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24. New Year's gift

"Mom, I'm so hungry..."

The cowardly voice sounded amid the bursts of breathing.

The woman huddled in the corner was awakened by her daughter, struggled to get up, her face covered with long weed-like hair, and struggled to hold her daughter in her arms.

Rustling, rustling...

The woman untied her clothes, turned slightly sideways, put her body into the shadow, quickly lowered her head and bit her finger.

There was a faint sound of sucking.

"Why does the milk become salty?"

The daughter's puzzled words sounded in between the words.

"To help you grow up faster," the woman said, stroking the child's rough hair.

The breathing sounds around him gradually became clearer, and other citizens who were spending time sleeping and being hungry gradually woke up.

Then they heard faint shouts outside the iron fence of the "house".

The shouts gradually became clearer, just like the tide approaching here.

The oil lamp illuminated the bewildered faces, and the shouts made them uneasy, reminding them of the rumored plague and strange invasion... But they gradually heard that those shouts were not of pain and fear, but of excited cheers, just like Mateu

Mayor Si came personally.

The uneasiness of the huddled "houses" turned to curiosity. They crawled in the hay and approached the guardrail, squeezing the flesh on their faces to peek at the sound of cheers.

They soon heard the familiar crisp and chaotic sound of boots hidden beneath the cheers,

Soldiers wearing forbidden magic armor refined in Midnight City appeared on the corridor, dragging two huge wooden barrels half as tall as a man.

Skinny arms stretched out of the cage one after another, spread out, waiting.

The soldiers each grabbed two pieces of food from the barrel and put them into the palms closest to him.

The owner of the palm couldn't wait to retract it, and then was stunned by the food: a piece of bread as big as a palm, and a piece of boiled meat as big as a fist.

"Captain, this is..." a citizen asked with expectation and nervousness.

"The Mayor and Your Excellency Lu Li brought this, feel free to eat it." A steel-cold voice came from under the helmet. A soldier opened the iron door at this moment and continued: "Because of the New Year, you can move around before night comes.

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After handing the last two pieces of food to the woman and the little girl, the soldier captain glanced at the faces where the numbness had faded and was replaced by ecstasy, and walked to the next room.

"Eat quickly... Let's go outside when we're full..." The woman hid a piece of food tremblingly and broke open the remaining bread and meat, not caring about the blood oozing from the pale wound on her index finger staining the food.



"We are treated like prisoners!"

"The plague from the north is spreading here!"

"The wall-digging vibration is getting closer again! It may be here soon, or it may be next door!"

"No one cares about us, no one cares about us, we have to rely on ourselves if we want to survive!"

"We are animals kept in captivity by noble officials in the center of the refuge area. They have warm beds, lights that never go out, delicious food and clean water!"

Bang!

His fist hit the wall and his skin broke.

At this moment, they heard footsteps coming from the corridor behind the closed iron door, becoming increasingly clear.

"Soldiers are coming to arrest us"

click

The iron door was suddenly opened, and the light from the corridor entered the room, causing the exclamation to stop abruptly.

The soldier captain glanced at the citizens who were clenching their fists nervously, and distributed the bread and pieces of meat casually: "This is the New Year's food brought by the mayor and His Excellency Lu Li."

There are also unlocked doors.

"Return to your rooms before nightfall."

When the soldier captain left, the citizens holding food were still staring at the open iron door in a daze.

"Maybe Mr. Lu Li won't leave us alone..." someone said.

Michael's fists were bleeding and he gritted his teeth and said, "They let us out... Let's go out and see with our own eyes!"



Mitra groped in the dim shadows to block the last rock.

The biting cold wind and the sound of the waves from the harsh winter are blocked out.

With the sound of chaotic footsteps, Mitra rushed back to the bright and warm bonfire.

The cave flickers in and out of light due to the swaying flames of the campfire.

"Be careful! Mitra." Others in the cave screamed.

Mitra said nothing, and moved closer to the campfire, stretching out her hands to let her body warm up as quickly as possible.

The weather was frighteningly cold, and he heard a thin crackling sound from the sea breeze. It was the sound of frozen ice being pushed ashore by the sea water. Maybe after today, the ice-free port of Vina will become the port of Vina.

"How many more days do we have to wait here?" Potter looked at the edge of the bonfire, curled up and covering the silhouette of all of their clothes. "Gail has been suffering from a low fever, and he will die here if he continues like this."

"That's why we took him out of there." The middle-aged man said.

Porter continued to chatter: "Does the Land of Light really exist? Maybe it's just a hoax. Andrea is a monster that eats people without blinking an eye. Everyone who boarded the ship was eaten by her..."

"Shut up! That's Sir Lu Li's mount."

"But we didn't see Mr. Lu Li, maybe he has been..."

"Who is it!"

The middle-aged man looked warily into the darkness outside the bonfire.

An outline slowly emerged, and the others were frightened and the middle-aged man recognized this outline: "Businessman...?"

"Andrea is about to return, this is your New Year's gift." The businessman put down the piece of meat.

"Your Excellency Lu Li gave it to..." Everyone around the campfire looked at the food and swallowed their saliva.

"yes."

The businessman retreated into the misty darkness.

"Wait a minute!" Mitra suddenly shouted: "Someone of us is sick, can you bring medicine!"

"15 shillings."

Mitra and her companions looked at each other and suddenly said: "We who are going to the Land of Light will soon become His Excellency Lu Li's subjects... Mr. Lu Li also brought a New Year gift, didn't he? Can you... give it to us on credit first, etc.

We will return it to him when we reach the land of light..."

The merchant didn't answer and disappeared again. It soon appeared, bringing the medicine they needed and a few eyeballs.



Thump thump thump thump

A staggering figure rushed into the cabin.

"I saw it! I saw it!"

His roar attracted the passengers in the cabin to appear.

"I saw... light..."

He fell to the ground, his voice getting weaker and weaker, and he lost his breath with satisfaction and longing.

Lumbu, who touched his neck, said in a deep voice: "He is dead..."

The passengers dispersed in fear. Lumbu thought of what he said before he died and looked at the cabin leading to the deck: "I'll go take a look..."

With everyone watching, he stepped onto the steps, and when he was almost on the deck, he suddenly stiffened.

"The land of light... really exists... we... we are here!"

Amid murmurs of disbelief, the excited passengers crowded onto the deck in confusion. In the cold darkness, they saw colors beyond the darkness in the distance.

Buzz

Andrea's whistle echoed over the dark sea.

In the distance on the dark sea, a holy and beautiful golden beam of light shines from the clouds, falling into the light of the lost old Belfast.

People immersed themselves in the sunshine, feeling nostalgia and curiosity falling on their bodies, dispelling the unknown warm light...

Ten minutes later, Andrea docked.

The people who are about to become citizens of the Land of Light are like pilgrims, stepping onto the road that stretches like stairs to the top of Sugard Mountain.


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