The boy walked in the night

There was silence all around, there was no sound of wind, rain, frogs, or even the sound of dust falling to the ground, and the fear of silence made people's hearts palpitate

Xu Zi'an didn't dare to breathe, because every time he breathed, there would be a squeezing sound of breath entering the lobes of his lungs, not because he was reluctant to break this quiet and quiet atmosphere, but because there seemed to be too many unknowable strange existences in the endless dark night around him

Those beings are like countless ghosts hidden in the night, waiting for any sound to come out, and then baring their fangs fiercely, and going forward to devour any creature that finds it

Like a seemingly calm pond, the surface of the lake is as calm as a mirror, and if someone throws a bait, it will attract thousands of swimming fish under the pond

The young man covered his mouth tightly and looked vigorously at the cold and mysterious night around him, not so frightened, just a little confused

Xu Zi'an didn't know why he was suddenly in such a strange place, the whole world was like a crystal clear inky black jade, transparent but deep, no light shone through the surface of the jade to the deepest depth, no star could break through the night to reveal the starlight

Shrouded in darkness, unable to see, he vaguely remembered that Mount Feara was in the southwest of the world, but he didn't know how to distinguish where was west and where was south, and he didn't know whether the dark place in front of him was still the world he was familiar with, so he could only stand in the dark at a loss, not knowing where to go

It's like a child who is lost in the woods, trying to find a way out, but because of the miasma of the beast in the forest, the poisonous snake Cold Frost, trapped and unable to move forward

Time gradually passed in Xu Zi'an's blank expectation

I don't know how many incense sticks have passed, or how many times the alternation of spring and autumn has passed, Xu Zi'an gradually adapted to the darkness in front of him, and gradually adapted to the silence and coldness in this dark world

He felt that his eyes could see the vague shapes of some things, not because the world had a light that could see, but because the eyes had adapted to the darkness itself, just like a person suddenly entering a dim hut from the light, the contrast between the sudden light and the sudden darkness would be unbearable for a while, but if it took a long time, after gradually getting used to it,

He saw a black cloud in the sky, he saw a black melon hanging on a vine beside him, and he saw a black sea not far ahead

The clouds in the sky are black clouds, melons and fruits are black melons and fruits, the ocean is also black oceans, and even the earth under your feet, the leaves in the forest, the pines and cypresses between the cliffs, everything is black

Everything is like a huge ink painting drawn in the hands of the gods, although the brush and ink have outlined the depth and thickness of the whole world, but because of the ink itself, the whole world can only present a monotonous, and cold black

He looked ignorantly at the countless paths that suddenly sprouted under his feet, and pondered

These straight, or dangerous, or open, or strange avenues or winding paths each have the most obvious characteristics, Xu Zi'an can feel that the direction of these roads is also very different, he hesitates to walk back and forth in place, it seems difficult to decide which road to take

At this moment, he suddenly saw the resolute face of the little black man, and he laughed, as if he knew that he should go that way

After getting up and patting some dust on his clothes, Xu Zi'an got up and walked into a muddy, but very straight path, and the end of this trail was the boundless black ocean

Look at the mountain is near, but the horsepower is difficult to walk, the black ocean as thick as ink in the inkstone looks as if it is close in front of him, and even the black water droplets splashed when the waves are splashing can be clearly seen, but when Xu Zi'an really stepped forward, he found that the distance under his feet was much farther than he imagined

He walked through several mountains, and there was no so-called beautiful scenery on the peaks, only endless and endless darkness, and through several deep forests, the forest was still silent, only the leaves were still, there was no sound, and there was no sign of life

He gradually discovered that in the entire black world, he was really the only one

Xu Zi'an stopped, stood in place again like a stone sculpture, his body gradually trembled, and he began to be a little afraid

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At this moment, the thick and hard earth under his feet suddenly gradually decomposed into countless grains of sand like bones that had been weathered, and the whole world was annihilated into a piece of yellow sand under the passage of time, and those peaks, cliffs, pines and cypresses, forests, streams, ravines, melons and fruits, leaves, everything was also turned into countless black grains of sand

The whole world has become a desolate and lonely black desert

Only the black ocean in front of it was still flowing quietly, with a few waves from time to time

Xu Zi'an looked at the strange scene around him in astonishment, like the sea turning into a mulberry field, and he didn't know why

If the most invincible thing in the world is time, why can even the hardest rock be dissolved into grains of sand, and yet he has been unharmed, and there is no mess on the corners of his clothes? Not even the blood stains on his robes have not changed, and they still glow the most dazzling red

Red? Xu Zi'an turned around in shock, Huo Ran remembered that this world shouldn't be black, why did those blood stains appear red? This discovery made him surprised, and he stared carefully at the blood stains on his clothes

Those few blood stains were like small plum blossoms, embroidered on Xu Zi'an's black clothes

Gorgeous is out of place in this monotonous and treacherous world

He looked at the few little plum blossoms, and suddenly felt a heart-rending pain in his chest, as if he was being roasted by the hottest flame

