The Taste of Ghosts in the World

A white mass is dangling in front of my eyes... I can't see clearly... What is it?

Wuchai blinked, his vision finally became clear, and he recognized the object in front of him—it seemed to be a white rabbit, staring down at him with a pair of red eyes.

Looking down at yourself?

Suddenly, the alarm sounded in his heart, and he immediately wanted to turn over and get up. After struggling, he found that his whole body was sore and he had no strength. It was his movement that scared the rabbit back several steps and hid it in a small tree. Behind, only two long furry ears are exposed.

"Who are you?" Wuchai asked in a blunt tone, and when he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was hoarse, not like a human being, and even spit out a snake letter from his mouth when he spoke, only then did he realize that he was now the original black snake.

"Are you... are you okay? There are a lot of wounds now, so you can't move around..." A soft voice floated over, it was the rabbit hiding behind the tree.

Uchai tried his best to raise the snake's head, and carefully inspected his wounds—although there were many wounds caused by the sharp bird claws, they were all skin wounds, and they seemed to heal soon, but...he tucked his tail and gently Touching his left eye, he suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his heart.

"Don't touch it, don't touch it! It's just been medicated, it'll get inflamed if you're not careful!" The rabbit became anxious when he saw his action, and ran out from behind the tree in a panic to stop him, forgetting for a moment that the giant snake in front of him opened his mouth Could swallow him whole.

As if he didn't expect him to dare to run over, Wuchai was taken aback for a moment, put down his tail, stared at the little rabbit with fierce snake eyes, and clearly saw the other party shivering in his sight.

"Who are you? Where is this place?"

"I, I am the rabbit demon on this mountain. You suddenly fell from the sky yesterday, ah, you fell next to my house..." the rabbit stammered, and pointed to the woods not far away, where there was a clear A hole was smashed out, and only a few broken branches stood crookedly.

"..." Wuchai was silent for a while, and a coolness came from the injured left eye, "Is it you who gave me the medicine?" He asked the rabbit.

The rabbit nodded, seemed a little embarrassed, and whispered: "This is the herbal medicine that Uncle Yang taught me, and I don't know if it will work or not..."

Speaking of which, it suddenly thought of something, and dragged a big leaf from the side, which was filled with various fruits and vegetables, and the pile was almost as high as a rabbit, so it dragged it very hard.

After finally moving in front of Wuchai, the rabbit clapped his hands in satisfaction, "If you are hungry, eat these first."

Wuchai glanced at the fruit lightly, without saying a word.

Rabbit carefully observed his expression, it seemed that he was not as vicious as before, so he showed a reassuring smile, then felt a little frustrated, and said apologetically: "Sorry, my house is too small, I can't let you in to rest...but If you need anything, you can call me, my house is right there!" He pointed to a small stone cave on the edge of the forest, "I'll definitely hear you when you call!"

Seeing the big snake lying there with its eyes closed, the rabbit thought for a while, "...then you have a good rest, I'll come back to help you change your medicine tomorrow." After speaking, he bounced away.

Wuchai opened his eyes, just in time to see its small white figure flashing past the entrance of the cave, turning over the snake's head, the throbbing pain in his left eye reminded him of the previous fight.

He lost an eye, and he also broke his wings. What's the point of such a loss-losing result?

Thinking of this, he patted his tail irritably, kicking up a cloud of dust, but the boredom in his heart was not relieved in the slightest.

He had no choice but to bury his head in the middle of the curled body, close his eyes, and chose to escape.

Opening his eyes again, the first thing he saw was the fluffy white rabbit again, with its round red eyes open, and when he woke up, the red eyes immediately became sparkling.

"Are you awake? Did you sleep well? Will it be too cold at night? Do your eyes hurt?"

Wuchai didn't answer any of its barrage of questions, and stretched his body silently.

The rabbit didn't care, and took out a medicine bag wrapped in leaves, "It's time to change the medicine."

