Volume 1: Life is Like First Love Chapter 31: That Beautiful Segment...

  Su Ming closed his eyes, and he felt that the scenes he had seen tonight had become a kind of heavy feeling, lingering in his heart. That feeling was desolate and sorrowful.

  "That skeleton, what kind of person was he in the Fire Tribe before... Why could only he end his life during the process of transforming into a Moon Wing..."

  Perhaps, he was a strong one of the Hu Man tribe...” Su Ming's eyes conjured up that eerie skeleton, and let out a soft sigh. In his mind, what made it even harder for him to forget was that complicated text.

  "The Way of the Barbarian is insatiable, exhausting all corners of the world. The remaining flames melt blood, thoughts emerge from the ashes, thoughts are exhausted in the void... Like a fire that emerges from the clouds, the vastness fills the space between heaven and earth... At that time, silently pondering, the blood and fire overlap, nine is the extreme, one is the law, burning the barbarian fire with nine bows, completing the transmission of the Fire Way!"

  Su Ming couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and as he pondered, his gaze swept to the side, where he saw Bai Ling looking around curiously, clearly unaware of what this place was used for.

  "Let's go, Baili girl." Su Ming smiled slightly and jumped up, crawling out along the exit.

  Bai Ling hastily followed behind, she had long wanted to leave this place quickly, every extra moment she stayed here made her feel uneasy.

  As soon as they walked out of the exit passage, a mountain wind howled outside, blowing on their bodies, making them feel like they were about to be blown away by the wild wind. White Spirit's face turned pale and she grabbed onto a nearby rock with one hand.

  But for her, who has been pampered in the tribe since childhood, such a mountain peak is almost never climbed. Now, although she persists with gritted teeth, that increasingly pale complexion reveals her fear.

  Su Ming looked at Bai Ling for a few moments, the beauty of this woman was something he had never seen before, especially that pale face, which now had a faintly pitiful look.

  "Never mind, I'll carry you." Su Ming scratched his head, but his heart was racing with excitement.

  "You..." Bai Ling hesitated for a moment, looked down at the bottom of the peak which was as deep as an abyss, and finally nodded lightly.

  Su Ming's spirit was shaken, and he moved forward to squat there. The white Ling's pale face turned a little red, and she silently leaned on Su Ming's back, her arms subconsciously wrapping around his neck.

  Su Ming blinked, and he clearly felt the softness behind him and the faint fragrance that drilled into his nostrils. He took a deep breath, and a thread of indescribable thoughts rose in his heart.

  "Ah... hold on tight, or you'll fall off, don't blame me." Su Ming said subconsciously, but didn't hear any sound from behind. He hesitated for a moment, then calmed himself and quickly climbed down the mountain.

  With his agility, combined with his familiarity with the mountain, even carrying someone on his back didn't have much of an impact. But today's Su Ming was somehow different, the route he took was all steep and rugged, and at times he would suddenly jump down, causing the people behind him to cry out in alarm, before quickly grabbing onto some rocks or vines.

  Feeling the slender body behind him embracing himself tighter and tighter, Su Ming's face revealed a triumphant smile.

  The originally climbable Black Flame Peak, Su Ming took a whole hour to slowly walk down. When Bai Ling got off his back with a red face and a terrified expression, Su Ming still had some regret in his heart. He turned his eyes, coughed dryly a few times, and looked at Bai Ling.

  "This place is mountainous and has deep snow, with many places having traps, and it's also quite far from the Wulong tribe. You're alone, so I'm afraid you might be in danger. How about this: I'll send you to the Wulong tribe first, and then head back home." Su Ming said slowly, observing Bai Ling's expression, and when he saw her hesitant look, he was secretly delighted and quickly spoke again.

  "But this road is not easy to walk, otherwise I'll reluctantly continue carrying you and we can save time, I can also get home sooner." Su Ming furrowed his brow, looked at the sky, and said.

  “Th...” Bai Ling bit her lower lip, and her face turned red again. When she had just climbed down from the mountain peak, she had already seen through the intentional actions of the person in front of her. If it was going to be like this all along... there was a hint of shyness and anger in Bai Ling's eyes.

  "Hey? I'm your lifesaver!" Su Ming's eyes widened, seeing the annoyance in Bai Ling's eyes, feeling a bit guilty, but thinking that he had saved her, he became confident and justified.

  "Aren't you pleased? Never mind, anyway you're also a warrior. There are many wild beasts here and numerous traps, who knows if there's even a Moon Wing... but being careful should be fine... En, I'm leaving." Su Ming let out a breath, turned around and was about to head in the direction of the tribe when he heard a soft and anxious voice behind him.

  "Th...thank you...I don't know the way, can you take me back to the village?"

  Su Ming's heart immediately lit up, but his expression remained unchanged, and he even furrowed his brow, looking very unwilling. After glancing at Bai Ling, he squatted down and opened his mouth impatiently.

  "Hurry up and come, see if we can make it back before dark. If we can't make it back, we'll have to find a place to spend the night again."

