The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 73 Cave Immortal
Yang Yang's scream broke the silence of the forest, a group of birds were disturbed and flew out from the forest, making the sound of flapping their wings, which was particularly eye-catching in the forest at dawn.

However, he didn't care about that much anymore, he only had that amber vertical pupil the size of a tire in his eyes.

As an adult man with a normal IQ, Yang Yang knows very well that vertical pupils are a sign of cold-blooded animals, but no matter what kind of cold-blooded animals, it is impossible to have such large vertical pupils even in the forest.

And the owner of the vertical pupil didn't seem to be disturbed by Yang Yang's heart-piercing screams.

Still staring at Yang Yang for a moment, fortunately he is not a girl after all, after he yelled and found that the other party had no response, he finally regained some reason, turned his head to look at Yuan Mu and said, "Shut... Hitomi...!"

"Well, vertical pupils." Yuan Mu nodded calmly, and suddenly felt that it was a bit inhumane for him to scare Yang Yang like this.So he chuckled lightly and said, "Your Lao Dongxian is out of the mansion, I have something to discuss with you."

The owner of the vertical pupil seemed to understand Yuan Mu's words, it paused for a while, and then slowly dived into the lake.

It wasn't until the vertical pupil disappeared that Yang Yang came back to his senses, grabbed Yuan Mu's hand, and asked in an almost hysterical tone: "It's the one you told me to bring me to see?!"

"Well, that's right." Yuan Mu nodded, looked at Yang Yang's angry expression, and said, "He is a cave fairy here, not some man-eating monster. Don't call me out next time. I will be punished by you." Scared to death."

Listen, listen, he is going to be scared to death by me, please brother, I am the one who is really going to be played to death by you, okay?

"Then can you tell me first next time! The sudden appearance of such a big pair of eyes with vertical pupils, I'm not scared to death is considered courageous, okay?"

"Yes yes yes, my mistake, I should have told you earlier." Yuan Mu nodded to admit his mistake to appease Yang Yang, and said, "I was also afraid that you would not come after you found out, after all, you are as courageous as the captain We seldom meet mortals, and lack of experience is normal."

Yang Yang didn't even bother to talk to him this time, and just gave him a big roll of his eyes.

Yuan Mu was not angry when he received the white eyes from the other party, but just bumped him with his elbow, motioning him to turn his head to look at the center of the lake.

Yang Yang turned around, and saw that the lake water started to form huge bubbles as before. A moment later, a black object with dark patterns surfaced, and then slowly came towards him.

It wasn't until he got closer that he saw clearly that it was a piece of animal skin, to be precise, it should be a piece of scaly skin.

He thought about it carefully, and it seemed that he had seen such skin on the prototype of Rain Dance last time, but the scales in front of him were finer and finer than that of Rain Dance.

Just thinking about it, the owner of that piece of skin slowly surfaced, revealing its true face.

Sure enough, as Yang Yang guessed, this is a cold-blooded animal - the owner of those vertical pupils is a snake.

An incomparably huge snake, in Yang Yang's world view, no snake can grow so big.

Although it can be seen from the huge vertical pupil like a wheel that it must be very huge, but when he actually faced the snake head that was about the size of a 1.5-meter double bed, Yang Yang was still shocked.

Fortunately, this time, he was mentally prepared and did not scream again.However, even if they didn't cry out, they were almost scared to death. Human beings seem to be born with a fear of cold-blooded animals, especially snakes.Not to mention this extraordinary size.

"Dongxian." Yuan Mu took a step forward, slightly bent over, as if saluting the snake in front of him.

Yuan Mu's voice brought back Yang Yang's thoughts, he glanced at Yuan Mu beside him, and told himself, it's all right, it's all right, Yuan Mu is here anyway.

Moreover, as long as he is there, everything that cannot be deduced from common sense becomes reasonable.

Because, he is a monster!

The monsters know each other, so they are naturally monsters.Since they are monsters, it seems a bit difficult to set their reminders by human standards.

The snake looked at the two of them for a long time, then lowered its head slightly, as if returning a gift.Then, the snake slowly approached Yuan Mu with its head, and the latter put his hand on it as if he knew what the other party meant.

Looking at this picture, Yang Yang suddenly felt a little familiar for some reason, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Shaking his head, driving those strange thoughts out of his head, Yang Yang looked up, and found that Yuan Mu seemed to have finished communicating with the big snake, and was looking at him with a strange look.

"What's wrong?" Yang Yang asked a little puzzled, "Is there something wrong?"

"Dongxian said, I want to tell you something." Yuan Mu said, gestured to the big snake, and then said to Yang Yang, "Put your hand on his head, don't be afraid."

