Chapter 49: Ancient Ferocious Beast

The aisle is quite spacious, and two three or four-year-old children can walk side by side without any problem.

The ground is flat and smooth, without any bumps.

It was pitch black, not even as bright as the faint stars and moon in the wild.

Fortunately, there is an omnipotent little god who shines with his own light, making everything bright wherever he goes.

They are small, their steps are light, and they walk quietly.

After a few minutes, I was startled by the sudden pushing and shoving sounds from behind.

The children turned their heads and saw four red, glowing... eyes?

Tao Yingjia's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

He has always lived in the warm castle built by his parents. He is not old enough to play in haunted houses or watch horror movies. How could he have seen such things?

His knees felt weak, but he didn't forget that there was a younger girl beside him, nor did he forget his oath. He stood in front of Him with his head held high: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you!"

Mianli said nothing, watching the red balls getting closer and closer.

The defense mechanism is ready to go, and only the attack mode is loaded.

Then, a familiar fur floated over.

Physiological reactions always come before psychological reactions - Mianli sneezed.

Hmm…

"Wow, this place is so scary, meow!!!"

A more familiar drake voice sounded, chirping so loudly, it must be the Ragdoll cat Zhizhi.

The children breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

The cats obviously saw them too. After all, it was hard to ignore such a conspicuous light source as Mian Li in the pitch darkness.

The Ragdoll Cat rushed over at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and Mian Li was hit hard and almost fell down. Fortunately, Tao Yingjia reacted quickly and grabbed him.

If Zhizhi were a human, she would be crying and sobbing right now: "Lili, I'm so scared, meow! Let's go home, meow!"

Taotao followed behind, walking towards him with a standard cat walk.

Although he was muttering in his heart, he still maintained his graceful pace.

It slapped Zhizhi on the back of the head again: "Stop howling there. Now I ask you to go back by yourself, are you willing?"

It would be even scarier to leave the team and act alone at a time like this!

Zhizhi rubbed against Mianli in a coquettish and begging manner: "No, meow, I want to be with Lili, meow!"

The little god arbitrated awkwardly: "Then... let's go together."

Zhizhi: "Wuwuwuwuwawawawa——"

Taotao: "Shut up!"

He had two fat cats clinging to him, one on each side, separating Tao Yingjia from the others.

This way I can’t hold hands with the doll QAQ

Jiajia was very disappointed.

The team changed from 2 to 4 and continued to move forward.

After more than ten minutes, there was gradually light - not from Mian Li, but from the exit of the passage.

What's beneath the water?

According to Tao Yingjia and most humans' original cognition, there is water under the water surface, there is soil under the water, and below the soil is the complex structure of the earth.

It was not until the boy was pulled by the little god to "dive" underground that he discovered another world.

Literally, a… cave.

A clear stream with a cave hidden underneath.

The adventure team stopped at the entrance of the cave and peeked inside curiously.

This place is not big, only five or six meters high, about the size of an ordinary residential house. It has the dampness and coldness common in caves, with waves of chill.

However, it cannot be considered a standard cave. After all, there are no caves anywhere that are equipped with light tubes, let alone the gravity-sensing ones.

As Mianli was the first to step in, the light strips surrounding the ground lit up one by one.

The light from the ground cast the shadow of the giant in the center.

It was too dark to see clearly just now, but now when I suddenly turned on the light, I realized that "it"'s huge body almost occupied the entire cave.

While Tao Yingjia was still thinking about how to avoid disturbing it, the thing had already woken up.

Perhaps it was more likely to be woken by the light strip than by the gentle footsteps of the children.

Anyway, it turned over and yawned lazily, long and long.

For a creature that is four meters tall, yawning is just one of its physiological reactions to comfort.

But for cubs that are only one meter tall and kittens that are less than one meter tall, it is like earth-shaking thunder.

Sound is destructive, especially in such a smooth cave. The echoes are like arrows, repeatedly hitting the air along irregular routes and piercing the uninvited guests again and again.

Zhizhi was frightened out of her wits, and Taotao's pupils were dilated to the maximum.

Tao Yingjia covered his ears tightly and squatted down.

He did not forget his mission and immediately stood up and covered Mianli's ears.

The little fairy accepted his kindness, but he just stood there with his ears covered while he made a dangerous statement: "Why don't you turn on the light?"

The child's voice was crisp and clear, showing no fear of death.

Tao Yingjia swallowed his saliva: "Are you talking to it?"

