My Arknights Life Diary

Not long after Tu Fang and his companions left the Shennong Temple, they found another place to rest, which was a small pavilion.

Everyone sat in the pavilion, feeling particularly comfortable as the summer breeze blew by.

A comfortable environment always makes people want to slack off, such as Guigui, who has already dozed off in a daze.

At the same time, on the other side, Tu Fang was fiddling with his miniature iron men while thinking about the words of the grumpy kid.

It is known that the irritable child is not an ordinary person, so most of the useless things will be omitted. If there is any quarrel…

Some of the things she said when she was refuting were worth thinking about, for example... when she stole the tribute, she said that even Shennong didn't mind...

If this sentence is not a joke from hell, then can it indirectly mean that Shennong is not dead, or in other words, the real "Shennong" is not dead?

Tu Fang couldn't help but think so. At the same time, if this conjecture is true, then the so-called Shennong might really be millet!

Only someone of her age could live for several thousand years.

But speaking of millet...

Tu Fang controlled the miniature iron man and tried to find Shu. Soon, with the help of some special detection technology, Tu Fang successfully retrieved the man.

At this time, she was carrying a basket and walking along the river bank of Dahuang City, and she seemed to have exerted some power on herself.

Some people couldn't even notice her when they passed by her.

What is she going to do?

Tu Fang couldn't help but think so.

.............

"Ok?"

As he walked, Shu suddenly looked back, but found nothing.

She thought she might be overthinking it, so she turned around and continued walking along the shore.

At the same time, Tu Fang was shocked by Shu's behavior just now. He thought he had been discovered, but now it seems that he was indeed worrying too much.

How could these things, which are essentially smaller than dust, be discovered at just a glance?

Tu Fang continued to follow Shu until they were far away from the farmland and the crowd, and came to a remote place where they met a man.

A man with cloudy eyes, half-open and half-closed mouth, who doesn't seem to be very sober. This man holds an axe in his hand, and his cloudy eyes stare at the other side of the river, in the direction of the woods.

"I'm here to see you again. How have you been lately?"

Unknown man:............

"I brought some food here, including some snacks and some fruits."

As Shu said this, he removed the cloth covering the basket, revealing the food inside.

But the man remained silent and did not take any action.

"Okay, so how are you feeling lately? Are you still dizzy? Those noises..."

“………Ugh………”

As if he had thought of something, the man suddenly hugged his head, looking very painful.

"Sorry... I'm here to help you."

Shu took out a stick-like object that Tu Fang didn't recognize from somewhere. It looked like it was made of jade.

Shu used the stick to hit the crazy man on the head, and the man calmed down.

"Sorry....eat something."

Shu said so.

The man remained silent.

"Well, forget it. Let's say something good. This year's harvest is very good. Look, there are harvesters harvesting the early-maturing rice over there."

Shu pointed to the distance and said this.

"If nothing unexpected happens, there should be a lot of surplus food left this year."

"..........Um........"

"Your efforts have not been in vain. That natural disaster was not a natural disaster... All the sacrifices and deaths in the past will not be in vain..."

“........Woo.........”

For some reason, the man covered his face and started crying.

After a while, Shu wanted to say something, but the man ignored her and turned and walked into the woods behind him.

"Hey... I've left these foods here. If you want them, you can come and get them later. I'm leaving now..."

..............

Tu Fang saw all of this. The conversation between Shu and this not very rational madman contained a lot of information.

A natural disaster that is not a natural disaster...

Those who sacrificed...

Tu Fang combined some known things and some of his own guesses to analyze some answers, such as...

Evil spirit...

Tu Fang also observed the man carefully. From his slightly old but definitely not cheap clothes and his race, he could tell that the guy was most likely a high-ranking official in the past.

But why would a high-ranking official fall to this point? Judging from his unclear consciousness and Shu's words, it was most likely due to evil spirits.

He had definitely fought with evil spirits before and was contaminated. It just so happened that the forest he was looking at also had traces of evil spirits when Tu Fang had detected it before...

Tu Fang felt that he should go there in person.

"Hey? Tu Fang, where are you going?"

Xiao Ke noticed Tu Fang who was about to leave, and asked with some confusion.

"I'm going to do something. You can just rest here for a while. I'll be back soon."

Tu Fang said this and left the pavilion while most people were resting.

