little cotton

Yu Ling once also attached to the birds in the mountains and secretly went to the sky, but that was different from human planes.

Birds can't fly so high. When they fly, the surrounding wind will be very strong. If she can't hold it firmly, she will be blown to other places.

It doesn't hurt, but it will float in mid-air for a long time.

With the wind, like a butterfly with broken wings, I can't help myself, but there is another kind of freedom.

At least before landing, you don't have to face everything you don't want to face.

Human planes are different, they fly high and stable, the outside wind cannot blow in, and there are heating and air conditioning inside.

Yu Ling sat by the window and looked out, the bottom is full of layers of white clouds, like a boat sailing on the sea of ​​clouds, the farthest line of sight, the boundary between the clouds and the sky seems to be inlaid with a faint golden edge.

The world is good, but she feels more and more that something is missing.

Yu Ling looked out the window in a daze, when the back of the seat was kicked suddenly, and a child's laughter sounded behind her.

The strange thoughts were suddenly brought back to reality, and Yu Ling looked back in a daze.

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't kick your legs, the aunt in front is resting, and it's disturbing others." The woman holding the child said softly, and the human cub, which seemed to be only four or five years old, quickly lowered her voice, yes Respond.

The woman smiled apologetically at Yu Ling: "I'm sorry."

"It's okay!" Yu Ling waved her hands, sat upright and glanced at Zhong Chuyun and Zhong Chutian beside her.

The two siblings are actually sleeping, the only difference is that one seems to be resting with eyes closed, while the other seems to be paralyzed to death, not in the slightest shape.

Are they really siblings?Except for looks, they really don't look alike.

As a younger brother, he didn't learn the slightest temperament from his elder sister.

Thinking like this, Yu Ling looked at Zhong Chuyun as if her eyes were stuck by something, and she couldn't move away for a long time.

Not long after, the flight attendant dressed in uniform brought lunch with a cart.

Seeing that Zhong Chuyun opened her eyes, Yu Ling quickly turned her head to look out the window, her fingers clenched her trouser legs unconsciously, feeling a little timid in her heart.

Zhong Chuyun slapped Zhong Chutian awake, and then reached out to take the lunch box for Yu Ling. Ignoring Zhong Chutian's complaints, he asked Yu Ling softly if he was full.

Yu Ling hugged the lunch box and nodded, then smiled at Zhong Chuyun with raised eyebrows.

In fact, she would definitely not be able to eat such a small box of lunch, but if she wanted to say that she was not full, Zhong Chuyun would give her some of it.

This fox is thin enough, Yu Ling hopes she can eat more.

After the plane landed, Zhong Chuyun drove the local rented car towards Xiquan Mountain.

Passing by the scenic spot where the tour group buried corpses in the previous news, Yu Ling still pulled Zhong Chuyun's sleeve and made the car stop there for a while.

The gate of the scenic spot has been locked, and the ticket office outside has been closed for a long time, and the window sills are covered with thick dust.

Yu Ling just stood outside, and already faintly sensed the strangeness hidden in the depths of the scenic spot.

It looks like a monster, but not exactly like it.

"It's resentment, the Demon Management Bureau and the Demon Catcher will deal with it, we can't control it." Zhong Chuyun said, turned and walked towards the car.

"Let's go cotton, it's all cameras, do you still want to sneak in?" Zhong Chutian said, looked down at the phone, and walked in the direction of the car.

Yu Ling pursed her lips, turned around and chased after him.

Yu Ling: "Is this resentment from the vine demon in the news? Why does it have resentment?"

Zhong Chutian: "Tengsheng is not going well."

Yu Ling: "The goblins in the city have no grievances, and they can't live smoothly all the time."

Zhong Chutian: "Illusion, the boss doesn't give me a salary increase, and I feel very resentful every day."

Yu Ling could tell that this guy was trying to perfunctory her.

She bit her lip and stopped asking any more questions. She just sat in the co-pilot, stuffed a plum into her mouth, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The mountain road was difficult, the car was bumpy, Yu Ling was a little motion sick, and didn't sleep very well, but these were just trivial things.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but after the rented car got off the highway, the more it drove on the sparsely populated road, the more I could feel the faint resentment flowing in the distance.

"Is it almost there?" Yu Ling opened her eyes tiredly and asked in a low voice.

