Chapter 111
In this world, there are many people who have the power to decide life and death. Power, money, status, and force can all give individuals this ability to a certain extent.
A single word can decide life or death, and the fate of others can be changed in the blink of an eye. It can make them smile or cause them endless pain. Such power can easily make people intoxicated, lost, and make them think they are superior to others, and thus act recklessly.
Even the kindest and most rational people would be likely to make random decisions if they were given such power.
- Because it's easy and often doesn't cost anything.
Rong Yuan also has this ability, and his ability is more intuitive and more powerful. But the biggest difference between him and this kind of people is restraint.
I will not reject certain people or things just because I disagree with them, nor will I make decisions that will hurt others just because I don’t like them or because they have offended me.
He always restrains himself.
Restrain your own abilities, restrain your own desires, and even restrain your own joys and sorrows.
Isn't it pleasant to have clear distinctions between what you love and what you hate?
Cry when you want to cry, laugh when you want to laugh, vent all your anger or sadness, isn’t that free and easy?
I would rather let the world down than be let down by the world. Isn't this a better way to protect myself?
But when it comes to indulging yourself, there is only a difference between 0 and 1; there is not much distance between 1 and countless times.
That line, that line that only you know where it is, as long as you take a small tentative step, it will be like stepping into a fast lane leading to the abyss, you will only go deeper and farther, with little chance to turn back.
The road to hell is pleasant, and the road to heaven is painful.
Restrain yourself at all times, and calmly distinguish what should be done and what should not be done even when you are most angry and sad. Even Rong Yuan sometimes feels painful about this.
But whenever his heart was filled with desire for violence and destruction, Rong Yuan would force himself to calm down.
It was not because of the deduction and erasure mechanism of the Merit Book. Since he mastered the string force, the Merit Book had limited restrictions on Rong Yuan, and it was impossible to erase him. He had the ability to completely get rid of it, or bypass some of the rules and restrictions.
He restrained and endured with a strong self-control that almost tortured himself, because he always felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching him from behind, gentle and smiling, full of trust and expectation.
- Can't let him down.
Rong Yuan warned himself.
Then, some warm memories would dispel the dark emotions in his heart, allowing him to remain clear and rational at all times.
Many of the things that Rong Yuan had experienced on Zhongwu Star, the rescue and killing, loyalty and betrayal, the fear, deception, assassination, resentment, the struggle for power, the intrigue, the conspiracy, the flattery for survival, the ingratitude, the insatiable greed, and other hideous and ugly faces, could be said to be the first time he had encountered them in his life.
So ugly.
But no matter when he was betrayed by his own students, or when he was misunderstood and resented by others, or when the people he had saved and protected asked to leave, he actually did not feel much fluctuation in his heart.
There's a little anger, a little disappointment, and a little bit of sarcasm, but nothing more.
If he hadn't been happy because of their trust and admiration, how could he be sad because of their betrayal and resentment?
——I have had better and true friends.
——The best.
These people were never the ones who could really hurt him.
But Rong Yuan still felt regretful about the passing of some people, such as Qi Yang, who rarely appeared in front of him but stood most firmly by his side;
He also knew that he had gone too far in some things , such as the vast grassland, which had been almost barren for hundreds of years because of him.
Rong Yuan half squatted down, put his palms on the ground, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath -
The invisible waves suddenly spread out with Rong Yuan as the center!
Thousands of miles away, birds flew in fright, beasts ran away, and insects on the ground crawled around in a daze, as if they were in a panic when a disaster was about to happen, or as if they were at a loss due to extreme joy.
Even the plants seemed to sense something. Their branches and leaves were trembling slightly even in the absence of wind, trying to deviate in a certain direction.
In comparison, human senses are much duller. Most people just shudder slightly, with an indescribable feeling suddenly passing through their hearts, and then they treat it as an illusion, shake their heads and continue to do their own things.
In a small town near the Hoganik Desert, a plump but just ordinary pretty waitress was casually wiping a crystal clear glass while chatting and laughing with the young guest in front of her with flirtatious eyes.
This is a rare and extremely handsome young man in the town. He has a smiling face, humorous conversation, and elegant clothes. He is really likable.
Especially when she saw the watch inadvertently exposed on his wrist, the waitress's smile became even sweeter. She bent down while serving the guest wine. The cleavage and whiteness on her chest made the young man's eyes seem to burst into fire.
The blonde waitress smirked and glanced at another guest not far from the young man.
He had black hair, black clothes, and a large hood, and he looked very good. He drank a glass of wine alone, ignoring everyone, and had an extremely aloof and cold temperament.
