January 1, 2345 AD, if nothing else happens, this should be the 216th year of the Wasteland Era.
However, due to many things that happened, the timeline leading to the abyss eventually changed.
Orion did not fall into the hands of heavenly beings, nor did the entire blue planet.
The survivors living in the new era turned the tide and took the torch from the hands of their ancestors, and used it to disperse the endless night and welcome the arrival of dawn.
January 1, 2345 AD.
The Orion, bound for the Lagrange Point space station, docked at the star port.
In addition to picking up the heroes of the Burning Legion and sending defense replacement troops, it also brought 40,000 standard containers - a total weight of nearly half a million tons of cargo.
This is the first time in two centuries that goods produced from the surface have entered the docking orbit of Lagrange Point.
Just two years ago, dense orbital debris filled the Earth's outer space orbit.
Only a very small part of these 500,000 tons of goods are supplies. Most of the remaining goods are shipped from Dawn City Industrial Zone, Ideal City Industrial Zone, Southern Sea Industrial Zone, Ravenka Industrial Zone and Batoya Industrial Zone.
Aerospace materials, intermediate products and various parts and components produced in the area.
According to the previously signed contract, the academy shared with the alliance the starship manufacturing technical drawings of the People's Alliance era, as well as the former's logistics information recovered from the wasteland to the Lagrange Point space station over the years and "supplier orders".
With reference to these data, the alliance can completely pull together a group of allies to replicate the entire "Lagrange point space station related industry chain" in the era of prosperity.
In exchange, the alliance will complete the first "large civilian interstellar comprehensive cruise ship" order for the Lagrange Point space station since the end of the Prosperity Era based on the drawings and technology provided by the academy.
Although the remuneration is generous, this order is not a small amount, and even the catalog alone contains several gigabytes of data.
The huge related industries and wide variety of parts and components are undoubtedly astronomical figures for the wasteland that has just emerged from recession.
Fortunately, the Alliance does not fight alone.
In addition to a large group of younger brothers, there is also the help of Ideal City, a big brother who has gradually become a younger brother!
The industrial machines produced by the Silver Wing Group have greatly made up for the deficiencies in production quality of the alliance and its allies, and the information processing technology of the Endpoint Group has provided the soil for the establishment of a more complex industrial chain.
It is worth mentioning that a long time ago, the Endpoint Group was not optimistic about expanding the Endpoint Cloud business in the wasteland.
Now, with the alliance's investment in information infrastructure and the growing demand for data centers, the board of directors of Endpoint Group can only say one thing.
The upper class society in Ideal City has not experienced mobility for a long time, but the channels for mobility still exist after all.
If Endpoint Group fails to keep up with the tide of the times, it will naturally be replaced by other emerging information technology companies that seize the opportunity.
Especially when the alliance is more inclined to provide more opportunities to emerging companies such as "Abu Aerospace" and create a healthy competitive atmosphere, it has aggravated the former's sense of urgency.
Much of the technology in the wasteland is readily available.
Not to mention that after the academy opened its own database to the alliance, there are no obvious barriers to many cutting-edge technologies.
If you can't adapt to the times, you can only wait for the times to be eliminated.
In this way, with full competition and cooperation from all parties, the first batch of 500,000 tons of cargo sent to the Lagrange Point space station was finally completed.
Even the Mammoth Kingdom, which had just experienced the baptism of war, contributed a batch of engineering exoskeletons, and the Batoya Alliance, which abandoned the title of Southern Legion, received orders for more than 100 precision parts.
What arrived with the Orion guided missile cruiser was not only the cargo, but also nearly a thousand staff from all sides of the Adhesion Community.
They are all experts in the aerospace industry.
Most of them are shelter residents, especially those from the Alliance.
They were originally of no use in the Wasteland Era, but finally waited for the era when they could show their talents.
These experts from the People's Alliance era will rely on their own experience and technology to restart the shipbuilding facilities of the Lagrange Point space station, complete the production of the first batch of standard model cargo starships as soon as possible, and replace the Orion guided missile cruiser to perform transportation tasks.
