Abyss Notes [Unlimited]
Chapter 82 Skull Pink
Huge fish skeletons pierced through the clouds and went straight to the sky.
The sky is vast, and the clouds are layered on top of each other, seemingly endless. Looking up, it looks like a big cage made of clouds and mist, covering people in it.
Yu Zhou tightly grasped the vines of Fan Xing on the fish's back.Fan Xing didn't say much all the way, especially after realizing that Jiang Xiao stayed in the last "birdcage", and this helpless act would have such an important meaning, he hardly said a word, and the expression on his face became less and less.
Even Bai Chan could no longer arouse his anger.He leaned against An Liu's horn and looked forward.The wind blew his hair, and Yu Zhou suddenly realized that the hair that was cut short by himself had already grown long, covering Fan Xing's ears.Fan Xing has a beautiful face with sharp lines. When he is silent, there is a pool of water hidden in his emotionless eyes.
In this "gap" where everything seems to be frozen and nothing will change, Fan Xing is a special living creature.
Yu Zhou rubbed against him, he turned his head to look at Yu Zhou, the deep water was wrinkled by the wind, his eyes finally smiled.
Yu Zhou felt very sad.But he couldn't do anything except hold Fan Xing's hand.
He knew why Fan Xing suddenly fell silent.If all the previous thoughts of "leaving the 'gap'" were just thoughts, but Bai Chan's words and Jiang Xiao's existence made everything suddenly very real.
Their groping has yielded results: there is indeed such a road, and there are their companions on that road.They will return to the noisy world together.
——Except for Fan Xing.
Yu Zhou understood the horror of loneliness.
He spent long, lonely days long before he was picked up after his adoptive parents abandoned him.Polish the floor to make it smooth and shiny, and make the bed that is not filled with many things repeatedly. When it rains, I use a flashlight at home to count the ants crawling and winding around the ground and bypassing the stagnant water.He was too young at that time, and he knew too little. Loneliness was a demon he could not resist, trapping him tightly in his own envelope.
Yu Zhou didn't dare to let himself imagine how Fan Xing continued to live in the "gap".It was fine in the past, he had nothing to worry about, he just had to focus on avoiding his mother's pursuit.But after that?Once a person has had something warm and splendid, and had a sincere friend, if he loses it suddenly, there will be a huge gap in his soul.
When Yu Zhou returned to the human world, he had a long time and had his own friends.He can still have contact with Liu Yingnian and Jiang Xiao, as long as they are willing to each other, this contact will not be interrupted.Yu Zhou thought of the dark corridor between the "Birdcage" and "Birdcage".Thinking that Fan Xing would be with An Liu, walking alone forever in the snowy darkness, he held onto Fan Xing's hand more and more tightly. An unspeakable pain and bitterness made him unable to speak. .
"Huh?" Fan Xing thought he was going to talk to him, so he leaned closer and asked, "What's wrong?"
A strong impulse hit Yu Zhou's heart, he almost blurted out and said some uncontrollable words - but the moment he opened his mouth, he remembered Jiu Jiu.
Yu Zhou finally opened his mouth and asked, "How far is it?"
Fan Xing responded to him: "Soon."
When he spoke, he kept looking at Yu Zhou, and every look was deep.It was as if he wanted to keep Yu Zhou firmly in his mind.
In the cloud and mist, there is a faint shadow, which is the extremely high silver-white giant tower, Yunwaitian.
An Liu was already a little tired from flying.It kept flapping its fins, trying to make everyone chatting happily on the fish's back aware of its discomfort.
After learning that they could go back and take Jiang Xiao with them, Xu Qingyuan's attitude suddenly changed.He no longer shy away from talking about Jiang Xiao, and even joked with Liu Yingnian: "Have you ever had a girlfriend? I guess you should still be a virgin?"
Liu Yingnian blushed: "Sexual harassment."
Xu Qingyuan embraced him: "We are a team, good partners, and we have no secrets between each other. Didn't you say that? Well, I'll tell you, I'm not. How about you?"
Liu Yingnian: "If you're not, you're not... It's not a secret at all, okay?"
The skeleton forcibly joined the discussion: "Why didn't anyone ask me?"
Bai Chan, who had been sitting next to them, suddenly stood up.The strong wind made him stagger a little, Liu Yingnian hurriedly held him back: "Don't move! You will fall."
"Don't fly!" Bai Chan suddenly shouted, "Be careful up there, there are attacks."
An Liu stopped slowly. It did remember the lightning-like attack that Black Dragon and White Toad encountered when it approached Yunwaitian for the first time.
"What did you notice?" Xu Qingyuan asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Bai Chan murmured, "Very, very strange."
He suddenly grabbed his wrist and bent down as if enduring great pain.The next moment, a pair of wings made of black bones spread out from his back, like two huge black butterfly wings.
Yu Zhou was taken aback: the wings were a little different from what he had seen before: black fleshy membranes formed between the bones, interlocking with each other, like pieces of thin black cloth filling the gaps between the bones.The black bones seemed to be glowing with phosphorescence, and the fleshy membrane was deep black with a hint of blue.
——In short, the current Bai Chan looks even less human.
He was like a giant black butterfly, lean and swaying.
Bai Chan is not surprised by his strange form, he has no obsession with human form.Touching the horn on his forehead, he said to Yu Zhou, "Wait a minute, I'll go and have a look."
Without waiting for others to stop him, he flapped his wings and took off immediately after speaking.He was not quite used to the moment of take-off, and he wobbled and fell.Yu Zhou almost instinctively reached out to pull him, but Fan Xing grabbed him.
Bai Chan flew up.He headed towards Yunwaitian's position.
"The strength of the mother and the fog lights are on him, he will be fine." Fan Xing said.
Bai Chan was hidden in the clouds.There was no strong light at that time, no attack, only the wind kept blowing the soft clouds.
An Liu slapped the fins and followed closely behind.Breaking through the dense layers of white clouds, a huge and boundless platform appeared in front of everyone.
On the edge of the platform was Bai Chan who was in a daze, his wings hadn't been retracted yet.
"...all of them are gone." He said to Fan Xing.
The platform was empty.It is like a white nail, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The place where they landed is the surface of the nail cap, a wide and invisible platform.
Clouds and mist gathered from all around, blurring the boundaries, making one feel as if they were in mid-air.Yu Zhou bowed his head, his feet were also covered by thin clouds, the clouds were cool and there was no temperature.
Everyone didn't dare to move around casually, An Liu returned to the form of dried fish, and followed Bai Chan to patrol the platform.Their figures gradually disappeared into the clouds.Liu Yingnian was scared and nervous, and shouted: "Dried fish!" The voice spread far away, buzzing and echoing among the clouds.
When Yu Zhou waited and yawned, Bai Chan and Yu Gan came back.The platform was empty, and all the cage masters who had lived here were gone.
"... ran away? Or hid?" Fan Xing asked, "Who are they? Bai Chan, you should tell us now, right?"
Yugan also chimed in: "Even if Fan Xing beat you, we are on the same side as you, don't make a mistake."
Fan Xing stared at the fish dryly.
The dazed Baichan finally let go and told them the shape and identity of the other five cage owners.
These five cage masters were the brothers and sisters who taught Fan Xing to eat people at that time.
Unlike White Toad and Fog Lamp, none of them got their names from Will.As soon as Bai Chan announced the ranking of these people, Fan Xing and An Liu immediately understood: "So it's them."
These children, like Bai Chan and Xiao Shi, have partly human forms, but mixed with other things, they cannot transform into complete human forms like Fan Xing.Because of this, he didn't get much love from the will.It was An Liu who took care of them since they were young, but because An Liu's attention was later shifted to Fan Xing, because of jealousy or other reasons, they gradually became estranged from An Liu.
