Chapter 81
In the 23248th year of the Divine Calendar, the sea welcomed the sun and the moon!
When the dazzling and paranoid golden god sank into the sea with the young god in his arms, time on the Kana continent seemed to freeze, but it began to flow again in an instant without anyone noticing.
In the course of fate and the flow of time, a world line that was destined to perish paused and then showed a slight deviation. No one knew what this slight deviation would evolve into with the passage of time.
Will it completely deviate from its path to extinction, or will it return to its original path after the deviation? This is impossible to know and cannot be predicted!
In the ocean that caused this slight deviation, the young spirit smiled sweetly and softly at the spirit father who was holding him. He patted his short legs with his little hands, looked up at his father and said, "Dad, Jiaojiao doesn't have a tail~"
Hesnemen lowered his eyes to glance at the tender white legs. There were still drops of water on the slender and thick eyelashes. He didn't know what he was thinking about. A smile appeared in his golden eyes, and his gentle voice rose slightly: "You want a tail?"
"Yeah." Jiaojiao nodded, her dark eyes filled with unconcealed curiosity and anticipation: "The tail looks great."
Hesnemen pinched Jiaojiao's furry ears and asked, "What color do you want?"
"Gold, the same gold as daddy's." Jiaojiao said crisply.
"Okay." The moment Hesnemen's indulgent words fell, Jiaojiao's short legs turned into a golden shark tail.
"Wow!" Jiaojiao opened her little mouth in exclamation and touched her tail carefully. Then she curved her eyes, left her father's arms, and happily turned around her father twice, wagging her tail awkwardly.
The same shark tail, when swaying on Guslalon and the others, has a sense of elegance and power, while on Jiaojiao, it has a kind of cute and adorable feeling.
Moreover, Jiaojiao, who was raised a little chubby by the Hesniemen, looked chubby with her golden tail after she turned into a mermaid, and she looked like a chubby golden carp that had become a spirit.
What's more, this golden carp that has become a spirit has a pair of furry white ears on its head.
Hesnemen couldn't help but turn his head and chuckle.
Jiaojiao, who didn't know what her father was laughing at, also laughed out loud.
After playing in the sea for almost two months, Hesniemen took Jiaojiao to other places to play. Since the little guy loved playing so much, he, as a father, must satisfy him.
The first place they went to after leaving the sea was the Volcanic Mountains that stretched for thousands of miles. There they saw countless volcanic rivers made of magma winding through the mountains, as well as hot springs of various sizes scattered in the mountains.
They took a hot spring bath on the day they went there. Unexpectedly, Jiaojiao, who was dizzy after soaking, kept feeling like she was being boiled, and even raised her little hand for her father to bite it.
Seeing that his father didn't bite, he bit the pink little hand that was soaked in water. He was so fast that Hesniemen didn't have time to stop him.
He bit me so hard that tears welled up in my eyes. I ran into my father's arms with tears in my eyes.
Holding the little ball in his arms, Hesnemen felt both distressed and amused.
Since then, the embarrassed Jiaojiao refused to go into the hot spring no matter what.
After leaving the Volcano Mountains, they went to Zushan, which is said to be the highest mountain on the continent.
Jiaojiao also became good friends with the Sky Python that lived on the ancestral mountain. When the little spirit left, the Sky Python was reluctant to leave and almost gave up the ancestral mountain where it had lived for many years and chased after them.
When leaving Zushan and planning to go to the next place, Hesniemen fell into a deep sleep uncontrollably. Before falling asleep, he rubbed Jiaojiao's head with guilt, whose eyes were full of excitement.
The fragments of the black tripod embedded in his body affected him day after day, and Hesnemen's sleeping time had been getting longer and longer.
Hesnemen was forcibly awakened from his last sleep by Hesdez. He was supposed to continue sleeping after that, and was afraid that Jiaojiao, who was frightened and crying by his absence, would be upset, so he kept forcing himself to stay awake. Now he finally couldn't hold on any longer.
Hesnemen, forcing himself to stay awake, held Jiaojiao and sat down, saying apologetically, "Jiaojiao, go play with Zela and the others. Daddy will accompany you after he wakes up, okay?"
