Neighbors in forbidden land

"It's been a while since it rained..."

Hearing the sound of the pattering rain outside the cave becoming more and more intensive, Yimi frowned slightly and sighed softly.

"It's been a lot of days..." I remember that it's been sunny recently.

After a while, the rain fell along the entrance of the cave, and the rain curtain covering the sky blocked the sight of looking into the distance, leaving only a gray area.

"It's rain!"

Xiao Gu, who was too excited to see the rain, was about to climb out of the cave, but Yimi clasped his shoulders with both hands: "Don't go out, you will get sick if you get wet in the rain."

Speaking of which, Xiao Gu has learned to crawl recently... Although every time she gets covered in mud or dust, fortunately, Xiao Gu can wash her body clean just by jumping into the sea. It is because it is a monster of the sea. what.

However, although Xiao Gu often made some actions that even I couldn't understand, in general she still listened to Yimi's words, otherwise she would not be able to stop her going out with Yimi's strength.

"Illness... this is something only humans have..." Lan Xue, who was sitting casually by the side, bent one leg, leaned her back against the cave wall, and looked at us lazily, "If this ancient It would be too ridiculous for loaches to get sick from the rain."

"You are the ancient loach!" Saying that, Xiao Gu leaped towards Lan Xue and rolled into a ball in the cave.

"Aren't you just a loach!"

"I'm not a loach!"

Watching the two of them rolling around in the cave holding each other, I didn't know what to do for a while.

"Do you want to stop them?"

"If they can make trouble, let's make trouble for a while. Anyway, there's nothing to do now, right?"

After Yimi answered my question briefly, facing the heavy rain outside the cave, she exhaled lightly: "It's just a matter of taking a bath again in a while."

Fortunately, the cave in the stronghold was big enough for them to roll around casually. After several times of strong winds and heavy rains, it also proved that this cave was much stronger than the previous cave that collapsed in the rainstorm.

I looked beyond Xiao Gu and Lan Xue who were hugging and rolling on the ground, and looked at the wooden boxes in the deepest part of the dark cave.

That's what we brought down from that wreck, a box of green apples, a box of potatoes, a box of clothes, and a box of sundry tools.

I was going to search today, but I gave up because it was raining, and Lan Xue stayed with us for some reason.

"If I knew it, I would have collected some plants first... It rained during the day and it was colder than usual..." Yimi shrank slightly, wrapping her hands around her body.

"Don't look at me, I didn't do anything!" shouted Lan Xue, who rolled past us, and then rolled to the other side with Xiao Gu.

I got closer to Yimi, and then slowly spread my wings to block Yimi.

I don't know if this can be useful. Every time I come to this kind of time, I am always powerless.

Being able to remember to light a fire at night, but forgetting to light a fire when it rains because it hasn't rained in a while.

So Yimi reached out and hugged me, pulled me into her arms, and pressed her body against mine tightly.

"Yimi?"

"Phew... It's really warmer like this." Although Yimi has always closed her eyes, how can I put it... At this time, I feel that she really "closed her eyes".

I don't know why I feel this way, as if I can feel her calm mood through her relaxed body at the moment.

"We're coming too!"

As a result, as Xiao Gu yelled, he felt something hit his back. The next moment, Xiao Gu pulled Lan Xue and hugged us from behind.

"Little, little goo?" Yimi, who was a little taken aback, was wrapped around the neck by one hand of little goo, while Lan Xue was caught by the other shoulder of little goo and bumped into Yimi.

"Why do I want to come too!" Although Lan Xue protested, she didn't show any obvious struggle.

"Didn't you say it's warmer like this! I think so too! So let's warm up together!"

"Why do you, an ancient loach, always come up with weird things..." Although Lan Xue still expressed her reluctance, a smile appeared on Yimi's face, who was hugged by Xiao Gu from behind :

"It really does make it a lot warmer."

"Human beings are weird too..."

"It seems to be so..." Even my body can feel different warmth.

