The colors in my memory are a bit blurry, but the fragmented pictures are very clear and profound.
Like breaking through the fog and seeing a ray of truth, the tenderness covered by the long agony became exceptionally clear.
Nie Shen could vaguely understand why he had doubts and questions about injustice.
- It is probably because of having such a memory that after being torn apart from tenderness and safety, and discovering the reality of this world, such doubts arise.
If you were born in the most chaotic place from the very beginning, you would naturally accept the rules there, so why would you have such doubts
There is such a thought because he once had a very different kind of tenderness.
It was just too painful afterwards.
It's too painful to be relieved.
So he chose to forget the past little bits and hide them under layers of long and thick blood, as if he had never owned them.
Nie Shen stared at the forest under the cliff.
The mountains and forests are steaming with mist, and the real scene is looming in the pale white mist, like a soft back covered in white mist in memory.
Lin Mu ate the melon and followed Nie Shen's gaze to where he could see. After a while, he asked, "Like Mengze?"
Nie Shen was startled, looked at Lin Mu, and frowned slightly: "You know?"
"?" Lin Mu was a little puzzled, "We all know that, we checked your information."
Hearing what he said, Nie Shen was a little stunned: "What information do I have?"
"It's nothing about you." Lin Mu replied, "The main reason is to find out your mother. If we didn't find her by accident, we wouldn't know you still exist."
"...My mother?" Nie Shen repeated subconsciously, and the next second he felt a little dazed and painful. After a long time, he calmed down and asked, "My mother... Who is it?"
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Lin Mu stopped digging the flesh of the melon, then turned to look at Nie Shen, stunned.
The two half-demon looked at each other for a long while, and Lin Mu finally realized that over the years, the memories that Nie Shen had buried with his own hands were probably far more than a tiny bit.
Lin Mu thought for a while and said, "I don't know how much you remember, but your mother's name is Mirage, and it seems that she was named after her own race. From what I understand, she should be a mirage. Nice monster."
To be precise, Lin Mu felt that the mirage should be a very gentle monster.
Because Luanfeng recorded what she knew about the mirage, there were traces of warmth everywhere.
In that document, Luanfeng painted a picture of Mengze himself.
In the misty waters and forests, every corner is so beautiful that it can be called a fairyland.
There are very few monsters that can stay in Mengze, all of them are of mild temperament and do not like to fight, and the rest are mostly ordinary animals.
For the Great Wilderness, Mengze is a paradise without any struggle or contradiction.
The owner of Mengze is willing to bless the weak monsters who come in from nowhere, and will not drive them out until they show their aggression.
She is also willing to accept some monsters who are piously begging to meet with friends and relatives who have died.
Put those monsters into Mengze, accept the so-called tributes that are of no use to her, and let them go out contentedly.
"She must be a good monster."
Even in the Great Wilderness, she is definitely the most benevolent and kind.
Lin Mu thought so.
Nie Shen listened to Lin Mu quietly, watched the mist under the cliff in silence for a long time, lowered his head and dug out a spoonful of melon flesh and put it in his mouth.
The sweet and greasy moisture exploded in the mouth.
He narrowed his eyes and said vaguely, "I don't remember."
He thought about it carefully for a long time.
He remembered the back figure who was dressed in white mist and walked in the water, and after a while in a trance, he said, "I remember her."
Lin Mu nodded: "I will always remember it slowly."
Nie Shen lowered his head to eat the melon.
The two half-demon silently finished eating the melon, put it aside, and a few wisps of mist came over and took away the skin of the melon.
"Ask you something." Lin Mu said, looking at the disappearing melon rind.
Nie Shen tilted his head to look at him.
"About the power of Emperor Wu, because Emperor Wu stripped its grievances to power, what was wrong when you brought it with you?" Lin Mu asked, "Do you remember?"
Nie Shen was stunned for a while, his brows were slightly closed and he thought for a while, and said uncertainly, "He... wants to come to the Central Plains, probably."
Lin Mu was taken aback: "How do you say?"
"He's looking for something—there's nothing in the Great Wilderness." Nie Shen said a little evasive and uncertain, "He told me that the Heavenly Emperor paid more attention to the Central Plains, and he also told me the location of the passage between the Central Plains and the Great Wilderness."
Lin Mu remembered what he said when he first met Nie Shen: I heard that the Emperor of Heaven attaches great importance to the Central Plains.
In the state before Nie Shen, the source of this "heard" itself is very doubtful.
Lin Mu was still pondering what was going on, so he heard Nie Shen say again: "But because it was too obvious to bring him, I threw him down and came here."
"… "
here you go!
After Lin Mu got this answer, he couldn't think of anything to come up with. After writing it down, he decided to leave it to the elders to ponder.
He patted his butt and got up, ready to continue doing statistics with the little girl behind him.
Seeing that Nie Shen is in a good state now, and nothing will happen, he is relieved.
Nie Shen looked up at him, then stood up: "What are you going to do?"
"Work." Lin Mu explained the job a little, glanced at the dense fog in the mountains and forests, and asked, "You are like this, do you know what happened in the mountains?"
Nie Shen shook his head: "If you don't pay attention, you won't know."
Lin Mu thought for a while, and opened the file he brought, ready to ask Nie Shen to do a favor and greet the little girl who was hiding on the side.
Nie Shen glanced at the little girl and saw that her neck shrank and she hid behind the forest.
