Mermaid I gave birth to your egg

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Herahed, who was standing aside, was keenly aware of the changes between the two of them, and he immediately became alert, for fear that Alfred would turn the place upside down with a word from Andrea.

Andrea looked back at him without saying a word.

Seeing this, Skoda next to him also had a headache following Herahed, and Andrea's serious expression scared him.

"Andrea?" Alfred looked at Andrea.

Andrea rubbed his forehead, he put his hands on Alfred's head to let him sit down, then turned to look at Leido in front of him, "I refuse."

"Don't you want to go to the sea?" Leido stood up.

"There will always be opportunities in the future," Andrea said.He got up and swam towards the door, and the mermaids next to him followed his movements.

Seeing that Andrea was about to leave, he stopped suddenly, and the faces of the mermaids looking at him showed some expectation, but Andrea did not agree, he just said: "There is still this matter, I I hope you can keep it secret for me, and I don't want others to know."

This kind of situation is not a special case in the underwater world. There have been other cases where colorless mermaids have the ability to control water, but that is extremely rare, just like there are colorless mermaids that give birth to eggs.

Several people left the city of mermaids under the escort of other mermaids. As soon as they left the huge water bubble, the two people around immediately caught up and pulled Andrea to question them.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Skoda was the first to ask.

"It's just that I didn't find the right opportunity to say it," Andrea said.In fact, if it wasn't for this accident, he wasn't going to tell Skoda them.

"When did it start?" Skoda asked again.

He and Andrea have known each other for several years. If Andrea really concealed it on purpose from the beginning, it would be impossible to hide it so well.

"Do you remember the time I was injured before? It happened after that time." Andrea didn't hide it.

The two asked and answered, but the action didn't stop. Not long after, they came to that street again.

The street has returned to its former bustle. If it weren't for the fact that a section of the street had been razed to the ground, it would be impossible to tell what happened just now.

After arriving at a crowded place, Skoda didn't keep asking, but just kept staring at Andrea, not knowing what he was thinking.

As they entered this street, many mermaids around looked towards this side.The fact that the few of them were entertained to the Mermaid City has passed by, and now they are swimming here from the Mermaid City, and many people have seen them.

This aroused the curiosity of many people, and those mermaids stared at them, trying to figure out something from their conversation.

"I'm going to find other people, how about you?" After entering the street, Herahed immediately looked around, trying to find the group of people he brought.

"Let's go back together too," Andrea said.

Alfred naturally had no objection, and Skoda did not speak either.

They are no longer in the mood to hang out, and they all followed Herahed back to the place where those people found before.

The news that they were invited to the Mermaid City had already been sent back here, seeing them coming back now, those mermaids left their houses one after another and swam towards this side.

"What's going on?" Kalai, who didn't know when he came over, asked nervously.

"It's nothing, Alfred helped resist the current, so they invited us over to thank them." Herrahd said.

As soon as Alfred was pulled out, everyone immediately showed a clear expression.

Polivi, who came back a step ahead of them, stood far away in another open space, staring straight at Andrea.

"Andrea, let's talk." Skoda said.

Andrea nodded, left Alfred beside him, and followed Skoda into his room.

After closing the door, Skoda didn't beat around the bush and immediately asked him what was going on and his future plans.Andrea withdrew some details, did not hide anything from him, and told him everything he could say.

"What about the Neptune warriors?" Skoda asked.

"I have already declined." Andrea said.

"...Don't you give it a try? If you really like it, I'll talk to your brother." Skoda said after a moment of silence.

It is a great honor to be a warrior of the sea king. Most of the mermaids in the underwater world have thought about the day they can become a mermaid warrior, and Skoda is no exception.

After listening to Andrea's explanation, Skoda, who was still a little concerned before, quickly thought about it a lot.If Andrea was really interested in that, he wouldn't stop Andrea from doing it.

"I don't want to stay here. If I really want to stay here, I will fight for it myself." Andrea looked at Skoda and said seriously.

Seeing that Andrea didn't hide anything, Skoda nodded.

Alfred will not talk about this matter, but Herahed has a lot of worries, so he will not talk about it.Perlivey himself was taciturn, and naturally he would not find someone to confide in, so this matter did not spread.

But after that, those guys didn't give up. Instead, they ran here again and again since that day, especially the guy named Aishia, who came here to report almost every day.

