Chapter 1105 "Lord of the Flies"

  Evil comes from human beings, just like honey produced by bees.

  ——Goting

  A fly flew into the house along the open window.

  Everything in this room is black, the curtains, the marble floor and the furniture, only the daffodils in the golden vase bring a lively color to the darkness.

  10-year-old Nadia Wasika watched it fly from the ceiling for a while, and then it followed a certain smell and flew towards the curtain. But because it was blocked by the yarn, it could not continue to fly forward, so the colorful fly lay on it, together with hundreds of other flies.

  It was dark behind the curtain, but when the wind blew, perhaps it was the curtain that blocked the sun, and Nadia still saw a figure.

  He is sitting in a high chair, like a king.

   "Let her come here." The man inside the curtain said.

   "Come on, dear." Nadia's mother took her hand and walked forward.

   "Stop." The person inside said, Nadia and her mother immediately stopped, "Let her come here alone."

  Nadia's mother let go, but Nadia did not move.

  For some reason, she is afraid of the person behind the curtain.

Nadia's mother pushed her back gently, so Nadia slowly walked to the side of the curtain. The flies all flew up when they noticed her arrival, but they hovered and did not leave, making a "buzz." "the sound of.

  The person sitting in the high chair stood up, and he slowly approached Nadia.

  The indescribable odor became stronger, and it smelled like rotting mice. It was this odor that attracted the flies.

  Then the man squatted down, and Nadia subconsciously took a step back.

   "You know, why are you here?" the person in the curtain asked.

   "Yes." Nadia said with a trembling voice.

   "Talk about it." The man continued to ask.

  "Become...become the next ‘village chief’ of Palodo." Nadia said.

   "That was what your parents told you. I want to hear what you think?" The man asked again, "You know, where is this place?"

   "Yes." Nadia continued to tremble.

  "Tell me." The man asked patiently.

   "The Temple of the Underworld." Nadia said fearfully.

   "Then you are..." the man asked again.

   "Priest of the Underworld." Nadia replied with tears in her eyes.

  The man seemed to laugh.

   "Good girl." The person in the curtain lightly proclaimed, "You can go now."

  Nadia immediately turned around and ran to her mother's side and hugged her.

   "Do you think... do you think she is suitable?" Nadia's mother asked in awe.

  "You will know after I decide. Now, you all step back." The man inside the veil said.

   "Yes." Nadia's mother bowed humbly.

   "Wait." Just as the mother and daughter were about to leave, the people in Wimri asked, "Have you sacrificed a black animal?"

   "Yes, messenger." Nadia's mother replied.

   "I have no other questions." The man said.

  This time Nadia and her mother finally left the place.

   When she returned to the sun, Nadia felt very excited, because other people said how calm they were in front of "him," and her performance was definitely not as good as other people.

  So that she can leave Palodo and go to the magic school.

  "I'm going to be free at last!" The little girl in a floral dress was so excited that she whirled briskly on the old stone streets.

   "I'm going to be free at last." A 30-year-old woman in a dark gold armor stood on the rock and whispered silently, her eyes staring at the labyrinth shrouded in black tulle not far away.

   "What happens next?" the man standing under the rock asked.

  Nadia picked up a golden compass, or it was the epitome of a maze, and the two blue light spots slowly disappeared before her eyes.

   "Galen and Enzo are dead." Nadia put away the compass.

  "Do you think the people in the maze are in the same group as the people who attacked the village?" the man asked.

   "We won't know until we catch them." Nadia hung the compass on her belt, "Let the big hairy monster go in and see what other traps they have set."

  The man took the order and left.

  Not long after, the big hairy monsters in the passage rushed towards the maze like a tide, but they were very careful to bypass the rock on which Nadia was standing. The team was divided into two here, and moved quickly towards the entrance of the maze.

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   With a "pop", Severus put away his wand and continued reading as if he had done a normal thing.

  The fly that smelled the scent of dragon dung was no longer "buzzing", and there was a body of fly on the floor of the greenhouse.

  "You did that?" Pomona asked.

   "What?" Severus asked without looking up.

   "It's nothing." Pomona was a little surprised, but didn't pay much attention. She thought that the fly was killed by a mistake.

  The insect is small and fast, so it’s not that simple to aim at it.

  What's more, she still has so many mandela grasses that need to be changed, so she quickly put this trivial matter behind her head.

   Pomona used a longing curse to quickly crawl the dragon claw vine to an intersection.

  It can play a limited defensive role, and it will not attack when all its tentacles are full of prey.

  The big hairy monster is not big, but there are a lot of them, and she has only one person, and she has no time to arrange the other side of the maze.

   "Felix!" she yelled. The map of the maze is now in Severus's hands. The last time she looked at the map, she realized that he was nearby, but she didn't know where the little silent person was.

