9 Sliver hair (3)
"Clang clang”
The metal basin landed on the floor and water splashed all around.
Mu Tianyin looked up and she was met with a pair of clear and innocent eyes that were startled for a moment.
“Yay!”
When the little boy saw that Mu Tianyin had woken up, his tender face lit up and he beamed at her with a brilliant smile. He ignored the basin that he had knocked over as he quickly ran out noisily and shouted out:
“Grandpa, Grandpa! Quickly, come! The sister
woke up!”
“This is…?” Mu Tianyin turned and took a look at her surroundings.
A hemp twist rope hung on the wall on something that resembled a rhinoceros horn. There was a metal basin beside the wooden bed, a wooden bowl filled with porridge…had she been saved by someone? But why did this situation look so strange?
“It’s true, it’s true …I’m telling you…!”
While Mu Tianyin was in the midst of worrying, the little boy who had ran out earlier returned excitedly with an old man as he flipped open the door curtain.
The old man was wearing a grey coat made of a tanned hide of an animal. Although he was in his elder years, however his eyes were brimming with spirit; it looks like this person isn’t simple.
“Young child, you’ve awoken?” The old man walked over quickly.
Mu Tianyin quickly got out of bed and she cupped her hands together in gratitude,
“Thank you for saving me.”
That strange wilderness, that strange cold spring and that pair of bewitching eyes….her memory stopped there and although she wasn’t clear on what happened after, one thing for sure was that this old man had saved her.
“My name is Stone.” The little boy who looked to be about ten years old patted his chest and cheerfully said, “When Grandpa brought everyone out hunting this morning, you were found just outside Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest. Big sister, which tribe do you belong to? How can you go so close to the Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest? It’s too dangerous!”
“My name is Mu Tianyin.” Looking at the child before her, she could not help but think of her own brother, Mu Feng. She felt a thread of warmth slowly emerge from her heart, however, the worry in her heart also got heavier as she asked, “What do you mean by… hunting? Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest? Tribe….?”
Where the hell was this?!
“Huh?” Little Stone twisted his brows and seemed to be confused by her questions.
“Step aside now.” The old man laughed heartily as he nudged Little Stone aside as he looked at the slim girl in front of him. He began to ask, “Child, I see that your dressing is very different . You don’t seem to be the people of our Three Mountains, how did you appear before the Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest?”
She was wearing her green military dress but it was soaked in blood and doused in ice water. It had been through so much that it no longer resembled its original appearance.
Mu Tianyin remained silent and looked at the kindly old man before her. After deliberating for a moment, she let out a small sigh before she slowly explained, “Truth be told, I have absolutely no idea where this place is.”
A glimmer of surprise flashed by the old man’s eye, “Then, where are you from?
Mu Tianyin shook her head, as she started to recall, she started to make her own speculations in her heart.
“I….I seem to have been brought here by a red light. When I woke up, I was already in the midst of that Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest place that you mentioned earlier. I saw many different strange beasts, oh yeah, there was also a very strange cold spring, everything surrounding it was void of life….”
“Red light…cold spring?!” The old man cried out in shock.
What kind of luck did this girl have? Coming out alive from the Desolate Clouds Ancient Forest alone was a miracle by itself, how did she even manage to go to the Spring of Life and Death?
