I didn't sleep well that night, and my chaotic dreams almost made it to dawn.

I was woken up by a jumble of noises, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Eva holding her chin in one hand and looking at me with affectionate eyes.

"I have a picture on my face?" I said casually.

"Oh, no!" Eva quickly lowered her head and replied embarrassedly.

As soon as I went out, I saw Mara talking to a couple of strange-looking and dressed people.

Even though I was very good at hearing, they didn't speak in Chinese, and I couldn't understand a word.

Seeing me go out, Mara knelt directly on the ground, put her left hand on her chest very respectfully, and said, "Little brother, these people are from the third village, and they have come to greet you." ”

As she said this, the people quickly knelt down.

A few people shouted at me in very non-standard Chinese: "Welcome little brother-"

At that moment I wanted to laugh, what accent is this? So much like a foreigner.

Thinking so in his heart, he still pretended to be very calm on his face, and replied: "Hurry up!" Are you in a hurry to come to me? ”

One of the men (who looked to be in his fifties, the oldest of the few) bent down to me again and replied, "According to the previous custom, the master is going to hold a ceremony for the children of our village at noon today. human rituals, otherwise they are not qualified to guard that forest. ”

Guarding the forest? What do you mean? I wondered, and my eyes turned to Mara's face.

Mara also understood, and hurriedly explained in a whisper: "I haven't had time to tell my little brother about this, in fact, they are the real masters of this canyon, when we came here, they have lived here for many generations, and the whole village almost died of a plague that year, it was my mother who saved them, so they were willing to be as loyal to their masters as we are." ”

What the? They were the first people to live here? I was stunned for a moment, as if something had come to mind in my head, but it was intermittently not clear enough.

Mara continued: "I sent someone to contact them early in the morning, and while picking up my little brother, I could also take him to the Demon Lake by the way, for the Demon Lake, they can really be regarded as familiar people. ”

"They're the ones who protect the Demon Lake? Then you should know what's going on in the land of Magic Lake, right? ”

Unexpectedly, Mara shook her head, smiled bitterly, and replied: "It's true, they don't know how many generations they have guarded in this valley, this is also the ancestral training, but they don't know why they stay here, and they will never set foot in that land in normal times." ”

"Why?" I asked again.

"I don't know, I also asked the old people in their village, and the old people said that this is the order of their ancestors, and the meaning of their existence in the world is to protect this land."

Grave keepers? Hearing Mara say that, the word popped into my head.

Half an hour later, several men led us out of the second village. Because of the slight barrier in language communication, Mara asked Eva to follow me as a translator, in fact, I also understand her thoughts, doesn't she just want her daughter to be "sugar daddy"!

On the way, I asked the eldest of them about the Demon Lake, and I don't know if it was a question about Eva's translation, and he actually said that the purpose of the guardian was to wait for the new master to take over.

I pondered for several minutes, at first thinking that there was a problem with the translation of Eva, and then I thought that perhaps their so-called ancestral teachings had been mistaken in the dictation from generation to generation.

Later, I found out that they were all right, and I was wrong!