God's Gift

"This is the first time I can use this blood to protect someone..." Yu Youyou repeated Xiaoou's words, her eyes fell on the rose branches wrapped around her, her eyes curved, and she asked:

"Does protecting me make you so happy?"

Xiaoou's gaze fell on Yu Youyou's raised mouth, and he couldn't help but smile along.

Yu Youyou tilted her head and looked at Xiaoou for a long while, and suddenly she said:

"So you like me so much."

Xiaoou was stunned, and her eyes finally met Yu Youyou's, but only for a brief moment, then she looked away again.

She clenched her hands, as if confused by Youyou's words, and did not answer for a long time.

Under Yu Youyou's fiery gaze, Xiaoou pursed her lips and said, "I have Asperger's syndrome. I am naturally emotionally indifferent."

“I don’t understand emotions.”

"You will know." Yu Youyou said without hesitation, "Even if you don't know now, you will know in the future."

"Although you don't understand this yet, you already do things because you love them."

Seeing Xiaoou's low mood, Yu Youyou continued to comfort her: "It's okay, I didn't know it before."

Xiaoou's eyes fell on Yu Youyou's skirt. The breeze blew, and her long yellow skirt fluttered in the wind. She asked, "So do you know now?"

"If it's love, I probably know." Yu Youyou had a smile on her lips and looked at the endless desert in front of her. The silvery moonlight sprinkled on the desert, like a sparkling ocean.

She swung her feet, unable to hold back the excitement in her voice, "He's almost there."

Xiaoou tilted her head back and looked at Yu Youyou's profile with a sweet smile on it. She was surrounded by moonlight and red roses, as beautiful as an oil painting.

For some reason, Xiaoou asked inexplicably: "Do you like me too?"

"Of course!" Yu Youyou turned to look at Xiaoou and answered confidently, "I like you."

"I like you very much!"

After hearing Yu Youyou's answer, Xiaoou lowered his head, clasped his hands together, and after a long while he whispered:

"I'll wait with you."

"Okay." Yu Youyou agreed to Xiaoou's request without hesitation. She jumped off the wall in two steps, lifted Xiaoou onto the wall, and then climbed up herself nimbly.

Sitting on the wall with Xiaoou, Yu Youyou still felt something was wrong. She looked at Xiaoou sitting next to her, thought for a few seconds, and moved Xiaoou into her arms.

Xiaoou was still not used to such physical contact. She twisted her body unnaturally: "Why are you holding me?"

"That's how a mother would hug her daughter. Now I'm your mother." Yu Youyou pinched Xiaoou's cheek and said with a smile, "You have to listen to me."

Xiaoou was quiet for a while before asking again, "How long will this game of pretending to be a house end?"

Yu Youyou combed Xiaoou's hair with her hands and replied casually, "I won't play when you get home."

Xiaoou was silent again.

The figures of the giant beasts were looming in the dark desert. Perhaps they noticed the figures on the rose wall and gathered together again, but they did not dare to get closer.

Xiaoou looked at the beasts that were staring at him eagerly, "Won't he be eaten by these monsters if he goes out alone?"

Xiaoou didn't specify who it was, but Yu Youyou answered in an unusually tacit manner: "No, he's very powerful. Although these monsters are a little difficult to deal with, they can't hurt him."

Xiaoou nodded, but Yu Youyou suddenly remembered something and asked, "How did you get here?"

Xiaoou's eyes lingered for a few seconds before answering:

"A monster broke through the defenses of the City of Despair, broke into the City of Hope, and captured me here..."

"My mother's leg was bitten off by that monster when she was saving me."

Although Xiaoou did not explain in detail, Yu Youyou could guess how tragic the scene was. She looked at Xiaoou, paused, raised her hand and touched Xiaoou's head.

"Why is the monster gone now?"

Xiaoou raised her hand and pointed into the distance. Yu Youyou looked in the direction she pointed and found that Xiaoou was pointing at the center of the City of Despair, the direction of the first ring.

"It was injured, left me here, and went back by itself."

Yu Youyou hugged Xiaoou tighter, "It may come back to find you again. Don't you want to go back to Hope City?"

Xiaoou looked into the distance, his black pupils clear and bright, and shook his head silently, "No."

