Chapter 570, Midwinter Cold Night

Isn't life just the ups and downs in the clutch and dispersion, the ups and downs, like another village after the willows and flowers?

Fate arranges people's encounters and partings seem to be very arbitrary, so that there are many misses and imperfections, just like a pre-planned thing, when it comes to a predetermined time, there will always be special circumstances, which are completely inconsistent with the possibility of the future that I imagined. But people are strong, and although this is a passive and helpless strength, at least there is always half a chance that this unexpected future will bring surprises.

When Chiba Xue was fourteen years old, it was the middle of winter in Zhonglingzhou. The season in Zhonglingzhou is very long, there is almost only one season in a year, and only at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the season will slowly pass. Eight years have passed, and this is the second winter of escaping the Chiba family. This season is the time when she has the most nightmares. When I dream at night, when I close my eyes, there are corpses all over the yard, the viscera have been hollowed out, and a bunch of demon beasts are eating away at the flesh on the corpses.

She was so frightened that her feet could hardly take a step. Suddenly, someone behind her tapped her on the shoulder, and she turned her head in horror to see a little girl standing behind him. She stretched out her little hand to herself, and Chiba Yuki reached out to pull her inexplicably. But I found that her figure couldn't help but retreat backwards, as if she was being dragged by something, and the powerful force made it impossible for her hands to touch her. But what a strong longing there was in her eyes.

Suddenly, her heart burst open, and the internal organs flowed all over the ground, but the little girl didn't seem to care, just smiled and stretched out her hand. Chiba Xue was shocked, turned her head to look, and saw that the corpses in the courtyard of Chiba Mansion that had been hollowed out of their viscera turned their heads, the corners of their mouths curled, and they were looking at themselves with a smile.

That kind of smile is creepy, Chiba Xue screams fiercely, and runs away. But suddenly, she seemed to fall. And it seems to have fallen into a deep valley, and the clouds whistled in the ears, but it seemed to be bottomless.

"Ah Xue, wake up, why did you fall under the bed. Good boy, wake up, the ground is very cold. The old voice said slowly. An old man who was over his prime-old slowly lifted the quilt, struggled to get off the bed, and shook Chiba Xue's body. She was shivering on the cold yellow mud floor.

After a while, she slowly woke up, rubbed her eyes, and found that the corners of her eyes were full of tears. The previous picture suddenly appeared in her mind, and her heart trembled for a while, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the shadow of the old woman, and hugged her, and did not say a word, but cried.

"Another nightmare, aren't you?" the old woman patted her on the back, her technique very gentle, reminding Xue of her mother, who had been missing in the disaster many years ago.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all in the past. You don't think so much, live well, and let go of the past. Chiba Xue twitched and nodded, crying non-stop.

There was also a trace of tears in the old woman's eyes, and the expression in her eyes was extremely complex and unusual. It doesn't look like an old man should have at all. But that look only existed for a moment, and then disappeared in a moment, leaving only empty eyes and nothing.

Half a year has passed, and this nightmare has often occurred. But most of the time, there is such an old woman by her side, no matter how terrible things she sees in her dreams, but the old woman will pull her out of her fear when she is most difficult, and embrace her with her withered palms, reminding her over and over again that the past is over.

However, the old woman's body is not as good as day by day, and the old man, who is almost eighty years old, really can't withstand the bitter cold of this midwinter, and her life is about to come to an end.

When she was dying, the old woman called her to the bedside, gently took her hand, and said, "Child, eight years have passed, and you have grown up to be able to face many people and things independently. My mission was accomplished. ”

Chiba Xue was taken aback, not because of what she said, but because of the voice she spoke, where did this voice resemble the voice of an old man who was over half a hundred years old, although this voice also seemed very depressed and weak, but it was definitely not like the bloated voice of an old man.

"You" Chiba Xue looked at her with her eyes open, wondering if she was hallucinating.

"You heard me right. As if knowing what she was thinking, the old woman smiled slightly, reached to her ear with one hand, and slowly tore off her face.

At that moment, Chiba Xue was frightened, he thought he was still dreaming, she covered her mouth and screamed. I only hope that the old woman will wake her up at this time.

But things didn't seem to go her way. After the old woman tore off her face, she put it aside, and Chiba Xue saw that it was just a human skin mask. And the face behind this human skin mask suddenly frightened her again.

"Xue'er, eight years have passed, can you still remember what I look like, can you still recognize who I am?" Chiba Xue looked at her, it was an extremely young face, but in her early thirties, her face was beautiful, and the contours of her mouth and nose were somewhat similar to her own. But a deep scar went straight from the corner of the eye to the throat. This incomparably beautiful face is extremely eye-catching. Because she was seriously ill, her face was pale and bloodless. The hair is also black and white, but the white hair has taken up half of the area on the top of the head, revealing the old age and decay that she should not have at her age.

