A World Worth Protecting

I don't like this name very much.

But I like the smile on her face and the crescent eyes when she calls my name, so in the years that follow, with her and her father, we drifted away from this world.

Or to be more precise, this is just a part of the world. According to the little girl, this is a star, and outside the star is the universe. The name of this universe is called Taihao.

As for why it is called Taihao, the little girl gave me the answer... She thought that Taihao might be a painter, so she came here to look for materials for writing books.

This answer made me think that the logic seemed a bit problematic, but it didn't matter, as long as she was happy, so we walked through the mountains and the sea, watching the sunrise and sunset, watching the day and night change.

She told me about her dreams.

"Baby, I want to be a painter!"

I looked at her in surprise. In my memory, she seemed to say that she was going to write a book...

"I want to paint the entire universe, and everything in it is painted by myself, so I have to travel around every corner of the world to remember all the scenery."

"Baby, what do you think of my dream? Does it sound particularly beautiful." The little girl hugged my neck and laughed like a bell. The sun in the distance was slowly rising, I see Looking at Chu Yang, looking at the little girl, and listening to her words, I suddenly felt that this scene was beautiful.

I think if you can draw all of this, it will be very beautiful indeed.

So I nodded in agreement, and continued to accompany her and her father to every corner of the planet. We saw war, ugliness, and beauty...

Until one day, she took me and left this star. Before leaving... I made a small request. I wanted to take a look at my former friends.

So, we returned to the original city, but unfortunately...Here, I didn't see the old ape, nor the little tiger, even Ahu was gone.

Because the city is in ruins, it was razed to the ground by a war many years ago.

I'm a little sad, I think...I may never see the little tiger again, never see the old ape again, maybe seeing my sadness, the little girl turned her head and looked at her father, which kept me Some frightened gray-haired middle-aged.

He seemed to think for a while, and then took us to a nearby forest. I clearly remembered that this forest that was originally the place where I was born had been wiped out long ago, but at this moment, I did not go. Thinking too much, because in the forest, I saw my friends.

I saw the little tiger. It has become the king of beasts in the forest. It occupies the largest pools and waterfalls in the forest. It sits cross-legged like a human, very prestigious.

I also saw Ah Hu. What made me sigh of relief is that it is not bald, but its hair is more colorful, and it seems to have fulfilled its dream. Although the beasts respect the tiger as king, but every one of them , All have the hair belonging to Ahu.

Finally, I saw the old ape. It was in the deepest part of the forest. There was a volcano. It was sitting cross-legged in the crater. There were a lot of fuzzy figures around it, and it seemed to be wishing it another birthday.

Without disturbing their lives, I greeted them silently from a distance, and happily followed the little girl, left the star, and we went to the starry sky.

The following days, to me, it was like a trip, me, the little girl, and her father, we walked in the starry sky, we walked into one after another with different customs, different populations, which can be said to be strange and strange. .

On every star, I have left my footprints, the happy laugh of the little girl, and our memories, as if time has become eternal in us, she is still like a little girl, and her personality is also , And I do the same.

Sometimes, in the night sky, she would also talk to me about her dream, which changes every time...

"I don't want to be a painter, I want to be a performer!"

"The performer is not good too, baby, I have decided, I want to be a doctor, I want to heal the wounded!"

"The doctor is too tired, let's do it, baby, let's change it. I want to become a scholar, an omniscient scholar, what do you think?"

In this way, in her ever-changing dream, time has passed without knowing how long, we have traveled this universe, almost ninety-nine percent of the region, it seems that this universe has no secrets in her eyes, Her dream changed again.

"Baby, I really decided this time!"

"I want to pursue my original aspirations, I still want to be a writer and write a book... the protagonist of the book is you!"

"Me?" I stared at the little girl blankly.

"That's right, it's you. The name of this universe must be changed. It cannot be called Taihao. This name is not good. It should be called...Baby, Baby World, Baby Universe." At this point, the little girl was obviously excited. He put his arms around my neck, and there was a happy laugh.

"That's it, this is the baby's world, and it is also the nursery rhyme of my Wang Yiyi!"

I licked her cheek with my tongue, and didn't pay attention to what she said. After I thought, maybe in a few years, her dream would change again.

But I didn't expect that in the years after this, until we finished the last part of the universe, her dream remained unchanged, but she told me the story she wanted to create.

The story is very simple. It is everything that I saw after we met and traveled. Perhaps because I was the protagonist inside, I listened to it with gusto.

And every time, her father, the white-haired middle-aged man, would always stand tenderly next to him, gently touching the little girl’s head, with deep doting in his eyes and expression, as if he only wanted his daughter. Happy, he can do anything.

I thought that this kind of life would always accompany my life to the end, but until one day... she was lying on my back. As I walked forward in the starry sky, I suddenly noticed her young body , Began to get cold.

This kind of coldness made me a little alarmed, because I felt the similar coldness in other strange beasts in the early years. According to the explanation of the old ape back then, I know that this is called leaving, also called returning to the ruins, or even death.

So I stopped in horror, her body seemed to lose strength and slipped down.

I turned around in fear and looked at the pale little girl. I licked her cheeks with my tongue again and again, trying to wake her up, but it didn’t work. And when I looked up anxiously at her father, that At this moment, the white-haired middle-aged man had a sense of sadness in his eyes.

This sadness made my whole body tremble.

But fortunately... as he raised his hand and gently stroked the little girl's head, she gradually opened her eyes, as if she had just woke up, she seemed a little sleepy, and there was a murmur.

"Don't make trouble, baby, I'm a little sleepy, when I wake up, I will play with you again, let me... sleep, just sleep."

Her voice became lower and lower, until the cold feeling reappeared, her father gently picked her up, and walked away step by step.

Looking at his back, looking at the figure of the little girl in it, an indescribable feeling appeared in my heart, as if...I had lost something.

"Are you sick..." I muttered blankly. After lowering my head and looking at my chest, my eyes became bright again. I remembered... One of the reasons why my race was slaughtered seems to be It is the blood in our hearts that can cure diseases.

"Yes, my painstaking effort can cure the disease!" Thinking of this, I quickly raised my head, looking at the figure that is gradually going away, I ran hard, trying to catch up...

It’s just that his pace is not great and his speed is not fast, but I can’t catch up. I can only watch him go farther and farther. This makes me anxious. I run hard. I think of birth and ethnic abandonment. The scenes of my time, at that time, I didn't dare to run with all my strength, because I was afraid that the sound of running would attract the attention of hunters.

But at this time, I am no longer cowardly, at this time, I am no longer timid, at this time, I am no longer afraid, because of my hard work, I can heal the disease, because I don’t want to lose... the laughter that accompanied me throughout my life. .

As a result, my speed is getting faster and faster, and my mind is getting more and more blank. There is only one thought in it, and I want to catch up!

I leaped star after star, I ran across star rivers, towards the distant back, and ran continuously. I don’t know how long I ran until there were no stars around, until the universe seemed to start to blur, until my Ahead, there seems to be an end!

I did not hesitate, even though I was exhausted, even though my consciousness was about to separate, and even though my body had begun to dissipate, I still...toward the end and slam directly!

A sound that I don’t know how to describe, echoed in my ears, my body collapsed, my consciousness shattered, but at a certain moment, I seemed to penetrate some barriers, and I seemed to have reached a The strange world, I seem to be... three feet above my head, what I saw...

"What did I see..." Wang Baole opened his eyes blankly in Weiyang Daoyu, in the mist of the Destiny Star, and muttered.