"Soon." Zhong Chuyun frowned slightly, his tone seemed a little heavy.

Yu Ling rubbed her eyes, leaned on the window and looked out.

In the mountains and forests in April, the dead trees have sprouted new branches. In the eyes of human beings, everything is so full of vitality.

But in the eyes of the goblin, she has lost a lot of aura, leaving only an indescribable depression.

Xiquan Mountain is not like this...

At least not before she left.

Did something happen in the mountains?

"No way, I thought the place where the legendary sacred tree grows is some kind of fairyland. It's such a ghostly place for a long time? Is it worth guarding and protecting those trees for generations?" Zhong Chutian in the back seat casually joked Said, "No wonder the cotton doesn't grow tall."

"It wasn't like this before!" Yu Ling frowned, turned around and gave Zhong Chutian a look.

"No way, something will happen if you're not here. Are you the patron saint of the Mu clan?" Although Zhong Chutian's words were not very pleasant, the expression of indifference could be put away on his face. A few points to look at.

Yu Ling didn't answer, Zhong Chuyun speeded up the car, and after about an hour and a half, the car stopped at the end of the "road".

In fact, as early as an hour ago, there was no "road".

At least in the eyes of human beings, the road to the mountain has long since disappeared, and the place where their car passed at this moment is just a barren mountain that has not been opened up in the eyes of human beings.

There is no road in Xiquan Mountain, if the Mu Clan didn't ask the Fox Clan to come to the mountain for help, they wouldn't deliberately open a road to allow vehicles to pass.

This road is hidden in the enchantment of Xiquan Mountain. If there is no spiritual talisman formed by the patriarch of the Mu clan with the power of the sacred tree, let alone ordinary people can't see it. It takes a lot of effort on the way.

At that time, the Yu family had presented several Wood Clan talismans to the Zhong family, and Yu Ling had also obtained one when he left the mountain.

They have already entered the boundary of Xiquan Mountain.

The protective barrier in the mountain has not been attacked, and there has not been any major damage, but the once unimpeded road has been completely blocked by falling rocks and broken logs.

The road was gone, and the looming resentment grew stronger.

"Isn't this the time that the Mu clan made an appointment?" Zhong Chutian opened the door and got off the car, looking at the mountains and forests in front of him, "Something really happened."

Yu Ling got out of the car with Zhong Chuyun in a daze.

She raised her eyes and looked around, but she didn't feel any spiritual breath from the monster clan in the mountain.

Not to mention the monster race, there was not even a single song of insects or birds.

The mountain seemed to be dead, except for the rustling of the grass and trees when the wind blows, it was silent again.

The barrier at the foot of the mountain has not been broken, and the trees in the mountain have not been cut down, but the mountain is already full of resentment.

In the end what happened……

Xiquan Mountain is protected by a sacred tree, so how can there be resentment?

Zhong Chutian leaned against the car door, looked at the top of the mountain and asked, "How do you say, are you still going up?"

"Go." Zhong Chuyun said, bowing slightly forward.

In the next second, a white aura suddenly appeared around her.

When the white light dissipated, it turned into a nine-tailed white fox, standing upright, with a height of two meters.

The instant familiarity made Yu Ling stunned.

The white fox looked down at Yu Ling: "Come up."

Yu Ling came back to her senses, quickly transformed into a demon body, jumped up with the wind, and grabbed the white fur of the fox's neck with a small leaf.

The nine-tailed white fox was running in the uninhabited deep mountains. Wherever it passed, the vegetation swayed, and there were gusts of wind and dust. The speed was as fast as driving on the highway.

The little cotton hugged the fur around the fox's neck tightly. The fox ran wildly and fast, and the wind that blew up along the way was so strong that it almost blew her away several times.

But this feeling was exactly the same as that period of time in her memory.

Once upon a time, there was such a fox who took him across the mountains and rivers, just to go to every strange distant place together.

Suddenly, Yu Ling seemed to hear the fox's laughter.

That fox is always smiling, whether it is running in the forest, playing by the river, or curled up with her under the gravel pile or in the cave in the mountain when the rain is wet.

As if, as long as there is one thing to be happy about in this world, that fox will never be discouraged.

Even if it's just pulling out a carrot.

Even if you just caught a small fish that wasn't enough for two people.

Even if it's just a small bonfire in the cold night.

