Time passes.

In the blink of an eye, it's been five years.

With her young daughter on her back, Serra spent her days in the wilderness continuing her wandering life as before.

It's not that she doesn't want to find a place to settle down, people like her, in the eyes of normal humans and even ordinary alienation patients, are time bombs that can explode at any time.

Dragon horns, dragon tails, dragon scales.

A typical dragon with alienation has the possibility of turning into a newborn dragon or a monster that has lost its mind at any moment.

There is no place willing to take them in, and sooner or later they will be kicked out.

Even when the weather is cold, she can only wander among the mountains.

Fortunately, the wolf's aura left on her body was still there, and even if the lord-level source beast found them, it would choose to walk around them in shock.

But with the passage of time, the wolf's breath seems to be disappearing, and many third-order source beasts have found her here recently, if it weren't for the deepening of her strength with the deepening of alienation, she also came to the level of the peak of the third order, it is estimated that she would have been attacked and killed by the source beasts.

"Looks like I'm running out of time."

Serra lowered her head and lifted her loose gray robe, revealing that her limbs and abdomen were covered in red scales, and the heat of the blood in her body was burning her senses all the time.

In the black wolf, and in the subsequent childbirth, Serra consumed too much life force, and now in her twenties, she looked ten years older.

The fire next to her was rising, emitting warm heat, and Serra looked back at the cute little face of her daughter lying on the ground, and smiled.

Every time she saw Aina's little face, she felt a lot more relieved of the pain in her body.

Serra stared at Aina and said softly, "Aina, you must be able to live well, you must be able to1." ”

Unlike her, apart from a pair of wolf ears and a wolf tail and tea-gold eyes, the factors in her body are very stable, stable for five years, and there is no sign of deepening alienation at all.

It seems that his gamble has succeeded.

She thought that if she failed, maybe it would be a good thing.

Now, Aina doesn't have to experience the pain of burning her body in the fire.

Some people with alienation who are lucky may not deepen their alienation for the rest of their lives, so I hope Aina is also such a lucky child.

However, we still have to think about the way forward.

Although she was not far from death, she had already been mentally prepared, hadn't she?

It's just that I don't want to part so early.

The most important thing is that now that the child is still young, if she is gone, how will Aina live?

Entrust her to someone, okay?

To whom?

It's a little ashamed to say that she has lived so much, she has no friends, and she can't think of who to entrust this child to.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the person entrusted to him is willing to adopt Aina, how can he guarantee that person's moral character is trustworthy?

What if that person is violent?

What if that person is a pervert who likes little girls?

If

There are so many possibilities and uncertainties.

She didn't want to send her children to 'hell'.

Originally, they were already in hell, and the people who could feel happy in life were only a small part after all.

"Mom! Mom, don't go! ”

Aina suddenly shouted twice, then looked up in a panic, looked around for a moment, and was relieved to see Serra next to her.

She patted her chest with some fear, and said cutely: "Mom, I just dreamed that you lost Aina, but I scared Aina to death. Mom won't leave Aina, will she? ”

Serra was slightly stunned.

Immediately, the corners of her mouth showed a bitter smile that only she knew.

"yes, Mommy will never leave you."

She quietly lowered her sleeves to cover the scales on her arms, and then reached over and touched Aina's head: "Aina, we're almost living here, mom will take you on a trip to other places." ”

Aina nodded heavily and said, "Okay, yes, Aina's favorite trip with her mother is the most!" ”

There's no need to ask where you're going.

Anyway, if she has her mother with her, she can go anywhere.

Sierra looked at Aina's innocent smile and her heart tightened.

This child's dependence on her is too high, and she is too smart, but Fan Aina is stupid, after all, a child's memory is easy to forget and fade, how many people can remember when they were five or six years old? Lovely Na is not as smart as a single-digit age child.

It's hard to imagine what will become of her once she loses herself.

At that time, even if someone adopts the child, the result of Lovely Na will not be too good.