Chu Guang's ambition for this space station goes far beyond just a colony ship.
In addition to the academy's order, he also presented the blueprint of the "Solar System Revival Plan" at the Stick Community Conference.
The plan was jointly formulated by the Alliance Scientific Research Team and relevant units of the College Science and Technology Committee.
According to the steps in the blueprint, the alliance will gradually recycle the outer space facilities of the People's Federation era in three stages.
In the first phase, the Alliance will rebuild the Mars colony, try to repair the mining facilities on Ceres, and establish a mining station in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
In the second stage, the alliance will continue to expand the scope of its activities outwards, establishing residential stations on Europa, Titan and other asteroids where the Alliance has traces of its activities. It will also conduct archeology of pre-war facilities and restore production to the maximum extent possible.
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In the third phase, the Alliance will return to the Kuiper Belt and complete the recovery of all the assets left behind by the Alliance.
The entire plan will be gradually implemented in a five-year cycle.
As it progresses, the plan will gradually feed back into the reconstruction of the surface world.
All products and various derivatives related to the solar system revival plan will enjoy tariff reductions and exemptions of up to zero tariffs when entering the alliance's market.
In addition to the Alliance itself, the Alliance also welcomes all the contracting forces of the Adhesive Community to participate in the solar system revitalization plan, and share the benefits while contributing production capacity, and exchange resources for the common interests of all mankind.
With the successful experience of the Sticky Community in the past, the survivors can almost foresee that this pie, drawn by the managers themselves, will take over the historical mission that the Sticky Community has almost completed in the near future and become a new global
A framework for cooperation and the cornerstone of the new era order.
And in the time to come, this blueprint that gradually took shape has indeed proved this point.
In order to commemorate that person's achievements, when future historians studied this glorious period, they finally used the beginning and end of the "Solar System Revival Plan" as clues to officially name this blank memory left to the future as the "Dawn Era".
It is he whom they commemorate.
It's not just him either.
But those are all things for later...
…
It was just after seven o'clock in the evening, and it was the busiest time in the Pirate Bay Tavern in Boulder City.
There are no pirates or ships here, just a holographic TV hanging in the corner and a group of drunken workers.
In that not-so-distant wasteland era, what people produced here was just a bunch of cans without dreams.
Although many people are still working in canneries today, those cans without dreams have been sold to the distant Lagrange Point space station.
An advertisement for a certain can brand in Boulder City was inserted into the currently broadcasting "Awakened Football Tournament", and the general content was that large quantities of full-bodied magical cans were delivered to the tin cans who were on a mission far away at Lagrange Point.
Got the taste of hometown.
The humorous scene amused everyone in the tavern, and the sudden laughter also made Kent, who was lying on the bar, straighten up with a shake of his shoulders.
The people who were drinking with him had already gone home, but he still stayed on the topic he was talking about before drinking vegetables. He let out a long wine burp and shouted loudly to himself.
"Actually - I have long seen that the manager is a truly good person."
The sound was really abrupt to the extreme, as if the winner of the game had already been decided and someone came to place a bet on the winner.
The tavern was quiet for a while, and then everyone who couldn't hold back their laughter burst into laughter.
"Hahaha!"
"Kent, if your dick was as hard as your mouth, maybe your wife wouldn't divorce you."
"Who is the person who said 'all the same'?"
"Relax man, you don't have to pretend to be like everyone else. Even if you don't love him, we won't force you to kiss his ass, let alone whip you on the ass."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Kent, who had an unspeakable secret, blushed, but couldn't say anything to refute, so he had to take a sip of wine and mutter to himself.
"If I had known what would happen in three days, there would be countless people in the world...who knows what will happen in the future."
Who could have imagined that the huge tower that had stood for hundreds of years would collapse, and who would have thought that the grass-top team built by a few carpenters would be no worse than the noble Sid Master.
Who would have thought of this...
And that House who went to Bugla to continue farting.
