Volume 1 The Winter of Halmar Chapter 2 The Ring of Origin
Andu's inner drama didn't last long, and Elizabeth came to Andu with a paper bag of relief bread and spoke like a cheerful magpie.
"Brother, are you hungry?"
Andu shook his head with a smile, and then waited for a while with some fear, and found that he did not have the headache he had before, and he was slightly relieved.
He waved his right hand unconsciously, and after a moment of silence.
"You eat first, you're still growing your body, and you can't miss breakfast every morning. ”
"If you go to Mrs. Goethe's house in the afternoon to help, ask her to pawn some of the furniture that you don't use in the house, you are too young to go to the pawn shop alone and I don't think those vampires will take it easily. ”
Elizabeth's expression was a little stunned after hearing this, and she hesitated after a while.
"However, there are not many things to sell at home, except for the writing desk you usually use, only the sofa in the living room and the sandalwood table are worth a little money. ”
After saying that, as if thinking of something, Elizabeth bit her lip lightly and plucked up her courage to say.
"Why don't I go and deliver the newsboy, even though I'm still young, it's still okay to deliver the newspaper or something, Pete has done this before. ”
He also told me that he had a good relationship with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and I went back and asked him what he should pay attention to, and then it should be almost enough to find a relationship. ”
Andu listened, and a boy subconsciously appeared in his mind.
The boy sat alone on the steps at the entrance of the orphanage, his eyes drooping, his eyes dazed, not knowing what he was thinking.
Andu still has a good impression of Pete, who is relatively old in the orphanage, always likes to play with his younger siblings, and buys them some cheap food when he earns some money.
Andu had often heard Elizabeth mention this friend before, and he was one of Elizabeth's few friends.
Andu looked at Elizabeth, Elizabeth looked at Elizabeth with straight eyes, and the girl subconsciously lowered her head, but at this time Andu's gentle voice came from her ears.
"You don't have to be a newsboy, at most one week Tonali will be back, and the problem will be solved. ”
Elizabeth was overjoyed when she heard this, Huo Ran raised her head and said, "That bastard is finally coming back?"
Andu smiled and said, "yes, that bastard is finally coming back." ”
After speaking, Andu paused and continued: "So the furniture is sold when it is sold, you are now in the time of development, you can't eat enough every day, I don't care, I can't eat anyway." ”
Andu's gentle voice and smile, like the sun after the rain, Elizabeth's eyes gradually reddened, the pressure in the girl's heart and the sourness accumulated over this period of time finally couldn't be suppressed at this moment, Ula lay on Andu's body and cried.
Andu patted her sister's back, allowing this strong and fragile girl to vent her inner emotions to the fullest.
Elizabeth wept for ten minutes before she subsided, wiping the tears and snot from her face with the worn cotton jacket in her right hand, and in a few moments she was dazzled.
Andu looked at her, the smile on his face softened a little, rubbed Elizabeth's long hair and smiled, "Go and wash your face, we'll have lunch together." ”
Elizabeth's face flushed when she heard this, and she nodded vigorously and rushed out of the room.
Lunch was simple, just a whole piece of rye bread.
This kind of relief food distributed by the relief center is generally made from some grain scraps, such as those big businessmen who have a large amount of grain at home for a long time, and when the grain is about to become moldy, they will use it to make wine or take out part of it for charity distribution.
However, the former is usually the majority, and some of the leftover from the brewing process will be donated to the government to win a certain amount of favor, and finally the government's relief department will receive it, and a little low-grade rye flour will be used to make rye bread.
This rye bread provides the body with the most basic satiety and calories, but it has no nutrients at all.
If you eat it for a long time, it will affect the digestive system and lead to the decline of digestive function, even adults can not eat it for a long time, otherwise malnutrition, not to mention, will even lose basic digestive function in the end.
Andu swallowed the last bite of bread with difficulty, this kind of bread without any texture and taste made Andu's experience very poor, but looking at Elizabeth who was eating next to him with a happy face, Andu could only sigh in his heart.
Andu watched Elizabeth finish her bread and said with a plan in her heart.
"Don't forget to talk to Mrs. Goethe about selling furniture in the afternoon, so that we don't have to eat rye bread for the next week. ”
But Elizabeth clearly disagreed, and said strangely.
"But rye bread can be eaten without paying any money, you know, there are not many opportunities like this, I have applied many times before without success, and if it weren't for your accident, I would definitely be rejected again. ”
When Andu listened, he couldn't help but think of the fact that Elizabeth would go to apply every two or three months.
Andu is well aware of the harshness of the conditions for receiving government relief.
Now there are only him and Elizabeth in the family, and there are not even adults, but even this still does not meet the conditions.
As Elizabeth said, if it weren't for his accident, it would have been almost impossible for the siblings to succeed.
Andu stroked his forehead and said indifferently.
"It's okay, I did Tonali a big favor before, and when he comes back, our days will be better. ”
Elizabeth was skeptical, "But you never asked Tonali for help before. ”
Andu rubbed the corners of his eyes and explained, "Didn't you say it, I did him a big favor before." ”
Because I'm not the same person I used to be!
