Great Wilderness

[The mother accepted the baby girl, who was curled up in dirty swaddling clothes with short silver hair and extremely delicate and lovely features. The father told her that a refugee had left her at their doorstep that morning. The child had been freezing for quite some time, and if she hadn't been found, she might have frozen to death.]

[Presumably, the refugee felt unable to raise the child, so they left her at the doorstep of a family they thought could provide for her. But in reality, your family was also struggling to make ends meet due to the disaster.]

[After much consideration, your kind-hearted mother decided to adopt the girl. However, before they could even name her, they needed to personally go to the Oasis District to allocate disaster relief funds. Otherwise, many people in the Great Wilderness would not be able to survive the winter.]

[Before they set off, your father told you that the round trip from District 86 of the Great Wilderness to the Oasis District would take no more than seven days. The remaining grain in the rice jar and a can of milk powder they bought were enough for you and your sister to live on for half a month. Therefore, your father entrusted you with a difficult task: to take care of your sister during the seven days he was away.]

[You gladly accepted the task, because in your heart, you were already a capable young man.]

After your parents set off for the Oasis District.

Bai Heng imitated his mother's way of taking care of his sister in a very professional manner, lulling her to sleep every day, telling her bedtime stories, and when she cried because she was hungry, he would take out the milk powder from the bag, mix it with hot water, and feed it to his sister little by little.

Because his parents hadn't named his sister yet, Bai Heng called the cute little baby Brownie, a name taken from his mother's favorite cake.

Time passed day by day, and more than half of the milk powder in the can was gone, and the appointed seventh day arrived.

Early in the morning, Bai Heng held Brownie in his arms, watching the warm orange sunlight fall on the snow in front of the door, looking expectantly in the direction his parents had left.

However, even when the dark red afterglow of the sky was cast on Bai Heng's face, he still hadn't seen any sign of his parents.

"Maybe... something happened on the road, and they'll be back later."

Bai Heng convinced himself of this, and waited at the door every day after that, gazing at the endless horizon of the wilderness in the distance.

But after another seven days, when he could no longer scoop out even half a spoonful of milk powder from the can, Bai Heng suddenly felt a little scared.

He wasn't afraid that his parents had abandoned them, because in his heart, that was impossible.

What he was afraid of was that the milk powder was gone, and there wasn't much food left at home. If things continued like this, he and Brownie would starve to death.

On the fifteenth day, Bai Heng poured hot water into the milk powder can and mixed all the remaining milk powder, but the resulting mixture was as thin as water.

He fed this watery milk powder to Brownie, and Brownie obediently drank it little by little.

During these fifteen days, Brownie would cry whenever she was hungry, but as long as he held the milk powder to her, Brownie would quietly reach out her soft little hand, as if wanting Bai Heng to hold it.

And so, Bai Heng held her little hand while feeding his sister the watery milk powder.

When she drank the thin milk powder, Brownie's gray eyes blinked noticeably.

She tasted that the flavor was wrong, very different from before, but she still grunted and drank the thin milk powder.

After drinking the milk powder, she still stared with her watery gray eyes, as if expressing her hunger.

Seeing this, Bai Heng first soothed Brownie's emotions, and then went to the kitchen to cook the last half bowl of rice, making a little porridge.

Because his mother had reminded him that babies at this age couldn't drink porridge, Bai Heng tried to feed Brownie some rice water.

Fortunately, Brownie was able to drink the rice water with some effort.

Bai Heng didn't touch the remaining porridge, but left it in the pot.

That night, Bai Heng put Brownie to sleep early, put on his father's coat, and ran to the town he was in charge of.

He went from house to house explaining the situation, hoping to get some milk powder or food.

Because his father was well-liked, the residents of the town were very polite to Bai Heng, but due to the impact of the disaster, there were very few people in the Great Wilderness who could fill their own stomachs.

They really didn't have any extra food to spare for Bai Heng, and even if they did, they had to save it for future use.

However, just as Bai Heng was dejectedly returning home empty-handed, one family, remembering his father's kindness, spared a peck of rice and gave him a bag of milk powder that had expired some time ago.

With this food, Bai Heng managed to hold on for a while longer.

Until one day, Bai Heng was hungry, but in his sleep he heard noisy shouts and Brownie's cries of "Ah-ah-ah."

When Bai Heng opened his eyes, the clanging sounds became even more obvious.

After getting up and soothing Brownie's emotions for a while, Bai Heng opened the locked door.

But when he saw the scene before him, he was stunned.

The earthenware pots in the house had been smashed open, and a group of people were banging on Bai Heng's house with hammers and iron mallets, as if they were looking for something.

