Long Xiangling took a sip of water, and her breathing became smooth again. She raised her head, her pink face still flushed. "I was distracted just now, it's not your fault!"
Lan Guoer sat between them, looking from one to the other, her big black pearl-like eyes rolling around. The two of them looked so nervous that they looked a bit like husband and wife!
......After a quick breakfast, Lan Guoer told Su Jin that she wanted to take a walk nearby.
The border was in chaos at the time, so how could Su Jin feel at ease letting the two girls go out alone? Knowing that they were going to a nearby village, he took a few soldiers with them and went there together, patrolling at the same time.
"Guo'er, your elder brother is so good to you!" On the way, Long Xiangling looked back.
Not far away, Su Jin, dressed in a neat combat uniform, walked behind them with an upright and imposing demeanor. This made Long Xiangling feel an unprecedented sense of security.
"My eldest brother is really good! It's just a pity," Lan Guo'er revealed intentionally or unintentionally, "He's already old and still single! I don't know which girl he'll marry in the future!"
Long Xiangling frowned slightly, as if confirming something, and turned around to look again.
The man behind him had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, handsome features, and was nearly 1.9 meters tall. His every move involved the strength of his muscles.
A man like this is simply a fighter among men! If humans can be refined into Gu, then this man in front of him has the potential to become a Gu King!
Long Xiangling couldn't help but use the same method she used to raise and select insects to evaluate men.
"Is there something wrong with your elder brother?" Long Xiangling pricked up her curious ears and asked timidly.
...Is there something wrong with her elder brother? Lan Guoer rudely flicked her head!
"What are you thinking about in your little head? My brother is in good health! It's just that his love life has been a little bumpy. Before..." Lan Guoer told her about the past of Su Jin and Yuehua as they walked, without hiding anything.
Long Xiangling listened quietly all the way, turning back to glance at Su Jin from time to time. This man was truly impeccable! A woman who could be his spouse must be very lucky, right?
After passing through a bamboo forest, they came to a bombed-out house.
"This is my former home, but now..."
Long Xiangling looked at the house in front of her, the light in her eyes gradually dissipated, and a hazy mist appeared.
Lan Guoer knew that she was thinking about her family again, and didn't want her to be affected by this emotion. "Didn't you say you would bring me to see the little guys you raised? Aren't they here?"
“Yes, yes!”
Long Xiangling's emotions came and went quickly! She took two quick steps toward the ruins. On the ground lay a manhole cover about 70 centimeters in diameter.
She squatted on the ground and pushed open the manhole cover, revealing an abandoned dry well. The well was about 2 meters deep, and because of its small diameter, it looked pitch black inside, and the bottom was unclear.
Long Xiangling seemed very excited. She looked up and smiled at Lan Guoer, "The little ones are still here! They're so happy to know I'm back! I'll call them out to meet you right away!"
As she spoke, she moved her head closer to the well mouth. Just as she was about to move, she suddenly remembered something and raised her head to warn Lan Guoer, "Don't be afraid later. Don't worry, I'm here. They won't hurt you."
In her previous life, Lan Guoer had done some research on poisonous insects and knew roughly what kind of insects she was raising. She nodded, indicating that she understood everything.
Only then did Long Xiangling feel relieved. She put her head close to the well and whistled softly.
The whistle was not melodious, and its rhythm seemed to be the same as the soundtrack of a horror movie. After a few whistles, Long Xiangling stood up and leaned back.
At this time, there was already a hissing sound in the well, and Lan Guoer stared at the well mouth with her big eyes shining with stars.
In an instant, a green color popped out from the bottom of the well. It was so fast that Lan Guoer couldn't even see its shape clearly before the little thing disappeared from her sight like lightning.
"Oh~ Xiaoqing, be good! Stop making trouble!"
Long Xiangling's laughter came from beside Lan Guoer, and her voice was filled with joy as if she had reunited with a long-lost friend.
Lan Guoer turned her head and saw a bright green sliver on Long Xiangling's arm! It was a small, emerald green snake, only about twenty centimeters long, wrapped around her wrist like a fine jade bracelet!
It was the first time that Lan Guoer saw such a beautiful little snake.
She had always thought that the snakes and insects used to make Gu were ferocious and unsightly! Unexpectedly, this little snake was so well-behaved, and even had a cute expression.
"Is this Xiaoqing?" Lan Guoer asked casually.
"Guo'er, you're so smart! You guessed it all! It's Xiaoqing. Look, isn't it very well behaved?"
Long Xiangling caressed Xiaoqing's little head lovingly and moved Xiaoqing in front of Lan Guoer as if presenting a treasure.
Lan Guoer: “…”
If she couldn't even guess this based on their similar naming theories, wouldn't she be color blind?
"Don't underestimate it because it's small. It's very powerful! Most snakes will retreat when they see it! Even the giant python in this forest is afraid of it! If it gives an order, it can summon snakes and insects from miles around."
Long Xiangling praised Xiaoqing generously, and Lan Guoer's heart was beating fast when she heard it!
Fortunately, when the human traffickers imprisoned the girl, she did not bring Xiaoqing with her. If the little girl was with her at the time, those idiots might not even know how they died when they met the King of Hell!
At this time, a bug about the size of a bee flew over and fluttered in front of Long Xiangling.
Lan Guoer was about to reach out to chase it away when Long Xiangling stopped her, "Don't chase it! This is Xiaohua, it's saying hello to us!"
Lan Guoer: “…” This poisonous insect can even fly?!
Here, Long Xiangling stretched out her index finger towards the little flower flying in the air. The little flower seemed to be summoned, flapped its wings twice and landed on her fingertips.
It turned out to be a seven-spotted ladybug!
"This little flower only lives for a few months..."
Lan Guoer stared at the little thing in front of her with wide eyes, very confused. Could a creature with such a short lifespan also be used to refine Gu?
"Ordinary ladybugs can only live for a few months, but Xiaohua is different. Xiaohua is already four years old this year. If nothing unexpected happens, she can live for decades more, even longer than me!"
Long Xiangling said this with a proud look on her face, and Lan Guoer felt that everything she had learned in her two lifetimes had been completely overturned!
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