Chapter 323
"gentlemen..."
In the ashes where the leaves turned to dust, Canglong looked up blankly. The protective shield formed by green spots of light had gradually dimmed. Through the light halo that looked like it would shatter at any moment, it saw the horrifying sight of the mountains and rivers changing drastically outside the shield. In the midst of the devastating catastrophe, only the inside of the shield could barely be considered a piece of pure land.
"gentlemen!"
Canglong stared for a long time before he recovered his trembling mind. He looked at the withered yellow color that had occupied most of the tree crown above his head, stumbled to his feet and rushed to the location of the tea tree.
The gentleman's body has become so tall and big, protecting them from all dangers, but why does he feel so uneasy in his heart?
Canglong rushed to the location of the tea tree that blocked out the sun. The trunk of the tea tree was very thick and strong. Even if the four cubs surrounded it together, they could only occupy a small corner. It placed its claws on the trunk and felt the tree shaking under its claws. It could not tell whether the master's injuries were worse getting, or the disasters in the outside world were getting more severe, or both.
It quickly released all the spiritual power in its body, trying to put up a protective shield for the gentleman and reduce some of the pressure, but after using up the spiritual power, it found that its spiritual power was just a drop in the bucket and was of no use.
Withered yellow leaves fell on its shoulders and could be turned into ashes with a light breath. In a blink of an eye, a layer of ashes accumulated on the shoulders of the Canglong.
"Canglong——!"
It seemed to hear someone calling it.
It turned around and saw Bai Ze and the others running towards it, each of them covered in dust.
Phoenix was the most impatient: "Why did the situation outside suddenly become like this? Can we help the master?"
Canglong wanted to talk about the sudden disaster outside, and wanted to say that their spiritual power was too weak to help, and also wanted to say that the master's current condition was very bad, but it opened its mouth, but found that it could not utter a word—the extremely sharp anxiety temporarily deprived it of the ability to speak.
It could only point above its head, looking at the glaring yellow, without saying a word.
After being together for so many years, Canglong is actually the calmest and most like the master among the four cubs. Its current reaction makes the other three cubs, who are already uneasy, even more anxious. They also try to use their spiritual power to share the pressure for the master, but it is in vain.
The four frightened and worried cubs snuggled together against the tree trunk. It wasn't that cold in the protective cover, but the constant earthquakes were like a nightmare from which they could not wake up. Only the body temperature of each other when they were close to each other was a bit of reality in the illusion.
The sky seemed to be pressing down, and there was no distinction between day and night, only endless destruction. They were like a small boat in the raging waves, and no one knew when it would be overturned by the waves.
In the mood of fear, time seemed to be extraordinarily long. The four cubs did not dare to fall asleep. They just kept their eyes open, feeling the seemingly endless earthquake.
"Is it over?"
Because her heartstrings were too tense, Phoenix even suspected that her perception was wrong. The continuous earthquakes seemed to have stopped at this moment, and the world was silent.
Shirazawa's voice was hoarse due to the long period of tension: "It should be over..."
The ground beneath him seemed to stop shaking, and the terrifying cracks outside the shield stopped spreading. The oppressive and drooping sky suddenly cracked open, and a ray of golden sunlight poured out, spreading into a piece and dispelling the haze in the sky.
The huge trees above their heads were also illuminated by the sunlight. The golden sunlight sprinkled down, and the withered and yellow leaves almost merged with the sunlight - to be more precise, the withered and yellow leaves were dissipated bit by bit in the sunlight.
The golden spots scattered across the sky were a beautiful scene that could not be described in words. However, when the four cubs under the tree saw this scene, they were filled with endless panic and fear.
"gentlemen!!!"
The phoenix flapped its wings and flew upwards desperately. It passed through the dense treetops that were disappearing. Golden spots of light were draped on its feathers, as if it was coated with a layer of brilliant golden light - it seemed as if it was passing through a non-existent phantom.
The phoenix turned around in shock. In its pupils, the tea tree that was so familiar to it and blocked out the sun was gradually becoming transparent, as if it was about to disappear completely in the sunlight.
Bai Ze went down the tree and touched the trunk. In just a few seconds, the feeling under its claws went from solid to empty, and finally it caught nothing.
The golden spots of light were still scattering, and when they fell on them, they unexpectedly brought them with a warm temperature. The sunlight began to spread over the devastated mountains and rivers, and the mountains and rivers began to radiate the same golden spots of light in many corners. These golden spots of light gradually melted into the sunlight and could no longer be distinguished.
