The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 703 Investigate the news
Yang Yang followed Tong Fei all the way through the settlement of the Xuanwu tribe, and he found that no matter it was day or night, there were very few people here.

The entire settlement is just like what he saw in the East China Sea before, it is a huge palace complex.

And what was different from what he had imagined before was that there were no groups of servants in the palace here, no brightly lit singing and dancing, and no puppets cleaning quietly.

There was no one in the entire palace except the guards who entered and exited.

Here, the only people he has seen are Tong Fei, her bodyguards, and the patriarch of the Xuanwu clan. Sometimes Yang Yang wonders if only the patriarch of the Xuanwu clan lives here.

If so, how can this place be called the settlement of the Xuanwu tribe?

If not, where did the other Xuanwu go?
Of course, he never doubted Tongfei's Xuanwu clan's blood, he just found it strange that as a group, there must be all kinds of people.

The most common ones are old and weak women and children who can't fight, but there are old people here, that is, their patriarch, but none of the women and children are seen.

As for Tong Fei, even if Yang Yang had a hundred guts, he would not dare to include Tong Fei in the ranks of women and children.

"It's here." Just when Yang Yang was thinking about where those young Xuanwu had gone, Tong Fei took him to a garden.

There is a large pond in the depths of the garden, and unknown flowers bloom on the pond, which look a bit like lotus flowers.

But under the moonlight, it emits a quiet blue light, just like dyed with blue fluorescent dye. It looks extraordinary but has an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

In the middle of the pond, there is a lake pavilion.

There is a corridor leading directly from the shore to the pavilion in the middle of the lake, on which are carved various basalts.

Those Xuanwu moved occasionally, looking at Yang Yang with curious eyes.

After finding that there was nothing special about him, he turned his head to play with his companions. Under the moonlight, Yang Yang looked at the corridor and felt inexplicably weird.

However, at this time, the old man who had been sitting in the Huxin Pavilion suddenly stood up.

He waved his hand at Yang Yang who was standing on the bank looking at the corridor in a daze, which was to signal Yang Yang to go over.

Seeing this, Yang Yang could only walk towards the Huxin Pavilion.

Along the way, although those Xuanwu people stared at Yang Yang curiously, they came to the Huxin Pavilion under their eyes.

"It seems that the little ones are very happy. They haven't moved for a long time."

Just entering the Huxin Pavilion, before Yang Yang had time to say hello, he heard the old man's laughing voice.

This voice was very pleasant to listen to, but when he said these frightening words, Yang Yang felt that it was not pleasant at all.

What do you mean they haven't moved for a long time?
Yang Yang seemed to have heard the ghosts in the ghost story, and said to himself, I haven't been so happy for a long time, the next sentence is, why don't you come and stay with me?

This almost scared Yang Yang to the ground, but he still mustered up the courage to pull out a smile that was uglier than crying.

But obviously the old man didn't know Yang Yang's mood. In his opinion, these moving figurines were normal things. As a monster, Yang Yang had also seen it before.

So he continued: "Speaking of which, I should have met you before, right?"

If it is said that after Yang Yang calmed down, the previous matter could still be regarded as magic, then the old man's words made it impossible to calm down at all.

seen myself! ?Are you kidding me?

Not to mention that this old man, as the patriarch of the Xuanwu clan, should be more than a thousand years old, let's talk about how long it has been since the monster clan left the human world, and the time difference since the passage was cut off is only a few hundred years.

Under these circumstances, Yang Yang really didn't think that this old man could know himself!
Although Yang Yang knows that he is a monster, his memory is still only those decades of human beings.

Although Yuan Muhe also discussed with him why he lived in a human way for so long, and no one could see it at the beginning.

But he has never discussed the issue of memory with him. Thinking about it now, Yang Yang still finds it a bit unbelievable.

There are still many things that have not been clarified. Now an old monster who has lived for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years suddenly appeared and told himself that we have met before. To Yang Yang, this is simply not an ordinary scare.

Seeing Yang Yang's wide-eyed eyes, the old man showed a little puzzled expression. He looked at Yang Yang and said, "Could it be that my lord has forgotten?"

