Chapter Forty-Nine: The Hero's Promise
The story is not long, and it is even a bit clichΓ©. Like the opening of a lot of stories. Once upon a time......
About twenty years ago, at that time, the sinkhole was still being excavated, and the Lotus Sky City incident that made the martial arts depressed had not yet happened, and the people of Chu were still digging the meteorite with hope.
They believe that if they fulfill the requirements of the Empire, they will be taken out of the pit by the Empire.
Exactly what day of the year they forgot, a woman came. They don't know how the woman got to the sinkhole, and it seems that the imperial guards on the top of the pit didn't notice the woman either.
She was wearing a former court palace dress, her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, and she was pregnant. She didn't say a word after she came to the sinkhole, and naturally began to dig meteorites with more than 100,000 remnants of the Chu Kingdom.
Many young people will dissuade her at first from letting her rest more and stop the fetal gas.
But then they found out that this woman had good martial arts, and she ignored the dissuasion of these people. She ate with all of them, dug together, rested together, never said a word during this time, like an ascetic.
Not long after, the child in the womb was born. Among the hundreds of thousands of people, there is not a single midwife, but there are always many women who know how to deliver babies. The woman who delivered the baby is now old, but she still has the impression that the mother of the child, even if it is the pain of childbirth, does not say a word, and when the pain is unbearable, she also snorts.
She seemed to be atoning for her sins, and she was extremely cruel to herself.
After the child was born, everyone was very happy, because they found that the child's legs were different from other babies, and the calves were born with a red tread pattern, as if they were burning fireworks.
The people who don't know the reason regard this as a good omen, and an old man said that red is the national color of Chu, and this child will definitely be a hero in the future.
When the woman heard this, she was always expressionless, and she smiled when she saw her child.
Time passed year by year.
The people who excavated the meteorite found that they could no longer see the top of the crater when they looked up, and they did not even know that there were no longer guards on the top of the pit.
They didn't know that something big had happened in Lotus Sky City that shocked the martial arts and the empire.
What they know is that it has been a long, long time since no Imperial soldier has come down to investigate through the magical lark of the male loser.
The child was also six years old.
His mother became seriously ill within a year and has not been able to get better, and only a few tens of thousands of people have been left in these years.
It was the sixteenth year that they came to the bottom of the pit, and many people remember that year, many people died.
It was also that year that the idea of perhaps never going back again came to the minds of many people.
As for the child, the red of his legs slowly disappeared for some reason, and not many people still remember the heroic words that the old man said back then, or they didn't believe it in the first place.
It's a place that even heroes can't save. There will be no heroes to save them either.
The child is very naughty and always fights with other children. Every time she was injured and came home, she was scolded by the woman, and then she looked at the child with a naughty smile on her face and was not afraid of pain at all, she hugged him, and the tears did not flow out, but fell in the bottom of her heart.
She doesn't smile, because she is like a person who is confessing her sins, but in the face of her own child, she still teaches him to face life with a smile, and only by laughing will he wait for happiness.
The child listened to her very much, so even if his nose was blue and his face was swollen, he smiled. He gradually grew up, from a naughty child to a little rascal who caused everyone a headache.
He often misbehaves, sometimes stealing other people's things, and of course it doesn't take long for him to quietly return them. I didn't know it
But the older people don't hate him, as if he is one of the few angry people at the bottom of this dead pit.
He always has a hippie smile, even if he is beaten up by some young people because he gets into trouble, he can still greet the group of people with a smile the next day. The people in the sinkhole have their own grievances, but no one really holds a grudge against anyone, because they are all the same kind of people.
The Forgotten.
Time seems to go on like this, and there are fewer and fewer people alive, and they also understand that they may never be able to get out.
They waited at the bottom of the pit for the rescue of the Empire, far away.
The Empire's rescue did not wait, but waited for a terrible heavy rain, which had rained for more than forty days, which was different from the rain that had rained for about half a day and three or five days at most. The rain caused the huge sinkholes to start to water.
People who used to live at the bottom of the pit woke up in the torrential rain.
Countless people were shouting, the water level was rising in the torrential rain, and by the time most people woke up, the water was knee-high.
"Take shelter from the rain on the mountain road!"
Faced with the rising water level, people can only start running up the mountain road. Young people began to take shelter from the rain on the mountain roads that were built with the old and sick.
"My baby is gone, my child is gone!" A woman shouted that her five-year-old daughter was gone, but at the bottom of the pit at this moment, the sound of torrential rain was endless, and the sound of footsteps and cries was even louder, and no one paid attention to her voice.
Although the little boy was only eight years old, he was born different from other children, his legs were much stronger than the others, and he carried his seriously ill mother on his back to prepare to run the same way up the mountain path, which originally had two levels, each of which was built on a cliff and surrounded the entire sinkhole, so although it was narrow, it could still accommodate everyone from the heavy rain.
But the boy's mother saw a little girl crying in the water.
The woman broke free from the child's back, pointed to the little girl, and said:
"You go and save her, don't save me."
The little boy was stunned.
He is not stupid, his mother is seriously ill and has no power to save herself, and now many people are too busy to take care of themselves, and no one will save her except herself, but why, she wants to let herself save others.
There was a little uneasiness in his always angry eyes.
The woman's gaze became much softer, and she handed the little boy a letter written on a bamboo slip.
Then he said with some sadness: "You were born with great sins, you have to atone for your sins, and until you save these people, you will always be guilty!" It's you...... Owe them it! I'm dying, it's worth it for another child's life. β
The cold rain hit the little boy's face, and his hair was so long that he couldn't see his eyebrows.
The woman suddenly became stern, and she pushed and beat her child with all her might, telling him to save the other child.
The little boy slowly regressed, and he remembered her last words.
"Take them out of here, you owe them this!"
