The days of guarding the barrier were very difficult, living in the open and living in a precarious situation, and the dragons might attack and behead them at any time.
But I feel a rare sense of ease here. It can even be said that this is the first time I have felt so relaxed since I came out of the cage.
This was the place where my father shed his blood and where his bones were buried. This is where I will dedicate my only body to the people.
At least it shows that I still have some... use to the family I love?
Life on the battlefield is not valuable, and people of my race with different faces die every day, and life and death only last a moment.
Often, when I see new birds reporting in the morning, I may watch their dead bodies return home in the middle of the night.
Occasionally, I would even think about the scene of being carried back to Xi's house after my death. Humph, then the second uncle won't really allow him to enter the family tomb, right? It's a little disturbing just thinking about it.
In this way, in the rounds of offensive and defensive battles, my spirit gradually became numb.
Somehow, I, who was very mediocre in all aspects, unexpectedly survived in the cruel battlefield, sending away batches of fresh lives and welcoming batches of new people.
I don't even know when I'll be one of them.
But it wouldn’t be bad if that were the case…
I...have...waited too long.
I have always longed for true peace.
Just when I thought I would get through this war calmly, either dying or surviving, I met the guy who ruined my life again on the battlefield.
I hated him so much that I couldn't control my evil thoughts the moment I saw him.
He is still the same as before, always as gentle and graceful as jade. Even now on the battlefield, facing a bloody war, he still calmly talked and laughed with his companions.
When facing enemies, he can chop them down one by one with great speed.
Birds like this quickly won over their group, which didn't include me.
I used to believe in him so much.
The knife he stabbed me here was so painful that it left a mark on me that I still can’t erase. Unconsciously caressing the heart that exploded in pain, I will never be used by this hypocritical and hateful guy again.
"Don't waste your efforts. I don't want it." Once again, I knocked over the dry food handed over by the other party, and I could even feel everyone's slightly complaining glances.
But I don't care at all.
Why should I trust such a mean bird?
I even wanted to give him a sword on the spot, stab him to the core, and let him feel the taste of despair.
But I can't, it's not time yet.
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He touched the trembling sword tip in disbelief. He couldn't even tell whether it was his own hand that was moving or the aftershocks of the sword. Gorgeous blood burst out from the large hole in his chest, staining his green clothes red.
The girl in front of him looked at him with a smile, gentle but frightening, as if it was not her who had just done that thing.
Lu Yuehua's mind was in a mess. He didn't understand why the girl who had taken the initiative to rescue him a moment ago suddenly pierced his heart with a sword while smiling.
The loss of a large amount of blood made his mind gradually faint, and he recalled those old memories.
"It's hard, isn't it?" I moved the long sword inserted into my chest, and when I heard the boy's almost scream, a trace of revenge flashed through my heart.
"What it feels like to be betrayed." I leaned close to his cheek and almost whispered.
"Why don't you say anything?" The smile on my face stiffened, with an indescribable malice on my face: "It was you who pushed me into the pool that was tailor-made for me. Have you forgotten?"
I held the hilt of the sword and pulled the entire sword out from where the opponent was penetrated. I was satisfied with hearing the opponent's short scream, pretended to shake my head and sighed: "You are so delicate."
I gently touched the heart that had not beaten for a long time, and the desperate pain of that time still seemed to remain there.
"Does it hurt? It must be painful, but it's not as painful as the pain you gave me back then! Hahaha... feel it, you know? What does it feel like to be betrayed by a bird you trust..."
Looking down at the boy who was lying limply on the ground, the girl's expression seemed to be crazy, and the whole bird fell into a terrible emotion.
"You owe me this"
"You're crazy." In the face of the other party's disbelieving expression, I raised the corners of my lips strangely: "Yes, I should have gone crazy a long time ago."
I raised the sword and lowered it, and in the other person's horrified eyes, I penetrated the shoulder blade, dripping with blood, just like her heart now.
"Hahaha, I've avenged you." The girl smiled crazily, almost to tears.
Unfortunately, the bird she wanted to tell him was already gone. Nothing can be undone.
There are more and more enemies surrounding them, and their strange combination has become the focus of the enemy's attacks. They are surrounded airtight.
She smiled lowly at the young man behind her: "Okay, this is how I end my pitiful and ridiculous life."
He took out the talisman in his arms and put it on the other party's face, which was covered in blood.
Lu Yuehua felt something moist covering his face. A creepy sound like the separation of flesh and blood rang in his ears. There was something hot covering his face, and something sticky mixed with liquid. Shot into his neck.
The transfer talisman was soaked in blood and took effect in an instant. The phoenix bird lying on the ground was gone, leaving only broken bones, minced meat and blood on the ground.
There was dead silence.
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Lu Yuehua went crazy.
This man, who is quite famous in the clan, has gone crazy. He came down from the last battlefield.
No one knows what happened that day.
Still remembering that Lu Yuehua, covered in blood, rushed out of Xi Mansion with a crazy expression, crying and laughing towards the sky, lying on the ground like a beast that had lost its soul.
From then on, the tribesmen could often see him holding the sycamore tree outside the city while wearing the blood-stained green clothes that he never changed for many years, muttering something.
Walking on the street, I suddenly held my head and screamed, as if I had seen the most terrifying thing.
Countless Phoenixes will lament after dinner that such a good husband ended up like this.
But that's it.
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The war ended suddenly, and the dragons came and went in a hurry, leaving nothing but a mess for the Phoenix clan.
Countless young people died in this war, many, many, and they were covered by new dead souls before they even had time to mourn.
The Phoenixes who lost their family members came to collect the remains of their family members with faces full of sorrow, hoping to take their children home as soon as possible.
The birds from the Xi family also came, but they only took away a box containing the hair tie that Xi Muqing used during his lifetime.
The poor child self-destructed, and the blood foam all over the ground was carved up by the dragons, leaving no trace of his body. The tribesmen who cleaned up could not even extract the slightest residue from those stones.
Xi Yun hugged the small box tightly in his arms. On this July day where the sun was shining brightly, he felt very cold.
