"This is a story from a long time ago, so long ago that it seems like it happened in another world."
"But when I turned around, I realized it had only been ten years."
"As I said, I am a member of the Shi clan's trial plan."
"But at that time, I was far from the best among them. The candidates for the plan were selected from direct descendants of the Shi family, but the children with the most outstanding talents and the most valued bloodlines were excluded, and the ones who were finally selected , most of them are children who are not valued in the clan, but have excellent blood talents."
"My sister and I are one of them."
"However, the reason why I was selected was because of my sister."
"She has excellent qualifications. She can master magic and martial arts at a glance, as if God is blessing her. That's why, as her younger brother, I was selected into the plan because my performance has always been mediocre."
"At the beginning, no one knew the content of the plan. I only vaguely remember that our parents told us when we were saying goodbye that we should listen to the instructors when we got there. Because of us, our family would receive a large subsidy from the clan, so we must not I can’t stand the pain or anything like that.”
"However, when we arrived at the trial site, we were told - there are no so-called instructors at all, only watchers."
"Because the trial venue is in Icewind Valley."
"We were assigned simple housing, and groups of five were divided into four groups. When we asked about the training content, the caretakers told us with pity on their faces."
"It's enough to survive."
"On normal days, the guards will not interfere with any of our actions. They only care about one thing, and that is not allowing escape."
"And every other month, they would gather us at the Ice Gorge, where we would receive food and charcoal per head, as well as a change of clothing."
"They will give us some simple cultivation methods, and we can choose magic or martial arts according to our needs, but how much we can learn depends on our own understanding."
"Just like that, the first year passed uneventfully."
"Although that year was difficult, it was not embarrassing. We had enough food, drinking water, and charcoal for heating and cooking. Although we were only six or seven-year-old children, it was not difficult to handle if we didn't do it and we would die. matter."
"Of course, there will be deaths. In the first month, a child fell asleep while tending the bonfire. As a result, the melted snow water doused the bonfire. When they were found the next day, all five of them froze to death there. .”
"Cold is the greatest enemy, but there are many other enemies besides cold."
"In the first year, none of us returned home. Whenever we asked this question, the caretakers always answered with one sentence."
"When you mature."
"As we gradually adapted to the weather in Icewind Dale, the so-called trial came long overdue."
"Our food is starting to be cut back."
"I couldn't reason with the adults, so the days when I could survive on the distributed food were gone forever."
"Of course we can't do anything about those powerful monsters, but there are many weak animals in Icewind Valley, such as snow rabbits, ice-toothed rats, and many other weak and docile animals. We can make simple traps or make simple plans to The beasts are driven to a predetermined location and then killed with the magic of wind and water.”
"Just like human beings living in the wilderness, we are trained in this way, just to survive."
"So we still survived, but in the process, more or less people in each group died unexpectedly. By the winter of the fifth year, only nine of the twenty children who came were still alive in the end."
"Happily, or sadly, I'm one of those nine."
"I relied on my sister to survive."
"She was the best among the twenty children from the beginning. As time went by, her magic progress was the fastest among all. She took me to get food and took me to sneak attack on those who were alone. As long as you follow her, it means you will have food, and as long as you follow her, it means you will not die."
"In my eyes when I was a child, my sister was such a symbol."
"But at this time, the biggest crisis has arrived."
"They started reducing the supply of charcoal to us."
"In the final analysis, we were just a group of animals in captivity at that time. Even if we could adapt to survive, once the owner stopped feeding us, we would eventually die wailing."
"In Icewind Dale, fuel is the most important material."
"The villages in Icewind Valley rely on geothermal hot springs, which can support hundreds of villagers with very little fuel consumption. However, for us living in the mountainside canyon, we need enough charcoal to provide heat every night. "
"Forced, the remaining two groups of us merged together and used the charcoal resources carefully together, but even so, the charcoal reserves were decreasing day by day."
"At this time, the watchers tell us a message."
"All resources can be exchanged."
"Use magic beasts, crystal stones, and medicinal materials."
"We can no longer live just for the sake of living. Instead, we must live desperately for the sake of living."
"Team up to hunt powerful monsters, spread out to search for valuable medicinal materials, explore in abandoned mines, try to find some neglected crystals, and then send them to the caretakers in exchange for needed resources."
"In such a snowfield, individuals cannot survive. They can only stay warm by snuggling together."
"However, doing so means danger."
"Only this time, I'm the one leaving."
"It was a hunting operation for snow wolves. Snow wolves are the most common monsters in Icewind Valley, but they like to move in groups, so it is rare to find a lone snow wolf. Everything went according to plan. We used The trap injured its front paw and forced it into a corner. With my sister's consent, I was responsible for giving it the final blow."
"But in the end, I backed down."
"I didn't kill it with one blow. The dying snow wolf pressed against my chest. I don't know how many ribs were broken, but I only remember that my chest was completely sunken at that time."
"Not dead, but more terrible than death."
"At my sister's insistence, I was pulled to the base on a simple sled instead of being abandoned or simply given mercy."
"The precious snow wolf was not exchanged for charcoal and food, but the sister was exchanged for precious medicine to treat the useless brother."
"But I just survived, that's all. I collapsed on the bed like a dog, unable to even get up."
"As a result, the conflicts accumulated in the team finally broke out."
"I wasted precious resources for my brother, and in the end only saved a useless person. In the following days, this useless person will continue to live, wasting more food, but he can't even stand up to receive the value of the supplies. nothing."