After a while, Xiao Ke looked at Tu Fang disappearing in the distance and began to have some evil thoughts. She glanced at the people around her who were resting.

She also followed suit and ran away, but her target was different from Tu Fang's. Her target was the Shennong Temple.

............

In front of the tribute table of Shennong Temple, Xiao Ke came back to this place. She reached out to take the honey cake that Tu Fang left behind not long ago.

But her hand reached out halfway and then stopped.

"Tu Fang said that without their consent, we cannot take other people's food...

How about this, Shennong, I'll turn around, and if the honey cake is still there, it means you agree!"

Xiao Ke said this, then turned over with his eyes closed, and the honey cake was still in its original place.

"Since you've agreed, I won't be polite!"

Xiao Ke said this, took down a piece of honey cake, sat in front of the offering table and started eating.

"Is it tasty?"

"good to eat!"

While eating, Xiao Ke suddenly felt something was wrong.

Suddenly, she looked up and saw the same grumpy child from before, rubbing her head with a smile.

"Bite you!"

Xiao Ke was stunned for a moment, then stopped eating fate, jumped up and bit the hand of the violent child.

"Why are you so irritable? And why are you here to steal the tribute?"

The man who looked about the same age as Xiaoke nimbly dodged Xiaoke's attack and spoke like this.

"Who stole it... Shennong said that I could eat it..."

Xiao Ke's voice became weaker and weaker, which made the grumpy child in front of him laugh out loud.

"Hahaha, you're such a good lie!"

“Who lied…?”

"Hahaha."

"Stop laughing, stop laughing... Here, I'll give you half of the honey cake, but don't tell Tu Fang."

Xiao Ke made a major decision. He tore the honey cake in his hand in half and gave it to the grumpy child in front of him.

The grumpy child was not polite at all. He took the half piece of honey cake and put it directly into his mouth.

After she finished eating, she smacked her lips twice and spoke.

"It tastes really good, even better than the cakes made by those old men."

Then, under Xiao Ke's surprised gaze, she conjured up a piece of cloth out of thin air, picked and chose in front of the tribute table, and took a lot of things.

Then he packed these things in the cloth, jumped onto the beam and started eating.

"You should come up too. If you eat down there and get seen, it will be very troublesome!"

"it is good!"

Xiao Ke jumped up from the spot and landed on the beam again, then sat down opposite the grumpy kid. He took a piece of honey cake from the bag and started eating with the grumpy kid.

The two of them ate and talked, and Xiao Ke, who was not very smart, often made the grumpy child laugh.

After a while, the two men had almost finished eating the food in the bag.

"Xiao Ke, are you going back now, or are you going to rest here for a while like me?"

"I'd better go back. Otherwise, if Tu Fang finds out, it will be too late and I won't have the dinner for dinner."

"Haha, little girl, I find you quite pleasing to the eye. By the way, how about this, you call me Boss, and I promise that you will have endless delicious food in the future!"

"What little girl! You look about the same age as me. Um...um...is it true that you can't finish the delicious food? Can't you finish the honey cakes?"

"Of course it's true. Would I lie to you?"

"Okay then, Boss."

"Hey, that's good!"

The unknown child subconsciously wanted to rub Xiaoke's dog head, but Xiaoke dodged him.

"Tsk, that's it, forget it, but since you recognize me as your boss..."

The child, who looked not much older than Xiao Ke, stretched out his hand and a piece of wood flew over from somewhere.

Then...

Grab it!

Refined instantly!

Under Xiao Ke's gaze, the irregular piece of wood turned into a sign after being held by the child.

A sign she didn't recognize.

"Come with me."

Xiao Ke obediently followed the kid who looked similar to him and climbed onto the roof.

"Hmm... still not high enough..."

The child muttered to himself like this, and then jumped up on the spot.

"Yeah, I can see it. This is about the right height."

Then after the child landed, he began to speak.

“You hold this thing, then jump a little, and you can see a building and remember the style of the sign on that building.

If you want to eat something delicious in the future, just take this wooden sign to the building with that sign and show it to them. Then you can get as much delicious food as you want!"

"understood."

Xiao Ke also jumped along with the kid who was about her age, and her brain memorized the sign on the building.

Then after landing, he stuffed the wooden sign into his pocket.

Even though Xiao Ke's brain was not very smart, she realized that she seemed to have obtained something extraordinary.