People say parting should be done properly, but they don’t know that the time of parting is always when people are not ready.
Just like Changding, everyone is waiting for his return.
But I also know that it will be difficult for him to come back...
The man who was shy when speaking seemed lost.
No one spoke, they just looked at the vast and ethereal river, and at the floating lanterns that could not be seen clearly in the distance, like the lights of thousands of houses.
It seems that everyone is ready.
They were always prepared that someone would be lost when it came time to light the lamp.
Maybe, next time I will be lost...
But when everyone is lost, who will light the lamp?
The wind blew from the other side of the river, blowing the robes of the six people by the river, and also rolled up Su Mo's long hair.
Everyone was silent and then returned to the door of the cabin.
It seems like nothing happened...
Su Mo looked back at everyone's backs and murmured, "Aren't we... going to find him?"
Everyone trembled slightly and turned to look at Su Mo.
They saw that there seemed to be a kind of sadness on Su Mo's face. The sadness was like experiencing the death of a friend for the first time, and it was more like angrily blaming his own powerlessness.
Chang Yi's face was unusually calm, and she just looked at Su Mo.
"The lost person is dead, how can he be found?"
Su Mo shook his head and asked with difficulty: "How could he be dead? He just forgot everything and got lost in the river."
"We'll talk about other things when he comes back..."
Chang Yi looked at Su Mo in silence, and Chang Ling didn't speak either. Changfeng and Changshui looked up at the sky and didn't know what they were thinking.
Only Changzhi looked at Su Mo. Tears appeared in her eyes and she shook her head, "It's meaningless. To forget is to die."
"When he forgets all the past, the Changding we know no longer exists."
"It's not just dangerous to light a lamp on the long river, it's also dangerous to get lost."
"The lost lamplighter will forget everything on the long river. If we go to find him, we will encounter the same thing."
"Not searching is a rule set by Chang Ding himself."
Su Mo opened his mouth and asked with difficulty: "Why does forgetting the past mean that you are dead..."
Changyi walked slowly in front of Su Mo and watched Su Mo speak softly.
"The reason why we are alive is because we know our past, or at least we know who we are!"
"When a person's past is erased by time, the person in the past will forever die with his memory."
"All your memories are the real you!"
"If you forget all the memories of immortality, are you still immortal?"
"You will be just another person, someone who looks exactly like Chang Sheng..."
"...but will never live forever again."
Changyi turned his head to look at the vast river, where the wind was blowing clouds and mist, as if he was paying homage to the long-lost Changding.
Maybe he is still there, or maybe he has been lost and gone to the endless sea of stars...
But the Chang Ding they knew was dead.
With his last memory, he died on the way to lighting the lamp...
Perhaps this is the fate of the 'Lamplighter'.
"That's where the first thing we need to remember all the time comes from, we have to remember who we are."
"Remember who the person next to you is!"
"Otherwise, even if we are not lost, we will become another person..."
Su Mo's body trembled and he couldn't help taking half a step back, staring at the five people in front of him.
He could feel the sadness of the five people, but he could also feel the powerlessness to see everything clearly beyond the sadness of the five people.
The reason why we are alive is because we have our own memories.
When a person's memory disappears, it also proves that the person carrying the memory has disappeared...
It was like his memory appeared in another person's body. He is still alive...
Just like Su Jingyan who lost all his past in the Jiangnan examination room.
He is still alive now, but he is no longer Su Jingyan...
Su Mo has always known this truth, but he has never faced it squarely.
He could no longer tell whether he was the Su Jingyan who was born in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, or the Su Mo who came from a foreign country.
Everyone left, leaving only one person in Baiyi staring at the long river in a daze.
He walked to the riverside in a daze, and slowly sat on the ground. He kept thinking about the shy and shy Chang Ding in his mind... Even if he was still there, he was no longer Chang Ding.
His word "eternal life" is still derived from "eternal life".
These two words seem to contain Chang Ding's best wishes for this world.
Immortality remains, but the person who made the wish is no longer there...
The white clothes are fluttering, and the soft intestines turn a hundred times.
He just stood by the river and kept standing.
I don't know how long it took, but she came in long clothes and sat next to Su Mo. She accompanied Su Mo and looked in the direction of the other side of the long river in the distance.
"Are we really not going to look for him?" Su Mo asked.
Changyi sighed and shook his head, "Can't find it."
"Besides, since he has forgotten, let him become another person."
"Maybe he's had enough of us..."
For countless years, it was not just Chang Ding who had been lost, but they had never searched for it.
It's just that the lost people don't know where they are going, as if they have merged into the 'silence' on the other side...
"Will we forget him?" Su Mo asked again.
If even they had forgotten those lost people, how could there be any trace of their existence in this world?
Chang Yi looked at Su Mo and opened his mouth, but didn't speak.
They will naturally forget about him, and as time goes by, forget everything...only those three things remain.
The gods have a long lifespan, but they are destined not to have a long memory...
This seems to be the balance the world gives them!
Chang Yi didn't speak, but Su Mo understood in Chang Yi's silence.
He will also go down to the river in the future, and he will also forget about the long-lost destiny in the "lighting of lanterns" again and again...
But he didn't want to forget.
If even he forgets it, the origin of the word "immortality" will become meaningless.
Su Mo slowly turned his head and thought in his mind.
A flood of thoughts, accompanied by Su Mo’s affectionate thoughts...
A stone tablet rises from the ground on the hillside behind the river, with two large characters engraved on it:
Long term!
Su Mo seemed to want to write something more, but he didn't know what else to write.
Changding remains in the world, and only the word Changding remains on the bank of the river...
Chang Yi looked at Su Mo, sighed softly, and pulled Su Mo towards the hillside.
Su Mo didn't know why, so he could only follow Chang Yi.
The two climbed up the hillside, but Su Mo froze on the spot.
I saw that on the other side of the hillside, there were stone tablets all over the ground...
Chang Yi looked at the stone tablets and sighed sadly: "Seeing each other is like not seeing each other, missing each other is like not missing..."
"A long time ago, there should have been many of us..."
