In the middle of the avenue leading from the royal capital to the City of God's Advent and the seaside port, there is a city called Cross City.
This is an important commercial road in Hinsai, and all convoys traveling from south to north must pass through here.
The two city gates were open, and there was an endless stream of people coming in and out. The ruts stretched for dozens of miles.
As a result, street shops in the city have become very popular, and the prosperity brought by business roads can be seen from this.
In addition to all kinds of food, clothing, housing and transportation, one of the busier ones is the trailer repair shop.
As the most important tool for caravan transportation, it is often damaged.
That’s how trailer repair shops came into being.
At the entrance of the store with rickety signs, there are rows of trailers of various sizes parked.
People passing by were not surprised when they saw a person under the trailer, but instead shouted familiarly.
“Vivien.”
“I’m still so busy today!”
A young woman was lying under the trailer holding a tool and answered without even sticking her head out.
"yes!"
“Two more caravans came today, and it must be repaired before tomorrow afternoon.”
What she wore was not the gorgeous burqa favored by city dwellers, but a coarsely woven garment popular among the lower class commoners, consisting of only an upper body and shorts.
It’s not gorgeous and soft, but it’s very wear-resistant.
It is used to prevent gravel from entering the gaps in the bone armor, but it is very useful to protect fragile joints.
Of course, it is also used to keep out the cold.
Because the apprentices of the Temple of Truth have graduated one after another, some of these apprentices cannot enter the nine temples, so they return to their hometowns to build various ritual workshops, among which the weaving workshop is the most popular.
This has caused the price of coarse weaving to continue to drop, and some civilians have begun to buy it.
The trailer was not repaired yet, when suddenly a man ran over panting and shouted to Vivien.
“Go home quickly!”
“Just now, something happened to your sister.”
Vivien suddenly poked her head out from under the car and stared at the visitor for a while.
Then he immediately put down his tools and ran towards home.
The owner of the shop also chased out at this time and shouted at Vivien's back.
"Be careful."
“Come back and tell me if you have anything.”
When Vivien returned home, she saw her neighbors standing in front of her house, and everyone sighed.
She became even more nervous.
She rushed into the room and saw her sister lying on the bed.
His whole body was covered in blood.
Vivien's eyes were blank, and she looked at the neighbors around her.
“What’s wrong with my sister?”
This city has a history of hundreds of years. Many old buildings can be traced back to the middle period of the Silen Dynasty of the Star Luo Kingdom. From time to time, you can see some old walls collapsing or rubble falling from high places.
Wen's sister was hit by a collapsing rock while playing.
She approached the bed cautiously and looked at her sister lying on the bed.
She held back her tears and wanted to reach out and hug her sister, but she was afraid of hurting her.
“Don’t be afraid, my sister is here.”
“Sister is here.”
The younger sister was so seriously injured, but she smiled and took out the candy given to her by the neighbor: "Sister, it's so sweet."
Vivien smiled along with her sister, but she couldn't really smile.
"Uh-huh!"
“Hmm~”
“You eat alone, and my sister won’t take it from you.”
She nodded, then picked up her sister and went to find a nearby doctor.
When people on the road saw her, they immediately gave way.
The doctor lives in an alley where dragons and snakes are mixed. There are people queuing at the door and chatting at the same time.
“Have you heard? The Witch Doctor’s House.”
“I know, I know, even if a person is about to die, a witch doctor can bring him back to life with just one breath.”
“Even if your hands and feet are broken, they can make you grow them back.”
“Is it true or false? So powerful?”
Vivien was not in the mood to listen to their chat, so she rushed inside with her sister in her arms.
“Physician!”
“Where’s the doctor?”
“Hurry...save my sister quickly.”
The doctor asked Vivien to put her sister on the bed, looked at her briefly and then shook her head.
“The internal organs have been injured and there is no way to save it.”
Hinsey's doctors can treat external injuries, but if the internal organs are damaged, it depends entirely on fate.
But looking at sister Vivien’s condition, it’s hard to get through it on her own.
Vivien held the doctor's hand hard: "Please..."
The doctor was really helpless, so he stretched out his hand to interrupt Vivien's words.
“In her condition, no one in Cross City can save her. It is estimated that only the legendary witch doctor’s house can save her.”
Vivien heard about the witch doctor’s house for the first time: “Do you know where the witch doctor’s house is?”