Isn’t it said that incomplete purge means no purge at all? The old aristocracy will eventually return and take away the workers’ union’s false victory and punish the betrayers?
Why didn't Bugla explode the fireworks before Boulder City exploded?
The more Kent thought about it, the angrier he became. He really hated that unlucky guy and drank another sip of beer into his stomach.
But having said that, although the beer in Chip Harbor is not as fragrant as the one in Boulder City, it still has a different flavor.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion or the work of that tree of life.
Kent couldn't help but think about it, just save up a few days of annual leave and go live there for half a month...
…
New Year's Day on January 1st every year is a statutory holiday of the Alliance.
Although there was no New Year celebration tradition in Boulder City in the past two centuries, Alyssa, who was studying in Camp 101, was still homesick for the festive atmosphere, and finally decided to go back home.
It's not that far anyway.
Today's Qingquan City is no longer the crisis-ridden hell it once was.
The originally paralyzed underground passage was reopened to traffic shortly after the Alliance conquered the Brood.
Boulder City, which has emerged from the debt crisis, renovated the subway station outside the city a year ago.
From that time on, the express train from Auroville to the south can reach Boulder City in just one hour, even skipping the transfer step.
Alyssa stood at the door of her house with her suitcase, feeling a little homesick for a moment, but she still mustered up the courage to go forward and knock on the door.
The door opened slowly.
However, what Alyssa didn't expect was that it was her eldest brother standing at the door.
The tall and thin man wore a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the sternness between his eyebrows was even more like her father than her father.
Although their family has fallen into decline, the tiger in trouble is still a tiger after all.
Especially the eldest son of the Malvern family. Even though he no longer talks about the family's revival, he still has a sense of nobility and calmness about him that the drunkards in Boulder City don't have.
Being stared at by that sharp gaze, Alyssa instinctively shrank her neck, but in the end she straightened her back.
She is no longer the little girl who could do nothing without help.
Now she not only has a group of reliable partners, she is her own strength.
As if he noticed her growth, his sharp gaze gradually softened a little.
Wolfit said in a gentle tone.
"came back?"
"Um……"
Alyssa nodded cautiously, quietly moved the suitcase an inch toward the threshold, and whispered greetings.
"How are you?"
Ever since he slapped her in the square that day, the two of them had never communicated face to face like this again, and they only kept communicating through letters.
Wolfit looked at her with complicated eyes, filled with relief, guilt, and many unspeakable things.
But maybe he didn't know how he opened his mouth. He finally swallowed those words back in his throat and just said it calmly.
"I, it's okay...what about you? Are you still getting used to it?"
"Well! I'm fine!"
Seeing that her brother finally talked more to her, Alyssa finally showed a heartfelt smile on her face and happily started talking.
"Since I went to Camp 101, I have learned a lot of things I have never heard of before, and I have made many friends..."
Looking at his cheerful sister, a sincere smile appeared on Wolfit's face, and he stretched out his hand to bring in the suitcase that had quietly slid to the threshold.
"Stop standing at the door...come in and talk."
"Um!"
Nodding her head vigorously, Alyssa happily entered the door, chattering about her experiences at Camp 101 along the way.
Hearing her daughter's voice, Grace, who was cooking in the kitchen, ran out of the kitchen excitedly and hugged Alice in her arms.
"Alyssa! My baby girl, mother misses you so much! You are suffering outside!"
There were some wrinkles on that charming face.
Perhaps because of the ups and downs she has experienced in her family, or perhaps because of the ups and downs of life, the originally graceful and luxurious woman has gradually turned into an ordinary old woman.
Looking at her much older mother, Alyssa's nose couldn't help but feel slightly sore.
If she had to say who she felt sorry for the most, it would probably be her own family.
However, she actually didn't have much choice...just like many people who stood with her that night.
Should we adapt to the changes of the times, or be run over by the wheels of history?
Standing at a precarious crossroads, she was still young and could only make choices based on her own heart.
"Mom...I'm living a good life outside...how about you? Are you still getting used to life?"
