It was a familiar scene. Catherine thought.
Perhaps it was because the light in the room was too bright, or perhaps it was because of her injuries that she was in a trance, but Catherine seemed to see the snowy day when she was young. It snowed every day, dyeing the mountains and everything was covered with a layer of white gauze. The sunlight refracted the snow with a bright light that could even hurt one\'s eyes. On that brilliant morning, the man said to her, "Let\'s live here from now on!"
It was a small village located at the foot of a snow-capped mountain. There were not many people in the village, and there were less than thirty families sparsely distributed. The villagers were very kind. At least they were not hostile or repelled by outsiders. They even helped to pull wood so that the man could build a wooden house in an open space in the village. This small wooden house had been the warmest house Catherine had ever lived in.
It was already winter when they arrived, and there was little food stored. The villagers shared their small amount of food to help Catherine and Roland get through the long winter. When spring came, he began to participate in hunting. Every day, he went into the snowy mountains with the hunters to catch less dangerous wild beasts. Gradually, their lives began to take a turn for the better.
Catherine also made a few friends of the same age in the village. The spring time was happy. The children did not get much food, just enough to fill their stomachs. But they didn\'t have to work. After preparing the three meals every day, Catherine spent more time playing all kinds of fun games with her friends.
Spring was also short, and summer was dangerous.
Anyone who lived on the surface knew that summer was the season when most dangerous species were active. This activity would last until autumn, and then winter was the least. There was almost no spring, and then the cycle began again. The four seasons came and went. By summer, the children were forbidden to leave the village. Because outside the village, even in the usually relatively safe woods, wolves or other dangerous creatures would occasionally appear.
He still went into the mountains with the hunters every day, and even began to take on the role of a lumberjack. All of this was just to make their lives better.
On a starry night, they sat under a tree stump in front of the wooden house and he said, "Catherine, I will take care of you. So, you just have to live happily. "
That warm smile was still fresh in Catherine's memory.
The next day, he went into the mountains, but he did not come back until evening. That day, Catherine stood outside the house and waited for the sun to set. It was not until the moon was high in the sky that the hunters escaped back. They ran into high-level dangerous species, and many people died. And he, in order to save the remaining people, resolutely lured that dangerous beast away. Catherine listened in silence, then returned to her room alone and finished the dinner on the table in the darkness.
That night, the bread was hard and the water was cold. Her small body lying on the bed was cold to the core.
However, a miracle happened. Three days later, he returned with a body full of injuries. Kathlyn still remembered that he patted her head with his blood-stained hand and said, "Don't worry, I won't die before I see you grow up."
Catherine believed in his promise.
Then, life seemed to return to its original track.
The upheaval came in the winter of the third year.
That morning the sun was as bright as it had been when they first arrived at the village. However, the brightness was a little strange, so bright that it made people panic. That morning, a huge figure appeared at the entrance of the village. Catherine's entire body stiffened when she saw it. It was a beautiful, huge, and dignified giant snake. However, it did not bring good luck to the village. On the contrary, it brought slaughter and blood.
All the hunters joined the battle, and he was no exception. However, the constant screams outside the house reminded Catherine that the situation was very bad for the village. She didn't dare to make a sound. At that time, she was still young, so she could only hide herself under the bed, hoping to see him again. Perhaps the prayer worked, and he did come back. However, he was missing an arm and was dripping with blood.
Only the smile on his face remained warm. He said to Catherine, "We have to go. This village is finished. That's the king snake, the Black Twilight King Snake! We're no match for it at all … "
Suddenly, there was a loud rumble, and Catherine suddenly realized that the light in the room had suddenly brightened. Then, the cold wind poured in mercilessly, causing his hair to sway unsteadily. Then he suddenly left the ground and Catherine screamed. It turned out that the roof had already been lifted by the king snake. The giant snake bit the man's lower body and lifted him up.
Even in the last moments of his life, he tried to leave behind a trace of warmth and prevent fear from approaching the girl he was willing to give up his life for. "I'm sorry, Catherine," he said. "I can't keep our promise. You have to live. No matter what, live, my daughter! "
Then, the king snake raised its head and swallowed the man into the mouth of the abyss!
Catherine suddenly stood up and found that she was still in the infirmary of the Grai mothership, not the village where she had lived when she was a child. Then she noticed that there was hot liquid flowing down both sides of her cheeks, and she smiled self-deprecatingly. She wiped away her tears calmly and looked at the repair machine. "I thought I was used to being alone," she whispered. "So I'm still afraid of loneliness …"
Because he was afraid, he didn't want him to leave. Whether it was the father who could no longer remember his appearance, or the man who had entered his life …
"I don't want to be alone anymore." She said.
When Allen opened his eyes, the nutrient base liquid was gradually flowing through the drainage hole. He moved his body a little and found that it was full of vitality. The hidden injuries from before had quietly healed, and Allen felt that he was in a better state than ever. Even if he bumped into Karin now, he was confident that he would face her head-on. After the top cover was opened, Allen's muscles flicked and the sensors on his body bounced off.
He got out of the repair machine, and the light in the room was so bright that he almost closed his eyes. After a while, his eyes adjusted to the light, and then he saw Catherine lying on the ground. From the girl's nose and mouth, traces of blood with a blue halo were slowly flowing out.
His heart skipped a beat, and Allen didn't care about dressing. With a stomp on the ground, he had already flashed in front of Catherine. He reached out to support Catherine, feeling that the girl's body temperature was incomparably cold, and only her chest was slightly warm. Her internal injuries were so heavy that Allen felt an extremely uncomfortable feeling in his heart. He took off Catherine's coat as quickly as possible, including her thin underwear, and sent her naked into the recovery machine.
Allen snatched the tactical board and looked at it for a moment before finding the option to activate it. The repair machine restarted, and the nutrient base liquid gradually flooded over Catherine, looking at the little face through the observation window on the top cover. Allen clenched his fists tightly, and his nails even dug into his palms because he was too hard.
"You'll get better." He said, "Next, let me protect you."
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