In the mountain jungle there were two large trees, one with a long rope hanging down, and Aaron, who was seriously wounded, hung upside down. On another tree next to her, Yakun was whistling and swinging leisurely on a wooden board tied to two ropes.

A cool breeze blew, and Aaron woke up with a shiver. I slowly opened my eyes, but my eyes were painfully exposed to the sunlight shining between the branches and leaves at the top of the tree. Instinctively, he covered his eyes with his hands, and through his fingers in the right amount of light, he saw Yakun leaning over the swing and casting an unruly look at him.

"Put me down, I don't really like to bask in the sun like this." Aaron said slowly.

"You should thank me for not letting other animals hurt you when I catch you." Yakun squinted his eyes and said, "The combined smell of blood and body odor on your body can attract many meat-loving insects." Especially the big ants, they bite people and hurt, as long as they come out of the nest, it won't take you four and a half minutes to eat you all. ”

"Why are you complicit in Dubin's murder of the merfolk?" Aaron asked.

"Mutilation? No, no, no. Yakun denied: "Maybe in the future, when the time comes, you will understand, how great our goal is, how difficult is the choice?" Brother! ”

"What do you call me?" Aaron was a little puzzled when he listened: "Aren't you afraid that I will take advantage of your unprepared discharge to sneak attack?" ”

"Silly brother, discharge requires a conductive medium, and discharging in the air will only charge yourself. Unless your voltage is very high. Yakun laughed out loud without concealment.

"Phew! How can I have an older brother like you? Don't scream. ”

Yakun suddenly became serious, and his eyes revealed a sadness that was difficult for people to detect, but it immediately disappeared again: "Okay, I'll tell you a story." ”

I don't know if it was the smell of blood spots on the skin of the injured Aaron that attracted one or two mountain eagles soaring above the trees. can't help but give the sky a little more subtle murder, but perhaps, Yakun's story is really full of gloom:

"I like to speak straightforwardly, just say it, the birthmark on your back tells me that you are my lost brother."

"What? How do you know about birthmarks? Aaron didn't believe it: "Why should I believe you?" ”

"Don't interrupt me, you should remember that our father was the favorite of piranhas, right? Piranhas are known as water wolves, freshwater omnivorous fish, and love to eat meat. He has a highly developed sense of hearing, is small but has a fierce and brutal temperament, and will go crazy when he smells blood. It has a high IQ, loves to attack the tail and eyes of its prey first, is brave when it is in a group, and timid when it is alone. The bite is amazing, and it can bite off the iron hook, which can be called a very strong hunting expert.

Our home was originally near a small island in the southern Caribbean Sea, but it was abandoned after the relocation. In the beginning, our family was always happy and happy, and my father loved us very much. Until one day, he suddenly felt that his second evolution was not perfect enough. So he connected to the subconscious channel with the piranha, looking for greater secrets and powers in the depths of his consciousness.

One day, two days...... He became increasingly obsessed with finding greater power. His temperament also changed day by day, becoming more and more irritable, and even abusing and beating his mother in front of us......

Once, twice...... More and more, the blood on his mother's body made him more and more excited, and he would look up and laugh madly when he smelled the blood......

I used to hide with you in my arms, and we were all scared. You couldn't speak then, but you were teary-eyed. If I'm not out of the house, you'll see your father go crazy and you'll crawl into your mother's big black trench coat and hide it. You still love this voluminous trench coat because the big hat makes you feel safe. ”

Hearing this, Aaron's expression began to change, and he did have such a memory in his impression.

"Brother! It's really you. Aaron burst into tears: "Where have you been all these years?" ”

Ah Kun's words pierced his brother's lonely heart. Fragments of memory are being pieced out of their original form.

"In the words of the novel, I think my father's situation can be called 'going crazy'. As soon as the demonic nature comes out, the weakness of human nature is revealed. Not only that, but I also felt the dark side of evolution, especially over-evolution. It's not manic, greedy, crazy, and violent in a few words.

