The water in Lake Saikang is drying up.

For a few years, the warbler often brought the heavenly wheel to the lake, and at dusk in the warm season, flocks of flamingos came from the west, and thousands of birds hovered like a pink hurricane, which was spectacular.

However, that was before the arrival of the feathers.

After a brief period of splendor, the male feathered people who had been coveting and waiting for an opportunity in the sky for a long time swooped down like gray death from the sky, crashing and wailing through the sky. Predation? Fight? Or is it a massacre? Some of the birds were torn apart by hooks and forks, and their carcasses were discarded by the lake, like a bloody graffiti sketched by the overlord of the sky on the surface of the lake with a paintbrush.

After several years of climate change, Lake Saikang has almost dried up, and the annual hunting carnival is a thing of the past. However, Etianlun still remembers that the mother and son came for these broken wreckage. Panda would occasionally give them some prey, but it wasn't enough to sustain them through the harsh cold season. Some evenings, like now, the Celestial Wheel would walk around Lake Saikon to see if they could find some fish or birds left over from other people.

Yi Tianlun touched his shoulder, and was happy to find that the scratch left by Huang Sun a few days ago was almost healed. Yi Tianlun doesn't blame him, Huang Sun is a friend, but Yu Ren often inexplicably ignites the desire to fight, and Yi Tianlun's weakness makes him unable to withstand even the most ordinary fights. Over time, he became an existence that the entire clan did not want to approach.

The wheel of the sky counted the steps and walked along the shore of Lake Saikang, which can almost be called a swamp, and his feet were covered with mud, which was said to make the hair on his legs thicker, and he might soon be able to fly. Fei Ying always said that he would definitely do it, but it was only a matter of time, but she never let him jump off the Aquila Cliff to try.

Almost every feather man learns to fly in this way, fear is like the wind, and what kills you is also the strength that lifts you. The Heavenly Wheel knew that the mantra passed down from ancient times by the Feather People would not help in the face of true fear. The earthy wind hissed among the great pale green grass, and at first he wondered if he could fly on it, but immediately rejected his idea.

How is that possible? Everybody said I couldn't fly. Panda said that the feathered people were accompanied by fear from the moment they flew, and that the Heavenly Wheel also wanted to fly, but it was to escape from fear. The dark sea of trees and the desolate wilderness frightened him.

When he was afraid, Fei Ying asked him to hold Sisha, the warmth of the snake's body could give him a moment of security, but he still had to face his indifferent compatriots when he woke up.

The deformity of the wings is the original sin.

"Hey, little wings." A stone flew and smashed on the ground next to him. This is the voice of Kissen, who recently moved to the swamp. Kisen is the most favored child of the patriarch Wan He, and he usually takes pleasure in beating the Heavenly Wheel. Thanks to him, almost all the young feathers have participated in this kind of activity.

"Missed." The Heavenly Wheel grunted and didn't lift his head.

The sound of wings flapping made the heavenly wheel tremble. A huge figure swooped down from the top of the dense canopy, and the Celestial Wheel struggled to be dragged off the ground.

"If I were you, I wouldn't say such things to someone better than me." The rude feathered man named Kissen said, "Look at your underdeveloped appearance, little mongrel. I don't know who Fei Ying gave birth to you, she must regret losing her hair now. ”

Celestial Wheel broke away from Kison's arm and punched him, in exchange for an even more ferocious blow. So he had to shrink down to the ground and protect himself with his wings.

"Bastards—you—look—yourself—do the good deeds!" Every time Kison hit him with a branch, a word popped out of his mouth, "I'll kill—you!" ”

It wasn't until he had had a good time and leaned on the ground motionless that Kison walked away.

I don't know how long later, the serpent Sisha found him.

The sludge glued the wings of the Heavenly Wheel together, and the few feathers that walked hung down, and it must have been embarrassing enough to think that way. Yi Tianlun touched a hard thing in the mud, and found that it was a whole long ridge fish bone, this kind of fish except for a spine through the head and tail, the remaining bones are dense and hard, not suitable for rough eating feather people, but Yi Tianlun is very talented in this area, he can always find a way to eat the delicious meat on the inside of the spine of the long spine, so sometimes he is very hungry and will find other people to eat the leftover fish to satisfy his hunger. Yi Tianlun sniffed the remains of the fish, sat under a tree and carefully removed the meat with slender fish bones, gave most of it to Xisha, and ate it with herbal tea in a bamboo tube.

