Chapter 40: The Loneliness of a Whistle
Perhaps, I was not good enough to climb this mountain, and when I looked at the snow-capped peak in the depths of the white clouds, he finally admitted this fact.
Whether it is in terms of personal physical fitness, or in terms of supplies, tools, or even mentally, it is indeed stupid to be unprepared in the early stage, and it is indeed a foolish performance to blindly hold on to the top of the mountain.
Since, as Shaoyi thought about a while ago, he believes that there is no real evil in the world, can it also be inferred that it seems that the mountain is full of dangers and viciousness that hinders him from climbing the mountain, but in fact, it is his own ability that is not enough to reach the top of the mountain.
The mountain is a part of nature, you climb it, you don't climb it, it lets you pass, it doesn't let you pass, it's all there.
To say that it is evil or auspicious, it is often given by people.
The real mountain only greets those who match it.
I'm going to come back! I'm going to grow my skills, and I'll be back in the mountains for a while.
Thinking of this, Shaoyi's frustrated mood relaxed, and he walked down the downhill where he could see the taiga.
At this moment, a black shadow was like a black cloud, cast on the road where Shaoyi was walking, and the black shadow flew behind Shaoyi in the direction directly in front of Shaoyi.
Shaoyi hurriedly turned around, and what he saw was still the old eagle, whose wings were spread like a strong wind, and he was chasing a bloated white-haired bear all the way.
On the vast snowfield, the fat white-haired bear saw that the situation was not good, threw away the bird egg in his palm, and began to run wildly. The old eagle was in a hurry, slammed down to the ground, grabbed his eggs, and flew into the sky, flying again in the direction of the icefall.
The white-haired bear kept running until he realized that the enemy had no intention of continuing the pursuit, and then he changed his flying run to a fast step, and gradually slowed down.
Don't look at the clumsy white-haired bear, but in a blink of an eye, it turned into a small white dot that was almost out of sight, which made Shaoyi laugh.
What's even more strange is that when the threatening enemy disappeared, the white-haired bear suddenly came to a four-limbed position, as if he had breathed a long sigh of relief, and lay on the ground.
It began to frantically shake its body. That action doesn't seem to be consciously self-driven, but more like a kind of madness after being tricked. I saw its fat body swinging frantically from side to side on all fours, shaking involuntarily......
In the blink of an eye, the white-haired bear finally stopped moving, regained its original state, became calm and relaxed, and took a slow pace and gradually walked away.
Obviously, the white-haired bear released an amazing explosive power due to the great pressure at the moment of life and death and tense confrontation just now, preparing for battle, escaping, and hunting.
Then, like a bamboo bent by an external force, at the moment when it can be released, the bent pillar immediately rebounded back to its original position, when everything returned to peace, the anxiety generated by the white-haired bear under extreme tension and fear was poured out through his effective madness, undulating and bumpy shaking, and finally, the white-haired bear was completely relieved and returned to a balanced and stable state of the body.
After understanding the polar bear's practice, he smiled less, and he also had to learn to follow the white-haired bear's wishes, and also learn to correct himself afterwards and return to normal.
So, Shaoyi concocted the skills he had learned from the white-haired bear in the same way, and when he felt hungry, he stopped, neatly cut off a piece of rabbit jerky with a boning knife, and then found some clean snow to boil and melt, and drank it.
When he was sleepy, he dug a half-underground snow cave nearby, and the cat spent half a night.
When you break through, you must be 100% combative, and when you are safe, you will admit it well, and you will be amazed while studying, Master White-haired Bear, you are really skilled in this move!
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Unconsciously, he has been walking for four days and four nights, but Shaoyi still hasn't walked out of this big ice field.
Since you can't go back, you can't go back to the area flooded by volcanic ash, how should you deal with it?
At this time, he didn't care about thinking so much, he preferred to be a person who saved himself with practical actions.
It seems that this high mountain is imperceptibly having some kind of influence on Shaoyi's body, and this influence is slowly contributing to some subtle changes......
Shaoyi didn't know exactly what that effect was, but he knew that there was something in him that had indeed changed. That is, he has never been so peaceful as he is now.
In the morning, when I woke up, the sun was shining on the snow on both sides of the valley, shimmering with a soft, unblinding white light.
Shaoyi turned his head and looked at the towering West Mountain main peak Gushan behind him, Gushan is still as solemn as the legend, and at the top of the mountain, there are faint white clouds floating lightly, adding a bit of mystery to Gushan.
Shaoyi looked at his long shadow on the snow, hehe, although he walked a few times on the edge of death, there was a natural threat from swamp devouring, storms and avalanches, there was a threat from magic like Big Black, and there was self-destruction brought about by the lonely demon in his heart......
However, in the face of these, Shaoyi still bravely survived these many days, hehe, Shaoyi thought to himself, he should praise himself as a newborn calf.
At this time, after the sun shines like this, people are really happy for no reason.
Suddenly, an answer popped up in his mind, and it turned out that the change in himself was that he no longer felt alone.
Not only that, but he also had a premonition that loneliness would no longer be as inseparable, sorrowful, and invincible as before. He could even endure the eagerness to see his relatives, but he only kept his head down and walked steadily, and had the patience to wait until eighty-one days later to see his relatives, because he was not so fragile......
Is this change in heart because all his attention has been focused on the thrilling road, which is used to deal with ice falls, ice crevasses, snowstorms, and even old eagles, and he has no time to think of loneliness or any other feelings?
