Then he sat on the edge of the bed, watching the child take small sips of porridge and drink porridge with difficulty, and the dark chestnut and blackened hair reflected the candlelight softly, and there was a glow that made people want to love him. A love that had never been felt before welled up in Alda's heart. In just a split second, Alda found her faith: to be an elder, to be a protector, well, perhaps, to be a family.

"What's your name?" Alda asked softly.

"Raymond. ”

"Don't you have a surname?"

Raymond shook his head with dark chestnut fur to say no, then raised the bowl to his face and licked the crumbs from the edge of the bowl. When the bowl was licked clean, he handed it to Alda and timidly asked, "Can I eat some more?"

Alda smiled. This is the way it is, and it is the way it is for Arda to know what he should do is the most correct. It's about faith, it's not about faith, it's just a simple and complex emotion, and it has a beautiful name: love.

A bowl was refilled for him, and Alda smiled as he saw that the little head was all buried in the bowl.

"Is it okay to follow my last name?"

"What's your last name?"

"Southkeen. There used to be a patristic name in the middle, a priesthood name, but now it no longer has any meaning. My surname is Sothkorn, which comes from my father, who was just a farmer and had no special meaning. ”

Raymond raised his head, corn kernels still stained on his chin.

"Southkeen. Raymond Southkern?"

"Does it sound good?"

Raymond tapped his little head up and down and began to lick the bowl again.

Then, Alda continued to serve Raymond porridge, and his little body ate bowl after bowl, and the capacity of the food was like a bottomless abyss. Alda didn't do anything else all night, just smiled at him, served him porridge, continued to look at him, served porridge.

That year was the winter of 1313 in the Chaos Continent calendar, ten years before the invasion of darkness. Alda was fifty-three years old and Raymond was eight years old.

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When Yang Yi dragged the three of them out, the first thing he saw was Alda. He stood nervously and calmly at the gate of the church with his torch held high, his whole body exuding a faint, not bright enough, but firm enough glow, like a beacon in front of the sea that is always firmly pointing to the right course!

At this time, Yang Yi didn't know how old Lu Dao Alda was, but he felt that this old man was definitely not young. He has a white beard and a long, decadent face covered in wrinkles. The dark gray pupils were completely clouded by the old man, exuding a resolute and sometimes even stubborn glow. The thin body stood quietly in the priest's robes that looked the same as his own, his waist straight, and the light of the torch on his head, combined with the faint glimmer of light emanating from his body, made him look like a statue. Compared with the trinity god, Yang Yi obviously liked him more, because the care exuded by the old man could be felt from afar.

The old man who was old enough exuded the power to calm people's hearts, so that Yang Yi began to calm down after rushing into the dense fog, and he felt like he had found an elder who could be relied on.

"Pastor Thornkorn!" Yang Yi shouted cheerfully.

Alda was shocked, and a greatly relieved expression appeared on her face, and then she rushed over angrily, grabbed Tilia, and said only one word: "Run!"

He grabbed it in a bad position, just grabbing Tilia's long hair. The strong woman was dragged upside down on the ground like a piece of cargo. No one cares about her or her own feelings, and there is only one thing you can do in the current situation: run for your life as fast as possible!

With Alda's help, the four elements ran towards the church with all their might.

"Open the door!"

The door opened for a moment, revealing a frightened face behind it, "Is it Reverend Southkeen?"

"Yes!" Alda said, "It's not been a minute yet, and the fog hasn't touched the church yet." So it's me. Open the door!"

The face behind the door looked frightened and reluctant, but he knew in his heart what it meant to lose the priest. After all, the heavy door opened a width for only one person to enter, and Alda carried Nord and the child first, and dragged Tilia in front of her. Immediately, the door closed heavily behind him, and at the moment of closing, the thick fog hit the wooden door, and Yang Yi's increasingly acute ears heard a very unwilling hiss from a distant place.

Rushing into the classroom, Yang Yi almost had no strength, and both Nord and the child slipped off his shoulders weakly. Tilia's face showed a dazed expression, and after being stunned for a long time, she finally began to sobb silently.

Alda didn't comfort Tilia, and nervously took Yang Yi's hand: "Child, how are you?"

Yang Yi sat down on the ground softly and said, "I'm fine." ”

Alda checked Yang Yi's hand repeatedly, but never found anything abnormal, and then approached Yang Yi and whispered: "Whoever asks for a while, you can only answer that you didn't go into the fog, understand? ”

"What are you for?" Yang Yi was puzzled.

Alda whispered, "This month, the dense fog has hit ten times in total, and no one can enter the fog and come out. Others can't, you can, this only proves that you are different from ordinary people. What kind of physique you are, you know what kind of physique, and you must not let a third person know the Tao. Especially now when darkness strikes. Don't trust people too much, fear can lead people to do unimaginable things, and they won't mind erasing any threat for safety. Child, if they decide that the amount of darkness in you means that you may be one of the darkness too, you have only two options, either kill them all, or they will burn them on fire!"

Yang Yi shuddered and looked at Alda in disbelief.

Alda smiled mockingly, "Trust me. I've seen enough of life. That's enough to tell how people will react under what environmental conditions. At this time, everyone was frightened, and there was no difference between crazy humans and dark creatures. ”

Yang Yi nodded and said softly, "I believe in you." ”

Alda smiled lightly, gently stroked Yang Yi's head without anyone noticing, and said softly, "Good." ”

This action was very similar to calming a puppy, but Yang Yi didn't pay much attention to it. He was looking at the unconscious Nord and the child, "How are they?"

Alda raised his torch and looked at it, and said, "They have been invaded by the dark forces, and if you don't rush into the fog, their fate will definitely disappear." Swallow, there must have been something to protect them, otherwise they must have died. ”

"Tilia has a silver chain of crosses made of holy relics. ”

Alda nodded: "That makes sense." Have you made the primary recovery potion?"

Yang Yi hurriedly took it out. Alda took two sticks and poured them into the mouths of Nord and the child, and said, "You have done much better than I imagined, although you are still primary, the light power contained in it has a high concentration, and it can be used to save people." Good job, kid, Raymond?"

Yang Yi couldn't hear it clearly, and the feeling that space, space, and things were being pulled away appeared again, and he could only stare at Alda's figure farther and farther away in vain.

The next moment, he found himself back in the small living room of the Zhu family, with a tight elastic vest on his upper body, big red flower beach pants on his lower body, and a pair of flip-flops under his feet.

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