The sigh was as light as a gust of wind.
Like some painful, destined-to-fall blades, you feel your eye sockets inexplicably become sore.
You heard a crash, as if the villa behind you collapsed.
But you look back, the villa is the same as before, the blue roses and lavender are so bright, but there is no piano music anymore. Through the window, you see a girl sitting on the sofa, holding something in her arms, which seems to be a photo.
"Look, isn't she still waiting?" You pointed at the figure on the sofa, as if to prove that you were right - the girl was clearly still sitting on the sofa, waiting for her friend to come back.
Xiao Bai took a look and shook his head: "It's over..."
The figure no longer rose and fell with breathing.
Black hair silently draped over the girl's shoulders. Her hair had grown long, almost past her waist. She was wearing a comfortable loose-fitting dress with a pair of cat ears on her hat. She seemed determined to wear the clothes she had just seen for the first time as the last one.
The chocolate bars fell all over the floor in a mess, and before she finished eating the last one...her hands dropped.
On the sofa, the game console was stuck in the [Pause] interface, the “tick-tick” music was still playing, reverberating in the empty space…
There were no flowers around her.
The blue roses sway silently outside the window, fresh and vigorous.
This night,
It is snowing.
Frost and snow covered the girl's home.
…
During this last period of time, you always followed Xiaobai.
Xiaobai will never feel hungry or thirsty. You can always find delicious food to feed her. If she is cold, you can put clothes on her. If she is tired, you can spread a blanket over her.
You don’t know who she is, maybe she is a god.
On the last day, you suddenly feel weak all over, your skin starts to dry up, your legs and feet become sore, your voice becomes hoarse, and your hair turns completely white in an instant...
You know, the day when the world resets has arrived.
When you open your eyes again, you will turn into a baby who has forgotten everything, and be reborn in the reset world, remembering nothing and leaving nothing behind.
Therefore, this day is equivalent to your death. Even if you reset, you may no longer be you.
"...Xiaobai." You lay in the golden wheat field and pulled her hand.
She still had a calm expression, like a god looking down on all living things. But when you grabbed her, she bent down for you.
Those glass-like eyes look at you all year round.
From the age of ten to eighteen, you grew from a child to a young adult, but she remained unchanged, like an immortal witch.
With trembling hands, you took out...the last rice cake candy from your arms and placed it in her palm.
"...It's the last one, I've been hiding it for a long time." You said.
Her expression became complicated.
She once thought that you bribed her with candy in order to get her protection. But today, it seems that you have never begged her for anything. It has always been you who took care of her on the road.
Even you felt speechless. Perhaps you should have asked her to save you out of gratitude...but in the end you just said, "Have something sweet."
She breaks the candy in half, eats half, and puts the other half in your mouth.
You can no longer swallow or taste anything, and your breathing is as heavy as a bellows, but when she asks you, "Is it sweet?", you smile and answer with a trembling old voice:
“Sweet.”
“…Sweet.”
Just like at the beginning, in the wheat field at the age of ten, she answered you like this.
The sunshine is so nice.
You are the embers of the old world, it's time to disappear.
It's as if a boiling hot stream is falling, your eyes are sore, and in the misty vision, you realize that she is walking towards you.
Then, give you an awkward and restrained hug.
She felt cold to the touch, and there was no human warmth in her body.
"... Thank you, traveler. I have been traveling alone, but you are the only one who came to my side." Her voice became very soft: "I don't understand what this feeling is, but I am very sad to see you die... I don't want to experience this feeling of loss a second time, so, in the future, I will no longer contact others. Human life is too short."
"Xiaobai, do you dare to make a bet with me?" You said with a smile.
"What's the bet?"
"I bet...after this reset, we'll still be on the same path, and I'll continue my journey with you."
Her pupils narrowed slightly, as if she had heard an innocent fairy tale, and she looked at you: "What if I win? What if I lose?"
"If you win... I'll give you all the rice cakes. If you lose, then... forget me."
"Are you playing tricks again?"
“Yeah, I’m afraid that I’ll be bullied after I’m reincarnated, so I quickly hugged a thigh and begged you to take care of me... cough, cough, cough..." You started coughing violently, and your vision became increasingly blurred.
She can't tell whether you are sincere or joking.
"This is impossible. After the reset, you are a baby who remembers nothing. There is no way you can catch up with me anymore." Xiaobai shook his head.
"Then let's make a bet. When I'm five years old...you come to see me. If I go with you, you can't abandon me. If I don't go with you, you'll just pretend that I never existed."
Your breathing becomes weaker and weaker.
Xiaobai sighed.
Never mind, just be at peace with yourself.
Even though she knows that the journey with you ends here. You who don't remember anything can't get close to a stranger again.
But she nodded anyway.
The wind was so loud that you slowly closed your eyes.
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