There was a change of light and shade in front of me, followed by another transition.

This time, no matter what it became, Jiang Ning felt that he could get used to it.

And this time, he became the bird with flapping wings.

Of course, as always, some small and trivial movements can be barely controlled, and they can share the bird's vision, but they can't make any big movements, let alone speak.

It was a sweltering and humid summer night.

The bird was practicing flying as always, and by this time he was able to control his body and fly freely in the small space of the birdcage without hitting anything.

At this moment, they were all asleep, and after he finished practicing, he just stood quietly on the iron rod in the cage, looking out the window at the starry sky.

Jiang Ning could even clearly understand the bird's mood at the moment.

"One day, I'm going to fly out of the window, swim on the top of the sky, dance under the stars!"

Jiang Ning felt that he had not seen such impassioned emotions in his body for a long time.

At this time, he keenly sensed that something was wrong.

In other words, the bird itself was keenly aware of the slightest mistake, and Jiang Ning just accepted the bird's feelings.

It was the faint smell of smoke from burning wood.

Immediately after, a Mars appeared somewhere in the room, and the Mars grew larger and larger, but the owner of the room was still asleep, seemingly unaware of the coming crisis.

The birds were in a hurry and woke up the other birds sleeping in the cage one by one.

"What should I do, what should I do, think of a way!"

At the critical moment, the eyes of all the birds fell on the bird they usually laughed at.

"Big fat, it's up to you!"

The bird suddenly said to the largest bird in the cage, which was now bigger than the door in and out of the cage: "Let's shake the cage together, if we can make the cage unhook and fall to the ground, we may wake up the master!"

"You are mad!" said the fat bird, "we are now hanging on the window, and it will take some time for the fire to burn us, and it may not burn us, but if the cage falls to the ground, and the master is not awakened, we will die!"

At this moment, all the birds were on the side of the fat bird.

The flying bird fell silent again.

Although these birds are all his family, none of them want to believe in themselves, he knows that even if he says more, there is no point, only hope that the owner himself can quickly perceive the crisis and wake up by himself.

Of course, bird calls are also a way for them to call their masters, but this kind of sound is too small for a sleeping person to wake up a human who is still lying in bed with this level of sound.

The scene was at an impasse for a moment, and the flames in the room grew louder and louder.

They were in an attic at the moment.

The flames were burning from below the attic, and at this moment, the wooden stairway below was completely burning, and the pungent smell of smoke still woke the sleeping owner in the room.

The beams downstairs had broken off under the flames, and with a roar, half of the beams fell to the ground, and the back half of the room collapsed with it.

The stairway up and down the stairs was completely blocked.

The woman who lived in the room woke up in a sea of fire, and the pungent smell of smoke made her unable to even open her eyes.

The bird's original intention was to wake up its owner, and then let it save them and go out together.

But now, even the windows are starting to burn, and the wooden pole with the hook of the birdcage has been burned three-quarters of it, and in a little while, the birdcage will fall to the ground, and they will be burned to death.

The raging fire above the windows seemed to tell them that you couldn't leave.

The woman covered her face with a handkerchief, and walked to the window with difficulty in the flames, first lifting the birdcage that had just fallen to the ground, and then trying to jump down from the window with the birdcage, but was forced back by the fire.

The woman seemed to know that she was dead, looked at the birdcage in her hand, and then looked at the birds still jumping alive in the birdcage, and there was a trace of gentle warmth in her desperate eyes.

She opened the small door above the birdcage and smiled, "Fly, fly!"

One by one, the birds rushed out, and the bird, which had learned to fly, was the first to come out of its cage, and circled the woman three times with some sadness.

At this moment, the window had collapsed, blocked by wood and stone, even if the woman wanted to throw the birdcage out, she couldn't do it, but fortunately, the beams on the second floor also collapsed half of it at this time, and the tiles on the roof fell off, and the starry sky was in front of her.

The bird gave the woman one last sad look, staggered up, and flew out of the room engulfed in flames!

At this time, the fat birds were trapped in the birdcage because they were too big and could not leave, and the four birds that were finally released, although they came out, because they couldn't fly, they could only run around in the room, where there was no flame.

In the end, the woman was burned to death, and so were the remaining birds, only the bird, who had been practicing flying day and night, survived and returned to the boundless sky he longed for.

It's just that whenever he travels above the sky in the future, he always feels heavy in his heart, as if he is flying with something heavy on his back, although he has come to the long-awaited sky as he wishes, but he can't be happy.

The kind woman died, the family and friends died, died in that fire.

It seems that everything is because he himself is too selfish to be able to persuade them to practice with him.

He succeeded, but he also became a loner.

He flew out of the cage where he was trapped, but every once in a while, he would return to the place where the fire had been lit to take a look.

He knew that there was a cage in his heart, and that when the woman and the other birds were burned to death by the fire, the cage would forever and far hold him, and no matter how high or far he could, he would never be able to fly out of that cage again.