Looking at her daughter's tender face, Gnis's face showed a comfortable smile, and she squeezed it lovingly.
"Mom is very good. Your dad and I have long been used to it. By the way, mom has learned a lot of good dishes recently... You and your brother wait for a while, and I will bring it out for you to try later!"
"Yes!" Holding back the tears that filled her eyes, Alyssa nodded vigorously.
After kissing her daughter on the cheek, Grace returned to the kitchen and prepared dinner dishes with her eldest daughter-in-law.
Not only her mother, but her sister-in-law also came out of the shadow of the past.
However, it was obvious that she had not forgiven her, she just did not fall out because of the face of her relatives.
This is also something that can't be helped.
"Dad will be back from the library soon. Let's go to the living room." Wolfit gently patted his sister's shoulder and led her out of the corridor in front of the kitchen.
The two went to the living room and sat in front of the TV and chatted for a long time until their father, Melvin, came back from the Boulder City Library.
Although today is a holiday, Malvern is used to staying in the library sorting documents, and will stay there all day regardless of whether it is working time or not.
Seeing his daughter who suddenly came home, Malvern's reaction was not as strong as that of Grace. He just repeatedly murmured words like "grew up" and "grow taller" in surprise. His incoherent and dull look made the family happy.
Everyone was so amused that they giggled.
Finally it's time to eat.
It was only when Alyssa was sitting at the dining table that she learned from her mother that during the time when she was away studying, her eldest brother actually went on a long trip to open a branch business in Kingallen Port on behalf of Boulder City Bank.
Due to his outstanding business performance in the local area, he has risen from an accountant to the vice president of the Golden Gallen Port Branch.
Now that the business at the Kingallen Port Branch has matured, he has been transferred back from the Bank's headquarters in Boulder City, preparing to be sent to the Bugra Free State to open up new business and participate in the local debt restructuring.
This time, he will take up the post as branch president.
It is commendable that Boulder City Bank did not deliberately suppress her eldest brother's promotion because of his sensitive identity.
And her eldest brother reciprocated the favor and turned down many olive branches offered by other banks... Even if he changes jobs with this excellent resume, he may have better development.
According to Wolfit, the civil war in Bugra was completely won by the citizens, who trampled under their feet the "corporate dogs" who once rode on their heads to dominate.
However, what is different from the past is that Otto did not immediately support a new company to replace the Firestone Group. Instead, he introduced the "Anti-Monopoly Law" despite all the pressure, banned the chaotic private armed forces, and brought order to the out-of-control order.
Restandardize.
This is a good opportunity for "revenge" for Boulder City.
Bugla had taken advantage of the turmoil in Boulder City to bite off a large piece of meat from them, but at that time they could do nothing but helpless.
Now, now and then, it is Boulder City's turn to recover the debt with interest.
Of course, this has nothing to do with ordinary local citizens. It is mainly aimed at the Firestone Group and those garbage people who took advantage of the situation and robbed the wealth of the residents of Boulder City.
Those jackals that eat people without spitting out bones are the common enemies of the citizens of Bugra and the residents of Stonehenge.
No matter how eloquently these house animals in captivity spin lies about how humans and wolves should unite, no one will listen to their nonsense anymore.
Seeing her grown-up brother and the high-spirited look reappearing on his face, Alyssa was also very happy.
Although the process was full of twists and turns, at least the final result was not bad.
Looking at the genuine smiles on her family's faces, she suddenly found that the barriers between herself and her family had melted away a lot.
Even her sister-in-law, who never looked directly at her, softened her attitude a little.
Time is really a good medicine.
Unknowingly, they all felt less guilty about each other.
"Speaking of which...where's Ji Xiu?" She suddenly thought of her second brother, if only he were here.
Upon hearing his brother's name, Wolfit's originally high-spirited expression dimmed slightly, with a hint of complexity in his brows.
"I don't know, that guy just seemed to have disappeared from the world... I did ask about it, but there was no news. I only heard that he went east after leaving Boulder City."