Obviously yes.

The giant was silent for a moment, yawned again, and then slowly asked, "Who's talking?"

Its voice didn't sound angry, just pure confusion.

Perhaps it has been sleeping here for too long, and no visitors dare to disturb it on weekdays.

Mianli was still not timid, and looked very familiar: "It's Lili."

"Lili?" the giant repeated. "Let me think, who is Lili?"

It thought for a while, but seemed to have come to no conclusion. It then asked, "Tell me, who is Li Li?"

At this time, just explaining "I am the little master Shen Mianli" is enough.

However, the little Lord God had his own ideas: "Ritual is ritual."

That doesn't sound very satisfying.

Fortunately, the giant did not think this was an offense. After hesitating for a while, it decided to stand up and take a good look at what "lili" was.

Just now, just yawning was shocking enough, and now the mountains were shaking and the earth was trembling, and something was falling down on my head.

Zhizhi and Taotao both hid behind the humans, while the only human was worried that the small space they were in would collapse.

As the giant stood up, not only the light strips on the ground, but also all the light strings on the surrounding mountain walls and above the head were lit up.

The cave, which was originally deep and dark, was now as bright as day.

Tao Yingjia raised his head very high before he could barely see the whole appearance of the monster.

It is not very clear because it is translucent, and some angles and parts almost blend into the surrounding background.

Today's sudden elopement has given little Jiajia one surprise and astonishment after another, one wave after another.

Even if I saw a monster several meters tall, I was not afraid.

He thought his heart had become numb.

Unexpectedly, there are more surprises yet to come.

The translucent monster has no head or limbs, and its entire body is even irregular.

If we must use a common analogy, then this soft and sticky thing... is it a living jelly?

The little god led them across mountains and rivers, full of hope, to find the "ancient beast" to help them, but it turned out to be jelly?!

*

The jelly beast trembled and bent down.

No, strictly speaking it has no waist at all, that is, it changes from a high pool to a fat pool.

The jelly beast has a pair of small eyes that look like black beans and are completely inconsistent with its huge body.

It moved closer to the adventuring party, and slime all over its body came pouring out.

Cats are the cleanest creatures. Taotao jumped onto Tao Yingjia's shoulder with a start.

Zhizhi originally wanted to run away, but its sensitive nose smelled that the mucus was fragrant and seemed to be delicious.

Tao Yingjia had the same feeling, it smelled like real jelly.

The jelly beast's eyesight isn't very good, but fortunately it also has a nose and a mouth.

It sniffed each of the tiny creatures that were too small for it and asked, "Who was it that was bothering me just now?"

Mian Li smiled with his eyes curved, not as if he was greeting a ferocious beast, but as if he was greeting an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time: "Xiao Xin!"

The jelly beast called "Xiao Xin" raised its eyebrows in confusion (it actually had eyebrows): "Do you know who I am? Normally, no one dares to call me that. No, in all my years, only one little thing dares to call me that - huh?"

It paused, and a "hand" emerged from its soft and slippery jelly body, picking up Mianli.

Tao Yingjia exclaimed: "Li Li!"

The boy took a step forward to stop the monster, but the latter only needed one "finger" to block him out.

It was not until this time that Tao Yingjia realized that the mucus was not real liquid, but just a thinner jelly.

He bumped into it, and it was bouncy and very fun, like some kind of amusement ride.

...No, now is not the time to play!

However, the height that "Xiao Xin" lifted up the Mian Li was beyond his ability.

"Xiao Xin" put the Mian Li under his nose and sniffed it carefully again: "Are you that little thing?"

Mianli sat very comfortably in its "palm" and pointed out its mistake: "Lili is not a 'little thing', Lili is a little fairy!"

Little fairy.

The beast thought the word was familiar. He slowly searched his memory and finally hit upon the key words. He raised his eyebrows again, "Oh, I remember now. You are that little thing—Son of God Mian Li. Right?"

Tao Yingjia on the ground heard their conversation.

He only knew that Lili was different from others. She could fly and seemed to have super powers. She was a little god.

But he had never heard of what the Son of God was, what the Lord God was, or what the gods were.

Fortunately, it is certain that this jelly beast does not seem to be able to harm Mian Li.

Mianli was very happy that it remembered him and hugged its fingers affectionately: "Xiao Xin!"

A three-year-old child is about the same height as its thumb.

