Dawn of Another World

The white crabapple flowers were in full bloom in the yard, and on the blue grass under the tree, a young man with black hair leaned against the tree trunk and was having a good dream.

The breeze gently blew the ends of his soft hair, the two rows of thick long eyelashes on his fair face were trembling slightly, and the red lips were pouting childishly, which was extremely cute.The young man was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, revealing his smooth arms, his young and slender limbs stretched out, and an open plant illustration book was placed on his knees. At this moment, the book was being flipped over casually by the wind. Page after page.

The man with a thin figure approached silently, with a pair of lake-like light green eyes, staring at the sleeping boy under the tree, his eyes were full of gentle doting.He squatted down with a smile on his face, and watched quietly for a while, before finally stretching out his extremely pale and thin fingers like frost and snow, and carefully picked up a small piece of crabapple petals that fell on the young man's eyelashes.

"Hmm..." The shadow falling in front of his eyes made the young man murmur in a daze, and he was about to wake up.

"Xiaoxiao..." He couldn't help but let out a sigh, and the man who was also very pale frowned, his whole expression seemed to be troubled by something difficult to decide.He froze his hands in the air, hesitated for a while, and finally stretched forward reluctantly, stroking the boy's full head of hair.Leaning close to the boy's ear, the man whispered jokingly, "Little lazy pig! My saliva flowed down while I was sleeping—"

The young man, who was gradually awakened, slowly opened those green eyes that were exactly like the man's, and there was still a little blush on his childish face.He wiped the corners of his mouth blankly, cheered after seeing the person in front of him clearly, came to his senses thoroughly, stretched out his hand and threw himself into the arms of the man who was ready to open his arms.

"father!"

"Look at you, you still love to act like a baby when you're so old."

That's the case, but the man's hands are unequivocal, firmly catching the young man's body that is rushing towards him.Due to the momentum, his back hit the brown tree trunk behind him, shaking off the white petals that were blooming all over the tree.Among the falling crabapple petals, the man lightly patted the shoulder of the young man who was holding his neck tightly, and said with a smile but with some emotion: "Father can hardly hold you anymore."

The young man felt that he was rejected, so he hugged him even tighter in anger. He bulged his face into a small frog on the side of the field ridge on a rainy day, and buried himself in the man's arms, coquettishly: "Dad, you are so slow! It took so long to leave Come back, I miss you so much."

"Daddy misses you too..." Groping the soft black hair of his most beloved child in his arms, the man almost couldn't help sobbing.He quickly closed his eyes, suppressing the sadness that was almost overflowing in the depths of his eyes, after a long while, he lowered his voice, and slowly coaxed the young man: "But Dad has to work and earn money to support Xiaoxiao! Look, what did Papa bring you back--?"

Stretching out his hand, he shook the little thing hanging between his fingers in front of him. Sure enough, the pure-hearted young man was quickly distracted and forgot to complain again.

"Like it?"

"Ok!"

Seeing the young man raised a bright smiling face, and tied the bracelet made of thin ivy around his wrist with great care and carelessness, he didn't know what the troubles and sorrows of the world are, and the man's heart was full of joy. But it seemed to be burned by needles, and it was about to be completely broken.

"Xiaoxiao, you have to remember... Dad loves you forever."

"You have to remember to be a kind and upright person."

"The most important thing...remember, to be a happy person..."

The fingers holding the boy's back trembled, and the man choked up several times. He was finally overwhelmed by the great sadness in his heart, and couldn't help crying. The terrified boy also hugged the man tightly, and stood under the tree. Wow cry.

and then?

Then, that squeamish boy grew up overnight.

There is no bright smile without a trace of haze, and in the severe pain that seems to be smashed and crushed, he puts himself together and climbs up again.He firmly remembered his father's last words, to be a kind and upright person.

But the boy who left a huge shadow and hole in his heart lost the way to be truly happy.

I'm sorry, Dad.

