God's Gift

But when Yu Youyou saw Lu Keming's expression, she immediately became unhappy. She stood up from the bed, walked in front of Lu Keming, lowered her head and looked at Lu Keming, and said in a serious voice:

"Don't believe it."

"My mother once said that all life in the world originated from the ocean." Yu Youyou thought for a while and continued to explain to Lu Keming.

"My dad also said that the ocean—" Yu Youyou took a few steps, shook her head and said, "He is everyone's father."

After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Lu Keming and said, "Besides, the ocean is extremely vast, and the power of gods comes from nature. The ocean has the largest area, so the power of gods is naturally the strongest."

After saying that, Yu Youyou stomped her front paws on the bed sheets, tilted her head, and waited for Lu Keming's response.

"Indeed...it makes sense." Lu Keming listened to Yu Youyou's analysis and strangely began to feel that such straightforward logic was quite reasonable.

"That's right." Yu Youyou nodded proudly.

"What's next?" Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou with her tail raised, and there was a hint of smile in his eyes.

Yu Youyou sat down again and continued, "Ou Xi was born in the ocean and is the embodiment of the ocean. He controls everything in the ocean and can do whatever he wants."

“So free?” Lu Keming asked subconsciously when he heard the words “do whatever you want”.

“Yes.” Yu Youyou nodded seriously and replied in an affirmative voice: “This is what it’s like to be the boss.”

Lu Keming's mouth twitched, and then he thought of the description of Ou Xi he saw in "Notes of Old Gods", and felt that it didn't seem so outrageous.

"You once said that the mark on my hand represents Ou Xi's blessing, what is this?" Lu Keming pressed his brows and asked directly.

Hearing this, Yu Youyou was quiet for two seconds, her eyes a little vague, and she muttered, "It means it will protect you."

"Just like the church in Endless Township?" Lu Keming certainly knew what the blessing Yu Youyou was talking about was, but even for the church that believed in Ou Xi, he had never seen such a mark on them.

"That's different." Yu Youyou answered quickly, but when she saw Lu Keming's gaze, she coughed again and said, "I heard what the Pope meant at the time, that Ou Xi just saved their ancestors by the way, and they formed the church themselves and wanted to believe in Ou Xi."

“But you…” Yu Youyou’s gaze fell on Lu Keming’s arm, “You were chosen by the ocean.”

"Ocean." Lu Keying stroked his fingers and repeated it, then asked, "Why was it Ocean who chose him, and not Ou Xi?"

“Hmm…” Yu Youyou thought for a moment and nodded, “Actually, it’s almost the same. Ou Xi is the ocean, and the ocean is Ou Xi. It’s just that from the day Ou Xi was born, it has had an independent consciousness.”

Lu Keming lowered his eyes, his cold gaze fell on his arm, and he remained silent for a long time.

After a while, he smiled, "It seems that I am quite lucky."

Yu Youyou lay down, buried her head and glanced at Lu Keming a few times, but didn't respond.

"So why did those gods perish?" Lu Keming twisted his fingers and said to himself.

"This is normal." Yu Youyou felt a little sleepy after lying down for a long time. She yawned and her voice became much lower.

"There is death before there is rebirth. No matter how long a god lives, there will be a day when he will perish. Only when the old gods perish can new gods be born. This is how nature works, over and over again."

When Lu Keming heard Yu Youyou's voice getting weaker and weaker, he set his gaze on her and watched Yu Youyou's chin nodding on the bed.

The bright moonlight fell on her white fur, gently surrounding her, and inexplicably made Lu Keming feel a sense of unreality.

She had told him under the moonlight that she was an elf.

Lu Keming quietly fixed his gaze on Yu Youyou, the moonlight falling into his eyes, reflecting the cool ripples.

-

When she woke up the next day, Yu Youyou was still lying in bed. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Godot walking in.

"Good morning, Gordo!" She wagged her tail twice and greeted Gordo happily.

But Godot did not respond to her, and even froze for a moment after hearing her voice.

Yu Youyou was feeling strange when she saw someone following Godot in.

Lu Keming had already finished dressing, his dark hair was neatly combed, and he was wearing a slim-fitting Blue Dragon uniform. He was feeling the coolness of the late autumn morning, and his eyes were cold and moist like fog.

He looked at Yu Youyou, raised a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Good morning, Youyou."

"Good morning, Lu Keming." Yu Youyou responded, sat on the bed, looked at Lu Keming's expression, and gradually realized something was wrong.

Why do I feel like something bad is going to happen today?

Yu Youyou buried her head and thought for a while, then decided to sleep for a while.

But just as she was about to lie down, she saw Godot sniffing around the room until he stopped in front of a cabinet and looked up at Lu Keming cautiously.

Yu Youyou started and stood up from the bed quickly, then jumped off the bed in a few steps.

But before she arrived, Lu Keming had already squatted down and opened the cabinet.

There were several corpses of golden cicadas lying in the cabinet.

Lu Keming looked at the golden dragonflies, raised his hand and pressed his forehead, and remained silent for a long time.

He asked why he kept hearing insects chirping outside the window yesterday.

It turns out to be here.

Godot stood beside the cabinet, not daring to move.

Until a chubby paw stepped heavily on its foot. Godot lowered his head and saw Yu Youyou with a droopy face and round eyes, looking at him solemnly.

Godot swallowed, took a step back, and slowly pulled his claws back from under Yu Youyou's feet.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou and Ge Duo and sighed, "This can't be eaten."

After finishing speaking, he put away the golden gnat in the cabinet.

Yu Youyou's eyes widened, she stared at Lu Keming's movements in a daze, until those golden gnats disappeared before her eyes, then she looked away and immediately looked at Godot.

Just as Godot retracted one foot, the other foot was stepped on again.

After Lu Keming left, Yu Youyou stomped her feet in the room, but in front of Godot, who was three times her size, everything she did was powerless and furious.

"No more bugs will be given to you!"

Yu Youyou left a harsh remark, ran out of the yard, and started punching and kicking the vines outside the courtyard wall.

Break off, break off, I won’t be friends with Godot for three days!

"What's going on here?"

A slightly hesitant voice came from behind Yu Youyou, she stopped her movements, turned her head to look behind, and found that it was Chen Qingqiu who was carrying a briefcase and going to school.

Chen Qingqiu looked at the puffy puppy under the courtyard wall, feeling somewhat puzzled. He tentatively called out the name that he had heard Grandma Li call the dog when he passed by her house before.

"Youngyou?"

Yu Youyou turned her head, but her body remained stubbornly still. She glanced at Chen Qingqiu for a few times, then lowered her head to pick up the leaves that she had bitten off.

Chen Qingqiu looked at the puppy's back and checked his watch. There was still half an hour before class started.

So he walked towards Yu Youyou, squatted beside her, touched her head, and asked in a gentle voice:

"What happened? Why are you so angry?"

Of course Yu Youyou couldn't answer him, so she could only bury her head in dejection.

Chen Qingqiu looked at Yu Youyou's particularly humane expression and movements, raised a warm smile on his face, and encouraged:

"The puppy must be strong. The puppy's ancestors used to hunt in the mountains. They are very remarkable dogs."