Xingtai Town, when travelers pass by, they will stop in front of the large stone pillar standing in the center of the town under the guidance of the elderly mayor, which is a purely natural creation, the interior is hollow, the top of the pillar is in the shape of a ladder, you can stand people, it is rumored that someone has been suffering from an incurable disease for their parents all year round to seek medicine all year round to no avail, and when desperate climb to the top of the pillar to pray to the sky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Later people carved the uneven inner wall into steps, people can go through the interior to the top of the column, and there are old rangers standing on the top of the column and looking around the sky, saying that the center of the starry sky gathers, if one day the gods are angry, the sky here will be the only window to open with their good intentions, and this rumor is not known to be credible.

Halfway through the first year of the war, the flames of war had almost covered most of the Moonlit Realm, and the stone pillars had been mercilessly bombarded by magic, and now only a pile of rubble was piled up in the middle of the town, and no one cared for it. Then the town of Xingtai also fell into ruins.

The bearded man's father built a stable here, raised horses with his own hands, and sent them away one by one, died and was buried underground, and the place where the town is connected to the wild to the west is his family's sweet potato field.

Now, all this is just a flower in the mirror, meaningless.

Where it all ends.

In the distance of the street outside the town, there were galloping black dots, which gradually magnified and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard more and more impatiently, and the noise of trampling on the ground was heard, and more often than not, the sound dissipated on the thick snowdrifts, and there was only a muffled sound.

The people in the town who were struggling to survive left the ruined walls one after another, wrapped their arms tightly around their thinly clothed bodies, and crowded around the entrance of the town, staring wide and sticking out their necks to look up, like forgotten Wangfu stones, and all the faces revealed that they couldn't wait, and they couldn't wait for the carriage in the distance to come in front of them in the next second.

It's like an instinct that has been imprinted in the bodies of these people, and it has become the only way of life that they have when they are the only one who lives.

Then the carriage finally came, and it was not a long convoy like in the past, there was no large amount of goods piled up on the carriage and tied up with a rope covered with cloth, and no riders who drove got out of the car to unpack the goods. But the men approached the back of the carriage quickly, and could not discern from the faces of these people whether they were suspicious or not, only their instinctive hunger and thirst in their actions, their expressions unchanged, their eyes glazed over, their faces hideous, their open lips and teeth sticking to their saliva, sliding up and down their yellowed teeth.

This time, they did not get the relief they had hoped for, it was not a convoy of food, it was just an ordinary carriage, on which there was nothing in the empty carriage, and the body of a man who looked like a sleeping man was lying in it.

So people let out different mutters, expressing their disappointment and leaving.

"Help him, save him, is there anyone who can help, please save him!" The man who was ignored by the crowd, but the man lying on the horse shouted to the people around him, calling for help.

No one responded.

Even for the rescue convoys, these people will always focus only on what is on board, not on the people who drive.

"Please, please, somebody's going to help, anyone's help, anyone?" the boy's voice was very clear in this place, everything around him was so silent, no one sounded, no natural sound, the snow fell silently, only the boy's own hiss could be heard cracking his lungs, as if it was the only sound here, the first sound after a long time.

The people were gone, just as they had just come closer, and now they were going back to the broken or collapsed walls, leaning and sitting, staring at the sky in a daze, repeating the same thing, without saying a word.

"I beg you! Anyone can do anything, just save him! I can ......do whatever I want!" the boy looked around, looking at the crowd, at the figures that were gradually departing from both sides, and he grabbed the arms of those men, but was pulled down from his horse and fell to the ground by those who were walking with his steps.

"I beg you, is there anyone who ......" Sora just got up from the snow and grabbed the ankle of a man who walked by, he pulled back, and the man walked forward, and his two weak bodies fell to the ground at the same time.

