Volume 1 The Rise of Darkness Chapter 55 The Song of Sorrow
Zhou Chang was originally very smart, but his experience in life was relatively shallow, so he couldn't hear Changling's nonsense, so he sneered twice in his heart and calmed down, "If I say it, will you really let me go?"
When Changling heard him say this, he thought that he had guessed correctly, and his spirits perked up, but he still had a cold expression on his face, "You have no other choice." ”
Zhou Chang deliberately gasped, "You get closer, I don't have much strength." ”
He deliberately pretended to be weak when he spoke, as if he might fall down at any moment.
Changling did not doubt Zhou Chang's performance, glanced at Zhou Chang coldly, and strode towards Zhou Chang.
Just when Changling was only two steps away from Zhou Chang, Zhou Chang clenched his fist tightly, and when Changling took a step forward and stood unsteadily, Zhou Chang took a steep step forward with his left foot, and hit Changling on the chest with both fists at the same time.
Changling has been with Zhou Chang all the time, this kid hasn't eaten for a day, and he has been running around all day, and at the same time, the whole person is in fear and nervousness. Anyone who understands some principles of the human body knows that ordinary people are already at the end of their crossbows at this time, and they can't exert much strength at all, so he has no defense against Zhou Chang at all.
When Zhou Chang punched Changling, Changling didn't believe it, he just thought it was in a dream, but he soon felt the impact of power. At this time, he wanted to use the true qi in his body to resist, but it was too late. His body fell backwards several times under the impact of the force from Zhou Chang, and finally he didn't stand firm, and fell to the ground on his back.
Zhou Chang succeeded in his blow, and did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but ran towards the forest in front.
Changling was knocked to the ground by Zhou Chang, ashamed and annoyed, and stood up with a slump of his body. As soon as I stood up, I felt something pressing against my chest, and it was stuffy and painful. He tried to take a step forward, but he didn't expect this movement, and his heart felt as if he had been smashed with a fist, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Zhou Chang, you little bastard, I must kill you. Changling seemed to have fallen into extreme madness, and his speech was no longer his usual cold air, but a little more manic.
After Zhou Chang got into the woods, he didn't dare to run in a straight line, and every time he ran a section, he changed directions.
I don't know how long he ran, he felt like he had entered the depths of the woods, and when he looked behind him, there seemed to be no movement, so he stopped, leaned against the tree, and gasped for breath in a low voice.
After resting for a while, he began to run towards the front again, he didn't know if he could escape from Changling's poisonous hands, but as long as there was a glimmer of hope, he had to escape, not for himself, but for Grandma Han and the fat man.
The moon in the sky penetrated through the dense foliage, and the light penetrating was very faint, so that people could only see the position of the tree clearly, and it hit the tree when it was not placed to move.
Touching the dark, Zhou Chang didn't know how long he had walked, he stopped when he was tired, and took a breath, he didn't dare to stay longer, because that guy in Changling was too fast, and after a long time, he would be discovered.
This forest was far larger than the other woods that Zhou Chang had walked in the 100,000 Barren Mountains, and when the sky was bright, he was still wrapped in dense trees.
Zhou Chang looked at the slightly pale sky, touched the belly that was so deflated that it was almost sticking to his back, and suddenly remembered that there were still a few bird eggs in his pockets that he picked up yesterday.
He took out two eggs from his pocket, cracked the shell, and drank the yolk and egg whites inside. Then, in a different direction, I continued to run.
The sun rose higher and higher, and soon bright mottled colors appeared throughout the woods.
Zhou Chang wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking at the woods that could not be seen, he was a little anxious, he guessed that he should be lost. After settling down, I remembered the method I used to get lost in the woods of Mt. Luxe in the past, which was to make a mark on the tree.
So every time he walked a hundred steps away, he left a mark on a big tree, and in order to prevent Changling from discovering these marks, Zhou Chang made the mark very secretive.
After walking for another distance, the sun shone in the middle, Zhou Chang drank two more bird eggs, rested for a while, and continued to walk, not going far, when there was a rustling sound behind him.
Zhou Chang's heart tightened, his pace quickened, and in a panic, he didn't pay attention to the ground, he tripped over a stone, and he stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Although he stood firm, his foot hitting the stone still made him bruise in pain.
He looked back at the stone and saw that it was a lying stone man, half of his body already submerged in the dirt.
Looking at the stone man carefully, it was a man in armor, and the figure was lifelike, if it weren't for the closeness, Zhou Chang would mistake it for a real person.
The whole body of the stone figure is pale gray, and the carving is very fine. The stone man was wearing a prismatic suit of armor and a helmet on his head, and in the middle of the helmet was carved a strange flower, which looked like a lotus and a rose, to be exact, a combination of the two.
This kind of flower, Zhou Chang felt as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Zhou Chang didn't stay long, looked at it for a while, and then continued to walk forward.
He hadn't gone far before he found two more stone figures, a man and a woman, the man was similar to the stone man lying on the ground. The woman's stone figure was wearing a long skirt with a flower like a lotus and a rose carved on it. The woman's hands were overlapped on her lower abdomen, and there was a small dark cyan bronze mirror between her hands.
When Zhou Chang saw the shape of the female stone man, he seemed to think of something, and shouted in a lost voice: "Pilia." ”
He finally remembered that the female forbidden master of the demon clan that he met in the palace of Night City, Piali, was dressed like this. That strange flower, Taizhang originally called him a bone flower.
Looking at these two stone figures, Zhou Chang felt a little frightened in his heart, as if he had a premonition that there might be danger on the road ahead, but there was a guy behind him, so he could only bite the bullet and go deeper.
