Chapter 17: The Night of the Red Moon
At the end of the 100-year World War Period, Blue Ocean City had been in existence for about 400 years. In the course of such a long time, the town has changed, but not in size.
Time came to the first hundred years of the World War Period, in the summer of this year, the sky was full of stars, in the year when the yellow sand was raging, this was a very rare night, and the blue sea city under the cover of night was somewhat cool by the sea breeze. In a forest outside Blue Ocean City, two wet hands stretched out from a dry well underground, and then a damp black shadow crawled out, and several crows flew away from the branches in fright, and the black shadow paced and disappeared into the dark forest of night.
In the blue ocean city the next day, pedestrians walking in the streets and alleys began to discuss.
"Have you heard? There was a man standing in front of the broken door of Nanjie Port asking for food, and he was drenched, as if he had just crawled out of the sea. A chubby woman said.
"I've heard that. Dressed in a torn black robe, dressed like a person who specializes in praying to God and worshiping Buddha, he is a Taoist, but how can he live so down. Another chubby woman replied.
"Who knows, Ba Bucheng is a stinky begging for food, but it's just different from other stinky food-begging dresses. ”
"Whatever, it's better to stay away from such people, it's easy to bring some diseases. ”
The two middle-aged women shivered and walked away, and their words happened to be heard by Ruxue, a girl selling bread on the side. With curiosity, Ruxue closed the old store door and walked towards the broken wooden door of Nanjie Port.
The beggar who came into front of him when he walked to Nanjie Port was none other than Ma Jiu, the great wizard who had been sleeping for seven hundred years. Many people gathered around Ma Jiu to look around, and several kind-hearted old men took the initiative to go up and ask him who he was and where he came from. Ma Jiu looked left and right as if he had lost his memory, he had forgotten everything, and the anxious and anxious Ma Jiu kept shaking his head like a fool, and kept shouting: "I don't know, I don't know anything." ”
A couple of young men with hippie smiles stepped forward, and they shouted, "I see, this is a deserter." Don't get us in trouble, get him out of here, big guy. After finishing speaking, the two arrogant prime-aged men kicked Ma Jiu twice, and Ruxue stepped forward and yelled at the ruffians when she saw this: "You have caused enough trouble, why don't you leave." After finishing speaking, she squatted down and looked at Ma Jiu tenderly and said, "Don't worry, think about it again." Ma Jiu still couldn't think of anything, everyone talked and said, "It turned out to be a fool!" After some banter, everyone walked away boringly, and no one cared about the life or death of this down-and-out person. Ruxue felt pity, she looked at the scattered crowd and said softly to Ma Jiu: "You come to me first, I'll make you a few cakes to eat, maybe you will remember after eating." Ma Jiu looked at Ruxue's eyes for a long time before getting up and following Ruxue back to the cake shop.
Ruxue's family is very poor, and there is nothing in the dark dilapidated house except a broken wooden bed, a broken table, and a stove. Ruxue's mother was seriously ill and had been lying in the haystack next to the stove, and although Ma Jiu couldn't remember anything, he was still moved by such a scene. So, Ma Jiu helped tidy up the house inside and out. Ruxue saw that he was very diligent and not a bad person, so she let him stay, and in this way, the great wizard who had been beautiful for thousands of years finally settled in a shop that sold cakes.
Since then, the cake shop like snow has an additional capable laborer, although at the beginning many people talked about a down-and-out person like Ma Jiu, but after a long time, everyone has become accustomed to it, after all, he has not brought misfortune to anyone. Ruxue gave Ma Jiu a strange name "Da Nian", Ma Jiu is no longer able to recover his memory, including remembering his name, getting along for more and more time makes Ruxue not want him to remember the past, because she has gradually fallen in love with this person who doesn't know how many years older than her. Ma Jiu, who had lost his memory, instead had a sense of his children's affection, after all, after such a long time, he was no longer the cold-blooded wizard who was cold and cold-blooded to the world, and he gradually fell in love with Ruxue.
