I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

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.......

When Rick came back to his senses, he realized that the table had been smashed violently. The sharp wood fragments penetrated deeply into the fist that smashed the wood, and the blood reflected a dazzling red color.

The hot blood rushing to his head finally cooled down, and he returned to calm thinking. Rick asked his heart: "Have you fought enough?"

——Yes, how can it be possible?

Don't you cry?

——Yes, if crying can change anything.

I don't have the right to shed tears. If I want to shed tears, I might as well bleed.

For a scumbag, scum, and liar, that would be more appropriate.

Compared to something noble like tears, hands stained with blood are more suitable for me.

Rick closed his eyes and put his hand on his chest, imagining that situation.

There was a click.

A heavy voice sounded,

Buckle the [Heart Lock].

This is done.

Recovery is as usual, in line with everyone's needs, just like a disguise, calculating and cold.

But he never forgets the "adult" who brings hope to others and has a heart of steel - Rick.

finished.

Outside the door, Ke Long squatted on the ground with his back against the wall, burying his head deeply in his arms.

She heard it all.

It was like this every time, and that was why she agreed to leave Rick alone.

This is a time to sort out the mood. This is a necessary ritual in order for Rick's heart to accept the fact of sacrificing Ivan and killing Ivan.

Rick, his brother needs this ritual, otherwise, he will definitely collapse.

.....

Or maybe he had already collapsed.

But Ke Long didn't say anything, he could only listen outside the door like this.

A boy of only eighteen years old, who should still be considered the age of a child, is burdened with the fate and choices of two thousand people in the settlement, all entrusted to him. This situation is wrong no matter how you think about it.

However, there was no one else.

As the leader of a frustrated group of 2,000 people, a mentor who chooses the best option when necessary, and who carries the legacy of the fallen and still moves forward——

【Swear to the will. 】

The only man in this world who can make his heart become like steel is Rick.

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There was the sound of people getting up in the room, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer to the door. Ke Long quickly climbed up and hid himself in the corner of the passage as if running away.

The wooden door was opened, and Rick walked out slowly, heading towards the bathhouse without looking back.

The torch burned quietly on the dim cave wall. He didn't seem to care at all about the blood dripping from his hands, and just left here step by step.

Tick ​​tock....tick tock....

Kelon covered his mouth and stared at the blood on the ground with painful eyes. After watching Rick's figure go away, he slowly walked out of the corner where he was hiding and came to his room.

She saw the broken table, with Rick's own blood flying on the dark brown rocky ground, gradually integrating with it as time passed.

But the three maps were neatly folded and stored aside with great care, without any stains on them.

By the light of the oil lamp, Ke Long touched the folded map lightly as if stroking a feather that was about to break, but then he suddenly retracted his hand as if he had been burned.

After a long silence, Kelon finally moved his body again, cleaned up Rick's room, picked up the "table" that was about to break into sawdust, closed the door again, and left.

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Just like that, it was two days later.

Rick's hand was wrapped in a bandage, and he was sitting on his knees on the ground using the dim light to decipher the strategic map in his hand.

There was a knock on the door, and Ke Long's voice came.

"Rick, it's lunch time!"

It was a voice that was as lively and full of vitality as ever. My sister also kept this despair and heaviness silently in her heart, showing hope and beauty to everyone.

"Just leave it outside the door," Rick replied.

"Then you must eat on time!"

"Know."

The quill was dipped in ink, and Rick marked information sentence by sentence on another copy of the drawing.

Everything is as detailed as possible, because it is something that carries the hope of more people living, and it is also something that carries the legacy of the deceased.

No room for error.

Even the exact same copy, Rick spent the whole night preparing three identical copies, for fear that some accident would occur and the information would be damaged.

Ke Long's footsteps faded away.

But not long after, she ran back in a hurry and banged the door hard, making a loud noise as if she was very excited.

"Rick....Rick!!"

I told you not to disturb me, but this idiot always...

"Yiwang...Yiwang is back!" Kelong's choking voice suddenly burst into Rick's mind.

This kind of thing is...

Rick's breathing hitched for a moment.

Ewan?

....Evan! ?

What!

Rick's hands trembled violently, and a drop of black ink broke free and dripped on the paper in front of him, slowly opening.

But he didn't feel any regret at scrapping a copy of the strategy map. He just immediately put down the pen in his hand and bounced up from the ground.

The door in front of him was suddenly opened, and Keron's hand was held by Rick before he could take it back.

"What did you say?!"

The panting Ke Long had a relieved smile on her face, and she stared into Rick's black eyes.

"Yvan, he's back! He's not dead...he's alive!"

"How can it be?"

Rick subconsciously denied it at first, and then immediately ran to the settlement square with Kelon. He wanted to confirm with his own eyes whether Ivan was alive.

But before he ran out of the cave passage, Rick heard people cheering and Nonna crying loudly——

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!—Dad!"

It was a heartbreaking cry, but also the joy of regaining something.

Rick's footsteps suddenly

Slowing down, Kelon didn't even have time to brake and hit him on the back.

"Aww~!"

"...Rick?"

The locks in my heart trembled violently.

Rick couldn't help but press his chest and silently asked himself: "Hey..."

"You guys, what expression and attitude are you going to use now to face Ivan?"

How about facing the companion who was ordered to die by you but miraculously survived? !

have no idea.

so....

Click!

The heavy sound echoed in his mind, and he could only lock his heart again.

That'll be no problem...

After taking a few deep breaths and regaining his composure, Rick finally moved his almost stiff legs towards the square again.

To welcome the return of the "Legendary".

Chapter 7 Seems to have been shattered

Cheng Rang was actually mentally prepared before following Yiwang back to the "settlement" he called.

There are only a few dozen people huddled in the cave and lingering, which is how it should be in this cruel world.

But the scene in front of me is that the wide underground square is brightly illuminated by the luminous stones. The passages extending in all directions and the multiple-story living rooms are scattered in an orderly manner. People are working in their respective duties, and there are even children playing and chasing each other. .

Although the overall atmosphere is inevitably a bit depressing because it is in a closed cave, compared with the outside, this place is like a paradise.

"Are you scared? There are two thousand people living here!"

Cheng Rang couldn't help but be even more surprised.

"Two thousand people... Are there actually two thousand humans living here!?"

The people who gathered around greeted her warmly, and Ywang, who had been "resurrected from the dead", picked up his daughter and threw herself at him.

"dad!"

"Nonna, you must be well behaved!"

When the father and daughter reunited, the petite Nonna shrank in Ivan's arms and burst into tears, unable to answer this question at all. He just held onto Yiwang's body tightly with his hands, fearing that his father would suddenly disappear again in the next second.

Cheng Rang couldn't bear to disturb the warm scene, so he just stood aside with a smile and watched everything in front of him.

But it was impossible for others to ignore this stranger. When Cheng Rang pulled off his cloak, his hand was immediately held by a young man with light brown hair.

"Thank you for your hard work! You must be the one who saved Ivan, right?"

This incident spread throughout the settlement long after the two passed through the gatekeeper.

——Ivan’s life was saved by another stranger.

"Well, it's easy to do."

"How can you say that! What you have done can simply be described as great!"

This excited young man's name was Ya Lei. In the subsequent introduction, Cheng Rang learned that he was one of the two people who escaped from the ruins.

"That's a monster! How did you do it?"

Just when Cheng Rang was still considering whether to give a truthful answer that no one would believe, the crowd suddenly became noisy not far away.

"Rick is here!"

Such a name was shouted out, and then the crowd surrounding Cheng Rang spontaneously parted a path.