Chapter 168: Buzhou Mountain (X)
According to the battle plan before departure, Lu Ren should be able to bring Si Yuan and reunite with everyone soon like a god descending from the sky.
But the truth is, at this moment, Lu Ren had a look of despair on his face. The reason was that the shrunken Si Yuan was at an age that even dogs disliked, and he was tormenting Lu Ren in various ways.
The two of them were now walking on the vast grassland. But it was not accurate to say that they were walking.
Because Lu Ren was in a state where he had lost the ability to help himself - his hands were tied to his chest with a rope, and one end of the rope was held in the hand of little Si Yuan who was walking in front of him.
They said that Lu Ren's origins were unknown and they were afraid that he had ulterior motives.
The problem is that although Si Yuan is young, his pace is not slow at all. He did not say where he was going, but just kept pulling Lu Ren forward. After walking for half a day, Lu Ren gradually became exhausted and could not keep up. Little Si Yuan was young and did not know how to be considerate of others. When he felt that the person behind him was walking slowly, he would pull the rope to urge Lu Ren to walk faster.
However, Lu Ren was a mortal body, and even when he was full of energy, his strength was far inferior to that of Xiao Si Yuan, not to mention that he was half dead now, and was suddenly pulled by Xiao Si Yuan and staggered.
It's so tragic.
Lu Ren couldn't help but wonder: "Where are you taking me?"
Little Si Yuan walked forward without looking back, leaving only the back of his head to Lu Ren: "Of course I'll take him to see my mother."
Lu Ren had heard a little about the mother that little Si Yuan mentioned. She should be the legendary previous Si Yuan - Shen Huang.
So, in this cocoon, the Divine Phoenix is still alive.
Lu Ren remembered that he had heard Li Boyang mention before that every generation of the head of Kunlun Realm was called Si Yuan, so when Lu Ren first said the word "Si Yuan", little Si Yuan thought he was referring to the Divine Phoenix.
After figuring this out, Lu Ren said to Xiao Siyuan, "Don't bother with this. I'm not here to look for your mother. I'm here to look for you. Just follow me."
Lu Ren spoke sincerely, but the problem was that the little Si Yuan standing in front of him didn't know him.
To anyone who looks at it, Lu Ren is now a weird uncle who is luring unknown underage children to follow him. He looks like a criminal no matter how you look at him.
Little Si Yuan turned around and looked at Lu Ren with an expression that said, "Are you a fool?" "Why should I go with you?"
Lu Ren said sincerely : "Although what I am going to say next may sound incredible, I am actually your future friend."
It's more like child trafficking.
But Xiao Siyuan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped after hearing this. He lowered his head and turned his back to Lu Ren, causing Lu Ren to be unable to see Xiao Siyuan 's expression clearly.
Lu Ren could only hear little Si Yuan's somewhat lost voice coming from the front: "I don't have any friends."
These words sounded deeply disappointed.
Lu Ren never expected that Si Yuan, who usually looked like a gentle and dark-hearted good man, was actually a lonely and miserable little boy when he was a child. Lu Ren always thought that Si Yuan's mother was a divine phoenix, and as the child of a cadre, there should be more or less many little monsters around him when he was a child who wanted to be friends with him.
Lu Ren couldn't help but ask: "How come you don't have any friends?"
Out of concern, Lu Ren felt that he should still care about his friend's mental health.
At this time, Si Yuan was still young and didn't know how to keep things to himself. He told Lu Ren very honestly, "Because of my mother."
Shen Huang rebelled against Heaven. Not to mention the celestial beings who used to be on good terms with her, even Shen Huang's husband, the father of her child, did not understand Shen Huang's choice.
"We are celestial beings, why should we help humans? Humans and gods cannot coexist. No matter what you do, sooner or later, that day will come."
When the Phoenix left the heavens, she had planned to leave little Si Yuan and Xi He to their father. But she didn't expect that when the Phoenix transformed into its original form and flew away from Buzhou Mountain, young Si Yuan secretly got under her wings and held on to the Phoenix's feathers tightly, fearing that he would be left behind.
By the time the Phoenix God discovered them, they had already arrived in the human world.
At that time, the road from the human world to the heavenly world had been cut off, and little Si Yuan was stranded in the human world. At that time, Si Yuan didn't know what it meant to him to stay in the human world. He only knew that all his former friends had lost contact with him, and even his younger brother, who used to follow him around, hadn't received any news for a long time. The little monsters in the human world were all afraid of him, and they couldn't even get close to him, let alone make friends with him.
For the first time, little Si Yuan felt a trace of regret.
Similarly, little Si Yuan didn’t know what his mother’s choice meant. He only knew that his mother was busy every day, surrounded by thousands of people, and seemed to be doing something very important.
Countless people were grateful to their mother and worshipped her. There were always flowers around her. But little Si Yuan felt that his mother was not happy. She would often stare at the northwest in a daze when she was alone, and would often touch his head with a worried look on her face.
In fact, the Divine Phoenix would also feel uneasy.
But little Si Yuan didn't understand at that time, he just thought that his mother might be afraid that he was too young to help her properly. Little Si Yuan tried his best to do something to help his mother.
