blue whales under the stars

Chapter 56

Mu Ye didn't stay in Bai Cang's arms for long, he took a few deep breaths, and slowly suppressed his panic and urgency.After gradually calming down, Mu Ye returned to the ground from Mr. Blue Whale's arms.

Bai Cang supported Mu Ye's arm to help him maintain his balance, but Mu Ye quickly let go of his hand after he stood firmly on his own.

They continued to walk forward. In Bai Cang's eyes, the environment here was not much different from the scenery they saw on the way up the mountain.Except for a few large open spaces with gentle slopes, which can show that this place has reached the highest point of the mountain, the surrounding flowers and plants are very similar to when they came here-abundant and full of vitality, but not popular.

But in Mu Ye's eyes, every flat area covered by grass and leaves has the footprints of clansmen.He still remembers the stories that happened in various directions, but now, all traces seem to be erased by the same hand, and every tree that has listened to laughter is covered by moss.

Not only are the steles and the assembly square gone, but all the houses, plowed fields, farm tools and themselves of all the clansmen also disappeared together.This place where Mu Ye lived for 18 years seems to have been removed from the place where all the traces of the past have been removed, and even a little evidence is stingy to leave for him.

Mu Ye has changed from flustered to numb, but he still insists on moving forward.It seemed that just having one last bit of area to go through wasn't enough to convince him that the group had disappeared.

They walked in front of a smooth stone wall, the low stone wall was covered with green vines, Mu Ye stared blankly at those vines, and didn't react for a long while.

When Bai Cang couldn't help but wanted to go forward to pull him, Mu Ye suddenly spoke.

"This is Uncle Lorraine's bakery."

He opened his arms and drew a rough range very carefully: "The door of the bakery is very wide, and there must be three wooden doors to block it, because Uncle Lorraine's companion animal is a cow, in order to facilitate its entry and exit , will leave the door so wide."

“The milk used to make bread is produced by Uncle Lorraine’s own cow. That cow has a bad temper, and Uncle Lorraine’s temper is slow. Sometimes it will run away without waiting for Uncle Lorraine to milk the cow. Come into the bakery and go out to milk the cows against Uncle Lorraine."

"The bakery is also the biggest sales place in the mountains. Uncle Lorraine not only sells bread, but also transports daily necessities from the bottom of the mountain and sells them to everyone."

"When I was a child, he gave me a whole can of little frogs in candy paper." Mu Ye's voice lowered, "When I left, Starman didn't have the storage function, so I couldn't take that can of little frogs away."

A shiny boulder appeared in Bai Cang's right hand, and he quietly followed behind Mu Ye, watching him slowly move forward.

Mu Ye seemed to be telling Mr. Lan Jing the original story, but also seemed to be just reading a dream that had arisen out of nowhere during the day.He turned the corner of the stone wall and continued on, all the way under a young larch.

"This is where the patriarch lives," Mu Ye looked under the tree. "His son, little Monte, is as old as me. We used to play together when we were young. Many animals like to come to me, but in the end, little Monte is the youngest." The first person in a generation to domesticate companion beasts."

"His companion animal is a black bear as tall as a person. It looks very fierce, but in fact it always likes to steal honey and milk. Once, Little Monte came to me in the middle of the night and dragged me to treat the black bear. I comforted him. I've had it for a long time,"

Standing behind Mu Ye, Bai Cang couldn't see the expression on the boy's face, but he could hear a bit of nostalgia from the other party's voice: "It took a long time for him to calm down before I realized that he wanted to visit Uncle Lorraine. I was kicked in the face by Uncle Lorraine's cow, and I was hurt and wronged, and kept moaning."

They walked all the way, and Mu Ye spoke slowly by himself. He said a lot of things related to him or not, and he didn't look back to see if Mr. Lanjing was listening.

Bai Cang listened carefully behind him, not missing a word.The boulder in his hand has been changed several times, each of which is full of what Mu Ye said.

At last they came to a winding stream.

Mu Ye stood on the grass not far from the stream, lowered his head and carefully walked around something.He measured a range with the soles of his feet.

"Here," he looked up to the woods across the creek, his voice became lighter, "this is where I live."

"This is the living room, and this is the study." Mu Ye lowered his head and walked the closed circuit time and time again on the ground. "And this, this is my bed."

"When I left, I packed all the things I could take away in my luggage, but there are still many things that I feel reluctant to part with."

"I thought about it from the beginning. When I find my companion beast, I can bring it back and live here together like other clansmen and companion beasts."

