SFS Chapter 120 The Monkey's Gap
Chapter 120 The Monkey's Gap
"you....."
"Didn't you hear that voice?"
Chen Ji's heart pounded. He looked around and saw that the faces of the remaining people were all blank.
"No one was saying a word just now." Du Tingfeng frowned. "What exactly did you hear?"
Chen Ji immediately recounted what had just happened.
He emphasized, "It wasn't the voice of the Colossus."
The words that suddenly appeared vanished in an instant, even making Chen Ji wonder if it was a hallucination.
"Are you hallucinating?"
Tian Qinghe thought for a moment and said, "That colossus made quite a commotion; perhaps you misheard."
Chen Ji shook his head; his hearing had always been excellent.
The effect was amplified even more after using the monkey doll.
Liu Zi suddenly interjected, "Can the pen talk now?"
Du Tingfeng once told Liu Zi how Li Bo died.
At the same time, his life was saved by Chen Ji using a fountain pen.
Although Liu Zi wasn't entirely clear on the pen's specific abilities, he could sense that this pen was different from ordinary strange objects; it could communicate and possessed sentience.
"This may be an effect of the pen upgrade."
Du Tingfeng also said, "Ask him, after all, we really didn't hear anyone talking."
Chen Ji nodded, a chill running down his spine. He felt like he'd heard that voice somewhere before.
Familiar, yet strange.
"Are you able to speak?"
Chen Ji asked in a low voice, placing the pen in his hand.
Can you see I have a mouth?
【I am the power of evolution】
It's not like they've become a different species.
After its evolution, the fountain pen seemed quite excited, writing with a wobbly gait.
Chen Ji ignored its arrogant words, his hand loosely resting on the edge of the boat, only a meter away from the Yu River.
The pen wobbled precariously in his hand, as if it might fall into the Yu River at any moment.
Another wave of itching came over me.
The previous words were crossed out and replaced with new sentences:
【Excuse me】
I didn't speak, nor did I hear anyone speak.
Can I go back?
Chen Ji put the pen back in his pocket, a thoughtful look in his eyes.
The pen didn't hear anything either...
But the phrase "the right choice" sounded very real, as if someone had whispered it in his ear.
However, the voice became increasingly blurry in Chen Ji's mind.
Within minutes, he could hardly remember the specific timbre anymore.
A rustling sound came from behind, and the pen wrote another line on Chen Ji's hand.
I suspect it's related to that dead monkey.
"?"
Chen Ji paused for a moment, then turned around and rummaged through his backpack.
He stuffed the monkey doll at the bottom of his backpack, with several bottles of mineral water on top of it, and the cotton body was squeezed flat.
He flipped the monkey doll over and his eyes narrowed.
The monkey's furry face remained largely unchanged, but its expression...
A sense of hatred inexplicably arose.
But what truly sent a chill down Chen Ji's spine was the monkey's gaping mouth, which had been sewn shut with scarlet thread...
There were two red lines at the corners of her mouth, which had been pulled apart.
This caused a small opening to appear in the monkey doll's sealed mouth.
Chen Ji had tried before, and these threads were impossible to tear apart; even burning them or cutting them with scissors couldn't cause any damage!
"Words spoken become law, and are intolerable to Heaven..."
The words about the fountain pen resurfaced in Chen Ji's mind.
He had long suspected that the monkey doll's mouth was sealed because of the restriction of "silence".
So why has it been opened again now?
Moreover, who, and when, pulled those two lines?
Chen Ji became more and more confused. After his first experiment failed, he stopped messing with the monkey doll's mouth.
He hadn't noticed the existence of this small gap when he used it in the other dimension before.
Moreover, apart from that period, the monkey doll was always kept in the bag, together with the fountain pen.
No one else had ever come into contact with it.
Let's use the "don't watch" button less often.
[You experienced hallucinations after your hearing was enhanced]
However, the words written leisurely by the pen made no mention of the monkey's mouth.
"Ok?"
Is that the reason?
Chen Ji paused for a moment, then relaxed slightly: "I thought you meant that the monkey was talking."
He tugged hard at the red thread that had been pulled apart, but the two ends of the thread could not be pulled out at all.
Chen Ji thought for a moment, then asked with some doubt:
Do you know what's wrong with its mouth?
The pen did not respond.
I don't know if he genuinely doesn't know or simply doesn't want to answer.
Before Chen Ji could ask any more questions, Liu Zi's voice suddenly rang out excitedly.
"Here comes another one!"
At the same time, the sound of gravel hitting the pool rang out for the third time.
A new statue of the Mysterious Constellation leans slightly down from the mountainside!
Chen Ji immediately focused his attention and found that the giant statue's eyes were carved to be extremely narrow. Although it was still impossible to tell whether it was male or female, its eyebrows and eyes were relatively gentle.
A giant finger pressed down.
Liu Zi was jolted, feeling a burning pain in his elbow.
A simple mark slowly appeared on the inside of Liu Zi's elbow.
Six dots and a few curves outline a lifelike rodent.
"The 'Fake Sun Rat'."
Chen Ji immediately spoke, turning his head to look at the giant statue that had returned to the embrace of the mountains.
The Void Sun Rat is one of the seven constellations of the Northern Black Tortoise.
"Oh, Gui Su is the Twenty-Eight Mansions."
A look of understanding appeared in Liu Zi's eyes. He flipped his elbow and carefully examined the mark.
"you know?"
Tian Qinghe was somewhat surprised. He had only given a brief introduction to the Gui Su constellation and had not mentioned anything related to the 28 constellations.
He never expected that Liu Zi would also have some knowledge of ancient astronomy.
I saw it when I was streaming myself playing games a while ago.
Liu Zi nodded. "A fan introduced me to him."
"Are you a streamer??"
Everyone was shocked, and suddenly felt as if they had never seen Liu Zi before, carefully examining his face.
Du Tingfeng frowned, a familiar face vaguely appearing in his memory, as if he had seen it in a short video before.
Chen Ji was also a bit confused. Liu Zi looked carefree and irresponsible, completely different from the internet celebrities he had in mind.
"I've already told you."
Liu Zi gave them a strange look: "I told you I'm very famous."
"No..." Tian Qinghe stammered, "Wasn't what you said a lie to Liang Xiaobao?"
Liu Zi's face showed a hint of disdain:
"I'm leaving anyway, why would I bother lying to a child?"
Fei'er, who had been frowning as if trying to recall something, suddenly said:
"I know who you are."
Her expression was strange: "I've seen clips of your live stream. You were arguing with someone, and it looked like you even got into a fight."
Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed instantly, and they looked at Liu Zi with strange eyes.
Liu Zi remained calm and shrugged.
"That's all scripted."
"It makes money, it's not shabby."
.......
After a few minutes.
The river ripples, and they are about to reach the shore; the group is finally about to return to the real world.
Liu Zi did not leave his contact information, and asked Chen Ji and the others to ask Fei Er.
"Come visit me in Syracuse in a few days, I promise I'll make sure you have a wonderful time."
Liu Zi pointed at Chen Ji and the other two, put his hands in his pockets, and stepped into the doorway.
Tian Qinghe then gave Chen Ji a deep look.
His eyes were complex, filled with a mix of emotion and reminiscence, sadness and joy, which made Chen Ji feel uneasy, as if Tian Qinghe was looking at a dead person.
Shaking his head, Chen Ji said softly, "Let's go."
The three exchanged a smile and stepped inside.