I am a shooter

The light from the stone squares flickered, like a row of neon lights with poor contact, casting mottled light and shadows on the wet ground.

Ning Shu squatted on the ground, having difficulty making a decision in front of the screen full of bizarre images. His fingers unconsciously picked at the moss in the cracks of the stone, and suddenly he found a small pure gray window hidden in the corner - the gray was as dark as a rag soaked in ink, and even the border was dull, as if it would be swallowed up by the surrounding darkness at any time.

She poked at the window with her dirt-covered fingers, feeling a cool, hard touch at her fingertips, but the window didn't move at all, not even a ripple appeared.

"What's the matter with this pure grey? Did you paint it with ink?"

Ning Shu turned his head and asked Shen Xuannv, who was squatting on the ground counting melon seed shells, arranging the crescent-shaped shells into a strange Bagua formation, as if she was playing some kind of mysterious board game.

A few melon seed shells that were not arranged properly were swirling in the wind, and she was so frightened that she quickly used her chubby little hands to protect the formation.

Shen Xuannv didn't even raise her eyelids, with a half-eaten melon seed in the corner of her mouth, and replied incoherently:

"What else could it be? That's the road to the God Realm that's been cut off, millions of years out of date."

She spat out half a melon seed kernel, which bounced accurately into the center of the formation, as if completing some sacred ritual.

"God's Road?"

Ning Shu's eyes lit up, his knees rubbed two muddy marks on the ground and he moved closer, his nose almost touching the stone surface;

"It sounds very impressive. Can you become a god if you get there? Does it also include five social insurances and one housing fund?"

Shen Xuannu finally raised her head and gave her a standard eye roll. She rolled her eyes faster than turning the pages of a book, and even her pigtail on top of her head shook three times:

"If you could leave, would I still be eating melon seeds in this shabby place? I would have flown back to the God Realm to attend the Peach Banquet long ago!"

She threw the melon seed shells to the ground, with an expression of "Are you stupid?" on her face;

"Tens of thousands of years ago, during the great war between gods and demons, humans built a barrier to block the road to the divine realm in order to save their lives. Now that place is probably covered with dogtail grass, and maybe even a few rabbits digging holes in it."

"So this is the source of human fire?" Ning Shu touched his chin and suddenly felt like he was in an epic movie.

"Are we on a mission to save the world? Do you want me to strike a cool pose first?"

As she spoke, she was about to straighten her head and chest, but her legs became numb from squatting for too long and she almost fell headfirst into the stone formation.

"You're overthinking." Shen Xuannv poured a basin of cold water on him, and his short legs swayed on the ground and kicked a small stone away;

"This is a land abandoned by the gods. Even the barriers were too lazy to take away the scraps. I guess they were swept here by the broom of war."

She picked up an angular stone and threw it into the gray window. The stone disappeared like a drop in the ocean, without even a sound, and the window remained gray and lifeless.

Ning Shu looked at the screen full of flashing windows and suddenly felt like she was about to have a difficult decision:

&34;So we are just picking out the not-so-rotten apples from a pile of rotten apples? This is harder than choosing food in a buffet restaurant! &34;

She pulled at the strands of hair stuck to her forehead by sweat and found half a dead leaf tangled in her hair.

"What else?" Shen Xuannv spread her hands and took out a handful of fresh melon seeds from her sleeve pocket. The bag made a crisp "sizzling" sound when it was torn open.

"But don't worry, it doesn't matter where you go, it's not as good as the God Realm anyway."

She bit open the melon seeds with a crunch, and the shell drew an arc in the air and bounced accurately into the gray window, like throwing garbage into a trash can.

"Then can I come back after leaving?" Ning Shu suddenly remembered something and his eyes widened;

"I wanted to come back to get some treasures I forgot to bring. I haven't finished eating the half cookie I hid in the skull last time."

Shen Xuannv stretched out her chubby little hand and gestured. In her palm lay a plump melon seed:

"Sure, take this in exchange. We need at least one or two kilograms of these melon seeds. Not even one less will do."

She suddenly leaned close to Ning Shu's ear and lowered her voice;

"I'll tell you a secret. I've been researching a new way to eat melon seeds. I plan to use my spiritual power to roast them into a caramel flavor."

When Ning Shu heard this, her head buzzed. This little ancestor's appetite was even bigger than she had imagined.

But she suddenly remembered a place, and a malicious smile appeared on the corner of her mouth - the dark cave that almost sent her away last time. The poisonous mushrooms in it looked like melon seeds, purple and glowing. It was just right to give this little girl a change of taste.

"What are you grinning about? Your mouth is watering."

Shen Xuannv poked her cheek with a melon seed shell, and the thorns on the tip of the shell made Ning Shu feel itchy.

"You're the one drooling!" Ning Shu slapped her hand away, and accidentally slapped her chubby face with his palm;

&34;Let's go, I'll listen to you and choose a place where it looks like we can pick up wild fruits. &34;

At the recommendation of Shen Xuannv, Ning Shu chose a forest scene. The forest was lush and green, the waterfall was like a white silk hanging in the mountains, and a few colorful birds were flying over the water. It looked suitable for escaping and having a picnic.

The two of them jumped into the window one after the other. When Ning Shu jumped, she deliberately kicked Shen Xuannv's butt, causing her to turn around and glare at her.

The light of the stone formation behind him gradually dimmed, but he did not notice a dark shadow following him like a ghost. Like a fallen leaf blown by the wind, it silently slipped into the entrance that was about to disappear, leaving only a bloody piece of clothing on the ground.

"Wow! This air smells a hundred times better than the rotten water in the Doomsday Land!"

Ning Shu took a deep breath as soon as she landed. The fresh scent of grass and wood mixed with moist water vapor entered her nose, making her hum with comfort. The dirt on her body was blown by the wind and fell down like dandruff. Some of the dirt even fell on the top of Shen Xuannv's head.

Shen Xuannv frowned and fanned her nose in disdain:

"It's just so-so. The spiritual power is as thin as milk tea diluted with water. And -" She touched her empty sleeve pocket, and her face fell like a sunflower withered;

"The melon seeds are almost gone. I have to save the last three."

"Don't worry, I'll give you enough." Ning Shu smiled mysteriously, turned around and ran deep into the forest. Her skirt swept across the knee-high weeds, startling a few grasshoppers.

"I'm going to take a bath first. You wait here. I'll save a seat for you. I guarantee it will be more comfortable than the bathtub in the God Realm!"

She ran towards the hidden waterfall. The water hit the rocks and made a "gurgling" sound like a symphony. The mist refracted the sunlight to form a small rainbow.

After taking off her clothes and jumping into the water, Ning Shu felt so comfortable that she almost hummed a little tune. The dirt on her body was washed away completely, and even her hair floated in the water like seaweed.

"Aren't you going to come down and wash?" She called to Shen Xuannv, who was sitting on a smooth rock on the shore. She was picking up the last three melon seeds, picking out the kernels and putting them into a small pile before slowly putting them into her mouth.

"If you don't wash it, it's troublesome." Shen Xuannv didn't even raise her head, and focused on counting the melon seeds on her tongue.

Ning Shu's eyes rolled, and he suddenly rushed over and dragged her into the water, splashing water so high that it startled the sparrows on the branches on the shore:

"Come down! If you don't wash, you'll grow mushrooms! I see moss on your collar!"