Chapter 102: How Far Away Is Forever
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The cave where the middle-aged man lived was so cold that the walls of the cave were covered with shiny ice. It's like he's living in a hole in the ice. In the dream, I couldn't perceive the warmth and cold, but just the sight had already sent chills down my spine and goosebumps a little.
There was a candle flame burning in the cave, and by the candlelight, I could see a huge piece of ice lying horizontally in the depths of the cave, like a transparent crystal coffin.
And in that piece of ice, there is a man sleeping!
The man lay quietly in the ice, frozen solidly, and obviously could not have been a living person. So, this strange man actually hid a corpse in the cave where he lived!
I immediately understood why he was living in this isolated mid-mountain. A person, why does it need absolute cold all year round? In ancient times when there were no refrigerators, no freezers, this is why!
Only here can he keep a person's body for a long time.
Lying in the crystal ice was a woman, who looked young, beautiful, and quiet. The coffin formed by the ice crystals made her face a little blurred, but this blur made her look less like a lifeless dead, but like she had fallen into a peaceful sleep.
The cave has all the daily necessities, including beds, tables and chairs, and even bookcases, and I don't know how they were brought to this mountain. In one corner of the cave there was some firewood and rice, as well as hunted game, and the stove was close to the entrance of the cave, very far from the ice coffin, apparently worried that the heat of the fire would have a negative effect on the ice coffin.
This middle-aged man, like this, together with the woman in the ice coffin, lives an extremely simple life without any material pursuits. From the moment the vision moves into the cave, the scene inside the cave is no longer static, and countless small fragments of life emerge in front of you like a marquee.
The scene of him holding a bowl and sitting next to the ice coffin to eat, the scene of holding a book and reading out loud next to the ice coffin, the scene of going to the ice coffin to look at her again before blowing out the candle, the scene of writing something on the desk, but always turning back and smiling at her, are all intertwined. In the fragments of the picture, sometimes his face looks much younger than it is now, so I don't know how many years these fragments of memory tell. Perhaps, he has been here for a long time, ten years? Twenty years? Is there really anyone in the world who can endure such loneliness?
I almost understood what was going on. Probably because this man's lover unfortunately passed away, and he couldn't bear the fact that he was separated from his lover forever, so he kept her in this way and spent the rest of his life with him.
Day after day, year after year, as long as you can see her, you feel that it is still good, and it doesn't matter if you live in a cold place every day, as if she never left.
From my modern point of view, the ancient man in front of me should be classified as "perverted" for his behavior of guarding a corpse day and night. However, looking at this person's very sincere, even pious eyes, I felt that I couldn't dislike him.
"Only humans are like this, right? Because of this strange feeling, you can abandon everything, don't want anything, and stay for the rest of your life, until you die. Hu Liqing's voice was low, like rich wine.
The White Dragon God of War pondered for a moment and said, "If you can't ask for it, and you can't let it go, it's the source of pain. ”
"I think that's the most interesting thing about humans!" Li Qing pouted and said, "Obviously, you only have such a short life, but you can give up your life because of this kind of ethereal thing." ”
Although her words seemed to be sarcastic and complaining, the look on her face carried a trace of inexplicable yearning.
"Maybe they still think that a lifetime is so long, so long!" Li Qing thought about it, and suddenly burst out laughing, "You say, can these human love really change forever?" I have seen so many human beings, one life and one couple, if one dies, the other is looking for death and life, there is one who looks like a tree, and there is also one who is stupid, even if the person does not die, the heart dies at that moment. But isn't it because human life is too short? What if they were given a long life? How long can a person's attachment to another person be kept? A hundred years? Two hundred years? Three thousand years? ……”
The best thing about human beings is love. Love, I understand, Liqing brought the white dragon here, she wanted to say this to him, right?
But how long can love last? She was probably wondering about this.
I don't know the answer to this question. But I really want to say, Sister Liqing, you really think highly of human beings. With the development of the times and the prosperity of scientific and technological means, the earth has become smaller and smaller, and the ways of communication between people have become diverse. The world is lively, but the shelf life of love has become shorter and shorter, and some can not even last overnight.
Like the man in front of him who moved to the iceberg and lived with the body of his lover, infatuated men and women like him were only seen in ancient times, and in our time, they are all about to become extinct.
Life is short, and we don't believe in the afterlife at all.
Therefore, not to mention 3,000 years, even in the short decades of our life, it is already a miracle that we can be unswerving.
I haven't had such a personal experience, but I can imagine it. What a slow and suffocating torment it would be to live alone with the pain of longing and loss, like a blunt knife to slow down little by little.
I watched Liqing turn her head slightly, glancing at Bailong from the corner of her eyes, with a faint smile on her face, waiting for him to speak, and suddenly felt a pinprick in my heart.
If the white dragon disappeared inexplicably three thousand years ago, then what kind of mood did Li Qing have in to spend these three thousand years?
Even so, is she still working hard and cherishing to survive every cold and summer, and even not miss the change of each season?
Is it precisely because the white dragon loves humans that she is so interested in humans and stands up in the face of danger and becomes the guardian of humanity?
I saw the white dragon speak, and his expression was still calm and clear. I guess he was saying something to dissuade her, and even warn her once again not to go down the wrong path and fall into the Demon God Path. But I made it up from his expressions, because I couldn't hear their conversation clearly.
Everything in front of me suddenly shattered into countless fragments, and it spun so fast that I was dizzy and almost wanted to vomit. I wanted to scream, but as soon as I opened my mouth, a breath of fresh air poured into my mouth, rehydrating my body. I felt my body tremble a little, I regained consciousness, and then consciousness returned to my body. I slowly opened my eyes. (To be continued.) )