Chapter 1 Prologue: The First Year of the Appearance
Gou Wa has been very distressed recently.
Because his parents did not let him go to school.
He just learned the first few sentences of Thousand Character Essay!
Moreover, he was not allowed to go out and locked him in a dark room, saying that he had a rash on his face and was shameful.
How ugly his rash is, Gouwa wants to know, but everything in the room that can reflect the figure has been taken away by his parents.
Knock, knock, there was a knock outside his window.
A clear girl's voice sounded: "Gouwa, your face is not healed yet?"
Gouwa recognized that it was the little girl in the next room, a six-year-old girl. One year younger than him, the two of them grew up together. According to Master's teachings, they should be considered childhood sweethearts.
For the first time in so many days, someone came to see him. Gouwa, who had not spoken to anyone other than his parents for a long time, was a little excited and stammered: "You, how do you know my face?"
"My mother heard what your parents said. They didn't let me get close to your house, saying that your rash would be contagious."
Gouwa said sadly: "I heard that's the case, so don't get too close. "
"Have you seen the doctor and taken medicine? You seem to have been ill for a long time, right?" Xiaoya has no idea about time and can't tell how long it has been.
"Taking medicine involves... a bowl of very strong, dark and hard-to-drink medicine every day. The doctor has never seen it."
Gou Wa also felt a little strange in his heart that he was so sick. Why didn't he see a doctor? But he was still a little kid after all, and things he couldn't understand were immediately forgotten.
"Then it must be that you didn't listen to the doctor carefully and lost your popularity."
The little girl is very clever with her mouth, and the dog boy can only say a few words of excuse.
“How are you outside now?” Gouwa hadn’t seen the outside world for a long time and was very curious. If his parents hadn’t locked all the doors and windows, he would have been so young with his restless temperament. Just slipped out to play.
"It's also a strange thing. These days, there are people everywhere crying like crazy. There are adults, children, and old people, all wearing white clothes. Then, there are a lot of white cloths floating in the sky. The yellow and white pieces of paper are like the fairyland the storyteller said!" Xiaoya said with a little more excitement, "There are also a lot of earthbags in the mountains, and there are always a lot of food in front of the bags. To drink, Gou Sheng and I ate it secretly a few times. One day, my mother caught us and beat us severely.”
“But we haven’t eaten meat for a long time, every day. Where can you eat rice porridge and not eat chicken, duck and pork in front of Tubaobao?" Xiaoya sounded very aggrieved: "However, gradually there was nothing to eat in front of these Tubaobao, and some people just wanted to eat rice porridge. I just slept there, but I couldn't wake up no matter how hard I shook them. There were some people who were missing arms, legs, and heads. I wanted to help them put it together. There were fewer people in the village, and it felt like they were all sleeping. .”
"Gou Sheng, is Gou Sheng okay?" Gou Wa listened to a lot of questions, but in the end, her focus was only on Gou Sheng. Gou Sheng was also their usual playmate, but his family was so poor that he couldn't even afford to go to school.
“He couldn’t be found a few days ago, and I don’t know where he went. As a result, I can’t even find anyone to play with.”
Qingqing Xiaoya can’t find anyone. Gouwa was a little sad when he thought of himself while playing.
“So, where are Daniel, Tudou, Xiaoqiang and Piggy?” Gouwa asked these friends of his in the school. He hadn’t seen them come to see him for so long. It was obvious that everyone was close to each other in the school. So be good.
“The school closed very early. Many of them are not from our village, so I haven’t seen them for a long time.”
Although Xiaoya was a girl and couldn't go to school, she always liked to open the window and eavesdrop. The master gradually turned a blind eye to her, so she got along very well with the children in the school. Ripe.
"Well, it should be about the same time as when you were sick." She thought for a while and added.
What happened, Gouwa was a little confused.
"Do you want to come out and play?" Xiaoya suddenly asked.
"I think! But, my parents locked the doors and windows..."
"This is easy. The lock is outside the window. I can just find a rock and break it open! Your parents are not at home. Let them come out and relax. Just wait."
The footsteps gradually faded away. Xiaoya went to look for the stone. After a while, the footsteps came back, and there was a loud clicking sound from the window. Not long after, Gouwa was surprised to find that the window that had been tightly locked quietly opened a gap. A ray of dim light came through.
"Xiaoya, you are so awesome!" Gouwa said excitedly.
"That's right, come out quickly!" Xiaoya was very proud.
