Chapter 5: The Way of Living of a Blind Girl
As long as we get used to the night, we can also find light in the darkness.
Just like me, I'm blind, but I can also feel the light. -- Blind girl
The dense forest was jagged with thorns, and a few large stones that did not know the current affairs were lying in the thick of the forest, wearing a slimy green moss coat. The white-eyed man shuttled freely through the dense forest, walking quickly. The blind girl trotted all the way behind. The white-eyed man turned several times in front of him, and although the blind girl could not see, she could even discern the direction he was, and ran over. Then he tripped over the thorns that lay under his feet. As soon as he got up and ran to him, he stepped on a mossy stone and fell again. The thorns that spread all over the ground immediately cut through the sleeves of the blind girl's dress. The blind girl immediately got up, and she didn't care if the thorns cut her arm, and hurried to him again.
The white-eyed man walked ahead without looking back, although I could clearly feel that he had slowed down many times and was waiting for her.
After a while, the blind girl picked up a rattan out of nowhere, and the branches and spikes were cut off. The blind girl took the rattan and swung her arms and shook it, and the long rattan struck the ground in circles in her hands, making a crackling sound. When the right hand is tired, then switch to the left hand, and the rattan whips the path in front of the blind girl, and once she draws an obstacle, the blind girl jumps forward or moves a step to the left.
In this way, maintaining a high frequency of volleying on the ground, the number of falls of the blind girl finally decreased a lot. But nevertheless, this condition continued until the evening, and the blind girl was already scarred.
"That's all for today." He stopped in a gentle place, leaned his body against a large tree, and took out a piece of dry food from the side of the sword bag behind him and ate it.
The blind woman put her hands on her knees, gulped her clothes, wiped the sweat from her head, and sat down on the ground. She groped the ground with both hands, stroked the grass on the ground, and when she reached a grass with whitish leaves, she pulled it out, crumpled it, and smeared its juice on her wound, with a pained expression on her face.
He watched her actions with novelty in his eyes, walked up to her, took out one of the dry food behind him and handed it to her, "Do you want to eat?" ”
"Vegetarian food is toxic to us." She replied.
He put away his rations and leaned on the trunk of the tree, watching with interest how she could make up for her dinner.
The blind girl sat there quietly, calming her breathing, as if she was meditating because her eyes could not be opened.
"So you're not going to have dinner, are you?" He shook his neck.
The blind woman's hand groped for the ground to pick up a little finger-sized stone, and then slowly stood up, her ears twitching slightly.
He watched with interest, and we held our breath and remained silent, though our voices could only be heard by the white-eyed.
The blind girl silently moved a step to the left, and then slowly bowed down, and then she could not even hear the sound of breathing. After a few seconds, she threw the stone in her hand with great speed, and the stone flew out like a bullet, shooting straight into the grass, just like a normal stone thrown into the grass, and I could not see the slightest difference. But the blind girl had a smile on her face, and walked briskly towards the grass, and pulled out a dead rabbit from the place where the stone had just fallen. Then the blind girl threw the rabbit into the clearing in front of him. Ignoring the dry food in his mouth, half of it fell out.
The blind girl swept the ground step by step, and after a few steps, threw the fallen grass and trees that had not completely rotted under her feet beside the rabbit. He stared at her intently.
"What are you doing?" He couldn't afford to eat his own dry food.
"Find firewood." The blind woman continued to sweep the ground with her feet.
"Just find some," he simply put the rest of the steamed buns into the side bag.
"These rustling sounds on them have less moisture and are more suitable for firewood, and some of the soft ones that are soft on them have a lot of moisture and can't be lit." As she spoke, the firewood in the clearing had been piled up. I leaned close to her feet and listened carefully to the sounds that didn't make a difference at all
The blind girl skillfully found a few branches and skillfully lit a bonfire, and the rabbit she had killed had not a single wound on its body, only one ear was bleeding. The blind woman put it on the flame with two branches. The gray rabbit is roasted off the fluff and within a few minutes it is roasted to an attractive color.
"Will you eat?" Now it was the blind girl's turn to ask him.
"The meat eater's food is also poisonous to me." He said something similar to what she had just said, but his eyes looked at the roasted rabbit from time to time.
"What's your name?" The blind girl picked up the roast rabbit, brought her nose close to the roasted rabbit, and slowly circled it in front of her with two branches, and then bit off the roasted part of the rabbit.
"Name?" He approached the campfire and sat closer to her, staring at the dancing flames, "There used to be, but now it's gone." ”
"And what should I call you?"
"You feel free." He threw several branches from the ground into the flames as well.
"Where are we going tomorrow?"
"Head north to the next settlement."
The blind woman clasped her hands around her knees and was silent for a long time, "Why did you kill those people?" ”
"Don't you want to kill them? In order to survive, ten years ago, they ate their companions and loved ones! They did anything to survive, and finally they survived, but they all deserved to die! ”
"But almost all the people in the world survive like this." The blind woman retorted.
"Then kill them all."
The blind girl lowered her head, and if she had eyes, they must have revealed sadness, "Do you have to do this?" ”
"Hmm" he nodded, and lay down, looking at the night sky with stars.
The blind girl also lay down, shoulder to shoulder, head to head, as if looking at the starry sky with him. She said, "My father once said to me, 'There is no darkness in the world' if there is light in the heart, and if we get used to this darkness, we can also find light in the darkness, just like me, I am blind, but I can also feel the light. ”
She pinpointed the position of the brightest star in the night sky and said to him, "My mother said, go towards that star, there is a valley, and there is a wooden house in the valley. There was a large forest and a lot of animals, and it was isolated from the rest of the world. We can go there, let go of our hatred, and leave them alone. ”
"They ate your parents, and they're going to eat you soon, don't you hate them?" He turned sideways to face the campfire, the flames reflected in his eyes.
"They kill people to satisfy their own **, if I kill them in revenge, then what is the difference between me and them?" When the blind girl finished speaking, she hurriedly closed her mouth as if she realized that she had said the wrong thing. The white-eyed man stared at the flames, and for a moment, he looked up at the brightest star that the blind girl was pointing to.
"You're unlike anyone I've ever met, and sometimes I wonder if you're really blind." He looked into her eyes, which had never opened.
"My parents said that my eyelids and eyeballs grow together, and if I cut them, I might be able to see them."
"Then why don't you cut it?"
"Because there is also the possibility that I will never feel the light."
The dancing of the burning flames changed from the initial enthusiasm to the insipid. The white-eyed man pillowed his arms and looked at the galaxy in the whole sky, and the brightest star in the sky. The blind girl beside her also lay quietly, unable to tell whether she was awake or asleep. A cold wind blew smoke from the firewood, and he put the animal skin clothes over her scarred body.
"I'm sorry for what I said before," the blind girl is still awake, but I really hope you don't kill again. ”
The white-eyed man did not nod or shake his head.
The day finally came to an end at the moment when the eyes of the white-eyed man slowly closed in the middle of the night.
And we, as souls, don't need to sleep. We traveled the way we came, at the speed of the wind, through the world. In this world, there are some special settlements scattered around the settlement, like sleepless warriors standing in the settlement or even in the forest outside the settlement.
And they all have common characteristics: white eyes, skin with disproportionate scales, well-developed muscles, and I know that these settlements must have been where the white-eyed people have been. And I believe that the places he has reached will no longer be visited, and these places will become forbidden places for mankind, just as the place where Medusa is said to exist.
With this in mind, I retraced the route he had taken back to where they had camped.
But when I arrived at the settlement where the blind girl was, I found that all the "monsters" in the blind girl's settlement were gone