Diliu pulp

The time is still 6 p.m., but because it is very cloudy and raining heavily, the sky looks as if it has reached night. At this time, in this weather, a figure appeared on the roof of the building.

This is an ordinary human man, but there is a strange-shaped "bird" on his shoulder: single claws, blue-eyed, eagle-sized, and looks like a legendary phoenix. Its feathers are composed of burning flames. The raindrops are quickly evaporated, making its body surrounded by a mass of water. . This is the "Shadow Phantom" Zhou Ying and his fire spirit beast "Bifang" fire.

Zhou Ying used a water curse around his body, and Huoer didn't care about such a rainstorm at all. They raised their heads and looked at the sky to calculate the time. Although it had rained for a day and a night, it would definitely stop before the moon came out tonight, because the monsters living in this city were not only Zhou Ying and Huoer, and no one wanted to miss the moonlight on July 15 of the year of Geng Shen.

A big black dog suddenly emerged from the floor and ran quickly to Zhou Ying. Although its body was exposed on the roof, its four claws were still trapped in the reinforced concrete of the building, which did not affect its running speed. When it was approaching Zhou Ying, its forelimbs were raised and turned into a monster with long hair and claws, and then He turned into a tall and handsome human man. It is the "wolf" Liu Di, Zhou Ying's only friend. Obviously, even a guy like him who is keen on eating, drinking and having fun doesn't want to miss tonight.

Liu Di came to Zhou Ying's side. Before they could speak, the pouring rain suddenly stopped. The clouds in the sky seemed to have been wiped out by something. They quickly retreated to the western sky and disappeared clean in a blink of an eye.

"Oh, it's that zombie. She is really impatient, but it's best for her to do such a thing." Liu Di said with a smile. Zombies are also called droughts, like Nanyu, a doctor who incarnated as a new city municipal hospital. If you want, you can easily make a state and county thousands of miles away. It is indeed very appropriate for her to stop this storm.

After the weather suddenly cleared, Liu Di and Zhou Ying faintly saw "human figures" on the top of dozens of skyscrapers scattered in the distance. Everyone thought the same and wanted to receive the moonlight of Geng Shennian in an unobstructed place.

With a "pop", a white nine-tailed fox also jumped on the roof and rolled on the ground and became a ten-year-old boy. He said, "My mother is so wordy. I used magic to make her fall asleep before slipping out. Fortunately, I didn't delay anything big." This is Lin Rui, a nine-tailed fox from the country of Qingqiu. His mother is an ordinary human woman. Although the mother and son are not of the same kind, they live a very happy life.

Liu Di, Zhou Ying and Huo'er greeted him with a smile. They didn't spend time greeting him, because by this time the moon had risen.

The bright moon rose out of the horizon. When the human beings in the city are in a hurry and have no time to enjoy the beautiful moon, in the eyes of the monsters who have been waiting for a long time, there seems to be hundreds of millions of olives of light in the moonlight tonight, tied by the silver moonlight and falling on the earth.

"Imperial Flow Pulp!"

Monsters began to capture and collect these things called "Emperor Flow Pulp" and integrate them into their bodies.

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On a night that humans have never noticed, the monsters spent 60 years of programming. When the sun rose in the east, it took a night of hard work for the monsters to stop their "celebration".

"Wow..." Lin Rui sat on the ground and exhaled, "I'm so tired."

Liu Di went to the railing and looked at the city that had begun to operate and said with emotion, "I don't know how many creatures will become our kind tonight."

Zhou Ying nodded with approval. He fully understood that last night was a "birth" night. He raised his fire and shouted, "Happy birthday, Huoer!"

"Happy birthday, Shadow!" Huoer rubbed his head on him and said with a smile, "We saw the emperor's pulp again."

"Oh, is it Huo'er's birthday?" Lin Rui rushed over and held the fire in his arms, "What gift should I give you?"

"I want a new bed, storybook, VCD machine, snacks and superior beef..." Huo Er said rudely, and poor Lin Rui had begun to look through his squat wallet.

"What's your birthday?" Liu Di patted Zhou Ying's shoulder and asked.

"Well, we have seen 'imperial pulp' six times, and today is exactly 300 years old..."

※ On the edge of a swamp in this virgin forest, when the morning sun shone on the water through the thick leaves, a large group of shadows came out again.

Shadow charm is a kind of evil spirit condensed by the moisture of the swamp and the yin gas of the primitive forest. It has no thinking or shape. It drifts with the wind in the primitive forest and disappears day and night. There will be a large number of people every day, and there will be a large number of deaths every day. However, today, after the power of the sun has subsided, there is a shadow that has not died.

There is light and shadow. The source of life of the shadow is the sun. When the sun sinks, the short life of the shadows will come to an end, but this shadow shrinks next to the rock and can't understand all this while watching the disappearance of its own kind. It only knows that the thing it relies on will emit sunlight-like temperature and energy, as long as it relies on it will be like when the sun has not yet set.

It will take many years to understand that what it relies on is a must-have egg.

Bifang is a kind of "spirit" and a spirit beast that belongs to fire. They usually live in a space called "Kunlun". Only the "gods", "demons" and "fairies" who have achieved positive results can summon them for driving. I don't know why a square egg will be left in the forest of the human world. Bifang's egg is hatched by spiritual power. While the shadow survives by relying on this egg, its weak spiritual power also makes some activities in Bifang's eggshell.

