One friend after another said goodbye to her, turned around, walked away, and finally disappeared into the deep darkness of the night; Lin Sanjiu had to close her eyes and think about them again and again in order to keep their footsteps in her mind for a while longer.
"I'm not afraid of fighting, but I won't take the initiative to die, not for anyone."
The great witch turned her back to her, and from now on, she never looked back at Lin Sanjiu. Her blond hair curled up and down on her back, as if she knew she could no longer grasp the sky and was about to sink into the night exhausted.
Bloody sunset.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't say a word.
She could only go with the flow and follow the dreams of her relatives and friends, because her decision had already been made; she could not convince her relatives and friends, and she did not know what to do to convince them.
The great witch stretched out a thin hand, as if afraid, and tightly grasped the handrail - their only lifeline.
After a few seconds, she let go again.
His hands hung down softly, hanging beside the stained and muddy golden fringed skirt.
"So," the great witch said without looking back, "before we finish crossing this suspension bridge, you have to push me off."
"You move faster, don't let me notice."
She steadied her feet and stopped for a few seconds, but still did not turn around to look at Lin Sanjiu.
"...Don't feel ashamed that you can't do anything to me."
The great witch's voice was a little softer, and when her shoulders occasionally trembled, ink-black reflections flashed on her blood-soaked hair.
"Because of you, I have lived longer than most evolved people. If my fate were changed to someone else and I didn't meet you, he would have died long ago. I have always walked around the world with strength, but in the end I
The reason why I was saved was not because of how strong I am... but because I unintentionally indulged my trust and my sincerity. From now on, I hope there will be more people like you in this world and less people like you.
People like me.
"Come on with me and keep walking...the suspension bridge is still very long."
Did he push it himself? Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember.
It was impossible for her to do it, even if she knew it was in a dream, even if she knew that Nuwa was still waiting for the answer, she couldn't do it; but the great witch seemed to fall in the end, as if she suddenly bloomed from pure black
There was a huge flower with slender petals and golden threads.
That scene was etched in my field of vision, like a spot of light that could still be seen even if I closed my eyes after seeing the bright sunlight.
Lin Sanjiu stood up from the ground almost staggeringly, and stood in the dim cockpit. For a brief moment, he didn't even recognize the person in front of him.
After a while, she remembered it and said in a hoarse voice: "...Nuwa."
She lingered in one dream after another for so long that it felt like several years had passed. When she first recognized Nuwa, she became confused: Why is Nuwa here? It was already a long time ago in Fuxiluo
Bar--
Lin Sanjiu shuddered and woke up.
"Ten dreams," Nuwa said slowly.
Ten? Lin Sanjiu pressed her eyebrows twice and remembered.
After the Great Miko, there is Batou De's dream; in the dream, he almost seems to have foreseen his own future, silently and obediently accepting the fate of becoming a sacrifice.
"...It's possible that I will die, so what does it matter? If I live, I will do more harm to the world, right?" He lowered his eyelids, with no expression on his face. "There is always only one thing I want to do.
Just to protect the ordinary people in Fanjia City... In the end, it would be worse than not having me in the first place. Just putting my life on the line is already a very light punishment for me."
Batou De stood up, and before walking into the night, he suddenly paused for a moment and asked Lin Sanjiu a question.
"Tell me, if Ye Jing saw me now... how would she feel? It must be very uncomfortable, right? Would she still think that saving me with her own life was the right decision?"
This broad, tall and strong man lowered his head, his entire face flushed and twisted, his shoulders twitching, his teeth clenching together tightly, unable to hold back the broken sobs that flowed out from between his teeth.
"I spent my whole life walking step by step towards Ye Jing. Why am I farther and farther away from her now?"
He didn't wait for Lin Sanjiu's answer. What he should say to Lin Sanjiu had already been finished; he turned around silently and strode into the dark night ahead - deep in the night, there was a building where ordinary people were gradually changing.
The changed city is waiting to swallow up this new life.
"Goodbye, Ye De," Lin Sanjiu heard herself whisper.
Every separation is night, without exception.
Even if it was a dream, she could not escape this long dark night.
"Ten dreams," Nuwa said again slowly. "There is still one short of the ten righteous people I want."
One missing?
Lin Sanjiu raised her head suddenly, and for a moment she even had doubts, thinking that she had remembered the wrong dream.
how can that be possible?
After Ye De, the next dream was that of Yuan Xiangxi, and the next one was that of Qing Jiuru and Kurosawa Ji... Even their dreams became her reality, and her memory was not wrong.
Do you want to go further? Great witch? Pina?
No, now is not the time to delve into the past ten dreams... Although Lin Sanjiu still doesn't know clearly Nuwa's requirements and standards for a righteous person until this moment; but the eleventh dream determines the last righteous person.
Dreamed.
...Sbaan's dream.
Lin Sanjiu turned her head and her eyes stayed on the dark night sky displayed on the cockpit screen for a while. Tonight, there were no reddish stars on that side; but she knew that he had not gone far.
"Thank you,"
Lin Sanjiu suddenly whispered.
Nuwa's expression did not change, she just tilted her head slightly, as if she had a doubt as subtle as floating dust.
"I owe a great favor to a person named Fanhe. From her, Sibaan and I got the 'seed' one by one, and the 'root system' by the other... and we relied on Fanhe to build it up.
With the contact, I finally..."
She thought for a while, looking for a suitable analogy.
"I finally turned my head and looked outside from this endless and continuously moving timeline... Then I saw that outside the normal time flow, there was a black sea.
"No wonder he said that he was ups and downs in the dark sea, but could never reach the other shore."
Nuwa didn't say a word. She seemed to be listening intently, but also seemed to have no interest.
"After establishing contact, I vaguely felt that his timeline was like a vine, wrapped around my life... starting from the end of my life until his birth. It's hard to understand.
?I also find it difficult to understand, I just have this feeling...Ah, look who I am talking to, Nuwa, you must understand."
Lin Sanjiu glanced at the night sky again.
"He has been looking for me. And what I want to ask him to do tonight is equivalent to throwing away all his efforts, persistence and pursuit... He just raised his head from the water, and he hadn't even taken a breath.
With just one breath, I pushed him back into the boundless, lightless black sea."
She looked away and smiled at Nuwa.
"So, thank you. Even if it is a dream, even if he will forget it when he wakes up... at least because of you, we can meet again."
She turned around in the driver's seat and got in.
The communication device used by Yu Yuan to communicate with Siba'an had moved its position at some point and was now at hand on the driver's seat, facing her darkly.
Lin Sanjiu stared at it without blinking, feeling that she had never seen anything like it, both hopeful and terrifying.
"I'm ready," she murmured, "Let's get started."
Although I have skipped the dreams of three people now, that is because I plan to change the writing method. Even if the eleven dreams are light and heavy, if I write them all honestly one after another, it will feel like they are all the same, which is a bit uncomfortable.
It's easy to digest... so the three people I skipped will be narrated later. Sibaan's dream is planned to be written in detail. This is Sibaan's appearance that I owe you...
(Otherwise, it would be a miserable donkey to always let a carrot dangle forward.)
PS: I’m a very persuasive person, and I’ve already started watching Duan Nao and Big Sword, but I can’t buy the switch version of The Mystery of the Werewolf Village…
PS: I am quite talented as a comedian. Everyone’s dream has a call back (bushi)
