"You... never mind. I'm not talking to you anymore, it's too infuriating. That's an orc, not a puppy, okay? She has a name!" Huoqian was so angry that he waved his hand and helplessly found a place to sit down and catch his breath.
Stone shoved the portrait into Doragar's hands, then grinned mischievously as he leaned closer to Huoqian: "Brother Huoqian, tell me, what's that little orc's full name?"
"Mo Yingxue."
"A woman, right?"
"nonsense!"
How old are you?
"He seems to be a year younger than you, 11 years old, right?"
"Oh, so when do you plan to propose?"
"Let's wait a few days... Stone!!!"
Stone quickly jumped back, successfully dodging the venom sprayed from the fire tongs: "That scared me to death! Men should marry when they're of age, and women should marry when they're of age. What's there to be ashamed of? Do you have to be a virgin your whole life like in your past life? Isn't that shameful?"
"Stone, if you want to die, I wouldn't mind sending you on your way!"
Stone scratched his head, looking at Huoqian with a puzzled expression: "Actually, Huoqian, you have absolutely no relation to Kagaral, right? You two... Anyway, I think you're nothing like the elegant First Prince that Baozi was talking about."
Huoqian rolled his eyes at him: "Nonsense! I am Huoqian, not some first prince!"
“But you clearly told that little dog that your name is Kagalal.” Stone was quite dissatisfied that a little dog had such an elegant name, while she, a great beauty, was forced to have such a terrible name.
“That’s because when I met her, I was almost driven mad by that memory!” Huoqian frowned, as if recalling something from before: “Actually, at that time, I had just obtained Kagaral’s memories. I remember that I was completely a different person, so much so that I didn’t even know who I was anymore.”
Shi Tou raised an eyebrow in surprise. She herself had transmigrated into the body of an infant, who was less than a month old at the time and had no memory. Therefore, Shi Tou had no idea that the process of merging memories would be so painful.
"However, over the years, I've become a bit more clear-headed. I feel like I should be Huoqian, but there's a memory in my head that doesn't belong to Huoqian at all. Anyway, I'm very confused, and sometimes, I don't even know who I am."
Seeing Huoqian's distressed expression, Shitou finally stopped joking and sat down beside him, comforting him, "It's okay, you can just treat that memory as a travelogue."
"Travelogue?" Huoqian gave a wry smile. "You don't understand that feeling. It's a very real memory. What bothers me most isn't the memory itself, but the emotions involved."
Stone looked confused.
"To put it simply, if it's a travelogue, normally what you remember after reading it are the plot points and some characters, right?"
Shi Tou nodded subconsciously. Actually, she had never seen the travelogue at all, but thinking about the novels she had read in her previous life, that must be it, right? In fact, most novels are forgotten after reading them; who really remembers them all the time? There's no exam for them anyway.
“But what impressed me most wasn’t what happened, but those emotions. Those very, very real emotions.” Huoqian sighed deeply and stopped talking.
The stone stood there, lost in thought.
In other words, although Huoqian has memories of his past life, in his mind, he is still that little dwarf Huoqian, not Kagaral. However, because of those memories, he sometimes experiences personality confusion? Or even a split personality?
After carefully recalling the many novels he had read in his previous life, Stone suddenly remembered something.
In his past life, Shi Tou had read many time-travel novels, where the protagonists usually traveled back in time with their existing memories. And then? What happened? It seemed like the next step should be the merging of memories? But…
Oh, right!
"Even if he merged the memories, he's still the same transmigrator!" Stone slapped her forehead hard; she finally understood. In truth, Huoqian is Huoqian. Even if he successfully merged with Kagaral's memories, even if Kagaral was his past life, he was still Huoqian.
It was that kind and impulsive little dwarf, not the noble and elegant First Prince.
"Stone, stop hitting your head, you're already stupid enough." Huoqian grabbed Stone's hand and said with great concern.
Stone had intended to offer some words of comfort, but upon hearing this, he immediately snapped, "Get lost! When have I ever been stupid? I'm the smartest, okay?"
Huoqian's face twitched as if he'd eaten a sour lemon: "Yes, yes, you're the smartest. Humph, even someone as smart as you was still kicked out by humans..."
Although Huoqian spoke very softly at the end, Stone heard every word because they were so close. However, surprisingly, Stone didn't feel angry at all.
Yes, she is that time traveler, Yun Xiangxiang. She is not a princess from any human country at all. Of course, the kindness of her parents is immense, and she will forever remember the kindness shown to her by Steel Hammer Daddy and Fat Mommy.
But why should she hold onto those human parents who abandoned her when she was a baby and never fulfilled their parental responsibilities for a single day?
"Hey? Stone? Are you alright?" Seeing Stone's alternating smiles, frowns, and smug expressions, Huoqian felt a chill run down his spine.
Is this child still a little dazed after being hit?
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It's the end of the month, time for a big bonus! This chapter is 5000 words long! O(∩_∩)O
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Chapter 211 The Dog Searching for the Cat and the Elf
"Hey, did you help me find my pet or not?" The next morning, the little beastman Xue'er rushed into the tree hole, and Shi Tou, who was already prepared, simply pushed the fire tongs out.
Huoqian was eating breakfast when Shitou suddenly shoved him hard, almost causing him and his breakfast to crash into the little orc: "Shitou! What are you doing?!"
The stone blinked, indicating its innocence.
Huoqian suppressed his anger and turned to look at the little orc: "Xue'er, your pet isn't in the Crimson Forest at all, how am I supposed to find it?"
The little orc was taken aback: "Not in the Crimson Forest?"
"Yes, it ran away."
"What should we do? No, you promised me you'd help me find it." The little beastman panicked, his already red eyes turning crimson in an instant.