The big black snake didn't nod or object, but just looked at it quietly, as if thinking about it.

The rabbit held the medicine in his arms, looked up at the big snake above his head, tried to stand on tiptoe, but found that he was still far away from the tall snake head, so he turned his head and looked around, looking for any place to step on stuff, but nothing.

It drooped its ears in annoyance, with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

The big black snake looked at it for a while, then slowly lowered its head, stretched out in front of the rabbit, and gently touched the medicine bag in its hand. When the rabbit came back to his senses, he saw a huge snake head appearing in front of him, with the big mouth close at hand. Terrified, he threw away the medicine bag and ran behind the stone, tremblingly said, "I'm sorry... I just want to help you change your medicine... don't eat me, okay..."

Are the fairies transformed from herbivores so cowardly?Seeing its disappointing appearance, Wuchai was a little dissatisfied, it really embarrassed their goblins.

And his dissatisfied expression looked fierce to the frightened little rabbit, which made it try harder to shrink behind the stone, curling itself into a small ball, hoping that the stone could help it ward off the disaster.

"Come here." Wuchai called it as gently as possible.

The white fluff protruding from behind the stone was motionless.

The big black snake became a little impatient, and said in a fierce tone, "I told you to come here! Immediately!"

The rabbit was so frightened that it shuddered, but it didn't dare not to listen, so it had to muster up the courage to move out little by little, with its two long ears pressed against its back, and its big red eyes glistening with water—it seemed that it was about to cry up.In the end, he stood in front of the big black snake with aggrieved appearance, as pitiful as he could be.

Am I really that vicious?Wuchai thought helplessly, so he had to lower his voice: "Aren't you going to help me change my medicine?"

Encouraged, the rabbit visibly cheered up, shaking its furry ears, and timidly asked: "Can, is it possible?"

The big black snake didn't answer, and lowered its head silently. The rabbit swept away the fear just now, happily unwrapped the medicine bag, and carefully applied it on his injured eyes.

The coolness and the faint scent of medicine from the left eye made Wuchai feel relieved after being depressed for many days, and even closed his right eye.

If it wasn't for the soft paws of the rabbit patting his cheek, he might have fallen asleep, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a furry face, and the soft short hair on the tip of its nose fluttered gently in front of his eyes .

"Rabbit, what's your name?" The brain asked without thinking.

"Name?" Rabbit tilted his head with a confused expression, "Are you talking about a human name?"

Uchai nodded.

"Ah, I don't have a name. Although many goblins down the mountain have names like humans, I didn't give myself a name. I don't know what to call it..." Rabbit scratched his head embarrassedly, "Anyway, goblins don't have names. My parents don’t have a name, and the leader doesn’t have a name either.”

Hearing the word "leader" suddenly, Wuchai couldn't help his heart skip a beat, and passively remembered the things he deliberately left behind, but this time what he remembered was not the fight between them, but those moments of intimacy and harmony ——When he was just a little black snake, when he had no name...

"Big snake, what's wrong with you?" Rabbit's question brought him back to reality.

"It's nothing."

"Then do you have a name?" Rabbit asked curiously.

"I..." The subconscious words stopped when he reached the tip of his mouth. When he met the little rabbit's defenseless gaze, he thought of the thrush that raised him—they had the same gaze, and he suddenly didn't want to pay attention to it. The name I picked up in a fit of anger, I even hope to hear someone call it "Little Black Snake" again.

"I don't have a name either," he said to the rabbit.

"Then can I call you Big Snake?"

Uchai did not object.

I don't know if it's because they don't have names or because Big Snake agreed to his request. The rabbit seemed very happy, "You can also call me Tutu, that's what all my friends on the mountain call me!"

In the days that followed, the rabbit came to see him every day, helped him change his dressing, brought him fresh fruits, and talked with him.But most of the time, the rabbit is talking alone, and Uchai just rests quietly with his eyes closed.

