Shimmer Forest

The rekindled candlelight, like the sunlight shining through the mouth of a long, dark hole, slowly illuminates the world in front of me.Wu Hao subconsciously looked at Su Jin on the bed, who was looking at him in shock, his face pale.

"Huh? What's the matter?" All the words of explanation were forgotten, and Wu Hao looked at the bloodless face, feeling faintly uneasy.

"What happened just now?" Su Jin asked with untimely indifference and calmness, and his dark eyes were extraordinarily clear in the light of the candlelight.

"It's nothing...it's just that the candle is burnt out..." Wu Hao paused for a moment with his candle-burning hand, looking at him with blank eyes.

"Did you... hear any voice?" Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Su Jin's tone became softer, and he tried to ask.

"Voice?" The inexplicable question made Wu Hao instinctively stunned, and then shook his head: "No."

"Really?" Su Jin looked at the old wall with scratches beside him, the sound of crazy scratching nails seemed to be still lingering in his ears, and did not dissipate.After being silent for a while, he turned his eyes back to the other party, and restored his original smile: "Probably an illusion."

"...Well...the village's rule is that the candles must not be cut off at night, otherwise there will be horrible things hidden in the darkness taking the opportunity to enter..." Wu Hao walked to his side, cautiously After looking around for a while, he swallowed, and asked nervously, "You...couldn't you see something?"

"...That's not true." His nervous look made Su Jin feel extremely funny, so he raised his eyebrows and replied with a smile in his eyes.

"Ah, that's good." Wu Hao let out an exaggerated breath, and told him with a serious face: "Even if you hear someone knocking on the door, or there is a sound outside the door, you must not answer. Moreover, after Xu time, before Chen time , don't go out."

"I see." It was rare to see him look so serious, and Su Jin, who was not afraid of anything, had to be cautious and nodded seriously.

"Okay, let's go to bed early." After receiving his affirmative answer, Wu Hao resumed his usual grinning smile, patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, and then went back to the haystack and fell asleep soundly.

It didn't take long before there was a slight snoring sound, and Su Jin was a little dumbfounded, not knowing whether this guy was slow or too heartless.

He lay back on the bed again, and just as he touched the pillow, footsteps sounded outside the door, as if many people were pacing around the house, noisy and chaotic.

Su Jin felt strange. Wu Hao also said just now that there is a rule in the village that one cannot go out in the middle of the night, so why are so many people out in the middle of the night?

He opened the curtains, and it was pitch black outside, as if everything except this house had been swallowed up by blackness.It made him feel uneasy.

Subconsciously looking at Wu Hao, the other party was sleeping soundly, with a stable expression and even breathing, as if he didn't hear anything.

He walked over, patted the other person's cheek, and tried to call his name: "Wu Hao?"

The other party only frowned slightly, but did not respond.

This guy sleeps like a dead pig, and the problem of being unable to wake up no matter what, really has continued from ancient times to the present...

Su Jin sighed, walked to the door of the house, hesitated for a long time, and decided to find out.

The moment his hand was on the door, the noisy footsteps outside the house stopped abruptly.

As if there was a tacit understanding, the people outside knew that he was going out, so they stopped and waited for him in front of the door.

Su Jin felt this way.

Those people stood neatly in front of his door, staring straight into the house.

The undisguised sharp eyes pierced through the door of the thatched cottage and pierced his body.

It's like sizing up your prey.

He took a step back unconsciously.

When the hand left the door, the footsteps outside the house became disturbed and noisy again.

The footsteps sounded like many people were on their way, taking a walk, playing around, and it sounded perfectly normal.

It was also because of this that the moment of silence just now was even more terrifying.

This village is too abnormal.

He withdrew his clenched hands, looked at the suspected sleeping person, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

No sleep for one night.

At dawn, Wu Hao got up from the haystack, opened the window to check the situation outside the window.

The outside of the house was still shrouded in yellow sand mist, and the dim sunlight behind the yellow sand could be vaguely seen.The land was barren and dry, riddled with fissures.

His brows were tightly wrinkled into the word Chuan.The dense fog that lingers for several days is a warning from the "God" to the village.If there is no saint coming, I am afraid that someone will disappear and be taken away by the gods and become a sacrifice.

"What are you looking at?" Su Jin didn't know when she stood behind him, pressed against his back lightly, and looked out with her hand on the window.

