My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 277 Western Love Story
Lan Lin'er also changed into the local clothing, covering her entire body in a long cloth, with only her eyes showing.

It's not because of the culture and customs here, but simply because the air contains a lot of sand and particles. If you want your mouth to be full of sand when you open it, and then when you get home you touch your face and your hands are covered in mud and sand, you can choose not to wear it.

Now, as she sat by the roadside, Lan Lin'er noticed that passersby looked at them with puzzled expressions. She couldn't understand why no one cared about her free medical treatment.

Not long ago, she finally understood Xue's plan.

He would travel to various places, treat the locals, and then leave without staying a single day longer.

She didn't know what Xue Dinglu wanted to do on a deeper level, but she now roughly understood the surface purpose: to see the world with her own eyes.

To truly see the entire religious kingdom with one's own eyes.

The glory and death of the North, and the yellow sands of the West and the people who struggle to survive.

Lan Lin'er once asked, since the desert environment is so harsh, why do they still stay here? Why don't the gods and nobles improve the desert and make it suitable for human habitation?
For a 4th-tier mage, transforming the desert shouldn't be too difficult, right?

However, all they received was silence from the soldiers.

Just as they themselves didn't believe that Xue Dinglu, this healing mage, would come here to treat them.

They opened their mouths, and countless grains of sand and dust entered through their leaky teeth, but they were already used to this environment; coming here felt like being exiled.

Back to Shendu?
They can't go back. They haven't heard from their families for a long time. They might even disappear secretly if they return to Shendu. Many of their colleagues are like that. After returning to Shendu, they disappeared without a trace. Even Captain Shenren couldn't find any trace of them.

They all started new families here, and will remain border dwellers for generations to come. Even so, it's better than going back to that hellish capital.

At least here, you don't have to be afraid of suddenly disappearing when you go out, and you don't have to rely on having children to survive.

Although the lifestyle of most people on the border is simply about having children in exchange for food, at least they have a normal life and routine.

"Where is your amazing captain?" Lan Lin'er continued to ask curiously.

She didn't really believe that there were divine nobles here. Although it was normal for a divine being to be the leader of this border army, in her mind, how could those pampered divine beings be willing to live in such a difficult place?

After the soldiers stationed there learned that she was a divine being, they immediately became extremely respectful.

"Shh, sir, please keep your voice down." The soldier looked around, then seemed afraid of something. "Captain Godman hates nobles the most. He has humiliated other Godman nobles and branch family nobles more than once."

"Huh?" Lan Lin'er was taken aback. There was such an oddball among the divine nobles. "Why?"

"I think I heard that the God-Man Captain once fell in love with a commoner magician girl, but by the time he completed his baptism and became a full-fledged God-Man, his lover had already been tortured into a bloated, emaciated pig." The soldier glanced around furtively again, then stopped bluffing.

They came to keep an eye on Xue's laws, ostensibly to protect him, but it wouldn't be good if he slacked off too obviously.

Lan Lin'er fell silent after hearing this story.

A noble young master from a divine family falls in love with a commoner magician girl. This should have been her favorite type of story, but after learning about the fate of this divine captain, she was instantly overwhelmed with sorrow.

These sentimental little stories actually made her feel even worse.

"What has that amazing captain been doing on this border?" Lan Lin'er asked.

Upon seeing that she was also a divine being, the soldier hesitated for a moment before revealing: "The divine being captain seems to have been stockpiling grain and training his elite cavalry squad to strengthen the city's defenses. He doesn't even object to trading with those Northerners."

Lan Lin'er couldn't quite understand what the captain of the divine man was trying to do. He seemed to have his own ideas and things he wanted to do.

So she quietly approached Xue Dinglu and told him the information she had gathered using her divine identity, and asked, "Xe Dilus, what does the divine captain want to do?"

After hearing Xue's account, especially when the captain of the divine man was stockpiling grain and training an elite knight squad, he had a sense of déjà vu.

“He wants to rebel,” Xue Dinglu said directly. “Or it could be revenge, but more likely it’s a rebellion against the life-based system established by these divine nobles.”

"Hmm... Ah?" Lan Lin'er was stunned, looking at Xue Dinglu, she subconsciously said, "How is that possible?"

“Why not?” Xue Dinglu retorted. “He might even be more radical than we think. He might even want to overthrow the existing system and create a new world and system, or kill all the nobles. Think about how he keeps training his elite troops. That at least shows who he wants to kill.”