Bai Heng stood there silently, watching their every move, and these people seemed to choose to ignore Bai Heng, continuing to rummage through the cabinets and drawers in search of things.

Until the sofa, cabinets, coffee table, and all the furniture were overturned and the glass was smashed, but they still found nothing.

At this time, the man in the lead finally noticed Bai Heng standing in the corner, and the last room that hadn't been searched.

He held a low-quality cigarette in his mouth and swaggered up to Bai Heng, making a threatening gesture to burn him with the cigarette butt.

But Bai Heng didn't dodge, just stood there silently and asked:

"What are you doing?"

The leading man saw that he hadn't scared Bai Heng, took a puff of his cigarette, and didn't answer Bai Heng's question, but instead asked directly:

"Hey, kid, where are your family's food and money hidden?"

"Food? Money?" Bai Heng's tone was very low, and he asked in return:

The leading man shoved Bai Heng, his tone arrogant, and said:

"Kid, don't fucking play dumb! We were all blind to elect your father as the executive officer. But he's good, he swallowed all the disaster relief money from above into his own pocket."

"If it weren't for him running to the Oasis District a month ago to fence stolen goods, getting caught by the higher-ups, we would've still been treating him like some great benefactor worthy of our gratitude! He got off easy, being arrested with that young lady from the Oasis District, and then killing himself in prison last week to escape punishment, leaving us disaster victims here to freeze and starve! He's worse than a pig or a dog!"

"Su...icide?" Bai Heng felt an icy chill spread through his body in an instant, his eyes vacant as he murmured the words in a daze.

The man seemed to still harbor resentment, pressing the cigarette butt against the fabric of Bai Heng's shoulder, saying:

"Kid, the Oasis District will be sending a new manager over this afternoon. I'm here to confiscate the stolen goods, so get out of the way!"

With that, he intended to barge in.

Bai Heng was just a child of about 6 years old and naturally couldn't stop the tall, grown man, so he said softly:

"You can search if you want, you can even tear the whole house apart, but let me and my sister go outside first."

Upon hearing this, the man glanced at the crying child in the crib inside the house, snorted coldly, and said:

"Get the hell out of here!"

Bai Heng outwardly remained exceptionally calm, silently returning to the house, picking up Brownie, who was crying because of the noise, and coming outside, then numbly coaxing his sister in his arms.

After they left, Bai Heng stood outside the house.

The snow season in the Great Wilderness hadn't passed yet, and Bai Heng wrapped his sister in the cotton coat on his body, not letting the snow fall on her, silently waiting.

But after searching for a long time, only one of the men who came along spoke up:

"Boss, we only found a small bag... of milk powder, and it's expired. The rice container seems to be empty too."

As he said this, Bai Heng, standing outside the house, said to the leading man:

"Do you still think we pocketed all the disaster relief money?"

Hearing this, the leading man's body visibly twitched, and the others around him also sensed that something was wrong.

But the next moment, the leading man continued to curse:

"Who the hell knows if they hid the money and food somewhere else... As for you, I bet you're the bastard child of that thousand-ridden, ten-thousand-pressed young lady and some wild man..."

Before he could finish speaking.

The man suddenly felt the sound of a wall cracking behind him. With a loud crash, one of the walls suddenly split open, and cement and wooden stakes smashed onto his body, directly pinning him to the ground.

"Ah----"

Just as he fell, he noticed Bai Heng's fingers lightly pressing on a data pad.

He recognized that thing, an Aetherium Chip, but how could such a small child possibly...

Bai Heng ignored his screams, simply walking nearby and gently placing Brownie on the steps in front of the door.

Then he operated the Aetherium Chip, inputting the command:

「Overpressure」

The man pinned under the stone wall suddenly felt a pressure on his body, his hands unable to exert any strength.

It was at this moment that Bai Heng stepped forward, picked up a hammer from the ground, feeling somewhat heavy...

Then, he picked up an iron nail that had rolled onto the ground.

Aiming it at the man's hand.

Seeing that Bai Heng was serious, the man's pupils constricted, and he said:

"Kid, think carefully! Deliberately injuring someone in the Great Wilderness is..."

Bai Heng had no expression, simply interrupting him calmly, saying:

"Next time, watch your mouth."

As the words fell, a muffled hammering sound rang out, the iron nail piercing flesh, and blood splattered on the young boy's face.

The Oasis District, the Great Wilderness, and Scrap Mountain are all landmarks from Silver Wolf's character profile. Try to keep the wording as close to the original as possible to avoid too much criticism.