As soon as the scene turned, Jiang Ning returned to his own body, and the black glass marble in his hand, the hard skin slowly faded, and the liquid turned into a stream of water, which flowed into Jiang Ning's palm and penetrated into his skin when the skin faded.

The only thing that remained in Jiang Ning's palm was the mysterious object suspended in the liquid.

This time, Jiang Ning saw it clearly, it was a pocket birdcage with a delicate shape and a material that was almost transparent!

"What a cheesy story. Jiang Ning muttered to himself while playing with the pocket birdcage in his hand.

It's just that the tangled expression on his face still exposes the depression in his heart.

"This is inexplicable!" Jiang Ning couldn't help but complain at the empty misty forest again, as if the people who wanted to create this place in the dark were happy to hear it.

It's just that without the one who set up the bureau to easily appear in front of the people in the bureau, Jiang Ning's wishful thinking naturally failed, but he didn't have much hope in the first place, just tried it casually.

Although the experience in the glass beads is very long, it is actually three brief momentary transitions, and in the misty forest, there is not even time for a cup of tea.

Jiang Ning turned his hand and wanted to put the pocket birdcage into the small world, but the small world was opened, and the birdcage couldn't be put in, so he pouted helplessly, put away the small world, and put the pocket birdcage in his arms.

After everything was ready, Jiang Ning fell into a brief confusion.

"Where do you go next?"

In his mind, the direction that the man had pointed out to him before he died suddenly appeared.

"Lu Ji, Lu Ji. Jiang Ning whispered softly and repeatedly, "Who are you?"

Talking to himself like this, Jiang Ning had nowhere else to go, so he really followed the man's guidance before he died, and went in a certain direction in the forest.

The reason why it is said to be a certain direction, rather than a specific direction, is because here Jiang Ning can't judge the east, west, north and south, there is fog everywhere, covering the perception of sight and direction, and he can clearly remember the direction that the person pointed out to him is already quite good.

Walking in that direction, I don't know how long it took, Jiang Ning saw a small courtyard surrounded by a fence.

In front of the small courtyard is a small river, and behind the small river is a hill, looking at the appearance and layout, it is somewhat similar to the small courtyard of the Su family and the hillock in the early years.

It's just that the yard is more or less larger and more spacious than the yard of Que'er and Lao Su Yan'er, and a vegetable field has been opened up in the yard, which is full of melons, fruits and vegetables.

Jiang Ning subconsciously wanted to walk in and ask, and that's exactly what he did.

However, every time he took a step forward, the light around him dimmed, and when he walked along the bluestone road in front of him to the gate of the small courtyard, it became a gloomy ancient temple in the blink of an eye, and there were two stone lions standing in front of the door of the ancient temple, one left and one right, but although the two lions were lion heads, the lower body was a human body.

According to the normal architectural layout, the two stone lions should be the same size and similar in appearance.

But these two are not the same.

On the left is a lion cub with the lower half of the human leg lying diagonally on the ground.

On the right was a large lion three times larger, and he was on his knees, his hands stretched out in unison, as if he were about to grasp something.

The gate of the ancient temple is closed, there is no lock on the door, Jiang Ning is lying on the door, and he can't see the latch behind him through the crack in the door, but no matter how he pushes the door, the door just can't be opened.

"In this case, the door can't be opened, which means that some kind of trigger is needed to open the door. Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

"But that's all I can find in this misty forest. Jiang Ning took out the pocket birdcage from his arms.

He searched and searched, but couldn't find a place to put the little pocket birdcage.

He dragged the pocket birdcage to the door with his hand, and injected the true yuan, but there was still no response.

Taking the little birdcage back into his arms, Jiang Ning patted his head with a wry smile, and said in his heart: "It's really not so easy." ”

Unable to find any mechanism or event on the door that could be triggered, Jiang Ning shifted his focus to the two half-human, half-lion bodies outside the door to find something different.

After searching for a long time, I still didn't find any anomalies.

The only thing that is somewhat unusual is the half-human, half-lion statue itself.

After looking for a long time, he couldn't find anything, and he wanted to fly up and directly cross the courtyard wall into the ancient temple, but no matter how high and fast he had to be, the courtyard wall of the ancient temple would climb up at a corresponding speed, and he couldn't force himself into it anyway.

"Hey," Jiang Ning sighed and said, "Sure enough, there is no flaw left at all." ”

Since he couldn't get in, Jiang Ning was not obsessed, originally before the man died, he just pointed out a direction for himself, although this strange ancient temple was in the right direction, but the place that the person was pointing to was not necessarily here.

After changing his train of thought, Jiang Ning's mood immediately improved.

After crossing the ancient temple, Jiang Ning continued to walk forward.

