It is another evening, the sun sets, and the orange-red light falls on the fairyland-like mountains and fields, warm but not dazzling.
The two little ghosts snuggled together.
The child-voiced ghost was no longer the little ball she used to be. Under the nourishment of the ghost power of the calm ghost, she barely recovered to her previous appearance, but correspondingly, the calm ghost also became very weak.
Two souls appeared and disappeared in the sunset.
"If we can still smell it, the air should smell very good now, not dry at all, but slightly moist. It makes you feel comfortable not just breathing it, but just being in it."
The speed at which he spoke was noticeably slower than before, probably due to the weakening of the phantom power.
The little boy with the childish voice didn't respond for a long time. He tilted his head and became nervous instantly.
"Wake up! Wake up!"
"Can you hear me?!"
The childish ghost yawned in complaint, "You always complained about my noise before, and now you are noisy too..."
Her voice has also changed compared to before. It is no longer full of energy, but like a wilted flower, lifeless.
She looked at the expression of the person in front of her with sleepy eyes and was shocked.
"You're not crying, are you? Don't cry. I'm just taking a nap. What's there to cry about?" She muttered, but saw that the ghost in front of her had indeed restrained his sad expression.
The first thing he said was a stiff response that was incompatible with his handsome appearance, "You know that in your current condition, if you fall asleep, you may never wake up again."
The childish ghost lowered his head guiltily, "But you have to sleep when you are tired..."
The calm ghost raised his voice and emphasized, "We ghosts don't need to sleep. Humans do."
"Of all the ghosts in the mountain, you are the only one who sleeps when you are tired. You'd better get rid of this bad habit now. I'm really scared..."
"What are you afraid of?" The little kid asked with his big eyes wide open, eager to learn.
The calm kid turned his back to her and whispered, "…I'm afraid you'll never wake up again…"
It was quiet for a long time before the little ghost with a childish voice smiled and said, "But this day will happen, so don't be sad..."
Hearing her coquettish words, the calm boy felt even sadder, and he changed the subject and mentioned what happened some time ago.
"Why on earth did you help that Xiao Hei? It's impossible that you fell in love with him just because you helped him pick fruits a few times?"
"What do you mean by like or not? What are you talking about?" The little boy with the childish voice was obviously frightened by what he said.
"If I remember correctly, I must have been very young when I died? Otherwise, I wouldn't have been floating in this mountain for several years with the same voice as a child."
"Yes." The calm kid stretched out a transparent finger and tapped the forehead of the childish kid, "You are just a little kid."
The childish kid waved his hands in protest and said angrily, "Anyway, I don't like you!"
"What's that for?"
The childish ghost was silent for a long time, "Maybe it's because..."
"He is different from us. He has infinite possibilities."
The calm kid was speechless for a moment after hearing this.
The childish ghost said softly: "We are destined to dissipate. No matter what method we use to prolong our existence, we cannot change this. But people are different."
"Even if they are in desperate situations and doomed to die, they can always do many things, unlike us who are just a few wandering souls and can do nothing."
"Just like you said, being a human being can smell the moist and comfortable air, touch the soft fur of animals, and feel the warm and bright sunlight shining on the body. How happy it is to be a human being... Even though I have been dead for so long, I can still imagine how happy it feels..."
"I can't feel these things anymore after I become a ghost. If there really is a God in this world, then we ghosts must be the children abandoned by God."
"Xiao Hei..." The childish voice said softly, "He still has many possibilities. He will definitely live a better life in the future than he does now."
"I share my power with him, and I always feel..." She looked longingly at the sunset in the sky that was becoming brighter and brighter, red like blood, "When I no longer exist, when the sunlight shines on him, it will also shine on me." "Then I will definitely feel the warmth..."
The calm kid turned his head and secretly wiped away his tears, "Idiot... Have you forgotten that Xiao Hei himself said that he doesn't like the sun at all. He is different from you. He hates the feeling of being exposed to the sun."
The childish ghost smiled happily when he heard this, "But this is the beautiful part of living in this world."
"I like the sun very much. Xiao Hei doesn't like the sun, but the sun shines on us equally."
She said calmly in a childish voice: "There is almost no equality in this world. People are divided into high and low, and animals are also divided into different levels."
"Even in Xuanmen, a place of pure cultivation that is envied by the world, layers of malicious intent can arise."
"But even in this world where equality is totally unacceptable..."
At this moment, the smile on Tongsheng Little Ghost's face was far more moving than the sunset in the sky.
"Like everyone else, I can still enjoy the feeling of the sun shining on my body, smell the fragrance of flowers and grass, and feel the slightly moist air. This is what makes me very happy."
The calm little ghost felt a sore nose and couldn't stop crying anymore.
“——Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Pain, grief, anger and powerlessness.
There were tears in the eyes of the little girl, tears she herself didn't know why.
“…I told you this so that you can feel as happy as I do, but why do you feel sad…”
The calm little ghost had tear marks on his face, and he slowly turned around and looked at the childish little ghost.
"…I'm not crying for me…"
"I am crying for you."
The childish ghost was startled, and the calm ghost held her in his arms.
The two souls embraced each other tightly.
"…A fool as easily satisfied as you…why would you want to commit suicide? How painful would it be when the knife cuts your skin? Didn't you like the sun at that time…"
*
As the sun sets, a withered grave is covered with weeds, and its dry and yellow color almost blends in with the dim sunlight.
The little girl opened her big eyes and looked at the woman standing silently in front of the grave.
"Mother, why do you walk so long to come here every year? Is there anyone you know here?"
The woman did not answer immediately. Instead, she raised her head and slowly looked up at the sky.
The sun was about to set again, and her favorite time was about to pass.
Next year she will get it earlier than this year so that I can spend more time with her.
As the woman thought about this, the expression on her face softened a lot. She turned around, squatted down, and spoke softly to the little girl.
"Yes, there is someone that mother knows living in the little mound. She is just like you, Nannan, a very cute child."
"Nannan loves her mother the most. If this child is the same as Nannan, why doesn't he accompany her like Nannan?"
The woman chuckled at the words, her eyes filled with sadness.
"Because this kid has someone he likes more."
Childish voice: "So that's how it is. What does she like?"
"She likes the sun..." The woman gently directed the girl's gaze to the sky, "and the people who are like the sun in her eyes——"
"Her brother." (End of this chapter)
