Chapter 43 Chapter 18 Dystocia

Because we are relatively close to the peak now, we can see the black shadow clearly under the light of the flashlight. It is a very fat sprite with gray hair and wrinkled skin.Surprisingly, its belly is swollen. Could it be that this fat sprite is pregnant and will give birth soon? "Could this sprite be the queen mother, just like the queen bee of bees?" I guessed. "It can't be wrong, otherwise why are these sprites chasing us like crazy, so they thought we were going to hurt the Queen Mother." Xinhong said holding a flashlight. "This sprite looks like it's getting old, isn't it about to give birth now?" Teacher Ye wanted to go over to see what happened.

"Don't go there!" The peddler suddenly stopped Teacher Ye, and hurriedly pulled him back, saying, "You guys stay here first!" Seeing that we didn't climb to the top of the peak again, the Queen Mother immediately stopped by the side of the stone bridge, and then groaned in pain.The sprites behind us saw that we stayed where we were, so they all quietly looked at the queen mother below, and did not chase us any more.Before that, we had been fleeing up the mountain in fear, and we all wondered why they refused to let us go, and now we finally understand.However, the sprite's mother queen is quite old, and I'm really worried whether it will be able to be born.The queen mother wanted to scream desperately to relieve the pain, but it could only moan weakly, and its whole body was soaked.It seems that the sweat glands of sprites are the same as those of us humans, they are all on the body, not on the tongue like dogs.

"Should we help it?" Teacher Ye asked worriedly, and then wanted to go up the peak. Seeing that Teacher Ye was going to the peak, the queen mother and the sprites immediately gritted their teeth and made angry noises.Seeing this, the peddler pulled Teacher Ye back again.A lot of blood flowed out from the Queen Mother's body, but still no little sprites were born, all the sprites looked at the Queen nervously.However, I felt a little strange, because dark red blood flowed out of the Queen Mother's mouth, and its tiny eyes turned blue-gray. Could this be the characteristic of sprites during childbirth?But the sprites behind us, their eyes are the same as ours, they are all black, and their skin is slightly dark red, these are very different from the Queen Mother.Gradually, the queen mother's skin also turned blue-gray.The peddler told us to stay where we were and not to go up, but then he hurried to the top of the peak himself.

"It's strange, why did the sprites not react when this person went up, and they wanted to eat me just now when I thought about it?" Teacher Ye said inexplicably. "I don't understand either. I saw such a thing once in the woods. These beasts and monsters seem to be familiar with him, and they never hurt him." I was also puzzled. The Queen Mother was so painful that she wanted to roll back and forth, but her body was too fat, so she could only move her body randomly instead of rolling.When the peddler was about to approach the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother stopped turning it, and it died of life!Its body just moved to the edge of the peak, and when the Queen Mother died, its body lost its balance and slid down the peak.The peddler was also taken aback when he saw this situation.Seeing this, the sprites rushed to the top of the peak in groups.

We unconsciously followed to the top of the peak, and Xinhong used his flashlight to shine down the mountain. There were steep stone walls between the peaks, and the body of the Queen Mother fell heavily to the bottom of the mountain.However, there is a hot and cold and pungent smell rushing up from the bottom of the mountain. Could it be that the source of this smell is at the bottom of the mountain? "Did this sprite die in childbirth? No wonder it is so old." Xinhong looked down the mountain and said regretfully. The sprites and monsters made mournful sounds on the top of the peak, which made me feel that these ferocious sprites are not inhumane, and they still have feelings.Although the light of Xinhong's flashlight did not fully reach the bottom of the mountain, we can still see the body of the Queen Mother at the bottom of the mountain.However, what followed was like a magic trick, the Queen Mother's body suddenly disappeared before our eyes!I opened my eyes wide in disbelief, then glared down again.However, I didn't even blink my eyes just now, and there was nothing approaching the corpse at the bottom of the mountain, so why did it suddenly disappear out of thin air?

"Why is the Queen Mother's body missing? Can you still see it?" I hurriedly asked Xinhong and the others. "It's gone, why did it disappear all of a sudden!" Xinhong said in surprise, "I saw the one at the bottom just now!" Teacher Ye didn't speak. He was a little strange when he ran up from below just now. He seemed a little excited and a little quiet.However, did the sprite's queen mother really die because she was too old and had a dystocia?Blood flowed out of Queen Mother's mouth just now, maybe it bit its own mouth in pain, but why did its eyes and skin turn blue-gray.Although this is similar to the symptoms of excessive blood loss during childbirth, it is still somewhat inaccurate.No matter how much blood was lost, it was impossible for the black eyes to turn blue-gray.I thought in my heart, maybe sprites give birth like this, and this is the first time I have seen sprites give birth in my life, so I can't speculate based on common sense, maybe they are different from the beginning.

