Little Penguin Courtship Diary

"Captain?" Zuo Yu and Shen You also walked over and disappeared for a while. The captain looked much older than when he just got off the boat. "What did you see?"

"I saw..." the captain narrowed his cloudy eyes, showing a thoughtful expression, "I saw... a lot." He stood up, "Let's stop delving into it, let's get on the road, there are still many journeys waiting for us." he said.

"Well, let's go." Zuo Yu agreed, looking at Shen You.

"Okay." Shen You didn't want to linger too much, the Light Gate had already been revealed in front of them, and a group of people walked towards it.

"Congratulations, you have found the mirror of reality and successfully passed through the illusion of the magic mirror." The mysterious voice sounded again, announcing their victory.

After stepping through the light gate, noisy voices came.

"Lion!" Penguin saw a bloody mouth at a glance, and hugged Shen You's leg in fright.

"Don't be nervous," Shen You comforted it, "That lion is just yawning." They stood on a certain step, and there seemed to be a market below, but all the people wandering in the market were animals.

"These animals can talk." The captain went down a step and listened.

"Is it a fairy?" The squirrel popped out of Shen You's backpack.

"It's not like." Zuo Yu said, it couldn't feel the mana flowing from these animals, otherwise it wouldn't be afraid of the lion in the first place.

Shen You looked around, they were standing on the side of a certain building, on the wide stone steps.

The building is a bit like the temple in ancient Greece or the Lincoln Memorial in the United States. On the side of the white building, a row of stone pillars stands up to support a huge triangular roof.Inside the stone pillar is a wall that blocks the view from the outside.

They were standing on the stone steps on one side of the building, and each step was so wide that human steps simply couldn't cross it.And in the middle there is a row of stone steps with small steps, and each large step is divided into several small steps, which can be passed by people or animals.

"Who are you?" The lion that Zuo Yu saw walked up the steps. Behind it, many animals also came from around the market, looking at them warily.

"They're humans!" cried an animal.

"No, there are orcs among them." The lion spoke, and the underground noise stopped instantly. "Outsiders, what race are you? Why are you here?"

Zuo Yu and his party all felt the tense atmosphere of the scene, and they even saw that some animals had already made an attack posture, and they might rush up to tear them to pieces at any time.

"We are adventurers who have entered the Seventh Illusion Trial, and we have no ill intentions towards you." Shen You stepped forward, keeping Zuo Yu behind, and said to the leading lion.

"Sevenfold Illusion?" The lion narrowed his eyes and walked back and forth two steps, his mighty mane fluttering in the wind, "I've never heard of it, this is the holy city of Taktris."

As soon as their words fell, there were whispers again. Some people pointed at Shen You and muttered, and some looked worriedly at Zuo Yu behind him, discussing this penguin that was hijacked by the human race.

"Everyone be quiet." The lion spoke again, and after it was quiet, it said to Shen You, "This is the territory of the orcs, and you are not welcome. The penguins and squirrels can stay, and the other two please leave as soon as possible, otherwise we will die." Launch the attack."

Shen You paused, and just about to speak, a loud noise exploded in the crowd, and the flames shot into the sky.

"Savage animals, today is your death day!" A loud shout sounded from the side of the market, and the bullets rushed into the animals faster than the ferocious crowd.

Immediately there were blood splashes, and the animals immediately formed a formation and launched a counterattack.

Their appearance looks the same as the animals outside, but their lethality is far greater than that.Many animals sprayed scorching light from their mouths, and no one survived wherever they went.

"Let's find a place to hide!" Shen You yelled, seeing that the flames of war were about to affect them, he took the lead in picking up Zuo Yu and ran up the steps of Shen Dian.

"Let's hide in the temple!" The captain said, pointing to a small door behind the huge pillar of the temple.

Shen You ran wildly along the direction he pointed.The flames of battle rumbled behind him, and the humans and beasts seemed to have a tacit understanding, neither the bullets nor the scorching light hit the temple.

"Hide in!" The captain rushed forward, kicked open the small door under the temple, and turned sideways to let Shen You pass.

Because Zuo Yu was inconvenient to move, Shen You held him in his arms when he started running. He couldn't see the scene outside clearly, but his ears were filled with the sound of explosions and killings. Shen You resisted the attack.

