34. The Wise General and the Singing Nightingale (Part 2)

The sound was lost in the evening wind, sometimes distant, sometimes close, and suddenly gone.

Li Mo felt that there was a strange power in this voice. He pursued the source of the voice all the way, but every time he lost the target just before he could reach it.

Li Mo stopped and looked up at the stars. He suddenly felt that it was not that he could not find the sound but that the sound was escaping. Whenever he came close, it would fly away like a bird.

If he couldn't reach it no matter what, he simply gave up and sat on a rock at his feet. He closed his eyes and listened carefully, only to realize that the sound was a somewhat lonely song humming, coming from the man who was hugging him. It surged from the starry sky, like the sounds of nature.

"Just stay nearby. Can I see you?"

After giving up his vision, his intuition became very sharp. Li Mo felt that there was a very strong magic power stirring around him. He suddenly felt that the thing that could not be found might have been hidden around him.

The song stopped suddenly and started again after a few seconds.

Although he closed his eyes, Li Mo could clearly see in the darkness a piece of early spring cherry blossom petals slowly falling on his shoulder.

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Li Mo smiled, opened his eyes and looked up. Unexpectedly, a withered cherry blossom tree appeared beside him. A girl with brown hair sat high on the winding branches and softly hummed an unknown song.

"Well, I can feel that you are a gentle person."

Hearing Li Mo's voice, the girl gently pulled back her hair that was blown away by the evening breeze and smiled at Li Mo.

Curses are usually the result of malice, but Li Mo didn't feel any malice in the girl at all. He just felt a dull pain in his heart when he looked at her.

"Why do you say that? Maybe I am a heinous guy."

"I always feel that way."

The girl gave an answer that wasn't really an answer at all.

After finishing speaking, the girl looked away. Her eyes were very dim, as if staring ahead, but there seemed to be nothing left. Li Mo looked in the direction of her sight, and there was only mud on the ground.

"Can you tell me your name?"

"Nightingale, people used to call me Nightingale."

"Nightingale? It's a name that perfectly matches your singing voice."

The girl bit her lip tightly and did not answer, as if she was denying Li Mo's words. Li Mo felt dewdrops falling on his face. When he looked at the girl in surprise, the girl had already buried her face in the gray-brown In clothes woven with wings.

"Sorry, maybe I said something to upset you."

"..."

The girl was speechless and shook her head fiercely, her wings making a rustling sound as her head shook.

"You should leave."

Li Mo warned the girl that his words were very tactful, as if he was saying that the deceased was gone, which inexplicably made people feel more heartbroken.

At the beginning, he could feel a magical power on the girl, and this feeling became more intense after the girl appeared. He could clearly smell a familiar smell on the girl, which was lingering between the real world and the other side. The unique smell of people is like the flower of the other side.

He was certain that the girl was the source of the curse in this forest.

"I can't leave here. Can't you see? The cage has locked me in. I am a 'Nightingale' locked in a golden cage."

The girl spread her arms, but she could not fly. She was really like a locked nightingale.

Li Mo reached out and touched it, but he only felt the coldness of the night. Just like what he saw, there was no cage here.