Life is a circle. When we were young, we didn't understand anything and wanted to try everything. If nothing happened, we would go to the house and roll around on the floor. After the laughter, we were greeted with slaps and curses from adults.
Later, as we grow up, we realize how stupid the things we once did are, and we see more things. Our appearance and psychology gradually mature, and we learn how to behave in the world, and become a real person.
After working hard in society for decades, we grow old, and in front of our children we become what we were when we were children. We are dying, but we can still move like rabbits. Even if we have nothing to do, we will dodge to the waist and lie on the hospital bed. Seeing his child standing beside him, looking at him distressedly and scolding him, he giggled.
Finally, the fallen leaves return to their roots, and the soul and body return to this earth, waiting for the next reincarnation.
But not everyone’s circle is so perfect. There are always people who will leave this world halfway, such as you, such as this little girl named Galina.
Galina Gennady Ivanova was born in a small aristocratic family in Chernobog. Her father Gennady was a civil servant in Chernobog and one of the many nobles in the Ursus Empire. A member, but his title has two more words than the real aristocrats who enjoy red wine and steak in the villa, and these two extra words destined him to be at the bottom of the aristocracy for the rest of his life. personnel.
Serve nobility.
During the war of Ursus' invasion of Sami, Gennady's father was a brave and skilled fighter. Although he was not as legendary as the Patriots and Mr. Herage, he was among a group of soldiers who were beaten and had no power to fight back. He was also eye-catching enough for him to accept a "gift" from King Ursus after the war - to become a serving noble.
If the entire Ursus Empire is regarded as a large company, the King of Ursus is the chairman of the company, and the great nobles are the original shareholders and members of the board of directors. The relationship between the two parties cannot be said to be harmonious, and can even be said to be tense and full of tension. The smell of gunpowder.
The nobles stared closely at the king, hoping to make him his puppet. The king also looked at this group of wolf-like nobles with a smile on his face and felt MMP in his heart. At the same time, he secretly developed his own power in order to get rid of this controlled land. He broke free from the darkness and turned Ursus into a real "empire", and these service nobles, whose total number was several times that of the old nobles, were his bargaining chips in the fight with the big nobles at the card table.
There is only one way to obtain service nobles, which is to receive them personally from the king. Other nobles, no matter how powerful you are, whether you are a duke or a marquis, do not give a person the power to serve as a service noble, and the members of the service noble are basically some low-level soldiers and officers. As a king who holds military power, the army is the only one he can find. A place where you can cultivate your own political power.
Those soldiers or officers who are given the title of service aristocrat will basically be given a civil servant position in a city after retirement. On the surface, it is to give them a comfortable retired life, but in fact it turns them into nails. To pierce the flesh of those old nobles and monitor these guys is also the king's political counterattack against those nobles.
Don't ask why King Ursus didn't use the army to blackmail the big nobles to seize power. If you were in his position, you wouldn't do that either. Although Ursus' army is very capable of fighting, it is not as good as those nobles in terms of economy and governance. In terms of playing tricks, they are like children. Even a viscount can make the general suffer even without the Duke. .
Moreover, many Ursus soldiers were reckless and irritable. If someone couldn't help but kill a member of the nobility, there was no need for the nobles to take action. The king himself would have to drag the guy out and kill him first.
Don't be afraid of opponents who are like gods, but be afraid of teammates who are like pigs. If you meet a pig teammate, if you can TK, do it quickly to avoid dragging yourself into the water again.
In the absence of absolute evidence, the military had better not touch those nobles, because none of those guys are fuel-efficient lamps. The black ones can be turned into white for you. If they play frame-up and deceit, one will be better than the other. Maybe at the beginning The evidence is all in your favor, and the accuser can become a suspect overnight. Moreover, the nobles will never forget this kind of information about the king, just like a wolf that has seen raw meat. Once they smell it, they will never forget it. After these guys secretly process it, they might be able to make big news and directly pull down the current king and replace him with another one. Go up puppet. People who knew the darkness of the Ussus government once made a joke. What the king did was like the "beep--" of the great nobles. They remembered it clearly.
When this military pig teammate was unable to do anything else, the advantages of the service aristocrats came to light. They were nobles promoted by the king himself, and they were from the military. Naturally, there was no need to judge their loyalty to the king. Moreover, there are many serving nobles, spread across various cities in Ursus, like ants distributed on the huge elephant of the old nobles, maybe one of them has bitten the skin.
In fact, this is indeed the case. From the emergence of the serving nobles to the present, the king has more and more chips in his hands, and he has the confidence to face the threats of the established nobles. Although the old nobles were like human beings, they were guarding against the king and at the same time guarding against their own kind. Everyone's web of interests was more complicated than a spider's web, and there were always areas of vulnerability. The serving nobles are monolithic because they are absolutely loyal to the king without any second thoughts.
