Chapter 328
"Wow - where did you get such a horrible thing?" A little fox with white fur covered its mouth. Two of its three big white fluffy tails were wrapped around itself, and one was on its head. It questioned the black "stick" in front of it, "You didn't make this up yourself, did you?"
"No way!" the black stick protested loudly, "A hundred years ago, a monster that could transform played a trick on me. I fought him for three hundred rounds to resist, but because I was young, he buried me in the ground. He even placed tributes in front of my grave. It really pissed me off!"
———Although the roast rabbit was delicious, it could still be ordered again.
The black stick complained bitterly: "When I finally climbed out with great intelligence, it started to rain. For a whole hundred years, the mountain where I lived has never been sunny again!"
Even though it is a water-attributed monster, it cannot soak in water every day, and that water has a faint smell of blood!
"But am I the kind of beast that gives up so easily? I figured out that the problem was at the top of the mountain, so I've been trying to solve it for the past hundred years. But there seems to be something special at the top of the mountain, and I'm forced to go around in circles every time I go up there." The black stick sighed, "A few days ago I finally found a loophole and went up there, and I saw the things I told you about. Otherwise, why would I move overnight?"
Under the dark blue scales was flesh that had rotted and blistered to a white color. Under the already mottled horns were green eyes that stared straight at him. The eyes were larger than if it stood up on the tip of its tail… In the midst of thunder and lightning, it is no exaggeration to say that Xuanwu was frightened and cried. The pitch-black little snake cried while desperately dragging its heavy body, and crawled away from the mountain where it had lived for a hundred years under the stars and moonlight.
For the past hundred years, it was trapped on the mountain where it lived, unable to go up or down. But after reaching the top of the mountain, it suddenly found that it could leave the mountain. Although it did not understand those strange spiritual rules, through a hundred years of hard work, it knew how to avoid them!
The little snake, dragging the turtle's body all the way across a thousand miles, finally stopped, frightened out of its wits. Due to its rapid escape, it was extremely hungry and could not help but steal some delicious tender meat wrapped in leaves in a tree hole, and was then caught by the owner of the meat.
After being chased and beaten by the snow-white three-tailed little fox, the dizzy little snake hid in its own turtle body, listening to the banging sounds of its shell and the angry scolding of the little fox:
"It's shameless to steal other people's things!"
Bang, bang, bang———!”
"That's the feast I prepared after I killed eight prey!"
“Bang, bang, bang—!”
"You didn't even leave a piece of meat for me to eat!"
“Bang, bang, bang—!”
…
There is a rhythm to the beating of the wind and rain.
Finally, the little fox was tired of fighting. It squatted beside the black turtle of Xuanwu and said sinisterly: "I don't believe you won't come out!"
The little snake curled up in the turtle's body trembled first, then wiped its tears with the tip of its tail. A crying voice suddenly rang out, and it recounted its miserable life for the past hundred years. Although it sounded unbelievable, its emotions were too rich, and the pain was almost overflowing. The little fox finally took a step back doubtfully, and asked Xuanwu to come out and have a good talk with it, which led to the previous scene.
"I swear I didn't lie to you!" The gluttonous Xuanwu looked at the undisguised suspicion on the furry face of the little fox in front of him, raised his face which was so dark that he couldn't see his expression at all, and said sincerely, "It really rained for a hundred years on the mountain where I live, and there is indeed a dead monster on the top of the mountain. His head is bigger than ten of me stacked together. It's scary..."
"It doesn't sound like you're lying to me - wait!" The little fox, who was almost led astray by him, came to his senses, "What does this have to do with you stealing my food!"
The dark Xuanwu explained in a low voice: "I ran too fast and I'm very hungry..."
Little Fox: “…”
"I don't care if you're starving or not, you have to return my prey anyway!" It said fiercely, "From today on, you have to give me the best piece of meat from the ten prey you catch, and the extra two pieces are interest!"
Xuanwu, who was shaped like an olive, nodded immediately: "I will definitely pay you back!"
"Well, let me tell you, when you catch something, give me the best meat, wrap it in leaves and put it in this cave."
The little fox was very good at grasping other people's emotions, and after calming down, it naturally did not think that Xuanwu was deceiving it. In view of Xuanwu's miserable condition, it decided to show mercy and spare the little snake in front of it, whose eyes were so dark that one could not see them, for a while.
