There is a long way to go, and no one knows when we will meet again.

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"Nonsense! It's just nonsense! ”

An elder among the moon prayers seemed to have completely lost the demeanor of an elder at this time, and scolded Mu Xue in front of him.

Mu Xue's expression was a little stunned, obviously not expecting this kind of reaction from the other party at all. Originally, they planned everything, and after making the bamboo raft, they asked Mu Xue's clan to review it, and then they brought enough supplies and set off to cross the sea while the weather was relatively peaceful recently, but what she didn't expect was that when she announced in public that she and Xinglan had built a vehicle to cross the sea, all she got was a look of distrust and accusation.

No one believed that they could build a wooden boat enough to cross the sea in a week with just the strength of two people, so Mu Xue's initial confident declaration was quickly dismissed as a lie by everyone, and no one was even willing to accompany her to witness it for herself in a short period of time. When she finally persuaded a few people with more status to pray for the moon to check the bamboo raft, what the other party gave was no longer questioning, but anger after feeling deceived.

"This is what you call a built?" Another younger moon prayer man pointed to the bamboo raft in front of him, and was very dissatisfied with Mu Xue's words, "Even if it is impractical to build a wooden boat in a week, you can't fool us with a broken thing full of holes!" Are you all fools when we are? ”

Kindness...... For the Moon Prayers, the hole in the wooden boat has always meant death, and the dense holes on the bamboo raft obviously make these Moon Prayers not believe that this thing can cross the sea safely, and in their opinion, they are afraid that the bamboo raft will sink as soon as it touches the water.

In fact, Mu Xue herself was a little skeptical about this, so she was speechless for a while in the face of the other party's accusation, and this made those moon prayers even more convinced that Mu Xue was just trying to fool them, but they didn't think about it, is there any point in fooling people in this matter? Even with the consent of the people, it is impossible to go north without real means of crossing the sea.

"So, you never expected Mu Xue to be able to handle this matter at all, is the so-called giving hope just a completely indifferent excuse?" Xinglan, who had been silent, finally spoke, looking at the few moon prayer people, the strange pupils that couldn't see the emotion made them feel a little uneasy, even if they reluctantly allowed Xinglan to enter the settlement, but most of the moon prayer people still hated aliens.

Or, more than hate, it's more condescending to claim to be the moon god family.

"Can this kind of thing be called finished?" Those few moon prayers looked at Xing Lan with a gaze that could even be called disgust, if there was still a trace of feeling sorry for Mu Xue for her, they would be naked hated for Xing Lan, "Demons are evil things that are not tolerated by the world, you must have taught Mu Xue to deceive people!" ”

Even if she didn't admit it, Mu Xue could see it a little...... Whether it was out of concern or obstruction, these elders had no intention of allowing her to become a messenger at all, and the so-called conditions before were probably just to give her a step down, and they planned to let her retreat by herself.

The originally beautiful dream was shattered like glass all of a sudden, and the cold sea breeze in reality passed through the rough clothes woven by vines and transmitted the chill into the depths of the bone marrow, if it weren't for the fact that the skin of the Moon Prayer Man had the ability to change color freely, Mu Xue's face was probably terrifyingly white at this time, and she seemed to have used all her courage to ask the final question: "So what ......is the matter of going to the north this time?"

"Regarding the unqualified manufacture of the sea-crossing tools, it is impossible for you to go to this matter." Those who were very prominent in the tribe nodded their heads in agreement, and none of them even wanted to listen to how Mu Xue proved their ideas, they shook their heads and began to walk back, obviously thinking that their whimsical idea of coming all the way here for a child was too child's play, "Regarding the specific messenger who crossed the sea, the tribe will renegotiate the right person. ”

A young man who usually had a good relationship with Mu Xue walked a few steps slower than others, he walked to Mu Xue, who looked gloomy, and patted her on the shoulder to express comfort, but there was no willingness to believe her in his words: "Mu Xue, you are still young, there are some things that don't need to be rushed for a while, and you can't use some wrong means to do bad things because you are too anxious." ”

When he said this, he also glared at Xing Lan fiercely, obviously blaming Mu Xue's attempt to "deceive" them on Xing Lan's instigation, if it weren't for the psychological pressure brought to them by the Xin Yu people before, I am afraid that these Moon Prayer people at this time would not even be expelled and directly prepared to kill her, and they would not show mercy to their subordinates at all.

However, the terrifying consequences of casually attacking the "demon" with which they were unfamiliar finally made these pride praying moon people deeply jealous, and unless Xinglan clearly did something very out of the ordinary, they no longer dared to take the initiative to attack...... Strength on the surface will never be truly powerful, and the unknown is the most terrible thing.

