When he opened his eyes again, Valk was awakened by pain.

A strange child of the same age rode on top of him, pinching his midriff with one hand and pressing his neck with the other, making him extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing him wake up, the other party seemed a little surprised, and there was some panic in his eyes, but he still endured it.

"You're awake."

"I saw you lying in the snow outside, so I brought you back." He let go of his hand and stood up.

"Ahem......" Clutched his somewhat red and aching neck and man, Valker struggled to his feet, looking around, it was a makeshift triangular shed, surrounded by shabby clothes and blankets, dirty, but still much warmer than the ice and snow outside.

"Thank you." Because he was hungry, Valk's voice was weak.

"It's fine." After speaking, the two were silent for a long time.

"My name is Valker, what about you?" Finally, Valker couldn't help but ask.

"Me?" The boy on the other side paused, his gaze wandering, and finally rested on the outer packaging of a discarded can.

"My name is Grede." Grad is the name given to an inferior beer.

Knowing that this might be a name that he came up with on the fly, Valker didn't expose it, and he didn't have the strength to care about such a trivial matter.

The two of them continued to sit in the triangular tent until it was getting dark outside.

Suddenly, Grad raised his head and looked outside, where the curtain showed a gap, and the wind and snow could be faintly seen outside.

"It's time." He said this and slowly stood up.

"What time is it?" Valk was puzzled.

"Food. It's time to get food. Grad explained, with a little gleam in his eyes.

"Follow me." Then he lifted the curtain and walked out of the triangular tent.

The two walked in the snow one after the other, through the wilderness, and gradually came to a ruin, where collapsed and rusty buildings could be seen everywhere, clearly left by the mining fever.

After losing maintenance, these buildings are exposed to corrosive and toxic rain, which deteriorates day after day, turning into ruins that can collapse at any moment, and even wanderers will not easily live in them.

After walking for nearly forty minutes, the two finally came to a remote town, which was supposed to be a road rest stop for transporting minerals, where drivers often stopped to take a shower, get a good night's sleep, and eat something hot and tasty.

"Listen, the restaurant over there will close, and the waiter inside will throw the garbage into the trash can 100 meters away from the store, and there will definitely be something to eat in it."

"So let's get it, right?" Valk quickly understood.

"That's right, but it's not just us who have their eyes on these things, but others as well." Greid admonished.

"Let's join forces so we can all have something to eat, you know?"

"Understood." Valker nodded.

"Very well, we'll go find some good guys." Greed led Valk to the ruins of the street, where in the corner were the sticks and scrap metal slips he had hidden.

Although the two of them were very weak, they had some confidence after holding this cold piece of iron.

Time passed slowly, and after half an hour, sure enough, a clerk walked out of the store with a garbage bag.

They kept their eyes on the clerk until they had finished throwing out the garbage and left.

"It's now." With that, Greed and Valk ran briskly towards it, but because of hunger and weakness, they began to gasp for breath and slow down after a few steps.

Just then, another figure rushed out of the corner, and he reached the trash can first, rummaging through the contents, and then taking out the edible stuff and stuffing it into his mouth.

"Hurry up, or he'll finish eating." Grad urged again, and the two had to quicken their pace.

Soon, the man turned back at the voice, and Valk saw the other man's face, which was like a monkey's face, with loose and dark bags under his eyes, his hair was disheveled, his nails were full of black mud, and his body smelled strange.

"Whoa-a-" He didn't seem to speak, only screaming.

At this time, Grad had already rushed forward, and an iron bar hit the opponent's body, bringing a red mark, making the opponent scream in pain.

However, the other party began to resist at this point, and he grabbed the iron bar, tried to snatch it down, and then grabbed Glade.

Seeing this, Grad was shocked and frightened, but he didn't dare to let go of the iron bar, because once the other party obtained the weapon, he would definitely not be able to beat this adult tonight.

"Quick! Come on! Grad endured the fingernail scratching on the other side and hurriedly shouted.

Valker didn't hesitate anymore, and then rushed up and hit the opposite side on the head with a stick, causing the other party to scream in pain again.

Greed, who received assistance, also clenched the iron bar, broke free from the other party's grasp, and attacked again.

Under the siege of the two, the emaciated homeless man also had to flee and finally give up the garbage can.

After driving away the competitors, the two sat on the ground panting, looking at the leftovers scattered on the ground, and couldn't help but smile happily.

The two shared this rare delicacy that day, and then began to walk together, during which they battled wits and courage with other homeless people, wild dogs, and low-level self-discipline units, and finally survived in this wilderness.

……

"It's a touching past." Partridge wiped away tears and lamented Valker's hardships in the past.

After saying that, he sniffled, then stepped aside, picked up a cup and drank water, and then eased up.

"I grew up in the South 1st District, and I didn't expect such a difficult wilderness environment on the jade skirt." Partridge sighed, he used to think that eating the T5 level set meal was the hardest life, but he didn't expect that there would be people who would eat garbage.

"Although the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Domain is not rich, it is still no problem to maintain the most basic life of the residents."

"Industrial products are cheaper, but they are still needed, and they can also provide a lot of jobs, so that the jade skirt is generally stable."

"And how did you get federal residency? It's not easy, is it? ”

"Thanks to the help of Pastor Bois, he took me to the home of the elder who abandoned me, gave him a sum of money, asked him to recognize and testify, and went to the archives to confirm my identity."

"Although my mother abandoned me, fortunately, she left a genetic sample in the federal genetic database, and after checking, it was determined that I was her descendant, so it was much easier to pass the review."

"That's true." Partridge touched the cup and pondered.

"The federation has the strictest review of bloodlines of unknown origin, and if your parents were originally residents of the federation, this will be a lot more relaxed."

"After that, I'll do a test against your genes, and maybe I can find out that you are a human descendant of the first generation of immigrants in the Emerald Skirt."

"There are three main periods of population expansion in the Emerald Skirt in history, and the earliest ones are basically elves, who are the ones who responded to the will of the 'Golden Flame Rose' and went to various barren planets to explore and transform the environment."

"The second batch is the early days after the completion of the transformation of the jade skirt, the environment here has gradually become habitable, many people have migrated from all over the Federation, including humans, there are also a small number of orcs, they are often originally wandering and unable to integrate into the local environment, so they come to this new environment to explore."

"The third batch is the civil war more than 400 years ago, when it was an important military industrial star, a large number of factories were built, and many workers and technicians were also needed, so the Federation sent personnel from various star fields to send them over."

"Times have changed, there are very few elves on the planet now, and those important military-industrial groups of the year have also been relocated under the arrangement of the Federal Assembly......"

"It's really emotional, if those military-industrial groups stay, I'm afraid the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Domain will also be extremely powerful."

"But just think about this kind of thing, so many powerful military-industrial giant enterprises gather, how can the upper echelons of the federation not rest assured, and it is inevitable to split and transfer after the war."

"Xing is also a military industry, and the decline is also a military industry, the four-leaf crystal star field is just one of the sequelae of that protracted war, and we can only wait for time to slowly heal these."

"However, the problem of poisonous rain control and the population at the bottom is still difficult to solve, not necessarily that the upper class does not know the solution, but that some people do not want to do this."

"Why don't you want to solve it, if there are no problems, the jade skirt should be much better." Valk was puzzled.

Partridge glanced at the sturdy young man on the hospital bed, and instead of answering directly, he slowly drank the tea.

"Yes, for some people it is suffering, but for some people it is a rain."

"When it rains, umbrella sellers should be happy."

(End of chapter)