Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Haiwen went up, knelt down and grabbed the man's hair, and lifted his head up. "Please hold back, it's not over." He said as he rode on the man and beat him violently.He said calmly while beating: "You physically attacked me fifteen times in prison. According to the laws of the Gulf, I have the right to recover these debts without prosecuting you. I hope you can cooperate. .Thanks."

So he hit the jailer fifteen times in total, no more than no less.After the beating was over, the man could no longer get up. Haiwen stood up, rubbed his fists, and said:

"Now that your sins are cleared, you can continue to work here as a legal citizen, and you don't have to worry about anything in the future. You can go upstairs to find someone from the White Clothes Association to heal your wounds, and you can go to dinner every day this week Get a piece of pork or half a chicken from the back kitchen, and eat some meat to nourish your body."

The man spit out a tooth, lay on the ground and shouted: "Thank you, Sir!"

Big Charles murmured behind Hai Wen: "My lord, you are really getting more and more ruthless now."

"How come? What I did was in accordance with the law. There is nothing wrong with an eye for an eye." Haiwen squeezed his fist again, "Now, take me to see your brother, Big Charles."

"Yes, my lord." Big Charles said quickly.

Haven's Lawsuit, II

Haven's Lawsuit, II

They continued to walk in, and under the leadership of Big Charles, Haven came to a separate prison.

Coincidentally, this is the room he lived in before.

The windows of this place are facing the east, and the ventilation is still facing the sun. It can be regarded as a private room in a prison.Apparently Big Charles had found a good place for his brother.However, this place is still a prison after all, and the iron gate is rusty and full of decay.

There was a big lock wrapped around the closed iron door, and Hai Wen told the jailer, "Open the door."

The jailer immediately came to open the door for him, and the lock was rusted, and it took several "clicks, clicks" to get it open.Then the jailer opened the door.

Inside the gate that closed the iron gate was an iron gate, and behind that gate stood a man.The man turned his back to Haven. He was thin and his hair was shaved. He was wearing a new gray prison uniform. He was clean and decent.Behind him stood a chamber pot and a supply of food, in the sun, bread, soup, and water intact and untouched.

"Manto? Charles." Haven said.

Manto—that is, Little Charles, he turned around after hearing the voice. Compared with his clean back, his face was not very decent.He looks like a zombie with stubble and two dark circles under his eyes.

He smiled, and then said: "I'm still being soft-handed. I should have killed you in the first place, Haven Ambleside."

"You bastard!" Big Charles shouted immediately, "What nonsense are you talking about! This is Lord Ambsideside, I advise you to kneel down and apologize to the Lord, maybe the Lord can spare your life!"

"You poached dog," said little Charles to his brother, "it has come to an end, and I will not beg for mercy. I did not expect you to be an earl, Ambside. I surrender. Kill or cut." ,As you wish."

Just as Haiwen was about to speak, Big Charles yelled angrily again: "You bastard! You fucking... You fucking damn it! My lord, open the door and let me give him a spanking, I'll spanking him for you Let it out, okay? This guy just needs a beating, why don't you come and beat him too?" Big Charles laughed a few times, then shook the iron door vigorously, as if he wanted to tear it down.

Haiwen said: "No, I have already decided to try him, and the law will determine the result, so I will not lynch him redundantly."

"Oh, that's good..." Big Charles nodded solemnly, then frowned.Haiwen saw his hands behind his back, rubbing them anxiously.

"Manto, you are also a smart person, let's stop talking nonsense-someone, bring a chair!"

The jailer moved the chair, and Haven sat on the chair, facing little Charles; little Charles stood there with a calm expression on his face.The two are separated by an iron fence and a world.

"Manto? Charles, I accuse you of four counts. The first is murder. I accuse you of murdering a beautiful Southern woman. You cut her throat. The second count is intimidation. You murdered a woman. Me, ask me to accept your bribes; the third charge is bribery, you have bribed the mayor of Mustang Town and myself many times.” Haven paused and said, “The fourth charge, you have paid for murder Suspect, Laughing Ranger Spike and my former butler Delaire were both attacked by killers, I have reason to suspect that all of this has something to do with you."

