Chapter 102 Micron People with Tentacles
A shadow passed by quickly, so fast that Rong Yuan couldn't see it clearly. The other person caught the fox's head that was about to fall to the ground, looked it up and down, and said thankfully: "Fortunately, you didn't break it."
Rong Yuan was stunned and felt like he couldn't speak anymore.
Next to him was a creature that looked very similar to him now. It had a round head, two long tentacles on top of it, large almond-shaped eyes that took up most of its face, no nose or ears, a slightly convex hemispherical mouthparts, all four limbs, and it walked upright. The difference was that its two hind legs were unusually strong, and the angle of their bends was different from his. Human knees were bent forward, but this creature's legs were bent backwards like a horse's.
Its front limbs were thinner and shorter than its hind legs, and had four split claws on the top. At this moment, it was holding the fox's head with these claws, turning it around quickly to check it out, and then heaved a sigh of relief.
This scene was very strange to Rong Yuan. Because the thing that had just arrived was only a little taller than Rong Yuan, and the fox head was dozens of times bigger than them. Therefore, the action of this thing was like an ordinary person lifting a house and looking at it from the front and back. The difference in size was really huge. Rong Yuan could easily lift it because he had the strength of a normal human (maybe even greater), and this thing seemed to be lifted very easily.
It carefully put the fox head down, then turned around and said to Rong Yuan earnestly: "You can't do that. If you break it, you can't eat it! Be careful next time!"
After such a long conversation, Rong Yuan finally found out how it talked to him - it didn't really speak, and of course it probably didn't learn sugar language, but the two tentacles on its head swayed slightly, and in the process of swaying, it might have emitted some invisible electromagnetic waves, which transmitted its consciousness to Rong Yuan. In this way, even though it didn't really open its mouth and didn't have a common language, they still communicated without any obstacles.
Rong Yuan's helmet actually had two short antennas that were more decorative than practical, but he certainly didn't know how to transmit consciousness, and he didn't even know how he received the information from the other party. His body seemed to have changed a little during the shrinking process. For example, now he couldn't hear the noises of cars, people, etc. that he should have heard normally, and he couldn't see the various facilities in the room. What he heard, saw and felt were all things that he couldn't find at ordinary times, so it didn't seem strange that he had the ability to receive some kind of electromagnetic waves!
——It’s weird, okay?!
The creature's silent approach and speed that could not be seen by the naked eye made Rong Yuan a little apprehensive, but at the same time he was very curious about this creature. So he pretended not to be able to speak and nodded to show that he understood what it meant.
Seeing that Rong Yuan was learning, this creature—Rong Yuan decided to call it a micron man—said happily, "It's good that you've learned it. You look so clumsy, is this your first time collecting? A novice like you can't do it alone! Follow me, I'll teach you how to collect!"
Rong Yuan, who was called "clumsy" for the first time in his life, nodded again. Then he saw this micron-man holding up a fox head that looked like a house, saying "Follow me!" and disappearing like the wind!
Rong Yuan was shocked to see it cutting through the air, and hurried to catch up. He thought he was already very fast, and that the suit also had the ability to enhance his physical strength, but he still couldn't keep up with the speed of the micron man in front of him. He lost sight of the man in the blink of an eye, and could only rely on the faint traces it left around him to determine the direction and catch up.
He jumped over gray-green platforms one after another, passed through strange woods, and leaped over a lake (perhaps just a small drop of water) by stepping on some creatures floating on the water surface. Sometimes he had to swing by the thin tentacles of some aerial creatures. After running for a long time, he suddenly found the micron man with a fox head standing in front of him, apparently waiting for him. He did not put down the fox head to save energy. He watched Rong Yuan finally catch up, his tentacles swaying, shaking his head and saying with some dissatisfaction: "Why are you so slow! This won't work. It's very disadvantageous in the wild..."
As he was talking, he saw Rong Yuan running towards him. He stared at his legs for a while and said with some stammering: "Ah... So... You, you are a cripple!"
Rong Yuan, who had finally caught up, no longer had the energy to be angry. He supported his knees with his hands and gasped for breath. He felt like he was using all his strength just to run.
The micron man watched his movements, put down the fox head, and curiously wanted to imitate him. However, its legs were bent backwards , and once the short little claws pressed on it, the body could not maintain balance and fell backwards. The micron man sat on the ground and said in surprise: "Legs like this can have this function!"
It came over and touched the antenna on Rong Yuan's head with its tentacles, comforting him, "It's okay, as long as you work hard, you can still master the skills to survive."
Rong Yuan was too tired to complain and was too lazy to pay attention to it.
After such a long time without any response, even this thick-skinned micron man felt something was wrong. He asked, "Are you... dumb?"
Rong Yuan had never met someone who spoke so directly. He glared at it, but he couldn't see anything through the dark glasses on his helmet. From the perspective of the micron man, Rong Yuan, who didn't have a pair of tentacles to transmit consciousness information, was indeed no different from a mute. So he nodded in frustration, agreeing with this statement.
The Micron man couldn't tell what was going on in his eyes, but his sympathy was so strong that it almost overflowed. He said, "You are really amazing, despite your disability. I just felt strange because I didn't seem to have seen you in the tribe before. Were you driven out of your original tribe? Don't worry, you will live in our tribe from now on! We don't have those bad guys who bully the disabled here. We are all good companions. You will definitely like it here! By the way, my name is Chi, what's yours?"
Rong Yuan stared at it without saying anything - Do you want me to write it for you?
