Nie Shen did not expect that he would have a chance to survive.
He opened his eyes from the long and murky chaos, looked around at himself, and found that the white mist that was supposed to be as light as a veil had turned gray, revealing an ominous aura.
—It is resentment, but it has become extremely thin.
He raised his head and saw a few verdant green leaves close at hand, emitting a weak light in a dark night.
Some are like poplars, but the leaves are much larger, and occasionally you can see the bright yellow flowers.
Nie Shen looked around in a trance, his emotions unexpectedly calm.
He vaguely remembered the days when he had spent all these years with grievances, until it became chaotic, and he didn't know if he was still himself, so he finally fell asleep slowly.
He received all the cause and effect of resentment, and when he woke up at the beginning of the day, he couldn't tell who he really was.
He opened his eyes in a daze, and after a long time, he realized that he was separated from the outside world by several layers of thick membranes.
Those diaphragms are full of cracks, and at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, they become a whole body, and there is no trace.
Nie Shen raised his hand and gently pushed the diaphragm in front of him.
Then his whole world shook slightly, making a crisp "ding bell" sound, like the sound of wind chimes.
"… "
what.
is locked up.
Nie Shen had such a realization in a trance.
He slowly retracted his hand, wandered around in the small world of the photo, and after a while, he remembered that someone once said to him—
[Go out from the west city of Qingqiu, and go six hundred li to the south, there is a place called Dixiu Valley. If you have nowhere to go, go there.]
Nie Shen was confused for a long time, staring blankly at the branch hanging from him. The calm lake in his heart seemed to be lightly tapped by a dragonfly.
This is Dixiu Valley.
He is not dead.
He actually came here.
Nie Shen couldn't remember exactly what happened in the last time, but he knew that the resentment was so thin now, it must be because he had been placed beside Dixiu's body for many years.
But now there is no one but him in Dixiu Valley.
Di Xiu's body is here, quietly coiled in this vibrant valley, with the ding-dong of running water, the whispering of grass and trees, and the gentleness that swayed him when the wind swept gently.
But Dixiu's spirit is not here.
Nie Shen was lying in this small world, separated by layers of diaphragms and green leaves, he could see a few stars that leaked out when the wind came.
The sun and moon in the great wilderness are false.
The light of the sun and the moon first fell to the Central Plains, and then the Central Plains entered the Great Wilderness.
The Great Wilderness during the day is not as bright as the day in the Central Plains. The sky is always covered with a layer of light red fog. Behind the fog, a fireball burns violently.
Rihua has fallen into all parts of the Great Wilderness, and the Great Wilderness has grown into a richness that cannot be found in the Central Plains - the flowers are fragrant, the spiritual energy is abundant, and there are opportunities to create miracles of life everywhere.
It was only when the reddish mist was burnt out that the blue sky could be glimpsed for a few moments before nightfall.
The azure faded, the silk cloth of the sky was soaked with black, and countless streamers of moonlight fell in from the central plains, nourishing the world of the Great Wilderness over and over again, giving the many creatures within it the conditions to survive.
Nie Shen looked at the stream of light in the sky, and countless moonflowers fell into the valley, together with the gleaming Dixiu tree, like a romantic summer night where fireflies gather.
He waited quietly, in a daze, after watching countless day and night cycles, he still remembered a lot.
There are also places that are not covered with a light red sky.
He remembers Luan Feng saying that the sky in Mengze will always be beautiful blue and light turquoise.
It's like a color soaked in by mountains and rivers.
But that was after his father strayed into the Great Wilderness and rushed into Mengze in a panic.
Before that, Mirage had never cared about the color of Mengze's sky.
Luan Feng had never met Nie Shen's father, and only heard a few words from Mirage.
Nie Shen's father died before he was born, because his body was not good, and he couldn't adapt to the strong spiritual energy of the Great Wilderness, and he left after a while.
Before he died, a rather wonderful world was woven into the mirage.
He said that the sky should be blue, that there should be a ferry in this water, and there should be cranes and herons.
He said that the water is too quiet, and there should be thousands of birds and beasts to be lively.
