Chapter 8: Boiling Purple Fire
In the quiet woods, the birds are crying, accompanied by the slight fluttering wind, flapping their soft wings excitedly, ready to show their sassy and heroic posture. A young woman walked slowly along the path at the edge of the woods with a little girl with pigtails. Next to the path is a pool of clear water, and between the criss-crossed aquatic plants in the pool, there are swimming fish flashing by from time to time, like a dream. Here, it's the Fire Cloud Star. It's just that even in such a beautiful scenery, the mother and daughter don't see a happy face.
The woman looks no more than twenty years old, with a delicate melon seed face, and her appearance is indescribably beautiful. It's just that her hair is a little messy at the moment, her eye sockets are a little sunken, and although she has a smile on her face, the smile is miserable white - especially when she is lined with the miserable white clothes. As for the little girl, she looked no more than four or five years old, and was wearing a fiery red dress. The color of the fiery red dress was very bright, and the color was probably similar to the blood gushing from the main artery.
The little girl was innocent and old, but she didn't smile and kept her mouth open. The child's heart is the most sensitive, even if she doesn't understand what is happening, she can feel the mother's depression. In this short period of time, she often met her mother in tears, but every time her mother saw her, she immediately pretended to be fine, which made her very confused. The little girl's name is Shangguan Yun, and because of her family, she understands far more things than her peers, but after all, she is only five or six years old now, and she can't fully understand the true meaning of many things. What's more, adults want to give their children a relatively relaxed childhood, and many things are avoiding her.
"Mommy,......" The little girl wanted to say something, but looked at her mother's haggard face and stopped again.
"Yun'er, what's wrong, is there anything uncomfortable?" Facing the little girl, the young mother still forced a smile that seemed as kind as possible.
However, the woman's smile at this time was seen by the little girl, but it was very cold. With the little girl's current mind, she could not read her mother's expression, she only felt that she was scared when she looked at her mother's expression. No, not a fear, it's a feeling she doesn't understand herself. This feeling made her want to cry involuntarily, but at this time, she could clearly feel her mother's concern for her. She could clearly feel her mother's sadness, and she didn't want to cause trouble for her. However, she was only a fifty or six-year-old child, and many of these things were flashes of her subconscious, and her mind was not enough to deal with such complex feelings.
"Wow wow......" A crisp cry suddenly exploded, startling the birds to croak, flap their wings in a panic and scatter. After staring at her mother for a short time, the little girl's gaze was a little glazed, and all kinds of feelings flashed through her, and finally turned into a howling cry.
"Yun'er, Yun'er, what's wrong with you?" the woman couldn't help but panic, and while asking with concern, she naturally held the little girl in her arms.
"Mom, I... I miss my father...... "Actually, the little girl herself didn't know why she wanted to cry. But after saying this, she couldn't suppress her inner feelings at all, and really cried openly.
Why doesn't the woman understand that her daughter's smile has decreased recently, and she is not as lively as before. The little girl could feel her sadness, how could she, as a mother, not understand her daughter's thoughts. Mother and son are connected, but it's not just talking. The reason why she hugged the little girl for the first time was because at the moment when her daughter cried, the corners of her own eyes couldn't help but moisten all of a sudden. It's just that at this time, she doesn't want her daughter to see her weak side. Human feelings are like that, they are easy to transmit. Although the woman was on the verge of crying all the time, she was actually able to endure it in front of people. The little girl's crying pulled the last tight string in her heart, so that she couldn't help crying.
However, at this time, the crying of the mother and daughter was different. The little girl was really crying loudly, and the mother was just silently crying. Although both are crying, the catharsis of feelings is never a bad thing. The mother and daughter snuggled up to each other quietly, but the depressed mood was much relieved.
"Mom, why hasn't Dad come to talk to Yun'er yet? Is Dad not wanting us anymore?" After a long time, the tears of the two gradually put away, but the little girl suddenly asked such a sentence with a crying voice.
The woman didn't expect the little girl to suddenly ask such a question, and was stunned for a moment before answering bitterly, "Silly child, how can you think of Dad so much, Dad loves Yun'er the most." ”
"Mom lied, Dad didn't come back for half a year. And the time for my dad to communicate and chat with us is getting shorter and shorter, and last time I didn't say a few words to my father, my father ignored me. Why is that, Mommy? Is Daddy not wanting us?" the little girl was puzzled, although Dad used to be away from home a lot, but he would talk to her for a long time almost every day. Because she has been using projection communication, she does not have much distance from her father. It's just that in the past six months, everything has changed.
