"Cough! Cough!"

"Cough! Cough! Cough!"

Suddenly, a violent coughing sound from downstairs broke little Ali's thoughts and brought her back to her senses.

Of course, it's said to be downstairs, but that's actually just the 'one-story' hall separated by welding steel bars and iron plates from her ten-square-meter cabin with a height of less than three meters.

Just like the countless families on this lower deck, their family is squeezed into such a small cabin of less than ten square meters, and then they have to separate the living room, kitchen, parents' bedroom and her current one.

It is a small house facing the street and has a small bedroom with a small window sill.

As for things like bathrooms, bathrooms and cloakrooms, don't think too much. In most cases, they can only use portable toilets at home or go to nearby public boiler bathhouses and public urinals to solve hygiene problems.

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"Ally?"

"Are you at home? Come on, come down for dinner!"

"Cough! Cough!"

"You eat first, mom has to work overtime."

"Remember, I put it on the stool for you first."

At this moment, just when Ali was thinking too much and did not respond immediately, another shout and a violent cough came from the living room on the first floor of her house. Then, before Ali could respond, she

She saw her mother walking out of the house wearing dirty work clothes and a stooped figure.

"Mother……"

"Are you going to work overtime again?"

Looking at the old figure who looked like an old woman in her fifties or sixties, but in fact was only less than thirty years old, Ali couldn't help but call out softly, with a hint of grievance and sadness in her voice, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

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She had seen that on Huagai Star, although people there also needed to work and even had to work overtime, they were not like her mother and father.

Their clothes are clean, their bodies are tall and straight, they seem to be in good spirits, and their faces often have the kind of smiles that are hard to see here and only appear on the faces of children.

"Mother……"

"Why is this so……"

Ali didn't call her mother because she knew that her mother had to work overtime. If she was late, she would be whipped. It hurt when the bosuns whipped her. Ali used to be naughty and follow her friends everywhere.

I passed it when I was running.

"..."

Therefore, Ali, whose heart was full of complicated emotions, did not speak again until her mother's back disappeared into the steam mist in the distance.

"Want to eat?"

For a long time, when she thought that dinner must be the unpalatable protein starch gel and a few pieces of pitiful and weird-tasting artificial meat, she tried her best to purse her lips, and finally resisted her hunger and did not rush to her house immediately.

Let's have dinner in the lobby on the first floor.

Because I just thought of delicious food, and after eating all the delicious food that Sister Anne brought her to eat on the Canopy Star, the food at home, and even all the food on this bottom deck, even if she had eaten it before

The fried donuts that she thought were so delicious are now a bit hard to swallow.

"It's so annoying..."

"I really want Lord Horus to defeat the battle, and then..."

"I really wish the soldiers from Huagai Star could come and arrest everyone..."

Finally, after thinking wildly for a while, little Ali sighed quietly again.

Ali didn't know why she would think about such treacherous and terrible things, but she only knew that she gradually hated her current life and hated everything now.

And I just feel that only Lord Horus has lost the battle, and only if all of them are captured by the people of Huagai Star, can they have a better life?

And if Lord Horus continues to win the war, then their family and everyone must continue to work here, and nothing will change at all. In that case, it would be better to fight directly.

It’s good to lose the battle!

"Uh-huh..."

"The battle will definitely be lost, right?"

Just like that, she murmured to herself, with a trace of expectation, a trace of fear, and a trace of strange emotions in her voice.

"Small goldfish……"

"you say……"

"Will it?"

After thinking about it, she looked at the two half-dead goldfish in the turbid little fish tank next to her, and then touched her belly, which was a little flattened by hunger, and Ali whimpered in frustration again.

He sighed.

"..."

However, what little Ali didn't know was that in the distance, an Astartes Space Marine wearing power armor was standing in the corner under the awe and fear of the low-level residents who were passing by in a hurry, and spoke with that slight smile.

Some astonished and complicated eyes stared at her and the small window sill where she was at this time, speechless for a long time.

The person who came was none other than Sejanus himself, the fourth company commander of the 16th legion of the Horus fleet, the Luna Wolves!

The reason why he is here is because there are still several days to arrive at the Huagai Star. Then, he thought that there was no special war in the past few days, and then he suddenly thought of the little girl Ali, and felt that he had nothing to do anyway.

He wanted to come to visit the other party under mysterious circumstances, and then specially brought him some candies and biscuits that children might like to eat.

But who would have thought that before he found the other party's house, he unexpectedly heard some sincere and treacherous words from the little girl Ali?

"..."

In this regard, Sejanus was very sure that he heard correctly just now!

Because he is a powerful Astartes Space Marine, and one of the best.

For him who has undergone body modification, especially for him who has the powerful "Lyman's Ear", a super-powerful artificial organ that allows space warriors to consciously enhance and filter specific background noise, it is difficult to

It is not too difficult to eavesdrop on a little girl talking to herself from a distance of hundreds of meters.

So, after staring at the window and the little girl lying on the window sill with her arms stretched out and sighing for a long time, Sejanus still didn't go there.

"..."

He just stared at the window in the corner from a distance of hundreds of meters without moving, not knowing what he was thinking.

In the end, it wasn't until he saw the little girl at the window turning around and running downstairs, until he heard the other girl starting to eat in the small living room, that he slowly turned around, and then he didn't know what kind of complicated mood he was in, so he just let it go.

The gift in my hand fell to the ground quietly.

To be honest, whether it is Sejanus, the original body Horus, or even the Emperor, they rarely pay attention to the situation of ordinary people like little Ali. After all, those people are just mortals at the bottom. Those people

All you need to do is execute the order unconditionally, otherwise there will be ruthless and cruel punishment waiting for those people, there is no doubt about that!

but now

For the first time, Sejanus realized that the cause of the soldiers they fought claimed to be justice and glory, and they were willing to sacrifice everything they could for it. It seemed that people at the bottom had different views?

As for whether it was correct or not, Sejanus didn't know how to weigh it for a while. However, after hearing all that from the mouth of a little girl, and then thinking about the lives of ordinary people on the Canopy Star,

Then comparing it to the life of ordinary people on Terra, he felt an inexplicable sense of confusion and discomfort in his heart.

Is it wrong?

No!

For the Emperor!

For the sake of humanity, and even more so for the original body, he cannot and will not be wrong!

Maybe

Is it the world that is wrong?

Yes!

Maybe, what is really wrong is this world, otherwise there wouldn't be so much helplessness, fighting and madness.

but

Thinking of all the experiences on the Huagai Star, he didn't know why, but he couldn't easily convince himself, even though the Huagai Star was currently their enemy.

"..."

In the end, he didn't know what he was thinking. With a dark face, Sejanus stepped on the filthy and smelly sewage that was almost all over the bottom deck, and left in such a lonely and speechless manner, and

It soon disappeared deep into the depths of the lower deck, which was filled with a thick fog filled with the smell of rancid sweat and muddy rusty metal.

Today, not many people know about him, and little Ali doesn't know either. Only the packaged candies and biscuits he brought are lying quietly in the sewage, waiting to be discovered and taken away by some lucky person.

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