Chapter 3: The Talking Stone

The bell's tender glance back gave Motoo great satisfaction, but he also knew that in front of his uncle and aunt, he couldn't come out to meet his cousin. Fortunately, it is easier for both people to be content, knowing that each other is nearby, and there will be no other thoughts.

Hiding in the bushes and looking at his cousin, uncle, aunt and others, Motoo showed a maturity that was different from other children, he just hid there, looking affectionately... Looking...

Until noon, when the summer sun was scorching, even the bronzed old farmers felt a little tired, and the villagers of Huangshi Village left the fields one after another and agreed to go back to the village to rest.

The bell deliberately fell behind the crowd, turning around three times in one step, Yuanwei quietly poked out half of his head and waved desperately at her.

Watching the figure of the bell disappear at the entrance of the village, Motowei was a little melancholy. He turned around to look around, only to find that Ash was long gone, and Motoo reluctantly walked towards the wooden house alone.

The terrifying height of Liangji Mountain makes the nearby terrain have a considerable slope, Huangshi Village is located at the bottom of the slope at the foot of the mountain, and the cabin in Yuanwei is located directly north of Huangshi Village, that is, at the top of the slope at the foot of the mountain. Monkey Gully is located to the west of the cabin, and to the east of the cabin there is a bottomless mountain stream called Echo Stream.

Happiness and melancholy appeared on Motoo's body at the same time, which made the twelve-year-old boy a little overwhelmed, he urgently needed someone to talk to, but unfortunately Ash was afraid of his nagging and had long since disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

Scratching his head, Motowei walked towards the east with a cane.

In the two seasons of the mountain, Motoo and anyone can talk about mountain beasts, trees, wild flowers, the sun, the bright moon and stars, and so on. But this kind of communication has always been one-sided, only the end of the talk, and the other listening.

Of course, there are exceptions, and that is a boulder in the Echo Stream.

Echo stream, as the name suggests, shouts at the edge of the stream, and there are bursts of echoes. Yuanwei, who begged for a living in the forest, cried and laughed by the stream more than once in the past four years, just to listen to a human voice, even if it was still his own voice.

But one day two years ago, after he told his recent experience as usual, a boulder suddenly responded, calling itself "Benxian", and kept taunting and sarcastic about him. However, Motoo was very happy, and he didn't care about ridicule and sarcasm, but tried to get close to it, with only one purpose, that is, to talk more for a while.

But the boulder seems to have gone through the vicissitudes of time, and is a little cold to Motoo, and not all the time will respond to him.

I picked a few wild fruits, and staggered for two hours while eating, until the sun set in the west, and Motoo came to the boulder by the mountain stream.

The boulder resembles a huge hen, with a height of more than ten zhang. Hen stone is a common cyan mountain stone, which has been eroded by unknown tens of thousands of years, and the surface is full of potholes.

He placed a few wild fruits in a shallow hole in the surface of the boulder, and Motoo sat down.

"Hey!" he cleared his throat.

Only his own echo wafted in the mountain stream. According to past experience, Hen Stone would not speak until he had been talking for a while.

"Heyβ€”" Motoo let out a long voice, like a village mother calling for a naughty child.

"You're here, boy, I'm going to look for you!" a majestic voice suddenly came, and the voice was full of indescribable majesty.

Motoo was a little surprised that Hen Stone responded so early. He didn't think much about it, and eagerly wanted to pour out his happiness and troubles: "Well, I saw the bell today!"

As if he hadn't heard Motoo's words, Hen Shi asked to himself, "Where were you last night?"

"Last night, Sister Bell came to me yesterday and sent me five nests, golden and golden, fragrant and sweet, I don't know how there can be such delicious food in the world. It's a pity that I wasn't at the cabin last night, so I had to go to her today, and guess what just happened?" Motoo babbled, extremely excited.

"I guess! I ask where you were last night?" Hen Stone wasn't actually a very good listener.

"Last night, oh, yesterday Dahong fell and injured her hind leg, and I went to pick her bones, and it was a long delay. But the bell was supposed to come to me yesterday, so I rushed back desperately after I was cured, and you know that I don't walk fast, so I definitely won't see the bell, so I have to go to her today, do you guess I saw her?"

"I don't care if you see it or not, let me ask you, where were you last night?"

"Why don't you guess? I'm sure I've seen her! And I'm..."

"Shut up! I ask you where you were last night!"