After walking for about a dozen zhang, when Jiang Ning looked back at the ancient temple, the ancient temple turned back into a small farmhouse courtyard surrounded by a fence and a small river and hill outside the courtyard wall.

Jiang Ning stopped, turned around, and walked again in the direction of the small farmhouse courtyard.

When he walked seven or eight feet ahead, the small courtyard of the farmhouse in Jiang Ning's field of vision turned into the gloomy ancient temple with strange statues outside the door.

After trying a few times, Jiang Ning confirmed the changing boundary between the two in his field of vision.

After finding that boundary, Jiang Ning stepped on the boundary, and looked towards the location of the small farmhouse courtyard and the ancient temple, and his vision changed again.

When Jiang Ning stepped on the boundary, the farmhouse courtyard and the phantom of the ancient temple in his field of vision began to merge together.

The two half-human, half-lion statues in front of the ancient temple changed again, and the lion's appearance disappeared completely, turning into a child and a demon.

The courtyard wall of the ancient temple has been turned back into a fence, and in the small courtyard, on the edge of the vegetable garden, there is an extra figure of a woman and an evil ghost.

It's just that Jiang Ning clearly didn't exert any time power, but all the pictures that came into his eyes were the feeling of stopping in time, and all the pictures in his field of vision were stationary.

"Do you want me to use the power of time?"

Jiang Ning muttered to himself, with the idea of giving it a try and nothing to lose, Jiang Ning raised his hands and tried to inject the power of time in his body into the small courtyard.

Sure enough, the originally static picture turned in an instant, and the power of time in Jiang Ning's body was originally injected by himself, but when the power of time was really injected, it became that the power of time in Jiang Ning's body was continuously drained away by the small courtyard.

If it weren't for the fact that his comprehension of the power of time had come one step closer during this time, he would have been evacuated.

Fortunately, when there was not much time power left in Jiang Ning's body, the irresistible force disappeared very "considerately".

At this time, Jiang Ning didn't care about these at all, and his eyes fell on the edge of the vegetable garden from beginning to end.

The woman was half-crouching, at the edge of the vegetable garden, and the basket in her hand was nearly half full, all of which were vegetables to be eaten at home.

The demon came over, folded his arms in his hands, stood still in front of the woman, looked at her condescendingly, and said, "I want half of the vegetables in the garden." ”

The woman's action of picking beans stopped for a moment, and then put the beans in her hand in the basket, frowned slightly, looked up at the evil ghost, and said, "Didn't you say that you would take thirty percent?"

The evil ghost sneered, "This yard is mine, this vegetable garden is also mine, you grow vegetables in my garden, I will divide half of it, if you don't want to, then you can go elsewhere to plant, you don't want to live in my yard." ”

The woman stood up, looked at each other calmly, and said: "This yard originally has half of me, and this vegetable garden should also have half of me, I bought the seeds for planting vegetables, I planted the vegetables, and I watered the water.

"Hmph, shameless woman!" The evil ghost said: "This Lu family's courtyard should have been our Lu Song's, and the water spilled by the married daughter, you don't go outside to inquire, where is there a woman who takes half of the ancestor's property?"

The woman said: "Other people's homes are other people's homes, our family is our family, my father has already said when he went, this yard and I am half of my brother, if you are not convinced, you go to your father and say, what kind of ability is it to bully our orphans and widows here?"

"Smack!" the evil ghost was angry, and slapped out, leaving a bright red five-finger mark on the woman's face, "The stinky woman that no one wants, you still dare to talk back to me? You can't even keep your own man, and you still want our family Lu Song to help you all day long, what qualifications do you have to say that the Lu family's courtyard still has half of you? You want half? Yes, return all the money that our family Lu Song has given you over the years, and I will admit that this courtyard has half of you!"

The woman didn't fight back, she still looked at the evil ghost calmly, and said, "The silver was given to me by my brother, not by you, I don't need to explain it to you, besides, I will definitely return the silver in the future." ”

"Why are you still there?" said the evil ghost, "Is it up to you to raise a wild seed that doesn't study well, dances with knives and sticks all day long, and steals chickens and dogs?"

"Smack!" the woman slapped the demon in the face, "You can call me, it doesn't matter what you want, but you can't insult Jie'er, he's my child, not a wild seed." ”

The evil ghost was furious, and shouted and scolded from behind: "His father doesn't want him anymore, isn't it a wild seed?"

"Smack!" the woman turned around and left another palm print on the demon's face, "Five percent is fifty, don't bother me again in the future!"

With that, the woman lifted the basket and turned her back to the evil spirit, and went into her room.

Jiang Ning keenly saw that behind the bamboo curtain in front of the door, there was a child's figure, and when the woman went back with the vegetable basket, he quietly ran back to the depths of the room.

"Lu Jie, Lu Jie," Jiang Ning raised his eyebrows and said to himself: "It seems that the person I want to save is probably him!"