Chapter 256
Amid the earthquake, Di Xiu felt the cub trapped by the branches suddenly tense up. He summoned more branches to gently wrap around the cub and pull him into his arms.
"What's wrong, Tutu?"
Yu Tu felt a little dizzy. The memories that were sealed in the dust of the past suddenly came flooding back at this moment. He thought of a dilapidated bus, a sea of flowers blooming outside the dusty windows, a kind old man hugging him, and the origin of his name.
Those memories were so tender, they were opened to him again in the creaking of time and the bumps of the bus.
"Those who love you have a poor sense of direction, so they come a little later, a little later."
Someone expressed a beautiful wish under the sunshine, and the wish came true after a long time.
"I hope Tutu won't be angry or sad. The people who love you will be there in the future."
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"Found it." Yu Tu grabbed Elder Di Xiu's drooping sleeves and said quietly and firmly, "Dean Mama, I found it."
The horrific aftermath of the black spiritual power was almost deafening. Di Xiu had to protect the fragile cub in his arms while paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, so he didn't hear clearly what he was saying.
He looked up at the sky, used the branch to hold Yu Tu more seriously, and repeated: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
The brief words washed away the shadows that had long accompanied tenderness in the memory. The past of being ridiculed and insulted, the wounds that were bleeding and painful, the nights when I couldn't sleep and quietly shed tears, seemed to be inexplicably healed at this moment.
Yu Tu knew that he should not distract Elder Di Xiu in such a situation, so he did not say anything more. He just used his little finger to circle a small section of the Di Xiu branch in front of him.
【Will you stay with me forever? 】
Yu Tu asked in his heart.
He gave the answer he wanted to hear in his heart.
【Once you make a promise, you are not allowed to regret it.】
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“It’s over, it’s over, it’s over!!!” The little black snake stared blankly at the empty sea of grass blown by the wind. It suddenly jumped three feet high and almost got tied in a knot in the air. “That bastard Black Dragon will definitely kill me———”
Its wailing voice almost shook the clouds apart in the sky: "As expected, when two people work on a project together, there will be internal strife. Why should I, a poor third party, bear the consequences?!"
The little black snake jumped back and forth on the grass, giving off a desperate madness.
After collapsing all the grass in front of it and even creating an irregular deep pit, Xuanwu finally calmed down a bit. It knocked the ground with its tail, then pulled out its turtle shell from the ground with the tip of its tail and dived into it to search. Clinking sounds continued to come from the turtle shell. After a long while, the tightly stretched snake tail exposed outside finally became soft, and Xuanwu slowly crawled out with three copper coins in its mouth.
It spat the copper coins on the ground and said thankfully, "Fortunately, I am good at fortune-telling."
Even if it can't figure out other things, it can at least figure out whether it will become a peace knot, a wish-fulfilling knot, a flower basket knot or a lucky knot, or the sum of all braided knots.
Xuanwu rolled up the three copper coins with the tip of its tail, shook its tail, and threw them to the ground. When the result came out, it breathed a sigh of relief. The result displayed was [Xiaoji].
The relatively good result made Xuanwu regain his sanity after running away from home. He released his spiritual power to feel it and found that the aura of the chaotic flow of time and space was not too strong. Even if Mr. Yuchuan was taken away, whether to the past or the future, it would not be more than twenty years from the present, and he would not stay for too long.
"It's okay, it's okay." Xuanwu's face was so dark that no expression could be seen, and he showed relief for surviving the disaster. "Mr. Yuchuan will be back soon."
It looks like it doesn't need to be turned into a braided knot, which is great news!
However, Xuanwu used the tip of his tail to touch his head, puzzled. He didn't know where the phoenix's spiritual power came from and caused the chaos in time and space. Was it a coincidence? Or was it intentional?
After staying in the [Desolate Mountain] for thousands of years, Xuanwu's thoughts had degenerated to a simple and straightforward state. He put down the tip of his tail that had been rubbed hot by the scales on his head, and decided to let himself go if he couldn't figure it out.
Whether you are a human or an animal, the most important thing to do when alive is not to pinch your lips.
It used the tip of its tail to roll up the three copper coins on the ground and was about to put them back into its shell. However, because the tip of its tail was too hot, it burned a hole in the ground. The three copper coins changed due to the sinking of its tail, and a new hexagram appeared.
【Big Fierce】.
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"Tuzi... am I that ugly now?" Diwu said in disbelief, "So ugly that you can't help crying just by looking at me???"
He stretched out his hand to pull Yu Tu's face, but was slapped away by Di Xiu in angrily.
Diwu has an extremely fairy-like face. When he doesn't speak, he looks like a flower on a high mountain that is not affected by the worldly affairs. His appearance is already extremely beautiful, and now with his white hair, he looks like a fairy who is far away in the clouds and cannot be offended - provided that he doesn't speak.
