It was daybreak after they escaped from Purgatory. After running for an unknown distance, until the sun was completely high in the sky, the chirping of birds could not be heard, his legs were weak from fatigue, and he almost vomited his internal organs, Qi Huan knew that they should be safe.
Liu Shenghan kept coughing, fearing that he had absorbed too much cool air while running. A few people rested in the shade of a tree for a while, raised their heads, and looked at the boundless mountain forest, as if everything they experienced at night was a dream. But their tired bodies and the blood stains on their weapons told them that everything was reality.
Including the matter of Lamb being taken away.
Bai Ya's face looked bad. He knew that his friends made the right choice in not letting him fight the nasty spider. Even if he persists, the result will be nothing but losses for both sides, not to mention the depression where the fire is more intense will 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 expressing his anger. He stamped his feet fiercely and put the two knives back.
"Kid, are you okay?"
Liu Shenghan leaned over and touched Mingming's cheek. The wound on his face had finally scabbed over, but it was still a little sticky. Liu Shenghan guessed that there might be ingredients that prevent blood coagulation. He was stunned, standing there motionless, like a wooden man, and didn't say anything 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 saw the chirping of insects and birds in the lush green mountains and fields. At dawn, they have already become a chorus group, and there are still the sounds of birds flapping their wings and the breeze blowing in the sky.
"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 specifically, "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 his blade sadly. After hearing this, she also felt something was wrong: "Yeah, how can there be no sound at all."
Liu Shenghan said: "Probably, that guy 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 was also unwilling to give in, "We also said we would look for him later. But 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 to her senses. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the helpless people with some curiosity.
"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 is because of my incompetence that I can't even see a stone and can'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 was 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 fake 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 hadn't seen with their own eyes how Mingming dealt with monsters, they might 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 do not know."
Mingming spoke honestly, with sincerity written all over her face. This left 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 made up stories, told lies, and talked nonsense. , or it is possessed by something unclean. But Sheng Sheng is 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, and I asked her to do it. Sheng Sheng hides, and no one can find her."
"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 complicated secrets that we don't know about here."
Mingming said that there is no cemetery in Shengshe. Shengshe was buried in his heart and belly.
When he said this, several people understood. In that mountain village where supplies were scarce, a family of a widowed woman had been stared at and bullied. This little bit of meat, even the flesh and blood of the past, meant nothing to the mother and son. Her mother didn't eat her because it was really a small piece of meat, so she left all of it to Mingming.
"It's not that... I can't understand."
After Qi Huan said this with difficulty, Ao Yan also nodded. They all know that in years of war and famine, cannibalism is common.
"My mother didn't know whether she should eat it or not."
"Indeed, this kind of thing..."
"She was afraid that I might be infected too."
Several people sounded uncomfortable. 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?"
"Herself."
"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 said that he is a "stick", which means he is the only one who can't find a wife. I guess no one in his family cooks, and he is afraid of monsters. I ate him to let my sister explore the road. He glared at me and left, but after returning home, my sister always complained that she was hungry. She always thought about the fruits on the other side of the hillside."
Bai Ya's face was solemn, 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 look for her on the other side of the mountain 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 couldn'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 returning home, we saw that her mouth was purple and her tongue was black. My mother said that she had eaten bad food and was poisoned. She couldn't have jumped into the river to fish for fruits...she couldn't swim. It is possible to drown like this. My mother said that she probably became a starved ghost, which was a good thing. But what about me? I was so hungry. I said, I also wanted to be a starved devil, so my mother gave it to me. A big mouth."
"..."
"I was still very hungry - my mother suddenly said, go make me some broth. I was so happy. 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 was so hungry. I smelled a scent, something was cooking in the pot, and there was a ball on the ground. I went to pick it up and play with it, and found it was the head of a crocodile. My mother seemed to be frightened, and suddenly she hugged She made me cry. Finally, she said she had nothing to do and asked me not to tell the people in the village. I listened to my mother."
That's it for now, no need to say anything more. As for what happened in Mingming's family, everything came to light. Liu Shenghan said that it might be the problem with the fruit. The flowing water in that place might have come from a strange land, and the poisonous fruit might have some effect, but she didn't know. Shengshe's soul was fixed in Mingming's body, they were one body and two souls.
It's half-demon.
A few people walked along the mountain road in silence, no one said a word. Qi Huan easily killed a hare. 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 proven through practice that he is indeed not a dragster. But everyone else 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 I walked, a huge shadow passed across the ground. Bai Ya raised his head and saw that there were no clouds in the clear sky. Turning around again, he saw the shadow of a large bird.
It was a really big bird, with a black silhouette wrapped in orange light.
Suddenly, it seemed to notice what was going on below, changed its direction, and fell back into the woods not far from them.
