little cotton

Pain is the only sensation that penetrates the whole body like an electric current at the moment when consciousness is restored.

The eyes seemed to have been burned, sticky and difficult to open.

The three souls and seven souls like Xu suddenly grew wildly outward like weeds, as if they would pull away at any time.

Every thread and strand swaggered along with the violent beating of the heart, tearing apart the body that bound him tightly like a cage with every inch.

Like thousands of ants biting the bones, I wish I could hollow out all the limbs...

In a daze, it seemed that someone was holding her hand, or just holding her cold and thin fingertips, running in the thunderstorm night.

"I will protect you."

Her voice was so soft, yet so firm.

He was so determined that he could risk his life, and when the despair came, he used all his strength to protect her in his arms.

It was the whitest and softest warmth, embracing the cold winter in my heart.

But slowly dissipated without a trace.

……

The tall and ancient trees with intertwined roots have been rooted here for thousands of years like a day, covering the sky and the sun. Day and night, they watch the Xiquan Mountain Yaozu pass on from generation to generation.

Under the shade of the trees, the slowly flowing spiritual power is like the setting sun passing through the light smoke, the wordless spiritual sticks hanging on thousands of branches resound with the wind, and the chirping of insects and birds is full of vitality.

According to legend, there are gods in the tree species, who will protect the children and grandchildren of the Mu family.

The girl kneeling under the tree stared blankly, and tears rolled in her eyes suddenly and without warning.

"It's like someone owes her day by day, and I don't know who I want to cry for."

"We are here to pray, what does she do?"

"It's really unlucky for her to cry under the sacred tree on such an important day today."

"Let's go, let's go, the dinner party is about to start, if we don't go, it will be too late..."

The woman who left was still cursing and complaining about something, and as the voice faded away, the girl's memory gradually became clearer.

She shouldn't be here.

In other words, she didn't want to appear here.

Her name is Yu Ling, and she is the most insignificant and most despised cotton flower, an illegitimate daughter under the elder son of the old Mu clan patriarch.

Maybe it was because of her status, or maybe it was because she was born weak, no one in the Yu family thought highly of her.

After her mother left, she was even more helpless. She even stood in front of her father as if she was in debt, and she didn't know how to face the disgust and rejection in his eyes.

In that life, she worked as a cow and a horse in this family, experienced too many unshielded verbal humiliation, and endured too much malice from her peers when the elders turned a blind eye. She was so humble that everyone could step on her. kick.

That pair of extremely thin body due to lack of food, always wears loose clothes that my sisters don't want, and under the ill-fitting clothes, there are always redness or bruises hidden.

She thought that all of this had already ended with a certain day's inability to think about it.

After that, she went to another world and met a fox named Lin Shuang who was kind to her for some unknown reason.

She thought she was nothing, weak and pathetic, destined not to be cared about by anyone.

It was the fox who told her that she deserved all the good and would be treated with sincerity.

With great difficulty, she let go of all the haze of the past, and followed that fox to live a life of love, protection, food and clothing, and a free life.

But the good times didn't last long, and in less than a hundred years, God struck a thunderbolt, which sent her back to her terrible past life without any reason.

Yu Ling thought, there is probably no more tragic story in this world.

The images of memory and reality overlap at this moment.

She stretched out her hand and wiped away her own tears that belonged to that life, wiped away her blurry vision just now, looked down at the wordless spiritual sign clutched in her palm, and this day in that life came to mind. A wish made by a tree.

——I hope that after the coming-of-age ceremony, I can be gradually accepted by everyone.

She remembered that scene just now, or this day in her memory, even though it has been so long, it is still branded in her heart.

Today is her coming-of-age ceremony.

The goblin comes of age at the age of [-]. On such a special day, parents, relatives or brothers and sisters should hold a coming-of-age ceremony to wish the grown-up child a smooth and safe future.

In the Yu family, in the Mu clan, or in the Xiquan mountain where the demon spirits gather, all the children of the monster clan have such a day.

Yu Ling once thought that she would have it too.

But she waited under the sacred tree for a whole day, until the twilight engulfed the sky, until the sky shone again, until her eyes were bloodshot, until she missed the day, and she didn't wait until anyone remembered her existence.

