Because she was too full during the day, Chu Qianxun woke herself up in the middle of the night for the first time. She rubbed her indigested stomach and got up to go to the bathroom.
There were lights on the corridors, lights on the stairs, and warm yellow lights all the way. Ye Peitian's bedroom was brightly lit.
Chu Qianxun rubbed his eyes and walked over. Ye Peitian had a white bandage wrapped around his body and a coat draped over his shoulders. He was leaning on the head of the bed and reading a book intently.
His bed was covered with quilts and pillows that Chu Qianxun had bought, so he barely looked like he was living there.
Chu Qianxun looked at her watch, it was four in the morning. The man seemed to have no intention of sleeping at all.
"Why are you still not sleeping?" Chu Qianxun knocked on the door lightly.
The man raised his head to look at her. He could no longer see any scars on his face, his eyebrows were clean and refreshing, and the dark circles under his eyes had disappeared because of the sufficient sleep in the past two days.
Because of his strong recovery ability, he stayed up late into the night with his injuries, and he still looked in good spirits. Chu Qianxun didn't know how he stayed up late every day to leave such thick dark circles under his eyes.
Chu Qianxun knew that Ye Peitian was afraid of the dark. He was once locked in a dark warehouse and was forced to stay with a ferocious monster for three months, thus suffering from a severe phobia of darkness. He was afraid of being alone in the dark, of falling asleep in the dark.
But she didn't expect this person to be so sleepless day and night to spend every night.
Ye Peitian closed the book and did not speak.
"You are still wounded, you should rest more." Chu Qianxun sat down beside his bed and picked up the book he just put down, "Go to sleep, I'll be here with you for a while."
"One hundred years of solitude" is a lonely and lonely book.
She raised her hand, and a slight whirlwind swept through, extinguishing several lights in the house and hallway.
The light in the room softened, Chu Qianxun turned the pages of the book, sat on the edge of Ye Peitian's bed and read the passages in the book.
"We are walking on this ancient journey of life, running through ups and downs, nirvana in setbacks, full of sorrows, and pain floating all over the place. We are tired, but we can't stop; we suffer, but we can't avoid it. . . . "
Outside the huge window, the sky is high, and the stars are shining in the sky, watching everything in the world forever.
The late night in the desert was very silent, Chu Qianxun's soft reading voice accompanied the wind in the depths of the desert, and scattered away.
Ye Peitian slowly lay down in the warm quilt. The quilt was soft and comfortable and wrapped around his body, giving him a sense of happiness being taken care of.
He didn't know when he relaxed little by little and fell asleep.
In the dream, he was standing in a boundless desert, and the endless darkness came from the edge of the desert, quickly infiltrating the silver-white sand grains, and attacking his feet.
He retreated all the way until he reached the edge of the steep cliff. The other side of the cliff was full of soft white flowers. The bright petals swayed gently in the breeze. The man was sitting among the flowers, flipping a book. Lang read the volume aloud, her voice was like a winter spring like a spring stream, touching the heart.
There was a strong desire in Ye Peitian's heart, eager to come to her side, but there was a huge and bottomless gap between them.
He could only stand at the very edge of the cliff, looking at the man's lowered eyebrows from a distance.
Look up and look at me, if she'll give me a look, I'll just jump off here.
He thought so in a dream.
"All the splendor that has been in life, it turns out that in the end, it needs to be repaid with loneliness." The man bowed his head and smiled, and slowly read the words in the book.
The darkness spread to Ye Peitian's feet, climbed up his body along his unavoidable legs, and covered his face.
Ye Peitian woke up from the dream.
It was already dawn, and Chu Qianxun fell asleep sitting beside his bed. She leaned her head against the bedside cabinet, and slept soundly, with the book turned over and spread out on her lap.
Ye Peitian stared at her sleeping face, and then landed on her palm again.
Her hand rested on the page, revealing a line of words from the page, "Only by washing away the mist in my heart with water, will glory illuminate the original dream."
Ye Peitian stared at the hand for a long time, and the words in front of the finger. The finger was very slender and well-proportioned, but it was covered with all kinds of old and new scars that should not be there. Ye Peitian stretched out his hand and carefully surrounded the small palm. He was so close that he could almost feel the temperature from the other party's skin, but he never held it.
