seven relics

This hiding place can only ensure that the two of them will not be swept away by the strong wind, but it cannot stop the invasion of flying sand, so Lian Jiangyue protects the back of Linglong Xing's head, hugs him, and lowers his head himself.The sandstorm was still going on, and Linglong Xing seemed to be unable to stay any longer, moving back and forth in Lian Jiangyue's arms, Lian Jiangyue comforted softly: "Be patient, don't choke on the sand."

Linglong Xing was still restless, she didn't know what she was messing with.The sandstorm became more violent, and sand was continuously blown into the cave. Lian Jiangyue had to close her eyes and breathe with her face against Linglongxing's hair.Linglongxing smells like a mossy cypress tree.He nestled in Lian Jiangyue's arms and giggled.

After an unknown period of time, the storm finally subsided, and Lian Jiangyue opened her eyes to see that Linglong Xing tied his long hair into a thick braid.He couldn't laugh or cry, slapped the sand on his body, and asked, "Where did you learn the craft?"

Linglongxing pointed to her hair and said with a smile, "The base."

He jumped up from the ground and slapped the sand off his body.The sand in the cave had accumulated up to their ankles, and the two of them went outside to see that the sky was still yellow, and the boundary between heaven and earth was hard to distinguish.

Lian Jiangyue set up a shed in front of her forehead, watched it for a while, and said, "Should we not return to the desert?"

Linglongxing pointed in one direction and said, "North!"

He went in that direction.

There was a lot of sand in Lian Jiangyue's shoes, which made his feet hurt, so he took off his shoes and walked barefoot on the sand.The texture of this sand is very similar to the white sand in Bian's Bamboo Forest Dojo, it is soft and comfortable to step on.Although the sun could not be seen at this time, there was plenty of light, but the sand was not hot, but rather cool.The wind is also mild, except that after walking for a long time, there is no water source, no people, no tree, no food to eat. The climate of the Eternal Land is much more pleasant than the same barren and uninhabited desert.

There is only sand along the way, only confusion, chaotic yellow follows and envelopes them.

Lian Jiangyue still had some fruits from the Happy Land in his coat pocket, which was strange to say, he reckoned that the two of them had walked north for more than two hours, and he neither felt tired nor felt tired. Hunger and thirst, it's just that his shadow on the ground narrowed and shriveled, as if he would sink into the sand after walking for a while, and would cease to exist.Suddenly there was a voice in his body constantly reminding him: It's time to rest and eat something.

Lian Jiangyue looked at Linglong Xing who was walking in front of him, who seemed neither tired nor hungry, and asked, "Do you want to take a break?"

Linglong star shook her head, Lian Jiangyue asked again: "Going from the Forgotten Land to the Happy Land is an elevator, and coming here from the Happy Land is to climb a mountain, so we have to go up, how do we get there?"

Linglong Xing didn't reply.The voice in Lian Jiangyue's body urged again anxiously: Don't be deceived by your own feelings, your body needs to rest now.

Lian Jiangyue really finds it weird, does the "eternity" of "Eternal Land" mean that here people will not feel hunger, will not feel tired, people will become desireless, and the human spirit will be placed in the In a piece of eternal peace?But at the same time, the body is constantly losing water and nutrients, and the cells lose the ability to repair and regenerate...

Lian Jiangyue stopped here, pointed to a cave and said, "I want to rest and eat something."

There are caves one after another, large and small, all over the road.

He entered the cave, and Linglong Xing came in soon after.The two ate the fruits separately.These fruits brought him much joy in the Pleasant Land—they were so sweet that they even produced a miraculous effect of soothing mental fatigue and healing the weary cheerful person when they entered the stomach, but eating them now, pity Jiang Yue's tongue was numb, and she couldn't taste any taste when she chewed them. When she swallowed them, it seemed like she swallowed a cloud of air. She didn't feel like she had eaten anything, let alone pleasure.

Lian Jiangyue frowned, touched the sand in the cave, and said, "This place is very strange."

But each of these layers, which layer is not strange?