Yang Yang nodded, indicating that he understood.Of course he is not afraid, because it is useless to be afraid!
Watching the huge snake head getting closer, Yang Yang could almost imagine that the other party opened his mouth, just like he himself was eating melon seeds, and he would eat himself in as soon as he stretched out the snake head.

As the snake head got closer and closer, the emotion that should have been terrified slowly receded, replaced by an expectation that he could not explain clearly.

And looking forward to it, there is also a sense of familiarity for some reason. This sense of familiarity is like meeting an old friend for many years, as if his next action has been done thousands of times many years ago. generally.

It was this sense of familiarity, Yang Yang stretched out his hand to touch the huge snake head.

Then, something unexpected happened to Yang Yang. The big snake that looked so arrogant, like a puppy acting like a baby with its master, moved its huge head and rubbed against his palm.The rough touch of the scales rubbed against Yang Yang's palm, and it hurt and itched. For some reason, he suddenly laughed.

Seeing this, Yuan Mu said, "Thank you Dongxian."

The big snake stopped moving after Yuan Mu finished speaking.After a while, he raised his head, looked at the two of them again, and then slowly dived back into the water.

Yang Yang looked at the slowly calming lake, but couldn't say a word.

"Let's go." Yuan Mu followed Yang Yang's gaze to see the calm water, so he walked over, patted the latter's shoulder, and said, "Don't be dazed, we have to go back to the village before Zuo Yong and the others get up. "

"Ah? Oh." Yang Yang nodded, took one last look at the calm lake, turned around and followed Yuan Mu's footsteps,
On the way back, Yang Yang was hesitant to speak several times, but in the end Yuan Mu couldn't bear the look of him wanting to say something or not, so he asked, "What's the matter? If you have anything to say, just say it. I'll watch you from the sidelines." Are you in a hurry, don't you panic yourself?"

"I'm panicking!" Yang Yang nodded without hesitation, and said, "But... I haven't figured out how to ask."

"You can ask questions wherever you are, you can ask whatever comes to your mind." Yuan Mu replied, not knowing whether to laugh or cry when he heard this.

"That's... you just called him the Cave Immortal?" Yang Yang asked, and after seeing Yuan Mu nodding his head, he asked again, "What is the Cave Immortal?"

"Cave Immortal... This is very complicated to say. If you understand it simply, it means the same as the land of the mountain god. It is an immortal who is enshrined by one side and keeps one side safe."

Yuan Mu thought for a while, and decided to explain in the simplest and most acceptable words to Yang Yang: "This snake has lived for a long time. It is one of the ancient totems of the Wu people, and it is also a god that the Miao people like to worship. Because they believe that, The snake represents wisdom and symbolizes the souls of ancestors."

"Then he is a god?" Yang Yang raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It depends on how you define immortals. If you want to be in the immortal class as you mortals say, and you need to issue an ID card or something, of course he doesn't count. It's not just him. Maybe there isn't even a fairy."

After Yuan Mu finished speaking, he looked at Yang Yang's dull expression as if he had been refreshed in his worldview, and said, "If one is considered a god if he has the power to do good deeds, he should be regarded as the patron saint of this place."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Mu added: "Not only him, but me, Lao Zhou, including Wu Zhongwu and Hong Yuan, they should all be regarded as gods."

"..." After hearing the last sentence, Yang Yang chose to remain silent.

"The so-called immortals are just made up by you mortals. There has never been such a term as immortals in this world. There are a few gods, but as early as ancient times, they have left China and gone to other realms."

Yuan Mu didn't care about his attitude, and while still being supported by those tree spirits, he explained: "Later, the Taoist sect rose in the human race, and in order to recruit more disciples to fight against the monster race, they made up The title of Immortal is used to suppress monsters."

"The fight between the human race and the monster race?" Yang Yang raised his eyebrows and asked the key point from Yuan Mu's words, "Has the human race and the monster race fought?"

"Not only the human race and the monster race, but also the witch race at the beginning." Yuan Mu said with a smile, as if an elder was telling an ancient story like a young child.

"It's just that it happened a long time ago." After a long time, Yuan Mu sighed and said with a smile.He turned his head to look at Yang Yang, and said, "If you don't hurry up, we really won't be able to get back to the village before dawn."

Yang Yang looked at Yuan Mu's smile, not only why, but suddenly saw a sense of vicissitudes from his slightly youthful appearance, so he blurted out:
"Whether it is a god or a monster, as long as it can protect one side's safety, it is the same for mortals. As Chi Dun said, monsters also have good monsters and bad monsters, just like people have good people and bad people. No matter where you are In the eyes of others, monsters or gods are my friends in my eyes.”

But for some reason, this time, Yuan Mu just smiled back at him and didn't speak.

(End of this chapter)