Chapter 292 Future
This question seems to be asked to others, but in fact it is asked to myself and all the brothers of "Ahmar's Beard".
After writing these words, his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly, in line with his restless heart.
He believed that he was guilty of a heinous crime, so he planned to attack the headquarters of "The Legacy of the God King" with the intention of dying together with other leaders.
This was to rescue the desert people who were forced to join, to free his brothers, to free his daughter from the threat of the headquarters, to allow more caravans and scholars to enter the desert and bring changes to the desert, and also to atone for himself.
When he was captured by the "Legacy of the God-King", he saw the desert people who refused to join the "Legacy of the God-King" being brutally split in half. He was afraid and failed to stick to his original intention, so he agreed to the conditions of the "Legacy of the God-King" and left a letter of surrender.
But he was condemned by his conscience day and night because of this. The victims' cries always echoed in his ears, making it difficult for him to rest.
Until one day during a mission, he met Dishia who was still a baby. He felt that this baby was the purest angel in the world. Unlike them who had long been tainted with sin, she should have a normal life and should walk in the sun with confidence!
So he disobeyed orders and let her grow up in the mercenary group. Others in the "Ahmar's Beard" Brigade also regarded this child as their own salvation.
Everyone tacitly concealed the bloody and brutal side of the mercenary group and the pain of slavery, so that her childhood had family, warmth, fairy tales and laughter.
Seeing the innocent and kind-hearted Dishia, the numbness in the group was swept away, and everyone rekindled their rebellious spirit. It was at this time that "Ahmar's Beard" became a mercenary group that only hunted the other affiliated mercenary groups of "The Legacy of the God-King".
However, this matter could not be concealed from the headquarters. The headquarters ordered that she should either be killed or let her join the "Legacy of the God King" with a letter of surrender. In order to prevent Dixia from following his old path, he was forced to wield the knife on innocent people and began to be frequently punished by the headquarters.
As she grew up, Dixia gradually realized that her father, uncle and aunt who had taken care of her were actually a group of unforgivable villains, and her questioning was only met with their silence.
She really couldn't face these family members who she had lived with day and night again, so she left "Ahmar's Beard" with grief, disappointment and pain, and did not look back even when she almost died of thirst in the desert.
Her departure made Kusela look much older overnight, but it also made him more determined to fight to the death with the "Legacy of the God-King".
His body weakened day by day due to the punishment from the headquarters, but he finally prepared enough gunpowder. He also obtained information about the leaders of all affiliated mercenary groups through bribery and making friends with members of other mercenary groups, and learned their weaknesses.
He had intended to take action at the next leaders' meeting at headquarters, but Harold's sudden appearance disrupted his plans.
Harold's willingness to cooperate gave him more confidence, but at the same time it also made the ending he had planned for himself unclear.
He suddenly felt lost, as if he could not see the direction of the future. Moreover, the whispers of the victim who suddenly disappeared after he sentenced himself to death reappeared in his ears:
You want to live? We wanted to live too, but no one let us go. How dare you go back on your word? Those people deserve to die, so you don't deserve to die? Is there anyone in your mercenary group who is innocent?
After releasing the falcon carrying the letter, the deafening questioning kept lingering in his ears, making him unable to calm down for a long time.
Should I really give up my original plan and find someone to work with? He suddenly felt a strong sense of self-doubt and began to regret his hasty decision.
But just one week later, Falcon brought back a reply from Harold. He saw a small black dot appear in the sky, getting bigger and bigger, and gradually turning into a familiar figure. He felt very complicated.
Struggle, regret and expectation were intertwined in his mind until the falcon landed on his shoulder and stood there for half a minute. Seeing that its owner did not move, it began to preen its feathers. Only then did he calm down and take the letter off the falcon's legs.
The letter began with a greeting as usual, and then Harold said, "I heard that the Legacy of the God King would regularly convene leaders for meetings. This is the best time to take action."
This was exactly what he thought. If he wanted to severely damage a scattered mercenary organization with many affiliated groups, this was the only way.
However, Harold gave a way to save his life based on his original plan:
"We can place explosives around the headquarters in advance. When all personnel are present, you can find an excuse to leave. I will use rock formations to trap everyone to death, and then detonate all the explosives immediately."
This is indeed a good method. If you are a strong Rock Attribute God's Eye owner, you can create enough rock artifacts in a very short time.
The strength of these rock structures is also guaranteed. The people inside will not be able to destroy them with elemental attacks in a short period of time, and they can also be protected from the impact of explosions.
Harold also gave the limit of the rock elemental creation he could currently create at one time - the thickness was within six centimeters, and if it was just a square, the wall area could reach twenty square meters. It would not be a problem to create a wall around the headquarters in a short period of time.
This undoubtedly added a layer of security to his plan, and Kusela was very happy.
Harold then answered the question of what to do with those who were forced to join after the destruction of the "Legacy of the God-King".
"Although these people were forced, many of them may live with guilt for the rest of their lives, but this cannot offset their sins, and no one can forgive them on behalf of the people they hurt.
But executing them all like other extremely evil people and lackeys of the "God-King's Legacy" would not be fair if the sentencing was not in accordance with the crime.
So I think the best thing to do for them is to let them grow rice and spend the rest of their lives in the fields -
One of my current research projects is a type of rice that can be grown in the desert. Allowing these people to assist me in completing this research will give them a chance to benefit the descendants and friends of the victims.
I hope they devote their entire lives to this and express their repentance through practical actions, so that they may be forgiven by the victims after their death.
The content of the letter ended here. After reading it, Kusela learned that the fate of himself and other coerced people would be to grow rice in the desert forever. Thinking that he could atone for his sins in this way, tears of emotion instantly filled his eyes:
Thank you, thank you for showing us the way forward.
Kusela wiped away her tears, limped to the table with her crutches, spread out the letter paper and began to write a letter to Harold.
(I have an exam at the end of January, and there are other exams after that, so don't panic if I stop updating for more than a week, I'm not running away, I'm preparing for the exam