Ah Qing is curious about everything.
From the interior of the car to the car itself, and then to the streets, buildings and crowds outside, the shocked expression on his face never changed. No matter what Yan Jue said, he would always exclaim "Wow" out of courtesy and add the feeling of "How magical".
Yan Jue felt a pang of guilt upon hearing this. It was probably because Ah Qing had only been on the abandoned planet and hadn't had much contact with humans. Otherwise, their low-tech world couldn't possibly be worthy of such high praise from someone from the interstellar space.
Unfortunately, Zhuo Feng was not there, so he couldn't help Ah Qing become invisible. The summer top was too thin, and even if Ah Qing stayed in the pocket, he would still be conspicuous. He couldn't control the emoticons on his face, so it was easy for people to notice anything unusual. Otherwise, he could have taken him out for a walk.
However, Ah Qing was very sensible. After Yan Jue explained to him in detail why they couldn't be discovered, he didn't make any more requests. He just asked when Zhuo Feng would come back.
"Zhuo Feng has some things to deal with in his world, and the teacher doesn't know when he will come back. Maybe two or three days, maybe a week, or even longer." Yan Jue didn't dare to make a guarantee.
"Okay, I'll wait for him to come back." Ah Qing blinked and asked, "What about Brother Nuoer? Does he have something to deal with too?"
Yan Jue shook his head. "Because of his race, Noel needs to sleep a lot every day. Didn't he and Zhuo Feng play with you for a long time in kindergarten yesterday? So today he needs to spend more time with his parents during his awake time. I guess he won't come until late afternoon or even evening."
For safety reasons, Noel could only stay in the palace in Atlantis. After coming to his world, Noel found everything curious. Not only did he stay for a long time, he also talked non-stop when he returned. Then his jealous father and mother played the victim sadly, and Noel began to learn to manage his time.
"Parents?" Ah Qing already knew what parents meant. He asked with some envy, "Do I have parents too? But I've never seen them. Did they accidentally abandon me, or are they dead?"
This question was a bit difficult to answer. It seemed Ah Qing hadn't yet learned the common sense about the Stone People. How could he explain that the Stone People had no gender, perhaps growing from the ground, or that they were actually the product of technological reproduction? If this was wrong, wouldn't he be misleading the students?
"Teacher has never left his own world, so he doesn't know." Yan Jue decisively changed the subject: "It's noon now, Ah Qing, are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
Ah Qing was confused: "Huh? What belly?"
"That's not important. What's important is that the teacher invites you to eat our stones, okay?"
"Okay~" Ah Qing's eyes lit up when he heard the word "Shitou"
Yan Jue gave his bank card to his entourage and asked him to help buy a high-quality jade pendant from a nearby shopping mall, without worrying about the price.
He tickled Ah Qing's stomach with his fingers, making him laugh. Then he asked, "What do you eat in your own world? Can you still find ore in abandoned mines?"
"Yes, but they are very small, not even as big as my fingers. I have to walk a long way every day to find them." Ah Qing wanted to show Yan Jue, but after holding out her hand, she paused for a moment and shook her head: "It's not this, it's the finger of my original body."
"I also saw a very large one from someone else on the planet. They said it was called an energy stone. A lot of people fought over it. It was super scary."
Here it comes, the interstellar standard energy stone. I wonder what the difference is between that thing and the spirit stone? Maybe I can get it and study it someday if I have the chance? If the energy is similar, their world might be heading in another direction again...
Putting aside some dangerous thoughts, Yan Jue asked some more about Ah Qing's daily life in the mine, and then the errand boy came back.
The ice-type Pisces jade pendant was no bigger than a human palm, but when it came to Ah Qing, it became a giant. Although he could hold it with his arms outstretched, his head was completely covered and looked a bit higher.
Ah Qing held the huge jade pendant in his arms and dared not move, fearing that the stone would slip away if he was not careful. He stubbornly expressed his gratitude and was so excited that he could hardly speak clearly.
This stone is so big and smells so good.
Yan Jue told him not to be polite, then stared at Ah Qing without blinking, openly observing the way he ate.
The expected scene of Ah Qing putting the jade pendant to his mouth and chewing it like a hamster did not appear. Ah Qing just held the jade pendant and did nothing. The jade pendant became smaller little by little in the sight of everyone in the car. Its very unscientific shape and appearance remained unchanged, and the overall volume gradually shrank, just like zooming.
"Burp~"
The jade pendant disappeared, and Ah Qing burped contentedly. The emoji on his face turned into bold starry eyes, with a shy slash across his face. "This stone is delicious."
"It's cool and a little sweet, like the ice cream the teacher mentioned."
Yan Jue was surprised: "Can you taste it?"
"Yes." Ah Qing held her face in her hands. "The small ones I ate before were salty. Ordinary stones like the ones I used to build my house have no taste. Eating one is like not eating anything at all."
"Ah Qing is amazing. I'll buy you some different kinds of stones so we can try different flavors."
He had never imagined that Ah Qing could taste something from the stone. After hearing Ah Qing's explanation, Yan Jue immediately connected the appearance of jade with his description, finding it perfectly vivid. And if transparent jade is cool and slightly sweet, then what about pitch-black coal? Could it be a dark delicacy?
It must be said that he was now very interested and wanted very much to let A Qing try all the stones he could buy.
Carefully concealing his mischievousness, Yan Jue took Ah Qing on a bus to several different places, even holding him in his arms as they sat on a park bench for a while, listening to others sing. That evening, as they returned to the Special Management Bureau, they reached the courtyard area and saw no one was around. He got out of the car and walked, carrying Ah Qing onto his shoulders and walking back with him.
