Chapter 8: Someone (The Fear of the Fire)
"My father told me a long time ago that he would send me to Danwu Academy to study, and when you arrive at Yaoguang Island, maybe the two of us can go all the way to Zhongzhou. Shen Mengli looked at Dongfang Xue who was sleeping slightly with his eyes closed in front of him and said.
Dongfang Xue nodded slightly, and then responded. This whole night, Shen Mengli didn't know why, he was very energetic, and kept asking Dongfang Xue questions, this time people saved themselves at the cost of their lives, so Dongfang Xue was not good at treating this woman like before, so she could only endure sleepiness while echoing Shen Mengli, while closing her eyes and falling asleep. Shen Mengli's intentions Dongfang Xue could faintly perceive it, from the time when Shen Mengli said that he wanted to take him to Yaoguang Island, Dongfang Xue had already vaguely guessed it. But his encounter with Shen Mengli was originally a meeting in Pingshui, Dongfang Xue didn't want to have too much contact with her, and after asking her father about the way to Zhongzhou this time, Dongfang Xue planned to leave alone.
Since it is a meeting in Pingshui, let's let it pass quickly, what's more, it is no longer difficult for Dongfang Xue to put another person into his heart, after all, this heart is not his in the first place......
With the whispering of the two of them all night, on the second day, it was not until the third pole of the day that the two felt the blazing heat on their faces under the sun, Dongfang Xue and Shen Mengli woke up one after another. The temperature difference on this island is surprisingly large, and at night, the sea breeze blows, making it cold and depressing. But in the daytime, as the sun rises in the east, it becomes like a dog day, which makes people feel unbearably hot.
Shen Mengli got up, first stretched his body, and then glanced at Dongfang Xue, and saw that Dongfang Xue was holding this small tripod in his hand to observe, this small tripod was very similar to the one that the two fought against at the auction, but it was a big tripod at the beginning, and at this moment, Dongfang Xue was in his hand for some reason to become so small and exquisite. Just about to ask a question, suddenly Shen Mengli's hands were empty, Shen Mengli hurriedly looked around the two, and after looking around, Shen Mengli looked into the distance again, his face became anxious, and shouted: "Xiaohuo! Xiaohuo ......"
Dongfang Xue looked at Shen Mengli, only to see Shen Mengli suddenly ask Dongfang Xue with a resentful face, "Did you put Xiaohuo into your ring?"
Dongfang Xue shook her head, then looked around, her eyes returned to Shen Mengli's face again, and explained to Shen Mengli: "Maybe he went to forage for food or play, don't worry, haven't you explored this island? Besides, with his strength in the early stage of his out-of-body appearance, ordinary beasts can't help it at all, and after a while, when it gets tired of playing, it will naturally come back!"
"You didn't lie to me?" Shen Mengli glanced at Dongfang Xue suspiciously, Dongfang Xue smiled with interest and shook her head, Shen Mengli calmed down, and then got up and walked to the kettle, intending to dress up with the only remaining clear water in the lake.
After Shen Mengli finished dressing up, Shen Mengli took a soaked towel and walked towards Dongfang Xue, after she came to Dongfang Xue's side, Dongfang Xue stretched out her hand and took the towel handed by Shen Mengli, Dongfang Xue has been washing like this in recent days, this is the eighth day......
"What are you going to do next?" After Dongfang Xue wiped her cheeks with a towel, Shen Mengli looked at Dongfang Xue's eyes and suddenly asked.
Dongfang Xue thought for a while, and then said: "My injury is almost healed, we have been on this island for seven days, I have been constantly expanding my divine sense to investigate the radius of this island for dozens of miles, if I am not false, there are no other islands within a radius of dozens of miles in this place, and there are no ships passing through in these seven days......" Dongfang Xue sighed after speaking.
"Then what should we do?" Shen Mengli suddenly muttered with a worried face.
Dongfang Xue took a deep breath and thought about it, and then said: "When my injuries are healed, when my injuries are healed, I will send you into the ghost ring, and then I will try my best to escape in one direction, hoping to meet a ship, or find another island......"
After listening to Dongfang Xue's words, Shen Mengli asked again: "Here we can only rely on the law of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, we can know the general direction of the southeast, northwest and northwest, but if you find a direction and try to escape, if the direction is deviated......"
"I can only gamble...... We have already wasted seven or eight days here, and if we wait any longer, we may really have to delay the Danwu Academy's apprenticeship ceremony. Dongfang Xue looked at Shen Mengli's eyes and suddenly explained.
Shen Mengli sighed, glanced at the endless sea in front of him, and compromised: "It's only like this......"
Just when the two of them were thinking and meditating for the next road, they sighed secretly, and suddenly a white figure in the distance ran towards the two of them at great speed. After Shen Mengli saw the shadow, his sad face finally smiled again.
"Little fire!!" Shen Mengli shouted at the little beast.
As soon as Xiaohuo came back, he immediately threw himself into Shen Mengli's arms, Shen Mengli hugged the little beast and kissed and touched, and the little beast called twice in a low voice. Dongfang Xue looked at the man and beast in front of her, and suddenly remembered the aunt who took care of her when she was a child, thinking of this, Dongfang Xue suddenly interrupted this thought, it was a long time ago, how long has it been? As if it was a memory of the previous life, it had already been thrown into the corner of memory by Dongfang Xue......
