Chapter 15 Trapped Here
When Yu Sheng heard the other party pronounce his name, his first reaction was that this girl was really straightforward. How could she directly take "Fox" as her own name? After asking several times, he finally realized that the other party was saying "Hu Li" instead of Fox.
Her name is Hu Li, a... a little strange, but quite suitable name for those tails.
"My name is Yu Sheng," Yu Sheng and Hu Li sat together in the ruins of the dilapidated temple, introducing their origins, "I came from... um, I don't know if you can understand, I came from 'outside', not outside the valley."
"You really are from 'outside'!" Hu Li's eyes widened immediately. She seemed to understand the meaning of Yu Sheng's words immediately, and her look of astonishment revealed another meaning: she knew the existence of "outside"!
Hu Li quickly and restrainedly took another bite of chocolate, staring at Yu Sheng's face with wide eyes: "How did you get in? Do you know...the way out? Is it...in the sky?"
As she talked with Yu Sheng, Hu Li's speech gradually became more fluent, as if she was quickly regaining the ability to communicate with others.
Yu Shengze was stunned after hearing what the other party said: "In the sky? Why do you ask that?"
"Before the immortal died, he said, we all came from the sky, but the sky suddenly became dark, and we couldn't go back," Hu Li tried to organize her words. Although she spoke more fluently now, she still stuttered when speaking these long paragraphs. "Then, the land became more and more dangerous and started to be poisonous, and... many of the people who came here together died and couldn't go back..."
Yu Sheng listened in a daze, almost relying on his powerful imagination to barely understand the girl's messy description. He realized that this valley, which was simply classified as a "foreign land" by Irene, seemed to hide a complicated story, and the girl with many tails in front of him had an incredible origin.
She was trapped here too! However, when he tried to ask her where the "sky" was, who the "many people" she mentioned were, and how they got here, her answers became confusing.
"Heaven... it's heaven. I've been trying to go back to heaven all these years, but I can't," Hu Li explained with gestures. "I tried to jump up, but I would bump into something and it hurt. I don't remember anyone... There was dad, mom, the immortal, and... there were other people. We came down on a boat, a very big boat..."
Hu Li seemed to suddenly remember something when he said this. He raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction deep in the dark valley: "Over there, the boat fell down and became part of the mountain. Dad always wanted to go back to get the things, but then... everyone was killed by something, and no one knew how... to get into the boat."
What Hu Li said began to seem weird and terrifying, and Yu Sheng suddenly felt a chill on his back.
He tried his best to understand what the other party said - not considering the specific concept of "immortals" that the other party mentioned, nor considering where the so-called "heaven" was. He pieced together some messy truths from the parts that Hu Li said in a disorderly manner:
Hu Li and her family, as well as people called "immortals", landed in this valley many years ago on a large ship - most likely a large vehicle with flying capabilities. But this place should not have been a "dead place" at that time. It was only later that "it became dark" and some unknown environmental changes occurred, which led to the blockade of this place. The people who came on the ship were trapped ever since. After that, the trapped people suffered heavy losses and were attacked by some powerful enemy, and were almost wiped out.
The process was extremely brutal, and the only survivor was "Hu Li" himself.
But Yu Sheng knew that these were just stories he pieced together through his powerful imagination. Hu Li's words were confusing, and there were obvious gaps in many of her memories, as well as confused cognition based on her own perspective. What the real truth was, I'm afraid even she herself could not understand or recall it.
There's something very wrong with this girl's thinking.
"How long have you been trapped here?" he couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, anyway... it's been a long time," Hu Li shook his head slowly, carefully holding the half piece of chocolate in his hand, "Here it's always... no change, I don't know how to count the days, when I'm hungry, I pass out, and when I wake up it seems like a long time has passed..."
Yu Sheng couldn't help but frown slowly. He looked at the tattered dress on Hu Li and thought about the messy experiences she had told him. He realized that the time she had been trapped here was probably far beyond his imagination, at least in the unit of "years".
"How have you survived these years?" He frowned and asked subconsciously, "What do you eat? Do you just rely on rummaging through garbage in the dilapidated temple? But there doesn't seem to be anything edible here..."
"No, food," Hu Li shook his head again. "In the forest... there are fruits occasionally, but they are poisonous. If you eat them, you will pass out. Except for water, most things here are poisonous, so most of the time, I am hungry."
