Chapter 59: Twilight
"Small, is that you? Where are you?" I followed the sound in the grass.
Jicheng walked into the grass on his short legs, and disappeared after a while.
"Come on, they're here!" Jiseong waved at us, and a crowd of people hula surrounded us.
I saw three elf little guys lying crookedly on the crushed grass blades, their transparent wings tightly wrapped around their little bodies. The eyelids are heavy and half-open. The skin is dark and condensed, like grease frozen in a jar, losing the flow of life. The little silver braids spread out on the grass, reflecting the gray of a cold metal on the whole little face.
"We're coming!!" I threw myself to pick them up.
"Careful!" my sister grabbed me and said softly: "It seems that their situation is very bad, and after some carelessness from you, I am afraid that they will die immediately." As he spoke, he turned back to Kazama, who had been silent for a long time, and whispered, "Please get some water quickly, I'm tired." ”
Kazama snorted and turned to go. My sister bent down and gently flipped the elves' small bodies to take a closer look. I was so anxious that I couldn't get started, so I could only stand aside with my brother and other "rough-handed" young people.
Kazama's hands and feet were neat, and he took a small pot of water in a blink of an eye. "I also brought some honey, I don't know if it's useful. Kazama said, and took out a small transparent vial, which contained an orange-yellow translucent liquid.
"It's thoughtful. I have a heart. As she spoke, the sister pinched off a leaf, scooped it in the water, and brought it to the elf's mouth.
After a few drops of water and honey, they finally came to their senses and looked at their sister in front of them with a pair of gray eyes. An elf's gaze slowly moved over our faces, and as it slid to the back of my head, there was a pause as I saw him visibly shudder.
When I turned around, it was my brother and Luo Ying standing behind me, and there was no one else. How the elves are like seeing a ghost!
Finally, the eyes of the three elves were completely opened, and all eyes fell on my face. One of them flapped its wings and tried to soar, but as soon as it got up, it lost its balance and fell back into the grass.
"You can't die, don't worry, take your time, and when you recover your strength, you can take us to find the 'Tears of the Night'. My sister whispered. The golden ring on his head shimmered with a soft orange-red glow in the dimmer light.
"There's nothing we can do...... We will surely die......" said to me with an elf with empty eyes.
"Our energy and magic ...... It's all gone......" the elf said intermittently. The tone is soft and unsentenced.
It's small! I can hear it. I stretched out a palm, flattened it, and gently placed it on top of it, holding it up in front of my eyes.
"Meiyi, what you are looking for is actually 'Tears of the Night'...... We're on our way to find it...... That's where our last hope lies......" The little tweed turned his face to me, his eyes were dilated, and his little face seemed to be the core of a fruit that had been eaten clean, and there was a sad sense of cleanliness that had been abandoned.
"That'...... Then you have to be better, when you are well, let's go find it together. I said in a trembling voice, reaching out to help him tie his braids, but as soon as I touched him, he collapsed in my palm.
"We're going to die here, don't want to see the sun tomorrow morning!" said the other, crying, in a furrier tone. There is no doubt that he is small.
"Don't touch him again, if it weren't for saving you, he would have exhausted all his strength, and he wouldn't be like this. The third elf said to me coldly. Consistent stinky face.
"Are you—" I asked.
"Phantom. My name is Phantom. He rolled his eyes and looked at the sky, his face was like a small whiteboard, without words or patterns: "The stars are about to come out, let the little tweed lie in your hands and breathe slowly-we have come all the way...... It's not easy. ”
I gently supported the little tweed, his eyes closed, he didn't even have the strength to lift his eyelids, only his small chest was slightly undulating. I held my breath and didn't dare to breathe, so I turned my face away from it.
It was getting dark. The red sun was long gone, and the place where it had been attached to the sun seemed to have leaked a big hole, and a cool pale blue mist was bubbling out and covering the entire sky. The lines of the mountain peaks appear thick and obvious in the gray-blue background, and the edges are straight and straight in front of you. The deep pool in the distance was silent as if it were dead. The only movement was the grass under his feet, but the strange thing was that it was obviously full of insects, but it was a stunned empty silence.
"The twilight of the world is as cool as water. Someone whispered. I looked sideways and saw that it was my brother.
Night fell completely, and dark palms brushed over everyone's cheeks, leaving mottled shadows, and their faces had a vaguely mysterious and inadequate beauty as they no longer looked complete.
The patriarch stood on the periphery, furthest from us, his blue shirt swaying in the night breeze, his gray hair looking gray and black in the dark, his face blurred, except for a dynamic silhouette. Thin and straight. Like a teenager.
"The stars came out. Xiao Phantom said coldly.
I looked up. The whole garden of the night hangs upside down, and the whole night sky is lit up by sparkling fireworks. Looking up at the starry sky again, magnificent, bright, within reach but without the smell of fireworks. I was suffocated in my chest and couldn't speak.
