Xie Xiao sneered, "How could I not see through it?"
"You two have had a feud for a long time?" Li Ruo asked again.
"...He shifted so much blame onto me, how could I not hate him?" Xie Xiaodao looked into the distance, at the vast ocean, with corpses floating for miles. "Besides, he doesn't deserve to sit in that position."
Of course, he wasn't much better off.
He looked at the pitch-black sky and thought, "I wonder how many more people will die."
Do you want to be a savior?
Xie Xiao snapped out of his daze. "Pshaw, I don't have such ambitions. I just want to live. Me, my family, my brothers, we all want to live."
Li Ruoxin thought to herself, "Who doesn't want to survive at first? Zhu Chongba just didn't want to herd cattle for the landlord at first."
“But I think I got a little greedy and had other ideas, which ended up harming my brothers. Like this time, more than a dozen of them died. I can’t help but wonder if this was the right thing to do.”
Li Ruo pointed to the distant torrent:
“Look at that small boat on the water. It’s sailing against the current. If it doesn’t move forward, it will drift backward. If the place of refuge is upstream, the helmsman must grit his teeth and go against the current. There will be many obstacles along the way. Some people want to take his boat, his food and clothing, and even his women and children. If he doesn’t leave, the whole boat will be sacrificed.”
Xie Xiao looked at the small boat struggling in the distant torrent, his eyes dark and unfathomable. "Where will we end up if we keep going?"
"Nobody knows." She only read the beginning and didn't know the ending.
“But so far, you have done very well,” Li Ruo said. “Without your foresight, many of your brothers would have died, and even if they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have lived long without food.”
"Really?" Why was her comfort more effective than others?
Suddenly I didn't feel so bad anymore.
Li Ru snorted, "However, I still have to scold you. As the helmsman, it's good to care for your subordinates, but you must first protect your own life. Otherwise, if the helmsman is gone, everyone on the ship might die. Next time—"
"I admire General Li; he is a general who always leads from the front."
Li Ruo was taken aback.
"Also, I had a dream."
"What?"
Xie Xiao said, "I dreamt that many of my brothers died, including the Third Leader, Sun Ergou, the Fifth Leader, and... Although the scene in the dream was only fragmented, it felt very real."
Li Ruo opened her eyes slightly.
He turned to look at her, his gaze intense. "After waking up, I thought to myself, I absolutely cannot let these things happen, so I gave the soft armor to the people around me."
At this moment, the two were sitting on a rock, looking at each other, their faces no more than a foot apart.
Xie Xiao's eyes suddenly darkened. "It seems that being my brothers and sisters doesn't end well."
Li Ruo leaned back slightly: "Didn't you already foresee it? So your brothers and sisters shouldn't die."
But why is it different from the book? In the book, his precognitive dreams didn't foresee their deaths.
Xie Xiao leaned forward slightly: "It's hard to say. Look, more than a dozen people died this time. It's either this one or that one, so—" he said in a very serious tone, "we'd better not become sworn brothers."
Li Ruo: ... "That works too."
As the two drew closer, she had to back up a little.
A large hand gripped her lower back.
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