Chapter 2: The Ghost Domain (Part II)
It was clearly a unicorn, and it was extremely rare black. Legend has it that there were demon beasts when the cloud famine was wiped out, and I think this is it.
He fell to his knees, cold sweat streaming down and trembling all over. What he encountered today was probably the most horrific and poignant scene he had ever seen in his life.
He thought, even if he did die here, no one would find out. The despair from the bottom of his heart overwhelmed him deeply.
However, he saw the most incredible scene in his life, and saw the child leap to the unicorn in a few steps, jump on it, wrap his hands around its thick neck, lean against its ear, and his lips moved slightly, as if he was saying something.
The unicorn snorted softly, its nostrils were large, and the random snort was like a gust of wind, sweeping out all the branches on the ground, and the wind blew his face with a bitter cold. It glanced at him, then took a few steps back and crouched down. The feeling of oppression dissipated most of the time in an instant, and his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground, and his back was already wet.
The child skillfully slid off the unicorn's back and "walked" towards him, saying that it was walking rather than crawling, and she was on all fours, walking in the same posture as the unicorn.
She looked up at him, her eyes were simple and clear, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and she rubbed his dirty hair against him, as if grateful. Then he walked to the unicorn again, and the unicorn also rubbed her with his head, and she fell beside it, with a smile on her face, no matter how she looked at it, there was a sense of motherly and filial piety.
He swallowed deeply and spitted at the mouth, not daring to move. His eyes were fixed on the unicorn, and he didn't dare to let his guard down, for fear that if he was not careful, it would become the monster's dinner. The unicorn didn't come back again, and there was no more movement.
As the night wore on, drowsiness hit him, and he closed his eyes in a daze. This night he slept very unsteadily, as soon as he closed his eyes, it was full of killing and blood, wailing and crying all over the mountains, that was the tragic scene when the Yunhuang was exterminated, although he had not witnessed it with his own eyes, but the wreckage everywhere had enough to show how thrilling the battle was back then. He was awakened countless times, and fell asleep groggily countless times.
The next day, when the sun rose, he opened his tired eyes, and felt only a splitting headache. The boy sat down beside him, and his sparkling eyes looked at him carefully, and he was startled, and almost jumped up, but he saw that she was holding a leaf in her hand, and the leaf was rolled up, and there was a quiet water inside.
I didn't see it clearly when it was dark last night, but now I look closely, although the child is covered in dirt, but a pair of eyes behind the unkempt hair are burning, the long and dense eyelashes are slightly curled upward, there is a small mole above the eyelashes of the left eye, thin and long willow eyebrows, and a full forehead, if there is no dirt on this body, it should be a beauty.
Leaves, water......
He looked up, and everything was normal in the cave, except that the unicorn was gone. The tree was still there, as if it had died. It is said that after this catastrophe, there is no grass in the clouds, and what he saw yesterday except for the child and the unicorn in front of him, there are indeed no other living creatures here, and even those corpses are not bitten by insects and ants.
Where did she get the green leaves and water?
He asked her, "Where did this come from?" Afraid that she would not understand, he pointed to the water again.
Still smiling and holding the water, he took it and looked down to sniff it, but there was not the slightest rancid smell. I raised it to my lips and tasted it lightly, and I felt that it was mellow and cold, and it was spring water. He drank it all in one gulp, pointed to the leaves and asked, "Where did this come from?" ”
She didn't answer, just took the leaf, smiled contentedly, and "walked" to the other side of the cave.
He didn't dare to be left alone, so he followed. The bell in her hand kept ringing as she "walked", and it sounded somewhat pleasant in the open valley.
It turned out that this cave was not only such a small place, there was a narrow passage behind the tree, and he followed all the way, always accidentally touching the stone wall, and from time to time a bone or two fell out, and at first he would be frightened and scream, but then he was able to calm down.
The mountain road was born about six years ago, and it was formed when the cloud barren land cracked, and it went up, twisting and turning all the way, walking for most of the day, and he didn't go out, and his food was given to the girl last night, and his stomach was empty at this time, and he had long lost his strength, but he still tried his best to follow her. She seemed to notice his anomaly, stopping occasionally to look at him.
At the end of the day, they walked out of the mountain road, and as far as they could see, they were desolate, and it turned out to be the ruins of the cloud barrenness, the white bones all over the ground, the incomplete rotten skin crumpled on the bones, the messy hairs stuck in the skulls haphazardly, the rotten clothes and skin had melted together, and the rusted armor covered their mutilated bodies in the void, and they looked at him with their mouths wide open and their eyes sunken. Dead wood broken by the wind, land turned to sand, dilapidated houses. It was obviously in the blue sky, but the wind was gusting and the cold was bone-chilling. Unlike in the Spirit Valley, these bones had been exposed to the sun for many years, and they had long since dried up, and when he lifted his foot, those bones would shatter and even turn into powder. The wind passed through the hollow skeletons, making a slight noise, as if someone was whimpering, and as if it were playing a sad song.
