Cloud Thinking

It was impossible for her to finish all the food. Even if she was hungry, she didn't have a big appetite to finish the food that was almost as high as a mountain. She had almost finished eating those things that would go bad if she didn't eat them now, and she piled the untouched fruits and other things in a small corner of the room, hoarding food like a hamster.

After eating and drinking, she began to think about a question. If the food appeared by itself, didn't it mean that there was no one here to deliver the food as she had expected at the beginning? Moreover, she hadn't heard any movement from anyone other than herself in the past two days. Could it be that she was the only one imprisoned in this tower?

What if she needs to poop? What if she needs to wash her face and take a bath? What if she needs to wash and air the blanket that she has eaten? She can’t be locked up in this room for two or three years wearing the same clothes and not taking a bath! Wouldn’t that turn her into a savage? But savages can poop freely! She has even been deprived of the right to poop!

No, she had to find a way to leave this room. Since it was a tower, there should be more than one room on her floor. Moreover, there was no sign of anyone living in this room. She thought that she might find traces left by Avril, but either the place was renovated and completely covered the marks she had made, or she had not lived in this room before.

No matter what her purpose was, she had to leave the room first.

She deliberately saved the chicken bones when she ate, which were one of the few foreign weapons she could get, but unfortunately the suckling pig had no bones. She took the bones and sharpened them against the wall bit by bit until they were sharp enough to prick her hands.

Chicken bones are thin, so it is unlikely to chisel the wall. She can only sharpen them and use them as weapons. She now has two ways to unlock the chains on her hands. One is to chisel the wall. Although she is free, the chain is still on her hand. The second is to break or chop her hand and force it out of the chain. This is of course the best option, because she is not sure what magic marks are on the chain. Carrying the chain is like carrying a time bomb. It is definitely best to get rid of it, but the problem is that the price she has to pay is very high.

She carefully compared the size of her hand and the lock ring, and thought she would need to bend her thumb and little finger inward or cut them off to have a better chance of getting her whole hand out of the lock ring.

But her wrist bone seemed to be stuck. If the situation was not good, she would probably have to cut off her entire hand to get rid of the chain.

But whether it is to chop off a finger or a whole hand, a sharp tool is needed, preferably one that is sharp enough to cut it off in one go, and the pain will go away after a while. Of course, this is the most extreme case, and she will not try it easily before she is sure there is no other way out.

There was nothing to do today, so she went to sleep after eating. This continued for several days, she would sit and wait for food before it was time, eat when it was time, and sleep after eating. It was a good life for her to be a pig.

She seemed to not need to excrete, and she didn't even sweat. She didn't have any eye mucus, ear mucus, or nose mucus. It was as if her body had a self-purification system that quietly disposed of the waste inside and outside her body. But this feeling was not good. It made Helia feel that she was becoming less and less like a normal person. She could only tell herself that she was still a person who would get hungry and need to eat by constantly eating.

Until the fifteenth day, when there were three "正" characters, she had just drawn the last horizontal line of the third "正" character and was about to clean up and eat when she heard a very light sound. Along with the appearance of tribute, a colorful bubble suddenly appeared in her room, and the human-like voice she heard came from this bubble.

"What is that?" Helia approached the bubble cautiously. She was somewhat surprised that through the bubble, she could see a woman kneeling and praying with her eyes closed. She had her hands clasped in front of her and her head lowered devoutly, as if she had broken through the limitations of time and space and was praying to Helia.

Helia closed her eyes and tried to distinguish what the other person was saying, but she couldn't hear clearly. She could only barely make out that it was a human voice, but couldn't confirm what was said.

She adapted well, probably confirming that someone was praying for her. After all, she had been enjoying the offerings from these people, so there was no reason for her to not do anything.

But why did the bubble of the wish suddenly appear at this point in time? Who was handling the previous wishes for her? Or was it just because this wish was special that it was delivered to her? What should she do to help this believer who was not in the same space as her?

This wish bubble was a turning point for everything. Although she didn't know whether it was for the better or for the worse, it was better than the days when she was treated like a pig. She stretched out her hand tentatively and touched the bubble with her fingers. At that moment, she felt as if her soul was thrown up heavily, and then fell down heavily. After a moment of trance, she opened her eyes and found herself in a strange place.

She wanted to turn her head and look around, but found that her movements were restricted and she couldn't move. She seemed to have entered an object, so her movements were restricted by this object. She rolled her eyes, trying to take in the scene as much as possible, and her sight finally fell on the woman who was kneeling and praying not far in front of her.

She was higher than the woman, looking down at her. She could see the fruits and vegetables on the plate. She guessed that her soul was attached to the so-called statue. To be honest, she was curious about what the statue looked like. Was it carved in her image? Or was it similar to other statues with blurred faces?

"Great God Ornn, I beg you to save my child." Helia heard the woman crying, "My son followed the village patrol team to the Sad Forest the day before yesterday, but he has not returned yet. I think he must have been targeted by that damned monster."

