The appearance of the stone sculpture changed dramatically, and the original cold, with a strange hint of black stone, like a melted ice spirit, turned into a stone rat with skin and hair, and he shook off the debris from the hair as soon as he moved his front feet.

It opened its green eyes and looked at the cowherd.

"It's ......"

The cowherd boy regressed in fear and said timidly.

This stone rat statue has no malice, and the ever-bright lamp above the cow boy's head grows and roars, and he is not afraid.

"I shouldn't be so curious, or I wouldn't have woken up this unknown being. For the first time, he questioned the strange and varied things in it. He wondered why there was such a thing in this place.

And no one has ever been here.

He waited for the stone rat to come over, sniffing his sleeve, baring his fangs.

He said, "What kind of creature are you?"

The stone rat's eyes widened, and there was a shackle on its foot, which was tightly chained to it.

He didn't dare to open it, he knew that the existence of the shackles would protect him from the ravages of this rat monster when it was released. He looked closely at the oil lamp still above his head, and the smell of oil and water in it was very good, like the smell of wildflowers he smelled in the field. It's a pity that he left the place and turned and walked away.

But the stone rat's mouth was still unopened, and he couldn't say anything.

He really didn't know if the stone rat could speak human, he said to himself, "If I say it, it means that I can take it as a being I trust, and I want to ask about this place." ”

Turning back, he touched the stone rat's mouth with his hand.

The stone rat opened its mouth and said, "Thank you for helping me open my mind, but I can't repay you." ”

The cowherd boy didn't think so, so he casually asked, "Can you tell me how to get out?"

"I couldn't find my way back. ”

The stone rat shook his head and said, "This is a closed Sun Moon Lake, and there will be a waterfall leading to the sky in it, remember not to rush up to it." It's possible that this place will kill you. ”

It earnestly admonished.

The stone rat is like a human's kind heart, but as a cowherd baby, it is easy to believe the words of others, but he is a little anxious and wants to go back early.

He didn't panic.

After listening to the words of the stone rat, he slowly went to the depths to explore. Until I saw the scene of the stone rat speaking, this place is really beautiful, like a tunnel to an unknown area.

He did not dare to be too reckless, and walked behind a rock, and saw the crystal white rock, mixed with some new flowers.

He understood where the roots of the plants and trees came from, and muttered, "It turns out that the roots of the plants and trees came from here, so where did he get there, and why are the flowers over there so ferocious, that they have lost their rhizomes?"

It was only then that he suspected that someone had definitely been here.

As for the wide footprints, they do not resemble the surface of human feet at all.

Only.......

His eyes widened and he said, "Is that alchemist-like existence? Maybe it's a livestock he raised." And only they can raise so big. ”

He gave up thinking about it and observed a disc-shaped drainage waterfall.

"I think I'm saying something wrong. ”

The waterfall swirls upwards and forms a world of water curtains, and the water vapor that I felt on the stone rat just now is transmitted from this opportunity. Every one or two breaths, this water vapor will come to the surface, which has a hint of sticky water vapor, so that its skin is lightly lubricated.

He even felt that this moisture was very helpful to his skin, and it was instantly full of blood.

And the oil lamp above his head was not bright in this world, as if it had disappeared.

"You just fit there, but you can't get out of that tunnel. ”

He was a little disappointed, not because of the presence of the oil lamp. He was being swallowed by flowers that had lost their roots. But he thought about it carefully, his body was too big for a big flower, and he shouldn't be able to swallow it, and he would still spit it out.

But the thought of those trembling fangs scared him to death.

"No, no. ”

I've been here for a long time, and the inexplicable comfort here makes him not want to leave.

He stared at the water that was still going up.

He observed for a long time, but he didn't find a clue.

Immediately, he returned to the passage to find the stone rat.

The stone rat broke free from the shackles that trapped him, the corners of his mouth were covered with blood, and he grabbed his front legs and rolled on the ground.

When he saw the cowherd boy who had returned, he said miserably, "I was almost killed by you." ”

The cowherd boy didn't understand at all, and said, "How could I hurt you?" I just didn't notice that my palms could have such magic. ”

Again, the cowherd asked, "How can I really find my way back?" ”

The stone rat rolled over and said next to the cowherd, "Aren't you afraid that I will eat you?"

"I'm afraid, but I have an oil lamp above my head. ”

He looked up and saw that the lantern had floated to the front, and he looked at the stone rat's face and asked, "Are you afraid?"

The stone rat froze in place and said, "How can I be afraid of the stone rat?"

Then, he said, "Of course I'm afraid, you are really my little ancestor. ”

The cowherd boy laughed, forgetting the pain of going home, and the stone rat limped to the swirling waterfall, and said to the rushing water vapor: "Only I can take you out of this place, but I will take you out, and you can't tell this place." Otherwise, you will be killed. ”

The cowherd boy nodded, and then listened to the stone rat say again: "This is originally a place without an exit, I don't know how you get in, it's not so easy to get out." I'm a kind stone rat, otherwise you'll be eaten by the untransformed flower demon in front of you, and you'll be reduced to a ghost here. ”

"I think you're here to find the grass roots of this flower demon, these are useless things here. You can bring more. ”

The cowherd boy shook his head and said, "No, no." ”

The stone rat instantly turned into the swarthy shape of the stone carving just now, but the transformation was a little different.

"Hop on my back, I'm leaving. ”

The cowherd boy sat on his back, snorted, and jumped into the waterfall with the package on his chest. The water rushed into his nose and mouth, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe.

The process lasted about five breaths, and he was smothered before he was ready.

At this time, he saw the outside world.

Rapid gasps.

When he reached the dead tree where he had just gone down, the rain in the sky had not stopped, and there was silence here, and he looked at the mouth of the cave, and the new shoots that still appeared, bubbling with green.

The hat next to him wiped the dirt off it with his hands and put it on his head.

Like a walking dervishe, he hugged the soaked roots of the grass and trees and walked home.

The cowherd boy muttered calmly, "Go home." ”