Gu Jianlin had never seen her look so confused before, and he felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.
He suddenly realized something.
No matter how powerful or noble the woman in front of her is, she has her own unknown past, hiding her past joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows.
She is a living person, not a weapon or a monster.
Thinking about it this way, he more or less felt a sense of security in his heart. It turned out that such a powerful person also had weaknesses. He would also show such confused eyes, and also feel helpless and lonely when he was homeless. He was not invulnerable. And when he thought about it, he felt a little heavy. Even if he stood at the top of the world, there would still be things he couldn't do, and there would be times when he was powerless. He drew his sword and looked around at a loss, and could only sit in the bar and drink.
Compared to the sense of crisis of being coerced, he hated the feeling of incompetence.
"Feel sorry."
He felt a little sorry in his heart because he suddenly thought of himself when he was a child.
"Apologise for what?"
Skylark poured himself a glass of peach juice, held it in both hands and brought it to his lips, sipping gracefully and elegantly.
"nothing."
Gu Jianlin looked at the bright city under the sun and suddenly asked: "Is that person very important to you?"
Skylark showed a thoughtful expression and said softly: "Maybe it's my family? Because I remember clearly that I used to live in a small city in the south, and there was an old tree that had lived for many years in front of my house. It looks like dazzling gold when enveloped by the sun, and there is a flower that has withered for many years.”
She seemed to be telling an ordinary past event, but a mysterious atmosphere filled her, and the flow of time became quiet. The sunlight reflected on the girl's porcelain-white cheeks, which were so white that they were almost transparent.
It's like a beautiful witch reciting an ancient spell, which contains a huge secret.
"Well, your accent does have a bit of a Southern accent."
Gu Jianlin nodded slightly: "Do you like sweet or salty tofu?"
"Of course it's sweet."
Yunque glanced at him sideways: "Can you eat salty food?"
"That's right."
Gu Jianlin said casually: "And I just feel like vomiting when I smell the sweet tofu."
It's rare for someone with such a straight-minded thinking to make a joke to liven up the atmosphere.
Probably to regulate the woman's mood and prevent her from going crazy.
It has nothing to do with whether she is good-looking or not.
"Our family must have been well off initially. Many people in that small city respected us."
Skylark stared at the blue sky, silently staring at the turbulence of the sea of clouds, and said softly: "If I remember correctly, that city was later hit by a natural disaster. Well, it was not a natural disaster, but an ancient god. The Breath invaded and became a forbidden zone. Our city was shrouded and the Aether Society took over."
"us?"
Gu Jianlin caught the key words.
"Well, I remember that I have a family. I am the eldest daughter in the family. There should be four younger brothers in the family. They are all about my age, but they are all difficult to discipline. The second child is the most withdrawn and is not close to the family. The only one is What I can remember is his back. The third child is very smart and can help me share a lot of things. The fourth child is lazy and indifferent to everything. He is a child who has not grown up. The fifth child has a perverse personality and no one knows what he is thinking. What."
Yunque fell into memories, his eyes clear and confused: "All five of us are in poor health and are weak and sick. Most of the residents have evacuated, but we have not chosen to leave. We have to wait for our parents to come back, and they will come to treat us. Sick. People from the Ether Association have helped us contact our parents, but there has been no news."
"You have also been to Black Cloud City Walled City, and you should know what will happen in the forbidden area, just like it was in Tokyo last night. The sudden disaster disrupted your peaceful life, and the past is gone forever."
She shook the peach juice in the glass and said faintly: "Even under the control of the Ether Association, the forbidden area is still disordered. Sublimated people from all over the world will come here to investigate, and battles will break out from time to time. I remember, My room has been smashed in many times and heads rolled down to my feet like footballs."
The panicked screams and frightened expressions of the citizens last night seemed to appear before her eyes again.
She didn't care at the time, she just thought those people were a bunch of ants.
After recovering part of my memory, I was suddenly able to empathize with them.
Because she was once such a helpless ant.
Gu Jianlin frowned instinctively because he felt this was a bit unreasonable.
If this is really the style of the Ether Association, and you don't care about your own wishes, and you five little brats don't want to leave, then just gag them and stuff them into a sack, and then give them a shot of sedative.