In this way, neither of them said those three words to anyone, but they fell in love. A few years later, on a beautiful evening, Ma Jiu took Ruxue, who had been pregnant for four months, to the beach for a walk. The tide ripples back and forth, the sea breeze softly passes through love, a white moon hangs in the distant sky, and the huge sunset is red by love and is about to set down the mountain.
"You say, what is the name of our child?" Ruxue said affectionately as she looked at Ma Jiu. Ma Jiu looked at the coastline and said with a smile: "The white moon rises in the east and the stars set in the morning, if it is a boy, it is called the white moon, if it is a girl, then it is called the star fall, how about it?" Ruxue snuggled up to him and thought for a while and said, "The white moon is not as good as the white moon." Ma Jiu also touched her face affectionately and said, "That boy, we will call Yuebai." After finishing speaking, Ma Jiu coughed heavily.
More than six months later, Ruxue gave birth to Ma Jiu smoothly with two children, a boy and a girl. According to the name chosen before, the male is called Yuebai, and the female is called Xingluo. At the same time as the happy event came, another thing happened that made Ruxue collapse. Ma Jiu's illness is getting worse and worse, and no doctor knows what kind of disease he has. Ruxue took care of her two children and her husband every day, but something unfortunate still happened, and one night a year later, Ma Jiu's condition became more urgent and never eased up, and a generation of great wizards died in that broken cake shop. The destitute Ruxue buried her husband, and took her two lonely children to the road of begging with no way out.
After Ma Jiu's death, those who liked to talk in Blue Ocean City began to mumble again. "Back then, I said that the man's life was not good, but Ruxue, a stupid girl, didn't listen and took it home. The two of them can still give birth to children, what a sin, how can she support these two children. A man who usually likes to talk about gods and gods said, "The first time I saw that man, I felt that there was an evil spirit in him, and I guess it wouldn't be passed on to the rest of us in the city." Another one-eyed man who was doing divination next to him suddenly said, "I think this woman is also responsible for this result." Haven't you heard that old story?" Everyone asked in surprise, "What old story?" The one-eyed man said lightly: "Legend has it that there is a group of devils who will come out of the evil darkness and tear apart the purest and truest love in the world. The devil will leave something to end this love, didn't we have a terrible lake in Blue Ocean City before? maybe, that is the devil's lair. After the one-eyed man finished speaking, he immediately attracted the dissatisfaction of a group of people, "You can do it, you know that it scares people, and the devil still has something left, you look at what Ruxue has become, it's good if you don't take something." After the joke, everyone dispersed, leaving only the one-eyed man smiling wickedly in the corner.
Under such difficult conditions, Ruxue has lived with her children for more than 20 years, and the two children have grown up. When he grew up, Yuebai had a strong body, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a beard like his father, while Xingluo had long hair, a pointed face, and thick eyebrows were as beautiful as her mother. And Ruxue, who is nearly half a hundred years old, no longer has the strength to live, and passed away peacefully on a midwinter morning, leaving only the two siblings of Yuebai and Xingluo to depend on each other.
The New Year of the 125th year of the World War has just ended, and most of the world has survived another difficult year under the shadow of war and yellow sand, and people are looking forward to regaining hope in the midst of disappointment again and again. At this time, in the northern Suye City, tens of thousands of righteous forward troops had marched on the road of conquest that seemed to be victorious.
One evening in February, by a stream in Blue Ocean City, a woman was washing clothes in the clear water, and suddenly a man secretly approached her from behind, and the kung fu man who waited for the woman to reach out and unfold her clothes hugged her from behind.
"Ahh The woman said as she leaned her face against the man's face.
"I'm not tired of washing clothes, if I'm not tired, I still have a bunch of dirty clothes to wash together. The man joked.
