I Was Once a Legend

When Dong Linhai heard Victor's roar, it was already too late. He yelled and tore off the thing lying on his back, and saw what it looked like.

As if just crawled out of the sea of ​​blood, the whole body was soaked and swelled like a broken sack full of things, the flesh and blood on the face turned up, only the facial features of a human could be seen in the blur, and the long hair was wrapped around it , messy and dirty.

"Cluck cluck cluck cluck—"

It was squatting on the ground like a frog, opening its ferocious mouth towards Dong Linhai, and an indescribable sound came out of its throat.

Dong Linhai was so frightened by this scene that was completely beyond his psychological tolerance that his heartbeat almost stopped, he staggered back two steps, almost unable to hold You Yuetong in his arms.

The place on the back where he was lying on it was extremely itchy, and turned into a burning pain. Dong Linhai couldn't bear it anymore and went back to grab it. With just a light touch, a large piece of flesh fell off his body.

He clearly felt the pain of the cold wind blowing across his bare spine.

"Ahhh-!"

Dong Linhai screamed in horror, and went to cover the wound on his back, but more flesh and blood fell off one after another.In an instant, something moved behind him, and You Yuetong in his arms also raised his head at this time, blood and tears flowed from the girl's dark eyes, and a deep incision from left ear to right ear cut open her entire face.

She held Dong Linhai's neck tightly, with black blood gushing from the corners of her lips, and she smiled at him with three missing teeth.

"he he he he he……"

"Victor!"

"Roar--!"

The moment Dong Linhai screamed and threw away the kid in his arms, a giant beast with a pair of thick wings suddenly appeared in front of him, roaring!

The silvery white light shone, and for a moment the ghouls howled and the little ghosts screamed, and the white bones that wanted to grab Dong Linhai's legs and feet came out of the ground and shattered, all the filth and ghosts screamed and melted into sticky black puddles in an instant. Water, seeping into the land.

Dong Linhai fell to his knees. There was no intact flesh on his back. Black blood flowed from the broken torso. The white spine was connected to the ribs, like some unknown multi-legged insect. Move slightly.

The passing of life made Linhai feel dizzy for a while. He was like a giant white tiger with his ears trembling slightly. He walked slowly in front of him, lowered his head, and the pink nose forced the young man's heavily drooping head up.

"Wake up," it said.

Dong Linhai suddenly opened his eyes.

He was still in this forest, and the light of the hut was clearly visible in front of him. The girl carved in pink and jade sat in his arms, stretched out her small hand and touched his face, her eyes full of worry.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Dong Linhai looked around in panic, and there was no feeling of being secretly peeped in the fog, nor was there any ghost shadow that seemed to be everywhere.

Everything just now was an illusion?

Victor stood at his feet, looked up at the boy with some difficulty, and asked, "The fog here is weird, did you also fall into hallucinations just now?"

Dong Linhai nodded, still not fully recovered from the fear of dying, the weight of the girl in his arms made him unable to restrain himself from thinking of the little ghost that turned into blood.

Facing the worry and puzzlement in Shang You Yuetong's pure eyes, he turned his head stiffly, trying hard to suppress the urge to put her down and other evil thoughts.

No, those are just hallucinations, you can't think like this, it's too disgusting, Dong Linhai, how can you be so disgusting?

How many people can really bear it when the evil that exists deep in everyone's heart is bloodied and displayed in front of them?

But no matter what, now Dong Linhai finally stopped the more unbearable thoughts. He took a deep breath and controlled himself from thinking about the horrors in his hallucinations. Looking at the lights of the cabin in front of him and Victor wagging his tail slowly, He frowned.

Victor urged: "Let's go, go to the house in front, and the ruins should be there. It will be much easier after you have a ticket."

Dong Linhai stood there without moving.

He stared at the white cat, and suddenly said: "Uncle, didn't we agree before we came in that if it wasn't the most critical situation, wouldn't you give me any extra assistance?"

The white cat stopped abruptly.

"You're not Victor, who are you?" Dong Linhai took two steps back warily.

"Victor" squatted quietly in front of him, with his tail lapped behind him.Under Dong Linhai's vigilant gaze, its amber eyes turned emerald green like jewels, and it grinned, revealing a big crescent-like smile and jagged teeth, and its pure white hair turned gray and black.

"Which way are you going?" it asked.

The body belonging to the British bobtail cat gradually disappeared, the cat stared at Dong Linhai, the pair of green eyes finally disappeared, and finally there was only a crooked smile hanging in the air.

"I'm not Alice." Dong Linhai was completely calm, he raised his hand, breaking the last smile like a calm lake.

"I know where I'm going."

Then everything around was broken, and the lights of the hut not far away became brighter and brighter, and finally filled Dong Linhai's entire field of vision.