Jiaojiao rubbed her father's hand, looked at her father with her dark, bright eyes and said seriously, "Jiaojiao, be good and wait for daddy to wake up."
Hesnemen smiled, rubbed his head and fell into a deep sleep.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the ground, carefully put his shrunken father into the pocket in front of his belly, and then reached out to Zella who was looking at him worriedly: "Brother Zella, hold me."
Zera bent down and picked him up: "Where are you going?"
"Not going anywhere." Jiaojiao shook her little head and looked up at Zela eagerly: "Let's wait for Daddy to wake up, okay?"
Zera's heart softened and soured when he met the little god's gaze. He whispered, "Okay, let's go find a place to stay at the foot of the mountain and wait for the god to wake up."
Hearing this, Jiaojiao curved her eyes, leaned her head on Zella's shoulder, and whispered, "Hello, Brother Zella."
Guslalon and Arela on the side watched this scene eagerly, feeling so sad in their hearts. They couldn't understand why the little god chose Zera, who spoke the least among the three of them.
In terms of the time of acquaintance, Arela believed that he knew the little god earlier than Zera.
In terms of appearance, Geslaren thinks he looks gentler and more approachable than Zera.
Zera, who was relied upon by the little god, curled up the corners of his mouth, raised his hand to rub the back of the little god's round head, turned around and walked down the mountain.
Jiaojiao, who was lying on Brother Zela's shoulder, waved at the two people who were still standing there thinking hard, and said in a puzzled voice: "Uncle Geslaron, Sister Arela, hurry up and catch up."
Hearing Jiaojiao's call, Guslalon and Arela came to their senses and hurriedly followed, secretly thinking in their hearts that they must squeeze Zera out of the first position in the little god's heart except for the Lord God.
There are many beautiful and fantastic scenery on the Kana continent, but Jiaojiao will only go to see and play when her father is around. When her father is not around, Jiaojiao will stay at home obediently, waiting for her father day after day.
During the waiting process, Jiaojiao was neither lost nor sad. She played sepak takraw happily with brother Zera and others all day long, and made cookies with sister Arela.
When her father woke up, she rolled up her sleeves and ran into the kitchen to make food for him. She didn't ask her sister Arela for help and ended up making a plate of salty biscuits.
Hesnemen, whose first bite of food after waking up was salt, chewed the bread in his mouth without changing his expression. When Jiaojiao asked expectantly if it tasted good, he nodded and gave high praise.
"Jiaojiao is awesome." Jiaojiao, feeling a little proud, shook her little head happily, picked up the small cake she made and took a bite, but the next second she choked and her round eyes widened.
Zera, who was standing by, handed over the water that he had prepared long ago.
Jiaojiao, who was choking and stamping her feet, grabbed the edge of the bowl with both hands and drank it with gurgling voice. Seeing this, Zella, who usually didn't laugh much, couldn't help but turned his head and laughed out loud.
After drinking some water and taking a long time to calm down, Jiaojiao puffed out her cheeks and looked at her father, her voice full of dissatisfaction: "Dad is bad, he lied to Jiaojiao."
Hesnemen held Jiaojiao in his arms with a smile in his eyes. Her cascading golden hair completely covered her small body. He rested his chin on Jiaojiao's furry head lovingly and rubbed it, and every part of his body let out a sigh of satisfaction.
Jiaojiao's little hands, buried in her father's arms, clutched her father's clothes tightly, her fair face full of smiles: "Jiaojiao misses daddy, does daddy miss Jiaojiao?"
Hesnemen lowered his head to meet Jiaojiao's gaze and nodded. His voice, filled with longing, was lowered very low, with a soft breath at the end: "Yes, I miss you very much."
After Hesnemen woke up, the interrupted journey resumed.
Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The early spring sunshine was cool and warm. Under the shade of a tree, Hesnemen was sitting cross-legged on a low couch woven with vines, his eyes slightly closed, thinking about something.
Jiaojiao came in from outside the yard, stepped forward, kicked off her shoes, climbed onto the low couch, and snuggled up to her father's arms. She tilted her head and asked, "Dad, what are you thinking about?"
Hesnemen held the little guy in his arms. He had grown a lot since the beginning, but he still looked small. His gentle voice was lazily: "Guess."
