Help, they came out of my dream to catch me!

Chapter 194 Cold Reality

No thunderous cheers, no grand welcome.

After killing the ice and snow monsters hidden around the town, Teresia thought she could see the joy and smiles on people's faces.

However, what greeted her were the kneeling prayers of the townspeople, with desperate and numb faces.

"Master Valkyrie, please grant us flames!"

"Give us warmth and food!"

A heart-wrenching icy cold grabbed her heart, making her hands and feet cold and her heart shivering.

The monsters under the command of the evil dragon outside did not kill the people in this town. Instead, the food crisis deliberately created by the Lingsi Group starved them to death first.

She clenched the sword in her hand, anger overflowing her pupils.

"Lingsi Group, Spiral King, how dare he! How dare they!"

However, what made her even more angry was that she clearly understood that the Lingsi Group did not treat these people in the wilderness as human beings. They were their livestock and livestock, and they didn't care even if they died.

Because human beings are such creatures that can endure no matter what kind of hardships they encounter, and can survive no matter how harsh and extreme the environment is.

It is an inexhaustible weed, burn a batch to death, dig up a batch, and after a short time, it will grow into lush leeks again.

What Spiral King said to her a month ago was correct, the people of the Northland relied on him and his Lingsi Group to survive.

Once the monopoly was formed, he had already become the supreme emperor of this land.

She knew that this was the Spiral King's punishment for her refusal, and perhaps to him, this was not a punishment at all, but just a little warning.

However, behind such a small warning, there are desperate tears of blood condensed by an unknown number of lives.

People regard her as hope, as the light and flame to drive away darkness and despair, and pray for her to give them warmth and food.

However, she does not have such a large interest group that spans the entire continent under the command of the Spiral King. Even if her flame can drive away the wind and snow for a short time, it will dissipate one day, unless she stays here forever.

Right now these people need her rescue, but she feels a kind of powerlessness, a kind of emptiness and bewilderment where she has a powerful ability and has nowhere to display it.

She can't help them at all.

Teresia's body trembled, and the flames on her body trembled violently.

Looking at those pairs of despairing and numb eyes with a faint hint of hope, she didn't even dare to look into their eyes.

"Luge, share some of our food with them." She turned her face away, but she couldn't hold the sword in her hand.

Seeing the food handed out, those eyes moved slightly like phantoms reflected in the cold pool, as if there was some faint fire, a false and dim fire.

Everyone knows that such a small amount of food will not last long.

That night, the residents of this town ate the most satisfying meal they had eaten in a month, a batter made of flour mixed with snow water.

Teresia temporarily boarded in a resident's house. The woman in this family was a widow, her husband died, and only her eight-year-old daughter lived with her.

The woman was tall and thin, with a haggard complexion; the little girl was at the age of growing up, but she was also like a slender bean sprout, with withered yellow hair and bloodless skin.

Teresia looked at the slender little girl who looked like she could be blown down by a gust of wind at any time, moving a bench and standing by the stove to cook batter sensiblely, her eyes were shining with innocence and joy.

Looking at the haggard and weak woman in front of her coughing unceasingly, she still did not forget to thank her: "Thank you, Lord Valkyrie, thank you for giving us food."

fell into silence.

The furniture in the house is very old. The wooden tables and stools in front of me are full of repair marks, and they tend to fall apart when sitting on them. The clothes of the women and daughters are covered with patches, and they have been washed plain white. With only one oil lamp lit, the whole room looked very dark and gloomy.

A dilapidated hatchet was lying beside the random piles of firewood. The hunting bow hanging on the wall was yellow and black as if it had rusted. The hole was patched again.

The little girl finished cooking the batter and came over with a bowl. The woman put her arms around her daughter and asked her to say hello to Teresia.

"Our rice noodles are all given to us by this kind-hearted Valkyrie, my daughter is good, thank you to the Valkyrie."

"Thank you, Sister Valkyrie." The little girl said sweetly, bringing the bowl to Teresia.

"Sister, eat first."

"Thank you."

Teresia silently took the bowl and took a sip. It wasn't very tasty, but the little girl beside her kept her eyes shining and licked her lips unconsciously, as if she was drinking some delicious food from the world.

She put the bowl down.

"Sister, don't you want to eat?" The little girl raised her head innocently and asked.

Teresia smiled reluctantly and stroked her hair: "Sister, I'm already full in advance, you can eat."

"Great!"

The little girl cheered, picked up the bowl, didn't feel it was hot, and was about to drink it impatiently, when her lips just touched the edge of the bowl, she suddenly turned her head to look at the disfigured mother beside her, and handed the bowl to her again. hand.

"Mom eats first, and my daughter is not hungry. There is still some in the pot, and my daughter will eat what is in the pot."

After finishing speaking, as if she was afraid that her mother would refuse, she put the bowl into her mother's hand, trotted back to the stove in three steps and two steps, added water to boil with the little batter left at the bottom of the pot, and held it in her two small hands. I drank a bowl of thin soup in small sips.

"I'm sorry, the house is so empty that you made Lord Valkyrie laugh at you." The woman forced a smile, but her face was calm and dead.

"Where's your...husband?"

"A few years ago, I heard that the Lingsi Group found a rare mineral in the northwest and there was a shortage of miners. He said something in his mouth that he would fight for us, but he never came back. He seemed to be dead." The woman said calmly. Said.

"Is there no... pension?" Teresia asked.

"In the winter of the second year, the grain merchants of Lingsi Group gave us ten catties of extra rice."

The woman's tone was unwavering, and she stated expressionlessly, as if this incident didn't happen to her.

Her eyes were gray and without light, her heart was already dead, and now she couldn't even bring up hatred.

At this time, the little girl drank the thin soup in three gulps, licked all the soup in the bowl, walked to Teresia, opened her eyes and asked expectantly:
"Sister Valkyrie, will you come to our town in the future?"

"Do you want us to come here often?"

"Of course I hope." The little girl said with a naive smile, "Because when you come, sister, my mother and I will have batter to eat."

There was hope in her eyes.

Teresia was even more afraid to look into the little girl's eyes.

(End of this chapter)