But seeing his purple and blue cat-eye-like pupils, the waitress tried very hard to control herself from showing disgust or evasiveness.
There are always some Celestials who "degenerate" and mate with sub-human races. The children they give birth to sometimes look exactly like humans, but occasionally have some animal characteristics.
The situation of these hybrids is much better than that of sub-humans. In some more enlightened areas, they can even go to school and work like humans. However, not many people are willing to accept them. In the eyes of most real humans, they are still "dirty bastards."
The waitress's behavior was extremely polite. At least, she didn't scream at the security guard to drag the black-haired young man out, nor did she pour the ale he ordered directly on his face and then said contemptuously, "You bastard, are you worthy of me serving you wine?"
She just leaned as far away as possible and rarely looked at him.
This situation was the most comfortable environment for the black-haired young man, so he had the patience to sit there drinking and pretend not to know his companion while listening to him flirting with the waitress with a proud figure with sweet words.
The young man just told a joke that was popular on the Internet. The waitress was amused and giggled. Suddenly, she saw the young man's likable smile disappear. She turned her head to look at the black-haired young man next to her . They both said in unison: "Do you feel it?"
After being stunned for a moment, they both asked at the same time: "What do you feel?"
Before he finished speaking, both of them were stunned.
After frowning and thinking for a moment without any clue, the young man turned around and was about to continue flirting with the waitress, but he saw that she, who had been doing nothing just now, was now very busy, dealing with several tables of guests without even looking over his side.
The black-haired young man said calmly: "She must think you are the same as me."
The non-human features of hybrids are sometimes not very obvious. When hidden under clothes, they look no different from normal people. If people don't see them, they won't deliberately guess that they are hybrids.
But those who can live with mixed-race people are of course also mixed-race people.
This is a very simple and direct logical relationship.
This was not the first time that the young man Xu Lai had encountered such a situation. It was hard to explain such a thing, so he could only smile bitterly and shake his head, then angrily looked at the black-haired young man and said, "You owe me a drink."
The black-haired young man Mo Gui ignored him and asked, "What was that feeling just now?"
Lin Lai pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "Could it be that... the air conditioner in the bar is turned up too high?"
Mo Gui thought about this possibility seriously, shook his head and said, "No, I think... I have a feeling... it seems that something happened in the wasteland."
As a mixed-blood, Mo Gui's senses were clearer and more sensitive than Lin Lai's. He had a vague feeling that he should know what happened, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
"The wasteland..." Lin Lai naturally believed in his companion's judgment, so he said, "Our investigation this time also points to the wasteland. Could it be related to that?"
Mo Gui shrugged and said nothing.
The two paid the bill, left the bar, packed their things, and soon drove into the wilderness.
The Hoganik Desert is known as the first of the "Ten Natural Wonders" of Zhongwu Star. It is a regular circle that can be seen from space. Its edges are incredibly smooth and neat, like a golden badge embedded in the surface of Zhongwu Star.
But in this vast land, except for the extremely tenacious white elm tree and a very small number of insects, almost no life can survive here for a long time.
At the same time, this land is also the dividing line between the three major countries.
In other words, it is precisely because of the existence of the Hoganik Wasteland that Zhongwu Star is now in a three-kingdoms situation.
There are no humans living in the wilderness, so naturally there are no roads, but this land is very flat, without even large rocks, which means there are roads in all directions, making driving very convenient.
The magnetic field here is also very chaotic, and ordinary compasses are useless. Lin Lai and his companions use the sun to locate their direction.
When the car was parked to rest, Lin Lai stood on the roof of the car, opened his arms, closed his eyes and slightly tilted his head back, as if to embrace the sun.
He opened his eyes and could see without obstruction the line where the sky and the earth intersected in the distance. The flat earth was like a golden ocean, magnificent, beautiful and quiet.
“What a wonderful place!”
Lin Lai sighed: "If this plain can be cultivated, perhaps there will never be famine in our Tulip Country again!"
Mo Gui didn't say anything.
Although Zhongwu Star is very civilized, the light of its civilization does not cover everyone. There are still many people who are hungry and cold and have no food to eat, especially the sub-human races at the bottom of society.
In other words, they are mainly sub-human races.
Things like famine have nothing to do with a celestial being like Lin Lai at any time , but he naturally worries and thinks about it.
Because in his eyes, whether someone is human or not is not determined by the fur on the body, the color of the pupils or the claws on the hands. His attitude never differs based on race.
Mo Gui believes that meeting such a friend is the greatest luck in his life.
