On the coast, a group of three people was walking towards the woods.

Monkey A walked awkwardly in front, his upper body was tightly bound, holding a rope behind him, whenever the monkey turned back and stopped, Weir glared at it with a cold face, holding Pease with one hand, not letting him get too close, Pease looked at Vere very nervously, and hummed at the monkey from time to time.

"Huh?" What does he want to do? 】

"Hmph." [He seems to be asking you to take him away......]

"Huh? ~"[I can see this, where does he want me to go?] 】

Ver tugged at the rope.

"Hmm! ~"The monkey jumped to his feet, took two steps forward, and was pulled back by the rope behind him.

"Hmph~" [Where do you know?] 】

"Tsk~" [There is only a place for us to survive on this island...... The rest are dangerous places. 】

For an omnivorous animal like a monkey, it was right to think so.

Weir watched the grinding monkey swaying in front of him, and he didn't get angry.

It's pretty fast when you run, what? Does this monkey still have a fine tradition of preferring to die rather than sell his teammates?

But there was nothing Vere could do.

"Tsk~" [Child, you better persuade him, I haven't eaten in the morning...... I'm starving. 】

"Hmph...... "I, I'll try.] 】

How can we ensure the safety of Pease, and at the same time make the monkey return to its nest naturally, so that I can Ghim Y? The back behind him was full of war supplies, and he was ready at all times, but he had been walking for almost half an hour, and he was still dangling outside the woods, and the monkey was still trembling slightly at first and walked towards the place where the pigman had died, allowing Weir to drag him back.

Just when Ver was at a loss and was pondering, Pease tugged at his clothes. “？” Wiel looked at Pease, and the little star pointed to his mouth. "Eat? Not full? Wei Er understood this common gesture, let go of his hand, and in a flash of his hand, a fruit appeared in Wei Er's hand, "No, eat this, eating too much grilled fish will be bad for your health." ”

Pease looked at the fruit in his hand and was silent for a moment, and was about to relentfully take another grilled fish, but Pease suddenly ran towards the monkey.

"Pease ......" in his hand, and Vere stopped trying to grab Pease. In fact, Weir is also very strange about Pease's constant movements, he keeps trying to get close to the monkey, what does Pease want to do? It doesn't matter, with your own presence, that monkey can't make any waves......?!

He took a careful look at himself, and found that Vere did not stop him, so he came to the front of the monkey and handed the fruit in his hand to the monkey, and Vere was shocked, "Pease! Be careful that your hands are bitten off! The monkey opened its mouth and was about to pull the rope back, when he suddenly found that Pease's other hand was tightly holding the end of the rope around the monkey's body, and shook his head at Well. That means not allowing yourself to do that.

When Wille was in a hurry, he noticed that Pease was fine, and the monkey's mouth also heard the crunch sound of biting the fruit...... That monkey is eating fruit? Will was a little dumbfounded, but what made Wei even more dumbfounded was still behind, the monkey actually put his head against Pease's chest and kept rubbing and rubbing, and then Pease was like a child holding a big doll, holding the monkey's head in his arms, and Wiel felt that this movement was very familiar...... Isn't that what I saw yesterday... Is it?

Later, Ver discovered a scene that he had never imagined, and Pease and the monkey began to snort as if they were ...... It's as if the two of them are communicating. Communication? Wille felt like his worldview had collapsed," Pease. Vere said to Pease, who was holding the monkey, "You ...... Can you communicate? Wiel gestured. You...... You two ......" Will gesture between Pease and the monkey with his finger, and Pease nodded timidly at Wyer.

Can Pease and the monkey talk to each other? And, just now this monkey was eating fruit? That is to say...... The monkeys pulling Pease can also communicate with Pease? In other words, the scene I saw yesterday...... It's not that the monkey wants to eat the pease, but just wants to pull him away from that place? Could it be that someone else killed the pigmen?

Weir looked at the rope in his hand, sighed, felt that he should have something wrong, and just wanted to put it down, suddenly frowned. Even if that's it...... Weir shook his head, what happened to the monkey who stole the pigman's hooves? The rope in his hand was clenched, but Weir's mind no longer treated the monkey with the same attitude as the murderer, but Weir did not let his guard down, but his thoughts about the monkey turned to figure out what was going on. Maybe the monkey he saw was different from the one in front of him? Well! Vere thought so, and, no matter what, he was going to get back the bones of the pigmen.

Vere sighed and beckoned Pease to come over, and Pease patted the monkey, snorted a few words, and walked over to Vere, who placed the head of the rope in his hand on Pease's hand. Pease looked at the rope in his hand in a daze, and Monkey Armor also turned his head, and his eyes flashed with surprise.

"Huh?" [He gave you the rope, did he want to release me?] Pease looked back at the monkey, "Huh? He looked at Ver suspiciously.

Vere crouched down and followed Pease, and after a while, Ver finally explained to Pease, with his experience, that he wanted the monkey to take him to the monkey's gathering place, or that Vere would take the coin and show it to Pease, and let the monkey take them to the place where the coin was.

