I walked out of the room with messy steps, a few steps away from mere a lifetime. The night wind blows, and the fallen leaves mixed with the dead branches scatter into snow, which melts into the crowd without making a sound. The mossy slate was so cold that I sat on it, my fingertips still trembling. Some people run in front of themselves with suppressed joy, some people throw gravel and slag with bad intentions, and they are stuck in the mire of the world, and I only feel lonely.

"Heh————"

Looking up at the moon, there is only an abyss woven by dark clouds,

"It's all over."

Leaning against the rotten wooden wall, drowsiness churning like a tide, I don't understand everyone's gratuitous malice, and I can't guess what kind of murderous motive lurks behind every footprint, just sadness, hopeless and simple sadness.

Behind my ears came the sound of blades staggering, bones shattering in the push and pull of a handsaw, and I knew I couldn't continue listening, but I didn't have the strength to stand up again. The pilgrim villagers had long since gone, and no one cared how much despair there was in the heart of a waste sitting here.

"It's the second time."

I meditated, and the scene of the big man dying tragically under the claws of the monster flashed in my mind,

"How long will it take?"

Now, I'm just asking for an answer, an answer that no one else can answer.

"What, for how long?"

Someone who heard my self-pity and stood aside and asked with interest, and I looked sideways to see that it was a young man in his twenties. When the young man saw that I had a reaction, he suddenly leaned over mysteriously, lowered his voice and said,

"But if you mean leaving Vivi fern, then it's going to be soon."

"Leave...... Wei fern? ”

After seeing my puzzled expression, the young man straightened up with a smile, with a hint of inexplicable cunning on his well-defined face,

"Yes, leave the fern, and leave with the Holy Maiden."

Hearing this, my whole body was stunned, and the frustration in my heart also subsided like a whirlwind cloud! Because even I, who have only been here for a short time, understand how perverse this kind of remarks are in Wei Fern!

The young man naturally knew this, and he admired my panic, as if he were tasting a pot of old wine.

"So, Your Excellency, would you like to give it a try?"

I stared at the young man's palm, and a pair of dark eyes behind him did not reflect any light,

Or ...... Is there any other way for Your Excellency? ”

The young man's deep and magnetic voice seemed to have a magical power that people couldn't refuse, and he was right, there was nothing I could do but drill into it when I saw a way to live, and I might as well give it a go to him than to believe in the girl whose temperament had changed drastically!

Since I had decided on it, I no longer hesitated, raised my arm and grabbed the young man's wrist and climbed up!

"Wise."

The young man smiled meaningfully, then glanced left and right and said,

"This is not the place to talk, please come with me, Your Excellency."

With that, he let go of my hand and walked towards the slit at the junction of several houses, and disappeared into a shadow in the blink of an eye. And I was left alone, the cold pouring down from the vast universe above me. One last long breath of the sour air, I rushed into the darkness ahead without looking back.

The village is not very large, so even if the young man took me around many detours, it would not be long in coming. Finally, when a spired wooden house with lavender hanging on his side appeared, he stopped, pulled out a rusty key and inserted it into the keyhole, only to hear a click, and the door immediately opened in the dust. At this point, there was no longer a reason to back down, so I simply took the lead and walked in.

"How-"

Before they even stood still, the special feature of the youth's dwelling was revealed—the light that filled almost every corner. I covered my eyes, and the contrast between the brightness inside and outside the room made me dizzy for a moment.

At this time, the young man who was locking the door spoke,

"Your Excellency, don't be surprised, contemptible people have not liked the dark since childhood, so there are a few more candles in the house. If you are unwell, you can wait for some of the contemptible people to be destroyed. ”

"No, no."

I responded casually, looking at a room of large and small light sources, and my mood seemed to brighten up a little, but some things couldn't be illuminated no matter how hard I tried.

"Tell me, why the hell are you doing this?"

Hearing my sudden questioning, the young man smiled lightly, looked at me with a slight sorrow, and said,

"Your patience is too bad, and since you and I have made an alliance, I will confess to you. What's more, the journey is tiring and tiring, why not sit down for a while first, and wait for the contemptible people to prepare some coarse tea before discussing? ”

Perhaps not intending to listen to my answer any longer, or perhaps determined that I would obey my fate, the young man took the key and paced into the compartment on the right side of the drawing-room, and in a few moments the sound of flints clashing could be heard in the inner room.

"Well, okay."

Sighing, I didn't want to reason with him boringly, so I could only pull out a chair and sit at the half-foot-long and wide table. The lights swirled like stars on the sinuous lines of the wooden table, and there was not a single trace of dust as far as the light could see, and I stretched out my index finger with some curiosity to rub the bottom of the table, which was also as neat as new.

"That's an exaggeration......

I was still a little worried about the sanitary conditions of this backward village, but at this time, I was ashamed of myself, and hurriedly took away my arms on the table, but no matter how fast I moved, I still left two obvious marks.

"It doesn't matter."

As I was scrambling to think about how to remedy it, the young man's voice rang out, and he walked out with one hand and a half holding a tray, moved the utensils on it one by one in front of me, and then pointed four fingers together to one of the crystal clear tea cups, in which a shriveled purple fruit was lying.

