It wasn't until they saw the rain mice that had been held in Qi Ning'an's hands and touched twice from time to time that they decided to come forward to save it

"That, hello Walkers, I'm Qiqi, the Realm Guard of the Zelin Realm." A strong curly-eared monkey jumped down from a tree branch and walked up to the crowd and saluted respectfully

Lu Zhihai clenched his fists with both hands, saluted back and said, "It's a lot of disturbance, we are just passing by, and we will leave soon."

Hou Qiqi hurriedly said, "Don't disturb, don't bother, it's our honor for you travelers to come to the Zelin Realm, it's just ...... Just ......"

Hou Qiqi looked at the rain mouse in Qi Ning'an's hand again and again, a little embarrassed.

Qi Ning'an felt strange, looked at the little creature in his hand that was still trembling, looked at Hou Qiqi again, and asked, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong with this rain mouse? ”

"No, no, it's a blessing that adults love it so much. Merely...... It's just that the military master of our Zelin realm is also a rain mouse, and he has always cared for his people, if he sees it, I'm afraid it will ...... It's going to be a little ...... Unhappy ......"

"Oh, I see, I'm sorry,...... Little guy, I'm sorry, you can go home quickly......" Qi Ning'an hurriedly put the rain mouse in his hand on the ground, and it ran away, and she was still reluctant

Lu Zhili had a strong interest in what Hou Qiqi said, and he had to drag everyone to the mansion of the realm keeper to see it. Hou Qiqi was also very happy to invite all the Walkers, so everyone went to the Hou Mansion of the Guardian with a smile.

Strictly speaking, the home of Hou Mingshi, the guardian of the realm, is not a mansion, at best it is a relatively large treehouse

A tree house built on the branches of an ancient and luxuriant camphor tree, using several large tree forks that stretch outward, with relatively good tenacity climbing vines to build a guest hall and a study, as well as two bedrooms.

Next to this cloud-breaking camphor tree are several dripping cypress trees that are also hundreds of years old, and there are more than a dozen slightly smaller tree houses on the trunk in an orderly manner, which is the residence of the guards.

Hou Mingshi, the guardian of the realm, and his military advisor Hou Yu were discussing the management of the captive creatures in the realm of open defecation, and they were surprised to hear the report of the realm guards that another team of walkers passed through the Zelin realm

Some time ago, the walker team led by Captain Lu San caught the cloud-swallowing frog outside the realm and didn't leave, why did another walker team pass by?

Hou Mingshi jumped down from the tree house, Hou Yu stood on his shoulder, and saw Hou Qiqi coming over with a few people from afar.

Lu Zhili and the others also saw the rain mouse on Hou Mingshi's shoulder at a glance, much more than the rain mouse they picked up, standing on the shoulder of the boundary keeper, bigger than Lu Zhihai's palm, with a face full of dark gray hair, with an obvious human-like expression, but everyone still felt good! Can! Love! Phew!

Especially the little paws, the little eyes are spinning, and the little nose twitches from time to time, my mom, it's too cute!

Lu Zhili, Lu Zhihai and Qi Ning'an were too excited, Lin Lu was a little blind, and reminded in a low voice, "Convergence, that's the military advisor of the Zelin realm!" ”

The three of them barely controlled it, and when they walked up to Hou Mingshi, they still couldn't help it

As soon as Qi Ning'an clasped his fists with Hou Mingshi and saluted, he stretched out his hand and said to Hou Yu, "Hello, Master Soldier, I am Qi Ning'an, the guardian of the human realm, I am very happy to see you, can I shake hands with you?" ”

Lin Lu couldn't help but cover his forehead on the side, can you not be so embarrassed, people are claws, claws, what kind of hand are you holding? !

Although Hou Yu felt weird, out of politeness, he still stretched out his front paws and shook Qi Ning'an, making Qi Ning'an so excited that he was about to jump up

Then there was Lu Zhihai and Lu Zhili, the two were also scrambling to shake hands with Hou Yu to say hello, but they were ruthlessly ignored

Seeing the two of them with regretful expressions, Qi Ning's handle floated in front of them, and he also made a claw shaking motion.

Hou Mingshi couldn't see the careful thinking of these three people, many walkers who saw the rain mice for the first time would be adored by them

Rain mice are timid by nature, and have no power to resist, if it is a human who knows how to love, it is fine, but when it comes to a human with a bad mind, the tribesmen are either scared to death or hurt in various ways. So over time, as long as he saw that some people were arrested, the military advisor was very angry.

However, the only girl in the team just now, said to be the guardian of the human world?

In order to understand the doubts in his happiness, Hou Mingshi decisively betrayed the military advisor, he invited the military advisor to Lu Zhihai's shoulder, and then sent an invitation to Qi Ning'an

"Lord Qi is the guardian of the human world, and we are also neighbors, can you explain the scenery and human affairs of the human world to Hou?"

Qi Ning'an was also the first time to see a boundary keeper other than his grandfather, and he was very curious, so he gladly accepted it, and the two walked forward slowly side by side

Lu Zhihai and Lu Zhili in the back were already happy, and kept communicating with Hou Yu about various questions, and they seemed to be chatting hotly, but in fact, the two of them were just cutely surprised by Hou Yu's one-sided expression.