Dong Linhai opened his eyes again.

The flames of the kerosene lamp on the table in front of him danced in the lampshade, which was the warm light of the hut he had just seen in the illusion.Victor squatted on the table, licking and combing his hair, while You Yuetong sat beside him, playing with a pair of plush gloves.

This house is a wooden house that looks similar from the outside. The walls and roof are made of logs of similar thickness. There is a window in the living room, which is half-closed at this time, and the wind blows in. There are tables and chairs. Also wooden.

There are many beautiful embroidered blankets hanging on the wall, the patterns seem to contain some kind of mystery, an old-fashioned gramophone is placed in the corner, the round table is covered with a beige lace tablecloth, and a few unnamed flowers are inserted in the high-necked water bottle in the middle. The flowers, with dew on the petals, are very lively.

The fireplace was burning quietly, with a crackle or two now and then.

The "woman" in a long black dress came over and put the four steaming cups of tea on the tray on the table.She has a deer's head and two small antlers on top of her head, but her exquisite figure really belongs to a young girl.

"Are you awake? Just try my new pansy tea." Miss Lu sat down in another chair. She was wearing a short black shawl with pleats and long light gloves, just like walking through old photos in the Republic of China. come out girl.

Dong Linhai was completely at a loss. He looked at Victor. The white cat was tentatively testing the water temperature with its paws. Sensing the boy's doubts, he replied: "You are trapped by those earth-bound spirits outside, and you are hallucinating. He and Tongtong brought it here."

Dong Linhai suddenly realized that Victor's current attitude was familiar to him, and he finally felt relieved: "Eh? Is it just me who got tricked?"

"Tongtong is too young, and he doesn't have so much filth and fear that can be used in his heart, and they don't work on me." Victor's tongue couldn't accept the too hot water, so he finally gave up and jumped to Dongtong. Linhai's knees.

Miss Lu smiled softly and said: "Being able to break free from the illusion of the earth-binding spirit is considered to have passed my first test."

"test?"

Miss Lu: "Aren't you here just to obtain the ruins in this world fragment? I do have some things that you may use, but I don't want to give them to you so easily."

Hearing that there is a treasure here, Dong Linhai's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What about the next test?"

"Do you just want to take things and leave?" Miss Lu's smile was still gentle, but Dong Linhai could hear the sadness in her voice.

The boy scratched his hair in embarrassment, and explained: "The main reason is that we are short on time, and this box will be closed in less than three hours."

"No, the time here is much slower than outside, you can stay with me for a while." Miss Lu held up a cup of tea, blew on the light-colored petals stretched on the water, and said softly: "Tell me Tell me a story, if I like it, I will give it to you and send you out."

tell a story?

Dong Linhai thought that the so-called test might be asking him to do something difficult to accomplish, or to experience the same danger as before, but... tell a story?

Is it that simple?

"Is it all right to just tell a story?"

Miss Lu thought for a while: "I want a story about animals, tears, deceit, love and hope."

Dong Linhai, who had just passed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in his mind: ……………………

Then let him do something else!How could he tell such a story!

"Let me come." Victor said suddenly, "I still remember such a story, which I once read to my three daughters."

three daughters?

Although he knew that Victor was turned into a human, it was the first time Dong Linhai heard him talk about himself.

That Victor is almost 40 or [-] years old.

Victor found a comfortable position and sat down. He pondered for a while, and his thoughts traveled through the long river of time, returning to the peaceful rainy night 20 years ago.

He came home from the hospital after a busy day's work, sat next to his five-year-old daughter's bed, picked up a book from the old market, and read this story for the first time in the sound of rain outside the window.

"On the remote Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is a group of Tibetan antelopes. There are many mosses growing on the plateau, and these mosses will become very chewy dried moss after drying, so they use the time it takes to chew a piece of dried moss as a timing Methods.

"In a certain ethnic group, there is a small Tibetan antelope named Pudawa..."

Meanwhile, the Labyrinth of Time.

Panting, Lin Hangzhi came out of the secret realm, looked at the light blue ticket in his hand, and almost burst into tears with excitement.

The devil knows what he just went through!

Once the ticket is in hand, the ultimate task now is to ensure your own safety, and collecting a few more fragments will complete the box successfully!

Thinking of this, Lin Hangzhi felt a lot relieved. The 29-year-old young doctor was about to go around to see if he could find the door again, when he saw a woman coming out of the corner in front of him.

Her long straight black hair hangs loose behind her, and her body is so clean and tidy that she doesn't look like she's in a box at all, uh... a bit pretty.

The girl passing by also saw Lin Hangzhi, this young man with a sad face.

And the ticket that he didn't have time to put away.