The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

"I am Phoenix Ikki! Take my life!"

"Ah! Look at my Lushan Shenglongba! Ah Zi, why don't you play Chunli?!"

"How can Ah Zi play Chunli? Ah Zi is the goddess Athena!"

"That's right! Ah Zi is the goddess Athena! We will protect you, so who will be the bad guy?"

Archer was taking a nap outside the wooden house door, and was woken up by the chirping voices of the little boys in the open space. He just raised his head and yawned, when he heard the little girl's commanding voice: "Ah Bao, come and be a warrior of the underworld." The little girl with shofar braids smiled and looked at the short-haired boy who was peeking behind the big locust tree.

The little girl's words were unsurprisingly echoed by the boys around her:

"Haha, yes, Bao, you are the most suitable!"

"You come to be a slug fighter!"

Archer looked at Po, who still had two lines of snot dripping under his nose, and felt a little sad for Po, but he completed his humanization two years later than the big guy, and poor Po became a bully for the children of the clan. Object.

The snot-nosed boy sniffed his nose twice, and said in a buzzing voice, "I don't want to be a ghost fighter, I want to be a gold saint..."

AhZi put her waist up and showed a ridiculous expression, and the boys around her also burst out laughing.

"You don't even look in the mirror, can you be a golden saint with your appearance?" Someone bent down and picked up a stone, "That's the decision! You are a slug-star fighter!"

The small stone was thrown towards Abao, and the dull little boy didn't even think about hiding. He was hit in the nose, and the snot turned into a nosebleed in an instant, and Abao covered his nose in pain.

"Eat my Pegasus Meteor Fist!" Phoenix Ikki grabbed a handful of gravel and threw it at the boy whose face was covered with snot and blood.

Archer saw that Ah Bao was completely helpless after being beaten by the stone, but he just squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, and couldn't help but stand up and wanted to tell him to run.

Athena and her saints suddenly heard the barking of dogs coming from under the eaves, and they rarely stopped attacking.

AZi Xunsheng looked at the golden retriever puppy with rare curly hair in front of the wooden house, and snorted disdainfully: "You still want to tell him to run?"

The little golden retriever stopped barking immediately, looked at the faintly malicious smile on the little girl's face, and took two steps back vigilantly.Ah Zi is the prettiest girl among the little girls in the clan, and she is surrounded by a group of young boys wherever she goes, but to Archer, this beauty has become synonymous with "vicious". According to past experience, as long as Ah Zi Zi smiled, someone must be unlucky.

"I suddenly had an idea," Ah Zi turned to look at the saints behind him, "What do you think about letting Archer be my mount?"

Archer was dumbfounded.The goddess spoke, and the saints really rushed towards him like wolves and tigers.He was just a pup less than half a meter long, even facing a seven or eight-year-old boy, it was difficult to deal with.In the blink of an eye, he was surrounded by boys, and his tail was caught immediately. Archer screamed in pain, and turned his head to bite the boy's wrist with his deciduous teeth. His strength was not strong, and his teeth were not sharp enough, but he won Now that he was full of momentum and barked bluffingly, the boy instinctively withdrew his hands, and Archer took the opportunity to slip out from under the boy's crotch.

"He's gone! Chase him!"

"Come on! Obediently be Ah Zi's mount! Who told you that you can't learn the human transformation technique!"

"Anyway, you will always be a dog! You should learn how to live like a dog, hahaha!"

The boys were tall, long-legged and numerous, and Archer ran towards the temple with his calves groaning and groaning.

Fortunately, because he had a small goal and copied the forest path, the boys finally lost him.

The curly-haired little golden retriever hid in the grass at half a person's height outside the temple. He was relieved when he saw the boys clapping their hands resentfully and walking away.In fact, it is not impossible for the boys to find him if they really want to. They just need to turn into a canine. With the keen sense of smell of canines, he can't escape wherever he hides.But probably no one wants to go to the trouble of bullying a dog.

The steps of the temple are very steep, and it takes him a lot of effort to jump up one step at a time. The threshold is higher than his head. Archer climbed up on all fours, kicking and kicking with his hind legs, and finally rolled over when he landed. .

No one had been to the temple for a long time, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated under the gate rail. When he fell, he made a "plop" and stirred up golden dust.On the stone tile floor of the temple, only the footprints of one or two slippers and a bunch of small paw prints like plum blossoms can be found. Archer knew that they belonged to Teacher He Lan and himself.Shaking off the dust all over his body, the little golden retriever limped into the temple lobby.