  Bai Ling's eyes widened as she stared at Su Ming, and she had some understanding of the person in front of her. Especially when thinking about the scene in the department store earlier, it made her sometimes not know what to say.

  Moreover, most importantly, the person in front of her, at her most desperate moment, walked out. The expression on his face and that decisive feeling inside the cave made it difficult for her to forget.

  Her face flushed, Bai Ling walked quietly to Su Ming's side, lowered her head and leaned against that thin back again. She could hear her own heart pounding, unable to distinguish what kind of emotion it was.

  Su Ming carried the white spirit on his back, his body moving swiftly through the mountain forest like a monkey. The faint fragrance that often came from behind him made him very fond of it. As he walked, he unconsciously changed direction and began to circle around.

  After a long time, the always silent White Spirit's eyes revealed an eerie color, and the arms wrapped around Su Ming's neck tightened slightly.

  "...I've been here three times already..." She said softly, gazing at a withered big tree not far away.

  "What? Is that so? Could I have lost my way? Wait for me to take a good look." Su Ming's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, his expression revealing surprise. After carefully looking around, his face turned solemn and he nodded heavily.

  "That's right, oh dear, I haven't been down this road either." He didn't show any embarrassment at all, changed direction and continued to run.

  Time slowly passed, and the Wulon tribe, which was originally supposed to arrive at dusk, had only walked halfway by now. However, along the way, Su Ming brought Bai Ling through the Wu Shan tribe he was in, taking a distant glance, seeing that there was nothing different about the tribe, and then putting his mind at ease, leaving far away.

  As the sky gradually darkened, White Spirit's expression became increasingly strange.

  When the sky was completely dark, Su Ming stopped in his tracks and looked at Bai Ling with a helpless expression.

  "It seems we'll have to spend the night here... The mountain forest is unsafe at night, let's set off again in the morning."

  Bai Ling's eyes gradually had the cunning of Su Ming when she first saw him, she quietly looked at Su Ming without speaking, but under that gaze, Su Ming became even more guilty.

  "Alright, then let's spend the night here." A moment later, Bai Ling suddenly burst out laughing, her smile was beautiful, and there was a gradually restored wildness to it.

  Su Ming rubbed his nose and also burst out laughing, then stood up and piled up a resting place with dry branches on the big tree beside him, and sat down with Bai Ling on it.

  For a moment, both of them fell silent, as if they didn't know what to say.

  "I still don't know what your name is." After a long while, Bai Ling gazed at Su Ming under the moonlight, her eyes shining brightly.

  "My name is Su Ming, and I know your name is Bai Ling." Su Ming said with a smile as he looked at Bai Ling.

  "You were in the department before, deceiving me, huh? I returned to the tribe and thought about it more and more, feeling that something was off." Bai Ling blinked her eyes, wrinkling her nose as she spoke, with a very cute expression.

  "This..."

  "You're not a young barbarian from Wushan either, are you?" White Lingmei said with a gentle smile.

  Su Ming scratched his head, not knowing what to say, but just then, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and the entire world was filled with white, fluffy snow.

  "Ah, it's snowing." Su Ming immediately looked up at the sky and changed the subject.

  There seemed to be a smile in Baili's eyes, and she didn't continue to ask about the previous question. Instead, she also raised her head, looking at the snowflakes, some of which fell on her face, cool and refreshing.

  The snow grew larger as it fell, and the two people in the mountain forest seemed to be immersed in its beauty, and they fell silent again.

  "Su Ming, thank you..." The sky was already pitch black, but the moonlight under the vast snowflakes reflected a silver glow around, making the mountain forest not so dark after all.

  "Thank you for saving me... can you tell me about yourself? How did you happen to be there?" Bai Ling looked at Su Ming, speaking softly.

  "I often go to the mountain to pick herbs, where I accidentally found a place to avoid the cold. I didn't expect yesterday's blood moon... " Su Ming didn't mention his own dispersal, but said some other things instead.

  Time slowly passed by, on this snowy night, Su Ming and Bai Ling gradually started talking, and they gradually gained some understanding of each other... Their voices in the wind and snow, faintly dispersed.

  "The old man of the Wulon Department is my grandmother... My father and mother left the Wulon tribe a long time ago, I heard my grandmother say that they went to a bigger tribe than Fengquan, and have not returned for a long time..." Bai Ling hugged her body, in the snow, softly speaking of past events.

  "I don't know who my father and mother are... I was picked up by Grandpa..." Su Ming muttered.

  "Ah, so that's it. I was wondering why you seemed so much thinner and shorter than others. Your grandfather must have treated you poorly." Bai Ling's eyes widened.

  "No, Grandpa is very good to me. Besides, although you're tall, I heard Grandpa say that in a few years, I'll be the same too. And you don't look as sturdy as the girls from our clan either." Su Ming said with a smile.

  "That's because my grandfather taught me a barbaric skill, I heard it was what my mother asked my grandmother to teach me when I grew up." Bai Ling said with a smile, looking at Su Ming's hair which had been dyed white by the snow.