But to everyone's surprise, Stone's words caused the little orc, who had been standing there perfectly fine, to suddenly bar its teeth and snarl, "Awooo!"
"Huh?" Stone was startled and instinctively took a few steps back, forgetting that there was yarn behind him. As a result, Stone vaguely heard a scream coming from under yarn: "Um, excuse me, is this your pet?"
The yarn had always stayed in Stone's ring space, and Stone didn't think anyone outside the ring space could sense it. Coincidentally, the moment Stone pulled the yarn out of the space, the Soul-Eating Beast appeared. Then the little beastman also arrived.
"No!" The little orc instantly dropped to the ground. Sharp claws protruded from all four limbs, gleaming chillingly in the sunlight: "You're insulting me! I challenge you to a duel!"
Stone gazed silently at the sky. This was the outskirts of the Crimson Forest, so some sunlight could still be seen, though not as bright as outside: "Is saying that Wool is your pet an insult? Is Wool a lowly race?"
The yarn didn't answer, presumably because it was still unconscious but would wake up, while the little orc opposite it couldn't contain itself any longer. It opened its small mouth, revealing sharp teeth that seemed to grow longer in the wind, and even its initially normal gray eyes turned crimson: "Those who insult me, die!"
Stone narrowly avoided the little orc's claw: "You're serious!" He quickly took out the spiked club that Dio had given him from his ring space. No matter what, he still felt more comfortable using the spiked club.
"Die!" Another roar followed by a swift movement, and Stone quickly dodged.
"Hey, did I offend you? Even if yarn is a lowly race, you don't have to be so angry, do you?" Stone dodged painfully. Although she was already a three-star battle qi master, she still had relatively little fighting experience, especially fighting orcs for the first time.
"Human! Die!" Stone had dodged the little orc's attacks several times in a row, and now the little orc was very angry. Her anger was expressed in a very concrete way: she made her claws longer and sharper, and with her roars, it was quite a scene.
Stone had to dodge while also being careful not to hit Yarn, which was incredibly difficult for her. It wasn't until the little beastman grabbed her shoulder when she wasn't paying attention that she became truly enraged: "You damn dog! You stinky dog! I knew all puppies were so annoying. Humph, you really think this princess can't beat you!"
"Awooo~~~" The little orc suddenly let out a shrill howl, its originally crimson eyes turning blood red, and a hint of bloodlust and slaughter could be seen flashing within them: "Human, die!"
"Tch, they only ever say the same few words over and over again. Dogs are all idiots!" Stone wielded a pair of spiked clubs with incredible skill, and her aim was quite good. She always managed to land a heavy blow on the little beastman when it pounced.
"Hiss..." The little orc suddenly shrank back, letting out a painful gasp, and then quickly retreated, not knowing where the stone had hit.
Just as Stone thought the guy was scared and wanted to run away, she suddenly noticed a chilling sensation in the air. Before Stone could react, the air around her suddenly froze.
Stone stared wide-eyed in disbelief. Yes, the air had frozen. The surrounding air seemed to have solidified completely, like paste. It wasn't that Stone couldn't move at all, but she found that it took hundreds of times more effort to move than before.
"What... happened?!"
The air not only trapped the stone, but also rendered it unable to speak. An unprecedented fear gripped its heart.
"Awooo~~~" The air seemed to have completely frozen, but the little orc opposite him was completely unaffected. He not only let out a deafening howl, but also walked towards the stone with a ferocious expression: "Human, I'm going to eat you!"
Although the stagnant air had no effect on the little orc, the stone had injured her earlier. It's important to know that the spiked club not only causes extensive muscle damage, but the sharp needles on it also left the little orc covered in wounds.
Stone was still struggling desperately, and now she was filled with regret. She should have run away as soon as she saw the little beastman. But it was too late for regrets now. She was still stubbornly arguing, "A dog is a dog. You better pray you don't fall into my hands, or I'll stew you into dog meat!"
"Human!!!" The little beastman showed the stone what true fury looked like: "I'm going to eat you, you're dead!"
As the little orc pounced on her, Stone didn't forget her last trump card—the ring space. But just as she was about to enter the ring space, she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her head, and everything went black.
Before she lost consciousness, Stone had only one thought: she didn't want to be eaten by the dog and turned into poop!
"Wake up, Stone!"
In her dazed state, Shi Tou felt someone calling her, but her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't open them.
