Chapter 17: The Adventure
"Sister, come and chase me." Charelle squatted on top of the tallest boulder and stared intently at the blue banana forest in front of her, as if here she heard her former sister's banter and laughter again. Charier had forgotten her agreement with Jia Er and immersed herself in the ocean of memories.
Charelle's younger sister, Taya, has always been so innocent, and the two sisters have loved to play here since they were children, playing hide and seek, learning and training their flying skills. There are a lot of good times here with Xia Lier and her sister Duogu, Duogu has always been flying faster than Xia Leier, and Xia Leier has never won against her sister.
But Xia Lei'er has never been jealous of her sister, because Duogu is the fastest flying among the moths, except for Xia Lei'er, who barely approaches her speed, everyone else will always be thrown away, and Duogu's change of direction is too fast, and she is the pride of the moths.
Not only is Taya innocent and cute, she is also an adventurous girl. Taya has been best friends with Scaly Rot's son, Dana, since he was a child, so the two of them often go together to explore the unknown world outside. Although Empress E repeatedly warned her not to set foot in the far west, she did not listen to it and went anyway. That time, in order to make Taya die, Chariel took her and Dana out to sea from the Red Lake to bypass the mysterious Black Forest and reach the forbidden land of the far West.
It was a sunny morning and the weather was unusually calm. Taya and his sister Xia Leier came to the edge of the Red Lake after cleaning up the blue banana fruits they had just picked. Just in time to see their nemesis, Dana, rowing in front of him in his beloved wooden boat, was engrossed in tending to his little wooden boat, and he was ready to go fishing to the west of the Red Lake. Taya was overjoyed when he saw it, and called Dana to pull his sister to go fishing with Dana. Xia Leier couldn't resist much grain, thinking that after all, they hadn't eaten fish for a while, so they agreed to go together.
On the small narrow boat about 5 meters long, except for the small cabin in the middle of the rain, there is a pavilion at the stern for storing water, and the bow of the boat can seat just three people. The small sailboat carried them to talk and laugh, and slid down the east wind to the west of the Red Lake.
Duogu is a little shorter than Xia Leier, her round face is different from Xia Leier's melon seed face, and she does not have the faint melancholy on Xia Leier's face, she is always so lively. The long eyelashes always like to keep beating when they speak, and a pair of big eyes below emit a smart light with the beating of the eyelashes, so cute and innocent. In front of her sister and Dana, Tagu is petite and young and lively, and Dana has no reason not to let her, while Xia Lier will always love her sister.
By noon, Dana's boat had arrived in the middle of the Red Lake, about 160 kilometers away from the Mana River Delta. Along the way, Dana dives to the bottom of the lake from time to time in search of the mothman's favorite food, the jumping fish. The jumping fish is usually 30 cm long and weighs about 10 catties, and its body is covered with small light black scales. Jumping fish often move in groups in waters 20 meters below the surface of the water, and their staple food is algae and flying insects on the surface of the water, and there are usually hundreds or even thousands of jumping fish in a group. They have a pair of large fins, plus a dorsal fin and a wider tail. Therefore, when the jumping fish is pursued by other hunters underwater, it can leap to a height of several meters, fly for dozens of seconds and then return to the water.
The jumping fish population is large and very fast underwater, allowing it to escape most of the other fish threats. However, they are very slow in the air and are easy targets for birds in the air, so they basically move in waters far from land to avoid threats from land and air.
In the central waters, far from the shore of the lake, Dana's group easily spotted the sight of the jumping fish. As a scale demon, Dana has the ability to hunt down underwater nimblely, a survival instinct left to them by their ancestors. Although the speed of the Scaly Demon is not strong enough to threaten a single Jumping Fish, the Scaly Fish usually move in large groups, and the Scaly Demon can usually easily catch some of the dodging fish by rushing into the school, and force some of the fish that can't dodge to jump out of the water and fly.
Therefore, Dana, Tagu and Xia Lier worked together to catch the jumping fish, which was far more efficient than Dana alone. Because of the Charille and Tagu flying in the air, they can catch all the slow-moving jumping fish that fly in the air.
In a short time, the water pavilion of Dana's boat was full of jumping fish, and the happiest part of this fishing was of course Tagu. Her swift movements barely allow any fish to get back into the water with her eyelids down. Taya looked at the fish jumping in the water pavilion, dancing happily like a child.
Xia Leier looked at her sister with a smile, her eyes full of kindness. Dana sat on the edge of the boat and let the light of Kata's star shine on his gray-blue ** smooth back, he looked at the happy Taya sister in front of him and did not make a sound, only smiled stupidly. Dana's sturdy physique is not inferior to Ant-Man Garr, who is 197cm tall. The bald head has no hair, but his coordinated facial features and resolute eyes appear to be energetic.
"Alright, it's getting dark, let's go back." Charelle looked at the harvest and reminded Tagu that she knew that Dana would always be so obedient, but her sister was the most playful and difficult.
Taya looked up at the sky, the fiery Kata star had already crossed two-thirds of the sky, she rolled her eyes and said, "Sister, the sky will be dark for 3 hours at most, we can't tell the direction when we row back so far from home." She saw that her sister was silent, and continued, "Why don't we spend the night in the neighborhood today and go back early tomorrow morning?" ”
After hearing this, Xia Lei'er secretly counted herself in her heart, blaming herself for not taking her out in the first place. No, this ghost girl is starting to think of some bad ideas again. However, Xia Lier thought carefully that if she rowed back, because it was a headwind, it would indeed take a long time to get home, and if the weather was bad at night, there would be no stars to guide the direction, and there would be many detours. Xia Li'er looked at Tagu's expectant gaze, then looked at Dana and said, "Dana, what do you think?" ”
Dana originally wanted to say that it would be later or go back now, but when he saw that Taya was looking at him with her cold, cunning, and slightly threatening eyes, he forced him to agree with her opinion with his eyes and spirit. Dana knew Tagu's brute strength, and said in a daze: "Sister Xia Lei'er, I think what Tagu said is right. Why don't we go to the nearby shore for a night's rest and go back tomorrow. We were able to grill fish in the evening, which was good. ”
After Dana finished speaking, he looked at Tagu with a weak heart, and the other party's satisfied expression was so playful, he couldn't get angry with her at all.
Xia Leier finally looked a little uneasy when she looked at the sky again, and she felt a little uneasy about sleeping in this unfamiliar place. But since Dana also agreed with Taya's opinion, she didn't want to say much so so she had to agree, and she didn't find that her sister was saying something against her heart to Tana's invisible coercion.
Charille looked around and observed the surroundings, the far south bank of the Red Lake was a cliff that stretched for tens of kilometers, and their current location was relatively close to the north shore. The north shore is just the westernmost point of the Black Forest, where a large river flows into the Red Lake from the northwest. This large river, called the Kan Glacier, separates the Black Forest from a large stretch of beach to the west.
Since she was a child, she has been warned by Empress E to stay away from the Black Forest, and she has always remembered her admonition to avoid entering the area of the Black Forest, which is separated by Mount Shirahime and the Red Lake, and has never even flown over the Black Forest. But at the moment, the ideal place for them to camp is undoubtedly the beach on the north bank across the river from the Black Forest. Further north of the river beach is the Western Forbidden Land, and Xia Lier hesitated for a moment but decided to spend the night on the river beach. So he asked Dana to put down the canvas of the boat, and the three of them slowly rowed the boat towards the mouth of the river.