The lightness in Mu Ye's voice finally couldn't be concealed, and the scattered mottled peeled off, stuck to the dark ground by footprints.

"I'm back, and I have my blue whale."

He couldn't say anything later.

Bai Cang stood beside the boy, quietly accompanying him.

Mu Ye suddenly walked to the side again, then stretched out his hand, and picked something from the bushes beside the tree.

Bai Cang followed and found that what was lying in his palm was a rose fruit, the sweet fruit that the boy invited him to eat when they were at the seaside.

Mu Ye plucked the tender red fruits from the undergrowth one by one, and then he couldn't put them in his hands, so he temporarily stored them in Xingman.He picked it non-stop for a long time, but the bright fruits in the bushes in front of him seemed to be completely incomplete, and they were still pressed heavily on the branches.

He looked up at the fruit in front of him, then looked down at the dirty palm and the bright rose fruit, and slowly stopped.

"Rose fruit can bear fruit four times a year, and the number of each time is not large, because everyone likes it very much because of its good taste. There are several rose fruit bushes in the mountain forest, each of which is guarded by the tribe, the first-class rose fruit When it is ripe, someone will pick it one by one."

Mu Ye's voice was fairly steady, but his speaking speed gradually slowed down.

"The rose fruit I took away before I left was accumulated after a long time."

"Back then, there were never so many rose berries on the branches. Someone should have picked them long ago..."

The plump and fresh fruit rolled down from Mu Ye's palm, and the boy's thin back bent down unbearably. He seemed to be unable to stand, so he could only bend down slowly and let the tender red fruit stand beside him All over the place.

Now, there is no need to be busy distributing these fruits to others in turn.

Mu Ye cried for a long time, from being silent to howling to losing his voice, he was very sad and at a loss, his chest was empty, filled with cold wind.

He lost his way home. The past 18 years are like a kite whose string has just been cut. You can still see it, but you always have to worry about it completely disappearing in the next second.Mu Ye didn't know what happened here, and he didn't know what he could do. There was no error in his memory, and there was no error in every inch of flowers, leaves, plants and trees. The only difference was the traces of people. All traces disappeared, as if they had never existed.

He couldn't figure out what kind of reason would cause such a cruel appearance.

After Mu Ye finished crying, even the corners of his eyes were red. Bai Cang carefully washed his face with clean water, so that the boy who had finally vented his anger could feel more comfortable.

All the fruits in the undergrowth were wrapped in a water jacket by Bai Cang and picked, and all of them were stored in Xingye, not even the ones that rolled down at Mu Ye's feet.The boulder that recorded what Mu Ye said was placed in a transparent glass jar, sealed up securely, and placed in the starman.

"Your story is safe, it won't be lost." Bai Cang said these words to Mu Ye twice, once when he was crying, and once after he calmed down, "Even if everything is gone, you can't lose it." And me, let me help you remember."

Mu Ye still looked sad, but fortunately, he was able to express his sadness instead of pouring it into his heart and giving birth to bitter buds.

They came to the forest on the other side of the stream. There was no bridge on the stream. Mu Ye was carried across by a whale. He was familiar with every tree on this side of the stream.

Mu Ye's mood recovered a little bit, and he was able to talk to Mr. Lanjing slowly.Bai Cang asked him questions, and he could answer them.

Bai Cang noticed one thing from the very beginning, most of the things Mu Ye said were his childhood memories.As for those clansmen who didn't like him and drove him away when there was a beast tide, he didn't mention a word.

When Bai Cang asked about what happened later, some clues appeared in Mu Ye's words.

"When I was young, my tribe was very kind to me." Mu Ye said softly, with a nasal voice, "I haven't seen my parents since I can remember, and my neighbors helped me to grow up. Kids, we all had a lot of fun together."

"But later, I don't remember when it started. Their attitude towards me has gradually changed. The neighbors around have moved their houses to farther places one after another. The people in the clan think that my healing technique is very strange. There are those friends...they feel that I have been useless without a companion beast."

The belated companion beast touched his face.

Mu Ye touched the old tree behind him with his backhand, and continued in a low voice: "So later, I prefer to run to the forest across the stream by myself, and meet the animals here. Master Sequoia who has lived for more than 900 years."

He looked up, and there was a lush canopy above his head: "In the past, Master Sequoia was the only tree that could talk. It told me many stories. Two legends came out."

"I also heard those stories about the sea from Master Sequoia."

