A foreigner's journey

The style of the Wufan Street slum is different from that of Qifan Street. The building layout here is more standardized and there are many high-rise buildings with more than three floors, making it look like a small town. A large number of shabby curtains and sunshades cover the streets, and scattered green leafy plants spread and grow on the street corners. This is an extremely rare phenomenon in Midgar and even the surrounding wilderness where no grass grows due to excessive extraction of mako.

The further you go in, the greener and lusher the plants become. There is a long, worn-out wooden table at the entrance of the small but warmly decorated orphanage "Greenleaf Home", with a large number of children gathered in front of the table.

"Alice! Alice!" Many children saw Alice and ran towards her waving their arms.

Although her personality is a little eccentric, Alice, who is kind-hearted, always does her best to relieve the worries of the children in the orphanage and have fun together. Both adults and children in Wufan Street like this cute and kind-hearted girl very much.

"Hello everyone~ I'm going home early today. I'll play with you tomorrow."

Alice waved her hands, greeted the children with a smile, and then crossed the Greenleaf House with brisk steps and walked toward the path behind.

The children looked at each other, and a little girl put her finger on her chin and said doubtfully, "Alice seems to be particularly happy today?"

"She's always been like this, right?" A little boy said habitually.

"No, no, no, she is so happy today!" The little girl opened her arms and showed off the words she just learned today.

The path behind Greenleaf House became more and more winding, and the 'sunlight' filtered down through the cracks in the worn-out sun visor overhead, painting dots of light spots on the ground beneath your feet. There are lush vegetation and even flowers blooming on the roadside from time to time.

When you reach the end of the path, you will see a canyon surrounded by towering rock walls. Directly below the canyon is a pond with floating lotus leaves. A waterfall falls from the top of the canyon and hits the edge of the pond. A delicate wooden bridge spans the pond. Above, there is a stone brick road connecting the end of the road and the flower field in the distance.

The stone-brick road beside the pond is full of flowers and grass, as well as a low wall built with neat stones. At the end is a three-story villa with exquisite structure. The villa is conical in shape as a whole, and the exterior walls are all painted dark red. The circular balcony around the first floor is filled with flower pots, and flowers of various styles are blooming in the pots.

Alice ran to the door of the villa in three steps and opened the door at once:

"Mom, I'm back!"

There is a round dining table and several wooden chairs placed in the center of the living room on the first floor. There are many vases with flowers in the house, and an old-style TV set is placed next to the bookcase. Next to the window is the open kitchen, and the kettle on the stove is boiling hot water.

"You came back so early today?"

A woman in her early forties walked neatly from the kitchen, wiping her wet hands on her apron while looking at her daughter: "You are in such a good mood, something good has happened to you?"

She is Alice's adoptive mother, Emina Gainsborough.

It can be seen that Emina's face has changed due to the hardships in her early life, but her big blue eyes are still bright and bright. Her full head of brown hair is combed back into a smart bun. Because of the hair color, it looks good. She does look like a mother and daughter to Alice.

Alice immediately threw herself into Emina's arms and acted coquettishly: "Mom, I'm so happy today!"

Emina gently stroked Alice's hair and joked: "Oh? Let mom guess, the flowers are selling well?"

"Wrong~"

"Finally got a reply to the letter you sent?"

"wrong--"

"That's when you meet the handsome boy you like."

"certainly not!"

Alice suddenly broke away from Emina's arms and spun around twice proudly with her hands on her hips, her eyes shining with excitement: "Mom, I met another [of the same race] today! It's on Bafan Street! "

Emina was startled, she knew what was special about her adopted daughter. I thought she was the last ancient Settra in the world, but I didn’t expect that there were other living members of the same race? And also in Midgar?

Emina, who has rich life experience, immediately thought of some bad things and asked tentatively: "Alice, how can you be sure that he is a member of your race?"

It would be very troublesome if a villain with evil intentions took advantage of the loophole of Shinra Company's monitors and sneaked over to deceive the inexperienced Alice with words.

Alice shook her finger: "Really, I'm not a child who is easily deceived. That person..."

She looked around and whispered in Emina's ear: "That person can also attract the flow of life, and I can feel that [Planet] pays great attention to him."

"Are you sure?" Emina doesn't understand the abilities and characteristics of the Settra people, but Alice's judgment of the flow of life is very accurate. Is it true?

"Yeah!" Alice nodded heavily and whispered: "His ability to develop the Settra clan is much better than mine. Mom, you know, I saw his vitality through the planet, just like a living person The flow of life is gushing out, it’s so amazing! And mom, listen to me, he is willing to teach me how to control and develop the abilities of the Settra tribe! I’m so happy, this is the first time someone is willing to be my teacher!”

The more Alice talked, the happier she became, with light shining in her beautiful big eyes.

