"Hey, Lin Shuihan!" Ning Xi really didn't want to waste time, so he simply stopped him, and sure enough, Lin Shuihan immediately paused when he heard her voice, and Ning Xi immediately knew that he was pretending to be deaf, so he slowly walked towards him.

In fact, Lin Shuihan didn't notice it, he felt it as early as when Ning Xi first followed him, because of the familiar footsteps, he knew that it was her, but he didn't want to debunk it so quickly, and later when Ning Xi deliberately made a move, he also deliberately quickened his pace, wanting to see if Ning Xi could catch up with him, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but snicker.

When he heard Ning Xi call his name, he inadvertently stopped, such a crisp and loud voice, like a wind chime, shook into his heart at once, he immediately turned around, he turned around, but let Ning Xi, who was approaching him, temporarily stop.

In the vast red glow, a girl in a goose-yellow Luo skirt suddenly broke into his sight, and appeared in front of Lin Shuihan with a pair of very smart eyes and an otherworldly freshness.

The goose-yellow feather skirt was suffocating, and Lin Shuihan's eyes stared at her in a daze.

And Ning Xi also looked at Lin Shuihan in great surprise, although he often played with him, saw him often, and knew that he had become stronger, but I don't know why, the moment I saw him today, it seemed that his eyes were ...... It sparkles like two obsidians, and the two thin lips open slightly...... The focus is on his face, which is delicate and natural, clean and pure.

Ning Xi couldn't help but despise herself fiercely in her heart, Bai Ningxi, you are crazy!

"Lin Shuihan!" Ning Xi ran in front of him with a smile, "Ning Xi, you...... You are so beautiful today!" Lin Shui looked at the girl coldly, she picked up her little skirt and turned around in front of him again, "This is what my father bought for me, is it good-looking?"

Lin Shuihan nodded vigorously.

"Are you going home?" Ning Xi tiptoed up and looked at the firewood in his basket and asked, Lin Shuihan nodded, "Yes, my sister asked me to come out to chop wood, and I had a bit of fun in the mountains, so I have to go home quickly." ”

"Hey, do you know what day it is!" When Lin Shuihan turned around, Ning Xi immediately grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back.

"What day?" Lin Shuihan looked dazed.

"Today is the day when the pupil gate is opened, and many of those people in the demon world have come to Zaikong City, and that Gu Dao real person is telling the story of the ancient divine beast in front of those people!" Ning Xi looked at him with a pair of innocent big eyes.

Lin Shuihan was stunned, "Ahhhhh......h Really?"

"Of course!

"That'...... Then I'll go home right now, and then I'll go to Zaikong City right away!" Lin Shuihan said and immediately turned around and ran down the mountain, Ning Xi couldn't help but laugh when he looked at his hurried back, and then followed!

"Lin Shuihan, wait for me!"

......

That Gu Dao Zhenren is the most famous god in Zaikong City, he is known as Gu Dao Zhenren, believes in the way of grains and grains, and the people take food as the sky, so his life is not only to eat, but what makes him different is that every time he eats, his mouth can't help but say something.

I know astronomy and geography, and I know trivial things, so as long as someone wants to ask him about something, he will inevitably carry a few delicacies in his hand, and once it is sent to his mouth, he will tell you everything.

Because he can eat, his figure looks very burly, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but in fact, his brain is full of fat intestines, and he is a soft persimmon, often telling stories in Zaikong City, selling his way of grains and grains, so as to earn a little money and make a living.

Because he is very good at saying that most people don't like to get too close to him, unless they have something to inquire about, they will bring all kinds of food to the door. And he doesn't like to deal with people, it's too troublesome, and it's better to eat his own than to just chat with people! So he never takes the initiative to talk to someone, and on weekdays either someone looks for him or no one looks for him.

But the people in the demon world like to listen to him tell stories very much, so at this moment, in his small tea shed, everyone is sitting in groups, quietly listening to him tell the story of the distant ancient beast, and the seats are full.

Lin Shuihan and Bai Ningxi didn't dare to be too upright because they were eavesdropping, so they had to hide sneakily behind the tea shed, both of them were holding steamed buns brought out from Lin Shuihan's house, and listened carefully while eating with relish, although there was a coarse cloth curtain, but Gu Daozhen's voice still came into their ears very clearly.

Gu Dao Zhenren took out a painting from behind him, put it on the tea table and spread it out, the things in the painting appeared in front of everyone without warning, a turtle and a snake in the painting, intertwined left and right, the painting style is strange but there is a trace of sacredness, everyone was shocked at the moment they saw the painting.

