(004) Is it a dream or an illusion
Where is this?
In a trance, she felt that she was being pulled by a powerful force and entered a wonderful space.
The surroundings were full of misty scenes, except for a slight blue glimmer in the distance ahead, and Poppy felt that her body involuntarily moved towards the glimmer of light, until she reached the end of the light source, and she saw--
In front of him, a statue of ice about two feet high appeared, and in the huge ice, a girl in a strange costume slumped, and the strange sickle-shaped pattern on the costume looked like some kind of totem.
Poppy felt that her body was being pulled by that strange force again, and her feet involuntarily walked slowly towards the ice, until she came to the front, and she saw the appearance of the girl in the ice clearly, "Oh my God! Poppy let out an exclamation!
After a closer look, I found that the girl in the ice actually had a face similar to herself!
The same delicate sweet potato seed face, two faint willow eyebrows, a small nose and slightly upturned lips, and even a scattered black hair like forging hair....
If it weren't for the fact that she was dressed differently in strange costumes, Poppy would definitely think she was looking in the mirror. It's just that the girl in the ice is frowning, and the whole person is full of indescribable sadness;
When Poppy was in front of the ice to guess the identity of the other party, the girl in the ice suddenly opened her eyes as if she sensed something, and she was so frightened that Poppy took a few steps back.
"You're finally here."
Stunned for a long time, he tried to restrain his urge to run, caress his heart, and asked tentatively: "You, are you waiting for me?" β
The other party didn't answer, but just said to himself: "Since you can find me, then you must have met him." β
"He? Who is he? Poppy's eyes widened in curiosity.
"The man I loved five hundred years ago." The woman in the ice said faintly, and Poppy noticed that her eyes were drifting far away, as if she had drifted back to five hundred years.
"You meanβMo Yi?" Poppy suddenly remembered something and spoke tentatively.
Sure enough, after hearing Mo Yi's name, the expression of the woman in the ice suddenly had a hint of brilliance: "He, is he okay?" β
"If it is good for a person to spend five hundred years alone, then I am afraid there is nothing more cruel in this world." Poppy couldn't help but pout.
"Yes....." The girl's expression suddenly darkened, and she murmured, "He must still hate me....."
"Wait, wait, let me ask, why am I here? Who are you? Why do we both have the same face? Eager to figure out the current state, Poppy couldn't help but interrupt the girl's memories of taking care of herself.
"You? You are me, I am you, and the same person will naturally be the same. When the girl said this, there was a look on her face that was lost.
"Huh......... What do you mean, you are my past life? Or is it another soul within me? After finishing speaking, Poppy scratched his head a little awkwardly, and he, the original atheist, was now full of talk about his past and present lives, and he always felt a little uncomfortable.
"That's probably it.," the girl was a little reluctant to speak.
"So, who are you? Why is it frozen in ice? At this time, Poppy suddenly noticed that there was a faint sickle-like mark on the other party's forehead.
"I am the Great Wizard of Shamo who cursed the Nayu Clan, and my name is Yao Ji. My physical body has been annihilated, and all you see is my frozen primordial spirit. The faint voice drifted into Poppy's ears, making Poppy almost think that she had misheard.
"Huh? What did you say? You're the wizard who casts spells? So, what is the matter with you just saying that I am your reincarnation, and why am I cursed with me? There was a strange excitement in her emotions, and she felt that all this was too nonsensical for her to understand.
"This is my punishment for myself." The woman named Yao Ji said quietly, poppy resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and clasped her hands in front of her chest, waiting for her to give a reasonable explanation.
After a long time, Yao Ji continued to speak: "I didn't know that Mo Yi was from the Nayu tribe before, although he has an indifferent personality, he is actually so gentle in his bones, and he is not as cruel and bloodthirsty as those Nayu people....."
Gentle in your bones? Poppy remembered the man's slightly mean mouth, pursed his lips and shook his head, noncommittal.
"At that time, the Nayu people slaughtered the city of Chamo, and seeing that the Momo was about to be wiped out, as the reincarnation of the god of Chamo, I had no other choice, so I ....."
"So you cursed them?" Poppy showed a clear expression.
"Originally, I just used the power given to me by Lord Kamai, the "God of Ink", to stop them and expel them from Ink City, but the uncles of the elder were not at ease, they were afraid that the Nayu people would make a comeback, so at their request, I had to use the only poisonous curse left by Lord Kamai-eup, the "Death of the Suzaku", to curse them, so that they would kill each other and have no power to kill innocents indiscriminately......"
"To the point, why is it that even me, no, even you yourself are cursed." Poppy can't wait to find out why she was implicated for no reason.
"However, I later learned that he, Mo Yi, was actually also from the Nayu clan, and he was also one of the objects of my curse." When Yao Ji said this, Poppy gave her a strange expression.
"In fact, in the battle of Chamo that day, both sides were defeated, and almost all the masters of the Nayu clan died in Chamo City, and the rest were only some young people who were not in trouble. So, in fact, there was no need to cast this vicious curse, at that time, it was just because of the insistence of the elders and the necessity of the situation, I couldn't do it, but after knowing Mo Yi's identity, I regretted it, I tried all the methods like crazy, trying to lift the curse, but ......."
"I can't unravel my curse, is that because you are not good at learning?" Hearing such a bloody explanation, Poppy couldn't help but mock twice.
"It was passed down by the elders of our Shamo clan by word of mouth, and the spell created by our ancestor Lord Kamai Yi himself could not be solved so easily, and since this curse was requested by the elders, naturally they would not tell me how to solve the curse.......
