This NPC really has a problem

The starting point of tragedy is a well.

The memories that could not be obtained at the beginning finally flooded into Lu Ren's mind at a suitable moment.

It was a dry well, abandoned by church people after the groundwater dried up.It had been abandoned for more than 70 years when the child was hid in the well by bandits.

The nearby church seems to have been forgotten by the City of Reflections, even though the people in the church have the same beliefs as the people in the City of Reflections.That city was not an open city from the very beginning, maybe it was the same for people who believed in a closed religion.

Why did the first bishop build a church outside the City of Reflections? Even the current bishop couldn't explain why. He only knew that the bishop was once a citizen of the City of Reflections.The reason may not be important. After all, although the people in the City of Reflections are not enthusiastic about it, the main church does not deny their beliefs. The clergymen live a simple but smooth life in this remote church.

If the church is forgotten by the City of Reflections, then the dry well seems to be forgotten by the church.

It is not on the way to the church, and some clergymen may never know that there is a well not far from them that was used by the ancestors.

Villagers in nearby villages may be more aware of the location of this well.Each well is a precious resource for the village and is marked on a map shared by the whole village.

The sheepskin map that has been used for decades hangs in the red house where the villagers discuss their affairs. There is an area specially circled with a red pen. It is the land donated to the church by the village, and the well is also circled in red. .

People in the village often ignore the land given away.

For some, hidden dry wells are good places to hide their crimes.

The dry well no longer produced water, but the bottom of the well was wet and soft, which made the boy who was forcibly pushed down suffer less, but he still broke his leg.

The boy, whose limbs were bound and his mouth gagged, was lying on the ground, aching, cold and hungry.At first he was still struggling, and when he was exhausted, he began to cry. In the end, he couldn't cry anymore.

The fear of death enveloped the young man, and the loss of physical strength and body temperature made him even more desperate. He called the names of every acquaintance in his heart, hoping that they would come to save him, and prayed that the gods he believed in would show favor to his poor believers.

At first, he hoped that the person who kidnapped him would be punished, but now he only thinks that anyone is fine, even the kidnapper, as long as he is taken out of the well.

When he fell into the well, his thigh seemed to be cut by a sharp stone at the bottom of the well.The wound was not that big, but it took a long time for the blood to stop flowing out.The blood loss made the boy's condition worse. His lips turned white and his eyes continued to turn black, but he didn't dare to go into a coma. He was afraid that once he fell asleep, he would never wake up again.

In a daze, he seemed to hear the voice of a conversation in his ear.

"...The work of delivering meals to the poor is really tiring. Bishop Bai Sen is really so, he even sent me there twice in a row." A man's voice came from far away through the wooden boards blocking the mouth of the well.

"Liner is sick, and someone has to take his place." His companion said, "God teaches us to be kind to the world, to the rich, to the poor, to strangers, and to our own companions. in this way."

The man muttered: "Didn't you say you should be kind to yourself..."

His companion disagreed: "If you treat others with kindness, others will naturally treat you with kindness."

Be the priest of the church!

The boy woke up suddenly, he suddenly had strength again, and made a whining sound with all his strength.He was so bound that he couldn't walk, so he moved to the well wall and hit the well wall with his body, hoping that the two priests passing by the dry well would find him.

"Did you hear anything?"

"There's no one else here except the two of us," the man said lazily, "Maybe it's the wind blowing through the leaves and making strange noises..."

The two walked away while talking.

The boy leaned against the wall of the well and didn't move any more. He stared blankly in front of him, but there was nothing in his eyes.

The hope that had just been ignited in my heart was extinguished bit by bit.

That little hope was like the only beacon in a sea of ​​despair, and now even that was swallowed by the waves.

The words just heard echoed in the young man's ears.

——If you treat others with kindness, others will naturally treat you with kindness.

However, can kind people really get the kindness of others?

……

The teenager was an orphan who was brought up by the bishop of the cathedral.

He was still a baby when he was adopted by the bishop, and he had never experienced the despair of being abandoned. He grew up bathed in the kindness of everyone.The bishop carefully educated and raised him. Like his adoptive father, he wholeheartedly served the good god.People said he would take over from his adoptive father as the next bishop.

Every Saturday, the church sends priests to deliver meals to the poor in the city, which is not an easy task.Although the City of Reflections is a prosperous city, like every city, it also has poor corners, and those chaotic places are full of violence, lies and theft.Even if they are faced with priests who spread goodwill and give free food to them, there will always be a small number of people who will hide in dark corners and stretch out their sinful hands.

"I don't like poor people."

Once Father Link finally couldn't bear it and said: "We have given them free food, but they stole our property."

