Chapter 18: The Daughter

"Help! No! ”

In the rioting city, all kinds of atrocities can be found here, women who have been raped and killed, civilians who have been tortured to death, shops that have been smashed and looted, shops and even banks that have been looted.

There is no public transport, no water and electricity, no police administration, no bazaars and markets. There is no such thing as a civilized human society.

This was the fourth day of the full-scale escalation of the riots.

The once beautiful and rich eastern city, because of its proximity to the north, was fortunate enough to escape the rebellion of Ishbal, and Leol finally failed to escape the clutches of the androids and the greedy army.

The whole city is gradually turning into a dead land without people in the midst of atrocities and killings......

"Although I have seen this kind of formation in Sebei for a long time, there are some similar ...... on the side of Ishbal"

As if he were taking a walk, Estes sighed as he walked into a commercial street that had long been looted and destroyed by the rioters and turned into ruins

"But sure enough, this spontaneous internal riot did much more damage to the city than outsiders led it."

Broken glass creaked under boots, and all the shop windows on both sides of the street were smashed by the mob, and the contents were looted.

And that's not even counting the fact that quite a few of them are still burning.

From time to time, you can find severed human limbs and women who have been raped, raped, raped, and finally tortured to death.

Ranging from forty-something to teens.

Most of the deaths were tragic, and it was obvious that they had been tortured very cruelly before they died.

Some of the murdered males were nailed to the wall and painted with religious schemas that Estes did not understand.

I don't know what that means.

"It seems that most of the people in this street were treated as infidels, because the men were unable to stop the large number of thugs because they resisted separately, and all of them were executed......"

Walking through the shopping street, I looked at the butcher shop on the side, which was full of human flesh and human limbs that had been dismembered and shredded and hung neatly in the store like pork.

Densely stuffed with the entire butcher shop.

"Woo~~"

Walking around the corner behind the butcher's shop, Estes heard a little girl crying in the alley......

"Are there any children alive?"

Following the direction from which the child's cry came, Estes walked down the alley...... [[[CP|W:889|H:505|A:L]]]“…… Father...... Mommy ......"

For a day, Rosa hid in the stinking garbage can for a whole day, until the loud and terrible uncle's voice outside disappeared and she crawled out. Cold and hungry.

She misses Mom and Dad, she misses them. For the whole day, Rosa waited for her father and mother to return.

Yesterday, a large group of fierce uncles with knives in their hands suddenly came to their house, and they rushed into their house to grab things without saying anything, and my father went to stop them...... Mom took her home and put her in the trash can and disappeared......

A whole day...... Rosa waited in the trash can for a whole day, and the whole day passed, and Mom and Dad still didn't come back.

She wanted to find her mom and dad, so she climbed out of the trash can, but when she climbed out of the trash can and out of the alley...... She had no idea where she was anymore.

The pretty flower shops are gone, the beautiful shopping streets are gone, the street stalls and vendors are gone, and the pedestrians and customers who are shuttling back and forth are gone.

The whole street was burning, and the ground was sprinkled with shards of glass and blood.

The whole world, the whole city seemed to have changed, Rosa was scared, she didn't dare to run out of the alley or even run home, she was terrified.

recalled the last words before my mother left, and recalled my mother's voice......

"Rosa, stay here and don't come out! Wait for Mommy to come back! ”

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"Mom's ......"

The sun was about to set, the temperature was beginning to drop, and Rosa, who was only wrapped in a sackcloth coat, huddled in a corner, lonely, frightened, hungry and cold.

"Mom...... Father...... Where are you...... Rosa misses you so much...... Rosa misses you...... Come back...... Woo woo woo ~ ~~ "

At this time, footsteps came from the mouth of the alley

"Mom?!"

With expectant eyes, he looked up at the entrance of the alley

An older sister who is much taller than her mother, has longer hair than her mother, and has bigger breasts than her mother.

'Not Mommy......'

Seeing that the person who came was not her mother, Rosa curled up again, using this method to resist the evening cold.

"Why are you staying here?"

Looking at the little girl curled up in the corner wrapped in a tattered linen robe that was almost dirty, Estes walked up to her

"There is no one on this street anymore."

There are no living people

"But...... But ......"

Hearing her big sister's words, Rosa became very confused

"Mom told me to wait for her here...... That's what Mom said......"

Rosa was too young to know what to do when something like this happened

"Mom said to wait here for her to come back...... She'll come back to pick up Rosa...... She said...... Mom...... Whining...... Mommy ......"

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"Mom...... Aisha was wrong......"

In that harsh winter when the snow covered the mountain, before being rescued by the master, the days of hunger and cold......

Over and over...... Estes collapsed in the snow and was about to fall asleep.

I used to call that name that...... It is a name that represents love and warmth......

Mom

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"But you didn't come back...... Mom...... Mom didn't come back......"

A helpless little girl, in a dark corner, huddled in a cold corner, in front of a murderous general. Tears were shed......

"Mom...... Where are you...... Where......"

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Mom...... Mom......

On that night when the fever didn't go away...... On that day when I was sickest in my life......

Estes, who had a fever and was about to burn out, still vaguely remembered that he was in that snowy cave...... Names that have been shouted......

Mom

On that day of returning to the motherland, he greedily sucked on the envelope that his mother wrote to him, and he had a hint of mother's flavor...... Mother's daughter...... Aisha ......

The name that my heart has called......

Mom

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Why do you think of that? ’

Looking at the little girl in front of him who had lost her parents forever, looking at her crying bitterly, Estes's eyes suddenly flashed with her childhood self, flashed little Wen Li, flashed the gentle and strong smile of Wen Li's mother, and flashed her mother.

'What is it and what is it?' Messy stuff. ’

Leaning down and looking at the little girl who kept wiping her tears with dirty emaciation, Estes hesitated......

'Do you take her with you?' ’

"Mom...... Don't want me...... Sister? Mom doesn't want Rosa anymore? ”

Innocent eyes, without a trace of filth, simple children's questions.

I don't know how many children who make their mothers angry or can't find their mothers have asked this question,

Rosa asked Estes

"Nope."

But this question also stimulated a certain nerve in Estes's heart.

"Your mom just can't come."

Very unfamiliarly, Estes took the little girl in his arms, recalled how he imagined his mother when he was in the most pain, and pulled the little girl into his arms stiffly.

"Little girl, what's your name?"

"Rosa."

"Rosa, are you hungry?"

In Estes's warm embrace, the little girl nodded weakly.

"Then follow me~, I'll take you to find something to eat."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the alley

"Keep up, don't get lost."