There was nothing else worth noting in the cave. Green Lantern flew out of the cave, transformed a huge shovel, dug a hole in the ground with a shovel, and placed the body of the green-robed weirdo inside, and then
A few shovels dug the soil and covered it up easily.
When the work was completed, Chu Cheng also noticed that the boy was no longer in the cave. Green Lantern floated out and saw that the child was sitting on a big rock not far away, staring blankly in the direction of the dense forest where he lived.
Green Lantern landed next to the young man. The young man still looked to the side blankly and did not say a word. He was used to him chirping beside him along the way, but the sudden silence was a bit strange.
After a while, he suddenly asked: "Grandpa, why...he suddenly wants to kill me?"
Hal pondered for a while and said, "I don't know."
"Is it related to that temple?"
"......I have no idea."
Chu Cheng actually guessed that this was probably the case, but after all, he had no evidence and was not entirely sure, so saying he didn't know was not a lie.
"But grandpa, he is a good person." The young man became more and more confused, his brows furrowed in confusion, "He is a good person, and I am not a bad person, why did he kill me?"
He then thought about it again and said, "Ah, is it because grandpa told me not to go out, but I followed the leader and I was a bad boy, so he was angry?
But the leader clearly said that grandpa asked him to pick me up? The leader is also a good person, and I am also a good person, so he certainly has no reason to lie to me..."
After a rigorous reasoning, no flaws could be found at all, which made Chu Cheng laugh and cry for a moment.
At first it sounds like it's all wrong, but you really want to refute him, but you don't seem to know where to start.
"Actually, I often feel that I should quickly go to the temple that the leader mentioned. It's like... I don't know, it feels like I just know where I should go, so I don't want to go there.
I feel uncomfortable all over.
Now I feel more okay, as if things should be like this. And there is a voice telling me that if I go, maybe I will know why grandpa suddenly wants to kill me."
The young man shrank back, as if the cold wind blowing from the forest made him uncomfortable.
"But I'm so scared. When I think of this, I suddenly don't want to go or know the truth." He sighed, "I wish I could be as brave as you.
But I'm so useless, I don't have the strength like you, uncle, and I'm not as fearless as you. I...I'm even afraid of who I am now..."
Chu Cheng knew that this child was not very experienced in the world, and it was the first time he had tasted betrayal, and he was betrayed by the most important person in his life. He was disheartened. If he didn't cheer him up, he might not be able to follow him to the temple voluntarily.
Let’s find out. Although there is no pressure on the Lantern to force him to take him there, it is not as convenient as your own will.
So Hal also sat down beside him, sitting side by side on the stone.
"I have a story, do you want to hear it?"
He expected that the child would be interested when he heard the story. Sure enough, the boy's attention was slightly diverted and he looked over curiously: "What story is it?"
"Once upon a time there was a child whose father was a pilot..."
"...What is a pilot?" The young man interrupted.
"Well...it's a person who specializes in flying airplanes - an airplane is a vehicle that flies in the sky, just like a big bird."
"Ah, I understand. Someone like an uncle." The young man said seriously, "That must be a very great person."
That's true. Hal's original profession was indeed a pilot. Along the way, he did serve as a driver for the boy. In the eyes of the boy, Hal is now a god-like figure. People like him, then
It must be very powerful.
"Yeah, just like me."
During the conversation, Hal actually showed a look of recollection. Maybe it was because the conversation touched his heart, but it made the story even more interesting.
"...The child was proud of his father and would often skip class and sneak to the airport to watch his father take off. Until one day, he skipped class as usual and came to the airport and watched with his own eyes as his father took off and flew to the airport.
Halfway through, Pengdi exploded.
The plane turned into a burning meteor, pierced the sky and fell down, exploding into a ball of hellish fire. The child opened his eyes wide and watched this scene with his own eyes, seeing his dearest and most respected father in the wreckage.
combustion......"
The young man had not heard much of the story, but he had already immersed himself in it, and his little face turned pale with fright. His heart was pounding, and he could only imagine what it would be like if he were the child in the story, and his grandfather was
The more I thought about the father who was burning in the plane, the more terrifying he became.
"What happened next?" He couldn't wait to know what happened next, but he was a little afraid of how the story would unfold. "Did the father survive?"
"of course not."
Hal closed his eyes and shook his head. The boy said "Ah", feeling as sad as if he had lost a relative.
"Since then, the scene of that day has been lingering in the child's mind. Every time he sees the plane soaring in the sky, every time he holds the joystick to escape the shackles of gravity, he can't help but feel happy in his heart.
The image emerged - the plane crashed, the bones burning in flames."
"Yes, if it were me, I would never dare to fly again in this life." The young man said.
"But there are many children who follow their father when they grow up, and become pilots despite their mother's objections." Hal continued, "That's why we are today. What you see now... do you think
This man is fearless.”
The young man was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly shouted: "Ah! That one you are talking about is..."
"It's me." Hal said.
"But you...how...you're not..."
He felt that the words were stuck in his throat for a long time but he couldn't say it out. After holding it for a long time, he couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you scared?"
"Of course I'm afraid." Hal nodded, "But my job is not to be afraid."
The young man was stunned, seeming to chew on this sentence in his mind.
"These are the words my father left for me before he left." Hal said softly, "I have been troubled by this for a long time. I will never know that when my father - the man who was fearless in my eyes when I was young, was the same to me.
To him, he is a man in the sky, but on his last flight, when the instruments failed, the joystick malfunctioned, and the engine spewed black smoke, was he scared at all? Or should we say that he met his end in extreme fear.
But then I figured it out. Being fearless does not mean being ignorant of fear. On the contrary, only those who know true fear can be fearless. It is normal for us to be afraid. It means that you are mentally sound and sane.
But only if you know fear, but still face it, accept it calmly, and touch all the challenges, then it can be called courage and the reason why we are strong."
Hal shook the ring on his hand, and the light ring bloomed with emerald brilliance.
"It's not that I'm fearless because I'm strong," he said, "but it's that I'm strong because I'm fearless."
The young man was confused and didn't know how much he understood. But in a hazy moment, he was deeply immersed in this simple origin story that is familiar to comic fans, and was deeply impressed by the protagonist's fearless personality.
It's like a child seeing an inflammatory scene on the TV screen for the first time. Even if he looks back many years later and thinks the story was just ordinary, he was deeply shocked and burned to the core as a child.
At this time, the young man was in a similar state, and the image of Green Lantern in his eyes instantly improved a lot. Unconsciously, he was subconsciously thinking, I want to be like him... No, I can't
It would be amazing to learn one-tenth of this uncle's courage.
Thinking this way, the depression in my chest eased a lot.
"I figured it out." He patted his butt and stood up, "Then I'm not afraid, let's keep going."