Age of Heroes, ten consecutive guarantees

Melusina recalled her childhood.

She seemed to be watching a movie or acting in a stage play.

Melusina's childhood was not a happy one.

She lives in a distant relative of the Bai family. Her father's previous generation was a citizen, but in this generation, she lost her citizenship and became a civilian.

My father kept wandering around, trying to return to the civil class of Rome, but he was met with failure again and again. After more than ten years of blows, he had gradually become decadent, and later simply turned into a useless person who drank and had fun.

The mother was forced to bear the family's livelihood, but she was not a good wife and mother. She would also be lazy, feel tired, and cheat on her.

It's only a matter of time before such a family falls apart.

Living in this environment, Melusina naturally did not receive any attention from her parents, which also developed her somewhat dull and withdrawn character.

The final fatal blow to this seemingly inseparable family came not from the parents' quarrel or the revelation of their affair, but from the evil mage's sacrificial ceremony.

She vaguely remembered that when the fire ignited the street, her father lifted the burning beam, which was then buried under falling rocks. Her mother ran half a street away with her in her arms, and was stabbed through the chest by a knife, pushing her away. Entered the alleyway to the side.

Melusina still doesn't understand why her father and mother, both of whom were obviously very irresponsible people, began to assume the responsibility of being parents in the end.

She ran for a long time in the fire, but was finally caught

The sacrifice rituals of the evil mages began one after another, and each child was devoured by the flames.

She was lucky. When it was her turn, the cursed flames only had time to damage her left cheek and one leg.

The ceremony was then forcibly terminated.

She survived by the good fortune of being last in line.

But in this disaster, many relatives and friends lost their lives. After learning what happened to her, some relatives avoided her... Most of the children who survived the sacrificial ceremony were called cursed children, and they would bring Come misfortune.

Perhaps her best choice is to enter a monastery to serve the gods all her life and end her life.

But then, an old man came to her bedside.

The old man was well dressed and behaved very humanly.

When we met for the first time, he took out a coin and asked him to guess. If he guessed correctly, he would be rewarded.

Melusina guessed heads.

The old man said that he guessed it right, and you will be my granddaughter from now on.

But he clearly didn't even toss the coin.

From that day on, Melusina's life changed for the first time.

In addition to the improvement in the quality of her life, she did not feel many changes because she still did not know how to spend her life. She had no goals and no prospects. She just completed all her grandfather's instructions step by step and was praised as a very good person. talented.

Melusina gradually regarded this matter as her goal.

As long as her grandfather said something, she would try her best to complete it.

At that time, she couldn't even tell a joke. When she was twelve years old, she went to learn to fly a plane, and even actually got a pilot's license.

Melusina is obedient and well-behaved.

But a child who is too obedient means that there is a mental problem.

Children's naughtiness is natural. Even if it can be overcome through acquired methods, their nature cannot be completely eliminated.

So it needs to be released.

If Melusina does not receive instructions, she will fall into a shutdown state, as if she has fallen into energy-saving mode, and live like a robot.

At that time, she didn't think there was anything wrong with herself, and she didn't understand why her grandfather looked at her with such complicated eyes.

Then……

She ushered in the second turning point in her life.

Two months after her grandfather left, she saw a boy with clear eyes on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

The boy was standing next to her grandfather, and the two were holding hands. She had never seen her grandfather's expression so kind and gentle before, and he spoke so carefully, and he obeyed the boy's childlike words.

Even because the boy wanted to see whales, grandpa actually went to the sea and took a family of killer whales to a nearby shore to perform... Of course, he also gave him enough rewards, and the killer whales also had a great time masturbating with their two-legged animals. , a win-win situation.

The boy sat on the shore, clapped his hands happily and laughed.

Melusina looked at this scene, and for the first time, emotions she had never experienced surged up in her heart.

She had such complicated feelings about the boy that she wanted to avoid him, preferably not to meet him.

But her grandfather's words, 'take good care of him', made Melusina, who had always been obedient, unable to refuse. She could only suppress her emotions and get along with the boy.

There is a seven-year age difference between them.

