The sun is warm and gentle, and it makes people lazy when shining on it.
Qiuqiu stood on an empty mountain road, not knowing when and where he was.
She felt familiar here.
Ah, she has been here. This is Jiufeng.
Just now...she was talking to Guan Wei, and then, she seemed to-
It seems that he has entered Guan Wei’s sea of consciousness?
This is a very risky thing. The practitioner's sea of consciousness and spirit are extremely precious and extremely dangerous. Once the sea of consciousness is occupied and destroyed by others, the whole person will be finished and there is no way to save it.
And Guan Wei, he opened his sea of consciousness and accepted her into it.
Qiuqiu should be standing in his memory now.
The appearance of Jiufeng many years ago is not very different from now. The spirit birds flew low on the mountainside, the stream flowing, and the wind blows the leaves, making rustling sounds.
Qiuqiu touched her chest.
Under the palms and inside the chest, the heart is beating.
If you lose him, your heart will still beat, the sun will still rise, and people will live as usual.
There is no collapse of the sky, no shouting the sky and robbing the earth.
She walked forward calmly along the mountain road.
Her goals are clear.
She wants to go to Fengxianju.
She knew Shi'er would be there.
Through the bridge, the gray eaves of Fengxianju shine in the sun.
Qiuqiu was a little afraid to move forward.
The long window of Fengxianju was open, and Qiuqiu saw a small figure sitting by the window.
Dark hair and white clothes. Sitting there quietly without moving, just like a doll.
Qiuqiu suddenly felt a little distressed.
So quiet, not like a child, not even like a real person.
You can't have any movement, no emotional fluctuations, or even too many thoughts.
The pain that occurs from time to time makes people feel unbearable.
All he can do is see.
Watching the world quietly, like an outsider.
All the warmth and color here have nothing to do with him.
This torture has been with him since his birth, like a curse that cannot be escaped.
Two little girls came by the bridge, one wearing pink clothes and two small braids, and the ends of the braid were tied with pink pom balls. The other was wearing a light yellow shirt. There were a few unknown purple wild flowers on their heads.
It’s such a coincidence that she recognizes both of these girls, one is Ke Ren and the other is Xiu Ru.
It seems like... I was seriously injured last night, right?
When I saw Xiuru again, Qiuqiu found that she was very calm.
Even if she had a grudge against Xiuru in her heart, she would not have any anger or disgust when she was young. Xiuru was just a child at this time.
They looked far away and didn't dare to get close.
A little puzzled said: "He... why doesn't he move?"
Xiuru taught her a lesson with a somewhat old-fashioned aura: "Sick people need to rest."
The charming man nodded.
They looked at it for a while and then walked away.
At this time, Xiuru probably had no extraordinary thoughts about Shi'er, and she didn't pay much attention to him except curious.
Qiuqiu slowly walked across the bridge.
She stood under Fengxian Pavilion and looked at him half-tilted.
Shi'er sat in the window and looked up at the sky halfway.
The blue sky is as clear as water, as blue as clean and soft.
Qiuqiu walked over and stood beside him.
He couldn't see her.
It turns out that Shi'er, who was a child, looked like this. She was beautiful, quiet and looked very well-behaved.
It's especially heartbreaking.
Qiuqiu sat down next to him, he sat in the window, and she sat outside the window, half a paper window between the two.
"Are you bored?" Qiuqiu said softly: "I'll talk to you for a while."
"I was as old as you..." Qiuqiu paused: "I had two different life experiences. I originally wanted to tell you when I first... It's not a big secret anyway, and you will definitely not make a fuss. I remember things in my previous life. My life in my previous life was very ordinary. When I was as old as you, I was so stupid that I didn't know anything. I just ran around and played foolishly, and I was still very greedy. I thought about eating this and that all day long. At that time, there was a little fat man in the neighbor's house, who was bullied me, and I would hit him when he hit me. Once he smashed my head with a stone. His mother brought a lot of eggs and came to our house to apologize. When the biscuits were eaten, my head hurt was healed. I wasn't angry when I saw the fat man. If he hadn't smashed me, I wouldn't have so many biscuits to eat. My mother pointed at me and scolded me for being healed and forgot to hurt."
Qiuqiu laughed softly.
The soft and crisp laughter sounded like the sound of nature on such a lazy afternoon.
"Ah, you've never seen a cookie? Well, it's just sweet, baked, it tastes very crispy, with cream, sugar, eggs, etc. inside, all of which are good things, so delicious."
"Later, when I grew up, I ate more, but no matter what I ate, I felt that it was not as delicious as the cookies I ate when I was a child." She turned to look at him and asked softly: "Do you have anything you like to eat? Do you like to eat? Do you like to do something?"
I have wanted to ask for it for a long time, but I always feel that I don’t need to ask these things specifically, and I will know them over time.
But now...
