112. Dream back
Blasting is undoubtedly a wrong decision.
Except for the fact that the white jade door had darkened a little at the explosion point, there was not a single crack, and I was amazed at the hardness of this ore. couldn't think of a better way for a while, Cheng Xiao had no choice but to compromise, sit down and rest for the time being, and wait until he was full of strength, and then find another plan.
As soon as the nerves relaxed slightly, exhaustion came one after another, leaning against the mountain wall and trying to close his eyes for a while, but he didn't think that this closed eyes fell into a deep darkness, and it was difficult to open them again. I never knew what dreams were all about, and this drowsiness was dreaming back to my childhood.
More than a month ago, I meditated in my heart that I would never know why I knew it was a dead end, but the reason why I still went out to save Aman was because I saw my own shadow in Aman's body.
If Aman grew up as a wolf child, then I am a child of the forest.
The children of the forest, who may sound like a good name, will be asked: Is it in the forest? Yes, it is the home in the forest, but it is not the house tiles, but the primitive life with the sky as the quilt and the earth as the paving. I don't know if I was raised by a tiger or a lion, because since I can remember, I have grown up with them, and because of my existence, the real tiger and lion have become a family.
Where does the talent for understanding animal language come from, it is because of living with them all year round, that there is a way to communicate. In other words, in the early days, I couldn't speak, I could only learn the sounds of animals, but then I was supposed to be simple and pleasant.
It's just that the years are like water, and growth is the shore. The left bank is the drifting innocence, the right bank is the growing maturity, running with joy and hope, and stumbling with pain and struggle. The two shores of life, one will let you fall asleep, and the other will wake you up.
When the shore that woke me up, my sky turned dark and showed me what despair was.
Backed by two of the most authoritative relatives in the forest, the tiger and the lion, I saw the killing. And this kind of killing comes more from humans, and the tiger and lion are the king of beasts, but they can never compare to the cunning of humans.
Seeing them slaughtered, I couldn't express whether I was angry or sad, and I didn't end up better than them. I was taken out of the forest, locked in a cage, and became a tool for them to make money.
It may be that the gimmick of "wolf baby" is more attractive, so I am named wolf baby when I am for people to watch, if it is just like this, it can be regarded as a stealing life, but people's greed and cruelty are directly proportional. As soon as they sensed my attacking abilities, they asked me to start fighting wild beasts, and if I hadn't mastered the art of communicating with animals, I would have died countless times under the beast's hooves.
I'm getting more and more afraid of humanity, not only of the people who hold me, but also of the crowd of onlookers. Their faces were only curious and looking at monsters, and they did not feel that a girl under the age of ten was walking on the brink of death in the same room as a beast. Even if you can communicate with animals in an unknown way, you can't avoid injury, because the animals that are put into the cage, like me, are involuntarily starved for many days, and the instinct of hunting drives them to "perform" to the crowd of onlookers.
And I, in order to survive, can only exhaust all means to save my life. At the time, I was only 10 years old.
It was at such a time that Brother Yu came to me like a god. He bought me from those people, and the first thing he said to me was, "In the future, you will be called Xiao Jiu." Since then, I have the name "Little Nine".
From the initial wariness and fear of him, to the gradual approach to him, it took a long time. If the first people who gave me my sensitivity to human language came from those people, it was Brother Yu who really taught me to speak. It's not a formal teaching, he just said to me: you are human, if you want to learn to speak human words, start by imitating.
So, he became my enlightenment teacher, and whatever he said, I secretly wrote it down, and then imitated it in private. By the time he offered to take me home, I was able to communicate with each other in a simple way. Back in the embrace of the forest, I had an indescribable sense of ease, but when I saw the tiger and lion with only white bones left, indescribable sadness came one after another, and tears flowed silently.
Brother Yu asked: What are you crying about?
I pointed to the white bones on the ground and said that they were my relatives, but he shook his head and said: They are not your relatives, then they may be your relatives. He pointed to my nest with the tiger lion, where I could remember lying a white skeleton, I didn't know what kind of species it was, but when I came back after contact with humans, I found it to be a humanoid skeleton.
Brother Yu calmly told me that the skeleton could be one of your parents, or it could be a trafficker who abducted and sold you, in short, it was here, apparently eaten by a tiger or a lion, and for the cause, it is most likely the person closest to you. Xiao Jiu, you have to remember that if you don't want to be looked down upon, first of all, you have to think of yourself as a human being, if you still think of yourself as an animal, then stay here, you don't have to follow me anymore, because you will never be able to adapt to human society.
I remember looking up and asking him: What is the nature of man?
Greed, cruelty, and indifference, I saw the faces of the crowd, and they were even more terrible than the beasts of the forest.
