Slums are scattered on all sides of the Cerberus Dome, guarding the man-made domed fortress. The Wall of Sighs on the outskirts of Cerberus still bears the scars of the war with the Empire many years ago, but this does not affect its solemnity, but makes the descendants of the Empire who are attached to the victorious side sigh and submit even more, because even those weapons that can leave such huge marks on the Wall of Sighs have not been able to break through this glorious barrier, and now the poor people of the Empire who have fallen to the defeated side can only honestly act as a prostrate and repentant humility at the bottom of the pyramid.

But there are people everywhere who insist on humanitarianism, and even the descendants of the empire who committed the unforgivable crime in the first place are still willing to give them alms without asking for anything in return.

Today is the 19th day of the seventh month of the 103rd year of the Anno calendar, and it is also the third weekend of the month, and those who have come to the Stevens have opened the passage under the Wall of Sighs as usual, and sent relief supplies to the slums at any cost.

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"Master, the military council has reached a consensus, they agree to our proposal, and are willing to support us in the final voting stage of the council!" The old butler put down the coffee and said respectfully.

Standing in front of the window, there was no fluctuation in the cold eyes of Risti Steven Langke, who looked at the convoy slowly driving into the slum in the distance, and asked, "What about their conditions?" ”

"Thirty million of Sain's regular armaments, they mean, they don't want to arrange this funeral at their own expense!"

"Huh...... Funeral ......" Ranke savored the word, a smile welled up on his lips, but he couldn't see joy, and only a cold handsome face could be faintly seen in the mirror of the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Give them 50 million, let's just say that the extra 20 million Sain is used by the Lusteven family to comfort the soldiers on the front line! It's also a gift for Lucis~~"

"Understood, sir!" The old butler left the house, and Ranke still stood in front of the window, his eyes showing a little pity, but as soon as he thought of what the beasts had done, the one hundred and seventy-nine year old patriarch had no room for sympathy.

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"Brother!" The crisp sound cuts through the noise.

Lin Sen, who was walking indifferently in the crowd, stopped, he quietly put the thing in his hand behind him, and his unchanged expression changed to a smile.

When he turned around, a girl had already thrown herself into his arms.

"Brother! Look what I've got! Python Antelope Legs!! The girl did not shy away from the bloody relief in her hand, although it was very fresh, but when it was covered with dust, it looked a little ......

Lin Sen's eyes lit up when he saw this fresh meat, and he hadn't eaten fresh meat for a long time, because he had to make money, so Lin Sen didn't have time to fight for those relief products.

Wiped the tears from his sister's cheeks spoiledly, Lin Sen's heart was sour, obviously with Lin Xue's petite figure of a seven-year-old girl, she must have suffered a lot to grab such a thing.

Lin Xue held her brother's neck with one hand, her face was full of joy, and Lin Sen also took out the money bag and smiled: "Then we can go buy some vegetables and buy a cake for our little princess!" Have a good birthday! ”

After being reminded, Lin Xue remembered that today was her birthday, and she was even more excited.

Lin Sen took the dead python antelope leg that his sister was holding, hugged her and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

And the figures in the distance, who were still coveting the food in the little girl's hands, had to leave stupidly, because they knew that it was not good to provoke Lin Sen.

The night was getting darker, but it was still noisy in the slums, not because the poor people had enough energy to toss, but because the convoy of relief had not yet left.

Lin Sen gently patted his sleeping sister on the shoulder, and walked home with his things.

It was a simple nest hidden at the foot of the mountain, and there were some dusty vegetables in the yard made of wire, and the lights of the house were on, and as soon as Lin Sen arrived, the front door opened, and a woman in a wheelchair greeted her.

Seeing this woman who was about the same age as Lin Sen, dressed in white, but covered with half of the black veil on her head, Lin Sen shouted: "Sister! I am back! ”

Lin Yan didn't speak, only opened her mouth and gestured a few times, very careful not to wake up Lin Xue.

The way of communication between the sister and brother is clear, and Lin Sen knows that she has prepared the bath water for herself and made coffee.

Putting his sister in the room, seeing that this posture would not be able to enjoy this fresh delicacy tonight, Lin Sen opened the basement, where there was a "refrigerator" he had built himself.

After a simple dinner, looking at the lights still swaying in the distance of the night, Lin Yan, who was holding the kitten, bathed in the moonlight and hummed softly.

Lin Sen walked over and put his hands on her shoulders naturally, soothing her stiff body.

"Enough money! In another month, Lin Xue will be able to replace DNA! Lin Sen said softly.

Lin Yan nodded, she knew that Lin Sen's purpose of fighting so hard was only one, that is, to give the remaining members of this family a chance to rebirth, that is, to get rid of the shackles of being a descendant of the empire and become a legal citizen of the coalition government, so that there was no need to struggle on the edge of life and death like this, to beg, to seek alms.

"When she replaces her DNA, another year's work will be enough for you to enter the Cerberus Dome as well, and then we won't have to work so hard!"

Lin Yan didn't say anything when she heard this, she knew her situation, how could a waste who was almost immobile from her body let Lin Sen risk her life to work again, so she secretly made up her mind that after a year, it was time for her to leave.