Jiaojiao lowered her head and thought for a long time before shaking her head: "I can't think of it."
"If I can't guess it, I won't tell you."
Jiaojiao puffed out her cheeks, but didn't argue. She nodded and said okay, then lay obediently in her father's arms.
Looking down at the bright Hesnemen, his eyes were filled with complex emotions, a rare sadness was mixed between his brows, and his lips opened and closed several times, as if he was hesitating about how to start his words.
After a long while, he rubbed Jiaojiao's head and sighed softly, "Did you notice something?"
The little guy has always been extremely sensitive to his emotions. Now he is lying in his arms without saying a word. He must have noticed something.
Jiaojiao looked up at her father, thought for a moment, and then straightened up. She opened her arms and gave her father a hug that wasn't quite a hug. Her childish voice was soft, "Dad, are you having trouble with Jiaojiao?"
Jiaojiao now looks about the size of a five-year-old human child. Except for the first two years when Jiaojiao grew obviously, she did not grow at all in the following years.
As a god, Hesnemen didn't think there was anything wrong with this. Zera, Arela and Guslalon, who had been with Jiaojiao for a long time, didn't think there was anything wrong with this either.
A long infancy period is a very normal thing in the Kana continent. Except for humans and orcs whose growth period is too fast, races like mermaids, elves, and dragons also have a long growth period, most of which are around forty to fifty years, and some infancy periods can even extend to more than hundreds of years.
The longer the cub period, the stronger it will be when it grows up. This is the consensus on the Kana continent, so they don’t think there is anything wrong with the little gods not growing up.
They didn't think there was a problem, but Su Cang, who occasionally took the time to glance at Jiaojiao's condition, felt that there was a serious problem.
It was hard to believe that he had a problem again. He was holding a small notebook and memorizing the materials he had used to create Jiaojiao's body one by one, intending to see where the problem lay.
In the end, Su Cang could only recite ten materials and squatted on the ground in silence for a long time.
Jiaojiao looked up at her father, her dark, bright eyes looking like falling stars: "Dad, am I going to sleep for a very long time this time?"
"Yeah." Goalkeeper Hesnie buried his face in Jiaojiao's tender shoulders: "I really need to sleep for a long, long time this time."
"It's okay." Jiaojiao tilted her head and rubbed her father's face, saying seriously, "Jiaojiao, be good and wait for daddy."
Hesnemen didn't say anything, but his heart was filled with bitterness.
At first, he didn't think that the black tripod fragments in his body would cause him any trouble. Feeling irresistible sleepiness for a long time was a rare and novel experience for him.
And originally, He planned to return Jiaojiao to his real father after dealing with the creatures on the Kana continent, and then return to nothingness and wait to condense his body again.
However, as his relationship with Jiaojiao grew deeper, his thoughts gradually changed.
He didn't want to return Jiaojiao to his so-called father. He wanted to accompany Jiaojiao and turn Jiaojiao into his cub completely, and no one could take it away!
However, this idea has changed recently. He has been sleeping for longer and longer periods of time, from one month to three months, then three months to half a year, then one year, and two years. Every time he wakes up, he finds Jiaojiao has not gone anywhere and is just staying there waiting for him to wake up.
In five years, they only went to seven places in total. The time Hesnemen slept became longer and longer, but the time intervals between each sleep period became shorter and shorter.
As he gained a deeper understanding of love, Hesniemen realized that waiting was a very painful thing, not to mention having to wait again and again!
In the past, thousands of years were just a moment for Hesniemen. Now, when he thought that Jiaojiao might have to wait for him for three, five, ten, or even a hundred years, Hesniemen found it a little hard to accept.
After thinking for a long time, Hesnemen gradually came up with the idea of returning to nothingness and completely solving the black tripod fragments.
Unable to tell Jiaojiao this idea, Hesnemen hugged the little body in his arms even tighter.
He is really an incompetent father!
I can never give the little one the best of everything, and now I can't even provide the most basic companionship!
But he really wanted to stay with the little guy for a very long time, not this kind of long time of waiting day after day with feelings of separation, loss and expectation.
Instead, they accompany each other happily and blissfully day after day for a long time.
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