Chapter 30: The Village in Memory
In the dense woods that did not see the light of day, Li Ember walked forward cautiously with a long sword in his hand, the unsheathed sword was now covered with bright red blood, and Li Ye's black clothes were also soaked as if they were soaked. He was a little embarrassed, his hair was already messy, and his clothes had been cut out a lot of cuts at some point. Even the scabbard of his favorite longsword has been left behind in the rainforest. However, all this did not affect his determined gaze, he was looking for an exit, an exit that had to be found.
He'd just dealt with a few crocodiles, pulling himself out of the deadly swamp with vines, and the cannibal smelled blood and wanted to devour him, but was intimidated by his cold eyes.
He is like a bloody man, trekking through a dense forest, looking for a holy place in his heart, but where is that holy place? No one was able to answer him.
Now all that was left in his eyes was numbness, and his limbs were repeating monotonous movements. However, at the moment when danger is touched, he can still avoid it all sensitively, he is the prey of others in this darkness, and this prey is not willing to be captured by the hunter.
Slowly, night is coming, and so is the most dangerous time in the rainforest. Without a world of light, he didn't know what danger awaited him.
Ember still kept walking, believing that as long as he kept walking in one direction, he would find his way out. He walked for a whole day, the scenery in front of him alternated, numbing his eyes, and his red eyes looked ahead, with a momentum of not admitting defeat. It was quiet and there was no sound to disturb his steps.
And so it went on for a long time, and many wild beasts died under the sharp blades along the way.
The night was quiet and peaceful. It doesn't seem to be much of a danger. Not far away, there seemed to be a home, revealing a little faint and dim light.
Is this home deep in the rainforest? Is there a home deep in such a rainforest?
Ember was puzzled. Let's take a look and maybe find out something.
The village was getting closer, and it was still quiet. It was late at night, and every house had turned off its lights and gone to bed, except for a lamp lit at the top of the village, like a lighthouse in the dark night, guiding the lost.
Li Yan's heart sank, and he thought of something.
This kind of lamp is called Gui Deng, which is specially designed for villagers who are rushing back to the village at night.
Once upon a time, the place where he lived also had this kind of lamp, guiding the lost home in the quiet of the night. However, that one person will never include him.
You little monster, we'll never play with you.
Yes, he's a monster. We stoned him, stoned him......
It's a disaster for a monster like him to live in this world!
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Those who are self-righteous have always been like this, not of a race, but of a different heart. Just because of a pair of unusual eyes and a strange birthmark, is it necessary to pronounce the death penalty on a person, how cruel is this for a child!
Such a small village almost isolated from the rest of the world, ignorant and superstitious. For the unknown, the villagers always want to explain it in terms of gods and ghosts, and end up making crazy actions one after another, hurting innocent people.
Ember, you will bring disaster to us. Do you want us to be reduced to ashes like you?
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The nightmare sound echoed in my head again. He rubbed his temples helplessly, and a pair of eyes that were a little puffy due to exhaustion blinked fiercely, how could he think of "those things" again after so many years.
Suddenly, he was a little annoyed. Coming to this primeval forest inexplicably, being trapped in it already made him very unhappy, coupled with this inexplicable village, evoking unbearable memories of returning to the lamp...... All this made him feel very annoyed, but also helpless.
He was still walking in the night. When he passed by the returning lamp, his body paused slightly. This place is really familiar, very similar to the world of his childhood in his memory, every grass and tree, every house and stone magically matches. Why is that? Could it be just a coincidence?
The outline of his memory became clear little by little with the scene in front of him, and if he hadn't been aware that he and Mingxue had entered the ancient tomb, he might have believed that he had returned to the place where he had been for seven years.
Following the route of memory, it was easy to find one of the families, yes, it was his home, the starting point of his life.
He slammed the door.
After a while, there was no sound inside. It is estimated that he slept relatively deeply.
He slammed it a few more times. There was a rustling sound inside the door.
"Who!" A thick man's voice sounded, with a hint of hesitation that he had just woken up.
"Who is it in the middle of the night? Boss, you go and see! A female voice rang out.
There was a creak, and the wooden door opened.
Li Yan was in a trance, and he didn't dare to look up at the person in front of him for a moment, he was afraid that the guess in his heart would come true.
Out came a sturdy man of nearly thirty, rubbing his misty sleepy eyes with one large rough hand, and the other hand resting on the doorknob.
"Who are you?" It was just a casual question, but it made Li Yan's heart suddenly lift. This voice is familiar and hard to forget.
He looked up, embarrassed not knowing what to say. Did he tell them that he was the monster son of his, who had been spurned since childhood? He couldn't hate them, and he couldn't face them calmly.
However, the man's reaction was much more intense than that of Li Ash, and seeing Li Ash's bewitching red eyes, the man grew his mouth in horror and instinctively took several steps back.
Haha, at this time, Li Shen laughed at himself in his heart. Even they were afraid of him, no wonder he was so young, and he had to give him to someone else.
"You...... You...... You...... Who the hell is it? ”
"What's wrong?" There were still women inside, and they came by when they smelled the movement.
When the gentle woman walked over slowly, Li Shen finally felt a trace of warmth.
She held her big belly and walked over step by step, attracting Li Ash's attention like a halo, and he smiled heartily for the first time in a long time.
"Boss, please come in and sit! Big night. ”
“…… Oh! It took a while for the man to react.
Li Ember didn't say a word, quietly. But his eyes looked back and forth in this room, and he didn't know how many times. This is the place where he has lived for seven years, and he never imagined that he would have the opportunity to see this place after leaving that time. Although, at the moment, there are a lot of strange things, for example, at this time, he was not born.
