Chapter 74: The Bird
Amid the cries of countless babies, the spirit of the nocturnal wanderer seemed to begin to become deranged.
She picked up a cage next to her, looked panicked, held the cage firmly in her arms, and looked at Zhang Bufan and Long Thirteen with frightened eyes: "Don't come here! Don't snatch my child! I won't go with you!"
Zhang Bufan and Long Thirteen glanced at each other, is the nocturnal wandering girl really crazy?
Long Thirteen clamped the shoulders of the nocturnal wanderer, pasted the ice seed spirit jade on the nocturnal wanderer's forehead, and shouted, "Wake up!"
The nocturnal wanderer's eyes gradually returned to their clear color, but these narrow and beautiful eyes were full of sadness.
The nocturnal wanderer slumped to the ground and gently stroked the baby in her cage, bitter tears sliding down her pale face.
She told a story to Zhang Bufan and Long Thirteen in a desolate and sad tone.
"More than a hundred years ago, there was a flock of happy birds deep in the mountains, and this group of small birds had never come into contact with mortals. ”
"One day, six or seven birds flew out of the mountains and stopped beside the ridge and lake where humans lived. The birds took off their feather coats and became slim maidens, and when the girls saw that the water was clear and clean, they bathed in the lake. ”
"There was a human man who saw a group of young girls playing in the lake, and he didn't know that the girls were birds, so he quietly took a feather coat. ”
After bathing, the girls put on their feather coats and left the place, and returned to the mountains. But the youngest of them could not find the feather coat that she had been holding in the way of the shore anyway, and without it, she would not have been able to turn back into a bird, and she would not have been able to return to her homeland..."
Later, the girl, who was unable to return home, married the human man who had stolen her feather cloak. But the man refused to tell the girl where her feather coat was. Later, they gave birth to three daughters. ”
The bird, who had become a mother, sent her three daughters to ask their father where he had hidden his feathers. It turned out that the feather coat was hidden under the bed by his father. So the mother put on her feather coat and flew away as a bird again. ”
"The bird who returned to his hometown missed his three daughters very much, after all, they were his own flesh and blood, and he couldn't let go of it. So the bird flew back and wanted to take her three daughters home with her. ”
But when she returned, everything was gone, the man with whom she had been married had died, and her three clever and lovely daughters were missing. ”
So she kept looking for her daughter, and she was looking for her child. There are so many children in the world, and each one is like her own child......"
When the nocturnal wanderer said this, she couldn't stop crying.
The bird in the story is herself, and finding her own flesh and blood has long become her obsession, so she takes other people's children away as children.
Zhang Bufan shook his head gently, the nocturnal wanderer girl is also a poor person, but there is also something hateful.
In order to find her own children, she stole so many children, hurting those innocent families, implicating the innocent tribe of Minsha, and making people panic and uneasy all day long.
As for the nocturnal wanderer's own daughter, I am afraid that something happened to her, so she has been looking for her for so long and has not been heard from.
Zhang Bufan listened to the story of the nocturnal wandering girl, and suddenly thought of a bird he had heard about in his childhood-Guhou Bird.
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the Guhou bird is the embodiment of the resentment of a dead mother, who will walk on the street at night with her child in her arms, and the cry of the baby in her arms will turn into the cry of the Guhou bird.
Thinking of this, Zhang Bufan suddenly said three words to the nocturnal wandering girl: "Gu Won Bird?"
After hearing the three words Zhang Bufan said, the nocturnal wandering girl's pupils suddenly contracted, and she exclaimed: "How do you know my identity?!" Who are you?!"
Zhang Bufan smiled and said nothing, and did not answer the question of the nocturnal wandering girl, or Gu Huoniao.
Long Thirteen is different, the crying baby in this secret room has long been upset, and seeing that the truth has been revealed at this time, he grabbed the nocturnal wandering girl and wanted to pull her to meet the people of the Minsha tribe.
The Nocturnal Wanderer was lifted up like a small sapling in Long Thirteen's hands, and suddenly became languishing.
Black blood spilled from the nocturnal wanderer's orifices, her life passing so fast that she was on the verge of death in just a few breaths.
"What's going on?!" Long Thirteen let go of his hand, his expression a little flustered.
Although he was not ashamed of what the Night Wanderer had done, the Night Wanderer did not really hurt the lives of those babies, and because of this, Long Thirteen thought that the Night Wanderer was not really a heinous person, and even had some pity.
But now the nocturnal wanderer is suddenly dying.
The nocturnal wanderer looked at Zhang Bufan, took out a colorful feather, and stuffed it into his hand.
Zhang Bufan held the colorful feather, this feather seemed to be light and fluttering, but it was as heavy as Xuantie, and as soon as he started it, he almost didn't hold it and fell to the ground.
"Who are you?" Zhang Bufan asked as he looked at Gu Xuniao in confusion.
The Nocturnal Wanderer stared into his eyes and pleaded, "This is the most precious feather on me, and if you take it, you will be able to find my daughters...... Ahem......"
The nocturnal wanderer said, her throat covered with blood, and she coughed violently.
Zhang Bufan was about to continue asking: "But how old is your daughter, what does she look like, and what are her characteristics?"
The light in the nocturnal wanderer's eyes had dimmed, and her pale hand hung to the ground.
Then, the nocturnal wanderer turned into a huddled bird and died completely.
Noisy footsteps and commotion were heard outside the secret room, and Ah Hua rushed with the people of the Minsha tribe.
Zhang Bufan received the colorful feather and the corpse of the Gu Yu bird into the storage space together.
Just after the collection, the patriarch of Changji led a group of people from the Minsha tribe to rush in, and saw the babies in the cages on the ground, and the parents who lost their children hurriedly took the babies out of the cages, and the secret room was full of excitement and joy.
"What about the nocturnal wanderer?" someone asked.
Zhang Bufan pointed to the black blood stain on the ground and said, "It's dead." ”
"Why don't you see the body?"
"When a demonic thing dies, it will turn into light smoke and disappear with the wind, and the corpse will not survive in the world. ”
Dozens of parents who found their children knelt down in their arms to express their gratitude to Zhang Bufan, and when Zhang Bufan was about to stop them, he found that the blood curse in his soul had faded a little.
A look of surprise appeared in Zhang Bufan's heart, can doing good deeds weaken the power of the curse?