Pease took the gold coin from Will's hand, nodded to Will, moved the rope in his hand again, and asked Wille if he could untie the rope, Wille shook his head. Then Pease placed the gold coin on the rope and tugged at the rope again, and Ver understood what he meant, hesitated, and nodded. "Hmm~" Pease thought for a moment and turned to walk towards Monkey A.

"Huh?" [How?] 】

"Hmph, Will, Will, ......" [Wille wants you to take us to a place where we can find this thing]. Pease showed the gold coin in his hand to Monkey Armor. [Vere said that if you can take us to a place where we can find this thing, untie the rope.] 】

"......" Monkey Armor looked at the palm of Pease's hand, [This thing, the shiny stone, I know where it is, I've seen it, it's at the king's place, it's at the king's place. I can take you there......]

Pease looked at Wiel, who was looking at him, and nodded at him. Ver groaned, nodded, and took out a grilled fish from behind him, and walked to the monkey. "Tsk!" The monkey took a step back in fright and lowered his head, but the expected blow did not come, but a grilled fish appeared in front of his eyes.

"After eating, I have the strength to lead the way." Wiel stuffed the grilled fish into the monkey's mouth. A fishy smell rushed to Monkey A's brain, and he couldn't help but spit it out.

Ver looked at the grilled fish on the ground, his brow loosened and furrowed, and he looked meaningfully in the direction of the boulder where the pigman had died.

Pease wanted to hand the rope in his hand to Vere, but Vere patted Pease on the head, signaling that he would not need to, just let Pease lead the monkey himself, and then handed Pease a few more fruits.

With a wave of their hand, the group of three walked into the forest.

Monkey A led a group of people through the forest, and every time he walked a distance, Monkey A would look around, and for monkeys, the risk of walking on the ground was really much higher.

The trees gradually became thicker, and many of the giant trees were like wooden walls, so that the group had to go around. To Will's amazement, in some places they even walked over wooden platforms covered with moss and vines, and climbed many creaky wooden and stone ladders.

Last night's torrential rain seemed to have fallen on the woods, and in addition to long grass and unknown flowers, there were many small insects and squirrel-like animals scurrying about the ground and trees on some of the waterlogged and muddy ground.

Turn left and right, behind a grove of trees, there is a bare stone platform, a stone ladder appears on the edge of the platform, and Wille stepped forward, surrounded and in front of him is a curtain of huge trees, the branches of the forest are spreading, the leaves are hanging like yarn, and only a shallow river appears in the open field of vision under the platform. The water was so clear that the riverbed was visible, and even some of the rocks on the riverbed came out of the water, allowing the river to speed up and ripple as it flowed between them.

Vere walked over to the stone ladder, crouched down, and patted the stone ladder with his hand. "It doesn't matter if you drive." Turning his head, he looked at Pease, who was communicating with the monkey, and motioned if he wanted to go down from here. "Hmph." Pease nodded, then pointed his finger into the air, and Wiel looked for his finger to see that Pease was pointing across the river.

Ver nodded, tied the monkey to a nearby tree, and then took Pease in his arms with one hand, and climbed down the stone stairs with both hands and feet.

Monkey Armor looked at Pease as he watched him sink below the platform, and wanted to move forward, but was confined by the rope tied to the tree. Sitting down helplessly, quietly waiting for Weir to come up and take him down, how did the monkey know? What did Pease tell him...... The sound of climbing faded away, and the surroundings fell silent, and the monkey sat on the ground and sighed, "Hmm~tuck~".

Fortunately, I still remember such a place, you can come here by walking, when you come over, Monkey A has actually been on guard, it has been guarding against the big python on this road, although the monkey is not likely to disturb it when it runs by, but Monkey A is all the way, maybe his vigilance has avoided the snake...... My luck is really good.

Wille slowly climbed down this high platform, and when he was halfway down, he was somewhat surprised to find a half-rotten wooden sign that squeaked and swayed back and forth in mid-air, tied to a rope nailed to the stone wall, and Wille squinted and looked at it, and there was some handwriting written on it, but he was illiterate, and second, it was a little far away and he seemed to be weathered, a little blurry.

Pease, who was in his arms, looked around very quietly, climbing the ladder and going down, and Weir thought that he had found more and more "traces of survival" along the way, why did he say that? Because look at what you encounter, the corrupt, the rotten, the mossy, the broken, the ruined...... None of them were good, so Vere had reason to be sure that this was once a place where the Star Spirits lived, but by now, the Star Spirits might have migrated or ...... Gone.

Without much thought, Weier came to the gravel beach below, although he said so, but the ladder that Weier came down was only five or six steps away from the river, but fortunately, the river was calm and not turbulent, and the river was not deep, probably only beyond his feet...... At the highest point in the riverbed, of course. The high riverbed is like a natural sand bridge across the river.

Putting down Pease and telling him to wait for him here, Pease nodded and crouched to the side. Ver looked at him, jumped up slightly, grabbed the bottom of the ladder, and climbed up.

