Surprisingly, it was very easy to talk to the Japanese tribe this time. Instead of driving them away, they kept them and even helped them build a house for them to stay.
When Cheng Xiaohe offered to give them some compensation, he was rejected and only asked to keep the big black fish.
Cheng Xiaohe didn't make any sense to this, so the Qingmang team stationed next to the Heri tribe.
Although there were no outsiders on this high snow-capped mountain, Lei Min still arranged for everyone to take turns guarding the holy lake.
The days passed peacefully for several days, until one night, a small figure suddenly appeared around the holy lake. It came to Lin Qingqing's side quietly without disturbing anyone.
Looking at the woman in front of him who was wrapped in thick ice energy, it tilted its head, then circled around her, and finally focused on the ice ball in the opponent's hand.
It originally wanted to take the ice ball away, but unfortunately the ice ball simply refused to obey its orders. After many attempts to no avail, it had no choice but to give up.
Every night after that, this little figure would appear in the holy lake. It tried various methods, but it couldn't take the ice ball away.
Seeing that the energy in the ice ball was getting less and less, but the aura of the woman next to him was getting stronger and stronger. After weighing the pros and cons, it simply lay down next to it. Forget it, don't bother, the energy is there. It's the same on everyone, so there's no difference to it anyway.
Lin Qingqing's promotion this time took longer than before. By the time her promotion was over, it was already half a month later.
When she opened her eyes, she subconsciously lowered her head and glanced at her hands. At this moment, the fist-sized ice ball in her hand had shrunk to the size of a walnut. The original aqua blue color had also been condensed into ice blue.
"Now it seems more relevant to my powers."
She was about to put the hockey puck away when she suddenly felt something was wrong.
There seems to be something on my head!
Lin Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched her head, and then pulled out a small furry thing from the top of her head with a weird look on her face.
This little thing was only the size of a palm, with messy gray-white hair, pointed ears, and a slender tail. When she held it in her hand, it had its eyes half-closed, as if it hadn't woken up yet.
Maybe it was because it had been lying on my head for too long, and I didn't notice its existence for the first time before, but...
Lin Qingqing looked at the newly born kitten and couldn't help but squint her eyes.
What breed is this guy? How did you get to yourself through such thick ice fog? And he didn't notice it at all.
Feeling that someone was playing with it, the kitten let out a dissatisfied "meow", then opened its eyes and saw the small ice ball close at hand. Its eyes suddenly lit up, and it struggled and rushed over.
He picked up the ice ball into his arms and rubbed it happily with his face. But the next moment, a hand picked up its neck and lifted it into the air.
The ice ball in his arms was taken away, and the kitten meowed anxiously.
"I said, how did you find yourself here? It turns out you were trying to hit me on the ice hockey team?" Lin Qingqing raised her eyebrows, then placed the kitten on the ice.
"Go ahead, I won't give you the hockey puck!" After saying that, she stood up and left.
"Meow?"
Seeing Lin Qingqing leaving, Mao Mao suddenly woke up.
"Um?"
As soon as she took two steps, Lin Qingqing felt her trouser legs tighten. When she looked back, it turned out that the little kitten was tugging at her trousers.
"Looking at you like this, you must not be weaned yet, right? Go back to your mother quickly, don't follow me."
Lin Qingqing placed the kitten on the ground again and waved to it.
The kitten squatted on the ground and looked at her with a confused expression. Lin Qingqing thought it understood, so she continued walking forward, but...
Lin Qingqing was speechless as she looked at the kitten hanging on her trouser leg again.
"You're a scumbag
Dog? "
Lin Qingqing brought the kitten in front of her eyes again. When the kitten saw her, it immediately meowed twice to please her, revealing its two pointed teeth.
This clingy look reminded Lin Qingqing of Vice Captain Lei of their Qingmang team.
Forget it, let's take it back and give it to Heri tribe.
Holding the kitten in her arms, Lin Qingqing took a step forward and stepped ashore.
The ice behind her slowly melted, and the surrounding ice fog dissipated quickly. Song Qiao, who was guarding not far from the shore, immediately noticed something unusual in the lake. She got up and walked a few steps, I saw Lin Qingqing's figure.
"team leader!"
Song Qiao's eyes lit up.
"Thank you for your hard work," Lin Qingqing smiled at her.
"Where did this cat come from?"
Song Qiao was very surprised to see Lin Qingqing holding a kitten in her arms.
"It? I don't know where it came from, but it seems to have been with me for a long time. Haven't you noticed it before?"
Lin Qingqing asked doubtfully after pinching the kitten's ears.
"No……"
Song Qiao shook his head. The eight of them took turns guarding the captain 24 hours a day, and no one found the kitten.
As she spoke, she unconsciously stretched her hand to the kitten's head, but before she could touch it, the kitten pushed it aside with its paws.
Song Qiao was a little disappointed when she was rejected by a small animal for the first time.