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He went back to that moment when he wasn't born yet?
Could this be another fantasy?
Maybe he should have thought of it a long time ago. How could he have come to a dense primeval forest for some reason! It was definitely a fantasy, but it was able to penetrate deep into his heart, allowing him to go back to a long, long time in the past, and see the moment when he was not born.
Ember didn't say a word, so that both of the couple thought he was a mute. The pregnant woman was very kind and kind to Li Ye, perhaps it was the unique connection between mother and child, and the man, since he saw Li Ye's red eyes that were different from ordinary people, looked very afraid.
Li Shen sneered, he had never been afraid of him before.
Ever since he was called a monster by others, the man who was like a rat crossing the street had always been himself. At first, he cowered cowardly into his own world, did not dare to go out, did not talk to people, and remained silent. Later, he learned to resist and argue, but all this was fruitless, but he added a few more scars to himself.
But even if it is covered with bruises, it is not full of holes in the heart. At that early age, he longed to make a few friends sincerely, but he lived in darkness, enduring abuse and insults from others.
I don't remember how many times a group of people burst into their house and tried to put him to death as a consolation to their ridiculous thoughts.
If he is really a demon and a disaster, then it must be these people who cultivate this disaster.
Ember was silent until the next day, he didn't understand why all this was here, he knew that even if he asked, he couldn't ask anything.
Except that he didn't like the way the man looked at him, everything here was peaceful, the people in the village were afraid of him, his long sword stained with the blood of countless birds and beasts glowed with cold light, no one wanted to walk into such a cold demon-like man.
Li Shen didn't know what emotions to use to deal with everything here except sneering.
"This son, I don't know where you're going?" The woman asked calmly.
Seeing Li Yan's silence, he shook his head helplessly and apologetically. She forgot that this boy couldn't speak.
"I don't know." Surprisingly, Li Shen actually answered. Last night she and her husband had spoken many things to him, and the boy had not answered a word, but he had spoken, and though his voice was cold, he was able to speak.
The woman hurriedly ran back into the house, "The man in charge of the house turns out that the boy can speak." Boss, come out and take a look......" She ran in such a hurry that she didn't pay attention to the threshold under her feet, and as soon as she leaned over, she was about to fall to the ground, and the child she was pregnant with for seven or eight months in her belly was about to become a victim in the collision between man and the ground.
Before Ember could think, he rushed over like an arrow, helping the woman who was about to reach the end. "You...... You okay! The expression of excitement and worry just now flashed away, and Li Ember regained his uncontrollable look.
"I didn't ...... Nothing! The woman was so frightened that her face was still pale, she was a mother about to become a mother, and no one cherished the child in her womb more than she did.
The man who didn't run out of this scene caught his eyes, and he thanked Li Ember for a thousand thanks, but Li Ember ignored it, and after handing the woman over to the man, he turned around and walked out.
"This boy is really weird tempered!" The woman sighed at the man, and then went into the house to prepare lunch to thank Ember.
On this day, every family in the village knew that there was a strange young man from the family surnamed Li at the entrance of the village, who actually had a pair of blood-red pupils. They were curious, watching, trying to find out, but they were afraid of Ember.
Li Shen walked in the streets, passers-by all retreated, and he could only sneer.
Is this the world in his mind? How can I leave?
Walking into the familiar courtyard again, there was a sound of conversation inside the door, which seemed to be a little displeased.
Ember stopped at the door, and here another uninvited guest arrived. Master? Li Yan was surprised in his heart, it was enough for him to wonder if he had come to this courtyard where he lived when he was a child, but now his master has appeared again, could it be that his parents knew his master before he was born?
He held his breath and listened in the doorway.
There was an intermittent cry from inside the door.
"This child was born with a vision, and after he is born, I will ask you to give him to me to raise."
"Purple Void Dao Chief, I beg you, don't take my child away! I can't live without this child, please have mercy on my mother! The woman wept with tears in her eyes, and she was pitiful.
The man beside him was a little annoyed and tugged at the corner of the woman's clothes, and whispered: "Don't be so disrespectful in front of the Taoist, look at you, what are you like, it's better for the child to follow the Taoist than to suffer at home!" ”
The woman suddenly broke away from the man's hand and stared straight at him with red eyes, as if to accuse the man of desperation.
The man was a little embarrassed to look at, and said embarrassedly: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, don't be angry, will you wait for Mr. Child to come down?" Look at you, this child has been pregnant for almost three years and has not yet been born. Now it's all over the outside, saying it's a freak! ”
The woman did not speak, but looked at the man with red eyes. Either way, this is her first child, and she won't give up.
At this time, Li Shen strode in, his eyes were very cold, much more indifferent than before, and with his arrival, the atmosphere in the room suddenly dropped a lot. Seeing Li Ash, the Purple Void Daoist couldn't believe his eyes, looked at Li Ash, and then looked at the woman's belly, and so on I don't know how many times.
Ignoring them, Ember went straight into the inner room. I only heard this conversation coming from behind:
"Who is this?"
"Oh, he came here last night to stay overnight." The man replied a little flatteringly, and then whispered, "Dao Chief, look at it, is there anything different about this man?" ”
The purple void didn't answer. Heartily laughed a few times. But when I heard it, there was also a hint of doubt in the laughter.
Li Shen sneered in his heart: It seems that he is quite popular, no, someone has already booked it before he was born. He still remembers that he was handed over to Master by his family when he was seven years old and never came back. As for why his master took him in, it seems that the reason for this remains to be explored.
In this world, the only person who makes him feel a little warm is probably his mother! If it weren't for her mother, maybe he would have been sold by his father at will, after all, no one wants to have a child like him, born with a vision, like a demon.