"Sir, please allow me to follow you and be loyal to you." In the tent, Xiao Suo half-knelt in front of Zhen Jin, speaking in a sincere tone.
"Oh? What you just meant was that you would rather give up the compensation from the ship to get the chance to follow me? Why would you make such a decision?" Zhen Jin showed an interested look.
Xinsuo took a deep breath and looked up at Zhenjin: "Master Zhenjin, you are a Templar, the sole heir of the Baizhen family, and the future Lord of Baisha City! Being able to follow a big man like you for the rest of my life is a gift for a person like me.
It’s an opportunity that we may never encounter again.”
"If I accepted the compensation from the new ship, the most I could do was to be the same as my father and become the owner of a seagoing ship. In order to make a living, I had to brave rough waves and fight for my life in the ocean again and again. Every day
A voyage requires all my efforts and brains, but once I encounter powerful pirates or vicious sea monsters, my ship is at risk of sinking. Just like this shipwreck."
Zhenjin nodded: "You answered very sincerely. I can tell that these are all from the bottom of your heart."
"That's good, Xiaosuo, I allow you to follow."
"But please also remember this moment and your sincerity at this moment."
"I hope you can maintain such excellent qualities."
Xisuo was overjoyed and stuttered with excitement: "I, I understand, Sir, I understand!"
But the next moment, a stream of bright red blood suddenly gushes out from Xiaosuo's mouth.
Xinsuo suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Zhenjin in shock: "You... you are not a Templar!"
"Monster, you are a monster!"
He grabbed his chest suddenly, and at some point, a fatal wound appeared on his chest that penetrated his body.
"I... misjudged you..."
With a pop, the string fell to the ground, with no breath left.
"No!" Zhen Jin exclaimed and immediately woke up from the nightmare.
Covered in cold sweat.
He took several breaths before calming down his emotions.
Looking around, the surroundings were calm.
Although there is no sun or moon in the underground alchemy factory, whether it is Cang Xu, Zhu Sha or Zidi, they all have means of timing.
It was already late at night.
The survivors broke through the magma battlefield, and only about thirty people remained.
Because the fire element attracted the attention of the golem, Zhenjin set off immediately after being retrieved by the two guardian knights. The journey afterwards went very smoothly and was not pursued or blocked.
The garrison golems are man-made and have very low intelligence. They mainly rely on the command of the tower spirit. But the tower spirit's voice has never appeared in the magma battlefield.
This is the middle section of the channel.
Zhuosha used the Jimu technique to find that resting here for a night would not cause any problems, so he ordered the rest.
He almost exhausted his divine power and could barely heal other survivors.
Zhusha had finished his morning and evening prayers, and fell into a deep sleep under the protection of two guardian knights.
"How should I explain to him? After rushing through the magma battlefield today, the priest must have seen my abnormal appearance, but he didn't mention it."
Zhen Jin knew that Zhu Sha was waiting for him to confess.
But how can acupuncture be explained?
"Thin rope..."
"I killed him with my own hands!"
Regret and powerlessness came to my heart at the same time.
Zhen Jin closed his eyes in pain. He sat on the ground, leaning against the metal cave wall, feeling the coldness of the silver-white metal, which seemed to reach deep into his heart.
The young knight fell into deep self-blame: "I should have held back at that time, and I should not have struck hard. I should have remembered that the scouts conducting the investigation were all invisible. Why did I forget? Why did I forget this?
"
However, another voice came from the deepest part of his heart: "Don't be too sad, this is just an accidental injury."
"No, I am falling... I have fallen. My hands have been stained with the blood of my companions."
"Damn it, I obviously wanted to save him!"
"I obviously want to save him!!"
Zhen Jin gritted his teeth, covered his eyes with the palm of his right hand, raised his head, leaned the back of his head against the cold wall, and clenched his left fist very tightly.
The scene of him killing Xiao Suo replayed in his mind.
When she discovered it was a thin rope, Zhen Jin was filled with shock.
However, when he tried to save Xixiao, he found that the injury was fatal, and Zhenjin immediately fell into confusion.
Faced with Xisuo's accusation, he subconsciously spoke out to refute.
Suddenly hearing the shout of the guardian knight, Zhen Jin's heart skipped a beat. Without any time to think about it, he suddenly activated his heart core and absorbed the thin rope directly!
"No!"
"I swore that I would never attack humans. But not only did I do this, I also killed my own companions."
"Why do I want to destroy the body and eliminate all traces? Why?!"
This question was what tormented him the most.
He couldn't avoid this question.
"It's because I'm cowardly, it's because I'm afraid, it's because I'm worried about misunderstandings."
"I can explain it. I can do that."
"How to explain?" Another voice in his heart sneered.
"Why did I kill him? Isn't it because I was afraid that he would reveal my secret? With that kind of injury, he was already dead, so I might as well just die. And he said some things that I shouldn't have said, wouldn't it have caused trouble to me?
