Five years of collapse and three years of simulation

Chapter 473
Seeing someone talking, Teresa smiled.

Some of the partners left, and everyone was very sad.

But this is a natural choice and no one can change it.

Today is Karel's departure, tomorrow may be another, or everyone is safe.

The dead have gone to another world, and those who are still alive need to continue to live and look forward.

"No, Xier." Teresa shook her head, and said to Xier affectionately: "We only eat beets on Tuesday, but we already ate them yesterday. Today is Wednesday, and it's goulash with potatoes."

Teresa intentionally raised her voice, as well as the expectations in her words, in order to enliven the dull atmosphere, but it seemed to have no effect.

The younger children can't recover from their grief for the time being, and the younger ones should understand...

Teresa looked at Bronya, and asked, "Bronya, do you think there are more potatoes or more beef in today's soup?"

Bronya tilted her head and said, "Is it a potato?"

"Wrong answer, Bronya!" Teresa pointed at Bronya and said, "Then, today I will punish you to eat more beef and grow taller."

Bronya deliberately glanced at Teresa's rise. Although it seemed a bit bad to think about it when everyone was sad, she seemed to be a little taller than Theresa.

"Theresa."

Joachim, who was next to Therese, cried out.

"Well, what's wrong?" Teresa asked.

Joachim said, "I know you want us to cheer up, but you don't have to force yourself to comfort us."

"Karel is gone, everyone needs a little time...including you."

Joachim said, bowing his head.

For a while, no one spoke in the room.

Theresa turned around silently, and went to the kitchen to serve the goulash with potatoes that the priest had prepared.

As Teresa said, today there are more beef than potatoes. The fresh and tender beef is in the hot soup, and the aroma is not suppressed by the pot cover, but fills the whole kitchen.

Bronya got up to help Teresa, but Teresa did not refuse.

After distributing the meals to everyone, Teresa emphasized the meal several times before she heard the sound of Xilala picking up the bowls and chopsticks.

"Joachim, do you really... stop thinking about that matter?" Theresa said something that only the two of them knew.

Joachim retorted, "I understand, but I've already made up my mind."

"OK then."

There was no sound at the dinner table, and the room fell silent again.

"Huh? Are you eating?" Father Otto came in through the back door, looked at the children and asked.

Theresa turned her head and looked at her father's clothes, "Father, you changed your clothes, are you going to town?"

The priest hummed, "Winter is coming soon, I want to go to the town to buy more ingredients, Teresa, do you want to eat bitter gourd pancakes?"

Teresa nodded cheerfully, "Yeah, I want to eat, the warm bitter gourd cake is really delicious."

"Why...is there still that kind of thing for sale?" Xier asked in a low voice.

Bronya explained: "Where there is a demand, there is a market. Teresa once used her own efforts to add something like bitter melon juice to the supermarket purchase list of St. Freya Academy."

"Judging from everything we've seen now, this orphanage is not that rich, so I think this is the setting of this world, so don't think too much about it."

Hearing Teresa's needs, the priest said cheerfully, "Well, I'll buy a few more this time, and you can share them when you come back."

Joachim complained with a speechless face: "Father, there is no way to share the bitter gourd cake. No one can eat it except Teresa. In the end, it's not all Teresa's."

"Ah ha ha..." The priest concealed it for a while. Compared with other children, he seemed to have a little preference for Teresa.

"By the way, Joachim." The priest thought of another matter, and said in a very flat tone: "Mrs. Liesel will pick you up tomorrow. Have you packed your luggage?"

Joachim lowered his head and said disappointedly, "Not yet..."

"Hurry up and get ready, take the time today to say goodbye to everyone, and don't leave any regrets."

After finishing speaking, the priest pointed at everyone, "I'm going out, so I will trouble you with housework, Teresa."

"Be careful on the road."

While the children were eating, Teresa began cleaning up the floor where everyone had trampled on it.

Because of Karel's departure, everyone hasn't played with toys these days, and Teresa suddenly feels that there is a lot less work to do.

"Theresa, is there anything I can do for you?"

Bronya feels that there seems to be no new breakthrough in continuing to develop like this, and the plot still needs to be promoted by herself.

"I'll think about it." Teresa thought about the housework she had to do, and some things she didn't have time to do.

"There are still a lot of clothes that haven't been washed, the account books of the orphanage haven't been checked, and the roof of the innermost material collapsed last night and needs to be repaired..."

There are too many things accumulated in the past few days, and after a little thought, I can think of a bunch of things that need to be done.

"Also, I saw in the kitchen just now that there is not enough wood. Can I trouble you to cut some wood on the opposite hillside? I want to prepare more while the weather is not too cold."

Teresa grabbed her kerchief, "Um... These tasks were originally done by boys with strong strength."

"But we've lost Karel, Joachim...he's leaving the orphanage too...so..."

Teresa's complexion suddenly fell, and Bronya was a little at a loss.

Seeing this, Xier came over, "It's okay, let Xier and sister Bronya go collect wood together."

Teresa said apologetically, "I'm sorry to bother you, remember to come back before the sun goes down."

"I probably... also need to be alone."

Seele and Bronya left the orphanage and walked towards the opposite hillside. Just after turning over a small hill, a quantum shadow appeared on the hill.

Bronya and Seele looked at each other, and they attacked from left to right.

Quantum Shadow was quickly cleaned up, and the two continued on their way.

After eliminating three waves of quantum shadows in total, the two arrived at the downhill opposite the orphanage.

"call……"

Xi'er was panting heavily, she was a little tired from the battle just now.

"Xie'er, don't hold on with me."

Bronya stayed by Xier's side, looking at the vast expanse of snow under the hillside.