He derives an eternal desolation from the bottom of his heart.
The girl seemed to have become accustomed to all this, and there was no trace of panic in her eyes. She even leaned down to pick up a broken skull, pointed the bony eyes to her own eyes, as if playing, and then jumped and "walked" away.
There was no emptiness under his feet, and his mind was ethereal, and he didn't know how many bones he had broken down, and he followed the girl step by step, and he didn't know how far and how long he had walked, when he suddenly heard the girl jumping and screaming with joy, and when he raised his eyes, he found that there was a forest in front of him, and the trees were lush and shaded. He almost thought he was dreaming, but his eyes were still full of desolation, and how could the scenery suddenly change.
The girl climbed a tree and threw some fruit down. It was smashing on his head, and his thoughts were pulled back. He began to walk in a daze, through the woods, wild flowers, and springs......
But there was not a single corpse!
It's two worlds.
He walked back along the path he had come, and the more he went, the less vegetation there became, and further on, there was a wreckage all over the ground.
They have already gone out of the Cloud Wilderness, this is the realm of Yin Xia, but because of the Cloud Wilderness, there are no people within a radius of more than ten miles. He looked at this place in a daze, if it weren't for that war, Yunhuang would also be a fairyland, but now, there was only a white bone left. It was as if his heart had been emptied, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
As long as you get out of this wood, you can leave this ghost realm.
The girl picked a lot of fruit and held it up to him as if to give it to him. Where did he have any appetite, so he took a random fruit and took a bite, only to feel that it tasted like chewing wax, and the girl saw that he had eaten it, and she also took one and nibbled on it with joy.
He looked at the girl and felt distressed, she could have lived like an ordinary child, with parents and relatives, but ......
He asked, "Would you like to leave here with me and live outside, where there are many children like you?" ”
She blinked, still nibbling on the fruit in her hand, as if she didn't understand. He repeated it again, but the girl suddenly turned around and ran, heading for the Spirit Valley. He didn't know what she was going to do, so he could only follow, but now he had an empty stomach and poor physical strength, and could barely catch up with her.
He walked along the winding mountain road, and returned to the cave, and found that it was a cave, and it was very large, and the entrances of the caves were connected, and there were caves, but no matter how you looked at it, it felt like an animal's nest. Passing through a deep pool, the water of the pool is like ink, with a rancid smell, and I don't know how many people's blood has been stained, and the withered rattan hangs lifelessly, cold and damp, making people feel cold. The girl jumped into the path below with a few steps in her arms. The unicorn was in that hole, curled up and sleeping. It fell to the ground, and when she saw the girl coming, she raised her head slightly, and she held the fruit in front of it, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and her eyes were full of anticipation, like a child waiting for her mother's praise.
When the unicorn saw him, he stood up and roared angrily, shaking the mountains for a while. Its scales stood up all over its body, its huge eyes were red, and it stared at him tightly, and it was very coercive, and it made his heart froze, and he stood in place and did not dare to move forward. But seeing it slowly bow its head, the red light in its eyes gradually faded, and it actually had tears, quite a little bit of pity, and then suddenly turned its head and bit off a scale from its waist.
The unicorn was originally a divine beast, and the scales were still glowing with golden light when they were pulled off, but in an instant, it bit and handed it to the girl with its mouth, and when it saw the girl take it, it suddenly pushed the girl away with its huge head, pushed it to the man's side, and then went into the hole without looking back.
It turns out that it is a farewell? It was as if he had suddenly understood the look of the beast.
The girl glanced back at the unicorn, and then turned to look at him, with tears in her eyes, like stars.
He smiled slightly, and stretched out a hand, the girl did not know why, and carefully touched his hand with her fingertips, he took the thin hands, and said, "Come with me, I'll take you out of here." After thinking about it, he said, "You don't have a name, since you are from Yunhuang, it is better to call you Yunhuang." The girl nodded as if she didn't understand.
Fang walked out of the valley, just approached the woods, suddenly heard a piercing hiss, the earth shook violently, he looked back, but saw flying sand and rocks, landslides and cracks, the barren land in front of him quickly spread countless cracks, the bones that were originally exposed fell into the ground along the cracks, those dilapidated houses also collapsed and shattered one by one, and the canyon where countless souls were buried was slowly gathering and disappearing...... The yellow sand is rolling, and in the blink of an eye, the cloud wilderness has changed the world.
And the girl, as if sensing something, suddenly knelt on the ground, held the black scales, and cried bitterly.