Stone kept her eyes closed, refusing to open them no matter what. Waaah, since she was going to be thrown to her death anyway, she didn't want to see herself in such a miserable state!
The wind whistled past the stone's ears, and it seemed like an eternity had passed, yet the stone still hadn't heard the terrifying sound of falling. How strange! Over 50 meters—it shouldn't take this long to fall!
Hesitantly opening his eyes, the stone was immediately startled. Before him lay nothing but emptiness; the earth lay far, far away.
Huh? What's going on?!
Stone turned around shakily and shouted, "Rice noodles!"
Mi Fen'er was currently hugging half of Shi Tou's body, looking at him innocently: "Shi Tou, is it pretty down there? Shall we come up first?"
Oh dear, this is so embarrassing.
If she had known that MiFen'er would have hugged her at that critical moment, she definitely wouldn't have screamed! Waaah, so embarrassing!
Finally, with the help of MiFen'er, Shitou returned to the little nest he had been in. Shitou approached MiFen'er tremblingly. At this moment, Shitou suddenly felt that MiFen'er, this little elf, was more reliable than a certain unreliable bun.
Well, even though she's very ugly.
"Gaga, Master! Master is really stupid, silly, cowardly and useless!" Big Bun happily bounced around, and its big folds twitched to express its good mood.
But Baozi's mood improved. Shitou's mood worsened: "You stupid Baozi! I curse you to become a stupid, mute Baozi!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Baozi stopped bouncing and making a fuss. Shi Tou finally felt relieved, casually shoved Baozi into his pocket, and looked at Mi Fen'er seriously: "Mi Fen'er, how did we get up here?"
“I climbed up!” Mi Fen’er answered seriously.
Climb? Stone hesitated, glancing down at the ground. He immediately shuddered again, "Um... excuse me, is it possible for us to climb down again?"
Mi Fen'er, still with her serious expression, nodded solemnly: "Yes!"
Grinning, Stone estimated the distance from his position to the ground. It was about 50 meters in a straight line. If he slowly climbed down the branch, inching his way down, it wasn't impossible.
Of course, the premise is that the stone has to be reincarnated as a... monkey!
Just as Shi Tou was still hesitating, Mi Fen'er couldn't hold back any longer. She reached out and hugged Shi Tou, then jumped down with a "whoosh".
"Agh~~~" Stone felt that this scream would be ten thousand times more miserable than before.
She really didn't know what it felt like to fall from a great height. But thinking about it, it was probably like weightlessness combined with the pain of the final fall, right? But being carried from one end to the other, jumping and leaping without stopping...
"Ugh..." The moment her feet touched the ground, Stone clutched her neck and began vomiting violently. Damn it, can someone tell her why an elf can climb trees better than a monkey?! Is this even fair?!
"Baozi, come out here!" Shi Tou pulled a steamed bun out of his pocket: "You can start talking now, you can move now!"
"Giggle, how scary, Baozi! Baozi is so scared! Ugh..." But as soon as Baozi could move, the first thing it did was imitate the stone and start vomiting. More importantly, the stone only dry heaved, at most vomiting some stomach acid. But what about Baozi?
"You damn steamed bun! Swallow your filling!!!" Stone was going crazy. She already felt nauseous, and then seeing the steamed bun vomit up all the soup and filling from its belly, a super disgusting thing just appeared in front of Stone's eyes, how could she not feel extremely frantic?!
"Ugh..." Baozi felt better and better as he vomited. He stopped saying his usual "ga ga" and just kept vomiting. Shi Tou felt weak all over and his scalp tingled.
"You!" Stone didn't even have the strength to curse Baozi anymore, and could only cast a pleading look at Rice Noodles: "Rice Noodles, help me walk a little further away..."
Mi Fen'er obediently helped Shi Tou take a few steps: "Shi Tou, don't go too far, there are still people around!"
Someone's here? Stone was startled. Could there be humans nearby?!
"Who is it? Is it a scary human?" Stone looked at Rice Noodles in horror. He didn't know when it started, but even Stone, who was originally human, had unconsciously given humans the titles of scary and cunning.
Waaah, Stone, you've fallen!
"Hmm, it's a little person!" Mi Fen'er thought for a while before speaking.
"A little person?" Stone frowned, pondering the meaning of Mi Fen'er's words. He had known Mi Fen'er for some time and was certain that her intelligence was not a problem. It was just that elves had long lifespans, so relatively speaking, her age could only be considered childish, and her intelligence was probably similar to that of a kindergarten senior in his previous life.
"Is he a very small person?" Although this is the Crimson Forest, it is still on the outer edge, so it is possible for someone to enter. But this tiny person?!
Before MiFen could speak, an angry voice suddenly rang in ShiTou's ears: "A very short person?! Do you think you're very tall?!"
