The boy cheered. There is nothing more satisfying than eating.
Lanny untied the bag and took out an ordinary bun from inside. It didn't add any special ingredients, and it was placed on Babylon's floating island. It was a food that noble people dismissed. But on the surface, it is extremely precious food. Because it has no radiation and has a faint wheat fragrance.
Wheat, on the surface, is as legendary as dragons. As far as Lan Ni knows, only the closed agricultural base of the floating island can cultivate this kind of completely pollution-free rice and wheat.
Looking at the child who took the bread from her hand with an almost pious expression, he carefully tore off a small piece of bread and put it in his mouth. He even carefully licked off the oil stains on his fingers. Lan Ni suddenly felt sad. If it weren't for her so-called persistence, would this child be able to live a better life now
However, there is no going back.
After the sadness, there was a thick anger. If it weren't for that man, today would not be what it is today. Thinking of this, Lanny tightly clenched her slender fists.
She drew a dagger from her bosom, which sheathed in a black leather sheath. Lan Ni gently pulled out the dagger. The dagger was single-edged, with a circle of golden patterns on the back of the blade. Its shape is very simple, only a red gemstone is adorned at the end of the handle. The gem is carved into the head of a demon, so this dagger has a very apt name.
Praise to the devil!
a small room.
A bed made of several boards, and a blanket that is patched but clean is all that is in the room. Coming down from the bed, it is directly the door. It is more like a cabin than a room.
Allen was sitting on the bed, leaning against the corner of the bed. The electric lights on the roof cast orange light on the boy's little face. He has an extra dagger in his hand. He just learned from Lan Ni that this dagger is called Devil's Praise. And, about my father.
Father is an unfamiliar term to Allen. From birth to now, he only knew about his mother, but he didn't know even a little information about his father. Lanny never said anything about it, except last year when she got into a fight with the town kids who called Ellen a child without a father. After Allen came back, he asked Lanny, but Lanny didn't give him an answer, but only slapped him a few times on the buttocks.
Later, Allen equated his father with the beating.
But tonight, Lanny was a little out of sorts. Recalling when she handed the dagger to herself, the normally gentle mother suddenly turned her expression twisted, and said loudly: "Alan, this knife was given to me by your father. Now I will give it to you, in the future Use this dagger to stab me hard into your damn father's chest! Can you do it?"
Allen nodded instinctively, but he didn't know why his mother had such an expression.
A five-year-old child still cannot understand that this emotion is called hatred. And many years later, Allen realized that this was not only hatred, but also a love so deep that people could not breathe.
From love to hate!
He fumbled for the leather sheath of his dagger, the best gift he'd ever been given. Allen had long wanted the knife that Uzi wore around his waist, and Uzi said he would give it to him when he was ten years old. But now, he got better baby. Allen swore he had never seen such a beautiful dagger in town. The leather sheath overflowing with soft luster under the light, and the devil gem that refracted the light.
If I have to describe it, I can only use a sentence I just learned: This is so cool!
Allen couldn't help pulling out the dagger, the silver-white blade,
The circle of dark golden patterns on it made the little child's breathing stagnate. Allen could even see his face full of surprise, excitement and other expressions in the smooth blade. He licked his lips, stretched out his small hand and wiped lightly on the dagger.
There was a tinge of coldness in the finger, followed by a slight pain, but a small cut was made on the fingertip by the blade.
so sharp!
Far from being afraid, Allen was very happy. He quickly put away the dagger, and sucked the blood from his fingertips with his mouth, letting the rusty taste melt away in his mouth. Then he got under the blanket and let out a low laugh or two. Soon, he fell asleep.
The boy didn't know that the small blood stain left on the blade suddenly started to swim on its own and continued to seep into the blade. So the dagger in the scabbard returned to its original state, but the devil gem on the handle quietly flashed a faint iridescent light in the darkness of the bed.
Three weeks later, the town ushered in its first winter snow. Silver-white snowflakes slowly fall from the sky, like a gift from heaven to the earth. They whitewash the ugliness, cover up the sins, and decorate the world into a piece of pure white.
The vitality of the world is constantly recovering.
After breakfast, Allen came outside the house. There is already a thin layer of snow on the ground outside the house, covering the black and yellow road surface, leaving a dazzling silver road. Allen raised his head and found that this winter seemed a little different.
Along with the snowflakes falling, there are also some strange fluorescent lights floating between the sky and the earth. Red, green, blue and purple, colorful lights are sandwiched between snowflakes and drifting all over the sky. This was the most beautiful scene Allen had ever seen. He excitedly moved a high chair out of the room, climbed up, and tried to reach out and grab the fluorescent lights.