"It told me that most beast tamers tamed primal beasts, legendary beast tamers attracted holy beasts, there were beast tamers who tamed demons in the past, and there were some brave beast tamers who went to the seaside. "

Bai Cang asked softly, "That's why you know you can leave the mountains and go to the seaside?"

Mu Ye nodded, he leaned his head on the tree trunk, and said softly: "Now, Master Hongshan doesn't talk to me anymore."

When he first got close, Bai Cang followed the old tree to observe carefully, and he didn't find any intelligent life inside, let alone someone who could speak human language.It is just an ordinary sequoia tree, except for living longer, there is nothing special about it.

A yellow bird with a long tail flew over briskly, landed on Mu Ye's lap, tilted its head to look over, and called out to him.Mu Ye cheered up, but he didn't dare to move for fear of startling it.

Mu Ye quietly asked Mr. Blue Whale: "Can you understand what it says? Can I ask it what happened here..."

Bai Cang saw the little bird, and shook his head: "It's not a beast, it doesn't have independent consciousness and language ability, it just lands here and barks at you because it likes you."

Mu Ye lowered his eyes in disappointment.

"I don't think they have moved away. Xiao Ye, if there are traces of people living here, even if they have been carefully processed, I will be able to identify them," Bai Cang said, "but there are no traces of people here. And there are dozens of people around. Miles, I didn't feel any breath of Yuan Beast either."

Mu Ye said sullenly: "I know...if they just moved away, Master Hongshan wouldn't leave."

"But I don't understand, what's going on..."

Mu Ye raised his head and asked him: "Is it possible that this is caused by an illusion? That is, we may have accidentally entered an illusion, so we couldn't find our way home. This illusion may be used to stop the tide of beasts. When we get out, I can..."

"No, Xiao Ye." Bai Cang interrupted him, "A sophisticated illusion requires the support of a large amount of elemental energy. Let alone the fact that there are no element fluctuations nearby, if someone really set up an illusion here against the beast tide, then The cost they will spend will be higher than killing all the primordial beasts in the beast tide."

"Also, Arman's army is training nearby. If there are fluctuations in elemental energy, they will not be unaware."

Mu Ye's gaze dropped again.

After a while, he suddenly said in a soft voice: "At first they just alienated me, but then it got worse and worse. Now, they really left me..."

Bai Cang embraced his shoulders, half-embracing the boy into his arms.

"Ono, we don't know what happened, so don't think about it, okay?"

Mu Ye leaned on Mr. Lanjing's shoulder, turned his head sideways, and buried his face in the other's wide and cool arms.

His voice came out muffled: "In every corner here, you can find shadows of memories. I can see the original appearance when I close my eyes, but when I open them...they are gone."

The memory of 18 years was suddenly overturned in front of him one day, Bai Cang knew Mu Ye's mood, he tightened his arms and hugged him more firmly.

"But I also feel that maybe the real world is when I close my eyes, and it's just a dream when I open them." Mu Ye said softly, "Maybe I'm still lying on my own bed, Hai and you It was all a dream, when I really opened my eyes, the mountains and forests came back, but you disappeared..."

Bai Cang sighed silently, stretched out his hand to hold the man's right hand, and intertwined his fingers across Xingman.

"I am your whale, not a dream, nor will I disappear."

Mu Ye buried his head in front of Bai Cang's chest, clasped his fingers tightly with him, and hugged the man tightly with the other hand, without saying a word.

"In this mountain forest, I can neither feel the traces of human activities nor the existence of illusions. If we can't find a breakthrough here, why don't we go to the small town of Arman at the foot of the mountain?"

Bai Cang spoke slowly, his voice was always low and gentle, bit by bit dispelling the deep doubts and fears in Mu Ye's chest.

"Did you say before that although everyone doesn't have much contact with the outside world and basically stays in the mountains and forests, did Uncle Lorraine from the bakery often go down the mountain to buy goods?"

"In that case, the town at the foot of the mountain will definitely know that there is a person who often goes to purchase goods on a regular basis. We can go to the town and ask if anyone knows about Uncle Lorraine."

The little head in his arms was silent for a long time before finally sending out a muffled answer.

"it is good."

——whale——whale——whale——

Halfway through the freshman holiday, Sandor started delivering meals to Kool on the third day after Mu Ye left.The reason why he remembered this incident was mainly because he heard that when Kool was busy at the beginning of school, he often filled his stomach with cold bread, and sometimes he would even forget about eating directly.

