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Her brother was the only one in the family who could make Krista feel loved. Her mother and other family members would despise her, fear her, and even whip her at times.
Only this brother who had never been to school and had never read many books would protect Kristella. Even if she was driven out of the tribe by her mother and there was no place for Kristella in the entire Indian reservation, her brother would go to the outside city with her and find an equally small hiding place for the little girl.
When she was very young, whenever her mother whipped Christina, her brother would rush over and hug his sister tightly. He would curl up and wrap Christina up completely, as if he wanted to build a high wall with his body, and he would grit his teeth and not make a sound even when being whipped.
The angry mother saw her brother doing this and she no longer wanted to beat him. Later, Krista was driven out of the tribe, and her brother left the place that people often called home with her without hesitation.
They depended on each other for survival, trekking through wilderness and dense forests, and came to a small town in New Mexico. But the elder brother had never been to school and was an Indian, so he couldn't find a decent job in the city that could support two people, so he joined a gang and engaged in illegal activities.
But Krista knew that her brother would never participate in the gang's illegal activities. He would never join other hooligans in theft or robbery. This somewhat silly big boy was usually responsible for acting as a gang thug.
To this day, Krista still remembers that rainy night seven years ago. She returned home as usual, and the smell of blood hit her face like the wind. Everything in front of her made the girl forget to speak and to scream. She only had time to rush over and hug her brother's limp body on the ground, crying silently.
She never cried out loud because her mother hated to hear crying. In the past, if Krista cried out loud when she was beaten, her mother would beat her even harder, so she learned to control her crying when she was very young.
But when she saw the man who had always stood in front of her like a mountain and protected her from the wind and rain crawling helplessly on the ground covered in blood, Krista had never hated her mother so much as she did at that moment.
She hated the woman for depriving her of the right to cry out loud, as if this way she had no place to vent her sorrow.
The culprit that caused his brother to become like this was a penetrating wound in his abdomen. It was a wound left by some kind of bullet. It was charred and bloody. About one-fifth of the organs in the abdominal cavity had been completely destroyed. It was a miracle that he could survive until Krista returned home.
Krista still remembers her brother's hands holding hers, which were gradually becoming cold, in her dreams many times at night.
He said, "Christchurch, you are not a cursed child." He said, "Christchurch, you must love yourself. Only those who love themselves will be loved by others." He said, "Christchurch, I'm sorry, I can't grow up with you anymore."
His voice became softer and softer, more and more blurred, his pupils gradually became dilated, and his eyes gradually lost focus.
Krista was still crying silently, tears falling down her face in huge drops. The deep of her throat felt as if it was being cut by a knife, but she could not utter a single sound. The overwhelming sadness came over her like a strong wind.
When her brother really died, Krista felt as if she could finally cry out loud, and she burst into tears.
Krista was a very sensible child. She understood that from that day on, the only person in the world who loved her also died, right in front of her.
The last words the man said to her were, "Christine, you have to love yourself."
So Krista put on her brother's favorite long windbreaker with blood on it, took out the revolver from the drawer that her brother used to defend himself and deter the enemy, and knocked down the wall of the house and dug out the exquisite dagger made of pure gold that her brother had buried inside.
The gold used to forge this dagger was bought by my brother with the money he earned from selling the goods he used to hack the boar Neo.
He said that when Christina was going to get married, he would sell the gold and buy her a very big house in the Netherlands, Russia or Germany, so that Christina would no longer have to wander around in this world.
Krista remembered her brother saying that a man was no longer an outlaw if he stopped wandering.
Krista still remembers that she was very young at that time and didn't know what marriage meant. Her brother told her that marriage meant finding a boy who loved her very much and she also loved him. You lived together until you died and were buried in the same grave. The tombstone would have your names written on it and white flowers would be placed in front of it all year round.
Krista said, "Brother, I want to marry you." After hearing this, her brother laughed and touched her head and said, "Brother can't stay with you for that long. You will meet someone better than brother in the future."
Sometimes Krista feels that this world is so sad. Before you even learn to love someone, the only person who loves you has already died.
Over the years, the boar Neo was indeed very good to Krista. She might really have a cold personality and did not hate him at all.