The young man understood why Father Link complained, but he didn't think it was what a priest should say. It is precisely because of the evil in the hearts of ordinary people that priests should set an example for them and guide them to good.

But the clergy are not gods after all, and there will always be dissatisfaction in people's hearts. Even a kind bishop will tell the boy not to bring any money with him except the food distributed when he goes to the slums to deliver meals to the poor for the first time.

"Link," Father Luther said directly after hearing Father Link's words, "We will only be stingy with kindness to those believers of evil gods who are hopeless, but for those who have done wrong things because of life's hardship People, we must be tolerant in return. Under the quilt of the good god, kindness will eventually be exchanged for kindness."

Father Luther was quite dignified in the Holy See, and Father Link didn't make a sound.

The boy tugged at the sleeve of Father Luther, who was already an adult and was more than a head taller than him, and said softly, "We're here."

The slums are in the northwest corner of the City of Reflections. When you come to the back of the bustling Rongguang Avenue, you will find yourself suddenly entering another world.

Less than one percent of the City of Reflections lives, but almost [-] percent of the people in the City of Reflections live, and [-]% of them are children, the elderly, and the disabled.The children looked at the priests with envious eyes, some strong men looked at them with greedy eyes, some tired women smiled obsequiously, and some old people opened their cloudy eyes, and their empty eyes did not know where to fall .

The priests were always on time, some of them stood guard at the entrance of the slums early in the day, and for some, the food distributed by the priest was their hope of surviving this week.

No one stepped forward to fight for it. This is a rule that has been formed in the slums for many years and everyone must abide by it.The Holy See will give every poor person a certain amount of food every week, and people in the slums may steal the property of the priests, but they must not hurt them.

Those who hurt the priest during this sacred event will be regarded as believers of evil gods, and this is someone the Holy See will never forgive no matter what.

The knights protecting the priests pushed forward the wooden carts loaded with food, and the priests would register their names after distributing them.Who lives in the slums and where those people live, even the administrative hall of the City of Reflections will not know better than the Holy See.Even if this is done to avoid someone repeatedly collecting and taking away other people's food, it is also to prevent them from missing some people who are not good at it.The priests will stay at the entrance of the slums for a morning, and the poor who can move at this time will go to them to get them by themselves. In the afternoon, the priests will go to the residences of some elderly and disabled people to deliver food to the door, generally until nightfall. They can go back to the cathedral.

The boy is very young, although he actively takes on this task every time, he will always be exhausted due to lack of physical strength in the later stage.The seniors of the Holy See were considerate of him, and asked him to find a message when it was almost dusk, and then set off on the return journey together after they finished their work.

The boy used to look for the stone bench where he rested in the past. He was not afraid of breaking away from the Holy See team. He was still wearing a priest's sacrificial robe. No one would hurt him when he saw this dress. However, today he walked through a narrow path Suddenly, a pair of hands stretched out from the door next to him, covered his mouth and dragged him into the room.

The boy who was gagged with a cloth and tied up couldn't realize what happened for a long time.

No clergyman of the Holy See had ever been killed in a slum, and the teenager couldn't even imagine what happened to him.

"Is this the person?" A kidnapper asked, pointing at the boy.

His companion nodded: "That's him."

The kidnapper hesitated at the door: "Then let's take him now..."

He made a gesture of wiping his neck, and the boy couldn't help shivering.

The second kidnapper looked at the young man curled up like a frightened little animal, and suddenly smiled: "No, we use him to demand ransom from the Holy See."

The kidnapper thought for a moment, but he didn't immediately agree with the proposal. He said worriedly: "As for those lunatics in the Holy See, will they really pay us a ransom for a priest?"

"It's hard for others to say, but he will," the second kidnapper affirmed. "He is the adopted son of Bishop Lanna. He raised him from a baby to such a big size with his own hands, and everyone agrees that he will be the next bishop. The Holy See will definitely will save him."

The kidnapper was finally persuaded: "But we can't keep him in the city."

The two kidnappers said: "I know a good place."

The boy was put on the delivery cart with countless straws on his body. In order to prevent him from moving, the kidnappers tied an extra rope around his body.

Once the tightly packed straw was pressed down, the boy couldn't even squirm.

The boy felt the cart being pushed, and even though he couldn't see it, he knew from the words of the kidnappers that they were going to transport him outside the city. The boy even heard the voices of the soldiers guarding the city gate.At first, the surrounding area was still very noisy, but after they left the city and walked a long way, other people's voices gradually ceased to be heard in their ears.

The cart was pushed into a forest.

The straw on his body was pushed away, and the kidnapper's somewhat ferocious face appeared in front of the boy, and a well behind him.

