"Isn't this just Pai Gow, where you bet on big or small."
Looking at the obsessed, even fascinated look on Eggplant Girl's face, Lu Ran revealed the true nature of this without mercy.
"Hush! How can you use such vulgar things to compare with the supreme treasure of environmental education?"
Sister Eggplant signaled Lu Ran to be quiet. She was nervously looking left and right, watching the two golden turtles get on the black boat and start running towards the high mountain at the end.
Two beetles, one on the left and one on the right, stood on the bow of the boat, making exactly the same movements. They looked up at the fruit-bearing tree and remained motionless.
The little black boat went down the river and encountered a reef. The two boats almost deviated from the same channel. The two beetles were disturbed at the same time, flew up, and hovered in the air for a while, until the boat returned to the established route. At the same time, it fell back to the same route. The position where it fell was exactly the same.
At least Lu Ran couldn't see any difference between the two scenes, left and right.
"The bifurcation of fate has already begun." Eggplant girl, who had been holding her breath and looking carefully, murmured.
"So mysterious?" Lu Ran turned around to look again, and sure enough, there were subtle changes on the field. The speeds of the two ships were different, and the one on the left had obviously slowed down.
"So, the left side is going to win?" Lu Ran muttered to himself.
"Not necessarily. After all, Empress Huntian only said that this fruit represents our contestants, but she didn't say how to represent it, and she didn't say that the boat that arrives first is the winner." Eggplant Girl followed up and explained. After some analysis.
Lu Ran frowned: "So this is a Pai Gow game that cannot be bet? So what's the point?"
"Of course it's interesting. You see now that every step forward by the ship is a step that changes your destiny. Step by step, you are waiting for your destiny to be revealed, but you don't know what kind of destiny it will be. It's very exciting. ." Eggplant girl's tone was somewhat impatient.
Lu Ran thought for a while and said: "What's exciting? For you and me, there are only two results, either elimination or promotion, right? Destiny, isn't it one left and one right, one forward and one behind? , one positive and one negative, life and death?"
"No, no, no, fate is the most complicated thing in the world. It's not what you think. What you said is too simple..." Eggplant Girl felt that Lu Ran was talking nonsense and was wrong. Now her face really changed. She turned into an eggplant color and said angrily: "You don't have any spirituality, so I won't tell you anymore."
"I don't have immortal roots and spirituality?" Lu Ran originally wanted to refute her harshly, but suddenly he thought that what she said was not wrong. Isn't he... not a person without immortality?
So Lu Ran suppressed his words, and the two stopped discussing and continued to look at the boat on the long table.
Because the boat on the left was faster, the boat and the beetle encountered the second storm first.
At a sharp bend, the speed of the boat was forced to slow down, and then a huge crow suddenly rushed out from the mountains on both sides of the river. It pecked the golden turtle hard, and the golden turtle was forced to fly off the boat. , had a good fight with it, and ended up with bruises all over the body and a big broken foot, and finally got through it by luck.
The golden turtle on the right was slow, but quite lucky. When he was going through the same sharp bend, the crow also screamed and flew out, but it was flying around for its life. Higher up in the sky, there was a The goshawk hovered in the sky, sighted its target, and easily preyed on the crow.
The slower beetle not only escaped disaster, but also reached the end of the mountain faster than the one on the other side because it did not waste time at this pass.
"This is called the world being unkind and devouring all things." Eggplant girl still couldn't help but sigh.
"Isn't it true that lazy people are blessed with laziness?" Lu Ran still expressed a different view.
Looking back at the golden turtle that had reached the end, it stood on the bow of the boat and looked up at the big tree on the top of the mountain for a long, long time, as if it was thinking about something, and as if it was waiting for something.
"It's just a bug. It doesn't have that much thought. Maybe it's just smelling the fruit on the tree and preparing to have a full meal."
Lu Ran's teasing continued.
Eggplant girl turned her head to one side. After all, the results were coming out soon, and she didn't want to miss the results by listening to this idiot's nonsense.
However, what happened next shocked her. The insect looked up for a long time, and finally moved. It flew straight up the mountain, landed under the tree, and continued to look up at the trunk, looking up at the red and blue fruits.
Just when everyone almost thought it would climb up to the tree crown and win, it suddenly lowered its head, opened its mouthparts, and ate the rotten leaves in the soil under the tree, and it stayed there until the end. There they were immersed in eating rotten leaves.
Eggplant girl turned her head over again in disbelief and glanced at Lu Ran.
"Ha." Lu Ran imitated the golden turtle and raised his head.
All the eyes of the audience came to the other golden turtle.
Because it was injured, it lay half on the bow of the boat for the second half of the journey. Although the boat was very slow, it still reached the high mountain at the end of the boat.
The golden turtle stood up tremblingly, without looking up or "thinking", and began to climb up the mountain.
"It seems that its wings are also damaged." At this time, Lu Ran finally looked serious.
"You just said they are just bugs, but look, these bugs are tougher than humans." Eggplant Girl caught the opportunity and immediately fought back.
"Yeah, much tougher than humans." Lu Ran nodded without arguing with her, and then added: "I just hope that after it climbed the mountain, it wasn't just for that one bite of food."
On top of the mountain, what this golden turtle did was commendable. Because one of its legs was broken, it was very inconvenient to climb. It kept falling, and it did not stop even after falling. It immediately climbed up again, and so on again and again. Lu Ran couldn't count how many times he repeated it. It could be said that after going through a lot of hardships, he finally reached the top of the mountain and came to the foot of the tree.
It finally stopped, looking up at the tree crown like the one before, and didn't move again for a long time.
"Is he dead?" Lu Ran whispered.
Eggplant girl gave him a fierce look.
But time passed by like this.
Thirty breaths, sixty breaths, one hundred and twenty breaths, a whole stick of incense passed, and the golden turtle still didn't move.
Off the field, commotion has begun.
Some people, to this day, still don’t understand what happened.
Empress Huntian raised her hands again to signal for silence.
"What do you think destiny is? Destiny requires waiting patiently. Destiny is not a fruit waiting to be picked, but a bug whose movements you cannot predict." She used her slow, lazy and rich voice, Say it word for word.
"This sentence is somewhat interesting."
Lu Ran expressed his appreciation, and then saw the insect suddenly fluttering its wings and flying to the canopy of the tree full of red and blue fruits.