The body is the foundation of activities, not to mention that Kuer is still injured.Sandor felt sorry for his young lady, and he had nothing else to do during the holidays, so he took the initiative to deliver meals.

However, Leverley, who took the initiative to reveal the fact that his team leader was too busy, was not in a very good mood at this time.

Not far away were two people who were sitting and eating quietly. Leverley couldn't speak loudly, so he could only stare at Clever on the other side with a very serious gaze: "Yesterday, when you were sitting In front of this position, there is a beautiful and complete water glass, Clever, did you really not see it?"

Clever gracefully forked a piece of broccoli into his mouth, and after savoring it carefully, stepped on Leverley's eager gaze and said slowly, "Oh."

Lively asked angrily, "Oh, what do you mean?"

Clever said, "Oh yes, I know you have a cup."

"So, did you see my glass?" Lively asked.

Clever thought for a while: "I seem to have seen it before."

Lively asked anxiously, "Where is it?"

Clever glanced at the two people at the side, and said, "Maybe it was taken by the boss to fetch water for the junior."

Hearing the word junior, most of Leverley's confidence disappeared immediately.He lowered his voice again: "I didn't mean to mispronounce the gender of my oldest friend."

Clever was noncommittal and continued to taste the broccoli leisurely.

Leverley slapped the table violently: "Then you can't give my cup to the boss for dissection!"

Clever scratched the end of his eyebrows with his fingers, and used his fingers to block the smile on his face.

Lively was getting angry when suddenly a hoarse male voice came from behind: "Lively."

Several people were used to hearing the sound of Kuhl's injury, but Leverley, who had just slapped the table, was obviously still a little guilty.He turned around stiffly, but he heard Kuer say, "Do you know the special third class of elemental students?"

Kool is a warrior apprentice, while Leverley and Clever are elemental students. They belong to different departments, so Kool asked.

Glancing at Clever, Leverley restrained his expression and said, "That class is full of students with special attribute elements?"

Kur nodded.

Lai Weilei thought for a while, and said: "It is said that the special third class is composed of elemental students with three special attributes: thunder, light, and dark. Because the number of special elemental students is too small, a class is usually formed every three grades, but even so , the number of students in the class often cannot exceed ten. Moreover, because the special element students recruited by the college in the past two years are not very capable and the number is very small, the third special class has been discontinued for two years."

Clever asked: "Boss, why did you mention this?"

Sandor, who was sitting across from Kur, took the initiative to explain the task: "I received a notice today that the college wanted to re-establish the third special class, but this year there are only two special element students among the new students, Mu Ye and I. The light department who asked him to help. So I want to ask about the situation of this class."

Clever asked: "How did the academy tell you that a new special third class will be built from the first year of freshmen?"

Sandor nodded: "Yes, if established, we will be the first batch of members of this special class."

Clever and Leverley looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces were not relaxed.

Although the special third class has been separated for two years, this does not mean that there are no special attribute element students in the second and third grades of St. Paul.The college suddenly announced the establishment of a new special third class in less than three years. Not only is there no way to communicate with the existing special third class in the school, but those special attribute element students in the second and third grades may not have no opinion. .

Lai Weilei asked: "Is the news of the establishment of the third special class pending, or has it been confirmed?"

Sandor said: "The notice given by the college is to first look at the quality of the freshmen."

Sandor is already here, and the college is probably waiting for the light elemental student who asked for leave to leave school. Clever was a little surprised to hear this, although he has already completed the evaluation of the light elemental student from the grades and freshman evaluations. The ability of the elemental students is estimated, but seeing that the college is going to make an exception and set up a new special third class for these two elemental students, this can further confirm the strength of the light elemental student.

He said: "I'll go back and look for some materials from the former special class three. When the time comes, please ask the boss to pass it on to you. You can take a look for yourself."

Sandor hurriedly said, "Thank you senior."

The lunches of several people were almost used up, and Leverley was just about to put away his newly changed water glass to rinse, when a fork suddenly flew in front of him, and it was inserted right into his water glass impartially.

Leverley: "..."

Someone on the side said coolly: "The table that was photographed was shaken, and the fork flew off."

... Boss, you can just talk about it, this lie is not sincere at all, I took a picture of the table 10 minutes ago, where is the fork only responding now?

When Leverley was bitterly sad about his second water glass, Clever pushed his thin-rimmed glasses leisurely: "Please count the number of times I have called you a school girl, so I can inform the logistics. Fill up a few more cups."