Born from heaven and earth, scattered in heaven and earth.
The huge tea tree that protected them disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only a huge deep pit in its place to prove that it had ever existed.
"What are you all standing there for?" Canglong jumped over the stunned Qilin and jumped into the deep pit without hesitation, "Come down and look for it!"
If it could find some remaining tree roots, maybe Mr. could still have hope of resurrection. Having survived all the disasters, it would never believe that Mr. would just leave like this!
Its words awakened the other three cubs, and they jumped into the deep pit one after another, carefully searching inch by inch.
———They searched for five days.
They searched every inch of soil in the deep pit, but found nothing.
The four cubs, covered in dust and looking very hungry, sat blankly in the pit. The deep pit had been expanded by them in the past five days, almost becoming a large platform. The moonlight poured down unhindered, and they could see the deep blue sky by looking up, just like what they saw when they lay under the ivy trellis to enjoy the cool at night.
Everything seems as vague as before, and everything is completely different.
The phoenix cried, its beautiful tail feathers now covered with mud: "I can't find it, I can't find anything..."
It has been a long time since it has been a crybaby.
Disaster strikes unexpectedly, and so does separation.
The Canglong dropped the mud from its claws. All five of its claws were damaged from the endless digging. Every time it moved, it trembled. It said in a hoarse voice, "Let's go find Jianmu."
They have been to the Gathering of Grasses and Trees many times. If there is anyone in the world who knows how to save the master, it must be Jianmu.
No matter what kind of creature it is, it will always find a place to rely on when it is desperate. After having a new goal, the mental state of the other three cubs was obviously better. They staggered to their feet and climbed out of the mud wall of the deep pit.
Not far from the pit was a ruin, and a lot of debris could still be vaguely identified, such as the dead creeper vines between the broken bricks and tiles, the tables and chairs they had made together with patterns carved into them, the fence in the courtyard that the phoenix had carefully decorated, and the watermelon they had left behind to share with their husband...
Kirin, who usually had the most sarcastic and pretentious personality, felt a lump in his throat and tears fell silently: "My home is gone..."
"When we find the master back——" Bai Ze patted Qilin with his paw, not sure if he was comforting it or himself, "Reconstruction will be a piece of cake!"
They were all rejecting the result that they didn't want to acknowledge, so no one objected when Bai Ze comforted Qilin in this way.
The four cubs did not rest, but set out on a journey to find Jianmu under the starry night. The terrain had changed greatly due to the disaster and was no longer the same as before. All reference objects were destroyed in the earthquake, so they could only rely on luck in terms of direction, and the wolf cubs became more and more wolfish.
They took many detours and many wrong paths. After several sunrises and moonsets, they finally saw a vaguely familiar scene. They saw the Jianmu trees that once were lush and green, blocking out the sun.
But at this moment, whether it was Bai Ze or the Phoenix, Qilin or Canglong, they all felt endless regret—
Rather than saying it is Jianmu, it is more like a silent cemetery.
Under Jianmu, the ground was a strange charred black color, covered with huge and dense cracks. There was no grass growing within a thousand miles. On top of Jianmu, nine bent branches with no tops visible had peeled bark and were covered with scars. On its branches, there were many familiar trees, but they no longer had the beautiful posture of the past.
This tragic and terrifying scene frightened the four dusty cubs to the point of freezing in place. For a moment, they even had the urge to turn around and run away - as if the secret hopes in their hearts were in danger of being shattered.
The ground was scorched earth with cracks everywhere. It took them a lot of effort to reach the bottom of Jianmu. The charred black at the bottom was no longer the thick ashes accumulated by dead vegetation, but the rottenness of flesh and blood. When they stepped on it, they could hear the sound of unburned bones breaking.
Above Jianmu are the departed alien plants, below Jianmu are the sleeping alien beasts, and they are the intruders of this cemetery.
The four cubs were almost on the verge of collapse.
The familiar world was completely changed overnight. No matter how much they encouraged themselves and their companions to stay strong and calm, it was ultimately no match for the tsunami-like impacts. They searched the ground like crazy, shuttling between nine huge scarred branches. All they saw was death, ashes, and scorched earth.
Qilin found a huge withered flower in the cavity of the seventh branch. It was broken and tattered but still tightly closed. Qilin called Bai Ze and the others over, and they worked together to tear open the flower. In the center of the unique black flower of Jianmu, curled up the unconscious Shoumu. This was the only surviving creature they found in the huge Jianmu.