"You're so beautiful, you don't feel sorry for me at all! If the water is so cold, don't wash it for me, let me wash you, I don't want to pay attention to you." The woman said coquettishly, and then picked up the barrel and stood up.
The man hurriedly kissed her, "I'm kidding, don't wash your clothes, wash them for me." When you pass the door, I will wash your clothes, go, I will take you to the hills over there to play, I heard that there are some wild chrysanthemums there, I will go and weave a flower basket for you. Didn't you say that the flower baskets I made were better than the ones I weaved?" After saying that, he took the woman and ran to the hill to the south, and the woman smiled from ear to ear, put down her clothes, and went with him.
The woman's name was Ruolin, and the man's name was Yuancheng, both young people in their early twenties. Ruolin is a child of a relatively wealthy family, beautiful, tall, thick-eyed, and shy. Yuan Cheng is a poor guy, not tall but strong and honest, kind and kind. They grew up together, childhood sweethearts, and admired each other. They all live in Blue Ocean City, and they are very good friends with Moon White and Starfall. Yuebai and Xingluo's family is miserable, and the couple often helps the brother and sister on weekdays, so the friendship between the four is also quite deep. Ruolin and Yuancheng's parents are honest people and know their relationship, and of course the family also likes the person their child chooses.
At this time, the weather has survived the deep winter, and the footsteps of spring have stepped into the blue sea city. Many beautiful plants are starting to revive, and the hills are starting to spit green. Yuan Cheng hugged Ruolin in a circle of tender green, the flowers and plants couldn't open their eyes shyly, and the two of them had a lot of fun.
After a while, when they were tired of playing, they sat down on a large rock to rest.
Yuan Cheng touched Ruolin's hair and said, "Guess what I picked up in the ditch by the woods this morning? Surely you can't guess, I just picked up a wounded eagle, although it fell from the sky, it is very burly, and it is as strong as me, and I plan to raise it." Eagles can also understand human nature, and in the future, I will hand you a good thing, maybe I won't have to run errands. ”
Ruolin snuggled up to him and said casually: "You like these terrible animals, you have this eagle, don't you often go to see me?"
"No, no, of course not. I will always be there for you, and I will go to see you every day. Besides, we'll be married soon, and you'll be living with me then. Marriage is a major event in life, Ruolin's face turned red in an instant, and then she buried her head sweetly in Yuan Cheng's arms. "Yuan Cheng, there is something I want to tell you. Ruolin turned her face and said softly.
Yuan Cheng looked at her suspiciously, "What's the matter?"
"I'm pregnant!"
When Yuan Cheng heard this, he looked at Ruolin with a dull face, and after a pause, he pretended to be calm and said, "Really, when did you get pregnant?"
"It should have been a while. Ruolin replied very calmly.
Yuan Cheng said with a happy but nervous face: "I... I'm about to become a father, wow, I can't believe it. ”
Ruolin secretly laughed.
"So what are you nervous about?"
"Nervous...... I just can't slow down for a while, I'm a father. Yuan Cheng was also secretly happy, and his heart exploded.
The two watched the sunset together, and when night fell, they were reluctant to say goodbye.
A month later, they had a simple wedding by the blue stream in Blue Ocean City. There were not many people coming up at the wedding, Yuebai and Xingluo stood on both sides of Yuan Cheng and Ruolin, Ruolin specially wore a red dress for herself today, and Yuan Cheng wore a new coarse cloth robe, making it difficult for outsiders to find out that this would be today's groom. The weather on this day was very good, the sky was clear, in the laughter and blessings of everyone, Yuan Cheng took Ruolin's hand and said to her shyly: "I have two love tokens for you, this flower basket is woven by me and my mother for a long time, I hope you like it." There's also a very beautiful thing for you, look, the ring. ”
Ruolin smiled, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, she smiled and choked up, and said, "Where did you get the ring? It's so beautiful, shouldn't you spend money to make it?" After finishing speaking, she took the colorful flower basket with one hand, stretched out the other hand, Yuan Cheng gently put the ring on her ring finger, and at that moment, the one-eyed man who was quietly watching their wedding from a distance lowered his head in disappointment. "I don't dare to lie to you, that night I dreamed that I married you, and I had a ring in my hand to give you, and when I woke up, I really had a ring in my hand. Everyone present laughed, and Ruolin didn't ask, but smiled and said softly: "This jade pendant has been worn around my neck since I was a child, and now I give it to you." Ruolin slowly took off the light green jade on her neck and put it on for Yuan Cheng to wear.
