The child kept falling down and then stood up again, the old man kept coughing and his waist kept bending. People supported each other, but they still couldn't help but feel insignificant in front of the world. This world was infinitely smaller than the one he saw in Dagan.
It is many times bigger, deep and far away, with nowhere to see where it comes from and no end to it.
He wanted to help and help the old woman who had just fallen down and couldn't stand up after several attempts. There were only three steps not far from her, but he couldn't lift her feet for these three steps a dozen times.
I walked over. The wind and snow were getting heavier in front of me, and the figures were getting blurry. The people in front of me were almost gone. No one paid attention to the old mother-in-law, and she didn't even say a word.
Li Luo didn't catch up. What would he do if he did? Keep walking. Even if you are not tired, your heart will still be tired. He knew that he might not be able to walk through these three steps anyway, so he stopped and watched quietly.
There is nothing you can do for the old woman lying in the snow, so just look at her and stay with her, swallowed by the wind and snow.
I don’t know how long it took, but the old woman stopped struggling. She was sitting very neatly and peacefully, like a Buddhist believer, dignified and solemn. It seemed that she could still see her youthful appearance between her brows, and she was so surprised.
Li Luo's heart skipped a beat, which frightened him, and he quickly threw this terrifying thought into the snow. Just when there was only the rustle of snowflakes flying in the sky and earth, a figure came from the front.
A strong man broke in through the snow. He walked very quickly and arrived in front of the old woman in a few steps. He didn't know what he said, but he helped the old woman up and drove her out.
Li Luo let out a long breath and chased after the two of them. The snow was falling harder and harder, and the wind was blowing biter and colder. Fortunately, the back figures were still looming in the snow and they were not lost.
When they reached the top of the mountain, a colorful beam of light shone from the sky. The wind and snow stopped, and there was peace between heaven and earth. People took a short rest at the top of the mountain and then prepared to start their journey again. The strong man and the old woman left
At the end, just when Li Luo was about to follow him, suddenly the middle-aged man supporting the old woman turned his head, as if he was looking at the void, as if he was looking at him, and as if he was just glancing casually, but in fact he was not looking at anything, and then
, the man moved his lips slightly and said something.
Li Luo was stunned. He didn't follow up anymore. He opened his mouth slightly and watched them walking up the ridge. The light beam shining down from the flat side stretched their shadows very long and reflected on the snow-white ground, giving them a special look.
A feeling of desolation.
Suddenly, he turned around and looked at the way he had come from without looking back. His whole body shook suddenly, and then he trembled involuntarily. He bit his lips tightly until his mouth was filled with the smell of blood.
On the way here, the rivers and streams we passed have dried up, and the oases, rice fields, mountains and bridges have all disappeared, leaving only the boundless black sand and loess raging in the strong wind, gray, full of destruction and chaos.
The gray aura. In the sky, burning lines of fire tore through the sky from one side to the other, cutting the entire sky into pieces. The fire burned the sky, dark red like blood, and there were no stars in the sky.
Sun and moon.
Seeing through thousands of years, he saw the sand rolling over the grass, white trees, and flooding the yard, slowly but quickly burying everything underground. Then the sky began to darken and the moon stopped rising.
The stars stopped twinkling, and everything became pitch black. Soon after, the sky began to light up, and the red light, dragging a long tail, grew bigger and bigger from a single point of light, until it was big enough to cover the entire sky.
Light and fire, wind and sand, red and gray-black, disorder, chaos, destruction, devouring, no life, no hope, the way they came only turned into disorderly chaos, no sound, but it lasted for a long time
Endless.
Li Luo took a few steps back and slowly knelt down on the ground. He didn't know what this dream and this virtual world were trying to tell him or what it meant. He just felt powerless, couldn't say anything, couldn't do anything, only
Endless confusion.
Is this the end of the pursuit?
It was a little difficult to breathe. He lay quietly on the ground. Those people who were leaving from the ridge had already gone very far. He could no longer see him and had no strength to catch up anymore. Until the fire in the sky also enveloped his head.
Sky.
Someone was tapping his shoulder gently, and after a while, he slowly raised his head. The man was startled when he saw Li Luo's appearance, and couldn't help but take a breath. Tears were streaming down his face in front of him.
Tears were already filling his eyes, which were absent-minded.
"What's wrong with you?" the woman asked him.
Li Luo moved his lips and said something, but the woman didn't hear it clearly. She leaned down and put her ear close to her, and then she heard what he said clearly.
"Carve the words on the stone..."
What words? Why should they be carved on the stone? The woman was puzzled and frowned slightly. This was not the answer she wanted.
"Carve the words on the stone," Li Luo said hoarsely, "The people inside told me."
When the middle-aged man looked back, he said something. Li Luo didn't hear it, but he read it from his lips and carved the words on the stone... Maybe he knew that Li Luo was following them, maybe he
Knowing that there will be a person there tens of millions of years from now, or maybe he was just talking to himself, but he left these words to him from millions of years ago.
The woman looked at him doubtfully, as if she wanted to discern the meaning of this sentence, but she didn't seem to doubt him very much.
"What time is it now?"
"Yao'er is about to wake up."
Li Luo's whole body was shaken. He glanced at it for thousands of years, and it turned out that it was about the same time as a dream. Inside the door, he had walked through thousands of mountains and rivers, and seen the vicissitudes of life. Outside, it was just a dream of Yao'er.
"Why are you doing this?" Li Luo looked up at the woman and asked.
"Take Yao'er out." The woman said simply.
"Take it out? Isn't it good here?"
"No matter how nice this place is, it's still fake. He's still young and doesn't deserve to stay here for the rest of his life."
This place is fake... Li Luo didn't understand what the woman meant for a while. It might be a literal meaning, or it might have another meaning.
"Why don't you take him out of here?"
The woman glanced at him and said, "We can't leave here, but you can." After saying that, without further explanation, she walked towards the edge of Yunding Tiangong. Li Luo stayed for a moment, then got up and followed.
This time should be regarded as morning. The woman had prepared the meal. The middle-aged man humbly and gently invited him to sit down for dinner. He looked at him one more time and said, "Did you not sleep well? Your eyes are so red."