When the sun went down, Gao Fei and his party had already climbed halfway up the mountain, and they set up camp near a clear mountain stream to make a fire and prepare to spend the night.
As night falls, more birds and animals are active at night. The hoot of the owl echoes over the camp, which sounds quite scary.
"Look, what is that!"
Sitting by the campfire and eating bread, Jiang Nuxia suddenly looked surprised and stared straight at the gurgling mountain stream.
Gao Fei followed the direction of her finger and looked over. Under the light of the bonfire, he could vaguely see a small figure standing on a large round and smooth stone washed by the stream. It was less than half a foot tall from head to toe. It looked like
Personal doll.
Curiosity prevailed over fear, Gao Fei silently recited a mantra, lit up the "floating ball", and controlled the luminous crystal ball to fly over the mountain stream in order to see the small figure clearly.
The little man standing on the stone noticed the light ball flying over his head, and seemed to be very curious. He raised his head and stared at the "floating ball", and slowly twisted his neck along with the movement of the light ball.
At this time, both Gao Fei and Jiang Feng could see clearly that the little man was completely black, with cute little arms and legs. His face was as white as if it had been painted with powder, and his face was dotted with two crescent-like eyes and no nose.
, the mouth looks like a slightly upward arc drawn with a pencil.
What is even more impressive is that this little man has long and thick black hair that dances wildly in the night wind.
Gao Fei looked at the mysterious little man and chatted privately with Jiang Feng through the astrolabe:
"The little thing opposite looks like the Kodama elf in "Princess Mononoke". It's the kind of little monster that rotates its head and makes a rattling sound. It's just that the Kodama elf doesn't have the thick black and long flowing hair like Qie Yun'aling.
hair."
"Good guy, "Princess Mononoke" has been fished out. It's another day when the old two-dimensional person shows his age! But let me tell you, this little guy's hair is really enviable!" Jiang Feng touched his hair.
, thinking about it and said: "I don't know what it usually eats. Maybe it has ingredients to care for its hair and repair its hair follicles."
"You don't have hair loss problems, so there's no need to envy other people's hair!"
Gao Fei smiled helplessly, opened the astrolabe, and looked at the monster illustration that had just been included, with a look of surprise on his face.
"It turns out that this little thing is 'Qie Yun Aling'. I heard someone talking about it before at the dock tavern. We met him not long ago. It shows that we are very lucky."
The two were chatting in a low voice when Eve lifted up the tent and walked over.
"Al and Wush have already gone to bed. Brother Basaka and Master Su, you should also go and sleep for a while. I will keep vigil first."
"Eve, you came just in time, we found something interesting." Gao Fei pointed at Qie Yun A Ling and said to her.
Eve curiously observed Qie Yun'aling and said softly: "I have never seen this kind of creature, but I can sense that the original magic power of nature flows in it. It is either a spirit born in this forest, or it is...
Some kind of elemental creature."
"As expected of a Druid! It was immediately apparent that the essence of Qieyun'aling was indeed a miniature elemental creature, an existence similar to the guardian spirits of mountains and rivers." Gao Fei said.
The druid girl smiled sweetly, walked slowly to the mountain stream, and said a series of incomprehensible words to Qie Yun A Ling, who was looking across the river.
"What is Eve talking about?" Jiang Feng asked Gao Fei in a low voice.
"I can't understand it either!" Gao Fei guessed, "It seems to be the secret language of the Druid, or it may be the 'primordial language' common to elemental creatures."
Although he couldn't understand it, based on the druid girl's expression and body language, it was not difficult for Gao Fei to guess that she was greeting Qie Yun'aling, and as the "daughter of the earth", she sent a friendly greeting to the guardian spirits of nature.
greeting.
Sure enough, Qieyun Aling understood Eve's greeting and bowed to her politely, then stretched out a small finger and pointed at the ball of light in the sky, her curved eyebrows showing her desire.
Eve pursed her lips and smiled, then turned back to Gao Fei and said, "Brother Basaka, Qieyun Aling is very curious about your 'floating ball' and wants to get close and touch it, is that okay?"
"sure!"
Qie Yun A Ling obviously understood his permission, and jumped happily. A small whirlwind rose up under her feet, and flew into the sky with it, until it floated to the light ball, and tentatively touched the warm and smooth surface.
Then he bravely climbed up, sat on the ball of light, and clapped his hands happily.
"What a cute little thing!" Jiang Feng felt itchy in his heart, "It would be great if I could keep one as a pet!"
"Master Su, Qieyun'aling is the guardian spirit of nature. He is destined to protect the land and water since he was born. No matter how close he is to humans, he cannot be adopted and stay away from the pure land where he was born." Everou.
vocal tract.
Jiang Feng shrugged regretfully, and suddenly thought of something. He smashed the remaining piece of bread into crumbs, held it up and said to Qie Yun Aling: "Kid, are you hungry? Come over and eat some bread crumbs."
Bar!"
"Please! I'm not a pigeon, why should I eat bread crumbs!"
Goofy is angry and funny.
"Elemental creatures feed on magic power, so they don't eat the fireworks of the world at all!"
It is true that Qie Yun'aling is not interested in human food, but it seems to have sensed Jiang Nuxia's kindness, and actually flew over and landed lightly in her palm.
"Wow! It's small, warm, and as light as a feather, so cute!"
Jiang Feng was extremely happy. As if holding a treasure, he carefully picked up Qie Yun A Ling and asked softly: "Kid, can I touch your hair?"
Eve suppressed a smile and translated her request to Qie Yun A Ling.
Qie Yun A Ling nodded obediently.
Jiang Feng held his breath, stretched out two fingers, stroked the elf's long hair that was flying in the wind, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.
Gao Fei looked at it and asked Qie Yun A Ling: "Do you have any companions? Call them out to play together."
"Okay." A soft voice came into Gao Fei's mind.
Qie Yun'aling cannot speak, but can communicate spiritually with any intelligent creature through telepathy.
Not long after, two more Qieyun'alings flew from the forest. One of them landed on Eve's shoulder, and the other floated on Gao Fei's head, like a bird trying to make a nest in the bushes.
With this group of cute elves as companions, time seemed to pass very quickly. In the second half of the night, Muning, Al and Ush got up one after another, walked out of the tent, and took turns to keep vigil.
Qie Yun A Ling seemed a little timid. When he saw Muning and the others walking towards the bonfire, they flew into the air one after another and disappeared into the night without any warning, leaving no trace to follow.