The micron looked at him for a while, then suddenly realized what was going on and said, "Oh, you're dumb." Rong Yuan was already powerless against its directness, so he just listened to it say, "Well... you can't speak anymore, but I hope you can overcome your physical defects and run as fast as flying! How about I call you 'Fly'?"
It doesn’t matter what you call it, Rong Yuan doesn’t care about it and nodded to show his agreement.
After giving him a name, the Weimin people seemed to feel closer to each other and had a greater sense of responsibility. He said happily: "Fei, just watch, I will teach you how to collect now!"
It turned around and took two steps, then grabbed a very thick pillar whose top could not be seen, and turned to look at Rong Yuan. Rong Yuan guessed that maybe it wanted to smile, but he could not see any expression from the face made of shell. Then, its two front claws and hind legs coordinated and moved back and forth, and it climbed up the pillar in a blink of an eye and disappeared. Rong Yuan looked up and waited for a while. After a few seconds, he saw it sliding down with its legs stuck on the pillar, holding a ball as big as a locomotive in its hand.
This ball looks different from the fox head and is slightly smaller than it. It looks like a beige star fruit, but it is an enlarged version.
Chi jumped to the ground holding the carambola and said, "We are lucky today. The fruits we collected are very fresh. Let's go back."
Rong Yuan nodded, picked up the fox head, and followed Chi to start walking again. However, this time Chi took his "disability" into consideration and deliberately slowed down his pace. Even so, Rong Yuan had to try his best to catch up.
The tribe of the Wings lived in a forest. The trees were also very strange. There were no branches or leaves on the trees, only a bare trunk that became thinner as it went up, and on the top was a very large milky white ball. The ball was almost a perfect sphere except for the part connected to the trunk. The Microns hollowed out part of the trunk and the ball on top to build their houses.
In Rong Yuan's opinion, the microns looked almost the same except for their height, weight and body shape. They didn't wear clothes either. The only obvious difference was the antennae on their heads. Some of those antennae were as slender and smooth as wings, some were segmented, and some had many branches like bird feathers. Some were soft and curved, while others were straight and hard, and the colors were also different.
I don't know whether it was because the Microns were naturally enthusiastic or because going out to collect fruits was an honorable profession, but when they entered the tribe with the fox head and the star fruit, they were warmly welcomed by everyone. Although they didn't know him at all, there were still many children jumping around him without any suspicion.
Chi greeted everyone and led Rong Yuan to the food storage warehouse. This was a very large underground space, and the food piled up inside was like a small mountain, and there were all kinds of food, and the shapes were also strange: bayberry, pumpkin, gourd, porcupine, jellyfish, mushrooms, small trees... With so many references for comparison, Rong Yuan finally knew what the food they collected was actually - these were all pollen.
After the fox head pollen was put down, there was no obstruction, and someone finally saw Rong Yuan's appearance clearly. Someone immediately asked: "Chi, who is he?"
"Oh, this is the child I picked up from outside." Chi immediately introduced Rong Yuan to the others and said, "He can't speak, his legs are disabled, and he was driven out of his original tribe. He can't even gather food, and he wanders outside alone."
"Oh, really? How pitiful!"
"How tragic..."
"No wonder I thought the way he walked just now was wrong, so this is what happened!"
"This is too much! Who would hurt his poor companion like this?"
"Don't worry, from now on, we are your family!"
"I will give you all the best civet apples to eat!"
Everyone was talking at once, their tentacles were all shaking, and hundreds of voices were transmitted into Rong Yuan's ears. This way of transmitting consciousness had no specific target, it was all diffuse, and soon it seemed that everyone in the tribe knew about it, and someone sent him a message of comfort from a very far place.
Perhaps this way of talking conveys the thoughts from the heart. Rong Yuan found that "speaking frankly" was not just the character of Chi. Everyone was frank and frightening. The word "euphemism" had no meaning here. Moreover, it seemed that everyone could hear what one person said. They didn't even need to get together to quickly reach a consensus. When Rong Yuan was surrounded and walked out of the underground warehouse, a banquet to welcome him was already prepared.
Some microorganisms with natural neon effects were fixed like lanterns on the surrounding small houses and roads. Some micron people carried large plates of food and delivered them to everyone. Rong Yuan suddenly remembered that he couldn't take off his battle suit at all. Even a slight gap would be fatal. Although he wanted to explore the way this tribe survived, he could never attend this banquet. So when a person who looked like a tribal leader stood on the podium and started speaking, he took advantage of no one's attention to sneak out.
It has been a long time since he became small, and he must have missed today's class. Maybe Wandou can send a text message to ask for leave for him, but it is better to go back as soon as possible.
After running to a place far away from the micron tribe, Rong Yuan activated his battle suit and his body became a little bigger. Although he was still tiny to humans, at least he could see the normal world. He was in the dense leaves. Rong Yuan pushed aside the leaves and found that he had run out of the room without knowing when, but not far away, just on the camphor tree outside the window.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to this place, he kicked the tree trunk and jumped directly onto the screen window, then crawled in through the hole in the screen window. Pea, who was sitting on the table, was still in the same position, and seemed not to notice him coming in. Rong Yuan jumped down from the windowsill and activated the function of growing bigger at the same time, instantly returning to his original size and standing on the ground.
As he took off his helmet, he asked Pea, "How long have I been away? Did the teacher ask?"
Pea said, "Thirty-two seconds."
"What?" Rong Yuan asked in surprise, thinking he had misheard, because he and Chi had been talking for more than that amount of time. But when Rong Yuan looked up, he saw the clock on the wall.
He remembered that when he became small, it was five minutes to seven, and now...
The minute clicked and it was four to seven.
