Chapter 55
The Bian Forest is more than 200 miles away from the deserted city. If an adult beastman runs at full speed, it will take two hours to run this distance. For Ares running at full speed, this distance will take five hours.
He was really too young, and because there were no adult orcs at home to take care of him, he had barely survived these years and was starving to the point of being emaciated.
But he was already very powerful. At least in such a harsh living environment as the deserted city, he not only supported himself but also supported a younger sister. This was already very remarkable for an underage orc.
Under the dim starry sky, on the desolate and uninhabited wasteland, a thin figure was running quickly under the night sky.
Ares was running fast and alert on the wasteland. He tied the sleeping Jiaojiao to his back with his tattered hood. The wolf ears that represented the symbol of the beast tribe were pressed down and hidden in his withered hair. He ran towards the deserted city without stopping.
Ares, without the protection of his hood, had to be careful to hide during the day, and the constant running and stopping made the five-hour journey infinitely extended. It was not until night fell that he dared to run at full speed.
It is extremely difficult for a beastman to survive on this continent. In addition to the harsh living environment of the deserted city, more obstacles come from people of other races on this continent.
Whether it is humans, elves, mermaids, or perhaps other scattered small races, their first reaction when seeing orcs is to kill.
Orcs are a race that is not loved by the gods, but those races that madly believe in the gods are very happy to eliminate things that are an eyesore for the gods.
If orcs want to survive in such an environment, they must be proficient in the skills of hiding and not trust anyone other than their own race.
In the orcs' worldview, no race is worthy of trust, and those orcs who do not believe in evil and foolishly believe in the friendship of foreigners out of their passion have long since turned into a handful of yellow earth.
Don't trust any existence except yourself, especially other races. This is the commandment engraved on the orc stone tablet. When any orc is born, he will be taken to the stone tablet by his parents or elders, and the commandments on it will be read to the beast cub one by one.
Ares knew the commandments on the stone tablet, but he still chose to take the human child to the deserted city. He himself didn't know what was going on. Perhaps he had been bewitched by the child, or perhaps the fiery snakes in the Bian Forest had poisoned his brain.
He made this choice anyway, and only started to feel a sense of regret when he arrived at the gates of the deserted city, but by then it was too late to regret.
The gates of the deserted city were guarded by powerful orcs. These powerful orcs blocked attacks from other races while also preventing people of other races from sneaking into the deserted city. Of course, occasionally they would also pull back some of the little ones who wanted to escape from the deserted city.
These little guys ran out of the deserted city because they were mostly starving and wanted to go out to find something to eat. The orcs guarding the city did not allow them to go out because most of them could not come back after leaving the city. There were not only ferocious beasts such as red scorpions in the desert, but more importantly, there were hunters wandering outside waiting for opportunities to kill two orcs to win credit, or some young people from the academy who came to gain experience.
The chance of starving to death if you stay in the city is only half, but the chance of dying outside the city is as high as 90%!
Ares did not go through the main gate. He walked around for about half an hour and came to an old withered tree.
There was a small hole behind the old tree, and Ares sneaked out through this hole.
In fact, the orcs were not unaware of the existence of such a hole, they just turned a blind eye. Some of the cubs that went out of the city gate were very hungry, and some were just there to join in the fun.
Most of those who managed to get out of this hole were desperate creatures, with no way out. They were determined to fight to the death. They couldn't just block off even this little bit of hope, could they?!
It's really blocked. Leaving these desperate beast cubs in the city is not necessarily a good thing. They might cause some trouble.
When crawling out of the cave, Ares took Jiaojiao off his back and held her in his arms to prevent her from accidentally hitting her head.
After crawling through the hole, he hid Jiaojiao tightly in his arms, carefully looked around, and then hurried towards home.
Ares knew that Jiaojiao must not be discovered, otherwise...
After returning home, closing the door and leaning his back against it, Ares dared to breathe in relief. The violent beating of his heart in his rapidly heaving chest hit his ribs so hard that he felt as if even breathing was painful.
After taking a break, Ares lowered his head and met the bright eyes of the girl in his arms.
Jiaojiao stayed in his arms obediently without moving, and when she met his gaze, she curved her eyes at him.
Ares was shocked. He didn't notice when the child woke up along the way, but fortunately, he didn't make any sound after waking up.
Suppressing the fear in his heart, Ares hurried into the house and anxiously went to see his sister.
In the room where a dark shadow could be vaguely seen, a small figure was curled up on a simple bed made of wooden boards in the corner.
