A man and a beast walked "side by side" to the bottom of the boulder platform, leisurely, and the two lifeforms combined only had two legs.

During this time, Noka talked to himself, and also shared many adventures with his sister in the mountains to Fang Nuo, but did not mention the topic that Fang Nuo had just thrown out in the witch's hut, which made Fang Nuo slightly disappointed and more curious about the witch's power.

At the same time, two mourning birds also came down from the platform, hovering above them, one high and one low, and from time to time they made an uncomfortable birdsong that was extremely piercing.

“…… Erica asked him if the picture was popular outside the mountains, which he flatly denied. ”

"The child has always been very curious, and when he saw that he didn't get a clear answer, he continued to ask, quite like 'breaking the casserole and asking to the end'...... Well, that's a saying my father told me when he was alive, it's kind of a metaphor, right? ”

Who cares about this, Fang Nuo grabbed the clothes on the human shoulders with his claws, only to feel that his body was tossed and turned.

Although taking a transportation tool can save effort, the feeling given to him is not as good as he imagined.

"The rangers told us that he had lost his way into a forest full of tall trees, and in his panic of escaping from that strange area, he stumbled upon the painting on the trunk of a tree."

"It was engraved so high that he had to stand on tiptoe and raise his hands high and straight just enough to reach the top of the painting." Noka raised his hand and gestured to the height that fit the description.

However, his act of lifting one shoulder almost squeezed the little beast down, and he was rightfully met with the other party's reproachful eyes.

Don't move, Fang Nuo glanced at his claws, feeling that if the human did something he didn't expect, he might be stabbed in the neck by the claws.

If that really happens, he glared at his means of transportation, you deserve it!

Then, based on Noka's account, he imagined the scene.

So high off the ground...... He built an image of himself in his mind, and suddenly realized that he couldn't imagine how high a human could say "very high".

Jump on top of this guy's head and try it?

"Six-six, my hair isn't fun." Sensing the sneaky movement of the little beast on his shoulder, the human had no choice but to stop it.

"At that time, I remember Uncle Ranger also said that he had found the paw prints of the 'King Giant Bear' nearby." He sighed and raised his hand to hold the little beast on his shoulder, "He suspects that this totem may have something to do with the entrance to the giant beast's lair, a marker it left behind in case it gets lost." ”

Human beings are like that, Fang Nuo sighed, he likes and is good at measuring things with himself.

The mountain ranger got lost in the mountains when he was looking for Xiong Zhen, so he thought that the totem was a mark left by Xiong Zhen to prevent him from getting lost.

"He had hoped to find clues about the bear's whereabouts from this painting." Noka tugged at his coat, which was painted with a totem made of pink plant juice, "That's why I rubbed it down and wore it all the time." ”

When the young man copied the raven on the snowdrift, he added some details based on his own memory.

Moreover, he seems to have thought of the meaning of this totem.

"I felt like I had seen it somewhere, so I was impressed by it." Noka muttered, "Where? I thought about it, and asked Erica, but she only thought it was familiar, and she couldn't remember seeing it anywhere. ”

At this time, don't sell it, you're talking to yourself.

Fang Nuo glanced at the human being, only to feel that the other party was playing too much, and he could actually talk nonsense and exaggerate the atmosphere in the face of the small animals that should not understand his words.

"I remember!" Knowing that the little beast had so many thoughts in his heart, he felt a little amused and flicked the tail hanging down from the little beast, took a deep breath and declared, "On the night when I escaped from the forest with Erica and was rescued by our witch and returned to my home, I suddenly remembered why I thought this picture was familiar. ”

Isn't that what happened yesterday? Why bother twisting and turning, it's not a human drama.

Fang Nuo sneered, and his spirit was lifted by the human rhetoric, and his eyes hit the totem behind the clothes like a torch.

As he spoke, Noka had arrived at the edge of the village with him and the two mourning birds, and stood in the dead leaf forest outside the village and looked in.

The human holds the creature on his shoulder with one hand, and with the other hand reaches forward, pointing to a sign standing not far away outside the door of a house.

It is updated every day with interesting facts about what happened in this small mountain village, as well as some family-related gossip, so anyone can add new content to it.

Only on a rare occasion does the village radio sound, and the villagers in charge of managing the bulletin board will rush to the board with carefully crafted written reports and news to fix them...... Once hung, it is semi-permanent, until the paper has been corroded by the wind and rain and cannot be seen in its original state, and the administrator will remove it in the face of the face.

Unlike these news and short-term notices, there is one thing that has been a regular visitor to the notice board since the day the village was built.

Worn by the wind, drenched by the enthusiasm of the rain, or erased by the snow, it does not change its place on the notice board and in the hearts of the villagers, and it is the only thing that will be renewed if it is broken, rather than being torn off as if it were not the same.

It was a map ...... "Mountain Village".

Fang Nuo's mouth was half-open, following the fingers of the human, and combined with his first impression of the totem on the tree, he had already come up with the answer in his mind.

A map of this human territory? How could it be carved into a redwood tree in the middle of the forest by a mysterious being?

The little beast who had looked down at the three-dimensional map of the continent was incredible, he knew how small this village was, the people who lived here did not have any special functions, and the only "capable man" was who escaped from outside the mountain.

But his mind was so active that in a short moment he connected this conclusion with many things he had learned in the past, and then all the confusion seemed to be solved.

From the first time he saw the totem in the memories of the mourning birds, a small thought was born in his mind-

He came into contact with this map because of Xiong Zhen's death, so this map "must" be inseparable from Xiong Zhen.

It was a subconscious thought, floating on the surface of his mind, subtly influencing all the thoughts he made afterwards.

But it is not necessarily wrong or outrageous, on the contrary, it may be the closest answer to the truth.

Xiong Zhen has a hatred for the mountain village, and at the same time, he tries to reap some benefits from the destruction of this human settlement.

Benefits, benefits...... The "benefits" that can attract this giant bear are the "relics" left by the demon beasts who died in the beast tide many years ago, and their souls are crystallized.

The mountain village was built on the site of that calamity, and the mourning birds said that the humans who lived here suppressed the grievances of the dead on behalf of the demon beasts, so they deserved the gratitude of the demon beasts.

Those soul crystals were buried somewhere in the mountain village, and this totem that was first carved on the trunk of the redwood tree was really a "treasure map" pointing to the location of the soul crystals, as Fang Nuo's first impression thought.

It took him years to find their location, but before he could try to find them, he fell into a battle with the witch...... It is "self-inflicted" and "deserved".