Shoumu's condition was not good. The same charred black color as the outside covered most of his body, and even half of his familiar face had turned to charcoal. He was in a state of half man and half tree, looking eerie and sinister.
The four cubs took turns to supply spiritual energy to Shoumu, but Shoumu's internal meridians were as riddled with holes as his exterior. Once the spiritual energy entered, it would dissipate before even completing a single circulation, and was completely useless.
They tried for a long time, and after the Shoumu's appearance became more and more sinister and closer to the tree, he finally woke up.
At the first sight of these four cubs that looked like mud balls, Shoumu knew that Yuchuan's hypothesis was successful, and all four cubs he had raised with great care were alive, but he also realized that Yuchuan must be gone.
If Yuchuan were still there, these four cubs would not have such frightened, anxious and scared eyes, and would not have seemed as if seeing him was their only life-saving straw.
Shoumu could feel his vitality rapidly draining away, and he was so weak that he couldn't even lift his hands.
When the disaster struck, Jianmu was trying desperately to control those alienated creatures and was simply unable to communicate with all the alien plants and beasts synchronously. Shoumu served as the intermediary of Jianmu's will, so when the disaster broke through the defense built by everyone together, he was the only one protected by Jianmu's last strength and managed to survive.
The consumption of spiritual energy between heaven and earth is getting greater and greater. In order to maintain the stability of the world, disasters are bound to occur. The old creatures return to heaven and earth, and new creatures are reborn after cleansing. This is an inevitable outcome.
Aliens and plants that have just gained intelligence or have recently reached adulthood will definitely not be able to survive such a disaster. Only aliens and plants with strong strength may have a chance of survival.
The so-called prophetic dream is correct to a certain extent. Only by abandoning one's own "self" and improving one's strength by any means and regardless of the cost can one have a greater chance of surviving when disaster strikes.
Even if powerful creatures managed to survive the ordeal, the spiritual energy reserves and operating rules between heaven and earth were no longer suitable for their survival, so after discussion, everyone came up with a plan -
Disasters do not have intelligence. As long as all the powerful beasts and plants in the world are gathered in one place when the disaster strikes, the disaster will naturally concentrate most of its power there. The power of the disaster distributed in other places between heaven and earth will be much smaller. At this time, if some powerful beings are separated to protect those cubs who are unable to resist, they may survive.
Because the cubs are weak, by the time they have fully grown up, the rules of heaven will have been perfected and the new cycle of spiritual energy consumption will have stabilized. They will slowly adapt to the changes in the process of growth and will naturally be able to live in this world like the new races born between heaven and earth.
Attracting disaster means there is no chance of survival, and separating them to protect the cubs separately also has slim chance of survival. Everyone knows that they are only exchanging their own chance of survival for a glimmer of hope for the cubs' future survival.
Survival is an instinct, but willpower is greater than instinct.
When most of the power of the disaster was attracted to Jianmu's location, when the disaster turned into thunder and broke the defense, Shoumu couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, but he knew that every plant and every alien beast present would not regret it. He just felt a little regretful when he lost consciousness, regretting how successful their daring plan was.
———Perhaps he will never see the answer again.
So when he woke up again and saw the four little cubs of the Yukawa family, he was so happy that he almost overflowed. This proved that their plan was feasible, and those cubs who had not yet grown up and experienced the wonders of the world now had a real future.
Shoumu usually likes to tease Qilin the most, and Qilin is now shedding tears beside his shoulder. Unlike his usual frivolous behavior, Shoumu has a gentle smile on his sly face, and he really looks like those stable plants.
“Stop crying…” His vocal cords were already mostly damaged, and his voice sounded strange and hoarse, “Live well… little cubs…”
"I won't quarrel with you, I won't steal food from you, I won't go against you, I won't tease you——" Qilin was almost dying from crying, "Please don't die... I'm scared, I'm so scared..."
"The master is gone, and I don't want you to disappear too!" The other three mud balls were also quietly shedding tears, but they didn't speak, because as soon as they opened their mouths, they would cry. In the entire silent world, only Qilin's howling could be heard, "Don't abandon us! Don't die..."
The mud ball cried and turned into a ball of mud and water. Shoumu wanted to touch its head to comfort it, but he didn't have the strength to do so.
Canglong blinked hard: "Stop crying, give me a hand!"
Bai Ze enlarged his own body, and Canglong turned back into human form. It tried to move the fragile Shoumu onto Bai Ze's back and let Bai Ze carry him away from this scorched earth after the destruction. There was no spiritual energy here, which was not conducive to healing. They had to take Shoumu to a place with spiritual energy to heal his wounds.