Stone turned around in surprise. Oh, it was fire tongs.
Suddenly, Stone felt guilty. Um, he really wasn't being sarcastic about dwarves' small stature...
"Hmph!" Seeing Stone lower his head guiltily, Fire Pliers' anger subsided somewhat. Actually, he wasn't really angry with Stone, but rather because he still couldn't accept the reality that he had become a dwarf: "You're finally awake. Hmph, you almost starved to death! Irene, you're really getting more and more capable!!"
Irene?!
Stone was clearly taken aback. Who was Irene?
"Seventh Brother, are you alright?" After thinking for a moment, Stone instinctively felt it was best not to mention that name again. It seems Huoqian is in a very bad mood today!
"It's nothing!" Huoqian snapped irritably, completely oblivious to the fact that he had just said something he shouldn't have.
Shi Tou swallowed hard, but found that her mouth was full of bitterness because she had just vomited. She felt nauseous again and vomited with a "whoosh".
"You, you, you..." Huoqian pointed at the stone, so angry that he could barely speak.
Stone gave him an innocent look. What's wrong now? She didn't throw up on him. Never mind him, let's keep throwing up!
"You! Fine, you win!" Huoqian angrily shook his hand and threw a thick sheet of paper at the foot of the stone: "Hmph!"
Watching the fire tongs quickly walk away, Stone was confused. What was going on?
"Gaga, Master, you're too cruel! Kagaral is so good to you! How could you hurt him again and again in the same way?" Baozi had already vomited everything out of its stomach, and now it was "heave-ho" eating the big puddle of stuff on the ground back into its stomach.
Shi Tou glanced at the steamed buns once and turned her head away without hesitation, secretly vowing that she would never eat any kind of steamed bun again in her life. Steamed buns were just disgusting!
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"Harm? Stone is a good boy, Stone didn't hurt anyone!" MiFen looked at Baozi, then at Stone. These past few days, under Stone and Baozi's tutelage, MiFen's dwarven language had become increasingly fluent. However, the thought of a human and a Baozi teaching an elf dwarven language was rather awkward.
Stone suddenly remembered something important: if she had to go to the human kingdom, she would have to learn human languages. Thinking of this, Stone couldn't help but feel incredibly fortunate. Thank goodness she had Big Bun! Otherwise, with dwarven, elven, and human languages combined, she might as well have died.
"Yes, Rice Noodles, I didn't hurt him. Baozi was just making things up," Stone replied perfunctorily, but in his heart he was thinking about how to persuade Baozi to let him have another memory extraction. Thinking this, Stone couldn't help but glance at Baozi, and immediately felt disgusted with himself again.
Memory retrieval = chrysanthemum being inserted.
The key point is that Baozi looks really disgusting right now, and Shi Tou feels she really can't bring herself to do it.
"Gaga, how can it not be harmful? Back when Master was the one who doted on Baozi, he threw up the first time he saw Kagaral, and then he was so angry! Now, Master has thrown up again when he saw Kagaral, and he's even angrier!" Baozi finally finished eating the disgusting stuff and had time to tease Stone again: "Anyway, Master is the worst, Kagaral is going to be driven crazy by Master again!"
Shi Tou Mo, I swear to God! She really, really didn't mean that!
Sadly, Stone bent down and picked up the thick piece of paper he had left at his feet with the fire tongs. He unfolded the paper and examined it carefully, only to find that it was a map: "Huh? Is this a map of the Crimson Forest? Are we here? In the Red Star area?"
Baozi suddenly jumped onto Shitou's shoulder, which made Shitou sneer again: "Hehe, that's right! This is a map of the outer edge of the Crimson Forest! Baozi and Master can finally leave the forest! Wahahaha, let's go out, let's go on a date, let's elope!"
Damn it, this is clearly a pure trip, why do you have to describe it in such an ambiguous way?! And, is she really that tasteless to elope with a steamed bun?
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First update!
☆, Chapter 095 The Human Kingdom Has Arrived
"Stone, where are you going?" Mi Fen'er smiled sweetly, but unfortunately, paired with her incredibly smelly appearance, this smile, which should have been sweet, looked particularly terrifying.
Stone resisted looking at Mi Fen'er's terrifying smile, keeping his head down and focusing on the journey: "Mi Fen'er, let's go to the tree hole where we stayed before and bring all our things, and then we'll leave the Crimson Forest together."
MiFen hesitated for a moment: "Leave?"
“Yes, we’re leaving. We’re leaving this great forest,” Stone said calmly. To be honest, while Stone wouldn’t say she particularly loved this forest, she was still a little reluctant to leave. She wondered if Fire Pliers had told Steel Hammer’s dad and Fat Mom about her departure. If they didn’t know, and she just walked away like that, her family would be worried sick.
