Early the next morning, Orvilles was awakened by the shrill birdsong in the woods.

When I woke up, it was already dawn. The rays of the sun pierced through the gaps in the trees, scattering one by one, like wisps of glowing golden threads, and the bonfire beside him had long since burned to ashes, piled up there for nothing, and it was extra redundant compared to the large expanse of green nearby. At this time, the mother did not know where to go.

"Mother?" he looked around, but could not find any sign of her, "Mother! Mother......" he shouted as he ran out of the clearing to remove the branches of the dense trees.

"I'm here! Orvilles!" - after a while of shouting, the mother suddenly answered.

Orvilles searched for the sound and found his mother, which was underneath a large green leafy shrub plant.

Orvilles leaned forward, and a little girl who looked like Ellanda's pale face was lying flat on the ground, wearing a knee-high white dress on the outside, the fabric was soft and smooth, and at first sight she knew that she was a man who lived much richer than theirs, her cheeks were covered with dust, her eyes were closed as if she were dying, and her mother was crouching directly in front of her.

"Fetch her some water!" before Orvilles could react, her mother shouted solemnly.

The little girl did not wake up until night, and her mother said that she still had breath and that she must not die without help, so she never went away, and Orvilles lit a bonfire in the clearing, and the two sat quietly beside her.

The little girl looked about the same age as Orvers, a little taller than Orvilles, she was dressed as white as snow and shoulder-length silver hair, and her demeanor, even every inch of her skin, looked like Elanda falling into the twilight water.

"Mother, who is she, and why did she pass out in such an uninhabited forest?" asked Orvilles, curiously.

"I don't know, looking at her appearance and dress, she should be from the East or Yunzhou (1). Mother shook her head, "Look at the material of the dress, it is a fine silk, except for those noble ladies and lords, I have not seen anyone wear it, but she wears something more special, more elaborate than the Western one." ”

"Brother, brother......"

While the two were talking, the little girl suddenly spoke, she looked very painful, her eyes were closed, her hands were clasped in front of her chest, and her body was trembling.

"What's wrong with you, child!" the mother hurriedly leaned forward, her eyes shining with hope.

The girl woke up from the nightmare, she was very wary of Orwells and her mother, a pair of big blue eyes like water stared at the two of them, and her body slowly moved back, even her eyes were exactly the same as those of Elanda.

"What's wrong with you, child?" asked the mother again, "why did you pass out in this forest?"

The mother's voice was soft, and her eyes were full of love. The girl heard the kindness in her mother's voice, immediately thought about it, relaxed her vigilance, stood up from the ground, bowed shallowly, and said softly: "Thank you, this merciful and beautiful benevolent, you saved me." ”

After that, she looked around in a panic and asked her mother, "Have you seen a large army of soldiers and horses passing by here?"

"Soldiers and horses?" the mother shook her head, "this is an area abandoned by the state, and few people pass by, let alone any soldiers and horses. ”

The little girl was relieved, and her mother asked, "What is your name?" ”

"This benefactor, my name is Daria, and I am from the Wenogo family. The little girl was polite and cultured, "It's a secret, don't tell anyone else." ”

Seeing Orvilles nodding stupidly, and her mother also smiled, she continued: "I have an elder brother named Sila Winogo, he is a soldier of the White Army of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the pursuers of the Kingdom of Heaven (2) have been chasing and killing me, and two days ago, under the pursuit of the pursuers, my brother and I were forced to separate, and I was alone in this forest, without food or drink, and was extremely tired, so I fell into a coma here. ”

"When I was seven years old, I was exiled in the wilderness, and all my memories were forgotten, my adoptive mother was a native of Terrota, and my present father, Silsas of the Far East, (3) and the King of the Green Mountains, Si Tore, adopted me, and he treated me as if I were his own daughter, and then he sent me to Heaven to live with my brother Silas, who was in Heaven, in order to escape the war. Ever since we were chased and killed by the pursuers, my brother has been fleeing with me, in this forest, my brother led away the pursuers, left me here, and said that he would take refuge with me in Diyirota after he came back, although I had practiced some swordsmanship, but I could only make trouble for my brother, I didn't want to go back to him and trouble him, and I don't know when he will come back, he probably. ”

At this point, Daria's words sank into sadness, "He'll probably never come back." ”

"And what are you going to do?" said Orvilles, pitifully, with anger at the same time, "I am sure that the pursuers are as hateful as the Posei, and they always loot and plunder for no reason, as if everything was theirs!"

