Luo An couldn't see anything. But even just mentioning this name, his heart felt like a hot lava flow rushing under a volcano.
But he didn't want to mention Qi Mei's appearance.
This vague memory has been polished for thousands of years, just like a gem that has been polished in the river for hundreds of millions of years. It has become so perfect that it is no longer real.
Qi Mei is not from the Mantis tribe, she is a witch. The witches, like the mantises, are tribes of the Death Empire. But this tribe is special, there are only women.
Regardless of whether a miko marries a male from any clan, the offspring will always be female.
Most witches are born with magical and special abilities. But their status is very low, and they are usually slaves in noble families in the Death Empire.
In the Death Empire, slaves were shackled throughout their lives and imprisoned in their master's home.
They were raised in the families of the nobles of the Death Empire, that is, the Mantis people, and used their special abilities to serve the master's family.
If you can take off your shackles and become a free slave in your family, that would be the greatest honor for a witch.
It is said that when the Death God Empire fell, the Mantis tribe survived because their witches guided them in their way of survival.
But now the Mantis people don't give birth themselves, they rely on the corpse of the god of death to survive, and they have no ability to feed others. So almost all the miko tribe they raised starved to death.
Qi Mei was a slave his family bought specifically to play with him. He was only about five years old when he bought her. He was only three years old that year. At that time, although the Death God Empire had gone downhill, it was still very powerful.
The Mantis tribe of that era were not the half-animal barbarians who were living an ignoble existence today. They were still living in the civilized era of the empire, and were one of the truly respected nobles in the Death Empire, living a life of fine clothing and fine food.
He and Qi Mei grew up together. They lived in the same room, played together, ate and slept together. They did not separate rooms until they were seven or eight years old.
In another ten years, he became a young and promising nobleman from the Kingdom of Death, while Qi Mei became a maid with magical prophecy.
When he was seventeen, his parents died during the Death Empire's conquest of the Western Continent. He became a young noble family head. But he actually doesn't know how to manage things, and the family business is managed by Qi Mei, who is two years older than him.
At the age of eighteen, he entered the Imperial University, which was specially opened for nobles. He just discovered that interacting with women is a serious problem.
Even with the veil covering half of their faces, the young women still exude an almost irresistible allure.
But getting along with them is very troublesome. If you are too arrogant, you will be ignored; if you are too humble, you will become a bitch.
Their thinking is completely unable to reason using normal logic. The uncertainty is bigger than Schrödinger's cat.
But one thing is almost unanimous for them, that is, they don't like bald men like him.
When he realized at Imperial University that he had no luck with women, he suddenly remembered something.
There is obviously a ready-made miko in the family who has grown up with him, is as knowledgeable and talented as him, and is more beautiful, so why bother to please these difficult women?
In his memory, Qi Mei was a bit thin, but had a good outline. Moreover, she has beautiful silver hair, skin that is fairer than silver hair, light blue pupils, and delicate facial features that seem to have been carefully carved.
He might have been together for so long that he didn't notice. This is a strange process of awakening consciousness.
Even thinking about it now, thousands of years later, the whole memory is still filled with a completely inexplicable, irrational sweetness.
It's like a beautiful fantasy that is not real at all.
He is a very rational person. But rationally, life as he understood it had no meaning.
Living things are alive because all living things that are not alive are dead. People live because everyone who wants to die is already dead.
It is because of Qi Mei, a completely irrational existence, that his life has meaning.
So his only goal now is to resurrect Qi Mei and retrieve the dream that has been lost for thousands of years!
After Qi Mei is resurrected, even if it has been a thousand years, he will return to Selaginella City in Central Continent, the place where they once lived together.
Although the land has changed, he will buy that small piece of land and restore it bit by bit to the way it was during the Death Empire according to his own memory.
Then he will continue his life with Qi Mei that was suddenly interrupted a thousand years ago. This is his perfect and only plan.
"It's almost time."
Luo An stood up and stretched his muscles.
"We can go."
While recalling the sweetness of the past, while walking into the depths of the mist, he felt that he was gradually leaving this world.
Not only he and Meng Fei, but everyone who is in or near the Corpse Mountain will have the same feeling.
Because what is here is originally a reality constructed by the God of Death's mind, and the God of Death's mind is undergoing drastic changes.
On the other side, Sun Nuo was still a little far away from the Corpse Mountain. There was just some faint smoke around him, and at least he could still see the ground.
There also seemed to be some problems with the red clay gravel ground. Many things like burned ashes were rising and floating upwards.
As for the direction further forward, it goes without saying that there was only a thick mass of darkness, and he could hardly see anything. Walking there was like walking voluntarily into a giant, squirming mass of black slime.
Looking back, he could still see a relatively clear separation between the ground and the sky, and even a corner of the sky with stars.
Although the dense forest in the distance was a little blurry, it still lay flat on the horizon like a thick black line.
Coming to the Mantis Kingdom alone was one of the bravest or most impulsive actions that the young Priest Sun had ever made in his life.
For no other reason, the temptation of the unlimited wishes that the goddess could give him was too great.
After catching He Ma, he quickly took a blood sample of He Ma and dropped it into the boiling "pampering soup".
He also saw this thing in that mysterious theological book. Running all the way to chase the divine pet, he had already prepared the formula and ingredients.
Those transparent, gelatinous liquids immediately changed into colorful lights, fully showing that this was indeed blood from a heavy god's favor.
Then a colorful bubble appeared on the pampering soup and floated out of the stone pot along with the heat. But when it encountered cold air, it immediately solidified into a "pet pill" that was very light but as smooth as pebbles.
Most of the pet pill was filled with transparent mist, but there was a red stream of blood-like light rippling inside. It is like a compass, always pointing in the direction of its original owner, the divine pet himself.
So no matter where Mantis takes his horse, he can find it as long as he is still alive!
