Chapter 3 3. Fox Appears
Time passed and it was dusk in a blink of an eye.
The clouds are rolling with golden and orange colors, the setting sun reflects the towering mountains in the distance, and the thousands of miles of green mountains are now turning into magnificent crimson.
The river reflects the afterglow and flows quietly by the village.
The free-range chickens and ducks have also returned home, waiting for nightfall.
On the river bank, someone shouted, they cast down the fishing nets every morning and put them away in the evening to check the harvest. By the light of dusk fireworks, the big net in the river is gradually closing.
"Chu Er, my network here is broken!" someone shouted.
The fishing net in his hand was in tatters, as if it had been smashed into pieces by some giant creature.
"My place is also broken!" Chu Er on the other end shouted, and after thinking for a while he added, "It's like a big fish was trapped and hit with a big hole!"
Big fish, they have fished in this river for decades, how have they ever seen any big fish? The villagers held the broken fishing nets and murmured in their hearts. He turned over and inspected the fishing net. The broken edges of the mesh were stretched to be very thin and long. How big of a fish would it be to make such a big hole in the net?
While the villager was deep in thought, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder.
"Huh?" He turned around, only to be struck by the dazzling rise and fall of a flash of white.
The plump woman in white stared at him timidly, her eyebrows and eyes full of seductive affection. The orange-red light of dusk shone obliquely on the woman's body, losing the alienation of her beautiful face and adding the aura of human beings in the world.
Villagers who have lived in the mountains for decades have never seen such a beauty. She was stared at by the woman, motionless.
When the beauty spoke, her voice was timid.
"Excuse me, brother, is he here this morning?"
"Sister, you..." The villager scratched his head in embarrassment, "Can you be more detailed and tell me which family the gangster is from? Are you being bullied? Brother, I will call the villagers to seek justice for you!"
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It's really weird. With such a beautiful girl at home, is it possible for a man to go out and flirt with women? The villagers can guarantee that there is no one more beautiful than the girl in front of them within tens of miles of this mountain.
The woman did not speak. She saw the broken fishing net in the hands of the villagers, and a flash of understanding flashed in her eyes.
"May I ask, brother, from which direction did this fishing net break?"
"Let me take a look, the hole is heading south."
"It's strange, how come this good network is broken..." The villager wanted to say something more, but his eyes suddenly went dark for a moment. When he calmed down and looked again, he saw that dusk had long passed, and the night stars were falling in the sky. He was still holding the broken fishing net in his hand, and his body movements were the same as before, without any change, which meant that he didn't look back at all!
In the dark mountains and fields, the lights gradually come on in the villages.
Where are the women here?
"Chu Da, why are you standing still?" Chu Er's shout rang out from beside him. He saw something was wrong and ran over to take a look.
Chu Da didn't respond, like a sculpture.
Recalling the scene just now, the woman's appearance became increasingly blurry, and his whole body was hairy.
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Deep in the green mountains, there is an island in the middle of the lake.
The lake is silent, its face is like a mirror, reflecting the stars in the sky.
A petite white shadow walked out of the mountains and stepped onto the lake. It turned out to be a fox. It stepped on the lake, and thin ice formed on the soles of its feet, so it did not fall into the water.
The white fox felt the terrifying mountain-like atmosphere in the center of the lake, and knew that he had finally found it.
It walked across the lake and came to the island.
There are towering giant trees growing here, their branches and leaves stretching out to cover the sky and the sun. When the fox walks to the bottom of the tree and looks up, the stars seem to be hanging on the ancient branches and leaves. It couldn't hear any sound. No matter how quiet the mountain forest was, there were still faint chirping of insects and birds, but it was difficult to notice. But it stood here and all the sounds disappeared. It seemed that the closer it got to that person, the further away the world was from it.
This tree looks very much like a camphor tree, with a tall tree shape and twisted dragon and snake-like lines on its trunk.
