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"Shadow, when will you decide? We have been sitting here for three months. Huoer just flew out by herself, but she didn't find any delicious monsters. She came back and yawned.

The shadow sat on the branches on the side of this busy road with his knees in his arms - of course, human beings in the past could not see him. He looked at the people below seriously and said to Huoer, "I don't know what I should do yet."

"Wow..." Huoer made a series of strange screams. Since they left the mountains and forests, they have been sitting here to watch people. Huoer was eager to wander around, but because the shadow claimed that they did not know where to learn to be a man, they needed to observe and stayed here. Who knew that this observation observed three Four months!

"I can't stand it anymore! Shadow, how long do you have to think about it? Just change any one. Is it difficult to become a human? Has your mana regressed? The fire began to shout.

"It's just that becoming a human being is not a human." Ying said what Zhou Xuan had said to him.

"Do you want to become a human even 'inside'?" Huoer asked, and began to glance at the people who could reach him, and figure out which one to cut for the shadow to change.

"I think maybe I have understood something..." Ying's words saved the innocent human beings who were passing by in time, so that one of them avoided becoming a fire to prove the fate of what kind of samples inside human beings, and continued to walk their path calmly.

Shadow said thoughtfully, "I think the first thing to do as a human is to have a job." The people passing by, there are hawkers carrying carts, drivers driving carriages, staff in a hurry, tailors with bags, merchants with gold-rimmed glasses on their noses, teachers holding a stack of books, and women selling tea...

"You have to find something to do first!" Ying confirmed his experience of sitting for more than three months.

"Oh." Huoer nodded as if she didn't understand and asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"What do you do?" Shadow began to think again.

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Huoer ate a chicken and two roasted sweet potatoes today, and shrunk into the shadow's arms and prepared to sleep in the morning. It is open-minded. Although it stays in this place day after day, the monsters around it are also eaten up and has to start eating some things such as cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, potatoes, sweet potatoes and so on. On the contrary, it is not as impatient as half a year ago. It teases the dogs of the family, teases the cows of that family all day long, and even goes to the school to listen to a few books. If you come back and show off to the shadows, you will live a very happy life.

So the shadow suddenly asked it, "Fire, what should I do?" Previously, it had forgotten this matter. Originally, it thought that it would be part of this tree when it came to human beings.

"What do you want to do?" Huoer said in a daze, "Then you go and bake the sweet potato. I want to eat another one, jib..." After saying that, he fell asleep.

"Go farm?" Shadow seems to have heard many times in human beings in the past few years, such as: at worst, go home to farm, go home to farm and not starve to death, and if it really doesn't work, go back to your hometown to farm and so on. As soon as the shadow appears, farming seems to be the ultimate way for human beings to solve the problem. When they can't do anything else, human beings will farm. What about themselves? Can you learn to farm?

"Fire," said the shadow, "Let's go and farm..."

If you don't use spells in the second section, it is not easy to make wheat grow healthily to earing or let cucumbers grow on cucumber shelves, but human farming is not spell-making, so shadows are not used.

The shadow now has two mu of land. Although it is pitiful for the fields at the foot of the mountain in the distance, it is enough for the shadow.

After several years of experiments, he planted an acre of wheat, half an acre of corn, and another half an acre of more than a dozen vegetables. In the past few years, he finally figured out some of these crops. Today, he harvested a lot of wheat and various vegetables for the first time, and now he begins to think about what to do after harvest.

"Most of them are sold and a small part is eaten by themselves." It took several days to figure out the where the harvest of other people.

He divided the things, sold the big pile to the human town, and came back with fire: "Fire, let's eat the rest."

Huo Er frowned at his least favorite vegetables.

In this way, Shadow and Fire began a very regular farming career: in each piece of land, they sow fixed crops at a fixed time every year, harvested at a fixed time, and then sold 70%. Shadow and Fire (which they ate by pinched their nose for Shadow) ate the remaining 30% in a day, planted the same, and then sold them. , eat again, plant again... In some years, the amount of rain is too heavy, and sometimes a drop of rain is not seen, and sometimes something called locusts comes (fire: pooh, it tastes bad!) Swallowing crops, these disasters are treated like human beings without using spells. If there is no harvest this year, then there is still next year, or next year... As long as the land is still there, you can grow something, and you can look forward to next year. He is already a skilled farmer, but I don't know if he is more like a human.