Lin Qingqing once again turned her attention to the little cat. Upon seeing this, the little cat immediately nuzzled her with its head, which was in sharp contrast to the attitude towards Song Qiao just now.
Oh~ even mutant beast cubs have learned to flatter themselves these days?
Of course she can tell that this cat cub is an ice-type mutant beast. Otherwise, it would not have stayed in the ice mist of her promotion for so long. Besides, in addition to the ice type, it should also have a special concealment talent, so everyone Just couldn't discover it.
On the way back, Lin Qingqing asked Song Qiao what happened recently.
"We live in the Heri tribe now. They took the initiative to let us stay." Song Qiao was as concise and to the point as ever.
Lin Qingqing nodded, but she was thinking about how to explain that she had taken the treasure of the holy lake later.
The two quickly returned to the Heri tribe. Lin Qingqing greeted the team members and took the initiative to go to the old man to "confess".
She originally thought that the old man was just a respectable ordinary old man in the tribe, but after asking about it, she found out that he was actually the high priest of the Heri tribe, with a higher status than the clan leader.
"Hello!" Lin Qingqing opened the heavy curtain and greeted the old man very politely.
"Good boy, you're back. Sit down."
The old man looked at her kindly and invited her to sit opposite him.
Lin Qingqing knelt down obediently. Only then did she notice two mutated lynxes lying in the shadow of the tent.
Seeing them, Lin Qingqing remembered the mutant cat kitten, so she quickly took the kitten out of her arms.
The moment it saw the cat cub, the mutated lynx immediately raised its head.
"So it turned out to be looking for you."
"Well, it should stay with me these days."
Seeing the old man's reaction, Lin Qingqing understood where the little kitten came from. .z.br>
He handed the kitten to the old man. The old man took it and touched its head, then handed it to the bobcat mother beside him.
When the bobcat came to pick up the child, Lin Qingqing discovered that there were two cat cubs under its belly.
It seems that these three cat cubs were all recently born to a bobcat mother.
The kitten that left Lin Qingqing was very dissatisfied and tugged at the old man's sleeves. It seemed that it wanted to get closer to Lin Qingqing, but as soon as the bobcat mother came, it immediately became obedient and was taken back to the nest by the old mother with a cowardly look on its face. .
Lin Qingqing felt very strange. She didn't understand why two gold-type bobcats gave birth to an ice-type cat cub? Could it be
Is it a genetic mutation?
Seeing Lin Qingqing's eyes turned to the lynx family, the high priest smiled and said: "Dolma's child was born a little different. I think it must have been favored by the goddess of the snow mountain."
Speaking of the Snow Mountain Goddess, Lin Qingqing also talked about the purpose of her visit. She took out the ice ball that was only the size of a walnut, and then apologized to the old man and said, "Sorry, that's all that's left."
She didn't believe that the old man didn't know about the existence of ice hockey. After he told her the story of the Snow Mountain Goddess, he said: The thing is in the lake, you go get it.
At first she thought the high priest was referring to the mutated black fish, but later she discovered that the other party might have known the secret of the holy lake from the beginning.
"Take it, this is a gift from the Snow Mountain Goddess."
The high priest did not take the ice ball back, but gave it directly to Lin Qingqing.
"Snow Mountain Goddess...who is she?"
Lin Qingqing thought for a while, and finally asked the questions in her heart directly. Before, she had always thought it was a myth and legend, but after getting the ice ball and receiving a piece of "prehistoric memory", she no longer thought so.
Besides, there is no reward for no merit. If the ice ball really belongs to the Snow Mountain Goddess and has been guarded by the Japanese tribe for tens of thousands of years, why was it given to an outsider like her? I am just an ordinary person, not a goddess. How can I get this gift when the savior comes?
"Don't you already know? It is His choice to receive this gift."
Seeing Lin Qingqing's alert and confused look, a soft light flashed in the high priest's eyes, as if he already knew everything.
"Do I, or us superpowers, have anything to do with the Snow Mountain Goddess?"
"Perhaps, time is always reincarnation after reincarnation. Don't worry about these. Each generation has its own mission. Now, our mission has been completed, and we will rely on you in the future."
The high priest's eyes were still gentle, like a kind old grandmother.
"Then can I ask one last question?"
"Ask, kid."
"Snow Mountain Goddess, where did she go?"
"She went where she was supposed to go."
"Where should I go? Isn't she a god on earth?"
The high priest did not answer this question, but just shook his head. He didn't know whether he was unclear or couldn't tell.
After visiting the high priest, Lin Qingqing's original questions were not answered, but new ones were filled in.
However, she could roughly guess the high priest's final unfinished intention. She probably didn't know much, and even if she knew, she couldn't express it clearly.
Lin Qingqing also had this feeling herself, just like the feeling of being watched by a pair of eyes in the sky and the mysterious "consciousness" in her heart that always reminded her at critical moments. She didn't know how to describe it.
But it doesn't matter, she has successfully entered the seventh level now, and she will figure out these unsolved mysteries one day.