"This is a good place." As soon as the kidnapper said, he picked up the boy and threw him into the well.

The boy who fell into the dry well was so painful that he almost passed out, tears rolled down his eyes, and the kidnapper stood by the well and said cruelly: "Pray to your god that you will survive before the Holy See takes money for you! "

After he finished speaking, he lifted a heavy wooden board to cover the wellhead.

The boy lay hopelessly on the cold ground.

He still remembers those two kidnappers, his memory is always very good, he can remember the faces of every person he distributed food to, he once handed over the food to those two kidnappers, and they still offered food to them at that time. He said thank you and praised the good god, but why did he kidnap him in the blink of an eye?

Am I doing something wrong?

The boy was puzzled, I obviously helped them, but why did they hurt the person who helped him?

Bishop Lanna said that the City of Reflections is a lucky city. It is blessed by a good god, and its citizens are kind and hardworking. It is kindness that makes everyone feel happy.

Bishop Lanna told him that you are a priest of the Holy See, and every priest is an envoy of a good god walking in the world. You must be kinder than others and treat everyone you meet kindly.

The boy asked ignorantly, what about the others?

The bishop said that if you are kind to others, others will be kind to you.

That's what everyone says.

The boy used to think so, but he found that reality is a heavy hammer, and his belief seems to be just a piece of fragile glass.

He gave kindness, but what he reaped was harm.

Father Luther said that some people are just not influenced by the good god for a while, and one day they will understand.The teenager didn't know when that day was, he felt that he was going to die now.

……

How long has he been in the well?

The boy couldn't come up with an answer.In fact, occasionally a ray of light can pass through the gap between the plank and the wellhead and drop a few small light spots on the upper wall of the well, but the boy didn't have the experience to count the number of times the light spots disappeared and turned on again.

The injury on his leg could not be treated in time, and he was infected because of the harsh environment. The boy developed a high fever on the day he was thrown into the well.The exact time when he developed a high fever was after the two priests left, and he gave up any resistance in complete despair.

His body was cold and hot, and the boy felt that he was going to die countless times, or if it wasn't because he could still breathe, he felt that he was already dead, and now he was just a ghost that would dissipate at any time, lingering on his last breath.

The young man was in a daze, his once blazing heart seemed to have been thrown into icy water, frozen, and even the blood was no longer flowing.At the most painful time, he felt that everything in the world was false, and what he insisted on in the past was a joke. Kindness cannot be exchanged for kindness every time, and those small kindnesses returned can only make him happy a little. For a while, and one injury can make him irreparable.

The kidnappers said that they wanted to ask the Holy See for money through him, and the young man was eager for Bishop Lanna to rescue him immediately after receiving the news, but one day passed, two days passed... After that, the young man could not feel the time exactly As time went by, his eyes looking at the mouth of the well began to become numb. The people from the Holy See had not yet arrived, and he did not die of illness, but was about to die of thirst.

One night, the overhead board was suddenly removed.

But the face that appeared at the mouth of the well was not the kind Bishop Lanna, not the reliable knight of the Holy See, but the kidnapper who proposed to throw him here.

The second kidnapper saw his distressed appearance, and suddenly laughed out loud.

"We look alike now." The kidnapper said with a hoarse voice while laughing, "You're going to die, and I'm going to die too."

The boy's eyes moved slightly.

"Are you thirsty?" the kidnapper asked, without waiting for the boy's answer, he unscrewed the mouth of the water bag he was carrying, and poured water on the boy.

The young man thought that he had lost the will to survive, but when he saw the water, he subconsciously stood up to catch it, not knowing where the strength came from.The falling water soaked his face, soaked the cloth in his mouth and flowed into his throat. The dry throat that was about to smoke was suddenly moistened, and the boy almost cried out for a while.

After a while, the "rain" falling from the top of the head stopped.

The kidnapper poured it down, and only poured out a drop or two. He said regretfully, "It's gone."

The kidnapper leaned against the dry well in a daze.

The boy was still immersed in the nectar just now, when suddenly he heard the kidnapper say: "My companion is dead."

The young man was stunned.

"He was accused of being a believer of the evil god because he kidnapped the priest of the Holy See." The kidnapper said, "At first he said that as long as you give him money, he will tell the Holy See your whereabouts. Later, he said that as long as you let him go, he said, In the end, he begged Bishop Lanna, as long as he survived, he would bring people from the Holy See to save you."

"But the Holy See refused," the kidnapper snorted, "Bishop Lanna said that every follower of a good god should not bow to evil."

The young man was stunned.

What's the point.

