south of the city
A delicate girl in a white dress was madly digging fiercely with her fingers on the dirt floor. The ground was so hard that her hands were already covered in blood, but she didn't show any intention of stopping.
The pit in front of him was more than ten centimeters deep and half a meter wide, and there was blood-stained soil everywhere on the side.
There are few people here, and some people who came to visit the grave just looked at the girl from a distance, and then left on their own. Not one or two people went crazy because of the death of their relatives, and this is not the first time they have seen such behavior.
The people who went to the grave came and went, and came again. The sky was always dark and cloudy, and the snow was getting bigger and bigger. The ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow. The girl was stiff with cold, and her hands were already a little purple. The wounds caused by the digging were full of chilblains. Even though she practiced martial arts frequently and was in good health, even though she was wearing special thermal underwear, she hadn't rested for a long time and hadn't eaten, which caused her physical strength to decline even more.
The nail was broken, and the girl had no regrets at all, and was still digging underground quickly.
It's a pity that the soil is very hard, and there are some harder stones mixed in it. Some of the broken stones were embedded in her bloody mouth, and the pain made the girl sweat on her forehead.
"Tesna! What are you doing here! Come back with me!" A tall and strong man stood by the side at some point, staring at the girl and snapped.
"This is a test." Testa glanced at the man, "Brother, go back, it's cold here."
"Can you give up on yourself like this without consciousness? Test! Whose test will make you dig your hands full of blood here!? Go! Come back with me!" The man strode closer, grabbed Tesna, and the powerful The combination of strength and consciousness immediately made Tesna somewhat unable to resist.
"Let go of me!!" She began to resist.
"If you dig any further, your hand will be useless!" The man was very angry. "You are an ordinary person who can't cultivate consciousness! If someone hadn't teased you, do you really think someone can change your aptitude?!"
"This is my decision! Let go!" the girl shouted. She bit the man's arm hard.
"Are you courting death, aren't you!?" The man threw her away violently, and when he saw that his arm was bleeding from the bite, he became even angrier. "If Dad didn't ask me to take care of you before he died, you think I would really care about you!"
"I said, don't worry about it." Tesna fell down on the snow, her face was turning purple, she didn't know whether it was from anger or cold.
She and the man in front of her are not biological siblings, she is a re-formed family with the other's mother along with her father. There is no blood relationship. When her father was still there, although she had no qualifications, she lived a good life. Now that her father has passed away, the family property has been taken up by this brother's mother, and she has become more and more indifferent to her.
Only this elder brother, although he talks fiercely, actually keeps taking care of her intentionally or unintentionally. He talks about letting you die, but he keeps caring about her.
But now this elder brother is about to get married and form his own family, and she is gradually growing up, so there is no reason for him to let him take care of her anymore.
She has to be independent and go her own way.
"You go back, I am responsible for my own business." Tesna said loudly.
The elder brother entangled here for a long time, but in the end he couldn't pull her back, so he finally went home angrily. Before leaving, I still couldn't help leaving behind a pair of thick leather gloves and a shovel.
It's a pity that Tesna turned a blind eye and continued to dig the soil with her bare hands.
It's not the first time she has done such a thing. Someone has lied to her before, but every time she does it very seriously, and she almost has accidents many times later, but she always has a fluke mentality. One day I will meet the truth, if I do meet it, but I give up at that time, then the previous efforts will be completely in vain
In the distance, Garen quietly hid in mid-air, quietly watching Tesna's continuous digging. Seeing that she really didn't wear gloves at all, didn't use a shovel, just digging frantically like her fingers were almost useless, even he couldn't help but feel a little moved.
After all, he only said a word, and the other party executed it so thoroughly. Such disciples and subordinates are not something that can be encountered casually.
"Observe for a while before talking."
The two dug one by one, watched by the other, and the time passed slowly.
Tesna's brother came to visit a few more times, each time with growing concern.
Apart from him, no one in the family came here to care. Tesna was already more and more marginalized in the whole family. Now the reason why she did such a stupid thing was found out, and the reason was actually to be a teacher. ? A so-called master of martial arts that I met by chance said something casually, asking her to do this, but I didn't expect this guy to believe it.
The ladies in the family all laughed at her for being stupid, and believed that anyone she met was a master? Even if it is a master, how strong can a person who practices martial arts be so strong? Can it be better than a pilot? Of course not.