Recently, Fei Ying didn't want to pay attention to him. Etianlun knew it was because he was dragging her down. But Sisha still likes to be by his side, and has done so for years. Etichael pondered that the snake must have liked to eat this kind of fish, because he had almost nothing else, and he had nothing to protect himself from starvation.

The shadows of the trees swayed, the rings of Saturn sprinkled granular starlight on the serpent's body, and the heavenly wheel held the meat and ate while looking at the shining silver dust far away in the sky, if he could fly, he wanted to go up there and see. Once, Keeson made a bet with someone that he was not a real feathered man, and beat him so hard that he fainted on the spot with a tree trunk as thick as the arm of the Heavenly Wheel, and when he woke up, he saw the great serpent Sisha and the rings of Saturn. Yi Tianlun felt that there had never been such a beautiful starlight in the world - he was going to die.

Thinking of this, Yi Tianlun touched the place where he was beaten on his head, and felt that he didn't seem to have been so seriously injured recently, and he was quite happy. He looked at the rest of the meat in his hand and broke it into two pieces.

"You want that?" He saw the big snake spitting out letters towards the larger pieces of meat, and quickly hid his hands behind his back, not caring about rubbing the mud, "You have eaten enough, don't be greedy." ”

The big snake snorted and bit the smaller piece of meat, leaning on the heavenly wheel to touch it should be the neck of the place, the scales are smooth and warm, although the molting season has passed, but Xisha still has no movement at all, this year the life in the woods is not good, everyone can't eat enough. Etireen is glad that he is small and doesn't have to eat much. Otherwise, Fei Ying would not be happy.

His mother got enough food to satisfy herself, just acorns and mushrooms. They hadn't seen bird meat in days, which made Fei Ying feel bad—at least according to the Heavenly Wheel. He still remembers that when he was a child, his mother would often coax him happily, holding him in his arms and throwing him high and catching him, which was the last "flying" experience that Yitianlun had. Yi Tianlun remembered very early, and once when he was half asleep, he heard his mother whisper to him, "You are going to have a song." ”

Singing is something sacred, and sometimes an uplifting singing voice can be heard from the depths of the cold light at the top of the mountain. The Prophet said that it was music that symbolized the divine realm, and that all the feathered people would look to the shore, and the impassable sea would be the kingdom of God.

I'm going to have a song. Yi Tianlun rubbed his eyes with his little self.

The door of the treehouse was covered with moss, and the Celestial Wheel pricked up his ears to listen softly, and after making sure that it was quiet, he entered the house with Sisha.

A not-so-pleasant smell permeated the room, and Fei Ying did not show any signs of seeing the Heavenly Wheel. She was now chewing on sour grass leaves with her eyes blank, a few hiccups between her purple lips and reddened teeth, and the whole treehouse began to shake as soon as her fat body moved. Yi Tianlun found a relatively dry corner and sat down, looking at her mother with some trepidation—years of suffering had made her give up her life and that of her son.

That was the torment that the Heavenly Wheel brought her. He knew that she had given up for him everything he should have enjoyed to the fullest at his age, only to receive more hostility, verbal abuse, and bullying.

"I ate a whole fish." Yi Tianlun plucked up the courage and said, trying his best to make his voice sound less unconfident, he did eat the fish!

"Hmm." Fei Ying replied, "Is it delicious?" ”

"It's delicious!" The Celestial Wheel relaxed, and even stood up. It seems that Mom is in a good mood today. "It's very fragrant and sweet...... he wanted to say a few more words to describe the fish, but he really didn't know what it was like to eat a whole fish.

"Anything else? I'd like to try it too. Fei Ying grinned, revealing a little reddened teeth.

"I'm sorry, it's so delicious, so ......" The voice of the Heavenly Wheel became quieter and quieter. He suddenly felt guilty, almost as if he had actually swallowed a whole fish on his own. yes, why didn't he bring some back to his mother!

Fei Ying stopped talking, and the heavenly wheel retreated into the corner and curled up, covering her belly with her small wings as much as possible to prepare for sleep. The mud made him uncomfortable, but he didn't dare to go out and find water to clean it. That's it for one night. He thought.

Then he heard sobs. One moment, then another.

He waited anxiously for the third sob, but he didn't come after a long time. He relaxed a little.

I'm going to have a song. He told himself, over and over again.