Volume 1: The Contest of Life and Death Chapter 12 A Light in the Dark
Thousands of miles are full of yellow sand, and there is no sunlight all day long.
On this desolate and strange Gobi Desert, a small post station was built.
Two green lanterns hung in front of the inn, moving slowly in the hot and humid breeze.
Gu Hai was standing in front of the door hanging the green lantern at this time, stopping and watching.
He didn't know why he had come to this strange place, or how long he had been standing in front of this closed door.
His memory is still stuck in the moment when the Flying Fire Meteor burst, even if his heart is full of countless attachments and reluctance, he can't stop the severe pain of the heat wave and the tearing of the flesh.
The unforgettable heart only disappeared in that instant.
"Could it be that this is the afterlife after death?" Gu Hai looked at the closed post gate in a daze, and his heart was full of emotion.
The story of the afterlife world was also mentioned when he was a child when he sat next to Lan Ting and listened to her story!
Legend has it that people who are born, old, sick and die, or die in battle will come to another place after leaving their own world.
There was no pain, no noise, and no hatred in that place. Some are just a bowl of tea, which can forget all the troubles of being alive, including memories.
Stories are stories after all, and there are very few children who believe in them.
And Gu Hai, as a stubborn child, naturally didn't believe that this would be true.
He had always thought that the afterlife in the mouths of the adults was nothing more than a place that he had made up for himself to resemble a carefree place, and now he took it out to coax them ignorant children.
But now he was standing in this place that was completely different from reality, and subconsciously thought about the afterlife world that Lan Ting told.
With a self-deprecating chuckle, Gu Hai whispered to himself: "It turns out that what Lan Mu said is true!"
I couldn't help but feel a sense of relief in my heart, this is a person's instant thoughts when they suddenly let go of their obsessions, but it is like putting down the tens of thousands of mountains on their shoulders!
"Since you're here, let's go in and have a look!" Gu Hai thought to himself.
With a light step, he stepped up the steps in front of the inn.
Standing in the doorway, he hesitated.
Gu Hai didn't know whether to push the door directly or knock on the door politely.
Just as he hesitated, the quaint gate of the post station was pushed open from the inside out!
Gu Hai looked up.
At the doorway stood a coarsely dressed young man, his long hair stray over his shoulders, and his unshaven beard making him look a little scruffy!
Gu Hai did not have the slightest hint of slackness, he was originally a foreigner, and now the man who opened the door must be the owner of this post station, he arched his hand and said: "Disturb my brother! I was originally a ......."
But before Gu Hai could finish the words in his mouth, the young man had already spoken: "Why haven't you come back yet? The soul lamp has been lit twice!"
"Huh?" Gu Hai was stunned when he heard this, he didn't understand what the man in the post station meant!
"Is Brother Tai talking to me, what is a soul lamp?" asked Gu Hai as he turned to the man.
But the man seemed to have never seen Gu Hai from beginning to end, and whispered: "Then order it again, counting this time, it will be the third time!"
Then the man walked out of the post station and walked towards Guhai.
But before Gu Hai could turn around and give way to him, the man had already strode along Gu Hai's figure!
Only then did Gu Hai realize that it was just the man talking to himself, and he couldn't see Gu Hai at all!
"...... this?" Gu Hai's mind was full of questions.
Isn't this the afterlife of the story? Why can't this man see himself and can't touch himself!
"What the hell happened to me? Where is this?"
With a strong question in his heart, Gu Hai turned his gaze to the man who was already standing in front of the green light.
At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the man's back.
Under the eaves, the lonely shadow is like a peak, the linen cloth is coarse, and the wind is bleak!
Behind that man is an ancient character of the Kingdom of God era full of the breath of time - "ancient"!
As a teacher of the Divine Kingdom, how could he not know Gu Hai, Lan Ting had been holding him over and over again when he was young, and it had already been deeply rooted in his mind!
He ...... Is it my people?"
The word "Gu" alone does not seem to make Gu Hai identify the man as a person from an ancient family.
But what the man did afterwards made him no longer suspicious.
I saw that the man stretched out his right hand and took off the two erratic green lanterns, and removed the lampshade, revealing the constantly beating flames inside.