When he said this, he couldn't help but cursed in a low voice.
"This cowardly idiot... I don't know what's going on in his head."
Seeing his mother's slightly trembling shoulders, Wolfit suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he did not want to take it back. He just glanced aside silently.
"Maybe he went back to the ideal city... let him do it himself." Malvern muttered, as if he didn't want to mention his youngest son's name.
That was the only shame the Malvern family had not washed away.
However, it was his own flesh and blood after all, and he really couldn't say harsh words to that bastard.
If I have to blame him, I can only blame myself for not teaching him well.
Wolfit coughed slightly, turned his gaze to Alyssa, and changed the subject.
"Speaking of which, what have you been busy with lately?"
"Me..." Alyssa was stunned for a moment, and faced her brother's stern eyes, she accidentally lowered her voice, "In addition to the management courses, I have recently been helping my teacher organize historical documents... He
Said I am very talented in this area."
Wolfit raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Who is your teacher?"
Alyssa answered truthfully.
"His name is Meng Jie."
"Meng Jie..."
Repeating this name, Wolfit always felt that he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.
As for his father, Malvin, who was sitting next to him, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
"It's actually him?"
"Do you know him?" Wolfit looked at his father with a surprised expression in his eyes.
"We know each other. He visited me several times and talked to me about the past in Boulder City..." Malvern looked at his daughter and said, "He is the former president of Mammoth University?"
"Um!"
Alyssa nodded, smiled a little sheepishly and said.
"He said that I have the shadow of an old friend he knew. That person was much older than me, and he was also more powerful and wiser than me. In fact, he is almost the same as me when I grow up. It can be regarded as fate.
Teacher Meng wants me to sort out information about that person..."
Although Alyssa didn't mention the person's name, Wolfit seemed to understand this time.
"That person's name is Isher?"
"Yes! How do you know?" Alyssa looked at her brother in surprise, her eyes shining with surprise, "Brother, do you know him?"
"Haha... I guess. I read about him a few times in the newspaper when I was working at Golden Gallen Port."
Wolfit curled his lips and snorted softly.
"This guy was not cut into pieces by five horses and hung on the city wall to be whipped, simply because he died early."
He had never seen anyone luckier than that guy.
He escaped from the West Sail Harbor Massacre, escaped from the Heavenly King's Rebellion...and escaped with everyone around him, and then fought back and forth with the experienced veterans of the Southern Army.
That guy's life was like a mess, as if he was really blessed by the Silver Moon Goddess.
Even at the end of life.
Compared to the other subordinates of Absaek, he was probably the one who left the most honorably.
At least he died on the battlefield.
Having said this, he looked at his sister whose eyes were full of astonishment and said word by word.
"You know what? You're just a hair away from being like that guy."
The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly cooled down, and the topic turned from one heavy topic to another.
Looking at Alyssa with a sad expression on her face, Wolfit's wife also showed a trace of unbearability. She shook her husband's hand under the table and scolded him with her eyes for saying too much.
Although Alyssa has grown up, she is still a child after all...at least to her.
Wolfit also realized that he said something he shouldn't have said again, even though he didn't think it was wrong.
Compared to those unrealistic things, the person she should protect more is herself.
It doesn't matter even if he hates him, but he will not take back these words.
He didn't want to watch her burn out like a matchstick like that idiot. In the end, nothing changed and she just burned herself in vain.
"But... that kind of thing... didn't happen after all?" Alyssa lowered her head and said sadly, "Are you still worried about it?"
What she was most worried about was his eldest brother, the man who would rather sacrifice himself to revive the family.
She has passed her own crossroads and is unlikely to encounter the same thing again.
But he is different.
He is the eldest son of the family.
If he is still living in the past Boulder City, his meaningless sense of responsibility and loyalty to the old era will drag him into hell sooner or later...
"I'm not worried, I'm just worried about you."
Wolfit turned his face sideways and said in a hoarse voice.
