Preface:

"Some people say, 'The living can die, and the dead can live,' and although I am alive, my heart is dead, and although her heart is dead, her body is still alive at all. He said.

"If there is an afterlife, I think I will be more rational and no longer approach her because of love, but choose to give up because I love her too much. He said to Gu with tears in his eyes.

Body:

At dusk, Gu saw a strange woman in front of a house, she looked at the sun at the end of the day, without blinking her eyes, her face was expressionless, as if she had lost her soul, sitting motionless on the stone slab in front of the house. Without careful observation, the faint of heart will think that it is a hell to be seen in this sunny day.

"Hey, can you provide me with a glass of water? The journey is tiring, the weather is hot, and I have already drunk my own water, so I bother you. Gu asked in a loud voice.

The woman sat there, indifferent. It was as if I hadn't heard it at all.

"Hey, I'm on a journey and want to ask for a bowl of water. Gu said again with a loud voice.

The woman still sat there like a puppet.

"Hey......" Gu wanted to continue, but was interrupted by a voice from inside the house.

"What are you doing?!Why are you yelling in front of our house, disturbing my daughter's tranquility again and again, do you have any intentions?!" A vigorous middle-aged man's voice came into Gu's ears. As the words were finished, the people in the house walked outside, and Gu could see a middle-aged man in his fifties with an angry look on his face, looking at Gu with sharp eyes.

Gu hurriedly explained, explaining the reason.

"There's no water!, let's go, don't turn in front of my house!" the middle-aged man snapped.

Gu secretly thought in his heart, this family didn't seem to want to see him, and he had to be more knowledgeable so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Gu arched his hand and walked away.

Gu left the village and went into the mountains and forests to look for water, at this time, the canopy had already darkened, even if there was water in the mountains, but the more important task than finding water was to make a fire and build a camp. Because the forest is infested with wild animals, a fire can effectively prevent the attack of dangerous creatures, and a camp is set up for a better rest, so as to replenish the energy consumed during the day, and more importantly, to prevent dehydration.

Gu turned left and right, but he didn't find a place to set up camp, he couldn't find a place to stay, and it was impossible to make a fire.

"I didn't expect this mountain to have a relatively flat place, so I didn't even have the space to set up a tent, ah, this is really troublesome. Gu complained.

Suddenly, Gu heard the sound of chopping wood, Gu thought it was an illusion, and listened attentively, it was indeed the sound of real existence.

Gu was curious and happy in his heart, so he looked for the direction of the sound and found out.

About fifteen minutes later, in Gu's hazy vision, he saw the outline of a man chopping wood, and a little further up, there was a house, and the lights in the house shone out from the small windowsill, flashing in Gu's sight.

"Oh, there are people living in places like this. Gu spoke.

The sound of chopping wood stopped, followed by the man's questioning. "Who is it?"

"A traveler, I wanted to find a place to set up a camp in the mountains, but I didn't find it for a long time, and I was worried about it, so I heard your sound of chopping wood, so I came here, if you are disturbed, please forgive me. Gu said a lot of kind words.

"Since you are a traveler, please come to my house, although it is coarse tea and light rice, but at the moment there is no one else in the mountains except me, so it is better to rest a little at my house for a night. The man generously invited Gu in the dark.

Gu naturally agreed heartily.

When they came to the house, when the two sat down and talked freely, Gu asked, "Do you live here because of your work, or because your home is here?" ”

"No, my home is in the village down the hill, and the house you see is built by my own hands. Moreover, I had no job, just chopping some wood and going to distant towns to exchange a little food and money to feed myself. ”

"How suffocating it is to live in the depths of this lonely and even terrifying forest, why move to such a place, isn't it nice to live with your parents at home at the bottom of the mountain?" Gu continued to ask.

"It's easier said than ......done," he said, sighed deeply, picked up the tea cup in front of the table, and pursed his dry lips.

"The reason why I live here like a savage is because I am a sinner, an unforgivable sinner, and even though she is alive, even if others have forgiven me, I have never been able to forgive myself. At this, his voice trembled, and he could feel the mood swinging in his heart.

"Jing, your parents don't like me, but you love me deeply, you know, I can't do without you no matter what, so you come with me, and we will escape together to a place where no relatives know us, where we will settle down and live forever." ”

"Arashi (man's name), can you let me think about it?" said the woman.

"Jing, are you in love with the rich man your parents introduced you?!" the man yelled.

