It is impossible for the girl to find the evil god in the textbook

she is still alive?

The old man was taken aback, and then dragged the girl out of the snow without hesitation. Although she was old, Mrs. Mapel's body was still strong, and the girl was very light. Successfully dragged into the hunter's cabin.

There are some common living utensils in the hut, including a stove, an iron pot and a worn-out fawn skin that no one wants.

Mrs. Mapel carried the girl to the wooden bed and covered her naked body with deerskin.

She gasped for a while and rested for a while, then lit the dry wood in the cabin with a flint, and a fire started in the furnace.

The old man carefully opened the wooden door, scooped up a pot of snow from the door, set it on the stove and boiled it into water.

Only then did the old man take a closer look at the girl buried in the snow.

The young girl has a delicate face, she looks only fourteen or fifteen years old, and some tattered cloth strips are wrapped around her body.It was the remains of clothing, with burnt marks on it.They don't seem to have been violently torn apart, more like they've been burned like this.

In addition, there is a silver pendant hanging around the girl's neck, which is a distorted star pattern, and the edges of the pattern are blackened, as if it has been burned by a flame.

The strange thing is that although her clothes and belongings seemed to have been burned by flames, there were no signs of burns on the girl's body.

Reminiscent of the firelight I saw just now, the reason for this girl's appearance became more confusing.

But it's nothing to worry about. The old man's husband died in an avalanche a few years ago. Maybe the girl was sent by Lord Nodens to accompany her.

After all, in the Land of Snow where gods walk the land, it is not surprising that anything happens.

The snow had already melted in the iron pot, and the old man scooped up a spoonful of warm water, pried open the girl's teeth, and gave her some to drink.

About an hour later, the girl's complexion became a little ruddy, she coughed a few times, and then opened her eyes.

Those were a pair of rare pink eyes, a characteristic only possessed by some rare mixed races.She sat up from the wooden bed in a daze, wrapping the deerskin tightly because of the cold.

"Where am I...?"

The girl seemed to feel a little confused, and looked around blankly.

"Ma'am, who are you?"

Mapel handed the other party a bowl of water, and patiently explained one by one:

"This is the hunter's hut in the snowy forest. I am Mapel, the shepherd from a nearby village. I found you passed out in the snow... What is your name, child, and where are your parents? Why did you pass out? In this kind of place?"

The girl frowned her beautiful eyebrows, thinking seriously, a slight pain appeared on her face.

"I don't know...I don't seem to remember anything."

"Have you even forgotten your own name?"

The pain and bewilderment on the other party's face didn't look fake, and the old man felt a little surprised.

The girl shook her head blankly. She covered her head with one hand, and seemed to be trying hard to remember, but she only got a throbbing pain from her head.

It might be a good thing, too, Mapel thought of how she looked in the snow.Forgetting the past means not having to bear more pain, which may be a kind of redemption in a sense.

The wind and snow outside the house seemed to be a little lighter. The goats bleated, and it was getting late. They seemed to be urging the old man to return to the village earlier.

The old man thought about it seriously, and she thought that this girl could not be left here alone.

"If you don't mind living with an old man, come back to the village with me. It's not safe to go into the woods at night."

The girl nodded blankly.

Mapel found some worn-out clothes in the wooden house. They were obviously much larger in size, and they looked a little funny on the girl's body.

She pushed open the wooden door, took the girl's hand and left the cabin, followed the path in the forest towards Ulier Village,

The snow stopped, and the emerald moon peeked out from behind the dark clouds, and the emerald green moonlight sprinkled on the ground through the cracks in the ash forest.

The girl's figure seemed extraordinarily petite, and even Mapel, who was already a little stooped, was taller than her.She grasped the old man's rough hand like a young child frightened of the night forest.

"It would be nice to have a more convenient title. Before you remember your own name, well... I'll call you... Tina."

The girl was silent,

The old man took this silence as tacit consent.

Chapter 39 Worry

The girl named Tina sat quietly at the table, looking at the star-shaped pendant in a daze.She was wearing a thick wool coat, old clothes the old man had found at home, a little too big, but still very warm.

The girl's expression was blank, and she occasionally showed a confused expression.

This was Tina's third afternoon at Madame Mapel's house, and she had been like this since the first day, except when she was sleeping.

【Would you like to be my student? 】

【...I haven't defeated you yet, before that, you are definitely not allowed to die! 】

[I hope she can have a life that truly belongs to her. 】

......

