Chapter 4: Breaking Out of the Shell

In a hurry, Si Yi was at a loss, so she had to immediately call her father, the old village chief. The old village chief came to Si Yi's room out of breath, saw that the balls in the wooden plate were gone, and asked, "What's going on? Where did the balls go?"

Si Yi was anxious, and immediately replied: "I don't know, it disappeared when I got up, and there was nothing abnormal last night, there was no movement at all, why did Dan Dan disappear out of thin air?"

The old village chief was also very anxious, but he knew that his daughter was even more anxious, so he couldn't mess around. The old village chief looked at Si Yi's room and didn't find anything abnormal, so he said: "Girl, don't worry, he is just an egg, he has no hands or feet." Surely he won't run out on his own, I think someone should have taken him away, so I'm going to gather the people in the village and see if they have any clues. After saying that, the old village chief hurried out the door.

There is a temple on the east side of the deserted village, the temple is not far from the old village chief's house, there is an ancient bell in the temple, as long as someone rings this bell, the whole deserted village can be heard, on weekdays, if the old village chief wants to find everyone to discuss matters or something happens in the village, the old village chief will ring this bell. However, there is a miracle about this ancient bell, that is, no one except the old village chief can ring it, in other words, only the village chief of the deserted village can ring this bell.

The bell rang throughout the deserted village, far away and beautiful, and the villagers put down their work after hearing the sound and rushed to the temple in the east of the village as fast as possible. The villagers have long been accustomed to the sound of thunder every morning, but for the bell of the temple, the villagers never dare to slack off, because when the bell rings, something must happen.

The villagers rushed to the temple one after another, and when they saw the old village chief standing alone by the ancient bell, looking anxious, the villagers asked in unison: "Old village chief, what is going on?" ”

The old village chief paused, and said: "It's really inappropriate to call everyone in the morning, but the little old man is also helpless to make this decision, I have been the village chief of this deserted village for a hundred years, and every family in the village has never lost anything, but now my grandson disappeared last night, that is, the egg, my daughter who is miserable has been very sad, if you find any movement last night, please let me know!"

The villagers knew very well in their hearts that whether it was the old village chief or his daughter, they had already regarded the egg as a relative, and now the relatives were inexplicably gone, and no one else might be able to hold it back.

After the old village chief's words fell, the villagers below began to discuss, and there was a mess outside the temple at this time. As the old village chief said, in the past hundred years of the deserted village, the house has never been closed, and nothing has ever been lost, and now the grandson of the old village chief is missing at home, such a thing is a big deal in the deserted village. If it is almost impossible for the villagers to steal the grandson of the old village chief, then there are only two possibilities for this matter, the first is that the foreigners came to the deserted village last night, and the second is that the grandson of the old village chief ran out by himself, no matter which one it is, this is an unbelievable thing for the deserted village.

However, at this time, Si Yi suddenly came to the old village chief's side and whispered, "Dad, there seem to be two people missing here?" In the past, as long as the ancient bell of the temple rang, both adults and children would all come here, all of them were indispensable, even if they were old people who couldn't walk, their families would carry them here. But now Si Yi said that there were two people missing, which made the old village chief immediately silently start to name them in his heart.

Sure enough, as Si Yi said, there were two people missing, and these two people were Luo Qi and Luo Li, who had been accompanying the old village chief and waiting for the egg to be born. After confirming the identities of the two alibies, the old village chief asked, "Do any of you know why Luo Qi and Luo Li didn't appear here?"

Listening to the words of the old village chief, the villagers suddenly came to their senses, some said they didn't see it, some said they didn't know, then Luo Qi's family stood up and said: "Luo Qi's kid didn't know what was going on last night, he went to bed early, and you rang the ancient bell early this morning, the village chief, I didn't pay attention to whether the kid hurried here before he got up, maybe the kid is still lying in bed now!"

The old village chief thought for a moment and said: "This is impossible, Luo Qi is a sensible child, he can't break the rules of my deserted village, there must be something else hidden in this matter!"

Luo Qi and Luo Li's family were a little anxious, and said in unison: "Village elder, you grew up watching those two boys, you must know what kind of people they are, they won't do that kind of thing!" The old village chief's "other hidden secrets" just now made Luo Qi and Luo Li's family think that the loss of Dan Dan might be related to those two boys, so they said such things.

The old village chief waved his old right hand and said, "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that, we should find those two boys as soon as possible now, maybe they know where Dan Dan is!"

If there is a problem in one place, the whole village helps, this is a deserted village. The old village chief asked the villagers to look for the whereabouts of Luo Qi and Luo Li, and at the same time check the traces of Dandan, outside the village, the villagers turned it upside down, but they didn't even find a shadow. Seeing that the time had come to noon, Si Yi stood at the head of the village and walked around anxiously, the village did not find it, and the villagers had already carpeted along the Luo River and began to search. The old village chief came to Si Yi's side and said, "Girl, don't worry too much, Dandan's will be recovered!" The deserted village is isolated from the world, and has long been cut off from the outside world, and almost no one on this land knows where the deserted village is, so it is almost impossible for a foreigner to take Dandan. Now that Luo Qi and Luo Li have disappeared along with Dandan, the old village chief believes that as long as Luo Qi and Luo Li are found, they will definitely be able to find Dandan.