According to Bai Chan, Yunwaitian is not like this.The seven cage masters each have their own territory in Yunwaitian, and they will dress up the territory as they are familiar with according to their preferences.Bai Chan has nothing to like, his territory is the empty platform and clouds, he always hides behind the clouds.
Adventurers who fall into the country of wandering clouds will randomly enter the territory of different cage owners, and it was Bai Chan's "birdcage" that Xiaoyou fell into at that time.Bai Chan remembered her, a girl with obvious burn marks on her appearance, but she still chose to keep her original appearance.At that time, there was another cage owner who came to play with Bai Chan. Both he and Bai Chan were surprised by Xiao You's choice. To confirm, he asked Xiao You three times: Are you sure?
At least at that time, the cage owners and Bai Chan were still very friendly.Before they reasonably attacked Baichan and threw him to Yunwaitian, Baichan didn't know that he would encounter betrayal and conspiracy.
"Did they go out?" Liu Yingnian asked, "Will they come back?"
No one can answer.
White Toad flew all the way, exhausted, his wings retracted on his back, and the black cracks on the skin on his back became more obvious.Seeing that he could barely sit upright, Fan Xing advised him to rest.Bai Chan lay directly on the ground and immediately fell asleep.
"...I'm so tired too." Yugan muttered, "I want to sleep too."
It landed on the chest of the white toad, spread its fins, lay on the black skin and closed its eyes to rest.
Everyone hesitated, and finally sat down on Yunwaitian's platform.They didn't dare to stay too far away from each other, for fear that the cage master would come back suddenly and be unable to deal with it.
Without a reference, the flow of time is difficult to perceive.Liu Yingnian asked everyone if they were hungry. He still had some dry food in his backpack, although it was not much.
"You haven't eaten much." Liu Yingnian said to Yu Zhou, "How about some?"
Yu Zhou shook his head.He is not hungry.In other words, he became less and less hungry.As his time in the "birdcage" increased, the hunger in his stomach gradually subsided.He suddenly remembered that Yugan once said that children in gaps actually don't need to eat.
A long-lost question came to mind.
The fresh and terrifying suffocation of sinking into the sea was revived.The subconscious chills made Yu Zhou shiver slightly.
Fan Xing sat beside him and opened one arm.Yu Zhou leaned into Fan Xing's arms, and he decided not to tell anyone about it.
Because of being too bored, Xu Qingyuan also lost interest in chatting with Liu Yingnian.Only the skeletons, who are not sleepy or hungry, can't bear the silence around them, muttering to themselves.
Liu Yingnian took back his notebook from Yu Zhou, put it on his lap, and began to write and record seriously.
The notes were neat, Liu Yingnian was surprisingly focused, and the bored skeleton leaned over to read.At first Liu Yingnian wanted to cover it to prevent it from being seen, but the skeleton suddenly met his eyes.
"You wrote this?" it asked.
Liu Yingnian: "Yes."
The skeleton was about to snatch the notebook, but Liu Yingnian quickly protected it: "What are you doing!"
The skeleton stopped his hand, and his finger bones were still scratching the edge of the notebook: "Comrade Liu Yingnian, let me see your records."
It was only then that Liu Yingnian remembered that if he really wanted to make a relationship, this skeleton could be regarded as his boss.He was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Comrade Ku, my handwriting is not good, what do you want to read, how about I tell you?"
"It's pretty." The skeleton murmured, "And it's very precious."
Liu Yingnian: "You think it's useful too?!"
He got excited, spread out his notebook, and explained to the skeleton a little bit about his experience from Foghorn Town to the present.
The skeleton watched and listened, relishing it, and asked some questions from time to time.
"I also brought the Abyss Diary to make these records. Unfortunately, after the diary is owned by the will, all the records on it will disappear." The skeleton said, "It should be hidden in the diary, and it is completely invisible at ordinary times."
Like a child waiting for his teacher to correct his homework, Liu Yingnian looked at the skeleton eagerly.
"Very good," said the skeleton, and then turned several pages forward, "How did you learn this language?"
What he was pointing at was the language that the two brothers used in the kingdom of Algar, which was specific to Yu Zhou's time and space.
No one in the small team could understand this strange language except Liu Yingnian.Skeleton became interested.
"Where did you learn it?" said the skeleton. "This language is very special. It was produced in a space-time split at a certain time point hundreds of years ago. I call it γ."
The skeleton wrote a few Greek letters in the air: "The original world we are in, I call it α, Alpha. The gap is the second time and space I arrived in, I call it β, Beta."
Liu Yingnian suddenly realized: "The third time and space is the time and space where special languages exist, Gama."
"Gama time and space are parallel to the time and space you are in, and it is absolutely impossible to cross. The only connection is the 'gap' we are in."
Liu Yingnian opened his eyes wide.
The skeleton continued: "As for why I know, because people who have Game time and space have fallen into the 'gap'. I have seen that person in the 'Birdcage', he is a teacher, he taught this special language to me and the will."
Liu Yingnian remembered at this time that Jiu Jiu came from another time and space, and Xu Qingyuan was not from the known alpha and gama time and space.How to name the endless time and space one by one?He couldn't think of an answer for the time being, so he gave up thinking and tried his best to keep up with the skeleton's train of thought.
"To test you, what are the characteristics of this language?" Skull asked.
Liu Yingnian replied: "It has 52 phonetic letters and 36 ideographic combinations. The letters are arranged in four corners to express different meanings."
The skeleton has no skin and cannot express emotions with expressions, but it shouted in shock: "You even know this!"
Liu Yingnian tightly grasped the skeleton's hand: "Comrade Ku, I learned this from, from "Ash Notes"!"
Skull: "...What is this? I haven't heard of it."
So Liu Yingnian talked about the mysterious adventurer who returned to reality from the "gap".
In fact, Liu Yingnian didn't know much. He was just an intern of the Investigation Bureau and had just started training.
The paper records brought back by the adventurers are called "Ash Notes" by the adventurers themselves.The interns can only touch the superficial part of Ashes' diary, which is about the existence of "gap" and will, the composition of "Birdcage", and a special language that only appeared in "Birdcage".
Liu Yingnian is not yet qualified to learn the deeper content.On the way to work, he has fallen into the "trap" and arrived at the "birdcage".
Xu Qingyuan was awakened by the noise, and sat beside him, yawning and listening.Yu Zhou and Fan Xing got bored enough, seeing the lively conversation here, they also moved over.
"How about you teach us how to learn this character?" Xu Qingyuan said.
Liu Yingnian pushed his glasses, he obviously liked this proposal very much.
"The pronunciation of the language is divided into sound, rhyme, and tone. In this language... the language of gama time and space, each phrase is arranged in four corners. The upper left is the tone, the lower left is the rhyme, the upper right is the tone, and the lower right is the meaning." He Start detailing.In order to let them understand, Liu Yingnian wrote down 52 phonetic letters in a notebook, and wrote out different ideographic combinations one by one.
"However, of the 36 ideographic combinations, I can only remember more than 20, and the rest are very rarely used. They are relatively rare usages. I... I forgot." Liu Yingnian scratched his hair.
Yu Zhou found that the threshold for learning this language was very low, and soon they learned how to write some meanings such as "hello" and "goodbye".
But Liu Yingnian didn't know how to read it aloud.He can only understand the literal meaning and cannot chant.
Because there is no way to record the recitation in the "Ash Chronicle", even the returning adventurers cannot read the meaning of each syllable.
"Here, there is a typo."
Suddenly, a voice came from behind everyone.
Bai Chan and Yu Gan woke up at some point.He stood behind Liu Yingnian and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but remind him.
"You can understand?!" Yugan was surprised, "Aren't you illiterate? You have never learned these things."
"I don't know, why." Bai Chan took Liu Yingnian's notebook, knelt down on the ground and corrected the parts that were not correct and perfect, "But now, I can understand these words."
