Chapter 32: Sayonara
"Where?"
"Butterflies, butterflies." Rey tugged at his hair and said bitterly, "There's one thing we've all overlooked, and that's that we've encountered butterflies too many times. We always thought that it was normal to have butterflies on the slopes of Qingshui Mountain, in this Peach Blossom Valley, but we were wrong. ”
"Wrong?"
"That's right! Because we're all meeting the same butterfly! She is colorful, has rainbow-like wings, and she always appears when someone dies. I always thought it was just a sad picture, but I didn't know that this was the secret of your eternal life, that you were feasting on the souls of people who had just died! ”
"Interesting, what evidence do you have that I changed the butterfly?"
"Absolutely!"
Rey's loud voice echoed in the morning breeze.
"It's not just me and Liu Min who have become monsters on the night of the full moon, there has also been a monster." Rey looked at Liu Min, who was lying quietly on the ground, and said sadly, "My dear Liu Min told me that there is also a monster in the pool. She said this, the night sky was clear, a colorful butterfly streaked across the water, and then the moon rose, after which she saw a monster in the turquoise waters of the pond. ”
Rey looked at the white curtains that danced gently in the morning breeze and continued, "But the next day, Liu Min sat on the edge of the pond and couldn't find the monster. This means that the monster, like us, was conjured by touching something and under the effect of moonlight, so it quickly disappeared again. I guess the monster must have been just a fish, maybe the fish was depressed and lonely, and just wanted to see the dangerous world outside, and just as it was struggling to jump out of the water, its body touched the colorful butterfly, and then the moon rose, and the bright moonlight turned the fish into a monster. ”
"So that butterfly was changed by me?"
"Yes, this butterfly did not appear at the same time as the so-called four daughters, the so-called old gentleman. And there is also a conclusive evidence. ”
"What evidence?"
"Let's recall an incident that happened last night on this hillside. Liu Min, who was in a coma at the time, suddenly woke up and wanted to drink water. The old gentleman went back to the house under the pretense of fetching water, and there was only one butterfly left on the hillside except us circling around the wooden carving. The two despicable guys, Akmon and Han Fatzi, were whispering around Zhou Gang, and suddenly Zhou Gang shouted angrily and shouted a roll to retreat the two, and at the same time shot out a flying knife, which grazed the butterfly's wings and nailed it to the wood carving, and the powerful force also brought down the wood carving. The colorful butterfly was visibly injured, and she flew diagonally to the back of the house and disappeared. After a long time, the old gentleman was late with the water, when you stroked your waist with one hand, saying that it was a sprain. Obviously, it's not a sprain but a knife wound, because you're the butterfly! ”
……
For a long time, no sound came from the low house.
The wood carving still fell to the ground, unattended.
Rey silently picked up the wood carving.
"Well, I changed the butterfly." The old voice came slowly, and in the face of irrefutable evidence, he could only admit it.
"No, you didn't change the butterfly." Rey played with the wood carving in his hand.
"What? Didn't you say all this just to prove that I changed the butterfly? ”
"Nope! You are simply a butterfly, those so-called old gentlemen, a few beauties are what you have become, and your body is a butterfly! ”
“…… Why? ”
"Because Liu Min and I fell off a cliff, and then we came to a cave with a huge camphor tree. Just as I was about to climb out of the cave with Liu Min on my back, I saw a man on a thick branch at the top of the camphor tree, a person who could not be recognized, and who was soon in his glory. Rey recalls the eerie scene, the eyes full of regret and the hand that wanted to grasp something.
"Who's that man?"
"I guess that person is the real owner of Qingshui Mountain, and that person is the real old gentleman! And you're just a butterfly, and you're the one who turns into the old gentleman and controls it all behind the scenes. ”
"What evidence?"
"A piece of clothing. I don't know what happened to the old gentleman, but he must have been full of regret before he died. Although his body was quickly weathered, the garment on his body fell to the branches, and it was a blue-gray cloth robe. Do you understand? It struck me when I saw you on the hillside, for you were wearing a blue-gray robe that was identical to that one. Because you become what he is. ”
"Good, good. Interesting, interesting. "The voice is no longer old, and now that it has been discovered, there is nothing to hide.
"So the so-called beauty, wealth, and dragons are all fake. These are just a means for me to gather the brave together, just so that everyone can kill each other, so that I can reap the benefits of the fishermen and feast on the souls of the dead, right? Then why do I want to do such a troublesome thing, I just kill people? ”
"You can't." Rey said lightly.
"I can't kill?"
"That's right! You're just a colorful demon butterfly, and you can't do anything and nothing but the art of change. ”
"What? Why do you say that? The voices in the building trembled visibly.