The fire is not a candle, the lamp is not a green lamp, and the cyan flame seems to be able to ignite the surrounding space, burning a black trajectory with the up, down, left and right.
It seems that the power of the flame is too weak, and it can only cause changes in the surrounding space, if it can turn into a raging fire one day, I believe that this world will not be able to stop the monstrous flames that it spreads!
"What kind of fire is this?" Guhai murmured softly.
He had never seen such a green fire, and although the entire Huahai Realm was vast and boundless, there was not the slightest legend about it!
Just as Gu Hai sighed at the cyan flame, the man finally made the next move.
He lifted his left arm, which had been hidden in his sleeve, a white-gloved arm, thicker than his right.
Gu Hai saw it in his eyes, he had a sense of déjà vu, his left arm was just like this man, always stronger than his right arm!
The white gloves were slowly removed by the man, and Gu Hai's breath slowly inhaled with the red scales that were exposed a little.
It was an arm identical to his own left arm, densely covered with tiny red scales, white bone spurs sticking upside down along the knuckles of his fingers, and the black claws finally revealed their most hideous moments, but the difference between the man and Gu Hai was that those crooked nails were full of uneven scratches!
What kind of battle could make the claw that Gu Hai thought was the hardest in his heart look like this?
But Gu Hai didn't have time to think deeply, the man clenched his left hand hard, and the black claws pierced deep under the scales of the palm, and a drop of red blood ran out of the wound.
The man waved his hand to control the crystal blood bead in the sky above the cyan flame, and slowly fell.
There is no incompatible intersection of fire and water, and there is no scene of green fire extinguished.
The bright red blood bead turned into a cloud of blood mist as it approached the green fire, enveloping it layer by layer, slowly blending in little by little.
And the cyan flame also seemed to be endlessly nourished in an instant, and the flame beat more vividly!
Light a fire with blood, light a lamp with fire!
This is the way the green fire came from!
"There is no light in the other world, burning blood into a lamp, a green light illuminates the road, and it will last forever!"
The man blurted out a sentence as if it was for himself, and it seemed to be for Gu Hai behind him.
It's just that whether that person can perceive the existence of Gu Hai, no one can say clearly.
"I have three soul lamps today to illuminate the direction for my clansmen, and I wish there was peace on the battlefield. It's a pity that those brothers who have entered the depths of the other world can no longer see my Guxu's soul light illuminating in all directions, and no one can echo my Guxu's soul light!"
"Father, where have you been, why can't you hear my countless calls over the years, they are coming, they are back, they are going to kill all the people of our ancient family. The brothers have all died in battle, and the younger brother has also lost his trace, only the immortal soul lamp that belongs to him tells me to stay here, he may be lost, and needs a light to illuminate the direction of his return, if you can listen to my call, please be sure to bless him with peace and security!"
Perhaps the man named Gu Xu was too sad, and the cyan soul lamp floated above him and shone brightly, illuminating the shadows in the mist for a moment.
Outside this tiny Gobi Desert, countless demon soldiers are surging in, like vicious dogs smelling flesh and blood, hungry and hungry!
The huge skeleton giant swung the bone hammer in his hand and let out a silent roar towards the sky, and the step under his feet was a thousand feet away in an instant.
However, since it was so ferocious, when he stepped into the land of light illuminated by the cyan soul lamp, it instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared without a trace.
However, they did not seem to be afraid of death at all, and there were already countless companions behind them, and every time a demon soul soldier disappeared, the cyan light would be drastically reduced by one point.
It's no wonder that the green lantern can never grow into a raging fire!
As Gu Xu's long sorrow gradually dissipated, his bearded face showed a resolute expression, and his eyes were even more igniting with fierce fighting intent.
"In the past, there were ten brothers who fought with swords in all directions, and now there are Gu Xu's lonely lamps fighting without demons!"
"As long as I'm alive, you'll never be able to set foot in here!"
With an earth-shattering roar, Gu Xu tore off the coarse linen clothes draped over his body, revealing his body that was already covered with red scales.
His eyes also turned into a pair of copper-yellow magic pupils, and his black eyes turned into a diamond-shaped shape, which was originally the long black hair without wind, and the golden color was instantly rendered.