Thinking of this, Stone quickened his pace, figuring he could leave a note back in the tree hole, since Fire Tongs wouldn't be coming here anyway.
"Leave? Rice Noodles, don't leave!" To everyone's surprise, Rice Noodles suddenly stopped, her face filled with terror.
"Huh?" Stone was clearly not expected Mi Fen'er to react this way and was immediately stunned.
"Giggle, Rice Noodles will follow Bun and its owner! Bun will treat Rice Noodles well!" Bun was anxious. Although Rice Noodles wasn't pretty, its personality was lovable! Tell me, in this world, besides Rice Noodles, who else would be so happy to eat the poop that Bun produced?
MiFen'er shook her head again: "No, no, MiFen'er isn't going anywhere! MiFen'er wants to stay here!"
Stone looked at the resolute-looking Rice Noodles, then at the reluctant Baozi, and suddenly didn't know what to do. She wasn't short of money now. And knowing that elves weren't worth much, she naturally wouldn't try to sell Rice Noodles anymore. Besides, in Stone's mind, elves were better off staying in the forest.
"Alright then. Rice Noodles, you can stay here obediently. Anyway, you can climb trees, so you won't starve." Stone really didn't care, but Baozi was very reluctant to part with Rice Noodles. However, Stone simply ignored Baozi's dark thoughts.
"Gaga, no! Baozi loves rice noodles! Master, how could you throw away the rice noodles! Master, you're so mean, so mean!" Baozi wailed.
Stone frowned as he looked at the steamed bun, then turned to Rice Noodles and said, "Rice Noodles, do you really have to stay here?"
"Yes!" Mi Fen'er nodded decisively.
Okay. We can't force someone to do something they don't want to do, right? Anyway, we have money now, so we don't need to do that shady job of being a human trafficker anymore: "Baozi, let it go. All good things must come to an end, sweetie, take it easy."
But Baozi kept crying and wailing, refusing to give up.
Left with no other choice, Stone covered his ears and continued on his way. Once back in the tree hollow, Stone quickly used a charred twig to write on a small piece of animal hide his plans to go to the human kingdom, adding that he would definitely return.
"Giggle, Baozi wants rice noodles. I want them, I want them!" After packing the luggage, Baozi started acting up again. She refused to put the luggage into the space no matter what, which made Shi Tou so angry that he almost cursed again.
"You damn steamed bun! Are you ever going to shut up? Rice Noodles already said she doesn't want to leave the forest, what are you doing?!" Stone was really annoyed; she wanted to travel as far as possible before dawn.
Baozi twisted its body, spilling soup and spitting out meat filling, looking like it was about to die: "Hehe, this is the Crimson Forest, not the Moon Goddess Forest or the Demon Sound Forest, why does Mifen have to be here?"
"Can't people just like rice noodles?" Stone was truly defeated by the steamed bun, and slapped it hard: "Can you just shut up for a minute?"
"Gaga, no no no no! Rice noodles are elves, elves should stay in the Moon Goddess Forest and the Demon Sound Forest! Elves can't stay in the Crimson Forest!" Baozi wailed more and more enthusiastically.
Stone was speechless: "They're happy to stay here, so what?"
"Gah gah, the elves who stay in the Crimson Forest will become corrupted blood elves!" Baozi yelled loudly, successfully scaring Mifen'er into tears.
"No! Rice flour, don't turn into a terrible blood elf, no~~~" Now, the two of them started wailing together, completely out of tune.
Stone wiped away her cold sweat. She felt hopeless in persuading Baozi, but she couldn't leave the Crimson Forest. So, the only remaining option was to convince Rice Noodles!
Oh, my dear rice noodle, you can't blame us for bullying the weak and fearing the strong!
"What is a Blood Elf? Is it scary? Will Rice Noodles turn into a Blood Elf in the future?" Stone winked at Baozi and asked in a deliberately fearful tone.
"Gaga, blood elves are terrifying! They don't eat fruit or drink juice, they eat bloody meat and drink stinky fresh blood!" Baozi, being Stone's pet, stopped calling out as soon as it saw Stone blinking, and joined Stone in scaring the underage little elf girl.
"Waaaaah! Rice Noodles doesn't want to become a Blood Elf! Rice Noodles wants to leave! Stone, take Rice Noodles away!" Rice Noodles cried miserably as she rushed towards Stone, begging him to take her away with tears and snot streaming down her face.
Okay, although I feel a tiny bit guilty, for the sake of my ears, Stone will definitely kidnap Rice Noodles first. And don't worry, Rice Noodles, we won't sell you, and we won't let you go hungry~~~
Traveling with a steamed bun and an elf, Stone was still feeling a little bit of pressure.
"Look, that should be the end of the forest, right?" Stone asked Baozi, pointing to the mountain in the distance.