The girl slowly stopped. The boy's gaze shifted to the girl. The mouth is silent, but the eyes seem to be saying something.

"I'm a little tired." The girl folded her arms and looked out to sea.

"What an accident." The boy crouched down, picked up a damp dead branch, and gestured among the gravel.

"What's wrong?" The girl asked. She looked out, her pupils out of focus, as if thoughtful. She didn't really crave answers.

"I just saw you walking there, to get to the dark atmosphere." The teenager said.

"Then why did you come and come with me?" The girl looked down at the boy this time. The pupils of the eyes have a focal length, and if you look closely, you can see beautiful amber eyes.

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm pretty idle anyway." The boy smiled.

The girl also slowly squatted down, holding her knees and silently watching the boy holding the dead branch and gesturing on the gravel.

A wave of blue tide approached the two from not far away, like a little baby who had discovered something new, and he couldn't help but look at the two of them squatting there with their heads together.

The boy had no shoes, and the girl had a pair of white sandals under her feet. The tide flooded the feet of the two. Looking at the painting that was blurred by the tide, the boy gave up the usual way and threw away the dead branches, and sat down on the ground. Deeply, took a breath.

"Don't worry too much." The boy said softly.

"Hmm." The girl sullenly agreed. The boy turned his head and saw her playing with her toes with her fingers, her small mouth slightly pouting.

There wasn't much sadness on his face. The young man laughed loudly, but the girl turned her head slightly and glared at him slightly complainingly.

"Look, haven't my sister and aunt all come back well?" The teenager said.

"My grandma didn't come back."

The girl also sat down against the boy, took off her sandals and put them aside, her head resting on the slightly tanned neck socket of the boy, and her two legs full of youthful vitality were straightened. The toes squirmed, picking out a part of the wet sand and gently rubbing it onto the instep.

"yes...... They didn't come back. ”

Suddenly, the boy looked into the distance and tugged at the corners of his mouth, and his smile stiffened as if it had been frozen. The next moment, the surrounding space began to shatter and distort, like the devil roaring, which was like a whirlpool in the distorted space, constantly stimulating the girl's facial features.

But she didn't look frightened, just silently watched the gray vortex gradually swallow the boy, and when he disappeared completely, she showed a faint smile, and the girl's eyes were full of indescribable sadness.

When the spatial vortex disappeared, she was the only one left under the dark sky with muffled thunder and churning in the blue-black clouds. Yes, that's right, because that's reality, and what happened just now was just her fantasy.

The girl gradually remembered that her name was Xiran, and she had not returned to this island for a long time, and she had not returned to the only village on the island, Lingxi Village, which was her hometown.

She didn't know why she looked the way she was, but she knew it wasn't what she really was.

Maybe someone deliberately wanted her to be like this, or maybe even this was just another fantasy. But it doesn't matter anymore, Xiran doesn't want to struggle anymore, she knows she can't win.

- She will never be able to defeat the one who took everything from her, the one who calls himself a nightmare and does exactly what he says, like a demon from hell.

All Xi Ran can do now is to return to the island like this, and then silently wait for some new "punishment" to come, and in this endless lonely waiting, all she can do for her son in that distant city, by her own son, is humble prayers.

Xi Ran hopes that at least Nightmare will not hurt her son, who is now the last relative in the world. And if it is to protect the safety of his son, Xiran is willing to do anything, going up the knife mountain and going down to the sea of fire, and he will not hesitate to break his bones.

I stared into the distance for a while, listening to the whistling sound of the sea breeze like crying, and tears fell silently. She thought she was such a hopeless woman—as a human being, as a mother, she was so bad.

However, even if she is completely powerless now, she has nothing to protect, and she has had things that she wants to protect desperately.

That was a long, long time ago, when Xiran was still a girl who had never left Lingxi Village, and she was still an innocent and innocent girl who was full of longing for the outside world.

It is said that time can help people forget all their pain, but people may be destined to live in pain. When time passes, all people end up forgetting are happy memories.

Happiness at that time gradually lost its beautiful color over time, and people could not feel happy forever when they remembered that memory.

Grief, on the other hand, is broadly and complexly defined, and it lingers most in the human mind.

Even, in fact, it may just be that we don't find it, and the happiness that contains a trace of sadness is also the most unforgettable.