Linglong Xing said: "Eat and eat, rest and rest, let's go!"

Lian Jiangyue looked at him and felt even more strange: "When did you speak so fluently?"

"I always talk like this." Linglong Xing said.

Lian Jiangyue's hands were turning circles on the sand almost unconsciously, and he asked again: "Then tell me about your home."

Linglongxing smacked her lips twice, sat on the ground, and said, "Okay, then let me tell you, I grew up in the desert, and when I was 14 years old, I was discovered by people in the base, and they took me back I went to the base, taught me to read, taught me to read, teach me to speak, taught me to be a human being, so boring, so boring. Once, I overheard people chatting in the base, and they said that because I was a freak, I was abandoned by my parents They talk nonsense, my father is a snow-white wolf, my mother is a gray eagle, they did not abandon me.

"After that day, I always heard a voice calling me to go home, and I followed that voice to find my home. I knew that my home was not at the base."

"I searched again and again, and the people at the base also searched for me again and again. That day, when I fell into that underground cave, I heard that voice again. When I saw the forest, I knew that my home was in the There."

Lian Jiangyue said: "You mean you don't know what's in that forest?"

"I don't know." Linglong Xing's eyes fell on Lian Jiangyue's right hand, "What is that?"

Lian Jiangyue took a look, and at some point, half a notebook appeared in his hand.He dug out the notebook.This notebook is new from the cover to the inside pages to the pencil writing on it.

Linglong Xing asked, "What did you write?"

The yellow light shone into the cave, where it seemed that the sun never set, and it never seemed dark.

Does eternity mean eternal light?

The content of the notebook is like a diary, and each paragraph begins with "today".No page feels like it was written yesterday.

Lian Jiangyue said to herself: "After all, this is the eternal place..."

What is recorded in the notebook may be what happened in one day, or it may be what happened in many "todays".

Lian Jiangyue remembered what was written in the diary.

"Today, I was the only one who climbed up. There were twenty people, and nineteen died. I can't find the previous diary, and there is only a piece of pencil left. I can write as much as I can."

"I encountered a sandstorm today, but fortunately there are many caves where we can take refuge. It's strange, I don't feel thirsty or hungry."

"I walked 63 steps today. I don't feel tired, and I can continue to walk. My feet are swollen. After walking a few steps, I feel that there is no problem. This is the biggest problem."

"I didn't sleep today, I can't sleep, I should go to sleep. My daughter, Ainur, is waiting for me in my dream."

"I found another problem today. The pencil tip is still so sharp. I should have discovered it a long time ago. Is this the meaning of the Eternal Land? Is this also caused by the radiation of the meteorite? Such a real illusion, no, such an illusory reality. Maybe Black Rain Mountain It’s also real.”

Lian Jiangyue raised her eyes and looked at Linglong Xing: "Do you still remember the knight-errant who led the horse and waited for us by the side of the road in the Forgotten Land?"

Linglong star nodded.

"This diary should be his diary."

"What else did he write?"

Lian Jiangyue looked down at the notebook and read: "I have written five days, so today is the sixth day I have been here. I have drunk urine twice in six days, and now there is no urine, maybe I can drink blood, but I can't find a way to go up, if I go back down, next time I'll make more preparations... Okay, that's the decision, so that there is no need to worry about no firewood for the green hills."

Linglongxing patted Lian Jiangyue: "Don't worry, he doesn't know the way, I know."

"How would you know?"

Linglongxing smiled, and covered his right ear with two hands, letting him listen.

Lian Jiangyue said, "I can't hear you."

He said: "Does it mean I can't go to your house because I can't hear and we'll be separated?"

Linglong Xing nodded, still smiling.Lian Jiangyue suddenly felt frustrated, and a little angry, and sighed heavily: "I am very reluctant to think of being separated from you, but you can still laugh."

