Neighbors in forbidden land

"It turns out that it also eats fish..." Wu Shao, who was sitting by the fire, held the grilled fish that had been skewered with twigs, but didn't move his mouth. He just peeked at Little Goo writhing in the sea in surprise, " Is one enough..."

"It should be enough..." Because I didn't see that Xiao Gu had any problems because of what he ate.

Behemoth feeds on mountains, but what about Leviathan?

I don't know much about this, but I think if Xiaogu needs to eat, she can definitely get it by her own strength.

After all, if I remember correctly, she should be the most powerful monster in this vast ocean.

As for why Xiaogu eats grilled fish and potatoes...

I don't know, it feels like it has become normal for Xiaogu to eat with us before we know it.

"Does such a big body only need to eat so little..." I felt that tiny beads of sweat were oozing from Wu Shao's forehead, but it didn't seem to be because of the burning flames in front of my eyes.

Waves of waves set off by Little Goo washed the beach, and occasionally, drops of sea water would fly directly to us.

Although we can get used to it, Wu Shao seems to move his body a little further away every time some sea water splashes towards us.

I looked at Yimi who had been silent since just now, only to find that she was just biting the grilled fish in her hand very seriously, and didn't say anything else.

I looked at the fish grilled by the dancing spoon in my hand. Compared with the fish grilled by Yimi, it was not so much burnt black, but more of a faint burnt yellow.

"How is it? Does it still suit His Royal Highness Yimi's taste?" Wu Shao, who finally took his eyes off Xiao Gu who was constantly tossing with grilled fish in the sea, asked this question as if he had made up his mind.

"It's not bad..." After Yimi simply replied this sentence, she paused for a while.

"Xiao Hei, why don't you try it too?" Yimi said, first she was going to hand the grilled fish that she had bitten off in front of me, then quickly shook her head, took back the skewer of grilled fish, and put the grilled fish again An uneaten grilled fish stuck in the sand with a tree branch was handed to my mouth, and I said, "Open your mouth, ah~"

So I also involuntarily said "Ah~", opened my mouth slightly and took a small bite of the grilled fish.

Don't open your mouth too wide when eating, this is one of the etiquettes Yimi taught me.

When the fish slides into the mouth and is gently torn apart with the teeth, there is indeed a different feeling that spreads in the mouth, and finally slides into the stomach slowly.

It is indeed different from the fish grilled by Yimi.

"How does Sister Black Pearl feel?"

If the grilled fish made by Yimi seems to have gnawed off rocks, then the grilled fish made by Wu Shao seems to have swallowed sand?

I don't know how to describe it, but that's probably how it feels.

"It's like sand, right?"

"What?" Wu Shao stared at me with wide black eyes as if he couldn't believe what I said. "Hmm... don't be surprised..." Yimi, who was gnawing on the grilled fish seriously, raised her head slightly and asked casually, "Xiao Hei, what does my grilled fish taste like?"

"Hmm... like gnawing on a rock?"

"Huh?" As a result, Wu Shao reacted more strongly to my words than Yimi, and even opened his mouth wide this time.

"Hmm... so... is it delicious?" As a result, Yimi didn't care about Wu Shao's reaction, and just asked indifferently.

What kind of feeling is "delicious"?

It may take me a long time to understand what this word actually means.

However, the answer to this question seems to be on the lips.

"Delicious." I nodded slightly.

"Then what about the ones baked with dancing spoons?"

"It's delicious too."

"..."

So Yimi smiled lightly and brought the grilled fish back to my mouth, and said softly: "If you want to think about Xiao Hei's way of thinking and language according to normal logic, you will probably have a hard time."

"..." Wu Shao didn't say anything, just looked at Yimi and me with a dumbfounded expression.

"Hmph, although your grilled fish is pretty good, you still don't know Xiao Hei well enough." Yimi snorted softly, with a little pride in her tone.

I lightly took a bite of the grilled fish, feeling the strange taste spread in my mouth.

Then I looked at Yimi who was smiling and handing the grilled fish to my mouth, and Wushao who was already in a daze.

Perhaps, regardless of taste or emotion, it will take me a long time to understand.

