A Memory to Last a Lifetime.

The old man walked to the door and only turned to look at the two people in the room after he was sure the child was far away.

"She's a very talented child; if she has the chance, she should go and see the big cities."

The old man shook his head slightly, his words tinged with emotion. His head was slightly raised as if he were imagining whether the girl would have had a better living environment and better educational opportunities if she had been born in another country.

However, these things can only remain thoughts in the end.

After exchanging some more information with Maria, the old man and Maria parted ways for the time being.

She and the Doctor first took the pack animal to the center of the village and found a place to settle it. Then they just found a house, made some arrangements, and moved in.

Soon, it became late at night.

Apart from the occasional patrol, the whole world fell silent...

The night grew increasingly quiet.

After an unknown amount of time, the Doctor suddenly frowned.

The strange melody in her ears was the culprit that woke her up.

The fluctuations in sound are not significant... Although there are highs and lows, the differences are not large, and they contrast with each other to create a series of pleasant musical pieces.

"Um?"

The Doctor rubbed his eyes, opened them groggily, and looked around blankly.

"You're awake?"

Leaning against the window, Maria didn't even need to turn her head to realize that the Doctor had woken up.

She sat sideways at the table, carefully pulling back a corner of the curtains and looking in one direction.

A soft melody drifted out from the darkness, its gentle transitions as soothing as cotton candy.

Maria, dressed in the flowing attire of a Banshees, gazed into the distance. A long breeze blew in through the crack in the window, gently ruffling her hair and skirt. The thin silk fabric outlined her crossed legs, revealing her ankles and toes in a strange way. Her slender figure and grey eyes still held a captivating quality under the moonlight.

Even though Maria was just watching calmly, her eyes seemed to hold countless stories of her own.

This made even a self-proclaimed normal Doctor take a second look.

Putting everything else aside, since this new civilization appeared, I don't think I've actually seen any ugly or unattractive people...

However, she quickly patted her face and moved closer to Maria.

"What's wrong? Where did that sound come from?"

The Doctor cautiously asked the question.

But just a few steps from the covers, she suddenly felt a chill and instinctively hugged her shoulders.

Maria glanced at her and shook her head slightly. She then draped her own hunting clothes, which she hadn't changed out of, over her shoulders and stepped aside slightly.

The Doctor, curious, peeked out.

In the distance, a little girl named Tessi was secretly playing her violin slowly in a small corner.

The melody is delicate and lingering, allowing people to relax to the greatest extent possible without disturbing their sleep.

Clearly, this child is not exactly an obedient little rabbit.

She has her own rebellious spirit...

Although his grandfather said that he would be able to help everyone when he grew up.

But if she could, she would still like to take action now.

The little child didn't know how to make people happy, but she knew that when she played the violin for others, they would laugh.

So she braved the cold wind, alone in the darkness, playing a small melody that only a few could hear.

Long, and lonely...

"Okay, although she played very earnestly, I still can't quite appreciate it..."

After pretending to listen for a while, the Doctor shook his head with a wry smile.

For her, this kind of thing was still too difficult to appreciate.

However, she still admired the girl's kindness.

Maria, however, spoke calmly.

Appreciation can always be viewed from multiple perspectives...

"... You sometimes say strange things, don't you?"

The Doctor tilted her head. As a science student, she had some knowledge of these things, but overall she wasn't particularly sensitive to them.

Maria didn't offer any further explanation, but simply observed from the darkness.

Not long after.

A restless figure slowly appeared in her eyes...

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Chapter 361 Memories of a Lifetime

"Is anyone there?"

The Doctor simply leaned against Maria and sat down on the table, curiously observing the outside world.

Although she didn't understand what music was all about, that didn't stop her from finding the tune pleasant and wanting to listen to it more.

And so, she noticed the direction Maria had been looking in.

The little girl was playing her violin at the alley's exit, in a spot just illuminated by the moonlight. A little further in, in the darkness of the alley, several indistinct figures were approaching.

"Are they guards?"

The Doctor didn't have Maria's ability to see night as day; she subconsciously mistook him for a village guard on night watch who had come out to bring the girl back.

After all, they knew from what the village chief had just said that this place wasn't safe, and it would be better for girls who needed protection to rest as soon as possible.

Besides, the weather is gradually getting colder now. If you go out in the middle of the night without any preparation and stay for too long, you might catch a cold.

"No... no."

