Traveling is to conquer the world

After saying goodbye to the boy who yearned for the world outside the wall, Antinomie walked towards the more crowded market.If you want to understand the development of civilization in a place, it is the easiest and clearest way to look in a market place with a huge flow of people.

The size of this town does not seem to be large, and it looks like it is just a settlement built on the periphery of Maria's Wall, so Antinomy did not see any rare items in the market, all of them were Common things like fruits, vegetables and daily necessities have nothing to do with the saying that the transaction is booming.

The simple wooden houses and the carts pulled by oxen and horses all gave him a sense of sight in medieval Europe. Although he doesn't know what year it is, it seems that the human beings curled up in the high walls and enjoying the peace have not achieved What kind of progress in civilization is just repeating every day of "survival" day after day.

Humans living in this town are also very similar to Europeans. It is rare to see oriental faces with black hair and black eyes. Most of them have brownish gray or golden hair. If you don't stand tall and look at the city wall that you can see in any direction , Antinomy almost thought that he really came to medieval Europe.

Of course, there were no cannibal giants in medieval Europe, but here they are.

It is worth mentioning that blue hair, which also did not appear in medieval Europe, seems to be absent here.Walking all the way from the direction of the city wall, Antinomy couldn't see any human beings with blue hair, and the staring ceremony that stuck to him from the beginning and followed him wherever he went seemed to be silent. Tell how out of place he is in this world with short blue hair.

It's so obvious that it's as conspicuous as the label of 'I'm a heretic' on the forehead.

However, Antinomy's 'enjoyment' of being silently stared at by the crowd did not last long, and a team slowly approaching from the direction of the city gate took his headlines—it was a team wearing the same uniform. , who were more or less injured, and there were even people lying on wooden carts being transported away.

Remnants defeated.

Antinomie followed the gazes of the crowd, and this impression instantly appeared in his mind.

This bruised and scarred team walked in so dullly, and the surrounding residents all cast indifferent eyes on them, and the atmosphere was so dull and depressing that people couldn't breathe.

Obviously, they are not triumphant victors who deserve to be greeted in the street, but bereaved dogs who are despised and despised by others.The wordless silence itself is a sharp accusation against them. Only the incompetent waste that can't even produce hope can make the residents turn a blind eye to their dying return.

The leader on horseback in the procession seemed to understand the indifference of the silence, and lowered his head in shame.The recruits who came back from the pain and only received cold stares were extremely frustrated. A female soldier with a bandage on her hand even sobbed a few times because she couldn't bear such cold violence.

A thin old woman with black eyes around her eyes rushed out, holding on to the leader at the front of the team, her eyes wandered among the remnants and defeated generals for a week, and then she returned to the person in front of her with a desperate expression. They asked eagerly where their son who was out of the wall with them was.

The man who was grabbed by the old woman had an expression of embarrassment and grief intertwined on his face. After asking someone to take a long and thin package from the car, he handed it to the old woman, "...the only thing I can find is this gone."

The old woman untied the wrapped cloth strips with trembling hands, and when the rotten palm inside the package was exposed, she let out a scream as if she was about to faint.

But she still didn't faint, and she didn't even have time to digest this tragic fact, so she pulled the other party's sleeve with all her strength, and asked in a high-pitched voice in collapse and despair: "His death is worthwhile!" Right? He contributed to the counterattack of all mankind, right?!"

The man who was held by her wanted to tell her that was the case, but he could only bite back when the words came to his lips. He knelt on the ground with a 'plop' and told the truth to everyone around him, which made him extremely ashamed. "I'm very sorry, this investigation outside the wall has not...still not made any progress!"

The team that once stopped because of the old woman started to march again, with cold and contemptuous gazes still coming from both sides of the street.Under such unspeakable depression, this team, which was ravaged by giants outside the wall and indifferent inside, finally left this hostile town.

From the conversations of the surrounding residents after they left, Antinomie knew that this team of "running out to fatten giants with taxpayers' money" was called the Survey Corps, and it was the only one that dared to leave the protection of the wall to go out and explore. .But what is not commensurate with its courage is that the investigations outside the wall from the beginning of its establishment to the present have achieved very few results, and the huge sacrifice has never been rewarded as it should be.

In the eyes of others, the survey corps was defeated again, and it was a meaningless sacrifice of suicide.Compared with the huge giants, human beings who are as small as ants are inherently at a disadvantage. If they don't recognize the status quo, they can't live well inside the wall, and even want to go out to challenge the giants.

Thanks to the gods, thanks to this great wall of Mary, they who live inside the wall don't have to worry about being hunted by giants.The known giants are no more than a dozen meters tall, and they can't go beyond the 50-meter-high wall. As long as they hide in the wall and pay the small price of freedom, they can live and work in peace and contentment, freed from the threat of giants.

Yes, isn't that how human beings huddled inside the walls and enjoyed the tranquility of domestic animals for a hundred years?

The civilians who were paralyzed by the peaceful life never thought about what to do when the wall was broken.When they laughed heartily at the survey corps returning in embarrassment again, they didn't know that there were already a large number of giants following behind the survey corps and staring at them outside the Wall of Maria.

Yes, ordinary giants are only a few meters high, and strong and powerful giants are no higher than 20 meters. No matter how hard they climb, they cannot cross the 50-meter-high Wall of Maria.As long as there are no accidents, it is indeed safe for humans to hide inside the walls.

As long as there are no accidents.

Human beings firmly believe in the truth that the tallest giant is only a few dozen meters and can never cross the Wall of Maria, so they hide in the high wall and forget the fear that the giant once brought to them.But when the super giant with a height of 60 meters poked its head out from the city wall to look at the small town, and kicked a big hole in the wall of Maria so that other giants could enter freely, people finally remembered .

I remembered the horror of being once dominated by giants, and the humiliation of being imprisoned in a birdcage.