The person who came turned his back to the sun, and the shadow was stretched by the afterglow.

The face shrouded in the red glow was none other than Louis, who had been separated from them before.

"What do you mean by that?" Dino, who reacted quickly, lowered his tone, and while considering the truth of the other party's words, he wondered if the secret of Youdou had been known by the other party, "Do you know what's wrong with him?" ”

What did Louis know about the conclusive words "only I can help him"? Where does the confidence come from?

Dino thought that Louis must have heard some secrets, and even if he didn't, he would pretend to know the inside story. But he didn't expect that Louie, who was still full of confidence and confidence in his words just now, shook his head after hearing his question.

"Nope. I don't know anything. ”

Dino frowned fiercely.

"I don't know what's wrong with Chiren-kun (Yuto), and I don't know how to help him." Louis finished speaking, and the expression on his face was as calm as ever.

Dino said coldly: "Now is not the time to joke, Louis Jun. ”

"Tsk, do you think I'm joking?" Louis tossed at his unkempt hair, looking a little irritated, but there was no hint of terror or weakness, "I'm telling the truth, and though I don't know what's going on, or what to do, but—'I can help him,' there's no doubt about that." ”

Dino's heart moved: "...... Ultra-intuitive? ”

Louis finally relaxed: "That's right...... Although you may not believe it, since the 'first generation of Penglie' disappeared from our eyes, and encountered the mirage-like 'illusion' of Shanghai...... The 'super-intuition' that I thought would disappear with the disappearance of the 'Penglie Prime' became even stronger, as if the original seal had been opened......"

Whether there was a seal or not was not known to Louie, but he could not have found a better description.

Thinking of the various scenes he had seen in the other dimensional space before, Dino couldn't help but ask, "Then do you think ...... 'that one' is still in your body at the moment?" ”

Dino was referring to the "Penglie I." Naturally, Louis knew this.

"It's very light, though...... However, I think he should be there. ”

"Should?"

"Yes, 'should,'" Louis said, "it doesn't contradict the 'super-intuition' of getting stronger, because the ...... The aura is so hidden that I can hardly feel his presence zài. ”

"Can you still communicate with him? Or do you want to bring the 'one' out again, as you did before? ”

"I'm afraid not," Louis shook his head, "From what I perceive, the first generation is 'dormant' at the moment...... Perhaps it was because of the loss of too much power from the previous materialization, after all, without the carrier of Penglie's ring, Penglie's original consciousness lost the source of power supply, and he was not a complete soul, but only a fragment of consciousness...... In the absence of external supply, it is only a matter of time before it dissipates. ”

"A part of the consciousness ...... Energy supply ...... Dissipate ......"

Dino subconsciously repeated, muttering for a few seconds, and suddenly lowered his head and glanced in the direction of Youdou.

――Impossible, is it also Xiao Youdou......

"Whether you can help him or not......" Dino calmed down, helped Youdou with a sleepy face, and abruptly changed his voice, "Do you have anything to eat?" ”

“………… Huh? ”

In a few moments, Louie's backpack was empty.

"It's so sad...... A slice of gum is not spared. ”

Louie prides himself on not being a foodie, so he never stocks snacks in his backpack, and this piece of chewing gum was given to him by a kind girl passing by when he vomited on the railing due to seasickness.

Now, this piece of chewing gum that he treasured was torn off by Dino, who carefully took out the candy and put it into Yudou's mouth.

"Eating gum while eating fish, what kind of strange combination is this......" casually complained, Louis properly expressed concern, "What's wrong with Chiren, low blood sugar?" ”

Dino paused his hand and gave a vague "um".

"It's easy, I'll go find some wild fruits."

“…… There are only poisonous mushrooms and giant bears in the Forest of Death. ”

The expression on Louie's face froze, and he turned to study the grilled fish stick in Youdou's hand.

"There are always fish, you see the red man is holding it...... If you're lucky, you might even find a hive. ”

Dino didn't refute again, and grabbed Youdou's shoulders and helped him up.

"There's a river in the direction of there, let's go over there."

Out of habit, Louis buried the fishbones on the ground, drew out a three-purpose army/knife, and consciously walked ahead to open the way.

After walking through the fork in the road, the flowers are falling and red. The red cherry blossoms fall from the high branches and dance.

Yuto caught a few delicate petals, and swallowed them in his mouth under Dino's astonished gaze.

There was no too sharp expression on his face, but he looked a little anxious and eager, and his sharp gaze swayed back and forth, like a hungry beast looking for food that could be caught.

