The scorching sun is blazing, and the sun is like fire.

The willow trees at the edge of the pond droop listlessly, and the occasional wind may ripple a pool of stagnant water in the pond, but the hot air does nothing to dissipate the heat.

However, no one cares about the heat.

Because around the pond, including under the willow trees, there is a skeleton!

The skeletons with miserable white bones, the corpses were mostly incomplete, either the skulls were damaged, or the sternum was broken, and it was clear that they did not die in the same way as most people, but were killed by external forces.

Layers of bones piled up, turning the area around the pond into a dead silence.

However, among these bones, there are exceptions.

A skeleton, a skull to be exact, was moving slowly from a few dozen meters outside the willow tree, towards the shade under the willow tree.

The skull seemed to know that shaded trees were the best way to escape the heat.

The skull was also grayish-white, and it didn't look anything special, at least with the bones scattered around the pond, it was inconspicuous, and the only striking external sign was that the skull was intact, with a smooth surface and no cracks.

It can be said that the owner of this skull definitely did not die because of a head injury.

But who can say that he didn't die from other parts of his body being seriously injured?

After all, now all he had left was this complete skull, and the rest of his body was gone.

From the outside, the skull is unusual, but if someone sees the scene of the skull moving towards the shade of the tree, they will be shocked.

Yes, this skull that doesn't look like it should have any breath of life, this skull that can't move, at the moment, it looks like it has legs, although it moves extremely slowly, but it is still moving after all!

If you do decide to take a closer look, you will find that the skull is actually different from the other bones scattered around the pond.

The difference lies in its eyes.

Or rather, in the hollow eye sockets, there were two very small blue flames.

The flame burned in the eye socket of the skull, but the size of the flame was very small, only about half the size of a mung bean, and the flickering blue flame was very weak, as if a gust of wind would blow it out.

That's what sets it apart from other bones.

It is also the biggest reason why it can move slowly and exhibit certain life characteristics.

It is not an exaggeration to call these two small blue flames the flames of life.

However, it didn't seem to be worried that the fire of life in its eye sockets would be extinguished by the wind, in fact, there were occasional bursts of hot wind around the pond, but the two small blue flames were not extinguished.

The skull seems to have lost its own consciousness, and is purely instinctive, approaching the shade of the tree.

It's so hot, even as a skull, it's too hot to stand.

"Click, click. ”

The skull slowly moved from the ground covered in bone meal and small bone fragments with a low sound.

However, there were no other creatures around the pond at the moment, so the skull was able to safely approach the shade of the trees.

In its hollow eyes, two small blue flames danced, as if it was happy to be able to reach the shade of the trees and enjoy a slightly cooler summer.

"Click, click. ”

The skull continued to move.

Around the pond, there was a deathly silence.

Even if there were living creatures in the pond, they would not show up in the middle of the day, when the heat was unbearable.

It wasn't until the sun set that the skull finally reached a distance of less than twenty meters, and when it reached the shade of the trees, it was possible to see how slow it had been moving in an afternoon, even slower than a snail.

However, it finally reached the shade of the tree.

Even though the sun was away from the area at the moment, making it no longer as hot as it was at noon, and there was even a cool breeze blowing in, there was not much of a feeling of scorching heat, so that the shade of the trees and the places where it was not were all the same, and it seemed that the skull's painstaking efforts for an afternoon had been in vain.

But what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?

Having shade to shield it from the scorching sun is better than staying in the sun, right?

Yes, at this moment, the skull, the two small blue flames in the hollow eye sockets, jumped excitedly, and it was really happy.

Although, it doesn't know what happiness is, and it doesn't even know how to think about it.

It has no consciousness, and all its actions at the moment are based on an instinct.

However, this instinct is different from the escape instinct and predatory instinct that other animals are born with, after all, it is more inclined to think rationally about a problem before taking action.

Therefore, this instinct is not ordinary, just like some kind of obsession of this skull before his death, which still exists in the skull, and under the premise that the skull is unconscious, it naturally makes the skull act like this.

It looks incredible, especially with the bones all over the pond.

However, shortly after the sun had set, from behind the pond, somewhere in the distant forest, there was a loud roar, like that of some great beast!

This roar broke the deathly silence, and it also showed that there were other lives in this place, not just the skull!

There seemed to be a hint of confusion in the hollow eye socket of the skull, and it turned its head slowly, and the empty eye socket roared at the beast, and the blue flame in the eye socket jumped a few times, and there was a bit of eagerness to try, as if it was like a person who was extremely hungry and wanted to eat to fill his stomach.

As if thinking about it, the skull finally made a decision.

It discarded the pond of life.

Although it managed to find a shade that could shelter it from the scorching sun, it preferred a living place to a cooler place, where it could get what it needed.

So, before night fell, the skull began its arduous trek again.

It left the pond and moved towards the nearby forest.

Probably because of the lack of exposure to the scorching sun, it moved a lot faster.

At about three o'clock in the morning, it finally reached the edge of the forest.

There was no bright moon tonight, and everything looked dark, but such a scene also made the two small blue flames in the eye sockets of the skull look very eye-catching.

"Babble. ”

The skull moved slowly forward.

Everywhere we went, there were still a lot of bones scattered in the grass, but as around the pond, they were lifeless bones, dead no more.

The skull seemed to feel tired, so it stopped and rested for half an hour before moving on.

Its goal is to have a place where life is active.

At four o'clock in the morning, the skull suddenly found that among the corpses in front of it, there was a little bit of blue light appearing!

The blue flames in the sockets of the skull jumped up, looking very excited.

The skull moved straight there.

There were hundreds of skeletons there, but only three of them had a blue glow.

The three skeletons, without exception, all retained their skulls, and the blue bright spots emanated from the eye sockets of their skulls, which was very similar to the skulls that had traveled a long way.

Probably, the difference between the living life in this world and the dead life is the blue flame in the eye socket.

It's just that the blue bright spots in the eye sockets of these three skeletons are a little weaker than those of the skulls, but when they accumulate, they are also a considerable amount of life fire.