Some time ago.

Viscounty of Avak, Teal City.

In the residential area of Azure City, the large collective apartment built by Viscount Avak has a total of three floors, which can live in 60 families, and more than 200 people live here.

Most of them are young people from rural areas who have come to work in factories here, and there are also families who have not yet saved enough money to buy a house.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Although the toilet and laundry are a bit troublesome in the collective apartment, it is acceptable after adaptation, and the folk customs of the Viscount of Avak are quite simple, and there are many people who are willing to help the neighbors, and some elderly people will even help take care of the children of young people who work outside the home.

It is different from Nanling, which is still in the pioneering period. Located in the inner part of the Great Rear Western Plain, which has long been developed by the Empire for an unknown amount of time, life in the Avak region is quite tranquil.

Although there are no opportunities to make a lot of money, there is basically no problem with food and clothing, there will always be job opportunities, and there will always be enough food to eat.

Viscount Avak himself occasionally took care of his lords, such as designing cheap and durable collective apartments—after all, he knew that he could only rule more easily if they made people's lives comfortable.

In addition, the people of the Terra Continent do not have so many means to obtain information, and they are not ambitious and desired, so they are quite happy and happy when they occasionally drink wine and eat meat during the holidays.

Usually, the family lives a small life plainly, bragging and chatting with friends, and pulling family routines, but it can't be said that they are unhappy.

Aunt Lydia is a well-known warm-hearted person in the apartment, and she always cooks more meals for the young people who are tired from coming home from work every day, lest they hurt their bodies because they are too tired to cook and eat well.

In addition, if something happens to any family, she will definitely help Zhang Luo, and she can always help really well.

Lydia lost her parents to a mining accident when she was young, and it was the kind people in the apartment who helped her find a job and sustain her to this day.

Now that the days are getting more and more prosperous, according to her words, you have to do something, otherwise you will not be sure.

All the residents in the whole apartment have basically been helped by Aunt Lydia, and her family lives in the apartment, renting three apartments, with her son and daughter by her side, although she has long had the money to buy a separate house to live in, but because she can't let go of the 'unreassuring guys' in the apartment, she still lives here.

And recently, there are only two things that worry my aunt the most.

One thing is a mother and son who live on the second floor, the mother married a short-lived ghost from other places when she was young, and the child's father died of illness when the child was one or two years old, and she worked hard to raise the child alone.

But now that the child has grown up, it was supposed to be the time to enjoy the happiness, but the other party wanted to go out wholeheartedly.

Although he certainly didn't have this idea himself, according to his son's words, he was going to the Grand Duke's side to fight for wealth and bring his mother to enjoy happiness in the future - but the fact is that he would leave his old mother alone in his hometown, alone.

It's not that my mother didn't agree.

The trouble was that my mother said yes too easily.

Although she also wants to stay with her son, she can't bear to refuse the child's wishes...... What's more, as a mother, who doesn't have an unrealistic 'trust' and 'expectation' in their children, believing that they can succeed without any reason?

But how many young people has Aunt Lydia seen over the years who want to go out and wander?

Terra is a hellish place, go out and wander, and five out of ten can come back, thanks to Huaiguang's protection!

She had seen too many mothers and fathers watching their children leave town and then waiting, never waiting for their children to return.

From longing to worry, from worry to uneasiness, from anxiety to fear, from fear to confusion.

In the end, it turned from being at a loss to 'despairing' when he heard the word missing.

"Ruixi is still too soft-hearted...... She's been working so hard for so many years, I don't want her to finally hear the news of Miles' disappearance and break down directly......"

Aunt Lydia, who is also a mother and even a grandmother, is of course not optimistic about her son's idea.

But she didn't want to deny a young man's wishes and dreams so simply, not to mention that because Ruixi was usually too good to Miles, her son didn't understand that the idea of going out rashly like him was not only quite dangerous to herself, but also quite selfish.

So lately, she has been thinking about how to quietly remind Miles of his mother's hard work, as well as the coughing and dizziness that have become more frequent lately......

As for the second thing, that's actually it.

