Chapter 303: Praying for Salvation
Finally, the village chief made a decision that a total of four villagers would travel together, and the leader was of course the calm hunter Abner.
Everyone trusted Abner. After all, he was the hunter with the best archery skills in the village. It was said that he had a small amount of orc blood, so he was much stronger than ordinary people.
There was no such thing as a horse-drawn carriage in the village, so a few people carried some food and set out on foot from the village.
On the way out of the village, the hunter Abner looked serious and said to everyone in a serious tone:
"The situation in Greenbrook has been a bit chaotic recently. Everyone should be careful and alert to whether there are bandits around."
Drought will undoubtedly lead to food shortages, and food shortages will make survival difficult, so many ordinary farmers have to leave their hometowns and eventually become robbers and bandits roaming around.
They have now become a major scourge in the province of Greenbru. Even though the local extraordinary nobles and churches conduct regular cleanups, they still cannot be killed.
After all, as long as the source of food shortage is not resolved, bandits will continue to appear, or in other words, every farmer who is about to starve to death in his hometown is a potential bandit.
The four of them soon began to cross mountains and rivers, and continued to move forward in places where there were no roads. The process was very difficult, and the food they carried on their backs became less and less.
A villager sighed and said:
"It would be nice if we had a railway here... I heard that in the East Coast Province, there is something called a railway that allows people to ride on a large carriage called a train, which runs very fast!"
Abner shook his head and said calmly, "I think the railroads and trains that the outsiders told me are just stories. How could such bizarre things exist? They must be exaggerated."
The two villagers except Kano looked at each other and felt that it might be the case.
If you think about it carefully, you will understand how it is possible for a train to travel between two cities in a short period of time to exist?
What a powerful horse must be able to pull it!
Kano smiled and didn't say a word from beginning to end.
The food supply for the few people was quickly running low and they were on the verge of starvation.
Fortunately, there was an experienced hunter named Abner, who shot several rabbits with a bow and arrow and successfully provided enough food for the four people.
However, when he was setting up camp and eating roasted rabbit meat, he frowned and said, "It's just that we are lucky... Many hunters who starved to death did not have poor skills, but did not have enough prey..."
Kano has always been taciturn in the team. Now he has a stubble on his face and is not as handsome as he was three or four years ago. However, his temperament and appearance are still outstanding among the few people.
Hunter Abner would often stare at him when they set up camp every night.
"What's wrong?"
Kano held a wooden stick for grilling meat in his hand and looked at Abner with a smile on his face.
The light from the campfire penetrated the darkness, making his eyes look deep and mysterious, and also making the expression on his face more vivid.
Abner shook his head and said calmly, "Nothing, it's just that I've felt that you're a little strange this year."
He waved his hand and continued:
"You don't actually look like a farmer."
In the dim firelight, shadows intertwined, and the outline of Kano's face was outlined.
"If I don't look like a farmer, what do I look like? Abner, what do you think I look like?"
Abner frowned, feeling more and more that there was something strange about the young man named Kano.
He did not respond immediately.
Kano continued calmly beside the campfire.
"Abner, do you think that 'identity' is shaped by culture and social background? For example, is everyone's identity determined by the group, society and cultural environment to which they belong? In layman's terms, if a person is born a noble, does that mean he can only be a noble?"
Abner was a little confused and asked, "Isn't it?"
Kano smiled, his eyes showing a kind of indifference that was detached from the world.
"Perhaps we can also have another view, that each person's identity is established through its actions and choices, rather than determined by external factors."
“How a person is born does not determine who he is. Instead, it is the choices he makes in life after he is born that ultimately determine who he is.”
He looked Abner in the eye and continued:
"So which of these two completely different views do you think is more correct?"
Abner was silent for a long time, then slowly shook his head and said:
"I don't know, but I suddenly understand who your temperament resembles. It's like the old witch who lives near another village. She often tells outsiders about fate and other things. She also always speaks in incomprehensible riddles like you."
Kano laughed and nodded, saying, "Okay, okay, hahahahahahahahahahaha. In fact, I thought you would say that I was like a philosopher."
Abner was silent for a while, then asked, "What is a philosopher?"
"A bunch of people who are too full."
