no puppet

Suddenly, countless shattering sounds came from my ears, and there were several dazzling white lights in front of my eyes, but only for a short moment, the fragmented light and shadow scattered and gathered, and finally merged into one place silently, returning to the stagnant water General silence and silence.

Xie Hengyan opened her eyes for the last time, and her surroundings were filled with an indelible darkness.In the chaos, he tried to stretch out his hands, but the space he touched was cold and soft. At that time, it was empty and empty, like a bottomless deep pool.

The white sand, mist, and the distant sound of boats piling up on Tongjing Island, accompanied by the faint flames ignited by the stars, all disappeared at that moment and turned into invisible dust all over the sky. They scattered without a trace.

Xie Hengyan suddenly turned around, in a trance, as if he had returned to the New Year's Eve, he and Yin Chun were holding hands and walking side by side on the streets of a small town covered with red lanterns—but in the blink of an eye, the turbulent time around him suddenly Following the upstream, the scene of shining lights in front of them suddenly disappeared with the wind, and they returned to the island of Yongcun for no reason. The few of them faced the sea, laughed and waved the fireworks in their hands, and imagined the warm scene of the future together...

The sparks ignited by the talisman paper on the beach pier, the life-and-death relationship when they were drifting at sea, the Qixi Festival lanterns outside the river beach in Laifeng Town, and...the first reunion at the Fuze Mountain Shrine.

All the clear to vague memory fragments in the past are rolling like running water, passing by Xie Hengyan constantly, and all things and scenes are regressing, twisting, shattering, and finally disappearing completely in the passing time——

In the overwhelming darkness, Xie Hengyan took a deep breath, finally trembling, and slowly stretched out his hands.

But this time, what he touched was no longer the remnants of tenderness in the past, but the scorching heat and sharp, tearing pain that kept heating up one after another.

When he reacted consciously, there was a commotion in the surroundings, and a raging fire rushed towards the sky, suddenly illuminating most of the corner of the sky.

——It was a shattered town 25 years ago that was ravaged by a war.There are collapsed ruins everywhere, violent sparks ignited by the wind, and countless fragmented corpses.

Behind the crumbling stone wall, a thin puppet, with bare feet, held a weakly breathing baby in its arms. They cuddled together tightly, and walked through countless bloody corpses with difficulty... For a while In a panic, I don't know where to go.

"This seal of karma was originally a demonic thing that I got from other places. Now I hand it over to you. In exchange between you and me, you need to take my child... take him... bring him... He went where he could be as safe as possible."

It was filled with endless thick smoke and unextinguished sparks.

The woman's body was covered in blood, and most of her face was disfigured, almost soaked in the residue of sweat and blood, accompanied by scorched wounds after being burned by the fire, so that at this moment, she was like an evil ghost crawling from hell Generally hideous.

"Those people are nearby...they won't let me go." The woman said with difficulty while coughing up blood, "but I know...I know you can do it, you are different from all puppets .You must be able to protect his... right?"

In front of the woman was a charred wooden man.

The wooden man remained motionless, with dull eyes, and sat stiffly beside her, as if it took a long time before he tilted his head in a daze, and repeated what the woman said: "... protect, protect him?"

"Yes, protect him." With the last of her strength, the woman tightly clenched the hands of the puppet.After a while, she took a deep breath and took out the swaddle that wrapped the baby bit by bit from her arms.

Before the puppet could react, the woman's bloodshot eyes suddenly shed tears.

"If it is not forced to help, who would want to abandon the newborn child and become an irresponsible mother?" The woman's voice trembled uncontrollably, "In the end, I am not blessed, I am incompetent, After all, there is no way to see this child grow up..."

After saying this, the woman finally raised her hand, and gently pressed the warm demon mark on the puppet's thin chest.

"My life is not long. From now on... only you can accompany this child, and I will walk slowly for the rest of my life." Her voice became lower and lower, as if she was about to disappear at any time, "Puppet, promise me , no matter what happens in the future, you must be by his side... Do you understand?"

The puppet nodded blankly, then shook his head helplessly for a moment, but the woman had already shifted her gaze to the baby in the swaddle, trying her best to squeeze out a bitter smile.

"Ah Chun, you...don't hate me."

The woman's warm tears, mixed with inexhaustible blood stains, trickled down her side cheeks bit by bit, and in an instant a bright and seductive red flower bloomed on the baby's pale forehead, "You just have to remember, no matter what No matter where you are, your parents will always love you... In the future, even if you don't have your mother by your side, there will always be someone who will always accompany you and love you forever."

The puppet was still in a daze, and he didn't know how long it took to barely learn a completely unfamiliar new word from the woman.

"...Love?" He followed up dryly, "Love him..."

"Yes, love him and protect him."

The woman said with tears in her eyes: "I'm not a competent mother, I can't accompany Ah Chun until he grows up, and leave him to live alone in this world, what a miserable child..."

The puppet picked up the baby in swaddling clothes, eyes drooping slightly, and then murmured: "Love him, protect him..."

"Ah Chun, I'm sorry. I really have sinned so deeply that I have not been able to raise my own child." The woman trembled suddenly, and tears fell like a spring:

"If... you died from the beginning, maybe the result... is better than anything else."