"Your Excellency, please."

With that, the young man walked to the other corner of the table with the tray and sat down satisfactorily opposite me after the edge of the table had been placed in order.

Although I was indeed a little thirsty, I still didn't dare to move when I looked at the unknown fruit at the bottom of the cup. And the young man seemed to see my concern, picked up the teapot with a smile, poured the hot water into his cup, and said as if unintentionally while looking at the purple fruit tumbling under the impact of the water,

"Your Excellency's relationship with the Holy Maiden is so special, so from now on, no one dares to put your life at risk."

The meaning of the young man's words was quite obvious, and after thinking for a moment, I could not find a reason why he had specifically chosen to harm me now, so I took the teapot he handed me and filled the cup in front of me.

"It's rude, I haven't introduced you to each other yet, but it's not too late."

As he spoke, the young man slowly got up and made a gesture to me,

"The contemptible surname is Wei Mingming, just a village man."

"Uh......"

I also stood up like him, but suddenly I didn't know what to say, and after thinking about it for a long time, I had to make up a pronoun for myself on the spot.

"Just call me Luo."

Wei Ming didn't care much about whether the name was normal or not, nodded and sat back down.

"Brother Luo, do you know anything about Wei Fern's past?"

Shaking the delicate utensils in my hand, I found that Wei Ming's gaze was not focused on any point,

"Sorry for asking you such a stupid question. But Brother Luo should have seen it more or less, the people of Wei Fern didn't live here from the beginning. ”

"Oh?"

After his prompting, I suddenly reacted that there were indeed many unreasonable things that I had seen in Wei Fern during this time. For example, the teacup I am holding in my hand is not mixed with a trace of impurities, which is not a trace of impurities, and it is absolutely impossible to make Wei fern, which is still in the agricultural stage. In addition, the technology and culture used by the Wei Fern people also seem to be pieced together from different regions and eras, which is really extraordinary.

Wei Ming took a sip of tea, it seemed to be a little old, and the water in the cup had also taken on a faint rose red, like infection, like erosion,

"Hundreds of years ago, or even earlier, a caravan passed through here, trying to make their way through the jungle to the town on the other side."

Wei Ming paused, shook his head and continued to preach,

"But it's not easy to talk about in a place like this. Only a few of these people survived, surviving their lives while finding a way out. I don't know how many years, they have been with wild beasts and mud, but no matter how hard they tried, they were never able to save themselves, and finally died here one after another. However, before there was time to mourn and supplies were almost exhausted, I feared that their fate was a foregone conclusion. ”

At this time, Wei Ming put down the teacup in his hand and stared at me word by word,

"It was on that day that these desperate people embarked on a path from which there would never be a return - eating corpses."

The corner of my eye twitched, and the tea brought to my mouth suddenly became disgusting,

"First the dead, then the old, and finally the dependents of the caravan and the travelers who joined in the way. But even so, it's not enough! Until in the end, only one of the original mighty team was eaten! ”

Wei Ming slammed the table and stood up, and the warm tea was also shocked and flew away, leaving a bitter fragrance.

But just when he was at his most desperate, he found that the wreckage, which had been discarded everywhere, began to grow again. The severed limbs are reconnected, and the flesh and blood are covered with dry bones, which is strange and strange, but it is also the only life. ”

Surrounded by countless lights, Wei Ming couldn't find a shadow on his body, he stared at me like a lifeless sculpture,

"On the same day, the man gave up everything and changed his name to the fern, never to leave the forest again."

After a moment of silence, I clutched my numb head and turned out something in the paste.

"No, no, something isn't right...... Do you mean that the village doctor, the man called 'Fern Lao', was a survivor from a hundred years ago? How long did he live? ”

Wei Ming smiled shallowly when she heard this, not knowing what she was thinking,

"Not only that, but he, and most of the people in the fern, can be regarded as the descendants of the former fern, or the fern itself!"

"But, but! He's just a person, how can he ————?"

Wei Ming suddenly raised his hand to interrupt me, his voice was eerie and terrifying,

"Do you know what the 'food' buried in the soil will eventually become?"

Moment! At the moment when Wei Ming finished speaking! I immediately jumped up like I had blown up! An extremely strange thought roared through the cranial cavity!

"...... right"

Wei Ming leaned over with a mouthful of white teeth, and his distorted face almost lost its shape!

"Every time a fern dies, another fern will cut off its limbs, and this fresh flesh will slowly grow into a new life in the fern cellar!"

I can't breathe! The chest is about to explode! And Wei Ming suddenly laughed! The taunts and madness in my voice crept into my cochlea like hell!

"If I'm not mistaken, the village doctor probably didn't tell you how he lost his legs, did he?"

I couldn't support it anymore, so I sat down on the wooden chair, and it became extremely difficult to even move! Feeling the icy blood running through my body, I asked with the last of my strength,

"What about you, Wei Ming? Who are you? ”

And Wei Ming looked down at me, the howling of the cold wind rushed into the door, and the voice mixed with him was so breathtaking,

"Just like you, Luo!"