But it's hard to say there is any emotion involved. She is actually a very sensitive girl. Krista can feel that Neo is using her.
Her words were of the Bloodline, which enabled her to find awakened or unawakened hybrids within a certain range. This special ability once made Kriska think she had found her own kind.
But whenever she talked about this with the boar Neo, the fellow that vaguely appeared in her perception would quickly disappear.
Later, when she grew up a little, Krista knew that they were captured by the boar Neo. What would happen to them later? Maybe they were killed or imprisoned, but Krista knew that she had made a mistake and she shouldn't have told the man those things.
So since many years ago, she has never used her abilities again.
Until that day, the first meeting with Lu Mingfei.
The high-pitched chanting seemed to come directly from her soul, and the blood bond opened automatically and uncontrollably. In Krista's perception, Lu Mingfei was like a warm bonfire. It seemed that as long as she got close to him, all the loneliness and coldness would be dispelled.
"The test results are out. If we just look at the purity of the dragon blood in your body, your bloodline is far better than that of the boar Neo. Someone will tutor you on these when you enter school." Lu Mingfei lowered his voice to communicate with Kriska.
It is very easy for Norma to investigate someone's criminal record. Boar Neo and his gang are not clean, and the crimes committed by any one of them are enough to send them to prison for life.
However, this Indian girl seemed to have never participated in any illegal or criminal activities or activities that violated the Abrahamic bloodline. She was clean.
In addition to her surprised expression when facing Lu Mingfei, and the fact that she could actually look directly into those golden eyes that turned red when lit, the academy decided to conduct a pedigree test on her and make an exception for her if she met the standards.
Krista didn't have much objection to this. She was a homeless person, and it wouldn't be a bad thing if she could finally find someone like her.
However, if I want to enroll, I have to wait until the next class. In the next six months, I can only study in the preparatory class of Valley College with Constantine.
"What happened to those people captured by Neo?" Krista suddenly asked, her arms folded across her chest. Her eyes were still cold, but there seemed to be a hint of imperceptible panic buried in the deepest part of her dark brown pupils.
"Some were sent to mine, some were sold to be someone's son, and some are committing telecom fraud in Africa. Basically, they are still alive, but their lives are difficult. We are doing our best to rescue them." Lu Mingfei hesitated a little when answering, and ultimately did not tell Chrissie the truth.
The truth of the world is absolute darkness. So-called justice does not exist, and happy endings only exist in stories made up by writers.
But Lu Mingfei still didn't want Miss Kriska to be exposed to the dark side of the world too early. She had an unhappy childhood, she lost her father and brother, was not accepted by her mother, and lived with her enemies for many years. The girl's life was already very sad, there was no need to let her feel the guilt she had never felt before, even if it was a lie.
Lu Mingfei knew that feeling, that feeling of being driven crazy by guilt.
He had been having the same dream for a long time, and it always ended in tragedy.
She may have made some mistakes unintentionally, and someone must be held accountable for them, but the culprits were ultimately Neo the Boar and Herzog. Lu Mingfei had already caught the former, and his end would be even more miserable than death. As for Herzog, he must kill him with his own hands.
Someone has to be held responsible for the mistakes in the world. If one makes a mistake but does not have to pay the price, Lu Mingfei will feel that justice really no longer exists, and he will enforce justice himself.
Krisja's expression didn't change much. She just picked up the orange juice in front of her and raised her glass to Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei noticed the gloom in the girl's eyes, but didn't say anything more.
Judging from all the information, she is a smart girl. Perhaps she can hear some clues from Lu Mingfei's words and guess the fate of those people.
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"I will come to see you often, dear Christie. Xiaokang is our friend. If you encounter any difficulties here, you can go to him. I believe he will help you solve your problems!" Lu Mingfei waved vigorously at the rearview mirror of his Maybach. The boy in the dark green Valley Academy uniform and a dark scarf was also waving at him from behind the slowly driving Maybach.
"I will definitely take good care of Sister Christina, don't worry, senior brother!" Constantine said happily.