"Dad is the head of state, Dad can't be busy! Yun'er can't speak ill of her father anymore, then Mom and Dad will be very sad, and they will ignore you in the future!" The woman's tone was a little stern, although she loved her daughter, she couldn't allow her daughter to talk nonsense in this regard. At this moment, her heart was indescribably uncomfortable.
"Mom, is the war really that important? Grandparents are gone, uncles and aunts are gone, uncles and aunts are gone, and now Dad is gone...... Yun'er wants her father, Yun'er doesn't want war!", the little girl burst into tears again.
"Yun'er doesn't cry, Yun'er doesn't cry......" The woman didn't know how to answer, but comforted the little girl. Who wants this war to happen, but what can it do when everyone is unprepared? At the thought of the burly man's thinning figure for half a year, and his resolute eyes that had never changed, her heart twitched again, "You rushed in so directly, and you didn't see us for the last time...... It's only been three days, and the Frontier has already fallen...... I want to accompany you, but Yun'er is still young, what should I do? Although the fire domain is large, can there be a place for Yun'er in the future? Come back quickly, what should I do?!"
The rest of the words were the woman talking to herself, she muttered at first, but almost roared later. The little girl was frightened by her mother again and was speechless. Seeing this, the woman reacted and hurriedly hugged the little girl, "Yun'er, don't be afraid, mother will take care of Yun'er, mother will protect Yun'er, mother will ......" She comforted the little girl, this seemed to be said to the little girl, and it seemed to be said to herself. But in fact, I think it's both.
The little girl suddenly broke out of her mother's embrace, stared into her mother's eyes, and asked in a trembling tone, "Mommy, Dad, is it...... Can't come back......" Because she was still crying before, she didn't hear her mother's words clearly, but she vaguely heard her mother's words. The little girl wanted to say that she was dead, but she was afraid to say the word. In half a year, her grandfather and uncle embarked on the journey one after another, and she never saw them again. Several people told her they were dead, which gave her a vague understanding of the meaning of the word death. However, now she suddenly realized that her father seemed to be doing the same thing. She was really afraid to say that word, but in the dark, she had such a very bad feeling: her father was probably really dead.
"No, it's not......" The woman looked at the clear look in her daughter's tearful eyes, not knowing what to do. However, just as she wanted to say something more, the words came to her lips and she swallowed them again. Her eyes were wide open, a rich purple flashing in her eyes, and her face was full of unspeakable shock.
In the woman's eyes, a little girl suddenly burst out with a burst of purple light, almost blinding her eyes. After a moment, her vision recovered, only to find that everything in front of her had changed. The woods were gone, and there was still some char on the distant hillside, and the small pool beside him was gone, but his mother and daughter seemed to be in the lowest place in this area. There was water rushing straight around, but it was still more than ten meters away, and it turned into mist and roared towards the sky. The mother looked at her daughter's current appearance, completely speechless, and her expression was frozen there.
I saw that the ground under the feet of the two of them was now in a smooth and huge hemispherical shape, and the position where the mother and daughter were standing was exactly at the lowest point of this dense and smooth rock pit. At this moment, the little girl's body was lying in the air at a sixty-degree angle, and her toes were still a foot away from the ground, but her closed expression seemed to show that she was asleep. What is even more strange is that the little girl is now covered in purple light that seems to be a flame, her clothes have long since disappeared, even the gold necklace that hung around her neck has disappeared, but there is not even a trace of burnt hair on her own body. At this moment, her whole body was exuding a faint white halo, and the purple fire was trembling outside with the white light, and the purple intent was constantly increasing. The woman looked at the changes in the surrounding environment, and then looked at the purple flame that wrapped the little girl, and the scorching heat made her heart tremble.
"Where did the purple flame come from? Why did it just appear here? The flame didn't seem to cause harm to Yun'er, could it be caused by something that happened to Yun'er? But just now her mood was very unstable, and it was hard to guarantee that nothing would happen...... But no matter how big the mood swings are, how can this be? It seems that this has never happened in the long history of the Fire Clan...... What the hell is going on?!" The woman's tears had disappeared, and the sudden change made her have too many shocks and questions, and this huge shock made her forget her grief for a while. At the same time, such a strange thing happened to her own daughter, which made her very worried...... In the dark, she had a very bad feeling, but for a while she couldn't tell what the reason was.