On the seventh day of the first month of June, the cicadas began to sing.

In the deep leaves of heather, there are two or three sounds in the twilight.

- Early Cicada (Bai Juyi)

"Daddy, Daddy, how did I get here?"

"yes, yes, Dad, how the hell did we get here?"

I don't know when it began, children always like to ask themselves such questions.

He gently touched his son's head and said softly:

"You are from the outside world......

"What is that like in the outside world, Daddy, Daddy, tell us!"

"The outside world? it's ......"

"Will it be as dark as it is here?"

"Will it be as wet as it is here?"

"Will it be as crowded as it is here?"

“......”

Before he could finish speaking, the children began to ask questions.

He smiled softly and looked up at the sky, only to see darkness.

"The outside world is beautiful!"

"It was bright, full of sunshine, with all kinds of beautiful flowers, all kinds of delicious juices. ”

"It's warm, and you can play freely in the summer breeze and walk through the woods. ”

"It's very wide, no matter how naughty you are, you won't bump into it, and you can have as much fun as you want. ”

"Wow! I'm going, I'm going!"

"I want it too, I want it too!"

“......”

The children let out a burst of exclamations, revealing unconcealable happiness and yearning in their words!

He looked at the children who were jumping around excitedly, and a warm current poured into his heart.

"Daddy, Daddy, when are we going to get out?"

I don't know who suddenly asked, and the children suddenly fell silent and looked at him.

Those bright eyes were full of longing!

Looking at the children's eager eyes, he couldn't bear it, but he still said a time:

"Ten Years ......"

"Ahh......h

He looked at the light in the children's eyes that went out in an instant, and his heart was about to break, but he couldn't bear to deceive them.

"Soon, kids, ten years, for us, soon, ......"

"Have you ever been out, Dad?"

"Yes, yes, Dad, have you ever seen the outside world?"

"Nonsense, if our dad hadn't seen it, how would he know what the outside world was like?"

"That's right, Dad is amazing!"

"Daddy is amazing!"

"Daddy......"

Looking at the children's eyes that had rekindled hope, he smiled with relief.

Ten years, is it a long time?

Perhaps......

He remembers that when he was a child, he also spent ten years in this dark and damp place.

He couldn't see the scene around him clearly, but he felt very crowded, holding a soft thing in his arms, and it was very sweet.

Squeezed and sweet, this is his biggest feeling in the past ten years.

He drank a little when he was hungry, slept when he was full, and drank when he woke up, day after day, year after year.

Ten years, for him, the long seems to have happened yesterday.

It's a sick sentence, he laughed, maybe......

After a long time, he gradually realized that he seemed to have strength.

Slowly, he could even push the things that were squeezing around him under him, and he didn't know where the idea came from.

Go up!

He didn't know what was up there, but deep down, there was always a voice telling him.

Moving up in the world!

He began to reach out his hands and flick the things above his head, stomping them all underneath him.

I don't know how long it took, just when he couldn't help but want to give up.

His hands didn't touch anything.

He froze.

This...... Where is it?

He seemed to be able to see things, a lot of things, very fragrant.

The thing that had been squeezing him was gone, and he felt his body be relieved.

He desperately sucked on something unknown, and he walked high in excitement.

He saw a lot of things he hadn't seen before.

For the first time since he was conscious, he felt alive.

Gradually, he got tired, he felt very tired, lying on his stomach and not wanting to move.

He felt an itch on his back, but he couldn't catch it......

Slowly, he got used to the itch and felt more and more comfortable.

He felt something fall off of his body.

No, I should say that I seem to be coming out of something.

He started to want to get away from that thing, he struggled, he hurt, but he just wanted to get out!

Finally, he felt as if he had finally gotten rid of that thing, and he looked back.

Saw a cicada molt......

This is...... Yourself?

It's kind of handsome!

He was secretly happy in his heart.

He felt like he had something extra on his back, itchy, and—squeezed.

He stretched hard, feeling the things on his back getting bigger and lighter......

He just stretched, and noticed that his surroundings seemed to be getting brighter and brighter.

Finally, he felt as if the things on his back had completely unfolded!

Suddenly, he accidentally stepped on the air.

In a panic, he waved what he was carrying and ......

He found himself flying!

On this day, he spent the happiest time of his life.

The sunrise sun warmly sprinkled on his body, and he flew all the places around him, and saw all the beautiful scenery.

When you are thirsty, you drink the dew on the grass, and when you are hungry, you suck the sap of various flavors.

He chirped uncontrollably, feeling as if the whole world belonged to him.

During the day, he patrols his kingdom, and at night he is accompanied by fireflies.

He suddenly felt that the previous ten years were worth it, and the end of his life was just here......

He found himself flying slower and slower, and sometimes he felt exhausted as he flew from tree to tree.

He found that his appetite was getting worse and worse, and he knew that he was hungry, but he still did not want to eat.

He would stay in the tree for a day, doing nothing, just staying quiet.

He never chirped again, he didn't want to, and he didn't have the strength.

I don't know how many days and nights passed, but one evening, he lay on a big tree and quietly watched the sunset.

He suddenly felt very hungry, very hungry and hungry......

With the last of his strength, he sucked the last sap of the tree, and the last of the afterglow came to an end.

Slowly closed his eyes......

......

Just when he felt his body gradually disappear and thought that everything was about to end, there was a trace of black qi in his body.

He opened his eyes, and there was darkness around him, a familiar crowd, a familiar dampness, a familiar darkness.

It's back, the original place, and - power!

He felt an unprecedented force creeping up in his body, and he tried to gather them.

And this attempt is another decade!

In the past ten years, he has had a lot of fresh little lives around him, and they have spent happy times with him.

He knew that it was his child.

He described the outside world to his children, it was beautiful!

There is sunshine, delicious tree sap, and a vast world!

He saw longing in the eyes of the children, and he never wished that time could pass any faster.

Eventually, his children began to grow stronger and stronger, and some of them could even move the dirt around them.

He knew that day was finally coming!

However, the nightmare struck!

He heard a boom!

He saw the sunshine that he hadn't seen for a long time.

He saw a behemoth, stretching out its huge palm, and scooping up his children one by one.

He heard the children's cries of pain.

No!

He tried to save his children, but as soon as he tried to climb out of the ground, he was trampled into the dirt with one foot.

He felt his body, as if it had shattered, and fluid was flowing out of him.

His consciousness became trance...... He felt that his life force was quietly draining......

No...... Take...... It's mine...... Child......

"Haha, today's harvest is good, plus these should be enough to make up 10,000! My wood is finally saved!"

"Does that method really work, does it wake up the wood?"

"Do you have a better way? Whatever the method, you have to give it a try......

"Wife, let's go quickly! I always feel that this place is gloomy, and we won't be damned if we do this kind of thing!"

"I also feel a little chill in my back, grab these cicada pupae and walk quickly......"

The footsteps are far away......

It's human...... He knew about the creatures, he had almost died at their hands......

Mankind...... Mankind!

Why take my child!

Why!!!

The black qi in his abdomen became thicker and thicker, and finally his entire body was wrapped in it!

And his body was nourished by this black qi, slowly expanding......

I don't know how long it took......

.........

"What a big cicada chrysalis!

"I'll stop him, you take this elixir back and give it to the wood to eat!"

"What about you?!"

"Don't worry about me! Hurry up!! this is all retribution, let me bear it alone!"

"Ahhhh

Screams echoed through the gloomy woods......

............

Mankind...... Damn it!