Five years of collapse and three years of simulation

Chapter 477 What are you afraid of?

Returning from the cold snowy field to a slightly dilapidated but warm room, a large group of children from the orphanage guarded the bed.

"Everyone go to rest first, Orleans, you put the younger children to sleep, too many people here will disturb the priest."

Theresa wiped her red eyes and said to a boy next to her.

Orleans nodded to the boy nicknamed Er Fatty, and took all the children out.

"Let's go, go, go to bed first, the priest will wake up tomorrow."

Not long after the children went out, the priest lying on the bed shook his eyelids a few times, and then slowly opened them.

"Theresa?" The first thing the priest saw was Theresa, and he tried to sit up.

Teresa hurried over to help the priest up, put the pillow on the head of the bed, and let the priest lean on it.

"Father, you're finally awake." Teresa, who had wiped away her tears, shed tears again. Fortunately, the priest woke up.

"Theresa...I, why am I here?" the priest asked weakly.

Feeling the weakness of his body, the priest leaned against the wall to take a few breaths, and took the warm water from Joachim's hand.

"I made you worry." The priest returned the water glass to Joachim, and took out the cold bitter gourd pie from his pocket.

"Here, this is your favorite bitter gourd cake." The priest glanced left and right, and found that all the snacks he bought were on the side, and then said apologetically, "Ah? I'm sorry, it's already cold."

Teresa took the bitter gourd cake with the temperature of the priest and shook her head, "Now is not the time to talk about this, what happened, why did you fall in the snow when we found you?"

"And your injuries? How did you do that?"

Otto comforted: "These injuries were caused by accidental falls. I'm just a little sick, and I'll be fine after a night of sleep."

Bronya looked at Otto intently. The first thing this man did when he woke up was to give the things he bought to the children instead of worrying about his body.

Yu Duchen also said that his energy was about to be exhausted, and in a few days, Otto would reach the end of his life.

Xier, who observed carefully, noticed that Bronya's face was a little strange, and asked in a low voice, "Sister Bronya, what's wrong with you?"

"Bronya is fine..." Bronya replied with a complicated expression.

"It's just that the priest is fine..." Joachim heaved a sigh of relief watching the conversation between the priest and Theresa.

The priest turned his eyes to Joachim, thought about it, and finally asked in a concerned tone: "Joachim, how is your luggage prepared?"

Joachim lowered his head, as if he had exhausted all his concern for the priest just now, and the figure replied in a small way, "Everything is ready, anyway... there are not many things."

"Oh." The priest sighed insignificantly, and raised his hand to touch Joachim's head, but Joachim subconsciously avoided the priest's palm.

The priest's frustrated hand paused for a moment, retracted his palm and fumbled for the cross in his heart, or...do you want to leave?

"I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, let's go to bed early tonight." The priest said silently, and then took off the cross on his chest.

"When I went shopping in the town today, I was thinking of choosing a farewell gift for you. In the end, I think this cross is the most suitable."

The cross is something that follows the priest. It is impossible to verify the time when it was made. It was obtained by the priest from the previous priest.

This contains the entrustment of every generation of priests, and there is a faint power of protection from the gods.

Even though Joachim was about to leave, the priest still wanted to give Joachim the cross containing his favorite.

Otto handed the cross to Joachim, "This cross has the power of a god, and it has prevented many disasters for me. Since you are leaving, I think this is the best gift. I believe it will be the best gift in the future." It can help you through many disasters and keep you safe."

Joachim shook his head stubbornly, and said stubbornly, "It's still not necessary..."

He understood what the priest meant. The priest always wanted him to take over, but he didn't expect that he was about to leave, and the priest still wanted to hand over the cross to him.

But without agreeing to become the next priest, Joachim would not have this significant cross.

Teresa helped and said, "Joachim, please accept it."

"I don't need the protection of some god?"

Joachim never raised his head, maybe he was about to leave, and his tone became agitated.

"If you kill people in the name of goodness, can you get God's protection?"

This was what Joachim cared most about. It was impossible not to hate the priest.

Joachim was a normal person, no matter what name the other party used to kill his father, he could never truly forgive the other party.

"Joachim!" Teresa said in a more serious tone, "You don't understand the priest's true intentions, this cross..."

Joachim snorted and looked at Teresa, "You're the one who doesn't understand!"

After speaking, Joachim turned and left the room.

"Wait!" The priest stretched out his hand and shouted anxiously.

Because the movement was too big, the priest fell to the ground all at once.

Teresa hurried to help the priest, and said worriedly: "The sun has already set, and it will be dangerous for Joachim to go outside alone!"

"Theresa, take good care of the priest. I'll go find Joachim." Bronya walked out the door, leaving no time for Theresa to refute.

The snowfield where the sun sets is brighter than other places.

Bronya chased after the footprints left by Joachim, hit the back of a hillside far away, and found Joachim sitting on the ground.

"Joachim." Bronya walked over.

Joachim glanced back, but didn't answer, just picked up the clod from the ground and threw it into the distance.

"If you have anything to say, go back and talk about it. Everyone is worried about you."

Joachim, who usually doesn't think too much, has a lot of things on his mind at the moment.

He is obviously his father's murderer, so why should he leave himself in the orphanage to become the next priest and let himself become that kind of person.

I want to leave and don't want that person's things, why do people still persuade his subordinates, and say that they don't understand the priest's intentions.

"Leave me alone." Joachim replied, "What you are worried about is not me at all, but the priest who can't let me go."

"I don't think about anything right now, just leave me alone for a while."

"Roar!"

Strange beast roars sounded from the hillside, and Joachim saw a two-meter-tall strange beast that looked like a centaur.

"Ah?" Joachim was startled, and kept backing away, "Is... what is it?"