Liu Yingnian: "Can you read?"
Bai Chan opened his mouth.Neither will he.
After revisions and adjustments, the monograms became more tidy.Bai Chan even wrote down the other dozen or so ideographic combinations that Liu Yingnian had forgotten.He wrote slowly and clumsily, like a child learning to write for the first time, but he wrote every letter without hesitation, and the memory had already taken root in his body.
This is not the memory of the fog lights.Like Bai Chan, Fog Lamp has never learned these things.
It is a residual impression of the will.In the tentacles swallowed by Bai Chan, a part of the memory of will was hidden.
But he can only write and cannot read aloud.
The skeleton carefully read everything written by Bai Chan, and finally nodded: "It's absolutely correct."
Bai Chan couldn't see the joy, this kind of praise was completely unimportant to him.Yu Zhou and Fan regained their interest, and they and Xu Qingyuan became the students of Skeletor and Liu Yingnian.
It was an extremely long day, Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan ate all the dry food, and Yunwaitian was still empty.
Yu Zhou and Fan Xing clumsily read out the syllables of the letters according to the pronunciation method taught by the skull, but they couldn't play the tongue well, and the vibration of the oral and nasal cavities didn't understand the trick.The skeleton couldn't do a demonstration in person, so he could only keep dancing: "Put the tongue flat against the gums on both sides, and flick the tip of the tongue very, very quickly, and pronounce... Oh, no, the speed of flicking must be fast."
Yu Zhou gave up.He lay on the platform: "I won't study anymore."
Fan Xing also lay down: "Stop studying."
The skeleton, who was completely disappointed with the two poor students, forcibly lay down between them: "I won't teach anymore."
Yu Zhou suddenly remembered something, and quickly asked Fan Xing: "Do you still remember what happened in the Kingdom of Alga?"
Fan Xing thought for a while: "Do you think it's strange why the aborigines in the 'Birdcage', including us adventurers, can understand Alga and Arthur even though they use a different language?"
The skeleton interjected: "The will likes this. Even though you speak different languages to each other, you can completely understand each other's words. If you and someone who has another language leave the 'cage' and enter the gap, you will find that, You and those people cannot communicate with each other while waiting to enter the next 'birdcage'."
Yu Zhou sat up: "Can only communicate inside the 'birdcage'? Why?"
Skeleton: "Will likes to observe human beings...any kind of human beings. It is full of curiosity about the way humans live and communicate. Without a language that can communicate, it is impossible for human beings to unite to deal with the cage master. A cage master Complete control, the 'birdcage' that adventurers cannot resist, is extremely boring to it."
Yu Zhou: "Then... it should already know that the fog lights are dead."
Skeleton: "Yes."
Yu Zhou: "Will she come to the Land of Wandering to see the situation?"
Skull: "I don't know. She doesn't like fog lights. But this fancy 'birdcage' should interest her."
Yu Zhou remembered that Will had indeed asked Fu Yuncong if he was interested in the upper "Birdcage".It is looking for a more reliable cage owner.
Fan Xing also jumped up: "The more we stay here doing nothing, the more dangerous it will be."
The skeleton suddenly asked Yu Zhou: "Where's the Diary of the Abyss? Any tips for the current predicament?"
Yu Zhou flipped out his notes.
Next to the text that recorded the mysterious words, a strange picture appeared.
The three of them kept switching directions to make judgments, until Yu Zhou raised his hand note away.The skeleton shouted: "Oh... this..."
On the paper was a completely disintegrated butterfly.
Suddenly, voices came from the direction of Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan.
It was Yugan who suddenly remembered something.
When the fog lamp died, Bai Chan said that because the seven "birdcages" were merging, this vast country of wandering clouds was jointly controlled and operated by the seven cage owners.As a result, the fog lamp died, but the "birdcage" she was in did not change much - it was the other cage owners who maintained the shape of the entire kingdom of wandering.
"Including you being thrown from the sky by them, but there is still no special change in your 'birdcage'." Yugan said, "In other words, your birdcage can also be managed by other cage owners. "
Bai Chan denied it: "I never, never let them touch, my territory."
Yugan: "Are you sure? It's the same now?"
Bai Chan fell silent.
The fog lamp died, Bai Chan was not in place, and only Bai Chan was the most likely to kill the fog lamp.And what Bai Chan values most is his "birdcage".
"It makes sense." Fan Xing interrupted, "If I were the other cage owners, I would definitely choose to operate on your 'birdcage' right now."
Bai Chan didn't even wait for the others, he endured the pain and spread his wings, jumped down from Yunwaitian, and flew towards the south.
The wings made of black bones have become more and more complete.
Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan looked at Yu Zhou.Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Zhou turned his head and asked Yugan, "Have you rested yet?"
Yugan hesitated: "Are we really going?"
Yu Zhou: "...to meet them, you don't have to kill them."
Yugan: "Bai Chan will definitely do it."
It stopped talking, and rolled in the air like it was suffering. "...so sad, so sad." Gan Yu said in a low voice, "I took care of each of them. Every one of them."
Yu Zhou stood on the edge of Yunwaitian, he didn't jump down.He suddenly remembered something that has always puzzled him: the dried fish died once, the whip silk on his body disappeared, and it would not be traced by the will.Dried fish doesn't have to accompany them all the way here.
"You woke me up." Qian Yu swam to his side and replied, "I will help you to the end until I send you back to your sister."
Yu Zhou: "...Why?"
Yugan: "Just take it as if I am someone else's older brother."
Yu Zhou jumped up.Yunwaitian raised the roar of the giant beast, which was exactly the same as what he heard on the black ocean in Wujiao Town.
Huge fish skeletons broke out from the clouds.An Liu swings four thin fin bones, as if swimming freely in the ocean.
But it was not An Liu who caught Yu Zhou in the first place.
Fan Xing transformed into an inhuman form, spread out his huge white bone wings, and hugged Yu Zhou in his arms.
"What are you doing jumping off!" Yu Zhou shouted in the wind.
"I said, I'll dance with you!" Fan Xing laughed loudly, and landed on An Liu's back with Yu Zhou.
They headed for the last clean, peaceful birdcage in the south.
The shadow of Bai Chan appeared in the thick clouds.He didn't fly very high, and seemed to be a little short of strength.
Anliu was bigger than him, and his swimming speed was extremely fast, and he quickly caught up with Baichan.
Bai Chan motioned them to look down.
The wind picked up at some point, and the clouds and mist dissipated. "This is where the four-legged snake is." Bai Chan said, "Do you remember what the forest looked like back then?"
Although the forest is full of weird monsters and hidden dangers everywhere, at least at that time it still basically maintained the forest form: the trees were extremely tall, there were shrubs in the lower places, lichens, moss, and even streams.
Yu Zhou couldn't believe it: "This is actually..."
The forest has disappeared.The boundless mountains and forests they saw had all been replaced by dead wood and black earth.Fan Xing pulled Bai Chan back to An Liu's back, and An Liu flew lower, almost passing the top of the dead wood.
When they got closer, everyone could see clearly that there were swamps all over the ground, and weird faces and limbs were faintly exposed on dead wood and stones, just like the scene in the fog lamp birdcage was spreading endlessly.
Those four-legged snakes have naturally disappeared.Yu Zhou even saw a monster struggling in the muddy water in the center of a swamp.It roared like a dying person, and also like an angry beast, and half of its body had already dissolved in the swamp, assimilated with the black ground, and it was impossible to stand up no matter how hard it struggled.
Bai Chan clenched his fist tightly and said only one word: "Hurry up!"
At the end of the southern end of the Yunyou Kingdom, the forest still maintains a deep green color.
There was no wind, and the clouds became heavier and thicker. The thick cotton wadding that had absorbed water was pressed against the top of the forest, and the air was filled with a strange smell of burnt.