Qilin wiped his face roughly with his hoof, rushed forward and pushed the longevity wood onto Bai Ze's back. Bai Ze's dirty white fur was stained with burnt black and became even uglier, but no one cared.
After several days of sleepless digging and running back and forth to find a way, Bai Ze's physical strength had actually reached its limit. His legs were shaking when he humped Shoumu, but listening to Shoumu's painful breathing, he tried to steady his steps to save Shoumu from more pain.
The Phoenix, Canglong and Qilin surrounded Bai Ze and lent a hand, protecting the Shoumu as they walked down step by step. The body of Jianmu was like a tall and wide city, but they had never felt that the city was so empty and desolate.
"Put me down..." Shoumu said softly, "I can't hold on much longer..."
He could no longer see clearly, and his five senses were being stripped away bit by bit, but he could feel the warmth of the cub's fur and its shivering body beneath him, like the only anchor in the darkness.
"No!"
He heard the cub's soft and stubborn answer, and he didn't know whether it was one or several.
The overwhelming sadness drowned the longevity tree.
In such a terrible disaster, the world changed drastically, and the four cubs didn't know how much hardship they had endured to find this place. If possible, he hoped that he could watch over these four cubs for Yuchuan and let them grow up, but he also knew that this was impossible.
At the end of his life, the carefree Shoumu tried to imitate Yuchuan and comfort the cubs: "We were only away for a short time. Maybe after enough time, we can meet again..."
"I don't believe it!" Qilin finally stopped crying and started to cry again, "You adults all like to deceive the young..."
It’s like their husband clearly said he would be with them forever, but they couldn’t find him no matter how hard they tried.
"Even if I... lied to the cubs... Tamagawa would never lie to the cubs..." Shoumu felt the darkness pulling him, and his consciousness became heavier and heavier. "Don't you believe... him?"
Shoumu heard the hoarse cry of the phoenix: "Will the master really come back?"
"Yes." Shoumu told a white lie, "As long as you grow up well and healthy, you will meet him again..."
Shoumu could no longer hear what the cubs were saying. His thoughts gradually came to a standstill: "Plant me on the road in front..."
His breath gradually weakened, but the corners of his lips slightly lifted, as if he had a beautiful dream in the eternal darkness—
"… This way, when everyone comes back, I'll be the first to see it…"
The breath of Shoumu disappeared.
Bai Ze could no longer hold on and fell to the ground. He stretched out his claws in a daze and gently shook the longevity tree, but he never got a response. The world built by Jianmu became a truly silent cemetery.
The Qilin seemed to have not reacted yet. It grabbed Shoumu's charred arm and said softly, "Don't play tricks. I've already found out..."
Shu An, who usually tried to scare Kirin with various methods, closed his eyes quietly. A layer of light gradually enveloped his body, and he returned to his original shape with half of his body burnt black.
The Canglong looked at the longevity tree, then at the devastated and ruined "city". Its five claws opened and closed on its abdomen, as if it wanted to grasp something, but it could not grasp anything.
It looked at the silent world, and suddenly seemed to realize something. It slowly, slowly squatted down and said in a trembling voice: "I have no home..."
That piece of ruins cannot be rebuilt.
*
It was indeed a blessing to be alive after the disaster, but the four cubs looked around and felt that the world was so big and there was nowhere to go.
They dug a hole in the scorched earth in front of Jianmu and planted the body of Shoumu in it. It seemed like one of the many gatherings of plants and trees. Before they arrived, Shoumu had been waiting for them below for a long time, and then randomly picked a "lucky cub" to be taken for a stroll by him.
Tiredness, pain and hunger hit them all at the most vulnerable moment. The four cubs, who had rarely been sick before, fell ill one after another. But this time there was no warm house, no delicious food, no songs that gently patted their backs and lulled them to sleep - nothing.
They could only drag each other out of the scorched earth without spiritual energy. After leaving the scorched earth, all kinds of negative conditions came at them in double numbers. The four cubs fell on the spiritual land and couldn't even get up. They wanted to sleep, but they didn't dare to. They could only dig the weeds that had just sprouted beside them and eat them together with the soil to fill their stomachs.
The violent spiritual energy has stabilized, and the destroyed mountains and rivers have regained vitality. Without a home, the four cubs began to wander.
They traveled to many places, some poor, some fertile, but they would not stay for too long. They also met other alien beast and plant cubs that survived the disaster, but everyone was busy making a living and most of them were just casual acquaintances.
