Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 131 No Reward

When I opened my eyes again, everything was pitch black.

It took an unknown amount of time before I finally regained my sight.

What came into view was a man in a black robe. He was holding something and asked the man next to the iron cage.

"Is this yours?" the man said, looking at her.

Only then did she realize that the locked door of the mountain stronghold was opened, and the bandits were staring at the man closely, holding their weapons, as if they were weighing something.

"Brother..." Meng Liyun suddenly thought of something. Regardless of her weak body, she slowly crawled into the gap and tried to squeeze out. "My...brother."

They were all attracted to this guy, so she could go find her brother.

As she thought about this, she squeezed out half of her chest.

The man next to her saw it and was about to attack her, but as soon as he raised the stick in his hand, his head suddenly flew out.

Meng Liyun looked at him dully, but before she could figure out what was going on, there was a sudden riot around her, and everyone rushed towards the black man. Then, heads flew up one after another.

Blood splattered everywhere and flowed like a river.

Some people felt that the situation was not good and wanted to escape. However, just as they were about to leave, their throats were cut and they fell down.

As more and more people fell, hope suddenly lit up in Meng Liyun's eyes.

in case……

If he could kill all these people...

My brother is safe.

Meng Liyun thought so as she looked at the corpses on the ground.

Not long after, the man seemed to have really killed everyone in the village, came back here and looked at them.

Before she could have any other thoughts, the man waved his hand lightly and cut the iron cage in half.

"Run away."

The voice was like that of a god, gently entering her ears.

After a moment of stunned silence, she struggled to get up like everyone else.

The difference is that she was going inward.

Brother, brother...

Meng Liyun murmured as if possessed. She ignored the blood flowing from her fingertips and looked around, trying to find the small figure.

She wanted to tell him that someone had killed all those beasts and they were saved.

they can……

Going down the mountain.

But then she saw her brother's head.

The cooked head was hung on the altar.

At that moment, she suppressed her trembling, opened her eyes wide, and looked again and again carefully.

Finally, it was confirmed.

That's her younger brother.

She finally broke down.

He fainted before he could even scream.

When I woke up again, I was in a strange place.

"woke up?"

The man's voice exploded in her ears. She trembled all over. She was frightened and didn't dare to turn her head. She used her hands and feet to try to escape.

But the man's next words pinned her to the spot.

"That's your brother, right?"

She stopped, turned back tremblingly, and found that it was the man who killed all the people in the village.

The man pointed to the pit beside him and motioned for her to look.

Meng Liyun looked at him, trembling as she slowly crawled to the edge of the pit. The moment she saw the corpse in the pit, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Her hand slipped and fell in, but she didn't care at all. She rolled in and hugged her brother's head, tears streaming down her cheeks. She seemed to be completely unaware of it. Her mouth opened wide, but no sound came out.

She couldn't even scream.

All dead...

All of them are dead...

Father, mother, younger brother...

Why, is she still alive?

Meng Liyun breathed in big gulps of air as sharp as a knife, tears kept falling, and snot dripped down her lips... She was completely unaware and even wanted to dig up the soil next to her so that she and her brother could be buried in the grave together.

She really did it, and the man didn't stop her, but just watched quietly by the side.

She buried herself and her brother in the soil, and the soil covered her nose, mouth, ears...

Her everything.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and a cold breath came from all directions, penetrating the soil and making her feel suffocated.

The boiling blood finally calmed down. She lay quietly in the soil, feeling the coldness of the body beside her - the man had found his brother's body and brought it to her.

Meng Liyun closed her eyes, feeling the cooling of her blood. The soil gradually sank, the air around her was compressed and gradually reduced, the suffocation became more and more severe, just when she thought she could smoothly accept the death brought by suffocation, a slight sound suddenly came from her ears.

That's the movement of worms.

In the soil, drilling holes next to her ears.

After she died, or was about to die, those bugs would crawl all over her body, chewing and decomposing her body parts and her eyeballs... They would go into her lungs through her nasal cavity, and along her breath, chewing her heart, her liver, her intestines...