She really likes to see her smile.

The way the fox curled its brows and eyes was very beautiful.

But why did many things that she had no memory of suddenly flashed in her mind.

At this moment, in the wind, in the grievances gradually rushing towards her from all around.

She seemed to have seen lightning and thunder, and saw herself lying in a pool of blood.

Seeing the fox holding her bloody and bloody in his arms with tears in his eyes, his cold fingertips lightly touched the center of her brow, as if he wanted to make some kind of unknown contract with her.

"Little Cotton, from now on, we will live together and die together. Don't leave anyone behind."

The oath was in their ears, and the fetters from the soul of fate bound them tightly.

This was supposed to be a promise of eternal life.

It's done, let your soul be my life.

For the rest of our lives, we will be tied together in life and death.

But why, why did we break up...

Are you lying to me?

are you……

Lied to me again?

"Little Cotton, I'm sorry..."

……

Suddenly a soft light appeared, and a layer of protective spiritual power appeared around the white fox, blocking all resentment from the spiritual light.

The chaotic thoughts were pulled back in just a moment.

Yu Ling gasped, as if a piece of her heart had been hollowed out, the more she tried to grab it, the more she couldn't touch anything.

She looked around in a daze.

The mountain is still that mountain, and the forest is still that forest.

It was Zhong Chuyun who led her to keep running, and behind her was another fox who always liked to tease her.

Little Cotton tried to calm herself down, climbed up to the fox's ear little by little, and whispered: "Zhong Chuyun..."

Zhong Chuyun: "I am here."

Yu Ling's little leaf hugged the fox's fur tightly: "I have a very strange feeling..."

Zhong Chuyun: "Don't be affected by resentment."

"Ah."

Yu Ling responded softly.

The sacred tree of the Mu clan grows in a vast river valley among the mountains, and all the demon spirits in the mountains live near the water around the valley.

The Yu family's old house was also built not far away there.

But for some reason, the mountain is full of resentment now, the closer to the river valley, the more obvious signs of resentment infestation around it.

There are still creatures in Xiquan Mountain.

Ordinary creatures who are constantly struggling in pain.

The ground is scarlet.

All the plants and trees seem to be "alive", no matter whether they are wise or not, they are "moving".

Whether it is birds or animals, they are entangled by vines and bitten by flowers and leaves.

Some had their fur punctured, leaving little room for struggle.

Some have died, and the dried blood has blackened the grass and trees that ate them inch by inch.

There are also some that have already turned into terrifying bones.

The flesh and blood have been corroded, only a pair of bones are left, lying quietly in this bloody place.

And the one who was still alive had blood red eyes.

Like a ghost, like a lost soul, wandering in this purgatory.

They looked at the "visitor" in front of them, and immediately showed their eyes as hunters.

But when he found that his strength was completely invincible, he looked for other prey as if he hadn't seen anything.

There was no extra emotion in his eyes.

"How could this be?"

"These guys have lost their souls, and they are no longer demons... Rather than saying that the mountain is full of resentment, it is better to say that this place is already a piece of magic land." Zhong Chutian said, smiling heartlessly, and asked , "Sister, does it look familiar?"

"It's all puppets." Zhong Chuyun said, running at full speed in the direction of the River Valley Sacred Tree.

The closer to the valley, the more you can see the blood-stained vegetation and vines everywhere, without a trace of life, but entrenched in this piece of pure land that once belonged to the Mu clan like insects and snakes.

The white nine-tailed spirit fox seems to be the only clean scenery in this scarlet mountain forest.

She ran all the way, and what she saw along the way was full of scenes of purgatory.

The pungent smell of blood made Yu Ling feel almost out of breath.

There shouldn't be such a scene in the world, Yu Ling has never seen such a treacherous situation.

But she had never seen it before, but she felt that the scenes in front of her were very familiar.

Familiar as if you have experienced it yourself.

The scene in front of her seemed to have caught her eyes before.

The only difference seemed to be the fox who was by his side at the moment.

Among the fragmentary pictures that flashed across her mind in a trance, there were no figures of Zhong Chuyun and Zhong Chutian at all.

Suddenly, everything in front of my eyes overlapped with the memory fragments in my mind.

"The sacred tree is gone." Zhong Chuyun's voice trembled slightly, his words were full of indescribable depression, as well as confusion and pain that Yu Ling had never heard before.

