dognovel Chapter 245 The Night Before Parting
Chapter 245 The Night Before Parting
Bai looked at Lin Ni with admiration and respect and asked, "Is this how you humans conquer the world?"
Linni gazed into the distance, contemplating the various methods humanity had employed to conquer the world, and said with anticipation, "Perhaps."
In such a convenient and modern world, she wondered if she could ever go back. She had been gone for six hundred days; what unpredictable developments might occur in the people and events of that world?
After a while, Bai said again, "Little Ni, I haven't worshipped the Beast God with you yet! When we go to the Central Forest, can you worship the Beast God with me?"
Linni looked at him again. She had thought he didn't care about this, but she didn't expect that he wanted to go back to the place where they first met. She was a little touched by his romantic gesture.
Suddenly, the wings on Bai's back flapped, followed by a flash of white light. The enormous, pure white wings vanished, and an identical humanoid figure appeared behind him. This new Bai was identical in height and features to the original, but his face exuded a gentle and serene aura, unlike the mature and resolute Bai who was holding him. The new Bai said, "Little Ni, I am Bai Ji. I am now my complete form. Yao was right; in the womb, we split our souls to preserve our two bodies. Now our souls have been restored by the White Tiger Stele, and I am happy to see you in this form."
Linni covered her mouth. Two bodies! Two human figures! This was truly astonishing.
Bai, holding her close, said, "I am Bai Shu, and I love the name you gave us. We want to stay with you forever, and even if we can't be physically close to you, our hearts will always be with you."
Looking at the two identical faces, Linni didn't know how to respond, so she could only ask, "So now, have you become two separate souls?"
Bai Ji nodded: "It can exist independently or in combination."
Lin Ni: This is too overpowered! No wonder I didn't give you human form before, you guys have some kind of bug.
Bai Ji smiled and asked, "So, would you like to worship the Beast God with us?"
Linni nodded and said, "I'm willing."
Whether it was one body or two, whether it was Bai, Baishu, or Baiji, in her heart, it was always the white tiger she first met in the central forest. Then Linni leaned over and kissed Baiji. This Baiji, who had always been there yet had never been there, finally appeared at the last moment.
That night, she slept with Atractylodes macrocephala and Bletilla striata.
Regarding Bai's sudden appearance with an extra body, everyone exclaimed: "You've broken the rules!"
But Linni was willing.
There were only a few days left before the time to awaken the Beast God, and no one knew what would happen. Since that was the case, she treated it as a countdown to her stay on the Beastman continent. Thinking that she might never see them again, she didn't care about anything else; as long as she was happy, that was all that mattered.
Although she said that she only cares about her own happiness, Lin Ni is still very fair. She sleeps with two or three partners every night, making sure everyone gets a share. That's how extravagant she is.
As an aside, although she gained a new partner, her partner mark didn't increase; it's just that the tiger in Bai's partner mark grew wings. Bai Shu and Bai Ji can still combine, and what makes him more powerful than everyone else is that he can fly even in human form, whereas everyone else has to transform into beast form to fly.
On the forty-first day of the Beastman Continent, Linni and her nine companions left the Tiger Beast Tribe and headed for the Central Forest. It took five days to travel from the White Tiger Monument in the far west to the Central Forest; the Central Forest wasn't large, and they could fly across it in two days.
As they headed towards the Central Forest, powerful figures from the Rainforest Kingdom, the towering cliffs, the overlapping mountains, and the vast North Sea were also arriving at the Central Forest. The Central Forest had become a sacred place on the Beastman Continent, so everyone stayed on the outskirts, waiting only for the last two days before heading to the foot of Beast God Mountain.
Upon arriving at the Central Forest again, Linni and her companions didn't fly directly to the foot of Beast God Mountain in the center. Instead, they slowly walked deeper into the lush, primeval forest. Linni and Yao held hands, with Ye walking on her other side, and the other companions following to their left, right, and behind. Walking on the thick layer of fallen leaves felt like walking on a soft carpet.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the lush, tall tree canopy has turned from deep green to golden yellow. Large patches of sunlight shine through the gaps in the leaves, creating dappled patterns of light and shadow on the ground covered with fallen leaves.
