Tokyo underground city

Chapter 279 Shen You

However, he did not expect that this was not what Chun wanted to say at all.

“Isn’t it amazing that there are many hearts in the wilderness?!”

"No! That's not what I want to say!"

Chun panted desperately and looked at Lin Huai'en as if he were looking at a fool: "After you obtained the Heart of the Wilderness, you didn't find a professional weapon craftsman and ask his opinion?"

"No?" Lin Huai'en tilted his head: "To put it bluntly, there are no weapon craftsmen in the daytime thief team."

"No weapon craftsman?!"

Chun raised his voice again: "How do you usually maintain your weapons?!"

"No maintenance?"

Lin Huai'en was a little confused: "My equipment is all dungeon relics. When Tanya used Mosin Nagant before, she maintained it by herself. Now that she has changed to "White Wolf's Kiss", she no longer needs to maintain it. The original magic of Xi Mu There is no fixed staff for the equipment, and she stuffs a lot of the equipment into her backpack after using it and forgets to take it out again.”

"You... you!"

Chun looked like he was angry at them: "Are all the explorers in the upper city so greedy for natural resources?!"

"I don't think it's...it's just that the daytime thieves team is a little special."

Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head.

You know, there is a "snowball" effect in this world. The starting point of the Daytime Thieves Team was very high at the beginning, and now it has a tendency to get bigger and bigger.

But it is precisely for this reason that many things that are common sense to ordinary explorers have not been experienced by them.

"Damn it... the big dog owner!"

Lin Huai'en heard Chun curse in a low voice, and raised the Gray Fury in his hand: "Did you know that after using the Heart of the Wilderness, the weapon must undergo [recasting] before it can exert its full power?!"

"Recast?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment.

"Yes!" Kamiya Chun breathed: "The reason why the Heart of the Wilderness is worth ten million, do you think it can only unlock new abilities?"

"Isn't it?" Lin Huai'en vaguely realized something was wrong.

"of course not!"

Chun retorted fiercely: "The value of the Heart of the Wild is equivalent to a first-level relic! Therefore, its value is to turn any weapon into a dungeon prop at the level of a first-level relic!"

"...a first-level relic?"

Lin Huai'en looked at the Gray Wrath in Chun's hand, but couldn't connect it with the first-level relic.

"You first release its form transformation state, and let me see how to complete [recasting]."

Lin Huai'en then remembered that the body of Gray Wrath was an arm.

He didn't expect Chun even to be able to see this, so he no longer doubted it and released the transformation of Gray Green Fury.

The moment she saw the mummy's arm, the girl was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh heavily——

"What a shame! You can use this [raw material]! Fight! So long! Time!"

The girl's roar almost blew up the entire warehouse.

"Come with me!"

She dragged Lin Huai'en to the forging room behind the warehouse, pointed to the illustrations on the wall, and asked Lin Huai'en to look up——

"You choose one of the weapons above! Choose a type that cannot be converted by your relics, and I will forge it for you!"

"Can mummy's hands be forged?"

Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head.

"Should you say that mummy hands can also be used for fighting?!"

Chun was really angry, and he was not as tall as Lin Huai'en. Looking at his intact right foot, he couldn't help but step on it——

"Just right! [Shan Lao Qingguang] still has some scraps that haven't been sold. I'll give you [Recast] to try out first!"

After saying that, Lin Huai'en was kicked out by Chun, without even letting him choose the type of weapon.

"[Recast]... No wonder [Yamakiri Kiyomitsu] is a naginata, not a katana..."

Lin Huai'en didn't expect Chun to have this skill.

But it’s understandable if you think about it. As the acting teacher of Tensui Isshin-ryu, her combat ability is top-notch. She also has “evil transformation” and [writing], so she naturally doesn’t need so many combat skills.

Therefore, he probably invested a lot of skill points in blacksmithing.

Lin Huai'en shook his head and walked to his guest room.

Due to blood loss and injuries, his current state was far from as healthy as he appeared. Just now he was just trying to communicate with the girl.

Now that she had kicked him out, I naturally wanted to find a place to take a nap.

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But when he returned to the guest room, he found that the bedding on the floor had been put away.

He didn't know where the closet where the bedding was kept was hidden, and he was very tired, so he fell asleep leaning against the wall in the room.

When I woke up again, I was covered with a quilt that I didn't know where to take out, and the night outside was almost dark.