There are always two sides to things in the world, where there is sunshine, there is shadow, and the same is true of evolution. Some people are intoxicated with the sun because of evolution, and some people are obsessed with the shadow of evolution and can't find the north. ”

Yakun looked up at the sky, and his eyes were blank. Maybe it was the view of the sky, maybe it was the view in his heart.

"And what about later? How's my mother? What happened to my father? Aaron interrupted the brief silence.

"They're all dead." Yakun suddenly turned his head with a rather complicated expression on his face. The trembling eyes revealed a painful soul that had dried up tears, and the calamity of memory was intertwined with the knots in the heart.

"What? Brother, you must be lying to me, why? Aaron cried, "What happened?" ”

"Do you really want to know what's going on? How many people want to forget this kind of painful thing, are you willing to figure out the ending and also bury the shadow of pain in your heart? "Yakun didn't want to bring out the painful memories.

"I must know what is going on, don't hide it from me." Aaron insisted on listening.

"Well, I'll tell you what happened: it was a dead night, and my father's hysterical mania flared up again. He beat his mother to the point where he was bruised, and found that the smell of her blood could no longer excite him. So he turned his gaze to us two brothers, and he knew that I could run, but you couldn't. He walked towards you shrunk in a black trench coat, with a strange smirk on his face, and sharp nails sticking out of his fingertips. That's his form in battle mode, and you're in danger.

The bloodthirsty nature of the piranha makes the father lose himself and drag the family into the dark abyss step by step.

When he raised his hand that was clinging to his mother's blood and struck at you, his mother hugged his father from behind, despite the pain. And told me to pick you up and run, watching my father and my mother hurt again, I picked you up and ran out of the house in a panic. I was in a state of collapse, and I didn't know where to run with you. I will never forget my mother's screams, which grew weaker and weaker as we got farther and farther away.

But I haven't swam far with you before trouble arises again. It was a horrible, hungry, red-eyed, murderous bunch of piranhas......"

Aaron was stunned, he had no memory of this memory, it was because he was wrapped in a black robe and couldn't see what was happening outside, only a little manic commotion The sound of the fish.

"At that time, I couldn't swim fast with you, and I saw the piranha chasing after me getting closer and closer, so I hid you in a coral bush so that we wouldn't both be harmed. Cover the seaweeds and then continue to lead them away. When I found out that they were no longer coming after me, I knew that you had been discovered by them. I had to bite my fingers and squeeze out the drops of blood, and it worked, and the smell of blood sent them after them like a fast-moving meat grinder.

And I could only continue to swim as hard as I could, as fast as I could. But I noticed that there were more and more piranhas in the back, their discus-shaped bodies that usually don't swim fast, but they get excited when they smell blood, and their guts are directly proportional to the size of the population. I felt that my doom was coming, so I let them eat a bite of each fish, and I guess I still had more than half of the fish when I finished eating. ”

Aaron had a bit of a dry humor, but Aaron couldn't laugh, his mouth wide open in surprise. Yakun went on to say:

"I found a dark trench in front of me, and I didn't think much of it and swam into it. Then a painful miracle happened, which was the territory of the electric eel, which was the nemesis of piranhas. The brave and brainless piranhas rushed into the territory of the electric eel, and the piranha after being strongly electrocuted became an appetizer for the electric eel. Of course, it also hit me, but I found that I could adapt to that kind of electric shock, and this kind of coincidence made me the pet owner of electric eels.

I went back the way I came, and found that you were no longer there, and had disappeared into the coral. I thought you had been taken home by your mother, but I rushed to the house and saw a scene that I will never forget in my life: my mother was lying there covered in blood and motionless. I shook her, called her, and there was no response, and my mother died.

And the father sat on the side in a daze, with red eyes and a face still full of anger and murder. I couldn't cry, so I completely radiated the electricity stored in my body from the first electric shock to my father, who was no longer able to return to normal......