Or is it because of every scene I have seen in the canopy of the old cedar king: the calm rustle, the silent starry sky, the sea of silver cedar leaves, and by the way, the wonderful cool breeze that I encountered unexpectedly...... The euphoria of all this gave him a constant peace?
Or maybe the golden retriever monkey (although it was exploited by the big black), the Shanba Gong, who gave him friendship, family affection, and even playmates?
Or perhaps, because Shaoyi deliberately expelled loneliness, he really freed up the space of his soul after emptying his loneliness, so that he could experience more graceful, complex, and different emotions and fill his heart?
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These are all reasons, and none of them are at all. Shaoyi looked at Da Gushan and smiled bitterly.
The reason is actually my own continuous failure!
It is failure that drives away the loneliness that erodes the heart.
Failure made Shaoyi's journey turn into a light dance, failure made him feel that he should not compete with the glacier and should treat himself wholeheartedly as a part of nature, and failure made Shaoyi accept that he was still a person with many shortcomings under his competitive spirit.
Only by calmly accepting defeat can we regain our courage and love ourselves.
Overcoming unexpected hardships and hardships along the way, Shaoyi accepted himself for the first time who didn't know martial arts, and respected his efforts to save himself bit by bit as a rookie.
Therefore, jointly, Shaoyi developed a love for all sentient and ruthless things around him, such as silver fir seedlings, golden monkeys, bees, old eagles, and white-haired bears......
A flower, a grass, a tree, a stone, or even a speck of dust...... Everything around makes Shaoyi's pair contain emotions, and they have become friends who are very close to Shaoyi's heart.
One less knows that when you no longer just focus on yourself, loneliness will no longer be with you.
On the contrary, solitude can become more interesting.
Coming out of loneliness is refreshed. Under the sunlight, the snow is warmed and shiny, and it is more loose to step on, accompanied by the crunch of clicking, and slowly descending one foot deeper, one foot shallow, one foot shallow.
At last, he arrived at the camp where he had first climbed, where the huts had not been disturbed by the wind and snow on the mountain, and looked the same as when Shaoyi set out.
In the grass hut, the firewood left in the stove before departure has burned out and turned cold, and the charcoal is covered with a thin layer of grass and wood ash.
Shaoyi grabbed a wooden stick and picked up the coals, threw the rabbit legs into it, and then covered the rabbit legs with the coals on both sides, and he broke a little honey and put it on the jerky.
The bonfire was in full swing, and through the coals, the dried meat made a "swish-" sound, and bursts of light smoke floated out of the cracks in the coals, accompanied by the sweet moisture of the honey penetrating into the shredded meat, and a tempting fragrance rushed into Shaoyi's nostrils.
Shaoyi stared at the pile of coals in front of him, and seemed to be able to see that the surface of the rabbit legs under the coals gradually turned golden, and the juice of the honey became gelatin and oil, and it was overflowing little by little......
Shaoyi forgot about hunger, forgot that he was under a grass hut that could be crushed by snow at any moment, and despite the danger, despite the hardship, he only felt happy.
This happiness comes from many days of hard work, from the honey-roasted rabbit meat that I don't know how much effort it took to promote, and even more from the loneliness that Shaoyi fell in love with, which can calmly blow the ups and downs and life and death dangers along the way into a whistle loneliness.
At this time, a lonely child is feasting on a lonely campfire on the frozen snowfield.
An old cough made Shaoyi prick up his ears.
"Shanbagong, do you want to take a bite?"
"Rustle - there was no darkness in the world, only the absence of light. When the light comes, the darkness is gone. Human awareness is the warm light of the night, which makes it easy for us to circumvent obstacles that try to trip us. Rustle-"
"The warm light you collected is so bright, Shanba Gong, I want to help you collect it when I grow up. ”
"Hehe—you know, unreleased emotions can easily trap us in the dark, causing irritability, violence, avoidance, withdrawal, depression, numbness, or like a wandering spirit, where the body is still moving, but the heart can't feel it, as if it has been withdrawn from the soul. Rustle-"
"Don't worry, Shanba Gong, a big tank full of water can't bear anything anymore. I'm not a big can, I'm the handle of a big can, every time I'm unhappy, or I miss my mother, I will use the handle of the jar to quickly pour out these bad moods. As soon as he spoke, he fell asleep soundly, a guy who had no heart and no lungs.
An old voice stayed with him like a lullaby: "Rustle-rustle-rustle-"
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In fact, there are still many questions in Shaoyi's mind...... For example, why would the feathers of a golden pheasant stick its wings on the old eagle to save itself?
For example, why did the Shanba Guild "light up" the silver light for him in time when he fell into darkness?
How did the injected juice fill the qi and blood instead of pinching each other?
Why did Dashan dissuade his reckless pace with words when his own conditions were not well prepared?
For another example, why was he able to burst out in an instant, break through the catastrophe of the collapse of the glacier, and be easily released by the swamp without resistance in an instant?
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Shaoyi didn't stop asking about the unknown.
The next day, Shaoyi was ready to hit the road again with some formed and unformed acquired experience. This time, he's taking a different path.
Instead of choosing to conquer the top of the lonely mountain again, this time, Shaoyi chose to pass through the winding path in the cave of Xishan Mountain and go straight out.
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It took about two months for Shaoyi to finally pass through the cave. Leisurely whistling and lonely out of the Great Lonely Mountain, embarked on the journey to the plains.
Standing on the plain, he looked back and took a deep look at the snowy peaks of the mountains when he came.
He silently told Gushan in his heart: I will come back.