Everyone cheered and asked Won-sung to kiss the bride, and the two kissed each other with blushing faces. Yuebai and Xingluo next to him looked at each other happily, Yuebai was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and he said, "This kid is afraid that we know where the ring came from and make up such a reason." Xingluo also smiled heartily after listening to his brother's words.
On their wedding night, Yuan Cheng and Ruolin went to the small hill again, and the two of them sat on the blue stone and looked at the starry sky. The night sky is breathtakingly beautiful, countless stars shine in the sky as if blessings for the newlyweds, and a bright moon like a jade plate hangs in the sky. They quietly enjoyed the idyllic night view, and people from all over the world were looking at the sky outside, and it was truly fascinating to see such a beautiful scenery after years of war.
"Yuan Cheng, there is a war outside now. I'm afraid that one day we'll get involved. Ruolin said worriedly.
"Don't be afraid, no matter what happens, I will protect you and our children. Yuan Cheng said confidently.
"Oh, by the way, I'll be honest, where the hell did this ring come from. Ruolin asked, touching the ring with petal gemstones.
Yuan Cheng explained: "What I said is true, I really had a dream and it is in my hands. I guess God knows about our wedding, so I guess it's a special gift. ”
Although Ruolin is still a little skeptical, she still at least trusts her husband. Neither of them spoke, Ruolin snuggled quietly in her husband's arms, and bursts of birdsong came from the woods in the distance.
Just as they were surrounded by happiness and sweetness, suddenly the wind and clouds changed color, and the pitch-black conjoined clouds rolled out of the sky and gradually covered the entire sky, and all the stars disappeared into the black curtain, and the moon disappeared. People all over the world didn't know what was going on, and people from all over the world went outside and pointed to the sky.
A few minutes later, a hint of red appeared in the dark night sky. The people began to fall into terror, and the red gradually darkened, and after a while, a huge red moon hung in the sky, and the darkness of the night constituted a terrible beauty of death.
The good and peace-loving people were disappointed, and the evil people were ecstatic about it, and it turned out that the legend of the Divine Eye, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was actually true. The appearance of the red moon also means that the seven eyes of gods and demons are revived in this world, so many unjust wars in search of the eyes of the gods will inevitably occur, and the supernatural substances that have infiltrated the human world have awakened, and the nightmare has officially begun.
Yuan Cheng hurriedly pulled the frightened Ruolin back to his home, and as soon as he entered the door, the injured eagle kept flapping its wings, and after a while, Yuebai and Xingluo rushed over.
"Yuan Cheng, do you see it! Red Moon, the legend of the seven divine eyes is true, and that divine eye really exists in this world. Yuebai said breathlessly. Yuan Cheng said very anxiously: "I see, Blue Ocean City is going to be in trouble now." After finishing speaking, he glanced at Ruolin beside him.
And the fact is indeed as Yuan Cheng said, it is not only Blue Sea City that is in big trouble, but any innocent country is involved in this catastrophe. In the spring of the 125th year of the World War, the armies of many countries first swept their cities and then walked out of the city gates and embarked on the road of no return, and wars of aggression in search of God's eyes began one after another.
