Mystery: Those years when I was a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 504 The Answer to Life and Death
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"Really, there is no need for a reason..."

Hearing Anthony's words, Leti Orr's light blue eyes widened at first, and then dimmed bit by bit.She gritted her teeth, eyelashes and tousled bangs casting heavy shadows on her forehead.

"It's not because the highlands are dangerous, nor because I have been violated, but because of need, I attack other countries and other people..." Audrey whispered to herself, and she raised her head and looked directly at the other party With dark eyes, he asked solemnly, "Then, respected Archbishop of the Northern Continent, may I ask, after occupying the highland again as a colony, will the lives of the people of Loen improve?"

"Can homeless people find work?"

"Can poor children get subsidies to study?"

"Those unemployed people, those East End workers who can't find work, those disabled soldiers who the country can't help, those poor patients who are sick and can only wait to die... Will their lives and sufferings be improved by getting the colonies? "

Halfway through these words, Audrey suddenly felt the fingers on her shoulder tighten.

Enduring the looming severe pain, she persisted in speaking out her doubts aloud.

If these can really be done... no, it is obviously impossible!Even if the entire Southern Continent is seized as a colony, common people are still common people, and poor people are still poor people!They won't improve their lives just because they got a colony, because they used to be like that... But, there will still be some people, or even a large number of people, who will get new job opportunities and a new life because of this, won't they?
St. Anthony showed the virtue of tolerance and patience. After listening to Leti Orr's questioning, he sighed with emotion:
"You are a good lady, doctor, and you have virtues that will make you a good name in any city."

I hear that stuff too much.Audrey thought silently.

She has too many good names: Backlund's most dazzling gemstone, the treasure of the Earl's family, a golden beauty, a pure girl, a diamond-like character and soul, the most considerate friend... These are all Ao Dai It was a title that Li didn't care much about now, but she couldn't abandon it.These titles have been around her for as long as she can remember, often emphasizing her beauty rather than herself.

Of course Audrey likes to be praised, everyone likes to be praised.

But such words are repeated a lot, as if "Audrey Hall" is more like a beautiful work of art that can be viewed and admired than a living person with her own hobbies.

Even those highly praised benevolent and beautiful characters are often just a persona that Audrey uses to deal with others—they are all extremely illusory things.When Audrey really needed money, these reputations, which were so many that they could be published, couldn't even exchange a copper coin.

After becoming more and more refined on the road of "audience", Audrey also felt that the praise was single and empty.Sometimes she couldn't figure out what those people saw from her and what they were praising, so she took these repeated words as her own feedback from digesting the potion.

Ah, right.

Now, her work of art has to travel across the ocean to Intis to save her life.

If it wasn't because her own sequence was high enough, and she was lucky enough to establish friendship with members of the Creator Church, she might have gotten a fiancé there.At that time, regardless of age, family property and title, she will marry him and leave a bloodline for the Hall family.

Even Earl Hall, who is enlightened and dotes on his daughter, would not allow her to resist on such a major matter.

Works of art cannot be resisted, nor are they qualified to resist.

In just a few seconds, this series of thoughts quickly passed through Audrey's mind.After becoming an audience, self-examination has almost become an indispensable behavior for her and Susie every once in a while.

Therefore, while Audrey was thinking about her own, St. Anthony spoke again:

"If I say, Highland, the resources of the Republic can save the entire Loen, even if I say so, a smart person like you won't believe it."

...Is this the first time I have received approval from the enemy?Audrey felt a little delicate.

So, is it necessary to admit that this attack is beneficial to Loen?

To admit that this is a legitimate act of saving the country?
Is it admitted that even such a massacre, soaked in blood and tears, is really the necessary medicine to save the people?

"But, because you're so smart, you should be able to see that...if you don't save everyone, you can get tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand, 20 people a new job, a new livelihood. Just a few land and resources so they can survive.”

"..." Audrey was silent for a moment, with a strange tone, "Land?"