  It's stupid to do this. Her shouting will reveal her position, but she has no other way.

  Whether it is Jin Jialong or the crystal, it has no effect in the maze, and there is no other way to contact except by speaking.

  There is a book about a group of children, the oldest under 12 years old, living on a deserted island due to an air crash.

  In the minds of normal people, they should cooperate with each other in order to leave the deserted island when encountering this kind of dilemma, but this group of children are divided into two factions.

  The group headed by the captain’s son Ralph proposed to light a fire for help, while the other group, headed by Jack, believed that they should hunt wild boars to survive. Although there are no adults around to protect and assist, but the island’s climate is suitable, there are no ferocious beasts, and there is enough fresh water and wild fruits to eat. The children are not in immediate danger of survival, as long as an effective cooperation and cooperation are established. The division of labor mechanism and a rough code of conduct and guidelines can survive on the island in an orderly manner.

  But everyone wants to eat meat, and it’s cooked meat, so you need to start a fire, and you need glasses for a weak, farsighted boy.

  When the hope of being saved becomes more and more faint as time goes by. In contrast, the temptation to eat meat and live a comfortable life is obviously greater for other children. There are more and more people who support Jack and become "savages". In an environment without adults, the children are like wild grasses that grow up by nature.

What the book shows is not cooperation and courage when encountering difficulties, not wisdom and kindness, but the children gradually fall into the anxiety of the unknown, fear of the dark, and finally step by step towards disputes and confrontations when they are far away from the constraints of civilization. , Violence, and even killing each other, this is something people don't want to see.

  But this is the choice made by a group of children who only have very vague concepts about the division of labor mechanism and code of conduct, and even what is good or bad, and what is right and wrong, in an unfamiliar environment without law and moral control. Young children have the instinctive tendency to eat, drink and play, like leisure and dislike work, while older children have the primitive nature of following the strong and pursuing excitement.

  Finally, the instinct advocating despotism overwhelmed the rational democrats. After unconsciously killing two people, Jack annihilated the last trace of humanity and burned down the entire island in order to hunt down Ralph.

  Instinct can bring great motivation, but it is also easy to lose control. After arriving on the island, the younger children continued to have nightmares, feeling that scary monsters were hiding in the dark.

  This fear gradually spread to older children.

  So in the dark, in fear, they missed and killed a companion who appeared suddenly and could identify himself in the future. At this moment, they went from crossing the psychological bottom line of hunting wild boars to crossing the psychological bottom line of killing their companions. All the taboos and rationality of civilized society finally ceased to exist, leaving only various barbaric behaviors based on instinct and adapting to the environment.

  A person’s choice under stress determines his life and death.

  Although it is adventurous to shout loudly, Felix must be scared the first time he came to such a horrible place. This is not a street in London. Although street life is cruel, it is orderly.

  If she does not reveal her identity, it is very likely that the moment she finds Felix is ​​also killed.

  She once had a dream in which a little boy with black hair was crying in a bathroom covered with blood.

  She can't remember what the child's face looks like.

  But she remembered that she wanted to hold his hand and lead him out of this dark corner.

  She walked around the maze for a while and found Felix who was covered in darkness in a corridor. He looked terrified when he was curled up and crying, although the silence on him seemed dangerous and terrible.

   "Do you know who I am?" Pomona asked.

   "Yes." Felix looked at her with tears and said, "You are Linda."

"I'll tell you a secret." Pomona said energeticly. "Harry Potter has never been to Hefpuff's lounge. It is a comfortable round room with a low ceiling. The doors and tables are all honey. Colored, cacti are placed on the wooden shelves surrounding the room. They will greet and dance to people who pass by. Copper flower pots are hung from the ceiling. When you pass below, various ferns and vines. The tendrils will brush your hair, so I strongly recommend that you wear a wizard hat, young sir."

  "Do you think I can go to Hogwarts?" Felix asked sobbing.

   "The premise is that you must learn to control your own power, otherwise you will hurt others." Pomona said solemnly, "It will not only hurt your enemies, but even your loved ones."

   "But I don't know how to control it." Felix said fearfully.

   "You will always come up with a way, as long as you want to do it, but now I need you to help me, will you help me?"

   "What do you want me to do?" Felix asked.

  Pomona threw a large bag of seeds and potions at his feet.

"I hope you didn't patronize and play in the previous two months, Jan Felix, Hefpaff may not be good at duels, but team fighting is our strong point." Pomona said, "A monster has entered the maze. I want to You stay here, can you do it?"

  Felix nodded.

   "I don't need you to be strong. If you feel you can't keep it, send a signal. Do you know how to use that spell?"

   "Yes, lumosmaxima."

   "I look forward to your performance, Mr. Young." Pomona said calmly, then turned to leave and walked to the other side of the maze.

  (End of this chapter)