"This ...... Is this?" One person couldn't help but be amazed.

"This is the guardian beast of the Northern Barbarians, one of the four gods of the four directions, Xuanwu. Gu Dao Zhenren opened his mouth to explain, and at the same time his eyes swept around the tea shed, "Next, the story of the guardian beast I want to tell you is the story of Xuanwu. ”

A person looked at Gu Dao Zhenren in surprise, his eyes were still back and forth on the painting, and he said in disbelief, "This thing...... Is it really a divine beast?"

"Of course, don't think it's ugly, it's the Four Spirits of the Heavens!" Gu Dao Zhenren sat next to the painting and told a story about the Xuanwu Divine Beast and the Sky City a long, long time ago......

A long time ago, the Beiban, very barren, in addition to the center of the Beiban city of Zaikong, surrounded by barren mountains, there is no lake and no stream, there is no human population in the mountains, although the empty city is a city, but the population is also very scarce, because there is always a drought here, causing the people to abandon the city one after another, so there is often a dark and sad atmosphere in the empty city.

Until one day, a ragged and unkempt girl returned to Matsuri Mountain, and all this suddenly changed!

The girl's family fled from the city, afraid that the girl and her grandmother would not be able to withstand the torture of the long journey and abandoned them, leaving her and the frail grandmother back to the city to depend on each other, grandma's body is getting worse day by day, because of the lack of water, grandma has been hovering on the verge of death, because she can't bear to die in the city at the age of bloom, so grandma let her leave the city.

After the girl was painfully separated from her grandmother, she had been wandering among the six mountain ranges, lost her way, and couldn't get out, so she came to the sacrificial mountain by mistake, where she found traces of holy water, and the holy water at that time was guarded by the guardian god Xuanwu of the north, and when the girl saw the water, she could no longer move her steps.

She began to beg the Patronus, hoping to give her some holy water, so that she could go back to save her grandmother, and the people of the entire city, but the Patronus ignored it at first, it was its mission to protect the holy water, and as long as anyone wanted holy water, no matter the reason, they would be killed, but the reason why it didn't do it at that time was that the girl was already dying.

Later, however, when the girl saw that the Patronus did not answer, she wanted to steal some holy water quietly, but when she tried to go back, she was surprised to find that her legs could no longer move, and she struggled for a while, and then she knew that this was the punishment given by the Patronus for stealing the holy water.

She cried sadly, crying darkly, crying heartbreakingly, perhaps it was the holy water in her arms that gave her unimaginable strength, she actually scolded the patron saint!

"As the guardian deity of the Northern Barbarian Land, your duty should not only be to protect these holy waters! The entire empty city has become an empty city, and everyone is suffering from the drought from the sky, can't you see it? We have all become like this, can you still turn a blind eye? Are you a god after all? Can a god take care of human life like this!"

Her voice was very hoarse, these words seemed to have used up all her strength, and she completely lost her voice, she kept coughing up blood on the ground, her face was like ash, her lips were dry and had cracked and oozing blood, she knew that she was dying, she was not afraid of death, she was just afraid, she was dead, and she would not be able to wait for a response.

The girl did not wait for the Patronus to respond, and the holy water in her arms accidentally leaked out, soaking her clothes and mixing with the blood on the ground, looking very shocking.

A few days later, the Beiban suddenly came a heavy rain, the remnants of the people in the city saw the rain and danced excitedly, cheering in the rain, the heavy rain washed away the entire empty city, washed away all the traces of filth and dirt in the city, saved the lives of all the dying people, they looked up to the sky, opened their mouths to the maximum, and swallowed the falling rain into their stomachs bit by bit, that kind of real feeling that was not like a dream at all, like a fire, rekindled their hope of living!

It's just a pity that the girl's grandmother, long before the heavy rain, died.

She can no longer see or experience all this.

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In a dilapidated mansion in the middle of the city, the girl was lying on her bed unharmed, and outside the door was the sound of rain falling and the sound of rain waking her up, and she finally came to her senses.

She couldn't believe that she was still alive, and what made her even more unbelievable was that it was really raining outside!

She was overjoyed, thinking that the conscience of the patron saint had found out, and she ran out of the room without even putting on her shoes, and watched the incomparably real rain in front of her fall on the ground bit by bit, splashing, rippling in circles, disappearing and being replaced, she was indescribably happy, and wanted to walk into the rain immediately, but unexpectedly, a pair of hands stopped her.