Chapter 199: Choice of Fragments
"These seem to be fragments of eggshells." Ah Sheng looked at the fragments carefully and said after thinking for a moment.
"Fragments of eggshell?" Zhou Wen looked at the six fragments carefully, and they really looked like the irregular shapes of broken eggshells.
Moreover, the fragments were all curved, which made Zhou Wen even more certain that what Ah Sheng said was correct. These fragments were most likely the eggshells of the six little birds.
"But why are they bringing the eggshells to me? Are they trying to get me to eat them? I'm fine with eating bird eggs, but not eggshells." Zhou Wen felt depressed. He didn't care whether they could understand him or not. He coughed lightly and said to them, "Thank you for your kindness. I don't eat eggshells. You should keep them."
It was not known whether they did not understand or for some other reason, but the six little birds stood in a row in front of Zhou Wen, staring at him as if they did not hear him speak.
Seeing that they didn't move, Zhou Wen realized that continuing the stalemate wasn't going to work, so he picked up a piece of eggshell and said, "I'll just take one piece. I'll take it back and eat it slowly."
Zhou Wen pinched the eggshell and felt it was smooth and warm, like the legendary warm jade. If one had not seen these little birds, no one would have thought that this was actually a piece of eggshell.
Zhou Wen put the fragments into his pocket, hoping that he could get away with it.
Unexpectedly, this actually worked. When Zhou Wen took a piece of debris, the other five birds ran back with their own fragments. Only the bird whose fragment Zhou Wen had taken was still standing there, staring at Zhou Wen blankly.
Zhou Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief. If these little birds insisted on making him eat the eggshell fragments now, Zhou Wenming knew he was no match for them, but he could only fight to the death. He really couldn't eat this thing.
"I wonder what other tricks these little birds have?" Zhou Wen was thinking when he saw the big bird perched on the charred wood spread its wings. Suddenly, hot wind wrapped around Zhou Wen and the other two, like a tornado, and swept them into the air and directly threw them out of the tree hole.
The three of them felt as if they were flying in the clouds, with a distorted golden light all before their eyes. When the terrifying power disappeared and the three of them fell to the ground, they realized that there was no sycamore tree in front of them. Instead, they were on a mountain road. The guardrail next to it had traces of being hit, which was where they had parked their car before.
Li Xuan looked around but didn't see any trace of the big bird. He couldn't help but said in surprise: "We are back to where we were. The big bird actually let us go?
Zhou Wen was also happy, but suddenly he heard a bird's cry, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, thinking that the big bird had come again. But when he thought about it carefully, he felt something was wrong. The bird's cry was obviously very young and did not have any terrifying power. It was not the cry of the big bird, but more like the cry of a small bird.
Zhou Wen looked down and saw a little bird standing blankly at his feet, looking at him with its head tilted.
"How come this little bird was also swept out?" Zhou Wen was shocked, but then he thought again and felt that this might not be the big bird's mistake.
When the six little birds brought the fragments to Zhou Wen, he felt it was a bit strange. He didn’t think too much about it at that time, but now he suddenly saw a little bird being sent out together, and he had more thoughts in his mind.
"Could it be that when I took the fragments before, I was actually choosing these birds? Will the birds I choose leave with me? If so, what would have happened if I had taken all six pieces just now?" Zhou Wen reached out and picked up the bird. The bird did not resist and let Zhou Wen hold it in his palm. It tilted its little head and stared at Zhou Wen with its round eyes.
"Old Zhou, did the big bird give this little bird to you? This is not fair. We did the work together. Why do you get the gift while Brother Sheng and I get nothing?" Li Xuan also saw the crux of the problem.
"I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse." Zhou Wen shook his head slightly, holding the bird, and shouted towards the mountains: "Divine Bird, do you want me to take it away?"
After shouting three times, there was no response, so Zhou Wen had no choice but to take the bird with him on the road.
Without a car, the three people could only walk. Although they ran very fast, even as fast as a car, the human body is not a machine after all, and physical strength is very limited. After running for a long time, even the strongest human will run out of energy.
And out in the wild mountains, near the Qinling Mountains, I really don’t have the energy, and I’ll be in trouble if I run into a few dimensional creatures.
The three of them didn't dare to run too fast. They ran for a while and then walked slowly for a while.
Originally, Asheng was planning to take them to an extra-dimensional area near the Qinling Mountains, but because he had no car and there was no signal here, he had to give up his previous plan and rush to the next city as quickly as possible.
A Sheng told Zhou Wen that if they did not arrive at the next city within the scheduled time, the An family would send a rescue team to search for their whereabouts, so they had to contact the An family as soon as possible.
The Qinling Mountains are so mysterious. Although they only approached the Qinling Mountains and did not actually enter them, they have already seen many mysterious things.
One night, Zhou Wen and his two companions heard the sound of fairy music coming from the Qinling Mountains, as if there were fairies playing music and dancing in the mountains.
Although Zhou Wen really wanted to go and take a look, he knew that he couldn't take such a risk.
On the way, we saw many plants we had never seen before, mushrooms taller than small buildings, grass that looked like humans, and all kinds of strange things. And this was just the outskirts of the Qinling Mountains.
Although they encountered many strange things on the way, no more accidents happened since they met the big bird. It took the three of them three days to finally cross the Qinling Mountains and arrive at a small town.
A Sheng contacted the An family and reported the situation here in time, causing the rescue team that was about to set off to stop.
"The original plan was to have you go to several other-dimensional realms for training first, but now it's too late. I've already contacted a plane, and it will pick us up soon and take us directly to the holy land." After Ah Sheng finished the phone call, he said to Zhou Wen and Li Xuan.
Zhou Wen and Li Xuan both thought it would be better to go directly to the holy land to avoid so many troubles. After witnessing the horror of the big bird, they dared not walk around in the wild at will.
After resting for half a day, an armed helicopter came to pick them up and took them to a big city with an airport, and then they flew to the holy city.
Because many areas in the sky are shrouded in other-dimensional realms, airplanes cannot fly freely now. Most of the routes used in the past are no longer usable, and only a few areas can be flown through. Airports are now taken over by the federal government, and the crew members are all military officers.
(End of this chapter)
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