Jungle Throne

On a quiet morning, in a private villa far away from the urban area, Gao Zhige curled up on a soft and wide sofa, almost sinking into the sofa.She is wearing a spacious home clothes, holding a Q version of the lion pillow in her arms, quietly watching the animal world on TV.

On the bright coffee table is a current latest smartphone.

Gao Suying walked out of the room, came to Gao Zhige, reached out and rubbed the other person's head, and said, "I'm going to the company, and I won't be back at noon, if you need anything, you can call Aunt Lin, or you can call me, don't be afraid Trouble, huh?"

"Understood, sister." Gao Zhige raised his face and said obediently, watching the other party clean up and leave the door.

After hearing the sound of the car starting outside the door and confirming that the other party had left, Gao Zhige immediately turned off the TV, went into the room and changed into the clothes he had gone out with.

"Second Miss, are you going out?" Aunt Lin poked her head out of the kitchen after hearing the movement, and happened to see Gao Zhige standing at the door putting on her shoes.

"Well, I have an appointment with a friend." Gao Zhige said casually, "I won't come back for lunch at noon."

After finishing speaking, Gao Zhige waved to Aunt Lin with a smile, turned around and opened the door and ran out without waiting for the other party's reaction.

She had already learned from others yesterday which mountain she was found from.She couldn't wait to get to that mountain today to see what was going on.

Gao Zhige knew that if Gao Suying found out, the other party would definitely not agree to her going.She still hasn't told the other party what she has traveled through.Every time she made eye contact with concern, the words were unspeakable.

She didn't know what to say.Said she didn't want to stay here?That she actually wants to live in another world?This is completely unfair to Gao Suying and my aunt who have been worried about her and finally found her.

One side is a lover, the other is a relative, Gao Zhige has no idea how to choose.At the thought of this question, her mind was in chaos.All she can do is not to think deeply, and do what she wants to do most at the moment.

At the moment, what she wants to do most is to go to that mountain to check the situation.

However, when she really went to the mountain and came to the place where she was said to have been found, she searched carefully over and over again unwillingly. After an unknown amount of time, the hope in her heart was finally shattered little by little.

In the evening, when Gao Suying came back, what she saw was still the same scene as this morning, the other party curled up on the sofa and watched TV quietly.Judging from the other party's performance in the morning, I thought the other party's spirit was better, but I didn't expect that the other party became much depressed after a day passed.

Gao Suying glanced at the prairie lion that had been replayed countless times on TV, and the lion doll that was tightly hugged by the other party, and sighed in her heart, even if she worked in the company all day and socialized all day, she never I didn't feel tired physically and mentally like this time.

She sent someone to test the results. Judging from the detected gene fragments, although they are very similar to the gene fragments of some animals in the world today, in fact, those animal skins do not belong to any animal skins in the world today. species of animals.

To be precise, the animal skins that Gao Zhige brought back probably belonged to those animals that appeared in history but were extinct a long time ago.

When this conclusion came out, Gao Suying immediately asked people to stop the experiment and testing, and blocked the news.This news must not be leaked out. If people find out that she has such a secret, or that Gao Zhige has such a secret, it is very likely that those crazy scientists will take it away for experiments.

During the three months of Gao Zhige's sudden disappearance, Gao Suying thought about countless possibilities of the other party's disappearance, but the only thing she didn't expect was such a result in the end.Gao Suying had a vague guess in her heart. She felt that she probably knew where the other party had been during the time when she was missing.

"Sister, you are back."

"...Well, it's a bit late to come back tonight, are you hungry? I'll take you out for dinner."

"Sister, don't be so troublesome." Gao Zhige said, finally there was some emotional change in his eyes. "I made a few dishes in the kitchen, and I can eat them at home in the evening."

She walked over while talking, trying to help Gao Suying take the bag in her hand.

"You did it?" Gao Suying was attracted by her words, thinking that the other party finally thought about it and wanted to do something, instead of just sitting in a daze all day long.

Gao Suying didn't pay attention to the other party's hand reaching for the bag, and passed the bag over, but when Gao Zhige took it, she remembered what was in the bag. During the pull, the contents inside fell out and fell at the feet of the two of them.

Gao Zhige held his breath for an instant, and subconsciously observed the other party's expression.When she saw the other party's pupils shrinking suddenly, her heart also tightened instantly.

"Xiaoge..." Gao Suying subconsciously shouted, but then she didn't know what to say.

Time passed minute by minute, as if it had been a long time.Gao Zhige's brain, like a rusty gear, reacted slowly and slowly began to rotate.