So the mirage covered the sky of Mengze with blue, got a ferry and a boat in the water, and protected many unnecessary creatures.
She is the only big demon who can be called "kindness" in the Great Wilderness.
She doesn't go out, but she is also willing to accept guys who break into the dream.
She turned Mengze into the "Peach Garden" in the mouth of the human man, thinking that if the fate is not finished, in the long time to come, there will always be a human who can weave wonderful dreams and stories, and rush into Mengze in a hurry. come here.
It's a pity that she didn't wait, and even the child she cared for couldn't grow up safely as she wished.
Nie Shen recalled something from his childhood.
His mother's time with him cannot be said to be short.
It's just that they, a race that can be called a miracle, grow too slowly, almost as slow as those sacred trees.
Hundreds of years later, he still looks like a little boy who is jumping around behind his mother.
In his memory, his mother once said softly and helplessly that he did not want to grow up, but at that time he had never seen the world outside Mengze, and he was always close to his mother, and he had no idea why he wanted to grow up.
With a mother, why grow up
He always said that in memory.
And his mother always took him into her arms and said there was nothing wrong.
With her around, it's okay not to grow up.
and after
Afterwards, Nie Shen always skipped over subconsciously, unwilling to recall it any more.
It was not a pleasant memory, and even now, he has no intention of digging it up again.
The day was rubbed with black marks again.
The wind brought a little noise, and it seemed especially noisy when it fell into the ears.
Nie Shen woke up from his memory and turned to look in the direction of the voice.
The wind chimes slammed lightly and made a few crisp sounds.
The two monsters who stepped into the valley from the outside were stunned, and one of them shoved the big bag in his hand into the arms of the figure next to him, and ran over quickly.
Standing under the tree, he raised his head and asked, "Are you awake?"
Nie Shen looked at the figure under the tree, and after thinking for a long time, he recalled the other person's name: "Lin Mu."
"it's me."
Little Dixiu under the tree showed a smiling face, with the same sweet pear vortex as in the memory, and the memories surging following his voice followed one after another, all of which made him relaxed and happy.
He heard Lin Mu say, "You have been sleeping for more than seven hundred years."
Nie Shen was startled.
He looked at Lin Mu and turned his head, and asked the Emperor Xiu, who had not changed at all for hundreds of years, if Nie Shen could release it.
Di Xiu was still in that genial look, and while controlling his body to take down the small wind chimes that had been hanging on the branches for hundreds of years, he said, "The grievances have almost disappeared. In the future, I will do more good deeds to accumulate merit."
He easily opened the block in his hand, watched the gray weapon inside run out, and slowly and jerky turned into a human shape.
"Should I tell Yan Xuanjing and the others about this?" Lin Mu asked.
Dixiu nodded and took out something that Nie Shen didn't know, as if he was going to inform the nine-tailed fox.
Lin Mu didn't change much from the appearance in his memory, and the most obvious place was probably the demonic energy on his body.
It's already too strong to be a half-demon.
Even a half-demon, like him, is blessed and loved by the heavens and the earth, and still has much better luck than many ordinary monsters.
Lin Mu stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him, and asked him, "Would you like to go out and have a look? The Great Wilderness has changed a lot."
Nie Shen paused: "Change?"
"Yes, you may be shocked." Lin Mu said, stretched out his hand, and took Nie Shen to the top of the nearby hill in the next instant.
Looking out, there are strange buildings and a continuous sea of flowers.
There are black dots flying around in the sky in the distance, and scattered figures can be seen in the sea of flowers.
Nie Shen was stunned for a long time, then pointed to the figures in the sea of flowers: "Humans?"
"Yes." Lin Mu nodded, "Now that the existence of monsters is no longer taboo, neither is the half-demon."
Nie Shen stared dumbfoundedly at the way a group of monsters and humans coexisted harmoniously below, opened his mouth, and closed it again, his whole person was full of confusion.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because during the seven hundred years you have been sleeping, human beings have already broken into the universe." Lin Mu simply sat down on the top of the mountain.
At the beginning, I just wanted to make the infrastructure of the Great Wilderness keep up with humans—at least the conditions of enjoyment should keep up.
