The Midnight Owl

In the depths of the moonlight labyrinth, there are secret doors on the wall of a road. Open any of them, and you can pass through the maze wall and enter the next road.

At the end of the road next door, a small sleeping girl in a black cloak was supported by a small wind.The girl quietly lies on her side on the wind, sleeping with her clothes on, her sleeping face is peaceful.

Suddenly, there was a slight change between her calm brows, first she frowned slightly, and then opened it again, but not long after, she frowned again, and the frown became deeper and deeper.

Finally, she opened her eyes, sat up, and looked at the end of the straight road suspiciously.

That's the corner to the next road, and some very strange vibrations are coming along there clearly.

The girl in the black cloak blinked lightly, and the wind supported her. When she reached the end of the road, she turned her head and saw a new straight road.

The girl did not move again.First, she shouldn't have walked into this path; second, there was nothing unusual in this path.The vibration came from a more distant place, and it was likely that he had gone through countless left and right turns before he wobbled and reached himself.

Fluttering, but still very clear.

It was so clear that she could be sure that it was the first time she saw such a shock.

Basically, it was because she was still 1% worried about her memory.

She remembers a lot.She is a passerby, and she is here to test the lost. Those who pass, let go, and those who fail, leave.These memories are ordered and stable.

But she always felt that she had forgotten a lot of things, but not completely, so she left many fragments in her head, but these fragments had no pictures, only sounds, usually some very strange words, such as "I have moonlight, just Enough is enough", "This woman is too difficult to deal with", "This is a fucking boss", "Outside, there is a forest"...

The voices were so muffled that she couldn't even tell which were her own and which were others.

But she just thinks about it.

These little specks deposited in her memory will not cause too many disturbances in her peaceful heart.

The vibrations have weakened, become intermittent, and maybe after a while, they will disappear.

The girl was silent for a moment and closed her eyes.

Long vines suddenly grew on the walls of the labyrinth, and in the next second, <[magic] All Roads Lead to Rome> was released.

The vine turned a corner first, and then the road was slowly straightened, and the vine moved along the straightened maze wall, followed the direction of the vibration, and turned to the next bend, so the new road, and then Straightened, the vine continued to move forward...

At the same time, somewhere in the maze.

Xiaobai closed his eyes in a panic, and took back the dollhouse.Xiao Huang, who was trapped in it, returned to the maze road, squatting with his head in his arms, panting in pain.

"You are so strange, everyone else is fine."

"You are strange..."

……

"then who are you?"

"protector."

"Me too."

After staring wide-eyed and small-eyed for a long time, Xiaobai opened his mouth first, with disbelief and a little bit of joy: "Where are you guarding? Why have I never seen you?"

One sentence stopped Xiao Huang, how would he describe his position of guarding the road?

"Very far away." He could only give an ambiguous answer.

Xiaobai was dissatisfied: "How far is it?"

Xiao Huang looked at her helplessly: "I will stay as far as you let the vines grow wildly."

Xiaobai frowned in distress: "I was only focused on chasing cards, not remembering the way."

"You didn't remember the way?" Xiao Huang said with a bolt from the blue, "Then how do I go back?"

Xiaobai smiled cutely, and Li Dio said sweetly, "Then don't go back, stay here and play with me."

"..." Xiao Huang was a little moved by this proposal without disappointment.

Rustling.

Rustling.

The familiar sound came back, and Xiao Huang's conditioned reflex was triggered. He looked up, and sure enough, dark green vines crawled over the maze wall.Thinking of the fear of being entangled and dominated, Xiao Huang raised his forehead tiredly, and said clearly: "I am here, and the card is given to you. Can you take the life-killing vine?"

"Don't mess with the name, people call it 'coral vine'... that's not right," Xiao Bai walked closer to the maze wall and carefully looked at the vines on it, "this is not my coral vine."

As if sensing someone nearby, the vines suddenly stopped, lying quietly on the maze wall, not moving.

Xiao Huang also followed closely to take a closer look, but he really didn't see any difference between this plant and the plant that "bullyed" him before: "It's not the same."

"It's the same, look at the edge of the leaf, the coral vine is smooth, it is jagged, and the veins..."

"..." The lines are separated like a mountain, although Xiao Huang still can't see the difference, but inexplicably feels that it is very powerful.

So here comes the problem.

"If it wasn't you, then who made this vine?"

Xiao Huang's voice hadn't finished yet, when his feet suddenly trembled.

He was startled, looked at Xiaobai, Xiaobai also looked blank and surprised.

The next moment, the entire labyrinth road started to move slowly amidst the vibrations!