When you woke up, you were already doing morning exercises in the Demon City Experimental Primary School.
"Sounds crazy."
he commented.
Skylark's recovered memories may not all be reliable, and it doesn't matter if this detail doesn't match up.
"Life was very chaotic during that time, because daily necessities from the outside would no longer be delivered, and daily necessities could only be delivered through special channels. The five of us would often go to the aid station to grab food and toilet paper. The station manager was a bastard who enriched himself. , would embezzle most of the rescue money and give us some leftovers. Sometimes they would scold us and accuse us of stealing things. Occasionally they would lead people around downstairs of my house. Did they want to sell us? "
Skylark smiled silently: "How many people like this are there in the Ether Association?"
"This kind of behavior should be uncommon in all branches. Taixu will clean them up regularly."
Gu Jianlin thought for a while: "Probably no more than three months."
"I can't wait that long, because I will have already awakened by then."
Skylark pouted: "We couldn't go to school at that time, so we could only hide at home and worry about it every day. The TV signal could only receive six channels, only boring soap operas and evening news. The network was also interrupted, and there were still some games and videos on the hard drive. A few anime. The one that stayed with me during that time was "Digimon", have you seen it?"
Gu Jianlin tried to hum a tune in Japanese: "After the infinite dream?"
Now he was convinced that the woman was regaining more and more memories.
Also more human-like.
Skylark also hummed the tune softly. Her voice was ethereal and graceful, and she sang with a different charm. She was as vivid and desirable as an elf in the cold forest, as if opening a forest leaf was a new adventure. .
"You can watch an anime over and over again, but you still have to find something to do. At that time, there was a scholar who came to archeology and took good care of us. He was an old man in his nineties, and his lifelong wish was to get a glimpse of the secrets of the ancient gods. When he came back from archeology, he would bring us a lot of snacks and candies. He would sit under the tree below my house and tell me some of the history of the ancient gods. At first, I thought it was all myths and legends."
Yunque's voice rarely became softer: "I still remember his smile. His face is wrinkled due to the wind and sun all year round, but he smiles very kindly. It was that old man who gave me the promotion ceremony of the path to slaying ghosts, including promotion to the institute. Part of the resources needed. He told me that girls should also learn to clench their fists to protect themselves, especially since I have four unlucky brothers. I am so beautiful, and sooner or later bad people will be interested in me."
Gu Jianlin looked at her beautiful side face suspiciously, and suddenly said: "I remember Bai Long said just now that you only became more and more like the Supreme One after you arrived at Buzhou Mountain."
"I was also very good-looking."
Skylark said coldly: "And after I was promoted to the second level, the first thing I did was to kill the webmaster who had enriched himself, along with his three bastard sons and four lovers."
"cool."
Gu Jianlin commented: "How old were you at that time?"
"Eight years old?"
Skylark said softly: "Don't you think I'm scary?"
"There's nothing to be afraid of. I believe that human nature is inherently evil. When you were young, you certainly had a lot of bad thoughts when you were ignorant. In that case, it was your instinct to survive. If it were me, I would do it as well."
Gu Jianlin said seriously: "As long as you can bear the cost, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong for you."
Yunque savored these words: "That's really good, but I'm not the one who pays the price for it."
Gu Jianlin was slightly startled.
"The Ether Association noticed the death of the webmaster and quickly launched an investigation into him. Naturally, they found out that I was the murderer. Those people did not hold me accountable for this matter. After all, the webmaster was indeed a bastard."
Skylark's voice became cold: "The problem is that I did break their rules, so I need to be restrained and disciplined. At the same time, the Ether Association also found out about the old man who helped me get promoted."
Gu Jianlin was silent for a moment: "The Ether Association's style shouldn't make things difficult for him."
"Yes, the Ether Association did not make things difficult for him. It just sent him out of the forbidden area and canceled his officially certified archaeologist qualification. The problem is that the webmaster has a background."
There was a strong murderous intent in Yunque's eyes: "Later I found out that the old man died on his way home. There were two granddaughters waiting for him at home."
Gu Jianlin shook his head. If this story is true, it is a tragedy in a huge system.