The vertebrae bulged, and sharp bone spurs broke through his scaly and closed skin and grew down the spine, and the straw sandals under his feet had already been broken by a pair of hideous claws, and four sharp fangs were born in his mouth!
At this time, he had turned into a huge monster-like Gu Xu, and appeared in Gu Hai's eyes.
He slowly moved his feet and ran towards the countless demon soldiers who rushed to kill, and as he got faster and faster step by step, the soul lamp above his head followed closely like a shadow, and the momentum of not fearing death was as surging as a mountain.
The cyan soul lamp in the distance lit up the brightest light in the dark night, but in the last moment, it was allowed to erode by the darkness and disappear without a trace.
At the same time, there are also those surging demon soldiers and demon generals.
"No ——!"
Gu Hai's face was already full of tears, and he screamed to retrieve Gu Xu, who had turned into a monster, but there was no reaction at all.
By this time, he had forgotten that he might just be a non-existent phantom, and that his voice would never reach the world.
He stretched out his left hand to grab a strand of black hair floating in the air, but he could only let it fall to the ground through the palm of his hand.
The tightly clenched palms let the blood flow out, but there was no trace of pain.
The last soul lamp on the eaves was blown around by the breeze at some point, and finally extinguished in the last struggle.
The world is plunged into darkness again.
In addition to the starry sky there is one more in an inconspicuous position.
Gu Hai, who fell to his knees, finally understood who he really was, and everything that appeared in front of him was just a fragmentary memory in the seal in his heart.
He is the youngest of the twelve sons of the Gu family, Gu Xu is his sibling brother, and their Gu family has always been burdened with the mission of sealing the other world, even if they are on the verge of extinction, they have not made the other world appear in any corner of the Huahai Realm again.
"Brother...... You once lit the way home for me, but I lost my eyes and couldn't see, I see now, see the brightest light of your soul lamp. ”
"I am Gu Hai, I am the last soul son of the Gu family, I will light my soul lamp, echo for your soul lamp, one day I will come back here, return to the place where you lit the lamp for me, and witness ...... for you"
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There was a warm feeling on his face.
Gu Hai slowly opened his closed eyes, he didn't know how long he had been asleep.
A crisp voice woke him up from his stupor.
"You're finally awake!"
In front of Gu Hai's eyes was a young girl dressed in white, her long hair tied behind her back, a happy smile on her face, and a towel that exuded warmth in her hand.
I thought it was this beautiful woman who had wiped the tears on his face before.
As if knowing that Gu Hai would have doubts in her heart, the girl put down the towel in her hand, put her right hand under her cheek, and stared at Gu Hai's eyes that had lost their sharp light due to serious injuries.
"You've been in a coma for almost a month, and when my grandfather and I found you on the riverside, you couldn't hold on, but fortunately, grandpa's medicine was brilliant and it took a lot of herbs to save your life!"
"Riverside?" Gu Hai reached out and rubbed his head, trying to shake off the drowsiness coming from inside.
The girl hurriedly pressed on his arm and comforted: "You'd better not move, although your trauma has recovered, but the bones under your chest have already been broken, so you can't do such a violent movement with a little recovery momentum!"
Gu Hai stared at the girl's hand on his left arm and was silent, just as he had moved before, the futon that had been covering him had already slipped off, revealing his strong, strong chest.
Only then did the girl realize that her abrupt demeanor was indecent, and she saw Gu Hai's recovered body again, and hurriedly withdrew her hand and muttered with a red face and did not dare to look at Gu Hai's eyes: "Your left arm is too scary, the bandage on it is wrapped by me, and grandpa doesn't think it should be seen." I'm going to tell grandpa that you're awake, you should have a good rest!"
"Oh! yes!" the girl seemed to think of something, and without looking back, she pointed to the placket of the coat on a chair at the head of the ancient bed.
"Your previous clothes have long been burned to the ground, I bought them on the street a few days ago, they are all plus-size, you should use them!"
With that, the girl hurriedly got up and hurried away, her figure like a frightened deer.
Gu Hai stared at him for a while and didn't know what to say, and chuckled in a low voice: "Am I really so scary......