Chapter 1239: That Year
This push, in Bai Xiaochun's feeling, was as if he was in a deep sleep, suddenly awakened, and as he opened his eyes, his soul seemed to have lost all the memories that should have existed, and even he forgot who he was, the only feeling was cold......
The sky was gray, and white snowflakes fell from the sky like goose feathers, not only covering the world in front of them, making them blurry, but also covering the earth, and even the distant peaks became white.
Not to mention the dead forest where Bai Xiaochun is at this moment, many of the trees here have been crushed under the accumulation of snowflakes, and those that are still strong seem to have become a few dry and black embellishments in this white world.
"Xiaochen, don't sleep, wake up quickly......" Bai Xiaochun's eyes were dazed, he felt as if he had a dream, a vague dream that he clearly remembered everything in the dream, but after waking up, he couldn't remember anything.
No matter how you think about it, you can't seem to remember it, as if the weather is too cold, not only freezing his body, but also sealing his memories in the dust.
Only...... After his body was pushed several times in a row, with an anxious gaze, he appeared in front of him, and his little face was frozen and white.
It was a young man, who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old, very thin, there seemed to be injuries on his body, and there was a lot of dried blood on his clothes, and his body was also very weak, but his eyes were enough for everyone, after seeing it for the first time, it was very unforgettable.
It was a pair of eyes like stars, and in the depths of those eyes, there was a trace of stubbornness and ruthlessness that did not match his age, but when he looked at Bai Xiaochun, the ruthlessness in the young man's eyes disappeared, and was replaced by family affection and warmth.
"Brother ......" Bai Xiaochun opened his lips and made a faint sound, the owner of this little face was the only person he remembered at the moment, he clearly remembered that the other party was ...... It's his older brother, the same brother and the same mother!
After saying this, a sense of exhaustion surged up all over his body again, as if the cold wind around him made Bai Xiaochun unbearable, and the wilderness in this cold wind also made Bai Xiaochun feel an indescribable gloom here.
It was winter, and the snowflakes were falling, but in addition to the snowflakes, there were a large number of flying insects in the sky...... If you look closely at these flying insects, they are actually white locusts!
They roared through the wind and snow, and it seemed that it was their presence that made the land in a barren year, and some refugees in the distance shrunk their bodies, all of them were as thin as firewood, and their eyes were blank, like living dead......
And even if they are cold to this extent, no one has to find a way to make a fire, maybe not because they don't want to, but they don't dare to ...... The locusts flying in the wind and snow in the sky, the indifference in their eyes, Bai Xiaochun saw it, his heart trembled, he vaguely seemed to understand, these locusts have a special physique, even in the cold winter, they can't kill them, and once the fire is lit, I am afraid that these locusts will be immediately attracted to them, in the winter when there is no food, they may be their food.
These thoughts surfaced in Bai Xiaochun's mind, as if he had thought too many things at once, Bai Xiaochun's body gradually became weaker, he raised his hand with difficulty, looking at his arm that was only seven or eight years old like a child, Bai Xiaochun's eyes slowly seemed to have no strength to continue to open......
Seeing Bai Xiaochun wake up, the young man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but soon, he seemed to notice Bai Xiaochun's weakness and eyelids that seemed to be unsupportable, the young man immediately became anxious, and pushed Bai Xiaochun a few more, seeing that his brother seemed to be unable to hold on, the young man's heart was tingling, he was anxiously panting, he knew that his younger brother was hungry here, and the only thing that could make his younger brother have the strength to live at this moment was food.
"Xiaochen, hold on a little longer, brother will help you find food, you wait for me, I'll be back in a while!" The thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy was obviously anxious at the moment, with a touch of decisiveness in his eyes, and when he turned around, his expression also showed a trace of hideousness, like a lone wolf, and he went straight to the jungle in the distance.
His thin body, at this moment, seemed to have burst out with Bai Xiaochun's crisis, and he ran quickly in this cold winter, regardless of his injuries and weakness...... gradually disappeared into Bai Xiaochun's eyes.
