Liao Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head to look at the profile of the female next to him.
Ye Luoxing asked, "You grew up in the South, you must miss this homeland very much, right?"
Her thoughts drifted away, her voice scornful, "Family, friends, tribe, the place where you grew up, were all destroyed one day by a group of sudden-arriving beasts. Your precious orcs, the ones who had accompanied you, were ruthlessly slaughtered. You watched them fall one by one, seeing the hideous faces of the evil beasts, but you were powerless to do anything. In a corner filled with desolate earth and wreckage, you were left alone to survive. You were lost and at a loss, not knowing what to do..."
"At that moment, a feeling of loneliness and despair overwhelmed me, as if the ocean was about to swallow me up, leaving me with nowhere to hide. But those bodies, still warm, told me that I had to save myself. I had to pull myself out of the endless darkness. Otherwise, where would those who had died find rest?"
"When carrying hatred forward, who can guarantee that they will make rational choices? Without experiencing despair and loneliness, how can one understand the helplessness and confusion of moving forward alone..."
Especially the second coming of darkness.
Liao Yuan made his own decision in the darkness. Perhaps it was right, perhaps it was wrong. But when he was in the midst of it, many beasts and humans couldn't guarantee that they would be more rational than him, and that he wouldn't be confused and helpless...
Ye Luoxing understood Liao Yuan's feelings and thoughts when he made the decision. Just as she said, he was very similar to her.
Perhaps tired of standing, Ye Luoxing took two steps back, leaning against the stone wall behind him, and let out a long breath. Liao Yuan turned around, looking at him with complicated eyes. Everything in her heart was whispered to him. He couldn't tell what he felt. Sad? Sad? Fear? Loneliness? Or... something else...
He gazed at her deeply. She looked softer in the moonlight, the starlight shattered in her eyes. She didn't look happy. At this moment, he smelled the same scent on her...
Maybe it was because she was leaving; maybe it was because they had just talked a lot today; maybe it was because Liao Yuan was staring at her with those deep purple eyes...
Ye Luoxing couldn't help but say a few more words: "I have also experienced the loss of family, friends, and tribes. No, to be precise... I have no family and no home." Her voice became smaller and smaller, turning into a murmur to herself.
Until normality returned: "Growing up in darkness, watching the darkness devour my companions, watching myself being devoured by the darkness, that feeling of powerlessness... I know it all too well, but I don't want to die, at least not in pitch-black darkness. I don't want to fall in a pool of blood with those pairs of desperate eyes. So I can only walk forward through the river of their blood, not knowing where to go, not knowing where the light is, but I can't stop, and I dare not stop..."
"That kind of despair and confusion with no hope is truly more terrifying than hell..."
"Because there's not even a single bone to be found..."
After the darkness, you catch a brief glimpse of light, but after the light there is darkness again, and everything is different from what you expected.
When despair comes for the second time, will you fall into an endless abyss or become more determined? That moment of confusion is more than just a moment, and you cannot control the decision you make.
He could sense her emotions, could sense the scent of her kind, that heart beating strongly.
He opened his mouth and said, "You advised me before, but I still took this path, and the result was not what I expected."
The two parties just happened to look at each other, looking into each other's deep eyes. The water in the forest was gurgling, and another self was reflected in the water. Without saying much, they understood each other.
Liao Yuan asked a question: "A Luo, you miss your hometown too, right?"
She said, "Of course."
Liao Yuan answered in the affirmative without the slightest hesitation, standing still. Her firm answer was no problem. Just as she had said before, he also missed the homeland under his feet. But Liao Yuan knew that when she said this with certainty, it meant that she was indeed leaving and she was going back to the place where she grew up.
In the quiet and peaceful atmosphere, the two figures stayed quietly for a while.
Liao Yuan asked her again, "Have you ever made a wrong decision in despair and confusion?"
"Yes." This time, she answered firmly.
She smiled and said, "I'm not a god, so how can I always make the right decision? I made the wrong choice. To be more precise, even gods make mistakes sometimes."
Liao Yuan asked, "What happened next?"
She continued to smile, "But I've discovered so many beautiful things in this world. The sun is so dazzling, the spring breeze is so gentle. I love the smell of the earth after the rain, and every breath of fresh air. I'm alive, and it feels so good. I'll have companions again, a tribe that will march forward with me. Loneliness will fade, and I won't be in despair forever. I embrace the hard-earned nature of all this."
"Look--" Ye Luoxing looked up into the sky.
"Even if you experience a long rainy season and heavy fog, even if the night is long, the fog will eventually dissipate, the sun will still rise, and the moonlight will still illuminate the way forward for you in the dark night." She will not sink in the darkness, she will push away the fog and walk farther and farther. She stretches out her hand again, and the sunlight can already shine through the gaps between her fingers onto her cheeks and into her eyes.
These were ordinary words, yet every word penetrated into his heart, bringing fresh air and the first rays of sunshine into the dark, foggy quagmire.
She has always been dazzling, and even darkness cannot swallow up her radiance. Her brilliance never comes solely from the beauty of her appearance, because in the darkness, nothing can be seen.
He felt with his heart, felt the touch of each other's souls, felt the warmth she gave him and the small exit in the darkness.
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