Because the food was eaten by Xuanwu, the little fox was ready to go hunting for new food. Suddenly, he heard Xuanwu behind him calling him: "Um, do you have a photo stone?"
"Yes." The little fox asked doubtfully, "What do you want the shadow stone for?"
"I'll go back to that mountain and take a picture of what I saw to prove that I didn't lie!" Xuanwu jumped onto his turtle body with great effort and made a great determination, "I want to prove that I really didn't steal the food you stored on purpose!"
The little fox was actually a little frightened by the scene described by Xuanwu, so he was also full of curiosity. He squatted there and thought for a while, then dug out an oval photo stone from his tail hair: "Here you go."
After giving it to me, it threatened fiercely: "Don't even think about running away with my photo stone and my flesh. If I catch you, you'll be dead!"
"Yeah!" Xuanwu's snake head pointed out the afterimage, "The cubs don't lie to the cubs!"
After stuffing the photo stone into the turtle's body, it asked again: "What's your name?"
The little fox said coldly, "You will be qualified to know only if you bring back my photo stone and meat."
So, with a full belly and a newly acquired photo-taking stone, Xuanwu built up his courage and returned to the mountain that scared him so much that he kept climbing. Fearing that the crawling route would become waves, Xuanwu dragged his heavy body on the tip of his tail and returned to the top of the mountain in the pouring rain. After meeting the pair of huge and terrifying pale blue eyes, Xuanwu collapsed in front of the eyes.
Xuanwu: TAT
It’s really scary.
It lifted the photo stone with the tip of its tail trembling, recording the evidence it was going to show to the little fox. As it crawled in the heavy rain, it suddenly found that the rain had eased.
Is the rain going to stop?!
Xuanwu couldn't help but get excited. After all, this was the mountain where he had lived for a hundred years and he still had feelings for it. If the environment wasn't so harsh, he really wouldn't want to move away.
When recording the position of the giant monster's tail, Xuanwu suddenly felt the stone beneath him vibrate. He blinked in confusion and suddenly found that the stone on the top of the mountain was dancing - it didn't eat the mushrooms!
Xuanwu stared blankly for several seconds, and suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. It wasn't the rocks dancing, it was just a landslide... Landslide?!
Xuanwu opened his eyes wide, which were so dark that nothing could be seen, and with an "ah" he dropped the photo stone, then rolled and crawled into the turtle's body. Before it could make any further reactions, the entire mountain disintegrated and collapsed in an instant. The rain that had just subsided began to pour down again, and coupled with the rumbling of the landslide, it seemed as if it was going to destroy the world.
…
The little fox waited and waited, until his fourth tail was about to grow, but Xuanwu still didn't come back.
At first, the little fox thought that Xuanwu had taken its photo stone and ran away, but after a long time, it started to worry that Xuanwu might have encountered danger outside and was late.
After waiting for another seven sunsets, the little fox decided to look for it according to the direction described by Xuanwu. If there was a mountain where it rained continuously for a hundred years without stopping, it would definitely be very conspicuous.
The little fox dried the meat and put on a small bag. He followed Xuanwu's description and found the location he had described.
Nothing.
The little fox only saw endless hills, no dark clouds, no heavy rain, and certainly no mountain that Xuanwu had mentioned.
The little fox did not give up and searched again along the direction Xuanwu mentioned, but he still could not find the mountain he mentioned. He finally realized that he had been deceived! There was actually a cub who could deceive more than a fox! It was simply unreasonable!
Good intentions don't go well. The ferocious little fox burst into tears in anger. It firmly remembered this dark history and decided to close its heart and lock its love from now on and never trust anyone again.
The little fox ate the dried meat in his bag with tears in his eyes. After wiping his wet fur, he decided to leave this sad place.
After this incident, it made great progress. From then on, the little fox would fool others and no one would fool it.
When the sixth tail grew, the homeless little fox finally found a satisfactory habitat. There were gentle mountains, green grass, and a flowing stream. He walked along the stream until he reached the end of the stream. There was an extremely large tree at the end. The little fox looked up so high that he almost fell over, but he couldn't see the top of the tree.
The simple tradition in its mind told it that the tree in front of it was called a tea tree, but... could a tea tree grow so big?
The little fox was a little confused, but he was very satisfied with the tea tree because it was so magnificent.
