novelden Chapter 127 Trapped in a Dream
Chapter 127 Trapped in a Dream
As for the so-called paradise, it was just a glimmer of hope that Mo Qinyu gave to the girls. They naively thought that as long as they kept going up along this road, they would reach the immortal realm that the adults talked about. It was said that immortals did not need to eat and would not feel hungry. The two children could not forget it after hearing it, and their eyes suddenly glowed with gold. Isn't this what they wanted? No need to starve, no need to fill their stomachs, and still be alive.
"Brother, I can't walk anymore. My stomach hurts so much." The girl covered her stomach and squatted down in pain.
The girl was Mo Qingli, the owner of the dream. At this moment, her stomach had reached its limit. The severe pain made her unable to stand up straight. Bending down seemed to relieve her pain, as if a saw was sawing her stomach back and forth. The sharp and stimulating pain made it unbearable for her.
Mo Qinyu knew that they could not stop. Once they stopped, they would stay here forever and would always remain at this age.
He was somewhat depressed, clenching his fists, and seemed to have made up his mind. He squatted down resolutely and said to Qingli, "Sister, come up, lie on your brother's back and you won't feel any pain."
Mo Qingli seemed to be bewitched by Mo Qinyu and stretched out her thin arms towards his weak back.
"Brother, is it heavy?" Qingli, who was lying on Qinyu's back, felt that what her brother said was true. It seemed that it didn't hurt that much on his back.
"Not heavy." It's very light, not even a few pounds of flesh, Qin Yu thought.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, they entered an uninhabited area, an entire ancient forest with numerous mosquitoes. Of course, in addition to mosquitoes, there were also man-eating monsters. However, Qin Yu did not feel scared, because at this moment, they had only the option of life or death.
Being eaten by monsters didn't seem so scary. After all, they were about to starve to death. Being able to become monster food seemed to be a kind of comfort. At least before they died, they were still valuable. Becoming food for others continued their lives. They were not like Qin Yu and Qing Li, who were weak and useless. Without value, there was no meaning to their existence. Without the meaning of existence, even living was a waste of air.
At this moment, a wolf howled not far away. Qin Yu shuddered, and the blood in his body seemed to boil. It turned out that he was still afraid, still afraid of becoming someone else's food, afraid of death. He finally remembered that he and Qingli walked into this primeval forest for survival, not to die.
Soon, the wolves seemed to smell the scent of strangers in the air and began to howl, one after another, and the sound was getting closer and closer to the two of them.
Finally, the wolves could not wait to surround him. He was the only one facing this group of wolves with bad intentions. Qingli, who was behind Qinyu, had already fainted from hunger. They also seemed to be starving, staring at Qinyu with eyes full of desire, and drooling from the corners of their mouths.
Qin Yu, who had never seen such a big scene, was naturally frightened. He stumbled back a few steps and was tripped by a branch and fell to the ground. Qingli on his back just woke up.
She seemed to be hallucinating from hunger. She stared at the wolves in front of her with longing eyes and spoke nonsense:
"Brother, it's meat! It's all meat! Look!"
As she spoke, she crawled towards the wolves. Qin Yu felt quite unfamiliar with Qing Li's behavior, but he still reached out and held her, shook his head, and said:
"Don't go, that's not meat!"
"No! Brother Qinyu, that's meat!" Mo Qingli said firmly.
At this moment, the leader wolf gave an order and wolves from all directions swarmed towards them. Qin Yu closed his eyes in despair.
"Is this it? Is there nothing else we can do?"
No sooner said than done, a red light flew over and split into several beams of light attacking the wolf that pounced on them.
The wolves howled a few times and fell to the ground one after another. Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader wolf called on its wolf subordinates to retreat. For a while, the wolves could no longer be seen, and only scattered animal carcasses were left on the ground.
Qin Yu was shocked by the sudden change. He stared forward with wide eyes. There was a middle-aged man in Taoist robes, looking at Qin Yu and Qing Li with a serious expression.
"This is not a place for you two children to play. Go back to your parents."
At this time, Qin Yu was no longer able to stop Qing Li from moving forward. She escaped in a few moves and pounced on the dead animals to eat them. While she was biting them, she muttered to herself, "Meat, eat meat."
The Taoist frowned upon seeing this, raised his hand and pointed slightly, and the raw meat in Qingli's mouth came out with his finger.
He thought about it, found some branches nearby, and simply built a pile of branches for making a fire. He snapped his fingers, and a ball of fire came out of the pile of branches.
This scene came into Qin Yu's eyes, and his eyes were full of curiosity and yearning. The Taoist priest did not expect that his action did not scare the two children, but instead ignited the heart of one of them.
"Are you an immortal?"
The Taoist smiled and did not answer.
Soon, the aroma of meat spread throughout the forest. In order to prevent the aroma of food from attracting the attention of other monsters, the Taoist priest set up a barrier where they were.
The three of them ate with relish and soon cleared all the barbecue on the rack.
"I haven't had such a filling meal in a long time. Thank you, immortal, for saving my brother and I from the claws of the monster." Qin Yu bowed to him gratefully.
"It's just a small favor," the Taoist said calmly, "Since you are full, I will take you home. Your family members should be worried."
Qinyu and Qingli lowered their heads and said nothing.
"Not enough?" the Taoist asked again.
At this time, Qin Yu half-knelt down and said firmly: "Immortal, please teach us the magic!"
Qin Yu pulled Qing Li who was standing beside him, and the latter also knelt down.
The Taoist priest hesitated for a moment and said, "It seems that you are homeless children, pitiful people, but you and I are not destined to be together, and this magic can't be learned just because you want to."
"May I ask how can I learn magic from you?" Qin Yu asked.
The Taoist thought for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand, plucked a leaf and handed it to them, saying: "Put your hands together like a cross. If you can break the leaf in your palm into two halves, I will accept you as my disciples."
Qin Yu and Qing Li looked at each other, how could this be possible? They both looked at the Taoist with half doubt and half belief, thinking he was playing a trick on them.
Seeing their puzzled looks, the Taoist priest demonstrated it to them in a pretentious manner, leaving Qin Yu and the other two stunned.
"How did you do this?" Qin Yu swallowed and asked in surprise.
"It is inexplicable. You guys try it!" The Taoist stretched his beard in a pretentious manner.
However, for some unknown reason, when Mo Qinyu put his hands together, he suddenly felt an inexplicable force. He heard a crisp "click" sound in the palm of his hand. He spread out his hands nervously, only to see that the leaf in his hand was split into two halves.