An Liu didn't land, it slowed down and slowly hovered over this once vibrant land.
It flew too low, too low, and there were birds passing by the sides of everyone's faces.Xu Qingyuan quickly took off his hat and grabbed one.The bird struggled in his hat, and suddenly opened its mouth to spit out a mouthful of thick juice at Xu Qingyuan.Xu Qingyuan dodged, and the thick juice fell on An Liu's back, instantly burning a gap.
On An Liu's trembling back, Xu Qingyuan stabilized his body and held up the bird to Fan Xing: "Do you still remember?"
The birds were about the size of ordinary sparrows, but their small heads were covered with blood-red eyes, and they blinked rapidly at this time, the dense crowd was disgusting.It seemed to be eroded and polluted by something, Xu Qingyuan let go, when it spread its wings to escape, there were still countless small red eyes hidden under the wings.
Of course Fan Xing still remembered: when he and Xu Qingyuan were patrolling the edge of the forest, they saw a bird with half its head eroded.
A flock of birds flapped their wings and flew by, each bird was polluted, eroded, and alienated just like the one Xu Qingyuan grabbed with his bare hands.
The ground was covered with black water, and the town was burned by fire, leaving only black ruins, and no one could be seen.
The green of the forest is also just a camouflage.Birds as big as human heads stood densely on the leafless branches, their dark green feathers rippling in the pale sun and breeze.The birds watched the intruder, silent and quiet.There is more than one head on their necks, and the shape of that head is hard to tell whether it is a bird or a human.
Liu Yingnian lay on An Liu's back and couldn't help shouting: "Xiaoyou!!!"
They yelled several times, and their voices kept echoing in the mountains, but there was no response.
The girl who had helped them disappeared.
The foot of the mountain where Bai Chan stayed for a long time when he was still a black dragon was completely bare.The strange thing is that all the black water flowing through this land will automatically detour, and An Liu falls on this relatively clean ground, panting and turning into dried fish, lying in Yu Zhou's hands.
"Maybe it's the traces you left that resisted the pollution." Fan Xing touched the ground, and the ground was slightly warmer. After touching it for a long time, his palms were a little hot.
After Bai Chan landed without saying a word, he suddenly knelt down on the ground.Tears streamed down his face, and he grasped the warm earth tightly with both hands.
The broken gasps gradually became meaningful words, and he kept saying: I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
He failed to entrust the black dragon to his "birdcage" and protect all the adventurers in the "birdcage".
The wind blows thick cotton-like dark clouds, and the long and short laughter can't tell the distance, and it is densely shrouded.The first drop of rain fell on Xu Qingyuan's hat with a sizzle.Liu Yingnian picked up his backpack and covered his head, Fan Xing protected Yu Zhou by his side, but the rain became more and more dense.
Bai Chan raised his head suddenly.His bluish-white eyes were reddish red, and Yugan lost his voice: "Bai Chan!"
There was a loud bang, as if something exploded from Bai Chan's body. He knelt on the ground, his hands and feet sank into the mud, and the wings on his back spread instantly, bigger than ever before.
The black fleshy film completely covered the bones, and the fleshy film on the edge of the wings trembled in the wind like broken pieces of cloth.The huge wings enveloped everyone around Bai Chan, and the rain was dense, but it evaporated immediately when it fell on the wings, so it couldn't affect the wings in the slightest.
Bai Chan didn't speak, he let out a beast-like roar, and rough scales gradually protruded from the black skin.Fan Xing rushed over to hug him, and shouted in his ear: "Bai Chan!"
The dark-skinned boy was stunned for a moment, and his blood-red eyes seemed to recover.
"It's me, and An Liu." Fan Xing said, "What are you doing? Control yourself!"
Bai Chan was trembling in his arms, tears were streaming from his red eyes: "I, I can't, let them erode you..."
"Don't be discouraged." Fan Xing said, "Don't forget, you are the owner of this 'birdcage'. If you lose control, no one can protect your territory."
Liu Yingnian plucked up the courage to interject, "We haven't found Xiaoyou yet, what if she's hiding, what if she's still waiting for us to rescue her?"
The word "Xiaoyou" brought Baichan back to his senses.
After he fell to the ground, people had a brief interest in him, but they quickly dispersed.A wounded, rotting, dying dragon is of no particular value.Some naughty animals even ran to peel off the scales on his black dragon, and the white toad trembled in pain in a coma, but he couldn't stop it.
Only Xiaoyou would visit him almost every day, clean up the bugs infesting the wound on his back, give him food, talk to him constantly, hold branches and sticks to confront the beasts, and protect the weird dragon behind him.The most important thing is that it was Xiaoyou who brought Fan Xing and the others to Baichan, giving Baichan a chance to recover, and giving Yu Zhou and others an important reminder to leave "Bird".
"Let's go find her." Yugan pulled himself together, "Bai Chan! Don't cry! I didn't even cry when a hole was burned in my back by the strange bird's saliva. Just learn from your brother."
Bai Chan stopped crying, but he didn't take back his wings.The wings protected everyone until the strange rain stopped completely.
The sky darkened almost instantly, as if the long days before had never existed.
Several cage owners did not show up, Bai Chan sniffed carefully, but did not smell their scent.It was rain and wind that covered up some traces.
They returned to where the town was.All the houses were burned down, and the ground was pitch black. Not only was there no sign of people, even animals were not seen.The lively and bustling scene in the past was like a dream. The big tree covered with apricots was burned into dry wood, and a jagged weapon poked out from the top of the wall.Yu Zhou saw that the unplugged TV that could play animation was burned into an empty shell, lying in the muddy rainwater.
There were only birds, big and small birds with green feathers and red eyes, perched on the branches and ruins, quietly watching the group of people.
The dried fish bared their teeth at them, and the birds flew up in fright, and the green-feathered bird let out a hoarse scream: Wow!Wow!
Being so calm, Xu Qingyuan was also taken aback: "This is... a human voice?!"
The humans in the town turned out to be these big green-feathered birds.Bai Chan walked a few steps, stopped a few steps, his anger was accumulating inch by inch.
"Come on, come on me!" Bai Chan ran to the center of the burned town, jumped onto the crumbling beam, and shouted, "Come find me! Come kill me! I ate the fog lights, and I ate... "
Fan Xing rushed forward and covered Bai Chan's mouth.
Before it was too late, the strange wind blew up again, and there were voices from far and near in the wind: Bad boy, it really is you.You are now the owner of two "birdcages", which is not right.
Yu Zhou and Yu Gan exchanged glances: Bai Chan's words made the other party mistakenly think that it was Bai Chan who replaced the fog lights.
The voice of the "bad boy" echoed continuously, interspersed with sneering whispers, and soon disappeared with the wind.
Fan Xing controlled Bai Chan: "Don't worry, if they dare to touch you, they don't have to go to such trouble, they will come here and get your 'birdcage'."
He pressed close to Bai Chan's ear and lowered his voice: "Have you found out? They don't know that I am the cage owner who replaced the fog lights. These people think you control the two 'bird cages', and they are afraid of you."
Bai Chan calmed down and followed Fan Xing back to the crowd.He hesitated, raised his head and asked Fan Xing for a while, "Tell me, what should we do now?"
This is the first time Bai Chan has shown such an attitude towards Fan Xing.Fan Xing was surprised and couldn't help laughing, rubbing his hair, the brotherly fire that was extinguished by Bai Chan staggered and burned again.He thought for a while and said, "Go find the survivors first. If they intend to hold you hostage, they will definitely use adventurers as hostages."
Everyone in groups of two, Baichan and Liu Yingnian, Skull and Xu Qingyuan, Fan Xing and Yu Zhou, Yugan, scattered to look for survivors.Starting from the town, they headed in three directions around them, and returned to the original place within a specified time.