Little Charles laughed loudly and said, "There's no need to doubt it! I bought the killer, and you don't need to interrogate him. Just do what you say! You hypocritical judge!"

Hai Wen said: "I have no hypocrisy."

"Then you are guilty too!" Little Charles rushed up, grabbing the iron fence and shouting: "You have accepted bribes! What is the crime of accepting bribes?"

Haven nodded and said, "Because of accepting bribes, I have resigned from the position of judge in Mustang Town, and all my property in Mustang Town has been confiscated. The procedure is implemented in accordance with the Bay Area Code."

"You should go to jail!"

"If you accept a bribe of less than [-] gold coins, you will not go to jail."

"Didn't you collect a thousand gold coins?"

"Not really." Haiwen looked at him, "I only received 99 gold coins when I kept the accounts, and the rest belonged to my brother. And he has no official position, so he can't talk about bribery." This is the cleverness of the last "Haven", Haiwen thought to himself.

Little Charles gritted his teeth and said, "You..."

"That's enough!" At this moment, Charles the Elder rushed up, passed through the fence with both hands, and grabbed Charles the Elder by the collar.Then he jerked little Charles, who hit the fence with a bang, moaning loudly in pain.

"You short-lived ghost! You fucking...you shut up for me, and you just listen to what the adults say! Do you understand?"

Little Charles sneered before spitting in his brother's face.Haiwen shook his head and said, "Forget it, Charles, I think your brother has made up his mind. If that's the case..."

"No, my lord!" Big Charles let go of his younger brother, turned his head and said to Haven, "I think, I..." He hesitated to speak, the muscles on his lips, cheeks and neck were all struggling and twisting, His expression was extremely tangled.

"What do you want to do?" Haiwen asked in a deep voice.

Big Charles twisted his face and said loudly: "My lord, I have doubts about the accusation!"

"Oh? You said."

"My lord! My brother... the suspect Manto is not murder!" Big Charles yelled, "He killed a slave, and killing a slave is an infringement of property, not murder!"

Haiwen said angrily: "Slaves are human beings too. Here at Xiongshan, killing a slave is murder!"

Big Charles frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he said loudly: "Nobles with counts and above can formulate fief laws, but these laws cannot violate the code!"

The code clearly stipulates that slaves are considered property.Hai Wen also frowned, and said, "What exactly do you want?"

As he spoke, Charles took out a paperback version of the Codex from his arms, which stunned Haiwen.Then the guy changed his face, he waved the code of law like a devout moralist, and shouted at Haiwen: "My lord! You are known as a cold-blooded judge and a man of truth, so you must abide by the law! Bay The law code of the land is here, we have to use the code to speak! Are you right?"

Haiwen didn't expect this guy to dare to contradict him openly. He stared and asked, "Big Charles, what are you..."

"I want to be my brother's defender!" Big Charles shouted that sentence hoarsely, "Lord Haven, let's start a trial! Let's go to court!"

"Very well, this is your legal right, and I agree to your request." Haiwen nodded, he pondered a little, and said, "I will publicly try your brother's case in three days, and you can make some preparations. Let the whole of Bear Mountain witness it, Brother Charles!"

Chapter 13: Isrit's life is complete, a

Chapter 13: Isrit's life is complete, a

The witches were already very close to Qingmu City, but their pace slowed down.

On the one hand, it is because the swamp is really difficult to walk, the road and the swamp are mixed together, they often need to wade through the water, and if they are not careful, they will get stuck in the swamp and cannot get out.Fortunately, Witch Dujuan was familiar with the road conditions, and with her leading the team, the witches would not be trapped to death in the quagmire.

The second reason for slowing down is because they brought the wounded.Last night, after a fierce battle, the wolves were finally scared away by Gerrit's "fire magic". In this battle, two witches were injured and one died.The two people who were injured happened to be the two who had been transformed by Zhe Lite, that is, the dog-headed witch and the sheep-headed witch.The other witches accused Gellite, saying that the wolf attacked them because they regarded the two as livestock; but Gellite said that this curse is actually an illusion, and only humans can be hallucinated. It seems that people are still people.