Meanwhile, something else started to give Andrea a headache.

He once picked up a saber-toothed shark on the way before, and later gave it to Alfred to feed him, and he didn't pay much attention to those things that happened in the middle.As a result, when he came back to his senses, the saber-toothed shark that he picked up before was not as long as his arm, but it had grown many times!

Before, he could still be hugged by one hand, but now his body has grown to the size of an adult.

As its body grows, its food intake, I don't know if it is its own natural race, or because of some strange reason, its daily food intake is two or three times that of Andrea's. I have to eat a meal until my stomach is so round that I can't even stuff it in, and then I stop.

In the evening, Andrea was pushed to the yard by that guy with his head. Perhaps he was in a good mood. The enlarged saber-toothed shark kept circling Andrea, and the mouth continued to squeak. sound.

Hearing the movement here, Alfred also came to the yard.

He wanted to get close to Andrea, but because the saber-toothed shark kept circling Andrea, he could only watch from a distance.

Alfred was able to maintain a smile when he saw the rare smile on Andrea's face at first, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore, and Andrea rarely smiled at him!

He smiled at other people, even at this saber-tooth shark, why not at him?

Feeling sour in his heart, Alfred stared straight at the saber-toothed shark with both eyes.

After playing for a long time, Andrea led the saber-toothed shark away, and one person and one fish swam towards the sea on the other side away from the street. Andrea was going to take it to look for food.

At first, Andrea kept the saber-toothed shark because it was sticking to him, and didn't think much about it.But now that the saber-toothed shark has grown so big, Andrea thought about taking it out for hunting. If it can learn to hunt by itself, it won't have to spend all its time on feeding it.

I don't know if this guy can be raised, but don't wait for it to grow up and run away by itself.

Seeing that Andrea was going to go hunting alone with the saber-toothed shark, Alfred was going to follow, but before setting off, he was stopped by Herahed, who seemed to be discussing the next thing.

On the outskirts of the street is a large vacant flat land, with some seaweed and some unknown plants growing on the flat land. Swimming across the flat land at the end of the flat land is a group of reefs.

There are a lot of reefs, including some corals. Unlike the mermaid city where Andrea and the others lived before, the corals and reefs here are taller.

The black reefs and red corals are mixed together, which makes people feel creepy. What makes people's scalp tingle even more is that as soon as they step into this area, a faint sight falls on him , There seems to be monitoring from all directions from the gaps in the coral.

Stopping in front of the reefs, Andrea looked at this strange place. The saber-toothed shark next to him was a little excited, screaming and wanting to go in.

"Don't run around."

Andrea patted the saber-toothed shark beside him, and followed him to choose a large gap between the reef and the coral to get in.

In the depths of the sea, many fish live in coral reefs or reef groups, and some fish choose to live in aquatic plants, but those fish are not big and have little meat.

After entering the coral group, the surrounding vision became narrow. Andrea was looking around, and the saber-toothed shark next to him had already rushed in. I don't know if it smelled the aroma of food and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After entering this group of reefs, the vague sense of surveillance became more obvious, and the sight from all directions made him feel a chill down his spine.

But Andrea didn't find the person following him, as if the other person had been completely integrated into this piece of coral, or it wasn't human...

After turning around the coral, Andri followed the missing saber-toothed shark and swam forward. The sea water gradually became cloudy and the light gradually dimmed.

There are some tiny duckweeds in the water, and when looking forward, the whole world is dim.

After swimming forward for a while, Andrea stopped. He leaned against a piece of coral and listened quietly, except for the sound of water.

He seemed to have swam a little deeper, not only got rid of the person who was watching him, but even the saber-toothed shark he brought had gone to nowhere.

Looking around, there are exactly the same reef groups on the front, back, left, and right sides. The same scenery makes Andrea a little lost.

Looking at the sea water above, he swung his dark and powerful tail fin and swam upwards.

The moment he was about to rush out of the gap above the reefs, there was a sound of piercing through the air. Before Andrea had time to take a closer look, he quickly grabbed the reefs around him with his hands, lowered his body, and moved flexibly to shrink again. Into the reef group.

When he looked up again, the thing that just struck him had disappeared.

