Volume 7: Iron Horse Chapter 027: Butterfly and Ling Jie
Ling Jie murmured in his heart: If you don't want to say it, just say it. No one is forcing you. Why are you so cruel to me?
Of course, Ling Jie didn't say that, but he kept convincing himself in his heart that there was no need to argue with a girl. She is a girl, and I am the eldest brother... If the eldest brother is not at all decent for a girl, then
Getting angry at others... This is disrespectful to one's identity.
After such comfort, Ling Jie no longer felt offended. Butterfly seemed to realize that she had said too harshly. She stood up, pointed at the bamboo in front of her, and sighed, "Actually, you are right, any life is
They came naked and then turned into ashes and left. Although these bamboos were selected from hundreds of thousands of lives, their vitality is still very tenacious, but... they will one day turn to ashes.
.”
She stood on the edge of the corridor, letting the warm wind blow on her face, "Bamboos are actually just like people. Once you walk through the world, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave anything for yourself. The key to the meaning of life is
Leave nothing to others. This forest is the wealth left by the founder who spent his life's blood. It has accompanied my growth. Without this garden, I would not be able to survive in this place of ice and snow."
Ling Jie didn't quite understand Butterfly's words. As soon as he opened his mouth to ask, Butterfly had already stepped down the stairs, "Let's go and have a drink. I came to you today just to drink."
Ling Jie also stood up and followed Butterfly. The two of them came to the foot of a Bodhi tree one after another. This Bodhi tree is somewhat similar to the one in Ling Jie's villa. It can be seen at a glance that it has a history of hundreds of years. The branches and leaves in the sky
, flourishing and blooming, covering the sky and the sun.
Butterfly walked under the bodhi tree and looked at the tangled roots exposed on the ground. He pointed to a piece of land and said, "It's right below."
After saying that, she squatted down and dug the soil on the ground with her hands. Although there was little snow in this yard, there was very little snow on the ground. It was probably because of the woods. The temperature here was much higher and the snow melted quickly.
Right. The long years of cold weather had frozen the ground very solidly, and her hands dug for a long time but could only dig out a small hole.
But she dug hard. Ling Jie stood nearby, watching such a holy and flawless woman dig so hard, and couldn't bear it, "What are you digging for?"
"Wine, precious good wine." Butterfly brushed the hair behind her ears and continued digging with her hands. Ling Jie asked again, "The land here is frozen solid, why don't you use tools?"
"Actually, wine is alive. If you use tools to dig it out, it will easily break the jar. Secondly, it will spoil the taste of the wine. The wine dug out with tools will not have enough flavor." Ling Jie did not agree with what Butterfly said.
, wine doesn’t taste like that, no matter what tools you use to dig it out, it doesn’t taste like this.
Even so, Ling Jie still squatted down without hesitation and pushed Butterfly aside, "Stay there. At your rate, I have to wait until tomorrow to drink this wine. I'll do it."
Butterfly was squeezed by him and immediately stood up next to her, stretching out her hands. A few pieces of soil fell from her hands from time to time, but when she looked at Ling Jie's efforts to dig out the wine, her face revealed
She smiled, and the wind passed by, floating the hair on her face.
Not to mention, the soil here is quite hard. Ling Jie finally realized why the butterflies were so inefficient just now. This is not a human problem, but the soil... It has probably not been touched for some years, and it is the tree.
It's even tighter when it's pressed underneath and squeezed by the tree.
"Why are you smiling?" Ling Jie could feel the smile on Butterfly's face without raising his head.
"I think if you go to work in a winery, you will definitely be a very qualified wineman." Butterfly joked with a smile.
…
After a lot of effort, Ling Jie dug three feet into the ground and finally dug out two jars of wine. The ancient gray-black wine jars were tightly sealed by Musai, and it was impossible to tell what grade they were inside.
liquor.
The wine was scooped up and washed away. Ling Jie opened the wine bottle and smelled carefully for a while, with a look of intoxication on his face, "The wine is good wine, and I, Ling Jie, can be considered a person who understands wine. This kind of
The smell seems to have never been...heard of before."
"I brewed this wine myself, using materials from the garden and hot springs. Since ten years ago, I have brewed wine once a year, and then buried it in the ground, waiting for the opportunity to dig it out and drink it.
Butterfly said, setting out two bowls. Ling Jie filled the two bowls and was about to pick them up to drink.
Butterfly suddenly interrupted, "Before you drink, I must tell you a fact. Your illness is terminal and there is little chance of survival. I am a miracle doctor and I will never lie. I can't cure the disease.
