Ling Yun looked at Biyao and said slowly,"Bi Yao, let me tell you, even if I starve to death, I will never touch you!”
All of this seemed to be within Bi Yao's expectations. She wasn't angry and just stared at him in a daze. After a long while, he slowly said,"It's up to you whether you want to eat me or not. However, you have to kill me first!"”
"Why?" Ling Yun asked.
"I'm afraid…" Bi Yao shook her head.
"What are you afraid of?" Ling Yun asked.
"Do you know what it feels like to wait for death alone?”she whispered.
Ling Yun didn't say anything and just stared at her blankly. He already understood.
The muscles at the corner of Bi Yao's eyes seemed to twitch. In the face of death, she found it difficult to control her feelings towards this youth who was the only one who accompanied her in the face of death. Even her voice was hazy and hollow."When I was six years old, my mother brought me back to the Six Foxes Cave on Huqi Mountain to visit my grandmother. Unexpectedly, the righteous path attacked at that time. Among them, the evil monk Pukong of the Heavenly Music Temple used his magic treasure, the Buddha Golden Bowl, to collapse the entire Six Foxes Cave and bury me, my mother, and my grandmother underground.”
Ling Yun's eyes were filled with sympathy.
Bi Yao seemed to have fallen into a painful memory. Her eyes were empty as she stared straight ahead. Just like her tone, it was flat and empty, with the deepest pain."At that time, I was so scared that I cried loudly. I was extremely afraid. It was a small cave. We were able to survive because of a few large rocks supporting us. However, Grandma was seriously injured and passed away not long after. Mother took me to cry in the darkness and buried grandma.”
"We were buried deep underground. Other than a few drops of water between the rocks, we were surrounded by hard and cold rocks. I was very afraid, but my mother kept telling me: Xiao Yao, don't be afraid. Father will definitely come and save us.”
Even though Ling Yun already knew about all of this, he still felt bad for Biyao.
"But it was always dark here, and Father never came. I was very afraid in that dark cave, and I was hungry, so I kept crying. I still remember my mother sighing beside me, hugging me tightly in her arms, and constantly saying to me, Little Yao, don't be afraid, Little Yao, don't be afraid. Mother won't let anything happen to you. Your father will definitely come and save us!”
Bi Yao's face gradually turned pale, but she still continued,"But Father still didn't come, and I was already starving. I kept crying to Mother for food. Mother searched the cave again and again, but she never found anything. In the end, I was so hungry that I didn't even have the strength to cry. I could only lie in my mother's arms. Suddenly, one day, her mother found a piece of meat!……”
Ling Yun saw her body tremble almost at the same time as she spoke.
"I was too hungry, so I couldn't care about anything else. I ate it, and then I seemed to sleep comfortably. It seemed that at that time, Mother also smiled in the darkness. Just like that, Mother would find me a piece of meat every once in a while. I survived just like that, but Mother's voice became weaker and weaker. Finally, one day, I called her, but she didn't answer. From then on, I waited in the dark for death alone.”
Biyao slowly turned her head and looked at Ling Yun. Ling Yun couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine." Do you know what it feels like to wait for death alone? Do you know the smell of mother's corpse slowly rotting beside you? Do you know what it's like to live in fear forever?”
Ling Yun trembled with every question she asked.
Bi Yao fell silent. Finally, she seemed to have woken up from a dream, but she seemed to be about to wake up. In a daze, she continued," Finally, one day, suddenly, a beam of light shot down from above my head. I was so scared that I screamed and hid in the deepest corner. Then, the light became brighter and brighter, and the hole above became bigger and bigger. I heard my father calling my mother and my name. Then, I saw my father jump down and block in front of me.”
"He didn't look at me first, but my mother. When the light was shining, I was so focused on looking up that I forgot to look at my mother. By the time I thought of it, my father had already blocked my way. I couldn't see my mother's corpse, but I clearly saw my father's body tremble. His entire body seemed to have turned into stone. Then, Uncle Green Dragon, Uncle White Tiger, and Uncle Black Tortoise, who had jumped down with my father, were all stunned and motionless.”
"I was suddenly very afraid, even more afraid than waiting for death in this darkness. Father. Father slowly turned around. The three uncles lined up in a row and stood behind him, blocking Mother's corpse. I still couldn't see Mother. I asked in a low voice,"Father, where's Mother?"”
Ling Yun could clearly see that Biyao's body trembled with every word she said. It was as if the girl who asked the question was right in front of them.
"Father didn't say anything, but his expression was so terrifying. Although I was young, I knew, I knew that he really wanted to kill me at that time. He wanted to kill me, his biological daughter! However, he didn't do anything. He saved me, held me in his arms, and left this pitch-black cave. Before I left, I peeked down from Father's shoulder. Mother's corpse had been buried by the three uncles, and only one hand was exposed. But for some reason, that hand, that hand, that hand…"
Bi Yao's voice suddenly fell silent. Ling Yun was shocked and looked at her. Bi Yao's face was pale and her eyes were tightly shut. Her entire body fell straight down. She seemed to have fainted.
Ling Yun supported Biyao. He understood that he would never forget this girl in his life. She would become the most important person in his life.
Ling Yun helped Bi Yao to lie down on the platform. Looking at her pale face, Ling Yun's heart ached. He wished that he could bear all the pain for her.
That day, Bi Yao was unconscious, but in her dreams, she would occasionally call out "Mother" and "Father".
However, this seemed to be a painful past in Biyao's heart. In her unconsciousness, she screamed several times and broke out in a cold sweat. In the end, Biyao accidentally waved her arms and grabbed his shoulders. She leaned into his arms and calmed down as if she had found someone to rely on. Ling Yun grimaced, but he couldn't bear to leave when he saw Biyao's pale face. He forced himself to endure it and let her lie in his arms as she slept peacefully.
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