Suddenly, Dongfang Xue looked at the man and beast in front of him as if she had discovered something, and saw Dongfang Xue frowning and about to get up. "Alas?" Shen Mengli saw that Dongfang Xue, whose injuries had not yet healed, were about to get up, so he immediately stretched out his hand to stop Dongfang Xue, and the pair of small hands that stretched out were pushed away by Dongfang Xue. I saw Dongfang Xue suddenly stretched out her hand to the little beast in Shen Mengli's arms, touched the little beast's head, and then reached into the little beast's mouth.
But before Dongfang Xue could make any moves, he suddenly spit out two pieces of crystal clear things in Xiaohuo's mouth. It is a spirit stone, and it is two lower-grade spirit stones. Dongfang Xue's mind hurriedly responded: "Why is there a spirit stone on this deserted island where there are no fireworks in the world?" Shen Mengli looked at Dongfang Xue who was in doubt, and also guessed in his heart.
Just when the two of them were puzzled, they saw Xiaohuo suddenly open his mouth and pick up a spirit stone, and then chewed it in his mouth, a rattling sound came from Xiaohuo's mouth, Dongfang Xue's face instantly darkened, in addition to the connotation of spiritual power, this spirit stone is also an extremely rare and extremely hard mineral on the mainland, seeing Xiaohuo eat so calmly and so with relish, Dongfang Xue kept recalling the records in the 300,000 ancient books of Guiyuan in her heart, about the demon beast that eats the spirit stone, but after thinking for a long time, Dongfang Xue still didn't come up with any clue。
After Xiao Huo chewed a spirit stone, he swallowed it in his stomach, and then looked at Dongfang Xue and the others with great joy, and pushed the remaining spirit stone in the direction of the two of them with his head, meaning to let the two of them eat it too. Dongfang Xue shook her head suspiciously, but Shen Mengli suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Daddy... Daddy... Mother...... Eat ......" Xiaohuo spit out these words with great difficulty.
"We don't eat!" Shen Mengli hugged Xiaohuo, and then stroked Xiaohuo's head, and said to Xiaohuo with relief: "Xiaohuo is awesome, remember the two of us! It's just that your father and I still don't eat the ...... of spirit stones" After finishing speaking, Shen Mengli also secretly glanced at Dongfang Xue, and saw that Dongfang Xue's expression was not abnormal, Shen Mengli turned his head to look at Xiaohuo in his arms again.
Xiaohuo seemed to understand what Shen Mengli meant, and suddenly glanced at the two of them suspiciously, and then roared in a low voice with self-blame, and then got into Shen Mengli's arms and stopped showing his head.
Looking at Xiao Huo, Dongfang Xue had a lot of questions in her heart, only to see Dongfang Blood glance at Shen Mengli, and then suddenly asked Xiao Huo in Shen Mengli's arms: "Xiao Huo, where did you get this spirit stone? Did you meet someone else?"
When Shen Mengli heard Dongfang Xue's question, a question suddenly rose in his heart, and then he looked at the small fire in his arms. I saw Xiaohuo poke his head out in Shen Mengli's arms, and explained to Dongfang Xue and the others in non-fluent words: "Ahead... ...... in the hole in the front"
"Cave?" Dongfang Xue tilted her head to look at Xiao Huo, and then turned her head to look in the direction that Xiao Huo intimate, it was a large forest, since she heard Shen Mengli say that this island was an isolated island, Dongfang Xue did not carefully investigate this island, but at this time, Dongfang Xue used her divine sense to investigate in the direction indicated by Xiao Huo, only to see a few very slight spiritual power fluctuations, looming in the ground behind the woods.
"Someone!" Dongfang Xue said to Shen Mengli in front of him with a cold face.
Shen Mengli heard Dongfang Xue say that there were people, so he quickly looked in the direction that Dongfang Xue was looking at, and said to himself while looking at the past: "That night, it was already quite dark, so I only explored the coastline of this island once, and I didn't notice any traces, so I ......"
Just as Shen Mengli was talking, Dongfang Xue suddenly interrupted Shen Mengli's words, and then stood up with two shakes, and said to Shen Mengli: "You wait for me here, I'll go over and investigate......"
"I'll go too!" Shen Mengli put down the small fire in his arms, then grabbed Dongfang Xue's sleeve and said to Dongfang Xue. Dongfang Xue turned around and glanced at Shen Mengli, nodded, and walked in that direction. Just when the two of them were about to go to investigate, suddenly Xiaohuo bit Dongfang Xue's clothes, Dongfang Xue and Shen Mengli looked at Xiaohuo on the ground suspiciously, and really couldn't understand why Xiaohuo would stop the two of them......
I saw Xiaohuo open his mouth slightly at the two, and then spit out two words again and said, "Bad... After the bad guy ......" finished speaking, under the gaze of the two, Xiaohuo still seemed to have palpitations. The two glanced at each other and looked at each other, and then Dongfang Xue said to Shen Mengli: "You wait for me here, I'll go over and see for myself, if anything is wrong, I can still get out of it!"
Shen Mengli just wanted to say something, but Dongfang Xue gently pushed Shen Mengli back to the same place, and then walked alone in the direction of the forest. After Dongfang Xue's back disappeared from the field of vision of one man and one beast, Shen Mengli glanced at Xiaohuo under his feet, Xiaohuo was also looking at Shen Mengli, only to see Shen Mengli smile lightly at Xiaohuo, then picked up Xiaohuo, and gently followed in the direction of Dongfang Xue......