"That's not the case, Arashi, I'm just...... I just felt that it was too irresponsible for my parents to do this, and it always felt that it was wrong to do so. ”

"Jing, what the hell are you hesitating about?!" the man grabbed the woman's shoulders and shook her vigorously, as if to make the woman sober up.

"Are you willing to let yourself marry a man you don't love at all? Do you want to let the rest of your life live forever in a circle of unhappiness? Wake up! Jing! You are my woman, you are, you will be, you will always be for several lifetimes, I love you! Please, go away with me, and stop living in such a place that destroys our feelings. Believe me, I'll work hard to make money, and I'll make you happy. ”

Hearing this, the woman Jing agreed with Lan's decision. So, as it was close to midnight, they decided to run away.

However, they were trapped behind a mountain in front of the village. Because, there was a cliff behind the mountain, and this cliff prevented the two of them from crossing over and escaping smoothly.

"Arashi, shall we take the main road?" Jing asked for Arashi's permission.

Lan shook his head and said, "No, you must not do that, walking on the road is too refreshing." Let's look along the cliff and see if we can find a place to get through. ”

Jing didn't refute again, but followed Arashi's advice and went up the cliff to find a way out.

To the surprise and delight of the two of them, they found a bridge.

"Was there a bridge here before? No, no, I came to this place a month ago, and I didn't see any craftsmen who built the bridge, and I didn't find this bridge, it's strange, how did this bridge come about?" Jing asked Arashi thoughtfully.

Lan shook his head, and was also a little puzzled: "The bridge built in the village is generally made of wood, how can this bridge be completely made of vines, and the bottom of the bridge is not completely closed." There are visible voids everywhere, and the left and right sides of the bridge are asymmetrical, making it more of a natural bridge than an artificial bridge. ”

Jing asked curiously, "Is there really such a magical thing?"

"Yes, maybe the heavens are deliberately helping you and me escape, isn't it a joy to see a bridge in such an inaccessible place?" Lan said.

"Jing, let's walk over. ”

"Arashi, I'...... I...... Somewhat...... Afraid. It's too dark, it's too eerie. Jing grabbed one of Arashi's sleeves.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, I'll go first, you grab my hand, come behind, so you won't be afraid. ”

Hearing this, Jing smiled with relief.

The bridge made of vines was quite strong, and Arashi walked smoothly to the middle of the bridge, and Jing saw that the bridge was particularly strong, and she was no longer afraid, her hand left Arashi's hand, and she walked in front of Arashi with a smile.

Suddenly, the vines on the opposite bank connected to the bridge quickly disappeared, and those vines retreated as if they had encountered a natural predator.

"Run, Lan, go back, the bridge is disappearing!" As soon as the words fell, Jing fell off the cliff. And Arashi retreated back to the starting point. Lan stared at the dark cliff bottom in horror, gasping for breath in his mouth, and only when he settled down a little did he remember that Jing had fallen to the bottom.

After listening to the man's story, Gu asked, "Is she still alive?"

"The distance from the top of the cliff to the bottom of the cliff is more than 300 meters, according to common sense, Jing should have died, however, fortunately, Jing survived. However, she has changed a lot, that is, she no longer knows me, she always looks at me with indifference when she meets her, she listens to others, she treats everyone like this, no matter how people ask her, talk about her, communicate with her, she seems to have no soul to think, she does not say a word, and she often sits on the stone slab in front of the house and looks at the sun expressionlessly. ”

"She ignored me, and it is no wonder that when she was in danger, my first reaction was not to save her, but to choose to run away to save my life, I am a complete coward, a pig and a dog inferior to an animal! Anything to protect her and give her happiness for the rest of her life is all! In the final analysis, I am a self-centered and selfish person after all. I'm a bastard who will never be able to pay off this emotional debt!" The man named Arashi said, tears of remorse.

"Some people say, 'The living can die, and the dead can live,' and although I am alive, my heart is dead, and although her heart is dead, her body is still alive at all. He said. 

"If there is an afterlife, I think I will be more rational and no longer approach her because of love, but choose to give up because I love her too much. He said to Gu with tears in his eyes.

"I want to say that she's dead. ”

When the man heard Gu's words, his eyes widened in surprise.

"Don't be surprised, she's dead, the woman you are talking about, or the person you like, I have seen her today, she is now only manipulated by a spirit seed, so she seems to have lived all these years. ”

"What the hell are you talking about?!" the man suddenly became excited, he stretched out his arm and clenched Gu's collar, gritting his teeth and having a tendency to be impulsive at any time.