Xiaobai unconsciously leaned against Xiaohuang, and Xiaohuang protected her like a mountain... No, cough, the actual situation is that Xiaohuang also leaned against Xiaobai, and the two friends who had just met were shoulder to shoulder like this , together in the sudden change.

The labyrinth road finally came to a stop.

But the corner ahead has disappeared, and the road they are on has become very long, very long, so long that there is no end in sight.

"What's the matter?" Xiaobai couldn't understand the situation.

"The road seems... straightened?" Xiao Huang was also covered.

"Do you want to go there?" Xiaobai asked.

Xiao Huang said, "Wait and see."

At the end of the road, a gust of wind blows, faint and slightly cool.

Xiao Huang's eyes became defensive, and he pulled Xiao Bai behind him.

Soon, a petite black figure appeared in the distance.

Riding on the wind, she came at a leisurely pace, the closer she got, the more obvious the coolness in the wind.

Finally, she stopped three or four meters away from them and looked at them quietly with a calm expression.

"This Lost Man must be very powerful," said Xiao Huang and his friends behind him, "I'm afraid you can't handle it alone, so I'll help you."

The reply behind him was a sigh.

"Your brain is not as good as the doll in my room," Xiaobai patted him on the back angrily, "I have already had a misunderstanding, so why don't you ask first?"

After she finished speaking, she didn't need Xiao Huang, she poked her head sideways, looked at the girl in the black cloak and asked, "Are you a lost person?"

The black cloak shook his head: "No."

Xiaobai asked again: "Are you a guardian?"

The black cloak nodded: "Yes."

Xiao Bai patted Xiao Huang again, this time with pride: "Look."

Before Xiao Huang had time to feel overwhelmed, he heard the black cloak ask: "Who are you?"

Her voice is as cool as her wind.

But now Xiaobai and Xiaohuang listened to it again, and felt that it was cool and very comfortable.

One of them smiled brightly, and the other held their heads high, saying in unison: "We are also roadkeepers!"

"You too?" For the first time, obvious surprise appeared in the indifferent eyes of the girl in the black cloak.

"Yes," Xiao Huang pointed at Xiao Bai, "this is the road she guards, my road..." He stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, and looked up at the end of the—far—far——the road , changed his words, "Uh, maybe this is not all her way..." He looked at the girl in the black cloak worriedly, "Didn't you straighten my way too?"

The girl in the black cloak looked back and shook her head honestly: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Xiao Huang was unprepared for the answer, "Didn't you straighten the road?"

"Yes," said the girl in the black cloak, "but I don't know if there is your way inside."

"Then why did you come here?" Xiao Huang didn't understand, it was the card that attracted him, but the card didn't fly out again, so what was it that attracted the other party?

"I felt the vibration." The girl in the black cloak said, "It's a strange vibration."

Xiao Huang was aroused by the other party's curiosity: "What kind of strange method?"

The girl in the black cloak looked at him and Xiaobai quietly. After a while, she seemed to have locked on to the "vibration source", so she didn't answer, and asked instead: "What were you doing just now?"

doing what?

Xiao Huang looked at himself, then at Xiao Bai, and gave a very sincere answer: "Speak."

Xiaobai rolled his eyes, and wanted to tie coral vines to his head, to see if he could open his mind.

"I wanted to play games with him," she looked at Hei Luoli, "but as soon as he entered, he felt strange, so I let him out again."

The girl in the black cloak tilted her head slightly: "Is something wrong?"

"Well," Xiaobai certainly remembered what happened just now, "He seemed to be very uncomfortable, and then he yelled, and the doll's house started to shake. Is this what you felt?"

The girl in the black cloak thought for a while and said, "I don't know."

Xiaobai and Xiaohuang glanced at each other, but there was nothing they could do to help.

A lot of wonderful things happened one after another, and they didn't even figure out the cards on their own side, so they really couldn't help others to answer them.

The three looked at each other, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into silence.

The wind blows along the straight maze road, blowing far, far away.

"My name is Xiaobai." The lively girl in the white skirt first expressed her kindness, and then looked behind the girl in the black cloak with curious eyes, "How did you straighten all these roads?"

The girl in the black cloak said simply: "Illusion."

It seemed to her that it was nothing to brag about.

"My name is Hei Momo." Hei Momo said the name before his thoughts arrived, and after saying that, Hei Momo was startled.

"My name is Xiao Huang." The yellow-haired youth who likes to be lively raised a skateboard to welcome another companion.

Yes, skateboard!

With a flash of inspiration in his heart, Xiao Huang immediately closed his eyes and sensed his skateboard in the air, making it move.