"Brother......" Bai Xiaochun muttered, but the voice did not come out, he knew that his brother was going to help him find food, the memories of the past, at this moment, he vaguely remembered, since the white locusts appeared in the sky, there were successive famine years, and the plague spread, and most of the people in the village starved to death and died of disease, including their parents.
If it weren't for his brother's strength, he walked out with a frail and sick man all the way, I am afraid that he would also die, it was his brother who took care of him along the way, and even snatched food with those adults, from the beginning of the beating, until the brother had a fierce light in his eyes, after being ruthless again and again, even adults were afraid of his brother.
And every time the food is left, the elder brother leaves most of it to him, and even if the elder brother swallows his saliva hungry, he also pretends not to be hungry, and what he often says is......
"I'm your brother. In this way, he was able to live until now, in fact, in Bai Xiaochun's memory at this moment, his name is Zhou Chen, and his brother is called Zhou Fan, if he does not have his own burden, with his brother's ruthlessness, in this world that seems to be in troubled times, it must be much better than now......
But even with his brother's care, he was frail and sickly, and when he came here, he still couldn't support it.
"Without me, my brother will definitely be able to live better......" Bai Xiaochun muttered in his heart, and finally closed his eyes, as the snowflakes fell, the fire of his life gradually dimmed, and at the moment when it was about to be extinguished, suddenly, the wind and snow in the sky suddenly sudden, and then it was directly swept by a strong force, and all of them spread, and even the white locusts in the wind and snow were all avoided, revealing an old man from the sky, with an ugly face, walking slowly.
At the moment of seeing the old man, all the refugees on the ground knelt down one by one in trembling, wanting to open their mouths for help, but at the moment when they spoke, a large number of locusts crawled out of their mouths......
It seems that they don't even have the strength to scream, and these refugees can only wait for death in that agony.
The old man wore a Taoist robe, silently walked through the sky, looking at the refugees on the earth who had long been parasitized by locusts, there was pity in his eyes, but also helplessness, sighed lightly, the old man raised his right hand and waved, and suddenly those refugees who were struggling in pain seemed to be relieved, and slowly closed their eyes.
After doing this, the old man was even more depressed, and he was about to leave, but after his eyes swept over Bai Xiaochun, he suddenly sighed, his footsteps paused violently, and after a few careful glances, his eyes showed a touch of incredulity.
"Dao body?" The old man's breathing was slightly short, and he instantly fell to Bai Xiaochun's side, and with a wave of his right hand, a touch of soft light suddenly merged into Bai Xiaochun's body, making the fire of life that was gradually about to be extinguished stabilize at this moment.
Under the careful inspection of the old man, the surprise in his eyes became more and more obvious, and finally he looked up to the sky and smiled, hugged the unconscious Bai Xiaochun, and directly lifted off into the air......
It wasn't until the old man left the time of a stick of incense that in the distance, Zhou Fan's thin figure in the forest, staggered back step by step at this moment, and behind him on the snow surface, in addition to the footprints, there were wisps of shocking blood dripping.
His leg was injured, his face also had a few more wounds at the moment, and there was blood spilling out of his abdomen at the moment, the whole person looked very embarrassed, but his eyes were full of excitement and excitement, in his arms, there was a steamed bun, a steamed bun with blood, which he had worked hard to snatch from others.
"Xiaochen, I found something to eat...... The young man walked a few steps quickly, but as soon as the voice came out, his face changed, it was really a corpse all over the ground, so that his breathing suddenly stopped, his eyes showed anxiety, and he ran to the place where Bai Xiaochun was before, and when he got there, he didn't see anything, just the corpses around him that had been bitten by locusts for most of them, and only the remains remained, making his heart instantly seem to be grabbed fiercely.
"Xiaochen!"
"Xiaochen!!" The young man's voice was poignant, he had lost his only relative, as if he had lost everything, his body trembled, he kept searching, and finally knelt where his brother had disappeared, looking at the bloody steamed bun in his hand, his tears fell.
"Xiaochen ......" was in extreme sadness, and he didn't notice that at this moment, with the smell of his blood, a group of white locusts was roaring from the sky, and his body was instantly submerged.