The Midnight Owl

Deep in the moonlight maze, there is a dark door on the wall of a road. Just open one of them and you can cross the maze wall and enter the road next door.

At the end of the road next door, a small wind twirled a sleeping girl in a black cloak. The girl lay quietly on the side of the wind, sleeping in a kimono and sleeping peacefully.

Suddenly, there was a slight change in her calm eyebrows. First, she gently flicked it, and then opened it, but it didn't take long for her to frown again.

Finally, she opened her eyes, sat up, and looked at the end of the straight path in doubt.

It was the corner of the next road, and there were some weird vibrations that were coming clearly along there.

The girl in the black cloak blinked lightly, and the wind supported her. At the end of the road, she turned her head to see a new straight road.

The girl never moved again. First, she should not walk into this road; second, there is nothing unusual in this road. The vibration came from a more distant place, and it may have experienced countless left and right turns before it fluttered and reached itself.

Waving, but still very clear.

It's so clear that she can basically be sure that such a shock will be seen for the first time.

Basically, because she still has 1% of her memories of her own.

She remembers many things. She is a passerby. Here she is to test the lost, pass, let, fail and leave. These memories are orderly and solid.

But she always felt that she had forgotten many things, but she didn't forget them completely, so she left a lot of debris in her head, but these debris had no picture, only sound, usually some strange words, such as "I have moonlight "Enough is enough", "This woman is too difficult to deal with", "Is this the **** boss", "Outside, there is a forest" ...

These voices were so blurred that she couldn't even distinguish between what she said and what others said.

But she just thinks about it at will.

These tiny spots that have settled in her memory will not make her calm, causing too many waves.

The shock weakened, and began to become intermittent, and perhaps after a while, it would disappear.

The girl was silent for a moment and closed her eyes.

Suddenly a long vine grows on the wall of the labyrinth. Next, are released.

The vine turned first, then the road was slowly straightened, and the vine moved along the straightened labyrinth wall, following the direction of the vibration, and turned to the next corner, so the new road, then Being straightened, the vines continue to move forward ...

At the same time, somewhere in the maze.

Xiaobai closed her eyes in a panic, and retracted the doll house. Xiao Huang, trapped in it, returned to the labyrinthine road, squatting with his head closed, gasping for pain.

"You're so strange, everyone else is fine."

"You are strange ..."

...

"then who are you?"

"protector."

"me too."

Big eyes stared at the eyes for a long time, Xiaobai opened his mouth first, with incredible, and a little bit of joy: "Where are you guarding? Why have I never seen you?"

In a word, Xiao Huang asked, how to describe his position of keeping the road?

"It's far away." He could only give an answer with ambiguity.

Xiaobai is not satisfied: "How far?"

Xiao Huang had no choice but to look at her: "How far do you let the vine grow crazy, how far will I stay?"

Xiao Bai frowned in a bit annoyed: "I only care about chasing the card, I don't remember the way."

"You didn't remember the way?" Xiao Huang Qingtian bolt, "So how do I go back?"

Xiaobai smiled cutely, and Livoru was sweet: "Then don't go back and chant, stay here to play with me."

"..." Xiao Huang disappointedly moved the proposal.

Murmured.

Murmured.

The familiar sound came back, Xiao Huang's conditioned reflex, looked up, and sure enough, the dark green vine climbed over the wall of the maze. Thinking of the fear that was once dominated by winding, Xiao Huang was tired to support his forehead, and the words were true: "I am all here, and the card has been given to you. Can you take the Vine of Life?"

"Don't mess up the name, people call it" coral vine "... not right," Xiao Bai approached the labyrinth wall and carefully looked at the vine plants above, "This is not my coral vine."

As if he felt someone next to him, the vine suddenly stopped, lying quietly on the wall of the maze, and stopped moving.

Xiao Huang also followed up for a closer look, but I really didn't see any difference between this and the previous "bullying" of his own plant: "Isn't it the same?"

"Where is the same, you see the edge of the leaf, the coral vine is smooth, it is jagged, and this vein ..."

"..." Everywhere is like a mountain, although Xiao Huang still can't see the difference, but inexplicably feels very powerful.

So the question came.

"If it's not you, who made this vine?"

Xiao Huang's voice hadn't fallen yet, and his feet suddenly shook.

He was shocked and looked at Xiaobai, who was also puzzled and surprised.

At the next moment, the entire labyrinth road was shaking, and it slowly moved!

