07 - Born in calamity
Fein Elaine still doesn't know who his parents really are, what they look like, he doesn't even have the most basic impressions, and he even feels that he doesn't have parents at all. He was adopted as a child by a jackal named Nigel. Although they lived in a relatively secluded town called Deer Valley, the second divided war that took place at that time brought a big shadow to the orc world, so their lives were not stable, but at least they were not displaced by the war and even lost their lives like the residents of the front line.
"These days, there will always be people who have fled to this town." That morning, Nigel said as he copied the copy. He was assigned by the town's security administration to deal with the refugees who had entered Deer Valley, so he rarely stayed at home these days, but fortunately there were no refugees entering today, and the resettlement of the previous refugees had been completed, so he had time to stay at home with little Fine.
"Uncle Nigel, are there any refugees entering Deer Valley these days?" Finen asked. He was standing in a chair, wiping a dusty and cracked window with a rag.
"No, I guess I fled somewhere else." Nigel said, "It's a very remote part of Deer Valley, and I don't even know how those people found out about it. β
"Maybe they got here by mistake?"
"That's what you said."
"By the way, Uncle Nigel, are you really a doctor?" Finen asked curiously.
"Of course!" Nigel laughed and said, "I was a medic in the army for a while, and I even got the Medal of Honor!" Besides, didn't I cure all your major and minor illnesses for you? He said, pointing to a somewhat dim red hexagonal medallion on the wall.
"Wow, Uncle Nigel is amazing!" Fein shouted. He looked at the medallion and suddenly shifted his gaze to a blurry photograph next to the medal β a photo of Nigel in a military uniform with a female German shepherd dog who was also wearing it, and that Nigel was much younger than he was now.
"Uncle Nigel...... Do you have a lover too? Fiin asked.
"What?" Nigel put down his pen and walked over to Fine, he took the picture down, and a slight smile appeared on his face, "That's it...... Her name is Teresa, it's my wife, we met in the army, we were both working in the same medical unit at the time, I was in charge of going to the front to bring back the soldiers, and she was waiting in the field hospital...... Her appearance at that time, even if her face was covered in gunsmoke, was still extremely beautiful! β
"And where is she now?"
This sentence pierced Nigel's heart, his smile immediately sank, he slowly sat back in his chair, then took a deep breath, and whispered: "In the two years that Teresa and I have been married, I have been persuading her to have a child as soon as possible, but she always refuses. But I also understand that war waits for no one, and we all have to fight desperately to save the wounded from the battlefield, just as tired as the soldiers who fight with guns on the front line. β
"One day...... I can't forget that it was on February 17, when I was on the front line about to send back a soldier whose left leg had been shattered by a grenade, when the enemy artillery suddenly began to fire, but the shells landed not on me, but on the makeshift position where Teresa was......" Nigel's eyes were filled with tears, but he tried his best not to let himself cry, "I quickly ran back with the wounded, not only for his life, but also to see if my wife was okay." When I reached the ruins of the base camp, I saw the bodies of Teresa and several other doctors crushed under the military tent, her eyes open, her pupils already wide, and her hands still holding the scissors for surgery. β
Nigel wiped away the tears that remained, and continued: "Later, I suffered from depression because of this incident, and the army sent me home after the war, but I lost my wife, and I was the only one in the family, so I could only hold on until the shadow in my heart dissipated, and then after more than ten years, it became what you see now." β
"But there is an emotion born of depression that I have never given up until now." Nigel said, "I hate war, I hate what it brings. No one in the army wants to fight, so I don't want to fight the enemy anymore, because in that way, I will also kill the father of countless children with my own hands. β
"So, Fine...... "If you want to join the army like me in the future, then you must know that the purpose of your arms is not to participate in the war, but to end it, so that the authorities will not die in vain, and the innocent will not die with resentment!" β
"Uncle Nigel...... I know! Fein nodded.
Fine and Nigel lived for nearly two more months, until the war reached Deer Valley, and now, the remote town was no longer remote, and the precious tranquility of the town had been shattered by the war.
One night, Fiin didn't sleep until midnight, to be precise, the sound of artillery woke him up. He knew there was no way to sleep well tonight, so he looked out the window at the flickering fire, and went downstairs.
"Uncle Nigel." Finn called out to Nigel, who was planking the windows of the house.
"Fine, are you awake?" Nigel asked.
"No, I didn't sleep." Fein hugged Nigel and said, "Uncle Nigel, I'm so scared!" β
"Don't be afraid, it's all over." Nigel touched Fein's head and said.
The cannonballs exploded on the ground, and the floor beneath his feet shook like a demon's groan. It's useless to hide here all the time, but if you run out defenseless like this, then your life is absolute.
"Are we going to die?" Fein was about to burst into tears.
"Don't talk about that, it'll be fine." Nigel comforted again.
"Bang bangβ" There was a loud bang on the door, and after a few seconds, a bullet came in through the window and hit Nigel in the chest. Nigel fell to the ground.
"Uncle Nigel!" Fein shouted.