"By the way, why did you suddenly appear here?" I looked at the peddler, thinking that I must ask clearly. "This... This is my home, of course I will be here." The peddler returned to his previous expression and replied timidly. "Your home is here? Who are you kidding? Ghosts live underground!" The peddler's answer made me think he was being perfunctory. "Then... what are you guys doing here? Do you also want that five-colored stone?" The peddler's answer cheered me up.He said "yes", then someone must have been here before, and they also came to get the colorful stones!

Teacher Ye seemed to have forgotten all of us, he just stared down the mountain blankly with confused eyes.I'm very surprised why Mr. Ye is not excited when he hears the colorful stones this time. Could it be that he is bewitched by evil spirits or stimulated by something?The sprites began to run down the mountain in groups of four and four, ignoring us.However, the body of the queen mother disappeared out of thin air, which made me feel like I was in a state of turmoil, and I always felt that there was still some hidden worry that I hadn't discovered yet.At this moment, the pungent smell wafted up from the bottom of the mountain again, but Mr. Ye, who was standing by the cliff, didn't notice it at all.I was afraid that Teacher Ye would fall down like the Queen Mother, so I hurriedly pulled Teacher Ye who was standing there over carefully.

"Five-colored stones? Are there really five-colored stones here?" Xinhong also became energetic after hearing the hawker's words. "If there is no one here, would you still come here?" The peddler asked us back. "This is your home? Don't blackmail us! Do you still have a grandma who lives in another Xishui village?" I also asked the peddler. "How do you know?" The peddler asked us in surprise, which shows that he and the old woman do have a relationship. "Let's not ask about your family's affairs. Tell me first, why are you here? Are you also here to get the colorful stone?" I asked the peddler warily, but remembered that I didn't know his name, so I continued. Ask, "By the way, what's your name?"

"I don't have a name, and grandma didn't give me a name..." The peddler hesitated, and then he added, "However, you can call me Xianquan." "Xianquan? Why does it feel weird?" I muttered in my mouth, but I was thinking in my heart, the word "Xianquan" has a very familiar feeling, as if I have seen or heard it somewhere before. But it seems that I have never seen the word "Xianquan". I asked Xianquan some more things, but he was hesitant. After asking for a long time, he still didn't get anything out, which made him think we were robbers.I saw that the surrounding environment was not suitable for the "household survey", so after He Xianquan introduced himself politely, he went to observe the statue of Nuwa.Teacher Ye was still standing there blankly.

"Jin Wei, come here and take a look!" Xinhong seemed to have discovered something, he pulled me out of my thoughts, and said, "The box on the stone statue is solid!" Xinhong's words surprised me, and I hurried over to look at the stone statue. The stone statue of Nuwa was lifelike, but the big stone box she was holding in her hands was not commensurate with her small body.Before this, I also saw a box on the stone statue of Nuwa. At that time, I thought there was something in the box, maybe it was a colorful stone, but now Xinhong told me that it was solid, which made me feel very strange , why make a solid box?I knocked on the stone box carefully, and the sound was really dull. It seems that it is indeed solid. "That's right, I thought there were five-colored stones in the box." I cried in disappointment. "The colorful stone is on the last peak." Mr. Ye finally came back to his senses, and he told us quietly. "How do you know?" Xianquan, Xinhong and I asked in unison. However, Teacher Ye suddenly stopped talking again, and his reaction made me more and more chilling. Could it be that he had something to do with Uncle Zou's death?What kind of research did Mr. Ye do in recent years? He said that he went to Sanxingdui in Sichuan, and there was something there that let him know that there are colorful stones here, and he also said that Chang'e brought the colorful stones to this place. "Teacher, you can tell me," I decided to turn the question in my heart around and ask, "Why did you go back to the first peak four years ago? Don't you really want that five-colored stone?" "That's right, what made you come out of here suddenly, teacher?" Xinhong also asked suspiciously. "I..." Teacher Ye was a little embarrassed and panicked, not knowing how to answer us. "Actually, you already have that five-colored stone..." Xianquan stopped at this point. He ran to the stone bridge between the two peaks and shouted, "Go back, go back quickly!" We looked at the other side of the stone bridge in amazement. There were a few Aoyin standing on the top of another peak, and they were about to walk to us through the stone bridge.We were shocked, how could Ao Yin catch up to the door so quickly.However, after seeing Xianquan, Aoyin reluctantly turned his head from the peak and walked into the darkness.Who is Xianquan, how can he prevent strange and rare animals from harming him, and make Ao Yin, who wants to eat his brains, give up attacking.I really can't figure it out, and the word "Xianquan" feels very familiar and strange to me, but I just can't remember where I saw it. "Xianquan, how can you deal with things like Aoyin and sprites?" I asked uneasily. However, Xianquan suddenly showed a panicked expression, and he ran down the mountain in a hurry, and I didn't even have a chance to stop him.In the blink of an eye, Xianquan rushed down the mountain and disappeared into the darkness below the mountain.