There is no one else in the world who can heal you."
"Keng." Ling Jie suddenly paused when he brought the bowl to his mouth, but he recovered immediately and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp. The wine filled his heart, and a burning sensation suddenly arose.
, lingering in my heart, and my whole body is full of crazy will, "When I was forced to take the potion a year ago, I expected that such a day would come."
Butterfly's eyes were a bit complicated, "Your views and beliefs about life are the most profound and far-reaching among all people. No one has ever been able to see through life, and of course you don't either. If you see through life, you will
I no longer care about life or death, but you still care about it now."
Ling Jie didn't say anything, but filled another bowl of wine and drank it. "This is not important to me. What is important is that I have to complete my final mission in my lifetime."
I don’t know why, Butterfly felt a very sad feeling in her heart. She didn’t think about her own health at the moment. She took a big sip of wine and her whole body felt hot. “Your body will get sick within two days. If you
If you continue to drink this wine, you will get sick in advance. I said, the next time you get sick, it will be your death."
Ling Jie didn't speak. He just sat on the root of the tree and stared blankly into the distance, "What kind of wine is this? It tastes so spicy but doesn't smell of alcohol at all."
"This is Bodhi wine. It is a very strong wine brewed from the Bodhi seeds, leaves, roots and bark of this Bodhi tree. Drinking too much is harmful to the body. Drinking just enough can dispel the cold.
Self-generated warmth. I drink Bodhi wine every day because my health is not good." Butterfly explained calmly.
Seeing that Ling Jie was silent, Butterfly suddenly said, "How about we play a game?"
"Okay, tell me what game it is." Ling Jie suddenly laughed.
Butterfly smiled and said, "Let's do boxing and rock-paper-scissors. The losing party will drink a bowl of wine, and then answer a question from the winning party. Remember, answer truthfully. If you hide anything, it will thunder down.
Don’t die a good death.”
Ling Jie laughed loudly, "Come right here. If you think I'm scared of you, I'll make a few statements in advance. I'm going to ask all the secrets of this Butterfly Mansion, including yours."
Butterfly smiled happily, "Then you need to be capable. If you don't have the skills, stop talking nonsense. It's not yet certain who will lose and who will win. Let's begin."
"Rock, paper, scissors... Ha, you lose, drink, drink quickly." Butterfly won, and hurriedly poured a bowl of wine for Ling Jie, which was very full.
"How is that possible..." Ling Jie muttered and drank a sip of wine. After drinking the bowl, his body immediately reacted. He felt that his body was very hot and his head was a little dizzy.
"I'm going to start asking questions, why do you want to take S-level genetic mutation potions?" Butterfly knows that many people voluntarily buy or even take genetic mutation potions in order to increase the strength of martial arts. Many private research institutes in the United States specialize in producing them.
Genetic mutation potion is specially given to some special people such as killers and agents.
Many martial arts idiots did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy genetic mutation potions. Most of them died because they could not bear the strength of the genetic potions. A few people survived and developed various mutated functions. Some people
There are several eyes, several mouths, several hands... it happens frequently.
In order to train teams with strong combat effectiveness, many special organizations have also opened their own research institutes and used unnatural and abnormal methods to change people's bodies in an attempt to give them an advantage in battle. Many mutants have strengthened
Humans, cyborgs... are now very common.
Butterfly just wanted to know whether Ling Jie took the gene potion voluntarily or was forced. If it was voluntary, Butterfly would look down on him.
"I was chased by the central government and forced to take part in the 13th round assessment... More than 500 people participated in the competition. In the end, only two people survived. I was one of those two people. I originally thought...I would enter the 10th round.
After three rounds, the files can be completely eliminated and you will escape the central pursuit.
...Humph, but I don’t want someone to operate secretly, fail to let me in, and finally set up a trap to sentence me to death...I want to deal with me secretly...talking too much, punching, punching." Ling Jie is indeed a little bit.
Being drunk, some of what he said was wrong, but Butterfly listened very seriously.
"Okay, punch, rock, paper, scissors... Wow, you lost again, drink and drink..." Butterfly happily filled Ling Jie's mouth, and Ling Jie swallowed it in one gulp.
"I want to ask again, what happened next?"
Ling Jie said drunkenly, "They wanted to deal with me secretly. At this time, a person from the National Research Institute came. He found that I was in good health, so he used me to do genetic experiments. I looked at a lot of them in the laboratory.