After my question, Brother Yu seemed to be stunned, squinting at me, and after a long time, he said: Human nature is inherently good, but external temptations have changed the original intention of human nature. Therefore, when you walk into the crowd, you need to wrap up layers of outer clothing, which is not only tangible what you are wearing now, but also intangible, including the precautions between people, don't easily believe in people's hearts.
At that age, with very little education, I actually didn't understand the meaning of Brother Yu's words, and I only got one message from them: no one else could believe him except him.
When I nodded firmly to leave the forest with him, he seemed to be a little melancholy and said: Xiao Jiu, your decision at this time may represent a lifetime, or will the life in the forest be more suitable for you, are you sure you want to go with me?
It was strange that he repeated it, but I still nodded firmly again. So he pointed to the bones in the nest and asked me to wrap them in a cloth, saying that it was useful. I did as I was told, and put away the bones of the tiger and lion as well.
Since then, I have become Brother Yu's tail, and I will go wherever he goes. It didn't take long for him to tell me that the humanoid bones brought out of the forest had nothing to do with me, and that the person was not my relative, so he was mostly traffickers. I can't talk about disappointment, because I don't have much concept of my relatives, and whether it is or not has nothing to do with my life.
Brother Yu said that although my ability to communicate with animals is not a talent, there are few people in this world who can use it like me, and it will be a secret weapon that no one can match. He taught me not only to communicate, but also to learn to use the vocal range to drive animals, to hire the best vocal masters, not to learn music, but to master the essence of sound. For audio that can't be blown out or produced by mouth, tools are used.
In order to cultivate my ability, Brother Yu took me through countless forests, and occasionally saw someone coming to him, just one look, I would silently walk away, and wait for the person to leave and then follow him. Sometimes I think that I am very much like his shadow, always following behind, when I thought I could be his shadow for a lifetime, but one day he stood on a high cliff somewhere and said to me: Xiao Jiu, it's time for you to fly solo.
Brother Yu showed me the way and gave me a mobile phone and a dozen dollars. Since then, I have returned to the world of one person, this year I was fifteen years old, and I have been with Brother Yu for five years. After leaving, I realized that the world was cold and warm, and in the first year of wandering, I took three calls from Brother Yu, and every time he only asked one sentence: Xiao Jiu, can you still hold on?
My answer is: Yes! The next year, Brother Yu only made one phone call, and only asked the same question, and when I received his call, I really wanted to ask him to take me with me, because I had just fought with the gangsters on the street, and a dagger was still in the lower abdomen and bleeding, but I gritted my teeth and insisted that I could. This time, Brother Yu praised lightly on the other end of the phone: Good girl.
Suddenly, I had a gut feeling that he was watching me at the moment, and when I struggled to look around, I finally stared at a familiar figure somewhere on the street, and tears welled up in my eyes. It was a kind of heartfelt feeling that after a hundred turns and thousands of turns, I finally saw my loved ones.
As Brother Yu approached step by step, I stared intently in a daze, and finally passed out at his feet. When I woke up, Brother Yu was no longer there, and he asked the nurse to leave a voice recorder for me, which contained a recording of him, and I still remember those words.
Xiao Jiu, you are like a little beast in the forest that has been cared for all the way, and you have lost the survival instinct that belongs to the beast. You are too merciful to the enemy, otherwise you would not lie here, at that time you could have driven the wild dogs around you or even the snakes and insects in the grass to help you, who could get close to you? The reason why I bought you in the first place was because I saw the vicissitudes of your age from your unruly eyes, a little like me. I will not see you again, and when I call you again, it will be time for you to really experience, and if you have not mastered the laws of survival by then, then you will face death.
Feel...... Brother Yu is like a loving father who is pure and seductive and seductive, this is the summary I came to after watching a lot of TV series. Although Brother Yu's appearance has not changed since I first saw him, he will always be twenty-seven or eighteen years old, calm in his thirties, and more than forty vicissitudes, I can't find any traces of time from him, and I have only grown from his waist to his chin.
Since then, I have been lonely at the age of seventeen and eighteen, and when I was about to enter the New Year at the age of eighteen, I finally waited for Brother Yu's call. It was a life and death catastrophe that was not exaggerated at all, and I could not cope with it at the age of eighteen, and if it hadn't been for Brother Yu's timely arrival, I would have really died in that wilderness.
Brother Yu looked at me with extreme dissatisfaction in his eyes, and he did reprimand me coldly and said that he was very disappointed, giving me nearly two years, there was no progress, and the fortification of people's hearts was so low that he almost lost his life when he took risks. He walked away, looking at the back of the angry departure, I had an indescribable grievance. Later, I learned that this experience was a coming-of-age gift given to me by Brother Yu, and he used another way to let me appreciate the adult world.
Since then, I have learned to arm myself with sharp teeth, learn to wear a mask on my face, learn to walk in the crowd and be vigilant at all times, learn to play different roles, and learn to bear the arrangements given by God with a smile.