Abandoned flower
It feeds on despair, but it blooms with amazing beauty.
When people cut through thorns to get it, it just sticks tiny stingers into the skin of those who don't know what's good or bad, let the toxin spread with the blood, and finally falls in front of the flowers and becomes nutrients, which is a cold corpse.
However, even so, there are countless people scrambling to die for it.
Just because it is swaying in the breeze, it is the most gentle and deadly temptation.
-Introduction
(1)
I was born in a dark valley, dressed in the color given by night, breathing under huge rocks, rooted in barren soil, occasionally glimpsing a ray of light from the cracks in the rocks, and drawing little water from the lost darkness.
During that time, I never thought about what I was, whether it was flowers or grass or just a touch of green. All I know is that I have to live.
For this reason, I have to keep swallowing all the things I can absorb.
My roots never tell me what they taste, and I don't want to know.
(2)
That day, he pushed away the rock and saw me.
In the weak wind, I feel the dazzling sunshine and his breath, and a few poor leaves on the green stems can't help shivering.
"It's a beautiful plant. I said, Xiaocao, please let me take it home and plant it. My sister will like you." He said, "My sister likes flowers and plants very much."
take it back? Where are you taking me?
My roots have stretched for thousands of miles in the dark land. How can I be easily pushed around?
"You'd better not take me away. I'm destined to live here all my life." I said.
"That's really a pity." He said, "The soil here is very dry. Shall I water you?"
"That's not necessary. I can not absorb water for a long time." I said, "Thank you anyway."
I don't know who he is, and I don't want to know.
(3)
He left, and I went back to that lonely life.
I want to dig deeper into the roots and explore something moist that can be absorbed by myself.
Suddenly, it seemed to be burnt by something. I subconsciously shrank, only vaguely feeling that my roots touched a highly toxic liquid.
But it doesn't matter. I can get used to it and learn from it soon.
My body is like the coffin of all things, and I make them sleep in decay.
(4)
He came to see me again and told me his story.
"My sister is very ill and there is no doctor to save her." He said, "In our village, everyone thinks she is a disaster."
"This is really a pity." I said with pain.
That liquid still makes me feel bad, although it can make me grow faster.
"My sister said that she might die soon." He said, "I don't want her to go, but there is nothing I can do."
Maybe this is a more uncomfortable thing, worse than being burned by a highly toxic liquid. Actually, I don't know, but I vaguely think he is like this.
"How far is your village from here? If it is closer, maybe my roots can stretch over and I can see you. " I said.
"It's not far, but it's only a mile or two." He said, "This is the back hill of the village. But you look so fragile, you'd better live here. "
Before he left, he asked me again, "Do you need water?"
I thought about it and thought that his sister needed him more, so I said, "No, thanks."
(5)
I firmly believe that my roots have reached and even surrounded his village.
Therefore, I can see him as long as I stick my root up quietly.
Wrong, wrong, not there, not here ...
In my hurry, my roots spilled a bucket of water, which was very cool. I couldn't help sticking out more roots and sucking up the water.
This speed makes me a little scared and uneasy.
Well, there seems to be a fire over there, so I won't go to see it. Ben could have told me that I couldn't go there.
(6)
This time he came with a sad face.
I learned a lot of new words by stealth. I don't think this conversation with him will make him feel boring.
"Have you come to accompany me again? I look a little unhappy today. " I was the first to say hello to him.
"Yes, Xiao Cao." He smiled at me reluctantly. "My sister died not long ago. The villagers said she deserved to die. She broke into my house and burned my sister's body."
I was shocked and felt very uncomfortable, but I couldn't think of anything to comfort him at the moment.
But he sighed, looked at me with a wry smile and asked, "Wouldn't it be nice if you said I would settle down here and open up a wasteland every day and talk to you?"
"Naturally, it is very good." I'm at a loss. Why would he want to live here?
We were silent for a long time, and he said goodbye.
"So, you still don't need water?" He asked me as usual.
"No need, you will feel better when you go back." I just answered him like this.
Even though I have learned so much, what I can use in the end is only a little bit pitiful.
(7)
On this day, I couldn't help sticking my roots out to see him, and I found his home.
Everything looks beautiful under the blue sky.
But why did I see the raging fire?
Because of instinct, my roots are retreating, but I don't think I can retreat.
"We can't be silent this time." I said to myself.
At that moment, all my roots were restless, and I could feel the earth shaking. In the past, the hard soil trembled in the dense roots, and I seemed to see those frightened expressions of human beings.
For a moment, my consciousness was cleared.
what am I doing? Why would I do that?
I don't know any of this, but I know I have to do it.
(8)
After the fire was extinguished, the whole village ceased to exist and was annihilated by the soil into ruins.
I, on the other hand, invaded those lands crazily.
His half-charred body was lying on the ground, gently lifted by all the roots, and I dusted him with the charred roots.
"Have you seen your sister?"
I asked him, but he didn't answer.
I looked around again, bodies and bodies, ruins and ruins, mixed together in a messy way, and then I saw my roots take those bodies for themselves.
I don't understand the meaning of all this, but I feel like I'm blooming.
"Look, I'm blossoming. I'm not an ordinary grass."
On my corolla, there are 26 translucent white petals, as if you had looked at me, so pure and gentle.
Once again, my roots are restless uncontrollably. I saw those bodies and dried black blood disappear little by little. I finally found that I was swallowing them, but I don't care anymore.
I grew tiny thorns, and I gave birth to deadly venom. I changed from a grass that could not see the sun to a killing flower standing on the ruins.
"So I have such great power." I smiled at him. "If I had known this, I would have gone home with you. If you use me as a medicine to cook medicine, you can definitely save your sister. "
(9)
I turned into a human figure with dark eyes and snow-white hair. I tied a braid on the left side, leaving only my figure on the ruins.
"Do you think I am beautiful?"
"I've heard that people who can turn into human beings are no longer ordinary animals and plants, but demons."
"I also heard that the demon is very powerful. Can I bring you and your sister back to life?"
"But who will teach me what to do?"
(1)
That flower-spreading ruin has finally become my home. I have guarded it for thousands of years as a flower demon.
I gave my flower a name, which means abandoned flowers all over the world.
After that, I always felt something was missing. I feel that I am special and I should have a proper name.
At first, I wanted to name myself Snow White, because my petals are as white as snow.
Finally, I chose to call it Black Blood.
There are dead bodies everywhere behind this name.
The original text was published in LOFTER.