Linglongxing touched his hair, touched his face, sat on his body, kissed him and said: "The stars are always in the sky, and the moon is always in the sky, so we will always be together."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Your home will always be there, right?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't you go back to the desert with me. Apart from reading, speaking and writing, there are many other things you can do as a human being. It's not boring at all. If you have tried all the things you can do as a human being, it's better Feel boring, bored, then I will send you back, take you home." Lian Jiangyue became more and more excited as she spoke, her eyebrows danced, and she couldn't stop, "You said your father was a wolf and your mother was an eagle, but you It's human, you're not a freak, you're so special, so special that other humans don't know how to deal with you, how to put you in a world where everyone is the same, you know what I mean ?”

Linglongxing nodded, lowered her eyes, looked at him, and said, "Being a human is so troublesome, I don't want it."

Lian Jiangyue continued: "You have already regarded yourself as a person in your subconscious, don't you? You see that other people are wearing clothes, and you will also wear clothes. You see that the elevator is clean. If you look at me, you won't spit out, you know how to be a person."

Linglong Xing was stunned, blinked for a long while, his eyes were like animals, he couldn't hide anything, he got off Lian Jiangyue sadly, and kept repeating a word: "Look."

"Linglongxing." Lian Jiangyue called out to him, trying to hold him back.Linglongxing stood up, took two steps towards the entrance of the cave, turned her head suddenly, bit her lips tightly, put her hands into her eyes, and said: "It's all the troubles that these eyes see! Then I won't look at it again from now on. Already!"

He dug out two eyeballs, threw them away, and these two bloody eyeballs landed in Lian Jiangyue's arms impartially.

Linglong Xing didn't seem to feel the pain, nor did she regret it, she stood where she was, and said resolutely: "I will never see you again, when I see you, my heart swells and my nose becomes sore, I know you want to Going back to the desert, I want to go home, we will eventually part ways, we have different paths. I never thought to ask you if you want to go home with me, because my home is not where you should be, I don't want you to choose painfully , I like you, I want to enrich every moment I spend with you to the extreme.

"You...you...why do you ask me and let me choose? You make me suffer, pity Jiangyue, I want to go home, I can't cry on the way home, you make me want to cry, we Don't stay together anymore, I'll take you to the next floor, let's just leave like this!"

After saying that, Linglongxing walked out.

Lian Jiangyue clutched those two eyeballs, dazed in a daze, he asked wrongly, wrongly said, Linglong star is a free wind, how can he catch the wind?He likes him, so why should he be caught online?

Lian Jiangyue wiped his eyes on the clothes, where there were two eyeballs, they were clearly two crystal clear emeralds.He hurriedly chased it out, and vaguely saw Linglongxing running hard in the yellow sand, landing on all fours, like a wild wolf.

But after running for a while, he suddenly fell to the ground, and Lian Jiangyue was in a hurry to go, but before he could get close, he saw a green ray of light in the dim, Lian Jiangyue took a closer look, this green ray of light was not Is that the stone bridge?

The forest also appeared!It's on the other side of the stone bridge.

The stone bridge connects the fallen Linglongxing and his "home".

Lian Jiangyue ran to Linglong Xing, helped him up and looked, his face was covered with blood and tears, his body was dry and hard, as if the last drop of water in his body had been dried up by the wind and sand that haunted this world forever.

Lian Jiangyue couldn't believe it: "It was fine just now, how is it possible, how is it possible..."

At this time, a group of translucent butterflies landed on Linglong Xing.They formed the shape of a bird. The bird's beak pecked at Linglong Xing's shriveled skin, and a fluorescent snow wolf came out.

The snow wolf shook its ears, some flake-like fluorescence scattered and merged into the air, the snow wolf stepped on the stone bridge, it glanced at Lian Jiangyue, its eyes were two empty holes.

The butterflies scattered, and Snow Wolf turned around and ran towards the forest at the end of the stone bridge.

The wolves in front of the forest howled.

Lian Jiangyue's hands felt cold, and she heard the sound of quicksand.Linglongxing's skin turned into dust and was blown away by the wind.

He stood up slowly, really wanting to run after him to have a look at that snow wolf again, really want to run after him to have a look at the forest.That "home".But when he was about to step on the stone bridge, he hesitated again.What if the stone bridge collapses again?Will he fall into oblivion again?This time, can he climb up again?