Chiba Xue sat on the ground in fright and exclaimed, "Are you a human or a ghost!"

The woman smiled slightly, smiled bitterly, and said, "I didn't die, I escaped like you, I escaped for you, Xue'er." ”

Chiba Xue looked at her in a daze, the woman reached out and wanted to come and pull her, Chiba Xue ducked back in horror, her body curled up in the corner of the table. It was a terrible action, a fear and nightmare that will linger for the rest of my life.

"Xue'er, it's me, it's my mother. The woman sat up from the bed weakly, wanting to get out of bed to pull her, but she had no strength at all, and fell to the side of the bed with a bang, her body rolled like a mud pill, the woman snorted, turned over, slept on the ground on her back, turned her head sideways, and found that Chiba Xue was only two or three feet away from her.

She wanted to reach out again, but found that Chiba Xue had shrunk back several feet, and this short distance of a few feet had become an insurmountable gap between her and her daughter. Her expression began to darken, and her outstretched hand fell limply to the ground. It seems to be desperate for the world.

The mother slowly reached into her bosom and untied her coat, and she tore at the corners of her garment with all her might, her teeth chattering until her mouth was bleeding, and then she tore the fabric of the garment and turned out a small cloth bag in the midst of all the wit.

Chiba Xue recognized it at a glance, it was the Ruyi bag she wore eight years ago, which contained spices and was her favorite dragon sandalwood, but it had long since disappeared. I didn't expect to see it again at this time.

Mother put the wishful bag in front of her, and slowly took out one of the small things, Chiba Xue looked at it curiously, it turned out to be a seal.

"Back then, you secretly ran out of Chiba Mansion, how could your father not know, it was all in his expectation. Even which way you're going, he knows exactly which way you're going. So much so that overnight people filled in the ground under the fence a few feet higher. Your father had a premonition that great calamity was coming. It has been quietly put on you. Mother pointed to the small seal on the ground, which was covered with green and dark rules, and it seemed that two forces were fighting to the death, but they were indistinguishable, and they were forever imprisoned in the shell of jade.

Chiba Xue's attention was not on this small stone, she didn't know so much, she didn't know the huge secret hidden in this seal, she just looked at the woman in front of her who had already died in her memory, her whole body was tense, and she didn't relax for a moment.

"Eight years ago, you carried me to the backyard and suddenly left so quickly, just so that I could discover the path you had designed in advance?" Chiba Xue said tremblingly. There was a sudden strong uneasiness in her heart, and the expression in her eyes was unusually cold, as if frozen.

The mother did not deny it, but nodded, "Your father just wants you to leave far away, the most natural and painless way to leave Chiba Mansion." After you left, he sent the most sophisticated killer in the Thousand Nights Mansion to protect you, but he also wanted you to never return to the Chiba Mansion. However, at that time, the people were not sent, and the demon world suddenly fell from the sky, and the Chiba Mansion was slaughtered. The whole house, except for our mother and son, was spared. ”

Chiba Snow seemed to remember that night many years ago, the same midwinter season and the same cold as tonight. He stumbled step by step and fell into the snow, and when he walked back to the door, he saw a scene that he would never forget.

Flesh and blood flying, demon beasts hissing, and pieces of flesh and blood on the white bones are everywhere. Heads, broken bones, and severed limbs were all over the floor, and the smell of blood in the air made her retching even when she thought about it years later.

"Then how did you escape?" Chiba Xue suddenly asked.

"I fled to the place where your father trained the Shadow, and he never let me go, but before he died, he blocked the monster's blow for me, and although he left this scar on his face, at least he saved his life. He said to me, let me go from there, let me find you, find the demon spirit seal. Your father literally left a secret passage there. From there, there is direct access to the water mirror lake in the mountains behind this house. As if recalling too much pain, her breath became extremely chaotic. "Xue'er, I found you, when I found you eight years ago, I wanted to seal this history forever. But this thing is really unknown, if there is a day I hope there will not be this day."

Her breathing grew weak, and finally, she never opened her eyes again. But the hands were still stretched out to her, as if trying to grasp something before dying.

She had regret in her eyes, eternal regret.

For a long time, she curled up in the corner of the table and looked at her who was already cold, without saying a word, tears in her eyes silently flowing. She stretched out her hand tremblingly, holding the already cold hand in the palm of her hand, and suddenly felt that the winter had reached the limit.