Andu thought with some tears and laughter in his heart, and once again had a new understanding of Elizabeth's keen observation.
I have to say that Elizabeth's inner maturity sometimes really doesn't look like a fourteen-year-old child.
Elizabeth was obviously a little unconvinced by Andu's explanation, but she was sensible and did not argue with Andu, who was still lying in bed.
Thinking of the sudden and painful situation that Andu had sometimes experienced in the previous days, Elizabeth was afraid of irritating him, so she reluctantly smiled and nodded.
Andu looked at the mature and sensible Elizabeth, and sighed again in his heart.
After that, Andu and Elizabeth chatted, and this time the conversation between the two was more brisk.
From the interesting stories that Elizabeth saw when she went to Mrs. Goethe's house to work as a domestic servant, to the various people she saw in the academy in "My Memory", the two of them chatted about heaven and earth, and the sea of realistic ideals.
It wasn't until Elisabeth was about to go to Mrs. Goethe's house to help that the two finally stopped.
Elizabeth's mood was very happy, maybe because of the mood, maybe because she was too young, Elizabeth didn't notice, I don't know when it started, a trace of stiffness gradually appeared on Andu's face that had been smiling, and the pupils in those dark eyes were shrinking rapidly.
Until Elizabeth went out, the smile on Andu's face still did not disappear, and his stiff face seemed to have forgotten his normal posture.
After more than ten minutes, Andu's expression gradually soothed, and then quickly became serious and serious, mixed with a trace of fear that had not faded.
Andu's eyes were as deep as water, his body was lying stiffly on the bed, and his right hand had already grasped the quilt covering his body since he didn't know when.
The chat between the two made Andu's heart suffer a lot of indescribable impact.
If the forced infusion of information and memories before was unconscious, but the chat with Elizabeth just now was realistic, and it really refreshed the worldview.
At the same time, the interweaving of memories and memories, the overlapping of information and information, while making Andu's brain relax and active, the fragments of memory in the depths of the soul were finally pried.
Then Andu's own large number of memories began to quickly overlap with the memories that were later filled in his mind, and then returned to reality.
Andu became more sober and able to think, but the fear and horror in his heart became stronger and stronger!
Andu fell into a deep depression, he forcibly suppressed his complex and frightened heart, and began to sort out the information he had just learned from the chat.
At this time, Andu suddenly found that there was no big problem with his normal thinking, and as for the sudden schizophrenia, Andu couldn't care about it at all at this time.
He took a deep breath of the fresh air of this world, revealing a look of nostalgia and struggle, and then let out a long sigh.
"It's true that this world is no longer the world it used to be, but why..."
"But why..."
"Why..."
"Why is it called Akmund!"
"Why is the worldview of this world exactly the same as the setting of "Life"?"
"Is this Life, or is it the real, the real Akmund?"
"What am I here?traverser?gamer?or that I'm a data-like being?"
"What am I like now? Am I dead? or am I alive?"
"Did I have a soul travel to this real Akmund, or have I become a member of the game, but I haven't figured out a way to quit yet?"
"Did I not meet the GM, or have I become a member of the system GM in the game? Will there be other players here, and what is their status?"
Countless questions swirled in Andu's mind but could not be answered, and at the same time, Andu found that the more he thought about these questions, the faster the remaining "mercury" in his mind was withdrawn.
In the back, he didn't even need to think for himself, and the withdrawal of "mercury" was also accelerating sharply, but in half an hour, Andu found that the "mercury" that had been piling up in his mind had completely disappeared.
Andu was silent.
"But why is Life, a hologram game, exactly the same as the setting in this world? Is this Life? or Akmund?"
Andu's brain at this time has completely returned to normal, and it is no longer like the days before when he couldn't think and had no thoughts of his own.
He was completely out of the state of "vegetative", but he still couldn't figure out what was happening now, and the strange encounter that had happened at the moment made Andu very frightened in his heart, and the index finger and thumb of his left hand subconsciously rubbed gently.
His thoughts were drifting wildly, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly found that on the ring finger of his left hand, there was a cloud of silver light absorbing the light around him and slowly converging into a ball.
Andu suddenly felt a sense of exhaustion in his heart, as if he wanted to fall asleep like this.
At the same time, in the invisible corner, cockroaches, rats, and insects suddenly lost their sound.
On the far other side of the residential area, only the bare locust trees with dry branches were withering at a rate visible to the naked eye, centered on the Andu room, and the strange situation quickly spread out between breaths.
Andu's face was first stunned, then confused, and finally unbelievable, and even his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
After a few moments, the light faded, and the silver light turned into a dull silver ring, which was quietly placed on Andu's left ring finger.
His gaze froze completely as the ring took shape, and his trembling body froze there like an ancient stone sculpture.
"The Ring of Origin..."
Andu said hoarsely.
The room was quiet as if nothing had happened.