The raging fire burned all over the collapsed town in front of him. The puppet's dark and clear eyes reflected the woman's haggard face full of tears, as well as the skinny baby who was still in his arms with his eyes closed.

In a trance, the puppet sticks out half of its cold knuckles, trying to touch the sleeping baby's side face - but at this moment, the overwhelming rapid fire retreated layer by layer and disappeared, replaced by unprovoked fires. There was a little bit of hazy mist.

Xie Hengyan suddenly felt that her arms were empty, the tearful woman in front of her eyes, the baby with closed eyes in the swaddle, the stone walls and ruins that were originally torn apart, and the horrific broken corpses everywhere, all disappeared.

When the white mist around him gradually dissipated, and there was no one around him, he seemed to be stepping on a piece of clean white paper, and walked a certain distance half-heartedly, finally, in the depth of the mist surrounded by clouds and smoke behind him. There, I saw a very familiar figure.

Wearing a rare snow-colored thin shirt, her pale, paper-like transparent complexion almost blends with the clouds and mist surrounding her.

The man didn't seem to be surprised when he heard the footsteps coming from behind him. He didn't even look back, and greeted him almost as if nothing had happened: "... are you back?"

With such a relaxed and ordinary tone, it seems that they are family members who have been together for a long time, and now they have only been separated for decades, and they will finally meet again at the end of another time and space.

"How? In the past two or thirty years, I think...you should have grown a lot."

The man smiled lowly, and when he said this, he turned around suddenly, and the familiar face reflected in the depths of the puppet's eyes was really similar to that portrait...

You Qing Shenjun.

Such an obvious clear face, together with the playful smile in his eyes that never dissipated, seemed that his visit to the world this time was just to satisfy a bit of curiosity, or to play a game without any burden.

But Xie Hengyan was in a daze, standing still at the same time, looking down at his left heart, there was a wound pierced by a sharp sword, the karma seal had already been torn into pieces, but he couldn't feel any pain, just about to When he stepped forward, You Qing at the other end had slowly come back, and now he saw the puppet in such a distressed appearance, covered in dirt, it turned out to be a complete wooden body embedded with iron legs, but he couldn't tell for a while. funny clumsiness.

You Qingzheng was thinking about it, and after a while, he couldn't help but sneered.He shook his head repeatedly, then let out a long sigh, turned his head and said to Xie Hengyan: "It seems that I haven't made any progress, but I have suffered a lot."

"Wh, what do you mean?" Xie Hengyan asked puzzledly, "My karma seal is all broken, shouldn't I be dead long ago? Why did I come back to you again?"

"Why do you say?" You Qing smiled, and moved slightly to the outside, Xie Hengyan noticed that there were two incomplete puppet figures lying in an inconspicuous corner beside them - they were so quiet Lying quietly, the head, neck, and limbs were all broken at that time, and it seemed that there was no complete appearance.

"Don't look at it, it's useless." You Qing hissed and sighed, "Back then I exhausted all my powers and made three wooden figurines in general, and two of them were brought by that strange girl. Completely ruined the human form."

"Who is the strange girl?" Xie Hengyan asked in a daze, "Are you talking about Fang Yan?"

"Well...Actually, I don't know what her name is. I just think it's interesting, but it's also a malleable talent. It's more like a bird that can only fly high, and it goes straight to her free place."

When You Qing talked about this point, he couldn't help showing a regretful expression: "It's just that her life is not long. Speaking of which, I don't want this girl's life to be long. Since she has been alive all these years, she has always tried every means to add something to me. Chaos. Now the barrier is completely shattered, but the lives of those living people will eventually perish—you can tell me, I, You Qingtang, a living god is alive, but I owe countless life debts because of her actions , wouldn’t it damage my merit in vain?”

"I don't know." Xie Hengyan said to him in a daze, "I just want to ask you, if Fang Yan is gone, those barriers will also be gone... After that, will all the living people in the barrier disappear with you? It disappeared all together?"

You Qing raised his eyebrows and said, "...Yes, otherwise, what do you think?"

Xie Hengyan staggered, and knelt down on the ground, staring blankly at the front, forgetting what she was doing for a moment.

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Here, in order to avoid the plot being muddled, a section that is more important but unnecessary to write is omitted.

It was the five days when the puppet and Yinma were alone. Yinma was regarded as the enlightenment teacher of the puppet's thinking. harmony.

Yin's mother loves Yinzhu very much. She loves her so much that she feels that it is a sinful thing not to take care of Yinzhu. That's why she said "you died in the first place". In fact, this is not to blame Yinzhu's birth. On the contrary, it is her inner self-condemnation.

The other is Youqing Shenjun, a distorted character who is very off-line and almost completely out of the same dimension as the protagonist.

As a god, he has lived for 10,000+ years, and his life is always monotonous and boring. The only thing he can do at this time is to play with the weaker beings than himself, and watch them struggle wildly because of the unfair fate. For You Qing, it is a very interesting thing.

So you don’t need logic to analyze You Qing, his purpose is very simple, it’s just that he can have fun hahahahahaha