Chapter 272 Girl
This is a cursed world.
In 586 AD, a "great disaster" that swept the world occurred. A global earthquake occurred, and huge city ruins appeared overnight.
Then, dragons, angels, fairies and other alien creatures suddenly appeared. These alien creatures were not guests from other worlds, but sudden disasters.
Under the destruction of countless alien creatures, humans lost most of their land.
In order to survive, the humans of Europe united and established the great country of Midgard. Scholars founded the Pythagorean Academy to study the causes of the catastrophe and analyze how to keep humans alive.
But as time went on, the original dream was eroded by desire, corruption grew, and tyranny became rampant.
Midgard was originally established to allow human civilization to continue, but with the alternation of power, tyrannical rule began to emerge.
Ordinary people are living in dire straits and have no peace.
In this context, the aristocracy still lived well because they had the lower class people to exploit and oppress.
This oppression can last a lifetime because here, birth represents the future.
If you are born into a noble family, you will be greeted by beautiful days like heaven, but if you are born into a humble commoner, you will be greeted by a lifetime of labor and exploitation.
Even if the common people work hard throughout their lives, they will never have any chance to turn things around. Common people will always be common people, and will always be livestock in the eyes of the upper class, who can be disposed of and played with at will.
This is the norm of this era and also the sadness of this era.
The girl with light red eyes was born in such a country.
And her luck didn't seem to be very good, because she was born at the bottom of the country, and she was even born unfortunately.
The girl did not come into this world with blessings and flowers, but was born under the curse and rebuke of a woman named mother.
Her birth did not bring any benefits to the woman who became a mother, but instead made her already poor life even more difficult.
Of course, for various reasons, the girl's mother also did not love her. Instead, she often abused her. The girl grew up in this childhood without any warmth.
If nothing unexpected happens, the girl might be sold by her mother to a noble or .
But unfortunately, an accident occurred and a great famine broke out .
A sudden famine swept the kingdom, but only the common people, or the poor, were affected; the princes and nobles continued to live a comfortable life.
It was at this time of famine that the girl's mother's eyes changed when she looked at her.
"We originally had to wait for a while, but ... we are out of food."
The woman looked at the girl who didn't know what was going on and walked over muttering.
"What's wrong, mother?"
The girl shrank back in fear as she watched her mother approaching her. In the past, whenever her mother approached her, it always meant that she was going to be beaten.
But this time, her mother rarely beat her.
"Come on, I'll take you somewhere."
The woman looked coldly at the girl who was called a child but was actually a burden. There was no warmth in her eyes. The child was born accidentally, so it was impossible for her to have any feelings for her.
Besides, this era does not allow her to develop feelings for a burden, she will not be able to survive.
The woman roughly grabbed the girl's hand and walked towards the door. Faced with the woman's rough grab, a trace of pain flashed across the girl's face, but she did not cry out.
She didn't dare to scream because her mother hated her and would beat her if she was not happy with anything.
Outside the house is a dirty street. This is the slum that exists in every country, and the people who survive here are naturally the poor who use all means to survive.
Because of the famine, you could see skinny figures lying on the ground every few steps. They might be too hungry to move, or they might have starved to death.
But what does this have to do with the woman? She now has only one thought in her mind, which is to use this burden to exchange for some money to buy food.
If this burden grows bigger, perhaps it can be sold for more money, but if it is not sold now, I am afraid that it will not be sold until this burden grows bigger.
"Mom, where are we going?"
The little girl didn't know what would happen next, but she felt inexplicably happy in her heart, because this was the first time her mother took her out and held her hand.
She once hid far away in the street corner and saw that on the clean and tidy streets, parents were holding hands with their children.
Although she had never seen her father since she was a child and her mother often beat her, the girl occasionally fantasized about this scene in her unpolluted mind.
The woman didn't answer the girl, nor did she even look at her. She just kept walking forward with determination.
Seeing this, the girl didn't hesitate to ask any more questions.
After about ten minutes, the streets gradually became cleaner, but it was only relatively clean, at least much cleaner than the slums.
After a moment, the woman's destination appeared in front of her, and the girl who was being pulled gradually turned pale.
Although she was illiterate, she knew the place because many of her slum friends who used to play with her were sold there.
According to the adults, it seems to be a place called Women's Branch.
Those friends who used to play with her have never appeared since they were sold there. That big house, which is more gorgeous than the surrounding houses, is a man-eating devil's den in the eyes of the little girl.
Feeling the girl's resistance, the woman pulled hard, and the girl staggered instantly. Feeling the strength of her mother's hand, the girl shook her body and stopped resisting.
After making sure the girl had surrendered, the woman walked towards the big house again.
If it weren't for the famine, she would have been able to sell this burden to the nobles and wealthy businessmen, but now, because she was too young, she could only sell it to the female branch.
This place doesn't care about age or anything like that. As long as you look decent, they won't refuse anything. They just will sell it to you at a very low price.
The closer the girl got to the big house, the more she trembled. But at this moment, the only thing in the woman's eyes was the door and the money she would get soon.
But the next moment, a figure suddenly stopped her.
The woman who was suddenly stopped wanted to get angry, but when she saw the exquisite clothes on the person in front of her, which did not look like those of a poor person, she immediately swallowed back the curse that was about to come out of her mouth.
Everyone who survives here has some vision, because fools without vision would have died long ago.
The woman was about to walk around the man in front of her, but the man suddenly took out a bag of gold, shook it in front of her, and then pointed at the girl the woman was holding.
Even though there was no communication between the man and her, the woman's almost numb brain immediately understood the man's thoughts.
She immediately reached out to take the purse, then left the girl without any hesitation and turned away.
Seeing her mother abandoning her, the girl wanted to follow her, but the woman glared at her fiercely, said something casually, and strode away.
The abandoned girl looked at the leaving woman helplessly, her body swayed and she sat on the ground in despair. The next second, she started sobbing.
