Neighbors in forbidden land

"Where are you going?"

"We're going to find—why are you still here? You've already apologized and I've forgiven you. Why are you still following us?"

There were no more potato fields to plow, so Yimi and I went directly to the seaside to find Xiaogu as we did a long time ago.

But Lan Xue didn't leave, instead she followed closely behind Yimi and me.

"I'm not in a hurry to go back. Anyway, I'm going back to listen to my brother nagging, and my apology is not to get your forgiveness, human being."

"What is that for?" I didn't quite understand.

"It's because my brother said that he should apologize if he did something wrong, so I came to apologize."

"..." Both Yimi and I fell into silence. I didn't know what to say because I couldn't understand her thoughts. As for why Yimi was silent... I only saw Yimi pressing her face with one hand, He hesitated to speak.

The sun is still hanging high in the sky as usual, shining warm light on the land. Obviously not many beings here can bear this light, but the light remains the same as before.

But my life with Yimi doesn't seem to be the same as before.

The reason is that——

"So what exactly are you going to do?"

"We're going—why are you asking this?" Yimi turned her head and continued to walk forward while supporting my shoulders.

"I always feel that following you can try something I have never tried, like that potato."

"Don't you find it unpalatable..." Yimi spread her hands with a helpless expression.

"It's terrible, but I haven't eaten it before." Lan Xue just wagged her tail and smiled softly.

"How dare you say it after eating other people's food..." Yimi gritted her teeth, judging from the expression on her face, she didn't seem very happy.

"I think it's delicious." I raised my hand and expressed my opinion.

"You?" The smile on Lan Xue's face faded a little, and she walked around me with a puzzled expression, "It's so strange... What kind of monster are you?"

After hearing her words, I regretted speaking a little.

There are many monsters. Even if an individual does not have a name, monsters of the same type will be given the same name.For example, the pile of white monsters under the snow-capped mountains near the extreme north are snow monsters, and Lan Xue is a dragon. There are also monsters like Xiaogu and Behemoth, whose name represents both themselves and the entire race. Because there is only one individual in the entire "race".

But what about me?

I don't know the answer to this question myself.

Just when I was thinking about how to answer this question, Yimi pointed behind me and said in front of me: "Xiao Hei is Xiao Hei, if you want to find that disaster, go north, she will go to the north." over there."

"Disaster?" Lan Xue shook her head slightly, and asked with a puzzled expression, "What is that?"

"...It's that huge black monster, the one that shakes the ground every step of the way." Yimi's voice sank, and she explained slowly.

"Do you call that big black guy Calamity? My brother won't let me find her."

"...You listen to your brother very well." I tried to say this.

"Of course, the previous king died protecting us that day, and my brother has been protecting me and other clan members for the late king until today." She turned her head slightly and looked to the north, her red eyes seemed to be flowing. A kind of light, "Of course I listened to him, he is my brother after all."

That's it... The former king she was talking about was probably the dragon-shaped rock I saw when she first came to me.

On that day, in order to protect them, it became like that.

Even dragons are not immune to this...

I really did something irreparable.

"The only time I didn't listen to him was when I went to fight with that big black guy." Lan Xue clenched her fists slightly, the scream on her forehead flowed with golden lightning, but soon, The lightning disappeared, and she let go of her fist.

"But I can't beat her, and I have no way to avenge the late king."

"..."

"Now I just want to ask her why she did that kind of thing in the past, but the big black one is not here anymore."

I would love to tell her the answer.

But knowing the answer, what kind of reaction would she have?

Just to pluck off the moon and give it as a gift?

she must-

I don't know why, Yimi's hand holding my shoulder suddenly exerted force, I glanced at Yimi, but Yimi didn't turn her head around, but just spoke lightly.

"You mean... the day of disaster? It is the day when this world was once destroyed."

I looked at Yimi in surprise, because I didn't expect her to ask this question.

Because human beings' understanding of the day of disaster is only that "the disaster once destroyed the world".

It should be said that, except for the big goblin, no one can know what happened.

"...Yes." Lan Xue just nodded slightly after a short silence.

"Does Xiaohei know?" In the next moment, Yimi actually threw the question on my side.

"I know..." In the end, I answered without thinking.

If Yimi continues to ask——

"That's fine." In the end, Yimi just said this.

"Eh?" I turned my head to look at Yimi beside me, and found that Lan Xue was also looking at Yimi now.

"You all seem to know what happened in the past, but I don't, so I don't need to continue this topic."

