The sky was like a bloody remnant of the sun and the flying snow intertwined, making each piece of flying snow as red as a flame, like the unextinguished embers in the fire.

Ye Mingke walked on the empty and cold street with Ah Ru on his back, and Jian Jiu, who was rarely only holding a sword and dressed in white, followed them silently.

"The city will soon become a turbulent and bloody battleground. Jian Jiu, who was following behind Ye Mingke, said slowly.

"I understand. Ye Mingke said lightly, but his voice was as hard as holding an iron block.

"Now that everything is understood, you should leave Yangjing immediately with her. "Sword Nine Dao.

"I understand. ”

Ye Mingke looked up at the end of the avenue under his feet, the black Xuanwu Gate that connected the red heaven and earth, word by word, slowly authentic.

There was a delective rush of lava in his voice. His steps forward were heavy with each step, and his back was slightly bent as if he were carrying a heavy mountain on his back.

Step by step, he stepped on the snow that reflected like the bloody sun, and walked out of the huge city that contained a storm in its oppression. In the bloody remnant sun ahead, there are corpses buried by the wind and snow, there are refugees who also feel the oppressive atmosphere in the city and huddle quietly, and there are white bones.

Ah Ru, who had her eyes closed, buried her face in the hair on the back of Ye Mingke's neck, as if she wanted to sleep very hard, and her voice was choked.

"Wood, is the relationship with everyone fixed? The deeper the affection of the person who loves, the shorter the time together. The more you love Aru or the more you love Aru, the more you will quickly disappear from Aaru's world. ”

"Abba said that my mother is the person who loves me the most in this world, so Aru was separated from her mother as soon as she was born. ”

"I like Abba very much, and Abba is very nice to me when he is at home, but Abba often has to go to sea alone, and I really spend very little time with Abba and Abba together. ”

Ye Mingke felt that the back of his neck was wet with cold tears, and Aru's choked voice gradually became louder, as if a sad soul was struggling hard in that immature and clear voice.

On the contrary, the bad boys who laughed at Aarro for being a mute were always around Aaru. Those bad guys that Aru hates are always alive. ”

"Is it only the time that doesn't go by too quickly? I thought about whether I could love Abba less so much, but I couldn't. ”

"Is that why Abba left me so quickly?"

"Wood. ”

Ah Ru hugged Ye Mingke's neck tightly and choked softly.

"Actually, I've never hated you that much. I don't really want to be so cruel to you, and I don't really just call you wood all the time. I'm just scared that I'm too good with you and that the connection between us will soon run out. ”

"I'm scared, you'll leave me too. ”

Ye Mingke, who walked out of the giant city step by step with his head down, didn't know when his eyes were already red, he raised his head, smiled hard and said gently.

"No, Aaa. It's not like that. ”

But his voice was difficult to convince and comfort even himself.

He remembered the beautiful partings along the way, whether it was because of the beauty that there were so many partings, whether it was if there was no beauty, there would be no sadness.

"Wood, I don't really want to meet you so early, wood, if I choose not to like you so much first, will we be later

We will be able to see each other again. ”

"Wood...... Put me down. ”

The sad and fragile little girl suddenly whispered, her voice trembling slightly, to her only reliance in this world.

Ye Mingke stepped on the avenue and paused.

The little girl who hugged him hard but told him to put her down leaned against his neck and whispered slowly.

"Wood...... Give me to that sword brother. ”

"I heard what you said to Brother Glasses, and I know you really want to help Sister Liu Xi. I hate those people too. ”

"Wood, you go help them. Also go and help those who are being bullied by the bad immortals. They are pitiful. ”

Her clear, quiet voice whispered softly in the snow, the sun, and the bones of the roadside.

"Wood, I'm afraid you'll disappear soon, but I'm also afraid you'll hate me, and I don't want you to be unable to do what you want because of me. Wood, you go. ”

Aru, who had tears on her delicate little face, raised her face, stretched out a hand, and gently rubbed Ye Mingke's head, like Ye Mingke comforted her every time.

Ye Mingke's pace of progress completely stopped, and his body trembled slightly.

"A-Ru, have you really thought about it?" he put A-ru off his back, put it in front of him, looked at the little girl who was much braver than he had imagined, and asked hoarsely with red eyes.

"I ...... Don't be afraid. Aru looked at him, pursed her lips, and nodded slowly and effortfully.

"I thought I had convinced him, but in the end it was you who suddenly changed your mind. Why?"

Jian Jiu, who had been following them, looked at the girl and asked slowly.

"Don't you really hate us immortals who can fly swords, why do you suddenly dare to go back with me?"