After going through an arduous struggle, although the serving nobles currently in the king's hands are still not as good as these scheming guys in terms of economy and governance, they can barely withstand this arduous task and will not let the Ursus Empire collapse. Falling apart, the army in his hands began to have a deterrent effect.
The king used to be submissive, but now the king is high-spirited.
Let's get back to the topic, this little girl named Galina and her father, a serving nobleman named Gennady.
There will always be elites and bastards in a group, and Gennady is one of the many bastards among the serving nobles. Apart from being loyal to the king, all he can do is not to cause trouble for the king. Service nobles are not hereditary, and their descendants must obtain military exploits if they want to inherit the title. Gennady was lucky. His father was his superior when he was in the army, so part of the military merit was attributed to him. Even though it seemed obvious, no one exposed them because of the " "Inheritance" is also a trick often played by many established nobles to gild their descendants, and those military officers have long been accustomed to it.
Therefore, after his father's death, Gennady relied on the military merit he "inherited" from his father to legitimately inherit the title of service noble and officially became a member of the empire's ruling class.
Just like Gennady's performance in the army, his ability is as mediocre as his appearance, and the civil servant career obtained in Checheng is not important. It belongs to Akarin in the government. It can be done with him, but it can be done without him. , so Gennady lived a leisurely life after his retirement. In the second year, he married the daughter of an officer who was also a serving noble. In the third year, Galina was born, and Gennady had a quarrel with his father-in-law.
It is nothing for women to join the army in the world of Terra, but it is absolutely impossible for a little girl with congenital diseases to adapt to the intense life of the army. If Gennady wants to continue to maintain his aristocratic status, the only way is to have another child. .
Doesn’t it mean that just one more child will be enough? So why did Gennady quarrel with his father-in-law?
Because of the extremely low birth rate in the world of Terra.
Not long ago, I gave you a science introduction to the population problem in the world of Terra. As a technologically advanced civilization that has survived for at least a thousand years, the total population of the Terrans has been at one billion for nearly a hundred years. Except for the Carters, other races Basically they are a family of three. The reason for this is definitely not only the ore disease, but also their exaggerated population ratio and birth rate. It's not easy for a girl to get married. It's already hard to have a child. Wanting a second child is as easy as drawing a card, unless you are a Carter.
After all, rabbits only have one litter in their lifetime.
Galina has a congenital disease and her bones are very weak, so her childhood memories only include stuffed toys bigger than herself and an indifferent maid. Because of work, Gennady basically only goes home at night. The mother left the family and her first child for some reasons.
Perhaps some service nobles can be called the pillars of the country, but most service nobles cannot live up to this title. They have average abilities, but they suffer from the diseases of the nobility, such as needing the service of servants and housekeepers, and Gennady is one of this kind of service aristocrats.
When he was very young, Gennady had a great yearning for the life of a nobleman. When he grew up, his father opened the door for him to become a nobleman and allowed him to stay in this ruling class. Although this nobleman was somewhat unorthodox, But Gennady still realized his wish and began to enjoy his aristocratic life.
If you can't afford a big villa, you can use a smaller Leitania-style house instead; if you can't use expensive clothes and decorations, then buy some high imitations to show your face; if you can't hire skilled servants and housekeepers, then find some A little bit of experience is fine. They thought that they had become nobles and members of the ruling class, so they began to indulge in their own lives, and their mood became a little different from before: they looked down on anyone except the king. In their eyes, the old nobles belonged to the king. The enemy is a cancer that wastes national resources; the people at the bottom are two-legged animals, the guys who provide them with bread and vodka.
As for those infected, they are even more hateful than the old nobles. They are the thick sores of Ursus that should be removed most.
Although the serving nobles and the established nobles were not at odds with each other, they still reached an agreement on the issue of infected persons.
After all, they are the ruling class, and no matter how happy they are with each other within the class, it will not affect their oppression of the ruled. Even though in the eyes of real nobles, the serving nobles are the lackeys of the king, and in the eyes of the common people, the serving nobles are just aspiring villains, they still pretend not to see all this and stubbornly live in their own aristocratic dream.
The strong are angry and draw their swords against the stronger; the timid are angry and draw their swords against the more cowardly. The service nobles caught in the middle are the ones who oppress the people at the bottom the most.
In this country, the king is probably the only one who really needs to serve the nobles.
After the divorce, Gennady's life became much happier. Without the constraints of family, he can go out and have fun as much as he likes. In a world where there are twice as many women as men, the number of practitioners in red light districts is unparalleled on earth. Haven't you ever been to a custom shop in Qicheng? He was almost discovered by Xing Yihuang.
Men always have great talents when it comes to having fun, but when it comes to taking care of their families, they are extremely slow. In Gennadi's night after night of debauchery, little Galina could only stay at home alone with her stuffed toy, huddled up in bed and fell asleep.
