Text Chapter 13: Crystal Flame?
While walking towards the upper steps, Zhu Wuxuan carefully observed the situation on the steps. When I saw the people on the steps at the bottom of the stairs before, it seemed that they were all sitting on the steps at random. Only now did I realize that the people were sitting on the floor around rectangular stone platforms of various sizes arranged on the steps. Those stone platforms are not high, less than a meter, and the countertops are smooth and flat, with a dull texture and a pitch black color.
Most of them are similar in physique, while a small number of them are similar in skin color, dress, and some of their body features. But they are relatively smaller, and their fangs are the opposite of those of Budu, which grows from the lower jaw upwards and their tusks from the upper jaw downwards, in stark contrast. In addition, their chests are bulging, and although there are some differences in size, the characteristics are quite obvious. They should be women, right! Zhu Wuxuan thought secretly, it seems that although they look strange, they still have obvious gender characteristics like humans! Thinking of this, Zhu Wuxuan couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
In a blink of an eye, I followed the cloth to the top platform, looking down from above, the platform increased from top to bottom, the top platform area was the smallest, and the bottom platform area was the largest, and the platform showed a big fan shape. Dazan sat differently from the others, sitting on a stone bench of the same material as the ones on the platform, which was slightly lower than the others. There was a stone platform in front of him, but it was bigger and taller than any of the others. There are also three rectangular stone benches in the other three directions of the stone platform, but the three stone benches are shorter than the one on which Dazan sits. And behind him was a large tree, with a thick trunk, dark brown bark, and distinct textures.
Dazan carefully looked at Yin Jianping and the four of them for a while before waving his hand: "You guys sit down." "The voice is still loud. Yin Jianping saw that Dazan was pointing to the stone bench by the stone platform in front of him, and then turned to look at the platform below, only to see that everyone on the platform below was staring at the four of them, and hesitated for a while. Seeing that they did not move, Budu whispered beside him, "Dazan told you to sit down, you can sit down, it's all right." Yin Jianping and Zhu Wuxuan glanced at each other, and after nodding, Yin Jianping pulled Long Yunxuan to sit on the stone bench on the left side of the stone platform, while Zhu Wuxuan pulled Gao Mingling to sit down on the stone bench on the right side of the stone platform.
After seeing them sit down, Budu turned around and was about to leave, but he heard Dazan say again: "Budu, sit down too, I have something to ask you." Budu was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at Yin Jianping and the others, nodded and replied, "Okay." Then he sat down on the stone bench facing Dazan. When Dazan saw him sit down, he glanced around the people down the steps and said, "Let's begin." The people sitting around the steps below were moved, and some of them stretched out their hands and pulled at the side of the stone platform, and pulled out something like a drawer from the side of the stone platform, in which lay the meat cut into pieces, and some of the flesh cut into pieces.
With a soft sound of "rubbing", the stone platform where Yin Jianping and the others were sitting also opened a drawer from the side, and as the drawer opened, a pungent aroma spread. Zhu Wuxuan looked intently, and saw that the drawer was open towards Dazan's side, and in the drawer were evenly placed some pieces of bone-in meat cut into fist-sized pieces, and some tree flesh cut into sections, which were steaming upwards at this time. Underneath the pieces of meat were a layer of irregular gravel the size of three fingers, and the color of the gravel was as fiery red as burning carbon. Although the color of those gravel was fiery red and still flickering from time to time, Zhu Wuxuan, who was sitting not far from them, only felt a faint amount of heat.
Dazan stretched out his hands and grabbed the meat in the drawer, and placed them on the stone platform in front of Zhu Wuxuan, the four of them, and Budu, and then divided each of them with two pieces of tree meat, and finally put his own share, but his portion was twice as large as the others. After arranging, Dazan glanced at the audience, nodded and said, "Eat them all, Chuka." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone, including Budu, said in unison, "Chuka!"
Yin Jianping turned his head to look, only to see that everyone on the steps below was eating directly with their hands, and whispered while eating. However, their eating appearance is quite gentle, which seems to be a little different from their appearance. Dazan saw Zhu Wuxuan staring at the red-glowing gravel in the drawer, so he asked him, "Haven't you seen this kind of thing?" Zhu Wuxuan asked, hurriedly retracted his gaze, and replied: "This thing is a bit similar to carbon, but it doesn't seem to be." "Carbon?" Dazan wondered, "I haven't seen the carbon you are talking about, but this thing may be a little different from the carbon you are talking about, this thing is called Crystal Flame." "Jingyan?" "Yes, Jingyan!" Dazan reached out and gently pinched a piece of Jingyan with his inch-long nails, and placed it in the middle of the stone countertop.
As he moved, Yin Jianping, Gao Mingling and Long Yunxuan, who were other than Zhu Wuxuan, were also attracted to attention. The crystal flame on the stone platform showed no signs of extinguishing or weakening, and it was still as fiery as ever, occasionally flickering. Zhu Wuxuan looked curious, and couldn't help but reach out to touch the crystal flame, Dazan saw this and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, "No!" The voice was loud, Zhu Wuxuan stopped his hand when he heard the words, and then he found that the sound of the steps below slowly quieted down. Zhu Wuxuan and the others turned their heads curiously, only to see some people on the steps below putting down the meat they were eating, and their eyes were looking at them tightly. Following their gaze, it turned out that they were all staring at Zhu Wuxuan. Gao Mingling, who was sitting next to Zhu Wuxuan, was so angry that he raised his foot and stepped on Zhu Wuxuan's instep hard. Zhu Wuxuan shrank his feet in pain, and when he saw Gao Mingling staring at him fiercely, he had to smile.
Dazan saw that everyone below had looked over, and knew that they might think that the stranger in front of him had done something wrong, so he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you can continue to eat, he didn't do anything wrong." After listening to Dazan's words, everyone on the platform below retracted their gaze one after another and ate again. Yin Jianping and the four of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, and then glared at Zhu Wuxuan fiercely.
Dazan saw that Zhu Wuxuan was a little frightened, so he said to him: "Don't be afraid, they just misunderstood you." Well, I don't know what to call a few of you, my name is Kadu, and I'm Dazan of this one. Zhu Wuxuan saw that Kadu took the initiative to introduce himself, and hurriedly replied to him: "Hello Kadudazan, my name is Zhu Wuxuan, it was really rude just now." After Zhu Wuxuan finished speaking, Gao Mingling, who was sitting next to him, continued: "Hello Kadudazan, my name is Gao Mingling." After Yin Jianping and Gao Mingling finished introducing, he said: "Hello Kadudazan, my name is Yin Jianping. Then he pointed to Long Yunxuan, who was sitting next to him, and said, "Her name is Long Yunxuan." After listening to them, Kadu glanced at them and nodded, "Hello!" Then he turned to Zhu Wuxuan and said, "I stopped you just now for a reason, you see!" As he spoke, he stretched out a finger and gently pressed it on the crystal flame on the countertop with his long nails.