Chapter 11: The Ballad of Death
The sky and the ground were white, one after another, as if they were originally one, and only themselves were the only impurities in this pure white realm.
Pete didn't know how long he had been floating here, all his knowledge, emotions, and life experiences were all compressed into a sugar pill here, falling into the warm ocean, and being quickly dissolved.
He saw the middle school classroom plastered with hand-copied newspapers, and the girl sitting at the table in front of him quietly bowed her head and taking notes. Pete loved the way she brushed her hair behind her ears, and his affection stayed in the girl's ears for many years.
"Hey, why are your eyes blue?" The girl's voice echoed like an echo in an empty alley.
"What's wrong with Blue?" Pete asked rhetorically
"I love it." The girl said with a smile.
Pete was about to say that, but it seemed as if someone was far away, repeating something to him. He turned back to the person who spoke, and it turned out to be the teacher of the library, and the old woman was standing in the lecture hall, telling the history of the preachers. Pete remembers that when she was first trained, she always liked to talk about the parts of the preacher over and over again, and she had to leave homework for each class.
Pete felt pain in his thigh, and he looked down to see a severed branch piercing his thigh. His captain held his face and shouted his name. His teammates held him up and untied his parachute hanging from a tree. It was their first time training for a skydive, and he hadn't seen the faces of his teammates for a long time.
However, it all feels like something that happened to someone else. At this time, Pete only felt very warm, white and bright everywhere, his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and he wanted to sleepΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·
I could faintly hear a dog barking outside the window, and I don't know when, Pete returned to his home in China, lying on his warm big bed.
He was wrapped in a quilt with Kakashi's head printed on it, obviously just trying to take a nap, but the barking of dogs outside the window never stopped. Why did the barking of the dog suddenly go far away, as if it were across the Pacific Ocean; Suddenly it was so close, so close that it felt like it was screaming close to your ear.
He was curious, his house was on the 10th floor.
Pete lifts the covers and jumps out of bed, he wants to kill the dog. Outside the large wooden window in front of the desk, a bald Shiba Inu forefoot hung on the windowsill outside, barking at Pete through the glass window. The sunlight outside the window was so strong that the buildings outside were exposed to the eye.
"Woohoo! Peter! Woohoo! "The bark of the Shiba Inu is still far and near.
Petra opened the window, grabbed a book on the table, threw it at the Shiba Inu, and hit it in the face, and then he closed the window angrily: "Be a dog, be a dog, don't talk about people." β
Shiba Inu shook the book off his face, and a human face appeared on the dog's head. Pete took a closer look at the face, the top of his head was bare, and his expression was hideous, or should I say urgent.
Ah, this man he knows, that is, power.
"What's the matter, Lao Shi, you're not a man anymore?"
Pete asked in a trance, the echo in the room was surprisingly loud.
"Wake up! Wake up! It's too late! β
Shi Quan's voice was clearer, but Pete still stared at him blankly, not intending to answer.
Suddenly, with the strength of his forefoot, he jumped up and smashed the glass window, and the large and small glass shards slowly flew towards Pete as if they were elevated. Shi Quan jumped on Pete's face and slapped Pete's face with his limp forefeet.
Pete's vision was filled with Shiba Inu's fluffy belly, and the pair of paws dangled. Shi Quan stopped after a thrashing, one front paw rested on Pete's shoulder, and the other paw gathered back to reveal his nails, striking Pete in the face with a hard stroke.
The pain stimulated Pete's central nervous system, and his instinct urged Luo Qing, and with a raised hand, he knocked the power hanging on his shoulder away, and even shook the entire wooden window out of the wall.
Everything around him fell apart as Pete raised his hand, and the dazzling warm sunlight dimmed like white paper splashed with ink, and a hint of coolness invaded Pete's limbs.
"Disfigured, disfigured!"
The echoes in the room faded, and Pete realized that he had a deep, deep dream.
The deep night sky shrouded the lush rainforest, and the cold touch on the slippery ground reminded him through Pete's hips that he had woken up, and Shi Quan sat down in front of him, his back against the thick roots.