"Okay, stop wasting mana." After hiding in the temple, Shen You finally took the time to say something, "Their attacks didn't catch up."

Zuo Yu jumped down from Shen You's arms, walked around him several times, and only after confirming that Shen You was fine did he feel relieved.

"They probably didn't follow." The captain said, the sound of the battle was blocked by the door, and it was extremely weak in the empty temple.

"Then what should we do now?" Zuo Yu looked around. Its night vision ability is very good, and it can probably see that they are now in a huge temple. At the end of the temple, there is a huge statue. They are far away. Too far away, it can't see clearly.

"Go in and have a look." Shen You took out a high-powered flashlight from his backpack, which was also prepared by Yu Fei for them.

"Okay." Of course Zuo Yu had no objection to Shen You's decision, and obediently followed him.But the captain stopped and said, "Where's the squirrel? Where's the squirrel?"

"Squirrel?" Shen You just remembered that the squirrel was not in the bag when he used the flashlight just now.

"Squirrel! Are you there, Squirrel?" Zuo Yu called twice, but there was no response.

"Where did it go?" The captain looked at the door worriedly, "Could it be locked out?"

"When was the last time we saw a squirrel?" Shen You asked while recalling, "It was still there when we first arrived outside this temple."

"After they started fighting, they disappeared," the captain recalled, narrowing his one eye.

"Will it run away by itself? There was a stall selling nuts in the market just now." Zuo Yu suddenly remembered that stall. It seemed to have seen something jump out in a blink of an eye. squirrel.

"..." The other two were silent.At such a serious time, the squirrel actually got lost just because it was greedy?

Much like what it would do.

"Let's go inside and take a look. This is a market for beasts, and they won't do anything to it." Shen You said, after his observation just now, the two parties in the conflict are humans and beasts, and they must be two races. If there is any contradiction between them, a large-scale conflict will break out.

Judging from the situation when they first landed, this is the stronghold of beasts, and the squirrels in the shape of animals should not be in much danger.

"There's a big statue over there." Zuo Yu said, raising one fin, pointing to the statue at the end of the temple.

"It's so big!" the captain exclaimed.

They quickened their pace and walked towards the statue.The sound of gunfire outside the door became farther and farther away, and the temple was so quiet that a needle could be heard.With the flashlight, they could gradually see what the temple looked like.

The ceiling of the temple is very high, and there are two rows of stone pillars in the middle, supporting the dome of the temple.There should be something carved on the stone pillar, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and many parts have fallen off, falling to the ground like gravel.

"This is really a temple? Why is it so ruined?" The captain checked several stone pillars and came to this conclusion, "The stone pillars should be carved with stories about the gods enshrined in the temple, but many parts are missing and can no longer be seen Cleared."

"Could it be that they fought here?" Shen You, the leader, shook the surrounding stone pillars with a flashlight, and it was indeed badly damaged.

"Probably not." Zuo Yu said, "There are no scorched marks on the stone pillars. Like the attack methods of the two of them, if the temple has been attacked, there should be burnt marks on the stone pillars."

"Well, we're almost there." Shen You said, the statue was already very close to them, and from the peripheral light of the flashlight, its outline could already be seen.This is a very large statue, and it must have cost a lot of manpower and material resources when it was built.

"Someone!" Zuo Yu stopped in his tracks, he heard a very slight movement, and the sound of breathing other than them!

"Who?" Shen You yelled, the light of the flashlight quickly swept around them, and he keenly caught a piece of clothing, "Who? Come out!"

Following the light of the flashlight, Zuo Yu and the captain also saw that there was indeed a person there.

"I have a bomb! Don't come here!" A very immature voice threatened, with a trembling voice, obviously lacking confidence.

"Okay, come out by yourself, we won't go there." Shen You said.

"Are you sure?" the other party said again.

"I promise." Shen You said.

There were a few rustling conversations from the opposite side, the voice was very soft and I couldn't hear what was being said, but I could distinguish two different voices.It should all belong to the children.

Are there two children on the opposite side?Why are they here?

Before Shen You could think about it, a little boy walked out from behind a stone pillar holding a bomb, followed by a puppy.

