Chapter 10

The rain kept pouring down, driven by the fierce wind, growing heavier and heavier!

The strong wind swept through the dark clouds, and the first thunder of spring struck the sky, splitting the horizon!

Rumble!!!

The sound of the Awakening of Insects, the spring rain spread the scent of spring throughout the land, heralding new life, but at this moment, it left Liu Shoucai feeling lost.

No, it should be said, terrified.

The怨丝 (yuan si) approached rapidly, seemingly pushing the waves on the surface of the reservoir, as if a giant hand were reaching out to grab him.

At this age, Liu Shoucai was bold, but even boldness has its limits. In the face of such a situation, he still felt nervous and crawled backward, stumbling and falling, looking quite狼狈 (lang bei).

Mud clung to his cheeks, his pupils shrank to the smallest size, and he stared straight at the怨丝 (yuan si) that was drifting toward him with the waves. The next moment, it would grab him, and he would be controlled, becoming a 'suicide' and one of the 'kind' in the reservoir. This feeling made him want to scream, go mad, and run away! But in reality, something seemed to be blocking his throat, and he couldn't make a sound, his limbs were cold and numb, as if frozen, with no strength at all.

"Quack quack quack! Woof woof woof! Baa baa! Meow meow! How does a rooster crow? Who can teach me, sir? Woof woof, aow aow meow... Under the bridge in front of the house, a duck swims by, come on, come on, count them, two, four, six, eight!"

Just as the situation was extremely dangerous, Liu Shoucai vaguely saw a white shadow drifting down from the upstream of the reservoir, making a cacophony of sounds.

"Help... help me!" The chaotic words seemed to give Liu Shoucai immense courage, breaking his restraints, he shouted for help with all his might.

"Quack? Woof woof! There's a living person!" The white shadow quickly approached Liu Shoucai, and at this moment, Liu Shoucai's vision was blurry, only seeing the white shadow sliding on the water for a distance.

The voice shouted loudly: "Wow, a vengeful spirit!! Woof!"

At this moment, Liu Shoucai still didn't realize what the white shadow was, but his mind, which had just recovered, wondered if he had encountered a lunatic.

It was at this moment that the怨丝 (yuan si), which was so clear in Liu Shoucai's eyes, suddenly retreated like a mouse encountering a cat.

Seeing this, Liu Shoucai, who had been barely holding on, could no longer withstand the numbness and exhaustion brought by fear, and he fell back, lying on the muddy ground, splashing mud everywhere.

He opened his eyes wide, too lazy to close them even as the cold spring rain hit his face, and he panted heavily, breathing in the air of life with all his might, his mind blank.

As for who had saved him just now, or whether his shout had scared away the怨丝 (yuan si), or whether he had hallucinated and seen a rooster that didn't cluck but could sing and imitate the sounds of cats and dogs swimming.

"Quack quack, woof woof meow meow! Kid, kid, wake up, wake up! Didn't you faint from seeing my majestic figure?"

Slap slap slap!!!

Liu Shoucai felt something white and blurry slap his face a few times, and he shouted, "What the hell is this?" and kicked it away.

A bad kid has a bad temper. Even though he was scared stiff just now, he was now full of energy.

His shout scared the white shadow, and then he kicked it.

The white shadow turned into a perfect parabola and fell into the reservoir... splash! The water splashed up, quite a spectacle.

At this moment, Liu Shoucai jumped up and looked around, shouting, "Damn, who the hell kicked me! Do you want to die?"

"Kid, you're ungrateful, you're a damn thing, your whole family is a damn thing!! It's my first time out of the mountains, and I meet someone like you. Come on, come out, let's fight! One-on-one! Gang up! If I don't cut off your damn thing and go to the brothel, I'm not the Blue Fire Divine Phoenix! Ah spit spit spit!" A white shadow jumped out of the water, splashing, and roared fiercely.

No! This is just a drenched rooster!

A very large, wet rooster! It looked at least eight and a half pounds! So fat!

This was Liu Shoucai's first impression! He would never forget it.

He stared wide-eyed at the white rooster standing by the reservoir, and for the first time, he felt that life was truly crazy. Seeing ghosts was one thing, but now even roosters could talk.

"What are you?"

This representative first dialogue, with such an opening, marked the first meeting between a human and an animal. If described with a great artistic touch, it might be the greatest conversation in the spirit world.

Of course, this content would never be known to future generations. Such nonsense, whoever says it is a fool! (This sentence was added by the white rooster later.)

"You're the thing, your whole family is a thing!" The drenched rooster replied loudly, and what surprised Liu Shoucai even more was that a rooster's face could show such human-like expressions.

Given Liu Shoucai's nature of never taking a loss, and his youthful vigor, he bent down, picked up a brick, and held it in his hand, baring his teeth and cursing, "You're not a thing! Your whole family isn't a thing!"

"Right, my whole family isn't a thing!" The white rooster shook its body like a dog, shaking off the water.

"Ha!" Liu Shoucai laughed, there were such bizarre roosters?

In fact, at this moment, Liu Shoucai didn't understand that in the human world, there were other creatures mixed in, some living like humans, and some unable to transform into human form but still living among people. The rooster in front of him was one of the latter.

He didn't know that this rooster had a unique origin and a mysterious identity.

The rooster moved its nose several times, yes, moved! The hard beak could twist into a nose-like shape, circling around Liu Shoucai like a dog.

Liu Shoucai held the brick and followed the circle.

"Hey, are you crazy?"

"I think you're pretty good, I want to take you as a little brother! Do you want to?"

"You're kidding, why don't you want to be my dad?!" Liu Shoucai rolled his eyes, holding the brick, with a look that said, "If you say 'yes,' I'll smash you."

The rooster made a swallowing gesture, its eyes turning a few times, assessing the combat strength of both sides, and decisively abandoned this unrealistic idea, though it really wanted to.

The rooster had only been out of the mountains for a few days. Since it hatched from an egg and was taken out by a group of poachers, the rooster, though intelligent, lacked a lot of social experience. This led to it naturally mimicking the way the poachers cursed and their way of thinking.

Liu Shoucai, on the other hand, was young and full of vigor, not knowing what humility was. Relying on his status as a child leader and his never-taking-a-loss nature, the first meeting between this rooster, the Blue Fire Divine Phoenix, and a young teenager was so dramatically staged.

"Don't hit me! I see you as handsome and charming, with a face that has the aura of a dragon, smoke rising from your feet and light shining from your head. I think I'm about to make the biggest decision of my life as a spirit beast." The rooster took a few steps back, gaining a bit of security, and looked at Liu Shoucai seriously and solemnly, with hope in its eyes.

Liu Shoucai's lips twitched a few times, resisting the urge to smash the brick, and took a few steps back. He asked, "What do you want? I'll tell you, I'm a coward, if you do anything wrong, I'll stew you with a turtle."

As everyone knows, chickens' legs bend backward. When they walk, their legs bend forward. So, chickens can't kneel. Even if they do, it would only be with their butts sticking out.

But the scene in front of him made Liu Shoucai feel that life was bleak and there was no way out.

An eight or nine-pound rooster bent its legs with a crack, bowed its head, and called out in a hoarse voice, "Sir in front, please take me as a little brother! I am willing to go through fire and water for you, to stab myself in the ribs, to die a thousand deaths! If you tell me to go east, I won't go west, if you tell me to chase a dog, I won't chase a chicken!"

Oh my!

Liu Shoucai had the urge to smash himself with the brick. The rooster in front of him was too extraordinary! It was so... so... so damn stylish!