Chapter sixty-six: the mourning of insubordination
After they escaped from purgatory, it was already dawn. They had run for an unknown distance until the sun had completely risen into the sky. The chirping of birds could not be heard. Their legs were tired and weak, and when they almost vomited out their internal organs, Qi Huan knew,
They should be safe.
Liu Shenghan kept coughing, fearing that he had absorbed too much cool wind while running. The group of people rested for a while under the shade of a tree, raised their heads, and looked at the boundless mountain forest, as if everything they experienced at night was a dream.
. But the tired bodies and the blood stains on the weapons told them that everything was reality.
Including the incident where Lamb was taken away.
Bai Ya's face turned ugly. He knew that his friends made the right choice by not letting him fight the hateful spider. Even if he persisted, the result would be nothing more than harm to both sides, not to mention that the depression with the stronger fire would not be able to escape. However,
Since he didn't think of a better way, even if he wanted to accuse his friends, it was just a way of venting his anger. He stamped his feet fiercely and put back his two swords.
"Kid, are you okay?"
Liu Shenghan leaned over and touched Mingming's cheek. The scar on his face had finally scabbed over, but it was still a little sticky. Liu Shenghan guessed that there were ingredients in it that could prevent blood coagulation. He stood there blankly.
There was no movement there, like a wooden man, and he said nothing when asked. Qi Huan and Jun Aoyan also looked at him at a loss, wondering how he could regain his energy.
"Don't you think...it's too quiet here?"
Bai Ya suddenly said this. Qi Huan looked around, and in the lush green mountains and fields, the chirping of insects and birds continued to be heard. At dawn, they had already become a chorus group, and there were also the sounds of birds flapping their wings in the sky, and the gentle breeze.
Xixi’s voice.
"It's not quiet at all now, is it?"
"There is no sound of spiders, he means..." Liu Shenghan knew what Bai Ya was referring to, "There is no sound of burning flames, and there is no smell. I think we haven't run that far yet."
Jun Aoyan was groping for her blade distressedly. After hearing this, she also felt something was wrong: "Yeah, how can there be no sound at all."
Liu Shenghan said: "Probably, that guy has sealed the barrier."
"He hasn't been burned to death yet?"
"It shouldn't be that easy..."
"Isn't that all the work in vain?" Qi Huan also refused to give in, "We also said we would look for him later. In this case, there is nothing we can do... No, since he is a gatekeeper for the Bird God
, will you hand over the amber to Garuda?"
"It's very possible." Liu Shenghan thought, "But, there is no guarantee."
"Well..."
At this moment, Mingming seemed to have come back to his senses. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the helpless people, a little curious.
"What's wrong with you? All of you are looking sad."
"It's not your fault."
Bai Ya muttered, but he didn't mean to hold him accountable. Anyway, in the final analysis, it was because of his incompetence that he couldn't even see a stone and couldn't snatch it back. Mingming blinked, looking innocent.
"What's wrong with me? I'm just——"
"You're okay!" Qi Huan suddenly rubbed the boy's white hair, "You scared us to death, you little thing."
"I'm fine, I'm fine. It's just that she is hungry. She must eat when she is hungry..."
"Sheng Sheng? Is she your sister? You ate spider eyes, do you remember?" Liu Shenghan asked, "That thing is probably poisonous. But you are safe and sound now, why is that?"
"Well... Shen Sheng is hungry, just eat something. If there is nothing to eat - just eat anything." Mingming opened her arms and gestured, "Chu Sheng will lend me her body. If I am injured, she will
When she gets angry, she comes out. I think she ate her eyes as if they were fruit, and the false fruit is poisonous. She thought I was hurt, so she came out to save me."
They suddenly understood why the people in that small mountain village were so shy about this child. If they had not seen with their own eyes how Mingming dealt with monsters, they would have regarded him as a crazy brat like the original mountain people.
"That amber can control some things that we can't see." Qi Huan tried to ask, "How did you, your sister, do it? How did she use that thing to send messages and make those spiders obey her commands?"
"I don't know."
Mingming spoke honestly, with sincerity written all over her face. This made them all helpless. At this time, Liu Shenghan knelt down in front of him and asked softly, as if coaxing a child:
"How much do you remember about your sister? Can you tell us?"
"Why are you interested in her affairs?" Mingming tilted her head, "It's strange, I wanted to say it before, but everyone wouldn't let me say it. They said I was making up stories, telling lies, and babbling.
, or be quit
A clean thing possessed me. But Shengshu was not an unclean thing. When my mother was still with me, she specially asked the witch doctor in the village to perform some kind of exorcism ritual for me, so I asked Shengshu to hide it.
They can't find anyone."
"Where is her cemetery?" Bai Ya asked casually, "Where is she buried? Don't be a ghost."