If it's anything else, Audrey doesn't really know much about it, but land?
Due to various reasons, the Kingdom of Loen just happened to be at a time when members of the noble class were changing!The status of landed nobles is threatened, and the new type of property nobles can obtain titles by donating and buying land... Telling Audrey about this, the archbishop really chose the wrong topic!
"Cultivation? Yes, before industrialization, people were farming on the land to be self-sufficient. Then the food law was promulgated, and a large number of people flooded into the city, but..." After she finished talking to herself, her beautiful eyebrows suddenly screwed together:
"Land, Loen has a lot of land! Churches, merchants, and nobles hold a lot of land! They use the land as hunting grounds, where they graze sheep, build manors and golf courses, or do nothing just to show their status... these lands It's just deserted on the outskirts of Backlund! You can still cultivate there! Archbishop Anthony, since you want the people to obtain land and jobs, why don't you start with the local resources of Loen, why don't you seize the unused and idle land from the nobles! Why not build a factory on the land of the church!"

"Because you don't want to?"

She was stunned by what she said and what she thought:

"Is it because of something else?... Isn't the behavior of you and Ruen just sitting on a pile of gold and saying that you have no money to relieve the disaster?"

At this moment, after finishing this sentence, Audrey suddenly got the answer.

The balance in her heart—the balance that originally placed "Luen" on the left and "Highland" on the right, the balance that was already precarious and sometimes tilted from side to side, suddenly collapsed at this moment and disappeared. without a trace.

There is no need to worry about gains and losses, and it is no longer necessary to think about who should be helped.

Audrey understood.

In the blink of an eye, she got the answer.

She got the answer she had been looking for so far, and she finally saw through the entanglement and hardship she had been facing all along.

She understood everything.

At this moment, she suddenly felt extremely painful, extremely sad and sad-she wished she had been sent away by Taufik just a few minutes ago, so that she would not see, hear, and want to understand all this.

In this way, Anthony Stevenson is still a respectable and amiable archbishop in her heart. In this way, the church, gods and nobles are still the same as before, although they have shortcomings, they are still indispensable to society. The impression of the missing part.

——She, who did not flinch in the face of divine punishment, truly felt regretful at this moment.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Letty Orr made a sobbing sound, but couldn't cry.

"...I'm so sad, I'm so sad..."

"We are so rich, we can support ourselves, we don't need to hurt others, we don't need to plunder others!!"

Probably because of staying with members of the indulgent group for a long time, when Audrey's heart and concept were about to collapse, she instinctively chose roaring as a way to vent and intimidate her.

"You don't even need to pay all your property! If you don't want to lose it, you can even rent out those idle and wasteful land!"

"But what are you doing...you chose war...you chose massacre!!"

"what is this?!"

"Tell me! Why on earth is this!"

After the roaring questioning ended, there was silence in the entire darkness.

Taufik did not answer, his heart was soaked in hatred and blood, and he had already taken war for granted.Even though he was once the perfect victim, now he has become the perpetrator, and there is no answer.

And Anthony just stood there quietly, looking at the doctor who questioned him with pity and regret, without saying a word.

Audrey was a little dazed, and her spiritual power burned with her restless mood, burning her eyes into bright gold.

Then, she covered her face, bent down slowly, and let out a cry with a long roar:
"I'm in pain, I'm in pain, dad, mom, I'm in pain..."

"...I want to go home..."

Taufik's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say a word,

The moment she showed her fragile and broken side, Anthony's eyes suddenly became dark.His figure melted into the darkness, wandering around like night fog, and the sense of crisis came from all directions,
There was hardly any time to react, and the back of Taufik's neck felt cold.

Huge wolf claws several meters long appeared silently from the darkness, directly pressing his entire neck and head to the ground.Another sharp claw pierced into his body, pinning him to the ground, smashing the internal organs and flesh and bones vigorously.

Taufik spat out a mouthful of flesh and blood, his eyes were instantly bloodshot, his body turned into a puppet, and the crushed flesh and bones turned into sawdust and fell from the window one after another.Taufik was penetrated and struggled a few times on the sharp claws of the demon wolf, revealing the dried blood under his robe and the injured body in the short confrontation before.

His body was bent into a "puppet" and his eyes were blood red, as if he had completely forgotten the pain. The breath of hatred and anger affected everyone present, but the gap of a sequence only made St. Anthony's sharp claws shake a few times, No chaos.

The requiem sounded again in the dark space, as if this Sequence 3 saint was mocking them with his ease.