Death, for the shadow who lived on the egg of Bifang for two days and two nights, is the first thing he understands after coming to the world. It leaned against the edge of the egg and watched the countless mornings of the same kind born. After the sun set, it snuggled close to the egg and did not dare to leave even if the sun rose. It does not understand what "death" is, but the disappearance of tens of thousands of its peers has made it understand what "death" is. On the morning of the third day, the egg made a slight sound. First, it cracked a gap, then stretched out a sharp mouth. Finally, the eggshell cracked in half, and a moving little thing stood up trembling.

The shadow phantom stared at the little thing that had just come out of the eggshell. It looks like those things flying around in the air, but it only has one foot, and its feathers emit warmth. The shadow feels as comfortable leaning against it as the un hatched egg. The shadow ghost subconsciously leaned against it. At this time, countless shadow spirits flying over the swamp died and disappeared.

"Must, must, must, must, must..." The little thing cried and snuggled beside the shadow. The cubs of their race could not eat when they were hatched. They had to rely on the spiritual power of their parents to survive. This cub was not surrounded by their parents, and the only thing it could rely on was this low spiritual charm. But the spiritual power of the shadow is not enough to maintain its life. As time goes by, its voice becomes lower and lower, and its body color turns dark red.

The shadow can't understand this, and doesn't know that this cub called "Bifang" is approaching death. It only knows that the warm place it relies on is disappearing, the sunset has sunw, and its life will disappear. The way to continue to exist is that the cub must live - this is the first thought that came about after three days of survival.

When Bifang and the Shadow Phantom struggled on the line of life and death, the moon rose and the monsters in the mountains and forests were boiling. Bifang and the Shadow Phantom did not understand at that time. This day was July 15 of the year of Gengshen, and they got the luck once in 60 years.

"Mus, Must, Must..." The nature of Bifang makes it understand that things in the moonlight can continue its life. It tries to stretch its neck to catch these things. It tried its best and finally swallowed one, and then another... The flame of its body began to light up and restored the temperature that the shadow phantom liked. The shadow looked at its behavior puzzledly and realized for a long time that it wanted these things floating in the moonlight.

"Only this must live and can survive." This is a vaguely clear truth in the heart of the Shadow Phantom, so it also began to capture the "imperial pulp" in the moonlight. If you give these things to Bifang, you can live, and its idea is just like this.

The thinking ability of the shadow phantom makes it impossible to understand. It is a shadow without a shape and can't "grab" anything at all. The emperor's pulp falls one by one. Every time the shadow phantom sees one, it will penetrate its body, and then merge and disappear. The phantom's efforts after another ends in failure. But it doesn't understand the meaning of failure at all, and it doesn't know the existence of emotions such as giving up and retreating. It just wants to capture the emperor's pulp to eat, and then it can survive. It will not understand what kind of changes are taking place in its body as the emperor's plasma merges into its body...

The moon gradually sank, and the shadow held it before the last emperor's pulp fell to the ground. Shadow Phantom still can't understand that he has been reborn and has his body because of the emperor's pulp. He is just happy to send the emperor's pulp to Bifang's mouth and happily watch it eat it...

※ After a while, a cruel war began in the monkeys. They bit and scratched each other. One bit the other's neck. Although the other party broke its chest with its claws and did not let go, the monkey king had long been besieged by several male monkeys. It bitten several enemies, but it was also torn to pieces. Even the little monkeys in the arms of the female monkey kicked and bit their mother, and the female monkeys threw the little monkeys at each other, and some even threw their little monkeys on the ground and trampled them... Before long, none of these monkeys were alive.

Sniper proudly appreciates all this.

This is a monster with weak combat effectiveness, but with killing spells that fill the hearts of creatures. Its favorite thing is to provoke war and then hide and watch its process. It came to the small battlefield, sniffed the limbs and pieces of meat hanging on the branches, biting a few bites on the corpses on the ground, and rolled on the blood-stained grass, which was really satisfying.

A figure suddenly rushed to its throat. It struggled to avoid or was bitten by the throat. While hearing the sound of its trachea cracking, it found that it was its own shadow that bit off its neck, but it had no time to think, "Why?" .

The black shadow stood up from the ground and turned into a human-shaped shadow. He picked up the sniper's body, and a beefang immediately flew down from the treetop, landed on his shoulder, and ate it with his hand.

The shadow phantom has completely possessed its shape and thinking, and it has grown to the size of a pigeon. If they know how to calculate the date, they have been wandering aimlessly in this forest for more than 20 years.

The shadow charm touched the wolf and swallowed it and thought to his heart: If a sniper is not enough to fill his stomach, I don't know if it will eat these corpses of monkeys on the ground.

"Eating" is a difficult thing for the shadow to understand. Sunlight is enough to provide all the energy he needs, and he must be with him. His mana can grow even at night, and he does not need to "eat" to maintain his life. But it is necessary, and other animals and monsters in the forest also need it. Through the observation of shadows, many animals "eat" every day. Is "eating" the purpose of their survival?

No matter how puzzled the shadow is, he still wants to find food for the young, and gradually finds the difference between "food" and "food". Grass, leaves and fruits must not be eaten. It will eat some animal meat, while monsters and ghosts will eat happily.

"Well, it's delicious!" Bifang swallowed the last bite and said with satisfaction, "It's a pity that it's a little less." Saying that, he shook his head at the monkey corpse on the ground. He didn't want to eat this kind of thing.