It chose a location next to the tree trunk, attached spiritual power to its claws, dug a huge hole under the roots of the tree, then dug many large stones from the ground, ground them flat, and used them to pave the floor and inlay the walls. It also made itself a wooden door, and filled the gaps in the door with blooming flowers. The picked flowers would wither easily, so it would replace them with new ones every day.
After having a fixed residence, the little fox officially settled down here. After a while, it found that the branches of the tea trees were very strong, there was little dust and no insects could be seen.
小狐貍偶爾會用隐匿的陣法跑到人類居住的城池，去觀察人類怎麽種植物，很多東西它看得似懂非懂，但并不妨礙它自信滿滿，在意識到茶樹樹枝的特點後，小狐貍眼睛發亮———這不是現成的、曬糧食的地方嗎！
過去在大荒各處流浪，小狐貍每到秋天都會匆匆找到一個能暫時居住的洞穴，它會花一番功夫将洞穴打理幹淨，然後囤滿能吃到春暖花開的食物，等春日到來後，它就會離開洞穴，去往大荒其他地方。
這次終于找到了滿意的居所，小狐貍立刻按自己心裏的想法布置起來，它通過靈敏的身手捕了很多很多獵物，又将獵物片成肉條，抹上鹽巴後搭在茶樹的樹枝上曬幹。
它還在大茶樹不遠的地方開辟了一塊形狀不規則的田，因為不會用人類使用的犁，小狐貍選擇将自己變大，然後用四只爪子固定，六條尾巴翻土，一身白毛都變成了泥土色。
日子就在這樣重複又手忙腳亂的時間裏一天天過去，小狐貍片肉抹鹽巴曬肉條的技術越發熟練，但在種地上毫無寸功，努力了一整個秋天的小狐貍撓撓自己的腦袋，最終還是放棄了種田這件事。
第一片雪花落下的時候，小狐貍已經囤滿了兩個洞的糧食和半個洞的蔬菜加外加半個洞的果幹，洞穴的石板各處都塞着保暖的草，草上還鋪着花花綠綠的厚被子———這是小狐貍拿金礦裏刨出來的礦石石找人換的，它喜歡這個顏色，因為這個顏色襯得它的毛特別白。
小狐貍眯着眼睛抱着肉幹消磨時間，發出的笑聲像嬰兒的嬉笑，這是它自己造出的洞穴，它真的超級厲害！
一整個冬天過去後，小狐貍變成了小狐桶，看起來像圓柱體長了一個腦袋四條腿，外帶六條蓬松的大尾巴。
推開洞穴厚厚的門，小狐貍深吸一口還帶着涼意的空氣，決定去小溪裏抓魚吃，吃了一整個冬天的肉幹，雖然還有蔬菜和水果換換口味，它也有些吃膩了。
等它抓了一條一米多的魚，快樂地搖着尾巴拖回來時，它發現……它家沒了，只剩下了一個巨大的深坑。
小狐貍：“？？？”
它那麽氣派的一棵茶樹呢？！
它那麽四通八達像地宮一樣的家呢？！
它是不是冬天沒睡醒，還在做夢？
被“偷家”的小狐貍丢下嘴裏的魚，六條尾巴掄得像風火輪，火速趕到了坑邊，從坑邊探出頭，借着狐貍良好的視線，它看到坑裏盤腿坐着一個老好看的人，長得特別符合它的審美，但這都不是重點，重點是這個人的屁股底下那眼熟的石板———那是它洞穴的牆壁！
還有那塊石板的石板的石板的下面，壓着它今年冬天最喜歡的大綠花紅被子！！！
啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊———
小狐貍發出尖銳的慘叫，四只爪子一用力，用六條尾巴當降落傘跳到了坑裏，然後一個彈跳，直撲那罪魁禍首的面門，接着被罪魁禍首絲滑地抓在了手心。
四只爪子都在空氣中劃水的小狐貍：“……？”
“放我下來嗷嗷嗷嗷———”小狐貍尖叫，“你把我家拆了啊啊啊！！！”
它甚至在石板的空隙裏看到了它沾滿灰塵的肉幹———雖然它已經吃膩了，但這都是糧食啊，都是珍貴的糧食啊！
“先冷靜點。”小狐貍聽到罪魁禍首說，“我造成的損失，我一定賠。”
小狐貍胡亂掙紮的爪子停了停，很久很久以前的蒙塵記憶在此刻毫不留情地給了它一尾巴，封心鎖愛的小狐貍想起過去輕信于崽的黑歷史，只覺得天都塌了！
它不僅沒被安撫，反而更生氣了：“要不是我回來的及時，你肯定帶着我的糧食跑了！還有我最喜歡的那條大綠花紅被子，它那麽漂亮、那麽好看、那麽柔軟，你肯定也喜歡———”
順着小狐貍的爪子看到那條深埋在石板中的被子的罪魁禍首：“……”
雖然他現在腦子裏一片空白，但他覺得以他的審美，應該不會喜歡那麽鮮豔的大綠花紅被子。
小狐貍氣得肚子一鼓一鼓的，它這才發現面前的人能很輕易地制服它，它可能、大概、絕對打不過面前的罪魁禍首。
小狐貍覺得天塌的更厲害了，甚至要下一場暴雨。
腦瓜子滴溜滴溜立刻轉了好幾圈的小狐貍瞬間收斂了張牙舞爪的姿态，它眼裏含着一包熱淚，可憐兮兮地問：“你說要賠我的損失，是真的嗎？你是不是故意騙幼崽，要看我笑話呀？”
小狐貍的顏值相當能打，冬天的長膘只讓它看起來更加憨态可掬，一路風塵仆仆地炸毛過來，讓它看起來更蓬松了。
它看到罪魁禍首的表情變得認真：“你統計一下損失，我賠給你。”
小狐貍等的就是這句話，它左右扭了扭身體，發現面前的人并沒有禁锢它，它蹦到廢墟上，看到一片狼藉後，兩條尾巴一左一右地繞過來捂住了它的眼睛。
