"How long will this full-moon night last?" Wen Yuan took the initiative to find a topic when the atmosphere gradually cooled down.
He Sheng looked up at the bright full moon hanging high in the sky and murmured: "It will be over tomorrow, but you are so powerful, we don't have to be afraid."
This was too much of a compliment to herself. Wen Yuan suddenly felt a little sleepy, stretched out and got into the tent, "Go to rest early. Things like my barrier cannot be broken through."
It was precisely because of Wen Yuan that He Sheng had a rare good sleep. This was the first time he had slept so deeply after being here for so long.
Early the next morning, Wen Yuan sat on the burned-out fire and waited for everyone to wake up.
She had a dream at night. The content of the dream was not important, but the dream made her think of a question.
Seeing Shen Huaiyan walking out of the tent in a daze, Wen Yuan immediately grabbed him and said, "Huaiyan, I suddenly thought of a very critical issue this morning."
"What's the problem?" The man's eyes have not been fully opened, and it can be seen that he is still very sleepy.
"Why can we still see the moon when we are underground?"
When Wen Yuan asked this question, Shen Huaiyan's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened.
Indeed, none of them had thought about why they could see such a bright moon even though they were underground.
And it’s not just one day, the moon can be seen every day, which is really unreasonable.
After thinking about this problem, Wen Yuan couldn't help it anymore. She ran to Hesheng's tent and shook the man from his sleep, "Wake up, wake up, wake up, Hesheng."
"Ahhh? What's wrong? Did you find the Magical Pearl?" It seemed that the man had a very beautiful dream, dreaming that he had found the Magical Pearl.
"Have you ever wondered why we can still see the sun and moon underground?" No matter how you look at this place, it looks like it's in a huge underground cave. But how can there be a sun, moon and stars all over the sky in such a place?
But the man didn't think it was strange. He stretched lazily and got out of the quilt, "This is the power of the Magic God Bead. With this little bead, no one in the world can do what you dare to do." Something that can’t be accomplished.”
"So magical?" Wen Yuan thought again, "You mean, this place was created by the Magic God Pearl?"
"To be precise, it was created by the person who got the Magic God Pearl. I have analyzed that although many places here are similar to Fantasy Country, it is not Fantasy Country, so I think the ancient legend has come true."
Another legend. Wen Yuan has heard many legends since arriving here.
He Sheng saw Wen Yuan's little thoughts, "This is a country that only exists in legends, so it can be seen that sometimes legends are not always groundless."
"But there are too many legends. Which one should you listen to? Besides, is the Magic Pearl really here? If it is, why haven't you found it after searching for so long?"
The man felt that Wen Yuan was still too naive, "This place is bigger than your imagination. Although I have traveled to many places here in the past few decades, it only accounts for one-tenth of the entire country."
"Two out of ten?!" Wen Yuan's voice startled the other three men.
They thought the two were having a conflict. Shen Huaiyan walked up to Wen Yuan first and asked what happened, "What's wrong? Is it..."
"Ah, no, he just said it was very big down there, and I was scared."
After saying that, Wen Yuan led everyone to pack their things, "You are more familiar with this place than we are, where should we go next?"
"This thing is about fate. You see, I haven't gone out after looking for it for so long. Do I have a fate with it? I think I can only leave this place if I find the Magical God Bead."
As soon as He Sheng said that he had to find the Magical God Pearl before he could leave, Wen Yuan's face immediately fell. "Do we still need to find that thing? But I don't even know if that thing is here."
"I have a premonition that it must be there!" Wen Yuan couldn't believe Hesheng's premonition. After packing up everything, she said to Hesheng, "Then follow me. I've been very lucky, so I should be able to find it."
But... can it really be found? Wen Yuan didn't even believe in himself that much.
The days passed in a blink of an eye, and ten days later, no one had any clues. "I think... we will be wasting here for decades."
Maybe... it's possible to stay here longer.
Wen Yuan sat alone on the hillside at night. Because she had placed a barrier around her, she was not harassed by those things.
She fell asleep like this on the hillside until the next day.
But when Wen Yuan opened his eyes, there was a child standing next to him holding Temari in his arms.
"You...who are you?"
The child didn't seem to be afraid of Wen Yuan, "I want to ask you, how come you sleep alone on the hillside? It's very dangerous here. You were already asleep when I found you, so I lifted a tree for you. Torches at night.”
