【Ma Ai】Island of Illusion

Although they have the intention to play, it does not mean that they will rush out to fight to the death with an invisible enemy, and they don't know if this enemy is the kind of enemy they think will cause damage.Of course, Marco is the only one who has this kind of consideration. His companion is an absolute activist. Before Marco can react, he is already full of confidence and wants to turn back along the road.Marco stopped him with not-so-gentle means.

"No matter how urgent you are, you have to wait until the evening. You want to go out and use your fire to burn the sun? Don't be too hotheaded... What you need to do now is to find water and food."

With his face pressed to the ground, Ace could only nod.

They walked through a forest path that was probably trampled by large beasts. The main body was composed of gravel and weeds. On both sides were thorns and evening primroses with a strong smell. There was also a faint fragrance in the humid air. Smells a bit like musk or agarwood.Ace is also familiar with this smell, and the perfume that Saatchi often sprays often has this smell.

It has been a long time since I saw the shadow of the sun, and Marco wondered if they had entered the sunken area of ​​the island. If the terrain kept going down, the air would get worse and worse.The sweltering heat has made the mosquitoes in the jungle hysterical, and Marco's bare upper body has become the dining table for these small monsters.

But Marco's bad mood didn't continue to get worse.He breathed in that pleasant fragrance, although it came and went, as long as it passed through the nasal cavity, it would bring a pleasant feeling.His jelly-like brain has captured a little bit of clues, but there is too much information to process, and the clues appear disorganized.

The information here includes the hug just now.He knew why he wanted to hug Ace. The sense of mission and hormones made him make unusual moves.He admitted that it was a bit irrational, but his mature thinking ability and rich coping experience gave him the confidence to perfectly resolve the embarrassment.Embarrassment means encountering various reactions such as Ace's incomprehension, rejection, and even anger.But not only did Ace not reject his overly ambiguous hug, he didn't even ask why.

When Ace put his hands on his back, he had the illusion that he felt as if he had touched the port of the key.But that feeling is fleeting.After this short hug ended, everything went back to normal.

The boy was still relaxed and cheerful, with out-of-key songs and brisk steps, in line with his usual free and easy image.Marco breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, no matter who it is, maintaining the status quo is the best choice.Ace still has a long life ahead of him, and there's no need to make imprints on his future that could become annoyances.And for myself, who has already gone one-third of my life, there is no need to add an insignificant color to the already colorful life course.

Although the red in front of me is so attractive, both physically and mentally, they are almost perfectly blended together.

Ace felt his heart beating a little strangely.Not beating wildly as a matter of course, but beating slowly with a strange rhythm.Like a melody I've never heard before.His cheeks should have been hot, but he just felt a chill in the back of his head, as if he had done something bad secretly.If Marco pays more attention, he will probably notice his uncoordinated movements.

He is not a timid person, but now he really can't muster up the courage to look back.A bad head does not mean that he has a bad sense of touch. The sixth sense of human beings is amazing. It seems to be nothing but it can often save your life in the most dangerous time.Ace intuited that he had received something extraordinary, but he couldn't put it into words.

"Do you remember the story of the one-legged rabbit? Bramank told it."

Marco asked suddenly.Ace's mind was in a mess, and he just said casually: "Oh, remember, is that the red-eyed rabbit?"

"No, the red-eyed rabbit was what Arnold said yesterday."

"Oh, then I forgot."

Ace turned his head slightly, and from Marco's perspective, he could only see his nose and eyelashes.He smiled slightly and continued: "That one-legged rabbit can't see, so it thinks the world is dark. It doesn't feel sad for the darkness, and lives happily every day."

"How can it live if it can't see? Or is it the only rabbit in the world?"

"Listen to me...but one day a strange animal came into its world, and it said to the rabbit: 'Dude, you look so beautiful even though you only have one foot!' The rabbit was surprised that he hadn't met before. I have seen creatures that can talk like it, and I don’t know what’s wrong with one of my feet. Oh, no, it should be that it doesn’t know what a leg is at all, because it can only see darkness and thinks that it is also a part of darkness member. So the stranger's words frightened it."