Shi Quan's upper body oozed white smoke as light as flowing incense, and blood flowed from his mouth.
"What's wrong with you, Lao Shi!?" Pete finally remembered that they had just seen a beautiful maiden.
Shi Quan coughed up a mouthful of blood: "The Divine Tree seed must have been stolen by that girl, she is the 'Conjuring' knight, and there is something wrong with the girl found in the country!" β
Pete rushed to Shi Quan to support him, only to realize that his arms had fallen off a layer of skin: "Where are you injured, why do you vomit so much blood?" β
"Me? I vomited blood and was just beaten by your Luo Qing, but I did die. Shi Quan replied that the glowing white smoke from his upper body was actually his soul.
"What?" Pete looked around, but there was no tent in the camp, no team members, and the vegetation in the depths was bent, "Where are we?" β
Shi Quan's face turned pale, and he grabbed Pete's hand: "I don't know if you can remember what just happened, what I say now, you have to remember every word, that girl is just a spirit body, our attack has no effect on her, she must be the 'Conjuring' knight, the girl named An Zeru in the country has a problem, and also, I am about to use a time loop on myself, you have to take my body back to China, maybe they have a way to save me, if you want to go back to the camp, you must observe whether the girl has left, and then act." β
"I remember, but what happened just now, you insist on making it clear, don't leave the plot to the back and rely on me to guess it, Lao Shi!" Pete shook his way.
"We're the furthest away from that girl's attack range, so you've only been slightly stirred by the soul and will recover soon," Shi Quan activated the time loop, "but I really don't have time." β
Shi Quan's trembling right hand slid from top to bottom from the top of his head to his chest, like a wheel turning time. Then, his movements slowed down indefinitely until he was completely still, and even the soul that was coming out of it was frozen. All of his physical activities will be repeated over and over again in a highly subdivided period of time, even death.
"I really want to change with you, comrade."
Pete paused for a moment, let go of the exercise, and groped his way in the opposite direction of the vegetation collapse.
Some of the trees in this rainforest are 3,000 years old, towering into the clouds to block out the moonlight, and even the only source of light in the dark night is diminished.
Pete had no choice but to stretch out his hands, looking for a reference while waiting for his eyes to adjust. The intertwined roots of the trees on the ground tripped Pete from time to time, and he stumbled like a baby just learning to walk in the unfriendly rainforest.
China has had a tradition of catching Zhou since ancient times, and Pete's father followed the tradition and arranged for him to catch Zhou. He was just like now, crawling a few steps in one direction and staggering to change direction. Eventually, he crawled over to a folded coat and grabbed it. Dad couldn't cry or laugh, thinking that Pete would become a cross talk actor who brought joy to others in the future, and once sent him to the cross talk team to study.
Pete's current personality can be regarded as echoing the results of the week to a large extent, and when encountering difficult things, you must also maintain an optimistic attitude, and pessimism will not help anyway. Even if you meet the devil, instead of being slaughtered like a pig in fear, it is better to put on a coat, talk a joke, and happily tie up the bomb and die with it.
There was a bright light in the cracks in the trees in front of him, and Pete's eyes had adapted to the darkness, and if someone was striking a match now, it would be glaring for a while.
It turned out that they had just come very close to the camp, but they were blocked by the overhead vegetation, and they made a slight detour. He slowed his pace, trying not to make any noise, and slowly advanced towards the camp.
"Firing squad!"
Pete was shocked by the sight in front of him, and directly rushed into the camp, and his combat suit, which had been cut out of several cuts, was caught by a tree branch and ripped off a large piece of fabric when he jumped in.
In the camp, the campfire burned silently, the members of the cleaning and firing squads lay on the ground, and the girl disappeared without a trace, and no one responded to Pete's cries.
Among the towering trees, countless smoke-like objects floated, and they emitted a white glow, like the thousands of shining branches of the sacred tree in the movie "Avatar".
Pete was like a panicked hen, running to check on the people lying on the ground, no matter how much they shook and called for them, they did not respond. Their pupils dilated, their muscles relaxed, and their skin began to discolor as the blood stopped flowing and clotted together.
