Chapter 45: Salvation
It was the young man who forgot to speak.
He came to me, no longer walking, and stood side by side with me. While gently raising his hand to signal the red dragon to calm down, he turned his head to look at me and said gently, "Okay, it's okay." β
I looked up at him, he was much taller than me, looking down slightly, his gaze was gentle and quiet, and his posture was clear. But I could see that he was trying to adjust his breath, his hair was wet, his chest was heaving, and his breath was like a blue. Dressed in a white shirt, wet and mottled stains.
However, none of this matters. The whole world is safe.
A warm breath came from nowhere, from the chest to the bottom of the eyes, and the eyes were blurred in an instant.
I was unsteady on my feet, shaking for a moment, and a hand was firmly on my shoulder. In the haze of tears, I saw that it was not him, but he was still standing some distance away from me. It's a shadowless hand.
"Brother, they ......" My heart was agitated, and my words were incomplete.
"They are well, do not read them...... The sun is out. Forget to say softly. The eyes didn't leave my face.
"Wonderful!" I whimpered, tears finally freed and flowed with joy.
"Take me to them!" I reached out to pull him, just touched his hand, felt him stiffen, he didn't take my hand, but raised it and patted me on the shoulder, a simple word: "Okay." β
His posture is natural and elegant. My shame felt like I was rubbed around the corner of the wall while running, and it hurt a little but it didn't get in the way.
He didn't move his feet, straightened me up, took out a crystal vial from his bosom, uncorked it, and gently poured some brown powder on my blurred shoulder. As soon as the powder was poured up, it spread out in all directions, and the pain and swelling instantly weakened, like a fish slipping away silently.
"Bang!", he tore off one of his sleeves and bandaged me.
I hung my hands, stood obediently, and let him go. The fragrance is a little bit thicker, dry and cool. I have a lazy peace of mind. The soles of the feet are weak. I'm so tired, so let's do it, so be it......
"Alright," someone whispered to me, and as soon as I looked up, I met his slender eyes, bright, quiet, with a slight smile. Under the flickering torches of the cave, I could see his face clearly. It was a warm face, like a heat source, that drew me to reach out for warmth.
I tucked my fingers and gently probed his face. Fear of being burned. The boy's cheeks were very warm, as if it was the thick little book spread on my brother's lap, and during the long years when I was "sleeping", my brother always took advantage of the time when no one was around, and whispered to me, which had a secret and warm texture.
I don't know how long my hand stayed on his face until a loud explosion sounded:
"Hey!! let it go!!" Before the words fell, a white figure flew diagonally and knocked my hand off!
I woke up. I'm still in this horrible cave. The boy and I were surrounded by a group of people (and dragons). The red dragon drooped his head, his ugly claws had nowhere to put it, his eyes seemed too big to turn in his sockets, and he could only stare at a certain place, and the green-haired man and woman put their green-haired monster child on their shoulders and stared at me blankly, and there was a neat doubt in their green eyes, which made them look a little less ferocious, short and cute. Of course, there is also this whirlwind intruder, a girl in white, who is a Kazama girl.
She was so angry. She knocked my hand off, pulled Wuyan behind her, stood between me and Wuyan, pointed her finger at me, and shouted, "You...... You...... You ......", turned around again, and shouted at the forgotten words, "You...... You...... You ......"
Like Forget to Say, she is also soaked in white robes, with locks of hair sticking to her cheeks, thick eyebrows, and heroic spirit.
I burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" she snapped.
"I laugh at you for looking so good when you're angry!" I said with a laugh.
"You stinky little ghost, your mouth is sweet!" she turned her anger into joy, and then said with a straight face: "If I hadn't forgotten to say that you were the one under the star, I would have avoided the harm if I hadn't thrown you back into the ground, and stayed honest underground with your blood-sucking kind......
"Kazama, shut up, I said she's not a Bloodline. Forgot to interrupt her, and his tone was slightly displeased.
"Not now, but sooner or later, which of them can do it past the age of 17!" Kazama was reprimanded, and replied angrily.
"Is that what they want? In infancy, even in the mother's womb, fate has been written, born as the firstborn, sacrificed by his parents with blood and tears, and never to see each other again, even if they say goodbye, one is a human and the other is a ghost. Is it not the sacrifice of your sister and my fellow brothers that you and I can stand here today, in broad daylight, and call ourselves human beings, and on the pain of the separation of parents and children?"
Kazama hung his head silently, his fingers twirling with the belt of his robe. Unwillingly, he looked up and glared at me.
