After the violent explosion on the Birthplace, it was not destroyed as Shana imagined. A guardian beast sprang up from the magma lake to block Alice's attack. The price was that the Guardian Beast didn't even have a bone left, and it was wiped out under Alice's attack. But taking advantage of this opportunity, the kings around the place of birth took action one after another, forcing Alice back. Shana squinted her eyes, and with a flick of the Azure War Spear in her hand, she turned into a rainbow and threw it towards the top of the mountain. When it fell, the gun flew out in all directions, like blue waves rolling, and several kings were all involved in the gun force. The gun rolled like blue waves, and the offensive continued like a rushing river. A moment later, a king was hit in the chest by the gun. The armor on the king's chest immediately sank, and a few blue fluorescent lights shot out from behind, and then the whole person flashed from the inside. There is a blue light, and the figure is scattered in the blue light.
Those floating blue lights reminded Shana of a kind of flower, a kind of blue flower that only grows in the crevices of the reef.
That kind of seaside flower will always remind her of someone.
"Shana, you are the guardian of my creation, and the first order I give you is not to commit suicide."
When she opened her eyes to see the world for the first time, her creator, the man named Taylor, said so to her. She couldn't understand: "I don't understand, the creator, why did you give me such an order? Suicide, according to the information I know, is an act of evasion and weakness, and I will not do this kind of behavior .”
Then the creator's eyes became softer, and there was even a trace of pity: "Shanna, you have just been born, and then you will be guarding the treasure house, and you will spend endless years. This may be too cruel for you Yes, but this is your mission. You still have a strong curiosity about everything now, for you, the world is endless, and the mysteries of the universe are difficult to explore even if you spend your whole life."
"But one day, you will get bored. The once magnificent sunrise, when it appears day after day, after a long time, you will feel that it is not so magnificent, or even too monotonous. You will be tired of this A long life, at that time, you may do things that I can't predict. That's why I have to give the first order here, you can't kill yourself, and you have to cherish your life, you can sacrifice, but Can only be sacrificed in one place... "
"I seem to understand, but I don't seem to understand." Shanna replied honestly.
"It's okay, you will understand in the future." Taylor said softly: "Shanna, I give you emotions, you know how to love and hate just like other creatures. In fact, if I remove your emotional system, it will be very difficult for you." It's better, but you have to live like a machine for countless years, I can't imagine what you will end up like. So I give you emotions to make your life more interesting."
"But Shanna, I have to remind you, don't try love lightly. Your endless years are a kind of pain for the other person who loves you, and it is hell for you. So you have to remember, never Don't try love...”
The corner of Shana's mouth curled up into a smile, and she pointed forward with the azure battle gun in her hand, and a large piece of blue light slapped away like a raging river, drowning several kings in it. In the blue light, she seemed to see that kind of flower again. The first time she saw that kind of flower, it was because of that man.
At that time, there was no empire of Balegon, and human beings lived a miserable life under the claws of the Shadow Principality. For Shana, she didn't have much emotion. She's more of a bystander, having spent decades in peace after creator Taylor left. During these times, the most she does is to travel around. I have seen the magnificence of the sunrise, the majesty of the mountains, and the majesty of the sea,
I have seen the infinity of Hirakawa. Eventually, she returned to the place where she was first born, and then she saw him.
a man.
For humans, Shanna always felt that they were too barbaric and rough. They lived no better than beasts under the enslavement of the Shadow Principality. Of course, Shanna had no intention of saving this race, even if humans were very similar to Taylor.
She just watched them, that's all.
And this day, a man was squatting on a rock by the sea. She walked over curiously, and saw that he was using tools to fill some soil into the crevice of the stone, and in the crevice of the stone, a small blue flower was swaying in the wind. It may not be so magnificent, but it grows by the sea and must withstand the consideration of the sun and waves, a kind of persistence and firmness to life arises spontaneously. She has seen too many magnificent scenes, but now looking at this little flower, Shana saw another kind of beauty.
The beauty of life.
"What is this?" she asked.
Apparently the man was unaware of her arrival, startled and almost fell into the water, if Shannah hadn't pulled him. That was also Shana's first contact with a man's body, even if it was just an arm. She couldn't explain the feeling clearly, she just felt it was complicated.
After the man stood firm, he forcefully squeezed out two words: "Qingtang."
