"Look... it's glowing again."

"I know, but so what?"

"If you don't shine, you are dead, but if you shine, you are still alive?"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

The man really didn't know what the girl was thinking.

But he only noticed one thing, and that was that the girl's swaying eyes seemed to disappear a little bit.

Then, the girl seemed to understand, and said one last thing.

"So that's how it is...Because it's alive, it will shine."

……

While listening to the sound of the gurgling stream, the man turned around on the river beach.

The girl was walking up and down by the stream.

The day before yesterday I attacked passers-by on the top of the mountain and snatched a large bag of rice, so there is no problem with their food for the time being.The man didn't know what to do for a while.

The man decided not to think too much about the life of sharing rice balls with the girl.

"At that time, if I was bitten to death by a snake, I wouldn't be alive now. Just treat it as raising a puppy..."

The man was talking to himself in his heart, but he didn't notice the change in himself.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

The girl was squatting by the stream looking at something, the man asked nonchalantly.

The girl silently pointed to a lavender flower with sword-shaped leaves.

"That's Calamus, what's wrong?"

After the man finished speaking lightly, the girl seemed to be afraid that she would forget that name.

"Calamus, calamus? Calamus...calamus...calamus..." The girl kept repeating.

"You are a girl, you should know the names of some flowers!? Do you like calamus?"

"Like it? Um...um, it's so beautiful, I like it."

The man half teased her with the question, but he didn't expect the girl to answer it so seriously.

(Does she really know what it is to like and what it is to be beautiful? I thought she didn't feel that way anymore.)

The man didn't see the girl's expression when she said that sentence, and felt a little pity.

After a while, the girl leaned against the man, and then handed the things in her hand to the man.

It looks like a thread dyed bright vermilion.

"It's a red line... what's wrong with this?"

"It fell next to the calamus."

The man looked carefully, and the line was a little thinner than ordinary lines.

"Don't pick up something weird. It's useless at all."

When he was about to pat the girl on the head after speaking, the man noticed the girl's messy hair covered in dust.

"...Hey, turn around."

The girl turned around obediently.The man grabbed the girl's back hair and tied it with vermilion thread.

"Ah... it seems that there is only one use for it."

Maybe she likes the vermilion hair knot that the man tied for her, the girl twirled around like showing off... Then she said to the man.

"thanks…"

When the girl said these words, the man noticed that the girl's cheeks were also dyed red with the same color as the vermilion thread for an instant.

The sunlight shining through the woods made the thread that tied the hair glisten.

A day when lilac flowers bloom everywhere.

The day when girls say 'thank you' to men.

The slightly audible sound of insects replaced the lullaby, and the girl closed her eyes.

(...Shake, shake, shake...I keep looking at a point in the dark.)

(...but...it's a little different now...)

The girl closed her eyes, gently stroking the thin thread that tied her hair.

(...In the dark world, sometimes other things emerge.)

(...the sound of the babbling brook...the cool breeze...the sound of cicadas...fireflies...calamus flowers...and...)

Unknowingly, carrying the girl to the stream has become a part of the man's daily life.

The girl soaked in the water with her clothes on.

Under the wet clothes, the girl's limbs were exposed.The man saw it, and his heart fell into a complicated state of mind.The girl's figure is thinner and thinner than I imagined, but she has been hugged by so many men in the life of Huajie and Liuxiang, which makes the man feel sentimental.

"If my sister is still alive, she is probably the same age as her?" the man thought.

But his sister died, as did his parents and brother, from smallpox.

Did he really die from smallpox?The man recalled the scene of that day again in his mind, the angry villagers, the burning house, his younger brother howling in the flames, his father who he thought was dead but still kept consciousness, himself who escaped from death... If he hadn't If he told the person he thought he was a friend about smallpox, things would probably be different.

He was very bored, so he took off his shirt and jumped into the stream, letting the clear stream cover his shoulders.He hoped this would calm himself down.

The girl looked at the man's back and asked, "This, won't it hurt?"

The girl's finger pointed to a large burn scar on the man's back.

"It doesn't hurt a long time ago...it's a scar from long ago." The man replied.

"Is it really not hurting?"

The girl gently kissed the scar on the man's back.

She didn't know why she did it.

……

The season changed from summer to autumn, and the leaves began to turn yellow... Not only these things changed, but also the men who made a living by robbery.The great sword that had to kill travelers for food was dulled.

