01 | Fish
"I have traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Kyushu and have seen the sorrows, angers, and joys of all beings."
"People who can't love love are sick, and I am the best medicine in the world."
"I found my love for them, wrote their stories into poems, and sang them."
"The world calls me a troubadour, but if you take away that title, who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going?"
"I've long forgotten."
A woman in a tattered coarse cloth shirt walks through the vast ice fields of the far north. The wind and snow swept across the sky and the earth for a long time, and the knife cut her red and chapped cheek. As if she didn't feel the pain, she gasped for breath and walked step by step towards the depths of the ice field.
She didn't know what caused her to go desperately to the northernmost tip of Kyushu, where she might have all the answers she wanted.
In the wind and snow, there was an intermittent sound of her muttering, and she kept repeating the words in her mouth, as if this was the only way to not forget.
Suddenly, she slowly raised her head and looked south. There, she felt a sense of familiarity.
But through the wind and snow, she couldn't see anything.
"To go or not to go?" She muttered to herself.
"Even if I went, I still couldn't remember anything."
She stopped, hesitating for a moment.
The snow in the snowfield suddenly stopped, and it seemed to make a decision for her.
She took a deep breath and continued her walk north.
She stopped in front of a frozen river and slowly crouched down, placing her palms on the ice.
The palm of the palm lit up with a faint blue light pattern, illuminating the entire ice layer.
With a bang, the ice split apart, revealing a deep blue river.
Without hesitation, she jumped down, disappearing into the deep blue water, the cracked ice re-frozen.
The wind and snow swept by, erasing the last traces of her visit.
In the Ghost Valley, circles of bubbles suddenly appeared on the surface of the Styx, and the demons were attracted by the mutation of the Styx almost at the same time, and the phoenix frowned slightly: "It's really her." ”
The woman slowly surfaced, she looked at everyone with a blank expression, and finally her gaze stayed on the stone tablet.
"Senpai?" Yu Yan asked tentatively.
The woman did not seem to hear her, jumped ashore, and walked straight towards the stele.
"Little clam demon, I came to you this time to ask you to do me a favor." Phoenix said as he took a step forward.
The woman still ignored it, stopped in front of the stele, stretched out her fingers tremblingly, and couldn't help but touch the pearl embedded in the stele.
"Little girl, I'm talking to you." Phoenix's tone was a little displeased.
The woman finally took her eyes off the stone tablet and landed on the phoenix's face: "Do you know me?" ”
"Sort of." Phoenix said impatiently, "I saw you when you were very young. ”
"Do you know my name, then?"
"I only have a slight friendship with your father." Phoenix Road.
"Then you should know where I came from." The woman's expression was full of anticipation.
The phoenix frowned, and a small ball of nirvana fire drifted towards the woman, burrowing into her cochlea.
"It's strange that her memory has also been erased." Phoenix said to Luan'er, "It's exactly the same as your friend's situation. ”
"Looks like you don't know." The woman laughed bitterly and muttered, "I knew I shouldn't have come." ”
"It's just another disappointment."
The woman turned around and was about to leave, when Youyan suddenly shouted at her, "Your name is Yiyu." ”
The woman's back froze in place, and the demon noticed that her body began to tremble uncontrollably after hearing the name.
She turned around slowly, looking at Youyan with a complicated expression, but she couldn't say a word.
Suddenly, the pearl embedded in the stele burst open, turning into silver smoke and slowly drifting towards the woman, and then down her mouth, nose, and ears into her body.
The woman closed her eyes in pain, trembling uncontrollably.
"What's wrong with her?" The demon asked, confused.
"If I'm not mistaken, her memories are sealed in the water pearl, and her name is the key to unlocking the seal."
"Can memories still be sealed in pearls?"
"Not only pearls, but Kyushu has many secret techniques that can seal people's memories in objects that are closely related to them." "For example, it's like my mother, who sealed her memories in one of my tails. ”
The demon replied thoughtfully, and at that moment, the woman opened her eyes again.
"This is the Ghost Valley?" Yi Yu looked at Youyan, his eyes were no longer confused, but flashing as sharp as an eagle, "What about Hegu?" ”
"He's dead." Whispering.
"Who are you and what does it have to do with him?"
"I am the current Gugu Master, and Hegu is my master."
"Master?" Yi Yu sneered, "I really didn't expect him to accept apprentices?" It's supposed to be just hungry for your body, right? ”
"When Master took me in, I was very young." Whispering.
"It doesn't matter, he's dead anyway." Yi Yu said softly, "It's okay if he's dead, if he dies, the grievances between me and him will be cleared." ”
"Master left an ancient book in Guigu, which recorded some of his predecessors and his past." Youyan continued with some hesitation, "I can feel that the senior has a position in Master's heart that is difficult for others to reach. ”
"Even so, so what?" Yi Yu asked rhetorically, "If it weren't for him, how would I be what I am today?" ”
"If it weren't for him, maybe I would have found my own flesh and blood; If it weren't for him, why would I walk the world like this? ”
"Little girl, don't be emotional." "There's a girl here, in the same condition as you, whose memories have been erased. ”
"Since you can recover yourself, you must be able to help her as well."
"Now that Uncle Phoenix has spoken, Xiaoyu will do his best." Yi Yu's attitude towards the phoenix was much gentler.
"You'll still remember me." Slightly surprised, Phoenix continued, "I live in the East China Sea, so I rarely have the opportunity to visit your father. ”
"Uncle Phoenix, don't say that, if you hadn't defeated the carp demon of Hanshui by yourself, my father and I probably wouldn't have found a place to stay."
"It's just a matter of raising your hands." Phoenix said, "Besides, I helped you, more because it was rumored that you had the blood of the shark clan, and I also came to help for the sake of the face of the one in the heavenly realm." ”
"Whatever the reason, you've helped us." With that, Yiyu walked towards the demon.
She put her palm on the demon's forehead, and the dark blue light streaks flashed, and Yi Yu frowned and sighed softly.
"Uncle Phoenix, I'm really sorry." Yi Yu regretted, "Her situation, please forgive me and I can't do anything about it." ”