Recently, Shadow Phantom tries to hunt monsters for Bifang. Anyway, his mana is already good, and Bifang can gradually help some. Ordinary monsters can be captured at their hands. They are rational not to provoke the big monsters. Anyway, because of the existence of Bifang, the big monsters will not provoke them.

Today, the shadow is very lucky, and soon after sniping, he caught a ring dog. Bifang was full and curled up in the arms of the shadow and fell asleep. Shadow Phantom sits on the highest branch of the giant tree to bask in the sun and sit quietly in the sun is his only hobby.

"Hello."

The shadow charm raised his head, and an old man was standing on the branch in front of him to greet him. The Shadow Phantom has never talked to creatures other than Bifang.

"The scenery here is good," the old man sat down beside him. "You have some vision."

"Landscape..." The shadow doesn't know what "scenery" means. It's just that you can bask in the sun without shelter.

"A lot of monsters have been killed by you recently, right?" The old man got to the point.

"Those foods?"

"You kill them just to eat?"

"It eats."

"There is a lot of food in this forest. Why do you eat the same kind!" The old man's voice became harsh.

"It likes to eat."

"Kille them just because you like them!" The old man secretly clenched his five fingers.

"They are also eating, eating monkeys, birds, tigers and wolves, grass... Everyone eats and is also eaten." Shadow Phantom tries its best to express what it understands in the language it has mastered.

The old man looked at the shadow and let go: "What if one day you become food by yourself?"

"I don't eat, and I can't be food."

"What about the one that must be eaten?"

"Bifang?"

The old man pointed out the must-have in his hand.

"No!" The shadow phantom tightened his hand and said, "It doesn't work. I don't allow it." The shadow phantom vaguely realized that for himself, this must-have is different from other creatures that can become "food".

"Hahahaha..." The old man laughed, "It's the first time I've met such an interesting shadow of you after living for so long." He jumped down from the treetop and waved, "Come on, let's go."

The shadow phantom looked at him and suddenly said, "I've seen you." He remembered that once he met many monsters gathered together, and it was the old man who was surrounded by them in awe.

The shadow sat in the moonlight, holding a book full of tadpole-like words in his hand, and the other book on his knee was printed with square characters with the highest ink. There are many changes in human words. Shadows don't know why they are so fickle, but the process of learning words makes him feel very happy.

"What is 'human'?"

"Look at me, I'm a human!"

The shadow charm looked at the old man lying drunk on the bluestone by the river, and then looked at the swimsuit woman on a pictorial. "Human..." The shadow charm shook his head. Then he began to read the ancient magic book seriously. When he turned the book to the last page, the old man finally stopped his thunderous snoring and rubbed his eyes to his side. "Get up, let's start practicing changing our body today."

"First become a human."

Human? Which one?"

"Me! Become me first!"

The process of changing into a human is more difficult than the phantom imagined. He can soon become an "old man", "woman" or anyone on the album, but he can't become a person out of thin air all day.

"Hey, why do women have beards!"

"Hand! Is that manpower?"

"How can human ears grow up!"

Are you a human or a dog? Such a long tongue!"

"Idiot!"

"Idiot!"

“......”

The old man sat heavily on the ground and exhaled, "I'm going to be pissed off by you!" However, this time it finally looks like it.

The human man who became the shadow stood in front of him. Although his eyes were a little bigger and seemed to be more like rabbits than elephants, he could accept that he was a human on the whole.

"Keep it like this for ten days. You have to learn to be a man." Shadow Lala made him feel bound by human clothes and sat down to read quietly. The old man looked around him with interest. He thought it would take some effort to subdue the shadow, but he didn't expect it to be so obedient. No matter what he taught him, he accepted it seriously and eagerly.

"I should give you a name."

The shadow phantom raised his head and listened attentively because of his voice.

"You are a shadow, just call it... Well, just call it shadow." This method of naming is really sloppy. Fortunately, the Shadow Phantom will not make any comments. He just stretched out his finger, wrote a word "shadow" on the soft soil, and then looked up at the person who named him.

"Yes, that's the word. From today on, you will be a shadow. Even if there are 10 million ghosts, you will no longer be the same as them.

Shadow nodded thoughtfully.

"Shadow, shadow, shadow..." Bifang flew down from the tree loudly, and his mouth was still stained with prey's blood - it has recently begun to go out to hunt by itself. Strangely, this guy, who was originally picky about food, ate whatever he caught, and he didn't always eat this or that. Name, name, shadow, shadow... shadow, shadow..." It flew around the shadow a few times, cittering the name dozens of times, and finally fell on the rock in front of the old man, tilted its head, squinted and asked, "What about me? What about my name?"

"You are the only one here, and you won't be confused without a name. But..." The old man was really teased and said, "If you want a name, let Ying give you a name."

"Fire...fire." Ying learned quickly in this regard, and the old man sighed secretly. He originally hoped that this student could be more creative than himself.

"Fire..." Bifang was slightly dissatisfied. He thought that he should deserve a louder and more amazing name. But forget it, since you helped me get it up." Huoer showed her tolerance, wiped her mouth on the shadow, and began to sleep in the morning after breakfast.

Shadow held it on his knee and suddenly asked, "What about you? What's your name?