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After we finished our meal, we returned to the cave together.

"So... Your Highness Yimi, you just buried the potatoes directly before, didn't you?"

In the cave with insufficient light, Wu Shao, who was squatting on the ground, was weighing the few potatoes left with his hands, and slowly turned his head and asked.

"What's the matter...isn't this okay?" Yimi was standing beside me and asked resentfully.

"It's not impossible..." Wu Shao sighed softly, stood up holding a potato, and faced Yimi and me, "It's just that it would be a waste."

"Waste?" Yimi asked in confusion.

"Well, look, Your Highness Yimi—sister Black Pearl, let's take a look." Wu Shao handed the potato to my eyes, and then pointed to some recesses on it with his finger, but there seemed to be something popping out, " Like this kind of buds, or the parts that can grow buds, you can cut out an appropriate piece and plant it, and that’s it.”

"This is possible too……"

If what Yimi said was already difficult, then what Wu Shao said was even more difficult.

"It means that one potato can be grown into several crops?" Yimi frowned slightly, but seemed to understand Wu Shao's meaning. "That's right, it can be roughly understood in this way. This is one point." Wu Shao smiled lightly, but the smile faded away quickly, "Then there is the issue of land. This saline-alkali land is really troublesome. There are also saline-alkali lands in the country. , Our solution is to plant crops that are not afraid of saline-alkaline terrain, or crops that can improve saline-alkali soil, and we also ask alchemists to concoct medicines that can neutralize saline-alkali..."

What is this all about?

I looked at Yimi in confusion, and found that Yimi also had a serious expression.

"But none of the methods you mentioned here..."

"That's right... so we can only use the most primitive and inefficient method... that is to use a lot of water to irrigate the land to improve it as much as possible."

"Sea water?" I tried to ask.

"Xiao Hei, you really don't think there are enough problems in this place..." In the end, it seemed that he said the wrong thing again.

"But I see that Your Highness Yimi, you seem to have dug out fresh water...it's really powerful..." Wu Shao glanced at the winding river outside the cave. to river ditches everywhere, but these are just for the convenience of Yimi.

"There seems to be room for a solution to this problem..." Yimi rubbed her temples as she spoke, and sighed softly, "What about the other problems?"

"There is also fertilization... Your Highness Yimi, do you only use water..."

"Isn't it enough to just water it?"

"Although potatoes are indeed a kind of crop that can be easily grown... But if you really want to get better results, Your Highness Yimi, fertilizer is a must. However, this is a saline-alkali land, and it is the easiest to make. The plant ash will only completely destroy this land..."

"..."

What are these?Why don't you seem to understand?

"..."

I found that Yimi was also silent, but I felt that Yimi's silence and my silence didn't seem to have the same meaning.

"There are other questions..." Wu Shao sighed heavily, then turned around and looked at the sky outside the cave.

"Although I can see the hard work of His Royal Highness Yimi and Sister Black Pearl from the pile of rocks... but have those things played the role you want?"

Wu Shao's words reminded me of the heavy rain before.

In the heavy rain that covered the sky and the night, I kept trying to get out the water that overflowed into the field from the cracks in the rocks until the end of the rain.

"No..." Yimi probably thought of the same thing, and even lowered her voice a little.

"I guess the climate here will not be much better than the climate outside the barrier, unless the magic barrier can be deployed, or a protective building that can withstand this harsh climate can be built, otherwise, even potatoes that are represented by high yields crops are also difficult to survive.”

Wu Shao's face no longer had the previous smile, and her silent black eyes were conveying a fact to us.

A fact that perhaps we have never thought about. "His Royal Highness Yimi, this is very difficult. In this forbidden land, in the absence of various prerequisites, there are only a few potatoes to cultivate. It is really difficult."

I know.

Those plants on the barren land lost their original colors, and they could only survive in such a difficult way.

Then these alien lives will only be buried by the wind carrying sand and dust after all.

"And..." Wu Shao turned around, lowered his head and slightly turned his face away, "I... can't help His Highness Yimi and Sister Black Pearl for too much time..."

I remember Wu Shao said that she just came to check the situation in the forbidden land.