Meng Liyun suddenly opened her eyes, opened her mouth to breathe, but choked on a mouthful of dirt.

She stretched her hand out of the soil, trying to grab something, but because she was too weak, she could only watch as the suffocation engulfed her...

Do not……

help me……

Please -

Suddenly, a hand grabbed hers and pulled her out of the soil.

She was overwhelmed by violent coughing. She knelt on the ground, gasping for breath. Tears came out of her eyes again. She lay on the ground and retched weakly.

Finally, she seemed to have lost the ability to speak, and she lay on the ground with a dull look in her eyes. She didn't know what she was looking at, nor did she want to know.

"Where is your home?"

The man seemed to see that she had calmed down, so he asked.

She didn't speak and didn't want to answer.

"Do you have any family?" the man asked again when she ignored him.

She still didn't speak.

In fact, she had some hope in her heart. She hoped that such behavior would anger the man, and perhaps the man would kill her in a rage... In this way, she would be reunited with her father and mother.

Thinking of my mother, tears started flowing again.

She choked and couldn't speak.

"I saw a lot of dead bodies in that place." The man spoke again, "Those two should be your parents, right?"

……

what did he say?

Meng Liyun trembled all over, as if she was hit by a keyword. She slowly raised her head and looked at the man.

The man nodded his chin. She followed his gaze and slowly, her eyes finally focused and everything in front of her became clear.

She saw that the bodies of her father and mother were lying side by side. Her mother was wrapped in cloth, but even so, it could not hide the blue and white scars.

"Mom..." She finally spoke in a hoarse and trembling voice.

Her father was wrapped in a straw mat and placed together with her mother. She rushed over and hugged him tightly, not caring that her father's face was covered with corpse spots and his body was emitting a foul odor.

"I originally wanted to be buried with him." The man behind her said slowly, "The dead cannot be brought back to life. Please accept my condolences."

Meng Liyun looked at him and wanted to ask him. She wanted to ask him why he knew they were her parents, why he brought out her brother's body, where he found the body...

Perhaps he saw through her thoughts, the man slowly said: "Those people ran away, only you fainted there. I heard you mention your brother before, so I went to check and found his body... Your parents' bodies were dumped on the mountain. You are related to them by blood, so it's easy to find them."

"All those who bullied you are dead, and the village no longer exists." The man said to her calmly, "All those who were kidnapped are gone, and you are the only one left. So I want to ask you, where is your home? I can send you back."

"I..." Meng Liyun opened her mouth, her eyes dull, and her brain finally started to work slowly, "I have no home anymore."

The man's eyes moved slightly when he heard her words, but he didn't say anything.

Meng Liyun looked down at her father who had his eyes closed again, and as if she had put down a heavy burden, she bent her back and lowered her head.

But soon, she raised her head again, stood up, held her father's cold feet, and wanted to drag them into the pit and bury them with her brother.

But as soon as he exerted force, his vision went dark, his fingers loosened uncontrollably, and he sat down on the ground.

She has no strength...

Meng Liyun sat on the ground, gasping for breath, sweat all over her forehead.

She doesn't have... this ability.

The man saw her intention and walked over, but stopped three steps away: "Do you want my help?"

Meng Liyun turned her head, everything in front of her eyes went dark. She slowly understood what he meant and nodded.

When the vision cleared, he saw the man picking up his mother with one hand and throwing her into the pit with a dull thud.

……

By the time Meng Liyun realized that she had put on her clothes, she had already finished eating a fish.

The man had baked it and offered it to her.

Now that there was something in her belly, she finally acted like a living person. Her behavior was no longer stiff, and she also noticed things that she hadn't noticed before.

It must have been night. The man built a fire by the river and caught a few fish from it. The stream was gurgling and the sound of fish jumping out of the water could be heard from time to time.

The clothes she was wearing were ill-fitting, probably taken from somewhere by a man. She was also dirty, probably hadn't washed, and her hair was a mess.

After burying her parents and brother, Meng Liyun sat there blankly, mechanically ate a grilled fish, took a bath in the river, and sat opposite the man in her tattered clothes.

