Her knuckles were thick, she had a thin layer of skin on the back of her hands, and there was black mud in the cracks of her nails. She looked like a person who was used to working.

Her face was also weathered, with fine and cracked wrinkles covering her thin skin, and her eyes that looked a little cloudy were staring at him with a smile, with a kind smile.

"Hello grandma," said Su Mingan.

"Oh." The old lady responded, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes smiled even more intensely.

She spread the dark cloth in her hand to let the sunlight shine smoothly, bowing her hunched back and picking up the fish in her hand.

"Looking at how you are, you didn't sleep well yesterday," said the old lady.

"Is it obvious?"

"They are so dark under my eyes that they look bad." The old lady glanced at her fingers and said, "Be careful of sleep. Young man, although outsiders are really afraid of being unable to sleep when they come to Playa on the first day, but there are soul hunters here, don't worry."

Su Mingan looked at the mirror of the system and his face seemed to be not very good.

He was indeed awake in the side copy of the night, and two hours of sleep were not enough to support the energy he consumed in the day.

He looked at the soul hunters returning from the river and the streets, with their expressions similar to his.

...After all, they are all people who haven't slept all night.

"The soul hunter is very handsome." The old lady smiled: "If you become a soul hunter, you will have a bright future. If your family is in good condition... you will get better if you can have a good partner."

Since Su Mingan didn't go out in the middle of the night, the old lady regarded him as a simple traveler.

"Yes." Su Mingan nodded.

The old lady was very talkative. When she mentioned the soul hunting, she talked to him a lot, and they all talked about the wonderful experiences of the soul hunting of the Praia soul hunting.

What is the battle of a hundred people in the west, the battle of defending the royal city in the north, the handsome soul hunting leader in the central city, who was the child of the soul hunting family, and the history of Praia, big and small, was told by her quickly.

Judging from the old lady's meaning, becoming a soul hunter, especially fighting on the front line of the night, is equivalent to the smoke from the ancestors.

Even if they are prone to sacrifice and death, they will bring considerable wealth to the originally not wealthy family, and this family will be taken care of and respected by people around them in the future.

After talking about the honors of soul hunting, the old lady took a breath and shook her hand.

The sun shines on the placed salted fish, and the cloth is shining with a faint light.

"Young man, I've said so much." She wiped her hands on the apron and looked at him: "You are the descendant of Lord Su Lin. Do you want to be a soul hunter?"

"Think." Su Mingan said.

...After all, he has become.

Listening to his answer, the old lady sighed.

The morning light shone on her silver hair, and her figure looked a little thin.

"...I just talked so much to you, but the old man is really talking a lot, and he can't hold it in when he meets a young man from another place."

"But the old lady has seen it for so many years. I really don't want any child to become this soul hunter again...even if this is something worth congratulating."

"What's wrong?" Su Mingan looked at her and saw her sad expression.

"The mortality rate of soul hunting..." she said: "It's as high as 70%...70%.

"Seventy percent?" Su Mingan was indeed shocked.

He had thought that soul hunting was dangerous, but he didn't expect that the mortality rate would be so high.

If the death rate was really so high, shouldn’t Praia’s soul hunting have disappeared long ago? Where can we maintain more than 100 local soul hunting numbers...

Thinking of this, he suddenly understood.

...because of the renewal.

Generation after generation.

When the old one dies, the new one will fill up. When the ex's soul hunting dies, there will be second-tier people who will take over their position.

Soul Hunter is indeed dying all the time.

But there are always people who have been becoming soul hunters.

"I know my thoughts are a bit selfish. After all, without these heroes, we will be gone." The old lady whispered: "But young man - you are the child of Lord Su Lin. You have been wandering outside for so long and finally found a home. I really don't want old lady. You die in this land like other children. People will nostalgia for the hometown. Lord Su Lin has done so much for Playa, so should you live a good life on this protected land?"

“…”

"You saw it too, I have a daughter." The old lady turned around and began to place the kelp in the bucket again.

Her movements were a little slow, and her movements were also very difficult, as if she had an inconvenient disease on her body.

Su Mingan walked up to help her place kelp. After all, he was also asking for information.

"Thank you, young man." The old lady smiled at him:

"Actually before this... I also had a son as old as you."

She said, as if she was trapped in memories.

Through Su Mingan who was helping her, she seemed to see the appearance of another child.

"Little Hull... As the merchant ship went out to travel, he came back as a soul hunter. After a period of internship, he was assigned to the most dangerous mission team to carry out a big mission."

"I still remember how he looked before leaving."

"Beautiful black uniform, pretty little pistol, and a glowing star."

"It was only then that I suddenly realized that little Hull had become an adult."

"I remember that on the day he left, he said he always wanted to drink the aged rice wine I made."

"I said 'Let's talk about it when you come back. I'm going to the battlefield and I'm still drinking. When I come back, I'll bring a beautiful girl and don't embarrass our family'."

"I remember his answer."

"He told me to clean up the house quickly and wait for him to bring people back. He seemed to be in good condition with a girl on the other street."

"He also said, let me put the wine in place, and he will have eight big bowls when he comes back in a few days."

"Think about it now..."

Her voice was very slow and her tone was dull, just like an old man telling an ordinary story.

The old sadness has gradually settled with the years. When it was mentioned again, her emotions no longer collapsed as before.

Time is a good medicine to cure people's emotions.

The shriveled kelp was rubbed and twisted on her hands, and the thin skin on the back of her hands showed some blood vessels.

She lowered her head, and the morning light left a thin mark on her old cheeks.

"I was so stupid at that time."
Chapter completed!