"Hey..." Li Ge waved his hand casually, "Just call me Li Ge."
Anna looked at the nail on her eyebrow bone, "You don't like this last name?"
"No, I just can't get used to hearing it. No one calls me like that anymore..." Li Ge said with a smile on his face, "I heard from Si Lei that you have a special gin here?"
"Would you like to try it?"
"Uh-huh." Rico changed her position. She propped her elbows on the table and looked at Putina's table. "It's troublesome."
"You're welcome."
The two people on the bar watched Putinna mix drinks quietly, until Rico suddenly spun around on the high stool with wheels and stopped in the direction facing Anna.
"I know several Annas, and this name is also very popular in District 12...Is this your real name?"
"It doesn't look like it?"
"It's too common..." Li Ge paused for a moment, "Oh, I understand. No wonder Rob Green changed his name to an old man."
Anna laughed.
"Does the name Sokolova have a name in your language?" Rico asked again.
"Falcon," Anna answered.
"Falcon!" Li Ge was a little surprised, "Isn't that just like Jane..."
Anna took the wine glass handed by Putina and said with a smile: "The residents of the snowfields and grasslands all like eagles. This is not surprising, unlike the surnames between you and Hesta."
"What's the origin between us?" Li Ge was even more surprised, "What's the origin between us..."
"Her last name is the name of her clan, and you directly used the wasteland where she lived in the past," Anna looked forward, "Actually, I went to Sol Wasteland once... a long time ago."
"Hahaha, a thousand years?"
"There was no concept of 'wasteland' a thousand years ago," Anna smiled. "In the past few years, towns have reappeared over there. Have you ever gone back to see them?"
Rico swung the wine glass and said, "It has nothing to do with me anymore if I have a town. Why should I go back?"
"But you still put it in your name," Anna looked at her, "a memorial?"
"It's not that complicated," Rico waved his hand, "It's just that when I first entered the base, everyone asked me where I was from. Later, when I was re-recording the information, I simply used the name of my birthplace... If I If I remember correctly, Jane's surname was also given to her by the nuns in the convent, and it has nothing to do with herself or her past... You take it for granted."
Anna didn't refute, but just glanced at Rico's eyebrows again, "It's not for commemoration, but there are traces of hometown everywhere on your body?"
Li Ge raised his hand and gently wiped his brow, "This is different."
"What's the difference?"
"I earned it myself."
Putina was a little confused, "...What? Bone nails?"
"People there have a coming-of-age ceremony when they are twelve years old——"
Before Anna could finish speaking, Putina had already exclaimed, "Twelve years old! So young!"
"You grew up in a livable place, right?" Rico let out a burst of laughter, "Twelve years old is old enough that you can't do anything."
Putina blinked in disbelief, "Coming of Age Ceremony, what next?"
"There is a ceremony for the coming-of-age ceremony. In autumn, most children will get a weapon of their own as a gift on that day. Most of them are swords, hooks, bows and arrows...the main purpose is to hunt prey," Anna He said softly, "There are also some children who will directly participate in a long-distance hunting on that day..."
"Getting this spot is an honor in itself." Rico added.
"That's right," Anna raised her eyebrows slightly, "This team usually has no more than ten people. They are selected by the most famous local hunter personally. Being among this group means that this child has extraordinary skills..."
"And technically I was only eleven at the time," Rico added, "because my birthday is at the end of December—"
"How about you tell it yourself."
Li Ge couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Well, it's not really a good memory - our team had a total of sixteen people, and the long-distance hunting lasted for a week. During the process, there was no sniping or poison hunting, and it had to be Adhere to the principles of fair pursuit - don't ask why, it's just the opposite.
"Most of us will choose to ambush in the end, and a few will take the initiative to attack... Because being able to survive until the end is the limit for many people, and if we can still catch prey, we will be rewarded. .”
Rico pointed to his eyebrows.
"As long as you spend seven days safely, you can have a special silver nail in your eyebrow bone. If you hunt wild sheep, red deer, more than ten starlings, more than twenty marmots or squirrels... that's it. Two."
Rico pointed to his third bone nail.
"Only those who have successfully hunted predatory animals can enjoy this honor." Rico said quickly, "For example, bears, wolves, leopards... I heard that there used to be tigers there, but no one has seen them for many years. , well, so does the wild boar, although it’s not a predator.”
Just when Putinna was about to ask Li Ge what he had hunted, Li Ge took the initiative to answer, "I killed a big golden cat - a kind of leopard over there. I saw it on the first day I entered the mountain, but I chased it for more than ten days before I successfully captured it - actually I shouldn't have killed it, to some extent it saved me, but how could I have known it at the time."
"...It saved you?"
"Because during that time, Sol Wasteland was attacked by a group of chelates." Looking at Putina, whose expression suddenly condensed, Rico shrugged lightly, "...it's nothing, it's all over."
Putinna considered her words: "That must be a very difficult memory..."
Rico drank the wine in one gulp, "That may have been the case at the time, but it did pass."
"Did you punch these three bone nails yourself?" Anna asked.
"Then you can only drink it yourself," Rico pushed the wine glass back to Putinna, "After all, I am the only one who knows about such a thing...Hey, how do you know so clearly about the customs in our place? "
"I have already said it," Anna looked at the table with an indifferent expression, "I have been to Sol Wasteland."
"When?" Li Ge asked seriously, but seeing that Anna didn't seem to want to answer, she vaguely guessed the subtext, "...a long time ago?"
"...Yes." Anna regained her smile and looked at Putina, "Look, what I said before, it's worth the trip down here."
Putina nodded sincerely: "I haven't had much chat with Ms. Rico before. You are also a person with stories."
"What kind of story is this? Such stories are everywhere in mercury needles..." Rico looked at Anna, "There is something I have been curious about for a long time -"
"Hesta mentioned it last time." Her eyes slowly turned to Rico, and when their eyes met, Anna said suspiciously, "But do you really want to hear it?"
(End of chapter)
