Hotel on the mountain

The Xingdeng River was a river that flowed into the sea. In order to respect the territory of the emperor Xingdeng, Yetro specially named this river like this.

The moon is half-curved, and the light shines through the branches, outlining the outline of Yetro on the riverside. He put his hands in his pockets and kicked the sleeping weeds under his feet. He couldn't help but think of the conversation he had with Emperor Xinglan by the river more than ten days ago.

…

"Lantern, are you there?"

"you say."

"I beg you to do me a small favor. I need you to help me control some little fish and let them die under the butcher's knives of some people I brought."

"No problem, don't we do this all the time? I don't have to worry about the mating issues of the tribe members now. They can give birth to whatever they want. Each female fish will give birth to hundreds of fish eggs every once in a while. ——They won’t mind. To be honest, this period of time has been the most comfortable for me in hundreds of years. I don’t have to worry about being full of clan members and attracting sea dragons. It’s really wonderful. "

"Xing Deng, what I have to ask for next will not be so wonderful."

"Um?"

"I have a guest here, and he brought a ship of his own, which makes me very worried. If necessary, I may need you to go into the sea to help me destroy the ship."

"You humans just love to joke around. Why don't we fish have the gift of humor you do?"

"I am serious."

"I'm serious too! I cooperate with you! Just because you can help me solve the problem of not having to enter the sea! But now you tell me! You want me to enter the sea?! Jetro, have you forgotten our contract?"

"Xing Deng, have you ever thought about how you will survive the rest of the day if I am forced to leave here one day? As long as the volcano in the west does not erupt, you will face the threat of sea dragon sooner or later."

Emperor Xingdeng remained silent.

"Xing Deng, do you want to be trapped in this river for the rest of your life? I think that if the Creator allowed you to be born here, he would never fail to give you a way out alive."

"Then where is the way to survive into the sea? Once we enter the sea - just like you men will get excited when you smell a woman's perfume with your eyes closed - the sea dragons will immediately migrate here, give birth to their offspring, and eat us up."

"I will deal with the sea dragon, kill it, or enslave it."

"Prove to me that you have this ability."

"Please allow me to introduce you to our neighbor from the Marginal Forest - the Black Eclipse Dragon. It seems to be still a child, so we can't talk to it."

"Well...yes...it is indeed still a doll...get out of here and take your tongue and paws away! I am not an ordinary fish! You are not a cat either! Oh! Don't touch my crown! This is not a light spot! Little one!" Black Eclipse, go away! Go to your mother - Jetro, can you let it loose its mouth from my fin? Or I will be rude to it."

"Of course... you understand, right? The children of Black Eclipse Dragon and Hai Long are both young ancient dragons. Since I can deal with it, I can also deal with Hai Long's children."

"Well, ancient dragons, that's what you humans call them - possessing the power of nature and living as long as nature. Yetro, if the little sea dragon is born here, you can't kill it, you can only enslave it or control it , because there must be a sea dragon moving in this sea area - you must subdue it like this little black eclipse, if you can do it, I will help you. "

"Xing Deng, you are betting on the fate of your tribe, and I, Jetro, am not the kind of person who likes to make fun of life."

"So the deal is done?"

"Deal done."

…

The midnight cold wind was slowly approaching. It is not warm by the river, but in April, there are also the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects echoing in this area. Jetro kicked the small pebbles by the river and watched them fall into the water one by one and create small ripples. Mengzhi stood not far behind Yetro and communicated with his consciousness: "You have something on your mind."

"Well, I'm waiting for the emperor's walking lantern."

"No, you were thinking about her."

"I didn't." Jetro replied casually.

"I haven't said who it is yet."

Jetro was a little embarrassed. He looked back at Meng Zhi, whose eyes were empty and mechanical, and responded with a smile: "I don't know, I obviously have no intention of pursuing Selena, but the sudden rejection still made me sad. I really care."

"So you took a lot of your anger out on Orhan."

"You can't say that. Orhan himself makes me angry."

"You've scared the shit out of him."

"He asked for it." Jetro spoke quickly, then slowed down, "I don't want to talk about them anymore."

"good."

Only the wind was blowing by the river, making people's faces feel cold and dissipating some of the unhappiness in their hearts. Jetro quietly found a white bead from inside his clothes. Its whiteness is not simply pearly white, but the kind that in the dark, you look at it as if you are looking at the bottom of a clear spring; in the sun, you look at it as if you are looking up at the brilliance of the sun.

It is ethereal, as if waves of water are gestating in the body, quiet and peaceful - but it is no longer perfect at this time, because an ugly red line passes through the two holes punched out of it - these two holes, also, Not symmetrical.

Jetro twisted his feet and turned around slowly, stretched out his hand holding the pearl, and said consciously: "Here you go."

Mengzhi's eyes blinked.

"It's ugly."

"I know! Originally, I planned to ask Simba to make it into a necklace for me, but I think it should be quite simple. So... you can see if it is suitable as your bracelet."

"I'm not human, I don't need jewelry."

"Oh..." Jetro's expression was a little gloomy. He turned his face away and continued to stare at the river in a daze, thinking hard in his heart why the emperor's lantern hadn't come yet? !

Suddenly, a colder hand pulled one end of the white pearl bracelet and pulled it away with a little force.

Jetro turned around and saw that Meng Zhi mechanically put the white pearl bracelet on her wrist, stiffly raised her wrist and turned it twice to show Jetro.

“But I would like to try to learn about human emotions, and wearing jewelry would be a good place to start.”

Jetro's eyebrows relaxed, and the corners of his mouth naturally turned up, revealing his white teeth. But he ignored the surrounding scene as if nothing had happened, covering his expression in an instant.

At this time, there was a "plop" sound in the river, and a black shadow was thrown out of the water and landed on the bank - it was a pool of gastric juice, a person and the glowing fragments of the portal. In the river, a giant black lantern fish opened its mouth and coughed a few times, patted its belly uncomfortably, lowered its head and jumped into the water, took a few sips of water, then swung its tail and slipped away.

The red skin and wise eyes of the emperor's walking lantern emerged from the water, glanced at the two people on the shore, and said: "We walking lantern fish are not used to spitting out what we eat. Generally, we choose to use excrement. Way. But I think that picture may not apply to your current situation."

"Thank you!" Yetro shouted, walked closer to the man who stole the portal fragments, stretched out his hand to check his breathing, and found that he was still breathing. So he ignored him and turned to Emperor Xingdeng and said, "How long will it take for Hai Long to come?"

"I don't know, maybe a day, maybe a year, depending on where the nearest sea dragon is. But I know we have to be ready at all times."

"Yes, we will do it." Jetro felt the vividly rotating spiritual energy in his conscious world and gave an affirmative answer.