Chapter 52 Embrace
Gu Qingqing remained unmoved after listening.
After Adu finished tidying up and left, she didn't argue with Ji Rong. Instead, she patted the cushion beneath her and said, "Go wipe your mouth and warm the cushion. I'll tell you all about what's happened these past few years."
"These past few years? I've actually slept for several years!" Ji Rong immediately grabbed a handful of dry grass to wipe her mouth, then rushed to the mat and nestled down.
Gu Qingqing leaned between Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang, and a genuine sense of comfort instantly swept over her.
She whispered the question that had been buried in her heart for many years, saying, "Back then, the Flood Dragon Demon Emperor shrank and flew into your body without leaving anything behind. Could it be that Wu Buyu was like that back then?"
Ji Rong nodded.
"Phew," Gu Qingqing let out a long breath and said, "You really are a monster, and so am I, haha."
Ji Rong: "...".
Gu Qingqing's dejected expression made Ji Rong want to stick a small stick into her mouth, but Ji Rong didn't have a small stick;
So she cleverly pulled out a relatively hard piece of grass and stuffed it into Gu Qingqing's mouth.
Gu Qingqing's sorrow was instantly interrupted, and she angrily said, "Ji Rong, how dare you make me eat grass!"
Ji Rong calmly said, "Don't move, keep it in your mouth, it makes you look more classy."
"Monster or not, we're lucky to be alive. That guy named Adu seemed like a monster today."
Then she plucked a blade of grass, put it in her mouth, and chewed it, saying, "Try chewing it like this, it's quite invigorating."
Listening to Ji Rong's words, Gu Qingqing felt inexplicably relaxed. While chewing on the tasteless dry grass, she pried open Ji Zhuang's mouth and put a piece of grass in it as well.
She turned Ji Zhuang's head back and continued, "That day you looked like you were about to burst, with blood gushing from the holes all over your body."
Your brother and I were frantic, and then I barely managed to cast the "Illusionary Shadow Technique"; while your brother…
She paused for a moment, then pointed her claws at Ji Rong and said, "He pecked open the back of your neck and sucked your blood like a madman. If I hadn't seen you stabilize yourself and pulled him away with your tail, you might have been sucked to death."
After saying that, she shook her head and said, "Not necessarily. Maybe he'll drain you dry and you'll just grow there."
Ji Rong touched the back of her neck and indeed found a deep indentation under the feathers.
"Then the lightning struck. It was the first time I had ever seen the Demon Queen die, and the first time I had ever seen so much lightning and wind. Perhaps it was because she was a dragon and died at sea."
"Your brother is still not in his right mind after I pulled him away, and he even bit off the tip of my tail!" As she spoke, she pulled out the bitten tail to show Ji Rong, and then, still not satisfied, lashed out at Ji Zhuang.
“There was lightning everywhere on the reef island, so we couldn’t stay. I used my wounded tail to wrap around you, and my two tails strangled your brother’s neck. I don’t know how many days we flew at sea, but we managed to drive him here.”
“I fainted as soon as I got to the island. When I woke up, Adu was taking care of me.”
"And now, more than five years have passed since I woke up." Gu Qingqing buried her raised head under Ji Rong's wings, and Ji Rong cooperated by slightly spreading her wings to encircle Gu Qingqing's head.
A muffled sound came from within his body.
“But your brother still hasn’t woken up. Many times in my dreams I can see you and hear your voices; but when I turn around to look for you, you two are always lying in the same spot, not moving at all.”
Ji Rong tightened her wings, and the two of them huddled close together, remaining silent for a long time.
The warm atmosphere flowed by, but Ji Rong always felt something was off.
Just now, Gu Qingqing slapped her brother Ji Zhuang, and it sounded like she was used to it. Ji Rong touched her swollen face and remembered that when she woke up, she saw Gu Qingqing slapping herself. She was suspicious and said through gritted teeth, "Fox, do you often slap us?"
Gu Qingqing was shocked to hear this. How did this brat know?!
She couldn't help but raise her voice, her four tails bristling high, and said, "No way! I only slap myself when I see you in my dreams, and I always slap myself, it's perfectly fair."
"Then you can't slap me in the face." Ji Rong touched her face and said dejectedly, "You slapped my face so hard it's swollen."
Upon hearing this, Gu Qingqing's confidence surged, and she exclaimed, "You got fat from eating too much! Do you know how skinny you were back then? See that patch? You were that skinny."
She took out the storage ring from her mouth, held it in front of Ji Rong's face, and said, "See? In these five years, you two have eaten it all up. If you don't wake up soon, I'll have to find a way to take you two outside to eat the fierce winds again."
Seeing Ji Rong shrink back when she heard the words "eaten out of house and home," she felt a sense of satisfaction and couldn't help but think, "Hmph, you've finally met your match. Back when I was unconscious, you and your brother kept saying I ate you out of house and home. Now we're even."
But she couldn't bring herself to say it, because many of the spiritual herbs that were eaten were legacies left by Wu Buyu to the chicks.
Upon hearing the words "eaten up," Ji Rong immediately curled up into a ball, as if those words were a long string of thunderclaps exploding in her ears.
Her mind was occupied by the words "poverty, wretch, beggar" for several breaths.
She felt extremely sad. She would fall asleep when she had money, only to wake up penniless. She never knew when she had a chance to enjoy herself. She was truly living a life of poverty.
Ji Rong, with a tragic resolve, wanted to return to her old ways, but suddenly sensed something was wrong with the air, something very wrong. She exclaimed, "Sister Gu, why is there no spiritual energy here? Are we in the mortal realm now? But the mortal realm shouldn't be completely devoid of spiritual energy!"
The tiny spiritual veins beneath his feet were weak and trembling, as if they were crying out for food.
"I thought you wouldn't notice until tomorrow," Gu Qingqing said weakly. "This place is still in the desolate sea, yet it's even worse than the mortal world."
After speaking, she told Ji Rong about the love and hatred between the Witch Clan and the Witch Demon Clan that she had heard over the years.
After hearing this, Ji Rong felt that the world had become much wider. Although she was born in the Danxue Mountains, her mother, Ji Er, did not know much about it, and the creatures around her never talked about it.
Hearing such a sensational topic as the origin of the world for the first time, Ji Rong loved it, but her concern was rather disgusting. She asked, "After the First Ancestor Goddess died, did the various parts of her body transform into myriad races and gods?"
She leaned close to Gu Qingqing's ear, squinted her eyes, and said mysteriously, "Shouldn't it be that after the Mother Goddess died, maggots grew on her body, and then the maggots differentiated into different races?"
Those who eat more are stronger, and those who eat less are weaker. Now that the Mother Goddess has been eaten, they've started eating each other. After saying this, he himself felt disgusted.
Gu Qingqing felt disgusted at first, but upon reflection, she found it made sense. She clapped her hands and said, "No one has ever seen what it used to be like. Maybe an ancient god like the Golden Mother knows, but she won't tell."
Haha, maybe it's just as you said.
She leaned close to Ji Rong's ear and whispered, "Back when I was in the Fire Fox Clan, this is what the elders said..."
"...Hahaha..., is this Ancestral Witch insane? How could she come up with such a self-destructive, altruistic idea?"
"...Waaaaah...I'm afraid you'll disappear if I go out..."
Laughter and sobbing echoed throughout the large cave, and no one slept all night.
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