Hou Mingshi was thin, about his early fifties, like a scholar

However, Qi Ning'an can feel that the spiritual power on his body is profound, and he is not inferior to Lu Zhihai and others at all, although it is not as good as land, air and air, but around the Zelin Realm, there are few creatures with high combat effectiveness, and most of the training and combat guidance of the realm guards in peacetime are in charge of the military division, and Hou Mingshi, the guardian of the realm, has been a guardian for more than 30 years, and it is quite easy.

In front of Qi Ning'an, he gave her a feeling of communicating with her father, she was very relaxed, and told the story of her grandfather's death two years ago, and her experience of being ordered to become a guardian of the boundary, and the guilt and self-blame in her tone made Hou Mingshi sigh with emotion

"Lord Qi, I have been a Boundary Keeper for more than thirty years, and I have never left the Zelin Realm for a single step, everything about the outside is from the Walker Adults who occasionally patrol here, do you know why the Boundary Keeper of each small world must be appointed by the Heng Boundary at the beginning, and from the second term, the Heng Boundary will not interfere?"

Qi Ning'an was puzzled, he continued to say, "Because when each small world was just established, everyone knew nothing about the creatures around them, and at this time, people with strong force were needed to guard it, and we, the human beings who moved over, were scattered in all corners of the vast continent very early, and in order to survive every day, they would kill each other, if everyone obtained the way of spiritual power cultivation, then ......"

"There will be wars, and there will be fewer and fewer human beings"

Hou Mingshi glanced at her appreciatively and said again

"Therefore, the adults of the Heng Realm selected the first batch of boundary guards from their own race, and also cultivated the first batch of domesticated creatures as boundary guards, after all, we cannot occupy the entire vast continent, and there are some natural rules that we must also abide by, domesticated boundary guards can enhance our understanding of more creatures, and the human beings under their protection will also imperceptibly and have more love for other creatures on the vast continent......"

"After the strong guard, the first batch of guardians from the Hengjie came out of the realm, and they know the humans in the small world they have guarded, so from the second term, the guardians should be selected from the humans in the small world, and most of them are from their own descendants, so that they can be instilled with the idea of the guardian from an early age, and after taking over, they will take the guardian as the first goal, and to this day, many ordinary human beings have been passed down from generation to generation, and almost not many people know the existence of the guardians and the guards, But the inheritance that belongs to the guardians of the realm has never been broken."

Hou Mingshi explained the teachings that the realm guards had received from childhood to adulthood and explained them to Qi Ning'an one by one.

“…… Your grandfather really loves you, but at the same time, he also violated the most basic principle of being a boundary keeper, that is, he didn't cultivate you early, but hurt you, and almost harmed the entire human world, so it's not you who is wrong, but your grandfather! ”

Hou Mingshi said to Qi Ning'an seriously, "You have not been taught by any boundary keepers, and you can protect the dangerous human world so steadily in just two years, you should be proud, not blame yourself."

Qi Ningan didn't want to say that her grandfather was not, but Hou Mingshi's words also made the guilt and self-blame she had been feeling disappear.

She was very grateful to Hou Mingshi, "Thank you so much, Lord Hou." From your point of view, my grandfather is wrong, but for me, he will always be the best defender. Hou Mingshi smiled, I like this neighbor very much!

"Compared with you, I feel that I have been a realm keeper for more than 30 years, and I am quite plain" It is rare to meet a junior who is traveling with him, Hou Mingshi enthusiastically introduced Qi Ning'an to the creatures outside the Zelin realm.

So, Qi Ning'an knew that Hou Yu would become a military advisor, which was really a surprising thing

Hou Mingshi just opened the spiritual vein when he was five years old, and he was full of curiosity about all living things, and he wanted to use some small creatures to practice his hands all day long, so the weakest rain mouse became the object of bad luck.

The first rain mouse he caught was Hou Yu, Hou Yu is also an outlier among the rain mice, he is very big, and he looks very clever, and Hou Mingshi, who is still a child, regards it as his little friend, and carries Hou Yu in his pocket no matter what he does.

Then one day, Hou Mingshi's father, the previous guardian of the realm, discovered that this rain mouse actually knew how to use spiritual skills!

Later, it was discovered that it was Hou Mingshi who secretly helped it open the spiritual vein and taught its little friends to cultivate spiritual energy

Hou Mingshi's father was worried that he would be punished, so he truthfully explained everything to Lord Xing, but he didn't expect it to attract the interest of some hermit adults in the Heng Realm.

The rain mice are timid by nature and have no combat effectiveness, no one has ever thought of domesticating this creature into a realm guard, and after countless experiments by the hermit adults, it was found that there is no second rain mice that can withstand the pain of opening the spiritual vein, so as to cultivate spiritual power, so Hou Yu was treated as a treasure and stayed.

It also did not live up to Hou Mingshi's care and love for it, and together with Hou Mingshi, it learned a lot of knowledge to protect the Zelin Realm, and was even more diligent than Hou Mingshi, specializing in learning how to train the Realm Guards to deal with creatures outside the realm.