The sun and the moon rotate, spring goes and autumn comes, and the once-destroyed world prospers again. During this time, a new race beloved by the world was born, and the world gave this race a unified name—
human.
It is the future that the gentleman had described to them in the past.
The phoenix was the second one to transform after the Canglong. Perhaps because of the influence of the Three-Pearl Tree, the phoenix's human form was that of a graceful and elegant young man. Not long after it transformed, Bai Ze also transformed into a human form. He got rid of the arrogance he had as a cub and looked a lot more stable.
The salty and rotten Qilin was no longer as lively as before after leaving the scorched earth. It began to practice diligently. If it was forced to follow its friends before, then now it was working hard on its own. However, due to the previous gap, no matter how hard it tried to catch up, it would only shrink, so it was the last one to transform.
Their human forms are no longer the cute three-headed figures like the Canglong in the past, but young men with their own unique styles.
On the second day after the Qilin transformed, the four cubs, no, the four teenagers had a conversation. Before the conversation officially started, they knew in their hearts that it was time to go their separate ways.
After the husband left, they have been inseparable, but everyone knows in their hearts that they can't live together forever because everyone has his or her own path to go.
The bonfire that lit up at night illuminated four faces that still had childish colors. The last transformed Qilin looked at his friends who had been with him for many years and used his talent. He took out a lot of scattered things from the void. Most of them were photo stones, big and small, new and old, and piled them up into a small mountain on the ground.
"All the photo stones from the past few years are here," he said. "Before we say goodbye... everyone should bring some gifts."
After going through the most difficult period after emerging from the scorched earth, they returned home and found many things in the ruins. Most of Qilin's boxes of photo stones had been destroyed in the earthquake, but those that were still intact were carefully preserved by Qilin with his natural talent.
The photo stone itself has a lifespan, and the projected images will no longer be as clear as they used to be as time goes by, just like the stories that the teacher told them when they were young, which have become increasingly blurred in their memories.
In time, everything is ruthless.
Qilin reluctantly divided the photo stone into two parts, keeping half for himself and giving the rest to his three friends.
"I don't know what you guys are trying to do," he said. "I want to find a way to actually avoid the disaster. I have a feeling this isn't the end."
The alien beasts and plants were once the most active creatures in this world, but they were eventually abandoned by the world in time. The newly born races may also prosper, but they cannot avoid the same ending.
Canglong took the photo stone without saying anything. He had become even more taciturn since the disaster. Bai Ze stuffed the photo stone that Qilin handed to him into his arms, and a sharp youthful look appeared on his calm face: "I have transformed, and I want to try to contact humans."
He wanted to see what was so good about this new race that was so highly praised and loved by his master.
Phoenix pulled the photo stone to her side, with a nonchalant attitude between her beautiful eyebrows: "I don't have any ideas, nor do I have any pursuits. I just muddle through."
They have been together for so many years that they have naturally developed a tacit understanding. No one needs to say too much to roughly guess what the others are thinking.
The flames of the fire gradually dwindled, but Phoenix flicked his finger and it became a blazing flame again: "You all have your own ideas, so I won't say any more."
He lowered his eyelashes and smiled: "Let's say goodbye now."
Canglong said simply: "Remember to report safety."
After saying this, he walked into the deep night and never looked back.
Bai Ze carried his homemade sword on his back, and said goodbye to Qilin and Fenghuang after they had packed up the photo stone. Fenghuang was the only one left near the blazing fire.
The phoenix grabbed the photo stone that Qilin had given him, randomly selected one and injected spiritual energy into it. Spiritual energy surged on the open space next to the fire, and images and sounds gradually appeared—
He met the gentleman whom he had not seen for a long time.
The gentleman held a large basin of bubbling, steaming syrup in his arms. The bamboo basket filled with fruits was stuck at the corner by Bai Ze. Little Golden Crow and the young him fell on the gentleman's shoulders, one on each side. He heard his own cute voice: "Bingtang~Fulu~"
The gentleman corrected him with a smile: "It's candied haws."
Then the childish voice and the gentle voice appeared alternately——
"Rock sugar ~ blessing ~"
“Tanghulu.”
"Rock sugar - Fulu -"
"Tanghulu."
The photo stone was quite old, so the sound was a bit distorted, as if it was from the distant and very old past - and it was indeed from the very distant past.
He heard his cub self's voice of discontent, and couldn't even pronounce the words clearly: "Bingtang Fulu!"