He didn't bother to wipe off the juice from the flowers that had been stained at the corners of his lips because of his eagerness to swallow, and hastily swept away a few drops of residual leaves with the tip of his tongue, and opened his hand eagerly to grab more petals.

This "hungry" look calmed Dino, who wanted to stop him, and his eyes opened unconsciously wide, making it difficult to keep his brain running.

In front of you, in close proximity.

The red stained on the fingertips and corners of the lips seemed to be reflected in the young man's eyes, showing the same treacherous red light.

Without waiting for Dino to identify whether this was a hallucination caused by the impact of his gaze, Yuto suddenly stopped his movements, raised his sleeve to brush the flower juice from the corner of his mouth, and broke away from Dino and walked to the side of him.

Maintaining the movement of turning back, Louie, who was already stunned, finally withdrew the cold breath.

"I'm talking about Dino," Louis lowered his voice, "look at Chiren-kun...... Why is it as if I have been hungry for hundreds of years, and I look like 'I can eat both tree bark and human flesh steamed buns'? ”

Dino didn't speak, but his expression became more solemn.

"Do you think it's possible that the 'different dimensional space' we were trapped in before had a different time flow rate, and Chiren-kun had been hungry in it for a long time, so he ......?"

Dino thought that Louie's brain was indeed not ordinarily rich, but this guess was the most appropriate explanation on the surface. It's a pity that although Dino has not yet figured out all the reasons, he vaguely understands that Yudou's situation is by no means as simple as "hungry". Perhaps, the truth of the matter is far more bizarre and absurd than conjecture.

"Perhaps." Dino didn't want to ask another question, and he followed the line that Yuto had taken, and went around to a place overgrown with weeds.

Yuto was crouching down a path, staring straight at one ...... Cattle?

Hiding the surprise in his eyes, Dino walked up behind him and asked softly.

"Aren't you leaving, Yuto?"

I saw the young man squatting next to the haystack looking up at him, and then turned his eyes away, and continued to stare at the cow that was grazing.

Dino was stunned by that glance and suddenly had a strange illusion.

It seems that the two people and a cow are looking at each other and grazing in front of them, but a few years later, they are standing helplessly on the side of the road with a bottle in tow, and at their feet is the son who is lying in front of the toy window and refuses to leave......

The illusion caused Dino to cover his lips in pain.

It was so terrible that he must have been brainwashed by Louie's nonsense and brain holes, which led to these strange associations one after another.

In order to show his innocence, Dino immediately adjusted the expression on his face and changed it to a tone of communication with his peers.

"Is there anything wrong with this cow?" Capturing the teenager's attentive gaze, Dino added, "You like this animal?" ”

Youdou turned his head mechanically, with a question in his eyes: "Can you eat it?" ”

"......" Dino was choked hard, and it was not easy to dispel the feeling of myocardial infarction, "What are you asking, this cow, or these grasses?" ”

It was a strange question, but Dino didn't think there was anything wrong with his wording.

Probably ever since he met the young man in front of him, as well as the Brain Cave King who hadn't caught up with him over there, his thinking and receptivity had grown in a strange posture.

"Cow." Youdou also replied seriously, "Plant fiber is not as high as the energy storage of animal fat." ”

"......" Dino was defeated, in order not to make the painting style and topic twist in a more bizarre direction, he quickly changed the topic, "This is not a beast in the forest, it should be a domestic animal raised by a nearby farmer," although it was strange how a domestic cow could run into the mountain of death and live well in this land of death, Dino didn't think too much...... Bear with me, and we'll be in the hunting area soon. ”

Dino has always been cautious about the owner's things, and even though he can compensate for the owner's loss with compensation, what if the owner has feelings for those things?

Especially for living creatures such as domestic animals and pets, Dino, who has a sponge turtle, can understand this feeling even more.

Therefore, Dino chose to take Youdou into the hunting forest area, where wild boars, brown bears, tigers and leopards, red deer and other animals were often visited by adventurers to hunt before the Forest of Death was not known as a danger.

It didn't take long for Dino to realize how wise he had been.

He looked at the hundreds of bones lying at his feet, and at a young man who was still feasting, the trunk of the tree with three wild boars strung in his hand spinning numbly.

If you really let Youdou move the grazing cow, ten heads will not be enough to eat.

With the way of eating and the speed of eating, the whole mountain will be eaten by him, okay?