"Something's wrong. Apart from Quantum Shadow, why didn't we see other animals on the way?"

Bronya also grew up in the snow field and is very familiar with similar environments, but the environment here seems a bit strange.

There were no small animals, and no traces of large carnivores were seen.

There was Honkai energy in the air, but no Honkai beast was seen.

"Sister Bronya, look ahead, there are dry bushes ahead." Xier said, and trotted over.

Seele waved one hand, calling out the sickle nursery rhyme.

It was very easy to cut the shadow of Quantum just now, and the number of these bushes and the number of dry ones is even more important.

Bronya opened her mouth, just chopping some wood... Xier was too serious.

"Xie'er, you don't need to do this, let me do it."

Seele shook her head, and continued to chop branches with nursery rhymes that were comparable to artifacts.

"I also want to share a little pressure for Sister Bronya."

"Life here is like the orphanage where we grew up. Seeing those children is like seeing us in the past."

"Although the days are very hard, everyone will find the direction of hard work together, maintain small happiness together, and overcome difficulties together."

"Although...we lost our original family members, the others in the orphanage are our new family members."

After a rough chop, Seele bent over to collect the stray branches and place them in the clearing where there was no snow.

While Bronya was helping, Xier continued: "But... I feel that the children here don't seem to be united. Joachim, are you leaving?"

Bronya denied Xier's words, "Xier, that's not called disunity."

"Xie'er, imagine, when we were in the Cocolia Orphanage, did many of our children have conflicts?"

"This is a problem that is encountered in normal collective life."

"Also, Joachim seems to be adopted, which is a very good thing for the children in the orphanage, but Joachim's reaction is a bit strange." Bronya thought about Joachim The look on her face when she was talking to Teresa.

"It seems that there is something hidden, we need to go back and ask."

"Okay, sister Bronya."

Bronya looked at the placed wood, and began to take out the ropes brought from the orphanage, put the wood on the rope one by one, and finally tied it up.

"The wood is almost collected, we should go back."

"Uh-huh."

Two weak girls, each carrying a half-person-high timber, left two sets of footprints on the snow field.

After returning to the orphanage, Teresa happened to be standing at the door.

Walking up to Bronya and Xier, he lifted the wood they were carrying with ease.

"Thank you for your help. Come in and get warmer."

Teresa put the wood next to the central stove in the room, sorted the wood familiarly, and filled the stove with some fire.

Some wood is ready for use now, and some needs to be saved for the coldest part of winter.

Looking at Teresa's familiar movements, it is not difficult to imagine that she is very used to doing these things.

Looking at the flames dancing under the stove cover, Bronya asked Teresa, "When did Teresa come to the orphanage?"

Teresa smiled, "I don't remember my parents at all, the earliest memory...is when I was lying on the priest's shoulders."

"He tied me up and went to cut wood in the snow. There was still snow in the sky, but it wasn't cold at all. The priest was very warm."

"I'm not the first child to come, but I should be the one who stayed the longest. I like it here and I have no plans to leave in the future."

No wonder the priest has a preference for Teresa. It is inevitable that the child who I have watched and grown up with the longest time has more love for Theresa.

"And what about Joachim?" Bronya asked.

Teresa was a little nervous, "Why did you ask him?"

"During lunch, you seemed to have some disputes. He is leaving tomorrow. Bronya wants to know what happened."

"This..." Theresa bit her lip, "Promise me, don't tell anyone else."

"The priest taught that talking about other people behind their backs is a bad thing. Although you have grown up and understood these principles, this is the condition I told you. If you don't agree, I won't say it. .”

"No problem, neither Bronya nor Seele will speak out."

"Okay." Teresa trusted the two and said, "Actually, it's not that I have any conflict with Joachim, but the problem between the priest and him."

Xi'er asked curiously, "Father...has anything happened between the priest and him?"

Teresa took a breath, and slowly said a fact that shocked Bronya and Seele at the same time.

"Joachim's father was killed by a priest."

"How could this be!" Bronya exclaimed subconsciously.

The priest killed Joachim's father, but he was caring for Joachim in this orphanage, and at the same time Joachim knew about it...it was...too complicated.

Teresa said: "As far as I know, Joachim's father is a doctor who has been studying how to bring back Joachim's dead mother. He has violated the forbidden area."

"In the beginning, Joachim's father used small white mice to conduct experiments, and later, they turned into kittens and puppies. These were done in a secretive way, and there was nothing wrong with them."

"But..." Teresa paused again, "When the priest finally found out, he had already extended his hand to the homeless orphan..."

"Ah?" Xi'er couldn't believe it, "How could it be!"

"So, the priest killed Joachim's father, and Joachim became an orphan."

Facing such a complicated problem, Bronya was silent for a few seconds to calm herself down.

This world is not the normal world, don't think about it with normal thinking.

Returning the question to its essence, Bronya asked: "So, did Joachim hate the priest from that world?"

Teresa shook her head, "If he really has hatred in his heart, it will be a relief."

"Joachim knew what his father had committed, and tried to stop and persuade his father, but there was nothing he could do."

"So, he didn't hold grudges against the priest." Teresa quickly added: "No, not at all."

"However, that's human nature. He didn't really blame the priest. What he hated was the hatred for taboo knowledge. What he hated was that his father knew he was making a mistake, so why did he try?"

"Joachim once told me in private that if his father succeeds in experimenting with kittens and puppies and finally saves his mother, then that's okay, it doesn't matter if there are taboos or not."

"But you should never use the lives of street children to do experiments, to do some experiments that are almost impossible, because life is the same, and the mother will not be happy if the life saved by countless people has been killed. Bar."

(End of this chapter)