"You are too young, including your friends. When I was in Golden Gallon Port, I saw too many compatriots from Boulder City. They were full of enthusiasm to help the locals and replicate their success in Boulder City. As a result,
What? All the people who were dazzled by victory were kicked on the buttocks and fell down in different postures... Of course, the people who kicked their butts did not end well in the end. They deserved it and couldn't blame them.
anyone."
"I don't want to dampen your dreams, but in the future you should avoid doing dangerous and stupid things, and be cautious as a last resort... Remember, I am the future head of this family, and I have not yet laid down in the coffin."
The current head of the family, Malvern, remained silent, apparently acquiescing to this statement.
After a pause, Wolfit spoke again in a somewhat embarrassed tone.
"Also... my tone was not very good. Regarding this matter... I apologize to you, I'm sorry."
He is not a person who is good at admitting his mistakes. This sentence seemed to use up all his strength.
But after hearing these words, Alyssa's face burst into a surprised smile.
She suddenly realized that the thorn that had been stuck in her heart had never existed in the first place.
Her family never really hated her.
But love more than anyone else in this world...
…
The wind and snow howled outside the window.
Although there is no burning fireplace, the water heating pipes and radiators are not necessarily as warm as the fireplace.
And perhaps because the room was smaller, Alyssa suddenly found that their family was sitting closer.
Just as the family was happily celebrating their long-awaited reunion, the doorbell suddenly sounded at the door.
"I'll open the door!"
Alyssa jumped off the chair and ran to the door with her slippers on. The moment she opened the door, she saw a strange girl standing at the door.
The girl was wearing a lavender down jacket and carrying a simple travel bag. She was about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same age as her. She had fluffy blond hair and a green face on her young face.
It seems that she doesn't often interact with people. She always avoids eyes unconsciously and is afraid of eye contact with others...even if the person standing in front of her is her peers.
There are occasionally some students from the Free State in Camp 101, and most of them are like this.
Seeing the prosthetic body modification on the side of her cheek, Alyssa was basically sure that she was from the Free State. The only thing that confused her was why she came here.
She didn't remember seeing this face before.
"Are you here to see Mr. Warfit?"
After thinking about it, only her eldest brother might know people from the Free State.
After all, he was going there soon to take over as president of the Boulder City Bank branch.
There was a blank expression on the girl's face, she shook her head hastily, then she bowed suddenly as if she had come to her senses, then took out a black box from her arms, stuffed it with a few crumpled letters, and stuffed it into her
chest.
"……sorry!"
She yelled this sentence desperately, closing her eyes tightly, ready to be scolded.
not only that--
Her shoulders were shaking slightly, as if she was suppressing sadness.
Alyssa looked at her in astonishment. At first she was still confused about what she was going to do, but she gradually understood the weight of the box in her hand from the ice shards frozen on her eyelashes.
Her fingertips trembled slightly, Alyssa opened one of the letters, and sure enough she saw familiar handwriting...
【Alyssa, my sister...】
[Please forgive your cowardly and incompetent brother for not apologizing to you in person... Although I did think so, by the time you read this letter, I will probably be dead. 】
[It’s not that I haven’t thought about washing away the sins I’ve committed, but the family I most want to apologize to is no longer in this world.]
[If you think about it carefully, the old man who begged me to take responsibility for his daughter may be the last chance given to me by the gods... and my last chance. However, I was stupid and did not realize my stupidity. Not only did I not have any repentance
He also tried to escape from his own sins and set fire to them in a smart move.】
[Since then, I have become a devil. The person who really destroyed the Malvern family was never you, but me who was extremely stupid.]
[Including the collapse of the inner city of Boulder City, it has never been about those kind and brave people like you, but the countless me who have fallen into demons. 】
[I didn’t have the face to face them. I tried to find the answer in the wasteland, but in the end I just lived in a muddle. I didn’t even have the courage to kill myself. 】
[In this way, I confessed my sins and walked in the direction of the ideal city, imagining that if I could get there, it would mean that the gods had forgiven my sins. And if not, it would save me the trouble of doing it myself.