"Then, could it be that training elite troops was for the purpose of resisting magical beasts?" Lan Lin'er asked tentatively.

“If it were to resist the monsters, it wouldn’t just be a matter of training elites, but all soldiers would be trained seriously,” Xue Dinglu said, “but right now, the ordinary soldiers here only have basic training and are more like militia. Their combat skills are not even as good as those tribal Northerners.”

Lan Lin'er was speechless; she really hadn't thought of going here. A gentle breeze blew through the desert city.

Now, Xue Dinglu has been here for a long time, but no one has come to see a doctor.

But soon, the first patient seemed to arrive. He was carrying someone on his back, his figure tall and upright in the sunlight. This moment stunned the soldiers who were stationed there, and they immediately stood at attention and saluted, saying, "Captain, the God of War!"

Xue Dinglu and Lan Lin'er also looked over and saw the tall and weathered man.

The protagonist of the love story I just heard has arrived, but unfortunately, the protagonist of this story is neither handsome nor young.

He looked like a man nearing forty, his rough and dark face making him appear older.

If it weren't for his armor and terrifying aura, no one would believe that this was the de facto ruler of this western border region, the god-like captain who had transformed it into a kingdom within a kingdom.

And on his back was a strange... lady?
The woman was dressed in a white kimono-like garment, similar to a wedding dress, but her body was extremely distorted, as if she had been in a vegetative state for over a decade. Her hands and feet were as thin as chopsticks, but her body was bloated.

Behind the captain of the God-like team, countless people peered out to watch them.

Almost everyone in the Western Region peered curiously at the story of the God-Man Captain. It was a small legend among them, after all, it had caused quite a stir in the capital and even led to a falling out with his family. Otherwise, they thought the God-Man wouldn't have become the leader of this god-like place.

Perhaps after some insiders got drunk, this love story between a superhuman and an ordinary person became popular in this entertainment-scarce region.

In this life-centric world, it is precisely these kinds of stories that are particularly appealing.

Even Lan Lin'er was shocked to see the two protagonists of that Western love story appear before her like this.

Unfortunately, the male protagonist of this love story is no longer young. Time and the yellow sand have left deep marks on his face, making him look like a laborer working in a birthing factory.

His face was even sallow and blackened by the erosion of the yellow sand.

And she also saw that strange, twisted but still alive woman.

"Are you a healing mage?" The captain of the God-like team picked up the twisted woman in his arms in a princess carry, her extremely rough face covered in stubble.

"Yes."

"Is there any way to save her?" The captain's tone and expression remained unchanged, as if he were just going through the motions.

Perhaps he had once held too much hope, which turned into deep despair, or perhaps he simply did not believe that Xue's law could cure his lover.

I was just trying my luck; I never thought I could succeed.

As a divine nobleman and a mythical figure, he has tried countless methods over the years, including the healing spells of mages, the herbs of shamans, and ancient folk remedies and potions from the West.

It's useless, completely useless.

She will be in a vegetative state forever, and even her mental state is extremely weak, as if she could disappear at any moment.

He had given up all hope. Even after so many years without any improvement, everything from the past seemed like a distant memory. He just wanted to wait for his former lover to die.

Then I can charge into the capital without any scruples and start a massacre!

He didn't care what the future held, nor did he care if he would cause any irreversible consequences. He just wanted to storm into the capital and kill, kill, kill, kill!

He had trod the streets of heaven and earth, leaving behind countless bones of nobles and officials. He only wanted to see what made these gods and nobles so noble, and what it would taste like to have their corpses and hair crushed into minced meat.

Let's see if the gods and nobles are truly inexhaustible, if they can really spring up like locusts after a spring breeze, and if they can truly bring down divine punishment upon themselves by the God-King.

The love and memories of the past have long since vanished with time, leaving only deep-seated hatred and anger, like a volcano waiting to erupt.

Now, this woman, who is like a vegetable, is a shackle to him. He even twisted himself to the point of wanting to just let it go and die sooner. Living is torture, so he can trample the capital city sooner.

Seemingly sensing the twisted and insane nature of the God-like Captain, Xue Luding simply sighed.

More than ten years of care, no matter how sincere the feelings, will gradually wear away in these boring and hopeless days, leaving only the most painful scars to reveal the pain of the past.

(End of this chapter)