A glimmer of light began to appear on the horizon.
The light was very weak, but it was so obvious in the dark night.
Then, as if accompanying the beating of the heart, the shimmer became stronger and more majestic.
The darkness recedes under the expansion of light, which is like a giant that has just awakened, opening its arms and stretching its limbs.
dawn.
dawn!
The light shone on Huang Zao's face, but it didn't bring him the slightest warmth.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Oasis...Oasis!" Huang Zao was shouting, and his eyes were already cloudy.
In his vision, there was an empty desert, and the oasis he encouraged himself did not appear.
"But I clearly heard the sound of water. I clearly heard it!" Huang Zao roared, desperately trying to break his throat.
"There is the sound of water." Cyanobacteria woke up unexpectedly.
This is a sign of coming back to life.
"Yes, brother, you heard it too, you heard it too!" Huang Zao was like a confused child who suddenly found his backbone and shouted wildly.
But Cyanobacteria did not respond to him, but still murmured: "I heard it, it was the sound of sea water, the sound of waves."
Huang Zao was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly realized that Lan Zao was trapped in an illusion.
In a trance, swaying.
The cyanobacteria feel wonderful.
Hunger had completely left him, and he felt light and airy, like... like he was doing his favorite thing
That's diving.
He likes to dive into the sea and then stay still, letting the current of the sea take him in any direction, or looking at the blue and vast sky through the light of the water while slowly sinking.
It was such a pure blue, without a trace of impurities.
Originally, the blue of the sky seemed cold and aloof, but under the transmission of the sea water, this blue became soft, elegant, sad, and approachable.
Cyanobacteria like this blue color best.
Immersed in this blue, he could forget himself.
In such a wonderful scene, does it matter who you are?
It doesn't matter anymore.
"Let's keep going like this..." Lan Zao sighed with satisfaction in his heart.
Then, a huge shark quietly appeared.
It has a snow-white belly, shark fins as straight as blades, and rows of sharp and terrifying teeth. Its eyes are also blue, refracting light like glass.
The shark and the unconscious blue algae looked at each other. Looking at these eyes at close range, blue algae felt a hint of horror deep in his heart.
Like an electric shock, he woke up and remembered who he was.
"Yes, my name is Cyanobacteria."
"I was born in a fishing village by the sea. I like diving in the sea the most. I almost never grew up."
When Lan Zao was ten years old, there was a famine in the fishing village.
Of course, not only the fishing villages, but also the entire territory did not harvest much food. However, the owner of this territory still expropriated the land by force. The remaining food of the villagers in the fishing village was forcefully looted.
In the simple thatched house, the whole family, including Lan Zao, sat at the dinner table.
In front of everyone else were large bowls with a handful of dark green paste-like food at the bottom. But the rice bowl in front of Lan Zao was half full.
Cyanobacteria looked at the food in his bowl. There was more food than ever before. Likewise, unprecedented fear enveloped his entire body and mind.
"Eat, eat more." Lan Zao's father said in a gentle tone, like the undulating waves on the seashore.
Lan Zao raised his head, but couldn't see his father's face clearly. The fishing village is poor and cannot afford to light candles. In the dim room, most of my father's face was hidden in the darkness. Only his eyes were blue, reflecting the light of the glass.
Late at night, Lan Zao heard the sound of breathing coming from his ears, and the sound became heavier and heavier.
He opened his eyes and saw his father lying beside his bed, staring at him, their faces almost touching.
Lan Zao opened his mouth to shout, but the next moment, his father stretched out his hands and grabbed Lan Zao's neck.
The blue algae struggled wildly, and the flapping sound woke up the mother and brother yellow algae.
Seeing their father trying to strangle Cyanobacteria, they quickly ran to stop him.
"Get out of here!" The father kicked his mother away.
Huang Zao cowered in the corner of Fang's house, trembling with fear.
"This is your son!" the mother screamed, her voice shrill and shrill, like the last cry from a bird's tiny throat when it is crushed to death.
