang Ke into the mission world.After all, the situation was extremely critical at that time, and Hermes jumped down with Jiang Ke who was unconscious before he had time to think about it. He didn't think about the consequences at the time—whether he would die directly, or fall into a maimed and painful life— —Hermes will not consider these things either.

Because Jiang Ke is like the world to him.Who would question the sky above their heads?

In the past, in the City of Survivors, Hermes always did some things for Jiang Ke that she was inconvenient to come forward to. For example, the first contact with the Alliance of Gods was carried out secretly by him behind the back of the Divine Blessing Knights. Jiang Ke ordered—this may be because Jiang Ke didn't want others to know about the lucky coin, even James, who appeared to be her most loyal subordinate (maybe more problems will arise once others know ).

After falling from the cliff, it was beyond Hermes' expectation to accompany Jiang Ke into the mission world.However, he didn't have any special feelings about it, except that when he saw those players or NPCs in the mission world who were frozen in front of him, it was a bit like the moment he saw a flash light take a picture.

However, the wind and rain between this piece of heaven and earth have not been suspended by the system. The strong wind still sounds so strong, and the raindrops falling from the sky have not slowed down at all, and all the natural landscapes are still in their original appearance.

So it was also the first time, and possibly the last time, that Hermes actively appeared in the sight of others—because he knew that these people couldn't see him now, so he dared to walk in front of everyone.

But even if he knew that these players and NPCs would not know what happened to him, Hermes, who stepped out of the shadow for the first time, was like a comedian making his debut. The audience who laughed at the joke, the blood pressure suddenly rose and the hormone was secreted instantly, and it was rare for him to feel the tension in his heart.

Hermes, who had always been able to move freely and gracefully like a cat, also became tiptoe, as if a child who had just learned to walk, his steps faltered a bit.

But he continued to advance unswervingly in the storm, and soon, Hermes walked in front of the "world" that illuminated him.

Usually, Hermes seldom meets Jiang Ke like this—he usually can only appear behind Jiang Ke, listening to her assign tasks while staring at the back of her plump and round head—but now the relationship between the two The distance between them was very close, and Hermes leaned in front of Jiang Ke, curiously looking at every detail on Jiang Ke's face.

Jiang Ke was not wearing the metal armor that she usually wears because she had undergone a systematic disguise.And Hermes seemed to have never seen a human being, he wished he could stick his eyes tightly to Jiang Ke's rain-covered face and observe carefully.

It turned out that Jiang Ke, who was described as decisive and decisive by people, actually had a very soft and beautiful appearance, which seemed to be the statue of the goddess Athena humanized by Westerners.

In fact, her eyelashes are as slender as soft feathers, her face is covered with a layer of soft down that doesn't match her personality, and her slender neck is as beautiful as an elegant swan... If Jiang Ke doesn't always look like a swan With a serious expression, or if she sends out those tasks that easily take people's lives, and doesn't show the epee in front of people, then she looks like a classical ballet dancer with her naturally slender bones and fine eyebrows.

At least, that's how it looks now from her rain-stained appearance.

Hermes looked in the direction of Jiang Ke's gaze again, and then he saw his "replaced person"—that is to say, Hermes was his substitute—although Jiang Ke didn't often mention To, but sometimes also talk about the river scorpion.

This unlucky guy who couldn't think of going against Jiang Ke was lying pitifully on the dirty and muddy ground with his arms around a dead child.There was a huge blood flower blooming brightly on his chest. Hermes estimated the amount of bleeding in his heart, it was about 1L, and he didn't know if this guy would be able to return to the living space alive.

However, Hermes quickly removed his gaze from Jiang Lai - I don't know why, anyway, he didn't really want to see the guy who was replaced by him - and then his gaze was suddenly caught by the person in the corner Attracted by several clusters of greenery.

These green ferns that grow in dark and humid corners are very adaptable, and the leaves are arranged in a plane and mosaic. They should be the first choice for people to remove weeds in the yard.

There is no reason—they only live in the darkest and most humid corners like the disgusting creatures like rats and cockroaches, and they don't need to be carefully taken care of, so they can grow wildly like viruses floating in the air.

However, those leaves that were hit on the ground by huge raindrops from the sky but still stretched outwards represent their exuberant vitality at this time.

It's scary to think about it.

Usually just photosynthesis under low light can rejuvenate these poor plants.

But what about him?

Always hidden in the dark, unable to see the light, living even less comfortable than a maidenhair fern.

The author has something to say: [1] Excerpted from "Human Emotion: A Sociological Theory"

PS: Hermes doesn't have any emotions in his heart, and he just expounds what he sees normally.

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