"Didn't I tell you last night? Yesterday Da Hong fell and injured his hind leg, and I went to bone it, and it was delayed for a long time. But the bell was supposed to come to me yesterday, so I rushed back desperately after the big red was cured, and you know I can't walk fast..."

"Shut up! I just ask you where you were last night!" Hen Stone shouted to stop him from continuing.

"Yesterday was red..."

"Big red, big red, big red fart, I asked where you were last night!"

"Yesterday the bell..."

"Shut up, I'm asking you!"

"I, I'll give the red..."

"Shut up! I haven't seen a little cub like you in thousands of years. Ben Xian is going crazy, don't go around me in circles, you just need to answer my questions. Did you sleep last night?"

"Sleeping?"

"Where did you sleep?"

"Under the tree. I was supposed to find a good place, but I didn't see the bell yesterday and was in a bad mood..."

"Shut up!

"In the woods east of Monkey Gully, I should have found some hay to mat, but..."

"Shut up! What was wrong there last night?"

"Abnormal? It was unusually dark last night, in fact, I couldn't find hay and find some leaves, you know I didn't sleep well last night, and my body was full of pimples, because..."

"Shut up! Did you see anything glowing last night, or heard a loud noise?"

"No, I slept very well at night, even if I leaned against that tree last night..."

"Shut up for me!" Before the words fell, an orange tornado blew up from the echo stream, mixed with rocks, dead branches and leaves, covering the mountains and forests in a radius of several miles.

Motoo barely opened his eyes, and was surprised to find a huge figure leaping up from the bottom of the ditch and landing steadily in front of him. This is a colorful giant tiger, Motowei can't describe its enormity, only feels like a small grasshopper in front of a giant that has been squeezed into a giant.

"Shut up, little cub!" the giant tiger lowered its head and roared viciously, its huge fangs emitting an icy reflection, making Motoo shiver. Yuan Wei couldn't figure out that the voice that had been talking for two years was not from the hen stone, but from a giant tiger, and it was a giant tiger with teeth bigger than himself!

Looking at Motowei stunned, the giant tiger seemed to be very disdainful, it looked up at the west, and said to itself: "I feel the oppressive aura, is it for me? Where else can I hide?"

Motowei looked up at the giant tiger, its dark orange hair was mixed with black markings, shining like silk with dazzling brilliance, he wanted to reach out and touch it, but the giant tiger's powerful royal majesty oppressed himself and couldn't get up from the ground.

"I said, "Well, are you the one who has been talking to me for the past two years?" I thought it was a hen..."Motoo interrupted the tiger's musings and raised his hand to point to the hen stone beside him.

"Hen? do you think this fairy is a hen?" the giant tiger was furious, and the giant claws pressed down like a dark cloud, but in the end it only stayed on the top of Yuanwei's head, "Could it be that this fairy is old? Why do you have an irrepressible affection for your little cub?"

"Ahem, that Tiger-sama, is your name Honsen?" asked Motowei as he struggled under the giant claws.

The giant tiger was speechless, trembled a few times, and finally put away the giant claws.

It seemed to have made a lot of determination, squatted on the ground, lowered its posture as much as possible, and talked patiently with Yuanwei: "The name of this immortal is Broken Cloud, you remember it." At the moment of the great enemy, I don't have much time, but I'm a little unwilling. That's why I want to give you a transformation. However, in this troubled time, it may also be a disaster. It's up to you whether it's a blessing or a curse. ”

Broken Cloud seemed to be speaking very clearly, but Motowei couldn't understand the meaning of this. As a twelve-year-old child enclosed in the mountains, he knew very little, and he wanted to ask something, but found that the broken clouds rose into the air and turned into a dazzling golden light, and the light fell from the sky.

"Mother-" Yuanwei was frightened, and his voice became sharp and piercing, and he fainted to the ground after pulling his throat fiercely. If someone could look down on the earth from the sky at this time, they would definitely find that a circle of golden brilliance shockwaves centered on Yuanwei spread out in all directions with a bang, stretching for hundreds of miles. The mountains, plains, forests, and terraced fields within a radius of hundreds of miles trembled like an earthquake.

The people in this area were all panicked, and the hammer in Huangshi Village even collapsed again, and he collapsed to the ground. The beasts on the mountain in the two seasons were also confused, and all kinds of beasts gathered together and roared at the sun.

The brilliance dissipated, and Motoo lay there unharmed.

At the top of the mountain, another hurricane rushed straight to the position of Yuanwei, the ancient trees were churning, and a faint earth-colored figure was hidden in it, mixed with a strong smell of blood.

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