Gou Wa suddenly thought of his own face and hesitated: "But, I'm afraid of infecting you, and... it will scare you."
"I just need to stay away from you. Besides," Xiaoya said nonchalantly, "You are already ugly, how can you be so ugly?"
Gouwa was not offended by Xiaoya's words. He is now All I want to do is feel the long-lost sunshine and fresh air.
He took a deep breath and opened the window. Outside the window stood a thin and small girl wearing a dirty coarse cloth dress.
“Long time no see.” Gou Wa showed a smile that she thought was very friendly and handsome.
But Xiaoya looked at him, her eyes widened, and she staggered back a few steps, shock, disgust, and disgust flashed across her face.
And fear.
"What's wrong?"
"They, they, are all on your shoulders..."
...
The sky is getting dark, Widow Song I have been waiting for Xiaoya to come home.
This girl, running around in such a messy world, is really worrying.
Her husband-in-law passed away before the child was born. She had no parents, and neither did her husband-in-law, leaving her orphaned and widowed, struggling to survive.
Besides, no one is home, and that feeling comes back.
It’s that feeling of someone always watching you.
That gaze was cold, sticky, and bone-piercing.
No matter where she was or what she was doing, that gaze followed her closely like a shadow.
As long as she is alone, she can feel that there is someone in the dark looking at every strand of her hair, her waist, and her butt inch by inch. The legs reached her toes, which horrified and made her sick to her stomach.
Every day she would check every corner, behind every door, every cabinet, even under the table and under the bed, hoping to find those eyes hidden in the dark.
However, no matter how she searched, she found nothing.
She was always alone, and the surroundings were so silent that you could clearly hear the sound of a pin falling to the ground.
But the feeling of being watched was so real, so real that her skin could feel the warmth of the gaze. Her heartbeat accelerated, and every heartbeat seemed to remind her that those eyes were in a corner, staring at her quietly and coldly.
She felt that she was on the verge of collapse. The suffering for many days and the pain of being unable to sleep had made her fragile nerves already on the edge of the cliff.
Yes, she wants to get Xiaoya back! We will take Xiaoya and leave this place tomorrow. Although I heard that it is just as chaotic outside, it is better than now.
She rushed out the door frantically, escaping from the depressing and cramped room. She breathed in the cold air, but the sharp feeling of being stared at still followed closely behind her, as if there was a shadow always on her. behind.
She looked around desperately, only the empty yard with simple fences and the dark night. There was a weird little sound coming from Gouwa's house next door, as if something had happened to their house recently.
Under the moonlight, her shadow was pulled alone on the ground, and the eyes behind her wrapped around her in a sticky way.
She suddenly felt enlightened.
......
Under the night sky, Old Man Lu ran crazily.
As a result, he tripped over a field ridge and fell face down in the field. He accidentally chewed on a mouthful of mud with his mouth open.
He sat up and spit out the mud in his mouth.
Ignoring the pain in my hands and feet from the fall, I quickly took out the things in my arms.
A tightly wrapped cloth bag was carefully opened. Inside was a simple bronze mirror.
The dirty mirror reflects the dim moonlight, and the complicated and delicate patterns are full of rust and dirt, but the material and decoration are obviously not ordinary.
If it wasn't for its value, Old Man Lu wouldn't have stolen it from Widow Song's house.
He was really hungry. The village next door killed a pig, but a piece of meat cost a lot of silver. The prices of food and supplies have increased dramatically these days.
He heard that Widow Song was once a wealthy lady, but she came here as a refugee. There must be some valuable belongings in the trapped Phoenix family.
He didn't dare to directly bully other people's orphans and widows. He also squatted outside the wall for a long time today, waiting for Widow Song to go out before sneaking in to look for it. In the end, he really found such a treasure.
As soon as he found her, Widow Song entered the courtyard. He quickly climbed out of the window and slipped into the next courtyard, intending to stay for a while and then run away at the right time. Anyway, there seemed to be no one in this house.
Unexpectedly, he heard rustling sounds and heavy footsteps coming from the side yard, as if a heavy fat man was dragging his legs and feet.
Old man Lu sometimes hated himself for always being so curious. He tiptoed toward the source of the sound, squatted in the corner, and looked around, only to see a scene that sent a shiver down his spine.
Under the dim moonlight, a tall figure was moving slowly. It was not a bulky fat man, but a seven-year-old baby, but his shoulders were piled with round heads and heads. The same big things, those round things seemed to be squirming and swinging, and some black hairs were fluttering in the wind.