Although it was only for a moment and the speed was very fast, Andrea didn't see clearly what it was and where it came from, but Andrea vaguely caught a glimpse of it, thin and long, not like It was a sea snake, like a fishbone.

But the fishbone cannot move by itself, and it is impossible to move in the water at such a fast speed.

Andrea returned to the reef group and dived down. He chose a reef that was about the same size as himself, lifted it up with the current, and then threw it upwards at an extremely fast speed.

"Shh!"

The moment the reef left the top of the reef group, that voice sounded again.

The reef, which lost control and was attacked, quickly fell and fell back into the reef group.Andrea hurriedly swam to that side, and found the fishbone that had just been deeply inserted into the reef on the reef.

It was a carefully polished fishbone, the arm was long and short, very sharp, if it was hurt by it, it might break the intestines at any time.

It looked like the other party was also determined to kill him, because the fishbone was almost intact, rootless, and entered the reef!

This time, he also saw clearly from which direction the attack came from.

Andrea plucked the handle from the rock once, and repeated his trick, but this time his assailant was not fooled.

Andrea put away the fishbone, he didn't stop here, but continued to go around.

Fortunately, there are many reefs here, and they are intricate. Even if Andrea wanders around in it at will, the other party will not be able to find him easily for a while.

But as Andrea got deeper into the reef, the sky gradually darkened.

The sea and sky above are still faintly bright, but the reefs have already begun to get dark.The halo on the other side of the street illuminated half of the sky, allowing Andrea to vaguely distinguish the direction, which let him know that he was going in the opposite direction.

The darkness became a helper to cover Andrea, and after swimming forward for a while, Andrea began to slow down, and he began to use the darkness to find another person in the reef.

But the other party was obviously more familiar with this reef than he was. Andrea chose several places to stay, but he couldn't find the other party.

Calm down and listen, Andrea didn't even feel any killing intent here.

If it weren't for the fact that he still held the fishbone in his hand, all this seemed to be just a dream of Andrea.

After swimming in the sea for a while, Andrea began to relax her vigilance.In such a large group of reefs, he couldn't find the other party, and the other party would definitely not be able to find him.Even if he is familiar with this place, it is like a maze. Unless the other party has been following him, he probably won't know where he has gone around for a long time.

At this moment, Andrea only felt a cold shoulder!

Andrea immediately swam to the side, and hid in a hollow under a rock. That direction was facing away from the direction that the thing attacked just now, and it was a place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

He turned his head slightly, he couldn't see clearly in the darkness, but something was flowing out from his shoulder.

Andrea reached out to touch it, and there was already a deep wound on her shoulder.

Probably the other party wanted to stab into his heart from the back, but missed because of the darkness.

Andrea reached out to cover the wound on her shoulder, her heart beating violently.The moment he relaxed his body, he was attacked by the opponent. Obviously, the opponent had followed him for a long time and was waiting for this moment.

And he didn't realize it at all, it wasn't because of the darkness that he escaped, he might have already been buried here.

Covering the wound that was still bleeding, Andrea frowned slightly. Although his ability to control water is not bad, he lacks in experience after all, not as experienced as other mermaids.

After Andrea hid, there was no movement in the water, and the opponent did not continue to attack, and it was unknown if he had gone somewhere.

In the darkness, Andrea groped for the surrounding environment with his hands, and after confirming that there was a large hollow around him with the help of the barely visible light, he pulled out the fishbone he had been holding in his hand, and slightly arched his body to prepare for the next attack. s attack.

I don't know if he is lucky, there is a lot of space in this hollow, as long as he defends the entrance of the cave, he can get a chance to rest his breath.

The rustling sound resounded in the sea water, from far to near...

As the thing moving in the sea approached, Andrea frowned again, because the sound came from more than one place. With the sound, Andrea even found five or six directions in the water. .

Was there more than one mermaid following him?

Just as Andrea was puzzled, those things that approached had already shown their own figures, with a broad head and belly, and no arms—they were obviously not mermaids!

In the darkness, Andrea couldn't see clearly what it was, but judging from the way the other party acted and looked like, it should be a fish like the saber-toothed shark.

The guy who has been following him and following him is not planning to do it himself, but is planning to use these guys to kill him in the belly of the fish!

In the dark night, those carnivorous fishes that smelled the smell of blood bared their fangs and rushed towards this side impatiently.