Xiaobai leaned on Xiaohuang's side unconsciously. Xiaohuang was protecting her like Taishan Mountain ... No, cough, the actual situation is that Xiaohuang also leaned on Xiaobai's side. , Trembling together in the mutation.

The labyrinth finally stopped.

But the corner in front was gone, and the road they were on became very long, very long, so long that they could not see the end.

"What's wrong with this?" Xiao Bai couldn't understand the situation.

"The road seems ... straightened?" Xiao Huang also blinded.

"Are you going?" Xiao Bai asked.

Xiao Huang said: "Look and see."

At the end of the road, there was a gust of wind, faint, slightly cool.

Xiao Huang's eyes floated and prepared, pulling Xiao Bai behind him.

Soon, a petite black figure appeared in the distance.

She rode on the wind without coming out of the wind, and the nearer, the coolness in the wind was obvious.

Finally, she stopped three or four meters away from them and looked at them quietly, her expression calm.

"This lost person must be very powerful," Xiao Huang and the partner behind him said, "I'm afraid you can't handle it alone, I will help you."

The response behind him was a sigh.

"Your brain is not as good as the doll in my room," Xiao Bai didn't feel good about patting his back. "There's been a misunderstanding, can't you ask first?"

After she finished speaking, she didn't need Xiao Huang, she leaned over and looked straight away, looking at the girl in the black cloak and asked, "Are you a lost man?"

The black cloak shook his head: "No."

Xiaobai asked again: "Are you a roadkeeper?"

The black cloak nodded: "Yes."

Xiaobai shot Xiaohuang again, this time with pride: "Look at it."

Before Xiao Huang had enough time, he heard the black cloak and asked, "Who are you?"

Her voice is as cold as her wind.

But when Xiaobai and Xiaohuang listened to it again, they felt it was cool and very comfortable.

They laughed brightly, one held their heads high, and unanimously said, "We are also roadkeepers!"

"You too?" The girl in the black cloak's indifferent eyes first appeared obviously surprised.

"Yes," Xiao Huang pointed to Xiaobai, "Here is the road she is keeping, my road ..." Halfway through the words, he stopped suddenly and looked up at the end of the road-far away-far away- , Changed his mouth, "Uh, maybe it's not all her way here ..." He looked at the black cloak girl with a little worry, "Aren't you straightening my way?"

The girl in the black cloak looked back and shook her head honestly: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Xiao Huang was not prepared for this answer. "Don't you straighten the road?"

"Yes," the girl in the black cloak said, "but I don't know if there is your way inside."

"Then why did you come here?" Xiao Huang didn't understand. What he introduced was a card, but the card didn't fly out again. What caused the other party?

"I felt a shock." The girl in the black cloak said, "It's a strange shock."

Xiao Huang was aroused curiosity by the other party: "How come there is a strange way?"

The girl in the black cloak looked at him and Xiaobai quietly. After a while, it seemed that the "vibration source" was locked, so he didn't answer, and asked, "What are you doing just now?"

doing what?

Xiao Huang looked at himself, then Xiao Bai, and gave a particularly sincere answer: "Talk."

Xiaobai rolled his eyes and tried to tie coral vines to his head to see if he could get a hang of it.

"I want to play games with him," she looked at Black Loli, "but as soon as he entered, the whole thing was wrong, so I released him again."

The girl in the black cloak tilted her head slightly: "Not right?"

"Well," of course, Xiao Bai remembered what happened just now. "He seemed to be uncomfortable. Then he yelled, and the doll house started shaking. Is this what you feel?"

The black cloak girl thought about it and said, "I don't know."

Xiaobai and Xiaohuang glance at each other, and I can't help.

A lot of wonderful things have happened, and they haven't even figured out the cards on their side, and there is really no way to help others.

The three looked at each other, and the atmosphere suddenly fell silent.

The wind blew along the straight labyrinth road, far and far.

"My name is Xiaobai," the lively girl in a white dress first released her goodwill, and then her curious eyes kept looking behind the girl in a black cloak. "How did you straighten these paths?"

The girl in the black cloak simply said: "Phantom."

It seemed to her that there was nothing worth showing off.

"My name is Black Momo." The name was exported before the thought arrived, and after finishing talking, Black Momo himself was startled.

"My name is Xiaohuang." The yellow-haired youth who likes to be lively, welcomes the skateboard for the addition of another companion.

Yeah, skateboarding!