It seemed that he finally found something very important, but lost it overnight.

Yu Ling jumped on top of the fox's head, and saw the sacred tree in the distance that had guarded the Mu clan for thousands of years.

It is clearly the spring day when all things are revived. The huge tree crown that once covered the sky and the sun is now blown by the wind, and the dead leaves are all over the ground.

The good wishes made by the wood demon spirits were all hung high on the dead branches along with the blood-stained broken spirit sticks, swaying in the bloody wind.

Terrible resentment—no, it should be said to be demonic energy, along every dead branch, along the intertwined roots of dead trees, seeping into the ground, and seeping into every valley and forest where the roots of ancient trees can reach.

The pure land in the mountains that used to be full of aura, now has the roots of the towering ancient trees all over the valley, and the unknown resentment has been replaced by a blood-colored resentment.

The Yu family is gone.

The relatives and clansmen she once feared or resented have all turned into demon bodies and withered to death in the prison-like old house.

The rest, only the body polluted by the devil energy, is still "alive" just like the soulless puppets encountered along the way.

The old house with dilapidated walls and tiles tells the story of the withered vegetation that should have struggled hard when their lives and souls were still alive.

But the sudden change still made them unable to keep here.

Yu Ling's feet landed on the ground, staring blankly at everything in front of her eyes, her eyes gradually turned red with tears.

It hurts, my head hurts like it's about to burst.

All the memories seemed to fall into thousands of fragments at that moment.

"Cotton, are you okay?"

"Yu Ling?" Zhong Chuyun transformed into a human form, and supported Yu Ling.

"I..." Yu Ling opened her mouth, but found that her throat seemed to be strangled, unable to speak a word.

She remembered that no one on Xiquan Mountain was nice to her.

She remembered that she was living too hard, so she secretly destroyed the demon pill and ended her life without light.

She remembered that Xiquan Mountain in that life had always been the pure land where the Mu clan and all the monster spirits in the mountain lived.

But why, everything in front of her eyes is also in her memory.

In a daze, she seemed to hear the piercing wailing in her ears and the desperate pleas for help that night when the Yu family's old house was eroded by demonic energy.

She ran in that burst of despair, all the clansmen were being eroded by the devilish energy, and their blood and soul were pulled out of their bodies inch by inch.

The fire below the mountain burned up.

That was the final "clearance plan" made by the demon race and humans outside.

All the creatures in the mountains have been demonized, there is no need to save them, there is no way to save them.

No one can help her, and she can't help anyone.

If she wanted to die like those clansmen, and continue her life like a walking corpse, she would rather throw herself into the sea of ​​fire and be annihilated by the wind.

For the last time, with her back facing the raging flames down the mountain, she turned around and glanced at the huge ancient tree.

"Aren't you going to protect us?"

On its dead branches, there are so many demon spirits' wishes. For thousands of years, as long as the wind blows gently, it will tremble and dance like a butterfly.

It has clearly guarded this place for so many years, but why was everyone abandoned overnight?

——Shouldn’t I ask you this question?

A voice that came from nowhere invaded her sea of ​​consciousness like a ghost.

"ask me……"

But she doesn't know anything.

……

No, messed up.

It wasn't like this, in that life, it wasn't like this!

When the whole world seemed to be plunged into darkness, Yu Ling stretched out her hand in panic, trying to find someone to rely on.

Someone grabbed her fingertips, bit by bit, and squeezed her hand upwards.

The moment the darkness dissipated, she heard the voice in her memory.

"Are you... a god?"

The voice asked softly, and the words were full of surprise and doubt.

The cold fingertips lightly touched her body that was trying to curl up.

She raised her head, and her eyes were red for a moment.

It's Lin Shuang, her fox!

How much she wanted to jump into the embrace of that memory, but found that she had no strength in her body.

……

She saw Lin Shuang running with herself, from one place to another.

She asked Lin Shuang why she kept running like this.

she doesn't like...

So tired, so tired, no place to settle down?

Lin Shuang thought for a long time, and a forced smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"There will be, there will be," she said.

The sky is big and the earth is big, there is always a place that the demons can't catch up to.

"Heavenly Demon... what is that?"