In the chaos, Andrea used seawater to build a barrier to prevent those guys from approaching.

But this is not a long-term solution. As the smell of blood spreads, more fish will approach this side and feel the attack from the outside world. Andrea soon understands that even if he can resist it for a while, there is no way to do this The child wasted energy until dawn tomorrow morning.

The other party already had a plan, so he didn't have to do it himself.

Even if Andrea kills all these fish, it will only attract more fish that smell blood, and the guy following him only needs to secretly shoot cold arrows when he is tired of dealing with these guys...

Street, in temporary housing.

Alfred went around the entire yard but didn't see Andrea, so he couldn't help but start to feel a little worried.

He grabbed the mermaid who had been with him and asked about Andrea's whereabouts, but all he got was shaking his head.

Herahed, who was also in the yard, swam over, "Should I send someone out to look for it?"

"...No need, I'll go and have a look myself." Alfred said.

A bad premonition surged in his heart, making his hands tremble a little.

He quickly swam towards the direction Andrea left before, searching carefully all the way, trying to find Andrea who was mailing back.

The dark water becomes icy cold, and when swimming in the sea, the weak fish around will be startled, and then turn around and swim away immediately.

Several times Alfred heard the sound of the fish swimming and mistook it for Andrea, and chased it, but there was nothing.

……

Andrea fends off more and more fish attacks while tending to her own wounds.

At this moment, Andrea didn't care too much. He grabbed some sea sand from the side and rubbed it on the wound to stop the bleeding.

If the wound is not treated, the smell of blood will continue to spread, and even if he escapes anywhere, he will be chased by these guys immediately.

After doing this, Andrea began to deal with the group of fish surrounded in front of him.

It is not difficult to deal with some fish that only have instinct. Andrea rushed out of the encirclement at an extremely fast speed, and after getting rid of the fish that was torn into pieces by it, he went into the forest composed of coral and reefs.

This time, Andrea did not take an evasive attitude. As soon as he left the fish, he immediately used the sea water to attack indiscriminately around.

After a random beating, he quickly cleared a large space around him!

With such strength and speed, even Alfred might be ashamed of himself here.

Standing among the empty reefs, Andrea felt a little regretful, but it was a pity that Alfred didn't see it here.

After clearing the surrounding area, just as Andrea expected, he didn't find the person who was following him. The other party was clearly prepared, so he hid far away.

However, after Andrea created such a large distance among the reefs arbitrarily and unreasonably, he could no longer sneak attack.

Smarter mermaids probably retreated when they saw that they could no longer attack.

Even if they were careful enough to recruit another batch of fish, they couldn't do much wrong in front of Andrea.What's more, if the opponent can't sneak attack, Andrea can leave from the sky, and he has nothing to do.

But Andrea didn't do this, the attitude of the opponent's frequent sneak attacks had annoyed him.

After standing in the open space and waiting for a long time, and still not waiting for the opponent's next move, Andrea chose a direction to swim there.

Then after getting close to the reef group, the old trick was repeated, and a large open space was cleared around again.

Even if the speed of the mermaid is faster on the bottom of the sea, it is not easy to leave quietly under such circumstances.What's more, his speed is even faster than Andrea's, so it will be even more difficult!

Facing the dark reefs with a blank expression, Andrea destroyed the reefs at an extremely fast speed, and there were ruins everywhere he went.

After Andrea cleared a very large distance around him, the mermaid who had been hiding in the reef finally showed his feet, and his figure appeared in the reef group.

Andrea immediately chased after him, but the opponent turned around and fled.

Their situations were immediately reversed, with Andrea taking the initiative and becoming the Predator.

The other party should be from here, he is very familiar with this reef, Andrea has been following behind him while destroying and chasing, but the other party has been able to avoid disaster frequently.

In a panic, the mermaid ran into a forest.

After Andrea followed him for a while, he realized that he had left the reef, but after entering the woods, the figure of the man became more conspicuous. Without the obstruction of the reef rocks, the back of the man was almost completely exposed in front of Andrea.

That figure looked familiar, but Andrea couldn't remember who it was for a moment.

After following the other party in the forest for a long time, the speed of the other party slowly slowed down, and Andrea Ye began to feel a little powerless. These years are obviously different from the sea forest, and there are many strange things in the forest.