Just at this moment, there was a sound outside the door. Hiiragi knelt down in the corridor and gently opened the wooden door of the guest room.

"You're awake..." She was a little surprised to see Lin Huaien's appearance, but seeing the dinner plate in her hand, Lin Huaien knew that she was bringing food to him.

"Don't you think it's hard to take care of so many people at the same time?"

Looking at such a kimono girl, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but ask her.

"There are people in pain around me. I don't have the fighting ability like Chun, so I can only help them as much as I can."

Hiiragi lowered his head and brought in the dinner plate.

"Have you never thought about having a different life?"

Lin Huai'en lifted the quilt, stood up slowly, and walked towards the dining table with Hii's help.

"What kind of life?"

Hiiragi helped him sit down, and then put the bowls and chopsticks on the table: "I grew up in Tianshui Hall since I was a child. I already feel very happy to be adopted by Lord Tianshui."

"A more leisurely life?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while, then picked up a piece of grilled fish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

It's a little sweet, but it's pretty good cooking.

"What do you do in your spare time?"

Hiiragi watched Lin Huaien raise his chopsticks and sat back a little distance: "Chun and Yu both have their own things to do. If the people in Tianshui Hall are not sick, they all have their own lives. Even if I am free, I will have nothing to do." Do."

"...Don't you have any friends or hobbies of your own?"

Lin Huai'en looked at Hiiragi and couldn't help but ask her.

"No." The girl just shook her head: "I don't need it either, as long as I have Chun and Yu, that's enough."

"Even if you have to spend your whole life like this, you will only do housework for the rest of your life until you die?"

Lin Huai'en thought and asked.

"As long as Yu and Chun can be by my side, I will be happy."

Hiiragi did not answer directly, but looked at Lin Huai'en and emphasized: "Seeing them happy makes me feel happy in my heart, so please take good care of them..."

"... Even if Yu's disease is not cured completely?"

Lin Huai'en said deliberately. He saw a painful expression on Hiiragi's face——

"If it can't be cured, I hope he can die happily."

She lowered her head and seemed to be looking at the floor and her fingers: "In this world, we don't have many choices."

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"...Did you tell Hiiragi these things..."

In the evening, after Lin Huaien had dinner, he was invited over by Tian Shuiyou.

Hearing the conversation between Lin Huaien and Hiiragi, he showed a somewhat painful expression: "You are really evil-minded."

"You are too enthusiastic."

Lin Huai'en just shook his head calmly: "I haven't decided yet whether to deal with [Colorful Deer], after all, it is very strong - I just got the news today that a senior expedition team from [Tianlan Society] is hunting [ [Colorful Deer] were all destroyed.”

"So you are worried that we are too enthusiastic and want to kidnap you morally?"

You looked at the expression on Lin Huaien's face and knew what he meant: "Don't worry, this is just 'repayment' - repayment for those 15 [panacea]."

"I understand...but rather than worrying about you, I am more worried about myself."

Lin Huai'en sighed: "Human beings will naturally respond to kindness - for example, [Colorful Deer] took care of me when I was at [Fountain of Destiny], so I will naturally consider,' Is it appropriate to repay kindness with hatred?"

“Especially, when our ‘goodwill’ is compared with the ‘goodwill’ of the colorful deer…”

You understood what Lin Huaien meant: "So what is your judgment?"

"There is no comparison between the kindness of people and the kindness of 'animals'."

Lin Huai'en replied calmly: "Although [Colorful Deer] is very friendly to me, if I were to compare it with the lives of more than ten people on a scale, I would think human life is more important."

At this point, Lin Huaien paused: "We are dungeon explorers. No matter how we deny it, we are plunderers of the dungeon, constantly causing killings for the needs of the surface world."

"In contrast, with the help of the [Colorful Deer], I have also helped it bury the [Lord of the Labyrinth]. All that is left is to return to the relationship between the prey and the hunter."

"The relationship between hunter and prey..."

You sighed softly: "Mr. Lin, do you know what I think?"

"Speaking?"

Lin Huai'en knew that Yujun specifically asked Hiiragi to call him into his room, and he must have something to say to him.

"I want to ask you to spare [Colorful Deer]'s life."

Yu looked at Lin Huai'en and lowered his head slightly: "It doesn't matter even if I die, I don't want you and Chun to be infected with the blood of [Colorful Deer]..."