The Ether Association is too large and its forces are complex.
The ancient sect, the power of the aristocratic family.
Under the realm of heaven and man, darkness will always breed.
"Is this intolerable to you?"
Gu Jianlin also poured himself a glass of beer and tasted it. It tasted really weird.
"Well, I even know who the murderer is, because on the third day after the station manager died, his brother came to take over the rescue station, and he looked at me like a wolf seeing a lamb."
A cold smile appeared on Yunque's lips: "It's a pity that they didn't know that I was already a fourth-level Shura at that time. This promotion speed is a little slower than yours, but it is unimaginable for them. That day It was a severe cold, and it snowed, which is rare in the south. I broke into his house with a knife and cut him into pieces."
"I don't remember the specific process. He seemed to have been begging for mercy, but I didn't seem to hear it."
Her eyes were happy and cheerful, and she smiled: "The blood dyed the snow red."
Gu Jianlin imagined that snowy night. The little girl with twin tails was carrying a Tang knife that was longer than her. When she picked up the knife, blood spurted out. The blood stained in the snow was like a flower in full bloom. plum bossom.
There is a different kind of beauty.
"If I do this, there will be no way to survive in the forbidden zone."
Skylark rested his chin on his hands, his eyes suspicious: "I didn't think about the consequences before doing this. I do things for myself and I will protect my brothers. But what I didn't expect was that my brother was waiting at the door. I."
Gu Jianlin was stunned: "Your brother?"
"Yes, the most lonely one."
Skylark nodded: "He said some strange words. He said that we are cursed and our parents will never come back. He is going to find a new home. He doesn't need my protection, he can grow up on his own."
"I wanted to stop him, but he suddenly disappeared in front of my eyes. I hurried home, but what I saw was the farewell letter left by the third child. The third child had already packed up and left. In the letter, he thanked me for so many years. He also believed that he was cursed, so he wanted to find out."
She said in confusion: "I don't understand how they left even though they were clearly not awake. I took Xiao Si and Xiao Wu out to look for them. It was snowing heavily outside and we couldn't see anything. We were wrapped in thick blankets I felt like I would be buried in the wind and snow at any time. I held their hands tightly and walked at the front."
Gu Jianlin felt incredible again, how could it snow so heavily in the south.
"I held their hands and trudged in the snow. I don't know how far I walked. I walked that road for many years. It was the same road to kindergarten and the same road to primary school. The strange thing is that that day I walked After walking for a long time, I never reached the end of the road. And when I turned around, Xiaosi and Xiaowu were gone."
Yunque's voice was like the impact of ice cubes, with a hint of coldness: "It's not that I let them go, but that they let me go. I always thought that I was the eldest sister, and I couldn't abandon them. I didn't expect that I would be the one abandoned. .”
This story is simply weird at every turn.
Perhaps it is due to imperfect memory, resulting in a lack of logic.
However, in the extraordinary world, everything that is unreasonable may actually have other reasons.
Gu Jianlin tried to build that city, but because of the emptiness and logical fallacy of the story, he couldn't imagine him in his mind, let alone some details or personality portrait.
"Later, I also found a way to escape from the forbidden area and never returned to our home."
Skylark said coldly: "I went to a new city, looking for my parents and my brothers at the same time. I pretended to be a primary school student and continued to learn the knowledge of the sublime until..."
"Until you meet the Azure Dragon Ancestor."
Gu Jianlin put his hand on his forehead and thought for a moment: "Okay, is this the end of your memory?"
Skylark was silent for a long time, then hummed softly.
"Can you remember your parents?"
"I don't remember, I have no impression at all."
"What about your brothers?"
"I don't remember either."
"You are not in good health. What disease do you have?"
"forget."
What a question.
"The weirdest thing about this is your brothers. It seems like you don't understand them at all."
Gu Jianlin crossed his hands and put them on the bridge of his nose: "What exactly did they do?"
I thought there would be no answer to this question.
Unexpectedly, Skylark looked at the distant sky and blurted out: "Looking for a new home."
Gu Jianlin was slightly startled.
Skylark murmured softly: "Find and take revenge on those who abandoned them."
(End of chapter)
