Five years later.

A scream suddenly sounded in a cave.

"Ah! Fang Chaozhou, you finally woke up!"

The one who screamed was a brown pheasant. At this moment, it was staring at the young man who sat up with its small eyes wide open.

Just now, when it was about to come in to check on Fang Chaozhou's condition as usual, it saw that the man not only opened his eyes, but also sat up.

It's been five years. It's been exactly five years since it picked up Fang Chaozhou from the underground demon realm. No, to be exact, it's been five years since Fang Chaozhou picked it up from the underground demon realm.

That year, the underground demon realm collapsed. It was slow to escape and was trapped underground, unable to get out. Just when it thought it was going to die underground, Fang Chaozhou suddenly appeared and rescued it from underground.

At that time, Fang Chaozhou was in a very miserable state, covered in blood and pale. He flew it to the nearest mountain on his sword and then fainted.

Because there were too many monsters escaping from the underground demon realm, and the brown pheasant was carrying an unconscious person, it didn't dare to go anywhere, so it could only hide Fang Chaozhou in an ownerless cave. It hid there for five years, and the other party never woke up.

But now the clouds have cleared and the moon is shining, Fang Chaozhou has woken up! It can finally leave this damn place. This mountain is bare and there is not even a chicken.

But after it finished screaming, it didn't see Fang Chaozhou responding excitedly. Instead, it heard three sentences that were often seen in storybooks:

"Who are you? Who am I? Where is this?"

Brown pheasant: “…”

Half an hour later.

The brown pheasant nestled on the young man's legs. It asked in a serious tone, even solemn, "Do you understand?"

The young man paused before saying, "I understand. You mean I'm a disciple of the Tianshui Sect, my name is Fang Chaozhou, but I was abandoned by the sect."

"That's right." said the Brown Pheasant.

Fang Chaozhou thought for a moment, "No one has contacted me in the past five years?"

"Yeah." The Brown Partridge had been guarding here for five years and hadn't seen anyone coming to look for Fang Chaozhou.

"Isn't that a bit miserable for me?" Fang Chaozhou said, "I fell to the ground while saving someone, and no one has looked for me in the past five years."

The brown pheasant immediately flapped its wings and puffed out its chest, "It's not miserable, you have me! If you don't want to go back to Tianshui Sect, come and travel with me. I've been bored here for long enough. You begged me to sign a contract with me and said you would take me on a tour. You can't go back on your word."

Although Fang Chaozhou had lost his memory, he always felt that something was wrong. He looked at the brown pheasant nestling on his legs and asked, "Did I sign a contract with you when I begged you?"

The brown pheasant paused, its eyes darted away, and soon it came back, saying with a sense of righteousness: "Of course, do you think I'm lying to you? If you hadn't chased me for more than ten miles, would I have let you off easily? I'm a demon chicken, and I've refused many monks who wanted to sign a contract with me."

Fang Chaozhou looked at the "genius demon chicken" in front of him, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, then pursed them, and after a while, they curled up again. Finally, he couldn't help laughing out loud, but this laugh seemed to pull somewhere in his body, and it hurt so much that he stopped laughing immediately.

"Serves you right." The brown pheasant said angrily.

Fang Chaozhou had just woken up after sleeping for five years. He had no strength in his hands and feet. He could only get out of bed the next day. The first thing he did after getting out of bed was to find a pond to take a bath. Although he was a monk and his body was automatically in a clean state, he still couldn't bear it.

While taking a shower, he took out a mirror from his storage ring and looked at his face. I don’t know if it’s because he had been sleeping for five years, but his face was too pale, the kind of pale and bloodless white. In addition to the face, the body was also excessively pale, so pale that the blue veins were very obvious.

When Fang Chaozhou examined his body, he saw a string of golden bells tied to his left ankle and could not be removed. If he moved with a larger amplitude, he could hear the sound of tinkling bells.

Why does he wear a golden bell on his ankle? Could it be that he is a very high-profile man who tells everyone he is here wherever he goes?

Thinking of this possibility, Fang Chaozhou looked a little disgusted.

Fang Chaozhou asked the brown pheasant about the golden bell, but the brown pheasant didn't know either, but it told him.

"This golden bell is obviously a magical instrument. If you can't take it off, it means that its owner is not you. It must have been given to you by someone else."

"By the way, Fang Chaozhou, are you going back to Tianshui Sect?" the brown pheasant asked again.

Fang Chaozhou barely thought about the question before answering, "No."

He has been abandoned by the sect, and no one has looked for him in the past five years. Why should he go back?

Fang Chaozhou had made up his mind that when he felt better, he would go down the mountain with the Brown Partridge, wander around and become a leisurely monk, but this idea was shattered by half that night.

"Fang Chaozhou, what's wrong with you?" the brown pheasant said in panic.

In fact, Fang Chaozhou could hardly hear the sound of the brown pheasant. He just felt dry, his throat was dry, and his body was dry. He wanted to drink water. As soon as the thought came into his mind, he rushed out. He rushed to the pool where he had bathed before and jumped into the water almost without stopping.

After soaking in the water, the dryness on my body seemed to improve a little, but it was still not enough. Fang Chaozhou buried his head in the water, but no matter how long he soaked in the water, it was not enough. Even though he was already in the water, he still wanted water, lots and lots of water.

The sky gradually brightened.

The brown pheasant nestling in the cave heard the noise and opened its eyes. Seeing the young man dragging his tired body back, it tilted its head and asked, "Are you done soaking in the water?"

"Yeah." Fang Chaozhou sat down on the hay mat where he had been lying before. He had been soaking in water all night, but he still felt dry. It was not until dawn that his symptoms gradually disappeared.

"What's wrong with you?" The brown pheasant stood up and walked to Fang Chaozhou.

Fang Chaozhou raised his hand and rubbed his brow. "You said before that I was rolled underground by a big monster, and that monster used vines to attack people, right?"

The brown pheasant said, “Yes.”

Fang Chaozhou put his hand down, paused, and then said, "I think I swallowed that big monster."

It was dead silent.

Fang Chaozhou looked at the frozen brown pheasant and couldn't help but wave his hand in front of it, "What's wrong?"

After the brown pheasant reacted, he took a deep breath and said, "How could you swallow that big monster? A monster swallowing a human is different from a human swallowing a monster. You will be in big trouble."

"I think I've already gotten out. That big monster is probably of the wood element, so I'm so short of water."

While Fang Chaozhou was soaking in the water last night, he checked his sea of ​​consciousness. He unexpectedly saw a vine in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the baby in his sea of ​​consciousness was sitting next to the vine, grabbing a corner of the vine and chewing it.

He tried to stop it, but as soon as he tried to stop it, the baby started crying. When the baby cried, Fang Chaozhou felt pain. In the end, Fang Chaozhou had to give up and watched the baby chew on the vines all night.

"Is it delicious?" he couldn't help asking.

The baby's eyes were not open, but it could speak, "It's delicious, but I want water, lots of water."

"I'm in the water now." Fang Chaozhou replied.

The baby shook his head, "Not this water."

"What kind of water is it talking about?" Fang Chaozhou asked this question to the brown pheasant. He asked the baby what kind of water it wanted last night, but the baby didn't know and just kept saying it wanted water.