Louis resisted countless game at the rate of one prey every three minutes, and Dino roasted his prey at a pace of three skewers and three skewers at a time, leaving Yuto to eat alone...... It turns out that the speed of hunting and cooking is far from keeping up with the speed at which Yuto eats......

Looking at the bonfires that were three feet tall and almost caused a forest fire, and the bones that fell to the ground at his feet, but were still increasing at a rate of one per second, Dino's heart was broken at the moment.

Fortunately, there was someone who broke down with him, and he wasn't fighting alone.

At three o'clock, Louis came back numbly with three deer on his back, with a large bundle of firewood tied to his hands, and his face was covered with black ash, looking like Sun Wukong, who had been crushed for five hundred years and had just climbed out of Wuzhi Mountain.

"Dino, is your son's stomach a bottomless pit?"

“…… Can you not mention the word son? Dino held his forehead. He felt that the situation in front of him was enough to make him tired, and he really didn't have the strength to deal with Louie's run.

Louis was noncommittal and said the truth that he had endured for a long time.

"I think...... Even after eating so much, he still looked like the hungry people in Africa, showing no signs of being full at all. ”

Dino twitched the corners of his mouth, not knowing whether he should agree or not.

Thankfully, after three minutes, Yuto finally stopped eating, and although he still looked a little unsatisfied, he didn't have a green eye on every animal in the mountains and forests.

Dino looked at the small dirt bags on the ground, which contained thousands of bones, and was silent, wondering if he needed to contact his deputy, Romario, to bring some wild animals from his territory.

Louis didn't think about it as much as Dino, he only felt that today's psychological shadow area was enough to make him not want to see any meat for three days.

- At most, seven or eight layers of cooked wild boar, without any seasoning, how did the red boy swallow it?

You must know that this is not a steak, and it is more delicious to pay attention to how many times it is raw; What's more, wild boar meat is hard and has a fishy smell...... It's a miracle that this kid hasn't vomited after eating so much.

At this point, Youdou's positioning in Louis's heart has added a prefix from the original foodie - heavy taste.

I have to say that it's not a good thing to have too good associative ability. Louis thinks about himself, whether it is the cat poop coffee last time or the pig eating action this time, he is the only one who will want to vomit because of the bad taste.

It is also for this reason that when choosing a hotel, Louis resolutely refused to live in the same house as Youdou.

He didn't want to torture his stomach and appetite anymore, and at this moment, he needed a delicious dinner to soothe the shadow area in his heart.

Louis said goodbye to the two with a relieved look on his face, and floated to another hotel in rippling bubbles.

Ten minutes later, Louie returned with a black face.

Dino was surprised: "Didn't you say you couldn't live here?" How did you come back again? ”

Louie snorted softly.

"How do I know...... Before I knew it, I was walking back here. ”

Saying that, he immediately turned around: "I'm leaving, don't think too much about me." ”

"No one will miss you." Dino replied casually without raising his head, handed his passport to the waiter at the front desk, and continued to check in.

Fifteen minutes later, Louis reappeared at the door of the inn.

Dino, who was just about to go out and buy some cigarettes: "......"

"Walk in, walk out, walk out, you're not tired," Dino rubbed his temples, regretting that he didn't bring a few bottles of sobering oil out of the house, "Either stay or get out, don't get in my way." ”

"......" Louie's face changed color a few times, clasped his hands on his chest, and sneered twice, "I'm really not leaving, can you still throw me out?" ”

"Whatever you want," Dino bypassed Louie and continued to walk outside, but the moment he and Louie passed by, Louie suddenly stopped him, "What did you see in that 'other dimension'?" ”

Dino's footsteps paused, and his expression froze: "...... What do you see again? ”

"One piece...... Quite an interesting thing. ”

Louis lowered his head slightly, and the hair on his forehead covered his eyes, showing the sharp curvature of the corners of his lips.

"Think about it, Dino, before we entered that space, did the first consciousness hear a certain name...... Did you give a reaction? ”

Dino half-closed his eyes: "What do you want to explain?" ”

"What do I want to explain, don't you really understand?"

……

In a suite on the third floor, Yuto, who had slept for half an hour, woke up from the chaos and instinctively rubbed his eyes that were not dry.

It may not be appropriate to say "sleep", but he just "sleeps" for a while to save "power" and absorb the meager energy in food more quickly.

The hand rubbing the eyes had not yet been lowered, and in the vision that was not yet fully clear, a dark corner of clothing occupied a third of the space, and it seemed that it had been in that place for a long time.

Subconsciously, Youdou opened his mouth slightly:

“…… Who? ”