As long as the day, the night was also disturbingly long.
The third collection, still no gains.
The sky is vast, and the clouds are layered on top of each other, seemingly endless. Looking up, it looks like a big cage made of clouds and mist, covering people in it.
Yu Zhou tightly grasped the vines of Fan Xing on the fish's back.Fan Xing didn't say much all the way, especially after realizing that Jiang Xiao stayed in the last "birdcage", and this helpless act would have such an important meaning, he hardly said a word, and the expression on his face became less and less.
Even Bai Chan could no longer arouse his anger.He leaned against An Liu's horn and looked forward.The wind blew his hair, and Yu Zhou suddenly realized that the hair that was cut short by himself had already grown long, covering Fan Xing's ears.Fan Xing has a beautiful face with sharp lines. When he is silent, there is a pool of water hidden in his emotionless eyes.
In this "gap" where everything seems to be frozen and nothing will change, Fan Xing is a special living creature.
Yu Zhou rubbed against him, he turned his head to look at Yu Zhou, the deep water was wrinkled by the wind, his eyes finally smiled.
Yu Zhou felt very sad.But he couldn't do anything except hold Fan Xing's hand.
He knew why Fan Xing suddenly fell silent.If all the previous thoughts of "leaving the 'gap'" were just thoughts, but Bai Chan's words and Jiang Xiao's existence made everything suddenly very real.
Their groping has yielded results: there is indeed such a road, and there are their companions on that road.They will return to the noisy world together.
——Except for Fan Xing.
Yu Zhou understood the horror of loneliness.
He spent long, lonely days long before he was picked up after his adoptive parents abandoned him.Polish the floor to make it smooth and shiny, and make the bed that is not filled with many things repeatedly. When it rains, I use a flashlight at home to count the ants crawling and winding around the ground and bypassing the stagnant water.He was too young at that time, and he knew too little. Loneliness was a demon he could not resist, trapping him tightly in his own envelope.
Yu Zhou didn't dare to let himself imagine how Fan Xing continued to live in the "gap".It was fine in the past, he had nothing to worry about, he just had to focus on avoiding his mother's pursuit.But after that?Once a person has had something warm and splendid, and had a sincere friend, if he loses it suddenly, there will be a huge gap in his soul.
When Yu Zhou returned to the human world, he had a long time and had his own friends.He can still have contact with Liu Yingnian and Jiang Xiao, as long as they are willing to each other, this contact will not be interrupted.Yu Zhou thought of the dark corridor between the "Birdcage" and "Birdcage".Thinking that Fan Xing would be with An Liu, walking alone forever in the snowy darkness, he held onto Fan Xing's hand more and more tightly. An unspeakable pain and bitterness made him unable to speak. .
"Huh?" Fan Xing thought he was going to talk to him, so he leaned closer and asked, "What's wrong?"
A strong impulse hit Yu Zhou's heart, he almost blurted out and said some uncontrollable words - but the moment he opened his mouth, he remembered Jiu Jiu.
Yu Zhou finally opened his mouth and asked, "How far is it?"
Fan Xing responded to him: "Soon."
When he spoke, he kept looking at Yu Zhou, and every look was deep.It was as if he wanted to keep Yu Zhou firmly in his mind.
In the cloud and mist, there is a faint shadow, which is the extremely high silver-white giant tower, Yunwaitian.
An Liu was already a little tired from flying.It kept flapping its fins, trying to make everyone chatting happily on the fish's back aware of its discomfort.
After learning that they could go back and take Jiang Xiao with them, Xu Qingyuan's attitude suddenly changed.He no longer shy away from talking about Jiang Xiao, and even joked with Liu Yingnian: "Have you ever had a girlfriend? I guess you should still be a virgin?"
Liu Yingnian blushed: "Sexual harassment."
Xu Qingyuan embraced him: "We are a team, good partners, and we have no secrets between each other. Didn't you say that? Well, I'll tell you, I'm not. How about you?"
Liu Yingnian: "If you're not, you're not... It's not a secret at all, okay?"
The skeleton forcibly joined the discussion: "Why didn't anyone ask me?"
Bai Chan, who had been sitting next to them, suddenly stood up.The strong wind made him stagger a little, Liu Yingnian hurriedly held him back: "Don't move! You will fall."
"Don't fly!" Bai Chan suddenly shouted, "Be careful up there, there are attacks."
An Liu stopped slowly. It did remember the lightning-like attack that Black Dragon and White Toad encountered when it approached Yunwaitian for the first time.
"What did you notice?" Xu Qingyuan asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Bai Chan murmured, "Very, very strange."
He suddenly grabbed his wrist and bent down as if enduring great pain.The next moment, a pair of wings made of black bones spread out from his back, like two huge black butterfly wings.
Yu Zhou was taken aback: the wings were a little different from what he had seen before: black fleshy membranes formed between the bones, interlocking with each other, like pieces of thin black cloth filling the gaps between the bones.The black bones seemed to be glowing with phosphorescence, and the fleshy membrane was deep black with a hint of blue.
——In short, the current Bai Chan looks even less human.
He was like a giant black butterfly, lean and swaying.
Bai Chan is not surprised by his strange form, he has no obsession with human form.Touching the horn on his forehead, he said to Yu Zhou, "Wait a minute, I'll go and have a look."
Without waiting for others to stop him, he flapped his wings and took off immediately after speaking.He was not quite used to the moment of take-off, and he wobbled and fell.Yu Zhou almost instinctively reached out to pull him, but Fan Xing grabbed him.
Bai Chan flew up.He headed towards Yunwaitian's position.
"The strength of the mother and the fog lights are on him, he will be fine." Fan Xing said.
Bai Chan was hidden in the clouds.There was no strong light at that time, no attack, only the wind kept blowing the soft clouds.
An Liu slapped the fins and followed closely behind.Breaking through the dense layers of white clouds, a huge and boundless platform appeared in front of everyone.
On the edge of the platform was Bai Chan who was in a daze, his wings hadn't been retracted yet.
"...all of them are gone." He said to Fan Xing.
The platform was empty.It is like a white nail, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The place where they landed is the surface of the nail cap, a wide and invisible platform.
Clouds and mist gathered from all around, blurring the boundaries, making one feel as if they were in mid-air.Yu Zhou bowed his head, his feet were also covered by thin clouds, the clouds were cool and there was no temperature.
Everyone didn't dare to move around casually, An Liu returned to the form of dried fish, and followed Bai Chan to patrol the platform.Their figures gradually disappeared into the clouds.Liu Yingnian was scared and nervous, and shouted: "Dried fish!" The voice spread far away, buzzing and echoing among the clouds.
When Yu Zhou waited and yawned, Bai Chan and Yu Gan came back.The platform was empty, and all the cage masters who had lived here were gone.
"... ran away? Or hid?" Fan Xing asked, "Who are they? Bai Chan, you should tell us now, right?"
Yugan also chimed in: "Even if Fan Xing beat you, we are on the same side as you, don't make a mistake."
Fan Xing stared at the fish dryly.
The dazed Baichan finally let go and told them the shape and identity of the other five cage owners.
These five cage masters were the brothers and sisters who taught Fan Xing to eat people at that time.
Unlike White Toad and Fog Lamp, none of them got their names from Will.As soon as Bai Chan announced the ranking of these people, Fan Xing and An Liu immediately understood: "So it's them."
These children, like Bai Chan and Xiao Shi, have partly human forms, but mixed with other things, they cannot transform into complete human forms like Fan Xing.Because of this, he didn't get much love from the will.It was An Liu who took care of them since they were young, but because An Liu's attention was later shifted to Fan Xing, because of jealousy or other reasons, they gradually became estranged from An Liu.
According to Bai Chan, Yunwaitian is not like this.The seven cage masters each have their own territory in Yunwaitian, and they will dress up the territory as they are familiar with according to their preferences.Bai Chan has nothing to like, his territory is the empty platform and clouds, he always hides behind the clouds.