"Well, there's nothing I can do about that. You know we dwarves can't leave the Scarlet Forest." Firetongs shrugged, indicating his helplessness.
The little orc stamped his foot anxiously: "What should we do? It's so small, what if something happens to it?"
"Really? Shouldn't your pet have a blood pact with you? If something happens to it, you should be able to sense it, right?" These were the words of Stone, who herself had a pet with a blood pact and was very familiar with that subtle connection. Of course, her biggest regret was not having established a blood pact with Thread in the first place.
Wait, what?! Yarn?!
"By the way, what does your pet look like?"
The little orc glanced at the stone strangely, as if sensing the excitement in her tone: "It's a kitten, and because it's still too young, I didn't form a blood pact with it."
kitten?!
A dog keeping a kitten as a pet?!
Unbeknownst to him, Stone had blurted out those words. The little orc immediately bristled.
"You despicable human! I'm not some little dog! You're insulting me again!"
Seeing the little beastman about to land on all fours again, looking like she was about to pounce and bite, Huoqian quickly stopped her: "Xue'er, Shitou doesn't know anything, don't mind her. She's just an idiot!"
Stone:"……"
"Humans! They're all bastards!" the little orc gritted his teeth, but his gaze remained fixed on the stone's neck.
Stone subconsciously touched his neck, but ultimately succumbed to the little orc's sharp gaze: "I was wrong." A wise man doesn't fight a losing battle, and besides, she wasn't exactly a man!
"Hmph, human, I'm warning you. I am a great werewolf, not some little dog!" Seeing the stone's cowardly and incompetent appearance, the little beastman seemed to calm down a bit; at least she was no longer glaring at the stone with a predatory look.
Werewolves?!
Stone's eyes widened: "My God! Are you the kind of werewolf who howls under the moon every full moon night? Can you turn into a wolf? Show me!"
Huoqian quickly kicked the stone away, then grabbed the little orc: "Xue'er, Xue'er. Stone is really an idiot. She's been stupid since she was little, her brain isn't quite right!"
The little orc's eyes had completely changed color, her blood-red pupils betraying her current feelings: "Damn humans, don't compare me to those lowly magical beasts, wolves! I'm a werewolf, not a wolf!"
Shi Tou rubbed her little bottom. Actually, the kick from the fire tongs wasn't hard, but the problem was that she was completely unprepared. She was kicked out of the blue. Immediately, her poor little bottom made intimate contact with the hard ground.
"Stone, hurry up and apologize!"
Stone looked up at Huoqian with a depressed expression: "Seventh Brother, you really have a wife but have forgotten about your sister."
Stone responded with Huoqian's face turning bright red and the little orc's frantic expression.
"You brat. Shut up."
"Damn humans, I would never marry a dwarf! I am a noble wolf!"
Stone sighed, "Alright, but if I remember correctly, there shouldn't be any wolves in the Crimson Forest, right? If you want to stay in the Crimson Forest, it seems you'll have to be an old maid for the rest of your life."
The little orc paused, as if pondering Stone's words. Fire Pliers couldn't take it anymore: "Stone, you don't need to worry about this. By the way, I'm going back to the Dwarf Kingdom later; Doragar is coming with me."
"Ah? No!" Doragar, who had been engrossed in watching the show, quickly waved her hands, "I don't want to go!"
"Why?" Not only Huotongs, but even Shi Tou, who was still sitting on the ground and about to stand up, was surprised.
"I……"
Seeing Doragar's hesitant expression, Stone asked tentatively, "Are you homesick?"
"no……"
"Oh, I see. You think Huoqian is too fierce and you're afraid he'll bully you, right? It's okay, we can just call Fourth Brother and Fifth Brother to pick you up." As Shitou got up, he glanced at Huoqian's ashen face and quickly changed his words: "No, no, I meant that Fourth Brother and Fifth Brother are more kind and approachable."
Huoqian stared at Shitou with a dark expression. Was there any difference between what he said earlier?
“I didn’t mean he was fierce.” Doragar lowered her head, twisting the hem of her clothes with great difficulty. “Xiao Yi (Doragar never acknowledged the name Stone), do you think I can go back to the Fallen Empire in the future?”
Stone raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Huh? You want to go back to the Fallen Empire? Then why did you say you weren't homesick?"
“I’m not homesick. Actually, although my father and mother are very good to me and always give me something good to eat or play with, but…” Doragar frowned and thought for a moment, “I don’t really like my father and mother. Well, we rarely see each other.”
Stone was even more surprised. It seemed that although Doragar was nominally favored, her parents didn't actually dote on her that much. But thinking about it, it made sense. They weren't her biological daughter, so instructing the servants to take good care of her was the limit.
"Then why don't you want to go with Fire Pliers?" Stone approached Doragar and asked in a gentler voice.
"I... I just wanted to see Fourth Brother again..." Dora Jiaer's voice grew softer and softer, the last two words almost a whisper.
However, because the stone was so close, he overheard: "Fourth Brother? Is that the Yi Siyue who is full of flirtatiousness and allure from the inside out?"
Upon hearing the description "stone," Doragar didn't say anything, but simply nodded slightly.
But everyone else was taken aback. What kind of person was this that Stone could describe him like this?
“Then what should we do? I can’t send you back, and he can’t come here.” Stone tapped his forehead in a dilemma: “How about I get you a portrait of him? If you miss him in the future, you can take it out and look at it from time to time.”
puff!
Except for Dora Garrison, everyone in the audience couldn't help but burst out laughing. Is that how you use the word "to admire"?
Fortunately, Doragar's education level was indeed not high, and she nodded happily after hearing this: "Then Xiaoyi, draw my fourth brother more beautifully! Hmm, draw him even more beautifully than the one of Kagaral we just saw!"