In the early morning of the second day, she staggered home with red eyes, only waiting for her was her half-brother Yu Tang who cursed and kicked mercilessly.

And all of this is just because, this morning, she didn't provide him with warm water for washing in time, yet she still dared to cry in front of him.

Every day and night after that, she was still the same as before, the child who could be trampled on by anyone.Then, after so many years, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I simply ended the life that was not needed by others.

To be honest, more than 100 years have passed, and Yu Ling has lived again without any worries. Many people and things in this world are no longer important to her.

She kind of forgot what kind of thoughts she had at the beginning, and hung this spirit lotus on the sacred tree that protects the whole family.

Anyway, this time, she didn't want to ask this "god" who had never cared about her.

Yu Ling stood up, condensed a faint white light on her fingertips, crushed the prayer stick, turned around and followed her memory to the house she had lived in for a long time.

It was a half-cleared utility room in the corner of the Yu family mansion, without a single window in it, and the vacant space was so crowded that only a wooden bed could be placed, and a low table with a limping foot was low. Stool, a wooden box packed with clothes and sundries.

Yu Ling felt that it was necessary for her to leave this "home", and subconsciously wanted to come back and pack her luggage.

But when I returned to this bedroom again, I realized that I really had nothing. Even if I took off the sheets and packed everything except the wooden bed, table and chairs, it would not be too heavy for me to carry on my back. .

Where should I go when I am penniless?

As the sky was getting dark, she sat on a small bench and meditated for a while.

On the day of my coming-of-age ceremony, that is, today, a fairy from the city came to Xiquan Mountain.

She didn't know the identity of this monster and why it came, but the whole Zhimu clan and even all the goblins in Xiquan Mountain regarded him as a distinguished guest.

In her memory, she knelt under the sacred tree for a day and a night, and when she was disheartened the next day, she happened to hear the news that the distinguished guest had left.

The Leprechaun of the Town...

This reminded her of the old bristlegrass butler with a gray beard in Yu's house.

Just before she decided to escape from the mortal world in her last life, she could still see the housekeeper standing on the top of the mountain from time to time, repeatedly chanting to some little demons who couldn't transform into human shapes well.

He said, if it weren't for those humans who built tall buildings outside the mountains to cut down too many mountains and forests, the Yaozu would not have declined to this point.

He said that it seemed like only a hundred years ago, but the outside world seemed to have changed, like purgatory, without any vitality.

He also said that Xiquan Mountain was the last pure land of the Mu clan, and that if humans dared to drive those "iron bulls" with claws over, he would try his best to drive them away for the children.

But later, some tribesmen really went outside, and when they came back, they had big yellow curly hair and beautiful clothes they brought back from outside.

Outside the mountain is a big human city.

I heard that those humans who don't know magic can live a good life.

They can take various means of transportation that are faster than flying birds, they can communicate with others at will through a small mobile phone thousands of miles away, and they also have iron boxes that can visualize images without consuming spiritual energy. And a lot of delicious things, nice clothes.

After hearing this, the old butler shook his head again and again, with disgust in his eyes and mouth.

But the goblins who have been to the city are envied by everyone, and the goblins in the mountains are also longing for the outside world.

If it weren't for the special enchantment in the mountain, those who are not strong enough will get lost in it, and can't find the way out of the mountain at all. I don't know how many goblins know that there are more rules and less freedom in the outside world, and they will leave here.

If not, go to town!

If you can't find your way, just follow that honored guest secretly, and you will definitely be able to get out!

Thinking this way, Yu Ling got up and ran towards the place she shouldn't have gone.

……

In Yu Ling's memory, there has never been a day as lively as this in this very old house.

That's right, her grandfather, the head of the Mu clan, specially held a banquet in the house for that distinguished guest today.

All of a sudden, hundreds of demon spirits in the mountains gathered inside and outside the Yu family's old house.

Except for the goblins who can transform into a complete human form for a long time, there are also flowers that suddenly protrude from the walls and roofs, and the little insects and birds that can't stop wandering around the lace are all little goblins who come here to join in the fun.

The spiritual breath here tonight is so messy, no one cares about Yu Ling's arrival, just like no one cares about her not coming in the previous life, she who should have a coming-of-age ceremony today, has always been an existence that no one cares about.

