Chapter 38 Puka

"You're lucky." Aegas said. They were sitting on a branch on the ground, and the goat had gone. "What is it?" Gigi asked. "A puka." "I'm afraid I have given you a wrong advice," said Egeas. "What's the meaning?" "Actually it was just a joke, 'Don't talk to the goat', I didn't expect you to actually run into it." "Then should I talk to it?" "Of course," "Otherwise it might think you're being too rude," Agas said. "What will it do to me if you don't come back?"

"have no idea." Egeas said, "But those pukas have magical powers. They are ancient creatures, longer than our history. They claim to have existed before the world began, and some even said that they created the world." He said. After thinking for a while, he lay his whole body on the branch, resting his head on his hands, "I should ask it about the time leak." Gigi sighed, her tense nerves relaxed. "So you didn't find anything around here?" he asked. "No," "Nothing was found," Agas said. Gigi looked around, the trees still frightened him, and he wanted to get out as soon as possible, but Aegas closed his eyes, as if he was dozing off.

"The Fifth Rule of Learning to Anxiety," Gigi said, "No sleep." "I don't sleep. We don't sleep." Aegas said. "You don't sleep?" "yes." "Never?" "We also don't have the word 'never,'" Aegas said, "Or the word 'once', and there is no word for 'night'." He sat up and looked at the sky, "but I have an ominous feeling that night is coming, what time does your watch gone?" Jiji looked at her watch: "Six forty." "What time did you come?"

"About half past five." "Damn," Aegas said and stood up again, "It's getting faster and faster. Gigi, the speed of the leak is accelerating." He picked up his fiddle and started walking through the woods, not toward the path but in the other direction, toward the heights of Liddy's farm.Gigi followed him, asking, "How do you know the leak has sped up?" Egeas replied without looking back: "When the time just started, we hardly noticed it. We just felt that something was wrong. It was too slow for us to observe. Then people began to say that the sun was moving. Of course No one believed it because it couldn't have happened. But it did happen and we started to notice shadows where there shouldn't be. At first just a little bit, a little bit of silver light on the street, but Later, these shadows became bigger and bigger, and no one can ignore the changes that are taking place , and the leak has been accelerating since then."

"Compared to our world, that's kind of slow." Gigi said. "But it's too fast for us. The problem is we don't know when it started, because the change happens slowly. If you know when it started, I mean, in your chronology, maybe you can Let's find the clues of the leak." "How to find it?" Gigi asked. The rocks underfoot were slippery with moss, and the undergrowth under the trees was growing.Egeas frantically pushed aside hazel, wild strawberry vines, and ash branches. "You know," he said, "earthquakes, hurricanes, nuclear explosions, things that can damage the time membrane. We've checked all the places where cataclysms happened, but maybe we've overlooked somewhere."

"I don't think there's been a lot of disasters happening recently." Gigi said. "We're not discussing recent events," "The leaks start long before you're born," Agas said. "what?" "We estimate it happened 50 to 100 years ago." Judging from the speed and anxiety with which Aegas walked in the woods, he already knew how to be anxious.Gigi tries to understand what Aegas said. "You mean when your sun goes from here," he pointed to the sky, "to go there, 100 years have passed in our world?" "No,"

"Maybe just 50 years," Agas said. The news made Jiji uneasy, and the slight uneasiness he felt after arriving in this world began to expand into fear, but he still didn't know what he was afraid of.He knew that there was an important thing in his mind, but just like "Dao De's Ninth Work", he couldn't remember it. "Where are we going now?" he asked. At last they came to the edge of the woods.Aegias pointed to the right—the steep cliff at the end of Eagle Cliff and said: "Go there. I didn't want to disturb him, but the situation is special. We have to visit my father."