"I gave birth to him, and I gave him his life. I'm just taking it away now." The father yelled, "Stop struggling, feed me, feed me! Only by eating can I live, and our whole family can live!" "
"No, no!" The mother shook her head wildly, "His life was not given by you, but by the god Mother Lin. When I had a difficult childbirth, it was Mother Lin's pastor who saved me."
"That's the god that elves believe in, the evil god of our human race! Do you still have the nerve to mention it?!" my father roared.
But the next moment, Lan Zao touched his hardwood pillow and slapped his father hard on the head.
His father was caught off guard and was knocked unconscious.
"I'll beat you to death! I'll beat you to death!" Lan Zao didn't let go and kept shouting, as if possessed, he raised the pillow high again and again, and then slapped his father's head again and again.
There was more and more blood, and the room was filled with the smell of blood.
His father remained motionless.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting, he's dead, dead!" Finally, the mother hugged Lan Zao and held her tightly in her arms.
Only then did Blue Algae stop its mechanical beating movements, and his dull expression disappeared. He woke up and cried loudly.
In the following days, seven people died in the fishing village. Most of them are old, weak, sick and young, with Lan Zao's father being the only exception.
At first, Lan Zao buried his father with his mother.
However, hunger can turn a man into a beast.
Three days later, Blue Algae and Yellow Algae were sitting at the dinner table, staring at their mother.
The mother was kneeling on the ground, her hands clenched into fists, looking up at a wooden statue placed in the niche. The statue is the image of a forest mother. She looks like a female deer, but has branch-like antlers, which are larger than the antlers of a male deer. Vines wrap around the deer's legs, while flowers bloom on the deer's body, creating deerskin markings.
The mother prayed very devoutly. After finishing, she stood up and looked at them.
Only then did Lan Zao see that his mother's eyes were red and there were tears on her face. She had obviously shed tears while praying behind their backs.
"You can eat it." The mother's voice was very hoarse.
Blue Algae looked down into the bowl.
The bowl is big and contains meat.
Pale flesh.
There is very little meat and must be eaten sparingly.
Snap, snap.
Blue Algae's tears fell into the bowl one by one. He was happy and sad at the same time, and felt happy at the same time in pain.
There was little meat indeed, and the famine was long.
After all, the blue algae didn't finish the meat at home, so an accident happened.
Orphans and widowed mothers are the most bullied, and their meat is taken away by the usually docile and kind villagers. The mother was also seriously injured.
Sensing the danger, Lan Zao's mother took the two brothers and secretly left the fishing village.
Near the seaside fishing village where the thieves live, there are many very small desert islands.
The small desert island became a new home and the tomb where her mother was buried.
"My meat... can be eaten." The mother called Lan Zao to her side and whispered her last words into his ear. "The great God told me to do this. My mother's soul will ascend to the Temple of Mother Lin. Don't Worry about me and take good care of my brother."
Take good care of your brother...
Take good care of your brother...
Take good care of your brother...
This last wish was deeply engraved in Lan Zao's heart, and it still lingers in his ears to this day.
Blue Algae opened his eyes forcefully.
All he saw was a blur of white.
"Xanthella...my brother, where are you from?" he called. To his surprise, he actually had the strength to shout.
"That's fake, fake."
"No oasis, no oasis!"
"Brother, there is no oasis...wuwuwu..."
Yellow Algae lay next to Blue Algae, crying bitterly, having already collapsed.
Blue Algae suddenly stretched out his arm and pulled Yellow Algae's head over. He put his mouth against Xanthomonas's ear, just like his mother had done.
Lan Zao confessed his last words: "Xan Zao, if you eat me, you can still keep walking! Live well and take care of yourself."
Huang Zao's whole body was shaken violently, as if he had been struck by a petrifying light and turned into a stone statue.
After about two or three seconds, the yellow algae suddenly started to move, and rushed towards the blue algae, grabbing the blue algae's neck with both hands.
"Brother, brother!" he shouted.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" he cried.
"Eat you, eat you..." His eyes were red, like a wild beast.
The blue algae felt very uncomfortable and gradually suffocated.
He grinned, trying hard to smile.
There seemed to be an undulating sound in his ears.
Wow... Wow... Wow...
His body seemed to be immersed in the sea water, as if he was swimming under the sea, leisurely and peaceful.
