Only then did I remember the purpose of this trip, and briefly explained the wish of Shou and the situation of Lao Cai.

"So, I would like to ask you to go to Lao Cai with me. ”

After hearing this, the transparent moths gathered together and discussed silently for a long time, so long that I began to worry that they had forgotten my request.

"They're blocking out their voices," Yu Ping cupped his glasses, "so we can't hear them, it's really a convenient ability." ”

I didn't speak, I kept observing the group of moths in front of me, their tentacles flashing, probably a signal of mutual communication.

"I'm sorry, Lord Yeke, but my companions are not interested in the concert you mentioned, we have heard too many beautiful sounds in the world, and the playing of musical instruments is just one of many ordinary sounds. "I don't know which moth is talking to me.

"Can you think about it again?" I guess it won't go too well, "to be honest, I haven't heard those young guys play, they may not be very professional performers, but one thing is certain, they love music from the bottom of their hearts, and they can definitely play something different." ”

"Don't think about it anymore, we only care about the sound itself, and there are a lot of children in the world that you described, and we can't just admit their performance just because they don't give up on their efforts. There was no compromise in the ethereal voice of the sound gap.

I wanted to try to convince them again, but Yu Ping patted me on the shoulder, "Give up, the sound gap won't approach humans for things they don't be interested in." ”

"But—" I remembered the way I grinned happily.

"Lord Yek," the moth spoke again, "we're interested in another matter. A few sound gaps flew out of the moth swarm and landed on me, "A gathering of human traders and families, we want to take a look." ”

"Uh," I didn't expect to be the answer, "I'm afraid it's going to be very noisy..."

"We can take the initiative to block out the sounds we don't like," said Sound Gap, "There are many beautiful sounds in the world, the breath of the sunrise, the friction of pebbles, the footsteps of deer running, the song of the wind through the leaves, and the most beautiful sound of human beings is the echo from the heart." ”

"Of the heart.. "I said, "Heartbeat?"

"Of course not," their wings fluttered slightly, "we listen to sounds differently than yours, most of what humans can hear is palpable or visible, and the range of sounds we can hear is much wider than yours, in our world, all phenomena can be explained by sound, including the emotions of your human existence, which can also be expressed by sound waves." ”

"I don't understand what you mean," I scratched my head, "but, you should be willing to go to Lao Cai with me?"

"That's right, Lord Yek. If it's just to isolate the noise, just a few of us, it's enough. "There are eight sound gaps that fall on me," but in return, if there is a sound we love in the old street you are talking about that day, we will bring it back and pass it on from generation to generation. ”

As the old man said, they can take the sound away.

"If you take away the voices of those people, it will bother them," I tried to convince the voice gap, "and once you take them, you will never hear the voices you like in the same people again." ”

"Take it, Lord Yeke, you misunderstood, although we are voice controllers, we do not arbitrarily deprive other living voices of life, each voice exists with its own meaning, and only in rare cases will we use deprivation of voices to punish those who blaspheme living beings. ”

"This is a magical creature," Yu Ping said with sudden emotion, "Human beings' understanding of you is still at a very basic stage, and they think that you are monsters who like to prey on sounds, and it is because of misunderstanding that it will cause you to stay away from the city." He took out his notebook, "You're actually very docile demons." ”

"Friend of Lord Yeke, please pay attention to the wording. "We hate that humans judge us casually, and we hate that you study us, and we do everything we do to survive, even if we deprive some of humanity of their voices." ”

"Of course, all the choices you make must have your reasons, everything is like this," Yu Ping didn't care too much, "Correspondingly, everything human beings do also have their own reasons, from their own point of view, there is nothing wrong with everyone, the only difference is that human beings are stronger than you, so they have more opportunities to act according to their own wishes, that's all." He quickly added a record of the sound gap to his notebook, "But I still prefer to look at the world from a natural perspective and respect all living beings, after all, there are things that can't just look at the present." ”

"Well—" I interrupted their argument, "can you discuss philosophical topics again on the road?

The sound gap was placed in the small wooden box that Yu Ping gave me when he left, this wooden box was breathable and warm, and it should be able to ease some of the bumps on the road.

"Thank you for your hard work," I said to the transparent moths inside the box, "for the sake of your safety, I can only let you be wronged here first." ”

"It's okay," the blue glow of the moth's tentacles became more pronounced inside the box, "We trust you, Lord Yeke. ”

When I finally went down to the foot of the mountain, the sun had warmed the mountains, and there were still a large number of climbers lining up to climb the mountain, and when they saw us in the dust, they all cast encouraging and respectful eyes, and even someone gave me a thumbs up.

"That's because the singing of the sound gap has a healing effect," Yu Ping, who collapsed on the hard seat, said weakly, "This voice is the sound of life that the moths have collected from the world with all their life's energy, this voice is full of rebirth power, it hits the heart, and those who hear it can eliminate all discomfort and negative emotions." At this point, he began to be indignant again, "I also braved the cold to find them, why am I not qualified to hear the voice of the morning light!

I smiled and didn't speak, and poured him a cup of hot water, "Okay Professor, let's get rid of my anger, I'll have a chance in the future, anyway, this time you've also gained new information about the sound gap," Seeing that he didn't seem to be so angry, I asked, "Professor, how do you send messages between youkai?" I wonder if I can send a message to Mamoru right now, and ask him to schedule the concert and family dinner at the same time. ”

"There is very little communication between youkai, most of the time it is through breath or messengers," Yu Ping said, "I don't need to say much about breath, it's similar to the way you call youkai, and this can be done between youkai, and messengers," he took a sip of water, "I don't want to tell you what to do? ”

"Professor," I looked at him speechlessly, "and I can't be blamed for that." ”

"Then I'm just not happy. Yu Ping said, "Unless you agree to let me attend that concert as well." ”

“... I'll talk to Mamoru about it. ”

"That's pretty much it," he said, with a look of accomplishment to his purpose. The messenger is a low-level monster that parasitizes on the mushroom, called the ruler, and the monster you see every day is not the same, they can't speak, and they don't have any thoughts, just simply parasitic on the mushroom, most of them appear in the form of green flowers, relying on the spores of the mushroom to reproduce, distributed all over the world, after the monster tells the ruler the information it wants to transmit, the ruler will find the recipient through the mushroom's network, and the ruler where the recipient is located will receive the message and convey it in the form of words, but most of these monsters are in inaccessible places such as mountains and forests。 ”

“... So people can't use it. "I want to send a message to Mamoru too.

"Wouldn't it be okay to bring the messenger with you," Yu Ping said proudly, "Every demon exterminator will have a fixed ruler, which can not only communicate with the monsters, but also sometimes communicate in this way between the demons, which is much more confidential than a mobile phone, and the speed is also very fast." ”

With that, he took out something similar to a pen holder from his bag, and when he opened it, there was actually a mushroom inside, which looked exactly like the mushroom in Super Mario, and a green bud was hidden in the mushroom's mycelium.