Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 607 The Gods Say

Just as Xia Shou closed the book, he heard the sound of birds flapping their wings outside the window.

A black crow stopped on a fragile weed as if to express a gentle welcome, with its side eyes facing the library, as if looking here.

Xia Shou got a hint from somewhere. He opened the window, jumped out, and landed on the grass as lightly as a stealing black cat.

A crow perched on the grass in the distance flapped its wings and flew towards the sky above the woods. Xia Shou ran towards the woods.

He had some guesses about the anomaly he encountered, but he was not sure. However, he knew he could not sit there and wait for death, and he had to do something.

Xia Shou still held the book tightly in his hand. He stepped on the thick humus, swept aside the overgrown branches, and shuttled through the dark woods with the sporadic spots of light falling through the treetops.

When the sound of water appeared in his ears, he also vaguely heard human voices.

When he walked out of the woods and stopped in front of the stream, he found that the crow was waiting on a stone by the river.

"Do you like eavesdropping too?" the crow asked in hoarse human language, a bit like a parrot.

Xia Shou stared at the crow and didn't dare to speak to him.

"Let's go and listen together. It only happens once in a lifetime. Don't get caught!"

Wow!
The crow flapped its wings and flew towards the sky where the moon was rising.

Xia Shou looked at the moon in the sky, was stunned for a moment, then stepped on the pebbles beside the stream, following the crow, and moved forward in the same direction.

Xia Shou is not sure whether the decision to eavesdrop was the right one, but maybe that's just how people are, unwilling to miss any opportunity.

When he heard the crow say that it only happened once in a lifetime, he thought he should go and listen.

Even though he was not 100% sure, he felt that the theme of this abnormal phenomenon should be a leak!

Lush bushes appeared before our eyes, and the crows flying in the sky had already landed, hopping cautiously on the undulating cobblestone ground like bow-legged circus clowns.

Xia Shou heard various noises coming from behind the bushes.

He lay prone on the cold, slippery surface of the stream, and moved cautiously forward, closer to the bush, pondering this strange peculiarity.

He didn't believe that the gods would gather here to talk. It was most likely another anomaly in the name of God. However, this anomaly was obviously closely related to reality, otherwise it would not have mentioned the most critical topics.

Finally, he was close enough to hear clearly, and through the gaps in the bushes he could see the gods talking.

…It was a group of animals talking.

And they are not some weird fantasy animals, but very ordinary animals that can be seen in daily life.

A cat with fur as colorful as a leopard.

A golden retriever.

A white owl.

A mandrill.

A red horse.

"This time, the man named Baihe is finished. He can't refuse his sister's request, and he can't kill the painter's painting." Hongma said.

"I think the painter is the real namer this time. He is indeed very charming, and his transcendence of human cognition is very attractive to me, but fundamentally, he is closer to the magic poem." said the golden retriever.

"The writer and the painter, one has one foot halfway across the threshold, the other is completely unaware. It is obvious who will win in the end, but nothing can be determined yet," Hong Ma added.

Owl spoke in a gentle and dignified female voice: "Do you think someone is eavesdropping on our conversation now?"

"No, everyone has forgotten Him." Red Horse said, and after a pause, he added, "Even if someone eavesdrops, it will be more interesting. It will also be nice to see the psychiatrist come back here."

Owl shook her head. "I only care whether my secret will be stolen. Besides...did you miss someone?"

The owl looked at the mandrill that had been sitting on a large rock.

The mandrill opened its mouth and let out a unique wild roar, calling happily. The eyes of the other animals were all on the mandrill.

"Another second birth, but the Duke's daughter does not desire him as her ancestor. Whose trick is this? Is it yours?" The mandrill looked at the golden retriever with a playful look, and in his open mouth, his fangs flashed coldly in the moonlight.

The golden retriever seemed to have sneezed: "Thirst has no reason, and thirst has no rationality. If rationality still exists, it is definitely not thirsty. Those who do not drink sea water are not thirsty. If they are not thirsty, they cannot enter."

"Dramas without reasons are the ones that make people linger on. If there is a reason behind every action, then drama will no longer exist. All possibilities are born from impossibilities." Red Horse said with emotion, as if he tasted some philosophy from the words of the Golden Retriever.

The golden retriever gave the red horse a look of gratitude, and that look was as if Boya was looking at Zhong Ziqi.

The golden retriever agreed: "The reason why I am thirsty is because of thirst, not because of lack of water. Lack of water is precisely because of thirst."

"Wonderful! Rootless desire is the origin of all dramas." The red horse tilted back its neck, blew air through its teeth, and let its thick lips and gums slap against each other to express its joy.

Then the golden retriever also started barking, the neighing of horses and the barking of dogs formed a symphony, and the scene was immediately filled with chaos.

The other animals were still speaking normally in human language, but some had begun barking like normal animals.

Xia Shou felt a headache after listening to this. He tried hard to hear the conversation between the owl and the mandrill, but all he could hear were the neighing of horses and the barking of dogs.

At first, Xia Shou could still understand the conversations between these animals.

But later on, they started to speak in a different language.

To be precise, they were still speaking human language, Chinese. The literal meaning could be understood, but various vocabulary had become extremely obscure.

The conversation began to resemble reciting poetry, and at times, there seemed to be some logic in their words, as if they were actually conveying intelligible messages to each other.

But sometimes, they seem to not understand each other, but just pretend to understand each other, talk to themselves, and then brag about each other's business.

Sometimes, they even belittle and deny each other, but never give convincing reasons.

For example, just now, they mentioned the psychologist... Xia Shou assumed that they were referring to Jin Fenglong.

They discussed whether Jin Fenglong could ascend successfully.

The owl suddenly said, "There are fifty great ways, forty-nine are derived from heaven, and one is hidden by man," and then was immediately denied by the horse, who said that it was the person in this sentence, not this person.

Then the owl immediately corrected himself and said that this time, it was the same for him.

Xia Shou tried his best to understand the conversation of these animals, but it was like listening to a godly language!

It's like being in a mental hospital, listening to a bunch of mentally ill people talking nonsense.

The only thing Xia Shou could do was to memorize the content, but he couldn't understand it.

From what he had heard so far, the only thing he could understand immediately was the small part at the beginning, which was that Shirakawa couldn't refuse his sister's request.

The literal meaning of this sentence is very simple, and he can understand it.

But the only thing I can understand is contrary to reality.

Xia Shou clearly remembered that Brother Bai's sister Bai Xue had died.

So... when they said that the request cannot be refused, did they mean that Baihe could not refuse Baixue's last wish?

Also, what does "killing the painter's painting" mean?
"It's almost dawn," said the Owl suddenly.

For a moment the animals stopped talking.

"Time flies so fast. Let's keep tonight's conversation a secret." The owl spread its wings and flew into the forest in the early morning moonlight.

The other animals also left one after another. Xia Shou didn't dare to move. He lowered his body and hid in the bushes, quietly waiting for all the animals to leave.

And the crow had been standing by his hand, eavesdropping with him until now.

"Did you hear that? Tonight's conversation is secret!" Crow said seriously, with a threatening and encouraging tone in his voice.

The next second, its tone suddenly softened again, and its sharp beak came close to Xia Shou's ear, muttering, "But you can tell other crows... Crows are tight-lipped, so just relax when talking to crows."

Then the crow also flapped its wings and flew away.

The first ray of sunlight from the rising sun shone through the gaps in the bushes and hit Xia Shou's eyes, making it impossible for him to open them.

Then, he suddenly heard shouting from a distance.

"Found it! He's here!"

(End of this chapter)