"Hey! Wake up! Feed! β
Pete finally hugged a young member of the firing team, who was oozing blood from shrapnel.
This team member is called Zhou Daiwu and is Zhou Daiwen's younger brother. Zhou Daiwu, who just turned 19 last week, is the youngest member of Pitt's team.
Zhou Daiwu didn't read much, dropped out of junior high school, and spent his days stealing chickens and dogs with some gangsters. Later, under the recommendation of his brother, Zhou Daiwu joined the Treehouse Group, and Zhou Daiwen also specially entrusted his younger brother to Pete, hoping that Pete could temper him well.
Zhou Daiwu is not bad in nature, on the contrary, he is a very ambitious boy, and his biggest dream was to be a pilot in civil aviation. It's just that their parents died early, and their brother Zhou Daiwen was sent abroad all the year round, and the brothers who lacked communication had a disagreement, so they deviated to attract the attention of their brother.
The boy's character is revealed in blood and tears. During this time in the firing squad, Zhou Daiwu grew up very quickly, executed everything in place, and reacted quickly. In the team, Pete is most optimistic about him, and he is the most concerned about him.
Pete's heart has been bleeding tonight, and he doesn't show it, because if he can't hold it anymore, this little guy will definitely go crazy.
But Zhou Daiwu has always remained silent, from knowing that his brother had an accident, to later shooting Zhou Daiwen with his own hands, he just couldn't bear it. Pete has always wanted to think that he must persevere, at least until he returns home, and he will do his best to enlighten him when he returns. On the battlefield, any emotion must give way for a while, and all energy must be devoted to dealing with the danger that will arise at any time.
Pete's breath trembled, and he hugged Zhou Daiwu tightly, his chin pressed against Zhou Daiwu's head. He followed his line of sight and saw a crater in front of the headquarters, whose tent had been blown up and collapsed.
Intense pain erupted in his skull, as if someone was stirring his brain, and his ears rang out, and Pete pressed his palm against his temple.
He remembered, it was that damn girl!
At that time, the noble girl like a saint, singing the ballad of life, paced in the garden of life, and became the god of death who harvested souls!
With her as the center of the circle, pulses of white light erupted outward in a circle, and the people affected had no ability to fight back, and the team members who were close to her fell straight down.
Pete and Shi Quan were the least affected because of their distance, but they were also almost incapacitated. Pete fired several shots at the girl, but the bullet went straight through her, sending out several long blue flames before recovering as usual.
Just when Pete was about to lose consciousness, it was Zhou Daiwu who fired a grenade at him, and this strange suicidal tactic was still thought up by Zhou Daiwu in the previous operation.
When Zhou Daiwen turned around to fill the grenade launcher again, Pete immediately understood Zhou Daiwu's intentions, and scolded Zhou Daiwu, "Rabbit cub, Lao Tzu can save you, don't make claims!" But he still had to open Luo Qing in front of himself and Shi Quan. The grenade exploded, and Pete's Luo Qing was pushed back by the kinetic energy generated by the explosion, and he and Shi Quan flew away from the scene.
"How many times! Everything has me, as long as you believe in me, as long as you ensure that you live, I will definitely have a solution, you are all very powerful, very powerful! All of them are heroic, they are all in a hurry to die, leaving me to cry for you, and they all feel that the living one is more comfortable! β
Pete wasn't born to be happy, he just kept all his emotions up.
The human heart is like a small room, stacked with various emotions that occasionally need to be released. Pete, on the other hand, chose to paint his heart in bright colors, and any negative emotions were locked in the atrium, and day after day, the room was already full. Once the psychological defense line is broken, those emotions that have accumulated for years are unstoppably released like an avalanche.
He hugged the cold corpse of Zhou Daiwu, crying heartbreakingly, he felt that his breath and breath were cold, and the unprecedented sadness seemed to grow in his bone marrow.
The white moon also hid in the clouds, it didn't understand the joys and sorrows of people, but felt that it should not provoke a person who gave up the world from his heart.