Emina clenched her hands together unconsciously: "Then... do you want to go with him?"

The smile on Alice's face suddenly froze, and she realized that she had made her adoptive mother Emina feel uneasy. Emina is afraid, afraid of losing the daughter she has worked so hard to raise.

"No, Mom. I won't leave you..." Alice hugged Emina tightly: "I'm not going anywhere."

Emina put her arms around Alice, and mother and daughter hugged each other quietly.

Bang bang bang!

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Emina wiped the corners of her eyes, while Alice ran to open the door. When she opened the door, she found a red-haired young man in a black suit: "Ah, Renault."

"Yo!"

This man was none other than Reno, one of the Tuckers agents who had made deals with Heather before. He still had the same careless look, and crossed his forehead with his index and middle fingers together and said hello: "Miss, you make it easy for me to find you."

"Huh?" Alice put her finger on her chin and tilted her head, beginning to act cutely.

"I couldn't find you when I went to buy a cup of milk tea. You don't know that Director Zeng almost ate me." Renault shrugged his shoulders: "Aren't you selling flowers on Bafan Street? Why did you run away all of a sudden? Lost?"

"Didn't you say you wouldn't disturb my life? Why did you come to my door to find me?" Alice asked unconvinced.

This started more than ten years ago, when the mother and daughter Ifaluna and Alice were captured by the Shinra Corporation and imprisoned in the Shinra Corporation headquarters building because they were the last ancient species. The mother was taken away every day to assist scientific researchers in conducting experiments, while the daughter was kept in a room.

When Alice was seven years old, she accidentally awakened ancient abilities and was discovered by [Hojo], the leader of Shinra Corporation's science department. Hojo, who felt that Ifaluna had a replacement, began to get carried away and conducted various inhuman and cruel experiments on Ifaluna. Soon, Ifaluna was brought to the verge of physical collapse. In order to save her daughter, she did not hesitate to use her body as a bargaining chip to seduce a scientific researcher named Faz to help them escape from the Shinra headquarters.

During the escape, Ifaluna's body could no longer hold up and she collapsed near the station in the Wufan Street slum. At that time, Emina, who came to the station every day to wait for the return of her husband who went on an expedition with the Shinra troops, discovered the mother and daughter. Ifaluna mustered up her last strength and courage and begged Emina to take Alice away. After receiving a positive answer, Ifaluna closed her eyes safely and returned to the flow of life.

In this way, the kind-hearted Emina began to raise Alice as a daughter.

The good times didn't last long, and Shinra Company found Alice based on clues. But this time, perhaps because of lessons learned, Shinra Company changed its strategy.

They sent Tuckers' boss to see Alice and Emina, and bluntly stated that Shinra Company only wanted to use the power of the Settra tribe to find the legendary "Promised Land", and they would no longer say that Alice was imprisoned in Shinra headquarters would not use drugs or conduct horrific experiments on her.

The young Alice was scared, but Emina mustered up the courage to argue with the powerful Shinra Corporation.

In the end, Zeng made an agreement with Emina after asking her superiors for instructions - Emina, the person who spent time with Alice, would observe Alice, and if there were any signs of her ability awakening, Emina would notify Shinra Company. Before that, Shinra Company would not approach Alice again and would only observe from a distance.

Of course, that was the agreement, but Emina had no intention of reporting her daughter's every move to Shinra Company.

Year after year, as time passed, Alice and Emina gradually got to know some of the Tuckers members who often appeared. The handsome and serious-looking Zeng, the carefree red-haired Renault, and the bald Luther who always wears sunglasses but is particularly gentle... They have kept their agreement and will not interfere with Alice's daily life. They will only occasionally come to talk to Amy. Na routinely exchanges information.

This time, because of the ghost in her heart, Alice reacted particularly loudly. She pushed Renault out of the house: "It's so annoying! Get out, get out, Renault!"

"Huh? I just came to see if you are okay! I said, how about you let me have a drink of water?" Renault was pushed out of the door at a loss. He was about to say something but found a "clang" on the door. Closed.

"There's a lot of water in the pond outside, you can drink whatever you want!" Alice's muffled voice came from behind the door.

Renault shrugged helplessly and waved his fingers at the several Shinra soldiers gathered outside: "What are you doing standing around? Go back."

"But the surveillance target..." A Shinra soldier hesitated and asked.

"Please, this is Midgar, the headquarters of Shinra Corporation. As long as the eldest lady is safe, it doesn't matter how she plays."

Renault put his hands in his pockets and looked back at the three-story villa:

"But it's hard to say after finding the [Promised Land]..."

Miss, please don't cause any trouble, don't let yourself be exposed to Hojo's sight again.

That hojo can no longer be called a [human being]!

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