Why it never ends

"Hey..." Li Ge waved his hands casually, "You should call me Li Ge."

Anna looked at the bone nail on her brow bone, "You don't like this surname?"

"No, I just can't get used to it, no one calls me like that anymore..." Li Ke held his face, "I heard from Si Lei that you have a special kind of gin here?"

"Would you like to try it?"

"Hmm." Li Ke changed her posture, she leaned on the table with her elbows, and looked at Putina's table, "I'm in trouble."

"You're welcome."

The two people on the bar quietly watched Putina mix the drink, until Lico suddenly turned around on the high stool with rollers and stopped in the direction facing Anna.

"I know several Annas, and this name is also very popular in District [-]... Is this your real name?"

"Not like?"

"It's too common..." Li Ke paused for a moment, "Oh, I understand, no wonder Rob Green wants to change his name to an elder."

Anna laughed.

"Does the surname Sokolova have a name in your language?" Li Ke asked again.

"Falcon," Anna replied.

"Falcon!" Li Ke was a little surprised, "Isn't that the same as Jane..."

Anna took the wine glass from Putina and said with a smile, "It's not surprising that the residents of the snowfields and grasslands both like eagles. It's not like the relationship between your and Hesta's surnames."

"What is our relationship?" Li Ge was even more surprised, "What is our relationship..."

"Her surname is her family name, and you directly used the wasteland where you lived in the past," Anna looked forward. "Actually, I went to the Sol wasteland once... a long time ago."

"Hahaha, 1000 years so long?"

"There was no such thing as a 'wasteland' 1000 years ago," Anna smiled. "In the past few years, cities and towns have reappeared there. Have you gone back and seen them?"

Li Ke shook his wine glass, "I don't care about any towns anymore, so why go back?"

"But you still put it in your name," Anna looked at her, "a souvenir?"

"It's not that complicated," Li Ke waved his hand, "It's just that when I first entered the base, everyone asked me where I came from, and when I re-recorded the information later, I simply used the name of the place of birth... If I If I remember correctly, Jane's surname was also given to her by the nuns of the monastery, and it has nothing to do with herself or her past... You take it for granted."

Anna didn't refute, but just glanced at Li Ge's brow again, "It's not for commemoration, but there are traces of my hometown everywhere on my body?"

Li Ke raised his hand and gently wiped his brows, "This one is different."

"What's the difference?"

"I earned it myself."

Putina was a little puzzled, "...what? A bone nail?"

"People over there have a coming-of-age ceremony when they turn 12—"

Before Anna finished speaking, Putinna exclaimed, "12 years old! So young!"

"You grew up in a livable place, right?" Li Ke let out a burst of laughter, "What can't be done at the age of 12, it's old enough."

Putina blinked her eyes in disbelief, "Mature ceremony, and then?"

"There is a ceremony in the coming-of-age ceremony. In autumn, most children will get a weapon of their own as a gift on that day. Most of them are swords, hooks, bows and arrows... etc. The main purpose is to hunt prey," Anna said. He said softly, "There are also some children who will directly participate in a long-distance hunt on that day..."

"It's an honor in itself to get this spot," added Rico.

"That's right," Anna raised her eyebrows lightly. "This team usually has no more than ten people, and they are selected by the most prestigious hunters in the area. To be included in this list means that this child has extraordinary skills..."

"And technically I was 11," Rico added, "because my birthday was at the end of December—"

"Why don't you tell it yourself."

Li Ke couldn't help laughing, "Well, it's not really a good memory—our team consisted of [-] people, and the long-distance hunting lasted for a week. During the process, we couldn't snipe or poison. Follow the principles of fair pursuit - don't ask why, that's the way it is against the law.

"Most of us will choose to hunt in the end, and a few people will take the initiative to attack... because for many people, it is the limit for many people to survive safely to the end. If they can still catch the prey, they will be rewarded .”

Rico pointed to his eyebrows.

"As long as you spend seven days safely, you can put a special silver nail on the brow bone. If you hunt wild sheep, red deer, more than ten starlings, more than twenty groundhogs or squirrels... that is Two."

Rico pointed to his third bone nail.

"Only those who have successfully hunted and killed predators can enjoy this honor." Li Ke said quickly, "Such as bears, wolves, leopards... I heard that there used to be tigers in our place, but no one has seen them for many years , oh, so does the wild boar, though it's not a predator."

Just as Putinna was about to ask Lico what he had hunted, Lico took the initiative to answer, "I killed a big golden cat—a kind of leopard from our side. I saw it on the first day I entered the mountain, but It took more than ten days of chasing it to successfully take it down—actually, I shouldn’t have killed it, it saved me to some extent, but how would I know it at the time.”

"...it saved you?"

"Because during that time, Sol Wasteland was attacked by a group of chelates." Looking at Putina whose expression suddenly froze, Li Ke shrugged slightly, "...It's nothing, it's all over."

Putina considered her words: "That must be a very difficult memory..."

Li Ke drank the wine in his glass, "Maybe it was like this at the time, but it did pass."

"Did you make these three bone nails yourself?" Anna asked.

"Then I can only fight by myself," Li Ke pushed the wine glass back to Putina's side, "After all, only I know that there is such a thing... Hey, how do you know the customs in our place so clearly? "

"I've already said it," Anna looked at the table with an indifferent expression, "I've been to Sol Wasteland."

"When?" Li Ke asked earnestly, but seeing that Anna didn't seem to want to answer, she vaguely guessed the subtext, "...a long time ago?"

"...Yes." Anna recovered her smile, and she looked at Putina, "Look, what I said before, it's worth the trip."

Putina nodded sincerely: "I haven't chatted with Ms. Lico much before, and you are also a person with a story."

"What kind of story is this? This kind of story abounds in Mercury Needle..." Li Ke looked at Anna, "There is something I have been curious about for a long time——"

"Hersta mentioned it last time." Her eyes slowly turned to Rico, and when her eyes met, Anna spoke suspiciously, "But do you really want to hear it?"