Ace slowed down.He thought for a while and said, "Then how does it know it's a rabbit?"

"It never said it was a rabbit," Marko said.

"But you're telling a story about a rabbit, aren't you?"

"Okay, we don't need to argue about this. You can say it's a bull or a worm. It all depends on Bramank's personal preference."

Ace stopped, and this was the first time he voluntarily stopped to wait for Marco to come up.He asked, "And then? What happened to the rabbit?"

"...it became anxious because it didn't fit with its established worldview. Then the bad-hearted outsider said: 'If you think I'm lying to you, why don't you open your eyes? Eyes Right on your forehead.' The rabbit accepted its suggestion that it must open its so-called eyes to see the world."

"Oh, in the end the rabbit scratched his own brain and didn't see the truth, did he?"

"What... don't you remember clearly?" Marco walked beside him, turned to look at Ace and said.The latter kept creating small balls of fire in his hands, and the warm orange light kept flickering on his face.

"I remember it died, Harta complained to me, Bramank used this as his bedtime story, it kept him awake for days... and why are you telling me this ? Coax the children?"

"Ace, I never regarded you as a child. Besides, you have to get rid of the habit of always listening to half of things and not listening to half of them. Eyes need to be opened to see the truth. It's been in the dark for too long to even have the courage to make a change. Eyes or no eyes, the end is the same."

"Boss Marco, what exactly are you trying to say?" Ace was puzzled.He can't understand things that are too deep, and he doesn't intend to understand.What's more, in his opinion, this story is really stupid, and it is not as good as the ones made up by himself and Lu Fei.Marco said lightly: "It's nothing, I just don't want our journey to be too boring."

The one-legged rabbit asked, am I beautiful?

The strange animal said, yes, it was beautiful.Shining brightly in the night, it is a beauty that even the darkness cannot cover.It's just that you can't see it yourself.My soul is drawn to you, but you think you belong only to the dark.

"You can choose to say something really interesting. Let's talk about your past, or Dad..." Ace yawned.The popularization of fairy tales will end here.

"It's really interesting... Let me think about it, maybe it's (harmonious) love with a woman, do you want to hear it?" If Saatchi was there, he would be very willing to join in the memory. He called this an experience exchange between adults .Marco remembered that he usually claimed to be romantic and chic among thousands of flowers, but he called Alina to the illusion with a sad face, and his attitude was really different.Does it reflect your true heart?Really not lazy ability.Marco thought so.

"It's going to be interesting, would you like to hear it?"

"If it's this, you still shut—"

What happened next was unexpected.Ace couldn't finish his impatient words, and the ground suddenly shook.Both of them lost their balance and fell into the thorns on both sides.

"Daddy?" Ace's first reaction was.Marco jumped up, his spread wings mixed with blue flames looked extremely dazzling in the dark space.The shaking got stronger and he yelled at Ace, "Hold me—"

The ground where Ace was standing began to crack, and the crowded vegetation separated and peeled off as if being torn by something, and animals of all sizes in the forest began to rush out one after another.Ace put his arms around Marco's waist, and before his feet left the ground, a black lacquered thing resembling a turtle shell protruded from the cracked ground.More and more soil was dug out, and Ace saw a giant snake surging under the arc-shaped shell with Marco's light.The surrounding environment was affected one after another, and trees fell in all directions, almost hitting Marco, who was difficult to perform in a small space, several times.Ace hugged him tightly, raised his head and said, "It's a snake! We need to go outside first—"

"It's not a snake!" Marco kicked away the flying stones and broken logs.The ground below is collapsing rapidly, and large areas of vegetation are loosened and disintegrated.The huge monster crawled out slowly with a muffled sound.Marco led Ace straight up, the natural barrier of the tree structure had been shaken, and a large area of ​​sunlight was seeping in.