He pointed to the extinguished torch on the ground.
Wen Yuan still didn't quite believe him. After all, it was impossible for such a young child to live alone in a place like this.
Unexpectedly, the boy walked forward and took Wen Yuan's hand. "Come with me, I will take you to find my mother."
And mother?
Wen Yuan was full of doubts, but she still followed him, believing that she could still deal with such a child.
All the way to a dilapidated stone house, Wen Yuan saw that there were many children here, but there was only one woman.
"This is the sister you said you liked. She turns out to be so beautiful. Please sit down."
The children immediately made a space for Wen Yuan, while the woman poured her a cup of hot tea, "There is nothing to entertain you here."
Wen Yuan felt very strange, why were there so many children in this place? Logically speaking... shouldn't there be no one here?
After drinking the cup of tea, she fell asleep with doubts, "You shouldn't have brought her here, her companions would be anxious." The woman put Wen Yuan on her back and prepared to send her to her original place.
When Wen Yuan woke up again, he was still on that hillside. There was no little boy holding Temari around him, and there were no extinguished torches.
She wondered if this was all just a dream? Dragging her tired body, Wen Yuan returned to the camp. She rubbed her neck and said sadly: "I seem to have had a very strange dream... There were a group of children in the dream."
But for several days in a row, the child woke Wen Yuan up early in the morning, then took her to their secret base, and then sent her back after Wen Yuan had finished drinking tea.
Finally one day, the woman made up her mind to tell Wen Yuan something. She pulled Wen Yuan back to the hillside where she started, pointed to the camp below and said: "Actually, you are not dreaming. Every time that child brings you , I will give you a tea that can make people fall into deep sleep, so you will feel like you were dreaming when you wake up."
"Those children... are very pitiful." The woman looked sad. "They are trapped in the vortex of time and will never grow up. They don't know that they are actually already dead."
Wen Yuan couldn't understand what she said, and frowned and asked, "What do you mean? They are dead? Then why are they not afraid of the daytime?"
"Because they are different from the souls at night. They are too deeply affected by the Magic Pearl. When these children are dying, they are full of yearning for a better life, so their hearts are kind, and they don't know that they are They are already dead, so they are not afraid of the sun, but those souls are different. They resent the ability of the Magic God Pearl to turn them into monsters with only souls and no bodies, so their hearts are evil, lurking in the night and waiting for opportunities. "
The woman's words made Wen Yuan more and more confused as she listened, but she could guess something, "You mean...this place was created by the Magic God Pearl, but the subjects here are also affected by the Fantasy God Pearl?"
"You still don't understand." The woman shook her head and left the place.
That night, Wen Yuan relied on her own memory to find the secret base where the children lived, but what she saw was indeed countless corpses and the woman wiping them with a handkerchief.
"You killed them?!"
"Of course not... This is normal. They can move during the day, but lose this ability at night."
All forces are in balance.
Wen Yuan came to her so late just to ask questions about what she said during the day, "Since you said I don't understand, then you let me understand."
The woman was stunned for a moment when she heard Wen Yuan's words. In fact, she had already thought about it for a long time before taking the initiative to go to Wen Yuan.
Now it seems that there are some things that she must know. "This country was originally built with the help of the King of Fantasy. The Kingdom of Fantasy is where the sun rises, and this country is where the sun sets. The ambition of the King of Fantasy Extraordinary to ordinary people, one day he found the king of this country, his own brother, to discuss the expansion of the kingdom's territory. The younger brother was a peace-loving person, and he did not want to cause more murders because of greed, so He refused."
They were really two brothers. Wen Yuan was distracted because she remembered the legend He Sheng told her.
The woman didn't notice that she continued: "But the elder brother thought that his younger brother had betrayed him. He sealed his younger brother and his country underground through some taboo knowledge that was accessible to ordinary people. The days underground were dark, and the subjects were in fear all day long. , but the younger brother did not give up. He had been looking for a way to contact the seal. By chance, the Magic God Bead appeared in his purse. Since then, the younger brother used the Magic God Bead to create day and night, bringing short-term peace to his subjects. Life, but everything comes at a price.”
The price sounded so serious. Wen Yuan wanted to continue listening, but the screams passing by interrupted their conversation.