I looked at Yimi who had been silent since just now.

"I'm sorry..." Wu Shao lowered his face a little lower and apologized to us.

"Why do you have to apologize?" Yimi suddenly said, "You didn't do anything wrong."

"I..." Wu Shao raised his face and smiled wryly, "It's just..."

"You still owe us potatoes."

"In that case—"

"Tell me the method." Yimi just interrupted Wu Shao lightly.

"Huh?" Wu Shao was surprised, and her forehead trembled slightly because of her shaking.

"Tell me about the method of making fertilizer, plant ash, and other things that need attention." Yimi stretched out her hand to Wu Shao, "You don't have much time, but we do."

"..." Wu Shao fell silent, but Yimi continued to speak.

"I never thought that I could survive." Yimi showed a wry smile, "We call this a forbidden place because the environment is harsh and disasters are here, so this is not a place where human beings can live .”

"..."

"I came here because of my eyes, but it's not because of my eyes that I can survive."

Yimi raised her hand and placed it gently on my head, a familiar feeling spread to my hair through Yimi's weak palm.

"It's because I met Xiao Hei and Xiao Gu, so I survived."

Yimi rubbed my hair gently, and I moved a little closer to Yimi.

Yimi turned her head to Wu Shao, showing a slight smile.

"So, with them by their side, is there anything more difficult than surviving?"

"..."

After a brief silence.

"I understand." Wu Shao also smiled back at Yimi, "You really deserve to be Your Highness Yimi."

Looking at Yimi's smiling side face, I felt that something was different.

The day she first came here, she was afraid of everything, afraid of this strange world, afraid of whose life would be taken away by those magic eyes.

Every step is so careful, every movement is so fragile, every sigh is so heavy, every sadness is so helpless.

It seemed that rivers of sorrow and pain ran by her side without stopping.

Only occasional smiles, like sunshine in the sky.How many things have changed in this world.

The wind is mixed with dust, like a heavy sigh.

The sea is calm, like a lonely silence.

The land is full of barrenness, like the disappearing seasons.

Only the blue sky like Yimi's eyes, the long hair like the sunshine reflecting the blue sky, and the smile like the eternal time, without any change.

"I'll be with Yimi."

After I said this sentence, Wu Shao was slightly taken aback, then turned his head and smiled at me:

"Then you should stay with His Royal Highness Yimi well. The task is arduous."

"What's so difficult...it seems like I'm useless" said Yimi who was beside her very unhappy.

"Of course I'm not referring to this..." Wu Shao's current smile seemed to be a wry smile, but I'm not sure, "Your road will be very difficult."

"I know, there's no need to repeat it."

"It's not about this..." Wu Shao's smile seemed a little strange, like a kind of helplessness.

"Huh?" I tried to ask.

"It's nothing, Your Highness Yimi, don't you want to know that knowledge? Can you remember it if I dictate it directly?" But Wu Shao didn't answer, but returned to his normal smile and talked with Yimi about the things I couldn't hear before. understand things.

"Don't underestimate me, I can remember it with my head at this level."

Later, after Yimi wrote down what Wu Shao said, we walked around with Wu Shao in order for her to collect information related to this land.

So I came under the mountain where I used to keep my diary.

"Is this the Forbidden Stone Dome... The title 'Gate of the Forbidden Land' is really not a legend. It is a completely different concept when you see it on a boat and here... It is so high..." Raised his head and looked at almost Wu Shao, who couldn't reach the top and looked up, said with emotion.

It turns out that humans still gave this mountain a name like this... I chose this mountain to keep my diary because it is the only mountain that is the tallest.

"There's such a thing here...I don't know that I walk here every day..." Yimi also supported the mountain wall with her hand and said with emotion.

"There are really special symbols on it... As expected, the rumors are all true...Unfortunately, I can't understand... Could it really record the world that has passed away as it says?"

No, no, this is just a diary...

"I want to see it too..." Yimi also continued to stroke the rough mountain wall with her fingers, and raised her head slightly.

Although I don't mind...

But ah.

Isn't the diary not allowed to be read by others...

What is this indescribable feeling that arises when others stare at the diary?

Do not understand……