Seeing his silence, Chunxia tried her best to smile and began to describe the cute child in her imagination.
"Guess, is he a boy or a girl? I hope it's a boy, exactly like you, that would be better... But it would also be great if it's a girl, who looks like me..."
As she spoke, her breathing gradually became heavier. Mirage looked down and saw that she had closed her eyes, and she felt sad in her heart.
——Without the supplement of monster flesh and blood, Chun Xia's waking time has become shorter and shorter. Like today, she is only awake for less than half an hour.
Mirage hugged her and couldn't help but reveal a smile that was uglier than crying.
After all, he set his target on humans.
Rumors about the evil sea monster gradually spread in the human world.
Chun Xia didn't know what the mirage had done. Her belly was getting bigger and bigger, but surprisingly, she didn't feel tired as easily as before.
Until not long ago, it was finally time to give birth.
…
Qiao Xi tightened the folding fan in her hand, not knowing what to say for a moment.
After a long while, he looked at Mirage and said softly: "What about Mrs. Chunxia now? Can I see her? Maybe I can be of some help."
The expression on Mirage's face seemed to be crying or smiling. He looked at Qiao Xi with his eyes, but the focus of his eyes fell on an unknown place in the space:
"It's too late...but it's already too late."
…
Mirage never knew that human beings could burst out with such powerful power, nor did she know that when the despair reached the depths, her mind went completely blank.
He watched blankly as Chun Xia held the bloody baby in her arms, then looked at him,
"Look, this is our child."
"She's a cute girl."
"Mirage, tell me, will she look exactly like me when she grows up?"
"I hope she can be like me, but I also hope she is not so similar to me..."
——If she is like me, then you will look at her as you look at me, and you will not be so sad if you miss her.
——But if you think about it again, it is too cruel to miss someone who will never appear again every day.
Thinking of this, Chunxia tried her best to raise her hand, trying to touch Mirage's cheek, but her trembling fingers were caught by Mirage in the air.
Chun Xia bent her eyes. Although her fingers were as skinny as cherry branches in winter, her eyes were filled with a long-lost brilliance.
"It's better not to be like me. It's better to be like you."
"Mirage, can you promise me to watch her grow up?"
Mirage, who had been silent since the beginning, finally opened his mouth.
He laughed, the corners of his lips curved beautifully, tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes, and then he said:
"No, I can not."
After Chunxia blinked blankly, he put Chunxia's fingers on his cheek.
The feeling of putting dry and rough fingers on his face was uncomfortable, but Mirage didn't care. He looked at Chun Xia and repeated:
"I can not.
Junxia, you know.
If you dare to leave today, I will eat this child. You know so much about monsters, you should know that monsters are always like this. As long as they can become stronger, they can eat even their own children.
So, stay alive, Junxia!
If you don't protect him, I will eat him!"
He said this without any hint of joking in his tone.
Chun Xia didn't show any surprise when she heard his emphasis.
She used her fingers to explore Mirage's face bit by bit, with a helpless smile on her face. When she touched the wetness on his cheek, the smile on Chunxia's face gradually deepened.
After a long time, she spoke like a sigh.
"You can do it, Mirage."
Even though she was old and frail, she did have a cunning and somewhat proud expression on her face.
"She is my child, the child of both of us."
As she said this, the smile on her face looked more and more satisfied.
Mirage understood what she meant.
——That is her child, so he will not have the heart, nor is it possible, to do anything to the child.
Until this moment, tears finally poured out of Mirage's eyes without any scruples.
——Yes! You win!
He won't do anything to this child.
But if you don’t say that, what should you do?
What should I do to keep her here?
When we first got together, Mirage thought he could bear such a scene - human beings will eventually die, and he knew this very well.
But now, when something that had been foreshadowed suddenly happened, he found that he couldn't bear it at all.
"I'm sorry, Mirage, I can't stay with you anymore."
"Chun Xia, Chun Xia..."
The mirage murmured Chun Xia's name, and then watched her turn into little stars of light and dissipate in the air.
"Pure...Xia..."
…
Mirage lowered his head, and his soft hair hung down, casting a shadow on his face. Qiao Xi was right opposite him, but she couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.
"Chun Xia is a very cute girl. I have never seen a human being like her."
"She is very beautiful when she smiles. Her eyes are crooked and sparkle even more than the stars in the night sky."
"She is always curious about everything. Sometimes when she encounters something she doesn't know or hasn't seen before, she always investigates it carefully and then makes a record."
"She is really kind. Whether she treats humans or monsters, she is incredibly gentle. The monsters all know her."
"She is also very powerful. Occasionally she encounters evil monsters that have no consciousness of their own, and she can always get rid of them without any help from me."
"She likes to bask in the sun very much. Sometimes when she has free time, she will move a chair and sit in the yard, basking in the sun while sewing clothes."
"She likes to grow flowers and has planted many flowers in the yard. When the flowers bloom in season, they are very beautiful. Children in the town like to come to the house to see the flowers."
"she likes……"
Mirage talked a lot in a soft voice, Qiao Xi listened quietly, and couldn't help but feel that Mirage and Chunxia must be very much in love with each other.
If not, how could he remember everything about the other party clearly?
If not, when he mentioned Chun Xia again, even though he was sad, his voice was still full of indescribable tenderness.
If not, how could his smile be filled with sadness that he couldn't get rid of.
"Now, Lord Fengyue God, I leave my child to you."
"Although I promised Chun Xia, I will watch her grow up."
"But it's such a pity that I can't seem to do it."
"I always feel a little lost because I can't watch her children and I grow up little by little."
"But I'm also a little happy."
"Lord Fengyue God, you should probably hate monsters like me the most."