If she hadn't come to take a look, she wouldn't have believed that her coming-of-age ceremony was such a lively day—even though all the excitement had nothing to do with her.

I don't know where that distinguished guest is, what his identity is, and why the patriarch of the dignified Mu clan pays so much attention to it...

Yu Ling is small and thin, and can easily move through the crowd walking back and forth.

In order to save unnecessary trouble, she purposely lowered her sense of existence, which was already too low, quietly hid in the crowd, and quietly bypassed the butler's sight, found a quiet corner, and returned to a dream. A small cotton flower hung itself high and looked around.

In the next second, she felt a sudden contraction of her heart.

Not far away, she saw several cousins ​​dressed up in costumes, and her older brother Yu Tang who was always the most contemptuous of her, always a "little bastard".

But that wasn't enough to attract her attention.

What really caught Yu Ling's attention was the "guest" surrounded by them.

It was a woman with silver-white long hair and a terribly attractive face, but her brows were slightly cold. The smoky blue gauze dress on her body seemed to be cut from the clouds and mist in the sky. From the inside to the outside, there is a kind of coldness that rejects people thousands of miles away.

Whether it's the silver hair, the indifference in the eyebrows, or the unseen attire, this distinguished guest is very strange to Yu Ling.

But she definitely knows this face!

That is Lin Shuang, that fox who treats her meticulously!

……

Yu Ling hesitated for a long time, the dinner was over, the plates were removed, and the butler imagined a lot of broom-sized bristlegrass. While closing her eyes and resting her mind, she cleaned up the messy lobby. She still didn't dare to confirm her judgment .

Because she learned the identity of that honored guest—the current patriarch of the fox clan, Zhong Chuyun, a nine-tailed fox.

The name doesn't match, the hair color doesn't match, the feeling doesn't match...

But for some reason, she just had a little luck.

What if?

What if the fox who was so kind to him was struck by that thunder just like him?

This is not impossible!

Thinking like this, she secretly followed up from a distance, and seeing that Zhong Chuyun was arranged in a guest room, she also turned into a cotton flower, floated faintly to the roof, opened her small leaves and hugged herself silently.

She leaned against the tiles under her body, blowing the cool autumn wind, looking at the slightly cold moonlight in the sky, unconsciously dazed.

The sweet-scented osmanthus in the courtyard is in full bloom, filling the tranquility of the courtyard at night.

The birds dispersed, leaving only the intermittent chirping of insects.

I don't know if it's because the goblin under the bricks and tiles happened to have the same face as Lin Shuang, so this old house that has made her struggle to survive for more than 500 years suddenly feels reassuring.

But should she knock on that door?

If I really misunderstood the fox, would I be very disappointed?

She couldn't think of an answer to these questions, so she could only curl up quietly on the roof, continuing to hesitate and struggle.

Suddenly, there was the creaking sound of the wooden door being pushed open under the eaves.

Candlelight came out from the room, illuminating that thin figure on the ground.

Zhong Chuyun walked out slowly, and finally stood under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the courtyard, looking up at the moonlight in the sky slightly as if in thought.

Yu Ling looked at those thin backs with some puzzlement, and for some reason, an impulse surged in her heart.

She floated to the ground, transformed into a human form, boldly, tiptoed forward, reached out and gently grabbed Zhong Chuyun's thin sleeve like a cloud gauze.

"No one treats me well here, I don't want to stay here, and I have nowhere to go, can you take me away?"

Yu Ling's voice was a little unsteady, just like her little hand at the moment, trembling slightly out of her control.

Zhong Chuyun looked at her with lowered eyebrows, and she also raised her head slightly, her bright eyes like Xing'er were full of expectation.

But those beautiful eyes seemed to be shrouded in a cold mist, making it impossible to see the bottom.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, Zhong Chuyun's face remained unchanged, only his thin lips opened and closed, and he said a ruthless answer in an indifferent tone.

"No."

"Ugh..."

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It has been more than [-] years since the catastrophe broke out, and the ground is no longer suitable for human survival.

As the current captain of the No.13 mercenary team, Chai Yuening has performed countless employment missions to the ground since she was a child. She never thought that one day she would be able to rescue a human being who was not registered in the underground base from the high-risk area. girl.

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Soon, she discovered a problem.

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