Pease sat on the ground, everything around gave Pease a familiar and unfamiliar feeling, he seemed to have seen these buildings a long time ago, but the impression was already very vague, Pease quietly looked at the river in front of him, in a small hole behind him, suddenly revealed a vigilant little head, and then, the whole body was exposed, the fur was brown and red, a furry, bigger than the body tail swinging behind it, holding a nut in his hand, his eyes swept around, and found Pease sitting on the gravel floor.

Feeling something tugging at him behind him, Pease turned around and saw that there was nothing. "Huh?" [Who?] The clothes were tugging again, and Pease realized that there was something behind his buttocks. "Squeak!" 【Here!】 Over here! "Huh? "Who are you? "Squeak! (omitted later)" [I haven't seen you for a long time, where have you been?] 【We? Pease was stunned when asked, "Who are we?" [It's just guys like you, where have they gone?] 【I...... I don't know what you're talking about? 【Aren't you a guy here?】 ......] Pease shook his head.

[It's really bad, you all collected a lot of delicious food before, and after you left, I was hungry and thin...... [...... I, I've got some food here......] Pease pulled a bunch of berries out of his pocket, and the squirrel sniffed. [Well, it's a sour fruit, forget it...... If one day you can meet the guys who lived here before, tell them to come back. Really, I have to worry about today's food again......] Anyway, without waiting for Pease to react, the squirrel turned around and disappeared into the hole.

【…… Wait] As soon as Pease reached out in the direction of the hole, the squirrel poked its head out again. [Oh, by the way, there's a guy who left this thing here a long time ago, and I wanted to return it to him, but he hasn't come since then...... It's good for you, remember to give it back to him for me...... Remuneration in words...... Prepare three for me, well, two large acorns. Good bye. The squirrel threw out a red sparkling gem with both hands. Pease picked him up, "Hey? Are you still there? There was no sound in the hole, maybe the squirrel had gone to prepare something to eat. Pease looked at the gem in his hand and placed it in his clothes.

"Tsk!" [I'm down!] Pease turned around and found that Weir was carrying the monkey down, to the last point of the stone staircase. "Don't move!" The monkey in Weier's arms was not quiet at all, writhing vigorously, and finally found the right balance, and fell towards the river beach, but when it fell halfway, the monkey shook the head of the rope out, and the rope was also clever, and he tripped in the air, and the rope hooked the stone ladder that was already a little burrgy, and then Weier fell to the ground and hit a crooked, and the monkey fell in mid-air not high above the ground, and swung back and forth on the stone ladder like a swing when he came down.

Syllable! "Tsk!" [Oops! Smack! [Woohoo! Smack! [Hmm! 】

The monkey's face didn't hit the stone wall, and Pease's head tilted back, what he wanted to say to Wiel...... What's going on? Oh! "Humph!" [Weir, put it down quickly]

Will looked at the monkey, and the brow on one eye jumped, "Let you move...... Burst! Vere couldn't hold back and laughed. Seeing Weil laughing, Pease also laughed half anxiously and half happily.

"Tsk!" 【Put me down......】Smack! The stone flute was broken by the monkey's weight, and he sat down on the ground.

"Hahaha...... gloating, referring to the current state of Wille...... Really, it's annoying to keep annoying...... However, Vere really couldn't help it...... And Pease.

"Okay, it's fine......" Will looked at the monkey's face, the swing just now was very light, except for the last ass squat, the monkey didn't have any other injuries, just a little funny and embarrassed. Relaxed, and Weir relaxed his vigilance against the monkeys a little. Under the monkey's astonished gaze, Wille untied the rope from the monkey's body.

Monkey A touched his body, "You didn't try to run away from it, but waited for me quietly...... I'm not going to tie you up, but you're going to show us the way. Although he didn't understand what Weir was talking about, Monkey A burst into tears of excitement because it had a feeling that it was being believed by the abusive guy in front of .......

This is the animal, obviously it has been beaten all the time, it has always been itself leading the way, it has been suffering, but as long as the person who treats it has a contrast, even if the contrast is made by that person himself, the animal will be grateful to you. So, with more tolerance and trust, the world will become a better place...... Well, well, in fact, Weir also has his own plans, the monkey is on it and now he doesn't try to escape, that binding will affect the speed, and like just now, he will be very troublesome, in addition, Weir looked at Pease, this star spirit child can communicate with the monkey, naturally there will be no unexpected misunderstanding...... Best of both worlds.

"Alright, let's go." Waving, Wille took off his shoes, took Pease's hand, and the three of them walked together across the river to the opposite side of the river, where the current was cool and gentle, and the bed was wide and raised. When it's not raining, it's a great place for kids to splash in the water.

The river was not wide, and soon, the group came to the opposite bank. Veil glanced back, and between the stone platform high up behind him and the river beach, except for the billboard-like wooden sign that was still swaying in the breeze, all that was left was a bare stone wall, nothing, no vines, no flowers, no holes that squirrels could burrow, nothing.

Just a complete, smooth stone wall.