Chapter 426 84. Ready
Children are a symbol of hope, a continuation of life, and an existence that needs protection.
In the bottom nest, these children are hungry, and their toys are only ashes and mud - but they are already the luckiest children in the bottom nest.
Surrounded by children and welcomed by Annan, he found that he still had to face the cruel reality: the bottom nest still existed.
The girl who serves as the "King" takes Annan's hand and says that the "Mother" wants to see him.
Annan came to the crater and approached the skeleton that had been sheltering the children.
Contrary to the tranquility last time, Annan noticed a slight fluctuation this time:
"My power is going to disappear."
"Are you the 'mother'?" Annan wasted no time: "How can I help you?"
"You can't help me... This world is like an ocean to me..."
"There will be a way."
Mr. Shivaro, the ancestor, "mother" can maintain consciousness with a piece of skeleton, so there might be a chance to recover.
But the fluctuations of "mother" are getting weaker and weaker, and it seems that she is just trying to see Annan one last time.
"Don't come to our world..."
The last whisper lingered in the ears, and the bones in the pit suddenly turned into ashes, blown away by the invisible wind, and turned into a layer of ashes. part of.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
The "King" stood firmly beside Annan, holding Annan's hand without crying.
“Mother said you would take care of us, right?”
“Yes, we will return to the surface, play in the sun and go to school.”
“ What is that? ”
"Let you become knights, professionals, merchants, and guards in the future."
"Then what if I want to be a king?"
"It's not impossible... but I have to start a war and kill people. Many people have made many children homeless..."
"I didn't do it right." The girl pursed her lips, let go of Annan's hand, and looked up at him, "My name is Cathy, what about you. ?"
"Annan"
"Annan, can I call you father?"
"No!"
Liaoren Town has sheltered a total of one hundred and sixty-four children, but there are still more children outside the town's low walls. There are more than two hundred people of the same age as Annan.
They were either kicked out of Lilliputian Town because they were no longer children, or they took refuge outside the town.
The news of "Mother"'s departure spread, and the town was filled with sobs.
Annan asked Cathy to take her "guards" to ask people outside the town if they would like to return to the surface with him.
This is not a multiple-choice question on the third to last floor. People living here always want to escape from this dark underground cage. And whether they were children or older children, Annan accepted them without hesitation.
More than 300 slave workers, more than 100 children and more than 200 boys and girls, Annan opened the portal, allowing them to enter the portal that resembled a fairy tale from the desolate land where ashes were falling.
As the portal closed, the empty town became deserted and deserted, making people shudder...
Fortunately, there were a hundred large elements surrounding him.
Annan stretched out his hand and caught a piece of falling ashes, temporarily leaving this dark world.
……
Siltovis, Diagon Alley.
The children, slave laborers and Underhive people sent back by Annan kept the merchants who were not well prepared busy. They vacated their houses to accommodate the refugees who had crossed the portal. The merchants initially thought they would complain of hunger, but it turned out that their eyes could not stand the brightness of the surface. It's still the coldest time of the year, and it's almost dusk.
They saw the refugees spontaneously divide into three groups: one group stood together in confusion, one group was full of children, and another group was in a mess.
"I am the king!" the girl shouted after the businessman contacted the group of children: "But that was before. Now my name is Cathy, and I am my father's daughter!"
"Father? "
"He is the one who opened the portal."
"He is my master." Veronica came over.
Cathy put her hands on her hips: "Then you have to call me Miss."
"Okay Miss."
The businessman didn't know why Annan had a daughter after going out for a while, but he still cooperated He asked quietly: "Miss, did Mr. Annan give any orders?"
"It seems that he asked you to arrange it." Cathy bit her dirty fingers.
The businessman straightened up and said: "Then give them a bath first."
These refugees were so dirty that ten of them could not even put together a piece of clothing. If they brought a plague, it would be a big disaster.
Pour the boiled hot water into the pool and let the refugees soak in it. They screamed as soon as they entered the water and couldn't help but struggle to stand up. However, the people in the bottom nest who knew that they really wanted to start a new life were afraid of being driven back and insisted on getting back into the pool. After a while, pieces of water floated up from the water. of dead lice.
After taking a bath, I sprinkled medicinal powder on the refugees with skin diseases and gave them clothes. By this time, the food was almost ready.
The businessmen were busy all night, and gathered together after the refugees had fallen asleep. They were whispering to each other with tiredness and excitement on their faces.
The King in the North has brought back so many refugees from outside... Is he going to build a new territory?
...
"Yes. After entrusting the children to me, the 'mother' disappeared..."
Annan sighed, "Do you know its origin? "
The ancestor caressed Lily: "It is not the life of our world."
Only then did Annan understand the meaning of the sentence "This world is like the ocean to me", which made it even more important. Highlight the kindness of "mother".
"Is our little Annan sad?" the ancestor said in a coaxing tone.
“It’s just a pity that the existence that protected the children has lost its last strength... You said it is not the life of our world?”
“This started a long time ago... ...The entire Montreal Mountain is a fragment of that world.”
Annan learned the truth about the imperial capital from his ancestors:
In the long and chaotic Elf calendar, a huge meteorite fell from the sky. . It was originally going to fall in Wilhelm, but was diverted by the Elven Grand Arcanists at the time, so that it ended up in the southern plains and became Mount Montreal.
The brief contact allowed the elven great arcane masters at that time to detect some kind of ominous mist on the meteorite, and it took hundreds of years to remove most of it, while the rest sank to the ground.
The entire Montreal Mountain is made of solid meteorite iron, so the original Montreal Gold Family built a fortress here to resist aliens.
That "mother" is the visitor from another world who arrived with the meteorite.
"The unknown curse has disappeared?"
"If there is no more harm, yes..."
No royal power would build itself on an unstable threat, and the current bottom nest would be slowly corrupting at best.
“Can’t we clean it up completely?” Annan asked after learning the origin of the “rat people”.
"Little Annan, we should not expel darkness just because we yearn for light. We must learn to adapt to the existence of darkness." The ancestor patiently explained: "There are many good and bad in this world, both good and not bad. ”
Annan remembered that someone seemed to have said similar words to him. Olmedo? It's still Mel...but the ancestors were right. There is no point in worrying until you have the ability to solve these problems.
(End of this chapter)