Am I really qualified to hold such a hand
He closed his eyes and retracted his palm.
Not too far from the castle, there is a small oasis with a bend of clear water surrounded by sparse bushes.
Early in the morning, Chu Qianxun carried two buckets to the lake to fetch water.
She had been living here for several days without knowing it. Ye Peitian's injury was already too good, but this man's cooking skills were too superb, and he could cook in different ways every day, which made Chu Qianxun salivate. feet of meals. Chu Qianxun, who had been eating chaff for five years in the Wasteland Era, couldn't stand the temptation, and couldn't help but stay day after day.
Every day she said to herself, this is the last day, and she must go back to her home tomorrow. But the next morning, when the smell from the kitchen woke her up from her sleep, she couldn't help but find a reason to stay for another day.
Every night, the man would sit in the room and wait for her with a restrained expectation, so she made a habit of going to his bedside to read a book to him aloud before going to bed, until she watched him fall asleep.
"It's not good to be lazy like this." Chu Qianxun looked at himself in the lake water, and washed his face with the cold lake water.
The sparse low shrubs surround the lake, and the edge of the lake is abruptly crossed by a damaged viaduct. Most of the bridge columns are deeply buried in the yellow sand, and only a small section of the road eroded by the yellow sand is exposed, and those inserted on both sides of the road. Rusty street lights show that this uninhabited desert area was once a densely populated living area during the Golden Age.
This is the only water source within a radius of dozens of miles, and many wild animals in the desert came to the lake in the early morning.
There are foxes that probe their brains, there are huge camels, and there are even a few wild wolves.
They are not afraid of Chu Qianxun, and of course Chu Qianxun is not afraid of them, she is even excited to catch a fox or two back and add some meat to today's lunch.
She lives in Ye Peitian's castle. She nominally wants to take care of the seriously injured friend, but Ye Peitian is very diligent. Not only does she arrange three meals, but even the hygiene of the entire castle can be easily cleaned up by using supernatural powers. .
As a result, Chu Qianxun, who was embarrassed, could only do small things such as fetching water and buying vegetables.
After the advent of the Demon Seed, the number of humans on the planet dropped sharply, and the highly industrialized civilization was destroyed overnight, but the entire planet was well restored. Wild animals that were rarely seen before are now easy to find in the wild. If it weren't for the terrifying monsters that can be seen everywhere, with the current population, it would not be too difficult to live by gathering and hunting.
There was a slight footstep on the opposite side of the lake, and a young man in armor and a longbow came out of the bushes.
Chu Qianxun and him looked at each other, each with a wary look in their eyes.
On the high ground not far away, the Yellow Sand Emperor stood quietly following him. When he saw an unfamiliar enemy suddenly appear in front of Chu Qianxun, his face darkened and his palms clenched tightly in the air.
"How can there be a woman in such a place, hello, are you that devilish woman?" The young and immature warrior spoke.
The yellow sand, who was about to attack the young warrior, turned around on the ground in time because of these words, and collapsed into the sand.
"What did you say? I'm a villager in the Balang base. Of course, I came here to hunt and get water." Chu Qianxun spent five years in the wasteland era, and he developed a knack for talking nonsense. "But I've never seen you before, where did you come from?"
"Do the villagers of Balang dare to come to the desert?" The young man was fooled by Chu Qianxun, and he started to follow Chu Qianxun's train of thought, "This is the residence of the demon Ye Peitian, don't you? Aren't you afraid of offending that Huangsha Emperor?"
"We're not afraid of him. You don't know if you don't live here. Although Ye Peitian is known as a demon, he doesn't actually kill ordinary people." The arm behind him has carefully grasped the hilt of the knife, "This man often comes to our town to buy things, and every time he gives the Demon Seed more than others. The people who live in the town are used to him."
"Oh? Is that really the case? How did I hear that he was a demon who killed without blinking an eye." The young warrior scratched his head, "In that case, do you know where Ye Peitian's castle is?"
"The residence of the demons is very dangerous, and I don't dare to go there. I heard that the location of the castle changes from time to time, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find it." Chu Qianxun said with a smile, "You went to the desert alone to find the demons. What does the castle do?"