novelonline Chapter 3383 Spring and Cat
Chapter 3383 Spring and Cat
Chapter 3383 Spring and Cat
Looking at the appearance of this body of water, Xia De would not be surprised even if a water ghost emerged the next moment.
Ellie was obviously reluctant to go into the water from here, but fortunately their destination was not here. Walking along the calm lake in the cave to the right, after reaching the edge of the cave, they noticed a passage that looked like a crack.
The gap is not even as thick as a finger, and even if someone noticed it in the dark, they would not care, but this is the entrance to the spring.
Shad chanted the ancient spell in the local Fatu dialect, and then the crack expanded to a width wide enough for adults to pass through. Shad and Ellie walked in together. The passage inside was slightly curved, but it looked like a natural passage inside the mountain.
There were faded murals on the walls on both sides of the passage. After walking along the passage for less than half a minute, I saw the cold pond at the end.
Although this spring is also connected to the water system inside the snow mountain, it is not connected to the cave lake outside. Although it is called a "spring", the water does not actually flow up from underground. The source of the spring water is the water drops from the stalactites above and the water drops flowing down from the rock wall at the end of the passage.
These water flows converge into the "spring eye" less than two meters deep below, and then continue to seep into the mountain through the cracks at the bottom. This "spring eye" will remain full in any season, so as long as the Fatu people do not take too much water when they come to fetch it, the water here will not be exhausted.
As the unicorn followed Shade toward the spring, he was visibly uneasy. This uneasiness did not come from the deep darkness of the cave, but from the faded murals on the walls of the narrow passage.
The mural depicts the Fatu people discovering this place and getting water from it, but in addition, there is also the process of the Fatu people putting the bodies into boxes and throwing them into the water.
"Don't worry, the boxes containing the bodies were thrown into the lake outside. We won't take that route."
Shade comforted Ellie softly. As for the reason why the Fatu people did this, it was said to be some kind of ancient custom. Only the bodies of the great elders would be handled in this way. For example, after the death of Elder Harald, he would be put into a special box and thrown into the lake outside.
Shad didn't know what Claire was thinking when she was diving yesterday, but he remembered that she was quite disapproving when she described this custom.
Two silver-white balls of light flew to the side of the spring. When Shad took out the cat that was taking a nap from his pocket, the curious unicorn had already lowered its head and drank two sips of cold water.
"Mia, wake up."
He bent down and put the cat down beside the pool, hoping it would learn from Ellie's actions. But the cat looked at the spring, then back at Shad, and then ran to Shad's feet again.
Xia De then remembered that Mia rarely drank raw water. She either drank goat milk or boiled warm water like Xia De. She would only drink raw water when she saw Xia De drinking it.
So Shade had to sit down beside the cold pond, took out a glass from his pocket, and drank a sip in front of Mia. Then he motioned the cat to drink water from the spring, but the cat's big amber eyes just stared at the glass in Shade's hand.
"I knew it."
The cup filled with water was placed in front of Mia, and the cat started to lick the water. Because he didn't know how much Mia would have to drink to "improve her intelligence", or whether this spring would be useful to the already smart cat, Shade sat there and watched the cat drink water out of boredom, thinking that he would leave when it didn't want to drink anymore.
Unicorn Ellie was very interested in the water here, and of course she was a little thirsty, so she drank a lot. Shade was not worried that their arrival today would affect the efficacy of the spring. The elders said that as long as the overall ecology of the snow mountain was not destroyed and the "All Souls Festival" was held every year, everything could be restored.
Ellie and Mia were drinking water, and Shad, who was sitting by the spring, was also lost in thought. He first thought of the distant Karas Mountain, and the date for opening the door of the Silver Moon Library, which could only be used once a year, which was this Saturday; then he thought of the story of the ancient gods told by the maid, which might be related to the ceremony of the chosen one.
Then I thought about the last key I would use tomorrow morning and Mr. Mortis I would meet tomorrow. And from this, I thought about how the guys who had the three angel-level fate relics seemed to be a little slow in their actions, and I hadn't heard much about them in the past week.
"Speaking of which, last time I found a snake skin at the bottom of the lower spring."
Xia De looked at the spring beside him. Although the spring was not deep, he could not see the bottom of the spring, probably because of the dissolved minerals in it.
“Are there snake sloughs here too?”
