I revealed my real body, limped, and stumbled away in the direction of my mother.

"So hot!"

Why was it so hot? My whole body felt like I was in a furnace. My clothes were soaked with sweat in a matter of seconds. The wind and sand kept blowing on my wet clothes, which quickly dried again, and so on.

I was very uncomfortable, my heart was beating very fast, I had a splitting headache, and my skin was tingling. Even small stones that I didn’t care about when they hit me caused huge pain, and even slightly larger stones hit me.

It was simply more uncomfortable than death. I finally realized the extremely difficult road my mother talked about.

I thought I had already walked on that road, but only now did I realize that I had rarely even seen that road. My mother had only led me to wander in front of that road, and now I had just stepped on it.

"Hahaha, it hurts so much, I have a headache, my back hurts, my legs hurt terribly, my whole body hurts! Hahaha...ha..."

This road is really difficult.

After experiencing countless painful attacks, I finally saw the edge of this area. I don't know how long it took, and I don't know how I persisted for so long.

In the last short stretch of road, the wind and sand had long disappeared. At this moment, it seemed quieter than anything else.

I dragged this broken body out of here step by step. Strangely, I didn't feel the joy of escaping from death.

"Are you coming out?"

My mother saw my true form from a distance. I gritted my teeth and tears kept rolling in my eyes. I finally choked and fell to the ground, trying my best to slowly transform into a human form.

"Mother, are you... still you?"

I had a lot to say, a lot of grievances in my heart, and thousands of thoughts came to my mind, but I didn’t have time to say a word.

The injuries I suffered these past few days swept over me like an overwhelming force when my body was relaxed, and kept rushing into my mind. There was no way to resist it. The moment I lost consciousness, I didn't know if I heard the answer.

"Of course."

…

…

I had a strange dream, and the scene in the dream was very familiar. It took me a long time to remember that it was exactly what happened after I walked through that windy sand with my mother.

In the endless darkness, a fire appeared out of nowhere. The light of the fire moved slightly and the flickering shadow woke me up. I slowly opened my eyes and found myself lying in my mother's arms.

"Why did you wake up just after you fell asleep and stopped sleeping?" My mother held me in her arms and her tone was as gentle as ever.

"Just fell asleep?" I shouldn't have asked, this was just a dream, but I clearly felt the warmth in my mother's arms, so there shouldn't be any of this in my dream.

Without waiting for my mother to respond, I instantly stood up and looked around. There should be a lake in that direction. Why was it missing? I was full of doubts and ran over there quickly. When I got closer, I found that it was indeed bare, even the rocks.

Not many pieces.

"It's still there..." I turned my head and looked at the edge of the windy sand from a distance, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After the noodle man escaped from there, I fell into the water unknowingly. I was really curious at the time why there was a lake in this place, and no matter how hard the sand and soil blew, I would not fall into the lake. Later, because of my mother, I fell into the water in an instant.

Throwing doubts to the wind, now I think of it. Not only is the lake questionable, but the sudden appearance of my mother is also strange. Beasts like the Zhenshan ape are definitely not something we can catch. Her answer at that time was too general, "Deal with them."

It's very simple, just a few slaps and it'll be done in three or two strokes." Even a mother who has never been injured would find it impossible no matter what she thinks.

If it's not the mother, then who appears?

My mother once said that there may be something called "evil" in places with dense mountains, rocks, and vegetation. They are neither beasts nor humans; they are neither mountains nor water; they are neither grass nor trees. They are intangible by birth, but they are substantial.

Existence is a very strange life.

I remember that I had an argument with my mother at that time: Can such a thing be called life?

"I once searched carefully and finally found a lot of them in a cave. They are also an unknown type. They will change into the appearance of the things they see, flowers, plants, fish and insects, mountains, rivers, rocks and trees, almost anything. Maybe it is

A speck of dust, or maybe a gust of wind. For a while, I thought that everything contained in this world can be called life, and they have their own way of existence and habits. Take a stone as an example, in my eyes

It is a dead object that cannot breathe, cannot speak, has no temperature, has no blood, and cannot move. But then I thought about it, why does it have what I said? Maybe it doesn’t need to breathe, doesn’t bother to talk, and doesn’t need warmth.

And blood, because this is its way of survival, we cannot deny it even the most basic existence just because its way of survival is different from ours."

"I do not understand"

"Actually, I don't understand either, so that's why I took this path~"

I don’t know when this happened, but I still remember my mother talking about how to deal with it.

"This creature is moody. If you encounter it in the future, try to stay away. If it keeps following you, you can scatter some food on the ground accidentally. If there is no food, just stop. If it sees that you are not moving, it will leave on its own."

Don't try to attack or be disrespectful, as that will easily anger him, and he will be much more difficult to deal with than the thorns on this road."

I am so unfamiliar with ghosts that I have no way of distinguishing them. If what happened before was caused by ghosts, does that mean that everything happening now is real?

"Mother."

I returned to the fire, snuggled into her arms, and told her that I had a dream. I dreamed that you left me behind again, and then I was taken away by a group of humans...

I spoke very seriously, as if the scenes were happening in my mind. My mother also listened very seriously, and said a few interesting words from time to time.
Chapter completed!