Chapter 106 Queen

Alicia was forced to live with the Mole Man for three years.

She has never had such a hard life, no servants, no fine clothes and fine food, they are like a group of dark repellents, living underground, relying on the city’s food reserves and weird mushrooms and tree roots to survive.

The other Mole People love to eat monster meat.

William and his wife tried their best to make a trap to trap the little monsters, peeled off the raw meat and threw it to them. Alicia never dared to watch that scene—just passing by and hearing them eating flesh and blood made her sick with nausea.

She had never come into contact with anyone like William and his wife.

The couple are illiterate, can’t read a few words, and have never traveled far in their lives. In The Mole Man, similarities abound.

The princess was playful since she was a child, and she didn’t study anything seriously, but she knew a lot more than these people. When she brought up topics, such as military and garrison, such as equestrianism and flower arrangement, the others were ignorant and were taken aback for a while; she held a rifle/gun and explained its structure jerkily, which also won a lot of praise; She used to talk about Leon, and tell anecdotes about it, and say it was the greatest city in the world.

The Mole Man adores her.

Alicia gained respect and affection with such ease, it was as if the old days had returned. In her heart, she looked down on these people. She thought she would leave one day.

She asked the couple why they could take care of her in a coma for 7 months.

At that time, there was no concept of “Mole Man”. She was infected like a monster, and no one thought she could live.

His wife, Joey, faltered and didn’t speak.

Later, William said that they had a daughter before, who died of illness very early, and she liked to wear white dresses very much.

Alicia thought of the day when she got on the train and her nightgown was white.

She tried to contact the military.

Everyone told her that the army would hunt the Mole Man, and that the king was a tyrant.

She didn’t believe it, as long as the army could verify her identity, they would definitely bring her back to the capital. Father is still waiting for her.

There are not many cities left in the huge empire. They were isolated here, and occasionally monsters approached, so they escaped by digging holes.

In the third year, a military convoy came.

The princess saw the smoke and dust of the convoy from a distance, she got out of the “nest”, stood in the dusk and waved desperately at them.

“Here I am!” she cried, “Here I am—come here!”

“Are you crazy?!” William slammed her down behind him and shouted, “That’s the army! You will kill us!”

“I know! They are what I’m looking for!” Alicia struggled, “Let me go! They will take me home!”

William was old, and was hit by her elbow in the abdomen, and the pain was so painful that he couldn’t straighten up. The princess broke free from him, and continued to raise her arms and shouted: “Come here! I am here!”

Just as she was about to run towards the convoy, she heard a “whoosh!”, and her ears felt hot.

The bullet flew past her head.

The princess froze. William rushed forward to hold her down again, and shouted in her ear, “Hide!”

After a few more screaming bullets, Alicia was stiffly dragged back into the “nest” by William.

— for the first time she clearly understood that the army was no longer her faithful shield.

Now she is prey.

The army came to recover the city of Ariel, and the princess exposed the existence of the Mole Man. Later, more and more troops came and regarded the Mole Man as a monster.

The abyss is restless, there are monsters outside, there are troops in the city, and they have nowhere to escape.

The dream of returning to the capital with the army was shattered. She saw with her own eyes that the shot dead Mole Man fell in a pool of blood.

The friends who were listening to stories around her yesterday and would call her “Di Wen!” and “Di Wen!” died at the gunpoint of the empire. Even so, no one blames her for exposing “the lair.” They all felt that she just believed in the empire, and her intentions were not bad.

what happened? Alicia thought, why kill these people?

Obviously they are all human.

My head is muddled, she thought,

Did father really do something wrong?

William also died at gunpoint. The princess took his hand and experienced for the first time why they called the king a “tyrant”.

During this period of shattered dreams, full of self-blame and regret, it was the mole people who accompanied her and supported her through it.

The army did not recover Ariel in the end.

After they left, the Mole Man lived in the “nest” for another year or two, finished eating the last food reserves, and prepared to move to the next abandoned city.

Alicia is familiar with the layout of the city.

She led the Mole Man to one city after another safely, and found food reserves and guns. She gave them directions to the city, told them where the military would store food, taught them how to use a gun, and how to identify the model of a war robot.

Reality always urges people to grow.

She has become able to eat all kinds of hardships, whether it is crawling and rolling in the mud, or trekking through sandstorms, or looking for warehouses in the rainstorm… She dared to give flesh to the Mole Man, and she dared to peel off the **** fur of the monster , In order to survive, she did things that she dared not imagine before.

The Mole Man admired and trusted her more and more.

In their view, Di Wen is omnipotent.

Unknowingly, Alicia became their leader, guiding them with her wisdom, avoiding danger again and again.

They have had no access to outside information for many years, and they don’t know how the battle is going. They only see one after another fallen cities. With selfishness, the princess led the Mole Man towards Dun.

The road ahead is long.

The more cruel she saw, the more she hated her past self.

Arrogant, innocent and vain.

Nearly a decade later, William’s wife, Joy, was also dying of old age.

Lying on the bed, she took the princess’s hand and whispered, “I have—ahem, I have a secret.”

“Tell me.” Alicia leaned into her ear.

Over the years, Joy has treated her as her own, and found her a floral wreath, covered her living place with feathers and straw, which is soft and warm, and hung beautiful decorations that she picked up. Alicia has never experienced maternal love, but she feels warmth from this ignorant and ugly woman.

The gray-haired old man said: “…I know you are a princess.” She choked up, “I knew from the beginning that you have the royal symbol on your necklace.”

“…” Alicia opened her eyes wide, “Then why…?!”

“I stole your necklace.” A line of tears flowed from the old man’s eyes, “When you were in a coma, the army came to ask, I said you were just a maid, and you have woken up, and I don’t know where you went.” In the dark, Her tears seemed to be cloudy, “Why? It might be the white dress you wore that day, it looked too much like my daughter.”

“Alicia, my Alicia,” she said, “you must hate me.”

She closed her eyes.

Alicia held Joey’s hand and sat there all night.

love her?

She should have returned to her father sooner.

hate her?

Having lived together day and night for so many years, she couldn’t hate her purely.

The princess didn’t know what kind of emotion it was until the end.

The Mole Man woke up and surrounded him rustlingly.

One of them asked her cautiously: “Di Wen! Which city are we going to go to next!”

“…Dun.” Alicia said blankly, “Let’s go to Dun. I know a secret passage that can enter the city.”

It was dawn, and she stood at the gate of the abandoned city and looked into the distance.

Looking at where they came from, they didn’t know how many miles they had traveled to get here. She thought her father would be proud of her.

She became the leader after all.

…

“You guys also know the story after that.” Di Wen gasped while holding the wall.

There is still some distance from the top of the tower, she can’t walk anymore and needs to rest. Shi Yuan and Lu Tinghan waited patiently for her.

Di Wen said: “I told everyone that I was going to talk to the king about this blood debt. In fact, I just wanted to find my father. We went to the capital and entered the city. The city is being attacked by monsters. I