Chapter 12: Music in the Forest

At this time, Qi Luoling unconsciously looked at the watch on her wrist, the watch showed the time at twelve o'clock in the night, but the hands had stopped moving. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When Qi Luoling walked out of the villa gate, she found that the mysterious woman was gone. She looked up at the dim moonlight, wondering why she was walking towards the mysterious forest.

But at this moment, she seemed to know the answer.

A beautiful piano music came from far, far away. The sound of the music seemed to be extremely faint, but after she listened carefully, it gathered in her ears and seemed to be engraved in her mind.

She suddenly understood that it was music from afar that beckoned her, from that dark forest world.

Qi Luoling walked out of the gate of the villa, crossed the artificial lake, walked out of the hollowed-out gate of the manor, and walked towards the dark forest.

The forest at midnight was completely different from the forest during the day, and the darkness enveloped her like an endless black web, suffocating her. The leafy, tangled roots seemed to have malicious intentions, unwilling to disturb their tranquility. On the way forward, she struggled and almost fell to the ground.

Qi Luoling still struggled to move forward, her pants were already covered with mud, and even punctured by branches in some places, which was completely opposite to the happy mood of the day, more frustrated and confused. But she could only keep going, no matter how bumpy the road ahead was, she knew that she could not turn back, because she had lost the direction she had come, and the road she had come from had been drowned in the passage of time. In the same way, she can't stop, because if she stops, she has no way to stay.

The only direction came from the piano music, and the music ahead beckoned to her, guiding her forward.

She couldn't tell what it was, but the only thing she knew for sure was that it was a sad and mournful piece, and its melody seemed to be somewhat similar to the first movement of "The Devil's Sorrow" she had heard, the only difference was that there was a lonely air in the melody.

What kind of music is that that embraces loneliness?

Each note in the music is independent and full, but when combined, it is a strange music. The music made her feel a great pain, a pain that came from loneliness. The pain of life is endless, it takes many forms, but the most pitiful and irremediable of them is loneliness, the permanent absence of a partner.

She embarked on a path longer than she remembers. She was accompanied by the solitude of a pilgrim. She had a smile on her face, but her heart was full of sorrow.

Isn't there music to accompany you? Why do you still feel lonely? She was confused. Is it because of the music, or is it because of loneliness? She didn't know.

The only thing she knew was that she was moving towards music. It's that kind of music that relieves loneliness, but at the same time it deepens loneliness.

She was alone in the forest, and as if all the people had left her, she had to hold back her tears and tread on the thorns, even though she felt unusually lonely along the way. But as time went on, she slowly got used to this loneliness, which formed an inseparable part of her own world. She tried to bury her loneliness, but in the end she found that it was herself.

Perhaps due to the weakening of her vision, her sense of smell became unusually acute. She could clearly smell the scent of the forest, mixed with the scents of the seasons. The restlessness of spring, the heat of summer, the bleakness of autumn, and the coldness of winter. The germination of life, the growth of life, the maturity of life, and the withering of life. The forest silently and lonely repeats this process of life.

She wanders like a lonely soul in the lonely dark woods, like an individual thrown into the whole, the two become one. It was as if she was walking in an endless black hole, and there was nothing but darkness in front of her.

She groped her way through this black hole. It seems like a long time has passed, like a lifetime, but the music is still far away. She was so tired and weak that her body seemed to be hollowed out, and she was almost about to collapse. The body that was shaky and unbalanced hit the thick tree several times.

There was no road ahead at all, as she had strayed from the forest path. Nightbirds hovered overhead, occasionally making a piercing call, and the characteristic miasma of the depths of the forest, the smell of damp earth, mixed with the smell of rotten leaves, the scent of unknown flowers, and the faint smell of bark.

The whole forest resembles a black mausoleum, and under each big tree is buried a corpse, once alive. There are as many corpses as there are trees. However, it cannot be said that it is a corpse, because it is only a form of energy, it is trapped in the dirt and waiting, is or is being released in the infinite universe, and after all, it is used by the roots of the forest, dust to dust, dust to dust, dust to earth.

The gusts of wind stopped, the music suddenly disappeared, and everything fell silent. She was like stepping out of a black hole. The world outside the black hole was still as dark and silent as death, and everything seemed empty, leaving her at a loss. A trace of pain spread from her internal organs.

When she saw the bleak moonlight in the sky, she understood that she had come to the lawn clearing in the forest. The moonlight shone on her, and she saw the shadow beneath her feet, as if she were dragging someone who didn't matter to her.

Qi Luoling looked around and saw the hundred-year-old tree. She stood alone in the middle of the circular clearing, dazed and futile at all of her senses.

Where does the music go?

She went under the old tree and stroked the rough and cracked trunk with her hands. The trunk of the tree drooped with a long beard, and the back of the trunk was covered with wet moss.

Then she went back to the nameless tombstone and watched quietly. Who is buried under this tombstone? Why is he buried here? Why don't the tombstones have names? What was the story of his life?

Qi Luoling sat down in front of the tomb, then lay down on the grass, closed her eyes, and felt everything around her. The soil underneath me was unusually soft, and it seemed that the rain had made it extremely loose the other day. There is the chirping of insects in the grass, the sound of grass breaking the ground, and the underground river flowing on the ground......

At this point, the music seemed to start playing again.

Qi Luoling took a closer look and was surprised to find that the music actually came from the underground of the nameless tombstone. The melody was so clear, and the mournful rhythm shook her heart.

She found herself lying on top of the body of an unknown man. The hand of the dead reached out from the ground, and it was tightly wrapped around her neck, and it was going to drag her into the dark underworld, so that she could listen to the sad demonic music......