The mountain ghost blows out the lights

Shen Lianxing sat on a branch and stared blankly at the fight below.

The place was very dark, and his lantern fell under a tree and was knocked by a raised stone, and the flame finally couldn't hold on and went out.He could barely see the two shadows under the tree by the faint moonlight.

The black shadows criss-crossed quickly in mid-air, one of the smaller ones slowly sheathed the knife, and the other long shadow paused in mid-air for a moment, as if it hadn't reacted yet, and then...

He was cut in two on the spot.

A lot of blood splashed out and fell on the ground like rain, everything in the world resumed its actions, and time moved again.

The clouds that covered the moonlight floated lazily away from the moon, and the moonlight finally illuminated the land again, and also illuminated the mess on the land.

The young man stood among the remains of the giant snake, crossed his hands, and swung the two scimitars in the air twice.I don't know if it was because he moved too fast or what, but the blades of the two knives were sharp, and there was no snake blood at all.He turned his head and glanced at Shen Lianxing, who was still sitting in the middle of the tree branch. After making sure that the child was still safe, he put the knife away.

At the beginning, only the scabbard of the long knife hung on his waist, and Shen Lianxing never saw another scabbard.Seeing him put away the knife now, he realized that the scabbard of the short knife was tied to his left forearm. The blade and the scabbard were extremely thin, so Shen Lianxing didn't notice it when he roughly swept over it just now.

The young man chopped off the long snake's head, frowned at the snake's big head, and kicked it aside in disgust.After thinking about it, he kicked back again, but without seeing what he was doing, a flickering spark flashed from his fingertips, as if he wanted to connect the snake's head with the still writhing torso, and set it on fire.

"Hey..." Shen Lianxing had jumped off the branch by himself at this time.Seeing that he was going to burn the snake now, he subconsciously took a step forward, then tightly pursed his lips, hesitating to speak.

He has to keep that thing as evidence that the snake is dead, otherwise the group of people...

But he didn't kill the snake, and if the other party didn't give it to him, there was nothing he could do.

Shen Lianxing looked at the young man in confusion, thinking about how to get him to keep the snake's head for himself.

"What's the matter?" The young man looked at him wonderingly, followed his line of sight to look at the snake's head, and suddenly realized, "You want this?"

With a tense expression, Shen Lianxing nodded nervously and seriously.

"Here it is for you." The young man was useless to ask for that thing, so he bent down to pick up the snake's head happily, knocked it twice on the stone on one side, and broke the two long fangs.

He looked around again, plucked up a few handfuls of long and tough grass leaves, made a simple grass rope two or three times, tied the snake's head like a live fish in a vegetable market, and handed it to Shen Lianxing. He instructed: "However, this food should not be too delicious, and it is also poisonous... Remember to clean up the poison sac when you go home and stew."

...Who said you want to eat this thing!

Shen Lianxing silently took the snake's head that was still dripping with blood. It's not that he didn't want to speak, but he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say for a while.

The young man didn't expect him to reply either.After handing the snake's head to Shen Lianxing, he walked around the snake's body, estimated it, pulled out the slightly longer machete from his waist, and drew an irregular circle on the ground.

"This thing is harmful when it's alive, and pollutes the vegetation when it's dead." He seemed to be explaining to Shen Lianxing, and he seemed to be talking to himself, "It's better to burn it with a fire. Child, stand back, don't burn you."

Shen Lianxing didn't know what he was going to do, so he backed away as he said, holding the snake's head.

The young man put the scimitar back into the scabbard, and opened his palm facing the center of the circle he made with the knife.

Fragments of flames fell from his palms.

Shen Lianxing saw that the snake clearly had hard and slippery scales, which seemed invulnerable, but once it fell into his hands, it became a first-class flammable object.He just leaked a little spark from his fingers, stuck to the brightly colored scales, and immediately started a prairie fire.

The fire illuminated the open space where the two were. Although it was burning flesh and blood, there was no special smell, like a bright bonfire.

The cold mountain wind whirls past the young man a bit of sparkling foam with snakeskin on it, but he doesn't even look at it, and gently pinches it out with two fingers.

The flame that devoured the snake's body was extremely hot, but it only burned quietly in the small area he circled.Many times, the flame seemed to be about to lick the tip of the grass on the side, and then retracted its scorching tentacles dangerously. It was obviously a lifeless thing, and it seemed that it seemed a bit resigned, and it shrank obediently there. Small area.

Shen Lianxing watched silently from the sidelines. At this moment, he lowered his eyelids thoughtfully, staring at the blood-stained ground under his feet.

When the long snake was on this mountain, it was extremely ferocious, coiled up like a hill, it could break his body just by strangling it, and it could swallow him in one mouthful by removing the mandible... But it turned out that it was also in the fire. It was only enough to burn for a moment and a half, and there was only such a small pile of ashes left.

Death is like a lamp being extinguished, not even as good as his lantern, which can still be of some use.

He raised his head again, almost in a daze, and stretched out his hand to touch the fire that burned in front of him.