"Qingtang?" Shana nodded, agreeing quite a bit, the name matches the flower very well. She asked again: "What are you doing?"
"Nurture..." At that time, human language was still very poor, and it was not easy to be able to say the word "nurture".
Next, one person continued his work, while the other watched intently from the side. After filling the cracks with the soil, a smile appeared on the man's face, just as the sun broke through the clouds on the sea and fell on his dark and rough face, which made his smile look so bright.
He left, she didn't.
Shana looked at the green tangerine plant by the sea, the waves beat against its delicate body from time to time, but every time it stood upright against the wind, unyielding.
The next day, the man came again, and he carried a small bucket with some dark things in it. When Shana saw him, he was filling the contents of the bucket into the crevices of the rocks. He told Shana that this was fertilizer, which could make the green tangerines grow better.
The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day... He will come every day. Sometimes I would come empty-handed, just quietly watching the green tangerine plant on the reef. Sometimes soil and manure are brought in and filled into the crevices to replace the soil washed away by the waves.
Finally one day, Shana asked him: "Why do you come to take care of this green tree every day?"
The man scratched his head and said, "Iss, I like it."
Essie is the man's wife, and to Shana's surprise, Essie is dead. It's just that she liked green tangerines very much when she was alive, so now this man would come to the beach every day to take care of a green tangerine. Shana saw love in this man, it was not vigorous, just like this green tangerine, plain and flat. But neither the sun nor the rain, nor the beating of the waves can erase its existence.
Then the man didn't come, and Shanna learned he was dead. She didn't feel sad, sighed, nothing, just felt a little bit lost. She went to look at the green tangerine plant every day instead of him, until one day, the green tangerine plant was washed away by the sea, and she never went to the beach again.
It has been many years since I saw a flower like Qingtang again. At that time, humans had expelled the Shadow Principality and established the empire of Balegon. It's just that the empire has just been established, there are only one or two big cities, and many places are just villages
. At that time, foreign races were very common in Balegon, so Shanna liked to sit in the taverns in those villages. For a while, she particularly liked a small tavern, where she still liked the home-brewed orange wine. Every time she went there, she would order a large glass and taste it slowly.
Once when she came to a tavern, just as she sat down, a cluster of blue flowers suddenly filled her eyes. It was a bouquet full of green tangerines, and holding the flowers was a young man, he was a little shy, and said softly: "Give it to you."
"How do you know that I like Qingtang?" Shana liked it very much.
The man said: "I see that every time you come, you will have a green tangerine in your hair."
"Oh, you watch carefully."
"I've been paying attention to you for a long time."
Shana smelled Qingtang. In fact, the scent of this flower is not strong, but has a fishy smell, so not many people like it. She smiled and asked the man: "Then what else do you know about me?"
"You like to drink orange wine, and you don't come two days a month, the seventh and the twentieth. You always have a drink and leave, no more, no less. You..."
"Stop." Shanna looked at him in surprise, "Why do you know so clearly?"
"because I like you."
That was the first time Shanna was confessed.
After that, every day when she came to the tavern, the man would give her a handful of green tangerines. Until one day, when he didn't come, Shanna asked the boss to find out that when he went to the beach to pick flowers, he accidentally broke his leg and was resting at home. So Shanna came to his home and saw him lying in bed, her heart melted suddenly.
Love comes for no reason.
She fell in love.
She took care of him until he recovered. He no longer went to the beach to pick flowers, because every day they would go to the beach together to look at the green tangerines. Day after day, year after year. He is getting old, she is still young.
In the end, he closed his eyes in her arms, and when he was dying, he said that he wanted to be a green tree in the next life, so that she could wear it in her hair forever and never separate. She cried, feeling sad for the first time, feeling helpless for her long life. She buried him by the sea and built a small monument facing the sea.
At that time, she thought of death. But the order given to her by the creator cannot be disobeyed, so she can only endure the heart-biting pain, and move forward hard, until all the sorrow is buried in the deepest part of her heart.
After that, she had several precious love affairs. But every love affair ends in tragedy. The person she loved died, leaving her alone to taste the pain. She wanted to die, but she couldn't.
The sky blue battle gun surged, drawing a magnificent blue belt, like a line of blue tide on the sea. Raising his head, many kings rushed over. Shana smiled, and the battle gun became brighter than ever before. She greeted countless kings, and softly said in a voice that she could only hear: "Now I can finally die."
(end of this chapter)