Nigel spat out a mouthful of blood and struggled to get up from the ground, but immediately fell down again, and said to Finn: "Fine, the enemy is coming, run!" He removed the bookcase again, and a secret tunnel appeared in front of him.
"Get in!"
Blood began to flow from the bullet holes in Nigel's body. He opened the secret door and looked at Fein with a mixture of despair and pleading.
"Uncle Nigel!" As soon as Fiin ran over, Uncle Nigel kicked him in the stomach, and Fiin fell into the tunnel, and Nigel pulled the bookcase up with his last strength, but before the bookcase could completely cover the passage, the door was opened.
"Good luck......" Nigel whispered. The soldiers rushed over and fired several shots at Nigel. Blood flowed through the gap under the bookcase to Finn's feet.
"Uncle Nigel!" Finen slapped the cabinet hard, but there was no movement outside. He eventually gave up shouting. At this time, he suddenly noticed a blood-stained pistol on the ground.
"It's ...... Uncle Nigel left me? He picked up the pistol, put it in his pocket and then turned and walked deeper into the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a manhole cover, through which the light of the fire leaked through, and a rusty ladder stretched from above to the foot. With difficulty, he climbed the ladder, removed the manhole cover, and came outside.
Everything around him had long been engulfed in flames, and Fiin didn't know where to go, so he could only run aimlessly on the road. Suddenly, he was spotted by several enemy soldiers.
"There's a kid there, grab him!" Knowing that they were talking about himself, Fiin began to run as fast as he could, but he could not escape the round-up of several soldiers, and he had barely run fifty meters before he was caught by the enemy.
"Let go of me!" Fein struggled hard.
"Hehehe, little thing, we won't hurt you!" The soldier said. Fiin didn't listen, but struggled hard, and after a while, he ran out of strength.
"Hey, you guys!" A car suddenly stopped next to them, and a submachine gun was stretched out from the car, and the soldiers were unable to dodge, and they were all killed at once. Finen collapsed in the pile of corpsesβhe didn't have the strength to get up again.
"Little one, are you alright?" A female cheetah got out of the car, and he tapped Fiin on the throat with his hand, and then carried Fiin into the car. Shortly after the car started, the air conditioner finally brought Fiin to his senses.
"Oh, little one, are you awake?" The female cheetah in the passenger seat turned her head and asked.
"Is he alright?" Finen saw another male cheetah in the driver's seat.
"No, it's just that I don't have the strength anymore." The female cheetah said, "It was really dangerous. β
"It's a blessing that he survived." Said the male cheetah.
"Who are you?" Finen asked.
"My name is Kane Leopardis, and the co-pilot is my wife, Turando, and we're from the Emergency Response Committee."
"Ah, Uncle Kane, thank you for saving me!" Fein Road.
"Just call me Kane." He said, "No thanks. β
"We need to get them to the resettlement site as soon as possible." Turando said.
"I know."
"We?" Fein looked to the side, and on the other side of the seat, there was a white wolf sleeping.
"Who is he?" Fein whispered, reaching out to the white wolf. At this time, the wolf suddenly opened his eyes, and Fiin was startled and quickly withdrew his hand.
"Whewβwho are you?" The wolf asked.
"And who are you?"
"Okay two, don't make a fuss about it yet." Kane said, "You're going to camp, and you two might be going to live together for a while." β
"What? Living together? The wolf pointed at Fiin and said in surprise, "I don't want to live in a tent with this herbivore orc!" β
"What do you mean?" Fine said angrily, "Hmph, who rarely lives with a wolf like you? β
"Shhhhh "I know you two don't know each other very well yet, but you have to know that in war, whether it's a soldier or a civilian, people who don't 'adapt' don't live well in war," she said. β
Finen slowly opened his eyes, and there was only the azure of the tent in front of him, and he sat up, only to find that the white wolf was gone.
"Where did the stupid wolf go?" Finen grumbled and walked out of the tent. As soon as he turned around, he found that the wolf had already put a pistol to his head.
"Hey, gazelle, good morning!" The wolf said with a wicked grin.
"Ahh Frightened, Finen fell back into the tent, and the wolf followed.
"Woo-don't hurt me." Fein froze on the ground and didn't move, "Yes...... I'm sorry, I won't say that about you next time. β
"What's your name?"
"I ......"
"Speak quickly!" The wolf brought the pistol closer.
"I ...... My name is Fein Elaina. β
"You're so good." After the wolf finished speaking, he smiled and threw the pistol to Fine.
"Hey, you're ......"
"See for yourself if there's any bullets in the gun." After hearing this, Finen immediately withdrew from the magazine, and it turned out that the gun did not say bullets, and even the magazine was not loaded.
"You're such a liar! ...... Just like me was two years ago. The wolf said, and threw the full magazine to Fine.
"Hmph, only a soldier will not be moved when he sees a gun." "Well, it's annoying to live with this wolf," said Finn disdainfully. β
"You just said your name is Fein Elaina. So how old are you? The wolf asked.
"Six, what's wrong?"