"Bosses?" Daria looked up to see Orvilles' eyes blazing, but when she saw him, she said angrily, "If I want to portray them, it is that there is nothing more hateful than them, and if I learn a trick and a half, then I will fight them to the death to eliminate my anger!"

Daria giggled at Orvilles's words, and her mother took pity on her and said, "You are still so young, how helpless you are, we are going to Diyirota, if you follow us, I will take care of you, but it is a pity that you are from heaven, and to enter the border of Diirota, you must step through the Absolute Life Gate, which is the gate of spiritual power, and people who do not have the blood of Diirota cannot pass through." ”

"No, benefactor, I was able to enter. The little girl seemed to grasp the straw, "I am adopted by the Syrsa people, you see that I look like a blue-eyed person from the heavenly kingdom, but in fact I am not a blue-eyed person, but the white gate of the heavenly kingdom has no power to hinder me, and I am sure that the Absolute Life Gate is also gentle to me." ”

"What a miracle this is!" said the mother's face with surprise, "we are very fated to go there together, you and Orvilles are the same age, if you don't dislike it, you can call me mother in the future." ”

Orvilles was stunned, if such a beautiful little girl became his sister, he must not know how happy he was, so that there would no longer be wild cats and wild monkeys that could not talk with him in the mountains, and he would no longer walk alone on the way home at dusk, and meet an adult with a pockmarked face and a mouth full of wine and said that he was a fatherless mongrel.

Because his father came back and brought him a younger sister, he could say, "His parents each had a child." ”

He looked at Daria and nodded deeply at her mother's decision. He even forgot that he had long since left the no-man's land, and would never run there again to be with the lynx, and never to meet the adults who mocked him.

"Hmm. She heard Daria's grunt in agreement, but she whispered, "The pursuers of heaven are chasing me, and I'm afraid I'll get you involved." ”

"We're never afraid of being implicated, we're hunted down all the time, and those Poseids are like our shadows. Orvilles argued.

Seeing that Orvilles was lying, the mother patted him on the head and smiled lightly, "You have talked more than once about the pursuers, why do they want to hunt down a girl like you?" Of course, you can leave this question unanswered. ”

Daria shook her head, her face solemn, "I live with my brother in the heavenly kingdom of Dodranosi (4), my brother is a soldier, I studied in the parish hall of the Holy Consciousness, we are just ordinary people, we have never done anything against the law, we have no idea why they are chasing us. ”

She recalled: "My brother told the leader of the army that he would pick me up in the main hall of the Hall of Consciousness every evening when I finished my course, but one day he suddenly came very early, and his expression was so nervous that he didn't say anything to the elders who gave the lecture, so he took me and hurried away, and after a day, I learned that the soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven were chasing us; ”

"I have heard that the Kingdom of Heaven is a place of reason, and it is also a place of dreams for many people, and those of us who do not have the blood of Heaven will not be able to go at all, maybe you have been misunderstood, maybe you should not have run away at all, you should stay and reason with them. Mother suggested softly.

"Indeed," said Daria, "I had wanted to stay and tell the elders of the Church of Consciousness about this, for in the Kingdom of Heaven there are very few people who are sent to the Three Great Spirits,5 where criminals who have committed heinous crimes at home and abroad are held, and those who have committed minor sins are sent to the Church of Consciousness to be kept in isolation and educated, and only after complete repentance can they regain their freedom." ”

In other words, few people in the Kingdom of Heaven are put to death, but when the archers of the Kingdom of Heaven aimed their sharp, shiny white arrows at our chests, I realized that they really wanted to kill us, and I left in despair. ”

"Thankfully, when we left, the heavy soldiers guarding the Tensai Poor Pass (6) did not know about us, and our father was a man of great repute, so we were able to sneak out of there. ”

"I think it's the best choice for you to take refuge in Diyirota with us, this place is far, far away from the kingdom of heaven, the pursuers won't come here, and we won't be implicated, there is no reason for foreigners to be killed for no reason, maybe after a period of time in Diyirota, the misunderstanding will be automatically resolved. "Mother sincerely advises.