But he was tolerated, loved, and cared for—
"Okay, rock sugar blessing~"
…
Phoenix stared at the faint images beside the fire, watching them over and over again many times. Qilin even recorded a lot of them. Phoenix even saw her younger self in the photo stone sneezing, and her fluffy hair exploded into balls.
The gentleman said that sneezing means someone is thinking about him. It turns out that the one thinking about him is not someone else, but now... himself.
He saw the transition from day to night in the Photo Stone, the stars shining, the flames dancing, illuminating familiar faces, he heard the noisy laughter, and heard the cicadas chirping in the wind after the party was over...
He closed his eyes. From the photo stone came the rustling sound of the gentleman's sleeves brushing against the ivy vines as he walked, the creaking of the recliner as it rocked, hands gently patting backs, the intermittent murmurs of his friends, and the gentleman humming a very gentle song. The old photo stone made the sound slightly distorted.
It heard itself humming along, the voice still in tune—
Bugs fly, bugs fly, who are you missing?
…
After leaving the campfire, Qilin and Bai Ze walked side by side for a while, but eventually they separated. Not long after they separated, the feeling of being followed secretly resurfaced in his consciousness.
Qilin looked at the white in the night with the remaining light, and a bit of helplessness emerged on his handsome face. Before, the four of them were inseparable, and their hunting success rate was high, but they did not finish eating the prey every time, because a very young cub sneaked up behind them at some point in time - not only was it young, but its hiding ability was also poor.
Every time they have to try their best to ignore the white spot not far away, which is a real test of their acting skills.
Maybe because this cub is too much like himself when he was young and had a hard time surviving, Qilin always subconsciously takes care of it a little. As a result, the cub somehow becomes dependent on it. Qilin can often feel it following him, but when he turns around, the cub is squatting in the bushes again.
This time the four of them separated, and Qilin thought the cubs would follow Bai Ze, whose fur color was more similar to his. Unexpectedly, after he and Bai Ze separated, the little cubs hesitated for a while and then caught up with him again.
There is only one Qilin, so its fighting power is certainly not as good as the four of them together. If the little cub follows them from such a distance, he will be unable to take care of any unexpected situation and will get hurt easily.
Qilin sighed in the night, turned back along the same path, and caught the little cub, who was in a panic after being discovered, in the dense bushes.
"Why are you following me?" Qilin asked.
The little cub in his hand had its ears drooped and stammered, "Because you're the best to me."
It sounds silly.
“Can you teach me how to be strong?” The cub’s neck skin was still in Qilin’s hand, and its tail swung back and forth anxiously. “When I become strong, I will take care of you when I grow old!”
Qilin: “…I declined.”
"Oh..." The rejected little cub's eyes were full of loss. Qilin put it on the ground, and the little cub squatted obediently. After Qilin disappeared from the sight, it puffed up its cheeks, wiped its eyes, and walked in the opposite direction dragging its tail. The moonlight stretched its shadow long, and it looked so lonely and pitiful.
It hadn't taken two steps when it felt something grabbing its fate by the scruff of the neck. The little cub turned its head in confusion and saw the shapeshifting beast that had just rejected it.
"I just refused, don't you know how many times you should bother me?" The alien beast that picked it up was obviously very disappointed, "If you want to survive and learn skills, you have to be thick-skinned, little cub!"
There is absolutely no trace of his shameless and flexible demeanor as he used to have!
The little cub he had complained about laughed happily, showing his little baby teeth that had not yet grown: "I knew you were the best to me!"
It vowed: "I promise to pester you every day from now on to learn how to be thick-skinned!"
Qilin: “……?”
It’s over, this kid is really stupid!
He sighed again: "Tell me, what's your name?"
The little cub gave him a big smile: "Listen carefully!"
"Listen carefully, right?" Qilin put it down, "If you want to learn skills from me, don't regret it."
Di Ting's little head shook like a wave drum: "No regrets!"
"Be careful not to break it. If you break it, I won't want you anymore." Qilin thought for a moment and handed Di Ting a photo stone. It was a photo of his teacher giving a lecture that he had treasured. He really didn't know how to teach a cub and was afraid of leading the cub astray. "Study hard, understand?"
"Hmm." Di Ting's little head pointed out the afterimage.
A teacher is one who imparts knowledge and resolves doubts.
Qilin stared at the cub in silence for a long time: "From now on, you can call me 'Teacher'."
He couldn't really just leave everything alone to raise this little cub, but the problem was... Qilin looked at the giggling white ball and had the illusion that he had picked up a little fool.
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