Stairway to Heaven 4
Dark and dense forests are scattered on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain. Countless narrow paths crisscross each other in twists and turns. The only wide road leads directly to the top of the mountain. The originally open and flat front mountain and lush back mountain of the botanical garden are inadvertently reversed.
A giant bird descended from the dome and circled above the three people - Song Qi introduced it as the guide from heaven.
In addition to it, there were five or six other birds wandering around in the distant sky. At other times, she could have just laughed it off, but now their huge bodies and sharp beaks made Lin Xiao feel frightened, as if every bird was eyeing her covetously.
Led to an open space with light, she was driven to the execution ground by an invisible whip in near despair. She was speechless, knowing that she was not a holy and innocent lamb.
Others could have found any excuse to leave, so why did Song Qi refuse to let her go? Perhaps it was revenge for her previous outspokenness.
Both of them are competitive by nature, so friction is inevitable when they play together. When they get too excited about arguing, they can say all kinds of nasty things.
Song Qi said she was selfish, and she retorted to Song Qi, "Even if you're not selfish, you're not as popular as me!"
The argument always ended with her victory and silence between both of them.
But I apologized, I apologized every time.
She wanted to scream, no matter what, she would kneel down to Song Qi and pay for all the mistakes she had made before.
In short, she defended herself: I am not guilty of the crime of death.
But when Song Qi looked at her at this moment, there was no hatred in his eyes, but instead a flash of warm joy, which was more gentle and friendly than gloating.
She heard Song Qi say, "Now it's just us and your best friend."
"Best friend" aroused the most terrifying experience in the depths of his memory. Lin Xiao began to tremble, thinking of the starting point of all misfortunes and the origin of sin.
Why build unprotected steps on such a dangerous steep slope?
It's normal to slip on a small stone while concentrating on taking a photo; it's normal to use your other hand to catch your phone if it slips out of your hand; it's normal if the hand you use to catch it accidentally touches the shoulder of your friend.
But Bai Jinqin also slipped and rolled down the slope.
At that time, she lost her balance and fell headfirst, leaving a darker green trail. Finally, she was stopped by an old tree with gullies everywhere. The dull sound of her shoulder hitting the tree trunk was painful to hear.
The tied hair spread out, making the girl lying face down look like an open black umbrella with a white handle. The umbrella was broken, and the bright red skeleton squeezed out along the edge of the umbrella and stuck hard into the grass, showing a shiny plastic texture with fleeting light and shadows.
Coming back to his senses, Lin Xiao ran and shouted in panic: "What's wrong? Are you okay? Don't move, don't move! Huh? You?... Ah!"
She remained silent as the other person staggered to their feet. It wasn't the shoulder that was hit, but the neck, the most vulnerable part of the human body.
The tips of the yellow-green leaves are stained with scarlet, dotted like stars, as if they are about to set the field on fire.
Bai Jinqin opened her mouth and said something, but she didn't hear a word she said. Her attention was all on the liquid slowly seeping out from between her lips and teeth. After a few minutes, its color became darker and lost its original luster.
"Shall we go get some help?" the voice trembled.
"Aren't you going to save her? Aren't you best friends?"
"Let's go, let's go!"
Lin Xiao shouted at the top of his lungs and used his arms to push Song Qi who was standing in front of him.
"Won't you save her?" Song Qi repeated mechanically.
The tilted face was close to hers, the dark pupils rolled up exaggeratedly, and blood mixed with words were spit out.
"No, I'm fine."
"Aren't you best friends?" Song Qi asked again, grabbing her hand to prevent her from running away.
Lin Xiao used his newly made extended nails to pinch back mercilessly, trying to loosen the restraint, but both of them were injured, and it ended with two nails on his fingertips flipping over and several wounds on the back of Song Qi's hand.
Half of the nail was broken off into the flesh, but no blood came out. Under the peeled skin was a purple-brown area, similar to long-frozen pork.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
She let go tremblingly, she had lost all her rationality and could only apologize over and over again.
Song Qi asked in surprise: "Why do you say that?" It seemed that he really didn't understand the meaning.
"I'm sorry if I hurt you."
"It's okay," he said again, glancing down quickly and seeing that she was still shaking. "It's okay."
"Then let me go. I should leave now."
"No."
Bai Jinqin ignored their argument for the time being and was busy spreading her five fingers to hold down the world, otherwise it would fall down. It was so heavy that it made a deafening sound when it shook.
Bringing the memory of fear back to his mind, Lin Xiao heard the call of the nightmare as if waking up from a dream.
Song Qi looked up, admiring its brilliance carefully. His figure was half-hidden in the mottled shadows of the locust tree. Something in the gnarled old locust trees behind him was slowly approaching. "Come here, I'll take you to a nice place."
It reminded her of the story of the human-faced bear in Tibet: the clever bear would stand in the shadows and wave. Now, the bear in the story had learned to put on human skin, turn its hollow face towards its prey, callously lure the victim, and when the person gets close, bite off his bones.
