Chapter 22: The Wolf and the Boy
"Whew~"
At the edge of the woods, after the boy's self-talk, there was a brief silence.
And this silence was soon interrupted by the neighing of a lone wolf.
"Wolf, you're here!"
Listening to the wolf's howl, the boy did not have the slightest fear on his face, but showed a warm smile, turned around, and looked at a white wolf rushing from a distance.
"Woo~"
The white wolf came quickly, and the moment he rushed in front of the boy, his rush came to an abrupt end, showing a high level of control over himself in his eyes.
Raising his head, he looked at the boy who was already taller than himself, and the white wolf roared in a low voice, and there seemed to be a sentiment called sadness in his eyes.
Looking at such a white wolf, the boy was silent for a while.
He was an orphan who was picked up by a wolf when he was very young, and he was raised by a wolf.
Like him, Ah Wolf is a lone wolf, a lone wolf who has been abandoned by his own tribe and lives alone in the world.
He thought, perhaps, that the wolf had just been driven out of the wolf pack when he picked him up, and seeing that he was also abandoned, he didn't eat him, but took him in and raised him.
Then in the years of getting along, a man and a wolf slowly have feelings.
It is also possible that Ah Wolf had just eaten at that time, and when he saw that he didn't cry or make trouble, he thought it was funny, so he was ready to raise him for a period of time and then eat it.
Who knows? What caused him to survive from the wolf's mouth is actually no longer important, and he has never had the intention of exploring it in the past.
He only knew that Ah Wolf had raised him for seven years and cared for him for seven years, and was the closest person he had in this world, dearest to his parents who had left him in the woods.
It's just that......
"Wolf, I'm leaving!"
After a long silence, the boy looked at the sadness in the wolf's eyes and said in a tone that was extremely inappropriate for his age.
"Woo~"
The white wolf let out a mournful roar again, as if he had already felt it.
Looking at the wolf's appearance, the boy knew that the wolf was holding him, and it was reluctant to let him go.
It picked him up, it raised him for seven years, and it loved him as if he were his own child.
Its own child has robbed it of the throne and driven it out of the group, and it is left with him, and it will not let him go.
The boy knew what the white wolf thought, and after seven years of getting along, he could understand what it meant, with a look, a movement, and a hiss with a slight change in tone and tone.
But, understand, he had to be ruthless!
"Wolf, you know, I don't belong here after all.
They treated me like a monster, and I hid here for seven years, thinking I could forget about human life.
Until today, until just now, looking at the long sword that soared into the sky, I felt the blood boiling all over my body, and I knew that that was my belief and the fate of my life.
I must pursue it, spend my whole life chasing it! ”
Looking at the white wolf with his head down and hissing, the boy's tone was resolute.
After speaking, no longer looking at the white wolf, the boy turned around and walked into the distance, in the direction where the young man who had just stepped on the sword had left.
"Woo~"
He had just taken two steps when a mournful roar sounded behind him, and the boy turned his head and glanced at the white wolf following him.
"Ah wolf, go back, go back to where you belong, and don't follow me anymore."
Looking at the white wolf with sadness in his eyes, the boy's eyes didn't blink, and after speaking, he turned around and continued to move forward.
The white wolf no longer hissed, nor did he leave, but followed the boy in such a way.
One step, one step, one step, one step at a time, it followed one step at a time.
Swish!
At a certain moment, the white wolf, who was following the boy step by step with his head down, was alarmed, and subconsciously stopped.
At the moment when it stopped, an invisible sword qi slashed down from half a foot in front of it, leaving a crack on the ground that was three meters long and one foot deep.
"Wolf, go back, go back to where you should be.
You, can't keep up with me. ”
The boy turned his head and gave the white wolf one last look, his tone full of determination.
After saying that, he turned to leave, and this time, the white wolf was not following.
Looking at the boy's back as he walked away, he leaned down to look at the crack in front of him, and it was difficult to move half a step on his raised foot.
It just stood there, facing the breeze, watching his back disappear from its eyes, smelling him and having nowhere to find it.
His seven years of teaching had taught him how to hide his aura and survive in the beast-infested forest, and the first 'beast' he used to hide from would be himself.
Ridiculous, or pathetic?
It didn't know it, it just stood quietly, letting the breeze blow and let the green leaves fall.
"Whew~"
After a long time, a lonely, heart-rending cry resounded through the deep forest.
In the distance, the boy's footsteps paused, without looking back, and continued to move forward, in an unknown direction.
Long...... After a long time, Xu was tired of standing, and Xu knew that he couldn't wait for the person who had been with him for seven years.
The white wolf turned and walked deeper into the woods.
He's leaving, he's going back, he's going to be where he belongs.
The outside world belongs to those human beings after all, and the one it has poured out its feelings for seven years and raised is also a human being.
Humans and wolves are two completely different races.
Step by step, he lost the agility he had come, the speed of the wind.
In fact, he is old, and he is not as strong as he once was.
When I first picked him up, it was strong, athletic, and could hold him up.