"I, my name is Zhou Yu, because I was originally a bamboo basket in the Zhou Dynasty, hahahaha..."

"...So it is..." Shadow now understands what principle his name comes from.

"Shadow, chase!"

The fire rushed from the air, knocked down an enemy and shouted at several fleeing ones. With its cry, the shadow rushed out like a flash of lightning and combined with the shadow of the fleeing enemy to solve the other party simply. He stood up and counted: "Seven of them are here, and there is no missing the net."

They are chasing a kind of red-eyed, white-tailed monster that looks like a little pug named Doyi. This kind of monster can cause a fire. Originally, the appearance of one or two has nothing to do with it, but seven or eight together like this will cause a lot of trouble. In just a few days Within them, two mountain forests have been burned to ashes, and countless animals, plants and even monsters have died because of them.

"But why do we do such a thing?" Huoer chattered while eating, "I'm nosy all day long."

Monsters have always adhered to the principle of "it has nothing to do with it, hanging high", but recently Zhou Xuan often ordered Ying and Huoer to do something like this. On the contrary, you also had a good time." The film shoots the fire of complaining. It suddenly occurred to him that Zhou Xuan took the initiative to find him and Huoer for the same purpose as these actions? Was he originally... wanted to kill us?

Is that so? Were you going to kill us?" Ying looked at Zhou Xuan seriously and asked.

Zhou Yu opened his mouth in disbelief and said, "What? You didn't find out until now!"

I don't know why the shadow felt an unexplained emotion, and he didn't know what was wrong. Zhou Xuan looked at him bowing his head sadly and wanted to leave. He laughed and stopped him and said, "Why, you are unhappy. It's not easy for you to learn 'unhappy'."

"I'm not unhappy." Shadow subconsciously avoids the strangeness in his heart.

"Oh, I've learned to lie. This progress is too fast."

"I..."

Zhou Xuan patted the shoulder and said, "It seems that it's time to have a good talk with you."

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"Life..."

"Yes, although you are a monster, life is life. Whether it is people, animals, plants or monsters, there should be no difference between noble and lowly. You are in this world, living, thinking and having emotions. This is your life."

"Is that so..." Shadow has never considered these.

"A life always has its purpose, why does it exist, and what is the purpose of existence?"

"What is the purpose?"

"You don't have to look troubled. You don't have to think about these things. When the time comes, you will naturally be cheerful and clear about everything."

"So can you tell me what my purpose is?"

"...How can you ask others about this kind of thing..."

"How can I know if you can't tell me?"

"I didn't say that there is no need to worry about this kind of thing. Before that, you should learn to think about things with your own brain, don't always ask others what to do, learn to express and feel your joy, anger, sadness and joy, learn what you like and hate, and learn what is right or wrong.

"What is right and what is wrong?"

"It doesn't matter what is right and what is wrong. What you think is right and wrong is the most important thing. Do you understand? My opinion is the most important.

"My opinion..." Ying thought and found that he was thinking while unconsciously picking up pebbles and throwing them into the river. A dragonfly was scared far away by the stones he threw and began to hit the surface of the water again. When the shadow of a bird fell, the dragonfly hurriedly flew into the trees. The tits pounced on the water, folded on the water and flew into the sky again. Before it found a new target, a tit rushed down, captured it under its claws, and flew in the direction of the peak. The shadow saw the mountain eagle disappear, and its eyes fell on the bushes not far away. The dragonfly that had just escaped from the attack of the tits accidentally hit a spider web and was struggling desperately. A huge spider had slowly climbed out.

Shadow stretched out his hand and took the dragonfly off the net. After the dragonfly flew away, he was still looking at his hand. The feeling of the dragonfly struggling between his fingers just now remained on it.

Zhou Yu was looking at him from a distance and nodded slowly.

The shadow doesn't understand why he let this dragonfly fly away. Spiders can only survive by eating insects, and doesn't the dragonfly have to feed on other insects?

"Hey, Shadow!"

Ying turned around, and Zhou Xuan waved to him: "Come here, I think I can teach you some spells."

The torrential rain in summer, for several days, the mountain that could not eat water finally turned into a mudslide and rushed straight down the mountain.

"Avoid!" The shadow shouted, and the "water avoidance method" applied formed an invisible wall, blocking the rolling mudslide a little, making it slightly deviate from the original direction. The fire then flapped its wings, released a large number of flames, moved the flow of the mudslide, and rushed up again slowly... They In this way, they took turns and finally led it to the direction they wanted before the mudslide rushed down the hillside. Mud, stones, trees, grass branches... all rushed into the swamp with an unstoppable momentum.

"Wow..." The fire fell on the shadow's shoulder and breathed heavily, "I'm exhausted!"

The shadow watched the aggressive mudslide rush into the swamp. Although it was very tired, he was still glad that he and the fire could prevent it from rushing to the plant-rich forest at the foot of the mountain.

There were faint laughter and whispers from the trees next to it. The shadow knew that there were many monsters living in the woods that were going to be destroyed by the mudslide. They were there when Shadow and Fire began to block the mudslide. They were probably watching the bustle while preparing to escape after Shadow failed, but none of them came out to help Shadow and Fire who were actually protecting their homes. There is another emotion in the shadow's heart, and now he knows that this emotion is called "angry".