"It's not a ghost." Liu Shenghan was quite sure, "There should be some hidden secrets here that we don't know about, some complex hidden secrets."
Mingming said that Shengshe had no cemetery. Shengshe was buried in his heart and belly.
When he said this, several people understood. In a mountain village where supplies were scarce, in a family of widows who had been stared at and bullied, this little bit of flesh, even the flesh and blood they once had, meant something to the mother and son.
Mother didn't eat her because it was really a small ball of meat, so she left all of it to Mingming.
"It's not that... I can't understand."
After Qi Huan said these words with difficulty, Ao Yan also nodded. They all know that in years of war and famine, it is common for people to eat people.
"Originally, my mother didn't know whether she should eat it or not."
"Indeed, this kind of thing..."
"She was afraid that I would also be infected with drugs."
Several people felt uncomfortable hearing this. Didn't the grandmother in the village say that his sister Sheng Sheng died of starvation?
"Why poison?" Liu Shenghan asked keenly, "People in the village said she died of starvation."
"It was poisoned to death. My mother won't let me talk nonsense to the people in the village, but you are not from the village. I think you should be able to say it, right?"
"Who poisoned you?"
"She's on her own."
"Herself?"
"Yes." Mingming nodded, "A bad guy in the village lied to her, saying that there was fruit to eat on the other side of the mountain, and asked her to go with him alone. I asked at that time, there is food there, why don't you go? Every household is short of food.
Well, do you want her to be a shield? That guy is particularly annoying, my mother
He said that he was a "stick", which meant that he was alone and could not find a wife. I guess there was no one in his family to cook, and he was afraid of monsters eating him, so he asked my sister to explore the way. He glared at me,
He left, but after returning home, my sister kept complaining that she was hungry. She kept thinking about the fruits on the other side of the hillside."
Bai Ya's face was sullen, and his expression was even uglier than before. Aoyan frowned and asked what happened next.
"She was so hungry in the middle of the night that she couldn't bear it, but where was there food at home? She kept crying and crying, and I cried with her, but my mother couldn't coax her. In the end, we both fell asleep from exhaustion. After waking up, Chuan
She disappeared. I remembered what the bad guy said and told my mother. She took me to the other side of the mountain to look for her and found her by the river. She was a little fat after soaking in the water. "
"She has..."
"She's dead. My mother said she can't speak or move, so she's dead. She won't be able to speak or move in the future. I see there are no fruit trees nearby, or she was washed down further up the river.
After we got home, we saw that her mouth was purple and her tongue was black. My mother said she had eaten something bad.
, she was poisoned. She couldn't just jump into the river to fish for fruits... She couldn't swim, so it was possible that she would drown like this. My mother said that she was probably a starved to death, which was a good thing.
But what about me? I was so hungry. I said, I also want to be a full-fledged ghost, so my mother gave me a big mouth."
"..."
"I was still very hungry - my mother suddenly said, go make me some broth. I was happy, but after waiting for a long time, there was still no soup. So I went to the kitchen to have a look. My mother said that the kitchen was dangerous and I was not allowed to enter.
, but I'm so hungry. I smell the aroma of pot
There was something cooking in the pot, and there was a ball on the ground. I went to pick it up and play with it, and found that it was the head of a turtle. My mother seemed to be frightened, and suddenly she hugged me and started crying. Finally, she said she had no choice and let me
Don't tell the people in the village. I have to listen to my mother."
Now that the matter has come to an end, there is no need to say more. As for what happened in Mingming's family, everything has come to light. Liu Shenghan said that it may be the problem with the fruit. The flowing water in that place may come from the evil realm, which is poisonous.
The fruit may have some effect, but she doesn't know. Sheng Sheng's soul is fixed in Ming Ming's body. They are one body and two souls.
He's a half-demon.
A few people walked on the mountain road in silence, no one said anything. Qi Huan killed a hare easily. While eating this casual lunch, Jun Aoyan asked in a low voice:
"Sheng Han, do you think this Sheng Sheng...is a ghost? If she doesn't reincarnate, isn't she afraid of becoming a ghost and harming others?"
"Children's souls are very clean, unless they were framed and died tragically - they know who harmed them. I don't know if the bad guy Mingming mentioned has received retribution, and I don't want to ask. But, since she is like this
To protect your brother, you should..."
Mingming has proved through practice that he is indeed not a sluggish person. But others would rather he not take action. Now, they are ready to use their own strength to find the bird god Garuda.
They took a short nap to catch up on their sleep. The afternoon sun was still very fierce, but they had to continue on their way. As they walked, a huge shadow passed across the ground. Bai Ya raised his head and saw a clear sky, and
There were no wandering clouds. When he turned around again, he saw the shadow of a big bird.
It was a really big bird, with a black silhouette wrapped in orange light.
Suddenly, it seemed to notice what was happening below, changed its direction, and fell back into the woods not far from them.