Adventurers who fall into the country of wandering clouds will randomly enter the territory of different cage owners, and it was Bai Chan's "birdcage" that Xiaoyou fell into at that time.Bai Chan remembered her, a girl with obvious burn marks on her appearance, but she still chose to keep her original appearance.At that time, there was another cage owner who came to play with Bai Chan. Both he and Bai Chan were surprised by Xiao You's choice. To confirm, he asked Xiao You three times: Are you sure?
At least at that time, the cage owners and Bai Chan were still very friendly.Before they reasonably attacked Baichan and threw him to Yunwaitian, Baichan didn't know that he would encounter betrayal and conspiracy.
"Did they go out?" Liu Yingnian asked, "Will they come back?"
No one can answer.
White Toad flew all the way, exhausted, his wings retracted on his back, and the black cracks on the skin on his back became more obvious.Seeing that he could barely sit upright, Fan Xing advised him to rest.Bai Chan lay directly on the ground and immediately fell asleep.
"...I'm so tired too." Yugan muttered, "I want to sleep too."
It landed on the chest of the white toad, spread its fins, lay on the black skin and closed its eyes to rest.
Everyone hesitated, and finally sat down on Yunwaitian's platform.They didn't dare to stay too far away from each other, for fear that the cage master would come back suddenly and be unable to deal with it.
Without a reference, the flow of time is difficult to perceive.Liu Yingnian asked everyone if they were hungry. He still had some dry food in his backpack, although it was not much.
"You haven't eaten much." Liu Yingnian said to Yu Zhou, "How about some?"
Yu Zhou shook his head.He is not hungry.In other words, he became less and less hungry.As his time in the "birdcage" increased, the hunger in his stomach gradually subsided.He suddenly remembered that Yugan once said that children in gaps actually don't need to eat.
A long-lost question came to mind.
The fresh and terrifying suffocation of sinking into the sea was revived.The subconscious chills made Yu Zhou shiver slightly.
Fan Xing sat beside him and opened one arm.Yu Zhou leaned into Fan Xing's arms, and he decided not to tell anyone about it.
Because of being too bored, Xu Qingyuan also lost interest in chatting with Liu Yingnian.Only the skeletons, who are not sleepy or hungry, can't bear the silence around them, muttering to themselves.
Liu Yingnian took back his notebook from Yu Zhou, put it on his lap, and began to write and record seriously.
The notes were neat, Liu Yingnian was surprisingly focused, and the bored skeleton leaned over to read.At first Liu Yingnian wanted to cover it to prevent it from being seen, but the skeleton suddenly met his eyes.
"You wrote this?" it asked.
Liu Yingnian: "Yes."
The skeleton was about to snatch the notebook, but Liu Yingnian quickly protected it: "What are you doing!"
The skeleton stopped his hand, and his finger bones were still scratching the edge of the notebook: "Comrade Liu Yingnian, let me see your records."
It was only then that Liu Yingnian remembered that if he really wanted to make a relationship, this skeleton could be regarded as his boss.He was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Comrade Ku, my handwriting is not good, what do you want to read, how about I tell you?"
"It's pretty." The skeleton murmured, "And it's very precious."
Liu Yingnian: "You think it's useful too?!"
He got excited, spread out his notebook, and explained to the skeleton a little bit about his experience from Foghorn Town to the present.
The skeleton watched and listened, relishing it, and asked some questions from time to time.
"I also brought the Abyss Diary to make these records. Unfortunately, after the diary is owned by the will, all the records on it will disappear." The skeleton said, "It should be hidden in the diary, and it is completely invisible at ordinary times."
Like a child waiting for his teacher to correct his homework, Liu Yingnian looked at the skeleton eagerly.
"Very good," said the skeleton, and then turned several pages forward, "How did you learn this language?"
What he was pointing at was the language that the two brothers used in the kingdom of Algar, which was specific to Yu Zhou's time and space.
No one in the small team could understand this strange language except Liu Yingnian.Skeleton became interested.
"Where did you learn it?" said the skeleton. "This language is very special. It was produced in a space-time split at a certain time point hundreds of years ago. I call it γ."
The skeleton wrote a few Greek letters in the air: "The original world we are in, I call it α, Alpha. The gap is the second time and space I arrived in, I call it β, Beta."
Liu Yingnian suddenly realized: "The third time and space is the time and space where special languages exist, Gama."
"Gama time and space are parallel to the time and space you are in, and it is absolutely impossible to cross. The only connection is the 'gap' we are in."
Liu Yingnian opened his eyes wide.
The skeleton continued: "As for why I know, because people who have Game time and space have fallen into the 'gap'. I have seen that person in the 'Birdcage', he is a teacher, he taught this special language to me and the will."
Liu Yingnian remembered at this time that Jiu Jiu came from another time and space, and Xu Qingyuan was not from the known alpha and gama time and space.How to name the endless time and space one by one?He couldn't think of an answer for the time being, so he gave up thinking and tried his best to keep up with the skeleton's train of thought.
"To test you, what are the characteristics of this language?" Skull asked.
Liu Yingnian replied: "It has 52 phonetic letters and 36 ideographic combinations. The letters are arranged in four corners to express different meanings."
The skeleton has no skin and cannot express emotions with expressions, but it shouted in shock: "You even know this!"
Liu Yingnian tightly grasped the skeleton's hand: "Comrade Ku, I learned this from, from "Ash Notes"!"
Skull: "...What is this? I haven't heard of it."
So Liu Yingnian talked about the mysterious adventurer who returned to reality from the "gap".
In fact, Liu Yingnian didn't know much. He was just an intern of the Investigation Bureau and had just started training.
The paper records brought back by the adventurers are called "Ash Notes" by the adventurers themselves.The interns can only touch the superficial part of Ashes' diary, which is about the existence of "gap" and will, the composition of "Birdcage", and a special language that only appeared in "Birdcage".
Liu Yingnian is not yet qualified to learn the deeper content.On the way to work, he has fallen into the "trap" and arrived at the "birdcage".
Xu Qingyuan was awakened by the noise, and sat beside him, yawning and listening.Yu Zhou and Fan Xing got bored enough, seeing the lively conversation here, they also moved over.
"How about you teach us how to learn this character?" Xu Qingyuan said.
Liu Yingnian pushed his glasses, he obviously liked this proposal very much.
"The pronunciation of the language is divided into sound, rhyme, and tone. In this language... the language of gama time and space, each phrase is arranged in four corners. The upper left is the tone, the lower left is the rhyme, the upper right is the tone, and the lower right is the meaning." He Start detailing.In order to let them understand, Liu Yingnian wrote down 52 phonetic letters in a notebook, and wrote out different ideographic combinations one by one.
"However, of the 36 ideographic combinations, I can only remember more than 20, and the rest are very rarely used. They are relatively rare usages. I... I forgot." Liu Yingnian scratched his hair.
Yu Zhou found that the threshold for learning this language was very low, and soon they learned how to write some meanings such as "hello" and "goodbye".
But Liu Yingnian didn't know how to read it aloud.He can only understand the literal meaning and cannot chant.
Because there is no way to record the recitation in the "Ash Chronicle", even the returning adventurers cannot read the meaning of each syllable.
"Here, there is a typo."
Suddenly, a voice came from behind everyone.
Bai Chan and Yu Gan woke up at some point.He stood behind Liu Yingnian and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but remind him.
"You can understand?!" Yugan was surprised, "Aren't you illiterate? You have never learned these things."
"I don't know, why." Bai Chan took Liu Yingnian's notebook, knelt down on the ground and corrected the parts that were not correct and perfect, "But now, I can understand these words."
Liu Yingnian: "Can you read?"
Bai Chan opened his mouth.Neither will he.