"Damn guy!" The fire shouted angly, "How dare we hide there to watch jokes together!" I'm just tired and hungry. Catch one for dinner!" With that, he spread his wings and rushed into the trees. The monsters who were shocked by the fire fled in all places, and the fire chased after them. Ying didn't care who the fire would catch up with and eat. He slowly walked back around the hillside where the mudslide was raging. Somehow, he no longer felt angry.

"Is it right or wrong to kill a monster?"

Zhou Yu was going to raise the teacup to his mouth, but after hearing the question of Ying, he put it back: "Why do you want to do this?"

"There is no reason, not for eating, not for self-defense, but I just want to do it in an instant." Ying honestly put his hands on his knees and sat opposite Zhou Xiao. He could see that he was really confused.

"Is it because he provoked you?" Zhou Xiao said, "The murderous intention is not necessarily for eating, for self-defense, and for many other reasons - he makes you angry, which is one of the reasons."

"So, is that right?"

"You have to ask yourself whether it is right or wrong. Everyone's answer to each monster may be different. My answer can't be the same as yours, even Huo's answer, do you understand?

"...I don't understand." Ying knew that he could not get the answer to this question from Zhou Xuan, and turned around and walked out of Zhou Xuan's wooden house. He habitually came to the river and looked at the river in a daze. Zhou Xuan began to teach him magic a hundred years ago. At the same time, other "worlds" are about gods, demons, immortals, delicate monsters and human beings, but he no longer tells Ying what to do, what to do, right or wrong... Such orders or answers, so he piled up "why" in the shadow's heart, and It accumulates more and more over time.

"Shadow", the fire slowly flew back, because it was too full to speak lazily, "What's wrong with you recently? Does it look annoying?"

Sharp holds it in his arms, and this wayward and arbitrary must also care about others, which makes Ying a little moved. "I'm fine, but I can't figure out why."

"Mood..." Huoer muttered, "Eat enough, sleep, and there are no worries." With that, he curled up, shrank his wings, and began to implement his own ideas.

Shad put his legs straight to make the fire sleep more comfortably. "If only it could be like fire, there would be no trouble." But why do you have such troubles? Zhou Xiao seemed to have no worries, and Huoer lived a carefree life. Other monsters, animals and shadows did not see that they had so many things they couldn't figure out. Is it because you are a ghost and your intelligence is lower than other kinds, so there are so many things that you can't figure out? Shadow stretches his limbs and stands up. If it's because of the species, he has nothing to do, and his troubles are meaningless.

Shadow and Huoer walked back along the path stepped on by the goat. They had just returned from a distant place to deliver a letter for Zhou Yu. Huo'er habitually complained about Zhou Xiao's dispatch and nagging.

"Hi!"

"Hi! Did you hear that! Come and help!"

The shadow turned around and saw a monster standing on the cliff waving to him, "Come and help!"

"Lunch!" Huo'er cheered and was ready to pounce on the monster.

"Fire, wait a minute." Ying hurriedly held it down, "He came to help us."

"Why should we help it!"

"There won't be any loss if you go there, right?" Ying thought so and flew to the cliff.

Huo'er complained dissatisfiedly: "The shadow is so capricious that the lunch in his mouth flew away again! But I'm generous. Let's go and have a look with him!" Fly along with it.

Standing on the cliff greeted was a monster incarnated as a human in a long skirt. The shadow could not tell what its original shape was. While looking at it, he asked, "What do you want us to do?" He has some admiration for this monster. According to experience, the guy who dares to take the initiative to greet Bifang has never appeared again except Zhou Xuan.

"Come and help me," the monster couldn't help pulling the shadow and leaving, "Come on! I can't save them myself!"

The shadow didn't know what it was going to do, so he had to follow it. All the way to an open space, the shadow finally didn't see anything that needed to be rescued.

"Why are you still here! Help me save them!" The monster said anxiously.

"What? Who to save?" The shadow looks east and west.

"Where are you looking? Here, under your feet!"

Shadow lowered his head and saw a bush next to him that had been chewed by wild goats. "Save... them?"

"Plants are also part of this mountain forest, right? Haven't you been helping everyone protect this place? Are plants not within your scope of protection? In vain, I will worship you as a hero!" The monster said unhaply, "Among all things in the world, plants only need sunlight, water, earth and air to survive, and also provide other life nutrients. How can we look down on them!"

"I can live without water, air or soil, and I don't have to eat other creatures." Ying said seriously.

"What's wrong with eating other creatures!" Huo'er stood on the shadow's shoulder and said dissatisfiedly.

After listening to the shadow's words, the monster couldn't help laughing, and then turned his head and said seriously, "Well, you're right. You're more advanced than plants."

The shadow's face blushed slightly. He knew that the other party was not praising him, but satirizing himself. After all, the shadow is the lowest kind of monsters. What do you want me to do?" He just wants to finish it quickly and get out early.

"Help me lift them up. Will you use the earth-covering spell?"

"I will."

"When I help them regenerate their branches and leaves, you protect their roots with a earth-covering spell."

"Good."

The monster stretched out its hand, and the broken shrub stood out of the soil. The shadow protected the roots of the plant, and it carefully covered the branches and leaves of the plant with spells. For the first time, Ying found that the mana needed to make plants flourish was more than that of treating animals or anything else.

When all the bushes were saved, the moon had quietly revealed its face. The fire was probably hungry. I didn't know where to fly to find food. The film patted the dirt on his hands and was ready to leave.

"Please wait a moment."

