Chapter 194 The cold reality

Author: Mercury Ring

Chapter 194 The cold reality

There were no thunderous cheers, no grand welcome.

After killing the ice and snow monsters hidden around the town, Theresia expected to see the joy and smiles on people's faces.

However, what greeted her was the town residents kneeling down to pray, with desperate and numb faces.

"Lord Valkyrie, please give us fire!"

"Give us warmth and food!"

A heart-wrenching coldness gripped her heart, making her hands and feet cold and her heart chilling.

The monsters under the evil dragon outside did not kill the people in this town. Instead, the food crisis deliberately created by Lingsi Group was to starve them to death first.

She clenched the sword in her hand, anger overflowing from her pupils.

"Leisi Group, Spiral King, how dare he! How dare they!"

However, what made her even more angry was that she clearly understood that the Lingsi Group did not treat the people in the wilderness as human beings. They were domestic animals that they raised, and they did not care even if they died.

Because humans are such creatures that can endure no matter what kind of hardships they encounter, and can survive no matter how harsh or extreme the environment is.

They are endless weeds. If you burn a bunch to death and dig out a bunch, leeks will grow lush and green again in a short time.

What Spiral King told her a month ago was right. The people of the North relied on him and his Lingsi Group to survive.

Once the monopoly was formed, he became the supreme emperor of the land.

She knew that this was King Spiral's punishment for her rejection. Perhaps to him, this was not even a punishment, just a small and insignificant warning.

However, it is such a small warning, but behind it is the blood and tears of despair condensed by countless lives.

People regard her as hope, as the light and flame that drives away darkness and despair, and pray to her to give them warmth and food.

However, she does not have the huge interest group that spans the entire continent under King Spiral. Even if her flame can drive away the wind and snow for a short time, it will dissipate one day unless she stays here forever.

Now these people needed her rescue, but she felt helpless, an emptiness and confusion that she had a powerful ability but had nowhere to use it.

She couldn't help them at all.

Theresia's body trembled, and the flames on her body trembled violently.

Looking at those pairs of eyes that were hopeless and numb but with a faint hint of hope, she didn't even dare to look into their eyes.

"Ruger, share some of our food with them." She turned her face away, unable to hold the sword in her hand.

Seeing the food being distributed, those pairs of eyes were like swaying phantoms reflected in the cold pool. They moved slightly and seemed to have some faint firelight, a false and dim firelight.

Everyone knows that such a small amount of food cannot last long.

That night, the residents of this town had the biggest meal they had had in a month, a batter made of flour mixed with snow water.

Theresia temporarily stayed with a resident's house. The woman in this house was a widow. Her husband died and she only had an eight-year-old daughter to depend on.

The woman has a skeletal figure and a haggard complexion; the little girl is at the age when her body is growing, but she is like a slender bean sprout, with withered and yellow hair and no blood color in her skin.

Theresia looked at the little girl, who was so slender that she looked like she could be blown over by a gust of wind at any time, moving a stool and standing by the stove to cook batter, her eyes shining with innocence and joy.

Looking at the haggard and weak woman in front of him who kept coughing, he did not forget to thank her: "Thank you, Lord Valkyrie, for giving us food."

fell into silence.

The furniture at home is very old. The wooden tables and stools in front of me are full of scratches and scratches, and they tend to fall apart when you sit on them. The clothes of the woman and her daughter are all patched and washed white because they can’t afford electricity.

There was only one oil lamp lit, and the whole room seemed very dark and gloomy.

An old hatchet lay next to the piled firewood. The hunting bow hanging on the wall was yellow and black as if it was rusted. The bow string on it had already become rough. The cotton batting on the bed was torn in several places.

The hole was patched again.

The little girl cooked the batter and came over with a bowl. The woman hugged her daughter and asked her to say hello to Theresia.

"Our rice and noodles are all given to us by this kind Lord Valkyrie. My dear, be good and thank Lord Valkyrie quickly."

"Thank you Sister Valkyrie." The little girl said sweetly and brought the bowl to Theresa.

"Sister, eat first."

"Thanks."

Theresia silently took the bowl and took a sip. It didn't taste very good, but the little girl's eyes were shining brightly and she was licking her lips unconsciously, as if she was drinking some delicacy in the world.

She put the bowl down.

"Sister, aren't you going to eat?" the little girl asked innocently, raising her head.

Theresia smiled reluctantly and touched her hair: "Sister, I have eaten in advance, you can eat."

"Great!"

The little girl cheered, picked up the bowl, and didn't feel it was hot. She was about to drink it impatiently. As soon as her lips touched the edge of the bowl, she suddenly turned her head and looked at her mother who was standing beside her, and handed the bowl to her again.

in hand.

"Mom, eat first. I'm not hungry. There's still more in the pot. Let's go eat what's in the pot."

After saying that, as if she was afraid that her mother would reject her, she put the bowl into her mother's hand, trotted back to the stove, added water to the remaining batter at the bottom of the pot, and boiled it, holding it in her two little hands.

I drank a bowl of thin soup in small sips.

"I'm sorry, I've made Lady Valkyrie laugh at my humble family." The woman forced a smile, but her face was filled with calmness and deathly silence.

"Where's your...husband?"

"A few years ago, I heard that the Lingsi Group discovered a rare mineral in the northwest and was in urgent need of miners. He said that he wanted to fight for us, but he never came back. He seemed to be dead." The woman said calmly.

said.

"No... pension?" Theresa asked.

"The next winter, the grain merchants of Lingsi Group gave us ten more kilograms of rice."

The woman's tone of voice was smooth and her face was expressionless as she stated, as if this incident had not happened to her.

Her eyes were dark and without light, her heart had died long ago, and now she couldn't even raise her hatred.

At this time, the little girl drank the thin soup in three sips, licked all the soup in the bowl, walked to Theresia, opened her eyes wide and asked with expectation:

"Sister Valkyrie, will you guys come to our town again in the future?"

"Do you want us to come here more often?"

"Of course I hope." The little girl said with an innocent smile, "Because as soon as you come, sister, my mother and I will have batter to eat."

There was still hope in her eyes.

Theresa was increasingly afraid to look into the little girl's eyes.
Chapter completed!