The body temperature of Lan Xue on my right is not high, just like the rising sun brushing the earth in the morning.

The body temperature of the little Goo behind me was slightly higher, rising and falling, much like a short-lived tide, rising and falling.

Yimi's body temperature is the highest, like the sunshine passing through the breeze, but not as dazzling as at noon, a memory suddenly appeared in my mind, a memory that I haven't had for a long time.

spring.

Obviously at that time, I didn't have the feeling of feeling the temperature of the outside world, but now I seem to be able to distinguish it.

Yimi gives me the feeling that it is spring.

"Why do you even feel this way..." Lan Xue beside me sighed softly as if she had nothing to do with us, "You are all abnormal..."

"Then what about you?" Yimi asked with a chuckle, adding a little strength to the hand holding me.

"Me? I..." Lan Xue just lowered her head and remained silent.

It was only after I got so close that I noticed that Lan Xue's hair, wings, tail, and scales on her body were emitting a slight blue light.

"I always feel that if this is the case, I don't need to live at all." Yimi just said with emotion.

"If you want fire, I can do it!" Xiao Gu behind us said this, and I hurriedly stopped after hearing this:

"Don't! If you breathe fire in this kind of cave, you don't know what will happen!"

Back then when Xiao Gu wasn't like this, she didn't find the little goblin at that time, and every time she just asked him to light a fire, her flames could always burn the whole ground.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..." Xiaogu only made a strange sound after hearing this, but it seemed to be happy.

"Fire..." In the end, Lan Xue murmured softly, "Although my brother can use fire...but I don't like fire at all..." "Why?" Yimi asked with some doubts.

"Because the flames have taken away everything that was once beautiful, my home, my fellow clan, and... the former king."

"..."

At this moment, the originally quite noisy cave instantly became quiet, only the sound of pattering rain hitting the land endlessly.

"Have you ever seen fire? The overwhelming fire, the unstoppable fire." Lan Xue didn't wait for our answer, but just continued, "The former king has turned his body into a valley to protect us. Saw him, but he could never see me again."

I know what she's talking about.

That day was called the day of disaster by human beings.

"Humans are not weak, and dragons are not strong. On that day, all existences in this world are the same."

These words echoed in this dark cave, the dim light from the entrance of the cave hit Lan Xue's face, there was only a layer of empty calm.

"Is this why you are looking for disaster?" It was Yimi who broke the silence. Her voice was mixed with the sound of rain, very soft but clear.

"It used to be." Lan Xue's voice was very calm, as if so many days of time had accumulated at this moment, "Now I don't look for it anymore, because my brother told me that it is useless to find, those things that have passed away have returned not coming."

"I knew that when I saw that guy that day."

Little Gu didn't say anything, but looked back and forth between Yimi and Lan Xue with a puzzled expression.

"Is that so..." After Yimi spit out these two words, she didn't say anything more.

For a long time after that, only the sound of raindrops beating on the mountain wall and the ground echoed in this cave. The only thing I felt most clearly was Yimi's hands, holding me tightly.

After the rain cleared, we left the cave and stepped on the deep and shallow soil to the beach.

"Why use flying when you can fly?" Lan Xue's face was full of puzzlement, and the calmness before seemed abnormal now.

"Because there is no need to rush to do something." Yimi just answered Lan Xue's question with a smile, and then turned to ask us, "Speaking of...is that ship still there?"

"Huh? It's still there. Why do you ask that?" From our point of view, the boat that experienced a heavy rain is still dumped quietly by the sea, because the dark clouds have not completely dissipated, and only a little sunlight fell on it. On the ground, so the whole world is floating with a faint mist.

"Because... let's go to the cabin to have a look before making a decision?"

"Huh?" To decide what?

This time Yimi followed us into the interior of the cabin, but this time he did not immediately look for something, but began to hold on to the wall inside the cabin with his hands and began to grope constantly.

"This boat...doesn't feel very old..." Yimi muttered to herself while touching it. Only me, Xiao Gu and Lan Xue looked at each other in the dark.