Just as he was thinking this, by chance, he caught a "prey" today - a living human being!
This was the first human he had captured. He wanted to show this human to his mother and tell her that he had grown up and could now help her share her worries.
Although Lu Ren only had a vague understanding of the story of the Phoenix, he knew something about it. He knew clearly that this story would end in tragedy, but the little Si Yuan didn't know it yet. But if Lu Ren was asked to reveal the cruel truth directly in front of such a young child, Lu Ren would be unable to do it.
So when he heard Si Yuan mention his mother, Lu Ren wisely shut up. He didn't have the hobby of poking at a kid's sore spot.
The grassland was very large and there was no shade, so the sun was so strong that people almost melted. However, as Lu Ren walked, he suddenly felt that the scene was familiar.
Lu Ren asked doubtfully: "I seem to have been here before."
"Have you been to Quanfeng Kingdom?" Xiao Siyuan asked after hearing the question. But after thinking about it carefully, Xiao Siyuan felt that Lu Ren was lying. "It's impossible. Quanfeng is remote. There are no humans at all, only ghosts and monsters."
Although Xiao Siyuan didn't believe it, the place name he accidentally revealed still caught Lu Ren's attention: "Quanfeng? Isn't that Wenma's hometown?"
Wen Ma from the combat team would turn the cafeteria into a dog-proof space when he had nothing to do, and then organize people from the Foreign Household Registration Bureau to have a barbecue on the grass. Lu Ren was fortunate enough to participate in it several times and was quite familiar with this place.
It is said that the place turned into a yellow sand thousands of years ago.
Lu Ren could only chat with Xiao Siyuan in a casual manner, trying to find out the flaws of this Cocoon so that he could get out of here quickly: "What are you doing in the Dog Sealed Kingdom?"
Little Si Yuan was very cooperative: "Mother wants to persuade the tribes here to join Kunlun Jiesi."
The attitude of the heavenly world was ambiguous. When the Divine Phoenix first arrived in the human world, she planned to prepare for a rainy day and help the ten witches to strengthen the Kunlun World Department so that she could make plans early. So she traveled around the human world and persuaded these scattered tribes to integrate into a whole.
At this point, Lu Ren finally understood - unlike Lu Ren, Si Yuan's retrospective cocoon did not make Si Yuan fall into that kind of irrelevant imagination, but instead brought Si Yuan back to a past memory.
In other words, wouldn't it be enough to just let Si Yuan remember that all this had already happened?
"But how should I do it specifically?" Lu Ren was in trouble.
Just when Lu Ren was at a loss for ideas, Si Yuan, who was walking in front of him, suddenly stopped and said, "We're here."
After hearing this, Lu Ren looked up, only to find that there was still a vast grassland in front of him, with nothing in it.
"There's nothing here."
Then something strange happened. Little Si Yuan took a step forward, and then his figure slowly disappeared as if he was swallowed by something invisible. Before Lu Ren could figure out what was happening, he felt the rope in his hand suddenly being pulled forward, and he instantly jumped forward.
Then the whole person seemed to be immersed in sticky water in an instant, but it was only for a moment. The next second he seemed to break out of the water, escaped from the sticky liquid, and breathed fresh air.
A very familiar place appeared in front of Lu Ren. It was a square piece of ground, standing on the water like an isolated island. There were 19 horizontal and vertical lines drawn on the ground, like a huge chessboard. Next to the chessboard was a vigorous peach tree, rising from the water, with its roots buried deep in the water. The trunk was so thick that even several people might not be able to hug it.
This is the banquet hall of the Mirror Flower and Water Moon Palace, and it is also a place that Lu Ren has been to before.
However, unlike the last time Lu Ren came, there was no banquet under the peach tree this time. Instead, there were two figures, one black and one white, playing chess.
Lu Ren recognized the white figure, it was Dong Jun, his appearance was almost the same as it was thousands of years later, and his well-dressed appearance was also the same as it was thousands of years later. Lu Ren recognized him at a glance.
The other person had her back to Lu Ren, and it seemed that it was her turn to make a move. She hadn't even had time to put down the black chess piece in her hand, but when she heard the noise, she turned around and walked towards Lu Ren.
The woman was wearing a black dress with tight sleeves and her long hair was tied up in a simple high ponytail. Although her clothes were not outstanding, Lu Ren could still guess her identity at a glance, not for anything else, but because of her face - it was a bright and generous beauty's face, with an unusual heroic spirit between her eyebrows.
But the most important thing is that this face is at least 70% similar to Si Yuan when he grew up.
This should be the Divine Phoenix.
After stepping into the Mirror Flower Water Moon, little Si Yuan seemed relieved. He threw the rope in his hand and ignored Lu Ren. He rushed directly to the Shenhuang on the water surface, shouting happily as he ran: "Mother!"
Little Si Yuan threw himself into the arms of the Phoenix, saying happily, "Mother, I got some food!"
Little Si Yuan's face flushed with excitement, his eyes sparkling as he looked at Shen Huang with an expression that seemed to be asking for praise.