Although it was midsummer, the temple was still deserted and shady. Archer looked up at the dog-headed and human-body dog ​​god statue. The offering fruit on the shrine was the few apples that Mr. He Lan had exchanged when he came last week, and they were all wilted. It's gone.

This small temple has a history of nearly a hundred years in Linggou Town. It is so far away that no one can tell who built it first and what the origin is.The early townspeople seemed to believe in the dog god, but now few people come here.

Teacher He Lan told him that the dog god is the patron saint of their spirit dog clan, and the attitude of humans is irrelevant.

Archer looked up at the statue of Inugami for a moment, until his neck was sore, repeating the little wish in his heart-the almighty Inugami-sama!Please let me quickly learn the humanization technique!

Then when someone bullies me, I can fight back, so that every time I come to the temple, I can step in with great strides, so that I can help Teacher He Lan with many things, and I can wipe the glass to the top a...

Why am I the only one who can't transform into a human form anyway?Archer looked down sadly at his shaggy paws.

"I knew you were here."

There was a lazy sound of clogs and slippers clicking behind him, and the little golden retriever with dog ears turned his head to see a young man with a bird's nest head, beach pants and a vest, and a big black-framed mirror. Haha stuck out his tongue.

He Lanba came in with a bag of apples, bit one himself, and threw another one to Archer.

The little golden retriever jumped up and opened his mouth to bite, but the apple was too big, and the bite was missed. The big red apple hit the dog's forehead and fell to the ground.

He Lanba replaced the fresh fruit offering, turned around and asked condescendingly the poodle puppy who was fighting against the apple on the ground: "Did you pray to Lord Inugami today?"

"Wow! (Yes!)" said the little golden retriever wagging his tail.

"Very good," He Lanba bent down and rubbed the pup's little head, "Remember to come to pray every day, and one day your illness will get better." He then fumbled from the pocket of the beach pants He took out a small purse, stuffed a few RMB into it, and hung it around Archer's neck, "The soy sauce is gone, go down the mountain and get some back."

"Wow!" Archer was happy to serve Teacher He Lan.

Seeing that Archer turned to leave, He Lanba called him again: "Do you remember the principle of going down the mountain?"

"Wow! (Remember!)" Archer barked in one breath, "Don't talk to strangers! Don't eat what strangers feed you!"

The old god Helanba nodded in front of him: "Human beings are scary, you have to be vigilant at all times."

The poodle straightened its four legs as if it was facing a big enemy, and gave a particularly powerful "bark".

He Lanba watched Archer climb out of the threshold on all fours, his fat butt fell from the threshold and immediately disappeared. After seven years, he was still such a small kid, and he couldn't help but sighed.

The spirit dog tribe has multiplied and lived on this hill for so many generations, and this is the first time that there is such an outlier as Archer.The newborns in the clan can successfully learn the humanization technique shortly after birth, and the slowest one he has seen is no more than three years old, but Archer is almost seven years old, and he is still a half-grown pup , No matter how you can learn the ability of illusion.

However, this has nothing to do with being stupid or not. Transforming human form is an innate ability of the spirit dog and civet tribe, just like birds can learn to fly shortly after birth, and Archer is not stupid at all.

Seven years old is already an adult for an ordinary large dog, but the lifespan of the spirit dogs is no less than that of humans, so Archer still looks like a puppy under the age of [-].

He Lanba fanned the dust on the statue, biting an apple as lonely as snow, recalling the scene when he baptized Archer.The day Archer was born happened to coincide with the rare total solar eclipse in a century. It is said that the time of his birth was the moment when the sun began to appear again, and the patriarchs of the clan said it was a good omen.He is also very proud to be able to baptize this newborn who bears the blessings of the patriarchs. On that day, a famous photographer helped to take pictures for nostalgia. The photo is now hanging on the wall of his house. Baptizing his son, he held the squint-eyed little guy like a little meatball, raised it high and solemnly said: "I declare that his name is——"

It is the tradition of the Spirit Dog Clan to be named by the person who baptizes him, and he also took the name Archer, but he didn't really want to take this name, it was just that he accidentally... sneezed.

"Archer?! What a name!!" The old patriarch who was dozing below was suddenly awakened by his sneeze, and just slapped his thigh in such a daze to finalize the decision.

But not long after, Archer's mother died of illness. Now that I think about it, the total solar eclipse is a good omen for your sister.

He Lanba raised his head and looked at the silent statue, but if he couldn't transform into a human form, how could the dog god be able to help?But he didn't want to shatter Archer's last hope.I don't know how long this little guy can maintain such energy.

I really hope a miracle will happen.He Lanba, who walked out of the temple with his slippers on, scratched his waist and thought, because aliens are scary.

no matter where.