Chapter 4 A Crucial Step Before the Dream Comes True (2)
This is Xinggang Town, located at the eastern end of Lingshen Island, with calm lakes and rolling mountains, cold in winter and summer heat, and is a beloved hometown.
Compared to the shield port under the shield city of Lingshen Island, the largest port on Spirit God Island, Starport is only a small port, and most of the fishing boats moored here are fishing boats from nearby villages and towns, and Yixin's father's fleet of eight merchant ships is already the largest fleet in Starport.
The town of Starport, which is close to the port, is home to about 5,000 residents, who are accustomed to a leisurely life where things rarely change. Here, the singers still sing old ballads. When the old man in the tavern talked about the Morimori Tenmu who led the army to reinforce the Isle of War a hundred years ago, his tone was as calm as if he had an old acquaintance with the hero when he was a teenager. The people of Starport worship the moon god who is not popular elsewhere. There are many legends related to the moon god that circulate here, and the image of the moon god in local legends is very different from the version that is widely circulated on the five islands. The goddess who died in the war between man and god was no longer an irritable, jealous, and destructive horror god, but a gentle and quiet wife and mother who exuded mournful thoughts.
This unique feature may be related to the origin of the place name "Star Port".
Legend has it that after the death of the moon god Almis due to childbirth, her body turned into a bloodthirsty forest on the Isle of Wars, while her soul followed her husband Grim Reaper to the Eternal Forest near the Isle of Spirits. Almis's mount, the Moon God Moth, with a pair of purple eyes of the goddess, followed the spirit of the goddess along the road to the Spirit God Island. When the moon moth, dying from the death of her master and the long flight across the sea, reached the small harbor at the eastern end of Reijin Island, she could no longer hold on, and she fell from the sky, while the eyes of the goddess rose and turned into twin pupils hanging high in the sky. The two stars always rise at the same time, hanging on the top of the hill to the west of the harbor. The bright starlight became a guide for ships to call at the port at night, so the sailors of the past called it "Star Port". This beautiful name associated with the deity was quickly accepted by the local population and passed down.
Similar legends about Almis have been forgotten by the rest of the islands, but they can still be found in the moonlit field paths, or in the kitchens, where housewives and children chatter and play by the fire, and any Starport person can tell one or two.
For example, the legend of Moth Wing Lake is familiar to the residents - the moon god moth that fell from the sky and landed at the foot of the mountain in Xinggang Town. She lifted her head with long tentacles and watched the goddess's spirit fly toward the Eternal Forest, where she died in place after using the last of her strength in her gaze. As she fell, the silver-green scales of her wings fell off and turned into rich green woods and meadows, a pair of undulating wings that spread out into two green lakes, her slender body and tail into a narrow wetland that split the lake in two, and her head looking at the Eternal Forest turned into a giant moth on the shore of the lake.
Mothwing Lake is a small lake, and it takes about an hour to walk through the wetlands in the center of the lake to encircle half of the lake. However, the clear water of the lake and its surrounding woods are a beautiful scenery that changes with the seasons. In spring and summer, the green trees are dotted with large clusters of colorful flowers; When autumn comes, camphor trees, maple incense, and hibiscus trees will change into fiery red hoods; When the winter snow falls, the shore of Mothwing Lake is like a pure white fairyland.
The beautiful Moth Wing Lake is only a dozen minutes away from the small courtyard of Yixin's family, so it is a paradise on earth where he spent his childhood and adolescence. Not only did he know the beauty of the woods and the lake, but he also admired the mysterious faces beneath their veils.
It was the amazing charm of Mothwing Lake, who knew what made him different, just for him.
One Heart Blue Ocean is a special person.
He himself is now well aware of his own peculiarities and can make good use of them. But looking back on the past years, he clearly knew that the first person to discover his special ability was undoubtedly Moth Wing Lake.
As a child, he loved to wander around the glades on the shores of Mothwing Lake, and the boy responded to the call of the woods and the lake, as well as the countless creatures in between. As soon as he stepped onto the black stone path in the shade of the trees, he felt like he had stepped into a wonderful world separated by a turquoise film.
Here, the green trees, the sparkling lake, the mist that dissipated before nine o'clock, the brief showers, the gentle breeze and even the simple silence of the forest seemed to surround Yixin and whisper, filling his ears with sounds of unknown meaning.
Sometimes parents or children of the same age come with Yixin, but they are unaware of the whispers and sounds that almost fill Yixin's senses. Not only that, but no one else seems to be able to discover the thousands of lives between the lake and the forest. They could not feel the breeze of the cardinal's flapping wings, could not hear the padded paws of the grey rabbit treading over the damp dirt, and could not be blind to the fleeting fox. Although I watched the fox raise its fiery red tail high and sway it unhurriedly in front of people.
But at that time, Yixin could only feel and see, but he could not understand the meaning of all this, and he could not grasp the message conveyed to him by the whispers of the natural realm.
Ichijom remembers that he was about five years old—probably a few weeks before the magical journey that would change his fate—and wandering through the woods when he was drawn to a bush by the sound of rustling. He gently brushed aside the crooked branches, and saw a small head cautiously peeking out of the crevices in the rock.
It's a gray vole with shiny fur!
The little thing was facing him for a moment, and suddenly the two hind legs stood upright, the gray beard shaking, the short front paws waving in the air, and the mouth made a rapid "squeaking" sound.
Feeling as if the vole was trying to talk to him, he leaned over and asked, "What's the matter, little mouse?" ”
The little creature listened to Ichishin's words, and suddenly stopped moving in place, tilting its head to the side, pricking up its thin ears—a layer of short gray fur on the outside and tender flesh pink on the inside—staring at the dark eyes without the whites of the eyes, and looking at Yixin, as if to say, "Why are you talking to me?" ”
"Didn't you call me?" He whispered to it as he reached out a finger to touch its cute little pink ear.
But the gray vole seemed to have suddenly lost interest in Yixin. It dodged its fingers in both ears, landed on its front paws, and its long, thin tail arced in the air, "swishing" into the crevices of the rock.
The next day, he put a handful of peanuts in his pocket, and went to the bushes on the shore of Mothwing Lake to find the gray vole, hoping to touch its shiny fur as it carried peanuts. He brushed away the branches, mimicking the cry of a small vole, and there was no response. He crouched down and tilted his head downward, intending to see the vole's nest in the crack of the rock, but at a glance he saw that between the two rocks, a small vole was half exposed, already dead.
The dead vole wasn't yesterday's, as it was much smaller and covered in white fur. Looking at the corpse of the little vole in the crack, imagining that someone was walking on a rock, just crushing the little vole passing by, and the little vole's mother wanted him to help rescue the child who was not dead at that time, but he couldn't understand it.
The vole family has moved out of the crevices in the rocks.
Sitting alone on the rocks by the lake, trying to distinguish between the sound of rushing water and the rustling of leaves, he ate all the peanuts in his pocket, but still found nothing.
But that trip a few weeks later changed everything!