Dark and silent.
But a thunderous roar sounded above its head, and the scales scratched the trunk, making the ancient tree shudder. Occasionally, leaves fell off, and there were marks like knife scratches on the leaves. The long breath ruffled the fox's hair. It didn't smell as fishy as he imagined, but had a strange and strange fragrance.
Two bright yellow lanterns lit up in the deep darkness, illuminating the layers of scales entwined on the ancient trees. Even though he knew what he was facing, the fox still couldn't help but retreat when he actually stood with it.
Li Xi'an looked at the little fox in front of him.
From the moment the fox appeared on the hilltop on the lakeshore, it noticed that it was not surprised by the other party's arrival. It would be better to say that it made its premonition come true. Especially the opponent's strange ability to step across the lake. Should we say that the changes have finally begun?
It waits for the fox to speak. Since the other party comes to it, he must be sure. If there is no way to communicate, all the efforts will be wasted and meaningless to the fox.
The fox seemed to know what Li Xi'an was thinking, and a hazy white light rose from his body.
A plump woman dressed in white appeared on the spot.
Transformation? Li Xi'an frowned, a little confused. The golden eyes flashed with light, and he realized that the woman was just a shadow, and the fox itself had not changed at all. This is just a simple illusion.
The woman bowed down.
"Master of Taihang Mountain, I hope you won't be surprised if I dare to use some tricks."
Li Xi'an was silent after another similar title. Whether he was the owner of Taihang Mountain or the mountain god, there was essentially no difference. In the past, it was only considered a misunderstanding when humans called mountain gods. After all, when they were still humans, they read those fantasy novels and people worshiped some magical things as river gods. Mountain gods and the like were not uncommon.
But the psychic fox in front of me also called him that.
It cannot help but ponder.
"Can you go to the north of Taihang?" Bai Hu said.
Li Xi'an looked down at it and waited for the next words.
"There is a fierce tiger rising there."
It heard what the fox meant and wanted it to go to Beishan to stop the rise of the fierce tiger.
The big red snake was circling, motionless.
This is a natural choice, and Li Xi'an believes that he has no right to interfere. It has lived in the Taihang Mountains for more than two hundred years and has not yet figured out how big it is. It just found a good place to circle it. How many creatures exist in it? Li Xi'an is called the god of the Taihang Mountains, but he doesn't think he can be the god of this ancient mountain range at all. Even if the other creatures here become as inexplicably powerful as it is, it is still the choice of this world and this mountain.
What's more...candle-like eyes glanced at the fox.
Rise up creatures? It heard the name fox. How could there be only one of these things? That ferocious tiger might just be walking at the front of the road, and the fox in front of it was also one of them. Could it be that when one appears in the Taihang Mountains, it will kill another?
Respect nature.
This is some of Li Xi'an's insights as a snake for more than two hundred years.
Seeing that the big snake didn't respond, the woman buried her head lower.
"That ferocious tiger is going to be born and kill all the humans in sight. I hope you can save her..."
Save her...
The big snake swam, and its long neck was the first to hang down from the shadow of the ancient tree. Its blood jade-like scales opened and closed from front to back along with Li Xi'an's breathing. The fox felt that he was enveloped by the sound of metal roaring, and there were sounds from all directions. The slithering figure of a large snake.
The candle flame flickered, finally stopping at a height that the fox could see.
The big snake looked down at it, its face covered with hard bony protrusions, as if covered with a red copper mask.
This face does not look like a snake, but more like a legendary evil ghost.
The fox shuddered violently.
Li Xi'an really couldn't sit idly by when a ferocious tiger was born to kill people. Killing innocent people is one thing, and rising creatures is another. With the changing times, the torrent of steel cannot be resisted by simple flesh and blood. Don't cause big trouble. By then, it will have to leave its homeland where it has lived for two hundred years.
lead the way.
The fox read the word from the snake's eyes.
(End of chapter)