Chapter 247 (2/2)
Of course, Sangsang's views on the world, life, love, money, food, and death were just his views.
Several stout tree mice warily looked at the scene below the tree. Both that natural pit stacking several parts of human bodies and the fresh b.l.o.o.d.y smell made them a little intranquil.
Ning Que threw a large bunch of stone gra.s.s into the pit and looked at that pale and serious face of the deacon in black beside his right feet. After a short silence, he seriously said, ”The Divine Hall needs to be revered, so does the Academy. The back of the mountain of the Academy always rejects entering the human realm for a long time. Since I entered the Wilderness this time, I represented the face of the Academy. However, during the journey, it seems that the other people didn't respect me so much.”
He looked at Mo Shanshan and smilingly said, ”If my Second Brother were threatened by the Judicial Department of the Divine Hall, could you guess what he would do? He mustn't have just killed several people as I did.”
Slightly frowning and thinking of Second Brother of the Academy, who was extremely proud according to rumors, Mo Shanshan said, ”What will he do? Will he directly kill Tao Addict or Prince Long Qing?”
”Second Brother certainly won't do that, because such kind of people as Tao Addict and Long Qing are too weak in his eyes.”
Ning Que smilingly shook his head and said, ”I guess he may directly rush to the Peach Mountain and fight against that Great Divine Priest of the Judicial Department. His idol is Youngest Uncle. If my master isn't strict with him, I'm afraid he has fought against other people everywhere long before. If there is an excuse like this to fight, how could he let it slip?”
Looking at him in surprise, Mo Shanshan thought what kinds of eccentrics were living on the Second floor of the Academy?
”I'm not so strong and mighty, but glory is my life. If who dare ignore the existence of my Academy, I will fight against him with my life.”
Ning Que looked at the sky in silence. There was a kind of mixed emotion and determination in his tone. If a drop of tear ran down from his eye or a piece of snowflake flown to his eyebrow now, the picture must be more wonderful.
After accompanying with him along the journey, Mo Shanshan knew Ning Que's shameless disposition more or less, though they weren't familiar with each other like old friends. When she suddenly heard his determined words at this time, she couldn't help feeling moved.
She seriously stared at his side face and kept silent for a long time, but she still couldn't believe her judge. She unconfidently asked in an extremely low voice, ”Are you telling a lie or telling a joke?”
Ning Que laughed and said to her, ”Since I don't have to cheat you, it's certainly a joke.”
Mo Shanshan seemed very unsatisfied, with her eyebrows slightly frowning, as if a rare and precious brush was heavily carving on paper.
Ning Que stopped laughing like before. He looked at her eyes and seriously said, ”But seriously, I never think the Divine Hall has the qualification to represent Haotian. Who can prove that Haotian allows the Divine Hall to represent it? Maybe it is we who are chosen by Haotian and the justice and righteousness of the world need to be maintained by us. Therefore, if the Divine Hall does that sort of disgusting thing again in the future, we must reject indifference and fight against them if necessary.”
Ning Que's word still sounded inspiring, but this time Mo Shanshan wasn't puzzled by him. Instead, she looked at his eyes and thought for a long time again. Later she tried to make it sure and asked, ”It should be...a joke?”
Looking at her slightly-wrinkled but lovely nasal tip and the confusion and nervousness in her dull eyes, Ning Que couldn't help laughing happily. He drew out a piece of Fu paper and said, ”It also could be called a lie.”
Mo Shanshan looked at his back and suddenly asked, ”Why are you fond of telling lies?”
Without turning around, Ning Que just said, ”The habit was formed at my very young age, because sometimes it was impossible for me to survive if I didn't tell lies.”
Mo Shanshan continued asking, ”What on earth is your purpose of coming to the Wilderness? Why do you teach me those gloomy things? Why do you teach me how to kill people? Why do you ask me to get used to these things?”
The questions asked by a simple and innocent person were all very simple. They were direct due to simpleness, so they could directly reach the inner heart by piercing countless hidden silk cotton armors, such as lies and jokes.
These questions were hard to answer. After silently thinking for a moment by a snow pit, Ning Que decided to tell the truth. He looked at her and peacefully said, ”I need to grab an important thing in the Wilderness. As you mentioned before, no one would care about my background of the Academy at a critical time. At that time, I may be bullied by others like a dog, not to mention grabbing the thing from them.”
Mo Shanshan looked at him in silence and let him finish his talk.
Ning Que flipped that piece of Fu paper into the snow pit and then said in a very serious tone, ”So I need your help.”
Mo Shanshan slightly lowered her head and looked at somewhere on the snowfield. After a short silence, she asked in a low voice, ”What do you want to grab?”
”One of seven volumes of Tomes of Arcane.”
Looking at her long slightly-blinking eyelashes and sensing her emotional change now, Ning Que said, ”You agree to go with me, and I wonder whether it's relevant to this thing.”
Mo Shanshan slowly raised her head and kept silent for a long time. Later she gently said, ”My master told me the thing after he heard about it. I don't expect to succeed in grabbing it, but I'm very curious and that's why I'm here.”
Ning Que laughed and said, ”You're curious about the Tomes of Arcane and those mighty figures who may capable of grabbing it?”
Mo Shanshan just smiled and felt easy and relaxed when talking with him, because it seemed that he could correctly hear what she thought in her mind.
Ning Que still intended to say something.
Mo Shanshan gently shook her head and seriously asked as she looked at his eyes, ”I didn't tell you before and neither did you, so is it a tie, rather than a kind of mutual cheating?”
Usually, this kind of simple way of thinking only existed in the innocent children world, but the young girl just naturally and directly expressed it. Ning Que just naturally accepted it and seriously nodded. He even felt relieved a lot, because he had few friends and didn't want to lose one out of no reason.
Later Ning Que looked at her and seriously said, ”But your mindset should be corrected. Since we are in the Wilderness, we shouldn't let the chance slip if we get one, so don't say any expectation. If we daren't think about it, we will really get nothing in the end.”
Mo Shanshan looked at him and seriously asked, ”Is it also a kind of education to me?”
Ning Que embarra.s.sedly laughed and said, ”Anyway, I have counted about the thing. If both of us can cooperate well, even Prince Long Qing may not be our rival. Why don't we have a try?”
Mo Shanshan smiled and said, ”Let's have a try, but how to share if we succeed?”
”At that time we can write copies. You bring one back to the Ink Lake and I bring the other back to the Academy. In fact, I haven't met the Headmaster of Academy so far. If I can give him one volume of Tomes of Arcane as a present for the first meeting, it will be very exciting...”
Ning Que became more and more excited.
A blob of shyness suddenly flashed over Mo Shanshan's eyes and then she said, ”I want the one you wrote.”
Ning Que waved his hand and generously said, ”You pick first.”
Standing on the snowfield, both of them laughed happily and simply when imagining the nearly-impossible bright future.
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