"……Why?"

Lin Huai'en looked at Chun with a subtle expression. He didn't expect that the person who dissuaded him from taking action against [Colorful Deer] was actually Yu.

In fact, both Yuan Ximu and Tanya saw his idea of ​​hunting the [Colorful Deer] more clearly than he did.

Whether it is the entertainment industry or Siberia, they are places where the jungle is more predatory than the upper cities. Regarding the safety of those who value it, the life of [Colorful Deer] is really not something that can be weighed on a scale.

But the boy in front of him was different.

The moment Lin Huai'en saw him, he felt that there was something compassionate about him.

"Mr. Lin, do you know why Hiiragi told you, 'I don't have many choices'?"

Faced with Lin Huai'en's question, You did not answer directly.

"...Because she is your and Chun's sister?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while and replied.

The young man smiled and shook his head: "You can say that, but in my opinion, the more fundamental problem is that we live on an island country."

"Island country..."

Lin Huai'en chewed the word and suddenly realized what Yu was going to say.

"Yes, we live on an island country, so there is no escape."

Yu looked at Lin Huai'en calmly and said: "I know, for you explorers from the mainland, this may be difficult to understand, but Hiiragi and I both live on an island country. In this small land, there are not many A 'wilderness' that I can escape to."

"Do you know 'Shinto'? It is our state religion."

"It's the Shinto religion that believes in Amaterasu and eight million gods, and has red and white shrine maidens... you know, what's wrong?"

Lin Huaien nodded slightly.

"Do you know that the essence of 'Shintoism' is 'animism'? It is the 'animism' that believes that 'all things have animism'."

Hearing Yu's rhetorical question, Lin Huai'en nodded slightly: "I know a little about religion, you can continue."

"Okay." Yang nodded, "Maybe you don't know, but I study Yin Yang. Because it is related to religion, I have studied a lot of religious things."

"In my opinion, 'Shintoism' is a very strange religion, because normally, 'animism' that believes in 'everything is animistic' is a very primitive belief, compared to 'ancestor worship' Taoism and 'monotheistic' Christianity are both more 'advanced'."

"But for an island civilization like ours, 'animism' is the best form of religion."

You looked at Lin Huai'en with calm eyes: "For mainland civilization, a group of elk is killed, and there is another group of elk. And if all the elk are dead, there are also camels, horses, rhinos, in short, you have countless A perfect substitute.”

“But for the island nation’s civilization, we don’t have that many things——”

"Once the wolves are dead, they are truly extinct, and they cannot be found no matter what."

"The same is true for natural resources. If any plant or animal is slaughtered, then as islanders, we will never be able to find a replacement."

"Therefore, in the process of the development of our civilization, an animistic religion with 'Shintoism' as the core has been formed. We believe that everything has animism. Once we take too much, we will naturally be punished - and these are those who Eight million gods.”

"...So the island nation's civilization is the natural soil for Animism..."

Lin Huai'en savored Yu's words and nodded: "It's like the 'family culture' formed by the Great River Civilization."

"Well, maybe 'Animism' can naturally arise in other areas, but in other places, 'Animism' can't compete with the 'polytheism' or 'monotheism' worshiped by other ancestors, so it naturally dies. .”

"That's why Shintoism has become the most developed 'animist religion' in modern society."

Yu replied: "So you can understand why I stopped you from hunting [Colorful Deer]?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while and replied:

"...If you don't kill the [Colorful Deer], it will shed a section of its antlers every once in a while."

"If you kill it, although you can get a lot of [panacea] in a short period of time, it will be a waste of time... There will be almost no future?"

He already understood what the boy meant.

"Yes." Yang nodded with a sincere expression, "Compared to the lives of other people in the future, my life is not particularly important, so I implore you to let [Colorful Deer] go. I will persuade her on Chun's side."

Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment, then stood up and shook his head——

"Sorry, I can't agree to your request."

"Why?!"

You were stunned. He felt that Lin Huai'en had completely understood his thoughts, but he didn't understand why he still insisted on his original approach.

"Because...even if [Colorful Deer] is alive, it's just a drop in the bucket."

Lin Huai'en slowly walked to the door, opened the door, and looked out at the dark red Tokyo sky outside the courtyard——

"I can't save everyone, I can only help those of you who are still alive."