“Crackling…”
The sound of teeth gnawing on bones was so close to her ears that Lin Xiao's scalp went numb with fear, as if there really was a monster lying on top of her, tearing open her scalp and stirring up her brain.
After calming down a little, he found that it came from Bai Jinqin's broken cervical vertebrae next to him - the contracted muscles caused the uneven cracks to rub against each other.
The shadows of the trees moved faster, and before it could chew through the skull, it was passing through the intertwined branches and was about to emerge from the forest.
Perhaps its existence is also some kind of illusion.
In order to distract himself from the illusion, his thoughts quickly jumped to the empty space on the other side.
The air was filled with the sickening smell of rust, and human limbs were scattered like pieces of paper, with broken arms and legs mixed with torn clothes.
There is only one spotless ladder leading straight up.
And just recently, she watched helplessly as a living person fell from it like a piece of scarlet rag, shaking the earth and almost causing her to fall to the ground.
I'm afraid these flesh and blood flowers surrounding it at its feet were born from this.
In just over an hour, the late summer meadows were ablaze with flowers. Spring forsythias leaked from Bai Jinqin's vagina, and the entrails of the victim flung out were transformed into a vibrant array of gerberas.
You are a highly toxic green that changes color when exposed to air, so what kind of flower is my corpse?
——Before thinking about this, think about whether you can survive.
Under the confused gaze of Bai Jinqin, who was detached from the world, Lin Xiao pounced on her as fast as a nimble little leopard.
As a teammate of the school track and field team and a regular guest at the 800-meter race at the sports meet, the healthy physique developed through years of exercise must have made some contribution to his "resurrection."
Song Qi swiftly dodged and blocked the blow. Even though he was hit directly by the woman weighing dozens of kilograms, he remained motionless and looked coldly at the provocateur who overestimated his own abilities.
"Do you think I would hurt you? I've been so good to you, taking you to heaven with me. Is it because I didn't bring Bai Jinqin with me? Don't blame me, she's so unlucky, she-"
Please, the lighter that Yinsui gives you must be as reliable as I am.
The long, beautiful black hair immediately turned into ignited straw when it touched the sparks, burning fiercely with overwhelming force. The bright eyes were made dim, like the eyes of a fish that had been dead for many days, and a bit of the bitterness of the past seeped in the empty space.
The clear sky was filled with rosy clouds, and the azure outer coat turned red and then gray, fluttering in the wind.
I have no regrets.
Song Qi didn't have time to tell Lin Xiao that she didn't regret it. Fortunately, Lin Xiao exposed her in time and she didn't have to bear the guilt.
Those who have taken too many detours will, when they see a straight and broad road, climb up like a madman, even if their knees are bruised by sharp right angles, even if they fall again and again and are smashed to pieces.
She knew very well that she was taking a shortcut, but she still went there without looking back.
Because the road below was so winding that you couldn't see the end at a glance, just finding the direction took up all my energy. The knowledge I had worked hard to learn had to be filled in one by one, and some points were missed, and some were missed.
It wasn't necessarily all bad luck. She was the kind of traveler who had to stop and gasp for breath after every two steps, and she'd almost fainted from all that walking and stopping.
So she hid up there. She only needed to endure enough suffering and hardship to achieve enlightenment. Standing at the top and overlooking everyone was simple and convenient.
The dazzling light dazzled me, and by the time I was completely blinded and could only feel my way along the stairs with my hands, I could no longer retreat.
Whether you go up or fall down, at least you no longer have to be like a bean thrown around in countless sieves, always worried about being left behind.
After Song Qi turned to ashes, the invisible rope that tied her became visible to the public for the first time due to its destruction. The fire burned upwards along the dotted line until the wings of the giant bird high above began to smoke, and it swayed from side to side in pain, and flew away with flames shooting up into the sky.
What kind of guide is this? He is just a monster that can deceive people. It is just a fancy trick and will collapse without the puppet.
Feeling relieved at the revenge, and then thinking that he was also the instigator of the "revenge", Lin Xiao slowly squatted down and covered his face.
Feeling the shadow cast, she raised her head, immersed in sorrow, and squatted down with Bai Jinqin, whose face was covered in blood. As she moved, her head spun on her shoulders like a red and white ball connected to a spring, but her two black eyes were gentle and clear, covered with water.
"Why are you crying? Did Song Qi quarrel with you again? I was blinded by the sunlight just now and don't know what happened. Did you lose the argument? I'm sorry for not being able to speak for you." Blood choked into his lungs and throat, and his voice was hoarse with a hissing sound of air leakage.
Lin Xiao didn't answer. He took out a pack of wet wipes from his pocket with trembling hands, tore open the seal, carefully pinched the edge and wiped off the reddish-brown blood scab under her eyelids that blocked her vision.
She was anxious to do something to get rid of the fear of making a mistake, but when she realized the reason for her behavior, she felt a new sense of guilt for deceiving herself.
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