A Second Life, A New Power novel Chapter 51

Maria quickly digested the shock she was feeling and asked another question. "Demi, did you really deliver all your stuff to the designated destination?"

"That's right," Demi said with a nod.

"How are you so quick?" Maria was stunned once again. She had stayed in her place earlier, and the roads up the mountains were long and curvy, so she didn't know what happened afterward.

The audience watching the livestream, including Benedict, wanted to ask the same question.

"I was in a rush to come back down and meet you, so I ran all the way up," Demi replied.

What?

Once again, Maria turned to look at Demi in shock. All of them were so exhausted to the point where they couldn't even get up from the ground, yet Demi had managed to run up the mountain?

Well, Demi probably wouldn't have made it back so quickly if she didn't run either.

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"Demi, h-have you done something like this before? Why do I feel like you're so much better compared to those professionals?" Maria joked half-heartedly after a while.

"Oh, I did do so, but it was a long time ago." Demi said after giving it some thought.

Maria looked at Demi in a daze. The shock she currently felt was even stronger than the last two times. In fact, she looked like she had just been struck by lightning.

The program's introductory video had mentioned that Demi was 16 this year. If she had done this "a long time ago," didn't that mean she started at eleven, twelve, or even younger?

Was that something a child could even do? Was Demi's family that poor? No wonder she seemed like she could do anything.

The comments section exploded into chaos once again.

"Demi claimed that she's done this a long time ago? She's lying, right? How old could she have possibly been back then? Ten? Eight?"

"I admit that she was quite impressive by running up the mountain carrying those things on her own! But lying isn't right, is it?"

"What's she lying about? If Demi was an orphan with only an eighty-something-year-old grandmother, of course, she would have to rely on herself!"

"Even if she had to fend for herself, she wouldn't have to do this kind of work, would she? Is this something a child could even do?"

"Have the people in this comment section never seen how the children of the poor live? A lot of kids, starting from the age of eight to nine, tend to carry heavy loads from the villages over long mountain roads to sell in town. It's a normal thing."

However, the hardship Demi had just revealed had far exceeded his imagination.

Perhaps he had never truly understood his daughter. Now, he was starting to wonder if they had made a mistake in the past.

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On the winding mountain road, Demi was unaware of the arguments going on in the comment section. She was also oblivious that people were making wild speculations about her past.

She had started doing such work back in middle school Initially, no one wanted to hire her. It was only after much begging and pleading did people take pity on her and agreed to let her work.

Of course, she wasn't very strong back then. At first, she could only carry around 20 pounds of goods. Over time, she gradually worked her limit up to 45 pounds.

After delivering goods up the mountain, she would pick up empty bottles on the way back to bring them home.

When she had said that carrying such things up the mountain was something she did many years ago, it had just slipped out. After all, for her current self, it really felt like it was something from centuries ago.

She had only wanted to let Maria know that she was doing fine now.