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With thoughts racing in his mind, Toby quickly covered Misha's mouth, while guiltily looking up at the rock giant's expression.
"Um..." Misha said helplessly as she opened her palm, "Uncle Toby, it knows what I'm doing."
"Are you sure?" Leon asked in surprise.
"of course."
"Then, it doesn't seem to care about your purpose? Why?"
"Please--" Misha huffed, almost unable to resist rolling her eyes, "Would you get angry at a kid's lame excuse for wanting candy?"
After thinking about it carefully, Toby felt that it certainly wouldn't happen.
His three-year-old son would often make up outrageous lies for snacks—using his mother’s cell phone to send him messages, asking him to buy a bucket of fried chicken legs on his way home from get off work.
I guess the child was very proud of his excellent acting skills when the text message was sent.
But he completely forgot that it was normal for a wife to ask her husband to bring fried chicken legs, but it was not right to call her husband "Dad" in a text message.
Well, not absolutely. It depends on the occasion.
Anyway, will Toby be angry about this? I guess most people will just find it cute.
No wonder Misha felt so confident and bold to inquire about it.
Leon and Toby sighed at the same time, completely giving up the idea of running away, and circled around the island out of boredom.
Perhaps they were really bored, so they found some thin palm-sized stone slabs on the ground and skipped stones on the sea to kill time.
After playing a few pieces, they felt a slight tremor under their feet and turned back subconsciously. They saw that the rock giant had squatted behind them with his arms around his thighs.
Toby held up the slate: "Want to join us?"
He nodded his head.
"At least your attitude is friendly...Okay, come, let me show you first." As he said that, he swung it out horizontally, and the rotating stone slab left a series of ripples on the sea surface and sank to the bottom of the sea.
The dark blue flames in the rock giant's eye sockets began to sway rapidly.
This seemed to indicate interest. Toby raised his hand in thought: "Come and try it... Sorry, it's too small for you."
Compared with its vast palm, the stone slab seems as insignificant as black sesame seeds falling into a rice jar.
But things turned out to be beyond Toby's expectations. The rock giant easily grabbed the stone slab with his two hands and hurled it into the sea.
"Oh my God!" Leon jumped up high, "At least sixty splashes, it's so cool!"
Trotting a few steps closer to it, Leon held out his hand: “Hey man, another one!”
The big guy satisfied him generously, and hit more than ten slabs of stone in succession. Toby and he passed them at his feet, cheering excitedly: "Oh!!!"
As if inspired, the rock giant's movements became faster and more fierce, and his emotions gradually climbed until he reached the top.
After passing it mechanically for ten minutes, the slate was taken away almost as soon as he raised his hand. But when he handed it out again, Leon suddenly found that the thing was still in his hand.
I looked up subconsciously and saw it gesturing with its hands, and then a round stone piece appeared in front of it.
How big is it?
Leon looked up and unconsciously stretched out his arms to measure, but it was obviously futile.
Finally, he came up with a rough idea by visual estimation - it looked like the moon was coming.
Wait, it's... gonna throw this slab of stone into the sea?!
Toby, who was standing next to him, also reacted, his face suddenly changed, and he was about to speak out to stop him.
Unfortunately, the rock giant, who had already fallen into a state of excitement, moved as fast as lightning and threw it out directly.
"Shet!!!"
Looking at the waves that were blocked out by the rocks and came towards them, the two men retreated backwards with trembling hands and feet.
Toby shouted in fear: "Mr. Disaster, please stop the tsunami!"
Strangely, Zhuiling ignored them and just stood there motionless.
Are we going to die here?
Their hearts were filled with sadness, but they held it back and pulled Misha back.
"It's just entertaining you guys."
As the calm voice reached his ears, a majestic arm crossed over his head and swept across the sea in front.
After a few minutes, the sea gradually calmed down.
Toby, still under the pressure of death, gasped and raised his head.
Sure enough, sitting on the left shoulder of the rock giant was the young man whom he had met yesterday.
"One piece of good news and one piece of bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" the young man asked with a smile.
"Doomed."
“No, lucky first.”
"Um, Mr. Soran, my choice is..."
When Toby saw the indifferent look, he immediately said obediently, "Please go ahead."
"You can go home in three days."
"Really?! That's great!
Oh, and what about bad luck?
"I'm with you."
Chapter 244: Humble mortals, despair.
