"It's a story from a long time ago, so long ago that it seems to have happened in another world. [with _ dream]ā"

"But when I turned around, I realized that it had only been ten years."

"I said that I am a member of the Shi clan's trial plan."

"But at that time, I was far from being the best one among them, and the candidates for the plan were selected from the Shi family's lineage, but the most outstanding talents and the children with the most valued bloodline were excluded, and most of the children who were finally selected were children who were not valued in the clan, but had excellent bloodline talents."

"My sister and I are one of them."

"However, I was selected because of my sister."

"Her qualifications are excellent, she can learn magic and martial arts at a glance, as if God is blessing her, so as her younger brother, I have always been mediocre in my performance to be selected into the plan."

"At the beginning, no one knew what the plan was about, but I only vaguely remembered that when my parents saw us off, we told us to listen to the instructor when we got there, and the family would receive a large subsidy from the clan because of us, so don't be unbearable and so on."

"However, when we got to the trial grounds, we were told that there were no instructors, only caretakers."

"Because, the venue of the trial is in Icewind Dale."

"We were given improvised housing, groups of five were divided into four groups, and when we asked about the training, the caretakers told us with a look of pity."

"It's enough to live."

"On normal days, the guards do not interfere with any of our actions, they only care about one thing, and that is not allowed to escape."

"And every other month, they'd have us gather at the Ice Gorge, where we'd get food and charcoal, and a change of clothes per head."

"They will give us some simple cultivation methods, choose magic or martial arts according to our needs, but how much we can learn can only depend on our own understanding."

"And just like that, the first year passed uneventfully."

"It was a difficult year, but it wasn't embarrassing, we had enough food, water, charcoal for heating and cooking, and even though we were only six or seven years old, we would die if we didn't do it, so it wasn't a difficult thing to do."

"Of course, there are deaths, and in the first month there were children who fell asleep while tending to the campfire, and as a result, the melting snow water extinguished the bonfire, and the next day when they were found, all five of them were frozen to death there."

"The cold is the worst enemy, but there are many enemies besides the cold."

"None of us have been home since the first year, and whenever we ask this question, the caretakers always answer with one sentence."

"When you're mature."

"As we get used to the weather in Icewind Valley, the so-called trials are long overdue."

"Our food is starting to be cut."

"I couldn't reason with those adults, so the days when I could survive on the food distribution were gone."

"We can't do anything about those powerful magical beasts, but there are still many weak animals in Icewind Dale, snow rabbits, ice-toothed rats, and many other weak and tame animals, we make simple traps, or make a simple plan to drive the beasts to the predetermined location, and then use the magic of wind and water to kill them."

"It's like human beings living in the wilderness, we are raised in this way, just to live and live."

"So we still lived, but in the process, more or less people in each group died accidentally, and by the winter of the fifth year, only nine of the twenty children who came were still alive in the end."

"Happy, or sad, I'm one of the nine."

"I relied on my sister to survive."

"She was the best of the twenty children from the beginning, and as time went on, her magic progress was also the fastest of all, she took me to get food, and she took me to sneak up on those lone beasts, as long as she followed, it meant that there was food, as long as she followed her, it meant that she would not die."

"In my eyes when I was a child, my sister was such a symbol."

"But at this time, the biggest crisis has come."

"They started to reduce the supply of charcoal to us."

"At the end of the day, at that time, we were just a group of animals in captivity, and even if we could adapt to live, once the owner stopped putting food, we would still die in mourning."

"In Icewind Dale, fuel is the most important thing."

"The villages in Icewind Dale rely on geothermal hot springs that can feed hundreds of villagers with very little fuel, but for those of us who live in the canyons, we need enough charcoal to provide heat every night."

"We were forced to combine the remaining two groups and use charcoal resources carefully, but even so, the charcoal reserves were decreasing day by day."

"At this time, the caretakers told us a message."

"All resources can be exchanged."

"With Warcraft, hedrons, and medicinal herbs."

"We can no longer live just to live, instead we are desperate to live to live."

"Team up to hunt powerful magical beasts, scatter in search of valuable medicinal herbs, grope in abandoned mines, try to find some neglected spars, and then send them to the caretaker in exchange for the resources you need."

"In such a snowfield, individuals cannot survive, and only by snuggling together can they keep warm."

"But that means danger."

"Only this time, it's me who is leaving."

"It was a hunt for snow wolves, snow wolves are the most common magical beasts in Icewind Dale, but they like to act in groups, so it's a rare thing to be able to find a lone snow wolf, everything went according to plan, we used a trap to hurt its front paws, and then forced it into a corner, with my sister's acquiescence, I was responsible for giving it the final blow."

"But in the end, I backed down."

"I didn't kill it with a single blow, the dying snow wolf was pressed against my chest, I don't know how many ribs were broken, but I remember that my chest was completely dented at that time."

"It's not dead, but it's worse than death."

"At my sister's insistence, I was pulled to the base on an improvised sled, instead of being abandoned in place, or simply given mercy."

"That precious snow wolf was not exchanged for charcoal and food, but for my sister to exchange for precious medicine to treat my useless brother."

"But I just survived, that's all, collapsed in bed like a dog, and couldn't even get up."

"So, the contradictions that had accumulated in the team finally broke out."

"I wasted precious resources for my brother, and in the end I only saved one waste person, and in the following days, this waste person will continue to live, waste more food, but it is not even worth standing up to get a piece of supplies."

"I don't know what happened that night, but the next day, my sister took me away alone in a sled, leaving the base where I had lived for six years and heading out into the middle of nowhere."