A few weeks later, the fighting spread to Yuan Cheng's hometown of Blue Ocean City. In order to defend their homeland and country, all male citizens volunteered to fight as soldiers. On the day of parting, Ruolin's crying eyes were red, and she held Yuan Cheng's hand hard and didn't let go no matter what. The soldiers who went out had no choice but to drag them away, Ruolin couldn't stop saying, "Promise me, you must come back alive!" Yuan Cheng nodded again and again, with tears in his eyes, "Go back, I promise you, I will definitely come back." And Yuebai on the other end was obviously not as fearless as Yuan Cheng, he was a little afraid and grabbed Xingluo's arm, with tears in his eyes. Xingluo knew that his brother was a little timid and afraid, so he kept encouraging him and said, "Brother, it's okay. If you can beat it, you can fight, if you can't beat it, you will run, and you will definitely come back alive. When you come back, I will go and propose marriage to the girl on the other side for you, go brother. Starfall's eyes were also full of tears after saying that, even though she was still smiling.
There was no time to say goodbye too much, Yuan Cheng and Yuebai embarked on a journey to defend against foreign enemies. The eagle he had picked up hovered in the sky, following Yuan Cheng all the way to the city on the front line.
A few days later, Ruolin gave birth to a boy at home.
Soon after, Ruolin's hometown frequently reported the bad news of the loss of the major defenders in front, and the battle line would be pulled to Blue Ocean City for a while. All will have to evacuate their homeland, take refuge in the north and west, as well as to the sea.
Love has become a strange road, and dreams are scattered like the cold flowers on the river, which is even more heart-wrenching. Ruolin vowed not to leave the small town, and she firmly believed that Yuan Cheng would come back because he had promised her. No matter how Xingluo persuaded her, Ruolin insisted on not leaving, and when everyone evacuated, Xingluo couldn't do too much to stay, so she simply packed up and fled westward. In the end, only she and her own child who had just completed the moon were left in the whole city.
Ruolin often walked up the hill and looked into the distance. She could always see the figure of Duanyuan on the riverside becoming her stepping home, and when hope was ignited, there would always be a cold wind blowing her frost and smoke, and she was afraid that the unimaginable nightmare would be true in case it would be true.
Yuan Cheng was quite brave on the battlefield, killing hundreds of enemies with one as ten, and he was an out-and-out warrior. But one punch was hard to beat four, and finally one day, the enemy broke through their defenses in a big way. Yuan Cheng swore to resist the enemy and was finally martyred for the country, and fell forever in the yellow sand that swept in from afar, while Yuebai lost his weapon and surrendered to the enemy and became a slave in the enemy camp.
After a few hours, Ruolin's hope gradually faded, and she looked at the child in her arms and unconsciously shed tears. As she stood on the big rock again, Yuancheng's eagle flew towards her from the distant sky. Ruolin watched the eagle fly slowly, and the eagle flew to her arm, landed on the cyan boulder, and then brought the jade pendant, a token of love in its talons, to Ruolin.
The moment she saw the tokens of the past, Ruolin knew that her future years would no longer have any meaning. She placed the jade beside the child and said to the eagle, "If you really know spirituality, take him away, and take good care of him for me." The eagle flew up and fluttered a few times, and with its two talons it grabbed the cradle containing the child, and then the eagle took the poor child and soared into the sky and disappeared into the pale yellow distance.
A few days later, yellow sand poured into the sky, covering the city, and also covering her who had been looking forward to it day and night.
The eagle flew to the east of the sea with its baby in its cradle, and it flew as high as the dawn, and it flew over the layers of white clouds, and through countless stars, and flew towards the east end of the sea day and night. When the sun sets, the eagle stops at an island near the ocean to forage for its children, and then returns to the sky at nightfall.
After two days of trekking, the eagle finally took the child to Forest Island, the birthplace of prehistoric civilization at the eastern end of the ocean, far from the human world.