Arela, who was lying on the bed, heard the noise and slowly opened her eyes. She pulled the wolf ears on her head and twitched slightly. She squeezed out a weak and soft sound from her voice: "Brother?"
Ares, who walked in as "Arela", put Jiaojiao on the bed board at the side, then hurried forward to help her up. His eyes fell on her skinny and sallow face due to hunger, and warmth appeared in his eyes.
In the past, Ares didn't think it was wrong to see Arela like this, and even thought he had raised his sister very well. But after seeing Jiaojiao's fair, tender and soft little face, he inexplicably felt a lump in his throat when he looked at Arela's sallow and skinny face.
"Brother." When Arera saw her brother, joy filled her light green eyes, and then tears welled up in them.
She almost thought that her brother would never come back.
It's all her fault. If it weren't for her, my brother wouldn't have risked leaving the city.
If it weren't for her, my brother wouldn't have to live such a hard life.
"Don't cry." Ares, who thought she was crying from hunger, wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes and frantically dug out the well-hidden fruit from the cloth bag wrapped around his waist: "Here, eat it quickly, and you won't cry anymore."
Seeing the food, Arela suddenly felt some strength coming out of him, held the fruit in his hand and bit it hard.
As soon as I took a bite of Arela, I was stunned. Wow, so delicious!!
It was a taste she had never tasted before. How could there be such delicious fruit?!
"Ah." Jiaojiao, who had crawled over from the side of the bed at some point, patted her with her little hand and greeted her softly, "Okay."
Arela came back to her senses and lowered her head, seeing the fair and tender child in front of her. Her eyes suddenly widened. This child was obviously not one that could be raised in a deserted city. "Brother, he is..."
"He saved me." Ares interrupted her, not letting her finish the rest of her words: "I was bitten by a fire snake, and he saved my life, so I brought him back."
As soon as he finished speaking, Arela immediately pulled his brother's hand to look at it. After discovering that there were indeed two hideous black holes on it, tears silently fell from his eyes.
"It's okay, it's fine now, don't cry." Seeing his sister, who rarely cried, shedding tears, Ares coaxed her a little awkwardly.
Arela struggled to get out of her brother's arms and forced herself to face Jiaojiao with her powerless body.
She knelt on one knee, stretched out her arms, and put her hands together in front of her face. Ares was startled when he realized what she was going to do and hurriedly grabbed her skinny arm: "Arela..."
"Brother." Arela turned her head to look at him, her lips trembling slightly, and her light green vertical pupils contained deep-rooted fear and obvious self-loathing.
Seeing her like this, Ares clenched and unclenched his hands, and after repeating this several times, he chose not to stop her.
He knew that Arela always felt that she was a burden to him, so he always wanted to do something to help him reduce the burden.
The little one would follow the team to the edge of the wilderness to dig bitter roots, wash clothes, clean the house, and try to eat less.
But he never needed her to do anything. He just wanted her to stay alive and accompany him. If it weren't for Arela, he would never have gritted his teeth and fought so hard to survive in this harsh living environment.
They both support each other to survive, and no one is a burden to the other.
But no matter how he persuaded, talked, or tried to stop him, Arera would still follow the team to dig bitter roots and would still try to eat less or not eat at all.
The skinny little animal cub grew up staggering, stumbling and stubbornly until it was seven years old.
Arela withdrew her gaze, lowered her head to her hands, closed her eyes, and a solemn expression appeared on her sallow, withered, and tender face. The ancient and distant language of the orcs came out of her mouth, like an oath from the long river of ancient times.
During this ancient oath, Arela tried hard to straighten his skinny body, raised his head high, put his hands together and pushed them up to his forehead, and slowly and solemnly bowed to Jiaojiao.
This is the highest etiquette in the life of the orcs, swearing that from now on their life will be in the hands of the other party!
As the one being sworn in, Jiaojiao blinked blankly. The little boy imitated Arela's movements a little clumsily, putting his little hands in front of his forehead with great effort, and then bowed forward.
This bow caused Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, to fall down due to her unstable center of balance.
Before Ares rushed forward to catch Jiaojiao, a bony hand caught Jiaojiao who had fallen off the bed.
The Ares siblings were so frightened by the sudden appearance of this person that their ears stood up, their sharp fangs were exposed, and dangerous roars kept coming out of their throats.
After being caught, Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, then he looked up at the person who caught him and shouted happily, "Dad!"