"They won't believe it, and there's no way I'm going to let them come over a second time to verify that it's all true." After those moon prayers were still gone, Mu Xue sat down on the ground all of a sudden, looking at the ground weakly, even the color of the surface of her skin turned pale gray similar to that of the reef, and her voice was no longer as light and energetic as before, but full of despair, "It's over, it's over." ”

She knew that her promise had become a joke, and that no one would believe that they would be able to get the means to cross the sea in a week, or that the bamboo raft full of holes would be able to support the other side in the middle of the ocean. Under these circumstances, it was impossible for the clan to entrust the messenger with such an important task as her, and her previous actions would only make her even less trusted, and all the good things that had been planned were vanished in an instant.

"Are you going to give up?" Xing Lan walked up to Mu Xue and watched her sit on the wasteland covering her face in pain, the blood marks on her arms from these days were even clearly visible, "Just because of such a small difficulty, a small setback that can't be compared to crossing the sea, do you have to choose to give up your goal?" What about the vows you made? ”

There was no comfort or ridicule in her voice, just a very calm statement of objective reality, which was not without any effect, at least Mu Xue stopped struggling powerlessly, but fell into contemplation.

"Then what on earth should I do to get them to agree to me as a messenger across the sea? I have to travel to the northern continent to find ......."

"Have you forgotten what we proved when we were thinking about how to cross the sea?" Xinglan narrowed her eyes and laughed softly, she obviously had a solution, "There are some things that can be easily solved with just a change of mind, and we shouldn't fall into a dead end of thinking." ”

Mu Xue's eyes lit up suddenly.

If those people would not agree at all, why should they be persistent in becoming a messenger? The bamboo raft had been completely built, and it only took two days to cross the Gorge of Life and Death, and two days of food could easily be prepared, so why did Mu Xue need their consent before she could set off?

"Let's go, let's go back to the moon tree and go to the house to get some supplies needed on the way." Mu Xue also smiled, she had once again seen hope shining in front of her, "Then, set off directly to cross the sea." ”

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The preparation of the materials did not take a long time, since she had never thought that those elders would be so unruly to veto her, so Mu Xue had started to prepare the materials for crossing the sea a few days ago. The two-day journey does not need food such as dried meat that can be stored for a long time, and the current Moon Prayer people can't make these foods that are not easy to rot in a short time, so Mu Xue mainly prepared some fruits wrapped in animal skin bags as staple food, and they can also effectively replenish the water needed during the journey...... The Moon Prayers do not have the ability to filter highly salinity seawater like the sea salt tree, and they also need fresh water.

The other Moon Prayers may have thought that Mu Xue was dead, and they didn't think that their strange behavior had any meaning, but when Mu Xue and Xing Lan were tidying up their things and preparing to leave here, a figure finally appeared at the door, as if they had already seen through their intentions.

"Mu Xue, don't you even want to say goodbye before leaving?"

Yun Mo's beautiful silver pupils stared at Mu Xue, and the latter obviously looked like he had been caught: "Aunt Yun Mo, we just plan to ...... Are you even going to stop me from going north to find my mother? ”

Sighing softly, Yun Mo looked at Mu Xue deeply, and didn't say much, just turned around and walked to the side, completely giving way to the gate, in fact, this expressed her thoughts, she didn't intend to stop Xinglan and Mu Xue from leaving without permission.

"Please take care of her." Yun Mo looked at Xing Lan and said simply.

"Don't worry." Xing Lan nodded slightly, looking at Mu Xue's turned gaze, "Once you take this step, you will never be able to turn back." ”

Mu Xue's footsteps paused slightly, and then turned around, just when even Xinglan couldn't help but think that she regretted it, she just walked to the front of the house gently, stared at the cottage that she had lived in for more than ten years since she was born, and then looked at somewhere in front of the house: "It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of it, and there was one more thing I forgot to do." ”

Mu Xue closed her eyes slightly, as if she was struggling somehow, and the next moment, she suddenly opened her eyes, pulled out the high-carbon steel dagger on her waist and swung it in front of her, and the plant fibers that tied the floating leaf grass in front of the house were silently cut away by the dagger, and the green grass swayed and floated again, losing its restraint and starting to fly all the way into the air.

"Go, you belong to the sky, no one can restrain your freedom anymore......" Watching the floating leaf grass gradually disappear into the untouchable depths of the sky, Mu Xue withdrew her dagger, gently hugged Yun Mo, felt the other party's body whose physical strength had begun to regress, and then turned around and walked in the direction of the coastline, never looking back here.

Yun Mo seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden, and his body, which was far from being old, slowly walked back into the house, and his back was a little old, and when Xing Lan looked in the direction where Mu Xue left, under the bright light of the sun, he just saw a few small droplets slipping from the air, reflecting a faint light, and then falling all the way down on the grass covered with verdant line leaves, and disappeared without a trace.