Hu Li said this and slowly began to laugh again, pointing at himself, seeming a little proud: "Monster, you are very powerful, you won't die of hunger, but it's not pleasant, the feeling of being hungry."
She seemed to recall some very bad memories, and the smile on her face wrinkled. Then she stood up and ran quickly to a nearby place, and picked up the bag of kitchen garbage from among the broken bricks and tiles - she held the bag of leftovers in her arms as if she were holding a treasure.
"It's still edible." She said to the student seriously.
Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say - he wished he could take out a mountain of food right now, or even open a door to return to the real world, but he could hardly protect himself now.
"Benefactor..." Hu Li suddenly spoke again.
Yu Sheng was stunned and didn't react for a moment: "What did you call me?"
"Benefactor," Hu Li said again, with a serious expression, "Mom said that the one who helped her a lot was the benefactor. You gave me food."
Yu Sheng waved his hand: "...This name is a bit strange, you should just call me Yu Sheng, I'm used to it."
"Oh, okay..." Hu Li mumbled, blurting out the address, then raised his hand to point at Yu Sheng's finger, lowering his face, "I'm sorry."
"Ah?" Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then he noticed the wound on his finger again - it was caused by Hu Li biting it in a hurry when he gave him bread, but it had completely healed at some point, and now only some blood remained on the skin. Seeing this, he waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's okay, don't worry about it, it's just a superficial wound."
However, Hu Li looked very worried: "My benefactor, are you really okay? You were bitten by a monster... The wound is in your own body, and there is no way to heal it."
"But it has grown back." Hearing the other party's words, Yu Sheng was a little bit unconvinced. He rubbed off the blood on his fingers and said, "Look."
"It has really grown back..." Hu Li looked at Yu Sheng's finger in surprise, "My benefactor... is he also an immortal?"
"No, I don't even know what you mean by immortals - I understand them as people who have cultivated to become immortals." Yu Sheng said casually, "But why would people who have cultivated to become immortals be with... uh, 'monsters'? From what you just said, it seems like you are a group of monsters, and you are following an immortal, right? But from the impression I got from various stories... the relationship between immortals and monsters is not like this, right?"
Yu Sheng finally asked the question that had been puzzling him for a while -
Hu Li mentioned many nouns that he had only heard of in stories before, and she herself had a lot of big tails that looked like they were a thousand years old. In the end, this string of information came to the conclusion that there was an "immortal" leading a group of monsters running around, and even after the "flying boat" crashed, the immortal and the monsters united to survive in the wilderness for a while (although they failed in the end), which was inconsistent with his stereotype of immortals and monsters.
In novels, don't these two tribes usually chop dumpling stuffing for each other when they meet? Hu Li obviously didn't understand Yu Sheng's reaction. When faced with the question raised by the other party, she just tilted her head in confusion, and after trying hard to recall, she spoke uncertainly: "Because, it's the tour guide immortal."
Yu Sheng: “……?”
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He felt like he heard something very weird.
But he asked repeatedly several times and finally confirmed that Hu Li did not remember it wrong or say it wrong.
That was a "tour guide immortal", or rather, that immortal was a "tour guide".
An unknown amount of time ago, the monsters and fairies who crash-landed in this forbidden land on the "fairy boat" were a tour group.
I just imagined a fairy story of 850,000 words in my mind! It was all in vain! Don't ask why there is a monster tour group led by a fairy. The answer is 99 yuan for four days of pure fun without shopping - is it reasonable? It is very reasonable. Cheap tours are prone to problems.
Yu Sheng sat in the night wind, letting the cold wind blow through the ruins of the dilapidated temple and then blow on his face.
He thinks this world is very weird.
I feel this more and more.
At this moment, he heard the fox girl next to him calling him softly.
"My benefactor..."
"Just call me Yu Sheng," Yu Sheng sighed helplessly, "What do you want to call me for?"
Hu Li covered his stomach, looking distressed: "My benefactor, my stomach hurts a little."
Yu Sheng said "Ah?" in a daze, and then looked at the chocolate that had been half eaten by the fox fairy.
Can even the fox fairy resist chocolate?!
"...Fuck! Stop eating!" Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat and reached out to grab the chocolate from Hu Li's hand, "This thing will..."
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Hu Li let out a low whimpering sound from her throat, just like a Tibetan mastiff. Then she stretched out her neck and bit Yu Sheng's hand: "Ah!!!"
The next second, Yu Sheng's roar was even louder than Hu Li's.
(End of this chapter)
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