Old man Lu took a closer look and discovered to his horror that it didn’t look like a head, but was just a head!
Everyone has their eyes closed, their lips are slightly open, and their faces are very painful. They are all squeezed into the child's small body. His size from the shoulders up is already four or five times the body, and in terms of body shape, he is smaller than Lu. The old man is still tall.
One of the heads, Old Man Lu recognized, was that of Widow Song’s daughter Xiaoya!
If Old Man Lu had ever seen the children in the school, he would have recognized them. The heads of Daniel, Tudou, Xiaoqiang and Piggy are also on it.
He knows that this is what everyone is talking about now as a "trick". Everyone says that once they see it, they should run away, but many times they lose their lives before they can even run away.
Old man Lu covered his mouth and huddled in the corner, feeling like he was going to vomit, but he didn't dare to move or make a sound.
Suddenly, a ball-like thing rolled from the gap in the fence to his feet.
He looked down and saw a fresh eyeball.
He trembled and looked along the source of this thing. It was Widow Song's yard. He saw Widow Song standing in the yard, her face covered with blood, and only two black spots were left in the position of her eyes. hole.
Old man Lu felt a chill rising from his back to the top of his head. He couldn't care about anything else anymore, got up and ran, with only one thought in his mind: escape from this place.
......
Old man Lu recalled the scene just now, his heart beating as if it was about to jump out of his chest, he raised the bronze mirror with trembling hands, and his pale and aging face was reflected in the bronze mirror. His face was filled with fear.
Suddenly, the corners of his dry mouth in the mirror grinned down to his ears, revealing a weird smile. His eyes stared at Old Man Lu outside the mirror, full of malice.
Old man Lu's heart shrank suddenly, and the bronze mirror in his hand fell to the muddy ground, with the mirror facing upward, reflecting the night sky.
He collapsed on the ground, breathing deeply, and could still feel a cold, evil gaze staring at him, like a tarsal maggot.
In this silent night, Old Man Lu's fear was spread by the cold wind.
Suddenly, that line of sight seemed to disappear. He lowered his head and looked at the fallen bronze mirror in a conscious manner. In the upward mirror, there was not only the night sky and the stars and the moon, but also a reflection of the sky. A face so huge that it filled the sky.
Old Man Lu looked at the sky, his mouth wide open in shock.
The huge face in the sky is getting clearer and lower, getting lower and lower to the ground, and you can even clearly see the fine hair on the face.
This face has soft outlines and is indistinguishable from male to female. The surrounding clouds and stars dance on it, giving off a mysterious and fantastic light.
Its eyes are hollow but deep, as if they can see all the secrets in the world, and they seem to swallow up all the light.
The corners of its lips are so smooth that they seem to contain no emotion, yet one can feel strong holiness and compassion from them.
That's God!
For some reason, the moment he saw this face, Old Man Lu knew naturally in his heart that this was the face of God.
It is as if a god is lowering his head and reaching into the clouds to look at the creatures on the ground. The god's face presses down from the clouds until it covers the entire night sky. The moon is hidden and the stars are dim, as if the whole world is still at this moment.
At the same time, Widow Song stood in her yard. She looked up, and the two black holes on her face also "saw" the great and mysterious existence in the sky. Two lines of black tears streaked across her face. Face.
Gouwa also felt it, and he felt a huge fear in his heart. He wanted to enter the house, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead and he could not move a step until he and the god looked into each other's eyes.
All the faces on his body opened their eyes and looked into the sky's eyes that looked at everything indifferently.
No, God would not look at a being like him, he just glanced at him lightly.
Then Gouwa died.
——
God’s eyes will not stop at such a mere monster.
As the pale and indifferent eyes on the god's face turned, wherever he looked, the divine light shrouded him, and the strange aura spread out.
At this moment, the entire Tang Kingdom was looking up.
People throughout the North are looking up.
People all over the grassland are looking up.
People in the entire sea area are looking up.
After an unknown amount of time, the brightness of the divine face seemed to have dimmed a lot, and even the face became a little more transparent. The starry sky behind was looming, and the eyes were slightly closed.
But the divine face has not receded, it will remain in the sky forever, overlooking all things.
Since then, the energy of the gods has emerged.
This year is called the "First Year of the Appearance" by the world.
The prologue is mainly about world setting
Good luck in the year of dragon, dragon, dragon and dragon
(End of this chapter)