Chapter 40: The First Arrival in Zhaoming (1)

In the running for half a year, today we finally stepped into the territory of Zhaoming, in this more than half a year, the three of us together over the mountain, over the ridge, across the river, wading across the river, we eat and live together, even live and die together, we go down the river to bathe together, together up the mountain to pick wild fruits, together all over the mountains to find herbs, together with tacit cooperation to catch fish and birds, unconsciously we have become the best friends in the world, the closest relatives, but just when I cheered, excited, today the shadow said to me, a wolf may be leaving us. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Why? You lied, why didn't the wolf tell me, when will you be able to communicate with it? "I don't want to believe it, and I don't want to believe it.

"It's different from us, from today onwards, you can walk on the official road openly, and you can go to various towns along the way to stay and eat as you like, but it can't, it can only belong to this mountain forest." Shadow patiently explained it to me.

"Then we can also skip the official road, don't go to the town to stay and eat, and we will still cross this deserted mountain forest as before." I know it might be unrealistic, but I just don't want to accept it.

"Then how do you go about finding Ah Shuang? Can you live forever in this forest? After saying this, the shadow ignored me and walked in front alone, leaving me alone with a sad face looking at the wolf squatting aside, and finally, the wolf stopped paying attention to me, it got up and followed behind the shadow, and for a while the three of us were silent, and the joy of arriving at Zhaoming was replaced by a kind of sadness.

After walking for a long time, the wolf suddenly ran excitedly, a strong howl, running wildly, I and the shadow chased up and followed it, a while of work, only heard the roar of wolves all over the mountains, one after another, from all directions to a lot of wolves, but this time I was not afraid, they did not seem to be hostile to me, I can see that they are the same kind as a wolf, they have a similar appearance. The wolf stopped running, but still craned its neck and roared, its companions all gathered around it, some drooped their ears, some wagged their tails, it seems that the shadow said, a wolf is not an ordinary dire wolf, it quickly got the recognition of its companions, got the awe of its companions, this is its world.

When I came back to my senses, the shadow had already gone away, I reluctantly glanced at a happy howling wolf, turned to chase after the shadow, I followed the shadow and walked slowly, the scenes of getting along with the wolf in the past six months came to my heart, when I first saw the pitiful appearance of being trapped in the chain and needing to rely on me to give wild fruits; Rushing into the wolves, standing in front of me, roaring with rage; The rivers and lakes were dragged into the water by me, and the fur was wet, like a chicken in soup; small towns and towns, bastards with baring teeth and claws to scare the people; Lying beside me in the evening of dusk, let me lean on the docile form. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but cry bitterly.

At this time, there was the sound of a wolf running behind me, and its low howl, I turned my head to look at it happily, for a moment, I thought that a wolf was coming back, but it stopped running at the moment I turned around, just sat there and looked at me from afar, at that moment my heart was cold again, now I can understand its expression, at this time its expression is reluctant, it is sad, it is not to come back, just to send us, I can't stop crying, until the tears blur my eyes, I wipe away tears, continued to look at the wolf reluctantly, continued to cry and wipe again, but was reluctant to look away from it.

"Let's go." Shadow came over and pulled me.

"Shadow, I can't bear it." I looked at the shadow helplessly, it turned out that this friendship made me so difficult to let go, I looked back at the wolf who was still squatting there, and couldn't help but run over.

"Wolf." I ran over and held it in my arms, and for the first time it let me touch its head without resistance, and it continued to howl, and the sound broke my heart.

At this moment, I was sitting in a restaurant in an unknown town in Zhaoming, stroking the hideous scar on my right hand, which was a testimony of our life and death together, and tears still fell like beads with broken threads.

"Let's eat." At this time, the tone in which Shadow spoke to me was more gentle than ever.

"How did you know it was leaving?" I raised my hand to wipe away my tears.

"Zhaoming is the hometown of the dire wolf, and only the mountains and forests in Zhaoming have the dire wolf." Shadow said to me calmly.

"So you knew for a long time that as soon as it arrived at Zhaoming, it might leave?" I asked angrily, why didn't he tell me earlier, that maybe I could be less sad.

"We can't stay with you all the time, I thought you understood."

"So you're leaving, too." I looked at the film even more sadly, maybe I really should have understood earlier.

Shadow looked at me and didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"I'll help you find Ah Shuang." After a while, Shadow said again.

"No need, I'll find her myself, you're right, none of you can stay with me forever, we should all have our own lives." I wiped away my tears, stubbornly picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and ate my meal in a big gulp. "But I'll let Zhaoming have neon clothes and feathers everywhere, so that you can remember me whenever you want." I looked up and said firmly.

"My name is Dugu Ye, if possible, I will go to you, go to see your neon clothes and feathers, and then accompany you to see a wolf." Shadow smiled at me and said it was the first time he had smiled at me without concealment.

Today he and Ah Wolf have left me a beautiful first time, the shadow will always be my shadow, the shadow without memory, there is only the shadow of me and Ah Wolf in my mind, there is no Dugu Ye in my heart, I hate this strange name, and I also hate his gradually recovering memories, because there is no me and Ah Wolf in that memory.

There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, just as soon as I entered Zhaoming, the three of us have been scattered, and the friendship of half a year has also been broken apart, I began to hate this place, Zhaoming is not the free and happy place I yearn for, because I just came to it gave me a heartache blow.

Then I started the journey in Zhaoming alone, maybe I was too dependent on the shadow before, so that at the beginning of his departure, I didn't know what to do for a while, no clue, no thoughts, plans, just half a year, I was from a self-reliant independent girl, reduced to the current step of the field, I stayed in the town for two days, after thinking about a person, and then began to find Ah Shuang's journey.