The voice calling her kept going, sometimes sounding far away, sometimes as if it were whispering in her ear, making her head throb with pain.
Stop yelling!
I really wanted to shout, but my voice seemed to be stuck in my throat, and I couldn't get it out.
That's right, Luo Pipi, it must be Luo Pipi calling me. But wasn't she trapped under the yarn? How did she get out? Or is it that beastman dog? She…
wrong!
Suddenly, Shi Tou felt her mind explode. Neither Luo Pipi, Huo Xiaoxiao, nor anyone else knew her name was Shi Tou! But that voice…
"Stone, wake up! Wake up! You've been asleep for so long, Stone!"
That voice... it sounds so familiar.
"Ah!" Stone suddenly shouted and opened his eyes wide.
"Phew, thank goodness you're awake, you scared me to death."
Stone's eyes widened as he stared at the person sitting next to him. No, he wasn't sitting; he was standing: "Big Brother?"
The person in front of him looked remarkably like his dwarf brother, Flame. However, for some reason, Flame's face darkened instantly upon hearing Stone's words.
After thinking for a moment, Stone realized she must have mistaken someone else for someone else: "Second Brother?" To be honest, all seven of her brothers looked remarkably alike. In fact, it wasn't just their family; boys from other families looked almost identical. Stone had been away from the Dwarf Kingdom for over four years. Although she still remembered what her brothers looked like, her memory was of what they looked like four years ago.
"You can guess again!" The dwarf's face darkened completely, and he gritted his teeth fiercely.
"Oh, that's Third Brother!" Stone was quick to guess, "Anyway, you're definitely not Fourth or Fifth Brother. I'd recognize them even if they were ashes!"
How could he not recognize him? Stone was practically raised by these two, and these two have always loved playing pranks. Of course, they didn't dare to mess with Stone, but they still left a deep impression on him.
"You can guess one more time. If you're wrong again, I'll give you to Xue'er to eat!" The dwarf boy actually started threatening.
Stone blinked. Although she didn't know what Xue'er was, she was certain that the dwarf in front of her wouldn't just stand by and watch her be eaten.
"Sixth Brother," Stone continued guessing according to the ranking, "This time you're sure to be right, right?"
The dwarf's face twisted in anger, and he was about to explode when he saw the mockery in Stone's eyes: "Stone, you did this on purpose!"
"Hahaha!" Stone laughed so hard he fell over: "Kagall, you're so funny!"
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☆, Chapter 204 Kagaral's Misunderstanding
"Stone, you did this on purpose! You brat!" Huoqian, her face flushed, pointed at Stone and angrily accused him.
Stone blinked, then put on an innocent expression, pitifully clutching his head: "Seventh Brother, my head hurts so much! Waaah..."
Huoqian carefully examined Shitou's face, but couldn't be sure if she was faking it. After hesitating for a moment, he reached out and helped her up, saying, "If you feel dizzy, lie down quickly."
Stone lay obediently on the bed. Wait, on the bed?
"Where is this place?" Only now did Stone have the mind to examine his surroundings. But the more he looked, the more familiar he felt: "This place..."
"Don't tell me you've even forgotten this place?!" Huoqian's voice rose high, as if he were ready to slap Shitou to death the moment he said he'd forgotten.
Shi Tou quickly shook his head: "No, no. Oh, my head hurts!"
Huoqian's expression softened slightly: "By the way, is that human your friend?"
Stone looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a humanoid creature lying on the ground.
"Ah! Luo Pipi!" Shi Tou shouted, almost falling over. "Seventh Brother, is Luo Pipi alright?"
Huo Qian's previously slightly better-looking face instantly turned ashen: "He's not dead!"
"Phew." Although somewhat dissatisfied with the fire tongs analogy, Stone still breathed a sigh of relief. In any case, Luo Pipi had been more than kind to her, even though there was indeed a suspicion that he had taken advantage of her. Stone didn't believe that Luo Pipi had any ill intentions towards her.
More importantly, Luo Pipi was harmed in this way because of Shi Tou's negligence. If something really happened to her, Shi Tou would feel very guilty.
Huoqian had been observing Shitou's expression, and seeing the worry flash across her face one moment and the relief the next, he felt a sudden discomfort: "What is your relationship with this human?"
“My friend!” Although she felt that Huoqian’s tone was a bit strange, Shitou still answered honestly. She thought that Huoqian disliked Luopipi only because Luopipi was human.
