Chapter 55: Crow Crossing



The peaceful daily life in Sury was disrupted by the destruction suffered once again in the town of Jisso.

Unlike the incident in Naan, which seemed to have a reason for everyone, the attack by the crows seemed inexplicable to many people.

“Is it a crow?”

"What good can a crow be?"

“And it’s a monster.”

"It's so disgusting. What did we do wrong to be targeted by monsters all the time?"

Such words are heard by the indigenous people throughout Jisuo Town.

Not long ago, the town, which had been relatively well-repaired by Euphia and her men, once again became a ruin.

The battle between Egbert and the ravens caused the earth to break apart.

During the battle, when all the original outputs were forced to become auxiliary, Egbert's cognitive characteristics of light elements allowed him to exert astonishing destructive power in this battle, comparable to the power of a humanoid self-propelled nuclear bomb.

The lake that was originally adjacent to the battle site was once expanded into a large river with blurred edges that were difficult to see at first glance.

The large trees with lush branches and leaves in the forest also sank into the water for a time, and after an unknown amount of time, they completely became the habitat of aquatic creatures.

As you can imagine, in the town of Jisso, the buildings were left with nothing intact after such a level of battle.

sardina.

"Once the Level 9 monster incident is resolved, that madman Egbert will come back." Lan Zhe clicked his tongue.

Suli nodded: "This is no different from going on a business trip. Once the mission is completed, I will naturally come back."

"That's true." Lan Zhe responded. What he was mainly thinking about was that it would be best if that Egbert guy never came back.

Anyone who has seen Egbert and Sully interact with each other will find that even if the former does not deliberately try to attract Sully's attention, he will continue to attract Sully's attention because of his personal behavior.

When Suli's attention is destined to be unable to be given to just one person, a big head suddenly appears and grabs all the attention...

Lan Zhe was thinking about finding an opportunity to team up with Roy to fight against Egbert in a mixed doubles match.

Afterwards, he could also tell Egbert that Sully trusts Roy very much, and join forces with the former Son of Light to beat Roy together.

As long as your thinking doesn't slip, two beatings are not too much.

Sully himself did not comment on others' judgment that Egbert was too clingy.

Knowing that Egbert was ill, Sully still didn't pay more attention to him. He felt that sooner or later he would get sick.

Although this disease state has always been there.

But don't make it worse.

It's definitely not because Sully hasn't found a suitable mental hospital to keep Egbert.

Although it might be possible to build a mental hospital in Sully's name, but unfortunately, Sully would not do such a thankless task.

During the next few days of the holiday, information continued to come back from Jisou Town.

In the process of fighting the monsters, injured mercenaries were sent back to Sadina City one after another.

Just as the sharp-tongued teacher with curly blond hair thought, there have been more and more funerals in Sadina these days.

Death in battle is not a terrible thing, and saving the enemy with one's own body can be considered bravery, but being injured by the aftermath of the battle and being crushed to death by a building...

This is something that makes people feel heartbroken just thinking about it.

Suli also became much quieter because of the environment inside the city.

Compared to the daily peace of the past, the heaviness of these days has become increasingly obvious.

No matter how anxious the adults in the small building were about his behavior, they also knew that they could not change Sully's mind through their words or actions.

In the past, everyone could express their concerns about Sully in different ways because of their personalities. But after knowing "Sully's past", when facing him, everyone's attitude changed to: Sully's own adjustment ability may be more convenient than their redundant comfort.

This "convenient" state lasted for a long time, even until the end of the holiday and the classes resumed.

And in the end, this so-called convenience was also broken.

"You look like you're struggling with something." He has been thinking about his future during these few days of vacation.

But the result is that I am even more confused.

Even if young people are confused, they will temporarily give up their confusion when they find that the people they care about are more entangled than themselves.

When faced with this question, Suli did not give a perfunctory response, but directly replied: "I can understand the inevitable struggle between humans and monsters due to race."

This is a battle created for survival.

Mercenaries make money by eating monsters, and monsters increase their strength by eating humans. These are all quick and easy ways to a better future.

Although it is cruel, Suli's ability to understand can support him. Even if he doesn't want to accept it, he will force himself to understand it.

"But I don't quite understand why a high-level monster with wisdom would still have an obvious conflict with humans. And where exactly is the cause of this conflict? In addition, there is something else..."

"No, nothing else."

Suli just remembered the story of Cyril's ancestors for a moment, but for the sake of other people's privacy, he stopped talking.

