Chapter 420 Origin (3)
Some memories that he had never had before, but seemed to really exist, entered Bai Yanliang's mind the moment the name "Meng Zhen" appeared.
He had already accepted that he was an unknown ghost from the mist world, but at this moment, this inexplicable memory completely shattered his mind.
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In my memory, that was a child.
The child was very young and his father died before he could remember it.
Perhaps because both his father and mother were engaged in some strange research, when the children were very young, there were some rules in the family that seemed strange to outsiders.
For example, if you want to appear on a sunny day, you must hold an umbrella. For example, you cannot eat hot meals. Even freshly cooked hot meals must be cooled before eating.
It does sound strange, but children who have been taught this way since childhood don't find it strange.
As for the child's home, my mother said that they have lived under the secluded ancient trees for generations and have never left the area covered by the ancient trees.
What surrounded his memory since childhood was the cool dome of leaves that blocked the sky and the sun.
Therefore, even on a sunny day, it is difficult for a child to bask in the sun. He has to run far and wide before he can escape the area covered by the ancient tree and appear in the sun.
He could only gaze.
There seems to be an invisible force under and outside the tree. It is difficult for children to know the world outside the shade of the tree, and it is also difficult for the world outside the shade to break into this place.
The trivial and strange rules have long been integrated with things that may seem unbelievable to ordinary people, making children accustomed to them.
There are some things that he still can't figure out whether they really happened or whether they were just an illusion...
He remembered that it was a hazy dusk, but his mother was a little different from usual. She did not continue her research, but stood under the thick trunk of the ancient tree and looked at him tenderly.
"Do you miss daddy?"
At dusk, everything becomes blurry.
The child looked at the mother who made the sound, only to find that the world was slightly distorted, as if the mother would disappear at any time.
dad?
He has never seen his father since he can remember. Why would his mother ask this?
However, facing his mother's gaze, he had no choice but to nod. In fact, he didn't miss his father whom he had never met, and no one had ever told him what kind of role his father was.
What happened to mom today?
"I think..." he said insincerely.
The mother seemed a little happy. She slowly walked towards the child. She was wearing a white dress, which made her look particularly elegant and beautiful, like a light flower swaying in the wind.
"Today, mother tells you a secret."
She came closer and touched the child's head.
"Actually, this is not our hometown, nor is it your father's hometown. We are all guests."
As she spoke, she raised her head slightly and looked at the world outside the tree canopy, and also looked at the treetops with a few rays of eyes.
guest?
But didn’t my mother say at the beginning that we have been living under this big tree for generations?
The child was too young to understand what his mother meant.
"Yes, we are guests, we are... different from the people here."
The mother suddenly took the child's hand.
"Let's go, mom will take you to see it."
It was dusk, but at some point the sky had completely darkened.
The mother took the child's hand and slowly walked out of the house.
This is the first time the child has traveled far away.
Usually he just looks up and looks at the world in the distance.
But...it's really hard to walk at night. The child was being held by his mother, and he felt that his mother's hands were so cold today.
Moreover, the world outside home is really complicated.
Intertwined like a spider web, the mother pulled him, as if he had been spinning in circles, but in fact, he was always far away from home. As he walked, the child suddenly turned his head and saw that "home" seemed to have undergone some subtle changes. It seemed like... it had turned into something extremely strange.
Fortunately, it was not too late yet, but there were only two people on the road, the child and the mother. The moon that appeared at some point looked fluffy and gave off a dim light.
Dark yellow light shone on the ground, making everything look a little distorted.
Even the night sky seemed to be stretched into the boundless darkness by a big hand on the left and right.
The child was led by her mother and kept walking forward until her feet began to become numb. The child couldn't help but ask: "Mom, how long do we have to walk?"
The night sky and the dark earth began to distort, and the world seemed to suddenly turn into a kaleidoscope being twisted by children.
How long have you been gone?
The child tugged at his mother's sleeve, and her mother looked at him from above, just smiling and not answering.
"Mom said yes, she wants to take you to meet people in this world... Look."
The words just fell.
The mother's long white dress was like an ever-expanding bubble, swelling out from the sticky darkness. In the child's blank gaze, the elegant woman turned into a gray humanoid foreign object with twisted limbs.
"Mom...Mom..."
The child was stunned.
He doesn't know fear, he doesn't know how to be afraid.
From the beginning of his memory, everything he knew was taught by his mother. Her mother never told him what this form was, nor why her mother became like this.
His immature brain was unable to support him in making any judgment, and he could only stand there blankly, looking at this gray-white twisted human form.
"Do you want to be like your mother?"
The gray-white figure suddenly spoke.
The child does not know what this sentence means specifically.
But just like what his mother asked before, asking him if he missed his father, although he didn't want to, he understood the pronunciation of his mother's words.
"I don't want to..."
He knew this was the answer his mother wanted to hear.
"Yes... good boy, this is not what we should be like."
"Look..."
While speaking, the mother, who was completely twisted and unrecognizable, suddenly stretched out a twisted arm and put it on the child's shoulder.
At this moment, the child's eyes seemed to be suddenly put on a pair of glasses that could see the world clearly.
He saw...
The tree where he grew up, the ancient tree that his mother called "Tongyou".
Crown, treetop, branches, trunk...
Everywhere was crawling with squirming "people" who looked exactly like my mother at the moment.
There was darkness in their eye sockets, and their limbs were twisted and slender. As if they sensed his gaze, they all stopped moving at this moment.
On the ancient tree, densely packed "people" looked at him!
"Don't become like this..."
His mother's hand left his shoulder, and in an instant, all the "people" disappeared again.
"Your father will find a way to take you out."
His mother looked at him with pity.
"You shouldn't have been born in this world..."