The beast looked neither happy nor emotional about the long-awaited reunion. It remained lazily, "Little thing, what are you doing here? Why are you bothering me when Ah Xiao doesn't want to play with you?"

If the onlookers here were not the boy and the cat whose understanding of the world was too limited, but the messengers of God like Oriel, or other people who knew Jiang Xiao, when they heard Jelly use the nickname to refer to the God of Gods, they would understand what kind of extraordinary status this "ancient ferocious beast" recognized by the young god had.

You know, even Mianli, the only bloodline, had to respectfully add "God" after "Father"; not to mention that the messengers respectfully addressed Him as "Your Majesty".

The name "Axiao" is unprecedented.

Mianli didn't answer, but pouted: "Xiao Xin, help me."

The baby was as small as a peanut in the giant's hand.

The beast said, "First of all, my name is not Xiao Xin, my name is Xinzi."

Mian Li didn't listen at all and kept repeating stubbornly: "Xiao Xin, Xiao Xin..."

Xiao Xin sounds too unimpressive, and doesn't sound like an ancient ferocious beast at all. It's more like the name of something in a cartoon.

But since Mianli knew it, he never changed the name.

There was nothing Xinzi could do to Him.

From the messengers of God in the sky to the humans and cats on the earth, and to the ancient ferocious beasts underground, no one in this world, whether in the past few hundred years or in the future thousand years, will be able to do anything to Him.

All living beings should pamper the young god.

*

A huge ball of fragrant and slippery jelly, no matter how you look at it, it is completely different from the ancient ferocious beast you imagined.

Not only the shape, but also the color - Xinzi's "skin" is the kind of warm and sweet pink, like the kind of lazy sofa that would be placed in a girl's room.

In general, it has no deterrent effect except that it is too big.

It's hard to believe that it's both ancient and ferocious.

After Xinzi confirmed that the newcomer was not an enemy, he lazily lay back on the ground and let Mianli sit on his stomach.

In fact, to a certain extent, its entire body is made of similar jelly, and you can't tell where its belly is.

Mian Li sat comfortably on the bouncy pink jelly and poked it: "Xiao Xin."

"Don't call me Xiao Xin."

"Xiao Xin..."

“…”

"Xiao Xin, Xiao Xin, Xiao Xin—"

"Okay, okay, go ahead, if you can leave me alone. What do you want, little one?"

Having achieved his goal, Mian Li stood up.

He had surprisingly good balance. If someone else had gone up there, they would have probably sunk into the smooth and soft jelly and fallen all over the place.

The young god's eyes shone like stars: "Lili wants to hide."

Tao Yingjia and the cats below looked at each other in surprise when they heard this.

They had long known that the source of this "elopement" was that the little fairy wanted to find someone who was not a "human" to help; now they found it, and it was true that Xinzi was indeed not a human.

But what He wanted it for, they did not know.

"Hide."

Just now Mian Li said.

It's fine, why hide it?

Tao Yingjia thought that if she wanted to hide, it would probably be to play hide-and-seek with her sister or other children;

If Taotao hides, it means she doesn't want to be disturbed by the poop scooper when she is sleeping;

Zhizhi rarely hides unless she is frightened by overly enthusiastic visitors to her home.

Which type of sleeping ritual is it?

Is someone looking for Him, or is He afraid of something?

Tao Yingjia remembered that before the doll announced that she was going to look for someone, she said another sentence.

“Li Li will not leave,” He said.

Let’s go, where are we going?

Could it be that someone wants to take Him away?

Tao Yingjia's heart trembled because of his own guess.

He doesn't want his doll to leave. Now even if he comes home from daycare, he will feel a little bit missed if he doesn't see Mianli for a whole night.

If someone took Him far away, how would he be able to play with Him again?

Not only Tao Yingjia, Zhizhi and Taotao also have their own ideas.

Although they are just kittens who eat and sleep all day long, and although they have only known the little fairy for a few months, they have already developed a deep affection for him.

Whether it was the boy or the cat, or anyone else present, upon hearing Mian Li's request, they would more or less ask what you were hiding for, how long you wanted to hide, etc.

But Hinds was too lazy as always to ask.

The big jelly that had been standing there motionless suddenly grabbed Mian Li in its palm, stood up and grew to a height of five or six meters, almost breaking through the top of the cave.

Before anyone could react, the ancient beast opened its pink mouth wide towards the young god and swallowed the little boy in one gulp!

*

Zhizhi and Taotao were shocked.

