Chapter 150 - The journey
After the three-eyed tiny monkey had died, the animal group immediately stopped attacking, and scattered to leave.
The gigantic turtle kept moving towards the North with steady steps. Gui Three and a few teams of guards searched through the remaining luggage of the little group of bald men for quite a while, but failed to find any useful information, therefore, this case of attacks got suspended for the time being.
Every day, Ji Hao would squat on the city wall near the head of the gigantic turtle, and chatted with the turtle while watching the scenery.
This Starry Sky Spirit Turtle, who had lived for countless years, was quite a chatter. Two days after he had gotten familiar with Ji Hao, it started telling Ji Hao all kinds of interesting stories about his experiences throughout its long time of living.
It had started with the story about its hometown, the bottomless ocean, deep in the deepest area of the Northern Wasteland. The gigantic turtle depicted a cruel scene to Ji Hao, which described millions of large-scale aquatic animals madly killing and devouring each other in the depths of the boundless, dark ocean, in order to survive and procreate.
After the long larval stage, the Starry Sky Spirit Turtle sensed a call from its own bloodline. Therefore, it trod on the air and left the depths of the ocean, where it had hatched. After that, it signed a mutually benefiting contract with the Spirit Turtle Caravan and became a member of the caravan.
During the past thousands of years, this gigantic turtle had carried the city on its back, living with generations and generations of the caravan members, protecting and relying on each other, while traveling between the Midland and the Southern Wasteland. It had witnessed the horrible war in the Midland, the witless mass killings in the void, as well as the most sanguinary clan extermination in the Southern Wasteland.
In its life, it had met too many strong and brave warriors, and breathtakingly beautiful women.
“However, in my turtle eyes, even the most beautiful girl of your humankind still lacks a turtle’s shell!” Said the gigantic turtle while yearningly looking at the sky, after which it let out a long sigh, and said slowly, “When I break into the Divine Magus Level, I will have become a real adult Starry Sky Spirit Turtle. Then I can find myself a turtle wife, and have a bunch of baby turtles. The meaning of life is nothing but reproduction!”
Hearing the words of the turtle, Ji Hao smiled and shook his head, then said, “The meaning of life is definitely more than just reproduction.”
The gigantic turtle blinked its bright little beady eyes, turned its head back and threw a glance at Ji Hao, then said, “Eh? Ah, unlike the humankind, we don’t have that many thoughts about different stuff. We only want to stuff our bellies, not be killed by others with violence, until our lives end naturally, and to have as many offsprings as we can, to increase the numbers of our kind; these are all of the purposes of our lives.”
“As for...” The gigantic turtle seemed wanting to continue but hesitated, it then looked at Ji Hao’s young and tender face, blinked its eyes again, lowered its voice and murmured, “As for the many things that your humankind would spend a lifetime pursuing, we don’t value that kind of things as much as you do.”
Ji Hao looked at the turtle full of curiosity and surprised, then asked, “What kind of things are valued by us but not you?”
The gigantic turtle remained silent for a short while, then lowered its voice once again, and said whispered, “With dignity and honor.”
While speaking, the turtle had already reached the northern boundaries of the Southern Wasteland. It shook its enormous head, and stepped over a hundreds of miles wide river, then quickly took another two steps forwards, stepping into the boundless void.
From under the four legs of the gigantic turtle, large clouds of hazy, star-like glowing lights spread out. The turtle slowly walked inside the dark, bottomless and boundless void, just like walking on the flat ground. Step by a step, every step would leave a miles in radius, glowing footprint in the void. Those glowing footprints would only slowly dissipate after the turtle had walked ten thousand miles further.
Ji Hao silently looked at the gigantic turtle. The turtle rushed in the void for over half an hour, then turned its head around, slowly grinned at Ji Hao, and said, “That may have sounded as if it’s lacking some backbone, but in our bloodline too many scenes of once powerful beings disappearing have been recorded. A Starry Sky Spirit Turtle is not some kind of extremely powerful creature that could stand at the top of the whole world; it’s already not bad for us to be able to survive and keep reproducing like this.”
Ji Hao leaped down from the city wall and came to the edge of the turtle shell, slowly and gently patted the rough skin on the turtle’s neck.
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