"I beg you to show your power and save my child! He is only twelve years old! If it weren't for the village's mandatory requirement that every household must send someone to join the hunting patrol, how could I let such a young child go!"

"My husband didn't come back last time during the inspection tour! Now they've taken my child away. They're trying to kill me!"

Sad Forest? Patrol? Village? Although it was just three simple keywords, Helia roughly guessed where this place was. This was a small village near Sad Forest, sandwiched between the Otis Empire and the Xiali Empire, a primitive village that was not under the jurisdiction of either side.

The people living in the villages are either illegal immigrants without citizenship, or non-citizens who are unwilling to accept national rule, or some indigenous people who have lived here for generations.

The ownership of the Sad Forest has always been a sore point between the Otis Empire and the Xiali Empire. It is a place that no one wants to manage but has to manage. The Sad Forest is where many monsters live, and there are also many primitive villages that are not under the jurisdiction of the Empire. The Empire cannot gain any benefits from it, but if it is left alone, the monsters in the forest will escape, and the people on the border will be the first to suffer a devastating disaster.

The stability of the border is related to the survival of the country, so both countries have to take care of this piece of land.

But generally speaking, the two countries have reached a tacit understanding that the territory close to whichever side is under the jurisdiction of that side, and the armies of both sides should not attack each other when they meet in the forest, but should work together to eliminate the monsters and overcome difficulties together. However, the Xiali Empire has been on the decline in recent years and is no longer able to continue to invest too much power in the jurisdiction of the Sad Forest. Therefore, the actual control and jurisdiction of the Sad Forest has been in the hands of the Otis Empire in recent years.

Although the people living in these primitive villages hate the monsters in the Sad Forest and are powerless to resist these irrational and terrifying weapons that seem to be sent by the gods to destroy the world, they rely on the forest for survival. Although they are not under the jurisdiction of any country, they actually maintain trade relations with other towns and villages on the border. They rely on selling the materials obtained in the Sad Forest in exchange for living and production materials. It can be said that they are risking their lives to survive at the hands of the ferocious monsters.

But the Sad Forest was very large, so large that it almost covered one-third of the border between the Otis Empire and the Xiali Empire, and the primitive villages surrounding the Sad Forest were of different sizes, dotted around the edge of the forest like stars. Based on the few words the woman said, it was impossible to determine whether the village she was in was on the Otis Empire side or the Xiali Empire side.

"Save people?... I do want to save them, but I really don't know how. I don't even know where they are..." Helia muttered in her heart.

Moreover, she was very interested in the "God Oun" that the woman mentioned at the beginning. She had never heard of any god with this name, and she thought it certainly could not be any of the gods in the sky. Judging from the woman's convinced look, this god should enjoy a certain prestige in the local area. Of course, it is not ruled out that she might be desperate and try any possible means.

But why would this god Ornn correspond to her? What on earth did Zhou Qi use to replace this so-called god Ornn? No matter how hard she tried to think about it, she couldn't figure it out. Anyway, a mortal like Helia couldn't figure it out.

She couldn't speak, so she couldn't respond to the mother's earnest request. She thought that her soul would return to her place after listening to the other party's request, but after waiting for a long time, she only heard the other party repeating the request over and over again in a humble voice.

Is this what I need to know? Helia was confused and could only stare and listen quietly.

Fortunately, Helia didn't have to wait too long. A thin figure gradually appeared in her field of vision. The other person looked to be about eight or nine years old, dark and small, but his black eyes were very bright.

The little girl walked into the house cautiously, her movements timid, not knowing what she was afraid of. Helia saw that she was holding a wooden plate with a bowl of steaming paste on it, which must be food for the woman kneeling and praying.

"Mother..." the little girl called out timidly, but what surprised Helia was the mother's reaction. When she heard her daughter's voice, she raised her head sharply, with anger on her face. She turned around and glared at the girl, scolding loudly:

"Who allowed you to come in here? Get out now! You don't even have the right to enter the temple!"

Helia:?

The little girl took a few steps back after being scolded. She looked at her mother aggrievedly and handed the wooden plate forward. "The food is getting cold. I thought that mother hadn't eaten anything this morning, so I brought it to her..."

But the woman didn't even look at the wooden plate in the girl's hand. She angrily slapped the plate away, and the paste in the bowl spilled all over the floor. She realized that she had desecrated such a sacred place as the temple. A trace of fear flashed across her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by anger.

She stood up and walked quickly towards her daughter, grabbing the little girl's hair and dragging her out of the house, ignoring the girl's screams and cries of pain. The woman pulled her daughter's hair and muttered, "You spendthrift, no one cares about you now that your brother is gone, right? There's not much food left, and you're cooking for yourself!"

"I'm starving here and praying for your brother, but you're so good that you're cooking for yourself at home with the limited food you don't have, right? You really spoil me!"

"You really think you're destined to be a princess! You know how to enjoy yourself, don't you?"

"How many times have I told you not to enter the temple? You ignored my words! How dare you desecrate such a sacred place as the temple! And you brought in that pig food! It's all over the floor! Just wait and see how I'll deal with you when I get back!"