Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 444

Today is her second day working in the textile factory... To be precise, it is already the third day after zero o'clock.

Although today is Sunday, the textile factory is not shutting down. The textile machine with the steam engine as its core has become a complex and troublesome behemoth after countless modifications over the past few decades. It is easy to shut down, but difficult to start.

It costs a lot of money every time it is started, and the factory owner obviously doesn't want to spend such "wasted money", so the lights of the textile factory are kept on all night.

Marina heard from a kind-hearted elder sister that the textile factory on Walker Street near the industrial zone only shuts down twice a year, not to let the employees rest, but just to maintain the machines - the factory owner spent a lot of money on the purchase of the machines back then. A lot of money, if these machines, which are running at full capacity every day, break down, the loss will hurt him more than X who killed him.

The huge workload caused her physical discomfort, but everyone in the factory was very tired, and no one would undertake the work for her out of kindness.

She has to persevere, because someone will come to check the work results every day, and if the work results are not up to standard, she may be fired-especially for an older intern.

The youngest child around Marina is only five years old, but it is said that the child came to work in the textile factory with his mother when he was three years old.

Marina couldn't imagine how a three-year-old could reach the workbench.

When she saw the child, she thought to herself, if a five-year-old child can work here for two years, so can I.

She didn't realize the difficulty of the job until the smell of incompletely burned coal from the steam engine made her cry, and the tool accidentally dropped on the shoe surface hurt her foot.

But she must persevere, at least this job is paid, even if it is only 6 pence a day, it is enough to support her and Messiah's life——

Whenever she couldn't hold on, she would think about her daughter.

Although what happened to her daughter disturbed her, she accepted it quickly and still loved her daughter deeply.

She sometimes thinks wildly, thinking that she is crazy to accept a monster that grows to be 12 years old in two days.

But the love in her heart can't lie, she loves her deeply, and wants to care about her, and give her everything she has never given—she overcomes her psychological barrier so easily.

Her heart jumped for joy at the moment she got off work. When she thought of going home and seeing her daughter, she felt extremely happy inside. Such happiness is indescribable, and she has never experienced it in the first 30 years of her life. of.

She experienced the feeling of "happiness" for the first time, and this feeling haunted her more than anything else.

Surrounded by happiness, she has a mission—the mission of leaving get off work safely every day and returning home to see her daughter.

Marina knew in her heart that it was not her daughter who needed her, but she needed her daughter.

The turmoil in the downtown area has spread to Walker Street, so Marina is very careful when walking on the street. She always chooses the streets with brighter street lights, so as not to be stabbed to the neck by thugs who suddenly jumped out of the dark Pull into a dark alley.

She stepped on the fresh snow that just fell tonight, and the journey home became so long under the tense expectation...

It wasn't until she turned the last corner that she finally saw the gate of 33 Walker Street.

It's far from downtown, close to middle-class Birmingham Street, and not far from the street police station on Walker Street - all of which means it's safe.

When she returned to the apartment, she found that Messiah was sitting in the hall waiting for her. This waiting made her feel a little guilty and a stronger love.

But she didn't hug her daughter.

She wasn't used to hugs like this.

Looking at the bewildered mother, Messiah seemed to know something, picked up the cold sausage from the table beside him, and handed it over.

Marina happily took the sausage. Even though she was hungry, she didn't start eating right away, but asked:

"How did you feel at school today?"

Messiah lowered his eyes and shook his head.

Marina knew that her daughter didn't like to talk, but she was more willing to believe that she couldn't speak yet—after all, she was only a six-day-old child. Isn't it normal for her age to not be able to speak?
Messiah brought paper and the ballpoint pen used by Chen Yan for marking from his side, and wrote on the paper:
"Our practical mission has failed, and the hatred in the industrial zone has become irresolvable. "

Marina comforted in a low voice:

"It's not your fault, places like the industrial zone..."

She weighed her words with her poor vocabulary:
"There are too many people of all kinds, and most of them are bad people and don't deserve to be saved."