It didn't take long for the two of them to chase and run, and they had already encountered several waves of attacks.

The mermaid in front should have been injured too, probably because you had to keep chasing after the record and had no chance to treat the wound. There was a faint smell of blood in the air, which attracted more carnivorous fish lurking in the forest.

This made Andrea, who was behind him, also unlucky, and was implicated two or three times.

Seeing that he was about to catch up with the other party, that guy suddenly disappeared.

Andrea quickly swam to the place where he had just disappeared. It was a flat land, and the guy had nowhere to hide, as if he had disappeared suddenly in the middle of the forest.

While guarding the surroundings, Andrea looked around.

This place is indeed different from the sea forest. Although there are also strange trees all over here, almost all the trees here have no branches and leaves, as if they are dead trees with only branches.

The sea sand on the ground was glowing faintly, but it was not strong. Looking around in the forest, he felt as if he had come to a beach shrouded in moonlight.

Something was lurking in the sand, and that thing was extremely sensitive to the smell of blood. As soon as Andrea approached him, it immediately stretched out its tentacles from the sand and chased after him.

After destroying those tentacles that attacked, Andrea also dragged out the body hidden in the sea sand. It was a boneless creature, like a sea cucumber, with many predatory tentacles. .

When Andrea pulled out a large piece of that thing from the sea sand again, the sky gradually became brighter, the forest slowly lit up, and the darkness was gradually fading away.

The eerie forest seemed to be afraid of light, and as the sky brightened, those things lurking in the sea sand slowly disappeared and never appeared again.

Andrea went upstream for a while, looking at this strange sea forest from a height.

After looking at it, I realized that it has gone so deep.There are endless sea forests in any direction around him, and he can't even see the reef group when he came.

And the guy who was chased by him before disappeared, and he didn't know if he was eaten by the things hidden in the sea sand or hid again.

Andrea tried to look for the traces of the time when he came here, but after the sky brightened, the sea forest returned to its previous calm. The sea cucumber-like guys he dragged out before had already been dismembered by unknown things, leaving no traces at all. Down.

After wandering around here all morning, Andrea had to realize the reality that he was lost here.

After spending some time observing carefully, he also found the guys who dismembered the sea cucumber.

Those guys are hiding in the sea sand. They are palm-sized scorpions. The gray appearance is like the color of sea sand. If you don't pay attention to it, you can't see it clearly.

After discovering those little guys, Andrea had to put the resting place on a tree, and did not dare to swim in the sea sand easily, lest she would be dragged into the sea sand and eat nothing left.

There is no sun or moon in the underwater world, and Andrea can't use these to tell the direction. He can only swim to high places and find the route with his general feeling.But last night, he seemed to be chasing after him for a long time, and now he couldn't find the way he came here.

This approach is not wise, and he has not made any obvious progress after a day.

Seeing that the sky was going to get dark again, Andrea had to start thinking about another problem, which was finding food.

This piece of sea forest is like a dead forest, dead and lifeless, the forest below is full of tree trunks without leaves, and there are no fish swimming in the sky.

Andrea had no choice but to turn his mind to the sea sand on the ground. Those weird and ugly sea cucumbers Andrea couldn't talk anymore. He focused on those vicious-looking sand scorpions.

……

"Have you not found it yet?" Herahed asked nervously.

The mermaid in front of him shook his head, "We've searched everything, we've searched the whole street back and forth, but we can't find it."

"Go find it again!"

"Yes." The mermaid warrior didn't stop, turned around and swam away.

Andrea has disappeared for three days. After discovering that he was missing, everyone started looking around that night, but no one has found him so far.

They have also asked everywhere, and no one has seen Andrea.

"Didn't Andrea say that he went out to look for food? I'll look outside again." Skoda said with some anxiety.

Herahed nodded, now everyone they brought has taken action, and they have searched for all the places they should look for.

Did something really happen to Andrea?

"Andrea has the ability to protect herself, and nothing will happen." Seeing Skoda's pale face, Herahed comforted her.

"I shouldn't have agreed to bring him here." Skoda's face was livid. "After I went to the Mermaid Palace before, I thought it was strange that someone was staring at us. At that time, I should have paid more attention."

"do not think too much."

While the two were talking, a mermaid hurried in. Without waiting for Herahed to ask, he immediately said: "We found Andrea's trace, on the other side of the reefs outside..."