"It's Honkai Beast!" Bronya looked around.

The priest is about to pass away, and without the support of the priest's spiritual power, the fragments of Yu Duchen cannot protect this snowfield day and night as before.

Not only one Honkai Beast came over, but a total of four were moving towards the two of them quickly.

Bronya called out the bunny in heavy equipment and rushed towards the Houkai Beast, blocking four advancing Houkai Beasts by herself.

"Don't...don't come over!" Joachim yelled in a trembling and panicked voice, putting his arms in front of him.

Bronya turned her head and saw Joachim approaching by a Honkai Beast from the side.

It is estimated that the artillery of the heavy rabbit will definitely hurt Joachim at such a short distance.

"Joachim, don't be afraid, stand up and run, stand up and run away!"

"boom!"

When she was anxiously dealing with the Houkai Beast beside her, gunshots came from afar.

The Honkai Beast who raised the weapon in his hand was hit by a single shot, and his body slowly fell down.

Bronya also speeded up and killed all the Houkai beasts in front of her.

"God...Father..." Joachim saw the figure in the distance, his voice was crying, and he was about to cry out from fright.

The priest in the distance smiled at Joachim, his weak body fell to the ground, and the pistol in his hand turned into dots of light and disappeared.

"Huh...huh...that's great, you're all fine." The priest who fell on the ground said weakly.

After finishing speaking, the priest lost his voice, and Bronya hurried over and squatted on the ground to check the priest's body.

The power of that shot just now was Yu Duchen's ability.

The priest has passed out because of too much energy consumption.

Bronya wanted to help the fainted priest up, who knew that this tall man was so heavy, so Bronya would definitely not be able to help him up.

"He's fainted, Joachim, come and help me."

Joachim sat on the spot trembling constantly, his face full of fear, which caused an unknown fire to rise in Bronya's heart.

The priest passed out just because he saved Joachim, but Joachim was actually indifferent.

I don't know if it was because he was afraid, or because he was running away from the priest, but Joachim didn't seem to come to help at all.

In this way, Bronya became even more angry, grabbed the cross that had slipped from the priest's pocket on the ground, and threw it viciously.

"What are you running away from!?" Bronya shouted angrily.

"Is it my past? Or everyone in the orphanage? Or this priest who killed your father and took care of you for several years?"

"Neither, you're just running from yourself, you coward!"

Joachim kept shaking his head with tears in his eyes. Apart from being responsible for younger children, he was just an ordinary child. The Honkai Beast had already frightened her.

With panic, Joachim grabbed his hair with both hands and shouted into the air: "I don't know, I don't know what to do is right!"

Bronya froze for a moment, she...wasn't like this before, I don't know what to do is correct.

Maybe it was comforting Joachim, or maybe comforting herself, Bronya thought of what Teresa said to herself that night in Haiyuan City.

"There are not so many right and wrong in this world." Bronya said: "The so-called right and wrong are just the right and wrong of things, and such right and wrong cannot judge a person's right or wrong."

"A person's right or wrong is just whether he takes due responsibility after he does something."

"Bronya knows it's hard to tell the difference, because... Bronya was in the same situation before, in the same situation as you."

"Since you are afraid, you should speak out. Don't be silent, and don't insist that it doesn't matter. Tell those you are willing to tell and listen to, as well as your family."

"Don't wait until everything is irreparable to regret it!"

Bronya was lecturing Joachim, but she was thinking about sister Mei, idiot Kiyana, Han Jiang, Teacher Jizi, and Teresa.

When she goes back, she must express all the distress in her heart and what she wants to say.

Not every battle of the Valkyries will be safe and sound. Only by expressing your feelings in time can you not leave any regrets.

Xi'er's words... She is still too young, and her depression should be left to those who can bear it.

Thinking about it, Bronya didn't realize that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised. It turned out that there were so many people she could confide to.

At this time, Bronya's surroundings are emitting light that ordinary people cannot see. These lights come from the origin of this world bubble, and enter Bronya's body bit by bit, repairing some of Bronya's body. damage.

Including the emotional center that was burned out due to the X-10 experiment, but because the repair was very slow, Bronya couldn't feel it at all in a short time.

"I know, I know..." With tears in his eyes, Joachim yelled at the sky, as if he wanted to yell out all the anguish and grievance in his heart.

While wiping tears, he walked to the other side of the priest, and together with Bronya helped the priest from the ground to Joachim's arms.

After a while, Teresa chased out with several older children from the orphanage.

He slipped out under the pretext of going to the bathroom, and he came to find Joachim.

Teresa cast a blameful glance at the fainted priest, running around in this state, and when she recovers, she must pester the priest to make him apologize.

"Joachim, are you alright?" Teresa asked Joachim concerned after finding out that the priest was fine.

Joachim shook his head silently, indicating that he was fine.

The next day, Xier and Bronya had already woken up, lying on their respective quilts and whispering, when they heard a hasty knock on the door.

"It's me, Teresa."

After the two got up, they simply washed up and asked Teresa what happened.

Teresa looked in the direction of Joachim's room and sighed, "He left after all, without saying goodbye to any of us."

I thought Bronya and Joachim were alone for a while last night, and they would say something.

Who knew that Bronya was still in bed with Xier when she came to ask the two of them.

"You two come with me, the priest has something to tell us."

The three walked into the priest's room together, and the weak priest lay on the bed.

The breakfast on the table beside the bed was already cold, so I didn't touch it.

After seeing the priest, Bronya and Seele looked surprised.

Compared with yesterday, there are many dark red lines on the priest's body that are dense like spider webs.

It's the erosion of Houkai energy... Is the priest finally unable to hold on?
The fragments of Yu Duchen... It seems that it has not eliminated the negative impact that Honkai can have on the priest.

(End of this chapter)