"Why?"

"Judging from what we found, just think about those green apples. There is not much moisture missing, and there are not many moldy ones. There are also these things in the boat..." After stroking the cabin with his fingers, Yimi , bent his fingers and tapped the wall of the ship, "This ship is broken, not old."

"..." None of us standing next to Yimi replied, because it was too difficult to understand.

"The humidity is not bad...go to each room to see if there is any accumulated water."

So we carefully watched the messy ground and checked room by room.

Some rooms don't have a waterlogging problem, because the ceiling and floor of the room have a big hole broken, and the rainwater that falls from the deck falls directly to the bottom floor.In some rooms where the ceiling was directly smashed, it was because of the inclination of the ship itself that rainwater accumulated in a corner of the room.

Of course, some holes were smashed by Lan Xue when she was moving things.

It's not that there are no leaky rooms, it's just that they are relatively few, and most of them are on the middle floor.

"I have an idea……"

"Ok?"

"idea!"

"what……"

"I roughly confirmed the situation of this ship. If we find a way to block up the places where the rain leaks..." Yimi stood up slowly while leaning on the wall in the dark, "Perhaps we won't need to live in a cave anymore. gone."

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Therefore, in order to survive better, Yimi made a new plan.

ship repair.

Although it is said to be repaired, the four of us do not have that ability. According to Yimi, it is to transform it so that it can be lived.

First of all, for some rooms with fewer holes in the middle floor, it is most basic to use broken boards and various wastes to cover the holes.

The part of the bottom of the boat that is in contact with the sea is properly filled and adjusted so that only a part of the seawater can flow in, so that Xiao Gu can travel freely.

Then there is the cleaning of the cabin. According to Yimi, this is a huge project.

"Little Gu, burn it with fire, but just one stroke will be fine."

"it is good!"

"Hey?" Is this something that can be agreed with a "yes"?

"Xiao Hei... is this so strange?"

"Isn't this boat made of wood? Will it burn?"

"... wet wood is very difficult to burn, and didn't I say just burn it once, it's clean, clean."

"Human beings have so many evil ideas..." Although Lan Xue also expressed that she couldn't understand it, she didn't object.

Fortunately, Goo seems to be able to spew flames of appropriate size according to Yimi's requirements, instead of the flame swirl that almost drowned me.

What was burned were some unknown objects stuck to the walls, ceiling, and ground, as well as the remaining stagnant water.

According to Yimi, since we have no way to directly build a house, let's turn the ship itself into a house.

These are just the basics, and Yimi said she would consider the rest slowly.

While we were filling the holes in the boat according to Yimi's request, Yimi was also busy disposing of the clothes she found with something called a sewing box.Every time, she would take the clothes and sewing box outside by herself, and sit in front of the mountain wall, not allowing us to approach.

Because she said that this is much more difficult than weaving a simple cloak with vines and leaves, and it will definitely not work with eyes closed, so in order to avoid seeing us, she asked us to stay away from her. If we want to get close, we can only approach from behind her, and Call her ahead of time.

In fact, it is mainly to prevent seeing Xiao Gu, because the magic eye has no effect on Lan Xue and me, no... maybe it will not work on Xiao Gu, but Yimi dare not try.

Two things, boat repair and clothes making, seemed to be going well, but there was another thing that none of us thought about.

Even if we water and fertilize the potatoes on time like last time.

do not know why.

This time the number of potatoes was the same as last time, but there were no large plants growing as usual.

Budding seems to be more difficult than before, and the number of green branches and leaves that finally sprouted is probably only half of the last time... maybe even less.

The most serious thing is that, not to mention flowering, there are spots of different colors on the green leaves, and some branches even begin to rot.

Yimi doesn't know what's going on, and it's even less likely that we will.

Yimi speculates that this may be a disease, but we don't know why it has become like this and how to deal with it.

Can only watch the life of these potato plants wither away with time.

Powerless.