Chapter 23: Darkness
"Grandpa the village chief, why are you lying on the ground? Are you playing tricks on Lin Yi?"
The sound of whimpering filled Lin Yi's mouth, and his eyes had already been wet with tears.
The whole body trembled and approached the figure on the ground step by step, kneeling on his knees with a pop, looking at the familiar body in front of him, Lin Yi raised his hand and stopped in mid-air, not daring to touch it.
Impossible, it won't be like this. How could the village chief's grandfather die here!
Looking at the amiable face in front of him, his white hair was already stained with dust, Lin Yi trembled and gently touched Halson's cheek, and the first feeling he felt was cold, and there was no normal body temperature for anyone. As if to reconfirm whether Halson's life still exists, Lin Yi carefully stretched out his right index finger directly below Halson's nostrils, and after a long time, Halson's breathing was gone, and there was no life at all...
At this moment, the turbulent pathos poured into the whole body, Lin Yi fell on Halsen's chest and cried, the embankment of feelings has collapsed, and tears have occupied the city of eyes, this night Lin Yi lost all the people in the village, no more, and the big family of harmonious life was all lost on this night.
"Yes, yes, little one, don't be in a hurry, don't eat too fast, don't choke"
"Little guy, look at the mud you're playing with, next time you have to pay attention, the weather is changing season, don't catch a cold"
"Little guy, do you want to listen to grandpa, I'll tell you a story" Lin Yi's mind kept recalling the good days of living with Halson.
Memories are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Even if memories are too beautiful and do not exist in the other party, they are just an empty imagination, and memories are created by the present and can be left to the future self.
Touching his cold body, Lin Yi's whole heart was broken, what could he do after crying, could he save the village chief's grandfather?
Lin Yi's mind can no longer tolerate other thoughts, and now there is only one in his brain, only the person in front of him can no longer repay him in the future, he can no longer lie on the knees of the village chief's grandfather, pester him to tell stories, and can no longer hear the laughter of the village chief's grandfather.
At this moment, a sharp change is taking place in Lin Yi's heart, in addition to crying for Halson's death, another consciousness is like a conspirator hidden in the shadows, step by step on the stage, announcing the great victory of seizing power, and that is Lin Yi's own heart, the deepest darkness is sharply affecting Lin Yi's thoughts, or it should be said that it is erasing Lin Yi's childlike innocence.
Human beings are born with two sides, the light side and the dark side, and when the dominant consciousness of man prevails, the light side will suppress the darkness and prevent it from tyrannical everywhere.
If there is a setback, a blow, or an unacceptable consequence, the darkness will envelop the light and eat away at the beauty of human nature, and then the personality of the person will also change.
At this moment, Lin Yi didn't know that the innocence in his heart had been slowly wiped out by himself, and Lin Yi, who was immersed in grief and pain, burst out with a stronger thought in his heart, that is, revenge!
For the sake of the village chief's grandfather, and for the sake of the entire village, I must take revenge! Exile this culprit to purgatory, let him taste the despair of the abyss, and make him feel helpless!
Lin Yi, who had made up his mind, made up his mind not to give up until his goal, wiped away his tears and held back his grief, and carried Harson who fell to the ground behind him.
I can't let the village chief's grandfather fall here like this, I can't let the dust stain the village chief's grandfather's face, I can't let the wind elves disturb the village chief's grandfather's rest, I should let the village chief's grandfather return to dust, and the soil will return to the earth, which is also what the village chief's grandfather said to himself before.
A hundred years later, he hoped that Lin Yi would bury him under a certain tree in the village with his own hands, without erecting any stone monuments, and even after death, he would turn into a tree to shelter the people in the village from the heat and rain.
Lin Yi also desperately denied what Halson said at that time, believing that he would not die, death was too terrible and it would take away his dearest people, Lin Yi also asked Halson to hook himself at that time, saying that the village chief's grandfather would not die, and would always be by his side, who would have thought that in less than a year, this sentence would be fulfilled.
Lin Yi struggled to carry Halson's corpse and came to the bottom of a banyan tree in the village, the branches and leaves of the banyan tree were flourishing, the thick trunk of the tree required two or three adults to be surrounded by a circle, and the intertwined roots on the ground were intricate, this place was in line with the burial place that Halson said before.
Carefully put Halson on the ground gently, Lin Yi held back the tears in his eyes, although his vision was a little blurry, but it did not prevent Lin Yi from digging a hole next to the banyan tree, and in less than a cup of tea, Lin Yi dug an adult-sized pit next to the banyan tree, which was just enough to accommodate an adult.
Lin Yi slowly put Halson into the pit, looked at the smiling and amiable face again, tears still fell uncontrollably, his eyes were already swollen with crying, and his voice became hoarse, after all, he still couldn't resist the heart-wrenching pain, Lin Yi knew very well that this parting would be forever, and it was a distant separation between heaven and man.
I hate why I am so weak, in the end, I didn't even see the last face of the village chief's grandfather, the weak will never have hope at all, Lin Yi sat on the ground, looking at Halson lying in the pit, and didn't know what to think, his eyes were blank and his eyes were empty, although he was looking at it, but the thoughts in his mind had already drifted to the past, immersed in his own memories.
"Give you three years to go to the Black Cliff Forest to cultivate, and then you will know who killed your loved ones!"
The sudden words dropped a big bomb in Lin Yi's heart, pulling Lin Yi back to reality from his deep memories, and looking around, except for the dead Halson, no one else appeared.
"Black Cliff Forest?"
Lin Yi repeated this word hoarsely, listening to the real voice in his ears, he couldn't hear it wrong, then it was someone who secretly knew to tell him, and after having a goal, Lin Yi was no longer confused in his heart.
Lin Yi took a deep look at Halson's remains, scooped up a handful of soil with a shovel, and then poured it on Halson's body, the second, the third...
Until the pit where Halson was buried was covered smoothly, Lin Yi knelt on the ground and kowtowed his head towards the pit more than a dozen times, Lin Yi's eyes faded from childishness, a little more tenacious and mature, stood up and resolutely turned away.