As a result, few of the monsters in the Great Wilderness could look upon human civilization, and they only involved Qingqiu Kingdom and a few well-connected big monster forces.
These forces developed extremely fast in the first two hundred years, and countless weak monsters who were trying to survive poured in, making these forces have to expand their territory wildly in order to accommodate such monsters.
At first, he was ridiculed wildly, because in the great wasteland, there were as many little monsters as there were, and no one would consider blessing these useless guys.
Not to mention giving these little monsters benefits to stimulate their growth.
In the eyes of Dahuang's monsters, this is no different from raising a gu and killing himself.
But several forces headed by Qingqiu Country don't care. After tasting the sweetness of popular education and welfare feedback, they just want to make a fortune in silence.
Many borderlands were divided and incorporated by them, and among the little monsters in the territory, there were several potential big monsters who stood out after they had resources.
When the other forces reacted, the forces led by Qingqiu Kingdom had created several loyal and loyal demons for more than two hundred years, and they had lost the ability to compete with them.
And then what made their scalp tingle was that humans also broke through.
They broke the cage of the planet and completely stepped into the cosmic era. Only then did the monsters in the great wilderness come back to their senses and realize that human beings are not much weaker than them.
Although human beings are still weak like an ant that can be pinched to death, they have weapons, armor, and vehicles that can instantly cross the stars.
There is also a brain that makes the monsters feel ashamed.
The initial stage of mankind's entry into the universe was quite chaotic, but after it was stabilized, it encountered many other intelligent life forms.
Those beings are born in strange shapes, and their abilities and talents are also strange, and they have all kinds of appearances.
So monsters are not uncommon.
Mixed blood is not uncommon.
"Later, I went to discuss with Yan Xuanjing on the human side, and prepared to open the Great Wilderness to the outside world..." Lin Mu muttered, "The result was a fight."
Nie Shen slept deeply for seven hundred years. In the first two hundred years, they developed quietly, in the middle two hundred years they expanded in an open and fair manner, and in the next three hundred years, they entered a total war for two hundred years.
For the vast majority of monsters, the Great Wilderness is the only place where they can still survive openly.
They will never leave the Great Wilderness in their entire lives, nor will they come into contact with more outside worlds.
Not to mention how human beings have developed, it would be good to have one out of ten thousand monsters that the entire wasteland would care about.
But some big monsters who have been in contact with the outside world are very clear.
Humans have entered the age of the universe and have possessed many monsters in their lifetimes—things that can’t be possessed by hundreds or thousands of years.
But many monsters don't understand.
In their eyes, humans are still objects that can be pinched to death casually.
Even if you step into the sea of stars, human beings are very weak.
So it started.
From the results, it was the open side that won.
A hundred years have passed since then, and the Great Wilderness has opened its doors generously.
Many interstellar products flowed into the wilderness, and all kinds of weapons that could kill the middle-level monsters in one blow slapped the opponent's face more swollen than a steamed bun.
After all, big monsters are still in the minority.
There are only fourteen big monsters with names that have appeared in the past seven hundred years, and this is already considered a very powerful probability.
The mediocre and ordinary monsters are the real majority.
And to give a human baby a weapon, only one button is needed, and most of the monsters will be wiped out in an instant.
So the monsters no longer dared to object.
- Of course they don't think that closing the door will make everything fine, the universe is vast, who knows if there will be any weapons that can tear apart space.
"In addition to humans, there are many aliens." Lin Mu pointed to the little black spots flying around, "You have to learn a lot of things again."
"..." Nie Shen looked at the buildings in the distance and pursed his lips.
Lin Mu turned his head to look at him: "What's wrong?"
"Where's Mengze?" Nie Shen asked, "My...my mother's Mengze, is it still there?"
"Yes, we enclosed Mengze in the territory and kept it for you." Lin Mu asked after finishing speaking, "Do you want to go and see?"
Nie Shen nodded.
So Lin Mu stood on the top of the mountain and shouted, and after telling Dixiu where he was going, he pulled Nie Shen and jumped down the mountain directly.
Nie Shen was led by Lin Mu, crossed the sea of flowers, and walked into what he thought was a town.