The boy was less than ten years old at the time, and she was already sixteen, and had begun to contact Donghuang Group's business and held an assistant position.

The ages of the two parties are different, and their values ​​​​and growth environment are completely different.

A ten-year-old child, no matter how obedient he is, still has a willful part. No matter how well-behaved he is, he still has endless questions and all kinds of strange ideas... These have become problems for Melusina on the road to raising her children. .

She was sixteen years old at the time, and she already had work efficiency and processing abilities that put adults to shame. But this was because everything related to work was traceable, and you would not go wrong if you followed the steps step by step and made appropriate adjustments; but taking care of children is It requires input into sensual and emotional work, so it serves as a way to kill energy.

The process of getting along with her made her hit the wall frequently, and she felt that she had never encountered such a Waterloo in her life.

The accumulated pressure continued to fill her empty heart.

There was anger that hardened her fist, and there was joy that made her heart beat faster.

When she held the boy's little hand and walked on the Champs Elysées, through the flower-filled gardens, and sat on the Olive Branch Square to listen to open-air performances...

While accompanying the boy throughout Rome, she also picked up the beautiful experiences she had lost one by one, as if to compensate herself for missing the beautiful childhood.

When the shift change time came, the old man came to replace him personally and took his grandson for a walk in the middle of winter.

Melusina didn't follow. She could have gone together, but because she had a quarrel with the boy, she took the initiative to stay in the group and work overtime.

She began to realize something was wrong.

I can't concentrate on myself.

The work that I could always handle smoothly in the past has become full of errors and omissions, my mind always wanders unconsciously, and my mind goes blank for a long time.

Unconsciously, I took out the photos and started looking at them one by one. Two and a half days of the three days passed in a daze.

Some assistants and secretaries joked that she had just come back from vacation and was not worried yet. Everyone was like this and it would take some time to adjust.

But Melusina knew that wasn't the case. It wasn't that she couldn't accept it, but... she couldn't let it go.

For the first time, she realized that her feelings were overflowing.

If she were a ship, what she longed for after a long wandering was a bright lighthouse and a quiet harbor.

She can maintain an obedient and well-behaved image in front of adults, just because she knows that she will not be thrown away again, because she does not want to be alone.

But in front of a boy who is less than ten years old, she does not need to maintain this image at all. What the boy needs is companionship, a playmate who can cry and laugh together and run on the beach until exhaustion.

Her defenses collapsed at the first touch.

When the boy came back, she hugged him for the first time.

The days after that were quiet.

Until an accident happened.

This was really just an accident. A group of stupid thieves accidentally abducted the wrong person and took the boy away.

Melusina was so anxious that she searched all the way and finally found the imprisoned boy on a ship in the port.

But at this time, the sightseeing ship had already left the port.

It was too late to try to return.

In order to avoid the death tide, the two could only hide in the cabin and cling to each other.

It took three difficult days in the dark belly of the ship.

Fortunately, they are very lucky.

The ship docked, and after asking, Melusina confirmed that she had arrived in a remote area some distance away from Rome.

This is an island with a small town. The folk customs are simple, but at the same time a little backward, and it is not even within the network coverage of World Tree.

She didn't even know how to return to Rome. Fortunately, she brought some Roman gold coins with her before leaving, and she easily bought a house here. The remaining money, relying on her business knowledge and experience, would be enough for her sister and brother for two lifetimes. No need to worry about food and clothing.

The two settled here.

This life lasted about three weeks.

Although she had to run around for life, she lived a happy life.

Here, she felt free and unrestrained. She could hold the boy's hand and walk around the town in one day, from dawn to dusk.

One night, after Melusina put the boy to sleep.

There was a heavy knock on the door.

She didn't want to answer, but the sound was too noisy, and she was worried that it would wake the boy.

He opened the door and saw an old man with a calm face standing outside the door, holding a staff of civilization, with a silent sea in the background.

…

Melusina looked at the scene in her memory.

Looking at that vivid scene.

His breathing gradually became rapid, and his eyes gradually darkened.

What happened next may be something she will never forget for the rest of her life.

That was the biggest mistake she ever made, and it was a sin that made her feel guilty for the rest of her life.