?”
"Think about it, didn't I save Xi Suo's life?"
"But he doesn't know how to be grateful, and he wants to embarrass me! If the Guardian Knight misunderstands me, the consequences will be very serious!"
"No!" Zhen Jin held his head and shouted in his heart, "Go away, I have never thought about it this way, and I have never been such a despicable and insidious villain!!"
The voice in his heart laughed again: "Then let me put it in another way so that I can accept it more."
"Well...I can't be misunderstood because I am responsible!"
"The responsibility to revitalize the family, the responsibility to protect my fiancée, and the responsibility to lead the survivors around me to successfully escape from this island. I promised them, didn't I?"
"So, I can't die, I can't be misunderstood, and I can't live up to other people's expectations of me."
"No, no, no, this is sophistry, all of this is sophistry." Zhen Jin almost buried his head in his chest, trying to fight against the darkness in his heart.
"I am falling! I am falling into the abyss!" At this moment, the young knight felt that he was so weak, like a leaf in the wind.
But soon, the voice in his heart sounded again: "Depravity? What is depravity?"
"To violate the path of the Templars is to fall?"
"Relax, I just made the most correct choice. This choice is rational, which proves that I am smart."
"Look now, no one knows the truth. No one will think that you killed Xi Suo."
Zhen Jin opened his eyes suddenly, with light flashing in his eyes. He retorted loudly in his heart: "No, I want to confess, I want to confess, and I want to atone for my sins!"
"Hehehe, you go ahead..." The voice in his heart did not stop him.
"Go!" The voice in my heart shouted.
Zhen Jin stopped making any rebuttal, and his face became increasingly pale, like the face of a dead person.
His breathing was extremely weak, as if a dead person had no breath.
At this moment, he understood that he could not tell the secret of killing Xiaosuo, nor did he have the courage to expose the secret of the core!
Before, every time he mustered up the courage, he felt that he was just on the verge of missing the mark. Something unexpected would happen or someone would sabotage him.
But in fact, is this really the case?
no.
If he really wants to say something, he can say it most of the time.
"Actually, I don't want to say it, not really!"
"The reason why I want to confess to the priest is just due to external pressure to survive."
"Who doesn't want to be glamorous, and who doesn't want to hide his darkness and ugliness? I think so, I really want to!"
Regret, loss, pain, and sadness tortured the young man and tortured his own heart. The young man also realized the truest thoughts deep in his heart.
A torturous night passed.
Everyone set off again.
Scouts are needed to scout the way forward.
"Let me do it." Zhenjin asked proactively.
Everyone was surprised and objected one after another.
Zhen Jin shook his head and said resolutely: "Everyone needs more rest. My condition is relatively intact. And I have just passed through the magma battlefield. Maybe the next journey will be more dangerous and require more powerful people to investigate. This is what I do.
It’s a decision that I am determined to make.”
He needs to keep himself busy, too busy to think.
A scout requires more than one person.
A bronze-level crew member took the initiative to half-kneel down and said to Zhen Jin in an excited tone: "Master Zhen Jin, you have saved my life more than once. Please let me follow you and be with you this time.
action!"
Zhenjin's return to the battlefield yesterday inspired this crew member.
Zhen Jin frowned. At this moment, he seemed to see the thin rope: "No, let me go alone. Get up!"
The crew member was slightly stunned.
Zhen Jin also realized that his reaction just now was a bit excessive, so he opened his mouth to make up for it: "Currently, there is no fork in the road ahead. I only need one person. What you need more is to recuperate."
Zhen Jin's words once again won him praise and admiration from everyone.
However, facing such eyes and attitude, Zhen Jin just wanted to dodge.
The investigation went very smoothly, even to the point where I was a bit suspicious.
Next, in everyone's unbelievable mood, they did not encounter any obstacles from the golem, the killer, nor any traps or magic traps.
They marched like this for another two days.
The days of needle gold are like years.
"Sir, there is no need to feel sorry for the victims. What is more important is to lead the remaining surviving companions and leave here together." Cang Xu advised.
"Master Zhenjin, this is not your fault. We will never blame you. You have done a good enough job." Bai Ya also comforted.
"If you have anything to say, you can tell me. In fact, I also have a lot of things that I want to tell you." Zidi found Zhenjin privately.
"Child, you must remember that the sight of the Lord of Saints shines brightly on everything, and no shadow can escape." Zhusha also encouraged Zhenjin.
However, all these encouragements, comforts, persuasion, etc. will only make Zhen Jin feel even more ashamed.
More...lonely.
"There is a corpse ahead!" The scout conveyed important information.
The corpse of a powerful man from the Holy Realm fell in the aisle.
There are traces of fierce fighting and fighting everywhere.
"He should be one of the strong men attacking here. Wait, this costume..."
"He comes from the Blood Light Sanctioning Academy!"