Nie Shen asked, "Why did you bring humans here?"
Lin Mu sighed: "It needs to be supervised, and you can't let the monsters do it unilaterally. What if the data is faked?"
He was used to Nie Shen's disdain for weak human beings, but he had to feel wronged for the little girl.
"You should look for the mountain god." Nie Shen said.
Lin Mu shook his head: "The Mountain God is very timid, so he only meets Yan Xuanjing."
In fact, there are others, but they are all well-behaved and harmless little monsters, and the Mountain God likes to play cards with them.
But since there are more and more monsters coming from the Great Wilderness, and the mountain gods are in a turmoil, the mountain gods don't appear in front of others. , to suppress those monsters who are trying to make trouble.
Nie Shen had just returned for two days, and he didn't know what the situation was, so he just helped Lin Mu to check.
The little girl stood aside, looked at this and then at that. After holding back, she couldn't hold back, and whispered, "Confirming death is to collect evidence of death."
Lin Mu and Nie Shen were stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the little girl: "How to collect the death evidence?"
"Wreck, soul or eyewitness." The little girl said rigorously.
Nie Shen tilted his head slightly: "The monsters in the Great Wilderness will not leave wreckage and souls, and neither will the witnesses."
The little girl was stunned: "Why?"
"Because the flesh and soul of other living beings are actually food for monsters." Lin Mu explained, "The same is true for witnesses."
The so-called eyewitnesses are those who witnessed the incident but had nothing to do with it.
But in the eyes of the monsters of the Great Wilderness, witnesses are impossible.
"Basically, there will be none. They will hide and watch the whole process. Either they are going to pick up a cheap oriole, or they are caught by the powerful one of the two competing sides and can't run away."
The little girl's face turned pale when she heard the words, she pursed her lips and didn't know what to say.
In fact, it was fine in the past, it was never cruel to this level before.
But in the mountain peaks of Qingyao Mountain, there are now a large number of monsters, and nine out of ten are from the Great Wilderness.
They were driven out of their homes because they were weak and had no choice but to go to the Central Plains.
In the Great Wilderness, they were considered a very weak group, but when they came to the Central Plains, they were the wolves, tigers and leopards that fell into the flock.
It's not that they are powerful, but that they are far more ferocious and bloody than the monsters who grew up in the Central Plains.
Although the monsters in the Central Plains don't pay much attention to the moral rules of human beings, it is still better to fight the monsters that grew up in the wild.
Otherwise, the mountain god would not be anxious like a spinning top, for fear that a stronger monster would make trouble and blow up the top of a mountain or something would be a matter of moving your fingers.
"But not necessarily."
Lin Mu looked around and said, "There are no witnesses of monsters, there should be many who are not monsters."
Linmu refers to those plants and trees that have given birth to spiritual wisdom but have not yet become demons.
The little ginseng had brought him to recognize it, and Lin Mu turned around and walked forward while thinking about it.
The little girl followed behind him and took steps. Nie Shen looked at the backs of the two of them, and his eyes finally fell on the little girl.
This human was unexpectedly alert, as if eyes had grown on his back, tightened the backpack on his back, and took a few steps to the edge of the forest.
It's like a chick following her mother's ass trying to find a sense of security - but she is too timid to even take the initiative to make a sound.
Nie Shen stared blankly for a while, then raised his heels.
Lin Mu turned his head and glanced at Nie Shen, who was walking slowly behind them, and said, "Don't scare people."
Nie Shen responded with a dispensable response, withdrew his gaze, caught up with Lin Mu in a few steps, and said, "Let's talk about my mother."
"I don't know much either." Lin Mu was a little helpless, "You might as well ask Yan Xuanjing—but I think Yan Xuanjing doesn't know much either. You might as well consider looking for Luan Feng who recorded the mirage."
Nie Shen felt reasonable: "What about Luanfeng's news?"
"I'll go back and check for you." Lin Mujue solved it very easily, "This record is here, she must have been to the Central Plains and had contact with this place."
Just as Nie Shen was about to nod his head, he caught a glimpse of the little girl who had been following them so nervously that her eyes were round and round. The phone screen in her hand had just turned off, and her face was still a little anxious.
Nie Shen squinted his eyes slightly, his figure suddenly dissipated, and he merged with the surrounding fog.
But after he disappeared, the little girl's nervousness didn't ease much.
Nie Shen withdrew his gaze, hid in the fog, and followed them.
Noticing that her sight was gone, the little girl breathed a sigh of relief, raised her hand and pinched her earlobe and tried to relax. After a while, she came to the edge of the wood and asked in a low voice, "That... what you just said Luanfeng, what is it?"
Lin Mu replied, "It's a kind of monster."
"What are you investigating her for?" she asked.
"Nothing..."
As soon as Lin Muhua started, Nie Shen suddenly appeared beside the little girl, put his hand on the other's shoulder, held her down, took out the phone in her hand, and asked in a low voice, "What are you and Luanfeng? relation?"
Lin Mu was stunned for a moment, and let out a short question: "What?"
Nie Shen put the phone in Lin Mu, Lin Mu glanced at it, and found that he was on a call, and the note displayed above was "Mom".
The little girl obviously did not expect such a situation. She was stunned for two seconds. She shrank the hand holding the phone and looked up at Nie Shen who was holding her shoulder. Woo cry out.