Messiah's eyes were bewildered, and he wrote on the paper:
"But there are always good people. "

Marina smiled:
"You're a kind little fellow."

She sighed and continued in a soft tone:
"Kindness is a good quality, but few good qualities will allow you to survive in Yharnam."

At this moment, she felt her mission again.

"You have to be selfish..."

After saying this phrase, Marina was at a loss for words.

Marina found that she had no way to teach her child to be a selfish person—if she taught Messiah what her mother taught her back then, wouldn’t Messiah become like her?

The panic that had been buried deep in her heart two months ago reappeared in Marina's heart.

She doesn't know how to teach Messiah, or maybe Messiah doesn't need her to teach him at all. Messiah can even cook, so he must know those truths...

Marina's thoughts were confused, she was at a loss, her emotions were intense but unable to express, she stood there for a while, trembling all over.

Until the Messiah put the written paper in front of her.

"Don't worry, I understand. "

After seeing these words, all the anxiety in Marina's heart disappeared.

She smiled and said in a trembling tone: "That's good..."

Messiah continued on the paper:
"Humanity is Worth Saving. "

"Where did you know this sentence?"

"I heard it from Chen Yan's dream. "

Marina froze.

Damn pervert landlord!Sure enough, he was playing with Messiah's idea!
Marina looked at her daughter, feeling like an earthquake had occurred in her heart.

She has seen a lot of hypocrisy of Asians, most of them are businessmen with small fortunes like Chen Yan, those timid things like to visit a beautiful and hopeless Al woman like her, they Each of them showed pity for her, and each of them exposed their true nature after talking empty words.

She had already found a new place to live. Although the rent was expensive and there was no floor heating, she could at least give the mother and daughter a private space without having to suffer from the peeping eyes of the perverted landlord from time to time every day.

But now it's over, they can't move out, Yanan City has suddenly become chaotic without warning in the past few days, and the block where the residence she found before is no longer safe.

She can't take the messiah to live in a neighborhood like that.

They can only stay here for the time being.

Seeing his mother's angry expression and the tears in her eyes, Messiah was very puzzled.

Marina finished eating the cold sausage in silence, and went back to the bedroom with her daughter to sleep. When she saw her daughter lying on the side and closed her eyes, she also closed her eyes. Fall asleep soon.

Messiah opened his eyes and looked at his mother without any emotion in his eyes.

She never regarded the person in front of her as her mother, and she didn't even know the meaning of "mother"—she couldn't feel the so-called "family affection" and "warmth" from the woman in front of her.

Only Chen Yan could make her feel emotional.

She didn't know why she was like this, she just felt that it was a matter of course.

As for why she took care of Marina...

This is what makes her even more strange. She feels that she needs to take care of Marina, and this kind of care is not out of "feelings", but...

It is a kind of "compassion".

She pities her.

Such emotions made her panic. Why would she feel sorry for someone older than herself?

But this kind of "compassion" seems to be innate, as if engraved in her bones.

In addition to Marina, the red-haired Ayre people she met during social surveys outside these two days, even including the mixed-race boy tonight, also made her feel "compassionate" in her heart.

This kind of "compassion" is very frustrating to her, it almost infected her original emotions, and it is different from normal pity, this pity contains a strong pessimism——

This pessimism does not come from the suffering she has seen happening to the Aiur people, but from herself.

It's amazing!

The Messiah hated such emotions.

In fact, she hates complex emotions, thoughts, and feelings of any kind.

Therefore, she would be particularly happy to have that single feeling when facing Chen Yan—she would only feel "safe" when facing Chen Yan.

The sense of security is irreplaceable by any feeling and emotion.

After making sure that her mother was asleep, she put on her old shoes and prepared to leave the first floor and go outside Chen Yan's bedroom on the third floor—this was what she did every night.

After walking out of the bedroom door, she suddenly felt something was wrong, and turned her head to look into the darkness of the corridor.

In the darkness where the moonlight cannot reach, a large yellow leather mouse is quietly crawling towards the direction of the restaurant.

Messiah did not make a sound, but followed silently.

(End of this chapter)