"That star is you. Forget to walk up to me and point to a star above me. It's you. It's you. You looked at me silently, and I looked at you with a sigh in my heart. With a star, to identify a person, is it ignorance or courage? I stood with my face up, smelling the faint fragrance of the forgotten body at the end of my nose, my mind was churning, as if I was supported by the mighty water, my heart was weak, I couldn't stand up, and my hand subconsciously wanted to pull out, but after all, I stood still.
"The night has finally sunk," Xiao Phantom's voice was still cold, but his tone was slightly relaxed: "Under the cover of darkness, I have the courage to say a few more words...... Xiao Jiao is too tired, Xiao Jiao is too irritable, and they all consume a lot, but I still retain some energy. Before leaving, let me tell the story, even if I die, I will understand. Alas, I don't know if the two of them will make it to that time......"
Although Xiao Phantom's voice was thin, it was silent and could be heard very clearly. In the distance, the red and blue dragons snorted softly. There was a kind of softening and tranquility in my heart. Yoshijo's little hand shook gently in the dark.
"We are the Firefly Elves. The little angel who made a mistake, after being expelled, transformed into the light elf of the Firefly Clan. 200 years ago, the three of us met in this way, although the world at that time, although not as drunk and beautiful as more than 2000 years ago, but in our eyes, it is still colorful and difficult to describe. We lingered among the flowers, loved each other, and thought that this was forever, until one day, a dark cloud suddenly covered our heads, and no matter how we flew and hidden, we could not go away. The dark clouds were like eyes, and they chased after them!
The three of us couldn't hide, and we watched the dark clouds press over, and just overhead, a burst of rain actually sprinkled down, and the raindrops made us soaked, and our eyes were hot and cold, and our faces were wet. When the clouds and rain stopped, we began to play happily again, and we didn't take it to heart.
"I don't know how many days later, but I was still very careful, and one day I suddenly grabbed my wings and said, 'Why do I see that the color of your wings is getting lighter and lighter!' We are still making fun of him for his 'old eyes are faint'. But a few days later, the daredevil, Xiao Jiao, planted himself headlong by the stream, and we rushed to fish him up, and he was trembling and couldn't speak clearly, but he pointed to his eyes for us to see, and when he got closer, God, the color of his eyes was almost gone, and only a layer of gray shell remained—God knows, his eyes were like the rarest amethysts, shining brightly, and the stars in the sky were inferior!
"Now we know that it is not good, that we can't sleep at night, that our hearts are burning, that time seems to stand still, but we can't slow down the speed at which the color fades from our bodies, wings, and eyes. We watched with our eyes open as we watched each other gradually become transparent.
But what makes people even more disillusioned is that the whole world is gradually beginning to fade in color, and from our eyes, it is gray and boring......
"It's more painful than being blind. It was only a moment to be blind, and the beauty of the past was still intact in the bottom of my heart. But now, the beauty is disappearing little by little in front of your eyes, and every second you regret the loss of the previous second, and you are afraid of the last second, until you are completely deprived. As a result, our mana is also decreasing little by little, we can no longer fly for long periods of time, we cannot fly high, we are clumsy, we are afraid of light, we have difficulty distinguishing food in nature, and even some of our companions have been taken captive by huge insects and birds......"
Xiao Phantom said in one breath, and finally stopped sighing. His tone was calm and indifferent, as if he was talking about something irrelevant. He looked up at Xiao Jiao in the grass, who had eaten enough water and honey and fell into a deep sleep. Starlight sprinkled on his face with an unexpected softness. The tweed also fell asleep in the palm of my hand.
"Do you need some more honey?" asked my sister gently.
"No, I don't. Xiao Huan refused to appreciate it, a small blue and white face faced her sister, gritted her teeth and sneered: "It's really rare to see such a diligent and friendly blood clan! Take our firefly elves captive, treat them as rare things, tie strings, dissect them, and even install automatic needle stabbing equipment on our backs, and needle our bodies every few moments, forcing us to keep flapping our wings, emitting bright lights, and then don't use them in a bun or waist as decoration, aren't these all done by your blood clan?!"
Although Xiao Tween has been slightly mentioned before, but at this moment, the sky is full of stars, the night wind is blowing lightly, listening to Xiao Fan's such detail, hatred and hatred, I feel that suddenly the stars and the wind stopped, and a cold breath came from the soles of my feet, choking me breathlessly.
I turned around and grabbed my brother's sleeve and asked loudly, "I don't pay attention to others, brother, have you ever done this?"
The elder brother shook his head slowly.
"This is not fundamentally different from humans taking fireflies and placing them in transparent bottles for light or fun, why don't you go and denounce to humans?" Luo Ying said lightly.
"A pair of good brothers!" Xiao Phantom sneered: "But now that human beings are subservient to the blood clan, they are just restrained and suppressed, and tomorrow, human beings will be kings again, what kind of good material is it! ”
"A little elf, he sees it thoroughly. In the distance, the patriarch spoke in secret. The dark shadow, only a pair of eyes shining: "But, what's the use, I can't protect myself, let alone anything else!"