far away

In the jungle, a person walked forward quickly, and the rustling sound behind him was getting closer and closer, passing through the dark grass and trees, and the person's steps were already flustered.

"Ah!" Accidentally, he made a fatal fall, he hurriedly turned his head, and saw a big snake with its front arched and fiercely spitting out its letter.

He stepped back subconsciously, murmured words, his voice trembling, "Brother Snake, I don't know when I offended you, why, why is it so hard..."

The snake in front of him may understand human speech, but he may not be able to listen to it. No matter what his reasoning is, what is in front of him is just a talking lunch.Its arched upper body sometimes moves forward and sometimes backwards as if tentative, and it quietly swings its snake tail and approaches Wuji.

The panic-stricken teenager's mind went blank, he even forgot what he was, and only knew how to run away.Accompanied by a scream, Wuji finally complied with the snake's expectation, he - stepped on the air.

Wuji leaned back, the stagnant air slowed down his breathing, the unlucky child was about to die in Shekou at this moment.The fear of death made the figure of the snake close at hand seem to be magnified several times, and he closed his eyes.

……

I'm dying...but I'm still...? ?

The pain of biting and entanglement did not come, and at some point the big snake's original position was occupied by a white bird, and Wuji slowly opened his eyes.

The white figure came into view, it turned out to be a white crane, Wuji's eye sockets were suddenly wet, he rubbed his eyes several times to make his vision clear, then hesitatingly and full of grievances, he said, "Master, apprentice..."

Bai He was condescending, obviously showing no kindness, but Wu Ji called him master.

"Hebai." Baihe opened his mouth and spat out two words.

The fear dissipated with the appearance of Hebai, Wuji lowered his head in disappointment when he heard those words, he knew that the master he was talking about did not want to recognize him as an apprentice, and Hebai was the name of that white crane.

"How can you be my apprentice who is as timid as you?" He Bai said leisurely, then lowered his head and picked up something.

Wuji looked over and found that it was the snake just now. The snake that was hung in its mouth had lost its prestige just now, and its stature was much smaller, but it was just silently resisting.

It wasn't until now that Wuji finally remembered what kind of thing he was—a bird.

Immediately, he only felt that his face was flushed, and there seemed to be a few broken birds quacking above his head.

……

"Master, master, is it an apprentice..." Before the word "yong" was out of the mouth, He Bai suddenly leaned forward, facing the lost food, the snake became energetic again, and the rustling sound was so frightened that he stepped back He almost landed on his back.

"Heh, not only is your brain bad, but your ears are also bad. Have I ever considered you as an apprentice? You're being sentimental." In a blink of an eye, the snake came under his claws again.

Wuji got up in a hurry, thinking in his heart, it's okay, it's not the first time Master doesn't accept me...

"Wuji understands."

Hebai is not a cruel person, but he is not a kind-hearted and amiable person either. Apart from being always ridiculous in his persistent apprenticeship to Wuji, this time he felt a strange subtlety for no reason.

He picked up the snake and turned to leave, "He, Hebai..." Master.Wuji stopped him.

"..." He stopped.

"What are you going to do with that snake?"

"..." He Bai said softly, "Of course it was destroyed."

"No, don't, master... that is a life after all!"

If it wasn't for He Bai holding a snake in his mouth, he might have laughed out loud.

He really couldn't understand what was going on in the mind of that unlucky little bird. Why was the snake a relative of Wuji, not only responsible for feeding it, but also carrying a human body, no, a snake body for protection?

He Bai suddenly understood why he didn't want to accept him as an apprentice anymore, it wasn't because of anything else, it was stupid.

"Ang—that's right, let's braise it in soy sauce." After finishing speaking, he went straight away.

Wuji looked at the figure going away, and suddenly remembered what Hebai had said to him.

He did something he shouldn't do, and he couldn't leave him whatever he said.

Wuji didn't believe that Hebai would kill the snake just because it wanted to eat him, and he didn't have the heart to think about what the snake did wrong.He just remembered the past in a trance——