He hadn't gone far before he found several more stone figures, which were almost the same as the male and female stone figures he had seen earlier. It's just that there are some more nicks on these stone figures, like swords slashed out.
After walking forward for a while, he suddenly found that there was a palace not far ahead, the palace was very dilapidated, and in front of the palace, countless stone figures were stacked together, dilapidated. The wide walls of the outer courtyard had collapsed for the most part, the tall stone pillars were entwined with vines, and the entire palace was almost in ruins.
Zhou Chang hesitated for a moment, but still walked in the direction of the palace. As soon as he walked into the palace area, he found that the trees around the palace were twice as tall as the other trees, and Zhou Chang felt very strange this time.
He looked closely at the trees, some of them looked like metasequoias, but the trunks were covered with conical spikes, and the branches were hung with red fruit, a bit like apples, but the cut was only the size of dates.
Zhou Chang looked at the red fruit, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, he wanted to pick a few to quench his hunger and thirst, but when he saw the tree trunk full of spikes, he could only shake his head helplessly.
He stepped around the piles of stone figures and walked towards the palace.
The top of the palace has collapsed, but the bottom is still intact. The gates of the palace are made of wood, and although they are painted, they are old and have been eroded by green fungus.
Zhou Chang walked over and pushed the door open. As soon as the wooden door was pushed open a little gap, a thick layer of dust rushed out, choking Zhou Chang and coughing.
Zhou Chang had no choice but to cover his nose and push the door, and when the door opened, he only heard a bang, and a big stone fell under his feet, almost hitting his feet.
Zhou Chang was startled, and looked at the falling boulder, which was round and smooth, and there seemed to be a pattern painted with colored pens on it, but it was very old, and most of the painted paint had peeled off, so he couldn't see what was being painted.
Zhou Chang looked up again, and the roof collapsed in large areas, but fortunately it was intercepted by a few thick round beams, otherwise, the entire palace would not be able to enter at all.
Still, smaller rubble bricks that had collapsed were piled up all over the palace. Zhou Chang stepped over the stacks of rubble and walked towards a door on his left.
The beams of the door were broken, and the falling mud bricks almost obscured the door, leaving only the outline of a door.
Zhou Chang moved the bricks away, revealing a gap, then drilled in, blocked the bricks and stones, and said proudly: Master, I hide in here, I don't believe that Changling, a bastard, can still find me.
Just as he was smug, a woman's soft singing voice suddenly came from behind him:
The ancient Tibetan bone flower, slowly blooming with sorrow
Your melancholy makes me feel inexplicably lovesick
I want to use your flowers to decorate my long hair
But you are as cold as ice, and you pierce my heart deeply
Although, being rejected by you can't stop me from being crazy attached to you
Crazy for you, live up to the spring of life
For your pleasure, taboo flowers and thousands of flowers
Tibetan bone flowers, tears are desolate, heaven and earth are not merciful, my heart is vain
For a lifetime, just for you, I have no regrets
The song is sad and mournful, and when people hear it, they will cry unconsciously.
Zhou Chang wiped a handful of tears from his eyes, turned around and looked behind him, but did not see anyone. What's even stranger is that as soon as he turned around, the graceful singing stopped abruptly.
He was stunned for a moment, and looked at the room, although most of the room had collapsed, but from the remnants of the decoration and exquisite carvings of the room, it could be concluded that it must have been very luxurious and exquisite before.
Inadvertently, Zhou Chang glanced at the corner in front of the left, where there was a statue of a woman more than one meter high. At first glance, I thought it was a living person, and the carving was so fine that it was impeccable.
The woman's facial features were exquisite, the expression on her face was tinged with resentment and sadness, and her long hair was adorned with a pale pink and translucent bone flower.
The woman was wearing a long dress that fell to the ground, and in her left hand she was holding a bronze mirror with many strange runes engraved on the side of the mirror. With his right hand, he holds the orchid finger and points ahead.
The more Zhou Chang looked at this statue, the more he felt that this statue seemed to have life, and he had a strong feeling that the soft and graceful singing voice just now came from the mouth of this statue.
"Tibetan Bone Flower?" Zhou Chang thought thoughtfully as he looked at the pale pink and reddish bone flower in the statue's hair.
The bone flower is different from the showiness of other flowers, it is like a dignified and magnificent queen, not to mention picking, even after looking at it for a long time, I feel that it is disrespectful.
In just a few seconds, Zhou Chang's gaze moved away from the bone flower and landed on a white stone pillar to the left of the statue.
The white stone pillar was somewhat cracked, and it was carved with patterns of the bones of various creatures.
Zhou Chang couldn't help but walk over when he saw those patterns, those bone patterns were no different from the bone characters he had seen before, he frowned, "Strange, how can there be bone characters here? Could it be that this is also the remains of ancient gods who lived?"
When Zhou Chang's eyes moved away from the statue, the soft singing voice sounded again, echoing in his ears. But the strange thing is that when Zhou Chang looked at the statue again, the graceful singing stopped abruptly again.
Zhou Chang tried to look away again, but the corner of his eye was still on the statue.
The song didn't sound, and it seemed that the statue could sense that Zhou Chang was still looking at it.
Although Zhou Chang felt that this matter was a bit weird, he couldn't leave here. Thinking in his heart, he spent the night here, and after letting Changling go away, he turned back along the marks he had made along the way.
After making up his mind, Zhou Chang found a clean place to sit down, and took out the two remaining bird eggs to drink. I stretched and was about to close my eyes and fall asleep.
Just as he closed his eyes, the song inadvertently sounded again.
I don't know if he was too tired, or if he was used to this weird environment, Zhou Chang didn't pay attention to the soft and poignant singing, but took the singing as a lullaby, and fell asleep under the guidance of the singing.