"This is …"
Ah Li, who was in Li Ke's arms, couldn't help but shrink into Li Ke's arms when the cold wind brought about a bone-piercing chill. It was as if this could avoid the cold feeling when reading Li Ke's memories. Even though she could feel the warmth of Li Ke's soul, the bone-piercing cold wind from Freldrod made her shudder. She wrapped her tail around herself for warmth.
She had never seen such a thing in Ionia. Even though Ionia wasn't considered a place that was like spring all year round, it still had a relatively complete four seasons. However, even the coldest winter in Ah Li's memory could only be described as warm in this chilly wind. The most frightening thing was the boundless silence. Other than the two of them, there were no other living creatures in this memory as though this place was a forbidden zone for life.
But even in such an environment, Li Ke's mood was still so beautiful and joyful. She couldn't help but be attracted to this wonderful feeling, just like when she was sucking her first human soul. She was attracted to the beautiful scene in that person's heart. She didn't understand why Li Ke was so happy, which was why she was curious.
But …
"It's indeed beautiful … I've never seen so much snow."
Being in the warm Ionia, Ah Li had never had the chance to see such a snowfield or such an exaggerated snowfall. Such a magnificent scenery indeed made her feel incomparably novel, and she had a strong urge to rush into the snow to play. She wanted to know the difference between Freldrod's snow and Ionia's snow. She also wanted to paint her own colors on this beautiful snowy scenery.
"Yes, but it's equally terrifying. The cold winter here can kill countless unprepared lives. Heavy snow that can bury a person in a few hours can appear at any time. For almost nine months of the year, there aren't any green and vibrant flowers here. However, the humans who lived here still built their own barbaric, but unique, historical civilization. What I want to do here is to destroy their newly born civilization and hand over what I know to them. "
Li Ke's heart was rather complicated. Back then, he was overjoyed to be free and didn't want to be tied down by anything. That was why when he faced Sejuani, he did a lot of things that were criticized by others and indeed, he let her down. But even if he were to choose now, he would still choose to leave because Sejuani's personality was destined to not stop until she was defeated in all aspects. She would only think that she was the most qualified leader.
But obviously, she wasn't. Although robbing others could allow the tribe to prosper, the game of the world couldn't be played that way. A leader who didn't understand development and coexistence would only lead her people to a dead end.
"Was this the reason why I left in the first place? Subconsciously, I couldn't accept Sejuani's command, but I didn't want to clash with her, so I left. "
Suppressing this thought that suddenly popped up in his mind, Li Ke switched this memory to another scene of a snowfield. In this scene, he was roasting meat in the campsite, while Eich was wearing a blue cloak and quietly standing on the snowfield in the distance, looking into the distance with a serious and confused expression. The emotions in this memory made Ah Li not feel cold anymore because it was a faint sense of security, a sense of security that she was really living in this world.
However, Ah Li was a little puzzled because Li Ke was clearly praising the civilization and culture that the Freljords had developed, so why did he want to destroy their civilization and culture? She couldn't hold back her curiosity, so she asked directly.
"But, why?"
After hearing this question, Li Ke quietly put her down from his arms. Then, the scene around them changed again, switching to a field in full swing. He was digging the cold soil in the field with a rusty technique, and behind him was a field that had already been dug. Ah Li knew that this was the answer that Li Ke gave her, but she was even more puzzled. Reclaiming wasteland in this world of ice and snow was a strange behavior in itself, and she couldn't see any answer from Li Ke.
Until her eyes saw the silhouettes of some silent warriors. They were quietly digging out some petite skeletons that were stained with mud from this piece of farmland, and then sent them to another place to be collectively buried. These petite skeletons were obviously the skeletons of infants who had yet to fully develop. Some of them were even well-preserved, maintaining the last moment of their mother's embrace. The one that Little Tanuki could see the most clearly was the pale corpse of a baby who seemed to be grasping and sucking on something. Not only was his body still wrinkled, but his head was still intact with light yellow hair.
This was a newborn baby that hadn't even been born for a day. Ah Li was very sure of this because she had seen it in the memories of many humans. But the scarier corpses still existed, but those naked corpses were obviously murdered, and the deeply sunken belly also explained why these slightly older corpses were killed here and then properly buried.
She didn't want to look anymore because the other part of the corpses that were dug out wasn't complete, and there were unimaginable bite marks.
This was something that even wild beasts rarely did, but in the eyes of Ah Li, who thought of herself as a monster, this terrible behavior was indeed done by humans. And the reason was very simple. Lack of food, lack of clothes, and lack of everything that could be used.
"This is the reason. Their own culture and civilization can't even guarantee the survival of their next generation, so it's natural for me to destroy them. I will let my civilization accept them. In my civilization, everyone can eat and wear warm clothes as long as they work hard, and they can choose their own career and life according to their own interests and hobbies … Do you think that compared to such a career, crusading against Yatoku, who has a personal grudge against me, is very important? In fact, if it weren't for him pestering me endlessly and making it so that only one of us could survive, I wouldn't even bother to prepare a weapon to kill him. Instead, I want to speed up my career so that my civilization can destroy these ignorant civilizations as soon as possible and let the whole world be under my control. "
Li Ke felt that Ah Li wanted to use her ability to charm him so that he would put down everything in his hands and seek revenge on Yatoku. So, he took advantage of the time when Ah Li was being taught a lesson by Yatoku's dark memories to explain the importance of his career to this insensible fox so that she could be at ease. As for the power of the soul absorbed by Ah Li …
When a paramecium gnawed off a piece of body tissue from your body, would you feel anything?
