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Chapter 550 Tragedy in Azure City (13)

some time ago.

Viscount Avak, Azure City.

In the residential area of ​​Azure City, the large-scale collective apartment built by Viscount Avak had a total of three floors, which could accommodate 200 households, and more than [-] people lived here.

Most of them are rural young people who come to work in factories here, and some families who have not yet saved enough money to buy a house live here.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Although the communal apartment is a bit troublesome to go to the toilet, bathe and do laundry, it can be accepted after getting used to it. The folk customs of Avak Viscounty are quite simple, and there are many people who are willing to help their neighbors. Some old people even help take care of young people who go out to work. child.

It is different from Nanling, which is still in the pioneering period.Located on the inner side of the Great Rear West Plain that the empire has developed for an unknown period of time, life in the Avak region is quite peaceful.

Although there is no opportunity to make a lot of money, basically there will be no problems with food and clothing. There will always be job opportunities, and there will always be enough food.

Viscount Avak himself will occasionally take care of the citizens, such as designing some cheap and durable collective apartments-after all, he knows very well that only by making people live comfortably can he rule more easily.

In addition, people in the Terra continent don’t have so many ways to obtain information, and they don’t have much ambition and desire. Occasionally, they drink, drink, eat meat, and have a carnival during the festival, and they are quite happy.

Usually, the family lives an ordinary life, bragging and chatting with friends, and talking about family affairs, but it can't be said that they are not happy.

Aunt Lydia is a well-known enthusiastic person in the apartment. She always cooks more meals and distributes them to those young people who are too tired to go home from work every day, lest they hurt their health because they are too tired to cook and eat well.

In addition, if something happened to any house, she would definitely help Zhang Luo, and she would always be able to help.

When Lydia was young, she lost her parents due to a mining accident. It was the kind people in the apartment who helped her find a job, which has supported her until now.

Now that life is getting more and more prosperous, according to her words, there must be something to do, otherwise I will not feel at ease.

All the residents in the entire apartment were basically helped by Aunt Lydia, and her family lived in the apartment and rented three suites, with her son and daughter by her side, although she already had money to buy a separate house Go live, but stay here because I can't fit the 'unsafe guys' in the apartment.

In the recent period, there are only two things that worry the aunt the most.

One thing is a mother and son living on the second floor. The mother married a short-lived ghost from other places when she was young. The father of the child died of illness when the child was one or two years old, and she worked hard to raise the child alone.

But now that the child has grown up, it was time to enjoy the blessings, but the other party wanted to go out and make a living.

Although he himself certainly didn't have this idea, according to his son, he was going to the Grand Duke's territory to fight for wealth, so that he could bring his mother to enjoy life better in the future—but the fact is that he will leave his old mother alone in the In my hometown, I am alone.

It's not that my mother didn't agree.

The trouble was, the mother said yes too easily.

Although she really wants to live with her son, she can't bear to refuse his wish... What's more, as a mother, who wouldn't have an unrealistic 'trust' and 'expectation' for her child , without reason to believe that he/they can succeed?
But over the years, Aunt Lydia has seen how many young people who want to go out and make a living?
In a ghostly place like Taila, if you go out and wander around, if ten out of ten can come back, five will be thankful for Huaiguang's blessing!

She had seen too many mothers and fathers watch their children leave town and wait, never to return.

From longing to worry, from worry to restlessness, from restlessness to fear, from fear to daze.

In the end, from being at a loss to "despair" when hearing the word "missing".

"Ruixi is still too soft-hearted... She has worked so hard for so many years, I don't want her to collapse when she hears the news of Miles' disappearance..."

Aunt Lydia, who is also a mother and even a grandmother, is of course not optimistic about her son's ideas.

But she didn't want to deny a young man's wishes and dreams so simply, not to mention that because Ruixi was so kind to Miles, her son didn't understand. Pretty dangerous only to yourself, and pretty selfish too.

So in the recent period, she has been thinking about how to quietly remind Miles of his mother's hard work, as well as the more frequent coughing and dizziness recently...

As for the second thing, it is actually this.