These two people were seriously injured, a big gash was torn open on one belly, and a lot of blood was left. Witch Dujuan gave her a simple treatment, and now she is left hanging.The other one was not seriously injured. Her shoulder was bitten and she only had a simple bandage.The cuckoo witch washed her wound with rootless water and drew an exorcism spell on the wound, which is said to prevent her wound from becoming infected.

But Estelle knew that this method was meaningless superstition. Hewen once told her why wounds get infected and why people get sick.

It will have to be disinfected with alcohol, she thought.After the previous Battle of Bear Mountain, they used alcohol to disinfect the soldiers, which reduced the tetanus outbreak rate by at least [-]%.

Before leaving, Estherite brought alcohol, and wrote down the method of making alcohol, just to deal with this unexpected need.Master Haiwen released the formula after making this drug, in order to save more lives.So Isrit is not stingy, last night, she gave alcohol to the academic witches.The cuckoo witch took the medicine, but the others were suspicious.

No one thanked her, but Estelle didn't care, saving people was the most important thing.

The seriously injured person was lying on a stretcher, and the others took turns carrying the stretcher.Although they had a bad relationship with the academic witches, Isrit and Gerrit still took shifts to carry the wounded.It was a shrew as strong as a man, and even though she had shed a lot of blood, she still had the strength to yell and curse.When Isrit carried her slightly bumpy, she was about to curse a few words.

Estelle was annoyed, but it was not worth being angry with someone who was about to die.

Unexpectedly, the woman could still yell a few words in the morning, but at noon, her voice stopped. By the afternoon, her body was already cold.No one was surprised, and no one cried. The academy sent the witch to bury her according to the rules, and then continued to set off.

"I think they want this person to die." Gerrit said quietly to Isrit, "carrying her is a burden. If she is allowed to live in the school city, the college witches will have to support her in the future, so she dies." Alright, it's over."

Isrit nodded silently, but her gaze was always fixed on Gerrit's head—because most of her hair was burned, the witch changed into a different hairstyle full of pagan atmosphere.One half is bare, the other half is lush like spring weeds, and the long end is braided and wrapped around the other end.

Liberal witches probably don't want to lose face, she thought.

Indeed, no one grieves for the dead, and the procession is orderly.Islet didn't feel sorry for that vicious woman, she was just surprised.

The team is still moving on.

At dusk, they finally saw a little human sign.

It was a ruin covered in vines and moss, dotted with wildflowers.Ancient stone pillars rise from the dark green soil covered with lichen.Many buildings had been submerged by swamps, and Essrit saw many animals she had never seen before.

She saw a huge animal crouching on the edge of the swamp muddy puddle. It had dense bumps on its body, and it looked like it was wearing chain mail. It had a flat head, a thick tail, and strong limbs.

"What's that?" Isrit asked, pointing at that thing.

Geralta said, "That's a crocodile."

"Do you eat meat?"

"Well, it's a beast like a liger, stay away from it."

Then Gerrit told her about several kinds of birds, lizards and turtles in sight. "That's a dead crow, worse than a crow. It not only eats carrion, but also catches small birds to eat." She pointed to the sky and said, "There is also a rock sparrow. In the tradition of the Murphys, the rock sparrow is an ominous bird. .The more chaffinch, the less food, not only because the chaffinch will eat food, but also because the chaffinch takes off means a severe winter. This kind of bird can meet how harsh the next winter is, so they will be in the severe winter Actively stockpile food before the arrival."

Obviously it will be very cold this winter.Islet looked at the big group of rock sparrows rising like black smoke and thought.

She pointed to a lizard with a tumor on its back in the distance and said: "This is a small dragon lizard, smaller than a real dragon lizard, even smaller than a real dragon. It can't fly or breathe fire. It is said that it is a real lizard. After the dragon fucked the boa constrictor..." She scratched her face, "It's all bullshit, who knows how it got here? Don't talk about lizards, do you know how you got here?"

"I am born of my parents." Estherite said.

"Where are your parents?"

"Of course..." She seemed to have guessed what Geralte was going to ask.

"So where did the first humans come from? Was it created by the gods?" Gerrit spread her hands, "Where is the god of creation? Let it come out, I want to ask him how the four great destructions happened What's going on."

Estelle consciously couldn't answer this question, so she didn't say any more.