"Because we met a man in the valley, a man who was supposed to live in a cave in the Great Snow Mountain, who was supposed to be a survivor of the last marriage. He said that he had killed the dragon and had gained eternal life. He may be the only survivor among the people who came last time, and the dragon he killed is nothing more than a companion to other monsters on a full moon night, in that cave, on such a bright moon night, what a terrible thing will happen in the cave, it is simply a non-ending Shura field! In the end he won, and everyone died. Maybe out of guilt, maybe out of fear, although he didn't die, his mind was not clear. He had spent the whole year wandering the valley, which became dangerous at night. When we see him, he is already weak, and he actually eats a little bit of something and dies. But even then you still didn't think about killing him, because as I said, you can't do anything but change! ”
"You...... You...... That's why you dare to stand in front of me......"
"Not exactly."
"What else?"
"The game isn't over yet, and that's because there's one last thing I haven't done."
"What's the matter?"
"Kill the dragon!" Rey whispered as he played with the wood carving in his hand.
"Evil dragons? Hahaha, is there really an evil dragon? Didn't you say that those monsters were conjured in the moonlight after touching me? Is there really an evil dragon in the dragon cave in Peach Blossom Valley? ”
"Yes!"
Rey shouted.
The sound echoed over the hillside for a long time.
"When I entered the cave in the valley, I had a strange feeling that seemed to conflict with some idea in my mind, and I never understood what was going on. It wasn't until dawn, when I sat in the valley and heard the cheerful chirping of various birds, that I realized something. ”
"What's the matter?"
"That is, the cave is too silent and too clean!"
"So what?"
"We have always taken it for granted that there is Peach Blossom Valley under the rope and that the cave on the mountain wall is the Dragon Cave, but when it comes to peach trees, there is also one here." Rey pointed to the peach tree in front of the rope with a throwing knife in it and continued, "By chance, I got a message that no one else knows, it's a ballad, the lyrics are like this, where is the dragon, where is the dragon?" The dragon was in the cave of the Peach Blossom Valley. There's safflowers, there's green grass, and singing orioles. It's a message that can't be wrong, but I'm just so stupid, so stupid! I never noticed that on that quiet night, in that smooth cave because of the moon, there were no red flowers, no green grass, no yellow orioles, and it was not a dragon's cave at all! ”
……
There was no sound for a while.
"So there's a dragon, and it's always hidden from our view." Rey said slowly.
"And where the hell is the dragon?"
"The surrounding rolling hills make it look like a valley, and there is also a peach tree here. So this Qingshui hillside is the real Peach Blossom Valley! ”
"But there are no caves here......" the voice began to tremble.
"Yes, this low house is the real Dragon's Cave!" Rey pointed to the windowsill of the house and said, "There are two pots of plants on this narrow windowsill, one with red flowers and one with green grass, so this is the real Dragon's Cave." ”
“…… But where is the oriole? The voice trembled even more
"The oriole is in my hands!" Rey shook the wood carving in his hand, "I remember that this wooden bird was chirping at the time, this is the oriole bird!" ”
"So, the dragon ......"
"That's right, you're the dragon." Rey suddenly tore open the white curtains.
The low house was glittering with gold, and on the ground were large yellow chests full of gold, silver and jewelry, and a colorful butterfly fluttering above several boxes.
"Like Peach Blossom Valley, we also got another thing wrong, which is that we think that the evil dragon must be the image of a giant dragon. But in fact, you are the evil dragon, you have been hiding behind the scenes, attracting people with beautiful wealth and eternal life, choosing a night with a bright moon, and taking everyone to the valley to kill each other, so that you can eat the soul full of desire and get eternal life, which is the secret of the so-called eternal life. ”
"You...... What do you want to do......"
Beautiful butterflies flapping their colorful wings to escape.
"Whoosh."
A glaring dagger flew over and nailed the butterfly to a stake in the house.
The two rainbow-like wings flicked a few times at the end, and finally stopped.
Rey is right, the demon butterfly who is behind the scenes can't do anything but change, and human desire is the food for the demon butterfly's eternal life.
"Player Rey slays the dragon and uncovers all the secrets, and the game progresses 3/3. Congratulations on clearing the game! The game will end in three minutes. ”
This time the sound of the system is no longer cold, but full of enthusiasm.
Hmph, all the secrets? Not necessarily, for example, where Liu Gang is, maybe no one will ever know.
Rey came to Liu Min's side and hugged Liu Min tightly in his arms.
"Liu Min, it's all over."
Rey's tears slipped silently.
"Liu Min, I will stay with you until the last second."
Rey's tears rained down.
……
In Rey's mind, there will always be a corner of the hillside where the clear water blooms, where the lake is always clear, where the air is full of tranquility, where the snow-white moon shines on the earth, hiding her deepest secrets.
As the surrounding area gets darker, the colorful hillside begins to blur, and the game is finally over.
Liu Min gradually disappeared into Rey's arms.
"Liu Min, Sayonara."
Rey's tears dried.