After this dive, the dragon soared into the sky again. Lu Yinbing's tears fell from the sky. After an unknown amount of time, the dragon loosened its claws when it was flying high in the sky again. Lu Yinbing experienced a sharp descent and fell heavily to the ground.
It doesn't hurt.
It was as unconscious as a truly dead body.
She couldn't move, her hands and feet didn't belong to her, ants crawled over her black eyes, gnawing at her eyeballs. Through the gaps between the ants, she saw that this was an ancient forest.
The trees were towering into the sky, and the climate was warm and humid. Of course, this was not what she felt, but the conclusion she came to after experiencing dozens of heavy rains in a month. During this period, the only ones who welcomed her were the scavenging insects in the forest, who climbed over the rotten leaves piled up on each other, diligently enjoying this feast day and night.
From winter to spring, from spring to autumn, regardless of the cold or heat. The scavenging insects quickly lost interest in her because she turned from a rotten corpse into a pile of worthless bones. Some insects would regard her bones as an adventure, and after several days of trekking, they would crawl from the toe bones to the skull and drill into the empty holes of the eye. Sometimes they would curiously bite her bones, but when they hit a wall, they would stop gnawing.
It was always raining in the forest, and the leaves from overhead were always falling. As winter turned to spring, a thick layer of rain covered her bones. The water flowed into her eyes and then flowed out, making her look as if she was crying.
Leaves and wet mud continued to pile up, burying Lu Yinbing's body underground.
Many, many years passed, and Lu Yinbing seemed to have had a long sleep. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a sunny day. She was placed in a transparent coffin. There were people around her, looking at her with fanatical eyes. The words that came out of their mouths were unfamiliar, but Lu Yinbing understood them all.
"This is the first complete human fossil from more than 100,000 years ago in the world."
"With this fossil, we can prove that ancient humans did exist and looked very similar to us. Look at her skeleton and long limbs. She must have been a great beauty when she was alive."
"Be careful. We need to take this back to the research institute for further study."
Lu Yinbing's eyes widened. If she still had eyes, what was hundreds of thousands of years? How long had she slept
If these researchers could hear the bones talking, they would probably have their ears busy all the way.
"Who are you?"
"Where are you taking me?"
"What year, month, and day is it now?"
"What exactly do you do?"
"Where's Xia Yitong?" Lu Yinbing blurted out the name without thinking. She felt a sudden severe pain at the place where her heart was originally located, and she fainted like a pile of bones.
Her bones were separated and studied one by one. After so many years, they were scattered. Scientists analyzed the past from her bones with reverence and enthusiasm. As a complete person in her lifetime, she still had a sense of shame.
"Hey, you guys, let me go!"
"Do you know what propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame are? Times are progressing, but where is the shamelessness of you people?"
"I'm going to self-destruct!"
A scientist studying the skull shuddered and said to his colleague next to him: "Why do I feel like this bone is glaring at me?"
My colleague asked, "Did you not sleep well last night and were daydreaming in broad daylight? Why didn't you say that someone was flirting with you?"
The original scientist rubbed his eyes and looked over again. The part where the eyes were originally on the head was empty, and there was a faint light flashing inside. He screamed "Ah" and ran behind his colleague, saying in horror: "She is really staring at me!"
Lu Yinbing: "Humph, I can't kill you with my glare."
Colleague: "That's enough. You can glare at her, what can that do? She's not going to jump up and hit you. It's just a head, what can you do? If you're afraid of this in our line of work, then you can't do it anymore. Go back to work."
No matter how Lu Yinbing glared at him, the other party was unfazed and started reciting the Diamond Sutra.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Finally, she was placed in a national history museum, with cold light without ultraviolet rays shining on her bones 24 hours a day for public display.
As tourists watched her day after day, she fell into a long sleep again.
One day, she woke up yawning and subconsciously wanted to stretch, but when she thought about her lack of body and inability to move her bones, she was too lazy to think about stretching. However, she felt something different underneath her body. Did the museum have a change of heart and let her sleep on a bed instead of sleeping in the hard display case
I have to thank the curator.
Eh? The person walking in front of me looks so familiar and friendly. Could this be the new curator? She is too young and pretty.
"Teacher Lu, you're awake." The man held a bowl of porridge in his hand and blew into it.
Teacher Lu? Who should I call
Xia Yitong looked into her confused eyes and said, "I woke up this morning and found that you had a fever. Are you feeling unwell anywhere else?"
Fever? When did the bones also have a fever
Xia Yitong put the bowl of porridge on the bedside table and touched her forehead: "Let me take a look... It's still a little hot, I'll get a thermometer. Forget it, let's eat the porridge first?"
