I am a shooter

The rotten leaves crunched underfoot, as if countless dried beetles were crushed, and fine black dust was raised with every step.

Ning Shu squatted on the ground and dug up gravel. The cracks between his fingernails were filled with sticky black mud. He looked like a wild monkey rolling in the mud. There were still a few pieces of dry moss hanging on the ends of his hair.

She stared at the almost identical stones all over the ground, her eyes almost bulging into bells - not only were these stones similar in size, even the potholes on the surface looked like they were carved from the same mold, the difference was probably smaller than the difference in fingerprints of the Blue Star twins, at most some of the stones had a sesame-sized white spot.

Suddenly, her pupils contracted slightly. In the veins of the stone three meters to the left, there was a bug smaller than a sesame seed! The bug was crawling with difficulty while carrying a grain of sand twice its size, its tentacles still exploring the way left and right.

Ning Shu jumped up suddenly and almost stepped on Shen Xuannu's little feet, causing her to scatter the melon seeds in her hand all over the floor. "Oh my god! I can see the worms in the cracks of the rocks!" She pointed at the worm that was carrying sand, her voice cracking with excitement. "I used to think that these stones all looked the same, but now I can even see the 'freckles' on them clearly! Look at this worm, its left hind leg seems to be a little lame!"

Shen Xuannv was hugging her knees and chewing melon seeds. She was so scared that the shell got stuck in her teeth. She covered her mouth and mumbled incoherently:

"What's so strange about seeing bugs? I can even see three mites dancing tango in the mud on your hair! They were wearing tiny leather shoes and almost tripped when they were spinning around!" She gestured as she spoke, her short hands drawing strange arcs in the air.

Ning Shu came close to her, and deliberately put his face covered with grass debris very close to her, with the tip of his nose almost touching her forehead:

"Little girl, you are testing me on purpose! Finding stones and training your eyesight at the same time, this is a sinister trick! Did you calculate that I would open up my Ren and Du meridians?"

She reached out and pinched the other person's bulging cheeks, as if she was kneading a breathing glutinous rice ball, and her hands felt so soft that water could be squeezed out of them.

Shen Xuannv blinked her big eyes and was obviously stunned for three seconds, with a look of confusion on her face: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Finding something is considered a test? Then does eating count as practicing swallowing magic? Drinking water counts as practicing water magic?"

She slapped Ning Shu's hand away, and imitated the old master, pacing with her hands behind her back. However, because her legs were too short and her steps were too fast, she almost tripped over her own feet, and stumbled for two steps before she could stand firm.

"Alas, young people just don't know how to settle down. They are always so impetuous. No wonder they can only see the bugs but not the spiritual energy flowing in the stone."

Ning Shu looked at her talking like an adult with a face like a kindergarten kid, and got goose bumps all over her body. The hairs on her arms stood up. "If you keep pretending to be mature, I will strip you of your clothes and make you wear a red bellyband and dance square dance among the tombstones! I will accompany you and sing the coolest folk songs!"

Shen Xuannu's face turned tomato red, like a cooked crayfish. She pointed at Ning Shu with shaking hands, "You... you are so vicious! It's true that the prettier a woman is, the more vicious she is. She's even more poisonous than the most poisonous scorpion spirit in our God Realm! That scorpion spirit can only poison you to death, but you want to make me socially dead!"

"Thank you for praising my beauty~" Ning Shu smiled and pinched her ear. Seeing the little girl jumping up and down in anger, she felt happier than drinking iced sour plum soup. "Besides, the red bellyband matches your pigtails, so festive. You don't even need to hang lanterns during the Chinese New Year."

Shen Xuannv was speechless and could only stare at her with puffed cheeks, like an angry hamster. After half an incense stick of time, she shouted "OK" angrily. Her little hands fluttered like butterflies through flowers, arranging the stones into a strange formation, muttering something, making strange "jiliguala" sounds, jumping like a frog, and then raising her head like a rooster crowing, with her neck stretched out. Ning Shu was shocked: "Is this a shaman dance? Do you want to add some paper money as accompaniment? Or I'll go and pluck some chicken feathers to plug you in, it will be more interesting!"

Suddenly, the first stone lit up with a warm yellow light, like a 60-watt light bulb that had just been lit, followed by the second, the third, and countless light spots connected together, forming a flashing grid on the ground, making a "sizzling" sound of electricity. Each square reflected a different picture: some were forests full of glowing mushrooms, with mushroom caps big enough to be used as beds, and bubbling with colorful bubbles; some were oceans with floating icebergs, and penguins in bikinis standing on the icebergs, waving at the camera; and some were filled with green-skinned monsters wielding kitchen knives, their knives stained with suspicious red sauce.

"Is this... an electronic screen?" Ning Shu stared at the squares that looked like the screen of a TV drama with wide eyes. He reached out to touch it, but his fingertips were bounced away by an invisible force. "Are the exits to your God Realm so high-tech? It even has a preview function, which is more considerate than the travel APP on Blue Star!"

Shen Xuannv raised her chin proudly, with an expression of "hurry up and praise me" written all over her little face: "Every picture is an exit, take your time to choose, no one will urge you until next year. Anyway, I have plenty of time, and I can take this opportunity to finish this bag of melon seeds." As she spoke, she took out another bag of new melon seeds from her sleeve pocket and ate them happily with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

Ning Shu suddenly remembered something and grabbed her pigtail, which was as hard as a small steel needle. "You said a stone can also walk? Then why did you let me find so many? Are you kidding me? I squatted on the ground to look for a long time, and my knees are almost callused!"

"You didn't ask." Shen Xuannv blinked her innocent eyes, her long eyelashes fluttering like a small fan, and her appearance was as pure as a cup of unsweetened milk. "Besides, if I find a few more dollars, I can watch more TV series... No, more outlets, right? This way I can have a wider range of choices, how great."

Seeing the cunning flash in the little girl's eyes, Ning Shu laughed angrily, stretched out his hand to ruffle her hair, ruffling the neat ponytail into a messy mess: "Okay, you're so cruel! So where are these pictures? Which exit leads directly to the world with ice cream? I want strawberry flavor, with double chocolate sauce."

Shen Xuannv spread her hands, with an innocent look on her face: "How should I know? I have been trapped here for ten thousand years, and the number of times I have gone out is less than the number of hairs you have lost. Look at my memory, I even forgot what the melon seeds I ate yesterday tasted like."

Ning Shu looked at the flashing "electronic screen" in front of her, and suddenly felt that this high-tech exit was not as easy to recognize as the toilet at the entrance of the village - at least there was a broken wooden sign at the entrance of the toilet that said "Men on the left, women on the right", but in these pictures, there was not even a warning sign saying "No way through". She poked the square with the green-skinned monster, and the monster suddenly grinned at the camera, revealing two rows of uneven yellow teeth: "If I choose this, will I fall directly into the monster's hot pot? I don't want to become a spicy Ning Shu."

Shen Xuannv folded her arms and sneered, her little nose turned up high: "Maybe, after all, you are so lucky. Last time you were struck by lightning, you were able to pick up a secret book. This time you fell into the hot pot, maybe you can learn the fire escape technique."

Ning Shu hit her head with his backhand, and there was a crisp "bang". Looking at the little girl holding her forehead angrily, her cheeks puffed up like a little pufferfish, he suddenly felt that this difficult question of how to choose an answer was not so annoying. At least having someone who can talk to you is better than staring at a stone alone.