At that time, Elliot's narrative tone was very dull, but Jonah found it thrilling, "Long Ji actually made such a decision... So what about Asai, did he just walk away like that?"
The Rose Knight sighed leisurely: "Yes, His Excellency Long Chang left the ruins of the Long Family Courtyard and took on a new name. He walked the world as the Assassin King Simion Long Chang. He was never in the same place. He stopped at one place, traveled from one country to another, completed an astonishing assassination mission, and immediately flew away. His reputation spread throughout the world, but who knew that he was wandering around just to escape."
"Then his feelings for Long Ji..." the astrologer said with difficulty, feeling his mouth full of bitterness.
"When Miss Long Ji recounted this past event, the silver rose shone brightly as never before. We believe that the feelings between them are holy, strong, and real," the knight replied, "but the feelings There is no way to bear fruit, and His Excellency Long Chang has been escaping. He knows that as long as two people are still alive, there will be an invisible tie that ties them together. Even if they are thousands of miles apart, they can still meet each other in dreams; and Miss Long Ji has been chasing. She knows that once she stops, she will have nothing left. Everything she believes in in this life is in this decision. Loyalty to the Long family, doubts about reality, loyalty to feelings, Her hatred for the enemy was such a heavy load she carried along the way, and no one could share it for her."
Yona suddenly remembered that during the days at Cherry Crossing, Long Ji once said this to him: "Thank you, I understand what you mean, but you can't help me. No one can help me, not even Eli." , you are all fools who will give everything for others, and I am just a woman who will bring misfortune..." The 17-year-old boy held his heart and felt the pain of loneliness empathetically. Her lover was the one who would never live in this life. The enemy she met; her enemy is the lover who is destined to die under her sword. As time goes by and time passes, how can this endless chase end? If someone else becomes the protagonist of the story, there will be A few people can stand up like Long Ji and bravely face this tragic fate.
Jonah took a deep breath and buried the pain in his heart, "What happened to the Long family, Eli?"
The knight thought for a while and replied: "It was a disaster. The specific number of deaths was kept secret by the Long family, but the Long family's position as the top of the Seventeenth Family in the East for many years was immediately lost. This big family that had been strong for thousands of years finally began to decline. Miss Long Ji let Lord Long Chang go in the ruins of the Long Family Mansion. No one else knew about this. The Presbyterian Council immediately issued seven tokens with the word '袢' to allow them to go out. They used all their fighting power and dispatched seven detachments. The team hunted down Mr. Long Chang. As the best member of the 14th generation of the Zong family, Miss Long Ji led the seventh team to set off and tracked it to the late Tang Dynasty in the northeast of the mainland. They found that the first and second teams had already reached the entire army. They were annihilated; they followed the enemy's traces and turned south to enter the Later Qin State. At this time, the third and fourth teams also became corpses all over the ground; the remnant Qi State, which was waiting for the fifth team to be completely wiped out, turned to the west and entered. In the Nanshang Kingdom, Miss Long Ji finally shortened the distance with His Excellency Long Chang, but at this time the sixth team had been killed. Miss Long Ji sent her men to continue tracking, and she obtained the information from the Long Family Mansion in Suiyang City. After contacting her, she was promoted to the Fourth Palm Punisher by the Presbyterian Council and was allowed to leave the Eastern Continent to pursue the enemy until death. However, when Miss Long Ji caught up with the team members, she discovered that on the north bank of the turbulent Holy River Gunan, the seventh She was the only living person left in the team. His Excellency Long Chang disappeared on the other side of the holy river. His corpses were spread all over the valley. The only ones standing were us who happened to pass by by chance."
"This is everything, so it is like this..." Jonah let out a long breath, "Long Ji's story was completely beyond my expectation, and Asai, it turned out that he had such a past,"
"There is no love more complicated than this," the Rose Knight said leisurely, "I can't imagine the circumstances under which this silver rose will bloom."
The knight's voice gradually faded away, and the bright sun reminded Jonah that he was still walking on the post road of Nanshang Kingdom. In front of him was the silent Long Shenlin, and behind him were the long roads and green farmland. His destination was The Long family mansion in the story, that ancient, huge manor full of brilliance and ugliness, that had been rebuilt after suffering disasters, that weird world hidden behind the walls, he suddenly remembered something and quickened his pace to rush to Long Shenlin. After thinking about the words for a while, he said: "Xiaolong, do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"Of course," Long Shenlin replied absently. He did not turn his head to look at the questioner, but looked ahead anxiously.
"Six years ago...when the Tower of Babel fell, where were you? Can you tell me about the scene at that time," the astrologer asked carefully.