I don't remember if I cried or laughed after that, I guess I laughed. Killing my own father made me destined to be a bad person in my life, but what I remember is that when my father died, he had a relieved smile on his face......

Later, I embarked on a journey to find you while continuing my practice. ”

Akun unties the rope that binds Aaron, and the brothers recognize each other. The younger brother cried happily because he found his lost brother. But my brother couldn't cry, the past made him brand cold-blooded, and he was used to expressing his inner pain by laughing.

"How did you survive when you were so young?" Yakun asked.

"I was taken in by a passing old mermaid who died when I had only completed one evolution. Before I died, I was told that I had an older brother, and I remembered a little bit about my family, and eventually I began to wander and practice. Aaron looked up at the sky, and melancholy came back to him.

……

This inconspicuous island is not too big, staying on the island gives people more of a depressing and desolate feeling, seeing swarms of mosquitoes and spiders and toads that feed on it, making people stand on end and tremble all the time.

The swamp used to be a black jungle of thorns, and in the damp and dark tunnel below the jungle, Captain Akang and his party were pushed and shoved by the shark guards, and then gathered together, and then locked the entrance.

"Linghime, how are you?" Kiki picks up Lingji, who is covered in injuries and is relatively weak.

"I'm fine, and although I was beaten, I feel like I've gained something." Lingji sat up, feeling the wound heal faster than before.

"Tell me, what happened to you outside?" The captain asked.

"I'll start with that!" Kiki turned to everyone: "Dubin, I'm going to talk, trying to persuade me to surrender to them. But I didn't agree, so I was escorted back. ”

"Lingji, you don't have to say it." The captain saw the wound on her body and felt ashamed.

"I'm not in a bad situation, because the opponent I met was my lost brother, but he wouldn't turn back to our side after we knew him. Because the first person he killed before made his conscience bitter and unable to extricate himself. Aaron's forgiveness does not return his brother's forgiveness for his sins: "He said that he liked his life as he was, and since he was a bad person, there was no need to do good deeds." But I think he still has a conscience, he just doesn't admit it. ”

After a moment of silence, the captain said, "There is no need to delve into your brother, there must be a reason why he chose to do this." It's a pity that the bugs in the bottle we were carrying were fed by the guards to a bunch of hungry ants, and there were no bones left. "The captain was tied up from a distance when he witnessed the whole process, so he was not annoyed.

"What's next? Captain. Aaron asked.

"Everyone is tired today, take a good rest first, and then I'll think of a way." The captain had anxiety in his eyes, did Aaron's brother really ignore the old feelings and refuse to help his younger brother? The samples of the insects are gone, how can they explain to the officials inside if they can escape back to the Taiping Imperial City? If you want to get out of here, how can you avoid this mountain of dark outposts?

Looking back on the scenery traveled along the way, it is really thrilling. As everyone was asleep and the night was dark, the cell door was pushed open with a strong creak, waking up the four people who were trapped.

"Brother!" Aaron recognized the face standing outside in the darkness pushing open the door.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, you guys go quickly. Running east on the mountain road will lead to the sea, and the dark posts along the way will fall asleep. Yakun opened two shining eyes in the dark.

"Brother, come with us, it's not your fault what happened in the past." Aaron's plea couldn't dispel the gloom on Akun's face.

Yakun reached out with one hand and grabbed Aaron's black robe and dragged it in front of him: "I won't go the same way as you, now that I adapt to such a living habit, I can't change it." Before I change my mind, you can leave. With that, he pushed Aaron out again.

The captain looked at Yakun with a gloomy face, this mermaid youth who was not much older than Aaron, and his face exuded coldness and stubbornness that was many times higher than his actual age.

Aaron was still worried in his heart, how would they punish his brother if he left? Why did my brother insist on staying in that dangerous place?

At night, it was still surprisingly quiet. The breeze shook the shadows of the trees, and the shadows danced enchantingly like black ghosts, making the island a little terrifying, as if the whole island was mysteriously laughing there......