Recently, a strange plague has gradually appeared in Azure City. The sick will experience dizziness, the symptoms of Venus in front of their eyes, and they will gradually become unable to concentrate.

Many people have suffered from this disease. Many people speculate that the virus spread by the spies of Flaming Land caused a small panic. is eliminated.

Aunt Lydia also thought that the epidemic was over at first, but just a few days ago, a similar illness reappeared, and many people including Ruixi, mainly those who were weak, and almost all the elderly were sick or even more serious.

It is precisely because of this that Miles, who originally planned to leave in July and August, has been staying in Azure City to take care of his mother, and has a vague idea of ​​staying. This is why Aunt Lydia wants to persuade s reason.

For young people, you can only follow their words, otherwise, once the rebellious psychology comes up, you want him to stay, but he will definitely go.

Insinuations are only useful if they themselves have vaguely thought this way.

"It can be regarded as an opportunity."

With such thoughts in mind, the aunt felt that the epidemic came at the right time, and she had never worried about the method that the epidemic could not solve--the bums in Fei Yandi would use this method, whether it was the Grand Duke or Empire, it must be very simple to develop a special medicine.

Just like last time, within a few days, the alchemist of the Grand Duke sent over the special medicine.

But Aunt Lydia never thought of a thing.

Neither the Grand Duke's Territory nor the Feiyan Land, nor even the Empire and the Academy of Intellectual Intelligences, had expected the accident to happen.

And the tragedy that will happen to them next.

With worries about Ruixi and the Miles family, Aunt Lydia finished buying the ingredients for today and was ready to go home. The tall and spacious three-story apartment could already be vaguely seen, and she couldn't help but feel a little happy: "I'll make it today Let's order radish stew, let's make the noodles, and make some bread at night..."

No matter what, the days will always pass day after day. This is the daily life of most ordinary people on Terra Continent - entangled with family affairs, thinking about today's and tomorrow's dinner.

But suddenly, Aunt Lydia felt something was wrong.

—It was too quiet.

The streets around the usual apartment complex...are they so quiet?
In addition, the apartment is extra noisy, it seems that someone is arguing?It seems that there is still a fight, how could it be, everyone is very kind, right...

With such doubts, Aunt Lydia slowed down, and at this moment, she vaguely saw a man covered in blood supporting an old man, holding a little girl in his arms, and stumbled out of the apartment.

At first, she didn't see it clearly, but soon, the aunt was shocked to find that the man was her son, and the unconscious old man he was supporting was her husband, and in the son's arms, It is also her most beloved little granddaughter Cynthia.

With a click, Aunt Lydia put down the rattan basket containing the ingredients in her hand, and wanted to go forward, and the man also saw his mother's figure, showing a complex expression mixed with surprise, joy and fear.

"Mom?! Come on, let's go..."

He roared loudly, but his pace couldn't be faster—he had a fairly deep wound on his shoulder and thigh, which was cut by someone with a knife: "Someone in the building is going crazy, Rosie... Rosie has been hacked by them We're dead, let's run away!"

The man's eyes were bloodshot when he said this, and he wished he could turn around and fight those lunatics now. His mother has been helping the residents in the building for so many years, and he has been doing his best to help everyone, even if he is pregnant. No light can deny their unrequited kindness.

The results of it?
My wife was just chatting with women in other apartments, but was suddenly hacked to death by a few crazy lunatics!

If he hadn't wanted to cover the father and daughter from rushing out, he would have gone desperate!

And Aunt Lydia froze for a moment.

Rosie?Her daughter-in-law, who was usually a little dull, but quite gentle and kind, and who also baked good bread?

she died?
Just like that... died like this? !
For a moment, a wordless shock swept the old woman's heart, she began to feel dizzy for a while, and Venus began to appear in front of her eyes.

And these gold stars, if you look carefully, you can vaguely see them, which are all the experiences of Lydia's life, all the memories and ways of thinking.

And everything is recorded by a kind of fluctuation in the dark, and then condensed into an invisible 'existence'...

(End of this chapter)