The girl said to him: "The white rice balls are better than the red ones."

Probably because of this, he no longer casually kills the travelers who pass by.

The weather turned cooler, the calamus flowers that the girl liked had withered, and the stream water also changed from cool to cold.The number of tourists passing by Fengjin Mountain is also decreasing.

"Maybe it's because I let those guys go the other day." The man thought.

The appearance of the girl disrupted his original way of life, but he did not regret it, because of the existence of the girl, some dead things in his heart were recovering.

The man made a decisive decision. He wanted to take the girl to leave the mountain and go to another place.

Regarding the man's proposal, the girl lowered her head, her face a bit melancholy.Her gaze fell on her right leg, the one with the severed Achilles tendon.

"Fool... don't worry, I'm here."

After speaking, the man squatted down, and the girl hesitated.

"You're welcome. If I get tired, you can just carry me on your back."

After listening to the man's clumsy joke, the girl climbed up on the man's back.

"Let's go." The man said.

"What he doesn't know is what kind of cruel fate is waiting for them ahead." The female driver said here, she picked up the water glass again and took a sip of water.

Masami Shishima rested her face on her hands in the back seat, listening with gusto.But Terui Taki noticed something.

Ichimatsuyama is not far from the downtown area of ​​Ichimatsucho, and both he and Masami Shishima hiked up the mountain.However, this car has been driving for so long, why is the scenery outside the window still the woods?Thinking about it carefully, how could there be taxis wandering around the city's Songshan at night?

"Something's wrong...these two cars and this female driver are not right." Terui Taki thought, holding the gun in his arms with his hand.

Just when Terui Taki was about to ask why he hadn't arrived in the city yet, Masami Shishima asked first, "What happened to the man and the girl? Did they encounter something?"

"Well, they did encounter some bad people and things. This story is coming to an end, and the destination is coming soon. Please listen to me to finish this story with peace of mind."

The mysterious female driver said with a smile.

What Terui Taki and Shijima Masami didn't notice was that the face of the female driver reflected in the rearview mirror of the taxi became very ferocious and terrifying at the moment just now.

"The man carried the girl on his back not long after, when they reached the foot of Fengjin Mountain, they met, three of them..."

2 chapters eight feet of strange talk (final)

When the man and the girl reached the foot of the mountain, they saw a few people approaching from a distance.

"Those guys... shouldn't be ordinary passengers. Shall we let them pass first?" the man asked softly.

The girl on the man's back gasped.

"Could it be that you know them?"

"Um…"

In this way, it is impossible to let them pass without incident.

The girl came down and hid behind the rock, while the man lowered his body and took out a big knife.

"There are three people on the other side, but I only have one person, the first to strike first!" The man thought.

The man brandished a big knife and rushed towards the three of them in one breath.

The guy who walked in the front was cut off from the shoulder by the man.

"What, what, you kid!"

"That guy is the guy we're looking for, and the girl who got away was with him!" another yelled.

(Damn it, I really shouldn't have left those travelers alive...)

In a moment of annoyance, the man chopped off the opponent's foot.

"Woo!" The guy whose leg was cut off rolled on the ground, and the man immediately stepped forward to make up the knife.

(There's another person... who was behind me just now!)

After the man found out, he turned his head and saw...the girl lying on the ground and trembling slightly.

"what!"

Near the girl, another guy was holding a bloody knife with a stiff smile on his face.

"Anyway, it's a burden for you to carry a disabled person, and you will be dragged down by her sooner or later..."

Before the other party finished bragging, the man hacked to death the third person with all his strength, and then rushed to the girl.

"Damn it!... You have to cheer up, otherwise it would be meaningless for me to kill them..."

The man inspected the girl's wound anxiously, and there was blood all over her back.

"It's not a serious injury, take heart, I'll treat you right away..."

The man picked up the girl and ran to find a place to heal the girl.

Perhaps it was too much pain, the girl's lips trembled as she endured it.

"Don't talk! There is a river across this maple forest, we will wash your wounds there..."

"...Hate...Maple Leaf..."

"Didn't I tell you not to talk!"

"I like...calamus..."

Hearing what the girl said, the man didn't know what to say.

(Compared to Maple Leaf, she prefers the unknown calamus flower by the stream...If she is so lonely, wouldn't it be her last sentence before she dies? This is really...too lonely.)

The man thought sadly, the girl in his hand was as light as a feather...

(Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake...)

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