11 Dayu's Flood Control⑩
◎Who is this? Dayu?◎
Under the gaze of everyone, Zhu Heng reached out and pulled down his collar, revealing his well-defined jaw.
The passing wind seemed to have found a new target. It rushed over, pushed aside a few strands of hair on his forehead, and cut his obsidian eyes into several petals.
Zhu Heng turned his face away from the wind and said softly, "Me? I didn't."
Everyone was dazzled and stunned for a moment before nodding and comforting him: "It's okay, it just hasn't happened yet. Don't worry, it will happen eventually."
Zhu Heng didn't know whether to laugh or feel helpless. He turned to look at the scholar and asked, "Did you find out anything when you went to inquire about it just now?"
The scholar slapped his head when he heard this and almost forgot about the important matter.
"Yes, there really is," he said. "I asked those two young elders, and they said there's never been a leader named 'Gun' here. Not only has there never been a Gun, but there hasn't even been a great flood."
"Could it be because we're living in a time before the Great Flood?" the craftsman speculated. "Because the Great Flood hadn't happened yet, there wouldn't be any legends about Gun."
At this moment, a sarcastic voice suddenly sounded in everyone's ears.
[Stop guessing. This place is a brand new world. There was no flood and no Gun. Those two young seniors are not your ancestors. Don't try to make connections.]
Everyone turned their heads at once, and the source of the sound was actually an apple in Tao Ran's arms.
Tao Ran was so frightened that he threw the apple away on the spot.
The apple-like system said impatiently: [...You couldn't even scatter your enemy's ashes this neatly. If you don't want to die here, pick it up for me!]
Tao Ran, feeling as if a knife was at his throat, reluctantly took the apple back. He always wore perfume, and a faint scent of cologne permeated the apple skin and seeped into the flesh.
The pungent smell confused the system and it lost its way for a long time.
System: [Oh my god, can someone else lead me?]
Each person has his own system and they are tired of each other.
Tao Ran rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say the show was over? Why are you back again?"
The system gnashed its teeth and said, "Do you think I want to? I won't leave until I find the fragments of civilization."
It can't leave either.
Tao Ran suddenly laughed, and said "Oh" in a long tone, with a malicious smile: "I see, this civilization fragment is your performance target, isn't it? Your performance is not up to standard?"
System: [Shut up!]
Tao Ran took advantage of the situation and patted Apple's shoulder, acting like a kindhearted person: "Alright, Master, I'll reluctantly take you in for a while."
system:【……】
Hold it in! Hold back from cursing!
Tao Ran was about to argue with the system when he caught a glimpse of Zhu Heng walking towards the apple tree. He froze for a moment, thought for a moment, then stuffed the Apple system into his pocket and followed.
"Hey, what is this?" Tao Ran walked around to the other side of the fruit tree and saw Zhu Heng standing under the tree with his hands behind his back, watching two children playing house with great interest.
Tao Ran also became interested and squatted down to read with relish. "It turns out that the skill of infrastructure construction has been engraved in human genes since ancient times and has remained consistent for thousands of years."
He decided that just watching wasn't enough and wanted to try it himself. So he picked up a stone, moved it aside, drew a small circle on the ground, and solemnly declared that this was his "city."
He plunged headfirst into the design of his own territory, working enthusiastically and enjoying the painting.
Zhu Heng watched him frantically with a raised eyebrow. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a few scholars approaching and surrounding him to oversee the work. He glanced at the five approaching figures, casually passing by, then calmly lowered his eyes.
Huh? He raised his eyelids again.
There are four people in total: a scholar, a peasant girl, a craftsman, and an actress.
Then who is the other one?
Tao Ran was completely oblivious to the anomaly, intently scratching the "city" on the ground. But he wasn't satisfied with the result, so he simply found a large rock to wipe away all the scratches, intending to start over.
Zhu Heng's gaze suddenly froze.
The extra shadow disappeared again.
He looked around, circled the apple tree, and even searched the entire hilltop, but he could not find any trace of the extra figure.
"Now that we have a city, we must have a few rivers, right?" Tao Ranxin said to himself as he marked out a piece of land.
Zhu Heng frowned slightly, and suddenly a figure appeared in his field of vision and flashed before his eyes in an instant.
It appeared again!
Tao Ran pointed at the "city" drawn on the ground and pulled Zhu Heng, "Brother Zhu, can you help me take a look at this terrain?"
Zhu Heng ignored him.
"Brother Zhu?" Tao Ran called out twice, but when Zhu Heng didn't respond, he looked up and saw Zhu Heng staring coldly at the back of him with his dark, abyss-like eyes, motionless.
Tao Ran's throat tightened, and he trembled, "Brother Zhu, don't look at me like that. If you stare at me like that, I'll think there's something behind you..."
Zhu Heng's gaze moved slightly, slowly fell back on him, and he snorted coldly with a half-smile.
Tao Ran: “…”
He was the kind of person who could not help himself the more frightened he was, and he could not help but turn his head cautiously to take a glance, but this glance made him lose his soul.
Less than half a meter behind him stood a strange-looking monster that looked neither human nor ghost.
It is said to be strange because this monster is clearly a human, but none of its organs are in the right place. Its organs seem to be pieced together in a mess: its arms are on its legs, its feet are on its arms, its head is on its belly, and its butt is on its neck, just like a puzzle with the pieces of the puzzle in a disrupted order.
At this moment, it was sticking half of its head out of its belly, staring at its "territory" on the ground with interest.
Everyone finally reacted and fled in all directions, taking several long steps back using their hands and feet.