You know, she lost her only loved one when she was about sixteen years old, and she felt like she was about to collapse, not to mention Aina, who was the only one by her side since she was a child.

There was only one solution she could think of to solve this problem.

That is to make the child, forget the memories related to her.

Then find someone to take care of Aina yourself.

When the time comes, Aina will not be sad about her departure and can live a normal life.

But she obviously doesn't have that power.

This requires at least a fourth-order spiritual sorcerer, or the power of some divine tree.

Serra pondered, and made a decision.

So crazy, she has done everything like finding a king-level source beast factor and replacing the alienation factor of the child in her womb, and the difficulty of what she has to do now can be even crazier than that?

"Let's go, Aina."

"Hmm!"

Aina smiled brightly and skillfully took her mother's hand.

It's just that, behind Aina's bright smile, the corner of her eye always glances at the scales on the back of Serra's hand, and there is a touch of melancholy in Cha Jin's eyes.

Mom's scent is constantly changing, hot, manic, worried.

What was Mom thinking?

·

Serra wondered if she had been transferred.

Not long after leaving her original residence, she met a man who called himself the 'Shadow Merchant' in the snowy forest.

The Shadow Merchant told her that they sold everything.

Whatever she wants, as long as she can come up with a corresponding price, what they want can be sold.

At first, Sierra was unconvinced.

However, the other party easily showed the strength to kill them in seconds, and just now, a third-order source beast that rushed over to find death was directly smashed by him with one palm.

This is at least a fourth-order powerhouse!

"Clear your memory? OK. After hearing Serra's request, the Shadow Merchant replied.

Serra: "So, at what cost?" ”

"Before I do that, let me make sure, what do you have around your neck?" The Shadow Merchant asked her.

"On the neck?"

Serra took the pendant off her neck.

This is a silver hexagonal irregular pendant, the material seems to be metal, and the body feels cold and cold.

It was the last relic her father left her.

Unexpectedly, after the shadow merchant saw this pendant, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he wanted to come up and get it, and he said to himself: "That's right, by the way, I finally found a fragment, and this year's year-end assessment is over." ”

Serra vigilantly took the pendant back: "You want this?" Yes, but it can't be given to you directly, you have to do it for me first. ”

Although the relic is very meaningful, it is for her, and for Aina, this thing does not have much value.

"Okay."

The Shadow Merchant withdrew his hand with some embarrassment.

The group of them ran around the continent just to find the fragments scattered by the Void Engine, and every ShadowClan sent out had mission indicators, and those who couldn't complete it would be deducted points, and the next year's resources and benefits would be gone.

In general, credibility is their first criterion, and if it has not been agreed at the beginning, then anything can be cheated and abducted.

But once agreed, they won't move on to other avenues.

Anyway, it wasn't difficult for him to clear his memory, and it just so happened that he was a spiritual magician.

"Is that the kid you're going to erase your memory?"

The Shadow Merchant gestured to the girl who was hiding in a makeshift tent not far away, looking at her.

The little guy was quite witty, and when he found out that there was a threat, he didn't rush out stupidly, but hid.

"Yes."

Serra hesitated, but nodded, "I want her to forget about me." ”

"Simple. But. ”

The Shadow Merchant stared at Serra for a moment, then frowned, "You're dying." ”

Serra casually said, "Well, I know. ”

"Why don't you ask for an extension of your life?"

The shadow merchant said: "Although it is a bit troublesome, we are not impossible. ”

"Extended life?"

Serra was stunned: "How long can it be extended?" ”

Shadow Merchant: "A year at most, unless you can still find the shards." ”

"Forget it then."

Serra smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is a relic left by my father, it was found when he was a child picking fruits in the mountains, the material is very special, since you are looking for this kind of thing, it must be difficult to find, right?" ”

The Shadow Merchant was noncommittal.

"So, to get started?" He said.

"Wait a minute."