But Lin Mu told him that this was not a town.
"This is my father's haunted house." Lin Mu said, "If you are brave, you can even play in it for a month before coming out, to ensure excitement."
Lin Mu pointed to another group of gorgeous buildings in the distance: "There is the free exchange opened by Yan Gui."
"There is a fluffy paradise over there. All the workers are fluffy monsters and aliens. They are very popular."
"There is the Great Wilderness Lingzhi Expo Hall."
"that is… "
"… "
Lin Mu rambled about the buildings along the way, and when he arrived at the now deserted Mengze, he said, "Mengze is what we left to you, you can use it for whatever you want."
It was not the first time for Nie Shen to face such a strange world.
When he first went to the Central Plains, he was full of doubts as he is now.
But there was no one with him at that time.
He glanced at Lin Mu, and his eyes fell on the original Mengze.
Thousands of years have passed since he left and came back now.
Mengze's fog dissipated, and Mizuze also disappeared.
The grass is overgrown here, and there is no trace of the beauty in the memory, and there is no smell left by the mirage.
Nie Shen stood in this lush wasteland with a look of bewilderment on his face.
"You don't have to decide what to do soon." Lin Mu simply found a stone and sat down, took out two packets of small snacks from the gauze bag he carried with him, and said, "You can think about it slowly, don't worry, first Have a snack."
Nie Shen tilted his head to look at him with a stunned face, glanced at the package of fancy snacks, thought about it, and imitated Lin Mu, sat on the ground, and tore open the snack bag.
He slowly took a piece of dried meat out of the snack bag, took a bite, and couldn't tell what kind of meat it was.
But he didn't mean to ask, he just looked at this flat wasteland with grass and grass, and said, "I don't know this place anymore."
Lin Mu thought it was normal: "It's been so long, and this is your home, and it's not easy for us to clean up, so it's normal to be like this."
Nie thought for a while and thought so too.
Then he looked even more blankly at the land in front of him that was not even "Ze", and didn't know what he was obsessed with.
Everything in this world is like that.
Pushed by time, even if you don’t want to change, it will always change as people want.
Rivers will dry up.
Plants will wither.
Life will pass away.
Wind, frost, rain and dew will eventually become memories covered with layers of heavy filters.
The resentment that had trapped him so far was almost dissipated, and he had enough to vent.
and then
Then he should make atonement.
After the atonement
He never knew what he should do to survive.
The mother is gone, Mengze is gone, and the object of hatred is gone.
Nie Shen slowly finished the small snacks in his hand, and then held the bag for a while, making a sizzling sound.
After a while, Nie Shen turned to look at Lin Mu and said, "I don't know what to do."
"Ah." Lin Mu was stunned for two seconds with the meat in his mouth, "If you don't know what to do, just do what your mother did."
This kind of confusion Lin Mu understands, he has experienced it himself.
When his mother just left, he was left alone, and he didn't know what to do or what to do.
All my previous efforts were to make my mother live a better and happier life. When my mother was gone, the whole person became flustered.
Nie Shen was probably a little more at a loss than he was.
"You should have remembered a lot of things, right? Recall what your mother has done, or what you want to do, and insist on living. As long as people live, happiness and joy will come sooner or later."
Lin Mu has become unusually open-minded in these years: "People who are always fond of the past cannot have a future."
No matter whether you hold grudges or pity yourself, most of them are things that will stumble on your current self.
Lin Mu lay lazily on the slate basking in the sun, looking at the sky covered with light red mist above his head, and said, "I've been very busy recently, I haven't seen a blue sky for a long time."
Nie Shen heard the words and clasped his fingers lightly, and the light red mist in the sky quickly faded away, leaving behind a clear blue sky.
"..." Lin Mu turned to look at Nie Shen, turned over and got up, patted off the grass clippings on his body, "I'll find a construction team to help you get rid of the grass here, and then you can do it yourself."
Nie Shen watched Lin Mu walk away, carefully put away the snack bag in his hand, and turned his head to step into the home with weeds.
After more than a thousand years.
Above the Mengze that had been dry for a long time in the great wilderness, a moist and soft mist once again floated up.