I swallowed and killed gods in a strange world

Chapter 104 I once lost my name
As the sun sets, smoke rises from the village, the laughter of children chasing yellow dogs and the sharp crowing of roosters interweave into a vivid picture of the countryside.

On the alleys in the village, several thin, dark-skinned young children surrounded a young girl in ragged clothes with a bamboo basket on her back and her bare feet.

"Ugly!"

"Catastrophe!"

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Facing the vicious abuse from the children around, the girl walked past with a calm expression as if she was used to it.

Holding the shoulder straps of the basket tightly with her small hands, the girl looked ahead and walked along the largest mansion in the village.

Walking to the high wall surrounded by piled stones, the girl put down her basket and knocked on the gate with her hands.

"Dong dong dong."

After knocking on the door three times, the girl quietly stayed outside.

Between the nostrils, the aroma of food permeating the entire mansion made the girl's face show a hint of distress.

After waiting for a while, the gate of the high wall slowly opened.

A middle-aged man wearing a gray coarse coat walked out of the door. The middle-aged man looked at the girl standing outside the door, and his voice was rough: "Ah Shui went to pick up firewood again?"

The girl named Ah Shui nodded firmly, then bent over and handed her back basket full of firewood to the middle-aged man.

"Hey." The middle-aged man sighed and shook his head, took the basket and returned to the mansion.

"Yaopo! Bring two dry biscuits here." The man shouted towards the main building in the mansion while carrying the basket and walking towards the woodshed.

"It's that little calamity again?!" A sharp and mean female voice came from the main building of the mansion, as if the middle-aged man hadn't waited for a response, the female voice in the room raised her voice again: "That bit of firewood is enough for two A dry biscuit? Our second baby is still growing, and we don’t even have enough.”

The girl under the high wall outside the door couldn't help taking a step back when she heard the conversation in the mansion. She tightly squeezed her calloused little hand, and her physical discomfort overcame her inner guilt.

After a day's work, her stomach has long been deflated.

After a while, the middle-aged man came out of the door with the girl's basket in one hand and two dry pancakes the size of a palm in the other.

"This is your reward." The middle-aged man handed the basket and two dry biscuits to the girl Ah Shui.

"Thank you." The girl murmured, took the basket, took a piece of dry biscuit from the middle-aged man's hand, and then fled away from the high wall of the mansion.

The middle-aged man standing by the gate was stunned for a moment, staring deeply at the girl's fleeing back, and lowered his eyebrows to look at the piece of dry biscuit in his hand. His wrinkled cheeks couldn't help showing a hint of embarrassment.

Under the hill not far from the village, the girl leaned on her knees and gasped for a few breaths.

Running all the way from the village to the foot of the hill made her almost exhausted.

The girl with a pale face looked up at the big green trees on the hill, stepping on the lush and soft grass, she walked up the hill step by step.

When she reached the big tree on the hill, the girl suddenly stopped walking.

Under the big tree, a young man in white silk and satin is leaning against the tree, as if he is taking a nap or wandering away.

The girl stood there in a daze, with a look of panic on her face.

As if someone had invaded her secret garden, the girl ran towards the big tree anxiously.

Looking up at the rags on the branch, the girl let out a sigh of relief.

Her stuff is still there.

Turning her head and carefully looking at the young man leaning against the tree, the girl's eyes suddenly became confused.

The young man's face seemed to be covered by a layer of mist, but in the blink of an eye, the girl would forget the young man's appearance.

At this moment, the girl didn't care about the weirdness of the young man, she looked around and found a thin pole she had hidden in the grass by the tree.

If it weren't for the tall body of the young man under the tree just blocking the small hole she had cut in the trunk, she wouldn't have to spend so much effort to poke her things down with a pole.

Although there was some resentment in her heart, the girl dared not express it at all.

The girl with a blushing face and struggling to hold up the thin pole stabbed hard at the package she had placed on the tree branch.

To her surprise, the direction in which the package fell seemed out of her control, and it fell straight towards the head of the young man under the tree.

The girl's eyes were wide open, and her mouth was slightly opened.

It's just that the picture she imagined didn't appear. The worn-out package didn't hit the young man directly on the head, but seemed to be supported by something and floated in mid-air.

Seeing this miraculous scene, the girl seemed to have thought of something, so she got down on the ground and kowtowed to the young man.

The eyes of the young man under the tree slowly opened and closed. He turned his head to look at the girl lying on her stomach, trembling and kowtowing, and said in a faint voice like someone who just woke up: "You are?"

The girl lying on the ground suddenly tensed up when she heard the words, and the frequency of her kowtows suddenly accelerated.

"Is this your thing?" The young man's voice came again, and the moment his voice fell, the girl who was lying on the ground stood up as if being wrapped by some invisible thing.

The girl's body trembled even more, she lowered her head to look at the small gray package at her feet, and said softly, "Can it be mine?"

The young man froze for a moment, then couldn't help but shook his head and laughed: "What's yours is yours."

"It's mine, it's mine!" The girl nodded and replied involuntarily.

The young man nodded, and casually glanced at the girl's appearance.

His eyes froze suddenly, and his eyes focused on the dark red rhombus crystal between the girl's eyebrows.

His expression was sometimes dazed, sometimes shocked, and sometimes confused.

In just a short moment, many complicated emotions rushed into the young man's heart and finally turned into one sentence: "What's your name?"

"Me?" The girl was about to bend down to pick up her package, but her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air: "I don't have a name."

After a pause, the girl spoke again: "Everyone in the village calls me Ah Shui."

"Why?" the young man asked suspiciously.

"Because I hate water." There was no anger on the girl's face, only remorse.

The young man was dumbfounded, he had seen the girl's past and knew what happened to the girl.

"What about you?" The girl plucked up her courage and asked the young man, "Are you a monster in the mountains over there?"

"Monster?" The young man turned his head to look at the barren and desolate mountains in the distance, and his eyes stopped slightly on the highest peak among the mountains.

"I'm a human being just like you."

"Then you don't eat people?" The girl heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, as if she had survived a catastrophe.

"Don't eat." The young man shook his head and smiled: "Speaking of which, I haven't eaten for a long time."

Haven't eaten for a long time?
Hearing this, the girl couldn't help but stretch out her hands to protect her back basket. There was also a piece of dry biscuit in her back basket, which was her daily ration.

Glancing secretly at the blurred face of the young man under the tree, the girl hesitated for a moment, as if she had made some difficult decision, and reached out to take the dry biscuits in the basket behind her back.

She tore the dry biscuit in half with a distressed face, took two pieces of dry biscuit of similar size in her hand, approached the young man and said, "Here for you."

While speaking, the girl couldn't help swallowing her saliva and never took her eyes off the dry biscuit in her hand for a moment.

The young man sitting under the tree glanced at the dry biscuit in the girl's hand, and asked suspiciously, "For me?"

"Yeah." The girl endured the pain in her heart and nodded vigorously.

The young man was not polite when he saw this, he took a piece of dry biscuit and tasted it carefully.

The girl at the side saw that the young man really ate the dry biscuits, and felt relieved.

The old people in the village often said that monsters eat people but not cakes. Now it seems that the young man in front of him should be really a person like himself.

Thinking of this, the girl swallowed, put away the other half of the biscuit and asked, "What's your name?"

"Me?" The young man chewed the dry biscuit in his mouth, and said with a confused expression: "I once lost my name."

"You can call me Gu now."

(End of this chapter)