"You promised not to hurt me!" The little boy held the bomb high and looked at them warily.

"Don't worry, we don't want to hurt you, we just came here to hide." Shen You said.The little boy's hands trembled slightly. The bomb in his hand probably wasn't powerful, it was just a bluff.

"Huh, I was scared to death. Fighting outside again?" I don't know which sentence Shen You said was right, the little boy immediately relaxed and dropped his bomb.

"They keep fighting like this?" Shen You asked, trying to get closer to the little boy.

"Yeah, it's always been like this. Where are you from? I haven't seen you." The little boy said.

"We came from outside." Shen You replied vaguely, "Is this puppy your friend?" It seems that the relationship between humans and beasts here is not very good. Strange.

"Yes." The little boy said, "It is my best friend, don't you also have a penguin friend?" The little boy pointed to Zuo Yu beside Shen You.

"Yes." Shen You replied, it turned out that the little boy relaxed his vigilance when he saw him with Zuo Yu.

"Do you know where this is?" Zuo Yu asked, taking two steps forward.

"Here," the little boy has completely relaxed, and played it off playfully, trying to touch Zuo Yu's scales and feathers, "Don't be so mean, I'll just touch it, I haven't touched a penguin yet !"

"Don't touch it casually." Before Zuo Yu could refuse, Shen You spoke first. He separated the little boy and Zuo Yu, and asked again, "Where is this place?"

"Stingy." The little boy muttered a few words, and quickly put his hands on his head and said, "This is the temple of Taktris, but it has been abandoned."

"Why is it deserted?" Shen You asked.In such a prosperous city, even if there is war, the temple shouldn't be abandoned like this, right?

"Here, because of it." The little boy pointed to the statue at the end and said, leading them to the statue for another section.

After walking in, they realized that this huge statue was neither a man nor a beast, but a creature with a human head and an animal body, just like the Sphinx in ancient Egypt.

"There have been two races of human race and orc race in Taktris City since ancient times, and everyone has been living in harmony. Under the leadership of God, we are kind, brave, and love life. But I don't know when the orc race started. My own prophet, the human race has a high priest, and the two races began to attack each other until they became incompatible."

"Later, the human race said that their god should look like a human being, so they abandoned this place and built a new temple and a new form of god. The orc race also thought that they did not need a god with a human face, so they also built a new temple, and gods in the form of beasts."

The little boy talked about the history here, with a sad light in his eyes.

"Duoduo and I have been friends since childhood, but adults say that humans and beast races are incompatible, and we absolutely cannot be friends. So we come here every time to play. Only here, humans and beast races are one." He said A deity with a human head and an animal body, his innocent eyes are full of sadness.

"In your place, can humans and beasts be friends?" The puppy Duoduo came over, looked at Zuo Yu and then at Shen You.

Shen You and Zuo Yu didn't know how to answer for a while, they looked at each other in blank dismay.

"It doesn't seem to work either!" The puppy drooped its tail in disappointment, ran back to the little boy, licked his face, and told him not to be sad.

"Asha! Are you inside!" Suddenly, a shout came from outside the temple, which seemed to be amplified by a loudspeaker, mixed with noise.

"Duoduo, come out, you are not allowed to hang out with humans inside!" The other party also shouted, and the target was Axia's friend puppy Duoduo.

"Come here so soon?" A Xia complained, and shrugged at Shen You and the others, "The adults on both sides have come to look for us."

"Then you want to go out?" Shen You asked.

"Let's go out, we're all hungry, we'll sneak out to play next time!" Axia said, hugging the puppy Duoduo, one person and one dog walked around behind the statue, there was actually a small door there.

The door was opened, and strong light came in, blinding Zuo Yu and his party.

A burst of snowflakes passed in front of my eyes, and I was finally able to see the situation outside clearly.

The human race and the orc race took each side. The human race held weapons, while the orc race grinned. The two sides faced each other, waiting for Duoduo, Axia, and the intruders from outside.

"Welcome to the urban illusion. You must get the double approval of the patriarch of the human race and the patriarch of the orc before you can leave here and go to the next illusion." The mysterious voice sounded in their ears again, and this task was arranged.

The author has something to say: Thank you for your support. Today is a busy day, so there will probably be an update. See you tomorrow!