It seems that the knight has never come up again...

Has he forgotten his daughter?Has he forgotten his dream?

Lian Jiangyue stood at this end of the stone bridge, not daring to move.The snow wolf was about to run into the forest. Suddenly, it stopped. It turned its head to look at Lian Jiangyue, kicked its feet, and took off. The snow wolf grew eagle wings and flew to Lian Jiangyue. In front of him, he bit his collar and threw him out.

"Go back to your home."

Lian Jiangyue heard Linglongxing's voice whispering in his ear.

There was chaos in front of his eyes, everything around him was spinning, the original chaotic yellow twisted into a huge vortex, and the vortex sucked all the sand and wind all over the sky, these chaos There is something behind it - all scenes that Lian Jiangyue is very familiar with:

In the Bian family's house, two thick and entangled sword auras, a young man with a gentle breeze, rolled up his trouser legs and stood in the pool, the sun shone on his face, he was like a dream.

He seems to be spinning in the revolving lantern of his life!

He also saw himself, the 16-year-old self, the ten-year-old self, running in the mountains and forests, fleeing, crying, enduring, being scalded, bleeding, standing as a punishment...

He saw his five-year-old self...

He saw Lian Wuchen standing beside the rolling river, holding a long sword and looking alert.

A black shadow leaped out of the water, flung its teeth and claws at Lianwuchen.

Lian Jiangyue took a quick breath, his eyes were completely dark, and his vision was completely covered by the black shadow.Lian Jiangyue blurted out: "Lian Wuzang knows nothing!"

As soon as he shouted, he felt a tingling pain in his throat and coughed non-stop. He tried to open his eyes to see if there was any pity, my hatred, and reincarnation.He was surrounded by people, all of them wearing hats that said "Desert Tours."A middle-aged woman asked politely, "Young man, are you okay?"

Lian Jiangyue propped herself up and said, "Where is this place?"

He touched the hot sand with his palm, shrank his shoulders, and looked at the wall of people surrounding him: "Are you... a tour group?"

Everyone chattered together: "This is the Gurbantunggut Desert!"

"Hey, tour guide, tour guide, isn't this the person who was arrested by the grave robbers for more than a week as reported in the news?"

"No, no, that one is much younger and looks different. There are photos, look!"

A young Uighur-looking man holding a small flag stretched out his hand to pat Jiangyue, and said, "Get in the car and sit for a while?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded, the young man helped him up, and said: "Everyone give way, free activities continue, half an hour later, the bus will gather here, I want to rent a drone to see the tree veins People from the desert come to my place to register, everyone, don’t run too far.”

Lian Jiangyue followed the young man into the bus, and the young man handed him a bottle of mineral water, and the two sat and talked.

"Are you a tour guide?" Lian Jiangyue asked, "How far is this from the animal protection base? I'm still in Shihezi, what date is it?"

The young man patted the dust off his clothes and said, "You are traveling alone and lost your way?"

He looked at his feet: "Miss your shoes?"

Lian Jiangyue drank a few more sips of water, his thoughts were still a little confused, he still felt chaotic, he even asked himself: Am I really back in the desert now?Could this also be an illusion created by the meteorite radiation that the knight said?I've even seen the revolving doors of life, shouldn't I be dead already?

The young tour guide raised his chin at Lian Jiangyue: "The phone is dead, do you want to charge it?"

Lian Jiangyue took out her mobile phone from her trouser pocket and took a look. The mobile phone had a signal and power, and he received a WeChat message from Feng Xuwei.

He asked the tour guide: "Mineral Museum, do you have such a place here? Should all the meteorites and other things found near here be stored there?" He read WeChat.

Feng Xuwei told him: Xingshan came to me to find you, he has something important to tell you, don't say anything about it, he came here secretly, it's about Kuyu, you should come here as soon as possible.

Feng Xuwei attached an address in the suburbs of Beijing.

The tour guide scratched his face and said, "Mineral Museum? There really isn't one. There is a Military Reclamation Museum. Do you want to go?"