Now, it was old, and no matter how much it persisted, no matter how much it disguised itself in front of him, it still couldn't change the fact that he was dying.
Let's go!
Let's go!
It's okay to go, to go, at least you don't have to look at me because I can't run anymore, and I'm dying in the mouth of a predator.
Let's go..... Don't come back, go to the world that is supposed to be yours!
The white wolf walked alone, just as it had been betrayed by its own children and driven out of the group.
It's just that, that time, it picked up a child, so that it is no longer lonely in this world.
And this time, it was destined to be left alone, alone, to where it should go.
It is really old, and when it picked him up, it had eaten the peaches on the top of the mountain eight times, and now, it has been with him for seven heavy snowfalls, and she snuggles up with him to warm him in the season.
It's really hard to hold on to it anymore.
As soon as the breath in his heart dissipated, its steps became slower and slower, and its body became more and more sluggish.
Step by step, it walked inside, walked, walked.
This walk is most of the day.
It went to the place where it had picked him up, to the tree where he had fallen for the first time as a child, to the trick he had learned somewhere, and for the first time he had knitted for himself a wreath of flowers to wear around his neck.
It went to many places, and every one of them, there were memories of him.
Let's go! Turn!
Walking and walking, turning and turning, it gets tired, tired and can't walk anymore.
It lay on its stomach on the ground, eyes ...... There is laughter, there is sadness.
In a trance, it remembered this place.
Once, it came here, with him.
At that time, it should be five years old, picked up his second hot season.
At that time, they also walked here, and they walked together for a long, long time, and when they came here, he was so tired that he fell to the ground and rolled around, and he didn't get up.
It picked him up, carried him on his back, and carried him along, and he rolled off himself, still splashing and rolling.
What did she say then? It can't speak, but that tone of the sentence, it always remembers.
He said, "Wolf, you're always carrying me, and you're tired, so let's rest here and then go." ”
Well, take a break...... Take a break!
It thought, thought, closed its eyes, and a human-like smile seemed to appear on its face.
It fell asleep, this sleep, never woke up again, and when it fell asleep, it seemed to have a very happy dream, and its face was full of smiles.
It is a lone wolf, born lonely, growing lonely, wandering lonely, and loneliness gives it strength.
So, when it goes, it is also destined to be lonely!
And in the forest, death is never the end.
In the distance, a python poked its head out of the grass and circled around the white wolf in the distance.
After testing a few times, and seeing that the white wolf was really silent, it spitted out a letter and crawled towards the white wolf.
Crawling to the white wolf's side, the snake's head opened a terrifying arc and devoured the white wolf in one gulp.
Swish!
The head of the python falls!
Blood gushed out from the head of the snake and the severed body of the snake that was still in turmoil, staining the surrounding land red.
Da!
Dada!
A young figure walked out from behind a big tree, ignoring the python that was dying and walked step by step towards the white wolf lying peacefully on the ground.
"Wolf, are you disappointed in me?"
Looking at the white wolf with a peaceful face, his eyes together and unable to open them again, the boy muttered softly, as if he was asking, and as if he was talking to himself.
As he spoke, he waved his hand again and again at the open space on the side, and sword qi slashed through, and a large pit with a radius of two meters and a diameter of nearly one meter soon appeared on the ground.
The boy leaned down, lifted the white wolf's body with both hands, and gently placed the white wolf's body in the deep pit.
Kneel on the ground, and scatter the surrounding loess with both hands.
He is reluctant, he is unwilling.
But he knew that the wolf was really old, and even the ability to prey began to decline.
He knew that at the age of Ah Wolf, he should have died a long time ago, and now Ah Wolf is just holding on.
It didn't want to become a lonely person again, so when its life was exhausted and its body was already aging, it still reluctantly pretended to be strong and insisted on being by its side.
He didn't know what kind of pain it had to endure every day, he only knew that the pain was something he didn't want to see.
Buried the loess little by little, the boy muttered to himself, as if he was confiding in the white wolf.
"Ah wolf, you see, I have been able to control these sword qi a long time ago, and no one will treat me as a monster in the future."
"Wolf, you know what? My determination is all a lie to you, and I don't want to see you persist in pain anymore.
But when I saw the long sword that soared into the sky, the blood in my body was accelerating, it was true. ”
"Ah wolf, you and I are lonely, I know, the wolf itself is lonely, and I am also lonely."
"Wolf, I don't remember my name, I don't remember my last name, but I know that in the human world, I always need a name."
"Ah wolf, we are all born to be lonely, do you think, I will be called Dugu in the future...... Good no good? ”
"Wolf ......"
The boy muttered to himself in front of the mound of dirt that had been piled up by himself, for a long, long time.
After a long time, there was no boy in front of the mound, leaving only a grave, a tombstone.
Above, a few crooked words were carved with sword qi.
"Dead Mother, Tomb of the White Wolf!"
ps: This chapter was accidentally written a little long, and it was not easy to break in the middle, so you will read it.