"Hmm. Daria nodded.

It was dark, the path in the forest was not very clear, and a few big birds with broken throats were screaming continuously, and the sound of flapping their wings kept coming, and the atmosphere was a little weird.

"There can't be any beasts, right?" said Orvilles, who followed his mother at the front, carrying a brown wooden box behind her, trying to scare Daria.

"This forest is so calm that there are no wild beasts, but it looks like there are nature spirits living here. Daria said calmly.

"Elves?" Orvilles said after his plan failed, and he relaxed and asked in parallel with Daria, "Have you ever seen an elf?"

Daria shook her head, "I've only seen it in books, and I guess they're like angels without wings." ”

"Angel, listen to my mother and my kind-hearted carpenter master, who was killed by the Posei, say that he was the most beautiful man in the world. Orvilles said, "I used to imagine that they looked like you. ”

Daria stared at Orvilles for a moment, smiled and said, "I often dream that I used to be an angel, but the bad thing is that the angel didn't have full wings, and she was seriously ill. And strangely enough, this dream is always repeated at night. ”

"It's a vicious cycle of what you imagine during the day and sleep at night. Orvilles laughed.

"Maybe. Daria sighed, and the two continued on their way.

Just after walking a short distance, Daria suddenly screamed, and her steps immediately stopped.

"What's wrong?" Orvilles asked as he walked briskly over to her.

Daria, pale, pointed at the green-eyed bird on the trunk of the tree, and replied, "This big bird has been staring at me with strange eyes!

The mother raised the torch, and Orvilles took advantage of the light to look at the so-called big bird in the tree, and could not help laughing: "It was just an owl, a little owl. ”

"Don't worry, son, it's kind and never harms humans. Mother said.

"But," Daria could not let go, "how could it stare at me like that? ”

"Know you?" said Orvilles mischievously, "there are many owls in this area, and they are looking for some small mice, and you must be frightened by the pursuers, thinking that such an ordinary animal is an enemy." ”

"No, I must have been right, she must have known by the look in her eyes that it was no ordinary animal. ”

As he spoke, he heard a thud, the sound of the owl flying down from the tree and swooping into the distance.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and the mother smiled and said, "What can an owl be? After so many days of traveling, it must be exhausting, let's go quickly, and rest through this forest." ”

"Perhaps," Daria shook her head, muttering to herself, "Is it my delusion?"

As she thought, the owl that had just been snatched from the branch flew back quietly, and in an instant its head suddenly changed to a withered, emaciated human face, with its cheeks sunken inward, and a pair of large bony eyes looking down at the three men, who were now busy on their way, and were not aware of the strange thing.

Exegesis:

(1) Yunzhou: refers to the continent in the middle between the East and the West, and generally refers to the area of the Heavenly Kingdom.

(2) Kingdom of Heaven: One of the three kingdoms in the Age of Heaven, the other two are the kingdom of the earth, Emperor Irota, the kingdom of man, Sirsa, formerly known as Nasya, the arrogant Sislange Xiu changed its name to the Kingdom of Heaven in order to reflect the strength of the country, and forced the other two countries to bow down by force, calling it the kingdom of the earth and the kingdom of man.

(3) Syrsa: One of the three kingdoms, the kingdom of man.

(4) Dodranosi: The Kingdom of Heaven is divided into seven regions, which are called the Seven Orders of Heaven, which is the fourth of the Seven Orders of Heaven.

(5) The Three Great Prisons: There are three large-scale prisons in the world, namely the Great Vero Water Prison of the Heavenly Kingdom, the Beisha Ling Trap, and the Divine Prison of the Earth that exists in Sirsa.

(6) Tiansai Poor Pass: The pass in and out of heaven, also known as Tiansai.