After revisions and adjustments, the monograms became more tidy.Bai Chan even wrote down the other dozen or so ideographic combinations that Liu Yingnian had forgotten.He wrote slowly and clumsily, like a child learning to write for the first time, but he wrote every letter without hesitation, and the memory had already taken root in his body.
This is not the memory of the fog lights.Like Bai Chan, Fog Lamp has never learned these things.
It is a residual impression of the will.In the tentacles swallowed by Bai Chan, a part of the memory of will was hidden.
But he can only write and cannot read aloud.
The skeleton carefully read everything written by Bai Chan, and finally nodded: "It's absolutely correct."
Bai Chan couldn't see the joy, this kind of praise was completely unimportant to him.Yu Zhou and Fan regained their interest, and they and Xu Qingyuan became the students of Skeletor and Liu Yingnian.
It was an extremely long day, Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan ate all the dry food, and Yunwaitian was still empty.
Yu Zhou and Fan Xing clumsily read out the syllables of the letters according to the pronunciation method taught by the skull, but they couldn't play the tongue well, and the vibration of the oral and nasal cavities didn't understand the trick.The skeleton couldn't do a demonstration in person, so he could only keep dancing: "Put the tongue flat against the gums on both sides, and flick the tip of the tongue very, very quickly, and pronounce... Oh, no, the speed of flicking must be fast."
Yu Zhou gave up.He lay on the platform: "I won't study anymore."
Fan Xing also lay down: "Stop studying."
The skeleton, who was completely disappointed with the two poor students, forcibly lay down between them: "I won't teach anymore."
Yu Zhou suddenly remembered something, and quickly asked Fan Xing: "Do you still remember what happened in the Kingdom of Alga?"
Fan Xing thought for a while: "Do you think it's strange why the aborigines in the 'Birdcage', including us adventurers, can understand Alga and Arthur even though they use a different language?"
The skeleton interjected: "The will likes this. Even though you speak different languages to each other, you can completely understand each other's words. If you and someone who has another language leave the 'cage' and enter the gap, you will find that, You and those people cannot communicate with each other while waiting to enter the next 'birdcage'."
Yu Zhou sat up: "Can only communicate inside the 'birdcage'? Why?"
Skeleton: "Will likes to observe human beings...any kind of human beings. It is full of curiosity about the way humans live and communicate. Without a language that can communicate, it is impossible for human beings to unite to deal with the cage master. A cage master Complete control, the 'birdcage' that adventurers cannot resist, is extremely boring to it."
Yu Zhou: "Then... it should already know that the fog lights are dead."
Skeleton: "Yes."
Yu Zhou: "Will she come to the Land of Wandering to see the situation?"
Skull: "I don't know. She doesn't like fog lights. But this fancy 'birdcage' should interest her."
Yu Zhou remembered that Will had indeed asked Fu Yuncong if he was interested in the upper "Birdcage".It is looking for a more reliable cage owner.
Fan Xing also jumped up: "The more we stay here doing nothing, the more dangerous it will be."
The skeleton suddenly asked Yu Zhou: "Where's the Diary of the Abyss? Any tips for the current predicament?"
Yu Zhou flipped out his notes.
Next to the text that recorded the mysterious words, a strange picture appeared.
The three of them kept switching directions to make judgments, until Yu Zhou raised his hand note away.The skeleton shouted: "Oh... this..."
On the paper was a completely disintegrated butterfly.
Suddenly, voices came from the direction of Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan.
It was Yugan who suddenly remembered something.
When the fog lamp died, Bai Chan said that because the seven "birdcages" were merging, this vast country of wandering clouds was jointly controlled and operated by the seven cage owners.As a result, the fog lamp died, but the "birdcage" she was in did not change much - it was the other cage owners who maintained the shape of the entire kingdom of wandering.
"Including you being thrown from the sky by them, but there is still no special change in your 'birdcage'." Yugan said, "In other words, your birdcage can also be managed by other cage owners. "
Bai Chan denied it: "I never, never let them touch, my territory."
Yugan: "Are you sure? It's the same now?"
Bai Chan fell silent.
The fog lamp died, Bai Chan was not in place, and only Bai Chan was the most likely to kill the fog lamp.And what Bai Chan values most is his "birdcage".
"It makes sense." Fan Xing interrupted, "If I were the other cage owners, I would definitely choose to operate on your 'birdcage' right now."
Bai Chan didn't even wait for the others, he endured the pain and spread his wings, jumped down from Yunwaitian, and flew towards the south.
The wings made of black bones have become more and more complete.
Liu Yingnian and Xu Qingyuan looked at Yu Zhou.Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Zhou turned his head and asked Yugan, "Have you rested yet?"
Yugan hesitated: "Are we really going?"
Yu Zhou: "...to meet them, you don't have to kill them."
Yugan: "Bai Chan will definitely do it."
It stopped talking, and rolled in the air like it was suffering. "...so sad, so sad." Gan Yu said in a low voice, "I took care of each of them. Every one of them."
Yu Zhou stood on the edge of Yunwaitian, he didn't jump down.He suddenly remembered something that has always puzzled him: the dried fish died once, the whip silk on his body disappeared, and it would not be traced by the will.Dried fish doesn't have to accompany them all the way here.
"You woke me up." Qian Yu swam to his side and replied, "I will help you to the end until I send you back to your sister."
Yu Zhou: "...Why?"
Yugan: "Just take it as if I am someone else's older brother."
Yu Zhou jumped up.Yunwaitian raised the roar of the giant beast, which was exactly the same as what he heard on the black ocean in Wujiao Town.
Huge fish skeletons broke out from the clouds.An Liu swings four thin fin bones, as if swimming freely in the ocean.
But it was not An Liu who caught Yu Zhou in the first place.
Fan Xing transformed into an inhuman form, spread out his huge white bone wings, and hugged Yu Zhou in his arms.
"What are you doing jumping off!" Yu Zhou shouted in the wind.
"I said, I'll dance with you!" Fan Xing laughed loudly, and landed on An Liu's back with Yu Zhou.
They headed for the last clean, peaceful birdcage in the south.
The shadow of Bai Chan appeared in the thick clouds.He didn't fly very high, and seemed to be a little short of strength.
Anliu was bigger than him, and his swimming speed was extremely fast, and he quickly caught up with Baichan.
Bai Chan motioned them to look down.
The wind picked up at some point, and the clouds and mist dissipated. "This is where the four-legged snake is." Bai Chan said, "Do you remember what the forest looked like back then?"
Although the forest is full of weird monsters and hidden dangers everywhere, at least at that time it still basically maintained the forest form: the trees were extremely tall, there were shrubs in the lower places, lichens, moss, and even streams.
Yu Zhou couldn't believe it: "This is actually..."
The forest has disappeared.The boundless mountains and forests they saw had all been replaced by dead wood and black earth.Fan Xing pulled Bai Chan back to An Liu's back, and An Liu flew lower, almost passing the top of the dead wood.
When they got closer, everyone could see clearly that there were swamps all over the ground, and weird faces and limbs were faintly exposed on dead wood and stones, just like the scene in the fog lamp birdcage was spreading endlessly.
Those four-legged snakes have naturally disappeared.Yu Zhou even saw a monster struggling in the muddy water in the center of a swamp.It roared like a dying person, and also like an angry beast, and half of its body had already dissolved in the swamp, assimilated with the black ground, and it was impossible to stand up no matter how hard it struggled.
Bai Chan clenched his fist tightly and said only one word: "Hurry up!"
At the end of the southern end of the Yunyou Kingdom, the forest still maintains a deep green color.
There was no wind, and the clouds became heavier and thicker. The thick cotton wadding that had absorbed water was pressed against the top of the forest, and the air was filled with a strange smell of burnt.
An Liu didn't land, it slowed down and slowly hovered over this once vibrant land.