"I miss you so much." The young Ling Xiao murmured to himself with a sad face, standing in front of the two people who were hugging each other and crying but couldn't see him.

He knew that everything was just his dream.

Like countless times before.

But Ling Xiao still couldn't help praying every time-maybe when he opened his eyes, everything was not true.The disappearance of my father is not real. From the spring when the crabapple blossoms were in full bloom to the harsh winter, the boy who was getting more and more desperate was not real. Those tears that were frozen in my heart and could no longer flow, and the countless cold and silent nights were not real. real.

But everything is true.

He smiled silently, but Ling Xiao's eyes stared straight in front of him for a moment—the father he missed the most, and because he didn't want to forget, his face became more and more blurred.Except for those light green eyes that looked at him from time to time, and the gentle voice in his memory, Ling Xiao could barely remember his appearance.

He looked at himself whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, and finally fell asleep innocently in his father's arms, sobbing.Ling Xiao stretched out his hand, again and again, passing through the illusory bodies of the two people under the tree. Knowing that it was useless, he couldn't help but want to keep him, don't go, don't go——

Don't leave me alone.

father!

The father under the tree suddenly raised his sad eyes, and for a moment, he seemed to be looking at Ling Xiao who was shouting in vain over and over again.

"Xiaoxiao..."

The torrent of darkness rushes and roars past.

That dream was broken again like every time before.The scenes hidden in the memory turned into countless withered white petals, and gradually disappeared in the deep and endless darkness——

"……it hurts!"

Pulled back to reality from a distant dream, Ling Xiao's heart was empty.

The light green eyes were a little out of focus and empty, and a gray-black mountain wall shrouded in shadow was reflected inside.Bursts of dull pain in his shoulders and chest, as well as needle-like pain all over his body, were tormenting Ling Xiao's nerves. He cried out in pain unconsciously, and then his sanity and memory gradually returned like a tide——

By the way, he fell.

The rock that fell from the sky and would have hit him and Basil knocked him flying.After falling towards the cliff, he was quickly swallowed by the terrifying whirlwind. I remember that something hung on his back at that time... But at that time, his whole body seemed to be being cut by tiny blades non-stop. It was pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly.The airflow turned extremely fast, and soon he felt the suffocation of the air being sucked out, and then completely lost consciousness.

Ling Xiao lay like this, dazed for a while.

He couldn't figure out how he was still alive?Because he was covered by a huge shadow in front of him, he couldn't see anything clearly, only the pain permeating his whole body was becoming clearer and clearer.Frowning, Ling Xiao gritted his teeth. He stretched out his right hand and groped around, trying to grab something to get up, but the heavy left half of his body was unwilling to be lonely at this moment, and there was a piercing and sharp sound immediately. pain.

"...!" Ling Xiao's cold sweat broke out.

He was in so much pain that he didn't even dare to breathe too hard. After a while, he clenched his teeth again and grabbed a cold, slippery and slightly uneven rock beside him, trying to stand up.

At this moment, the 'rock' under him suddenly moved.

The astonishment made Ling Xiao froze, but the 'rock' under his hand undulated slightly again, indisputably reminding Ling Xiao that it was definitely not his illusion just now.Then, a huge snorting sound that was warm but not human-like, came from the side of Ling Xiao's cheek——

Ling Xiao's first reaction was terrible, he fell into some monster's lair, he was not torn apart by the violent cyclone, or fell directly to his death, but now he is about to become a dessert appetizer for the monster to stuff his teeth Is it?

At this time, Ling Xiao was still able to enjoy himself while suffering. He was in a desperate situation, his whole body was tense to the extreme, and he was almost numb mentally.Something was going on in my mind, but the dim light around me became brighter at this moment—it turned out to be above, and the huge shadow finally slowly moved away.Instead, it was separated from Ling Xiao's hands and raised high, a huge oval black head that could not see the whole picture clearly.The top of the head was covered with smooth and shiny black scales, and a pair of dark brown eyes, which were bigger than Ling Xiao's entire head, were staring straight at him at this moment——

Ling Xiao froze there, not daring to move, and stared blankly at each other for a long time, before finally realizing that the other party didn't seem to have any malicious intentions.On the contrary, there was a gentle and calm light in those huge dark eyes.

