To my frozen hometown

Chapter 32 People always grow up because of fear

Darkness enveloped the sky, making the sunlight unable to penetrate through the stratus clouds, and could only faintly flicker above the haze.

The earth was almost pitch black, lost the favor of light, only artillery fire was reflecting the chaotic battlefield.

At the end of the horizon are countless huge black shadows, and the roar that shakes people's hearts resounds through the wind and snow on the ice field.

The human line retreated again and again, and they launched round after round of shelling, but the darkness covering the end of the land seemed to be endless, advancing one after another.

This is the last war of the Dark Ages, the war of human evacuation from the southern ice fields.

Liu Yuan had participated in it before, and her last memory of this war was a middle-aged man holding her and talking to her.

"Yuan, we can't go anymore, we have to stay, to cut off for other teams, but you can still leave, you can still live. You have the ability to cross the ice field alone, so, live, for all of us."

After the words fell, the "monster" rushed into the human camp.

The screams were endless, the artillery fire was deafening, the "monster" and human blood merged together, and the soldiers roared, crazy and desperate.

In the glare of the flames, the middle-aged man put on his coat for Liu Yuan, patted her shoulder heavily, pressed down his hat, turned and walked towards the battlefield.

Before leaving, he turned his head to look at Liu Yuan with a smile, and pulled out the pistol from his waist.

"Take care of Katerina for me, and tell her that she is the most precious treasure in my life, the most dazzling light I have ever seen in this darkness."

"I also ask her to forgive me and Laila, as parents, for not being by her side. Please tell her that we love her, so we have to leave her."

Humanity needs to survive, and human beings need a future, so someone must fight.

So someone has to make the necessary sacrifices.

This is the meaning of the existence of scavengers. They sweep away the dirt in the dark, and they are born to find directions.

On the battlefield, there should have been a gust of hot wind accompanied by flames, and the smoke and dust covered Liu Yuan's eyes. She tightened her coat tightly and turned to leave.

He didn't listen to the painful and hopeless wailing behind him, and he didn't listen to the desperate roars all around.

She just left, with the shame of a fugitive, and with a promise.

She just left with that heart that was no longer beating.

In Liuyuan's memory, that middle-aged man was the son of Ortov, the head of the Scavenger Corps, and also a friend of hers.

And Katerina is the man's newborn daughter.

Three years later, as the smoke and dust that had covered the sky for hundreds of years gradually dissipated, the dark age gradually became a thing of the past.

Human beings saw the sunshine again, and Liu Yuan also took on the responsibility of taking care of Katerina.

But as a premature baby, Katerina's health was really poor, and she was often unable to go out because of weakness since she was young.

But it's not that good things never happened to her.

At the age of 27, she fell in love with a man and held a wedding two years later.

Unfortunately, everything did not develop in a good direction because of this.

At the age of 34, Katerina gave birth to a daughter, but she herself died in the hospital bed due to dystocia.

Her husband passed away a year later because of excessive grief.

The newborn daughter of the two became an orphan in this way.

As a last resort, Liu Yuan could only make another decision to continue raising the girl.

Fortunately, the girl is healthy.

I believe that Katerina will be very happy when she knows...

When the girl was two years old, Yanagihara gave her an official name, Angelica.

She was a very lively little guy, and would often climb up on Liu Yuan's lap to let her tell stories when she was reading.

From time to time, he would knock over the furniture at home, and then look at Liuyuan with an innocent expression.

Every day when she went out, she either climbed the chimney or played in the mud, so when Liu Yuan took her out, she had to tie a rope around her waist, so that she could barely control this little guy.

For Angelica when she was a child, the happiest thing was to let Liu Yuan make a birthday cake on her birthday every year.

This is something that you can't eat anywhere after the disaster, even with rare ores, because no one can make it.

But Liu Yuan was able to find materials from all kinds of beasts, and then make this delicious dessert, it was almost like magic, and she couldn't stop.