Was this the belief and career of the man in front of her? Saving in the name of conquest?
Ah Li stared blankly at Li Ke's back. She felt that her hands and feet were numb, and a strange heat kept hitting her brain because she could feel the weight of Li Ke's words in this memory space. This was because one could not deceive one's own soul. Telling a lie in a soul state would directly cause an indelible impact on one's soul. However, she did not feel any hint of lying from Li Ke. Instead, she felt a firm determination.
"So … You want to rule the world like those Noxus people? But isn't this an evil thing? You must also kill a lot of people like you did in Pirtewulf, right? Is that really good? Aren't they also the humans you want to save? "
However, the education she had experienced in her previous life made her unable to accept such a thing. Li Ke's ideal path must be full of blood. Even she had heard of the massacre caused by Li Ke in Pirtewulf. Many people in the Church of Balance were dissatisfied with Li Ke's wanton slaughter of the well-mannered gentlemen and merchants. There were even elders and aristocratic families who had business dealings with Madam Piltevo who sent people to the Church of Balance to find out if Li Ke was an evil demon like Azakana. Otherwise, why would he do such a cruel thing and not even spare the eight-year-old children of the gentlemen's families?
Of course, Ah Li could also feel that those people had a lot of hatred for Li Ke. They came to the Balance Church to see if the exorcists of the Balance Church could kill this demon. Therefore, Ku Shuo directly reprimanded all the people who came to the door and refused to receive them again. And when Ah Li was curious about this, Master Ku Shuo also had a secret conversation with Ah Li.
"Because they deserve to die. When a human puts himself above the heads of other humans and exploits the fruits of their labor, dignity, lives, and choices in life, and takes these actions for granted. If it is the ability given to him by his wisdom and the authority given to him by God, then he is no longer human. He is a devil, a skinner with filthy black liquid oozing out from every pore of his body."
Li Ke looked at his hands. The scenery around him changed again and changed into several scenes. In one of the scenes, a group of slaves and workers in tattered clothes were working hard to build a magnificent house. Behind them, countless rich merchants and nobles who had never worked out before were looking at them and laughing heartily as they lived in the magnificent house. In another scene, a gentleman who only needed to scold people all day was sitting in front of a worker covered in mud and scolding him for his laziness and stupidity. However, the worker was busy carrying nearly two hundred pounds of goods on the dock, while the gentleman just sat there and scolded him for being lazy.
There was also Ionia, which Ah Li was relatively familiar with and could understand.
It was an ordinary town of Ionia. The hardworking farmers handed over half of their harvest to an elder's dojo because the elder was the protector and master of this area. On the other hand, this elder didn't need to work all year round. He only needed to train some of the farmers' sons in basic martial arts. His son, who was trained every day, not only looked down on the farmers who worked hard, he also constantly spoke ill of them, punched and kicked them.
However, he was of noble status, and his mother was from a warrior family, so even those who were beaten by him had to persuade him nicely and smile. When he forced a farmer's wife to do something, he accidentally killed her and simply accused her of being a demon. He also accepted the farmer's gratitude and took in the farmer's daughter as his maid.
As for what happened after that …
The farmer was eaten by wild beasts while chopping firewood. His daughter mysteriously disappeared after her father's death.
Naturally, the Elder and his son had to shoulder the responsibility of protecting this town and prevent the beasts and monsters from harming the people here. But Ah Li was very clear that such a small town wouldn't be attacked by any blind beasts. The images that appeared in front of her also proved this point. That was, in the decades of the elder's son's life, he had only made a move three times. The rest of the time, he had hired wandering warriors or his disciples to make a move.
Other than enjoying himself, he didn't contribute much to this town.
The elder's son was the prophet who was accidentally killed by Li Ke. His memories contained the complete culture of Ionia, as well as information about the elder and warrior families that Li Ke hated the most. He wanted to let him know how disgusting the Elders, warrior families, and dojos were. The things they could do weren't any better than those capitalists.
The capitalists' exploitation of the workers was exposed in front of the warrior families and elders. However, in terms of bloody cruelty, these people were a notch above the capitalists. Even though these people were unsophisticated, they couldn't be more qualified as landlords. Moreover, Ionia's environment allowed them to maintain such a lifestyle for thousands of years without any changes. Warriors' families would always be warriors. Farmers' families would always be farmers. Anyone who wanted to jump out of their social class would be treated as an anomaly.
If one were to compare their actions to those on Earth, it would be similar to the Shaolin Temple where the family of a good wife would plant a watered field, while the family of a bad wife would plant an ordinary field, while the family of a single person with no money could only plant a dry field. Acts like starving families, ostracizing and fighting between clans, and even killing passersby were common. Even though there were so-called alliances and judges to hunt down all sorts of murderers and criminals, in a place where one only needed to repent and forgive to turn over a new leaf, even if one was arrested, the death penalty didn't exist.
Yes, the death penalty didn't exist in Ionia. Instead, there were all sorts of agreements for vengeance. However, in the eyes of Li Ke, who had thousands of years of experience, these so-called agreements were nothing more than shackles used to restrain the lower class. Those warriors who were well-trained and proficient in magic wouldn't care about these agreements. Those who were bound by the agreements were always the lowly commoners.
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