Yu Youyou frowned, "Why?"

"My existence has brought them misfortune, and now it's good enough."

Xiaoou's voice was very light, blending into the night wind and slowly drifting away.

"How could you bring misfortune..." Yu Youyou was about to refute, but immediately thought of herself as the cause of all this. Her voice choked in her throat, and the unspoken words turned into a sentence:

"Sorry……"

Why did the disaster fall on her?

Xiaoou didn't know why Yu Youyou suddenly apologized. She looked up at Yu Youyou and was about to ask the reason, but Yu Youyou quickly changed the subject.

"These monsters are so annoying..." Yu Youyou looked at the densely packed giant beasts in front of her angrily, "They've grown so big that they've blocked out all the moonlight. How can Lu Keming come back?"

Xiaoou didn't know why Yu Youyou suddenly got angry at those giant beasts. The night wind was a little cold, so she shrank into Yu Youyou's arms.

Yu Youyou's arms felt warm. Xiaoou curled up in her arms and soon felt sleepy.

Feeling that Xiaoou in her arms has calmed down, Yu Youyou lowered her head to look at Xiaoou who was about to close his eyes. Her gaze was distant, and her dark eyes made it impossible to tell her emotions in the darkness.

After staring at Xiaoou for a long time, Yu Youyou slowly opened her mouth, imitating the song Xiaoou had sung before, and sang softly:

"I can catch the moon. I will use countless dreams to prop up countless oars, use courage and wisdom as my oars, and row the moon boat to the distance..."

"Goodbye, mother. I'm going to sail far away tonight. Don't worry about me. I have the oars of happiness and wisdom..."

Her voice was very soft, and the gentle moonlight blended with the song. Xiaoou's consciousness gradually blurred in the familiar song, and she wandered in a beautiful dream.

Jianyue, who had been in a coma for a day and a night because of swallowing Xiaoou's blood, finally woke up. He followed the singing and found the two people sitting on the flower wall.

"God!"

Jianyue climbed up the wall shouting, and was about to talk to Yu Youyou when was stopped by Yu Youyou.

Yu Youyou made a gesture to keep quiet. Jianyue glanced at the sleeping Xiaoou, nodded quickly, lowered her voice, and asked softly:

"It turns out that gods can also sing this song..."

Yu Youyou nodded and said nothing.

"Does the god also know where the moon ship is?" Jianyue originally wanted to ask Xiaoou, but ended up wasting a day and didn't get to ask anything.

Yu Youyou listened to Jianyue's expectant question and shook her head: "There is no moon boat, it's just a line of lyrics."

Jianyue still didn't believe it, "How could there be no such thing? No, you may not know the God, I'd better ask my friend in the wind..."

Yu Youyou did not answer Jianyue. She looked up at the desert in the night. The giant beast blocked all the light.

She raised her hand gently, and white light spots of blessing descended from her palm, forming a white galaxy in the silver desert.

Jianyue looked at the white galaxy spreading out in front of him and stopped questioning. He was so shocked that he could not make any sound.

Those giant beasts that were hunting and fighting violently in the desert actually calmed down after touching the blessed white light spot, and the blood and violence on their bodies disappeared.

In the distance, Lu Keming had just killed a giant beast, and his bloodstained clothes were torn into several pieces. Without Yu Youyou by his side, his expression was indifferent, and there was no emotion in his deep eyes.

He walked in the desert, his steps a little tired, and deep and shallow footprints extended behind him.

Lu Keming looked at the giant beast that had become quiet for some reason, raised his head and looked into the distance, and suddenly, dots of light appeared wherever his sight reached.

The light was like the Milky Way, quickly rushing towards him, gathering into a ball under his feet and wrapping him gently.

Zhufu, who was standing on his shoulder, saw the white galaxy coming and jumped happily on Lu Keying's shoulder a few times, cheering:

"She's coming for us! She's coming for us!"

"Yes." Lu Keming smiled slightly, and the smile swept away his fatigue. "She is here to pick us up."

His feet stepped on the Milky Way and his steps became lighter.

Lu Keming couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He took the blessing on his shoulder and put it into his pocket. He changed from walking slowly to running fast, rushing towards the direction where the Milky Way came from.