"Really, can't it?" Yellowthorn just lowered his head and sobbed, and said nothing more, and when the golden firefly was about to step away again, it cried loudly and begged him not to go.

Seeing its pitiful appearance, Jin Ying couldn't bear to walk back and sit down beside it.

Huang Thorn held Jin Ying's hand tightly and looked at him with tears streaming down his face: "Please don't go, don't leave me, I don't dare anymore, I'm really scared, I'm scared, I'm scared of death, I'm going crazy......!" I suddenly hated everything that could survive, and I wished everyone had died......"

"Really?" said Jin Ying, who couldn't understand it's feelings.

"Is there anything particularly that scares you, and if you were afraid, what would you do?" asked him as if he had met a savior.

"I don't know what it means to be afraid. Hotaru shook her head.

"That's good......" Yellowthorn looked up at the moon in the sky.

"I was so scared, so scared that I forgot to live my life and in a few hours I would have no time. Once ......" it shuddered and curled up as it spoke.

"It's better to die now than to be scared all the time!" it muttered in despair.

"Forget about it as if nothing would happen tomorrow. Jin Hotaru comforted it.

"Can't forget, can't forget!" Yellowthorn shook his head.

"Do you want to be scared like this until dawn?" Jin Ying actually felt very uncomfortable when she heard this.

"Put me to sleep, sleep until dawn, and act as if nothing had happened, yes, I have to fall asleep quickly. It leaned on Hotaru's shoulder and closed its eyes.

"Fall asleep quickly, fall asleep quickly. It kept muttering.

Jin Ying put her hand on his forehead, and with a gentle touch, Yellow Thorn immediately fell into a deep sleep, showing a sweet smile in his sleep.

Instead of a spell to make Yellow Thorn drowsy, it was an illusion to make it see the life it wanted to live. Jin Yingwang looked at the stars in the sky and counted the time, wondering if the time before dawn was enough for it to have a sweet dream.

Jin Hotaru kept it to rely on it, he knew for the first time that life would have such a great fear of death, before that, he had never thought about death, the monsters he had killed, when they died, were they so afraid?

When the first rays of sunlight shone on the golden firefly, the yellow thorns around her had disappeared, and a tree with green branches and leaves had grown, bearing lovely fruits like bright red orchids and small yellow flowers.

Hotaru knew that in the spring, another youkai would be born here, but it was no longer the youkai he knew. Jin Ying patted the trunk of the tree, stood up, and began to think in her heart, where did Yan'er go this night?

"Hotaru. Zou Xiao jumped down from one of them.

Jin Hotatsu's eyes widened with a "oh!", and as soon as he remembered him, he jumped out, and he couldn't react for a moment.

"It turned out to be a yellow thorn. Zou Xiao looked at the tree.

"I thought you had finally learned to date women, but it turned out to be just a yellow thorn. His voice was full of disappointment.

"Women?"

"It's. Zou Xiao patted Hotaru on the shoulder with a strange expression, "Don't pretend to be stupid, you sat with 'her' all night, did you really do nothing?" ”

"You've been watching us all night?" Jin Ying couldn't help frowning, "but is this a woman? In the picture book you showed me, women are like this......"

As he spoke, he drew a few phantoms in the air with his fingers: a three-point, unclothed woman with her upper body on, and a woman with no clothes on her whole body.

Jin Ying scratched her head in confusion and asked, "Isn't that what women are?"

"Well...... Haha, hahahaha......" Zou Xiao scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

Jin Ying still looked at him in confusion, not knowing what he was laughing at.

"Zou," Hotaru suddenly asked, as they walked back together, "what is death? Will you die? Are you afraid?"

"Death is...... Rest. ”

"Rest?

"Death doesn't mean it doesn't exist. On the contrary, as long as you live seriously, nothing can make us not exist. Of course I'm going to die, but I'm not afraid. Zou Xiao replied without thinking.

"You'll understand soon. Zou Xiao patted Jin Ying's shoulder, with a touch of sadness in his eyes.

"Come on, go forward. He pointed ahead.

Jin Hotaru looked at him, thought about what he had just said, and somehow, added some uneasiness.

One morning, Zou Xiao woke up Jin Ying and Yan'er early in the morning. When they walked to Zou Xiao's wooden house, they saw Zou Xiao sitting cross-legged on the grass in front of the house, looking serious.

"Stinky old man, do you want us to help him do something early in the morning?" Yan'er, who hadn't slept enough, yawned a few times in a row and scolded unhappily.

"Do you remember how long we've been together?" Knowing their arrival, Zou Xiao lowered his eyes and didn't look at them.

"It's probably been more than two hundred years, and no one has the patience to remember that. Jin Ying thought for a moment and replied.

"Two hundred years, I've taught you as much as I can. Hotaru, you were born with this opportunity, and your Taoism will definitely surpass mine in the future. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Remember when you asked me if I was afraid of death, what death was?"

"That was decades ago, why are you bringing it up now?"

"Because you're going to see it with your own eyes right away...... I'm dying. ”

"You lied ......" Jin Hotaru couldn't believe it, he desperately shook his head and stared at him with wide eyes, he couldn't believe that he was going to face this reality, "I don't believe it, you won't die!"

Even Yan'er, who had been dozing off, realized that something was about to happen, and it shouted loudly: "You stinky old man who has lived for thousands of years, now you say such things as death!

"Yes, Yan'er is right, it must be like this!" said Jin Hotaru. But there was an ominous premonition in his heart, and he asked eagerly, "Zou Xiao, what do you want us to do for you?"

"Over the years, you have done so many things for this mountain forest, and after I am gone, whether you want to continue to do this kind of thing depends on whether you are happy or not. Zou Xiao stroked his gray beard and said lightly.

"I've lived in this forest for thousands of years, and it's worth it for me. It's worthy of me, and I'm worthy of it, but I'm still going to leave it now, and I'm going to leave it all behind. Zou Xiao looked up at the sky, the distant mountains, the rivers, the forests, and the golden fireflies and flames in front of him.

"Zou Xiao!" Jin Ying grabbed his hand nervously, "Don't lie to me!

He held Zou Zhen's hand and didn't dare to let go, for fear that as soon as he let go, he would really die.

"Do I look like I'm lying to you?" he said with a long sigh and a wry smile, "I've taught you for so many years, and you can't even tell the difference?"

Jin Hotaru let go of his hand and suddenly collapsed to his knees. He knew that Zou Zhen was not lying this time.

Zou Xiao sighed, and still said lightly: "If there is gathering, there will be dispersion, and if there is life, there will be death...... It's just that my day has come. ”