However, she wouldn't say it now, because she knew her younger brother very well, so she smiled and took Lin Sen's hand and said, "You don't have to be so anxious, maybe one day that kind person can directly open the door and let us go in with our current identity?" ”

Lin Sen smiled, of course he knew that his sister was just joking.

"Hey, I don't need them to be so kind, I'm already very satisfied if we can eat meat!"

Lin Yan touched her brother's calloused hands, remembering the little boy who was still playing the piano on the stage more than ten years ago, but she couldn't understand it now...... The siblings watched the night grow thicker and entered the house, and the noise outside did not stop for a long time.

The next morning, when Lin Xue got up, Lin Sen had already taken advantage of the night to go to the place where she worked, and there was a gift next to her pillow that was not so beautifully packaged.

Lin Xue opened it with anticipation, and there was a well-made violin and a few tattered sheet music, but these were enough to make the little girl happy for a long time.

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Bringing simple tools and tying the cable on the minecart around his waist, Lin Sen unscrewed the miner's lamp and took a deep breath, and walked towards the depths of the dark mine again.

Lin Sen, the squad leader, lost a worker whose name is not yet known under the garrison wall yesterday, but there is no shortage of workers at the construction site, because many people will squat outside the mine even if they have no work to do, expecting a position.

I just "left" one yesterday, and today I added one.

The newcomer was a young and strong young man, and when he first met Lin Sen, he was very reserved, so much so that he only remembered one of the three rules that Lin Sen had given him, "don't talk nonsense", but ignored the other two words "no leaving the team" and "no private ore".

And Lin Sen will not repeat it a second time, as soon as the east and west are handed over, a team of more than 20 people will start to go to the mine.

After a two-hour march, the sweaty group finally arrived at the mining site. It is a private mineral deposit close to the abyss underground, located at a depth of about two hundred meters underground. From the outside, it looks like it's beneath a barren hill. There is only a faint wind in the dry mines, which is not suffocating enough, but enough to torture your heart and lungs.

The ore that Lin Sen mined was a strange blue stone, hard in texture, but encased in a viscous sac, so it was called mining, but it looked more like a group of people collecting fruit from the mountain, and this ore was the core.

In the work of the machine, only one mercenary in shifts is responsible for safety, and Lin Sen still kept his silence during the work, but unlike the other workers, they still laughed at each other from time to time even when it was hot.

For example, the joke they most often say is to compare this sac to each other's oocysts, and then laugh and scold each other, and pinch it hard.

Of course, in the process of pinching and exploding, it is inevitable that a liquid will fall into the mouth, although this liquid is not toxic, but it has a strange hallucinogenic effect, and Lin Sen has inadvertently tasted a little.

Although it was only a little, the smell was unforgettable, at first it was a fishy taste with an indescribable bitterness, but after a while, it began to please your tongue again, it became cool and sweet, and everything in front of you was no longer muddy, but the sound in your ears began to be distant.

And the most lethal thing is that if the amount of intake reaches the amount of a finger, the person in the eye will distort and change color, and become a ball, which feels like Lin Sen has not experienced it, but has heard of it.

In the dark depths of two hundred meters underground, Lin Sen didn't think that letting himself fall into hallucinations would bring any good luck, so he always wore a heavy mask to work, although it was hotter, but it completely avoided the ingestion of this mucus.

After half a day's work, it was time for lunch, Lin Sen had already filled a cart of ore and left on time.

The others also began to leave one after another, only the young man who had just arrived was still hurriedly throwing the liquid sacs on the ground that had not had time to break into the car one by one.

Seeing this scene, the lazy mercenary sneered: "Hey, new here! It's only a few stones for you to go out with a cart like this, and you don't want a cigarette butt with a liquid sac like this! Don't blame me for not reminding you when the time comes! ”

After that, the mercenary did not linger any longer, and he would not wait with a fool in the dark depths of the underground, so he took up his gun and followed the others.

The young man wanted to keep it, but he couldn't open his mouth, he anxiously moved out the liquid sacs in the minecart one by one, and he was the only one working in the lonely underground depths by this secluded abyss, although there was enough light to give him courage, but as the distant sound gradually faded away, the young man became afraid.

He scrambled to break the liquid sac and load the ore into the truck, while looking around uneasily.

In the dim light, all the shadows were as eerie as demons, and the little thing, which seemed to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, was almost crumbling.

And the current situation can better reflect how important the "not allowed to leave the team" in the guidelines that Lin Sen has explained.

However, there were few liquid sacs left at his feet, and although he still wanted to continue collecting some to fill the empty minecarts, he didn't have the courage or strength anymore.

And still looking around, he didn't notice that one of the sacs he was grabbing in his hand seemed to be a little different from the others.

This sac has been pressed underneath, although the sac has not burst, but the ore inside has been shattered, just when this little poor little careless squeeze hard, a cry of pain came.

The sharp edge of the ore cracked and easily ripped open his palm, and the blood mixed in the liquid, and then the liquid that had been like a dead thing began to drill into his palm, and before the poor creature could react, all the liquid was gone.

Stunned to watch the palm that had turned into a dark blue slowly grow into a piece of scale armor, this poor worm finally collapsed!!

"Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!h