Abner shook his head firmly and immediately said with certainty, "Then you are definitely not. You often go hungry and the woman who followed you left you because of this."
Kano was silent for a long time, then said calmly:
"In fact, she didn't leave me entirely for this reason, Sang Bei'er. She said that people like me don't belong to anyone and can't give love to others."
"Perhaps, she is right."
"I am very selfish."
Another reason is that Sang Bei'er can't get pregnant... I don't know if it's the unpredictable fate or other reasons, but Sang Bei'er hasn't gotten pregnant for several years.
If she could get pregnant and have a child, there would still be hope. But after several years, she didn't give birth to a child, and there was not even any sign of pregnancy. It was also completely certain that Kano would not return to the family.
So, Sang Beier gave up staying with Kano.
She chose to ask for compensation for resigning from the Fisher family and return to her hometown to start a new life.
Kano calmly wrote a letter to the Fischer family, asking someone to take Sambel away, while he himself continued to stay in the remote village.
In the past few years since he left his family, he has actually lived a very happy and free life and has no desire to go back there at all.
Of course, Kano also made a promise that if the Fisher family encountered a situation where he had to go back, he would rush back to the family as soon as possible no matter what.
After all, the extraordinary power and the life he had lived for the past twenty years were all given by the Fisher family and the great Lord of the Lost. Kano knew one thing very clearly: he had the responsibility and obligation to repay his family and Him.
After traveling for several days and nights, the villagers finally arrived at a nearby town and immediately came to the church of the Church of Redemption in that town.
"It's right here..."
They seemed a little nervous, but finally came to the church, saw the deputy of the priest of the Church of Redemption, and immediately said that they were farmers from a nearby village and came to ask for help because of drought.
"Please, great savior, save our village!"
The deputy thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "The priest will see you at the right time."
Several people waited tiredly and anxiously, and finally, the priest of the Church of Redemption received them at noon the next day.
It was a middle-aged fat priest, who squinted his eyes and said:
"So, what are you asking for, water or food?"
Abner and others immediately said:
"We need both, we all need both! Sir! Whether it's water to solve the drought problem or food to solve this month's food ration problem, our village needs both!"
The fat priest laughed loudly and said with disdain:
"Hahahahahahaha, you guys are dreaming. You are really greedy. The great Lord of Redemption doesn't like greedy people. Go back!"
Abner and others looked at each other in bewilderment. They had come here with great difficulty, so how could they go back like this?
The fat priest had already stood up and was ready to leave.
Abner took a deep breath and pleaded in a hoarse voice:
"Sir! Please save us! There are hundreds of people in the village waiting for food, and there are many children! If we go back like this, many people will not survive this year!"
"Hmph, you are not worthy of salvation!" The fat priest left without looking back.
Kano knew very well what was going on. The fat priest in front of him was just a transcendent who had ascended to the origin. He had no ability to solve the drought at all.
Not to mention reaching the starting point, even a qualitative change is impossible.
Several people begged desperately, but it was of no use. The food they brought from the village was almost gone, and they had no idea what to do. Whether they went back or not, the final outcome would be tragic.
Suddenly Abner had an idea.
"Come on, I'll take you to see someone..."
"The village chief told me that there is a powerful hermit somewhere. He will definitely find a way to help us... He can bring our village back to life and solve all our problems."
His voice was a little hoarse, but the other two villagers beside Kano were ecstatic. Although they felt it was a bit strange, there was nothing they could do.
"Kano, let's go."
Before the few of them left, Abner looked at Kano, who had remained silent.
"Don't worry, I will solve all the problems."
The group left the town and arrived at an uninhabited jungle a few days later, and then stopped beside a hidden cave.
As if it were nature's secret, the trees covered with vines almost completely concealed its existence. The morning light penetrated through the ceiling of leaves, casting mottled light and shadows around the cave.
"Abner, where is the reclusive extraordinary person you mentioned?"
After a villager asked the question, Abner took a deep breath and knelt down.
He knelt on the ground, his eyes red, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Please save my village, save my wife and daughter! I have brought you a sacrifice! Lord of the Star Embracing Society, please come see me!"
Kano looked calmly into the cave and could feel a chill that penetrated his bones.
(End of this chapter)
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