】
[It’s funny, isn’t it? I can’t even get forgiveness from humans, but I’m still dreaming about getting forgiveness from gods. Perhaps my arrogance has brought me punishment from fate. Before I even left Qingquan City, I bumped into a group of people.
Slave traders were sold to the notorious Bugla Free State.]
[If there is such a thing as hell in this world, it should be one of them. I thought that maybe it was fate's punishment for me, so I thought it would be better to just rot there. 】
[And just when I was thinking this, fate played a joke on me again. A beam of light actually shone into the dark hell. A puppet controlled by the devil suddenly broke free from his shackles and said he wanted to take him with him.
Let us resist.]
[That man is the mayor of the Free State. Maybe you have heard his name on the news... But what I want to say is not that guy, and I am not his soldier. What I want to say is the man standing in front of you.
A girl named Lala.]
[We met in a temporary shelter near the war zone. We were civilians involved in the war. At that time, her father was lying on a stretcher with his last breath. He entrusted her to me and begged me to take her away from that place.
A city.]
[I don’t know why he believed in such a bad person like me, and I don’t know where I got the courage to agree to him... But at that moment, I suddenly realized that this might be my only chance, even if it wasn’t
What an earth-shattering event.]
[I want to take her out of that hell, at all costs...]
[I don’t pray for God’s blessing so that I can live to the end. I just hope that the person who handed the letter to you is her, not a refugee home or other charity. Please, this is my last time to pray to God, so that I can achieve nothing.
Can accomplish one thing at the last moment of life.】
[——Your asshole brother who accomplished nothing, the devil of Boulder City, the eternal shame of the Malvern family, Keith]
Alyssa read the letter to the end, and her tears couldn't help but fall on the letter.
Maybe it was because she didn't get the scolding she imagined until the end, but the girl who lowered her head raised her head.
Looking at the heartbroken Alyssa, she was stunned for a moment, then saw where the tears were dripping on the paper, and couldn't help blurting out.
"He's not a bad person!"
She obviously read those letters.
And I've read every one of them.
Looking at Alyssa who raised her head in surprise with tears in the corners of her eyes, the girl quickly averted her eyes and continued in a hoarse voice.
"He told me that he had done a lot of bad things in the past...but the person I saw was not that kind of person..."
Biting her lip, she continued.
"He has worked very hard to survive, and he can obviously survive... all because of saving me..."
She would rather die than herself.
Anyway, she has no family anymore, but he still has so many family members waiting for him to return...
Not caring to wipe away her tears, Alyssa stuffed the box and letter into her pocket, and held the sobbing girl in her arms.
After a long time, when her mood stabilized, Alyssa said in a gentle voice.
"Your name is?"
"...Lala."
"LaLa...thank you."
Thanks?
The girl's eyes widened and she didn't understand why the gentle sister in front of her said this.
Looking at those stunned eyes, Alyssa tried not to rub the sand in her eyes, but just looked at the girl sincerely.
"My brother who accomplished nothing...maybe he did something great. Please take his place and live a good life in the new world."
Looking at that gentle smile, Lala suddenly started sobbing again, burst into tears for a while, threw herself into Alyssa's arms and cried loudly.
All the grievances along the way fell into the snow.
"It's okay..."
Alyssa patted her shoulder comfortingly and whispered softly in her ear.
"You haven't eaten yet? It's so cold outside. Come in and talk... By the way, can you tell me about him? Just treat it as a willful request from his sister. If you have no other place to go, you might as well come in with me
Stay here until winter is over."
"……Thanks."
With tears of gratitude in her eyes, the girl nodded vigorously and timidly followed her into the house.
Living in the steel jungle, she had never seen such a kind person.
Have you actually... arrived in heaven?
I heard that the Wasteland Era had already ended during the Free State Civil War.
She finally somewhat believed it now.
"You're welcome."
Looking at Lala who was still embarrassed, Alyssa smiled and said softly.
"Please be free and just treat this place as your own home."
"If you don't dislike me, I will be your family from now on."