To be honest, Diwu’s current image is not ugly, but even more beautiful, but the white hair always makes people feel distressed and sad.
"What a daring little sapling." Di Wu quietly manipulated his branches to bypass Di Xiu's defense, wrapped around Yu Tu's waist and pulled it in front of him, "Listen to me, one, two, three - cry!"
Yu Tu's eyes were already filled with tears. Because of Di Wu's current behavior, she was in a dilemma whether to shed tears or not.
Diwu stretched out his hand and pinched his upper and lower eyelids, and the tears were squeezed out and slid down his cheeks: "If you cry now, you won't be allowed to cry later."
Yu Tu, who was forced into darkness, grabbed the two hands that were messing with his face and tried to pull them out, but Di Wu's hands did not move at all. He threatened: "I will let go if you agree."
Yu Tu: “…”
In the face of such evil forces, he was forced to nod.
The emperor was satisfied, so he mercifully allowed Yu Tu to see the light again.
The first thing Yu Tu did after seeing this was to complain: "Elder Di Xiu - the clan leader bullied me!!!"
Di Xiu, who was watching everything happen behind them, seemed to have a concrete black aura on his face. He said in a calm but scalp-numbing tone:
"Chief, cubs are not meant to be played with."
Diwu righteously retorted: "It would be meaningless if we don't play with the cub!"
Yu Tu: “…”
Emperor Xiu: “…”
Seeing the indescribable expressions on their faces, Diwu used his spiritual power to condense a mirror and looked at himself in the mirror: "I think this new look is pretty good. What's the matter? Do you discriminate against white hair, Tuzi?"
Yu Tu: "This is not a matter of gray hair at all!"
"If I say yes, then it is." Teiya Tsunekazu said arbitrarily, "The protest is invalid!"
He narrowed his eyes and said, "Tuzi, if you continue to dwell on this issue, it means you are discriminating against me, Di Xiu, and Song Rong."
All three of them have white hair now.
Yu Tu: "These are obviously two different things—"
Diwu pinched Yu Tu's mouth, and squeezed his lips into a duck shape, forcing Yu Tu to shut up.
He sighed: "Don't worry too much, Tuzai'er."
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"Sir, you will be back soon. Sir, you will be back later. Sir, you will be back soon. Sir, you will be back later. Sir..."
Where Yu Tu disappeared, Xuanwu was pulling weeds on the ground with the tip of his tail, muttering something every time he pulled a weed.
The sea of grass that was collapsed by his jumping was almost completely pulled out. After each round of pulling, Xuanwu would stop on his own at "Sir, come back soon" and wait for a few minutes until no one showed up, then continue pulling.
When the fifth round was pulled, a very obvious "bald spot" appeared in this dense sea of grass. Xuanwu pulled the grass away ruthlessly and showed no mercy.
By the twelfth round, Xuanwu was already a little irritable. In order to calm itself down, it took out food and drinks from its shell and swallowed them all in one gulp, successfully turning into a pitch-black "big olive".
It took some time to digest the food. After it turned back into a long and thin line, when Xuanwu was about to open the thirteenth round, he suddenly caught a very subtle breath of time and space chaos.
Xuanwu: “!!!”
It jumped three feet high, staring eagerly in the direction of the faint breath. In the area where he had pulled out the hair, a transparent human-shaped outline first appeared, and then the transparent human-shaped outline was slowly filled with color, with facial features and clothes.
————Mr. Tamagawa is back.
"Sir, how could you leave me and run away without saying a word? Wuuwuwu———" Xuanwu rushed over with a roar, wailing miserably, "Do you know how scared I am when I am weak, pitiful and helpless———"
The pitch-black little snake crawled from Yu Tu's collar to his shoulders, wrapped around his neck, and its wailing voice was like a 360-degree sound system.
Xuanwu, who was completely in the dark and had no expression on his face, felt a little strange when he saw that his wailing was ignored.
Although he was imprisoned in the [Desolate Mountain], Mr. Tamagawa was not an angry person. Although he did not tell him everything, he responded to everything.
Xuanwu craned his neck to look at Mr. Yuchuan's expression. He found that the gentleman seemed a little distracted and didn't seem to be listening at all.
Xuanwu: “……?”
It suddenly became alert and used its cold scales to touch Mr. Yuchuan's cheek: "Sir, what did you encounter in the chaotic flow of time and space?"
Perhaps it was its cool scales that interrupted the gentleman's thoughts. He took it off his shoulder, bent down and placed it on the grass beside him.
The black basalt used the tip of its tail to wrap around the tip of a blade of grass and hung upside down, dangling like a black rope. It stretched out its voice to act coquettishly, and its clear, crisp, boyish voice was lively and cute: "Sir~"
"Back to more than ten years ago..." It saw that Mr. Yuchuan looked a little lost, but he still responded to it in his usual gentle tone, "I went to see an old friend."