He had been in Valley College for a long time, and had become a prominent figure here, with a bit of the spirit of the male protagonist in an urban novel riding the wind and waves to rise to the top. But although this guy had a good character, he was quite shy, and until now he had not made many friends.
When Constantine knew that there would be a very pretty girl studying in the preparatory class with him, he was indeed quite excited. After all, she was someone his seniors knew, which meant she was also someone he knew.
Lu Mingfei’s Adam’s apple rolled, his eyes were filled with fear, and his expression was as panicked as a little white rabbit being held down by a lion.
"'I will come to see you often, dear Miss Krista'——" A hand suddenly stretched out from the back seat and twisted Lu Mingfei's ear. Xia Mi said in a sarcastic tone, "Brother, you are really good at flirting with girls. Why didn't I see that you have this ability before? You must be lying to me, right?"
"No way, junior sister, you have to believe in my character. Caesar was ready to give me the position of student union president and even his beautiful girl dance troupe. I was not tempted at all by such temptation. How could I change because of Christina at this time?" Lu Mingfei vowed and clenched his fist on his chest.
"Oh my god, it hurts, it hurts, junior sister!" Xia Mi grabbed one of Lu Mingfei's ears with each hand and twisted it hard, causing Lu Mingfei to grimace in pain.
Xia Mi let go of his hands only when both ears were red. Lu Mingfei looked in the rearview mirror and felt like there was a big red light bulb hanging on each side of his cheek.
“Junior sister,” Lu Mingfei wanted to cry but had no tears.
Xia Mi crossed her arms, hummed, and glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.
Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped talking. He realized something and fell silent. However, his cold look coupled with his two big red ears was quite funny.
"I know that you are a gentle person, senior brother." Xia Mi said in a low voice. She suddenly stood up and squeezed to the passenger seat. The slender and graceful girl's body slid past Lu Mingfei's eyes like a beautiful snake, with a faint fragrance.
“But you know, doing this can easily cause girls to misunderstand you. Of course, I am not afraid of competition, but senior brother, aren’t you afraid that the creditors will come to your door one day if you have some romantic debts?” She leaned against the car window with one hand on her chin, but her eyes were fixed on Lu Mingfei. Her long and thick eyelashes were blown by the wind outside the window, like swaying willows.
Lu Mingfei's face felt a little hot. He recalled the crazy look on his junior sister's face when he met Odin that day. Suddenly, he felt as if his heart was empty, yet filled again. It was a strange feeling.
He clutched his chest tightly, and the sounds around him seemed to disappear completely at this moment.
There was something close to his heart, very thin and not hard, but it seemed like a thick layer of armor covering Lu Mingfei's heart.
These are the two photos that Eri asked Miss Sakura to send.
"Junior sister, I will go to Oslo next month, and then I will go to Japan when I come back. The principal has always wanted me to visit the Japanese branch." Lu Mingfei suddenly said something out of the blue.
He carefully observed Xia Mi's expression and eyes out of the corner of his eye, but all he was greeted with was a faint "Oh".
Dear Readers (2):
It has been four months since I started to ponder over this story. Thinking back to when I revisited Mr. Jiangnan’s Tide of Black Moon before I started writing, I still feel sad.
Actually, I have always wanted to do one thing, which is to thank the readers and friends who have supported me. However, I am a lazy person and I am usually busy, so I have been putting it off again and again. Today, I feel that I really can’t delay it any longer, so I started to write this single chapter.
The first step is to report the results.
Dragon Tribe: Silent Until Now was released on August 8st. I uploaded two chapters when it was released. The first order on that day was only a pitiful 1. I am really ashamed to mention it. But I think it is also thanks to the love of readers. As of today, my average order has exceeded 199. If I work hard, I may really achieve a great success before the end. If I can really achieve that goal, then I will write another book. Next time, I want to write a true pure love, a true redemption story, about our two little monsters, starting from the day when the Gulfstream landed in Tokyo.
Without further ado, let's get to the thank you list. At the same time, sometimes the Writer's Assistant cannot fully display the nicknames of readers, but only displays English and numerical character IDs. If this happens, the gentlemen who care can say it in this chapter or directly send me a private message to remind me to change it.
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