As if he didn't see Gao Suying's worried look, Gao Zhige returned to a dull expression, squatted down, picked up the animal skin clothes that fell on the ground, and folded them up one by one. In the end, it seemed like nothing happened Put it back into the bag as before, and returned it to Gao Suying's hand.

Gao Suying would rather the other party cry a lot than see the other party wearing a mask and looking indifferent.

"Hurry up and go in, I'll bring out the dishes from the kitchen first, and we can eat later." Gao Zhige said obediently with a smile on his face.Before Gao Suying could respond, she turned and went into the kitchen after she finished speaking.

The moment he turned around, tears rolled down his eyes.

Gao Zhige almost fled into the kitchen. She covered her mouth desperately, but tears and suppressed cries still leaked from between her fingers.

Gao Suying was standing at the door of the kitchen, leaning her back against the wall, looking at the Q-version lion pillow on the sofa, silent, her eyes dim.

At this time, the screen of the mobile phone placed on the coffee table suddenly lit up, displaying an unread message.

Gao Suying intuitively felt that the message sent to Gao Zhige was very important, she was about to walk over to pick up the phone, and wanted to check the message inside.However, halfway through the walk, her own cell phone rang.

Gao Suying stared at the string of familiar numbers in a daze, wanted to hang up it but got connected.In the next second, that person's voice rang in his ears.

It was obviously just a familiar greeting as usual, but at this time she felt like crying inexplicably after hearing it.

So many things have happened recently, she has to deal with company affairs during the day, and take care of Xiaoge, who is emotionally broken at any time, and deal with the strange things that happened to Xiaoge; she also has to hide it from her mother who misses Xiaoge In fact, don't let the elderly worry about it.

After this period of time, even she who is regarded as a strong woman will feel tired.

Fortunately, there is that person.

"I'm just outside your villa." The man's voice came from the phone.

……

When Gao Suying came back from the outside, she saw that Gao Zhige had calmed down and brought all the dishes to the dining table.

At this time, the other party was focusing on the phone.It was only then that Gao Suying remembered that someone had sent a message just now.

The message content is a link.

When Gao Zhige came back to his senses, he found that he had opened the link without hesitation, and the page quickly jumped to the other party's blog.After seeing the text inside - if she hadn't experienced it, maybe even she would think it was a short story with a lot of brain holes.

That's right, the owner of this blog is Tang Yuanshan, the senior who taught Gao Zhige how to climb mountains.

Like Gao Zhige, the other party also traveled to that beastman world, and finally returned to Earth for unknown reasons.

In the blog, he detailed all kinds of things he experienced after traveling to the past, including being secretly captured by the wolf tribe when he led the clouded leopard tribe to migrate, and finally the people of the clouded leopard tribe set fire to the wolf tribe to save him.

He also mentioned how he used that claw to successfully pass each clouded leopard tribe through the barrier between the ravine and the depths of the forest that prevents the orcs-as long as the orcs carry the claws on their bodies, they can pass through several A [-]-meter-thick barrier, and finally a non-orc took the claw back to the next orc.

In this way, the clouded leopard tribe successfully migrated deep into the forest.

But she lost that paw after he gave it to Gao Zhige.Thinking about it now, Mu should have picked up that paw.

However, after Gao Zhige read the content of that blog post, he still didn't know how the senior returned from the beastman world to the present world.

But one thing is certain, both of them traveled to the orc world because of that claw.

That's the claw of the beast god, so it can take them across the two worlds.

That paw is the key to time travel!

But, she lost the key, can she go back?

Gao Zhige was at a loss, she didn't know whether she wanted to go back or stay here for more.On the one hand, it is obvious that the civilized society where she was born and raised for more than 20 years is more suitable for her to survive, and there are her relatives here.But, on the other hand, there is no Arlo here.

They are destined to be people from two worlds.

She is not Kagome, and Monro is not Inuyasha, neither of their worlds can be connected by any well.

Gao Suying noticed that the expression on Gao Zhige's face gradually became confused, her heart tightened, she didn't care about privacy, she hurried over, stood behind Gao Zhige and looked at the contents of the other party's phone.

It doesn't matter if you look at it. After reading it, the guess in her heart today was also confirmed, and the truth gradually emerged.

"Xiaoge, you, you..." Did you experience this too?Gao Suying opened her mouth and looked at Gao Zhige in shock, but couldn't say anything, everything was choked in her throat.

"Sister..." Gao Zhige tried her best to pull the corners of her mouth and smiled, but her eyes looked at Gao Suying helplessly and desperately, "I probably really can't go back."