Even though Mian Li had said, "I'm going to eat you," and even though he had responded to provocations like, "Who knows who's going to eat whom?", and even though the law of this world is the survival of the fittest...

However, they have been domesticated for a long time, and have never experienced the real "swallowing".

Xinzi looked like a lazy and soft jelly, and seemed to have no attack power. They almost forgot that it was an ancient ferocious beast recognized by the young god and trusted enough to travel across mountains and rivers to ask for help.

Eating a sleeping gift is easier than eating a freeze-dried one.

In the blink of an eye, the little Mianli who usually loved to laugh and make noises and gave them a headache but was always worried about them, disappeared in the pink jelly.

He didn't even have time to resist.

what to do.

They all looked at each other and asked, what should we do?

Cats are so weak in front of ferocious beasts. What should they do to fight against Xinzi, rescue Mianli, or at least avenge Him?

In the few seconds when the cats were still hesitating, Tao Yingjia had already rushed forward.

The little god has powerful magic.

Zhizhi and Taotao both have sharp claws and teeth.

In comparison, the ordinary human cub Tao Yingjia, who said he wanted to protect Mianli, is actually the weakest one in the entire adventure team.

Unexpectedly, Tao Yingjia, who originally needed to be protected the most, was not afraid at all at this moment. He angrily hit Xin Zi: "You bad guy! Give Lili back to me! Give it back to me!!"

The boy received a gentleman's education since childhood and has always been friendly to his sister and other children.

The first and only fight they had was during the sleeping-in ceremony in the nursery class, which laid the foundation for this unusual friendship.

But now he had forgotten the politeness his parents had taught him, and had abandoned the instinctive fear of living things when facing an opponent that was several times larger than themselves. Like an angry little beast, heartbroken over the loss of its beloved playmate, he kicked and scratched at the jelly.

He is indeed brave, but it is a pity that bravery cannot be replaced by ability.

Not to mention that Xinz didn't use any strength at all, even if it stood there motionless, he wouldn't be able to move it at all.

What's more, Xinzi was made of jelly from head to toe, and Tao Yingjia's fist would only bounce back softly if he hit it hard.

The advantage is that Tao Yingjia will not get hurt.

The bad thing is, neither does Hinds.

The child was so anxious that he was sweating all over.

He remembered his father saying that wild animals usually don't eat their prey immediately, but torture it for a while before enjoying it.

In other words, if he had acted faster, he might have been able to rescue Him before Mian Li was "digested."

What should be done and what can be done?

Even when dealing with wild beasts, you need to find their weaknesses. Lions and tigers have fatal weaknesses such as the throat and eyes. When hitting a snake, you also have to pinch its weak points.

Is there any way to deal with a big jelly?

Tao Yingjia's hands were covered with fragrant jelly liquid.

He suddenly got an inspiration and opened his mouth to bite Xinzi!

Hmm... Just as I imagined, it's sweet.

A cosmic law: No matter what it is, as long as it is pink, it is labeled as strawberry flavor.

Ancient ferocious beasts are no exception.

Tao Yingjia ate the jelly in big mouthfuls with a spirit of grief and indignation.

Even if his stomach bursts, he must, must come out with the sleeping ritual!

Xinzi lowered his head: "..."

What is this doing.

It has lived for hundreds and thousands of years and has encountered many equally ferocious opponents, but this is the first time it has seen one that came up and bit it.

In fact, this method is completely useless. Not only is it painless, but when Tao Yingjia bites off a small piece on one side, a large piece will grow on the other side.

It's just like eating the east wall and growing the west wall.

Hinz impatiently slid the human, who was only about the size of his finger, away: "Tsk. This cub is so annoying."

It opened its mouth again, spat out a ball of pink stuff, and threw it at Tao Yingjia's feet.

"Here, I'll give it back to you."

It added, "I won't eat this little thing. Even if it doesn't wreak havoc in my stomach, its father will still give me trouble."

Tao Yingjia fell to the ground and looked at Mianli in surprise who was thrown beside him.

The little boy's body was covered with a translucent 'membrane' with a light pink pearlescent sheen.

It smells delicious too, but not like strawberry, but like white peach.

The white, tender and round cheeks look so nice that you want to take a bite of them.

Little Taozi was oblivious to the "struggle" they had just had. She lowered her head and shook her hands. When she looked up again, her face was filled with joy: "Now no one can find Lili!"

Huh…?