He found the girl and carried her on his back. The little girl cried very much.
There was still so much turmoil around, there were too many old, weak, sick and disabled, and naturally no one noticed that a woman had fallen into the water. In her honor, there were only two lines of turbid tears for a child.
The sound of the rain, the shouts, the crying, bombarded the little boy's ears, and he suddenly calmed down.
He asked, "What's your name?" It was loud, but only the little girl could hear it in the rain.
The little girl was a few years younger than him, timid, very cute, with rain and tears on her face.
"I ...... My name is Yimi......" Yimi's voice was crying.
"Don't cry! Don't cry! Can't cry! The little boy said very sternly.
"Listen well, you must laugh in the future, only by laughing, can you wait for happiness! You have to live, live well! In the future, I will cover you, and if you are bullied, tell me. β
"That big brother...... What's your name......" Yimi didn't cry, but she was still scared.
"My name is Feng Zhan, the wind of the wind, the spread of wings, I have no relatives, are you willing to be my relatives in the future?"
Feng Zhan asked with a smile, but his eyes were red.
Yimi didn't speak, just nodded. From the moment her mother gave up her life to let Feng Zhan save Yimi, Feng Zhan decided that he would do his best to protect Yimi in the future.
"I'll take you out, take you out, get out of this hellish place." The sound was not loud, and no one heard it in the panic and torrential rain.
But Imi could hear her hugging Wind Zhan's neck tighter.
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It rained heavily for a long time, and although the mountain road could accommodate everyone, no one would have thought that the rain would last so long that the rain would spread to the bottom layer of the mountain road.
Naturally, they didn't know that this rain twelve years ago started in Qinzhou City, and came from the long-lost Sword Pavilion rain punishment technique, with the water potential of the long river, this rain seemed to never stop.
The people began to realize that the Empire's rescue could not wait, and the bottom of the pit that had belonged to them had changed from a solid rock to a deep pool. They had to keep building mountain roads to go up, and in the same way, they needed a place to sleep and rest, so they began to dig stone caves in the mountain paths.
This has been an endless act for 12 years up to this day.
Feng Zhan later opened the bamboo slips and finally understood why his mother said she owed them. The so-called repayment of the father's debts to the son is this principle. It's a secret of the wind show, he only told Yimi.
He finally understood the cause of the pain in his calf.
When he was twelve, Feng Zhan went to a doctor to tie shackles around his legs and restrain his speed from the meridians.
Because he hadn't cultivated, there wasn't even a single leaf in the Qi Sea in his body, and that kind of speed was very dangerous for him.
He had only used this speed once as a child.
On that day, Feng Zhan said goodbye from house to house, saying that he was leaving here, and he would definitely think of a way to get everyone to leave here. Take them out of Sinkhole City.
The people of Tiankeng City thought that this child was talking nonsense, but they all stopped what they were doing, and looked at the wind on the top mountain road, and he looked at the sky as big as a sinkhole.
He exclaimed, "I'm leaving!" β
These four words floated in the empty sinkhole, resounding in everyone's ears. They are only puzzled.
Feng Zhan didn't explain, he just continued to say loudly: "I promised my mother, I will definitely let you leave here, a man counts!" β
In the darkness, there is a faint light.
It was the crimson glow of Feng Zhan's calf when he was born. It wasn't too dazzling, but in the dark sinkhole city, everyone saw the light from the wind exhibition.
People gradually began to remember what an old man had said when the child was born.
Red is the national color of Chu. This child will be a hero in the future.
Yimi also watched, she was the only one who knew the speed of the wind, and that day, in the rainstorm, an eight-year-old boy carried a five-year-old girl on his back and left on the cliff at an incredible speed.
In this world, there are heroes. Imi thought so, and she stared blankly at Fengzhan.
When miracles happen, it's always so casual. Feng Zhan's face showed great pain, but his figure became blurred.
Later, people saw Feng Zhan speeding up the cliff, his red legs driving a red trajectory that went straight up, like a red sprout that was about to break through a boulder.
"It's ...... O royalty! β
Many of the people in Tiankeng City were former soldiers of the Chu State, and they remembered that among the eight generals of Eastern Chu, there was a general who was famous for his speed, and that general had outstanding military achievements and was the royal family of the Chu State. It's just that after the battle of Anhai, there is no trace, and he may have died a long time ago.
Wind Zhan was like a light, a light from hell, and he scurried at full speed across the near-straight cliffs.
People will never forget the fact that a twelve-year-old child showed speed that even surpassed the world's best players, which is a talent and a miracle.
The days that followed, but not much changed, until two years later, Feng Zhan returned, and when he came back, he had iron strapped to his feet, and his speed was even more exaggerated.
After the people said that the food thrown by the empire was getting less and less, Feng Zhan promised them that he would help the people of Tiankeng City and solve the food problem.
Every two months, like a trick, he would bring a lot of food, dry food. Six years have passed since then, and now it is.
Any miracle, once it has passed, people forget the shock of the time. Therefore, although the wind exhibition has brought miracles and possibilities, six years have passed, and everything has not changed.
Only Yimi, from the first time Fengzhan left, Yimi knew that no matter how long it took to dig the stone wall, no matter how late the hope came, it would always come. Yimi also knew that Feng Zhan must have paid a lot of money to get so much food, and he was trying to save everyone here.
When she was five years old, Yimi thought about a sentence every day.
The words that Feng Zhan said during the rainstorm.
"I'll take you out, take you out, get out of this hellish place."
She believed in this sentence until she died.
(The story of the running hall is almost explained.,It's expected to end on the weekend.,About the big thief wind show.,There's not much to describe this running hall at present.,But that chapter is the same.,I'll try my best to write a little more blood.,I hope you like this character.,I like it anyway~)