Chapter 12 Sequoia Forest
She seemed to be born with coldness, happy, angry, enthusiastic, and sincere. When she turned her head, these colorful memories turned into gray that was neither black nor white. When she remembered it again, she could not awaken her emotions at all.
Just like... she once admired and loved her father, but when Xi Canggu disappeared from her life, those feelings seemed to follow her.
Xi Huanyan didn't understand why this happened, and she kept stopping herself from thinking about this issue.
She stuffed two bites of food into her mouth, and was once again confused by the calmness in her heart.
Are you different from others?
Xi Huanyan tentatively hugged Gu Jianya and buried her face in her arms.
Her warm body and clear heartbeat made her consciousness come back. She could clearly feel her dependence and love for her mother. Her confused heart calmed down and said depressedly, "Mom, you must always be nice to me, you can't die earlier than me... Otherwise... I will forget you."
Gu Jianxia smiled and hugged her tightly, "Silly child."
"Okay, I'm going to continue to go back to the mountain to learn skills." Xi Huanyan pushed Gu Jianxia away embarrassedly, teasing the big black dog wrapped around her legs, "Mom, you can't treat it badly. When I'm not here, it has to accompany me."
"Da Hei is much more obedient than you, and my mother treats you badly, but she doesn't treat it badly." Gu Jianxia cleaned up the dishes and said, "I'll take you up the mountain."
"No need, once you go back and forth, it will be dark. I don't want to worry about you walking on the night road." Xi Huanyan said confidently, "I have walked the mountain road several times by myself, but my mother just worry."
Gu Jianxia thought about it, but did not persist, "Okay, I'll send you to the foot of the mountain."
The big black dog yelled happily and followed him all the way.
Xi Huanyan waved her hand to the man and dog, went up the mountain, and walked halfway through the way, and instantly changed direction, stepped into the Xi family cemetery.
Xi Canggu's tombstone was very new and not dirty at all, but she didn't dare to touch it.
"Dad." Xi Huanyan raised her hands behind her back, "You taught me to get rid of distracting thoughts and be quiet and desireless. I seemed to have only done half of it."
She said, "I gave up on the dead, but I still care about the living."
"My responsibility to you is probably the only one left to avenge you..." Xi Huanyan was silent for a long time, "This is strange. I don't hate, but I have the intention to kill myself out of responsibility. You say that I am open-minded, or cold-hearted, but... I think I will live a very easy life."
Xi Huanyan spread her palms and lay a piece of climbing rope on it, "It's a pity that I didn't meet that strange demon."
I clearly heard that with something contaminated with the aura of a demon, the demon will come to the door to kill the weeds.
No matter whether she could or not, she could not leave the rope around her anymore. The moment she hugged Gu Jianxia, she suddenly realized that she could not put the people around her in danger because of her murderous intention.
Xi Huanyan burned the rope secretly stolen from the relics in front of Xi Canggu's tombstone.
That's it.
Xi Huanyan buried the ashes, went up the mountain, and continued her own learning journey.
When she was concentrating on carving things, she always felt a sense of separation of spirit and flesh. This feeling was very attractive to her, so she was particularly serious about learning art, even if the things she made were smashed by old lady Foyan dozens of times.
Old Lady Siyan asked her to make cups, basins, antique shelves, beauty couches, boats, and nine-story towers. She now only stays in the cup stage.
She didn't expect that she could not pass the ordinary wooden cup after she remade it dozens of times.
I think the shape is simple, the cup surface is rough, and the carving technique is poor, so I can pick out some flaws every time.
Xi Huanyan touched the wall several times, and guessed that the old lady wanted her to make a cup at the level of a master, so she calmed down and focused on carpentry techniques. When she encountered incomprehensible skills, she deliberately made a cup wrong and asked old lady Shi Yan to give advice.
On this day, she found that the wood was used up and went to the redwood forest with an axe. The beast-like intuition made her stop at the moment she stepped into the redwood forest.
The wind is rustling, the leaves are as red as blood, and it is clearly countless lush branches and leaves dancing lightly with the wind, but they are filled with strange desolation.
She hesitated for a while and walked in. The sound of dead branches and leaves cracking under her feet magnified infinitely in her ears. She leaned her face tightly and approached the depths of the forest.
A trace of blood lingered on the tip of his nose, and Xi Huanyan changed direction and headed to the right.
The frightened birds flew over the sky, the trees were quiet and the wind stopped, as if a hand had strangled the neck of the redwood forest, and the atmosphere suddenly suffocated.
Xi Huanyan's eyes reflected a broken limbs on the ground, and blood-red organs were scattered, mixed with dead leaves and soil.
Suddenly the wind broke through the air, and she turned sideways, and the disgusting smell smeared across her shoulders. The thing fell to the ground, and one foot just stepped on her head. It was scrambled and slap, and the scene couldn't bear to look at it.
Xi Huanyan forced herself to look away and look at this thing, and her body couldn't help feeling weak.
It stood on both feet, about seven feet tall, with no hair on its head, no beads in its eyes, only a piece of white eyes, strong limbs, arched back, and black all over.
The numb roar overflowed from its mouth. Then, its body shortened and slapped at Xi Huanyan like a tiger and leopard. Xi Huanyan stepped aside and hid away again.
She took two deep breaths, and the moves she practiced were played in her brain. She didn't know how to take action. On the other side, the demon who could not get a single blow turned around and grabbed it in front of her five fingers and claws. Before she could get close, her cheeks were already hurt.
If this is caught by it, half of your head will be lost!
Facing death, Xi Huanyan's movements were faster than thinking. She leaned and whirled around it, and she grabbed the axe with both hands and slashed it hard. Black liquid splashed everywhere, and the axe blade penetrated her chest!
The harsh scream of the demon shook off the leaves around it. It turned around and clawed towards Xi Huanyan's heart!
Xi Huanyan had no choice but to give up the axe embedded in it, took a few steps, picked up a branch, flew up onto the tree, and suddenly flipped backwards in the air, stomped the demon's head into the ground, and the branches in his hand quickly cut off its neck like a knife!
She jumped several feet away, staring at the demon's still struggling body, confirming that it was just struggling to death, stepped forward and pulled out the axe, gave it a moment, so that it would quiet forever.
Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the cold climbed up her back again. Xi Huanyan looked around, and the grass and trees were rustling, as if something was approaching. She thought it was not good and ran away. At the same time, several rapid black shadows jumped out of the forest and rushed towards Xi Huanyan!
She glanced in a hurry and found that there were nine in total.
Including the ones I killed before, there are ten of them!
The village’s judgment was wrong, not one end or two, but one group!
Xi Huanyan's heartbeats like a drum, but she did not go to the village, but ran to the uninhabited mountain.
Her parents had never tested her strength, but she knew that she could crush the stone in the village to roughly evaluate the power star rank with bare hands.
She felt that she could not beat the group of things behind her. If she went to the village, she would just find more people to bury her.
Burial with you?
Chapter completed!