The long sleeves brushed against Wu Hao's cheeks, as soft and cold as water.He instinctively turned his face sideways, and saw Su Jin's collarbone clearly visible in his half-opened clothes.

Looking down unconsciously, he even imagined the white skin wrapped under the bandage.His face started to get hot without warning, he hurriedly looked away, and replied in a panic: "No, it's nothing!"

"The weather is really bad." As if not aware of his panic, Su Jin looked at the invisible distance and sighed softly: "In such a place...does it really exist...?"

"What?" Although the voice talking to himself was small, it was still easily captured by Wu Hao.

Su Jin withdrew his gaze from a distance, looked at him with clear eyes, and smiled: "That colorful place you mentioned."

"Really!" Wu Hao was stunned for a moment, never expecting that he would remember his words so clearly in his heart.He anxiously replied loudly, trying to cover up his ecstasy and restless heart: "I'll take you there."

After finishing speaking, he held his hand involuntarily and ran away.

Su Jin could no longer keep up with his reaction speed, this person was still the same as before, doing whatever came to his mind.Su Jin let him hold her hand and galloped through the dense fog.In the misty village, only the figure in front of him was extremely clear. Su Jin followed his footsteps, and he did not know how long he had advanced. He faintly felt that as long as he ran all the way, he could cross the long river of time and return to that Once young, carefree time.

The footsteps became more relaxed and vacant, and even the pain on his body gradually faded away.He vaguely remembered that he followed Wu Hao through the dark cave, and the glowing exotic flowers and plants in the cave illuminated them, casting mottled light and shadow on the road.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, bright rays of light projected in from the exit, the faint fragrance of flowers lingered around the tip of the nose, and the sound of gurgling water flowed in the ears, lingering and pleasant.

At the moment of leaving the cave, the breeze swept the colorful petals, and looking around, there were bright and blooming apricot blossoms all over the mountains and plains.The green hills in the distance are continuous, and the emerald green grass and leaves are mixed in this sea of ​​rice and white, which is colorful and gorgeous.The sky is blue and the clouds are flying. On the cliff not far away, the silver waterfall flows down and falls into the bottomless deep pool, splashing dense mist.

Much like the hometown where he grew up.

Wu Hao stood behind him, looking at the thin and tall figure standing in the sea of ​​flowers.The moment he turned around, there was a sudden gust of wind, the shadow of the tree shook, making a pleasant rustling sound, and the petals scattered everywhere.In the extraterrestrial valleys with green mountains and green waters, there was a rain of flowers.And Su Jin stood quietly in the rain of flowers, her thin clothes were light and elegant, blooming a piece of green, blending into the valley full of flying flowers, branding a scroll in her eyes.

Looking back for a moment.And that moment is enough to make people promise the rest of their lives.

Among the flying flowers, the man's lips opened and closed, calling out his name.

Facing the wind, Wu Hao walked towards him step by step.The petals slapped on his face, but he no longer cared about the scenery, only Su Jin's face gradually became clear in his sight.After a long silence, the two looked at each other through the rain of flowers. Su Jin's pale face broke into a smile, and his clear eyes were as gentle as water.

He closed his eyes and involuntarily touched Su Jin's lips.The lips were moist and soft, exuding fragrance like flower petals.

The touch of lips, the entanglement of tongues.Everything happened so naturally.Flowers were flying all over the sky, the green shirt faded away, and the flower-like red hickey marks were imprinted on the white skin, blooming into a beautiful scenery.

Su Jin closed her eyes, feeling the real strength and warmth from Wu Hao.Sweat glistened slightly on Wu Hao's dark skin, then rolled down along the resolute cheeks, dripped on the ground, and fainted circles of water stains.

He thought, the emotion in the sea of ​​flowers, such endless entanglement, might never happen again.

The bright sunshine makes people dizzy.Wu Hao hugged him tightly, and his burning breath, along with his gentle words, gently brushed against his ears: "Hey, Su Jin, is there any place you want to go? I'll take you there."

Su Jin buried her head in his arms, with a slight smell of sweat remaining in her breath.He didn't answer, but just put a smile on his lips.

The place I want to go the most, in fact, has already arrived.

The warm sunshine was scattered on the ground, and the two hugged each other, and fell asleep in their clothes in the rain of flowers all over the sky.