Some grotesque fragments appeared in front of her eyes, they were slowly breaking apart, and the sound gradually disappeared.But one of the voices stayed stubbornly longer, it seemed to be whispering in her ear.

【What have I done...】

【In the end we died together... It's not too bad a result】

......

This is an unfamiliar female voice. Compared with other lights and shadows, her presence is clearer, but despite this, the other person's face is still very blurry.

A slight pain came from her head, and the girl tried her best to search for her memory, but all she got was a blank.

Who is she?

Why do I feel... a little familiar, but also a little sad.

Suddenly, the room burst into flames, the flames wrapped the girl's whole body, licking her skin, the terrible burning sensation almost made her suffocate!

Tina opened her eyes suddenly, panting violently.

As the burning sensation subsided, the girl regained her composure.Tina wiped the cold sweat off her forehead, she found that she fell asleep lying on the table at some point.

"Tina, lunch is ready."

She responded, left the room, and sat across from Mapel.

Tina took the wooden spoon and bowl. Today's food is broth and white bread soaked until soft, and the drink is hot goat's milk with sugar and vanilla.

"Mr. Dupont and the others harvested a lot this time. Heh, there was even a big horned deer among the prey. He gave me some ribs. He is really a very kind gentleman."

Tina held the wooden spoon in one hand, feeling a little dazed.

"Tina, do you... remember anything?"

Madame Mapel stopped chattering and looked at her with concern.

The girl nodded, but immediately shook her head.

"Only some blurry fragments... I don't know if that counts as a memory, like seeing someone in a dream and not remembering it when you wake up."

The old man took a sip of goat's milk and slowly placed the wooden quilt on the table. She took Tina's hand to stop her trembling.

"Looking at you, it's a nightmare."

It was only then that Tina noticed that her body was still trembling, and the terrible burning sensation was still there, which made her feel palpitations.

"It's not bad to be able to forget the terrible things, just like nightmares always wake up."

"Don't be afraid, at least it's safe here."

Mapel pushed a glass of goat's milk in front of the girl.

"Ms. Maple..."

"Have a drink, this is the fresh goat's milk squeezed this morning, you will feel better."

Tina was stunned. Mapel's voice seemed to overlap with the voice of an old man she heard in her dream.

She tried to take a sip, and surprisingly, the mild sweetness made her fear a lot less.

The old man wiped the goat's milk from her mouth with a towel.Tina didn't resist, and the old man's breathing made her feel inexplicably at ease.

-

Tina stood busy in front of the stove and tasted the stew. Mapel went out to herd the sheep, and she needed to prepare dinner for the old man.

After that, more than two months have passed.

Tina has gradually gotten used to this kind of life. Apart from occasionally dreaming about people and things that confuse her, Tina spends less and less time deliberately searching for memories.Only before she rests every day, will she stare at the star-shaped pendant in a daze as before.

She instinctively felt that the people who appeared in the dream should be very important to her.But life now and Ms. Mapel were just as important to her.

The weather is slowly getting colder. According to Ms. Mapel, the closer to the end of the year, the weather will become more severe and snowstorms will come more frequently.This seems to be a little different from the climate in her impression, but it doesn't matter.

When the old man is away, she takes care of the chores in the house, including cleaning, washing clothes, and preparing dinner.All this takes a lot of time, and there is no extra effort to think about meaningless things.

The food in the stove was slowly getting cold, and Tina threw a few more pieces of firewood into the stove.She looked up at the sky outside the window. The blue moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, the night was dark, and snowflakes were falling outside the house.

The old man came back a little later than usual today.

At this time, there was a sound outside the door, and Mapel had driven the sheep into the barn.

Tina opened the door and dusted off some ice crystals and snow water melted by body temperature from the old man's body.

"Tina, go eat first today, I'm not feeling well."

The old man's voice was hoarse than usual, she returned to the room a little unsteadily, and fell on the bed.

She's ill.

Tina was a little overwhelmed. She invited the village doctor and bought some herbs, but Mapel's condition did not improve.

She was so old that even the common cold was becoming intractable in this frail body.Occasionally, this kind of thing happens in the village. In the snowy night, the old man stops breathing silently,

Ms. Maple will die?

Fear spread in Tina's heart. She covered the old man's forehead with a wet towel. The temperature there was so high that it almost reminded her of that vague burning sensation.

Suddenly, the girl opened her mouth almost instinctively, and uttered a short weird syllable.She didn't understand what language it was, it was more like the pronunciation memorized by the tongue itself after thousands of repetitions.