1012 Happy Excursion (2/2)
The Eldest Brother sighed, ”So in your opinion, the word 'love' must be meaningless and useless.”
”Like I've said before, I love no one and nothing in the human world. What is love anyway? You are still too young to understand that love is really meaningless when compared with time.” Speaking of this, the Drunkard revealed a little sentimentality and nostalgia and said, ”I've lived long enough to see my fair share of joys and sorrows, and matters such as birth, death, illness and old age have been always around me. For me, there is nothing new in the human world and I have already seen through everything.”
He continued. ”Time will kill all of your old friends, turn your new friends into old friends, and then kill them too. You will become a wise man who won't value love too much, and you also will become a walking corpse whose body and soul are both rotten. But meanwhile, you will think a lot and eventually understand that the meaning of survival lies in survival.”
He looked at the night sky and said calmly, ”I have been getting on with the damn time for too many years, and I know very well how invincible it is. Thus, I will not miss any chance to overcome it.” The Drunkard tonight was a little different from him of the past. In the past, he didn't seem to be strong whether he was in a small town or in Xuankong Temple. He used to be like a stone in the Wilderness, but at this moment, he was like a steep mountain.
That was because he was reserved but unreflective in the past, just like the rotten woods and the dumb stones. But tonight, he was thinking and expressing his own thoughts, so his mind seemed to have come alive.
Hearing this, the Eldest Brother went silent for a moment and then asked, ”So, what about freedom?”
The Drunkard answered, ”What is freedom? It is mastery, understanding, the boundary of knowledge and vision... Freedom is indeed something more beautiful than love, but who can be rally free?”
The Eldest Brother shook his head and replied, ”There is no absolute freedom, but people will always yearn for it. The Headmaster had been flying in the sky at night. Although he was lonely, I bet he was certainly very happy.”
The Drunkard squinted his eyes and asked, ”Even if you will die touching the boundary? Even if breaking the boundary means perishing?
”Due to what happened to Sangsang in the past, my Youngest Brother once taught me that we can't just destroy all possibilities just because of the possibility of a bad outcome, for being alive is a collection of countless possibilities.” The Eldest Brother said, ”So living without any possibilities means death.”
The Drunkard said, ”Maybe the outside is never as good as you think it is.”
”My Youngest Brother also said that the human's conquest is like the sea of stars.”
The Eldest Brother looked at the stars in the night sky, as if seeing the real stars outside the night sky. He smiled brightly and continued to say, ”I am not a fan of traveling, but I am delighted beyond measure every time I think of what my Youngest Brother said. I think the underlying pleasure of conquest can surpass the fear of death.”
The Drunkard meditate for quite a while and then asked, ”What's the name of this joyful conquest?”
The Eldest Brother answered, ”Happy excursion.”
Hearing this, the Drunkard looked up at the sky which was studded with twinkling stars and forgot to speak.
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