As he took the first step, he heard Tutan groan. He knew that the Elephant Man's hearing was very sensitive and his existence might have been exposed. So he calmed down and walked slowly, imitating Albert's walk.
I went downstairs in a rhythm.
Tutan, the leader of the Elephant Tribe, was not surprised at all when he saw Bedivere pushing open the door and entering the conference room. He should have heard about Bedivere from Roble's mouth.
The burly Elephant Man was sitting on the floor nearby (because the wooden chairs could not bear the weight of the Elephants). Even sitting on the ground, he was still four or five heads taller than the thin and short werewolf boy.
"Oh, isn't this Silver Wolf Bediver? You're dressed so formally to see me, but you still know how to be polite." Tutan said calmly, seeming to test Bediver and also seem to be mocking him.
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Bediwell lowered his voice, "Master Tutan, I came to see you today, for no other reason than to ask you to reconsider going to war with mankind. Aren't people all pacifists? Why would they agree?
Such a ridiculous thing as war?"
"Is it ridiculous?" Tutan sneered, noncommittal, "Padil, the patriarch of the previous generation, is my elder brother. He also opposed war with humans, and he also said the same thing as you are saying now."
Bedivere looked confused, not knowing what the other party wanted to say.
"My brother was killed by Roble, the leader of the Khajiit tribe."
Tutan's words surprised Bedivere, "Then------"
"But, I think my brother deserves to die. Yes, he is the kind of person who only knows how to hide in his own territory and doesn't care about the suffering of the people in his territory. He really deserves to die." Tutan said, "The Turks live in the great swamps of Eastern Europe.
Here, their life is ten times worse than here. Darkness is always shrouded in that area, and all kinds of evil beasts are rampant. The only edible thing is a kind of bog berry, which cannot be eaten without first boiling it with water.
It will release a powerful poison in the victim's stomach."
Bedivere was even more confused. He knew that the life of the elephant people was difficult, but he never thought that the life of the elephant people was so difficult.
"To be honest, I didn't agree with the war at first. But the bog berries are almost gone, and our people have no source of food. This dry weather has even turned the swamp into dry land quickly. We can't even run out of basic basics."
The water source cannot be guaranteed.
So, Silver Wolf Bewilf, answer me:
------Should we really just sit back and die?
When human beings are wasting food and dumping tons of endless food into the sea, my people are starving. When human beings are wasting precious clean water and turning on the taps to let it flow away in vain, I
The poor tribesmen are still there, looking for water sources inch by inch, still shedding every drop of precious sweat, trying to dig those wells that will dry up in an instant.
------So, Bevelf, answer me!
Do my people deserve such unfair treatment? Don’t my people have the right to live? Don’t we orcs have the right to live a better life?”
Bedivere stepped back while listening. Tutan came prepared. Every question he asked made the werewolf boy breathless. Bedivere was unable to refute every word he said.
"Even so------"
"Boy," Tutan didn't even give Bedivere a chance to refute, "I've heard about you. I admire your courage. You are a kind and good boy.
If there hadn't been this war, I might be happy to hug you, have a feast with you, and let you know what a hospitable and friendly Turkic people are. However, our current position does not allow it. If there is nothing else, you can just stand down.
Well. Unless you have a way to solve the problem of my people’s hunger, otherwise, everything you do is just a waste of time."
Bedivere sighed.
"I used to think that even if I starve to death of thirst, I must be able to maintain my moral bottom line. I will never eat food that does not belong to me." He whispered, as if he was just speaking to himself, "However, in the face of survival,
, Sure enough, morality is still meaningless. When people are about to starve to death, they don’t care about morality at all."
"That's right." Tutan sneered and nodded. His eyes reflected a faint cold light.
"Then, Mr. Patriarch, I wish you good luck." Bedi said sadly, "In the end, it was just a role reversal. You robbed human food, filled your own stomachs, and starved others to death. You finally survived,
Congratulations."
Tutan frowned, and his wrinkled elephant face formed more wrinkles as he frowned.
"The result is that the weak eat the strong. The strong is qualified to rob the weak of everything." Bedivere ignored politeness and spit out all the grievances in his heart. "If you really want to do this, can you first put your [pacifism"
"Take off the hat of [writer]?"
Stop pretending, they are just a bunch of vultures. Then you can rob other people's property and food as a matter of course, and then call yourself a pacifist. That's quite hypocritical."
"We---" Tutan frowned deeper,
"------Oh, you won't be able to survive if you don't do this, that's right!" Bedivere said angrily, "Just do it. Just for your own despicable little life, just take the lives of others."
The meat of the weak is the most delicious. They will not resist and watch you squeeze them dry and cut off the fat from their bodies piece by piece!
To survive! What a high-sounding reason!"
Tutan didn't answer. Bedivere's words were very harsh and made him extremely angry, but he couldn't think of any words to refute.
The werewolf boy picked up the table knife on the table, cut his arm open, and said to an empty cup: "I was raised by humans. This blood is the blood given to me by humans, and this meat is meat raised by humans."
Blood flowed into the cup from the wound on his arm. Bedivere's cut was very deep and the blood flow was very large. Soon the whole cup was filled with blood.
"Come on! Drink some! Since you can snatch human food and eat it as a matter of course, you shouldn't be afraid of this little blood, right?" He handed the cup to Tutan.
"Stop, kid------" Tutan grabbed the cup with one hand, threw the cup out, and knocked it over on the ground.
"If that's not enough, here is also ------" The werewolf boy was very excited. He picked up the knife and was about to cut out the flesh on his arm ------
"Stop!" The Elephant Man stretched out his hand and grabbed the werewolf boy's left arm to stop him from harming himself.
"Are you crazy?!" Tutan shouted. His strength was so strong that he almost crushed the prosthetic limb of the werewolf boy's left hand.
The werewolf boy in front of him already had tears streaming down his face. He stared at the Elephant Man clan leader, his eyes full of reluctance and sorrow:
"I just...want us orcs...
------Live with more dignity!"
That is, an extremely sincere wish. That sentence describes Bedivere's love for his fellow orcs.
Those were extremely clumsy, yet completely unpretentious words.
That's true.
Because it is true, it has extremely shocking power.
Tutan looked at the short, thin, clumsy and ignorant werewolf boy in front of him. A teenage boy was crying, telling and pleading to this veteran soldier who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
What he said is actually a simple truth that everyone knows.
Such a simple truth, even children know it clearly, why do some adults always don't understand it?
------Can people abandon even their dignity in order to survive?
------In order to live a better life, can you give up your moral bottom line?!
What did you give up and what did you gain?
Is everything you get worth giving up everything to get?
Both of them were silent. They stared at each other in silence for a century. Blood kept pouring out of the werewolf boy's arms and had already dyed half of his sleeves red.
The leader of the Elephant clan was overpowered by the courage of a mere werewolf boy. Bedivere's wish was very simple and clear, so the light in his eyes was as clear as water, and there was only a simple request. He didn't even need to say it out loud.
Tutan could also clearly understand.
Have you tried your best to survive?
Is invading humanity really the only answer you can give?
Blah blah blah blah!!!
There was a heavy sound of rain outside the house.
The ten-year dry season finally came to an end amid this heavy rain.