He could even hear the sound of the skateboard sliding... Wow-boom!

Well, hit the corner.

As expected, the road Hei Momo straightened did not have the one he guarded.

Xiaobai is a curious baby, jumping up and down around Hei Momo, trying to see if he can jump into the wind of others.

failure.

Hei Momo looked at her, the indifference between her eyes and brows melted away, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

She gently raised her hand up, and a small gust of wind lifted Xiao Bai up.

Xiaobai was so happy that he spun around in the wind, and almost turned himself on the ground several times. Finally, when he was happy, he just remembered something and asked Hei Momo, "Have you ever thought about what the outside world is like?"

Hei Momo was stunned, looked at Xiaobai with puzzled eyes: "Why do you ask this?"

Just as Xiaobai was about to take out his card, Xiaohuang, who was standing on the ground, had already handed over his own: "Xiaobai and I both have a card like this, and what Xiaobai asked was the question on the card."

Hei Momo took the card and read it carefully.

Seeing this, Xiaobai asked strangely, "Don't you have such a card?"

She has it, and so does Xiao Huang, and she thought that all roadkeepers should have it.

"No, I've never seen it before." Hei Momo returned the card to Xiao Huang, then looked at Xiao Bai, "but I know that there is a forest outside."

Xiaobai: "Forest?"

Xiao Huang: "Have you been there?"

"No." Hei Momo raised her head slightly, looking at the moonlight, "It just seems...someone told me."

"Well, how about we play games in the dollhouse first, and then go to the forest together?" Xiaobai couldn't wait to send out the invitation, his eyes were full of anticipation.

Before Hei Momo could speak, Xiao Huang stopped him first: "Please, your dollhouse will kill people!"

Xiao Bai blew his hair and stared at his eyes: "Then you are stupid!"

"What does this have to do with being stupid..." Xiao Huang died unjustly.

During the bickering, a door suddenly opened on the wall of the maze. Before they could react, the door squeaked and opened.

Outside the door, the vegetation is lush and the night is quiet.

Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai looked at Hei Momo in disbelief, their eyes wide open, exactly the same.

Hei Momo smiled: "Together, go out?"

If the lost people passed the test and gave her more surprises, she would open such a door and send them out of the maze directly, but she never thought of using this door on herself.

In fact, even now, she doesn't yearn for the outside world, but she wants to stay with the two of them longer.

The big trees that block out the sky, the low and lush shrubs, the dewy grass, and the occasional bugs that jump from the tip of the grass, outline a beautiful and quiet picture of the moonlight forest.

The three little friends walked among them, not knowing the direction or the way forward, and they just walked forward with their own temper.Chattering all the way, of course mainly Xiaobai and Xiaohuang, amazed all the way, um, it’s still Xiaobai and Xiaohuang, free and happy all the way, this is the common feeling of the three friends.

It turns out that the world is not only a maze road, but also forests, birds and beasts, soft soil, and a vast sky.

Xiao Huang used to just smell the fragrance of green grass, but now, he just stepped on the green grass.

"You might as well get down on the ground and smell it." Xiaobai joked at him as he walked and squatted.

Xiao Huang was in a good mood and was happy to be teased, but there was a doubt that lingered in his heart for a long time, and now he muttered to himself: "Strange, why not?"

Hei Momo stopped, a little aware of the clue, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Smell." Xiao Huang said, and leaned closer to a small yellow flower in a tuft of grass, smelled it, and disappointed once again in his eyes.He straightened up and looked at the two friends, "Didn't you smell it? There was a sweet fragrance all the way, but I smelled the flowers and plants passing by, and they didn't smell like that."

Hei Momo looked at him, seeming to want to laugh, but held back.

Xiao Bai next to him silently took off the inconspicuous little flower that had been pinned to his ear: "This is what you smelled!"

"..." Xiao Huang looked at the pale pink flower in the opponent's hand in bewilderment, and finally understood why "the journey is fragrant".

Hei Momo couldn't bear it any longer, and chuckled lightly.

Xiao Huang scratched his head a little shyly.

Xiaobai sighed, spread out his palm, stared quietly for a few seconds, and two identical little flowers appeared in his palm.She pinned one behind Black Jasmine's ear and the other behind Little Yellow's ear, admiring it for a while, very satisfied with her masterpiece.

"This is called night dill flower. The fragrance of the flower is sweet, but it can't last long. If you walk for a while, the smell will disappear." Xiaobai knows that Heijamo understands, because the other party can also manipulate plants, so this explanation is mainly for Xiaobai. yellow.

