Chapter 3: The Enigmatic Child

Climbing these towering cliffs with bare hands was very difficult for the island's natives, but it was a breeze for him and the child, who had made it into the forest before nightfall.

The child led him to a large stone wall that leaned against another towering boulder, creating a shelter from the wind and rain, dry and clean. In addition to the two of them, there are also many birds and animals gathered here. Ever since they entered the forest, the beasts had been following them, looking at them curiously, not afraid of life at all.

"You should have come to me sooner. Without warning, the child brought up the subject again, as if they had already known each other well.

He had clearly told the child that they had never met before, but the child clearly did not take his words seriously, and still had a look on his face taken for granted. So, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why do you think I'm here for you?"

"As soon as I saw you, I knew it. The boy had already taken this as an established fact, ignored his doubts, and asked to himself, "That thing called a boat can bring us where you came, right?"

He couldn't understand why the child was so sure he was here to find him, and in fact, he didn't even know what kind of species the child belonged to. He felt he needed to take a moment to think about how to deal with these strange questions.

But before he could clear his thoughts, the child looked at him again and said, "You are so beautiful, this is exactly what I like." ”

Indeed, the contours of the features of this overseas visitor are very peculiar, and his body is much taller than that of the natives of the island, and his body is very slender and well-proportioned. He has long blue and green hair, the tail of his eyebrows and the tail of his eyes are slightly raised, and there is a small whirl of eyebrows like blooming flowers on each side of his eyebrows, and his eyes are narrow and long, and his blue eyes are like a clear sea. He also had a faint cyan halo around him, a natural biological light that was barely visible during the day, but the darker the day, the more noticeable the halo became. In the darkness, even without the lighting of torches, his physical form was very clear.

The most special thing is his body. The face is smooth and delicate, and there are some strange textures distributed in the hairline, like regular and graceful veins on the leaves, with a faint cyan streamer flowing in between, looming under the white and transparent skin. His nails are like transparent crystals, and under the skin of the backs of his hands and feet, there are also vein-like streamers distributed on his hands, and he must have them on his body.

Unlike the rough fabrics of the island, he wore a rather simple robe, as soft as white petals. There was a small pattern at the cuffs of the robe, a flaming sun, and a graceful tree in the middle of the sun, and nothing else. Although it was a little broken now, there were hooks, cuts, and some unexplained cracks, but it didn't matter, he looked pure and natural, like an elf from the forest.

"I'm glad you like me. But, in my opinion, you are the most amazing being......" When the child praised him, he couldn't help but be attracted to the child again.

Because, the child's incredible eyes, in the daytime, were as clear as rubies, but when the sky darkened, they slowly turned into a profound darkness. At the same time, the eyes begin to appear with many shining stars, mostly blue and red, but if you look closely, you will see that there are gold, green, and purple in between...... Twinkle and twinkle, sometimes like stars in the sky, sometimes like a brilliant nebula, unpredictable, shocking. If it weren't for the fact that the child was standing clearly in front of him, he would not have imagined the existence of this life form. These eyes are like a galaxy that encompasses the entire universe, vast and infinitely wise, as if the child is not standing in the dense mountains and forests at the moment, but soaring in the vast universe.

"Who are you?" I don't know you, but why don't I feel strange......" he exclaimed again. Because, this child also exudes a soft biological light around his body, and the aura is so similar that if he ignores the child's form, there is no sense of disobedience, but it is an undeniable fact that he has never met before, and he has never even heard of such a pair of eyes. What's more, there are all kinds of races in the universe that seem to be similar, but in fact they are very different, and it seems a little reluctant to determine what relationship they have just by their similar breaths. So, in order to get to know the child better, he began to probe, "My name is Silo. Can you tell me your name?"

"What's a name?" the child asked curiously.

"Your name is what people call you. Siloh explained.

"Oh, that's right. The child nodded knowingly, but then said nothing about the name.

This made Silo realize that the child might not have a name. So, he had to test the identity of the child in a different way, and then asked, "What about your people? Did they bring you here? When did you come?"

Based on the child's previous description of the island's inhabitants, Silo was already certain that this was also the ruling place of the Lepelians. In fact, this is not unusual, and it can be said to be expected, so the child must have come from somewhere else. In addition, from the child's previous question, it is not difficult for Silo to find that the child should have never seen a ship, which indirectly indicates that the Lepelian people on the island may not know how to build ships yet. Who, then, sent this child to the island in what way, or was he born here?