The monster opened its chaotic white pupils, and something seemed to be stirring beneath them, as if trying to move, but it couldn't focus at all. Even so, its eyes showed no sign of disdain for Tao Ran's "city."
Then, it opened its bloody mouth, roared, and pounced towards Tao Ran.
Tao Ran was so frightened that he fell to the ground, slipped, and instantly flattened half of the "city".
At this time, something unexpected happened.
Half of the monster's arm suddenly disappeared into thin air as if it had been erased with an eraser.
Without the support of its arms, the monster lost its balance and fell to the ground crookedly, no longer as majestic as before.
Tao Ran, who had luckily escaped the disaster, breathed a long sigh of relief and thought to himself, "That was a close call!"
Zhu Heng stared at the pattern on the ground that Tao Ran had wiped off, and suddenly let out a soft "Oh".
Tao Ran's face turned terribly pale.
Zhu Heng ignored him and kicked Tao Ran with his toes: "Get up and go away."
Tao Ran wanted to get away from this monster as far as possible, and without waiting for Zhu Heng to urge him, he crawled away.
Zhu Heng then squatted down, picked up the stones that Tao Ran had thrown aside, and filled in the half of the "city" that Tao Ran had flattened.
As the city was repaired, the monster's missing arm slowly grew back. Noticing the changes in its body, it looked up at its newly intact arm with joy, grinning, then excitedly opened its bloody mouth and pounced on Zhu Heng.
Zhu Heng calmly raised his palm and wiped it on the ground, wiping away that half of the city and also wiping the other half clean.
The monster's newly regenerated arm disappeared in an instant, and the other hand was also gone.
monster:"?"
This time everyone finally reacted and suddenly realized what was going on.
Tao Ran looked up in shock, muttering to himself, "What, what, what has been going on for so long? Turns out I was the one who summoned it?"
No, that's not right.
Tao Ran shook his head and immediately denied his guess.
It seems that Zhu Heng could also paint it.
It probably has nothing to do with people, but... it's because of the patterns he drew.
Zhu Heng exchanged a glance with the immobile monster, then turned to look at Tao Ran: "What are you drawing?"
Tao Ran smiled guiltily: "Our Great China Map."
Upon hearing this, everyone came closer to take a look, but after looking for a long time, no one could make out what it meant. After all, these ancient people had no idea what the Chinese territory would look like thousands of years later.
"Let me see." The actress, holding her large belly, sidled forward and took another look at the "territory" on the ground that was so ugly that even her mother wouldn't recognize it. The ridiculously abstract pattern resembled an egg, crooked and with random lines.
She turned her head speechlessly and rolled her eyes at Tao Ran: "You call this a 'map'?"
Tao Ran peeked in and said timidly, "How about... you think it's a rooster's hatching mode?"
Actress: "...You really dare to think so."
The craftsman stared at the pile of lines on the ground and muttered thoughtfully: "The world, the map, the world, the map..."
His eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed, "Could it be that—"
Everyone looked at him.
The craftsman's face showed a hint of uncertainty as he spoke, "We've previously overlooked a key point—in addition to controlling floods, Dayu also had another important achievement."
The scholar's eyes, which had always been smiling, suddenly widened: "You mean, dividing the nine provinces?"
The craftsman nodded heavily: "That's right, Yu divided the country into nine states!"
Everyone was excited. That's right! In ancient times, floods raged. Dayu crossed mountains and rivers, traveled all over the world, and finally divided the land of China into nine states. From then on, Jiuzhou became a synonym for China. They had been misled by what happened on the boat earlier, and they hadn't expected this!
At this point, the actress raised a crucial question: "But what's the connection between Dayu's division of the Nine Provinces, the map of 'Huaxia' drawn on the ground, and that monster?"
Everyone was stunned by the question and no one could answer for a while.
Zhu Heng's eyes flashed, and he raised his chin to signal Tao Ran: "Ask it."
"Me?" Tao Ran straightened his back unconsciously and stammered, "I, what can I know?"
Zhu Heng didn't respond, just stared at him.
Tao Ran reacted immediately, took out the apple from his pocket and shook it: "Hey, wake up, I, Brother Zhu, want to ask you a question!"
The system was so confused by his tossing and turning that it was practically shaken to pieces: [Nimma, if I don't settle the score with you later, I'll take your last name!]
It roared at Tao Ran angrily, spraying apple juice all over his face: [You fart! ]
Tao Ran licked the corner of his lips and couldn't help but sip the juice twice.
system:【……】
Tao Ran held up the apple and pointed it at the monster: "Do you know it?"
The system had just been confused by Tao Ran and hadn't fully recovered yet. When it took a quick look, it felt its stomach rush up its throat and it almost vomited: [What the hell...?]
etc……
Something seems wrong.
The system blinked its non-existent eyes, took a closer look, and suddenly exploded.
It let out a deafening scream that echoed through the sky: [Who the hell did this to Dayu?!]
Everyone: “?”
Big Who?
【Author’s words】
A corporate mother of two died suddenly at her workstation.
She arrived in the underworld, and the King of Hell asked her, "Do you have any grievances?"
She said, "My writing speed is slow, and my death is not unjust. It's just that my youngest son has a stubborn personality, and I am worried about him."
"Oh? Tell me about it."
"They're a little wild. By the way, do you know what kind of wild they are?"
"What kind of wild?"
"Nutrient Wild."
(The nutrient solution is quite hard to get. I would be very grateful if you could give me a collection or comment! I would occasionally write a joke to make everyone happy.)
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2022-05-26 21:58:48 and 2022-05-27 19:03:13~
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: Passer 4 bottles;
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