Chapter 13: The Man in the Cocoon

Heavy and thick, like a huge quilt filled with water, you can't get out.

There are hoses and filaments all around the body, and there are layers of folds on the canopy cover, and the folds are like flowers blooming, and they are lifted layer by layer, and inside is a cocoon formed by filaments.

There was a man in the cocoon, a man whose face he couldn't see clearly.

Some were thin, and in their hands they held a pearl with a dark purple glow, about the size of a goose egg.

The person in the cocoon was lying flat, and instead of withering like the leaves of a thousand sunwoods, it looked lifelike.

Suddenly, the man in the cocoon opened his eyes, and the filaments wrapped around his body were scattered like powder, shining on the ground.

finally showed her face, an old grandmother who was not young.

The hose held Grandma and made her stand up, straight and straight, as if all her joints couldn't move.

"Hmm. She sighed slightly, and her gorgeous dress was frozen hard and covered from head to toe with a layer of hoarfrost.

The beads in her hand shone brighter than before, reflecting the hoarfrost into a dark purple, and the dark purple wrinkles covered her face, which was indescribably weird.

"Why are you here?what is this?Who are you?" Xiaoyu asked a bunch of questions.

"Let me ~ think about it, I haven't spoken for ~ a long time. The voice was dry and dull, and the tone was strange.

Grandma moved, and finally pulled the muscles on her face and laughed, but the smile was far-fetched, and the smile was more ugly than crying.

The hoarfrost slowly turned into a thin vapor that drenched her white hair, her cheeks, and her clothes.

She finally doesn't look so freeze-dried anymore.

She was very old, and her wrinkles and gray hair were a sign that she was no longer young. Her waist could no longer be straightened, so she held the beads all the time.

"I thought I was going to be in the dark forever, like so many people seek to live forever, but in the dark. ”

"I didn't expect that I would be able to set foot on this real land again today. ”

Grandma squatted down gently, and the rubbing sound of her clothes was a bit like the sound of air-dried seaweed being crumbled. She caressed the ground as if she were caressing her dearest lover.

She suddenly smiled again, as if she was smiling a little better than before: "Do you know what it's like to be inside? Can't speak, can't make a sound, can't see, can't feel. I tried it and never wanted to do it again. ”

Xiaoyu asked, "Where are you talking about??" I was secretly glad that I was not bound by the cocoon, if it was really like what this grandma said, how terrible it was.

Grandma shook her head, pinched the bead with two fingers and put it in front of her eyes: "I'm in this." ”

What? I saw that she was inside the filament, but why was she in the bead? I guess she was old and confused.

"I don't know how long I've been in it, at first I'll count roughly, a day, a month, a year, and then I'll get tired, there's nothing more tiring than being alone. ”

"Then why are you in there?"

Grandma stood up and looked up at the little fish. Her eyes suddenly had a brilliance, just like a wooden fish eye suddenly met the finishing touch, and suddenly there was a charm.

She said slowly: "Because I am afraid of death, death is annihilation, nothingness. I can no longer smell the fragrance of flowers, I can no longer feel the warm breeze in the fragrance of flowers, and I can no longer see him in the warm wind. ”

Who is he?

"He is the love of my life, no one can make me feel the beauty of the world more than him, no one can make me want to live more than him. ”

But how many years can life last? There is always an end.

Grandma told her story, and Xiaoyu seemed a little stupid to hear it.

Xiaoyu never thought about living for a man, and never thought about the end of his life. She always thinks that life is still very long, there is still a lot of time, and there are so many things to do every day, why should she stand in the wind and look at men.

But Grandma said it very lightly, as light as the clouds in the sky after the rain, distant and fascinating.

She was a little helpless when she said those past events, but there was an indescribable slight shy pleasure on her face, which was like a girl in her first love talking about her lover to someone else.

Xiaoyu looked at her and felt that she was getting better and better. She was a thin grandmother just now, but now she has become plump. The wrinkles on her face faded, and her whole body seemed to have added even muscles to her skeleton.

These changes surprised the little fish and the day-to-day birds, and made them doubt their eyes.

But the woman in front of her is really different from the previous grandma.

"He said that I could follow him in the supreme tantric practice, and I would be able to look old and be at ease with him," the woman paused, and then added, "But my lifespan is too short compared to his. He can live for thousands of years, and no matter how much I cultivate, I will only be old for more than two hundred years. ”

"I didn't want him to see me grow old, and I didn't want to die of old age in front of him, so I decided to leave him. But he worked hard to find this bead for me, telling me that as long as I entered this bead, he would be able to keep my primordial spirit immortal, and give me a cold winter tree that would keep my body from rotting. ”

The woman looked up at the huge canopy, its transparent body perfectly piercing the light and shadow of the beads, and the light shone in the dark hole, like a distant nebula.

It turned out to be a plant, and it was so strange that I didn't know how to plant it. The gardener attribute of the small fish is revealed.

"He said that if he found one more thing, it would give me a new lease of life and rejuvenation. Then we can spend the rest of his life together. ”

"Did you find it then? You see, you've been born again now. The little fish looked at the woman in amazement.

The woman said quietly: "He has been looking for many years, and he has been to many places but has not found it." The older I get, the more scared I get. In order to reassure me, he actually pushed the appearance of the young man he was stationed in to be middle-aged. ”

The woman fell into the memory, her face was infinitely gentle, her eyebrows and eyes were dotted, she turned around and walked a few steps, her figure was much taller, her waist was more and more slender, and she turned her face in the folds that bloomed in the cold winter.

Xiaoyu's eyes almost fell to the ground, is this still the old woman who had a little flesh just now?

Is this the power of rebirth, which can rejuvenate her?

I saw her green silk like a waterfall, her eyebrows like distant mountains, her eyes with autumn water, and her cherry lips lightly opened: "I am very grateful to him, I really thank him." But I always age faster than him, and I don't want him to work so hard for me, we are never people of the same world. So I came here alone, waiting here to die, and I didn't expect that the moment I died, I entered this bead. ”

She said that they are not people of the same world? Yes, how can there be such an unbelievable thing in mortal dust, that he must not be a mortal.

"He's from the celestial realm?"

"Nope. ”

"Mountains and forests?"

"No, it's the Demon Realm. ”

The little fish and the sun-chasing bird gasped at the same time, and if they are in the company of the demon world, they will be punished by God.

"You're really reborn!" said Sunchaser.

The woman said, "yes, I didn't expect it either. It was neither life nor death, and I would rather die. You wouldn't know that sometimes, dying is a luxury. In that endless darkness, I began to fall into a deep sleep, until today, when I suddenly saw the light. ”