"Your friend?" This answer bothered him more than no answer: "He's a human being, isn't he?"
Stone nodded. Luo Pipi was definitely a pure human, even though she wasn't from the East.
"Hmph. A human dares to come to the Crimson Forest in this season? Does he think he's some kind of superhuman? Or is he just looking for death?!" Huo Qian had absolutely no liking for Luo Pipi. If it weren't for Xue'er's insistence, he probably wouldn't have brought this human back at all.
“Oh, right, Seventh Brother.” Stone suddenly remembered something: “I only learned after I arrived in the human kingdom that summer in the Crimson Forest is very dangerous. Under normal circumstances, people only enter the Crimson Forest from late autumn to winter.”
"Yes, the Crimson Forest is dangerous."
Stone squinted and gritted his teeth as he looked at the fire tongs: "So?"
"So what? Your friend is an idiot, right?" Huoqian didn't immediately grasp the danger in Shitou's eyes and asked directly.
Shi Tou slapped the bed. But after the slap landed, she realized it wasn't the soft couch she used to have at the Huo family's house, but a hard stone bed: "Ouch, what kind of lousy bed is this? It hurts so much!"
Huoqian glanced at Shitou, a hint of displeasure on his face. "Why are you still so impulsive?" He'd only said one thing to that human, and Shitou was already so unhappy. Humph, humans really are all bastards!
"So what if I'm impulsive? You always say I'm impulsive, but you're not much better than me. Why didn't any of you tell me how dangerous the Crimson Forest was when I came out?" Stone complained, blowing on his little paws.
Huoqian looked at Shitou with a puzzled expression: "The Crimson Forest is very dangerous for humans, but are you alright? As long as you don't take the initiative to attack, and you're not unlucky enough to run into those unreasonable magical beasts, they generally won't attack you."
What?! There's such a thing?!
"Why don't the monsters attack me?" Shocked, Stone momentarily forgot the pain in his palm and asked in surprise.
"Humans are all warmongers, cunning, shameless, and bastards, so monsters don't like humans. So... Stone, what's wrong with you?"
Stone gritted his teeth fiercely: "Are all humans this evil?!"
Huoqian nodded somewhat bewildered: "Yes, every winter, human mercenary groups would head to the Crimson Forest. At that time, a large number of magical beasts would perish, and we dared not come up there anymore."
"Little Fire Pliers!" Upon hearing this address, Fire Pliers' face instantly turned green, but Stone didn't care about his expression and continued, "Or should I call you Kagaral? Tsk tsk, may I ask, Your Highness Kagaral, are you human or dwarf?"
Huoqian lowered his head silently, then answered in a voice squeezed from his throat, "Kagalar is human, Huoqian is dwarf."
Stone was completely confused: "So, you're saying you're fire tongs, and you're a dwarf?"
"Otherwise what?" Huoqian's voice sounded muffled, as if he was very unhappy.
Stone felt a little embarrassed and reached out to pat Huoqian's shoulder: "Seventh Brother, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to provoke you."
"What's so exciting about that? You're just stating a fact." Huoqian raised his head, but his face still looked sullen. "Stone, you know what? Sometimes when I think about it, I really wish I could be like you and forget everything from the past."
"Things from the past?" Stone looked at Huoqian with a blank expression. "You mean your past life?"
"Yes, the past life, that past life that was so far away and can never be returned to."
A past life? Stone thought silently. She also had memories of a past life, but if she really was Princess Irene that Baozi mentioned, then why did she only remember her memories as Yun Xiangxiang, but had no memories of being Irene at all?
"Seventh Brother, am I really Yilin?"
Although Huoqian was a little puzzled, he nodded: "Of course, you are Irene. Did you remember too? Did Baozi tell you?"
Stone remembered that Huoqian knew Baozi, so he simply summoned Baozi: "You dead Baozi, do you still recognize him?"
Before being summoned, Baozi was in its baozi form, affectionately interacting with the little yellow duck. Having finally chased away that unruly yarn, Baozi was in a very good mood. However, it never expected that, inexplicably, the stone would summon it.
"Huh? Who is it?" Baozi didn't react for a moment. After it turned around, it saw the fire tongs next to it and immediately screamed, "Kagallar! Baozi didn't eat Kagarar's memories! Baozi gave all the memories back to you!"