Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 4854 (Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Four)

"What did he say after hearing that?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"He said... I... had certain ideas that were deeply rooted... No matter how many times he gave me the chance to test me... there was no sign of change." The man said, "He said... I didn't know what self-esteem was... He also said... I... I thought self-esteem was probably... just arrogance."

"What do you think after hearing what he said?" asked the Man with Gray Hands.

"I was still scared at the time, but I didn't have any special feelings." The man said, "I felt... when he said the word 'arrogant'... I... I seemed to hear a huge thunder... I... I don't know why."

The Gray Hand asked, "When you said you seemed to hear a loud thunder, was that a metaphor, or did you really think you heard it?"

"It's true!" the man said.

"Where does the thunder come from?" asked the man with gray hands.

"It seems...it seems to come from the sky above his head." said the man.

"Thunder, can you still be sure which part of the sky it comes from?" asked the man with gray hands.

"Yes." The man said, "I clearly heard the sound... coming from the sky above his head... It didn't seem... it didn't seem to come from anywhere else."

“The thunder you are talking about should be different from the various thunders that occur in rainy weather, right?” asked the man with gray hands.

"There are differences." The man said, "That's why I said I seemed to hear a huge thunder. Because I'm not sure if it was real thunder, it just sounded like thunder, but... but there were other sounds mixed in. There are all kinds of thunder heard in rainy weather... but no matter what kind... there won't be thunder mixed with all kinds of sounds like this."

"What's that noise?" the gray-handed man asked. "It's... it sounds like a human voice... the sound of... pain... someone is struggling... it sounds like someone is being tortured and shouting, but... but the shouting is drowned out by the thunder... despite this, the shouting is still there," the man said.

"Is it just a pure 'ah——' cry, or is it something meaningful?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"There is content... I believe there must be content." The man said, "It's not just one person shouting... it's many people... but the shouting of many people is indeed drowned out by the thunder... the thunder is too loud..."

"Do you understand what is being shouted?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"I don't understand." said the man.

"What language do you think those shouts are in?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"It should... it should be the language I usually use in the real world." said the man.

"Then you still don't understand?" asked the man with gray hands.

"He was shouting intermittently, I... I couldn't hear it all..." said the man.

"Even if you can't understand the whole sentence, you can at least hear a few words, right?" asked the man with gray hands.

"Words... there must be, but... but for some words, the first letter is pronounced heavily, and the second letter is pronounced lightly. I can occasionally feel which word is being said... but it also seems like it's not, so... so I can't hear it. Anyway... the sound I hear is very... very fragmented and intermittent." said the man.

(End of this chapter)