"Yeah." Hesnemen responded softly, reaching out to touch Jiaojiao's fluffy hair: "Why are you here?"
After he got in touch with Hesdzer again, he readily accepted the title of "Dad" when he learned that the little guy was sent by Hesdzer to accompany him.
"Dad, Jiaojiao, ah, ah..." Jiaojiao waved her little hands and told her father about her experiences along the way in a very vivid and confusing manner.
She lowered her eyes and looked at the bright Hesnemen, listening patiently and gently to his rambling and incoherent story.
The Ares siblings stopped their threatening roars after hearing Jiaojiao's call.
The two siblings looked at each other, their eyes warily fixed on this person who suddenly appeared. In this place where even the moonlight could not penetrate, his whole body seemed to be emitting a faint light.
Hesnemen, who seemed to understand a little, turned his head to look at the Ares siblings.
The two beasts, who were originally vigilant, froze when they saw Hesnemen's face.
Hesnemen's eyes passed over them and turned to look at the house. The way he looked at the two beasts of Ares just now was no different from the way he looked at the dead things in the house.
Jiaojiao, who was held in his arms, waved to Ares and Arela. When they looked over, he pointed at Hesnemen and introduced her to them happily: "Jiaojiao, Daddy."
Hearing his happy little voice, Hesnemen withdrew his gaze from the dilapidated house.
Seeing Jiaojiao's happy expression, she poked his soft face in confusion and said in a gentle voice, "Very happy?"
Jiaojiao looked up at her father and clapped her hands: "Yeah, ah, ah, look, daddy, ah, ah."
Hesnemen, who understood what he meant, couldn't help but curl his eyes.
Hesniemen had no destination in the first place, so he had no objection to Jiaojiao coming here. After all, it was just a matter of raising the cubs in a different place. To him, it was the same wherever he was.
"Are you hungry?" Hesnemen held Jiaojiao's little hand.
"No." Jiaojiao shook her little head: "I'm not hungry, ah Juejue"
Are you sleepy?
Hesnemen glanced at the simple wooden bed. The next second, branches and vines grew out from the ground and landed in this place where plants were not supposed to survive, interweaving to form the shape of a bed.
White cotton fell from the branches, and moonlight fell from the sky, interspersed among the cotton. In a blink of an eye, a quilt sparkling with moonlight appeared.
In this world belonging to Hesnemen, his divine power can be more accurately described as creative power. As long as He wants, nothing in this world cannot appear.
Being placed on the bed that had completely changed its appearance, Jiaojiao rolled on it several times with a frown on her face.
After rolling around, Jiaojiao crawled to the head of the bed and lay down, then patted her little arms: "Daddy, come on, ah Xiaoxiao."
Hesnemen, who was standing beside the bed, watched his movements and stood quietly without moving.
When Jiaojiao found that her father didn't move, she tilted her head in confusion and urged in her little voice: "Dad"
Facing his pair of bright and expectant eyes, Hesnemen finally had no choice but to shrink as he wished.
He shrank and fell onto the bed. He walked directly to Jiaojiao and lay down beside her, resting his head on the little guy's arms that were stretched straight.
Holding her shrunken father in her arms, Jiaojiao curled her eyes in satisfaction, patted her father's back with her little hands, and said in a soft voice, "Daddy, be good. Ah Juejue."
Looking up at his happy little face, Hesnemen indulged him and closed his eyes.
Ever since the little guy knew he could become smaller, such scenes have appeared frequently. Except for the shock he felt the first time, he gradually got used to it.
At first, he became smaller because his divine power was a little out of control and he couldn't control his body shape well.
Later, after being pestered by the little guy to become smaller several times, Hesnemen got used to making himself smaller. When he felt sleepy, he would lie in Jiaojiao's pocket so that he could take him with him at any time.
Jiaojiao, who was lying on the bed, did not forget Ares and his sister. She patted the bed with her little hands and called out "Ahhh" for them to come up.
The brother and sister, who were hiding in the corner and had just come to their senses, didn't dare to go up and shook their heads at Jiaojiao.
Hesnemen, lying in Jiaojiao's arms, waved his hand and sent the brother and sister to the broken bed in the outer room.
"Huh?" Jiaojiao tilted her head and made a puzzled sound when she found that they were gone.
The brother and sister who were squatting on the bed outside looked at each other, and there was annoyance and sadness between their brows.
This man should be a great magician of mankind. He didn't attack them, so he won't do anything to the deserted city either, right?
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