For Xiran, her memories, whether they are nostalgic or frightened, now that she thinks about it, they all include bits and pieces of moments that make her lose her mind for a long time.

The days when I lived with my mother and Xihui are still vivid for Xiran.

Before Nightmare took control of Lingxi Village, it was a sea of flowers, and although it was remote, this small village was located at the foot of the mountain, and it was also a place full of happiness.

But Xiran has not been satisfied with staying here since she was a child, she has been lively and active since she was a child, and her personality is very cheerful. Of course, she also admits that Lingxi Village is a very loving hometown, but her dream is not to stay in Lingxi Village for the rest of her life, and finally find a good young man to marry him, and from then on she will marry and raise children - although her mother very much wants her to do so.

Xiran's dream is that one day he can travel around the world and see the world with his own eyes.

She loves to read, and from books, she learns about the vastness of the world, and knows the world, although she is in a remote and small village, but her spirit is no longer here.

The more books she reads, the more she longs to leave here and wander around the outside world, to see this beautiful world with her own eyes!

Of course, Mom knows Xiran's thoughts, Mom is a very handsome, but very gentle woman. Whether she is herself, Sister Xihui, and her mother have nothing to talk about.

Even though all three of them were strangers and didn't have the same blood in their blood, it wasn't a problem for mom at all.

Maybe the mother really doesn't care whether the two daughters are her own or not, when they were still very young, the mother told them the truth, but also told them that the mother will still love them with everything.

And this mother, who is full of responsibility, is indeed doing this, the mother was originally a soldier, and after retiring from the army, she settled in her hometown of Lingxi Village, and she never got married or had children until she retired.

But for the sake of Xihui and Xiran, my mother did not hesitate to make the decision to be single for the rest of her life.

"You two are God-given treasures, and I don't need any other children."

Xiran still remembers the way her mother happily rubbed the cheeks of her two daughters and said this.

In fact, under the meticulous care of their mothers, Xiran and Xihui are both physically and mentally healthy, and they have not been affected by growing up in a single-parent family at all.

The villagers of Lingxi Village are also good people, and they have a good relationship with their mothers, and they will never say something ugly in front of Xiran and Xihui.

In other words, Xiran and Xihui, two children who did not belong to Lingxi Village, grew up almost in the love of the whole village.

Mom told Xiran that she thought her dream was very good, but now she was too young to do so, and when she grew up and became a girl who could protect herself, her mother would allow her to fulfill her dream.

Xiran was naturally very dissatisfied with this, and she thought that she could protect herself now. But Xiran couldn't resist his mother, so he had to compromise with his mother first.

Although life in Lingxi Village is very monotonous and occasionally a little boring, Xiran does not hate this kind of life. And when she thought it would last until she was eighteen years old, a group of strangers came to the village.

Without greeting anyone or giving any explanations, they raised their knives and guns and began to purge out all those who tried to resist them.

Xiran and Xihui huddled tightly in their mother's arms, and the hideous and weird smile on the long-haired man's face in the lead, Xiran still can't forget.

When these simple and kind villagers were subdued by this extreme fear, the man who called himself Nightmare cursed them.

"You will be my slaves from this day forward, and from now on, you will not be allowed to leave the village without my permission, and if you dare to leave or resist, you will be baptized in hell."

Xi Ran clearly remembers that in the early days, after the Nightmare conveyed those rules that did not conform to the clean-up rules at all, everyone's emotions were very excited and angry, and they did not have the slightest intention of compromise, and decided to fight the Nightmare to the end.

Everyone made weapons, called the police, and did everything they could to prepare to desperately resist the nightmare of the next time. Of course, there are also some people who choose to leave Lingxi Village to seek refuge with their relatives in other cities because they are afraid.

Xiran was also comforted by his mother, feeling that although that guy was terrible, he couldn't do it.

Her mother told her that justice will prevail and that bad people will never end well. For Xiran, her mother's words are the truth, because she never deceives herself.

And when the nightmare came again, Xi Ran prayed from the bottom of his heart that the nightmare would be subdued, and he would be driven out of Lingxi Village and never come back.

But it backfired, and what even happened when the nightmare was a month later was beyond the cruelty of the imagination.

The Nightmare brought back a lot of corpses, some in uniform, some familiar ones, in short, there were probably dozens of corpses, and many of them were already rotting.