Shi Sheng did not know where she was now. She could not even see her fingers in front of her. The ground was damp and emitted an unpleasant smell.
Soon, Shi Sheng fell into a cycle of high fever, unconsciousness, and waking up. She gradually regained consciousness in her lower body. Every time she was woken up by the pain, she would fall into a coma again.
She could vaguely hear cries in her ears, but they gradually became softer.
In her blurry dreams, she would always see scenes of her childhood.
Sometimes it was of Shi Mu and Lu Ziyue, and sometimes it was of her and Shi Le. They intertwined and appeared, tormenting her nerves.
Her throat was so dry that it was about to smoke. She wanted to open her eyes, but her eyelids were so heavy that it was as if they were glued together. Shi Le seemed to be calling her.
She wanted to answer, but she could not make a sound.
Shi Sheng was a little anxious, but in the next second, she was surrounded by endless darkness. She was like a feather, floating in the darkness silently.
Was she … dead?
Time seemed to have stopped here. She could think, but she could not move. She could only let herself float in the darkness, weightless.
Rustle …
After an unknown period of time, she suddenly heard a sound. It was like the sound of wind blowing through plants. It was very clear. It was right behind her …
Behind her.
Shi Sheng used all her strength to turn around.
A white light came from the darkness and swallowed her in an instant.
The weightlessness disappeared, and she landed on a silver-white path. The path curved into the darkness in the distance. On both sides of the path, there were flowers with white petals and red stamens.
They moved without wind, making a rustling sound as they rubbed against each other. It was like the sound of decadence.
This was the sound she heard.
Where was this place?
Why was she here?
Shi Sheng stood on the silver-white path for a long time. She kept recalling in her mind. After a long time, her eyes lit up. This was the path to another world.
When she was in the Shi family, she eavesdropped on the Shi family's elder's class. The elder said that the Shi family could travel through time and space to another world. It was another world, a world that was similar to theirs, yet completely different from theirs.
However, in recent years, very few members of the Shi family had learned it. Only the head of the family and a few elders still knew how to do it.
Shi Sheng lifted her foot and wanted to walk into the darkness in the distance. As long as she walked through this path, she would be able to reach another world.
She could not go. She did not know how to come back. There was also Shi Le. She could not leave him behind.
Shi Sheng stood on this path for a long time. She could not return to that dark place, nor could she wake up. She was trapped here.
Shi Sheng didn't know how long he had been on that path, just like she didn't know how long she had been in that dark space.
She didn't know when it started, but the snow-white flowers at her feet had been dyed red, spreading out like blood. The moment she discovered it, it frantically covered the distance. In the blink of an eye, the two sides of the silver-white path were filled with swaying blood-red flowers.
Not only these flowers, but the entire world was being dyed red.
She could smell the thick stench of blood. The color of blood surged towards her and enveloped her. She sank into the blood-red water. Fresh blood entered her mouth and nose, and the stench of blood became even thicker.
Shi Sheng tried to swim upstream, but something seemed to be entangling her feet and constantly pulling her into the water.
Cold …
Pain …
Shi Sheng's limbs gradually became weak, and her body continued to sink into the cold blood.
The darkness eroded from above, like a big hand picking her up from the blood. The darkness invaded her again, and she returned to that dark place.
However, the stench of blood did not disappear.
Her throat was sticky with the taste of rust, and the smell of blood was strong. She tried to open her mouth, and a warm liquid suddenly flowed into her esophagus and slid into her stomach.
Only Shi Le was beside her.
She suddenly closed her mouth and held the hand in front of her. It was wet and slippery, and she knew it was blood.
Shi Sheng could not see the wound, so she could only pinch the place where the bleeding was the most. Her whole body trembled.
"Sister …"
A weak voice sounded from her chest. She reached out and touched Shi Le's head. "What are you doing?"
"Dad said … let me …" Shi Le spoke with difficulty. "Protect Sister."
"Who needs your protection?!" Shi Sheng sat up abruptly. Her waist was stretched, and pain swept through her body. It was as if someone had cut her twice.
However, she forced herself to sit up and held Shi Le in her arms. "Don't be afraid. Sister will stop the bleeding. You'll be fine."
She hurriedly pulled off her clothes, wanting to bandage Shi Le's wrist to stop the bleeding.
Shi Le's slightly cold hand rested on the back of her hand.
"Sister, you have to live. Don't die." Shi Le's voice was so soft that Shi Sheng almost could not hear it. "I don't want you to die."
The hand on the back of her hand slowly slid down, and Shi Sheng grabbed it. "I won't die. I won't die. You'll be fine too."
It was silent in the darkness. Shi Sheng held onto her already cold hand and sat there silently. If there was light at this time, one could see the tears rolling down her face.
She did not cry when Lu Ziyue left. She could not cry because her sister was looking at her and needed her comfort. She did not cry when Shi Mu died. She could not cry because her sister was still alive and needed her protection.
But now that Shi Le had left her, what else could she not cry about?
The suppressed cries in the darkness gradually grew louder.
In that dark place, she seemed to have shed all the tears that she had not shed before and all the tears in the future.
Shi Le's life ended when Shi Sheng was twelve years old, but he would live forever at seven years old.
… …
Year 1591.
Caesar, as the representative of the royal family, attended an event. Because he was too bored, he sneaked out of the event. When he passed by an alley, he saw a little girl covered in blood.
That was Shi Sheng. She left the assessment site alive and was brought back to the Shi family. She escaped on the way.
In order to escape from the Shi family who were chasing her, she was covered in wounds. There was almost no clean spot on her clothes and she was dripping with blood.
Shi Sheng rushed out of the alley and bumped into Caesar. The two of them looked at each other.
When Shi Sheng saw him, he did not hesitate to greet him with the knife in his hand. It seemed that he wanted to kill him.
"You …" As soon as Caesar said the word "you", a group of people rushed out from behind and quickly grabbed Shi Sheng.
She was pressed to the ground and injected with drugs. Gradually, she stopped struggling.
Someone glanced at him and Caesar raised his hand, indicating that he was just passing by.
A stranger. To him, that was all.
The other party obviously did not want to cause trouble and dragged Shi Sheng away.
The look in Shi Sheng's eyes when he left was something that Caesar could not forget for many years. It was not full of resentment, but cold and gloomy.
It was not the look of a child.
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