At the same moment, Audrey suddenly raised her head, and let out a sharp "dragon roar" from her throat!
"Long Xiao" spread out like sound waves, temporarily interrupting the Requiem, and her body continued to appear scales, her legs and arms were alienated, just when Taufik barely broke free from the wolf's claws, she suddenly He rushed forward and blocked the attack from another direction with the body of this puppet.

The magic wolf has eight limbs.

Even though St. Anthony used two wolf claws to suppress Taufik, he still has four limbs that can move normally!

Almost the moment Audrey saw the cold, blade-like sharp claw protruding dangerously from the darkness, she voluntarily bumped into it.

The chest cavity of her puppet body and everything inside was destroyed suddenly, and then, a finger and claw appeared in front of her eyes from the darkness. The curved claw was like a sickle, and it easily cut off Leti Orr neck.

Audrey didn't have any time to react.When she realized what happened, her head had already fallen to the ground, and she saw her headless body hanging on the fingertips of the giant demon wolf, shrinking gradually, and turning back into a rag doll.

it hurts.

She thought, but it didn't seem to hurt that much...

The reverse summoning ritual that Richard left in her puppet body was activated due to the severe damage to the body, Audrey's vision quickly became blurred, and the mind began to withdraw from this body -Letty Orr died.She is leaving.

Audrey "lyed" on the ground, she rolled her eyes, looked at Taufik, her lips trembled twice:

"……sorry……"

Sorry, I didn't finally see all of this until today.

I'm sorry, I appeared here as a doctor without authorization, and cheated your trust, and now I left so many patients and left with you without authorization...

too late, too late...

She was thinking in a daze, as if she heard a roar, as if she heard a wail.But Audrey's consciousness has become hazy, as if she was really dead, and she can no longer respond to everything in the outside world.

At the moment when her consciousness was completely dark, her dilated pupils caught the light.

Its daybreak?Has the seal been lifted?Did he escape?
Mr. Taufik?She thought she had opened her mouth, but in fact her head fell there and her eyes had already been closed.

Therefore, she did not see that black figure fell in front of Saint Anthony, his body was already tattered and out of shape.But there was a relaxed smile on his face, and the brows that seemed to never open were stretched, as if immersed in a sweet dream.

He will never be angry again.

……

Backlund, Queens District, House of Earl Hall.

Audrey, who was wearing a white gauze nightdress, suddenly opened her eyes. She scratched the air a few times with her hands, and her eyes widened.

Seeing Audrey's body respond, Susie, who was walking around anxiously, pounced on her, put her front paws on the edge of the bed, and wagged her tail in concern:

"Audrey!"

"Audrey! You are finally back!"

"Why did you go so long this time? Did you encounter any danger? Hurry up, dinner is ready, and your mother will come over to invite you to have dinner together soon! ... Audrey? Are you listening? ?"

Audrey stared blankly at her ceiling, then turned her head and stared at Susie blankly, her eyes made Susie feel uncontrollably frightened and uneasy, and her tail drooped.

"Audrey?"

It asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you? Have you encountered a very troublesome patient..."

"..."

"I'm fine." After a moment of silence, Audrey sat up from the big soft bed.

She looked at her bed, her clothes, her room, and Susie inch by inch.Even though she was only away for a few hours, she felt that she had already lived a period of her life, and she had never been so strange to her room.

Oh, it's time for dinner.Mother coming soon?
She immediately turned over and got out of bed, walked to the full-length mirror in the room, and carefully examined herself with the help of the crimson moonlight shining through the curtains:
Those emerald green eyes seemed to glow by themselves, they were crystal clear, allowing people to clearly see every detail.

But in the depths of those eyes, anger, despair and sorrow surged, and the emotions of countless people seemed to still resonate with her, making her unable to forget those hellish scenes.

Audrey closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, all abnormalities disappeared.

Then, the corners of her mouth turned up little by little, her cheeks showed a slight depression, her eyebrows and eyes were slightly curved, and her eyes turned slightly to reveal the standard smile that belonged to Audrey Hall:

"really not bad!"

"I'm back, and I've successfully... come back alive."

She has completely digested the "Dreamwalker" potion.

TBC
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Those lives, those happy journeys, easy exchanges, and hopeless endings—all ended like a dream.

(End of this chapter)