After dinner in the evening, when Yan Jue was sitting at his desk telling Ah Qing about the revival of spiritual energy in his world, Noel suddenly appeared next to Ah Qing.
Without the convenient spiritual shield of Zhuo Feng, Yan Jue hurriedly took an unused teacup to fill it with water and put Noel in it to prevent his tail from being dehydrated.
"Brother Aqing, teacher, good evening." Noel leaned over the water cup and touched Aqing's head. "Brother, do you want to come in and soak in the water? The cup is very big!"
For a mermaid, inviting others to soak in the water with her is definitely a very intimate and friendly act.
Ah Qing was sitting on the table. Hearing this, he raised his head and smiled happily: "Okay, let's go with Noel."
The teacup was not high, just level with the sitting Ah Qing. Yan Jue placed the cup next to Ah Qing on purpose. Now Noel invited Ah Qing to come in and make some water, and seeing that he was sitting, he extended his hand over to help him stand up.
"Brother, don't move, I'll pull you."
As the eldest brother, it was time for him to show off! Confidently, Noel grabbed one of Ah Qing's hands with both of his own and pulled it back hard. The whole fish suddenly fell backwards and hit the teacup.
Noel looked blankly at what he was holding in his hand, a hand made of stone, and tears instantly came out of his eyes in fear.
It’s broken, it’s broken, it’s broken. My brother’s hand was torn off by him…
Yan Jue only had time to let out a short cry of surprise, and without having time to comfort Noel, he hurried to see Ah Qing, and then he found that the little stone man with a broken hand was still sitting there obediently, blinking his two round eyes, with an expression of not knowing what was going on.
"Ah Qing, don't you feel something is wrong?" Yan Jue asked cautiously, "Doesn't it hurt?"
"Ah?" Ah Qing looked at his right arm, which was missing something, looked at Yan Jue, and then looked at Nuoer who was crying. Then he panicked: "Nuoer, Nuoer, don't cry, don't cry."
"Teacher, why is Noel crying? Is it because you didn't pull me up?" Ah Qing stood up, leaned over the edge of the teacup, and looked at Noel worriedly. He was about to cry too.
"I stood up by myself. Can it be considered that my brother helped me up? QAQ"
Nuoer sobbed and handed the stone hand in his hand to Ah Qing: "Brother, brother, your hand... I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Brother, are you okay? Does it hurt?"
"Hand? It's okay." Ah Qing took the hand with a natural expression and placed it on his right wrist. The hand "grew" back again, and its flexibility remained unchanged. "Look, it's okay."
Noel's expression froze, turning into a stunned face with two bags of tears: "Didn't I pull it off?"
Ah Qing, who was taking the film much later, finally understood why Noel was crying and shook his head vigorously: "They were originally separate and didn't grow together. It's normal for them to fall off. If you don't believe me, just look."
As he spoke, Ah Qing pulled a small, thin, round stone from the tip of his finger and placed it in Noel's hand. "I'll give it to you to play with. It's okay if you don't give it back to me. I'll grow a new one after I eat enough other stones."
Noel held the stone, his entire world in shock. After a long pause, he asked blankly, "Aren't you in pain?"
Ah Qing shook his head: "I don't have any physical sensation, how could it be painful?"
Noel looked at the small stone in his hand, picked it up, grabbed Ah Qing's palm and placed it on the empty space where his fingers were missing. After carefully letting go, he was surprised to find that the stone was really stuck back.
He was so surprised that he didn't know how to express it. He held Ah Qing's hand and raised it to show Yan Jue, who was also shocked: "Teacher, teacher, look, look quickly!"
"I saw it..." Yan Jue responded, and his series of emotional changes were no better than Noel's.
Ah Qing finally understood and straightened his back proudly, not being modest at all: "I've already told you, I'm super awesome!"
He looked at Yan Jue: "Teacher, please extend your hand."
Yan Jue did as he was told, then watched helplessly as Ah Qing pulled the stone down again and placed it on his fingertip. How big could a palm-sized figure be on a fingertip? Nuo Er could still pinch it, but if he hadn't been careful, he would have almost missed it.
Yan Jue didn't dare to move or speak loudly, for fear that if he exhaled, Ah Qing's parts would be lost. He was so embarrassed that he quickly asked Ah Qing to take it back and not lose it while playing with it.
After the false alarm, a new skill of Ah Qing was discovered. The subsequent explanation of the time of spiritual energy revival turned into a terrifying (not really) scene of two cubs soaking in teacups, Ah Qing listening attentively, and Noel occasionally pulling the stone in Ah Qing's hand to play with it.
When it was time for Yan Jue to practice, the two cubs returned to their respective places to sleep.
Three days later, Zhuo Feng still hadn't returned. Noel and A Qing, who had found a new way to entertain themselves, refused to go to Yan Jue's world whenever they met. Instead, they stayed in the kindergarten swimming pool and played a game of who could find something first.
What are you looking for? Of course, the little stone in Ah Qing's hand!
The first time he saw the two cubs playing this game with such enthusiasm, Yan Jue had so many complaints in his head that he didn't know where to start.
He really wanted to say, Ah Qing, you really don't need to compete with Nor in water agility, and there's no need to use your body parts so much. He could go to Taobao and buy several kilograms of dyed pebbles for 9.9 yuan for them to play with, and even come in a variety of colors...
But, as long as the kids are happy, he doesn't interfere too much, and he himself has his own troubles going on.
After several days of cultivation, no one in China, regardless of spiritual root quality, had received a copy. Even Zhang Zizhen, the true Taoist priest, had failed to successfully draw the Qi into their bodies. So Pan Wencheng revealed to him that the higher-ups were organizing a team to follow his previous idea and set aside a safe area deep in the mountains and forests for someone to try there.
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