"I am a spirit master, and the bridge you saw on the night you and her escaped was called the 'Night Bridge' by the spirit master, and this kind of bridge would be mistaken for a vine in the eyes of ordinary people, but in fact, those things that look like vines are a kind of spirit called 'Yang Qing', which is nourished by absorbing sunlight and is unformed. Yang Qing', can not be seen by the naked eye, most of the time they parasitize inside the tree, and connect with the meridians inside the tree, so as to synchronously receive the energy generated by the photosynthesis of the tree with the tree, however, they can also parasitize on the body of the organism that has just died, so that they can come back from the dead, however, the resurrected organism no longer retains the original consciousness, as if it has become a critical thing between plants and animals. However, whether it is parasitic on plants or dead organisms, 'Yangqing' will always drive the parasite to try to absorb sunlight to achieve its own growth. Generally speaking, the maturation time of 'Yang Qing' is three years, and after three years, they will leave their host and form a night bridge at midnight in a gathering posture of thousands close to the Spirit River (the most basic source of spirit generation), producing the next generation of spirit seeds to complete their life's mission. ”

At some point, Arashi had put his hand down, his lips trembling.

"So, what about ...... What happens to the host once the spirit leaves the host?" he asked eagerly.

"Death, death as it should be. Gu said bluntly.

"Why is this happening?" the man covered his face with his hands, and wept.

"Is it already three years?" asked Gu Ru when he first woke up from a dream.

"Tomorrow will be the third full year. The man sobbed in pain.

"It's time for you to wake up, you intend to stay in this place all your life, you intend to live in this pain of oppression for the rest of your life? Man is small, and it is never possible to correct the wrongs that have been committed, and all you should remember now is that you once loved a woman, and that woman loved you deeply. For you, tomorrow night is an opportunity, because the people in the village do not accept you because of what you have done, so you can only stay here, tomorrow at midnight overnight bridge will open your way to the outside world, through which you can live a new self. However, it took only twenty minutes from the appearance of the bridge to its disappearance, and missing the time meant losing the opportunity. ”

The man didn't shake his head or nod his head. He just said, "Tomorrow, I want to see her one last time, just see her from afar, and then I'll leave here with you." ”

Gu nodded, didn't say anything more, and then fell asleep. In the early hours of the morning, Gu was woken up by the stuffy heat once, but he saw that the man was still sitting on the chair looking out the window, motionless, perhaps, he was struggling or maybe he was nostalgic for something.

The next morning, when Gu woke up, the man was gone, and he didn't come back until near evening.

"Have you severed your bonds?" Gu asked him.

He smiled and nodded.

"That's good. Gu replied extremely briefly.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, they set off on time, and sure enough, on both sides of the cliff, there were yellow and bright things gathering and flashing, and they gathered more and more, and the color changed from the original yellow and bright color to a dark cyan similar to vines, and after a while, the dark blue "yang blue" on both sides, and at the same time built a bridge, they could clearly see their moving figures, like real ghosts, meandering and quickly building a "night bridge".

"Three years, three years! I waited three years, and finally I got it again. The man said with excitement and regret.

"Let's go! Walk across the bridge overnight, and your life has taken a turn. Gu tightened the wooden box and took the lead on the bridge, and in about five minutes, Gu came to the opposite side.

Gu turned around, only to find the man standing in the middle of the bridge, no longer walking, but looking sideways at the bottom of the black cliff.

"Hey, what are you doing!Hurry up! The bridge will disappear soon!Are you crazy!" Gu reprimanded loudly.

"I don't want to be a ruthless and unrighteous coward anymore, I don't want to be a coward with different hearts anymore! How can I forget her! I can't! Today, when I look at her from afar, her wooden look, her imminent end of her life stung me deeply, and this is all my fault! What can I use in exchange for her forgiveness except to make up for it with my life! Tonight, let me experience what it is like to fall from the cliff to the bottom of the cliff!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the bridge began to disappear overnight.

"Are you crazy! even if you lose ......" Before Gu's words fell, the man named Lan had already fallen to the bottom of the cliff......

Later, Gu heard rumors on the way, saying that a man fell to the bottom of a cliff hundreds of meters deep and did not die, but his personality was the same as before, as if he had lost consciousness.

"You've become a parasite of the spirit after all. Gu sighed.