Forest Island is uninhabited by humans, the island is full of animals, this is the first place in the world to appear language and writing civilization, but this civilization is deeply limited by the curse from the region, once the animals on the island leave this land, they will lose the ability to speak. As soon as the eagle brought the cradle to the island, he collapsed into a sleepy state. A female monkey jumped down from a tree and held the baby in her arms, looked at him in amazement, and said, "It's a human child!" Another male monkey slowly leaned over and looked at the female monkey and said, "No human has ever landed on the forest island since ancient times, and it should be up to everyone to decide whether he stays or goes." Go and leave it to the King of the Forest, I'll take care of it, Eagle. The female monkey touched the baby's delicate face and was reluctant to let go. The baby boy paddled in the air with his immature little hands open, and looked at the female monkey in amazement.
The monkeys followed the mother monkey and brought the baby boy to the place where the animals of the forest island were meeting, and the king of the forest put the baby in front of his eyes and looked at the child carefully. All the animals in the forest island can speak, and the forest king is an elderly tiger who maintains peace and development throughout the island.
In a short time, a lot of animals gathered in front of the cave in the council hall, and everyone looked at this human child in amazement. After a brief rest, the Great Eagle flew towards the Council Hall, where it landed beside the Baby and the Forest King. The Great Eagle explained to the King of the Forest, "I have brought this child with me, the King of the Forest! I went to the land to inquire about the situation of the battle as you commanded, but I did not want to be shot with arrows by a group of wicked men, but I survived thanks to the rescue of a benefactor. He was the orphan of my benefactor, who had died in the war, who had just been born homeless, and whose mother begged me to take him away, and I brought him here. The animals all looked at the cute baby with kind and loving eyes, and not many animals were listening to the eagle tell about the child's experience. The Forest King said righteously: "Forest Island has not had any human landing since its existence, and this is the first one. Everyone has always been respectful of human beings, because this is your home, so you have the right to choose to expel this life, and it is up to everyone to decide whether he will go or stay. ”
The mother monkey quickly picked up the cradle and put it in her arms and said to herself, "He's so cute, isn't he? Just leave him, don't let him go, leave him behind! Many animals looked at the mother monkey and said in unison: "Yes, stay, stay, he has just been born and doesn't know anything, he will be like us." "The King of the Forest is glad that everyone has such compassion, and he does not want to give up this newborn life. It looked at the eagle with a smile, then solemnly turned back to the animals and said, "Well, since everyone has agreed to keep him, then leave him on the forest island, and everyone will raise him together." ”
The animals shouted happily, and the eagle finally breathed a sigh of relief. The king of the forest slowly leaned over to the eagle and said, "What name did his parents give him?" and the eagle said very sadly, "Hey! ”
Everyone bowed their heads and sighed when they heard the Great Eagle finish speaking, and the king of the forest said, "Well, I'll give him a name, and he'll come from the sky, and he'll be called... His name is Yuwen, and I hope he will be able to understand astronomy in the future, what do you think? The animals cheered in agreement.
Since then, the child named Yuwen left by Yuan Cheng and Ruolin has lived on Forest Island. Yuwen will be here to encourage all beasts and sleep with ten thousand insects, and this extraordinary growth journey will change this child's ordinary life.
The world has since descended into a state of chaos, and the dawn of light, symbolizing light, seems to be far away.
"Where am I? What is this place? I... Like snow... , pterosaur pterodactyl..."A raging fire ignited around him, and the depths of the flames were blank.
"Great wizard, the Shadow Lord is asleep, you don't have a soul, I'm taking you in now to give you a chance. Listen, when the mirror of the Shadows cracks again, I want you to unleash your soul and awaken the Lord of Shadows. If you succeed, I'll let you go to the Shadow Gate completely, and if you fail, not only will you disappear... The world will also fall into chaos like your human world. Figure it out for yourself, there is already a crack in the mirror, and I think you know the seriousness of the situation. A voice came from the flames, and when the sound ended, the flames dispersed, and everything in the white expanse was only a pair of footprints.