Maintaining the state of half-standing up, Ling Xiao still didn't dare to look away carelessly, and tried cautiously until he slowly stood up straight with effort, and the other party just watched silently.

"That... hello."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ling Xiao almost regretted that he wanted to bite off his tongue.Look what stupid things he has done!No matter how friendly the other party is, it is impossible to understand the language belonging to Terra humans.Just when he was so embarrassed, the big guy opposite suddenly snorted again, which seemed to be a response to Ling Xiao's greeting just now.

"You, can you understand me?"

At this moment, Ling Xiao instantly forgot the pain all over his body, and his voice trembled with excitement.And above, the big guy who was looking down at him, with his big head covered by those black scales that felt cold and slippery to the touch, hung down at this moment, gently rubbing against Ling Xiao's body in a friendly manner.

Ling Xiao, who was slightly turned sideways by being rubbed, calmed down at this moment, and after carefully recalling the ins and outs of the incident, he tentatively asked again: "Excuse me, did you save me?"

After being hit by a boulder and flying away, he was caught in the whirlwind for a moment, and he really felt that something was hit by the collision on his back. Could it be--could it be the big guy in front of him?Otherwise, if he fell from such a high cliff, it would be impossible for him to survive with his limbs intact.

The giant beast snorted, and seemed to give an affirmative answer again.Afterwards, it rubbed against Ling Xiao's body again, raised its head slightly, and looked very anxious in its eyes.After seeing these body movements for a while, Ling Xiao asked softly with some doubts: "Do you need my help?"

He took a deep breath, and his dark brown eyes looked somewhere.Ling Xiao, who had been raising his head, reacted, followed the direction of its line of sight, along the beautiful lines, but surprisingly large neck all the way down, at the junction of the neck and shoulders, which were also covered with scales, found a The cub, dripping with blood, was lying on it dying.

Ling Xiao exclaimed, and then he immediately understood, hugged the giant beast's hanging neck with one hand, rode his whole body on it, and was quickly sent to the giant beast's broad back.Ling Xiao touched his waist, but fortunately the bag for things was still there.Enduring the stabbing pain in his shoulder, he took out the medicine powder bottle he prepared from the cloth bag, and then approached the bloody cub with the umbilical cord remaining on his body, Ling Xiao carefully sprinkled the medicine powder evenly on the road On the bruised wound.

Ling Xiao prayed silently in his heart. At this time, he very much hoped that these medicinal powders, which had miraculous effects on the orcs, would work again.

In order to verify the miraculous effects of herbal medicines, Ling Xiao used some of them on himself in experiments before. Unfortunately, the medicinal powders that acted quickly on the orcs could only work to a normal degree on his shoulder injuries, and had no such incredible effects at all. .

After applying the medicine to the injured cub in front of him, Ling Xiao had time to turn his eyes, and began to look at the giant beast lying motionless in the canyon from the beginning to the end——

The huge jet-black body occupies more than half of the area on both sides of the canyon, and the end to end is connected to a length of more than [-] meters.Behind the smooth and powerful shoulder blades, a pair of fleshy wings also covered with tiny scales are slightly gathered, which is the source of the large shadow that Ling Xiao saw above his head after waking up just now.At this time, the pair of wings with astonishing size makes it easy to imagine what kind of magnificent and shocking picture it will be when the wings are fully unfolded.

Ling Xiao inexplicably felt familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen the creature in front of him.

But at this moment, the giant beast turned its huge head around and looked back frequently, its eyes couldn't hide its concern—it was obvious that the newborn cub, whose umbilical cord hadn't even fallen off, was less than half a meter long. , exactly its children.Ling Xiao reckoned that it was very likely that it was because of production that this behemoth was caught in that terrifying black storm.

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