有的肉幹洗洗還能吃，有的肉幹已經砸成稀巴爛了。
小狐貍借着尾巴的遮擋，悄悄去瞄罪魁禍首，它在腦海裏過了一下它剩下的肉幹儲量後，小心翼翼但狐貍大開口道：“我沒了兩百多根肉幹，你賠我兩百根就好……”
狐狐的數算一道學得不好，也就是不小心翻了個四五倍的樣子啦～
它看到它說完後，旁邊罪魁禍首笑了一下，像是冷笑。
小狐貍：“……？”
還沒等它反省是不是數量報多了，它就感覺自己的後頸皮被拎了起來，被它看上的“冤大頭”一揮手，所有的石板都飛出了坑洞，露出了它的大綠花紅被子，髒兮兮的肉幹與些許零散的果幹。
小狐貍捕捉到了靈力的流動，坑洞底下的肉幹飛起來，在它面前排成幾排，就算把斷裂的部分都單獨算着一根，整體也不超過六十根。
訛詐沒訛成的小狐貍尴尬地夾緊了尾巴：“你知道的，我從小就沒了阿娘……”
拎着它的罪魁禍首明顯不吃這一套：“異獸天生地養，你是說天道沒了？還是大荒沒了？”
小狐貍破罐子破摔：“我數算學的不好，行了吧！”
“嗚嗚嗚嗚———”它假意抹着眼淚，“都不允許這個世界上存在笨笨的幼崽嗎？”
小狐貍眼前一花，坑裏的人就帶着它離開了坑洞，拎着它的人将它放在了一塊幹淨的石板上，然後盯着它不說話。
小狐貍用六條尾巴将自己裹成了個球，只露出一雙極漂亮的眼睛，它小聲說：“要不、要不你就把就把砸爛的賠給我好了……”
狐狐的心在滴血！
它發誓！等它能化成人形後，它一定會找面前這個人算賬的！
它是一只超級記仇的漂亮狐貍！
在令狐窒息的沉默裏，小狐貍眨了一下眼睛，聲音更弱了：“要不你別賠了？今天我就當沒看見？”
這個罪魁禍首總不至于在毀了它的家後還打算殺崽滅口吧？！
聰明的狐狐腦瓜裏冒出的想法一個比一個可怕，在它尾巴蓄力都準備逃跑的時候，它忽然看見面前的人拍了拍自己的腦袋，臉上痛苦茫然的神色一閃而過，然後他晃了晃，竟然倒在了小狐貍面前。
小狐貍的六條尾巴都炸開了！
因為驚吓它愈發蓬松，小狐貍先是跑過去試了試面前倒下的人的鼻息，在發現有氣後，它才緩了緩砰砰亂跳的心髒。
怎麽還有異獸不講理地反向訛詐！
嗚嗚嗚誰來救救它QAQ！
傻了眼的小狐貍只能挑了幾塊石板拼好，然後變大将人叼到石板上放着，接着去周圍掰了一些木材用靈力烘幹點燃成為火堆，接着架上挖掉內髒簡單刮鱗的魚。
莫名其妙忙起來的小狐貍在忙完後坐在堆疊起來的石板上，陷入了沉思。
這人都把它家毀了，它怎麽還為他忙前忙後？它不應該心狠手辣斬草除根趕盡殺絕除惡務盡嗎？
小狐貍用它聰明的腦瓜兒想了好一陣子，才得出了結論———
這人先毀了它的家，然後又被它救了，它不就可以順理成章挾恩圖報……呸呸呸，順理成章讓這人知恩圖報，還它六百根肉幹嗎！
诶嘿！它真是大荒絕無僅有的聰明！
聰明的小狐貍沉浸在美好的幻想裏，忽然聞到了一股糊味，像是什麽燒焦了的氣息。
它将目光鎖定了來源，臉上的表情在火光中變得驚恐———燒焦的不是別的，而是它架在火上的大肥魚！
整條魚都燒起來了！冒着熊熊的火光！
“嗷啊！”
小狐貍發出一聲驚恐的尖叫，它沖上去将大肥魚從火堆上踹下來，穿着魚的木棍在天空中劃過優美的弧度，徑直插入了泥土中，還冒着黑色的煙氣兒。
The little fox opened its claws and poked the smoking fish with its sharp claws. A piece of black fish meat fell off the fish. It couldn't tell whether it was fish or charcoal. It took a tentative bite, and the expression on its face was distorted as if it was crazy.
It tastes terrible! It has never eaten anything so horrible!
The little fox glanced furtively at the unconscious person on the stone slab. It is said that unconscious people need to replenish their energy, otherwise... give this person the grilled fish it carefully prepared?
Ah~ It is such a kind little fox!
The little fox did as he said. He rolled up the charcoal-black grilled fish with his tail. But just as the grilled fish reached the unconscious man's cheek, the man's eyelashes trembled and he slowly opened his eyes.
The dark roasted fish was reflected in his eyes, so the first words he said when he woke up were—
"Because I didn't compensate you in time, you plan to poison me?"
Little Fox: “???”
"How dare you slander me!" It bared its teeth that were blackened by the grilled fish. "This is the delicious grilled fish I made with great care!"