Toby was extremely grateful that the mysterious young man was not very interested in bullying children, and the three of them were able to save their lives.
As for being called "kid" despite being an adult, a slightly insulting term, he did not feel angry.
After all, no matter compared in terms of age, strength, experience and many other aspects, he can only be regarded as a "kid".
Zhui Ling considerately put the yacht back into the sea, and then used magic to wrap the three people and float them onto the deck.
Standing at the bow, Misha leaned on the railing and waved goodbye to the rock giant.
Toby pinched her armpits to prevent the little girl from falling into the sea. "Mr. Soran, thank you for your magnanimity. Um, I have some questions that I would like to get answered. Can you..."
"If I'm in a good mood, maybe I'll answer." Soran showed a mischievous smile on his face.
"Excuse me, why are you fighting Hogwarts?"
"Because the guy in the east has never been beaten."
The guy in the east? The one from last time...
After thinking for a few seconds, he continued, "Then why did you become mortal enemies with them? Was it because you were competing for survival resources? Or was it because of hatred?"
“Hahaha…” Soran’s shoulders shook for a long time before he stopped shaking. He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, “Grudge? Survival resources?
Little guy, why do you always use your poor brain and past experience to imagine things you don't understand at all?"
Sitting on the left shoulder of the rock giant, he looked up at the sunset in the sky: "I have been in the New World for a few days. In the short history of you new humans, plunder, violence and barbarism are the main themes.
So I can understand why you would think that, but I still can’t help but laugh.”
Toby didn't know how to respond.
I want to argue my case and show that human history also has its shining points, but I'm worried that my rebuttal will anger the other party.
If he accepted it, the entire ethnic group would be belittled and his self-esteem as a human being would be trampled upon. He wanted to argue with the other party at all costs.
Finally, he looked up and saw the rock giant's stone fists, and he finally calmed down.
"Why is that?" The frustration made him confused and he subconsciously asked the question that concerned him most.
"If I were to explain why, it's probably because there aren't many things that interest me in this long life. Well... fighting with them is the only pastime."
When the three heard this, they were stunned for a moment.
When they first learned about the existence of the "disaster", they imagined an epic ancient story.
There are demons wreaking havoc in the world. Hogwarts, the Mountain Gate, and organizations of the same nature have gone through difficulties and setbacks to defeat the demons and their minions that are slaughtering the earth and restore peace to the world.
Whenever they thought of the gorgeous magic bombarding in the air and the armored knights charging at the demons that were cracking the earth without fear of life and death, their hearts were filled with passion.
I wish I were born tens of thousands of years earlier so I could fight alongside them. What a heroic sentiment that is.
However, after a few words with Soran, the three people's passionate fantasies were shattered.
Leon was especially sad, lamenting that he could no longer dream of becoming a knight, bravely defeating demons, and being surrounded by flowers and beauties.
Soran noticed his sad look and said, "You seem to have some problem with my pastime?"
Being stared at by the "disaster", Leon held back the tears that were about to burst out: "Uh, I..."
Toby couldn't bear to watch it, wondering why he had such a stupid teammate, but he was still a teammate after all, and he couldn't just ignore him.
"Mr. Soran, please forgive his recklessness. He did not..."
"That's enough chit-chat." Soran interrupted him and looked at the setting sun which was mostly below the horizon. "We will meet again at Hogwarts at midnight after a long absence."
Seeing that he had no interest in talking, Toby and the other two did not dare to disturb him. They started the yacht and sped towards Ying Country.
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Night is falling on the east coast of Ying Country.
There is a city on the top of a mountain not far from the beach on the shore. Several small towns are scattered along the sloping asphalt road.
There are about 30,000 residents, which is the total population here.
After receiving the warning from Hogwarts, the Queen sent the Royal Guards yesterday to organize the residents to evacuate inland.
Logically speaking, with so few people, the retreat should have been quick, but twenty hours had passed and they hadn't even completed half of the journey.
The residents did not seem to be impressed by the guards' earnest advice. Instead, they believed that those in power were plotting something to harm them.
They moved the cabinets to block the door and intercepted the guards who rushed into the courtyard and tried to break into the house. While shouting "You are violating the laws of the kingdom", they picked up brooms and pushed out the guards who were halfway through the window.
It must be admitted that the residents were so determined to defend their property that they were not afraid to open their doors even when the guards fired shots into the air.