"He is my senior mountain climber, the same as me, but earlier than me. These... are all his experience..." Gao Zhige pointed at the screen of the mobile phone, pointing to the content of the blog, and explained the ins and outs to himself. I have said it all, and I can say whatever comes to mind.

She was clearly facing Gao Suying, but her eyes were scattered, she didn't know who she was looking at.

Seeing her like this, Gao Suying couldn't say anything that she wanted to say in her heart, and could only listen to her quietly, listening to her talk about forests and grasslands, listening to her telling stories about orcs and tribes, And she and her Alo.

In the end, the stomachs of the two couldn't help protesting, and the confession ended.Only then did Gao Zhige remember that the two of them had been talking until now before eating, blushed and apologized in a low voice, quickly wiped away tears, went into the kitchen to heat up the cold food, and brought it out.

Gao Suying also went in to help.After the two had finished eating and taking a bath, it was almost eleven o'clock.Today, Gao Zhige, who had been fluctuating greatly all day long, fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

I didn't dream about anything, and I fell asleep until 09:30 the next day. When I woke up, I was much more relaxed, as if everything in the past was a dream.

Gao Zhige's life has returned to normal, as it has been in the past 20 years.I go to work on time every day, continue to go to the gym and climb mountains in my spare time, learn all the knowledge of wild survival, and check my mailbox on time before going to bed for new emails.

For some reason, she couldn't get in touch with Tang Yuanshan after she came back. The number she exchanged at the beginning couldn't get through, and after the email was sent, it seemed like nothing happened.

The blog link I sent last time was also found by asking someone for help, but the news of the latest blog stopped last year. The other party gave her the paw, and it was posted shortly after quitting the mountaineering circle, that is to say The article about his bizarre experience.

In addition, the private detective also found out that the other party had moved abroad, but when he went to find the address abroad, it was another stranger who opened the door.No one knew who Tang Yuanshan was, as if the other party had disappeared like this.

The thread just ended.

Gao Zhige can only pin her hopes on the mailbox.

Day after day, seeing that New Year's Eve is coming, but there is still no reply to the emails sent in the past.

Just when Gao Zhige was disheartened, thinking that maybe he could only live in this world in the future, New Year's Eve arrived.

Like every New Year's Eve in the past, Gao Zhige, Gao Suying, and Aunt Gao all have to go back to the countryside to celebrate the New Year, and pay homage to their grandfather by the way.

Since Gao Zhige's parents left, her grandfather also passed away, and now there are only three of them left in the Gao family.Aunt Gao was divorced when Gao Suying was in junior high school. Gao Suying took her mother's surname.

There is no male family member in the family, and Gao Zhige and Gao Suying prepare for every Chinese New Year. No one would have thought that the dignified president of the company would kill a good chicken during the Chinese New Year.

According to the custom, every household lights firecrackers on time at zero o'clock to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.In the past, this kind of thing was handed over to Gao Zhige, and it was the same this year.

However, this year's New Year's Eve seems to be a little unexpected.

"The time is almost up."

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded from behind. Singer Gao Zhi, who was about to ignite the fuse, flicked, and the flame instantly brushed the fuse, but the fuse did not change.

Gao Zhige turned his head abruptly, his eyes widened, and his face was full of shock.The house behind her turned into the big tree in the middle of the lake at some point, and her environment became the inside of the big tree.

The criss-crossing tree roots look like a throne, and a huge skeleton sits high on it, looking down at the tiny Gao Zhige in front of him with empty eye sockets.

"Beast...beast god?"

"The time is almost up."

The beast god moved his mandible, and he could still make a sound even though he had no vocal cord structure.It ignored the shock and bewilderment on Gao Zhige's face, stood up from the throne, and walked towards Gao Zhige.The surrounding environment returned to the original living room the moment it came down from the throne. Gao Suying and Aunt Gao stood in the original position, maintaining the same posture and expression, nervously watching Gao Zhige's action of lighting firecrackers .

Time seemed to stand still.

"Is this your world?" The skeleton, which was nearly two stories high, shrank to the same height as Gao Zhige before reaching her, and finally stood side by side with her.

Standing side by side with such a talking corpse in such a late night, Gao Zhige somehow felt a little creepy.Although time has stopped and there is no wind blowing, she still feels the shade behind her.

After Gao Zhige took a few deep breaths, she finally calmed down the fluctuations in her heart. She looked towards the Beast God, only to see that the other party was looking up at the fireworks blooming in the night sky seriously.

"It's very beautiful." She heard the other party say, "A person told me everything about your world back then. I always wanted to see it, and now I finally got my wish."

