Chapter 1559: Purgatory on Earth

Liangduo is a Councilor of Austria.

He once dreamed that every place in Austria could be as peaceful and harmonious as Vienna.

The entire city was filled with an artistic atmosphere.

People would have better pursuits, and everyone was thanking the Lord for everything He had bestowed upon them.

At least until today, Liangduo still thought this way, looking at all the scenery he had seen along the way, even though his own clothes had been torn to rags by refugees.

But he always held fast to the faith in his heart, always believing that all of this would get better.

"Will it get better?" Liangduo questioned deeply in his heart.

The main city of Prague is simply a purgatory on earth.

Liangduo looked at a little girl of about five or six years old on the street; she was dirty from head to toe, and the clothes on her body were dark red.

She was holding something in her hand, pitch black.

While eating, she said, "Eat until full, not hungry anymore."

Liangduo was stunned; if a little girl of her age had been born in Vienna, even in a commoner's family, she could have spent her childhood very happily.

But in the current Prague, both of them felt in unison as if their hearts had been clutched.

Liangduo stepped forward quickly; seeing Liangduo appear suddenly, the little girl's small face turned deathly pale, and she hid the thing in her hand behind her back in a panic.

Her body also shifted backward, looking at Liangduo with great fear.

Liangduo forced a smile onto his stiff face, making his tone as gentle as possible: "Little one, what are you eating? Uncle has something delicious here."

"Do you want to eat some? Where are your father and mother?"

Liangduo reached out his hand to ask Daniel for food.

Daniel glanced at him without speaking and took out some clean, white dry rations from his bag; after the little girl saw them, the saliva at the corner of her mouth could not stop flowing.

Liangduo handed them over, and the little girl took them immediately; looking at the white, dry rations, she swallowed her saliva.

"Eat, why aren't you eating?"

The little girl immediately shook her head, tucked the dry rations into her bosom, and without saying a word, turned her head and ran into the house behind her.

Liangduo looked at the thing the little girl had left behind, and upon walking closer to examine it, he knew instantly what it was.

"It's tree bark!" Liangduo's expression changed abruptly.

A five or six-year-old little girl eating tree bark!

Not long after running inside, the little girl ran out again and picked up the piece of tree bark she hadn't finished gnawing on.

Seeing this scene, both Liangduo and Daniel fell into a deathly silence.

Liangduo followed the little girl into the room with a blank expression.

In the dim room, Liangduo saw a thin woman lying on a bed.

Her eyes were tightly shut, and the little girl pushed her, calling out childishly: "Mom, Mom, there is a kind uncle outside who brought us food, hurry up and get up to eat."

The woman did not respond.

A gust of wind blew by, and Liangduo knew she would never respond again.

An unimaginably heavy feeling instantly crushed Liangduo's cheeks; he tightly closed his eyes, trying to stop the tears that were about to fall.

But it was clearly of no use.

The tears still broke through his eyelids and flowed down; Liangduo let out a deep breath, for he could not lose his composure in front of a child.

Liangduo gently comforted the little girl.

The little girl felt the warmth coming from above her head, looked up, and discovered it was the uncle; the expression on her face turned both surprised and happy.

"Mom, look, Mom, he has come in."

"Hurry up and get out of bed."

Liangduo did not know how to tell this five or six-year-old child the cruel fact that her mother was already gone.

Liangduo forced a smile and said: "Your mother is tired and has fallen asleep."

"No need to wake"

"her up; from now on, Uncle will take you away."

"Is that okay?"

The little girl was stunned, as if she understood something, and burst into tears instantly.

"Is Mom the same as those people on the street, who can't wake up once they fall asleep?"

Liangduo was dazed for a moment; in the current Prague, death could be seen everywhere, and a five or six-year-old little girl already had a basic understanding of it.

Liangduo could not answer her; he did not know how to answer this question either.

He only said: "Come with Uncle."

The little girl cried even louder; she looked at her mother lying quietly on the bed, whom she could no longer hear.

Whom she could no longer see.

It was as if something had been completely torn away from the little girl's heart.

On the side, Liangduo did not try to dissuade her, letting the little girl cry and wail.

That day, Liangduo buried the woman, and two people became three.

Liangduo looked toward the main city of Prague, toward the direction of the Holy See, and stepped forward firmly.

……

And at this time in America.

The Indian tribe hiding in the deep mountains received the guidance of Qingyang.

At this moment, they are moving forward in the southern part of America.

The further south they went, the higher the temperature became; going from the north of America to the south felt like passing through two extremes.

The temperature in the northern part of America is abnormally low right now, but the temperature in the southern part of America is extremely high.

The Indians who rushed out of the jungle felt the warmth of the temperature on their bodies, and it was very comfortable.

Not far away, they saw the Yun City that Mr. Qingyang Shuo had spoken of.

They knew then that they had reached their destination.

After getting close to Yun City, these Indians who had come from northern America looked happy, and they felt even more inexplicably excited as they looked at Yun City.

The guards on Yun City saw a large group of Indians approaching from a distance; they did not open fire, but instead shouted, "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

The Indian chief who came from the north was named Morei; Chief Morei looked at his fellow Indians and shouted loudly in the Longyan Language, "We are Indians from northern America."

Hearing the familiar Longyan Language, the guards were stunned—Indians who understood the Longyan Language.

They hurriedly reported this matter to Li Cheng, who was temporarily in charge of Yun City.

After receiving the news, Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, not expecting these Indians to arrive at Yun City so quickly.

Half a month ago, Li Cheng had received an order from Qingyang Shuo to assemble the Indians and be ready to deal with a crisis at any time.

Li Cheng had been a bit confused after receiving the order, as the Spanish had already been beaten by them to the point where they dared not come to invade the Panama Strait again.

When Mr. Qingyang Shuo left, those reactionary Indian tribes did not dare to show their faces.

What kind of crisis could there still be in southern America now?

The only ones who could pose a threat to Yun City now were Britain and France, but the colonies of these two countries were both in North America.

It is said that they are still fighting incessantly.

However, Li Cheng soon heard something that left him dumbfounded.

France forced Britain to sign an agreement, acknowledging the location and area of their French colonies.

Wouldn't this cause Britain and France to start fighting?

Thinking of this, Li Cheng hurriedly received these Indians who had rushed over from North America.

After the Morei tribe entered the city, they saw that almost everyone in the city was Indian; their cultures were the same, and their languages were mutually intelligible.

Suddenly, Morei had a feeling of being home.