Zijin and Zigui were waiting below, and after a while, they saw the little girl coming down in his arms.

"The little boy found it, are you okay?" Zijin asked

"I don't know why, the little guy didn't react. I've been like this since I first found it. Touching the face of the little girl, hoping that the little girl would give him a little reaction.

At this time, the black squirrel followed a white squirrel to Zhi. The white squirrel has snow-white fur all over its body without a trace of variegation, and its eyes are red, like bright red gemstones.

The white squirrel jumped onto Zhi's shoulder and touched Zhi's face with his little paws, and a human voice immediately sounded in the valley: "Hello, welcome to Squirrel Valley." ”

"I am the valley master of this Squirrel Valley, and my name is Bai Xu."

"Hello, I want to know why my little girl is in your valley?" Zhi asked.

"I'd like to ask you one thing first." Bai continued: "Why is the squirrel in your arms different from us? ”

"It's not really a squirrel, it's a puppet, I made it two years ago?"

"Then since it's a puppet, why does it have the breath of a living squirrel?"

"I don't know about the breath you said, two years ago I picked up an injured squirrel, I wanted to cure it, but in the end it didn't work, I'm a puppeteer, so I made the remains of that squirrel into a puppet."

"I see. Can I ask what that squirrel of yours looked like when he was alive? ”

"The dead squirrel's fur was black all over and its belly was white, but I remember the hair on the soles of its feet was white."

"That's right!" Suddenly, Bai Xu's voice became excited.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong? Zijin asked.

"The squirrel you treated two years ago is my brother, his name is Bai Yan, and the two of us are twins, but the hair on my whole body has been white since I was born. Two years ago, when we were young, my brother and I naughtily ran out of Squirrel Valley to play, and we met humans on the way, and they saw that I was going to arrest me, and my brother was injured by them to protect me, and then I fled back to Squirrel Valley, and my brother never came back, and we thought he was dead. Then my father died of grief, and I succeeded him as the lord of Squirrel Valley. ”

"Little boy was your brother before he died?" Zijin was amazed.

"It should be."

"Since the little girl has a relationship with you, why did you let it become this immobile state?" Zhi asked.

"We don't know what's going on." Bai Xu explained: "Yesterday my mother suddenly told me that she felt her brother's breath, so she ran out of Squirrel Valley, and when she came back, we saw her come back with the strange-looking guy in your arms, who had a hard body and no hair. His mother said that he was his brother and that he had his brother's soul in his body. Although it could not communicate with us in the language of the clan, I could feel close to it. I guess it's a feeling that family is born with! But it didn't take long for it to suddenly fall and there was no response, and my mother was in a hurry and ran to the god of the forest to ask what was going on. I placed it in the hollow of the first pine tree, where our people could heal when they were wounded. ”

"Since you have been hurt by humans, how can you bring us over to find the little girl?" Zhi asked.

"Before my mother left, she said that she had found her brother from a white-haired human, and that white-haired human must have been you, and I knew it as soon as you entered this valley. Mother said, "My brother is very close to you, and I think that since my brother trusts you, you should not cause us any harm, so I asked my men to bring you over." ”

"Then I want to ask why you are able to communicate with you in human language?" Ask.

"Not only me, but also my mother and some of my strong spiritual tribesmen can communicate with you in human language, which is a gift from the god of the forest to my people. In order to repay the god of the forest, we are responsible for the task of defending. ”

"And when will your mother be able to return?"

"Soon, she's been gone for half a day, and I think she'll be back soon."

The little girl in his arms hugged him tighter again, he looked at the little boy with some distress, and silently prayed in his heart that the little boy was safe. He was a little panicked, because even if the contract was successful, he didn't react after encountering something, and it was the first time he had encountered it.

Zijin watched such a nervous persistence from the side, and he also became anxious. Zigui sensed Zijin's anxiety and gently took her hand.

After a while, a squirrel appeared at the entrance of the cave where they came, a squirrel with orange fur and a snow-white belly. The squirrel walked up to Zhi. Bai Xu hurriedly jumped over and said, "Mother, you're back." Have you asked the god of the forest? Why didn't my brother suddenly move? ”

The orange squirrel looked at Zhi and said, "The god of the forest said that your brother's soul was excited and happy because he had returned home, so he broke away from this shell and ran around in the forest. He was not buried after his death, but made a contract with someone, and if he was not called back, his soul would wander in this world for eternity, and after a long time, the soul would disappear, and there was no way to re-cycle cause and effect. ”

"So what to do?" Bai Xu asked.

"Young man, it was you who signed a contract with my son Bai Yan, and it was you who left my son in the world, so now only you can let him come back, and he can continue his journey in the next life after a hundred years. Will you help me call him back? The orange squirrel asked.

"No matter what, as long as I can get the little boy back, I can do anything!"

"Well, young man, I will now summon my son's soul by taking the blood from the tip of your heart, will you?"

"I do!" Zhi said without hesitation.

Zijin on the side heard it and asked anxiously: "Take the blood on the tip of the heart, this is to be disemboweled, how do you live?" No, I don't agree. Persistence, although the little boy is very important to you, you can't exchange your life for it! ”

"I know, but apart from my grandmother, Xiao Liang is my most important family, and I can't bear that I have the ability not to save my family. I couldn't help it when my grandmother died, but I could. ”

"But..."

"If one day something happens to the son and you need to exchange your life, what choice will you make?"

"I—" Zijin didn't know, she never thought this would happen.

"For the sake of the little girl, I am willing!" Persistence.

At this time, the orange squirrel spoke: "Young man, it's not that serious, I only need to use a spell to take a drop of blood from your heart, I won't want your life, and after a period of cultivation, you can recover your health." But I was really touched to hear that you were willing to sacrifice yourself to save my child. ”

"This is what I should do, my little boy is my family."

"Alright, let's get started!"