Xiao Huang touched the little flowers on her ears, thinking that the fragrance would disappear after a while, she was a little bit reluctant.

"If you really like it, I'll give you some night radish flower juice," Xiaobai said again, "You can dye the night radish flower juice on anything, and the aroma can be preserved for a long, long time—"

She dragged out the long ending and stretched her arms, afraid that Xiao Huang would not be able to feel how long it was.

The corners of Xiao Huang's mouth couldn't stop turning upwards.Not only did he feel "a long time", but he also smelled the sweeter night radish juice, which was so sweet to his heart.

The three of them were about to move on when there was a sudden gust of wind in the forest.

The strong wind without warning caused the cheeks of the three friends to hurt. At the same time, a voice sounded in the hearts of the three of them—to go back.

The sound was abrupt but firm, as if it had been sleeping there all along, just waiting for the time to ring the alarm bell.

"It's time to go back." Hei Momo was the first to speak out, and resumed her calm tone, but she was no longer cold.

Xiaobai also knows that he should go back, there is no reason, he should do this, but——

"I don't want to part with it." I don't want to part with this forest, and I don't want to part with these two friends.It was the first time I had such a feeling after guarding the labyrinth road for so long.

"Xiaobai, can you make Yeluo flower juice now?" Xiaohuang asked suddenly.

"Yes, but what do you want it for?" Xiaobai asked puzzled.

Xiao Huang looked at her, then at Hei Momo, and smiled, showing his white teeth: "Let's make an agreement."

……

05:00 Beijing time, owl time, unknown.

In the Moonlight Labyrinth, there is no time.

Hei Momo sat in mid-air, looking up at the moonlight, feeling very peaceful in her heart.

She had just experienced a battle, which was very intense and made her a little tired, but in the end, those lost people still failed the test.

In fact, she felt that she could win more easily, if she hadn't walked too far before and consumed too much energy.

Huh?

Hei Momo frowned slightly, wondering why she thought so.

Before, walked too far, way?

Where did this saying come from?

Why would you go a long way?Where did you go the distance?Who did you go with?How did she lose her memory?

Under the moonlight, she smelled the sweet fragrance.The fragrance sometimes disappears, looming.

Hei Momo lowered her head and looked at the ground below, where there was a faint powder in the mess of green plants and gravel.

With a sweep of his hand, the road surface was restored to cleanliness, leaving only the little pink flower that was trampled to pieces.

Hei Momo fell to the ground, picked it up, put it in the palm of his hand, and gently blew off the soil.

Night dill flower, a small flower with a very sweet fragrance, black jasmine recognizes it.

but……

Hei Jamo leaned closer to the little flower, and sniffed it seriously, and sure enough, the flower had lost its smell.But the fragrance lingering around him has not disappeared, it is still faint and shy, as if hiding somewhere and unwilling to come out.

"It's not you, who could it be?" Hei Momo whispered to Xiao Hua, as if the other party could understand.

Xiao Hua lay quietly in the palm of her hand, without any response.

Hei Momo wanted to throw away the flowers casually, but the moment she moved her hand, a trace of reluctance flashed across her heart.

She stopped for a moment of silence, and put the little flower into the secret pocket in the cloak.

But in the next second, his fingertip was in his pocket and was pricked.

Hei Momo was stunned, and took out the thing that stuck to her, a half-torn card, and what stuck to herself was the corner of a slightly hard card.

The sweet and fragrant fragrance suddenly became direct, almost hitting my face.

Hei Momo's eyes widened, she put the card close to the tip of her nose, and sniffed it lightly.That's right, it's the smell of the card!

She held up the card curiously, and by the moonlight, read the words on it——

1. Why are you here

2. Here is yours

3. Have you ever thought outside

It was torn too neatly, so all the words left only the neat first half.

Hei Momo felt a little depressed for no reason, but suddenly, she raised the card higher again, and under the moonlight, the words on the back of the card were faintly revealed.

She hurriedly turned the card over. Compared with the neat handwriting on the front, the writing on the back was so scribbled that it flew off.It was written with night radish flower juice, densely packed, of different sizes, you hug me, I squeeze you, you have to distinguish carefully to separate them one by one——

Hei Momo, Xiao Huang, and Xiao Bai agreed to go to the forest to play again when the lost person disappeared.Black jasmine and Xiao Huang don't move around, Xiaobai's coral vine will find you along with the fragrance of night radish flower juice.

Rustling.

Rustling.

Hei Momo heard the reputation and looked, at the end of the road, the coral vines had crawled around the corner and were coming toward her, full of vitality.

Volume Three