Si Yi knew that it was useless to be anxious, and said, "Everyone is helping to find it, and I will also go to the bank of the Luo River to have a look!"

The old village chief nodded slightly, looked in the direction of Luohe, and said, "Be sure to pay attention to safety!" For Si Yi, she is undoubtedly the most worried about Dandan, and she also wants to get DanDan back the most.

After leaving the deserted village, Si Yi went straight to the Luo River, I don't know why, Si Yi faintly felt that an invisible force was pulling her, making her go to the bank of the Luo River. The Luohe River is very close to the deserted village, and in the blink of an eye, Kung Fu Siyi has already come to the bank of the Luohe River, and at this time, the villagers also happened to find the bank of the Luohe River. When Aunt Wu saw Si Yi standing on the shore, she walked over and said, "Aunt Wu knows that you are sad, we will definitely get the balls back!"

Aunt Wu's words fell, and suddenly two figures appeared from the upper reaches of the Luo River, these two figures ran like crazy, and seemed to be shouting "help" in their mouths, the villagers saw this, and looked towards the upper reaches of the Luo River, as the two figures approached, one of the villagers began to say: "That seems to be Luo Qi and Luo Li!"

"Yes, that's right, that's them!"

The villagers ran upstream, and after a while, they met Luo Qiluo. At this time, Luo Qi and Luo Li were sweating profusely, panting and saying, "Dandan... Dan Dan was captured by a youkai!"

Si Yi squeezed out of the crowd and asked, "What did you just say? Dan Dan was captured by the monster, where is it?"

Luo Qi and Luo Li turned around at the same time, pointed to the upper reaches of the Luo River, and said, "That monster is a bird, huge, and has a very fierce look, and it took away the balls last night." ”

After the two of them finished talking, Si Yi immediately rushed towards the upper reaches of the Luo River, and it was too late for the villagers to stop it. Seeing Si Yi like this, the villagers did not hesitate to follow, Luo Qi and Luo Li glanced at each other, and then followed, although their hearts were full of fear.

Along the Luo River, the terrain is not flat, and there are many hills, but this does not affect Si Yi's running speed at all. Turning over a small hill, I saw Si Yi suddenly stop, and when the villagers followed, they found that there was a huge strange bird behind the hill, its feathers were like white jade, its eyes were like crystals, and its head was long with a black jade crown, which was very terrifying. The villagers were all dumbfounded, and Luo Qiluo pointed to the strange birds under the hill and said in unison: "It's it, it's the one who snatched the balls..."

The strange bird's body was so large that it was like a small mountain, and the villagers knew that it had taken the balls, but they did not dare to step forward. Si Yi was a little breathless, and while walking towards the strange bird, he shouted loudly: "Give back my child..."Seeing this, the villagers just stood in place and shouted, no one stepped forward to stop them, maybe they were frightened by the behemoth in front of them, maybe they didn't react.

Si Yi slowly approached the strange bird, but the strange bird squatted motionlessly, as if he didn't notice Si Yi's arrival, until Si Yi was only a foot away from the strange bird, only to see the strange bird suddenly stand up, turn his head and look at Si Yi. Although compared to the strange bird, Si Yi was like a small ant on the ground, but she didn't seem to be afraid of it at all, she seemed to be able to read something from the eyes of the strange bird. Looking at each other, Si Yi's anger and anxiety in the last second suddenly disappeared. She looked into the eyes of the strange bird and felt a warm current flow through her heart.

In this way, Si Yi and the strange bird held on for a while, no one moved, and the villagers not far away also became very quiet, quietly waiting for what would happen in the next second. But at this moment, I saw that the strange bird flapped its wings a few times, and the small trees on the hill were blown into two sections by the strong wind generated by the flapping of the wings, and some were even uprooted, and the villagers standing on the top of the mountain were almost blown away by the strong wind.

After flapping its wings, the strange bird raised its head to the sky and chirped, and the sound was deafening, resounding throughout the Luohe River and the deserted village. Suddenly, I saw the strange bird spread its wings and leaped to the ground, its huge wings covering the sky and the sun, like a mountain soaring away. The strange bird spreads its wings for 90,000 miles, covering the sky and the sun and looking up to the sky, but it suffers the flowers and trees up and down the Luo River, and also suffers the villagers who come to look for eggs.

With the departure of the strange bird, the Luo River also returned to calm, and a huge egg under the hill was glowing with golden light, Luo Qi pointed to the bottom of the hill and shouted: "Dandan, Dandan, Dandan..."

The villagers ran to the bottom of the hill as fast as they could, and looked at the golden ball, which was several times larger than before. However, at this moment, a crisp tearing sound came, and countless cracks spread on the golden ball, and it was out of control!