Hearing this all the time, Poppy finally understood what was going on, but she suddenly remembered something: "You mean you and Mo Yi knew each other before?" Or is it good-looking? β
The bottom of her heart suddenly went up and down, in fact, she regretted it after she asked that sentence, and she found that she was suddenly afraid of hearing Yaoji's answer, afraid of breaking the trust in that person in her heart.
"Maybe everything is my wishful thinking, Mo Yi probably won't fall in love with anyone...."Yao Ji's expression was even more gloomy when she said this.
"Before I became the Grand Wizard of the Brake Mo Clan, I had an encounter with Mo Yi." Speaking of that encounter, Poppy noticed that Yao Ji's expression at the moment bloomed with an indescribable look.
"Later, because of a moment of negligence, I fell into the adulterer's poison, resulting in a temporary blindness, and I was young and arrogant, so I naturally couldn't bear such a blow, and then I gave up on myself, and even tried to commit suicide..."Speaking of those seemingly tragic pasts, Yaoji's expression was not resentful, but a little happy, love, it's really a mysterious thing.
"And then?" Poppy tilted her head and patiently motioned for her to continue.
"A lot of things happened later, Mo Yi broke into the Kongming clan that was known as the Longtan Tiger's Den and had no return, and came back to find an antidote for me, so that my eyes could see again.."
Although I don't know what it is called the Kongming Clan, it sounds like it has gone through a lot of hardships, and it is no wonder that Yao Ji is so infatuated with such a man who values love and righteousness. Poppy seems to have some understanding.
"But at that time, he only vaguely knew that I was from Chamo, and he didn't know that I would eventually become the chief wizard of the Chamo clan, and I didn't know that he was from Nayu, and he never mentioned it. That's why in the end I made such an unforgivable mistake, and for 500 years, I never even dared to imagine how I should face him..."
"It's really a trick!" Poppy couldn't help but sigh after listening to it, Yaoji's sadness made her feel like her, but she couldn't understand why Yaoji's reincarnated self was also cursed: "But I've been reincarnated, why can't the curse disappear?" β
"I pondered for a long time, but I couldn't solve the spell I cast, in desperation, I simply cast this curse on myself, I was not yet eighteen at the time, I thought that using my reincarnated body of the god of ink to experiment, it should be easier to find a way to solve the curse........." At this time, Yaoji did not completely tell the truth, in fact, she cursed herself but a bet, betting that her eldest teacher and uncle would not save her, maybe some heavenly secrets would be leaked, But after all, she still overestimated her status in the hearts of her uncles!
"Did you fail then?" After asking this sentence, Poppy suddenly felt that his question was quite idiotic, since he still had the mark of Vermilion Bird on his body, it proved that Yao Ji must have failed.
"For a sorcerer, the greatest taboo is to cast a spell on himself. If you are not careful, you will go crazy and never recover. But at that time, I couldn't care so much, even if my soul was gone, I had to find a way to break the curse. When Yao Ji said this, she didn't even blink her eyelids, as if she was talking about someone else's family, but the words hit her heart
"But I finally went mad, I lost my mind and couldn't control the powerful power in my body, and I almost died with the city of Shamo, and the last few elder uncles almost exhausted their cultivation before they beat me into the dust, but my senior brother Wusu couldn't bear to see my primordial spirit destroyed, and begged my senior uncle and elder not to destroy my primordial spirit, as an alternative condition, he personally used a spell to seal my primordial spirit in this cold ice....."
Speaking of Senior Brother Wusu, Yao Ji's face seemed to have a faint trace of guilt.
"But I didn't expect my brother's spell to be so amazing, it took five hundred years for the power of this seal to weaken, and I fell into the present world and reincarnated, so now I only need you to help me unlock this ice seal, and our primordial spirit and physical body are combined into one, and we can obtain all my previous spiritual power, plus my five hundred years of dedicated cultivation, I think, now I should be able to find a way to unlock that curse."
When Poppy heard this, he suddenly hit a spirit, and all his consciousness instantly sobered up, if he had said something moving before, then at this moment it had been completely replaced by a kind of anger.
She couldn't help but roll her eyes, what the hell is this, what is this past and present life, feelings are just experiments and tools, cursed indiscriminately, chased and killed indiscriminately, life is messed up, and in the end, you have to share your body with others and be a puppet soul, what kind of thing is this?
Thinking about this, her tone was obviously displeased: "I think there are some things I want to explain, whether you are my past life or not, but since I have been reincarnated as a human, that is my life, and I don't think you have the right to decide other people's lives." Whether you want to break the spell or live forever, it has nothing to do with me. β
"If it weren't for my strength, you wouldn't have been able to suppress the power of the 'Vermilion Bird', and you wouldn't have been able to escape the pursuit of those Nayu people!" Yao Ji was not annoyed, but just spoke calmly.
This unrelenting attitude made Poppy even more angry: "Please! That's just a good thing you did! If it weren't for you willfully casting a spell on yourself, I wouldn't have been cursed by that Raushzi's 'Suzaku Death'!" And I don't need your strength either, I'll find a way to break the curse myself, so you'd better continue to be sealed. I'll pretend I haven't seen you and haven't heard about the past, goodbye! β
After speaking, she walked towards the blue glimmer of the first place without looking back, leaving Yao Ji in the cold ice looking at her distant back dumbfounded, unable to speak for a long time......