Chapter 372: Tim's Diary
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There were also some shabby miscellaneous items and some hard black bread piled up in the corner of the room, and a ladder perched against the wall facing the iron door at the top of the room indicated that the small room was a basement.
"Squeak~"
Several short figures in the basement looked at the iron door that was opening with some horror, accompanied by the light of the magic crystal lamp in their hands and the calm and familiar dwarf language, several short figures breathed a sigh of relief.
"Tim, you're back~"
"Daddy~"
A few familiar voices warmed Tim's heart as he closed the iron door in the basement, and after he came down from the ladder, the soft light of the magic crystal lamp also illuminated the previous few short figures.
Two women and a man, one older and two younger, they are Tim's wife, daughter and son, Tim's inner sustenance.
"Luckily, I found some cleaner water and some cereal, which meant we had one more food choice. ā
As he unloaded the basket covered with a black cloth on his back, Tim smiled at his children, eliciting a slight cheer from the two little ones.
"If you two gluttonous cats want to quench your cravings, I will allow each of you to taste the taste of cereal at this time, and if the hot water is not enough, tell me, and I will boil two pots of hot water on it later......"
"Thank you, Dad!"
Looking at the two children who ran to get the bowl together, Tim calmly suffered a wave of complaints from his wife.
"Don't always get used to them, we don't know when this terrible nightmare will end, we don't have much food, it's too dangerous out there right now......"
While listening to his wife's chatter, Tim enjoyed the warmth of the family very much, and when his wife finished speaking, Tim hugged his wife into his arms and let her cry silently on his shoulder.
"This damn war!"
It was late at night, the moon was as bright as ever, and when the water boiled, Tim quickly put the hot water into the thermos and returned to the basement with a dry tool.
Tim, who was trying to close the iron door of the basement quietly, was unable to make the door close silently, and when he walked down the stairs, he saw his wife looking at him with open eyes, and his two children were not awakened from their sleep by the sound.
"You go to sleep first, I still have to write something, you know, I always feel like I'm not ...... if I don't write something every day"
He lowered his voice and said to his wife, and when he saw his wife nod and get back into the covers, Tim took a few things to the only small table in the basement.
A notebook made of yellowish paper, quill pens, ink, and a satisfied glance at the things in his hand, Tim began to carefully clean up some of the items on the table.
The light of the magic crystal lamp was turned to the minimum, so as not to affect the wife and children who were sleeping, opened the notebook, and looked at the notepad that had written more than a dozen pages, Tim couldn't help but let out a sigh.
After thinking about it, Tim wrote a string of dwarven words on the cover of the notepad, which any literate dwarf could read clearly.
"This damn war!"
The quill pen began to dance on the paper, and Tim's mind gradually entered a state of focus......
"On the 3rd of July, from what I observed when I went out in the evening in search of water, the weather was exceptionally good, and in such weather I might have taken my two dear darlings to listen to the bard's tales after dinner. ā
"The two little ones loved to hear these stories, but the bards only told them in the streets when the weather was nice......"
"This is the thirteenth day since the beginning of this nightmare of war, and to be honest, I didn't have any intuitive impression of war before, and the defense of Fort Clarion was just too perfect......"
"Since its establishment, the Horn Castle has never been afraid of any enemy attack on the Horn Fortress, so I have published a few critical articles about the defeat of the Horn Fortress army in recent years, which have received a good response. ā
"It's just that at this time, my unceremonious criticism at the beginning seemed so ridiculous......"
"Fort Clarion's so-called perfect defense has been broken, yes, humans, but the most ridiculous and sad thing for us is that we have not seen a human army until now. ā
"Just those demons who flew in the sky and rained down explosions and flames have completely shattered the dignity of Hornkee, and the price behind this dignity is the ruins of Hornfort and the corpses of dwarves everywhere. ā
After a slight pause, Tim thought about the combination of sentences in his mind again, and after thinking for a while, picked up the quill again.
"I didn't tell them what happened to me today when I was out looking for water, they didn't deserve it, they just waited for the war in peace......
"Food, water, crystals, clothing...... These materials, which were everywhere half a month ago, are so rare in the Horn Fort under the ruins now......"
"And so, the 'war' began, this time from within Hornfort with the lucky dwarves who survived the attacks of the demons in the air, and in the land outside the basement, every resource represented blood. ā
"The children didn't know that the jar of water I brought back for them was stained with the blood of another dwarf, and I had to bear it alone. ā
"But I don't know how long I can last, I was just a scholar before, I didn't have a strong body, and I didn't have extraordinary martial arts, this time I was able to successfully get supplies, so ......"
"What about next time?"
As the night wore on, Tim put his notepad in a box for his miscellaneous items, turned off the magic lamp, and slept next to his son in his coat.
Five days later, Tim found that he was running out of food and walked out of the basement again, but this time, the three dwarves in the basement did not wait for Tim's return.
In their uneasiness, they hid in the basement and heard a noise outside three days after Tim left, and after listening closely, the three dwarves were in a state of confusion.
"Ron, the former lord of Fort Horn, the executive officer, the treasurer, and the commander of the military...... Having been declared responsible for the war, after they committed suicide to apologize, the beautiful Diana announced that she would take over as the lord of Fort Clarifle......"
"The war is over, please follow the command of Princess Diana and rebuild our beautiful Horn Fort!"
A month later, the boy who was carrying the miscellaneous items in the basement found his father's notepad, and the three dwarves who were watching together wept as they read the last sentence of the eighth day of July.
"I hereby plead with the gods, who live in the unknown, to let this war end as soon as possible, whether it is Lord Ron or the other Princess Diana. ā
"I just want my wife, my children to have a happy future ......" (To be continued. )