"..." I didn't know what to say for a while, even Lan Xue was stunned.

"I don't care what happened in the past, because now..." Yimi rubbed her stomach with the other hand, and frowned slightly, "...I'm starving to death, and now I don't even have any potatoes Gotta eat..."

Yimi pushed me forward a little, and then kept shouting: "Hurry up and find Xiaogu, I want to eat grilled fish!"

So this topic was interrupted by Yimi.

I always feel that it seems a bit abrupt...but why is it like this?

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"Gulu Gulu... (Who is this...)" If Xiaogu could have an expression, it must be a helpless expression.But Xiao Gu can only show some human-like demeanor by squinting those white eyes, and those eyes are staring firmly at Lan Xue beside us, and Lan Xue is also staring at Xiao Gu curiously. .

"Little Gu...can you catch two fish...I'm starving to death..." Yimi just put his hand on my shoulder and sighed softly.

I had no choice but to nod to Xiaogu, but Xiaogu just took a last look at Yimi and me and dived into the sea, leaving only the waves lapping on the beach, and the ripples turned round and round and returned to calm .

"So there are such monsters in this world." Lan Xue pointed to the place where Xiao Gu disappeared, and gently shook the small wingspan behind her, "Do you know her?"

"Her name is Xiao Gu." I hurriedly introduced Xiao Gu to Lan Xue, but——

"It's just a big fish."

"..." Yimi and I fell into silence again, I just remembered that when we picked up Xiaogoo on this beach, Yimi and I really regarded her as a fish.

And now Xiao Gu...is he a big fish or a big snake?

It all feels alike.

And Yimi just stretched out a finger without saying a word to tease the goblin who always quietly floats beside us.

"Who are you?" Lan Xue, who had been staring at Yimi, suddenly asked.

"Ordinary people." As a result, Yimi only replied indifferently.

"Isn't this kind of goblin extinct? Where did you get it from?" Lan Xue didn't give up because of this, and chose to continue asking.

"I don't know either. She floated out by herself and was caught by Xiao Hei, and then she never left again." Yimi shook her index finger, and the little goblin slowly circled around Yimi's finger, exuding Faint fire.

"...You really are a strange human being."

"Really?" There was a faint smile on the corner of Yimi's mouth, but she didn't say much.

"What's more...you don't seem to be afraid of me at all."

"Why should I be afraid of you?" Yimi turned her head slightly, "You are obviously not as tall as me."

"It's only because of the human form—you human—"

Just like that, hearing that Yimi and Lan Xue were not arguing, Xiao Gu came back with fish and kelp in his mouth.

"Why do you close your eyes? Can't you see?" Lan Xue, who was squatting by the fire, asked Yimi, who was grilling fish and kelp with sticks.

In the past, Yimi was often frightened by the burning sparks, but now, Yimi seems to be more and more used to it.

Although the taste has not changed much.

"Just pretend I can't see." This is the same answer as when he answered me.

"Liar, I clearly saw you open your eyes before, isn't it because there is magic power in it, what's the matter?"

I hurriedly looked at Yimi.

Now Yimi already knows that the magic eye has no effect on me.

But she still chose to close her eyes, the reason being that she didn't want all the plants on this land to die, and at the same time, she didn't want to "injure" Xiao Gu.

In fact, whether the magic eye is useful to Xiao Gu is still unknown.

I looked at Xiao Gu who stretched her head from the sea to our side. The sea water kept sliding down the blue-black scales on her body, and her huge white eyes were just staring at Lan Xue.

Lan Xue also noticed Xiao Gu's gaze.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr however... (there are more and more strange things around Yimi..)"

"Roar Roar Roar? Roar Roar? (Who is said to be strange? I heard it?)" Lan Xue threw a fierce look at Xiao Guru, and there was a golden electric light on the corner on the forehead. Running around.

However, Lan Xue was able to understand Xiao Gu's words completely, and communicated with Xiao Gu in the language of monsters without any hesitation.

"Whose voice is this...that rude dragon..." Yimi still focused on the fish and sea urchin in her hand, and just asked me casually.

"Yeah." I nodded slightly.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr therefore, but I was the first one..." Little Goo slightly lowered his huge head, and flicked his huge silver-white tail fin gently.

Hey, hey, I came first, okay...

I didn't say this sentence, and I always felt that there would be a big problem if I said it.

"Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho... (What the hell are you talking about...)" Lan Xue just glanced at Xiao Gu, then turned her head away.

"This smell... it should be almost the same now?" Yimi gently sniffed the grilled fish and kelp strung together with branches in her hand with her nose. The grilled fish and kelp were somewhat blackened with gray and black Mixed smoke, and some variegated liquid dripping from above.

Then he picked out one of the strings, held it up, and said, "Xiao Gu is serving dinner."

Little Goo suddenly poked his huge head over, bit the string of grilled fish and kelp with his mouth, but he didn't swallow it like I used to, but threw it into the sea with his mouth, and then threw himself into the sea. Go to sea to eat.

Only this eating habit can tell that she is the chubby little fish she used to be, but different from that time, if she eats in the sea like a frolicking, it will set off one wave after another to wash away the tranquility On the sandy beach, splashes of water sometimes hit us directly.

However, Yimi and I are used to it.

The only one who didn't get used to it seemed to be Lan Xue.

"What are you doing...!"

In the meantime, the blue scales on her bare skin shone with a slight blue light, and then the sea water flying towards us was frozen into tiny ice beads in an instant.

Then, maintaining the original flight trajectory, it came over cracklingly.

"You are... what are you doing!" After Yimi shouted, I quickly spread my wings to protect Yimi, most of the ice beads hit my wings, only a few passed through The broken hole in the wing hit us lightly on the head.

"Don't you think it's not good to be splashed with water?" Lan Xue smiled lightly.

"I don't think the feeling of being hit by ice cubes will be any better..." Yimi replied angrily.

"It's really incomprehensible."

"Here's what I'm going to say."

It always feels... There seems to be something invisible between Yimi and Lan Xue that is constantly colliding... Only Xiao Gu, who doesn't realize it, is still churning in the sea.

"Forget it...Xiao Hei opened his mouth." Yimi puffed up her face slightly, and handed the grilled fish to my mouth.

"Aren't you hungry, Yimi? Why don't you eat it?" After all, Lan Xue had eaten all of Yimi's potatoes, so we came here to ask Xiaogu for fish and kelp.

"Just open your mouth." Saying that, Yimi sent the grilled fish to my mouth again, so I had to open my mouth and take a light bite.

"I said... don't I have a share?" Lan Xue, who had been staring at us, pointed at herself and asked slowly.

"Don't you find it unpalatable..." Yimi turned her face at her.

"But I haven't eaten this before." Lan Xue narrowed her eyes and smiled naturally.

"...Forget it, anyway, there are so many..." Yimi said in a low voice, and handed a bunch to Lan Xue.

But Lan Xue didn't reach out to take it.

"what happened?"

"Aren't you going to feed me?"

"Why should I feed you?"

"You obviously have something to feed her?"

"Xiao Hei is because he can't use it—huh." Yimi chuckled before finishing speaking, her tone full of teasing, "You don't intend to tell me that your hands can do such a simple thing Isn’t it? It turns out that dragons are nothing more than that?”

"How could it not be possible, bring it!" As a result, Lan Xue reached out and picked up the skewer of grilled fish from Yimi's hand.

It just refers to pinching it with two fingers, maybe after seeing Yimi's movements, I always feel that Lan Xue's movements are very strange.

"Huh..."

"Why are you laughing, human!"

"No? Why do you think I'm laughing?"

"You're clearly eh--"

As a result, Lan Xue's two fingers couldn't hold the grilled fish at all, so Lan Xue could only hold it up with two hands in a panic, and even smashed the grilled fish.

"Pfft..." Yimi just smirked, and then continued to put the grilled fish into my mouth.

"Laughing, what are you laughing at?" Lan Xue, who finally brought the broken grilled fish to her mouth with her hands, blushed and shouted, then turned around suddenly, with her back to us, Only her small wings and tail could be seen shaking desperately.

"Although I can't see it, I can tell what's going on just by hearing the sound... Sure enough, whether it's Xiao Hei, you or her, I, as a human being, use this 'tool' best after all."

Looking at Yimi's smug smile, I always feel that this sentence is quite right.

"Yes." I didn't know what to say, so I nodded.

The goblin who was originally hiding behind Yimi also appeared and flashed.

"This thing... doesn't taste very good either!"

"Gulululululu! (Yi! Hei! Come and play!)"

Lan Xue's voice of non-stop defense, Xiao Gu's cries of slapping the sea surface with her tail fin, and Yimi's light laughter interweave on this beach under the blue sky.