They made their way through the canopy to midair, and the vision Marco feared did not appear.This movement alarmed many birds hiding in the middle of the deep forest, and they left in groups, screaming in confusion.Marko saw a bird flying a little slower being sucked into the stomach by the monster's protruding pink tongue.

The guy has been completely exposed, the body is close to the Moby Dick, the limbs are short, and it has a dark and rough shell-Marco bets that even a sniper cannon can't hurt it half-there are tentacles on the top of the head, which looks like Very flexible and soft.This is probably the snake Ace was talking about.This behemoth also has a strange head, nearly half the length of the body, similar in shape to a snake, with eyes at the back end, where the forehead shell is, and a nose at the front end.The entire mouth can probably swallow a small pirate ship directly.

"What the hell is this? Is it a hallucination again?" Ace muttered.He held Marco in an awkward posture, and both of them were sweating profusely, and one of them would fall if he was not careful.Marco was not worried about him falling, but he was afraid that he couldn't help setting fire.This guy will become extremely willful and reckless when there is a fight.

"Can you see me?" Marko said aloud.

"Yes, I can see that you didn't shave yesterday."

"You don't need to look so clearly!! Since I can see it, it proves that this is not an illusion. Don't make a move. It's too dry here."

"Then you put me down first, no matter what, I can't hold it anymore." Ace felt that Marco's waist was as slippery as if it had been rubbed with soap bubbles.He had already used his hands and feet and still couldn't stop his body from sliding down.

"No, you can't leave me till evening. Can you put your arms around my neck?"

While they were talking, the monster had noticed the big blue bird in the sky.It made a weird cry, and its tongue shot towards Marco like a spring.

Marco sideways slightly to avoid the blow.He thought of a good idea, although not very fun.He put away the fruit ability, and the two fell immediately.He aimed at the gap between Ace's release and clasped him to his chest.Although this can be regarded as a hug, it is an emergency after all-Marco comforted himself.

"Marco! I saw the lake, you drive this guy to the lake! This is our lunch!" Ace said loudly, hooking his neck.Nearly 4 hours had passed since breakfast, and he was so hungry that his hands and feet were going weak.

"I see, don't drool on my face!"

Without the hindrance around his waist, Marco has no scruples at all.The guy who looked like a snail and a lizard swallowed several birds in a row, and once again set his target on Marco who had regained his fruit ability.The completely animal-shaped Marco easily avoided the attack of that disgusting and flexible tongue, and came to the back of this big guy without much effort.The lake is right in front, and the visual distance is only 500 meters.

"Compared to Ozzy, your ass is not enough!"

Marco licked the corner of his mouth, and kicked in the air with the momentum of flight.This kick was a bit hard, and it directly smashed a hole in the monster's buttocks. It wailed and began to rush forward without thinking.

"Captain Marco, put me down after one more kick!" Ace felt his nostrils begin to fill with the smell of barbecue.Marco's cheeks were tickled by his messy hair, and he couldn't scratch with his hands, so he could only say: "Got it, turn your head a little bit."

The second kick was even more ruthless, and almost toppled the behemoth on the spot.It howled and moved forward desperately, and a large number of trees were crushed and broken.

The lake that Ace spoke of was soon in sight.This is a natural depression, surrounded by a large piece of exposed rock faults in the shape of handcuffs, surrounded by a green lake, and there is a small isolated island in the center of the lake.The poor monster lay on the fault like a rag, kicking its forelegs forward, trying to slide from the fault into the water.Ace jumped onto the monster with a whoosh, and flames burst out of his body like exploding fireworks.

"I'm sorry, I want you to come out of the ground to fill my stomach, Fire Fist—"

Just when Marco thought everything was resolved easily, the space around him suddenly began to distort.He was taken aback, Ace froze there with his fist raised, and Marco knew that the other party also had a hallucination.He immediately flew towards Ace at high speed, but it was too late.A blank illusion enveloped the sky and covered the sky, and soon the two of them disappeared from each other's sight.