"Jim and I grew up together in the slums, we were both children without parents, and it was not uncommon for such orphans to be in the slums. Many of them don't reach adulthood. I thought I would die of hunger and cold one winter, but because of Jim, I didn't die and made it through my 16th birthday. Life in the slums is really difficult, Jim has to get up early every day to deliver the morning newspaper to the nobles of the East District, the newspaper will pay Jim twenty copper plates every day as wages, sometimes those nobles will also give Jim a silver coin as a tip, but this situation is rare, and every time Jim gets the money for the tip, the first thing is to go to the South District to buy me some delicious food or new clothes.

He rarely buys himself anything except for necessities. The only time Jim can remember buying himself new clothes was before he decided he wanted to respond to a call in the army. Later, Jim and I had a meal at a restaurant in the South End, and the owner of the restaurant thought that we couldn't afford to pay for the meal and didn't want to greet us at first, but after Jim took out the golden gold coin, the owner didn't dare to snub us.

I didn't know where Jim got the gold coin at first, and Jim didn't say anything, just that it wasn't made by crime. If you don't get it from sin, that's what I thought.

But two days later, he told me that he was going to join the army, and that the gold coin was issued when he joined the army. I felt like my heavens were going to fall, and our relationship had just been confirmed.

"That's a battlefield against scourge creatures, you civilians who don't know anything, do you have a chance to come back after you go to the battlefield!" That's what I told Jim, and all he said was, 'I'll be back, I'm not married to you yet.'" ’

We all knew that this was just an empty promise, and even the most powerful Juggernaut in the city didn't dare to say that he himself would definitely come back alive, let alone Jim, a recruit who had never even held a sword. But I still hope he comes back alive. ”

Maggie hadn't been out for a week, and she had been stockpiling the food she needed for a week. Yang Xiang looked at the so-called food, the cheese that had already stinked, the dried and hard jerky that could be used to fight monsters, a whole piece of black bread, and probably the leftover rotten vegetables sold in the market, Yang Xiang didn't dare to imagine such a life. And Maggie has survived to this day with these things, in order to wait for someone or news.

Maggie has changed from a girl to an old woman, but she is still waiting for Jim's return, because the army has not found Jim's waist card, although the army still gives Jim a verdict that he is dead, but Maggie still does not want to believe this judgment.

"Jim is just missing, he's not dead yet, he'll definitely be back." This is the biggest reason that has kept Maggie alive all these years, even if it is just to see her one last time before parting, she is here waiting for Jim to return. Over the years, many people have pursued Maggie, but Maggie did not promise any of them, her heart has long belonged to Jim alone, whether he lives or dies.

"So, young adventurer, what is the reason why you are here, probably just to listen to me, an old woman, talk about the past that no one cares about?" Maggie's old face was only smiling slightly, her eyes had narrowed into slits, and wrinkles crawled all over her face. She sat in the same chair she usually basks in, the chair that Jim bought for her many years ago with two days' wages.

"I think everyone's past is a very beautiful thing, although some people's past is a tragedy, but when they look back, they will also find those beautiful things in the tragedy that they have forgotten." Yang Xiang was about to begin to explain his intention to come over this time, "I came this time because I was entrusted by Jim. ”

"What!" Maggie got up from the chair and hurriedly walked over to Yang Xiang, but because the pace of walking was too fast, she was about to fall, Yang Xiang hurriedly ran over and helped her before Maggie fell, but Maggie didn't care about this kind of thing at all, and was still urging Yang Xiang to quickly explain the matter, she had waited too long, she had waited for this day for fifty years. Now she couldn't wait for a moment, and after the news, "Adventurer, tell me quickly, where Jim is, why didn't he come back to me, doesn't he know how hard I've waited for him all these years." ”

"Calm down first." Yang Xiang drank loudly, Maggie stopped, and Yang Xiang continued, "Jim, he can't come back, he can't even count as a human anymore." I met Jim, who had turned into a monster, in the Badlands of War, but he seemed to be a little conscious, and after handing me something like this, he fell into a frenzy again and fled. ”

Yang Xiang took out the 'Jim's Gift', and Jim's Gift was a plain-looking small box with no packaging. Yang Xiang handed it to Maggie, and Maggie didn't open the box immediately after taking it. Yang Xiang saw that her hands holding the small box were trembling, and she didn't dare to open the box for a long time.

"Open it, it was originally what he wanted to give to you personally, but now that he has become like that, don't let down his last kindness." Although Yang Xiang is not in a hurry, he doesn't have much time to spend here, if Maggie really stands here all day and is still struggling with whether to open it, then Yang Xiang doesn't need to upgrade.

"Okay." Moved by Yang Xiang, Maggie finally made up her mind to open the box, "This, isn't this the necklace I used to look at in that jewelry store in the Southern District for a long time." ”

The box contained a necklace strung together with very small pearls, which was not very beautiful, but it was just a luxury for a pair of teenagers and girls living in the slums to buy a necklace that could not even be worth a gold coin. The girl could only watch from the window day after day.

Now the necklace that she had been looking forward to for a long time was finally in her hand, but Maggie was really not happy at all now, and the necklace was held tightly in her hand. The necklace was long-awaited, but the person she was most looking forward to returning to her was never going to come back.

Yang Xiang is about to leave here, the system has already prompted that the task has been completed, and then as long as he returns to the war and evil land to find the obsessive humanoid again, he can get the task reward.

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