I stayed local. The mind is in turmoil. I don't know where the chaos came from.
"And why did you come along, are they settled?" asked Forgetty.
"They won't take care of themselves, besidesβ" Kazama replied.
"If my son does not save him, he will never wake up. A mournful voice interrupted. It was a green-haired woman, she put away her cold and sharp, her whole face collapsed, and only the cloudy sorrow was left in her algae-green eyes.
"Alas. I sighed at the sound of Forget, walked up to the green-haired men and women, took the green-haired monster from their hands, laid it flat on the ground, approached him, looked at his eyelids and lips, took his hand, and put my ear close to his chest.
Forgetting to say and squatting on the ground, as if thinking of something, he raised his head and said lightly to the red dragon: "You have a lot of weight, it is difficult to grasp, the next time you meet someone, don't step on it, you just lift and fall, I am afraid that he will be full of liver and gall, and his life will not be guaranteed." β
The red dragon twisted his body, his color was like a flame, and his snort was heavy, as if he was about to have a seizure, but he was finally silent.
After a while, he stood up and shook his head at the green-haired man and woman, without saying a word.
The green-haired man sat down on the ground like a used rag. The woman stood on the ground like a stick stuck in hard ground, straight and cold and withered.
I looked at the green-haired monster lying flat on the ground, he looked much longer than he stood at the moment, unkempt, his eyes half-open, the corners of his mouth seemed to be smiling, obedient and innocent. Is he going to die? Or, he's dead.
For some reason, I suddenly wanted to take the place of the green-haired monster lying on the ground.
The green-haired woman finally crouched down beside the green-haired monster, half-hugged and half-dragged him in her arms, muttered in her mouth, and kissed the child's cheeks and hair with her lips. After a while, he gently put the child down, walked straight to Wuyan, clasped his hands, as if begging, as if protecting himself, and said in a dumb voice:
"Aren't you 'self-proclaimed men', what can you noble, wise, and free human beings who walk freely between light and darkness that you can't do? Revive my children, and let us, the wicked Shadow Clans who are living in the cracks, rejected, and squeezed, see how God has performed miracles on you, so that we may live, sober, painful, and desperate, to bear witness to the power of God!"
I couldn't understand her. I only know that she is in extreme pain.
Forget to say that he held her hand with both hands, slowly separated, and said softly: "The pain has come to this, why bother." β
"I listen to you carefully, and you say that your destiny is written, and ours is not. The woman couldn't control the shaking of her face, so she could only try her best to control the shaking in her voice: "Back then, the brother of the blood clan clan secretly intermarried with a human woman and gave birth to a child, and the mixed-race child was very clever and had the advantages of both humans and blood clans. It is not known that a heavy curse was placed on the children born of the human blood, but from then on, this wretched race, which you call the 'Witch Shadow Clan', will no longer be seen in the heavens and the earth. She gasped, two reddish and gray stains rising eerily on her turquoise cheeks.
"In the face of humans, we are demons, and in the face of blood, we are demons. Whoever it is, you can be punished quickly. The woman's voice calmed down, and she continued in a tired tone: "You say that we are dark, extreme, cunning, and cruel, why don't you want to think about it, for thousands of years, we have been living in the cracks, and it is difficult to see the light of day......
"You are incorrigible people!" Kazama suddenly interrupted her words, her thick eyebrows raised, her eyes clear, and she said word by word, "You belong neither to light nor to darkness, and you have neither heaven nor hell in your hearts. Your mouth will never praise, all you will ever think about is how to fill it!"
"Who says it's not?" the woman sneered sadly, "But who caused all this? Why are you born a human being, above board, why are my children born to be inferior to human beings and ghosts, and hide in Tibet! Isn't life all given by God, if God doesn't want to give, it's simply like a blood clan, completely unable to reproduce, why give it, but only give a broken fate, and be reluctant to leave a little bit of grace!"
"You're cursed!" the red dragon threw out.
"We are cursed by the Bloodline, we are not cursed by God. It is the blood clan that is cursed by the gods," the woman refused to show weakness, gritted her teeth and said: "But you see, the blood clan now rules the world, and even you humans have to bow down, and we, who should have received the extra mercy of the gods, ended up like this!"
"Don't say any more. Forget to say that his voice was very soft, and his chest heaved. Everyone suddenly fell silent. It was as if there was a silent majesty in his voice.
He opened his mouth, took something out of his tongue, handed it to the green-haired woman, and said gently, "Take it, your child is saved." β