It took them more than an hour to cross the ruins, which, Gerrit said, were ancient relics; but the Cuckoo Witch said it was a lost kingdom.

"It used to be the capital of Zahar, the king of the swamp. There used to be castles, courtyards, parks, squares, shops, streets, and countless houses... but now they are all gone. 500 years ago, the entire kingdom died of There was a plague, and legend has it that dead bodies filled the river, forcing the river to change its course, and that’s how the Black Ni River came into being.”

King of the swamp?When she was about to walk out of the ruins, Estherite looked back at the land again.

is it that bigEstherite's eyes widened in surprise. She didn't feel this way when she walked into this ruined wall just now. Looking back now, she felt that there was a world hidden behind her.

She couldn't help imagining the glory of the swamp kingdom back then.This should be a castle with a height of [-] meters, she thought to herself looking at the half stone wall and the huge tower; this is the city wall, and she stared at those broken high walls.

Is this a flower bed?Will there be fountains?Maybe where I'm standing is the bustling street?By the way, it must be, the buildings on both sides are far apart, this must be the street.This street is so wide, wider than Fengleibao...

Then sacred temples and magnificent stone carvings appeared in front of her eyes. She saw half-headed statues, a grand sacrifice, swamp people with ample food and clothing, singing and dancing, love, marriage and family... She saw Arrived, but did not see.

The fog in the swamp became thicker at dusk, and the dead crow wailed, and all the illusions disappeared like a mirage.

What a terrible plague would it take to destroy such a magnificent city?The river blocked by dead bodies appeared in Isrit's mind, and the scene made her shudder.

"Let's go!" the cuckoo witch called her, "Even if you wait another 1 years, the Swamp Kingdom will never come back!"

Only then did Estherite realize that she turned around and ran towards the team. The ancient kingdom behind her turned into a wandering dream and disappeared into the mist.

Estelle felt that her life was complete, and the two

Estelle felt that her life was complete, and the two

Dusk was over and the sky was darkening.As the darkness fell, the tiredness accumulated for several days came out.Estelle felt weak all over her body, her feet were so painful that she wanted to amputate them off, and she couldn't even take a step.

"Where is Qingni City?" She couldn't help asking.

No one answered, and the procession continued on, not even Gerrita speaking.She was stunned for a while, and suddenly found a little light at the end of the road.

Zhe Lite told her a few days ago: "Qingni City is a city illuminated by fireflies, day and night." She didn't understand it before, but now she finally feels it.

Through a mist, she caught the light. "Light." She murmured to herself, and then took a step forward.

At first it was just a little bit of yellow in the hazy mist. As they continued to move forward, one point turned into two points, and the two points of yellow turned into seven or eight lights, and finally turned into a bright strip of light.

The lights are Qingni City, and Qingni City is in this light.

People couldn't help being excited and shouted loudly.Even the ascetic academic witches lifted their skirts and ran towards the city.Witch Dujuan cursed a few words behind her but it didn't work. She shook her head, and then quickened her pace.

Estelle wanted to run too, but her soles hurt too much and her body was too tired.

At this moment, Gerrit suddenly hugged her from behind.

"Huh?" Isrit was startled, "What are you doing, mentor?"

"You are too tired, let me carry you away." She said as she walked forward, and Isrit was like a baby in her hands.

She quickly said, "Don't, let me down! This is too embarrassing."

Geralta said, "What's the matter? I hugged you like this when you were a child. Besides, liberal witches are shameless."

Estelle had no choice but to hug her neck.

Geralte's physical strength is superb, and her arm strength is also amazing - after all, she is someone who can perform the "witch's shoulder throw".Moreover, Isrit remembered that Gerrit once said that she once wrestled with the gorilla in the jungle, had a proud record of five wins and three losses, and forged a deep friendship with the gorilla.Now it seems that what she said is true.

Soon, they ran into the lights.

Qingni City is not a city in the strict sense. Unlike the majestic big city in the north, or the majestic castle in the bay, there are no walls or castles here.I saw a quiet small river passing through the middle of the city. On both sides of the river are high and low orderly houses on stilts. Many different families stacked and combined the houses together to build a layered vegetation. architecture.The tallest hut stands alone at a height of five stories, with a small red lantern hanging on it.