The mutants, they looked terrible... They agreed to give me an A-level potion, but they gave me an S-level potion without telling me... I passed out on the spot, they thought I was dead,
Then he threw me into the pile of corpses...it was time to punch me."
"Good punch, rock, scissors...you lose again, drink."
Ling Jie drank another bowl and felt even more dizzy.
"So, how did you escape later?" Butterfly continued to ask.
"Later... later, I became one of the tens of millions of corpses. I was transported to a secret carriage, and I was pressed at the bottom by thousands of corpses. I suddenly woke up when they were transporting the corpses to the crematorium.
Come on, I escaped. In order to escape pursuit, I had to sneak out to sea. The boat I was smuggling was caught midway.
The pirates sank, and I floated over in a small platoon. At that time, three of my companions got separated from me. Later I learned that my three companions were exiled to the Dark Prison... It was because of this that I
I just committed a crime myself, and then asked the government to exile me here... I've said too much, I'm punching..."
"Rock, Scissors...you lose, drink."
"Okay, why are you being chased by the Central Government?"
"Because... at that time, I established the Kyushu Dynasty in two years and became a great dynasty that fought against the Hongmen of the Qing Gang. As for why I was hunted down by the country, it was because someone framed me and placed a
Thousands of guns, dozens of tons of drugs...and then they happened to be investigated by people from the central government...I swear, I have never sold drugs, let alone smuggled arms."
"Who framed you?"
"The questions you asked seem to be more than the amount of wine I drank... It's time to punch, you want to lie to me... Haha, I won't be fooled by you." Ling Jie was already a little drunk, but this
The calculation was correct.
"Scissors...you lose, drink..."
"Who framed you?"
Ling Jie burped and continued, "I... the woman I trust most, the woman beside my pillow... it's her, it's her... it's her, because of Yudun's loyalty, she pushed a dynasty to the
From that moment on, the one hundred thousand brothers in the dynasty became separated and became homeless. From that moment on, the one hundred thousand brothers became separated... I, Ling Jie, also began to bear a heavy debt."
"You hate that woman?"
"Hate, why don't you hate me? I hate why she is so unsatisfied and wants to be someone else's tool. Being used as a weapon by others, I hate her foolish loyalty... I hate him... But what's the use of hating her? In the end, she
She died because of me. In the thirteenth round of assessment, when she dueled with me, she voluntarily gave up the chance of life... She could have blocked my knife, but she gave up in the end... I was not
I didn't mean to kill her... No, no, no. Maybe she knew that one of her and I would die on that occasion, so she gave me the chance to live... and let me bear the burden.
With this debt that can never be repaid...How can I hate such a woman...What else can I hate besides hating her for not living up to expectations."
"The central government wants to hunt you down. Are you doing it because someone from the central government wants to kill you, or because..."
"A general, a general with hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his hands, it's him... he wants me to die in his dreams."
"Then have you ever thought about going back to find him in the future?"
"Hahaha...Have I ever thought about going back to find him in the future?...Hahaha, God has really favored me, Ling Jie. If I live long enough, I will definitely find him. He was forced to die
My woman also destroyed the dynasty and left one hundred thousand of my brothers homeless. She caused my one hundred thousand brothers to travel across the ocean and finally be buried in Las Vegas... The heroic souls of one hundred thousand brothers, I
Ling Jie must want to fulfill their unfinished wishes... Haha, it's a pity, my life is not long enough."
After hearing these words, Butterfly sat there in a daze. What Ling Jie said shocked her heart. She still couldn't imagine what kind of tenacious life this was, with so many disasters.
He persisted throughout the journey. Although Ling Jie's words were very plain, Butterfly could feel the sadness and desolation behind his words, as well as the infinite anger and unwillingness.
"Hey, what are you doing standing still? It's time to punch." Ling Jie suddenly leaned over and smiled at her.
"Oh...punch, rock, paper, scissors...you lost again, drink..."
"Ugh...my fist, your scissors...do you think I lose?" Ling Jie's memory was unclear.
Butterfly was embarrassed, as if he had lost this time, "Oh, if you're not convinced, just forget it, come again."
"Well, okay, come again."
"You go first." Butterfly was afraid that he would lose.
"Okay, I'll go first." Ling Jie threw out a pair of scissors in confusion.
Butterfly immediately stretched out his fist, "You scissor and I fist, you lose, drink..."
"Oh." Ling Jie scratched his head stupidly, then obediently picked up the bowl and started drinking. He was really drunk.
(The first update is a big chapter, one chapter is worth two chapters. The first and second updates are here.)