"I...not...I..." Yang Yang simply didn't know how to express this question. He didn't forget it, but he didn't have any memory of it at all!Who can remember people they have never met before?
"But it's no wonder. At that time, I was just a little black turtle in the North Sea. My lord accidentally rescued me from the mouth of a sea beast when I was passing by." As if thinking of his former savior, the old man's tone changed. gotta soften up.

"I still remember that at that time, my lord was wearing a white gown with gold trim, like a bright moon just rising in the sky. Later, I learned from the mouth of the tribe that you came from Kunlun to the Sea God Temple to attend the Sea God's birthday banquet. .”

Yang Yang quietly listened to this matter that kept saying that he had saved him, but it had nothing to do with him at all.

It's like listening to a story, but the protagonist in that story is said to be himself.

This unreal feeling made Yang Yang unable to say a word for a while, he could see that the old man actually missed that time very much.

"I was thinking at the time, after I became Xuanwu, I must go to Kunlun Mountain to see you, but then..."

The old man sighed at this point, turned his head to look at Yang Yang and said: "Although Xuanwu has the same life span as fish and heaven, it still cannot reach the Dao of Heaven. The Xuanwu tribe on the coast of the North Sea has already migrated here, and our original homeland has also Destroyed once."

Hearing this, Yang Yang knew that he was talking about the things that had been bothering Zhou Liang and Chacha before, including friends like them, who wanted to know what happened back then.

Why did the Beihai, which has always been stable and harmonious, suddenly undergo a major change, and how did this change happen?

What role did the Xuanwu tribe play in this?
"What... exactly happened back then?" Yang Yang finally couldn't help asking.

"You were..." The old man replied when he heard his question, but he stopped in the middle of speaking, and he sighed slowly.

"Speaking of this matter, I am not very clear about it. Although I had been Xuanwu at that time, I was not able to participate in many things in the clan. I also heard about some things from the old patriarch later, but If your lord wants to know, I will tell you."

Having said that, the old man walked to the stone bench in the middle of the pavilion, finished it, then looked at Yang Yang and said, "Speaking of it, it actually all originated from the Sea God Temple in Beihai."

"There is the sea god Xuanming in the North Sea. He is the grandson of the Emperor of Heaven. He has been rebellious since he was a child and has a violent personality. For the sake of the creatures in the world, the Emperor of Heaven sent my family to station on the coast of the North Sea. It is for our family to offset the tyranny of the North Sea Sea God with auspicious and peaceful atmosphere."

Yang Yang had heard this statement before.

The old man saw that he didn't seem to be curious, so he continued: "My family has lived with the Sea God for tens of thousands of years, and I don't think he is as tyrannical as the rumors say, and the creatures in the North Sea are also under his rule. He lived very peacefully, and he even set aside a piece of land for our family, which is specially used to cultivate small Xuanwu, you know, my family's black tortoise and fire snake have always been cultivated separately."

"I know that." Looking at Chacha and Zhou Liang, Yang Yang nodded and motioned for the old man to continue: "And then? What happened?"

"Then... one day, there was a sudden movement in the Sea God Temple. At first, it was just an earthquake. The elders of the clan thought it was the two little dragons playing around in the Sea God Temple and didn't care, but later the movement became bigger and bigger. It was too late when the elders found out that something was wrong and sent someone to check it out. We could only migrate with our family. If it hadn’t been for the help of the big prince of the bird clan at that time and sent us to an overseas desert island, there would be no Xuanwu clan now. .”

"Then did you go back and watch it?"

This version was no different from what he had heard. If this was the case, it proved that the Xuanwu clan themselves didn't know what happened.

"This is natural. After the turmoil subsided, our family once sent people to the Sea God Temple to find out, but apart from the two little dragons raised by the Sea God, the entire Sea God Temple was empty. According to the two In Xiaolong's words, Lord Seagod has never come out since he entered the bedroom, even after that earthquake, he didn't come out, just lost his trace, as if he never existed at all."

After the old man finished speaking, he looked at Yang Yang with a smile and said, "This is so similar to the current Xuanwu clan."

(End of this chapter)