Serra looked at the Shadow Merchant pleadingly, "Can you draw the corresponding spell into a scroll and use it when I want to use it?" ”

"You're asking for a lot. Yes! ”

The shadow merchant laughed and said, "Who told you to be my assessment indicator this year!" ”

Half an hour later, the Shadow Merchant left, leaving behind a scroll and taking Serra's pendant with him.

Serra returned to the tent and let Aina, who was hiding, out.

"Aina, it's okay."

Wolf-eared Lori poked out a small head.

"Mom, is he gone?"

"Hmm."

"What did Mom do with him?"

"Didn't do anything."

"Mom, lie."

Aina pursed her lips dissatisfied.

She can smell the scent called lies.

Sierra rubbed her daughter's head helplessly.

"Don't think about it, go to sleep."

I thought it would take a long time to find a solution, but it didn't take a few days to succeed.

It seems that since having this child, her luck has also improved.

·

Another few months passed.

In the southern part of the Land of Radiance, Serra searched for a long time in the side streets of various large and small towns, but still did not find a suitable candidate.

After all, those people with alienation are already very difficult to live on their own, and who would want to accept a child without their own blood?

And according to Serra's observations, many people with alienation are not very good-tempered, and if she sends Aina out in a hurry, she will not be at ease in death.

On this day, Serra took Aina to Greystone Street.

Greystone Street, an adjunct street of Winterfell.

In order to enter the street, she deliberately put on makeup to hide the slight scales growing from her face, and disguised the dragon's horns as antlers, and the tail was covered with a robe.

She followed the previous process, found a relatively dilapidated hotel to stay in, and then asked the boss about the street.

"Do you think there are any people of good character on this street?"

The boss was puzzled by Serra's question, but still said: "How can we have any people with good character here, the snake and mouse will dominate the underground business of Graystone Street, many young people have joined the snake and mouse club, there are rotten people everywhere, good people can't survive here, and the residents of Graystone Street are living very hard under their oppression." ”

Sierra sighed softly.

She knew that it would be difficult to find a good person in such a place.

"Not necessarily, though."

The boss suddenly remembered something, and then smiled: "We have a very beautiful woman here a few years ago, and her strength is still very strong, I heard that she is a master of magic, and usually when the source beast occasionally attacks the area outside Graystone Street, she will help, and it is too good to describe her with the word "human beauty and kindness." ”

Serra wondered, "How could such a person live in such a place?" ”

"Because her daughter is an alienated person."

The boss thought for a while and said, "I've seen her, it's a little girl with cat ears, very cute, although in the eyes of those people in the city, our alienation characteristics are all dirty symbols, but we all know that there is no way to eliminate alienation characteristics, we can only accept it." ”

After the boss finished speaking, he looked at the wolf-eared little Lori next to him, and then smiled: "It's as cute as your daughter." ”

Aina's little face flushed, and she shrunk back and hid behind Serra.

Serra also laughed, "Yes, I have a very lovely daughter. ”

After that, Serra lived here for several days, and she knew from the mouths of some old people in Gray Rock Street that Liya seemed to be like a white lotus flower in this dark street, which was muddy and unstained.

She also knew that Liya would go out to work every day and would not return home until sunset, and when she pretended to pass by the small building, she also saw the cat-eared girl who was drawing with drawing paper.

A plan gradually formed in her mind.

In the middle of the night, a burning heat in her body woke her from her sleep.

Running out of time?

Serra gritted her teeth, took the scroll out of her bag, and pointed it at Aina, who was sleeping next to her.

Suddenly, Aina, who had been sleeping, suddenly opened her eyes.

"Mom, don't—"

Aina realized something.

"I love you, child."

Serra said very gently, and with a movement of her fingers, she opened the scroll.

— I love you, I give everything to you, not because I want to take anything from you, but because I really love you.

Even if you don't remember me and forget everything about me from now on, that's fine.

Because you are an extension of my life.

As long as you're alive, then mom isn't dead.

But, from now on, that's your own life.

If one day you remember your mother again.

Then laugh at it.

Don't cry, my child.