Chapter 397 Her Ghost Boyfriend Behind Her (23)
Bai Yao opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was the sunlight pouring in from the window.
Prince was still sleeping beside her. Because they played too late last night, Bai Yao made him understand the saying "there is no land that can be plowed, but there are cows that can plow it" with his own experience. He was still lying on the bed, limp like a pile of mud, without any movement.
Bai Yao was careful not to wake him up. She got out of bed and saw the familiar scene outside the window. Garm wanted to get something to eat, but was quickly dragged away by Anna and Langdon. The sound of the wind in the forest and the sounds of small animals mixed together to form another beautiful morning in the Silent Forest.
The white tower standing in the distance still towers into the clouds. Everyone who steps into the Silent Forest can see its existence, but can also clearly recognize that it is so far away.
Nothing has changed.
Even if she thought she could stop Gerald from leaving the tower and change his fate, in the end, nothing has changed.
Bai Yao turned around and looked at the black substance sleeping peacefully on the bed, but there was no human shape. Even if a ray of sunlight fell on him, it could not dye him with any bright colors.
He has no face, no normal body, and he should not have such an ending after being used as a puppet all his life.
Bai Yao looked at the white tower outside the window again and made a decision impulsively.
A seemingly ordinary stream, with shimmering water, fish and rocks clearly visible at the bottom of the clear water, and the figures of people coming to the stream reflected in the floating ripples.
Bai Yao stared at the scenery on the other side of the stream, and suddenly realized that the scenery on the other side of the stream was roughly the same as where she was, as if the water light was like a mirror, and it was unclear which side of the scenery was the illusory mirror image.
She said: "Anna, you said there would be a prince in the story, right?"
Anna, who was hiding behind the stone, couldn't figure out how she was found. She stood up, cleared her throat awkwardly, and said: "Yes, the prince in the story will find the princess in the tower."
Bai Yao confirmed something, she took off her shoes, then lifted her shoes with one hand and lifted the hem of her skirt with the other hand, and stepped forward into the stream.
At this moment, Anna really admired Bai Yao's extraordinary decisiveness.
The Silent Forest is a place full of magical power. All the unreasonable things that happen here are the most common things.
Twenty years ago, there were always mercenaries who were confused by greed and crossed the stream to twenty years later and became the delicacy of the residents in the forest.
Of course, not everyone can cross the stream. If there is a self in twenty years, then the person twenty years ago cannot cross the stream, and vice versa.
Anna is the first resident born in the forest. She has seen a lot of blood and wars brought by humans. In the face of power and wealth, even relatives can turn against each other. So the price of paying "sincerity" to cross the stream and reach a world where "oneself" exists has never happened.
No, it cannot be said that it has never happened.
Anna sat on the bank, holding an umbrella to block the sunlight, watching Bai Yao fail to cross the stream again and again, and then run back and run again.
Bai Yao failed so many times that she probably didn't even count them herself. Every time she stood on the other side of the river in the same space as Anna, she knew she had failed. Without spending time thinking about it, she would start over again.
Anna still remembered that twenty years ago, outside the white tower, she did see a woman with clothes stained by water.
She took out the fairy tale book from her bag. The story said that when the wish is strong enough, the "world" will give a "sincere" response, and then send the "prince" to the "princess".
Anna felt the vibration in the air and raised her head in a hurry.
Bai Yao stumbled as she ran forward in the stream, and then she disappeared in the sound of the wind.
Anna stood up and jumped up excitedly, "Ah - it turns out that the legend in the story that true love can defeat everything is true!"
But after a few seconds of excitement, she regained her composure and sighed, "But I don't know how the next plot will develop."
Bai Yao heard the sound of the wind, but the rustling sound of leaves in the forest became farther and farther away, and the next second, the wind stopped.
She raised her head and found herself standing in a forest.
At her feet was a tree stump, which she had accidentally bumped into before. She remembered that someone had carved a crooked flower pattern on it. This tree stump also had a pattern, but the difference was that this flower pattern had not been affected by the wind and rain, and seemed to be blooming brilliantly.
Bai Yao quickly put on her shoes, and she didn't pay any attention to her skirt being wet by the water, and ran towards the direction of the white tower.
She ignored the gold and silver jewelry piled on the ground, and she turned a deaf ear to the voice in the air that tempted her to be young forever as long as she dedicated her soul. When the beast appeared in the forest and ran out to block the road, she pulled out a long sword that someone had left on the ground to defend herself.
The Dawn Sword, which originally belonged to the brave, emitted a dazzling golden light. The beasts were afraid of the light and retreated one by one.
So the girl holding the long sword went forward again. She bypassed the swamp, cut the vines of the man-eating plant, and then split the thorny road. After a day and a night, she arrived in front of the pure white tower.
The noise she made was so loud that the little girl in a red skirt who was sitting on a stone not far away and drawing a fairy tale was startled and almost fell off the stone.
She was a woman who was different from the residents of the empire and any elves.
She has long hair like black satin, eyes like black gemstones, delicate facial features that do not give people a sense of awe like the locals, white skin that is more flawless than the snow-capped mountains on the plateau, and beautiful red lips that are more beautiful than the juicy roses.
She holds a long sword, but she does not have a strong physique like a female warrior. Her wrists and fingers are so slender, and under the wet skirt, her ankles are so thin that they seem to break if they are twisted.
Of course, she is very beautiful.
But in the forest full of monsters, her beauty will never be the capital for her to be treated preferentially or survive.
But she came here alive, even though the green skirt she was wearing was "covered with scars", suggesting how many wounds she had incurred along the way. She looked frail, but full of energy, and she did come to the white tower.