Chapter 302 Loss
In the dark night with the bright moon overhead, a group of people holding torches came out of the gate of Ludinan. They marched along the path outside the city. Their destination was a forest in the dark. Luka was very familiar with the place. He still remembered that Anai had given him bread here and made a ring into a necklace and put it around his neck.
“It’s right here.”
Levi stretched out his hand and pointed at the inconspicuous little stone cross. Outside the city, deep in the weeds, alone and helpless, without any company. This was not a cemetery, but a person was buried there, or a lie, the truth was unknown to Luca.
He was stunned. He couldn't believe what he saw. This cross, nothing else. What did it represent? What did Levi want to express? Luca seemed to have the answer in his heart.
"You are such an excellent actor, I cannot deny it!" Luca said, reaching out to grab the hilt of the sword again. "You deceived me and took me out of the city, just to find a cross to deceive me. Let me guess, which Christian made this? Or, this nice place is specially prepared for a scum like you!"
Luca thought he was fooled, this was obvious. This small stone cross could explain an "obvious" problem, a fact that Luca himself had to face. This was the answer, the answer he had been looking for for so many years? Luca naturally could not accept it, nor could he believe it, and he would not believe it.
"Okay, for a moment, I thought so too!" Levi smiled bitterly, looking at the cross, he seemed to have lost his soul, the whole person seemed to be just a shell. With a silly smile on his face, he walked slowly, squatted in front of the cross, stretched out his trembling hands, and gently stroked the rough stone wall.
"This may be the only time I can touch her so quietly. You know, from then on, I lost the right to touch her, or I never had it." As he spoke, his voice began to tremble, and his tears came again. The pain was like a flood that broke through the dam. The moment his fingers touched the stone wall, he poured down and could no longer control it. Sadness poured out, turning into crystal tears, overflowing from Levi's red and swollen eyes, and rolling down his cheeks. Such a tall and strong man actually curled up helplessly in front of the narrow stone tablet and cried like a child. He put his forehead on the cross, and his right hand kept making the sign of the cross on his chest, and kept muttering: "Weak, I am so weak! If I had been braver at the beginning, if I had been the one who protected you at the beginning, would you not have died? You would have lived and accompanied me, accompanied me, God, God! Forgive me, save me." Heartbroken, in pain so much that he couldn't breathe, Levi's left hand moved away from the stone tablet, grabbed the clothes on his chest, and twisted them into a ball.
The soldiers surrounding them gradually retreated. The crying seemed to infect them as well. Through the firelight, each of them had a complex expression on their face, and it was unclear whether they were happy or sad.
"Luka." Andrew came close to Luka, his expression a little sad, and said, "Is what he said true? Even the best actor can't be so realistic. I swear to God!"
"Even you are shaken?" Luga gritted his teeth, turned around and scolded Andrew harshly, asking Andrew to quickly return to his position.
"For Anais, you can act out any kind of sad drama." Luca gritted his teeth and slowly drew out the iron sword hanging from his waist. He held the hilt with both hands and came behind Levi. "What is destined to happen will happen, and what is not destined to happen will not happen!" Luca said, raising the sword, staring at Levi's lonely and helpless back, and said viciously: "I will kill you and then Ludinan will turn everything upside down to find Anais! I no longer have any illusions about you, Levi. No matter what you say, I will never believe you again, you stink bug standing between Anais and me! Fuck ball!"
Luga's breathing rate gradually increased. He was furious and murderous. He raised his sword, and the blade flashed silver under the flames and fell towards Levi.
"rub!!!"
Suddenly, the sword blade stopped less than one centimeter away from Levi's head. Luca looked surprised. The iron sword in his hands trembled constantly, and his eyes were focused on Levi's hands.
"How, how could it be! How could that be in your hands!?"
Luka questioned, and suddenly, he dropped the iron sword, fell to the ground and snatched a mysterious little object from Levi's hand. Luka's hands were shaking just like Levi's.
"How could it be, how could it be!" He repeated, and slowly opened his trembling hands. Lying quietly inside was the dimly glowing ring. Just like Gollum holding the One Ring, his face was filled with greed, his eyes revealed desire. Seeing the ring was like seeing Anais himself. "I see you, I see you!" Luka seemed to be crazy, he kept muttering, raised his head and seemed to come back to his senses. He grabbed Levi's collar, lifted Levi in front of him, and looked into his red eyes.
"Where is she? Tell me, you must be lying to me, right? You deliberately created pain to make me give up the search. You want to possess Anai forever, right? You are a scheming politician, a clever liar, and a bewitching demon!" A string of vicious words spurted out of Luca's mouth accompanied by spit, just to make Levi say in person that Anai was not dead.
"It can't be changed, it can't be changed!" Levi's consciousness has collapsed. He smiled, and tears have soaked his entire face.
"Just tell me!"
Luca roared and pushed Levi to the ground.
"You are lying again, lying again!" Luca showed a smug smile from time to time, he was like crazy, he pointed at Levi and began to analyze: "All this is a conspiracy designed by you, deliberately erecting a cross stone tablet here, how is it possible, Anais doesn't believe in God, I don't know what despicable means you used to get this ring from Anais, and with your explosive acting skills, you want to use this to deceive me and make me think that all this is true." Luca held up the ring and sneered at Levi, saying: "Then I will use practical actions to expose your lies now!"
"What do you want to do?" Levi heard something bad in Luca's words, and he quickly sat up and reached out to grab Luca. "Luca, I beg you, this is already the fact, don't force it, I beg you, believe me, believe me!"
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"Everything!" Luca wiped the tears from his eyes, stood up, stepped on the cross, pointed to the grass below and said to the soldiers: "Dig this up. If there is nothing, then we have people to bury!"
(End of this chapter)