The wolf scratched his head and said, "My name is Imagawa Shiyu, and I am eight years old this year. He held out his hand and said, "Can we make friends?" β
"Friends?" "You were pointing a gun at me!" β
"Eh, it's just a joke, so why do you care?"
"Okay, okay, I agree." Finen put his hand on it. Not long after the two shook hands, Shi Yu suddenly turned around and coughed non-stop, and Fei Yin quickly crawled over to take a look, and found that there were a few drops of blood on the ground in front of Shi Yu.
"Shiyu, what's wrong with you?" He asked.
"Ahem - I fell down the stairs yesterday while I was running away, and now I seem to be ...... Internal injuries. β
"Where are you hurt?" Finen asked. Shi Yu gently lifted his clothes, and a piece of purple-red blood appeared on his stomach.
"Is this it?" Fein said, poking the bruise lightly with his hand.
"Whew! Finn, what are you doing? Shi Yu shouted.
"It looks like it's hurting quite badly."
"Then you still need to say?!"
"I'll help you to the infirmary first." As soon as Finen finished speaking, Kane pushed open the tent door with a small bag of food.
"What's going on here?" Kane asked.
"He's hurt." Fein pointed to Shi Yu and said.
"Where's the injury?" Kane asked. Shi Yu showed the bruises on his stomach.
"It doesn't look like a small injury." Kane looked out of the tent and said, "Fine, you help me take him to the infirmary." β
That night, a heavy rain came unexpectedly. Fiin listened to the rain falling on the tent and couldn't sleep.
"Fein, Fein!" Shi Yu, who was sleeping in another quilt, gently kicked Fine.
"What?"
"Where's your mom and dad?"
"I don't have mom or ...... father," said Fiynne, "I don't even know what they look like, I should have been an outcast, but fortunately an Uncle Jackal named Nigel adopted me, but he's no longer there." β
"I don't have any parents either, I only have one sister named Riko, she lives with me in an orphanage, but one day, the orphanage was bombed by the enemy, many children died, and I was separated from my sister, and she has not been heard from yet, just like the world has evaporated."
"Maybe she's ......"
"Impossible!" Shi Yu took out a crystal necklace, which sparkled in the searchlight that shone into the tent from time to time, "I bought this crystal necklace for my sister, two years ago, I was cheated out of almost half of my money by a businessman in order to buy my sister a birthday present...... After the orphanage was bombed, the remains of the children in the same room as me were found, but her body was not found, and this spotless necklace was left at the scene, which must have been deliberately left by Riko after the bombing! She must not be dead, definitely! β
"Speaking of Fine, we're all here now, so what can we do in the future?" Shi Yu asked again.
"We?" Finen thought about it carefully, and he suddenly remembered what Nigel had said, and said firmly, "I'm going to end this war!" β
"End the war?"
Uncle Nigel said...... I don't know what that means. β
"Okay, we don't want to do so much, let's go to bed quickly!" After Shi Yu finished speaking, he immediately covered his head with the quilt.
After the war ended, Finen and Shi Yu followed Kane to Seaplus County, where Kane arranged a nice place for them to live and solved the problem of their schooling. So they settled there until eight years later, the "Axe Stone Project" swept through the orc world. They understood that they could no longer run away from it as they had done before β they were going to end the war.
"Our orc world has ushered in the first real civil war." Shi Yu put a few guns on the table, and then carried a set of heavy body armor and a steel shield.
"How much did you spend on these things?" Finen asked.
"These are second-hand goods, almost half the price of direct sales, and I just hope that this body armor will not leak." Shi Yu handed the body armor to Fine, "Can you wear this?" β
Finen took the body armor, which was as heavy as a large piece of limestone, and he sent it back, saying, "You should wear it, if I wear it, plus this steel shield, I will probably be tired to death after walking a few steps." β
"But with just our two aspiring young people, it seems that we can't confront the great enemy." "We need more people to form our tactical squad. β
"Can't the Resistance?" Finen asked.
"The rebels want to touch the frontal battlefield, and we'd better not touch that kind of place now." Shi Yu said, "Besides, they are adults, how can they fit into our group?" β
"Do you want to be an 'aspiring youth' like us?" Finn brought a newspaper and said, "Looks like these two should be to your liking." β
"What?" Shi Yu leaned in to take a look. In the middle of the newspaper there was a surveillance video of a dragon and a cheetah.
"I've heard they've fought with the right." Finen said, "Well, the two of them are not your match?" β
"Interesting...... Where was this filmed? β
"Moran County, about thirty kilometers from here." "But it was declared an emergency area two days ago." β
"But it's worth looking for." Shi Yu stood up and said.
"And what if you can't find it?"
"When did the news come about?"
Finen looked at the top left corner of the newspaper and said, "Yesterday." β
"Well......" Shi Yu nodded and said, "They probably haven't left home yet, if we set off now, maybe we will really get something." β
"Okay, we can go and ask."
"It's time to get the wheels moving...... I don't know if I can still drive" Shi Yu packed up his things and came to the garage with Fine, and what appeared in front of them was an armored personnel carrier covered in dust.