"I don't know what happened that night. The next day, my sister pulled me alone on a sled and took me away. She left the base where I had lived for six years and walked into the vast snowfield."
“The really hard years really come.”
"My sister finally took me to this cave. After simple tidying up, it became our future home."
"Without the cooperation of the team, the sharing of resources, and having to feed my disabled brother, it was impossible no matter how I thought about it in such a cold snowy valley, but my sister did it."
"She completely gave up on her daily practice. In the morning she would collect a few bundles of fine firewood nearby. When the weather was warm, she would go hunting for monsters alone. Although she was strong, she was only a thirteen-year-old child and had never really obtained the system. Because of the teachings, we can only sneak attack some weak or injured monsters. In this case, the harvest can only be left to fate."
"However, winter has finally arrived in Icewind Dale."
"With the colder climate, more and more monsters have begun to hibernate, and residents in the villages have also begun to close their doors and rely on stored food to survive the cold winter."
"Even though my sister has tried everything possible, when winter comes, we only have enough food for two people for half a month, and we are so short of fuel that we can only last for twenty days."
"And in the harsh winter of Icewind Dale, the mountains are blocked by heavy snow and you can't go out for a long three months."
"So on days filled with ice and snow, my sister and I huddled in a small cave, spending the day by the campfire, counting the sunlight that leaked through, as if we were counting the embers of our own lives."
"I almost accepted my fate from the moment I was injured, but my sister snatched me out of the arms of death."
"My injuries were getting better day by day. During the days when I was half asleep and half awake, I also had other experiences that I had never imagined. But I didn't know at that time that I was touching the will of this snowy field step by step. .”
"But when winter came, everything came to an abrupt end."
"I started getting desperate, hysterical, cursing my sister for letting me live."
"I began to refuse to eat, even the herbs she had worked so hard to pick for me. That was the first time I wanted to die."
"Because, I know that as long as I die, my sister can go back and live with them. My sister is so outstanding and powerful, no one will refuse her to join."
"But my sister saw through my thoughts from the beginning. She just sat quietly by my bed, humming the lullaby that had driven me to sleep since I was a child. No matter how much I resisted, she always treated me gently and warmly."
"So I finally gave up my resistance, started eating again, and accepted treatment that was better than nothing, but at that time, the shadow of death was still hovering over our heads."
"Food is extremely scarce. My sister has reduced her rations to the extreme, but the winter is still long and endless."
"But even so, my sister never gave up hope. I began to curse those companions who abandoned me, cursed the tribesmen who abandoned us here, and then cursed the parents who sent us here."
"However, my sister always tells me with a smile that everyone has their own reasons for living. They do it just to survive. We should be grateful to the world when we are still alive."
"At that time, I always thought that such a sister was naive and stupid, but I have to admit that such a naive and stupid sister is the most powerful person among us. She has saved many of our lives. Now, I I am also relying on such an innocent and stupid sister to survive."
"While waiting, that night finally came, when the food was gone, the hungry siblings hugged each other and slept on the cold bed, the fire was deliberately extinguished, so that we would die silently the next day, until winter was over , those watchers will find our cold corpses hugging each other tightly."
"But we didn't end up like this."
"My sister left quietly that night. When I woke up, what I saw was a burning bonfire and my sister who looked pale beside the bonfire."
"She was sitting next to the bonfire, covered in large pools of blood. She turned her head slightly, smiled and said to me: "Good morning. "
"As she said this, she stood up unsteadily, as if she was waiting there just to say this to me."
"I clearly saw that her left arm was broken from the shoulder and hung on the shoulder at a strange angle. I didn't know what happened to my sister, but I understood what she was going to do next."
"So I struggled and rolled out of bed, trying to stop her, or to save her."
"But my sister came over quietly and knelt down with great effort to kiss my forehead."
"I will never forget what my sister said to me next."
"I brought enough things for one person to survive this winter. Maybe I can save a little to support two people, but I definitely can't support two trash."
"I'm always used to taking care of you, so I don't want to experience the feeling of being taken care of, so I want to leave the chance of living to you."
"So, please live at all costs, desperately and humbly."
"Then, please don't let more people live in such a difficult and humble life."
Shi Feng said Shi Li's last words and then stopped talking.
Ye Qing looked up at the sky outside, then turned back and asked softly: "This is it."
Shi Feng nodded: "Yes."
Ye Qing looked at his feet, closed his eyes and imagined the mood of that girl who was about the same size as himself, dragging a broken arm from here into the wind and snow, then turned his head and looked at Shi maple.
"Is she still alive?"
Shi Feng nodded.
Ye Qing sighed: "It's really ironic that a person like that has turned into a monster now."
"It's just." Ye Qing looked at Shi Feng: "You are still a special existence to her, even now, otherwise she would not tell you so many things. If I were you, I would be really happy and sad. ."
Saying this, Ye Qing's eyes gradually focused.
"But no matter what, I won't let her come."
Shi Feng looked at this proud princess. Some of her characteristics were similar to those of her former sister, but some were completely different.
"We are powerless against Rodriguez, even if he is just a dragon bone lich now."
"What's more, my sister also has strength comparable to that of the Heaven Realm, and there are countless armies of Warcraft in front of her."
Ye Qing nodded, then showed a proud smile.
"I can not."
"But we can."
Saying this, she reached out and took out the cyan rhombus crystal stone from her arms, and the magic power flowed into it along a fixed track.
"Brother, can you hear me?"