"Can you save him, I beg you," Sora lifted his white face, which had been smeared with snowflakes, and looked at the person who was being held by him, "He, he's hurt." ”

The man who was dragged down turned sideways, he was not angry at the empty and unreasonable behavior, the empty and the man looked at each other, and they were stunned for a moment, it was better to say that the information revealed by the person's face seemed to have lost even the basic reaction of anger, it was just a pair of dry white cheeks, a cheek that seemed to stand but was full of old appearance, the wooden expression and empty eyes seemed to convey a meaning, "What are you doing?" "What is saving him?" "Why did I do that...... Even if you don't say anything, you can vaguely understand it.

The empty hands unloaded unconsciously, and the freed people got up and returned to the ranks of the villagers who had returned the same way, and there was no one around them, and Sora watched as the people walked back to the town with their emaciated bodies, and their mouths were still making sounds like machines, getting smaller and smaller.

"Please, save him, is there anyone, is there anyone ......" from shouting to choking.

Why, no one......

Sora suddenly felt that this was not a living town, why did those people's expressions think that they were saying, what is saving people, why should they save people, as if saving people does not exist in their concepts at all.

The horse hung its head and made a mournful voice at the empty lying on the ground, blowing its warm breath on the empty cheeks, although the animal did not know that the hot breath it exhaled was completely cold the moment it touched the outside air, this weather was so cold that people were chilled inside and out.

Sora climbed back into the car and touched the tall man's body, the tall man still had his eyes closed, and his body was almost cold compared to before. Sora pushed his body and leaned into his ear to call him, but he still couldn't wake him up.

One day later, Sora rode through the ruined town with the body of a tall man, and he did not know how to set up a horse, and the horse, which relied purely on animal instinct, would no longer walk on his own after returning to his birthplace, but still followed Sora, as if he regarded Sora as the last person to depend on for his life. Three shadows could be seen everywhere on the small roads of this town, the villain carrying the adult, and the horse that was no longer pulling the cart followed two paces behind.

But none of the people who were crouching by the wall looked at them. Sora asked for help from everyone he met, and he knelt on the ground and asked for help, knocking his head to ask for help, but to no avail.

Eventually, there were fewer and fewer people to be seen on the road, and there were no more people alive until a hundred meters away, and Sora felt that he had reached the other end of the town, and he had at last walked the whole town, and had witnessed the collapsed stone pillar once, though he could not have recognized it as the town marker that he had seen in the books of the mansion many years earlier.

But they got nothing. He sat on his knees, leaning limply against a wall, like the walking dead people of this town, holding the tall body, which was already stiff, and he cried. The horse leaned over to Sora and squatted down, Sora could feel the animal shivering, probably unable to endure the cold, in fact, he himself was about to be frozen, frozen to the point that he even lost his perception of the outside world, the slow heartbeat came through the horse's belly, Sora could also feel the temperature of this life, like the last trace of heat in the world.

He was still crying, and no one could hear him.

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Sora saw the night sky again in his dream, and he woke up in that snowy field, chasing the only touch of night that had gone to the edge of the sky, stepping on the snow that could bury his ankles, and running as if he were flying.

That day, why didn't he die, why did he wake up in those days, and let him see the scene that seemed to exist forever in the illusion, he thought like this, the bearded man once said that since the beginning of the war, the sky has been strangely completely covered by gray haze, although there have been rumors and legends, if he can really see the night sky reappear in such an era one day, probably he will be the one who has been redeemed in this world.

Sleeping in the snowdrift and the cold like that was fatal, and when Sora woke up again, he was attracted by a familiar fragrance that he had not heard for a long time, and he was startled, and immediately shook the horse next to him, and carried the tall man's body on his back, but the tall man was twice as big as him, and he grabbed the tall man's arm with great difficulty, and the tall man's lower body was still dragging on the snow, and Sora pursued the smell as he moved forward.

The smell frantically stimulated his taste buds and nerves, who would have thought that in such a world, in such a dead town, such a tempting smell could appear, reminded him of countless nights before, the three of them sat around the fire, waiting for the wolf meat to be roasted.

As if he had found a life-saving oasis in the desert, he couldn't wait to walk towards it.