The man handed her a bowl of warm water, which must have been boiled and then cooled. She took it and drank it slowly.

She felt a cramp in her stomach, but she didn't care and looked up at him.

She wanted to ask the man what he was going to do with her.

She also heard from her mother that some people would break the legs of children and let them beg from passers-by; some would sell children to officials and wealthy families and make them slaves; some would even sell them to brothels...

She didn't know what the man was going to do, but she wasn't in the mood to ask. She slowly covered her stomach and closed her eyes.

She was a little sleepy...

While thinking this, I lost consciousness.

In fact, she didn't care about her future situation, or even her life or death.

After all, no matter how painful it is, it can't be worse than those few days that were like being in hell, right?

So, when she woke up and found herself in someone's arms, she didn't react at all. She just lifted her eyelids but didn't even move a finger.

The man holding her somehow noticed her awakening, paused, and said, "Is there anything you want?"

Meng Liyun did not respond. Her head drooped weakly from his shoulder, her eyes dull, staring at the ground like a mindless doll.

The uneven grass and trees passed by my eyes, but left no trace in my eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, her frozen brain finally came up with an answer.

"I want...a home."

She wanted to be like before. Even though she didn't stay long in any place, even though her father was always busy with business, even though her brother was always crying...

But she still wants to go back to the past.

Those times when I feel bored occasionally but extremely happy.

Meng Liyun didn’t know whether the man heard her or not. She only knew that he didn’t say anything. And she didn’t have the energy to say it again, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

……

The man spent many days taking her out of the mountains and to a strange capital city. It was prosperous and gorgeous, the most gorgeous city she had ever seen.

Meng Liyun held the man's hand and looked around expressionlessly.

The man's hands were warm, unlike his appearance.

Her hand was less than half the length of the man's, so she could only loosely hold the man's last three fingers and follow him.

She felt many eyes falling on her, all kinds of eyes... She didn't have the energy to figure out what emotions they contained, she just felt a little hungry.

They haven't eaten since last night.

Meng Liyun raised her head and looked at the man. He was wearing a bamboo hat, so her face could not be seen clearly.

Afterwards, the man took her to a noodle shop, ordered two bowls of noodles, and started eating.

As soon as she took the first bite, tears welled up in her eyes.

She had thought...that she would never be able to eat it again.

The man had been taking her out these days, and at first he followed his habits completely. After a while, he would disappear because he walked too fast, but he would come back on his own not long after.

She followed the man, drinking dew in the morning and spring water at night, eating strange wild animals in the mountains. The man did not put anything in the barbecue, just cooked it to be edible. She had no reason to complain, so she followed him and ate like this.

Now when I drink this delicious noodle soup again, my eyes suddenly feel hot and tears roll down unconsciously.

Seeing this, the man put down his chopsticks and asked, "What's wrong?"

"...Nothing." She wiped her tears, picked up the noodles again, and stuffed the boiling hot noodles into her mouth in big mouthfuls. Although a few blisters were burned on her palate, she still stuffed her mouth hard, chewing desperately, carefully savoring the taste of the soup.

The man seemed to be moved by her behavior. After she finished drinking all the soup, he asked her, "Do you want to eat more?"

She was a little surprised and nodded after hesitating for a moment.

So the man asked someone to bring another big bowl and handed it to her.

As if he noticed that her clothes attracted the attention of passers-by, the man took her to buy a new dress after dinner.

The clothes on her body were comfortable and warm. Looking at the man beside the bed, Meng Liyun felt a little dazed.

The man randomly found an inn to rest in and booked only a single bed room, which meant they had to sleep in the same bed tonight.

Meng Liyun sat on the bed, looking at the man bathing in the basin.

The man did not avoid her, or rather he had no intention of avoiding people at all. He took off his clothes in front of her and stepped into the bathtub.

Meng Liyun's gaze slowly fell on the man and found that he had many scars on his body.

It looked like it had been cut by something before, very thin.

"...Why are you so nice to me?" Meng Liyun still asked, looking at the man steadily.

"I have nothing to offer as payment."