Doing this for the purpose of learning martial arts is no longer a foolish word.
But this is not the only stupid thing Tesna has done, and everyone is used to it. The core of the family is the member Dossain who has reached the third level of consciousness and is about to get married. Everyone is busy planning an elegant and luxurious wedding. As for an ordinary person like Tesna who has no qualifications, she has long been marginalized in the family. Her father is incompetent, and her mother doesn't recognize her at all. If it weren't for an older brother to take care of her, the family would have already cut off her monthly payment.
The next day, Garen came slowly from a distance and stood beside Tesna watching, watching her dig, and the blood was dripping from her digging. Tesna looked at him and dug harder.
The two watched and the other dug, but neither spoke.
At noon, the dark clouds lightened slightly, and a ray of sunlight cast down from the middle of the clouds.
A group of beautifully dressed girls came from a distance, surrounded by these bodyguards. Looking at Garen standing and Tesna digging from a distance, pointing and laughing at the show.
They obviously came to see Qiqi for fun.
"Is that the fighter who asked her to dig the soil? She looks good. It's a pity that she is crazy."
"Crazy meets crazy, isn't that a good thing? The two teach peerless fighting skills, which happens to be the most frequently written plot in those novels. I guess Tesna must have read too many novels."
"The fingers are almost useless, but Tesna's perseverance is good." Some people also hold affirmative opinions.
"Perseverance? Does a neurotic have perseverance!? I suspect that guy has no pain nerves, right? I feel pain when I look at it. How could she endure it for so long? I used to practice martial arts like crazy, and my body almost fell apart. It's useless, if her brother didn't find out, she would have died somewhere in the corner."
A group of people chatted and laughed, watched for a while, and then sized up Gallon. They didn't feel the power of consciousness in him at all, so they were completely sure that this guy was a liar, but he still dared to stand and watch , that is likely to be a liar with a brain problem.
People always have a herd mentality. Seeing people watching here, new people soon join in and watch the movement here.
But once the novelty wore off and the weather was cold, everyone soon became bored and left one after another.
At this time, Tesna's finger bones were completely dead from the cold, she couldn't feel the pain anymore, and she kept digging down.
"enough."
Finally, Garen spoke.
"This pit is enough." He said lightly.
"Enough?" Tesna froze for a moment, then stopped slowly, looking at the blood-stained dirt pit and her completely necrotic hands. Amputation maybe
The thought came to her mind. does it worth? For martial arts.
The answer has never been firmer. worth!
Because this is the only way she can strengthen herself. Is the only hope, how can those qualified people understand her pain.
"Now, jump in and bury yourself in it."
Garen's next words made her eyes widen.
"Of course, you passed the first test. Here's the second. Remember to leave your head."
Tesna looked at Garen, and then at the pit. She didn't expect that the second test would be to bury herself alive.
Garen didn't have any expression on his face, he just looked at her plainly.
"I don't want to? Then it's just that I didn't say it."
"No."
Tesna jumped into the pit at once, and began to scrape the surrounding soil into her own pit with her hands.
After a while, coupled with the continuous falling snow, she soon buried herself so that only her arms were exposed outside. With her hands stretched into the pit, she stopped moving, letting the heavy snow gradually submerge her.
Soon someone in the family discovered the new change, and people who came to watch the two came again.
Discovering a new trick, these people immediately began to watch the fun again. Pointing and pointing in the distance, like watching a monkey show in a circus, talking and laughing, while eating the small snacks that came with it.
Tesna was hungry and thirsty, her whole body was turning purple with cold, her blood had become viscous to a large extent, her eyes were blurry, and she was exhausted. She just instinctively bit the snow around her mouth, but because the temperature in her mouth was too high, Low, it takes a long time for the snow to melt.
She felt that she might be dying.
But Garen looked at her expressionlessly from the side.
"What if he's really just lying to me?" The thought couldn't be suppressed in Tas's heart.
"You can choose to give up at any time." Garen's voice came faintly.
Tesna opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She remained silent. Even if she gave up now and went back, she would be seriously ill, and it was unknown whether she would survive.
It's all come to this point.
"Will he die?" The ladies onlookers in the distance kept laughing. In this age, in the age of war, one or two dead people don't attract any attention at all.
The war has made it difficult to maintain even the basic social order in the Heipan area, and everyone can only rely on their own strength.
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(end of this chapter)