foreigner's journey

Chapter 334 The Promised Land
The style of the Wufan Street slum is different from that of Qifan Street. The architectural layout here is more standardized and there are many high-rise buildings with more than three floors, just like a small town.A large number of dilapidated curtains and sunshades covered the upper part of the street, and sporadic green leafy plants spread and grew on the street corners. This was an extremely rare phenomenon for Midgar and even the surrounding wilderness where there was no grass due to excessive extraction of magic.

The further you go in, the more lush the green plants are. There is a long dilapidated wooden table at the entrance of the small but warmly decorated orphanage "Green Leaf House", and a large number of children gather in front of the table.

"Alice! Alice!" After seeing Alice, many children ran towards her, waving their arms.

Although her personality is a bit eccentric, Alice, who is kind-hearted by nature, always does her best to relieve the troubles and play with the children in the orphanage.In Wufan Street, both adults and children like this cute and kind girl very much.

"Hi everyone~ I'm going back a little early today, and I'll play with you guys tomorrow."

Alice waved her hands and greeted the children with a smile, then walked briskly across the Green Leaf House and walked towards the path behind.

The children looked at each other, and a little girl put her finger on her chin and asked doubtfully, "Alice seems to be very happy today?"

"Isn't she always like this?" A little boy raised the bar out of habit.

"No, no, her happiness today is about to overflow~~~~ come out!" The little girl opened her arms, showing off the words she just learned today.

The path behind the Green Leaf House became more and more winding, and the 'sunlight' poured down through the gaps in the dilapidated sun visor above the head, drawing dots of light on the ground under the feet.From time to time, there are lush vegetation on the side of the road, and even occasional flowers bloom.

Walking to the end of the trail, you can see a canyon surrounded by towering rock walls. Just below the canyon is a pond with floating lotus leaves. A waterfall hangs from the canyon and hits the edge of the pond. A small wooden bridge with exquisite structure spans the pond. Above, it connects the stone brick road at the end of the road and the flower field in the distance.

The stone brick road by the pond is full of flowers and grasses, and there is a low wall neatly built of stones. At the end is a three-story villa with exquisite style and structure.The overall shape of the villa is conical, and the outer walls are all painted dark red. The circular balcony around the first floor is filled with flower pots, and flowers of different styles bloom in the pots.

Alice ran to the door of the villa in three steps and two steps, and opened the door at once:

"Mom, I'm back!"

There is a round dining table and several wooden chairs in the center of the living room on the first floor. There are many vases with flowers in the house, and an old-fashioned TV set is placed next to the bookcase.Next to the window is an open kitchen, and the kettle on the stove is boiling hot water.

"Are you back so early today?"

A woman in her early forties came around neatly from the kitchen, and while wiping her wet hands on her apron, she looked at her daughter: "You're in such a good mood, did something good happen?"

She is Alice's adoptive mother, Emina Gainsborough.

It can be seen that Emina's face is vicissitudes due to the difficult life in her early years, but her big blue eyes are still piercing, and her brown hair is combed back into a neat bun. It does look like a mother and daughter with Alice.

Alice threw herself into Emina's arms and acted like a baby: "Mom, I'm so happy today!"

Emina gently stroked Alice's hair, and joked: "Oh? Let mom guess, the flowers are selling well?"

"No~"

"Is there finally a reply to the letter you sent?"

"wrong--"

"That's when you meet a handsome boy you like."

"certainly not!"

Alice broke away from Emina's arms at once, spun around twice triumphantly on the spot with her hips crossed, her eyes glowed with excitement: "Mom, I met another [fellow family] today! It's at Bafan Street! "

Emina was taken aback, she knew something special about her adopted daughter.I thought she was the last ancient Settra in the world, but I didn't expect that there are other living members of the same race?And also in Midgar?
Emina, who had a lot of life experience, immediately thought of some bad things, and asked tentatively: "Alice, how can you be sure that he is your kindred?"

If some villains with malicious intentions take advantage of the loopholes of the Shinra company's monitors and sneak over to deceive Alice, who is not experienced in the world, with words, then things will be very troublesome.

Alice shook her finger: "Really, I'm not a child who is easily deceived. That person..."

She looked around, and whispered in Emina's ear: "That person can also attract the stream of life, and I can feel that [Planet] pays great attention to him."

"Are you sure?" Emina didn't understand the abilities of the Settra people, but Alice's judgment of the flow of life flow was very accurate. Could it be true?

"Yeah!" Alice nodded heavily, and whispered, "His ability to develop the Settra tribe is much better than mine. Mom, do you know that I saw his vitality through the planet, just like a living It’s amazing! And Mom, listen to me, he’s willing to teach me how to control and develop the abilities of the Settras! I’m so happy, it’s the first time someone is willing to be my teacher!”

The more Alice talked, the happier she was, and there was a light in her beautiful big eyes.