The shadow turned around and said, "What else?"

"Can energy stay with me for a while?"

"? ......”

"Just stay with me until tomorrow morning."

"I'm going to find the fire."

"What if I'm dying? Would you like to spend the last time with me?"

"Death..."

"I'm dying! My life is only until tomorrow morning!"

“......”

"I'm a yellow thorn. Tomorrow is the beginning of autumn, isn't it?"

The shadow knows the strange characteristics of this plant monster. Their bodies germinate every spring and give birth to a monster. However, at the beginning of autumn, the monster will die, but the yellow thorn tree itself will not die, and a new monster will be born in spring. This is a strange monster that cannot reproduce, that is, short-lived but immortal.

"I saw a yellow thorn for the first time," the shadow looked at it, "I thought it was just something recorded in the book."

It sat down, patted the rock beside it, and sat down and said, "Is it novel to see the happy yellow thorns that are dying?"

"No, but it doesn't matter if you will come back to life next spring."

"Next spring..." Yellow thorn showed a wry smile on his mouth, pointed to the swamp at the foot of the mountain and asked, "There will be new shadows there every day. Is that you?"

"Of course it's not me."

"That's not me either."

It took a few seconds to realize: "The yellow thorns born every year are different, that is to say, you can only live for three seasons."

"Yes, we can keep the knowledge of the previous generation, but we can't retain memories and emotions. We can only live so long, and tomorrow is my deadline." It speaks a little lazily.

The shadow sat down next to it. Although I don't know why it should accompany it, there is no loss to accompany it.

"Why?" Huang Zhi looked straight at the shadow and said these three words repeatedly, "Why?"

Look at it puzzledly.

"Why can you survive!"

"Me?"

Yellow spines don't look at him and said, "Actually, we yellow spines also have a way to survive."

"What can I do?" I don't know if I can help it?

Yellow thorn turned around and stared at him and said word by word, "Emperor's pulp!"

"Di Liu Pulp..." Ying understands that this kind of thing is unattainable.

"60 years of opportunity... That is to say, we only have one chance to survive every 60 years! And you, you got such an opportunity! Why?"

"Because that day happened to be the day of 'Emperor's Flowing'." Shadow doesn't understand why it is so excited - it has nothing to do with whether it can survive or not, does it?

The yellow spine suddenly stretched out its hand and stuck the shadow's neck. Countless rhizomes stretched out from the soil, inserted it into the shadow's body, and shouted, "Why! Why can you live and I will die! Why!"

The shadow turned into a shadow and easily escaped from its attack. He stretched out his hand and emitted a firelight, ejected the yellow thorn more than ten steps and fell to the ground. The monster incarnation of plants is most afraid of fire. Shadow has not practiced in vain for hundreds of years. To deal with this little monster, he can easily find the opponent's weakness and win the blow.

The yellow thorn was knocked down by the shadow's spell and couldn't get up for a moment. At this time, the shadow's life was as easy as his palm, but he hesitated for a moment and thought that it could only live until tomorrow morning anyway. He turned around and prepared to find Zhou Xu and see if the fire had gone back.

Yellow thorn sat up and got up, crying, and shouted to the shadow's back: "Please don't go. Can you accompany me until tomorrow morning?" Anyway, I can only live until that time, and I can't waste a lot of your time. You can't do it, okay?"

"You just wanted to kill me." The shadow reminded it of its behavior just now.

Huang thorn just lowered his head and cried and said nothing more. When the shadow was about to leave again, it begged, "Isn't it really possible?"

The shadow came back and sat down beside it.

Yellow Thorn held the shadow's hand and said, "I'm afraid of death. I'm going crazy!" Please believe me, I really admire you for doing so much for this mountain forest for so many years, but at that moment, I... seem to hate everything that can live. I can't wait for everyone to die..."

"Real?" Shadow can't understand this mood.

"Have you ever been particularly afraid of something? What will you do if you feel scared?

Shadow shook his head: "I don't know what fear is."

"It's so good..." The yellow thorn looked at the moon in the sky. "I've been afraid and forgot to live a good life, so now I'm more afraid. There are still a few hours before I run out, and immediately..." It trembled as it said, and its body shrank into a ball. "It's better to die now, but it doesn's not need to be like this. I'm scared!"

"Let's pretend that nothing will happen tomorrow and forget it."

"I can't forget, I can't forget!" Yellow spines shake their heads.

"Do you want to be so scared until dawn?"

"Let me sleep until dawn, just as if nothing happens. Yes, I want to fall asleep quickly." It leaned against the shadow's shoulder to close its eyes and couldn't help saying, "Go to sleep, go to sleep."

The shadow reached out and pressed it on its forehead, and it immediately fell into a deep sleep and smiled slightly in its sleep - the shadow did not use a spell that made it sleep, but an illusion that allowed it could see the life it wanted. Look at the stars in the sky and calculate the time. I don't know if there is enough time before dawn to make it have a beautiful dream.

The shadow has always let it rely on. For the first time, he knew that life can have so much fear of death. Before that, he never thought about death. So was the monster he had killed so afraid when he died? I will also die. Will I know what "fear" is at that time?

When the first ray of sunlight shone on the shadow, the yellow thorns leaning against him disappeared. There grew a green tree with bright red orchid-like lovely fruits and small yellow flowers. Shadow knew that there would be another monster here in spring, but it was no longer the one he knew. The shadow patted on the tree trunk, stood up, and began to think about where the fire had gone that night? Zhou Yu is worried that he didn't go back?