Although this idea was unfounded, Xia De had finally come here, so he felt that he had better look for it. After all, one more snake skin means one more chance to find a candidate.
But the last time he entered the spring was to purify the spring, and this time he was embarrassed to enter the spring where others were drawing water. So after thinking for a moment, Xia De, who was sitting on the ground, radiated a silver light all over his body.
In the unicorn's azure eyes and Mia's amber eyes, the silver light gradually shrank toward the ground until it turned into a silver cat. Shade Cat pushed away the other cat that came over:
"Mia, Ellie, wait here for me, I'll be back soon."
After saying that, he stretched out his claws to test the temperature of the spring in this form, and then the silver cat jumped into the spring.
"Meow!"
Then the cat, who always hated taking a bath, followed them in without a second thought. The pure white holy beast thought about it and felt that they had left her behind when they went to play in the water. So Ellie also put her head into the water, and when she saw that the two cats were fine, she put her head back and waited quietly.
"you"
Of course, Shade noticed that Mia had followed him, and he was both angry and touched. Last time at the Love Lake, this cat had jumped into the water to save him, so Shade knew that it could not only swim but also breathe underwater.
So Shade the cat waited for Mia in the water for a while, and when Mia approached, she really wanted to drag Shade ashore. Shade tried to explain in the water, and then continued to swim downstream, and of course the cat followed with its little paws flapping.
Two meters is not a long distance even for a small cat, and the two cats soon approached the bottom of the spring. To breathe underwater, you must drink water. Shade the cat did not feel any reaction to this strange liquid, but the orange part of Mia's orange-white hair was actually glowing faintly.
So Shadcat began to look forward to where this would eventually lead, and then for some reason he thought of last night's "nightmare", but after waiting for a few minutes, it seemed that Mia was only glowing.
It then turned around and prepared to explore the bottom of the spring first, but at this moment, a voice came from outside the water above its head:
"You Fatu people are really good at hiding things."
"Ok?"
Shade Cat was startled and thought someone had come here, but he immediately realized that it was Luvia's voice. The fire seal showed that the girl with purple eyes should be in Tobesk now, so Shade understood that this time in the spring, he actually heard a voice from a non-existent time and space:
"Again? How can the power of the ancient god of destiny in this snowy mountain really be so overbearing?"
[Perhaps, it is because the fate between you two is too heavy. ]
This time the sound was clearer than last time, as if Luvia and Claire were really standing outside. Shade Cat noticed a faint purple glow on his right front paw. It was the noble "fate" rune given by the long-haired girl in his dream. It seemed that it strengthened the connection.
"The spring itself is here. We didn't hide it, we just didn't tell outsiders."
This was Claire's voice. Although there was still a gap between her tone and Luvia's, this time she didn't sound as fearful and uneasy as last time. It seemed that their relationship was progressing well.
"I have brought you here. Now you can tell me what you want to do with this spring water. Could it be that there is something under this spring?"
Claire in her past life seemed to have the same idea as Shad.
"Of course not. I just want to confirm something. I told you on the way up the mountain just now that the key for the candidates of destiny to become the protagonist is not to kill a monster or complete a test before others, but to make themselves more dazzling."
The two people from the past life were definitely at the edge of the spring at this moment, and Xia De listened while protecting Xiaomia behind him to prevent Luvia from suddenly attacking again.
"Remember the key story last week? You played a wonderful piece of music with that stone piano. I remember you were so moved that you cried, Claire."
"It's just sand in the eye. What does it have to do with us coming here this time?"
When Shad the cat's ears moved, the "stone piano" and "music" seemed to be a key scene.
“I just want to tell you that in a story of fate, don’t worry too much about the outcome; an excellent process is enough. The secondary goal of this trip is to see the murals here, and then try to communicate with your ancestors to see if they can provide some useful information.
The main goal is to try to find clues to the Upper Spring through this 'Middle Spring'. Didn't your grandfather also say that the Upper Spring used to prepare the Snow Mountain Water is not the real Upper Spring. The real spring on the top of the mountain disappeared inexplicably 1,200 years ago."
"Go up to the spring? What is Luvia looking for spring water for? Is this also related to the Chosen One?"
Shade's ears moved again, and then he felt something touching his ears. He turned around and saw that Xiaomia had come behind him at some point. The cat was attracted by the moving ears.