"The grievances gathered in the world have merged into a formless and formless terrifying force. When it has its own consciousness, it will become a demon that wreaks havoc on the world."

Lin Shuang said that if no one can stop it, the world will be devastated.

"But who can stop it?"

"I have no idea……"

Lin Shuang fell into a long silence.

She couldn't answer this question, she just quietly looked at the little Mianmian with clear eyes in front of her.

After a long time, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Let's survive first."

But that terrifying force seemed to be everywhere, following them closely.

They kept running away, as if they had no direction, but every step they took they could bump into the puppet of the demon.

Yu Ling didn't know anything outside Xiquan Mountain, she went from a strange place to another strange place.

The trust in her heart made her follow Lin Shuang without any distractions.

Until one day, she stepped on a battlefield where demonic energy remained and human bones were piled up everywhere, and she knew that Lin Shuang had been closely following in the footsteps of the demon.

The fox never thought of running away.

"You lied to me." Yu Ling's voice was low, without much blame, just curious, curious why Lin Shuang lied to herself.

"It took my sister's body, killed my parents, destroyed my homeland, and turned hundreds of foxes into puppets for it to drive and kill the world... Even if I gave up this life, I must drag it to be buried with it! "

She gritted her teeth, eyes full of madness.

Suppressing her deep hatred, she searched all the way to this place, vowing to die with the demon of that day.

Yu Ling asked her: "What if burning jade and stone together is a luxury?"

Lin Shuang's eyes were blood red, and he quietly stared at the little demon in front of him for a long time.

At the end, just say one sentence: "You go."

Her eyes were like dead ashes, without any desire for life.

Maybe for her, if she doesn't have the ability to take revenge, she might as well just die like this and get clean.

"You brought me here just to say goodbye to me, and then let me watch you hit the stone with a pebble?"

Lin Shuang couldn't help but smiled bitterly.

She said, "I thought you were useful too, but that was just a thought, wasn't it?"

Yu Ling asked her, "What do you mean?"

Lin Shuang raised his eyes to look at the gray sky above his head, and suddenly sat on the blood-stained wasteland, folded his knees, and told a story with absent-minded eyes.

Once upon a time, there was a fox.

She was born with a noble status, a gentle elder sister who loves her parents, and a well-behaved and sensible younger brother.

Suddenly one day, my sister's temperament changed drastically, and she was as strong as her parents, and there was nothing she could do about it.

The heavenly demon came to the world, and her body was her sister.

The whole world she owned collapsed overnight.

On the day when the demon alienated the entire fox clan, she escaped from the fox clan under the cover of her parents.

She ran away desperately, escaped desperately.

When they stopped, all they heard was the sad news from the fox clan that was spread among the various clans in the demon world.

In this way, the hatred defeated the fear in her heart inch by inch.

She hides and looks at the warring world.

She tried her best to prevent more Yaozu from being infected by the power of the demon.

But she couldn't stop the demon from demonizing the world.

Until one day, she accidentally learned of a forbidden technique.

With this method, the soul can be sacrificed, awakening gods and demons, and making a pact with them.

It's just that powerful power will inevitably bring corresponding backlash. Even if there is a blood contract as a contract, if you want to manipulate gods and demons, you still have to sacrifice everything, even your soul will be scattered, and you will never enter the cycle of reincarnation.

She has made all the preparations, as long as she can destroy the Heavenly Demon, even if she has to fall into purgatory forever, she is willing.

With tears in her eyes, Lin Shuanghong stared at the little demon beside her: "But why, it's you? Such a weak cotton flower."

"I really want to see what's so special about you who can be summoned by the forbidden technique..." Lin Shuang said, raising the corners of his lips, shaking his head, his smile was full of bitterness, "What am I looking forward to? You are just a little cotton flower."

"I can't help you, can I?"

"Perhaps I should be lucky, you are so weak, you don't have the ability to bite me back and hurt me... But if it wasn't you who appeared in the first place, all this would have ended long ago..."

……

It turned out that everything was not just a dream.

She has met a liar.

That liar was the only guy in the world who treated her well.

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The author has something to say:

I want to try a new way of writing this book, but it is not smooth, and I may not understand it for the time being, so don’t worry if you don’t understand it, just read it slowly.If you are really at a loss, you can try to fatten up for a while and then read it again. Anyway, this article is very short, and the context should be much clearer after it is finished.