Maria quickly debunked the Doctor's guess.

From her perspective, although the furtive figures were indeed dressed as villagers, their postures and subtle movements were clearly somewhat unnatural.

He doesn't look like a guard at all.

There's definitely something wrong with them!

"Huh?! The enemy has infiltrated?"

Upon hearing this, the Doctor turned pale with fright and involuntarily moved a little closer to Maria.

She has a fairly clear understanding of her own abilities.

She may know more than most people in the world, but that doesn't mean she has any advantage.

On the contrary, her physical condition was frighteningly weak.

Based on what we saw in Kazdel City before.

The Swarm of Sarkaz jumped down from a height of five or six meters without any preparation or equipment, only slightly bending their knees... Even so, if they couldn't immediately connect with a run, they were considered to be in poor physical condition.

In the past, if one wasn't a professional combatant, the Doctor wouldn't even have dared to imagine such a thing.

It can only be said that different environments nurture different people. In today's harsh world of Terra, these Terra are practically born superhumans.

Compared to these people, the Doctor felt his own body was even weaker than a candle flickering in the wind.

If a fight were to break out, she worried that she might die from being accidentally caught in the crossfire.

"..."

Maria noticed the Doctor's panic.

She glanced at the other person and shook her head slightly.

"Don't worry... I'm here."

Maria spoke calmly, yet with absolute confidence.

Upon hearing this, the Doctor was slightly taken aback, then blushed, lowered his head, and muttered something under his breath.

"It looks just like a movie I've seen before..."

However, after the Doctor muttered for a few moments, she noticed that Maria had silently opened the window.

Are you planning to... warn the other villagers?

The Doctor wasn't surprised by Maria's actions... after all, she knew Maria's cold exterior but warm interior personality to some extent.

In this situation, whether for the little girl's safety or for the safety of the entire village, notifying them is clearly a good option.

But clearly, the Doctor still underestimated Maria's ideas.

"No need..."

Maria shook her head slightly, looking at the figure in the darkness.

"There aren't many young people left in the village these days, so the overall fighting strength isn't high. Even if we call on some, they won't be of much use. In that case, I might as well act alone..."

"Forehead..."

Maria calmly commented on the current weakness of the Carpenter Village in terms of fighting strength, implicitly suggesting that her own fighting strength surpassed that of the entire village.

This made the Doctor's expression subtle.

Come to think of it, she's been in this world for a few months now. Although she knows that everyone in this world is a little superhuman, she still doesn't have a clear concept of their combined fighting power. Naturally, she's somewhat worried about Maria's actions of preparing to take on a group of people single-handedly.

But Maria simply shook her head slightly and said nothing more.

Turning around, he silently jumped out of the window...

In the darkness, Tessi played her instrument with all her might.

She didn't know how long she had been playing the violin, nor whether her efforts could actually make everyone happier.

All she knew was that she had to do something.

So they've been playing here ever since.

The moon in the sky still hung in the center, seemingly unchanged, but the girl could feel that her body was already soaked with sweat.

A cold wind blew by, and her sweat took away the heat from her body, the chill slowly seeping into her flesh and blood.

This made Tessi shudder slightly, and the hand holding the violin stiffened a bit.

Later, she couldn't bear it any longer and slowly put down her violin to rest for a while.

"I'm so lucky today, Uncle Big Potato and Brother Little Potato didn't find us..."

Tessi squinted as he thought, making up his mind to play a few more pieces and then go back to rest.

The so-called "Big Potato" and "Little Potato" are actually two men in the village mainly responsible for security...

Because of the Cautus family's unique concept that everyone living together is family, the Cautus family in a region is often so large that even they themselves can't quite distinguish between them.

To solve this problem, the free-spirited Cautus came up with a solution.

That means calling someone by a nickname.

They would give different nicknames to different people based on their different professions and personalities, in order to identify each other. And because of the commonalities among the Cautus, a corresponding nickname would often surpass their real name. Sometimes, a Cautus would even remember his nickname but forget his real name.

The girl was secretly pleased with herself for being lucky today, as she hadn't been discovered and chased home by the Little Potato immediately.

A man's voice suddenly rang out from the alleyway nearby.

"Tessi ..."

"Woo!"

The little rabbit girl was startled by this sudden action, and her face immediately tensed up.

But then she realized something, and helplessly leaned the violin against her back, turned around, and strained her ears to look at the figures in the alley.