Arcanis lay on a large rock, looking up at the rocky roof of the Cavern in the Dark Regions. Many fluorescent mosses grow there, and at first glance they look like a bright starry sky.

The King of Assassins loved to look at the stars from afar, but he couldn't see the stars in the dark areas, so he had to settle for a second thing, looking at the glowing cave ceilings to relieve his boredom.

It's been a year, and Arcanis hasn't killed anyone in over a year since the last date he went out with Bredero, and he feels useless and can't help Bredero.

That man is very busy now, leading a large group of gray dwarves and underground gnomes to build a base every day, and in more than a year, Luoshi Village has undergone earth-shaking changes.

After the water veins were explored, the wells were dug out of the water, and the water steam engine was installed at the mouth of the well, which continuously pumped out the water from the deep wells and transported it through iron pipes to the arsenals, textile factories and mushroom farms that needed water.

The textile mill is a new factory opened by Luo Feng, and the textile mill can produce three kinds of cloth, one is the mushroom cloth made by extracting the fiber from the bark of the giant mushroom tree and then using a steam-powered loom, the other is the spider silk cloth that catches the underground spiders for domestication and weaving, and the last is the felt cloth and woolen cloth woven from the hair of the Los Beast.

Each of the three types of cloth has its own function, the mushroom cloth is durable and strong, the spider silk cloth is beautiful and smooth, and the felt cloth and woolen cloth are comfortable and warm.

The Red Faith spread faster than expected, and in the Dark Lands, shrouded in the might of Queen Arachnis, the grey dwarves, underground gnomes, kobolds, and goblins who were not protected by any god craved to place their faith in the Supreme Being who would make their lives better.

In the dark region, even if his mind is confused, and he can't even tell which kind of blessing and punishment to inflict in the face of the offerings of believers, Guannad, the god of ooze monsters, can gather a large number of believers.

Queen Rose only blessed Drow, and the other races found a new object of service as the "Red Faith", and they couldn't wait to join it.

The gray dwarf political commissars took advanced production technology and the actors of the art troupe to run around and go to the villages of the weak races, helping the villagers to develop production and improve their lives, performing programs, and spreading the red faith and absorbing more underground party members with progressive ideas.

Now, the drows in Morsobre City don't know that the perimeter of this dark city has been covered with red flags, and it has long since fallen into the rural encirclement network.

Bredrow hadn't spoken a word to him for another year, and Arcanis was frustrated and dazed, knowing he was being used like a knife.

But people are not knives, people have feelings, even if it is a person like him who is accustomed to silence and resolute, the cold heart also needs a little warmth, and the suppressed emotions also need an outlet to release.

But he didn't, he had a cold murderous aura condensed in him, and no one wanted to stay by his side.

The members of the Bradelow Troupe also always looked at him with strange eyes and never got close to him.

He could only carry everything as he could, suppressing his lava-like emotions under the granite layers, making loneliness his friend and confidant, quietly looking at the man who would never respond to him.

"Uncle, what are you looking at?"

Suddenly, a little girl's words sounded beside her.

Arcanis sighed secretly, not killing for a long time, content with dull and boring waiting and looking from afar, his keen and alert senses had regressed, and a little girl approached without noticing.

The King of Assassins sat up and looked at the voice, and it was a little dwarf girl who spoke, she was not cute, and the gray dwarf children had been round and round since childhood, and the folds on their faces were like sarcomas, and they looked like they were full of flesh.

"Stargazing ......"

Xu was silent for too long, and Arcanis couldn't suppress his desire to talk to someone, so he answered her question.

"What are stars?"

Arcanis couldn't help but laugh, shook his head, and explained: "Stars are strange things that glow in the night sky of the surface world, and people can only see those lights, but the most knowledgeable people don't know what stars are. The stars are beautiful, and the more I think about it, the more magical I feel, and the more awe I feel. ”

"Oh......"

The little gray dwarf girl grew her mouth and sighed that Arcanis was not accurate: "I remember, just like the song that Sister Tang Xiaotian taught us to sing, what Teacher Klein said in the nature lesson he gave us. ”

"Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of little stars......"

As she spoke, she sang in a childish voice: "Teacher Klein said that if we study hard, we will definitely have the opportunity to go to the surface world to see those stars with our own eyes in the future, and even invent a 'spaceship' by learning scientific knowledge, and ride a spaceship to the stars!" I must learn from Mr. Klein well, and in the future, I will see the stars and even touch them! ”

Arcanis' distraught mood had slowly calmed down, he had been following Bredero for more than three years, and he had not understood what the man was doing.

He watched "The Orphan of Jindu", and when he heard the little girl say such things, he suddenly seemed to understand something.

Arcanis's childhood experience is very similar to that of Oliver, the protagonist of "The Orphan of the Golden Capital", but the king of assassination failed to hold his innocent heart, nor did he look up at the starry sky above his head, and had the idea of flying to the stars in the Ming spaceship, he picked up the knife, lowered his head, and only saw a bloody road leading to the White Bone Mountains under his feet

Orphans, orphans who have no mercy, can only live in the world by relying on the dagger in their hands and showing an attitude that is 10,000 times more ferocious than others.

This is Arcanis' understanding of the path he has traveled.

Now, he saw another path, the path to the stars.

His former brothers, Alan and Reynolds, believed that in such a world, only the more ruthless, more vicious, and more despicable could step by step to the pinnacle of power, because they did not have the good fortune of the nobles, the hypocrisy of the priests, and the natural intelligence of the mages, and climbed from the quagmire of the bottom to the higher places, and without the filthy blood on their hands, they could only become part of the quagmire of flesh and blood.

He once thought so, and took this as his life creed, he believed that only by becoming a big man could he change the situation of countless orphans with a tragic fate like himself.

Now that he knew he was wrong, Alann and Reynold had become the big men, but they had become the kind of people they had ever hated the most.

"Uncle, I've noticed it a long time ago, you are always sad, I heard Sister Tang Xiaotian say that you are worried all day long because the person you like doesn't like you."

The child's mind jumps so much that he jumps to an embarrassing topic for Arcanis.

The little dwarf girl who looked like an adult took out a bouquet of flowers from her back, this bouquet of flowers was not bright, crumpled, and the shape of the flowers was also very strange.

"You can give her flowers, maybe she'll be moved by it!"

The little girl brought the bouquet to Arcanis: "This is heather, a shade-tolerant plant that rarely grows in dark areas, and if the brothers in the village like any sister, they will pick it and give it to her." ”

Arcanis's heart warmed inexplicably, he took the bouquet with a smile, and said to her seriously: "Thank you, I will give him the flowers, I hope to impress him, as you said......"

"My name is Mia Bronze Helmet, what's your name?"

"Arkanis-Garth."

"Can we be friends?"

"We're friends already, Mia."