"Shadow." Zhou Yu jumped down from a tree.

The shadow opened his eyes wide, "Oh!" As soon as he thought of him, he jumped out and couldn't react for a moment.

"It's a yellow thorn." Zhou Xiao looked at the tree, "I thought you had finally learned to date a woman, but it turned out to be a yellow thorn." His voice was full of disappointment.

"Woman?"

"It," Zhou Yu patted the shadow's shoulder and looked weird. "Don't pretend to be stupid. I saw you sit with 'her' in your arms all night - and didn't do anything else?"

"Did you watch us all night?" The shadow frowned, "But is it a woman? In the album you showed me, women are like this..." With that, he drew several phantoms in the air with his fingers: a three-point, semi-naked, ** woman, "Shouldn't women be like this?"

"This...haha, hahaha..." Zhou Xuan grabbed his head and smiled awkwardly.

Look at him puzzledly and didn't understand what he was laughing at at all.

"Zhou Yu," on the way back together, Ying suddenly asked, "What is death? Will you die? Are you afraid?"

"Death is... rest."

"Break?"

"Dead does not mean that it doesn't exist. On the contrary, as long as you live seriously, nothing can make me non-exist. Of course I will die, but I'm not afraid. Zhou Xuan patted the shoulder of the film, "Soon you will understand." After saying that, he walked forward first.

The shadow looked at him and thought about what he said, which inexplicably added a trace of uneasiness.

One morning, Ying and Huoer were woken up by Zhou Xuan early in the morning. When they came to Zhou Xiao's wooden house, Zhou Xiao sat cross-legged on the grass in front of the wooden house with a serious face.

Huo'er yawned: "Stinky old man, what are you going to make us do in the early morning?"

Zhou Xuan lowered his eyes and asked, "Do you remember how long we have been together?"

Ying thought for a moment and replied, "For more than 200 years, no one is impatient to remember these."

"Two hundred years, I have taught you everything I can teach you. Shadow, you have a natural opportunity, and your Taoism will definitely surpass me in the future.

"Why do you say that?"

"Do you remember that you once asked me, I'm afraid of death? What is death?

"That was decades ago. Why do you want to mention it now!"

"Because you can see all this by yourself soon - I'm going to die."

"You lie..." Shake his head in disbelief, "I don't believe it, you won't die!"

Even the fire that had been taking a nap heard something was wrong and shouted, "Aren't you immortal after thousands of years of life!" Why do you say death now! What are you going to lie to us about for you?"

"Yes, it must be so!" Ying said, "Zhou Xuan, what do you want us to do?"

"You have done a lot for this mountain forest over the years. After I leave, it's up to you to be happy to do this kind of thing." Zhou Xiao looked up at the sky, distant mountains, rivers, forests, and the shadow and fire in front of him. "After living for thousands of years, it is worthy of me, and I am also worthy of it. Now I still have to put it aside."

"Zhou Yu!" Ying grabbed his hand and said, "Don't lie to me! You won't die!"

"Do I seem to be lying to you?" Zhou Xiao asked with a smile, "I have taught you for many years, and you can't even tell this?"

The shadow let go of his hand and knelt on the ground. He knew that Zhou Xiao did not lie this time.

"If there is a gathering, there will be a break-out, and if there is a life, there will be death..." Zhou Xuan said lightly, "I'm just the day."

The shadow said puzzledly, "Why? With your Taoism, you should have transcended life and death long ago!"

Zhou Yu said, "living with heaven and earth is just an end of life. I only fled to the mountains because I wanted to avoid the war. Now my era has long disappeared. Those princes who launched the war and soldiers who fought on the battlefield have long turned into white bones and dust, and I can still watch the sea and fields. For many years, I have been very satisfied. People are most afraid of greed!"

The shadow did not speak, but saw the drops falling on Zhou Yu's hand. The shadow touched his face and found that the "water droplets" fell from his face. He looked at his wet palm and didn't know what was going on.

"You cried..." Zhou Xuan's loving face, "Stupid child, what's there to cry? Come on, wipe your tears - but it's okay, you finally learned to 'crying'."

The shadow obediently wiped his face hard, but his tears couldn't stop: "I...I..."

"Forget it, cry if you want. You always have to learn to 'cry' before you can learn to 'laugh' in life. It's just that I don't have a chance to see you 'smile' anymore..."

"Laughing? What should I do now..."

"What a stupid child!" Zhou Xiao said with a smile, "Don't worry, one day you can learn it, and you can always find a reason to laugh. Unfortunately... Unfortunately... I can't wait..."

Zhou Yu? Zhou Xuan?" Ying saw Zhou Xuan's expression solidify and quickly called his name. However, Zhou Xuan never moved again, and the temperature of his body slowly dissipated. Zhou Yu! Zhou Yu!" The shadow shook his body and shouted loudly.

"He's dead." Huo'er approached Zhou Xuan to take a look and came to this conclusion.

The shadow gave up the action of shaking Zhou Yu, and tears fell.

"It's really dead. It's a pity to leave it. Why don't I eat him?" Huo said.

The shadow raised his head angrily and scolded, "Fire!" What he saw was a few burning tears rolling down the fire's eyes, which lit the grass under his feet. But it doesn't look delicious. I won't eat this kind of food!" Huo'er complained like this and spread his wings and flew away. It flew all the way, and the vegetation rose a little green...