There was no mother's love, no father's love, and no friendship. All that was left to her in life was an unchanging empty house and the cold eyes of servants.
What will happen to children who grow up in such a lonely environment? Introverted, dark, surly, and unpopular. After experiencing an unhappy childhood, Galina ushered in a turning point in her life when she was about to enter junior high school.
Not soaring into the sky, but falling into hell.
The claws of ore disease reached out to this little girl and grabbed her hard in the palm of his hand.
Because of Galina's studies, Gennady took her to banquet with the principal of Checheng National High School several times. On the way home from a banquet, Galina and her daughter were attacked by unknown persons. These people didn't do anything to them. When Galina woke up, she only found herself lying on a hospital bed. Her father was sitting beside her bed in a hospital gown, his face pale.
It wasn't until they got home that Galina understood what had happened: both she and her father had contracted oriosis.
No one knows who the murderer is, no one knows how they were infected, but it is a definite fact that Gennady and Galina became infected.
And what happened next is...
They were deprived of their service noble status, their property was confiscated, and they were driven to live in the slums.
That day, Gennady knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. The originally kind neighbors stood far away from them and said unpleasant words. Little Galina stood beside his father and looked up at the sky. In her eyes, the sky had always been so dark and gray, with thick clouds like dirty rags. Today's sky seems darker than before, but that's all.
This was the darkest moment in her life, but Galina couldn't accept it because she had been living in the shadows.
Life in the slum is not stable, even though Galina and Gennady live in the best part of the slum - at the mercy of a noble friend.
Galina could not forget the way that guy stood arrogantly in front of her and her father, even though he and her father were brothers just a few days ago. But now Gennady was stroking his hands and looking at that guy with a flattering smile on his face. Galina only felt a little disgusted.
But they did not reject this mocking mercy, but pretended to be grateful and moved into the old house. Only saints can hold on to their proud integrity like bamboo in the face of wind and snow, but they are just ordinary people who want to live.
After losing her noble title and moving to the slums, Galina naturally lost the opportunity to continue going to school, and her life in Chernobog became even more difficult. With a former ruler now an infected person, living in the slums like the people they once oppressed, Galina and Gennady naturally had a hard time. Originally she was a little girl who was indifferent to everything, but people will explode after being bullied. It was during that struggle that Galina discovered her talent in another aspect.
The Source Stone turned her into an infected person and gave her the Source Stone skills.
A person who has been oppressed for a long time and has become numb suddenly has power in a resistance after awakening. What do you think will happen?
She will laugh, she will vent, she will lose control, she will kill.
In the eyes of others she became a lunatic, but in Galina's own heart, she had never been so sane.
The fists and pain made her learn to resist after suffering cold violence. The successive Origin Stone skills made her understand the pleasure of having power. The splash of blood revived her half-dead spirit.
From then on, few people in the slums saw the little girl Galina, and no one would bully the Gennady family. In this world where an infected person's awakening of Originium Skills is the same as winning a lottery, no one would mess with a jackpot winner unless you also possess Originium Skills.
What happened next was also expected. Gennady, who fell heavily from the clouds, changed from a hater to a hater of the aristocracy. He brought his good habits at work to the slums, attracting a large number of members to the integration movement, and it was the integration movement. One of the few members of the team who is not afraid of the Yeti. On the day Checheng fell, he was in the team led by the patriots, taking his daughter with him.
But being crazy doesn't mean you have a strong heart. Instead, it's a sign of a glassy heart. Didn't Joker put on the mask just because he couldn't bear those blows... Well, not many people can bear those kind of blows, but that doesn't mean he kills people at will without regard to human life. Similarly, do you think Galina became a demon when she saw the blood splattering and became excited the moment she obtained the Origin Stone skill?
the answer is negative.
Why did people in the ghetto rarely see her after that? Because Galina didn't want others to see her crazy side, she was suppressing her Originium skills.
But all of it was reduced to ashes on the day Qicheng fell. Galina stood in the flames with dull eyes. When she looked at her brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, waving the machetes in their hands like demons and laughing to harvest the lives of others, her heart was hit hard to heal.
In those days, she lived like a zombie.
Galina has been thinking about a question since she was a child until now. What do people live for? Yourself or someone else? If it is for ourselves, can we take away the lives of others at will? If it is for others, will others live for you?
She couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't understand it. All she could think of was the flames of the fall of the city, and the laughter and cries of those people echoed in her mind without interruption.
Finally, Galina looked directly at the sun in the sky, letting the intense sunlight sting her irises. She smiled and cut her wrist open in the sight of countless residents of Qie City, and slowly sat in the sunshine to welcome life in another world.
It was a world of sunshine and laughter.