So Angelica looks forward to her birthday every year, to what kind of cake Yanagihara will make next time, to every day in the future, every year, and forever in the future.

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When the girl got older, she started to get more naughty.

To use a word before the disaster, that is three days without a roof tile.

She began to learn the skills of using swords from Liu Yuan. It has to be said that this girl's talent is indeed very good, and she has already learned something in just one or two years.

So much so that she was always able to beat the children in the neighborhood until their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, so that Liuyuan often came to the door with gifts to apologize, and then returned home to give her a "beating".

The girl admired Liuyuan very much, and she said that she would also be an employee in the future, traveling the continent, exploring the ice field, and changing the fate of mankind.

However, the enthusiasm of this kind of boy will always be knocked out by Liu Yuan's brain, so that the girl can only continue to shrink her neck and help with housework in disgrace.

To be honest, Angelica really doesn't like doing housework. In her own words, her hands are used to hunt wild animals. How can she be restrained by such trivial matters.

For this reason, she was often lifted by Liu Yuan by the neck and spanked.

It can be said that before the girl was 12 years old, she grew up making trouble and being beaten.

This made Liuyuan can't help but miss the quiet Katerina. The two are obviously mother and daughter, so why is there such a big gap.

Until the year the girl turns 12.

One day, she and Liu Yuan were walking on the street and saw a blood-soaked employee being carried into a clinic.

The employee's arm was broken, half of his body was twisted horribly, he was moaning, and the pupils in his eyes were dilated and gray.

"Employers, employers, people like this all day long..." the doctor said, beckoning the nurses to carry the patient into the operating room.

Liu Yuan didn't know what Angelica was thinking at that time, all she knew was that the girl's shoulders trembled suddenly, and then she grabbed her skirt with her left hand and asked.

"Liu Yuan, you won't become like this, will you?"

"No." Liu Yuan replied lightly.

This was the truth, but Anjelica couldn't hear it.

At night, the girl had a nightmare. She dreamed that Liu Yuan was lying on a hospital bed covered in blood, and was covered with a white cloth by the doctor.

She cried out hoarsely, but Liu Yuan never woke up again.

The next morning, the girl opened her eyes on the pillow wet with tears.And since then, she has become much quieter.

She began to practice the sword skills more desperately, and even began to learn how to use firearms from Liuyuan.

What Liu Yuan didn't know was that the girl had secretly approached the Employers' Association behind her back, and asked carefully about the chances of death of the employees after they left the greenhouse.

What she got was a number that horrified her, 50.00% eight.

In her memory, from childhood to adulthood, Liu Yuan almost always left the greenhouse when performing tasks.

Only then did she know that Liu Yuan had been doing something to take care of her.

Beasts, cold currents, and ice fields, these things that Liu Yuan mentioned plainly, turned out to be so deadly and terrifying, as if they might destroy all her warmth in an instant at any time.

But that person never mentioned to her the danger he experienced.

The ridiculous thing is that she was still making trouble for the other party, even in the greenhouse, she couldn't let Liu Yuan's rest well.

That night, the first thing the girl did after returning home was to run to Liu Yuan's side, hugged her without saying a word, and then cried for an entire hour.

It was the first time she was so scared, afraid that she would lose this only relative.

This was the first time she was so scared, afraid that Liu Yuan would leave without saying goodbye.

Anjelica seemed to have become more sensible overnight, which made Liuyuan very relieved, but apart from the relief, she also felt a little troubled.

That's what this girl seems to like clinging to her more.

When eating, she will be close to her side, when resting, she will sit in her arms, and even when sleeping, she will climb into her bed and sleep together.

Didn't it mean that human beings will have a period of rebellion when they are teenagers? Why can't you see this situation in Angelica?

Liu Yuan didn't quite understand this.

But she didn't think much about it, because her idea was to take care of Anjelica until she reached adulthood, and then leave to do her own thing.

She can't stay here forever, after all, she is an undead person.

So, everything happened on the night of Angelica's sixteenth birthday.

(End of this chapter)