Zhou Xiao loved to protect this mountain forest, so after the shadow and fire cremated him, they threw the ashes on the mountain. In a blink of an eye, several days have passed, but Ying has been sitting by the river in a daze. That evening, the fire came in a hurry to see that he was still sitting there and shouted, "Shadow, why are you still sitting here! Today is the day of 'Emperor Flow Pulp'! All the monsters are waiting for the moon to come out! Let's go to the top of the mountain to grab a good place!" The fire flapped its wings, and it was really late to go to the top of the mountain to find an unobstructed place. It seems that it is determined to grab the place it is optimistic about.

"Shadow! Let's go!"

"Go by yourself."

"What's wrong with you?" Huoer didn't understand what was wrong with the shadow that always urged her to practice. Unexpectedly, she wanted to give up the opportunity once in 60 years.

"I don't know what's wrong, but I feel empty, as if I have lost something."

"Is it still because of Zhou Xuan?" Huo'er said smartly.

"Fire, what do you think we will do in the future? Originally, Zhou Yu told us what to do every day, but now what should we do?

"Without that guy, we can eat, sleep and do whatever we want!" Huo has no worries about this at all.

"Is it..."

"You've been like this for days, and you still have to go on like this..." The fire stopped on his shoulder. "Forget it, I won't go. I'll stay here with you."

The shadow stroked the feathers of the fire. After Zhou Xuan's death, this must-party was the only object that made him feel different from other creatures, but it was a must-square. Will he return to "Kunlun" one day? What if gods, demons and immortals summon it to command?

"Fire, what will you do if you are summoned?"

"I'm not going! I don't like to be used!"

"But if it's a god, demon, fairy..."

"Eat them!" The fire, who was about to fall asleep, said in a daze.

Fire can't eat them! Ying clearly knew that once something like that happened, he and Huoer could do nothing but accept it. Thinking that such a thing might happen in the future, Ying couldn't help holding his fire tightly. Why did you die? Why can't you refuse what you don't want to do? The shadow muttered, "I don't want to die, and I don't want Fire to become someone else's spirit beast!"

As soon as the sky lit, the fire was awakened by the shadow. It asked sleepily, "What's wrong?"

"I want to go to the human city."

"What?" The fire suddenly opened its eyes wide.

"I want to achieve success, so I have to learn to be a man first!"

"People? I haven't eaten this kind of thing yet..." Huo Er said thoughtfully.

The shadow has made up his mind and looked at the distance and said, "I'm afraid that one day I will die, and I don't want to become someone else's spirit beast one day... Huoer, do you want to go with me or stay here..."

"I'll go! I'll go!" Before he finished speaking, he shouted, "I've wanted to taste human beings for a long time!"

Ying was originally worried that Huoer would not want to leave the mountains and forests that he was used to live in and did whatever he wanted. He was relieved to hear it.

On the morning, the monsters in the mountain forest celebrated, because the domineering Bifang and its accomplice had left the deep mountain.

The shadow sat on the roadside of the first human town he found, looking at the content to be filled in on the ID card in his hand: "name, gender". Name? Ying frowned, and Zhou Xuan didn't tell him what his surname should be. Finally, he stretched out his finger and brushed his finger on the blank ID card, which appeared: name: Zhou Ying; gender: male...

After another few decades, Zhou Ying, who lived a farmer's life in a human town, left his town and came to the bustling metropolis at the request of the fire of the largest city to live...

"I'm not like you, I have so many tortuous experiences," Zhou Ying said after telling his story and seeing that Liu Di and Lin Rui were listening attentively, he said, "I have been so simple these hundreds of years."

"Simple? It's not easy to stand here with a shadow!" Lin Rui said looking at the sun, "Oh, I'm going to be late for school. I'll talk to you next time!" Fire, I'll figure it out for your birthday. Bye!" He waved his hand and disappeared.

Zhou Ying looked at the rising sun, took a deep breath and narrowed her eyes.

Liu Di put his shoulder: "Well, what kind of birthday gift do you want? I'll give it to you."

Zhou Ying shook his head and smiled brightly at him: "I'm going to start practicing in the morning. Do you want to come together?"

"Are you still practicing? It's been a night!"

"Fire, let's go."

Liu Di followed unrelentingly and asked, "Is there really nothing you want?" Now you will also cry and laugh, and there is no lack of joys and sorrows... Let me introduce a woman to you. I don't know if the benefits of women are not real 'men'!"

"It's a beautiful woman! How about it? Do you want it?"

"Hey, don't go... I'm serious..."

Liu Di chased Zhou Ying and ran into the stairwell. The dinner of the monsters was over, and the top floor regained tranquility.

A cat that accidentally swallowed a strange thing that fell from the sky last night. Today, it felt that its body was a little strange squatting in a corner, washing its face with its front paws while seemingly not knowing how to listen to their conversation. At this time, the owner's call came, and the cat couldn't help blurted out: "I'm here!" What are you going to eat today? There was a human voice in his mouth, and it was shocked, but its owner did not hear it. After finding it, he took it into his arms: "Bad Mimi, let me worry all night! Come on, let's go home for dinner."

The cat lay comfortably in its owner's arms and suddenly understood something: "That thing is called 'Emperor slurry'..."