There are probably two ways in a person’s life, satisfying and painful.

Olivia feels that since she took her surviving young daughter Octavia to leave the Free Paradise colony on Bekaro many years ago (the mother and daughter who appeared in Chapter 25 of the main text, and later appeared in the Battle of Ma Sala), she rarely left the path of pain. She feels that her life path is paved with a knife, and suffering and torture are constantly torture her, as if she never summed up like the ring of Mobius.

She and her daughter did not live a good life. At some stage, their lives seemed to be very smooth. She didn't know that it was because at that time, Acturas still hoped that the mother and mother could become a bridge to connect Lehman. After Acturas officially formed a relationship with Lehman, Acturas felt that this mother and daughter were useless, so their mother Olivia and her daughter Octavia naturally lost the invisible care they had never known.

Life soon became difficult again. Olivia lost her job and relied on meager social assistance again. Her sad life made her want to smoke, but a pack of cigarettes costs 37 credit points, and she couldn't afford it. She found a job, but it was just a job with a meager salary. This kind of life made Olivia want to leave the core world of mankind and become a wasteland reclaimer again. But just when she decided to do this, a total war with Aimon broke out.

The planets outside the core world fell into darkness one by one, and there was no news. At this time, the madman and the fool would not run out any longer. Olivia could only stay and make a living with her daughter Octavia. When the news that the empire had entered a state of war in full swing, Olivia spat fiercely to express her attitude towards bullshit war.

Then, she took a portion of subsidized food for the extremely poor households with a smile on her face, a total of 10 kilograms of flour and 10 kilograms of frozen and dehydrated potatoes from the relief staff. After handing the potatoes to her daughter, she left. They did not hear the conversation between the two employees of the relief station behind them:

"Hey, I said, is it really good for us to do this? Didn't the news come from the source that the sale of any food in Agria is completely banned. It is said that a great plague broke out there..."

"The news that those potatoes are so-called plagues has been spread a long time ago. What can I do if I think of the bullshit news about the plagues in Agriya? It's obvious that I'm greedy for Agriya's agricultural technology and finally decided to do it. Bah..."

"It's all just rumors. If there is really a plague, it's not very dangerous."

"Hey, even if there is, what are you going to do? If you don't do it, what will our own family do? What do your 7 children do? Do you rely on government wages? Listen, what are we doing now without anyone knowing what we do now, because they are all orders from the top, and there is only so much relief food. If you do this, you and I can get a lot of credit, capeesh?"

"Okay OK, that's a hell."

Olivia and Octavia knew nothing about this conversation. Perhaps they would be indifferent if they knew it, because after entering a state of war, everyone had so much share. What would they eat if they didn’t eat? Do they drink the northwest wind? Even if they knew that there might be a risk of plague, they might eat...

The mother and daughter returned home with the food, looking at the 20 kilograms of flour and potatoes with a sad face - that would be their food for a long time. In order to get this food, the price was that they had to work for the empire, work on the assembly line of the arsenal, and start working tonight.

The work intensity is said to be very high, and they only have flour, potatoes and a little oil, no cheese, no milk, no meat and vegetables.

Thinking of this, Olivia felt a little irritable. In her irritability, the corner of her eyes swept to the crystal pendant on her daughter's neck - it was brought by her daughter from that planet that year she left Bekaro, the gift given to her by the man who had appeared in front of them and disappeared mysteriously was always carried by her daughter as a treasure. When her life was still smooth in the past few years, Olivia often told her daughter the heroic story of the mysterious man, which made Octavia admire the image in her heart even more.

So when his irritable mother asked Octavia to sell the crystal for money in recent years, Octavia was always very unhappy. When his mother Olivia once again mentioned asking her to sell the broken crystal, Octavia also retorted as usual, and a quarrel broke out between the mother and daughter:

"Mom, can you stop mentioning this? I won't sell this crystal. This thing is a thought for me."

"What thoughts? Thinking of heroes falling from the sky to save us from the sea of ​​suffering?"

"No, mother, I am not a little girl anymore. When I look at this crystal occasionally, I will think of you in the past and your hopeful life before, not like now. Every day, you will complain and complain, and have to live a positive life, miracles will always happen. This is what you told me, but now the only thing that can remind me is no longer you, but this crystal is left..."

"Idiot," Olivia took out a cigarette butt picked up from the street, lit it with fire, and took a vicious sip, "Hurry up and sell it and get some protein. If this continues, I can only go to the man's one to get protein. What else do you want to do on this day..."

"I won't sell pendants, mother," Octavia frowned and shook her head, then wrapped her clothes tightly and walked out, "After you say this, your appetite is gone. I want to go out for a walk. You can eat at home by yourself. See you in the factory at night!"

After saying that, he slammed the door and watched the apartment door close. Olivia was stunned for a while, and finally cursed and opened the potatoes with cursed, took out two, put them in the pot, took water and started cooking the potatoes, and chanted while cooking:

"Make a mashed potato, put some ham, she likes to eat the most... She likes to eat the most..... ham, where can I find ham..."

As he spoke, Olivia's voice gradually became weaker, and only the sound of water rolling and Olivia's tears hitting the ground in the narrow and dilapidated apartment.

Octavia walked on the street, wiping away tears in her eyes as she walked. The past fragments kept flashing through her eyes. The vitality of her mother in the past and the current mother who was decadent every day and only wanted to smoke and drink. She walked and muttered:

"Rent 400 credit points, water bill 120 credit points, electricity bill 80 credit points..."

At the end of the day, Octavia's heart completely cold. They had almost no spare money. There were 10 credit points left, but they couldn't buy a portion of beef and spices to make a beef for her mother that she once liked to eat very much. Vindaloo, she originally thought that since there was flour, she could make a few cakes and then make some things she once liked to eat. Maybe her mother would be better.

Walking aimlessly on the street, Octavia passed by a girl standing on the street, and a terrible thought slipped through her heart. She abandoned this idea in a flash--No, she wouldn't, she wouldn't just sell herself. Thinking of this, she walked on the street with some trance for a while.

Finally, she found that she had no solution. She couldn't get the money quickly and didn't want to sell herself further. Although many of her former classmates all said "What are you doing, what's wrong with me making money with my body" and joined the army of physical betrayal, she really didn't want to do that...

"I said I looked down on my mother, but I had no choice," Octavia walked back downstairs of the apartment with a self-deprecating look. She looked at the crystal pendant on her chest, "Or else, I'll really sell you..."

As she muttered this, and struggled in her heart, Octavia finally pushed open her door with the pendant tightly. She wanted to tell her mother that she was willing to compromise for her and was willing to sell the pendant. Just as she mustered up the courage to raise her head, the terrible scene came into her eyes:

Her mother lay on the ground, spreading her shriveled lips, her mouth full of sticky black blood, trembling, her body full of pussies, something that looked like maggots was drilling in and out of her mother, just as Octavia was shocked by what she saw, her mother let out a painful scream:

"Save me!"

Then he fell heavily to the ground, knocked over the plate at hand, and made the rotten mashed potatoes fall into black blood and rotten meat, spreading to Octavia's feet.
Chapter completed!