With a flash of light in his heart, Xiao Huang immediately closed his eyes and meditated, sensing his skateboard across the air to make it move.

He can even hear the sound of a skateboard sliding ... Boom-Boom!

Okay, hit the corner.

Hei Mo Mo's straightened road did not have the one he guarded.

Xiaobai is a curious baby. He jumped around Black Momo and tried to see if he could jump into the wind.

failure.

Heimo looked at her, the coldness between her eyebrows melted away, and she seemed to have a faint smile.

She gently raised her hand, and a small wind lifted Xiaobai.

Xiaobai was happily circling in the wind, several times he almost turned himself off the ground, and finally he was happy, only to think of something like this, and asked Heimo: "Have you thought about the world outside?"

Black Momo stunned, looking at Xiaobai, his eyes puzzled: "Why ask this?"

Xiaobai had just pulled out the card, and Xiaohuang, who was standing on the ground, had already handed over his own card: "I and Xiaobai both have a card like this. Xiaobai asked questions on the card."

Heimo took the card and read it carefully.

Seeing this strangely, Xiao Bai said, "Do you not have such a card?"

She has it, and Xiao Huang also has it. She thought all the roadkeepers should have it.

"No, I have never seen it," Heimo returned the card to Xiaohuang, and then looked at Xiaobai. "But I know that there is a forest outside."

Xiaobai: "Forest?"

Xiao Huang: "Have you been there?"

"No." Heimo Mo looked up slightly and looked at the moonlight. "It's just like ... someone told me."

"Then, let's play games in the doll house first, and then go to the forest together, okay?" Xiao Bai couldn't wait to send out an invitation, and his eyes were full of expectation.

Hemo hasn't spoken yet, Xiao Huang stopped it first: "Please, your doll house will die!"

Xiaobai blows her hair and stares at her eyes: "Then you are stupid!"

"This has nothing to do with being stupid ..." Xiao Huang died.

Between the buckets of mouth, a door suddenly opened on the wall of the maze, and the door squeaked and opened before the two of them could react.

Outside the door, the vegetation is lush and the night is quiet.

Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai looked at Black Momo in disbelief, with the same wide eyes.

Heimo Mo smiled: "Together, go out?"

If the lost person passed the test and gave her more surprises, she would open such a door and send them directly out of the maze, but this door, she never thought of using it on herself.

In fact, even now, she has no longing for the outside, but she wants to stay longer with them both.

The big trees that cover the sky, the low lush bushes, the grass with dew, and the small insects occasionally skipping from the tip of the grass outline a beautiful and quiet map of the moonlight forest.

The three little friends walked in it, not knowing the direction or the way ahead, but walking forward only by their temperament. Twitter along the way, of course mainly Xiaobai and Xiaohuang, amazing all the way, um, Xiaobai and Xiaohuang, free and happy all the way, this is the common feeling of the three little friends.

It turns out that the world is not only a maze road, but also forests, birds and beasts, soft soil, and a vast sky.

Xiao Huang used to smell the grass, but now he stepped on the grass.

"You just lie on the ground and smell it." Xiaobai made fun of him as he watched him stop and squat.

Xiao Huang is in a good mood and happy to be ridiculed, but there is a doubt that hovered in his heart for a long time. Then he muttered to himself: "Strange, why not?"

Heimo stopped and noticed something, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Taste." Xiao Huang said, and leaned in close to the little yellow flowers in the tuft of grass. He smelled it, and once again saw disappointment in his eyes. He straightened up and looked at the two little friends. "Did you not smell it? There is a sweet aroma all the way, but I smelled the flowers and plants passing by, it's not this smell."

Heimo looked at him and seemed to want to laugh, but held back.

The little white next to it, silently took off the obscure flower that had never been attached to the ear: "This is what you smell!"

"..." Xiao Huang looked at the pale pink flower in the other's hand obsessively, and finally understood why "there was a fragrance along the way".

Black Momo couldn't help it anymore and chuckled aloud.

Xiao Huang scratched his head a little shamefully.

Xiao Bai sighed, spread her palms, stared quietly for a few seconds, and two small flowers appeared exactly on her palm. She pinned a flower behind the black jasmine and a flower behind the little yellow ear, admired for a moment, and was very satisfied with her masterpiece.

"This is called Ye Luo Hua, the fragrance is sweet, but it can't last for a long time. The taste will be gone." Xiao Bai knows Hei Mo Mo, because the other party can also manipulate plants, so this explanation is mainly for small children yellow.