Recently, a strange plague has gradually appeared in the Azure City, and the sick will experience dizziness, symptoms of Venus in front of their eyes, and gradually become prone to losing concentration.

Many people have contracted the disease, and many have speculated that the epidemic virus spread by spies in the Flying Flame Lands caused a small panic, but when the messenger of the Grand Duke distributed it to everyone with a special medicine, the epidemic was eliminated.

Aunt Lydia thought at first that the epidemic was over, but just a few days ago, a similar condition reappeared, and many people, including Ruixi, were mainly frail, and almost all the elderly were even more seriously ill.

It is precisely because of this that Miles, who originally planned to leave in July and August, has been staying in Azure City to take care of his mother, and has a vague idea of staying, which is why Aunt Lydia wants to persuade again.

For young people, you can only follow their words, otherwise, as soon as the rebellious mentality comes up, you want him to stay, but he must leave.

It's only when they themselves have vague thoughts that they can only be useful.

"It's an opportunity."

With this in mind, the eldest aunt felt that this epidemic came at the right time, but she had never worried about the way the epidemic could not be solved - the group of deflated people in the Flying Flame Land would also use this method, whether it was the Grand Duke or the Empire, it must be very simple to develop a special medicine.

It's like last time, and within a few days, the alchemist of the Grand Duke sent the special potion over.

But Aunt Lydia never thought about one thing.

Neither the Grand Duke, nor the Flying Flame Land, nor even the Empire and the Gnostic, did not expect an accident to happen.

and the tragedy that will happen to them next.

With worries about Ruixi and the Miles family, Aunt Lydia finished buying today's ingredients and was ready to go home, the tall and spacious three-story apartment could already be faintly seen, and she couldn't help but be a little happy: "Let's make some radish stew today, make some noodles, and make some bread at night......"

No matter what, the days will always pass day after day, and this is the daily routine of most ordinary people on the continent of Terra - tangled in the shortcomings of their parents, thinking about today's and tomorrow's dinner.

But suddenly, Aunt Lydia sensed that something was wrong.

- It's too quiet.

Streets around the usual apartment area...... Is it so quiet?

Other than that, the extra noise over the apartment, it seems that someone is arguing? It seems that there is still a fight, how can it be, everyone is a very kind person......

With this suspicion, Aunt Lydia slowed down, and at this moment, she vaguely saw a man covered in blood stumbling out of the apartment with an old man holding an old man and a little girl in his arms.

At first, she didn't see it clearly, but soon, the aunt was shocked to find that the man was her son, and the unconscious old man he was holding was her husband, and the son's arms were also her favorite little granddaughter Cynthia.

With a snap, Aunt Lydia put down the rattan basket containing the ingredients in her hand and wanted to meet it, and the man also saw his mother's figure, showing a mixed expression of surprise, joy and fear.

"Mom?! Quick, let's go......"

He yelled, but he couldn't move faster—there was a rather deep wound on his shoulder and thigh, which had been slashed with a knife: "Someone in the building is mad, Rosie...... Rosie has been hacked to death by them, let's run! ”

The man's eyes were bloodshot when he said this, he couldn't wait to turn around and fight those crazy people now, his mother had been helping the residents of the building for so many years, and he had been trying her best to help everyone, even Huaiguang couldn't deny their kindness without asking for anything in return.

The result?

His wife was just chatting with other women in the apartment, but she was suddenly hacked to death by a few crazy madmen!

If he hadn't wanted to cover his father and daughter to rush out, he would have gone desperately a long time ago!

And Aunt Lydia was stunned.

Rosie? Her daughter-in-law, who is usually a little dull, but quite gentle and kind, and bakes a good bread?

She's dead?

That's it...... Just dead?!

For a moment, a wordless shock swept through the old woman's heart, and she began to feel dizzy for a while, and Venus began to appear in front of her eyes.

And these Venus, if you look closely, can be faintly seen, they are all the experiences of Lydia's life, all the memories and methods of thinking.

And everything is recorded by a kind of fluctuation in the dark, and then condensed into a formless and insubstantial 'existence'......

(End of chapter)