But when humans and monsters can fall in love, it should be proven that there is no natural racial barrier between intelligent life forms.

But the reality is that the town of Zisor collapsed for the second time and the city of Sadina fell into decline.

During the holidays, Sully read a lot of books related to this world.

Whether it's gossip, history, or records of contemporary social environment, in the end it can be regarded as a deeper understanding of the world.

Unfortunately, the more he understands, the more Suli's cognition will be forced to turn towards misunderstanding...but he chooses to respect.

This is a different world.

If we view the world as a beehive, then the worlds can be considered neighbors.

Therefore, rather than saying that he traveled across the world, it would be more accurate to say that he moved to another country that was completely different from his previous one in terms of social environment, lifestyle, interpersonal behavior, etc.

The discomfort caused by this is always there, especially when you know you can never go back.

"From the perspective of conspiracy theory, high-level monsters and the most powerful people among humans are like humanoid self-propelled nuclear weapons... You don't need to know what a nuclear weapon is, you just need to know that it is an existence with super destructive power."

"This kind of existence should be used as a threat in most cases. The confrontation and bombardment between powerful weapons only makes me wonder whether this world and this era have progressed to the point where war is needed to open up new possibilities."

"Looking at human history, there seems to be this phenomenon: when the status quo does not change for a long time, when development enters a slow stagnation, there will often be a war, just like the climax of a novel."

"Everything is in decline, everything is ruined, and humans die on a large scale. The existing pattern changes, and then the existing pattern stabilizes again. There is a post-disaster recovery, and then another improvement after the recovery, and then a large-scale rise at the level of the times... until another reincarnation appears."

Human history seems to be a development of ups and downs.

Is the battle between humanoid self-propelled nuclear weapons really just a confrontation between the strong, where they occasionally need to test their own strength?

This was still an era of theocracy that made people spit on feudal remnants.

Monsters and humans are naturally hostile to each other.

If you think about it creatively, perhaps the so-called God of Light and God of Darkness were the two beings that humans were forced to believe in after the monsters defeated humans in the past?

Although the probability of this happening is less than 1%.

Sully's next words made my brain stop working completely, as I was trying to think about the difference between humans and monsters.

I don't understand. I can understand all the words separately, but when they are put together, I can't understand a single word.

But even so, one can still feel that Sully's slightly wrinkled brows are thinking about something important.

Not clear.

And Suli, after realizing that Su was confused, chuckled and regained his composure and said, "Don't take what I said too seriously. It's just an insignificant association."

Didn't he just nod ignorantly? When the footsteps of the curly-haired teacher appeared and he was still walking in the corridor, before he officially entered the classroom, didn't he give Sully a shallow but sunny smile in return.

He said: "Although I don't know what happened, I do feel sorry for all those who have been treated unfairly."

There was no need to say more, but after Teacher Haiya came in, he swallowed it back.

No matter what a person who feels unfair for others is thinking, bystanders only need to know that someone as gentle as him will not cause any bad consequences.

After the afternoon class ended, I didn't have time to tell Cyril, who was sitting in the back row by the window, about this.

The latter was silent for a long time, then forced a smile and said, "It's just that too many things have happened one after another recently. Don't worry too much."

However, Cyril was thinking...

Still left behind by Sully.

They can't keep up, and no one can keep up with Suli's thinking at the moment.

The world in his eyes is too vivid and clear.

Sully, who had tidied up his seat and was ready to go home early in the morning, waved to Cyril, who was supposed to be on duty today but used the element of wind to clean up the entire classroom in an instant.

"I'm back. The letter that Egg sent to Lan Zhe said he would arrive tonight."

Cyril trotted after him, leaving him stunned for a moment as he hadn't noticed anything.

On the way home, the setting sun illuminated the two children's figures. Their shadows were elongated and they remained equally silent.

This was different from the usual chatting scenes. Cyril didn't know what to say, and Sully was afraid that once she opened her mouth, she would instill a lot of dark and cruel ideas into the child and corrupt him.

After all, when you no longer have to be a corporate slave and there is very little you need to learn, your overly unrestrained thoughts must have a place to go.

And this destination is defined by Sully as analyzing, no, it should be said that it is guessing the nature of this world.

The dignity of the game planner is at stake. Whether it is NPC or player, everyone should act according to the GM's rules!

“Gah—ah—”

A strange cry was heard, and while Suli was still guessing about all sorts of things, he looked up and saw a black bird, completely black, standing on the top of the wall in the gloomy environment, with the last ray of sunset shining on its broken wing bone.

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