The fluorescence seemed to be spiritual, even though Allen's little hands scratched in mid-air, none of them fell into the little boy's hands. The boy was not depressed, but had a bright smile on his face. Finally, a fluorescent light fell into Allen's hands. It was icy and cold, and it got into the boy's hand at once, so Allen saw a faint light passing over his palm, forming a loop-like pattern.
Patterns of light flashed away.
"Alan! My God, what are you doing here!"
The mother's voice suddenly sounded, startling little Alan. The boy jumped down quickly, and Lanny carried him into the house angrily: "Didn't Mom say that staying in the snow would make you sick!"
Alan's little face was a little pink from the cold, and he exhaled hot air and said, "Look, I'm fine."
He was so stubborn that Lanny could only give him a blank look. Alan pulled his mother to the door again, pointed to the sky and said, "Mom, what are those?"
"Snow."
"No no, I mean things in the snow. They come in many colors and glow!"
Lanny flicked his big head with her fingers: "Don't talk nonsense, there is nothing shiny."
Allen touched his forehead, looked at his mother curiously, and then looked at the sky outside. Those fluorescent lights were still there, and none of Kelani, or the residents who came and went on the street, seemed to notice that there was something unusual about today's winter snow.
At this time, Allen didn't know what he saw.
That is the source force, the original energy of the universe. Human beings who can see the source of power with the naked eye, there is no one in a million!
Something is waking up.
It has to be said that the world is often repetitive and monotonous. Like life in a small town, almost day after day, year after year.
Three days have passed since the first snow day.
That night, when Alan fell into a drowsy sleep
, feel the forehead cool. As if someone was touching his forehead with cold fingers, he struggled to open his eyes. In the dimly lit room, there was a hazy figure. Allen made a dreamy voice: "Mom?"
The man said "hmm" and didn't speak. The slightly cold fingers danced lightly on the boy's face and body, and the rhythmic movements made Alan fall asleep again as if hypnotized.
The next day, the boy had forgotten what happened last night.
But today, Allen always felt a burst of nervousness for no reason.
At night, this feeling is even stronger. It was so strong that Alan couldn't fall asleep, his heart was pounding, and the amount of adrenaline secreted was more than twice the usual amount, which made Alan's pupils looking out of the window unconsciously dilate a little. In those bright red eyes, the moon tonight is especially round and big. You can even see the majestic mountains on the moon. When the boy was staring at the moon, a sudden explosion sounded from far and near!
The boy was startled, and stood up from the bed in a daze. Then there were rough gunshots and the sound of men cursing, and there were one or two screams from women or children in between.
Lanny almost crashed into the house, she quickly climbed onto the bed and closed the small window next to Allen's bed.
"What's the matter, Mom?"
The mother hugged the child tightly, and forced a smile: "I don't know, maybe a dangerous species broke into the town. It doesn't matter, Uzi and the others will deal with it."
As soon as the words fell, there were several explosions outside, and the sound waves seemed to be much louder than the one just now.
It's not that the dangerous species have never broken into the town, but in the past, the battle would end quickly, and the sound was far outside the town. But tonight, the explosions and gunshots seem to have spread to the town and are pushing towards the center!
That's not a dangerous species! A cold voice said in the boy's heart.
thump thump—
There was a knock on the door like a shower, and the frequency of the knock seemed to knock down the thin iron door.
"Stay here and don't come out, honey."
Lanny jumped out of bed, patted Allen on the head and said. She turned around and got out of the room, opened the door, and there was Uzi outside the door. Uzi was covered in blood, whether it was his own or something else. Lanny only saw a long and narrow wound on his face. The wound was long and deep, and the bones were almost visible!
"Oh my god, you're hurt. Come in quickly, and I'll deal with it for you." Lanny said subconsciously.
But Uzi caught his hand, and the cowboy shook his head and said, "There's no time. Listen to Lanny, I want you to take Allen out of here."
"This..." Lan Ni glanced outside the house, the town was full of flames: "Is it a dangerous species? They..."
"No, Lanny. This time it's not a dangerous species, it's a predator!" Uzi hurriedly said: "Now the men in the town are blocking the entrance of the town, but we won't last long, you have to take advantage of this time to evacuate. Get out of here and go to Gaul or something."
He took two more things from his body: "This is a pistol, do you know how to use it? And this is a grenade, pull out the safety bolt, throw it out, and blow up all the things that are not good to you, okay?"
Putting them into Lanny's hands, Uzi suddenly smiled, as bright as when they first met five years ago. In this night of blood and fire, it was like a sunbeam: "I love you, Lanny."
Lan Ni was shocked all over, and then she gritted her teeth and said, "I know."
He laughed, turned and left the hut without saying anything. That figure rushing towards the entrance of the town has no hesitation!
(end of this chapter)