She asked, but Shi'er couldn't answer her anymore.
The little Shi'er sat with her knees in her arms, and her childishness had long faded from her quiet eyes.
Maybe he had never liked any food, color, or anything he liked to do. His childhood future and beginning had ended. He had no hobbies and no fun.
Those things were too extravagant for him.
He struggled on the brink of death all the time, fighting against illness throughout his childhood.
Qiuqiu stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment, and gently covered his palm.
She is a character that does not exist in this memory, and he can't feel her touch and voice.
"I want to find you."
"Tell me. Where should I go to find you?"
"Please tell me."
Shi'er still sat quietly, looking at the sky, without any emotions in her eyes.
Qiuqiu's tears fell and dripped on the back of Shi'er's hand.
Shi'er suddenly moved.
He lowered his head and looked at the drip of water that suddenly appeared on the back of his hand.
Qiuqiu was also stunned.
Shi'er - How can you feel it?
He shouldn't have felt it because... because this is just a memory that has long been formed and remains in the depths of Guan Wei's sea of consciousness.
Nothing should change here.
Shi'er looked at the water droplets that appeared out of thin air on the back of her hand.
He dipped his fingertips a little, raised his hand and looked at it. He even licked it.
Of course the tears are salty and astringent, which seems a bit sweet, but the aftertaste is a bit bitter.
There was still no expression on Shi'er's face, and he slowly turned his face and turned towards Qiuqiu.
He couldn't see Qiuqiu.
Qiuqiu covered her mouth, she was afraid that she would cry.
If possible, she really wants to stay in this memory for the rest of her life.
But no.
This is just a memory.
What she is looking for is the real Shi'er, not to stay in this memory and deceive herself.
"I'm going to find you," she said softly.
She told the young Shi'er that she was going to find him.
Go and find him as an adult.
Qiuqiu stood up, took a last look at him, turned around and left Fengxian Pavilion.
The young Shi'er looked out the empty window.
He stretched out his hand and gently covered the place where she had just sat.
Qiuqiu is about to reach the Heartbreak Cliff.
She didn't know if she could find the Seventh Peak in Guan Wei's memory.
The sun shadow in the afternoon was a little dim, and Qiuqiu stood under the heartbreak cliff. He looked up.
The seventh peak appeared in front of her like a mirage floating in the air.
Qiuqiu tried to take a step forward.
She found that she stepped onto the stone beam again.
The water surface under the stone beam is like a mirror, the blue sky and the faint clouds are reflected on the water surface. The water is so clear that you can see a very deep place under the water surface.
Qiuqiu remembers that she had seen all the palm peaks of the seventh peak here, from the first palm peak Gao Wei to the last palm peak, who was also Shi'er's mother.
Just like when it first arrived, she saw Gao Wei again. He stood at the front of the stone beam, waiting quietly, as if he had known that she would arrive long ago.
"Senior Gao."
Gao Wei nodded slightly to her.
Qiuqiu just felt her heart beating very hard.
Because she saw hope.
"I have something to do, and I want to ask my senior to give me some advice. I want to find someone, but I don't know where to find him."
Gao Wei accompanied her forward: "The person you are looking for is very important to you?"
"Yes."
Gao Wei looked into the distance: "Since he is so important to you, then you must know where he is."
Qiuqiu looked at Gao Wei.
"You will know it yourself."
She knows?
Qiuqiu stood there in confusion.
Gao Wei's body disappeared.
Qiuqiu stood alone in place.
She knows it herself?
She really couldn't imagine it.
The eyes were slightly dizzy, Qiuqiu closed her eyes and opened it again, and she had already left the Seventh Peak.
She was still standing in the field outside the sealed land, and Guan Wei stood in front of her.
He didn't say anything comforting or caring, but just stood by her side silently.
"Where is he...?"
Guan Wei looked at her quietly for a while and walked forward.
Qiuqiu followed him all the way forward.
A large area was cleared out from the empty field, and a cloth tent was set up near the river beach, and underneath were corpses, all covered with white cloth.
Many of the people who died last night were not found at all. All of them can be found here.
Long, row after row, waiting for people from various sects to take their respective people back.
There are also many disciples from Jiufeng.
Shi'er was placed on a stone platform. He looked so peaceful, but he had no breath and lay there quietly.
It's so cold here and the stone platform is so hard, it must be very uncomfortable to lie on it.
Qiuqiu sorted out his clothes and hair, and sat down quietly beside him.
Guan Wei stood behind her.
"I want to stay here for a while, you don't have to guard me."
Guan Wei didn't make a sound, but he didn't move his steps either. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support are my greatest motivation.)
ps: This chapter is very slow, from around 8 o'clock to the present. The ward is very noisy today. A very young person came to the bed next door. After surgery, he kept crying out and screaming. The people who visited and cared for him kept talking... He was in great spirits.