The young man beside him gave a gentle 'tsk' and slapped his hand down: "Don't move."

After thinking about it, I added another sentence: "Be obedient, children play with fire and pee on the kang."

Shen Lianxing: ...

He retracted his hand, holding back the anger of being underestimated as a child, and stopped moving.

The fire burns fast and goes out quickly.

Ashes and embers return to dust.

"Oh, by the way, kid, what's your name?" The young man remembered to ask him when he watched the last light of the fire disappear into the darkness.

Although he saved himself, Shen Lianxing couldn't figure out his origin, and didn't know what the other party would do after learning his identity, so he just cautiously lowered his head and said nothing.

The young man didn't have to know, he quickly changed his mind, turned his head and said: "Forget it, it's okay if you don't want to say it, I won't ask you why you are still on the mountain so late. The mountain is very dangerous, do you know how to go down the mountain?" ?”

Shen Lianxing didn't know.

He came up the mountain alone tonight, and he put all his body and mind on how to pull the snake to die together, and he didn't actually expect that he could survive it alive.

He seemed to realize this problem only now.

You don't have to die, you can go down the mountain safely...it's like a dream.

"What about you?" He stared straight at the young man in front of him and asked him, "It's so late, why did you go up the mountain?"

The young man didn't expect him to ask himself back, he seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then he rubbed Shen Lianxing's head, messing up his neat hairstyle, and then said perfunctorily, "...I won't tell you."

"The snake you chopped up just now." Shen Lianxing said seriously, "They say it is a mountain god, and no one can do anything about it. If you kill it, you are more powerful than the mountain god."

The young man looked at him, and casually ground the ashes on the ground with his toes.

He was born very good-looking, with fair skin against which can be called gorgeous facial features, eyebrows and eyes are in the most suitable places, there is a little red tail trailing at the corners of the eyes, it is the blood of the snake that splashed on his face just now, screaming. He erased it casually with the back of his hand, adding a deceptive appeal to his delicate features.

"Mountain God—" His voice was drawn out strangely, like a taunt, but also like an exclamation, "It's just a half-breed candle dragon, I don't know the old blood passed down thousands of years ago, and I don't even know how to go back to my ancestors." Can't be called. Such a thing is worthy of being called a mountain god?"

"Have you ever seen a mountain god who can eat people?"

Shen Lianxing shook his head. He had never seen a mountain god, and he had never seen anyone who could eat people or not.

The young man suddenly looked at Shen Lianxing again, seeming to be teasing, but also asking him seriously: "My child, I saved your life, what are you going to thank me for?"

What are you taking?

Shen Lianxing became serious, and he thought about everything on his body in his mind.That thing is a family heirloom, if someone gives it back, he will be beaten by the owner, the lantern... the lantern is worthless, but apart from these two things, he doesn't seem to have anything else on him.

The child was thinking in distress, his face wrinkled into a ball.

"Hey—" The young man was amused, and just about to say that he was joking, he saw Shen Lianxing pat his body.The child found nothing, so he reached out and removed the hair tie.Both ends of the belt were covered with warm white jade, which was very beautiful under the moonlight. Obviously, although the object was small, it was of great value.

"I...I have nothing else I can give you right now." Shen Lianxing lowered his head, hurriedly stuffed the hair tie into the young man's hand, and swore to him, "but in the future... I will sooner or later One day you will become the head of the Shen family, you keep this thing, and when the time comes, take it and come to the Shen family to find me..."

"As long as I can do it, I will give you everything." The child promised solemnly.

When he said this, he also felt a little embarrassed, as if he was fooling someone, so he stopped looking at the young man's face, turned around and wanted to leave.

The young man stood where he was, without making a sound for a long time.

Shen Lianxing picked up the lantern that fell under the root of the tree. The light had long been extinguished, and the wick had exerted the last residual heat. There was a hole in the center of the lantern, and there was no trace of the cotton rope at all.

He clenched his hands lightly, didn't speak, turned around and planned to touch the darkness—whether it's rolling down the mountain or climbing down the mountain, the biggest threat is dead, and there is always a way to do other things.

After this episode, no one would want to kill him again.

The young man held the headband in his hand, held it up to the light, and stared at it for a long time as if he was holding some rare object.He looked at the child, then at the fireflies flying around in the mountains, thought for a long time, and then stopped him and said, "Hey, kid, don't go, I'll show you something new."

When Shen Lianxing turned around, he saw him stretch out his finger and draw a curved line in front of his eyes casually.

After all, it was a child, Shen Lianxing's eyes widened, and even the hand that was tightly holding the object in his arms couldn't help but loosen, and slowly released the force, hanging down, revealing half of the metal fan bone.

The fireflies with faint light gathered quietly, huddled around each other, and passed through the gaps in the branches of the trees in the forest. The beautiful shape is clearly outlined.

The bottom refers to the exit of the deep mountain, and the top connects to the endless sky.

With a casual call, he gave the young child a Milky Way.