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Xu Zi'an was curled up on the ground in pain, a low roar like a beast was born in his throat, his delicate eyebrows were twisted into several folds because of pain, and the muscles on his face were twisted into a ball, and the fire began from his chest, burning every inch of his skin and every bone, and he could feel the process of the internal organs of his body being gradually scorched black on the flames, this process made him suddenly feel that death was the only relief now

The flames burned more and more, and finally burned to his eyes, and he didn't know if his consciousness was hallucinating because of the great pain, or because the fire completely occupied his pupils, and he saw that the desert in front of him seemed to be burning as well, and countless black grains of sand were like countless sparks, burning the raging flames of this prairie to the extreme

Xu Zi'an didn't dare to close his eyes, still staring at the huge flame in front of him, he felt that the world seemed to be undergoing some changes

He was stunned to find that there were suddenly many more figures in the flames, it was a group of people dancing wildly, this group of people seemed to be unconscious, and the flames were burning fiercely and were still indifferent, still dancing sluggishly, like a group of crazy people

He saw a woman alone in a dry city, and there was no one in the city, but this woman walked in peace

The woman walked all the way to the top of the tall city wall, picked a plum blossom with her hand, lightly pulled the green silk on her sideburns, and stood alone, but it did not give people a feeling of melancholy, the woman lifted her shoe-side long skirt, and looked at the dark night in the north, and behind her was the endless wasteland of the south

He saw an old man sitting near the abyss, the old man looked unusually old, his face was full of colorful old age spots, and his hair was as vast as the Milky Way, and it seemed that he was about to die in the night sky sooner

The old man quietly looked at the entrance of the terrifying abyss in front of him, his eyes were as deep and quiet as the ocean, and from time to time the luster of great wisdom loomed in it

The old man looked at the abyss below him, and his eyes gradually rose with wind and waves, and finally it was like a storm

He saw a peerless swordsman who did not hold a sword in his hand, although the swordsman did not hold a sword in his hand, and he did not have any sword aura or sword intent on his body, but as long as he stood there, even if he did nothing, you would still find that he was the sharpest sword in the world, the sword that was enough to pierce the entire sky with a thousand feet of light

He saw a knife man holding a knife in the flames, and the long hair on his head danced wildly, as if he were mad

He saw a leaf slowly falling from the branch, and he saw a toad lying on the edge of the pond with his eyes slightly open, and he saw more and more strange sights.

More and more people appeared in his eyes, and the fire that burned the entire desert was as vigorous as new charcoal, and the red flames went straight into the sky, unscrupulous

In the midst of the tyrannical flames of annihilation, he saw a scholar

The scholar is in a green shirt, with gentle and elegant eyebrows, his hair is meticulously combed, and his eyebrows are peaceful

The scholar came from afar and walked all the way

The people who danced wildly in the fire stopped moving, turned their heads to look at the scholar in a stagnant manner, the numbness of their eyes changed strangely, some widened their pupils in fear, some covered the corners of their mouths in shock, some covered their faces with their hands and let out bursts of sinister laughter, and some slowly shed tears

It's like you're looking at a madman

The scholar slowly walked through the crowd, his gaze still gentle, peaceful and serene, as if he was not affected by the strange attitude of the crowd

The woman standing on the city wall and looking into the distance suddenly raised her gaze, the fingers of the skirt were slightly loose, and the flowers in the floral skirt bloomed like the most vibrant spring and a hundred flowers, and the woman turned to look at the scholar, her eyes were gentle like water

The storm in the eyes of the old man standing near the abyss gradually calmed down, and the blue ocean returned to calm

The swordsman turned and walked away, as sharp as a sheathed sword, and there was one less blade in the night sky that was cutting through the darkness

The knife man stuck the long knife in his hand diagonally beside him, drank a large pot of turbid wine, laughed heartily, and said loudly, "Hurry"

Xu Zi'an saw which scholar continued to move forward, still in the dust

Every time the scholar took a step, the male fire in the desert would be extinguished at the scholar's feet, and along the way, a long extinguished passage came out behind him

I don't know how long I walked, but the scholar seemed to be a little tired, so he stopped and sat on the spot

Untied the kettle at his waist, shook it upside down a few times, but found that there was no water dripping out of the kettle, the scholar frowned, looked at the black desert under his feet, and seemed to think that a stream should appear here

So, in the desert under his feet, there really was a small stream

The water is crystal clear and unusually clean

The scholar happily held water in his hands and took a few sips gently

From time to time, there was a stream of water dripping out from the gap between his hands, dripping at the feet of the scholar, and a very slight bulge began to appear in the black desert, and a strong little white flower slowly grew where the water dripped down

The small white flower looks extremely delicate in the blazing black red flame, but it is full of countless vitality, it continues to bloom tenaciously, the petals are unusually white, without any other trace of variegation, the luster is hazy and illusory on the petals, and it looks extremely solemn and holy in this strange dark night

There is a wind, a plum leaf falls with the wind, it happens to float near the small white flower, the scholar picks up the plum leaf, put it in the palm of his hand, there is a streamer between the plum leaves, as if there is life

The scholar gently clamped the plum leaf in the book and turned a page casually

However, the surrounding night was too dark to read, and the scholar was a little displeased

The scholar said softly, there should be light

So there really is light in this world