Sometimes he would fall asleep unknowingly, and when he woke up, he found that the rabbit was still sitting beside him and talking tirelessly, as if he didn't realize that the person he was talking to had already fallen asleep. At this time, he couldn't help but Spit out the snake letter, startled the talking rabbit, then changed the position and continued to sleep.

Sometimes when I wake up and find that the sky is dark and the rabbit around me has gone back, I feel a little lost.

And the rabbit gradually became less afraid of him. When changing the dressing, he even dared to stretch out his paws to touch his scales, lamenting the smooth and cold feel. Every day when he left, he would use his soft fluff to rub against him. smuggler's head as a farewell.

One day, the rabbit asked Wuchai to tell him about the demon world outside the mountain. Since he was born, he has never been down the mountain once.

"The outside is the same as here, there is nothing to talk about." Big Snake said lightly.

"However, the little deer behind the mountain said that the current demon world is very different from before. There are many new things. Just tell me a few things so that I can learn more." Rabbit looked at him eagerly.

"..." Big Snake couldn't resist this look, so he sighed and said, "What do you want to hear?"

"Hmm... Fragrant Wine Party! Let's just say Fragrant Wine Party! My parents have attended it before, and they said it was a very grand occasion. Unfortunately, I have never seen it once."

"That kind of activity is not interesting, it's just a lot of goblins gathering together to eat and drink, the only thing worthy of praise is wine..."

"I thought the wine at the Fragrant Wine Party must be delicious! My dream is to bring the wine I made to the Fragrant Wine Party!" Rabbit excitedly gestured, "Did you see the sweet-scented osmanthus tree behind my house? ? It is about to bloom, I want to use it to make wine, to make the most delicious sweet-scented osmanthus wine!"

Wuchai discovered that when it comes to wine, the usually shy rabbit is full of confidence, his soft voice becomes cheerful, and the round red eyes seem to emit brilliance, just like beautiful rubies.

He thought such a rabbit was very pretty, so he quietly listened to it talking about the great idea of ​​making wine.

After a while, Rabbit suddenly realized his gaffe, quickly stopped talking, and said embarrassingly, "I'm sorry... I obviously wanted to listen to you, but I ended up talking alone..."

The snake tail patted the rabbit's head lightly, as if to encourage it to continue talking, but the rabbit refused.

"Then... tell me about Xiuqi City. I heard that it is a place where giant monsters live for thousands of years. I don't know what it will be like?"

"It's just an old city in disrepair." Orochi still said concisely.

But his perfunctory attitude did not dampen the rabbit's enthusiasm, and it pestered Wuchai to ask many other questions. Although the answers were not satisfactory, the big snake tried to satisfy its curiosity seriously, until the rabbit asked A question he didn't like—

"Tell me about our leader~ What kind of elf is he?"

Wuchai froze immediately.

"You know even the city of life, you must have met the leader." Rabbit thought he was too troublesome and refused to say, and added: "I only met the leader once, and he came to our mountain for inspection when he was not transformed. At that time, my parents received me, and I lay in my mother's arms, and felt that the leader was a very beautiful and powerful goblin, um, he even touched me!"

"..."

The silly rabbit didn't notice the increasingly cold breath around the big snake, and continued to say with a look of admiration: "My parents respect the leader very much. They said that without him, our demon world would not have such a long time of peace. ..."

"To shut up!"

An angry reprimand interrupted the rabbit's chanting, and the big snake, who was still very gentle just now, suddenly looked at it with piercing snake eyes, and his eyes were cold.

The rabbit shivered violently, the fur on its back stood on end, and it even forgot to run away, so it could only stand there blankly, watching the huge black snake approaching him while spitting out its message.

But the cold scales passed by, the big snake didn't attack it, and ignored it, but swam straight to the depths of the woods.

After a long time, the stiff rabbit moved its neck and turned to the direction where the big snake left.