"Sister Liu also uses a sword, and there are immortals who are not as bad as Brother Sword. Ah Ru turned his head to look at Jian Jiu, there was no trace of cowardice in his big red eyes, "If I learn the flying sword, I will definitely use it to kill those immortals who harm people with flying swords." ”

The little girl who will cry again and again because of the loss of her loved ones is not a cowardly girl,

She is a violent little girl who has been bullied since she was a child because she can't speak and has no family company, but she holds a small wooden stick to beat away all the bullies who bully her, a little girl who dares to use her words and spirits to fight against immortals when she just awakens, and a little girl who has never been scared to cry by battle.

"And you, big brother, are a good person. ”

"I'm not a good person, I'm a person who is not good or bad. Jian Jiu, who was only holding a sword in his arms, said lightly.

Ye Mingke slowly turned around and looked up at the capital city that was caged in the remnant sun.

"I told you, this time the Immortal Ascension Array in the capital will be opened, and the power of the immortals stationed in the entire Yangjing Duty Division will converge, even I may not be able to block the power of the immortal array. Jian Jiu looked at Ye Mingke and said.

"I understand. ”

"If you're just trying to save those two friends of yours, I can help you figure it out together, but if you're trying to stand up to the Duty Division, you're going to die. ”

"I understand. ”

Ye Mingke slowly lowered his head and looked at Ah Ru and Jian Jiu.

"Aru, if I can, I will definitely go to the East China Sea to see you again. ”

"Jian Jiu, help me take care of Aru, the life you owe me to Aru, we will clear the two. ”

"I'll take care of her. Jian Jiu was silent for a while and said.

Ye Mingke finally touched Ah Ru's head, smiled softly, and gave Jian Jiu another fist salute, and then, turning around, carrying the sword box, against the glow like fire, walked towards the giant city where the giant beast was crawling.

Before the festival in the city begins, a rapid and loud bell has begun to echo in the wilderness between the giant city and the sunset.

Jian Jiu didn't turn around and leave immediately, but held Ah Ru's hand a little unaccustomedly, trying to keep up with Ye Mingke's pace towards the giant city in the back.

"I don't understand. ”

There was an outward anger in his voice.

"You're not for promise, you're not entirely for your friends, you're a monster who isn't human, are you ready to die for those mortals?"

"yes. ”

Ye Mingke, who was carrying a sword and a box, stared at the giant city not far away, walking faster and faster. made Jian Jiu, who was holding Aru, a little difficult and embarrassed.

"I don't understand. Jian Jiu looked at him and asked again in a cold voice.

"I don't understand either. ”

Ye Mingke, who was bathed in the glow, smiled softly.

"I stayed in that small courtyard in Yangjing for more than ten days, and I never dared to enter that city. Because I know that he will be destroyed, and I will be heartbroken for its destruction, though I don't know why. ”

"I have a lot of things I don't understand, but there are also a lot of things I do. ”

He didn't turn his head to look at Jian Jiu, and said slowly but firmly in the fiery glow.

"I don't like this era of great contention, and I don't think that just because I have the power beyond mortals, I have nothing to do with those ordinary mortals. ”

"Why do we have to fight? Why can't everyone do what they like? Things in this world must be snatched from other people's hands and not created by ourselves?"

"I hate the way you immortals used to look at people. Is strength the only criterion in the world?What has your indifference allowed you? Have you really surpassed mortals?Should immortals really be ruthless?"

"The ugly monk who was forced to send it to me by his own fellow disciples, the Lingchen Immortal who was killed by his own apprentice, the red clothes who prefer the human world and would rather burn themselves in the fire than burn down the Immortal Fang, have you really surpassed mortals?"

Ye Mingke no longer looked at Jian Jiu's eyes, his face was calm, and he looked at the giant city in front of him frantically.

"You are also Gu who are struggling in the world of great contention? For a hundred years and a thousand years, you are also suffering from survival, all living beings are fighting, you will also die and be injured, you will have desires and love and hate, why can you be so detached? Is this detachment or is it an excuse for you to cover up greed and ruthlessness?"

"I may not be a mortal, but I can't be detached. I worry when I see someone hurt, and I get angry when I see a distorted life,"

"I also don't like the world of power slaughtering everything, I want to let the demon have the demeanor of the demon, the dignity and greatness of the human being, so that every life can follow the law of its own survival and grow incomparably luxuriant. Why do you have to live or die?"

"Life is the most beautiful thing in the world. ”

The young man, who had walked to the thick shadow of the towering city wall, looked back at the eyes that had pretended to be indifferent but could no longer hide his worry, and smiled calmly.