HCB Chapter 407 Forgotten Memories
Chapter 407 Forgotten Memories
Deep within the Sea of Illusion, Lezhi, bewildered, clutched the fur ball, looking around as if trying to find the right direction amidst the confusion, but to no avail.
"Tweet~"
"You can't blame me for this. I clearly followed the turtle in, but in the blink of an eye, the turtle disappeared, and then there was the leaf beetle. It was just here a moment ago."
He muttered a defense, tightening his grip on the fur ball. He hadn't wanted to get lost either; suddenly, it was just him and the fur ball left, and he felt completely lost.
When they first entered the Sea of Illusion, everything was normal. The environment of the Sea of Illusion was no different from the outside world. The sea anemones, seaweed, corals, and fish were exactly the same as those that Lezhi had seen before.
The turtle didn't say what was so fun about the place, it just kept swimming forward. Lezhi didn't know when the turtle disappeared, and later the leaf beetle also disappeared, leaving only him and Maoqiu.
The corals and anemones that were once everywhere were now covered by a white expanse, and the surroundings were deathly silent. Lezhi tried to sense the area for a long time but found no trace of any living creatures.
It was as if, in an instant, only he and Maoqiu remained in that body of water.
In this situation, one should normally feel scared, but apart from a few seconds of anxiety when she discovered that the turtle and the leaf beetle were missing, Lezhi remained remarkably calm.
He was so emotionally stable that it seemed unnatural to him, as if subconsciously he knew that nothing around him could hurt him.
Just as calm as him was the furry ball nestled in his arms. When Lezhi realized that the furry ball hadn't responded to him for a long time, he discovered that it had long since fallen asleep, and if you listened carefully, you could even hear its purring.
Her emotions are much more stable than his.
Lezhi didn't think it was a big deal that Maoqiu could still fall asleep under these circumstances. She tucked Maoqiu into her clothes to make sure it wouldn't fall out easily, and even if it did, she would notice it immediately and then stop paying attention to it.
The whiteness before his eyes changed after Maoqiu fell asleep. Soon, the surroundings turned pitch black, and the water around him was no longer there, but nothingness. Lezhi just watched the environment change before his eyes without any emotion in his eyes, as if he had experienced all of this before and it was nothing to be surprised about.
After an unknown amount of time, other colors appeared in the darkness. An unknown object was wriggling in the void. Upon closer inspection, it was gradually absorbing the surrounding shadows to strengthen itself.
At first, the shadowy figure didn't react, but as the unknown object's appetite grew, the figure finally realized something was wrong and began to fight back. Only then did it discover that all its attacks were ineffective against the object.
After countless attempts, the shadowy figure finally realized that it had no way to deal with this object; if it couldn't fight it, it could only run away. But the unknown object seemed to be stuck to the shadowy figure, and no matter how it tried to escape, it couldn't shake off the object's entanglement.
After a long time, the shadow grew smaller and smaller, and the space that had been occupied revealed its original appearance. As an observer, Lezhi finally saw the scenery other than the pitch black.
Looking at the meteorites of all sizes floating in mid-air around him and in the distance, Lezhi realized that he was actually in space.
After he realized where he was, the scenery in front of him began to fade. His vision blurred, and when his eyes cleared again, Lezhi found himself in a different place.
This is a jungle. He is still floating in mid-air in the shape of a fish tail, observing his surroundings, when he hears a familiar sound behind him. It's Maoqiu.
"嗻～"
Turning around abruptly, Lezhi was certain at a glance that the large white bird rushing towards him was Maoqiu. However, Maoqiu seemed to be completely oblivious to his presence.
His expression changed from surprise to terror. Lezhi tried to dodge, but found that his body was not under his control. At this moment, the fur ball was only one step away from hitting him. There was nothing he could do but close his eyes at the last moment.
The expected collision did not occur, and by the time Lezhi came to her senses, the fur ball had already flown far away.
Unable to comprehend what had just happened, Lezhi was about to chase after them when the scene before her eyes began to flash by rapidly, as if a video had been fast-forwarded.
When the image was captured again, the location had changed. It must be at the bottom of a cliff, where dense jungle almost completely blocked out the sunlight. In a corner, the once spirited white bird was now lying on the ground, barely alive. Its pure white feathers were covered in blood, and one of its wings was broken. It looked utterly pathetic.
Without even getting close, just by looking at the blood-soaked ground beneath the white bird and its increasingly cloudy eyes, Lezhi could tell that the great white bird was about to die.
If he wasn't mistaken, this big white bird was indeed Maoqiu, and Maoqiu was about to die right before his eyes. Whether he was panicked or terrified, he shouldn't be like this now, completely unmoved and indifferent, just watching quietly.
After a moment of doubt about her own state, Lezhi was immediately drawn to the changes before her eyes and could no longer think about it.
What caught his attention was the unexpected object that suddenly fell from the sky. The round thing fell from the sky and hit the furry ball lying there.
The furball, barely clinging to life, noticed the round ball's approach, but it was too weak to even move a wingtip, let alone dodge. With no way to move, it could only watch helplessly as the round ball crashed down upon it.
The wound, which had been gradually slowing down, began to gush bright red blood again after this blow. The great white bird could no longer utter its final cry; its eyelids were reduced to slits, and one could vaguely see that its black eyeballs had turned grayish-white.
Just then, an unexpected change occurred. Although the sphere that landed on the white bird was cushioned by the bird's body, it still slowly cracked due to the excessive impact.
It wasn't until the sphere's outer shell split in two that Lezhi discovered that the sphere was actually an egg, and a small life was growing inside it.
From Lezhi's perspective, he couldn't see the inside of the egg clearly. He only saw that after the sphere cracked open, it began to emit green light, gradually enveloping the newly born little life. Incidentally, the big white bird seemed to receive the residual blessing, and after a moment's hesitation, the green light also enveloped it.
The green light flickered for a while, then slowly disappeared under Lezhi's gaze. Now, the big white bird was nowhere to be seen in front of Lezhi. In its place was the fur ball that he had been with day and night and was so familiar with that it had almost become half a body. And next to the fur ball, there was a small figure wrapped in familiar white clothes.
That was him when he was just born.
He actually saw the scene of himself just hatching from his shell.
Realizing this, his calm eyes finally began to tremble, and his heart, which had been beating almost imperceptibly, suddenly began to beat rapidly. His ears were filled with the sound of his heartbeat, and suddenly he seemed to realize that he had not been breathing at all. He subconsciously gasped for air and choked on a mouthful of water.
Then everything went black, and I heard a turtle's voice in my ear, "Oops, how could you be so careless?"
The turtle's voice was almost within reach, and the previously invisible leaf-eating insects were now dancing before his eyes. Seeing them, Lezhi felt a sense of disorientation, like waking from a deep dream. The water that had choked him instantly dispelled the disorientation. Because he was already in the water, Lezhi couldn't cough, and his face gradually contorted.
Instinctively, Lezhi thought of the water-cloth that would allow him to breathe underwater. The seed was still gathering dust in his space, but the water-cloth only worked if he bit it open and held it in his mouth. What Lezhi needed now was a refreshing and invigorating breath.
In a flash, Lezhi's brain raced, and suddenly, the beginnings of water bubbles began to appear in his open palm.
This time, the water bubbles did not leave the body, but continued to spread on Lezhi's body. Soon, the water bubbles surrounding Lezhi pushed the water away, successfully creating a space for Lezhi to breathe freely underwater.
"Cough cough~ cough cough cough~ whew, whew"
After a series of heart-wrenching coughs, Lezhi finally felt like she had come back to life.