"When I opened my eyes, I was already here. The child replied.

Hearing this, Siloh couldn't help but confirm his guess more and more, and then thought that the person who sent the child here might be no longer there for some reason. After all, in a world ruled by the Lepelians, it was not easy for them to survive as an alien race. Moreover, the rough seas are always unpredictable, and if they had come by boat, the ship would have sunk in the deep sea near the island. But it is also possible that they did not come to this world by boat, but in other ways......

Regarding the question of the child's ethnic origin, Silo is still puzzled. Although this kid somehow thinks that Silo is here to find him, in fact, Silo is a streamer, and this kid is obviously not. Although there are a total of twelve different forms of the Streamers, none of them match the child's characteristics. However, the strange thing is that the breath on the child's body makes Xiluo feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity, which is the mystery that haunts him the most.

So Siloh asked again, "Do you know how long you've been here?"

"I've watched the sunrise three thousand times here. ”

From the child's answers, Siloh quickly deduced when he first appeared on the island. According to the laws of time in this world, the child should have appeared ten years ago. For every 300 days in this world is called a year, and the year is divided into four quarters according to the seasons, each quarter has seventy-five days, and each day is divided into two periods: day and night. Since there are two moons in the sky, the night time is divided into three periods: the first moon, the double moon, and the last moon. The indigenous people of this world, the Lepelian, need to eat five to six times a day to maintain their normal vitality, especially the meal before bedtime, because each day is a long time.

However, even if the time of the child's appearance in this world is calculated, Xiluo still has no clue about his ethnic origins.

Since that day of meeting, Silo has temporarily taken up residence in this forest. After a few days of covert observation, Siloh finally got to know the island to a certain extent, and was no longer as vigilant as he was when he first arrived. Despite this, as long as he is still in this world, Silo can't be too careless. Because, no matter when and where, the hostility of the indigenous people of this world, the Lepelian people, towards the aliens is difficult to dissolve. They always have prejudices about things that are beyond the scope of their own cognition, and they reject them without saying anything, and even strangle them mercilessly. The only good thing is that the Lepelian people who live on this small island hardly come near the forest where the child lives, so no one has noticed his arrival yet.

In addition, Xiluo also found that the island did not have any traces of invasion by continental civilizations, nor did it see any form of agriculture and animal husbandry, which shows that there are great differences in the historical process of different regions of the world. Another group of aborigines living in the Western and Eastern Continents already possessed writing and metal tools. However, on this small island in the South China Sea, far from the mainland, people still live in a relatively old form of society. They are very vigilant in guarding their habitat, never stepping a foot on the island, not even a simple raft, and certainly do not eat fish, or even fish. Because everything that has to do with the sea is evil to them. Therefore, the Lepeilian people on the island naturally did not know the existence of the Streamer people, who were regarded by the Lepeilian people on the mainland as alien invaders.

The indigenous people who live on this small island are almost all yellow hair, dark brown skin and eyes, and slightly shorter than the other group of Lepelians on the mainland. In addition to brown hair and eye pupils, the Lepelian people on the mainland also have black, golden, brownish-red hair, and blue, green, gray, or black eye pupils, and their skin color also shows different shades with geographical differences. The biggest common denominator is that the indigenous people of this world have two arc-shaped lunates on their foreheads.

The strange color of a child's flame-like hair, and the eyes that change day and night, Siloh has never seen it, let alone heard of it. Not only among the Lepeilian people, but even among the Streamer people who have twelve different forms of groups, there are none.

The language spoken by the inhabitants of the island is different from that spoken by the Lepelian people on the mainland. But to Xiluo's surprise, this child, who had never been to the mainland, was able to understand the Lai Peilian language on the mainland.

Since the child of unknown ethnicity suddenly appeared in front of him when the boat he was riding on was docked at the bottom of the cliff, Siloh tried to question the child in the Lepelian language, which is spoken on the mainland, instead of his own ethnic language, the streamer. At that time, the child also spoke to him in Lepelian, so it was natural for Silo to think that the language spoken on this small island was similar to that of the mainland, only to discover later that the truth was diametrically opposed.

Since the boy had never been to the mainland and had been living alone on this small island, how did he learn the Lepelian language spoken on the mainland? Who taught him? The succession of questions made the mystery of the child even more mysterious, and Siloh was puzzled.