"Not long after I was born, I heard the voice of that person. Life forms from two different worlds can communicate through time and space. In your terms, this is probably called fate. But it has been so long now, that person It's long gone, after all, the people here don't live long."

Gao Zhige listened carefully to Beast God's words. Although she was a little confused when she heard the other party suddenly say these things at first, she still did not rush to ask, but patiently waited for the other party to finish sighing, and then asked uneasily: "You just said,' What do you mean 'the time is coming'?"

"It means that you have to go back."

Hearing this, Gao Zhige felt a "thump" in his heart, and his heart beat faster: "Where are you going? Didn't I already go home? Or..." Going back to that beastman world?

She subconsciously turned her head to look at Gao Suying and Aunt Gao behind her. Their appearance seemed to have become much younger, just like the people fixed on the photo, and the expectant and nervous eyes in their eyes were not looking at her. , but looking at someone through her.

who is it?

Just as the uneasiness in her heart arose, the sound of lively firecrackers suddenly sounded behind her.Gao Zhige turned around abruptly, and then, saw another person passing by, running towards the two waiting on the other side.

Gao Zhige saw the three of them covering their ears while laughing and saying Happy New Year to each other amidst the sound of huge firecrackers.

This is... memory?

"It's fake, it's all fake... Is it all just an illusion created based on my memory?"

"Yes, and no." Beast God said, "If you choose to stay, what you have experienced for half a year will be true. If you want to stay there, then these will all be false."

"Although I really want to extend the time, but my remaining strength is running out. Before I died, I felt very sorry because I didn't see your world with my own eyes. I didn't expect to die for so long. This wish was fulfilled, thanks to you, the time traveler."

"You are a good boy, and thank you for helping the descendants of wolves." The beast god said, stretched out his bone claws, and gently tapped Gao Zhige's eyebrows with the tip of the claws, and an indelible light disappeared between the eyebrows.

"There is one thing I have to tell you, after my power sends you to that world, the traces of you in this world will be slowly erased. Some people remember you, but after a long time, all those who remember you will forget you. You can't find Tang Yuanshan because his traces are slowly being erased. If you want to stay here, I can help you Restore the traces of the world's disappearance."

The beast god looked at Gao Zhige while talking.In what he said just now, it actually said a little less, but what he didn't expect was that the other party guessed it.

"If I choose to stay here, will the traces of my existence be erased over there? No one will remember me anymore?"

"……Yes."

Sure enough, Gao Zhige looked at those empty eye sockets, and didn't know whether to say that the other party was caring or ruthless.She bowed her head in silence for a long time, countless fragments flashed through her mind.

After a long time, she looked at the firecrackers prepared for New Year's Eve, and finally said wearily:

"Let me finish lighting firecrackers for them again this time."

The beast god watched, acquiesced to the other party's request, and slowly melted into the void.In the next second, time resumed its rotation.At the same time, at zero o'clock, the open flame brushed the fuse, and the firecracker exploded instantly with a "squeak".

"Happy New Year." Gao Zhige said softly.

The author has something to say: in reality.

"Huh? Strange, why did the firecrackers ignite by themselves?" Gao Suying stared blankly at the firecrackers that exploded into flames, still holding the smoky incense sticks in her hand.

Due to Gao Zhige's disappearance, this year she had to replace the other party to do the things the other party was responsible for in the past.However, she obviously didn't do anything just now, and the firecrackers were ignited by herself. It can't be that she encountered a supernatural event, right?Maybe she ordered it but forgot to make it?

The firecrackers were set off quickly, and Gao Suying went to light a few more tubes of fireworks. After responding to the lively Chinese New Year atmosphere, she entered the room, washed her hands and sat at the dining table.

"Mom, happy new year!" Gao Suying said to Aunt Gao.

"Happy New Year." Aunt Gao smiled, "Come and eat dumplings."

As she spoke, she lifted the lid of the steamer.After the water vapor dissipated and she saw the dumplings inside, Aunt Gao couldn't help being taken aback: "This dumpling..."

"What's the matter?" Gao Suying also looked into the steamer in doubt, and then she couldn't help being stunned. "Little song..."

Because the three of them have made so many dumplings together, all of them are familiar with the shape and characteristics of the dumplings made by each other.At a glance, it is clear at a glance who made which dumpling.

Gao Suying immediately thought of the firecrackers that went off suddenly, and a possibility suddenly appeared in her heart.Her mood suddenly became agitated - she had never believed in ghosts, but at this moment she seemed to see Gao Zhige sitting opposite her. They were still the same as before, eating dumplings happily as a family on New Year's Eve.

It's nice to be together as a family.

Gao Suying thought, and suddenly her eyes got wet.