Linni picked up a golden sycamore leaf. Actually, before meeting Ye, she had visited the Central Forest twice with Bai Shu and Bai Ji, but she had never wondered why there were so many tall sycamore trees here. Even when she learned that Yao's beast form was a phoenix, she told him, "The phoenix will not perch on anything but the sycamore, will not eat anything but bamboo seeds, and will not drink anything but clear spring water." But at that time, she hadn't connected these two things at all! She played with the sycamore leaf in her hand, looked up at Yao, and smiled. Come to think of it, ever since she guessed what was in the volcanic space at the Beast Carving Tribe, she hadn't dreamed of the volcanic space again. That—should be His true form, and this—is it just a wisp of a divine soul without memories?
No one knew what she was laughing at; that smile was truly meaningful! But looking at her standing in the golden forest, bathed in golden sunlight, she was as beautiful as a projection that could disappear at any moment—a fairy who had mistakenly entered the beastman continent.
Once again, they arrived at the tree hollow where she had appeared on the Beastman Continent. Linni didn't let the others follow; she and Yao climbed up together, and the two of them sat quietly inside for a long time. Then Linni said to Yao, "For the last three nights, tonight I'll spend time with Bai Shu, Bai Ji, Ye, and Yan; tomorrow night I'll spend time with A Zhi, Tian Tian, Xuan, and Ling; and on the last night, it'll just be the two of us sleeping in this tree hollow, okay?"
Yao nodded and said, "Okay." After a while, Yao said again, "We'll worship the Beast God and then come back here to sleep, as we agreed before."
Lin Ni looked up and kissed the corner of his lips: "No need."
Yao looked at Lin Ni, unable to guess what she was thinking. Lin Ni smiled at him, offering no explanation, but simply kissed his lips again. She loved his large, obsidian-like eyes, and she loved his strawberry-red lips; in fact, she loved everything about him.
The three nights leading up to the Mid-Autumn Festival were undoubtedly hot and exciting.
But it was also a particularly sad night.
Night said, "Lin, ask the Beast God if you can take me with you. Just take me with you. I don't want to get involved in the Rainforest Kingdom. I just want to be with you."
Bai Zhu and Bai Ji said, "Xiao Ni, I love you. Wherever you are, our hearts will be there."
Yan said, "Lin, if you can stay, then stay, okay? Give me two eagle eggs too, and I'll be a good father beast, believe me."
Azhi said, "You heartless little woman, gouge my heart out. I don't even want to live if I can't be with you."
As he said this, hot tears streamed down Linni's body. Linni was terrified that he would try to kill himself after she left, so she could only hug him tightly and say, "You mustn't die! Nobody will care about Tiantian. You have to watch over Tiantian for me. If he gets thin from hunger, I'll be heartbroken."
Ah Zhi bit her shoulder hard, leaving a shallow tooth mark: "You're still thinking about other men, you don't care about me at all!"
Linni rolled over and pinned him beneath her, placing his hand on her chest. "Who said that? Everyone knows I only want male partners I like!" She placed his other hand on her cheek. "This tear is for you, and this heart is beating for you right now, you know?"
Ah-Zhi rolled over and became the one on top, taking advantage of her fiercely while tears streamed down his face.
Linni said weakly, "Azhi, you have to wait for me to come back."
She wanted to give him the will to live, and the last person she wanted to lie to was him, but in the end, she only lied to him.
Hearing her say that, Ah Zhi collapsed into her arms, his tears soaking her shoulder. He said, "I'll wait for you to come back."
Every day she would say, "Lin, I'll be very good, don't worry."
Lin Ni felt even more sorry for him!
Xuan said, "Little Linni, when you see the Beast God, do you still want Him to punish us? It's all our fault for appearing by your side too late, which is why you've suffered so much. We do deserve to be punished. But it doesn't matter, after all, the heaviest punishment is just being separated from you."
Ling said, "Could we ask the Beast God to punish us, forcing us to cease being the guardian beastmen of the vast North Sea? Could he banish us to your world?"
Linni: You wish!
Yao didn't speak, but kept pestering her, calling her name softly: Xiao Ni! Xiao Ni...