Emina clenched her hands unconsciously: "Then you...do you want to go with him?"

The smile on Alice's face froze for a moment, and she realized that she had made her adoptive mother Emina feel uneasy.Emina is afraid, afraid of losing the daughter she has worked so hard to raise.

"No, Mom. I won't leave you..." Alice hugged Emina tightly: "I'm not going anywhere."

Emina hugged Alice, and the mother and daughter hugged each other quietly.

Bang bang bang!
At this moment, the door was knocked suddenly.

Emina wiped the corners of her eyes, and Alice ran to open the door. When she opened the door, she found a red-haired young man in a black suit: "Ah, Renault."

"Yo!"

This person was Renault, one of the Tax agents who had dealt with Heather before.He still had that foolish look, put his index finger and middle finger together and swiped across his forehead to say hello: "Miss, you can make it easier for me to find you."

"Ah?" Alice put her fingers on her chin and tilted her head, and began to play dumb cutely.

"I couldn't find you when I went to buy a cup of milk tea. You don't know that Director Zeng almost ate me." Lei Nuo shrugged his shoulders: "Aren't you selling flowers in Bafan Street? Why did you run away suddenly? Lost?"

"Didn't you say you wouldn't disturb my life? Why did you come to find me?" Alice asked in disbelief.

This started more than ten years ago, when Ifaluna and Alice, mother and daughter, were captured by Shinra and locked in the Shinra headquarters building because they were the last ancient species.The mother was taken away every day to assist the researchers in the experiments, while the daughter was locked in the room.

When Alice was seven years old, she accidentally awakened an ancient ability, and was discovered by [Hojo], the leader of the scientific department of Shinra Corporation.Hojo, who felt that Ifaluna had a substitute, became overjoyed and carried out various inhuman and cruel experiments on Ifaluna.Soon, Ifaluna was on the verge of collapse. In order to save her daughter, she used her body as a bargaining chip to lure a scientific researcher named Fazi to help them escape from Shinra headquarters.

On the way to escape, Ifaluna couldn't hold on any longer, and fell near the station in the slum of Wufan Street.At that time, Emina, who came to the station every day to wait for the return of her husband who went out with the Shinra troops, found the mother and daughter. Ifaluna gathered her last strength and courage and begged Emina to take Alice away.After getting an affirmative answer, Ifaluna closed her eyes safely and returned to the stream of life.

In this way, the kind-hearted Emina began to raise Alice as her daughter.

The good times didn't last long, and Shinra found Alice based on clues.But this time, perhaps because of lessons learned, Shinra changed its strategy.

They sent Taxi Zeng to meet Alice and Emina, and bluntly stated that Shinra only wanted to find the legendary [Promised Land] with the help of the Settra tribe, and they would not say that Alice was imprisoned in Shinra HQ also doesn't drug her or do horrible experiments on her.

Young Alice was terrified, but Emina mustered up the courage to argue with the powerful Shinra Corporation.

In the end, Zeng made an agreement with Emina after asking for instructions from her superiors—Emina, the person who gets along with Alice day and night, will observe Alice, and Emina will notify Shinra if there are signs of awakening of abilities.Before that, Shinra would not approach Alice any more, but just observe from a distance.

Of course, the agreement was like this, but Emina had no intention of reporting her daughter's every move to Shinra Corporation.

Year after year, as time passed, Alice and Emina also gradually got to know some of the frequent Turks members.Zeng with a handsome face and a serious face, the red-haired Reynolds who is sloppy, and the bald Luther who always wears sunglasses but is very gentle... They kept their agreement and would not interfere with Alice's daily life, only occasionally coming to see Amy Na routinely exchanged information.

This time, because of the ghost in her heart, Alice reacted exceptionally. She pushed Renault out of the house: "It's disgusting! Get out, get out, Renault!"

"Oh? I just came to see if you're safe! I said, at least let me drink some water, okay?" Renault was pushed out of the door at a loss. He wanted to say something but found the door slammed closed.

"There's a lot of water in the pond outside, you can drink whatever you want!" Alice's muffled voice came from behind the door.

Renault shrugged helplessly, and waved his fingers at the few Shinra soldiers gathered outside: "What are you doing in a daze? Go back."

"But the monitoring target..." a Shinra soldier hesitated and asked.

"Please, this is Midgar, the headquarters of Shinra Corporation. As long as the eldest lady is safe, it doesn't matter how she plays around."

Renault put his hands in his pockets and looked back at the three-story villa:
"But it's hard to say after finding the [Promised Land]..."

Miss, don't cause trouble, don't expose yourself to Hojo's sight again.

That treasure bar can no longer be called a "human being"!

　Thanks to book friends 20210214113152170 for the 5000 starting coins

　　Thanks to Celtic passers-by for the 5000 starting coins

　　
　
(End of this chapter)