The doctor only heard from other doctors: "The witch doctor appeared in the north of Cross City recently, but he has already left."
“They came all the way from the north, probably to go to the city where the gods descended.”
“Of course, it could also be the direction to Anhuo City.”
This doctor is still a bit practical. He checked the sister's injury again, then cleaned the wound and bandaged it.
"She should be able to survive for a few days. You have to find a witch doctor within five or six days to be able to save her."
Vivien thanked the doctor and left with her sister.
She asked around about the place where the Witch Doctor's House last appeared, and plotted all the places where the Witch Doctor's House had appeared on a map. She left Cross City that day and pursued the direction and road where the Witch Doctor's House might go.
Up.
She dragged a small trailer and left the city gate with her sister.
The scorching rays of the sun outside were shining down, coupled with the bumps caused by the uneven road.
The weak sister shouted softly.
"elder sister."
"So sad."
In order to make her sister feel more comfortable, she pulled a small shed on the trailer to block the sun, and put all the quilts in the house on it to prevent her sister from feeling the bumps.
Looks like a mini cabin dragged behind.
“Eat sweets.”
“It won’t feel bad if you eat sweets.”
My sister is still young and has no concept of death. She is not afraid of anything when she sips a candy bar.
"Uh-huh!"
“So sweet!”——
Above the wilderness, a young female clover was dragging a heavy trailer.
At every village and town she passed along the way, she would ask about the witch doctor's house, or whether there was heavy fog or strange houses around.
one day.
Two days.
The fifth day.
She still hasn’t found the Witch Doctor’s House, and even no one nearby has heard of the Witch Doctor’s House.
She began to wonder if she was looking in the wrong direction.
just started.
My sister was still able to talk to her, but she started coughing up blood from the third day on.
Since this morning, my sister has fallen directly into a high fever and coma.
As night fell, Vivien stood on the bare road.
She was like a drunken drunkard, spinning around in circles and looking in every direction around her.
Whether she was walking forward or backward, there was only confusion on her face.
"elder sister!"
"I feel terrible."
Looking at my sister's face in the moonlight, she opened her mouth with tears.
“Hmm~”
“Sister, I know you feel uncomfortable, so just go to sleep!”
“Go to sleep! It won’t feel uncomfortable when you fall asleep.”
She touched her sister's hand and sang a lullaby.
“La la la la!”
“La la la la la!”
She has tried her best, but there is nothing she can do. She can only watch her sister die.
The sun sets, and the lights of the city are faintly visible in the distance.
But I can’t feel the slightest warmth.
While singing, Vivien suddenly knelt on the ground weakly.
She lowered her head and let out a loud shout.
“O God!”
“If you really exist, please give me guidance!”
She raised her head helplessly with her face in her hands, and saw an obvious black shadow flying in front of the moon, which was emitting faint moonlight.
It was an empty boat.
As she watched this scene, some memories in her memory seemed to be touched.
"That is!"
“Why is this scene so familiar?”
She immediately got up and rummaged for something in her box.
In the tool box, there is an old monocular telescope.
Vivien has almost forgotten where it came from?
It seems that someone gave it to her when she was playing at the Holy Lake when she was little.
She immediately picked up the monocular and looked over, and saw what exactly was flying under the moon.
Colorful hot air balloon with an ellipsoid-shaped cabin embedded underneath.
“Sturdy teng, dreamy three-story hut.”
Although it is not the same as the one that appeared in the mist in the legend, such a special building is extremely rare in the entire Xiinsai.
It is clear.
This should be the witch doctor's house she is looking for.
She was so excited that she dragged her sister to the trailer and headed towards the airship flying over the moon, shouting loudly.
"Wait for me."
“Wait for us.”
She dragged her sister with a trailer and chased her in the direction of the airship.
She ran like flying at the beginning, but then she abandoned her trailer, hugged her sister and chased ahead.
And the airship on the horizon flew farther and farther, and its shadow gradually became invisible.
She hugged her sister and fell to the ground exhausted.
"Wow!"
Vivien cried, she cried like a child.
She felt like a fool chasing the stars in fairy tales. No matter how hard she chased, she could not get close. In the end, she could only lose everything and fall into the wilderness.
at this time.
A cloud of mist and starlight suddenly descended on the earth.
After the fog passed, Vivien and her sister were gone.