Before he finished speaking, the two mermaids beside him rushed out in the direction he pointed.

The mermaid had no choice but to swallow the rest of the words, turned around and followed them.

Alfred had already heard the news, and he rushed to the reef group at the fastest speed.

Under the blue sea, large areas of reefs were crushed, like a slaughterhouse, and there were many gnawed fish in the corner of those destroyed reefs, exuding a strong stench.

Almost no need to go down to look at Alfred to know that it was done by Andrea, follow the trace and try to find Andrea...

At the end of the reef group is a forest, but the forest is very large, and there is no trace of Andrea's hands in the forest. The main battlefield is still in the reef group, and Alfred went back to the reef group to check the situation.

Afraid of hurting Andrea who fell in the reefs, Alfred didn't dare to move around at will, so he had to search the reefs bit by bit.

But why is Andrea still missing?

Being patient, Alfred searched the reefs bit by bit.But follow him little by little.Where Andrea might have passed by, his heart became more restless.

who is it?

Who wanted to attack Andrea? !

He should keep up with Andrea, at that time, he should have been with Andrea all the time...

Is this the first time?

Because he didn't keep up, something happened to Andrea. How many times has this happened?

This is not the first time. Last time, he made up his mind to follow Andrea no matter where he went, but why did he still let Andrea be in danger alone? !

Killing intent and remorse deeply took root in Alfred's heart, his heart was full of anger, angry at those guys who were both Andrea, and angry at himself.

Little by little, Alfred was looking for stability among the reefs. Alfred hoped to find Andrea, but at the same time, he didn't want to see the wounded and unconscious Andrea among the rocks.

The mermaids who were searching here with Alfred all tightened their bodies. They seemed to have seen the previous scene again, because they couldn't find Andrea Alfred and went crazy...

Who is so unlucky this time to provoke Alfred?

Searching for Andrea here in fear, everyone prayed to find someone as soon as possible to appease the restless Alfred.

When Gerahed and the others heard the news and came here, a deathly silence fell around them.Everyone held their breath and focused all their attention on the rocks in front of them.

On the other side, in the dead sea forest, on the gray-white tree, a black mermaid was sitting on the top of the tree crown.

Andrea swayed his dark tail fin carelessly. In this forest, which was almost all gray and white, he was completely different and unique in black.

Andrea didn't care about this, he was holding a red scorpion that he had torn in two.It was nibbling at the scorpion's flesh bit by bit.On the surface, he was looking blankly at the almost unchanged scenery in front of him.

Not to mention, the scorpions in the sand are delicious.

Sweet, no fishy smell, just a little less meat.

Those scorpions that can nibble that big sea cucumber-like guy at a very fast speed are not smart, but rather stupid.

Andrea just broke a branch and stuck it in the sand, but those red scorpions clamped their pincers on the willow branch and refused to let go, and finally let Andrea have a full meal.

He threw the remaining scorpion shell on the ground, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After throwing it a few more times, the sand under the tree showed signs of activity, swaying slightly as if it had come to life.

At the back, before the thing thrown by Andrea hit the ground, something came out of the sand layer to catch it directly, and then dragged it into the ground.

Andrea didn't throw the branch in her hand onto the sand until she couldn't hold it anymore, and then watched the seemingly calm sand slowly swallow the willow branch.

The night was slowly falling, and the calm sand slowly regained its vitality. Andrea swung her black tail fin, cheered up her spirits, and put her whole body on alert.

After experiencing last night, he already understood that there was probably everything in this forest, and after nightfall, there were demons dancing here, making it impossible to fall asleep at all.He had to work up 12 points of energy to avoid being swallowed by the sea sand or other things here as nourishment.

He walked upstream from the tree, and before he could move his body, the tree he was sitting on just fell down. It seemed that while he was sitting here eating, something threw the tree into the sand. The roots of the tree were all gnawed off together.

Seeing this scene, Andrea broke another branch and ran to the sand to poke it down. After a while, he pulled the branch up, and then carried the branch to swim to the top of the sea.

Behind him, several bright red scorpions were dangling on the branches.

Since it is already doomed to be a sleepless night, then the supper must be brought along, so as not to be too physically exhausted to survive and not be able to see the dawn of tomorrow.