Saving him...does he bow to the evil?

Bishop Lanna is so kind and kind, the young man doesn't believe that Bishop Lanna would say such a thing at all!

He wanted to refute the kidnapper, but he could only make a whining sound.

"Do you think we kidnapped you, very bad and evil?" The kidnapper looked at him and sneered, "Have you ever thought about how we successfully kidnapped you out of the city without being kidnapped by anyone? found?"

"The really evil people are obviously in the Holy See!" The kidnapper suddenly became excited, and said sharply, "You are blocking the way of others, little priest!"

"You know Father Luther, right? Did you know that before you grew up, others said that Father Luther would definitely be the next bishop?

"Others say that no one is more like a representative of the gods than Father Luther. Father Luther has pretended to be a kind person all his life, just waiting for Bishop Lanna to die so that he can become the bishop of the main church.

"But you came. Bishop Lanna liked you so much, and the others gradually changed their tone. The person who was most suitable to be a bishop suddenly became you.

"Father Luthor hates you so much, he treats you like a thorn in his side, and only a fool like you would think that Father Luthor is a good man. He approached me and Zhu Qi, and told us that you will be there in the evening on Saturday. When you rest, he will send out the guards who secretly protect you, as long as we sneak you out of the city and kill you, he will give us a lot of money."

The kidnapper smiled: "My proposal is to save you, little priest. If I hadn't told you to save your life and ask the Holy See for a ransom, you would be a corpse now."

"It's a pity, it's a pity, you said that Father Lanna loved you so much before, but at this moment, your life is not as important as those pedantic dogmas."

"Little priest," the kidnapper said, looking into the young man's unbelievable eyes, "the one who should be kind to you is yourself. Do you think that if you treat others well, others will treat you well? Don't be naive. Compared to this bullshit good god, I I would rather believe in that evil god, I may not end well if I do good, but at least I am happy when I do evil.”

The boy shook his head desperately.

You are talking nonsense!nonsense!

How much he wanted to shout out like this, but the cloth in his mouth made him unable to say a word.

A small voice suddenly popped up in my mind.

Maybe what he said was right?

"They're about to catch me, and I'm about to die." The kidnapper said, "I won't kill you. But little priest, do you think you'll still be alive when they find you?"

Under the numb gaze of the young man, the kidnapper moved the board back again.

Time seemed to cease to exist.

The boy felt as if he had turned into a plant and gradually grew together with this dry well.

let me die.

The boy thought.

Just let me die.

When you die, there is no pain, when you die, you don't have to think.

I no longer have to worry about who is wrong and who is right, whether people should be good or evil.

In the time when nothing can be done, people can only think wildly.

The young man gradually remembered many things, and remembered some words that he hadn't taken to heart.Bishop Lanna said to be kind to others, but among those who were kind, not only did not mention themselves, but also did not mention their companions.

According to Bishop Lanna, the clergy are different.

The clergy should be good people, but also fight against evil people.Even if you can't do the former well, you can't bow your head to the wicked.

He said that kindness can never bow to evil.

The young man felt that there was nothing wrong with this sentence, but in order to save the lives of his companions, it was not allowed to pay the wicked people money?

Numbly, the boy heard a burst of messy footsteps.

The board was pushed away vigorously, and the knights of the Holy See did not stop Bishop Lanna who was looking anxiously into the well.

They found him one night, and the boy's face was illuminated by the lamp that had been thrust into the well.

"Bring him up quickly!" Bishop Lanna shouted loudly, and added eagerly, "Be careful, he's injured!"

Several knights worked together to take him away from the dry well, and he was put on a stretcher. The doctor gave him a simple treatment of the wound on the spot. Bishop Lanna held his hand and said, "Great, child, you are still alive... That's great."

He was so excited that he shed tears.

It was clearly the Bishop Lanna in his memory, there was no difference at all.But why is there no wave in his heart, and he can't find a trace of his usual Rumu?

"It's really dangerous." The doctor who treated his wound said fearfully, "It's a good thing we found it early, otherwise I really don't know what will happen."

The young man thought indifferently that you could have come earlier. With the power of the Holy See, can't you punish the kidnapper after giving the ransom to the kidnapper and rescuing him?

They didn't do that, because the Holy See can't bow to the kidnappers, and good can't bow to evil.

Everyone didn't notice the abnormality of the young man, they just thought he was too painful and exhausted, so they didn't say a word.They brought him back to the Holy See, and the accompanying priests comforted Bishop Lanna, everything was over, and his most beloved child returned in good health.

Someone sighed: "Thanks to the good God, He protects every kind person."

The author has something to say: I actually finished it.

I can't believe it myself.