Xiao Huang touched the small flower on his ear, and thought that the fragrance would disappear after a while, a bit reluctant.

"If you really like it, I will give you some Ye Luo Hua Jue," Xiao Bai said, "You can dye Ye Luo Hua Juice on anything, and the aroma can be preserved for a long time, a long time-"

She dragged her long tail and stretched her arms out, fearing that Xiao Huang would not feel for a long time.

The corner of Xiao Huang's mouth couldn't help but go up. Not only did he feel "for a long time", he also smelled the sweeter night syrup juice until it was sweet in his heart.

The three were about to move on, and suddenly a gust of wind rose in the forest.

The strong wind without warning caused the cheeks of the three little partners to ache, and at the same time, a voice sounded in all three people's hearts-going back.

The sound was abrupt, but firm, as if it had been sleeping there, waiting for the time to sound the alarm.

"It's time to go back." Black Momo made the first voice, and resumed a light tone, but there was no coldness.

Xiaobai also knew that she should go back. There is no reason, it should be done, but—

"I am reluctant." Reluctant to the forest, and reluctant to separate from the two little friends. After feeling the maze road for so long, I felt this way for the first time.

"Xiaobai, can you make Ye Luohua juice now?" Xiao Huang asked suddenly.

"Yes, but what do you want it to do?" Xiao Bai asked puzzled.

Xiao Huang looked at her, then looked at Heimo, and laughed, showing his white teeth: "We make an appointment."

...

05:00 Beijing time, owl time, unknown.

There is no time in the moonlight maze.

Black Momo sat in the air, looked up at the moonlight, and felt very peaceful.

She had just experienced a battle, the battle was fierce, and she was a little tired, but in the end, the lost people still failed the test.

In fact, she feels that she can win more easily. If she didn't go too far before, it took too much energy.

Huh?

Black Momo's beautiful brow gently frowned, wondering why he thought so.

Before, it has gone too far, road?

Where does this come from?

Why did you go a long way? Where did you go a long way? With whom did you go? Why didn't she remember?

Under the moonlight, she smelled the sweet fragrance. The scent sometimes disappears, looming.

Black Momo looked down, looking at the ground below, in the mess of green plants and gravel, a touch of powder.

Raising his hand and sweeping, the pavement returned to smoothness, leaving only the pink flower that had been trampled on.

Black Momo fell to the ground, picked it up, put it in the palm, and gently blown off the dirt.

Ye Luohua, a small sweet-smelling flower, recognized by Black Moss.

but……

Hei Mo Mo leaned close to the small flower and smelled it seriously. Sure enough, the flower was already tasteless. But the fragrance around me has not disappeared, it is still vague, shy, as if hiding from where I don't want to come out.

"It's not you, who will it be?" Black Momo whispered to Xiaohua as if the other party could understand.

Xiaohua lay quietly in the palm of her hand and did not respond.

Heimo wanted to throw away the flowers, but at the moment when the hand just moved, he felt a trace of perseverance in his heart.

She stopped, silent for a moment, and put the little flower into the secret pocket in the cloak.

But the next second, his fingertips were in his pocket and he was stuck.

Black Momo froze, felt out what stuck to him, and a card that had been torn in half, stuck to his, was the corner of the slightly hard card.

The sweet fragrance suddenly became direct, almost coming.

Heimo's eyes widened and he pressed the card close to the tip of his nose and sniffed gently. That's right, it's the smell on the card!

She raised the card curiously, and by the moonlight, looked at the words above—

1. Why are you here

2. Here is yours

3. Have you ever thought outside

The tearing was too uniform, so all the words left only the neat first half.

Black Momo lowered a little bit for no reason, but suddenly, she raised the card higher again, and under the moonlight, the words on the back of the card came out.

She hurriedly turned the card over, and compared with the neat writing on the front, the back was almost scribbled to fly. It was written in Ye Luo Hua Jue, densely packed, and varied in size. You hugged me and I squeezed you. You need to distinguish carefully to separate them one by one—

Black Momo, Xiaohuang, Xiaobai, promised to go to the forest again when the lost people disappeared. Black Momo and Xiaohuang should not be disturbed. The white coral vines will find you along with the fragrance of Ye Luohua Juice.

Murmured.

Murmured.

Heimuo heard the sound, and at the end of the road, the coral vine had climbed the corner and was moving towards himself, coming alive.

Volume three