Chapter 178: "I will go to a grand death"
Su Mingan was slightly stunned.
"You just said these children are going to die today..." he asked Qingqing.
"Yeah, probably before the polar night today." Qing Qing pouted: "Brother, you came at an unfortunate time. Today happens to be the town's annual tribute day, which is not a good day."
"What is the Day of Offering?"
"Well, probably... the other side of the other side of the mountain?" Qing Qing stood on tiptoe and pointed to the other side of the town: "Dad said that there is a very scary, very big monster there that eats people."
She opened her hands and made a big circle, as if she wanted to describe the terrible monster: "It will eat people! If it is hungry, it will eat people. If we let it run into the town...we will all be eaten.
So we came up with a plan. The big monster is lazy and takes a long nap every year, but it eats people before it goes to sleep. We give the children who haven't awakened to it... so it won't come to eat us!"
Her hand drew a big circle, her tone was playful, and her movements were cute, like a little child standing on tiptoe trying to grow taller quickly.
But Su Mingan understood the extremely cruel meaning in her tone.
"Children who have not awakened..." Su Mingan glanced at the place where the children had played.
After being taken away by the adults, the surroundings became quiet and there seemed to be no sound at all.
The best time for children to awaken is when they are five or six years old. If they still don’t awaken their abilities after that, it will be difficult for them to have another chance. They can only be ordinary people with low abilities for the rest of their lives.
The people in this kind of town have no bloodline inheritance ability, and the talent awakening magic circle has not been researched yet. They have almost no resistance against the man-eating monsters.
If they choose to relocate collectively, their only option is freezing to death in this harsh environment.
People had no other options except to give their worthless children and elderly people to the monster, praying that it would be well fed and hibernate, and not invade their hometown.
Qing Qing was lucky. She had awakened her ability. Even if she could only light a flame now, it was still an ability. She had the basic qualifications to "survive."
You don't have to be sent to the mouth of the monster by your own blood at an ignorant age and die in the most cruel way.
...In exchange for the lives of several children, the survival of the entire town.
"It's another balance with life as the [chip]." Su Ming'an said softly.
However, this scale, in his opinion, was more bloody.
"What balance?" Qing Qing didn't understand.
Although Qingqing is lucky, her life is not easy.
Those children who were chosen and destined to die, even if they didn't know their future fate, would subconsciously stay away from Qingqing amid the sighs of their parents. The parents of the chosen children were even more sad and painful, but for the sake of the overall situation, they had no ability to refuse and could only push their children out and watch them die.
When seeing Qingqing alive and well, the parents who had suffered the pain of losing their children would inevitably feel unbalanced, even if they knew that the value of the person with special abilities was far above that of their children.
——Why would you be the one to awaken?
——Why shouldn’t you be the one to die?
——Why should their children die just because of a simple awakening ceremony and a result?
Normally, they are angry, indifferent, and distant, because people with special abilities are all [heretics], and behind every person with special abilities are the lives of countless children.
But once a disaster strikes, they will rely on people with special abilities because they know in their hearts who can save their lives.
The survivors will become carriers of suffering, and they will struggle forever in the future.
The greater good is always clothed in a sacred cloak, sweeping everyone up in silence - and when all this has not yet happened to them, people only feel that the future is bright.
"I have thought about helping Uncle Tom and Aunt Meiyin next door." Qing Qing said softly, "But when I went in with firewood and saw the empty crib in the corner of their room, I didn't dare to do it anymore... I always felt that I owed them, and no matter how I compensated them, it would not be enough..."
Su Mingan didn't say anything.
"I always feel that everyone looks at me in the wrong way... I used to have a few good friends, but they were soon sent to the mountains." She pinched the edge of the wooden bowl with her fingers, and seemed to be very upset: "... I still remember Alan's eyes that day. She looked at me with red eyes, grabbed the corner of my clothes, and said she didn't want to be separated from me...
The adults lied to them, saying they were just going out for an outing to see the other side of the mountain.
But Alan matured early and had heard the adults' conversations. She knew that she would not come back this time..."
"Ridiculous." Su Mingan said softly.
"Big brother." Qing Qing tilted her head: "What are you talking about?"
"I say... the tacit understanding that seems to be righteous is actually the cruelest thing." Su Mingan said: "Qingqing, when everyone thinks that a rule is reasonable, the person who is suddenly sacrificed seems insignificant."
Qingqing blinked.
Her little brain seemed to have not yet reacted to why this noble brother suddenly started talking nonsense.
She turned the bowl over and held it tightly in her hands.
"Big brother...how about, how about, I'll go make some medicine for you." As she said that, she turned and walked away, moving as fast as a rabbit, as if she was afraid of him.
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