"I don't believe it." The man who was almost fed the burnt fish by him said calmly, "Your mouth is smoking."
The little fox was so angry that he threw the grilled fish into his face and said, "That's not smoke, that's fragrance!!!"
…
An hour later, the little fox held the newly acquired grilled fish in its paws and took a bite. It had to admit that what it had said before, "delicious grilled fish", was a little exaggerated.
"Ahem." The little fox cleared his throat. "This grilled fish can't compensate for my losses. It's just interest at best."
"Tell me—" the hungry little fox took a big bite of the grilled fish and asked in a slightly unclear voice, "What's your name?"
Previously, it was because it forgot to ask the name that it couldn't find the little black snake with a big black shell after searching for so long in the wilderness. It remembered this lesson well.
"My...name?"
The person being questioned was a little dazed, with bits and pieces of memories coming to his mind, but most of them were knowledge and common sense.
He vaguely realized that his previous consciousness must have been seriously injured. Now the injury has healed, but the lost memory cannot be restored immediately, and will probably be remembered slowly.
The little fox didn't know what the question was. He nodded as a matter of course: "Of course I'm asking for your name. What's your name?"
You can't just feed him back and forth, that's a bit rude.
Fragmented memories floated in his mind. He thought about it and decided to give himself a name on the spot.
"You can call me Jiamuying."
"Jiamu...Ying?" The little fox repeated blankly, then laughed out loud while holding the grilled fish, "Hahahahaha you are too narcissistic!"
Even if it knew it was the smartest fox in the world, it wouldn't be so shameless as to praise itself!
It looks like the person in front of me is a transformed alien, a transformed... alien? !
The little fox looked at the face in front of him that met his aesthetic standards, and then looked at the super deep pit not far away: "Don't tell me that you are the big tea tree?!"
The person in front of him nodded his head, wondering why it asked that question.
Little Fox: “…”
The little fox gnashed his teeth and said, "Why call me Jiamuying? I'll just call you Big Tea Tree!"
Damn it! If the tree had known it would transform so soon, it wouldn't have dug a hole there!