Chapter Twenty-Seven: Into the Illusion
The illusion created by the Boundless Long Steps will be created according to the number of people who step on the stone steps.
Like Zhuang Hui and Gao Xiaoxiao, the illusion of the two of them coming together will be born according to the order of the people who step on the stone steps.
Zhuang Hui was the first to step on his right foot, and the illusion naturally began to arise from the seven emotions and six desires hidden in his heart.
In the illusion, the first thing that appeared was the family affection he once longed for.
Gao Xiaoxiao was tightly held by his left hand, and of course he also saw the illusion situation he was facing.
I saw a young woman with a heroic face, sitting upright in the courtyard where the warm sun was shining, and she seemed to be sewing something in her hand.
She looked sideways and wanted to ask Qin Yan who this person was, and she was surprised to find that the young man beside her had changed into a five or six-year-old at some point, and became a boy.
And she herself, with her shrinking size and age, looks like a female doll with and whirring.
The heroic woman's face smiled and felt extremely strange at first glance, and when she followed Zhuang Hui step by step towards her and saw her peach blossom eyes that were the same as Zhuang Hui, she roughly guessed the identity of this woman.
Wouldn't it be, Zhuang Hui's biological mother who didn't live to a few chapters in the original book - Xu Jinyun, right?
Thinking of Xu Jinyun's identity description in the book, Gao Xiaoxiao felt that there was only one word that could describe her, that is, "miserable".
Originally, Xu Jinyun was a servant girl who accompanied Zhuang Penghai all the way to the position of the sect leader of the Sword Sect, and she was also close to her body and mind.
Later, because Xu Jinyun saw that Zhuang Penghai's great cause had been accomplished, she also followed him to lick blood at the tip of the knife for so long, and wanted to retire to live her own idle life, but Zhuang Penghai agreed on the surface, and forced her to leave the Sword Sect the night before she was about to leave, trapping her in the small courtyard he built for her alone.
After that, he visited the courtyard night and night, and with Zhuang Hui, Xu Jinyun, who was originally interested in the man next to him, had a complete mental breakdown, sometimes normal, sometimes irritable, and had no reason at all.
was originally a loyal subordinate, but in the end he was imprisoned by his master, restricting his personal freedom, and ruining his life, which is not miserable.
The woman with a somewhat heroic face seemed to notice that Zhuang was back, and the needlework in her hand stopped for the time being, and smiled at him and beckoned: "Xiaohui, come here, the shoes that my mother has newly sewn for you are ready, see if they fit." ”
Zhuang Hui's ideal biological mother should be like this.
Speaking softly, he will make shoes and clothes for him like someone else's mother.
He looked at the woman who was surrounded by a warm luster in the sun, and his steps kept approaching her, and he even let go of his small hand that was smiling.
But because the two still had green ribbons tied around their wrists, they couldn't be separated for a while.
"Mother's ......"
The little boy's black eyes were full of admiration, and he let the handsome woman touch the top of his head with her big palm.
"Hey, sit down, my mother will help you take off your shoes."
Everything in the fantasy world is so real that it is terrifying, and even the clothes, shoes and socks are carefully prepared.
She found that after Xiao Zhuanghui saw Xu Jinyun, the look in his eyes slowly became hollow.
It looks like I've been bewitched.
The first illusion was not directed at her, and she was unaffected.
So after realizing that something was wrong, Gao Xiaoxiao's first reaction was to use his left hand tied to Zhuang Hui to earn the green ribbon.
"Little Aotian, be sober, this is just an illusion!!"
After the soft and glutinous girl's voice fell after the girl became smaller, Xiao Zhuang finally had a little more light in his hollow peach blossom eyes.
He seemed to be a little confused to look at the woman in front of him who was about to bend down to take off his shoes, and asked her in a milky voice: "Mother, what did you call me just now?" ”
The heroic woman was still smiling like a spring breeze, and her voice was gentle: "Little back." ”
After the woman's voice fell, the last trace of emptiness left in Xiao Zhuang's eyes disappeared completely.
He stood up from the small wooden stool, shook his head, and said in a serious tone, "No, she never calls me that, even when she's sane. ”
Because his birth was not liked by his biological mother, even his name was taken by Zhuang Penghai, who was his biological father.
And his mother never called him by his full name, but only called him - child.
The real Xu Jinyun is not as gentle as he smiled in the fantasy world, and he would not be so soft-spoken.
Most of the time, he will only call him "child" as if he is calling some emotionless wood, and he has never shown excessive expectations for his arrival only a few times a year.
When they got along with him, the two were even more alien like strangers.
If he hadn't known that Xu Jinyun was indeed his biological mother, he really thought that he might have picked it up.
Rao is like this, he also likes to go to Xu Jinyun.
Just because she is the only relative in the world who is related to him by blood and will not ask too much of him.
When Zhuang Penghai got along with him, he only felt like a pawn who let him fall, and he never felt the so-called father's love.
In contrast, Xu Jinyun's indifferent attitude of not asking him to do this and that is easier to accept.
After Xiao Zhuang said this sentence back, seeing that Xu Jinyun who was born from the illusion was about to hand the shoes sewn in his hand to him, he directly knocked off the shoes with an indifferent expression, and said the key words to crack the illusion: "You are not my mother." ”
As the words fell, everything around them dissipated like clouds blown away by the wind, turning into wisps of smoke and dust.
After the two of them saw clearly again, the two of them immediately came to the second illusion, the modern illusion created by the boundless long step against Gao Xiaoxiao.
Zhuang Hui looked at the towering buildings in front of him, and the terrifying black boxes shuttling back and forth on the street, and was a little confused for a while, where he had come.
The girl who was attached to his right wrist on his side has also changed her appearance now, she looks only three or four years old, and the green Luo skirt and waist-length hair she used to wear on her body have all disappeared.
Instead, a somewhat shabby knee-length red dress and neat short hair.
She crouched in a place with an unknown building that looked like a child's playground, staring timidly in the same direction.
It's like waiting for someone to come.
On his side, he also lost a shabby backpack with a lot of food and clothes.
Gao Xiaoxiao came to the time when she was abandoned by her biological parents in the amusement park, and she looked at the ginkgo biloba that fell into her eyes, and her eyes were already so anxious that they became red.
Zhuang Hui squatted beside her, looking at her red eyes in puzzlement, and the question that had already asked her that haunted his heart rose again.
Is she really not human, as she says she is?
But if you are not human, why would you enter this illusion?