It flew too low, too low, and there were birds passing by the sides of everyone's faces.Xu Qingyuan quickly took off his hat and grabbed one.The bird struggled in his hat, and suddenly opened its mouth to spit out a mouthful of thick juice at Xu Qingyuan.Xu Qingyuan dodged, and the thick juice fell on An Liu's back, instantly burning a gap.
On An Liu's trembling back, Xu Qingyuan stabilized his body and held up the bird to Fan Xing: "Do you still remember?"
The birds were about the size of ordinary sparrows, but their small heads were covered with blood-red eyes, and they blinked rapidly at this time, the dense crowd was disgusting.It seemed to be eroded and polluted by something, Xu Qingyuan let go, when it spread its wings to escape, there were still countless small red eyes hidden under the wings.
Of course Fan Xing still remembered: when he and Xu Qingyuan were patrolling the edge of the forest, they saw a bird with half its head eroded.
A flock of birds flapped their wings and flew by, each bird was polluted, eroded, and alienated just like the one Xu Qingyuan grabbed with his bare hands.
The ground was covered with black water, and the town was burned by fire, leaving only black ruins, and no one could be seen.
The green of the forest is also just a camouflage.Birds as big as human heads stood densely on the leafless branches, their dark green feathers rippling in the pale sun and breeze.The birds watched the intruder, silent and quiet.There is more than one head on their necks, and the shape of that head is hard to tell whether it is a bird or a human.
Liu Yingnian lay on An Liu's back and couldn't help shouting: "Xiaoyou!!!"
They yelled several times, and their voices kept echoing in the mountains, but there was no response.
The girl who had helped them disappeared.
The foot of the mountain where Bai Chan stayed for a long time when he was still a black dragon was completely bare.The strange thing is that all the black water flowing through this land will automatically detour, and An Liu falls on this relatively clean ground, panting and turning into dried fish, lying in Yu Zhou's hands.
"Maybe it's the traces you left that resisted the pollution." Fan Xing touched the ground, and the ground was slightly warmer. After touching it for a long time, his palms were a little hot.
After Bai Chan landed without saying a word, he suddenly knelt down on the ground.Tears streamed down his face, and he grasped the warm earth tightly with both hands.
The broken gasps gradually became meaningful words, and he kept saying: I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
He failed to entrust the black dragon to his "birdcage" and protect all the adventurers in the "birdcage".
The wind blows thick cotton-like dark clouds, and the long and short laughter can't tell the distance, and it is densely shrouded.The first drop of rain fell on Xu Qingyuan's hat with a sizzle.Liu Yingnian picked up his backpack and covered his head, Fan Xing protected Yu Zhou by his side, but the rain became more and more dense.
Bai Chan raised his head suddenly.His bluish-white eyes were reddish red, and Yugan lost his voice: "Bai Chan!"
There was a loud bang, as if something exploded from Bai Chan's body. He knelt on the ground, his hands and feet sank into the mud, and the wings on his back spread instantly, bigger than ever before.
The black fleshy film completely covered the bones, and the fleshy film on the edge of the wings trembled in the wind like broken pieces of cloth.The huge wings enveloped everyone around Bai Chan, and the rain was dense, but it evaporated immediately when it fell on the wings, so it couldn't affect the wings in the slightest.
Bai Chan didn't speak, he let out a beast-like roar, and rough scales gradually protruded from the black skin.Fan Xing rushed over to hug him, and shouted in his ear: "Bai Chan!"
The dark-skinned boy was stunned for a moment, and his blood-red eyes seemed to recover.
"It's me, and An Liu." Fan Xing said, "What are you doing? Control yourself!"
Bai Chan was trembling in his arms, tears were streaming from his red eyes: "I, I can't, let them erode you..."
"Don't be discouraged." Fan Xing said, "Don't forget, you are the owner of this 'birdcage'. If you lose control, no one can protect your territory."
Liu Yingnian plucked up the courage to interject, "We haven't found Xiaoyou yet, what if she's hiding, what if she's still waiting for us to rescue her?"
The word "Xiaoyou" brought Baichan back to his senses.
After he fell to the ground, people had a brief interest in him, but they quickly dispersed.A wounded, rotting, dying dragon is of no particular value.Some naughty animals even ran to peel off the scales on his black dragon, and the white toad trembled in pain in a coma, but he couldn't stop it.
Only Xiaoyou would visit him almost every day, clean up the bugs infesting the wound on his back, give him food, talk to him constantly, hold branches and sticks to confront the beasts, and protect the weird dragon behind him.The most important thing is that it was Xiaoyou who brought Fan Xing and the others to Baichan, giving Baichan a chance to recover, and giving Yu Zhou and others an important reminder to leave "Bird".
"Let's go find her." Yugan pulled himself together, "Bai Chan! Don't cry! I didn't even cry when a hole was burned in my back by the strange bird's saliva. Just learn from your brother."
Bai Chan stopped crying, but he didn't take back his wings.The wings protected everyone until the strange rain stopped completely.
The sky darkened almost instantly, as if the long days before had never existed.
Several cage owners did not show up, Bai Chan sniffed carefully, but did not smell their scent.It was rain and wind that covered up some traces.
They returned to where the town was.All the houses were burned down, and the ground was pitch black. Not only was there no sign of people, even animals were not seen.The lively and bustling scene in the past was like a dream. The big tree covered with apricots was burned into dry wood, and a jagged weapon poked out from the top of the wall.Yu Zhou saw that the unplugged TV that could play animation was burned into an empty shell, lying in the muddy rainwater.
There were only birds, big and small birds with green feathers and red eyes, perched on the branches and ruins, quietly watching the group of people.
The dried fish bared their teeth at them, and the birds flew up in fright, and the green-feathered bird let out a hoarse scream: Wow!Wow!
Being so calm, Xu Qingyuan was also taken aback: "This is... a human voice?!"
The humans in the town turned out to be these big green-feathered birds.Bai Chan walked a few steps, stopped a few steps, his anger was accumulating inch by inch.
"Come on, come on me!" Bai Chan ran to the center of the burned town, jumped onto the crumbling beam, and shouted, "Come find me! Come kill me! I ate the fog lights, and I ate... "
Fan Xing rushed forward and covered Bai Chan's mouth.
Before it was too late, the strange wind blew up again, and there were voices from far and near in the wind: Bad boy, it really is you.You are now the owner of two "birdcages", which is not right.
Yu Zhou and Yu Gan exchanged glances: Bai Chan's words made the other party mistakenly think that it was Bai Chan who replaced the fog lights.
The voice of the "bad boy" echoed continuously, interspersed with sneering whispers, and soon disappeared with the wind.
Fan Xing controlled Bai Chan: "Don't worry, if they dare to touch you, they don't have to go to such trouble, they will come here and get your 'birdcage'."
He pressed close to Bai Chan's ear and lowered his voice: "Have you found out? They don't know that I am the cage owner who replaced the fog lights. These people think you control the two 'bird cages', and they are afraid of you."
Bai Chan calmed down and followed Fan Xing back to the crowd.He hesitated, raised his head and asked Fan Xing for a while, "Tell me, what should we do now?"
This is the first time Bai Chan has shown such an attitude towards Fan Xing.Fan Xing was surprised and couldn't help laughing, rubbing his hair, the brotherly fire that was extinguished by Bai Chan staggered and burned again.He thought for a while and said, "Go find the survivors first. If they intend to hold you hostage, they will definitely use adventurers as hostages."
Everyone in groups of two, Baichan and Liu Yingnian, Skull and Xu Qingyuan, Fan Xing and Yu Zhou, Yugan, scattered to look for survivors.Starting from the town, they headed in three directions around them, and returned to the original place within a specified time.
As long as the day, the night was also disturbingly long.
The third collection, still no gains.
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