Porridge? Is it the bowl of white stuff on the counter, with some green stuff sprinkled on it, which looks good. But if you feed a skeleton, aren't you afraid that everything will leak out
A sarcastic smile appeared on Lu Yinbing's lips, but unfortunately, as a skeleton, she couldn't express such emotions accurately.
"Let me feed you." Xia Yitong looked at her worriedly, scooped up a small spoonful of porridge and put it to her mouth. Lu Yinbing still maintained that extremely confident and mocking expression, opened her mouth and ate it.
Then Xia Yitong saw that her expression was as if she had seen a ghost.
Xia Yitong frowned deeply.
What's going on? How can she actually eat? Isn't she just a bone
Lu Yinbing looked down at herself. She was wearing a pure black silk pajamas, the neckline revealing her porcelain-white skin. Her hands randomly touched her arms, thighs, and face, which should have been free of a trace of flesh.
Not only was it there, it was also warm.
Lu Yinbing held her face and looked around in panic. It was a room dominated by gray tones, with simple decoration and the curtains wide open. The sunlight leaked in from outside, illuminating the ground with golden light.
The snow melted and the sun came out.
Xia Yitong looked at her strangely.
Lu Yinbing panted heavily, and his long-lost memories surged up like a tide, causing a dull pain in his temples. After looking around, he cast his gaze on her, and his confused look gradually turned into clarity: "Xia Yitong?"
Xia Yitong stepped forward and hugged her, resting his chin on top of her head: "It's me. What's wrong with you?"
"I had a dream." Lu Yinbing was sweating all over. He buried his face in her chest and swallowed hard before speaking, "I dreamed that I turned into a fossil and was exhibited in a museum for many, many years."
Xia Yitong laughed for a moment, hugged her, and patted her back gently: "It's okay, it's just a dream. Even if I turn into a fossil, I will be with you. I will never leave you alone."
But Lu Yinbing was still shivering.
She had never had such a real dream. The hundreds of thousands of years from the decaying corpse to the fossil seemed to have really existed. The world has changed. No matter how deep the memory is, it cannot resist the erosion of time. The feeling of being powerless in the face of time has continued. When she was placed in the display case of the museum, thousands of years had passed. She had forgotten who she was, let alone Xia Yitong. It seemed that she was born to be such a fossil for everyone to see.
What's the meaning of life? We will all turn into bones anyway.
Xia Yitong held the back of Lu Yinbing's head with her hand and kissed her forehead gently to calm her uneasy heart.
"Would you like to sleep a little longer?"
Lu Yinbing shook her head and stared at the void in front of her with fear, fearing that once she fell asleep she would return to her life in the display case.
Xia Yitong consoled him, "It was just a dream."
Lu Yinbing still shook his head, his eyes wide open.
Xia Yitong let go of her and left the bed. Lu Yinbing held her back and asked, "Where are you going?"
Xia Yitong: "Go get you a thermometer."
Lu Yinbing slid his hand down and pinched the corner of her clothes: "I'll go with you."
Xia Yitong looked at her helplessly and said, "Okay, but it's in the bedside table."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Finally, Lu Yinbing held Xia Yitong's clothes and watched her bend down to take out an oral thermometer from the bedside table and asked her to put it in her mouth. After taking it out, the thermometer dripped a few times quickly, indicating a low fever.
Xia Yitong was just wondering whether to get her a fever-reducing pill. Her fingers felt hot. She looked in the direction of her gaze and saw Lu Yinbing holding her middle finger in his mouth. His warm mouth wrapped around her and his tongue gently rolled over her. Xia Yitong shuddered: "Teacher Lu?"
Lu Yinbing's face was flushed, his eyes were watery, maybe it was because of the fever, he licked and kissed her fingers with all his might. When she called him, he raised his wet eyes and looked at her, looking very pitiful.
Xia Yitong resisted the urge and slowly pulled her fingers out, saying, "I'll go get you some antipyretic medicine."
"Don't take any antipyretics, just sweat and you'll be fine." Lu Yinbing once again grabbed her clothes, with an invisible hook in the corner of his eyes.
If what he said just now was just a hint, now it is a blatant request for sex.
It’s not that Lu Yinbing won’t do such a thing, but it won’t be in this form.
Her actions made Xia Yitong realize something was even more abnormal, and the vague impulse disappeared without a trace.
She sat down again and put on the most gentle and natural expression: "Lu—"
Lu Yinbing grabbed her wrist when she was not paying attention and pulled it hard. Xia Yitong felt dizzy and was pressed down on the bed. She lost the ability to think for a while.
Lu Yinbing covered her, and his left hand reached under her without saying anything...