The Shadow Sect's foreign affairs envoy jumped aside as if he was electrocuted, stopped and looked around, and then asked with a cold sweat on his face: "Why are you asking this, Senior Yona, this is a topic that cannot be discussed, and it is not allowed to reach other people's ears." "
"Is that disaster a taboo topic? I'm sorry, I don't know..." Jonah apologized.
Long Shenlin's figure suddenly faded, turned into a wisp of green smoke and merged into Yona's shadow, disappearing. A voice rang in the astrologer's ears: "But Senior Yona is the one who is trusted by Grandma Zhuxing." , if you want to ask, Xiaolong must answer, at that time, I was an ordinary child in the 44th neighborhood of Fenjia Southeast. The weather was very good that day, the sky was blue, there was no wind, and I had the only meal of the day. During the meal, I was practicing boxing on the roof. Suddenly the sky collapsed. I didn’t know what happened at the time. I only saw that all the houses to the west of the south twenty blocks were covered by gray shadows. The strong wind blew me off the roof. I fell into a pond full of mud. The houses fell one after another. The sky and the earth were filled with dust and smoke. Everyone I knew in the world died at that time. I was the only one lucky enough to survive in the mud pond. Come down,"
"I'm so sorry to remind you of such past events again," Jonah couldn't help but sigh. "Later, did you realize what happened? The wall did collapse, didn't it? Whether it was the 'Dragon's Backbone' or the outer wall of the Long Family Mansion , the separated family members who were locked between two walls can go wherever they want,"
"The wall collapsed...yes, that means the wall is indeed gone," Xiaolong's voice sounded a little surprised.
Yona's face showed joy: "So many branch families have gained freedom, right? They can choose to hide in the clan mansion and wait for the amnesty, or they can set foot on the Eastern Continent and start a free life, and no longer have to live without food. It’s been a hard time,”
"Oh, senior, you are right," Xiaolong hesitated.
"...What does 'right' mean," Jonah asked strangely.
Long Shenlin was silent for a long time, "No one thought of escaping at that time. Those who survived were very scared. Before we figured out the situation, we all gathered in unaffected streets and alleys, squeezing each other into a group, so that we could I won’t tremble too much. It was a harvest year and we all had enough to eat. Who would have thought that such a natural disaster would happen? Later, the clan elders sent someone to explain the situation and told us to calm down and not be afraid. A new one will come soon. The wall will be built, and the dragon's spine will be restored to function. In extraordinary times, the clan will open a warehouse to distribute relief grain, and allocate sufficient rations and oil, salt, meat, etc. to each branch family. After the ruins are cleared, the branch family can Freely distribute the property of the dead and build houses freely in the land without owners; those who participate in the work of clearing the ruins and rebuilding the walls will receive three meals a day, including pork and wine for dinner. Those with outstanding performance will be given priority by the Shadow Sect. They even taught the Nine Laws of the Long Family to encourage them. Now that I think about it, it was a good time to separate families. As long as you work hard, you can live a good life. Many people died at once, and the streets immediately became less crowded. The newly built Buildings have a different atmosphere than before, and it was at that time that I was selected by the Shadow Sect, learned nine methods, became a foreign envoy, and completely changed my destiny."
The 17-year-old boy was stunned and speechless. After a long time, he said: "You mean, even if the internal and external walls are knocked down, the family members will still stay where they are, doing nothing and not going anywhere."
"Yes, senior," Xiaolong replied: "There are ten people, maybe hundreds, who fled to the Zong family, but not one left the Long family. Where we were born, we will die there, the outside world is too scary , the separated family members are eager to build a high wall quickly to keep out all dangers."
"Don't you yearn for freedom at all? ... Then, what is the purpose of Asai's painstaking efforts? Does the sacrifice of cakes have any meaning? For thousands of years, have you not thought of changing anything at all?" Na opened his mouth in disbelief.
Long Shenlin slowly emerged from the shadow, his expression calm and frank: "Freedom is something that the Long family does not need. Everyone in the world has their own shackles. No one can be completely free, right? Senior, the Long family mansion The wall is a treasure left by our ancestors, it can isolate all dangers, and the dragon's spine only separates two groups of dragon families. As long as we have a full stomach and the branch family can live and work in peace and contentment like the clan family, I have nothing else to ask for. Although I became the Shadow Sect’s foreign envoy and left the mansion to carry out missions, I still think about my hometown all the time and wish to go back immediately. This is the way we Easterners think... You may not understand it, senior."
Jonah murmured: "So that's how it is... Only now do I fully understand the story. It turns out that everything is just a mirror image, and it doesn't even have any meaning..."
"What story?" Xiaolong asked strangely, "Hurry up and hurry up, senior, we have to get back to the mansion quickly and rescue the grandma who is the master of punishment."
"Of course," the 17-year-old boy sighed, "she is the most innocent person from beginning to end."