The shadow is sitting on the rabble. Although it is already early spring, he is still wearing an old sheepskin jacket and exposes the wool outside. He holds a cigarette bag in his hand and looks at the field while striking the cigarette bag on the ground from time to time. In fact, he doesn't know what the cigarette bag is, but in the hands of other growers He took it, so he also took it. Others kowtoed to the ground from time to time, and he also learned that. He pinched his fingers. Although he was not good at calculating, he still wanted to calculate this year's harvest, but when he thought that human beings did not need magic to calculate the harvest, he put down his hand again.

I don't know where the fire has gone?

Shame plucked the soil block with a cigarette bag to expose a tender bud. Today, the sunshine is good. The shadow half closed her eyes and thought about it. Let's practice for a while. Some people came from the field in the distance, and the shadow did not move, but those people went all the way into his field and stepped on the field that had just turned green.

There are more than 20 people riding horses in the front. They are all wearing a kind of military uniform, carrying something long or short, called a gun.

The shadow watched the horseshoe and the leather boots on the human feet step on his crops. He remembered that the humans who had occasionally passed by tried to step on the fields.

"Wow... quack..." The horseman stopped in front of him and spoke in one breath, but the shadow frowned - he couldn't understand what the human said.

"Ji Li... Ji Li..." The man is still saying.

Shadeng decided to loosen the soil and ignore this person.

"Hey, Taijun asked if you saw someone passing by here?" Finally, a human said something that the shadow could understand.

"Yes." Ying thought for a moment and answered seriously.

"Where did he go?"

The shadow pointed to give them a direction.

"How long has it been?"

"Three days..." At this time, the shadow realized that he had not seen human beings for several days, and even those who were usually farming like him had not appeared in the past few days.

"Bang!" The horse's whip fell on the shadow and shouted again.

"I think you and they are together! What are you doing here?" The person who could understand the voice asked again, but this time his tone made the shadow uncomfortable.

"I'm farming." Ying still answered truthfully.

"Bang!" This time, a man hit the butt of a long gun on his head and shouted at him.

The shadow is angry.

When he is in the mountains, if he asks other monsters what to get the answer from the other party, he will stop it even if he wants to eat the other party, because he thinks that the object who answers his questions should be grateful, but these human beings attack themselves after getting their own answers.

So when the human beings around him tried to drag his hair away, they adopted the solution commonly used when they were attacked by monsters in the mountains and forests. It was not until he turned the shadow knife back into his own shadow that he looked at the bodies of human beings and frowned: Maybe he was too reckless, maybe that's how human beings treat things? Maybe...

The war horse seemed to know that the monster in front of him had no threat to himself and had eaten the crops in the field generously, and the shadow pushed it to other people's land (despicable, shadow! You are not Liu Di, how can you do such a thing!), while repeatedly thinking about your behavior, like a human being.

The fire flew slowly from the distance and saw that it was not in a good mood. The flames on its body burned brightly, reflecting half of the sky red. Without waiting to fly to the shadow, he shouted: "I'm so angry. I ran around and couldn't find anything to eat. Those chickens, pigs, cows... It is said that they have been taken away by a 'Japanese'!" It is ready to ask what this human called "Japanese" looks like, and then use violence to tell him that one of the laws that must be followed in the world is not to grab food from the fire.

"Wow, you got me a horse." Huoer praised the shadow when she saw the happy horse. The horse cleverly ran away, but Huoer didn't chase it, because its eyes were attracted by the human body again and said thoughtfully, "After so many years, I haven't tasted the taste of human beings. It's ready-made here."

Two hours later, Huo'er lay on his back on the burp, holding his stomach and moaning, and his stomach was so bulging that he couldn't fly. Ying looked at it worriedly. He forgot when he developed the habit of eating all the food in front of Huoer, but this time it ate too much.

"The smell of people..." Huoer patted her stomach and made a "bang" sound, commenting, "It's worth eating."

Sharp is relieved that Huoer has found another source of food. Recently, it has found fewer and fewer things to like to eat. Originally, Ying was already thinking about moving and farming in another place. Now he doesn't have to leave his familiar land, so he is relieved to squat in the field, knocking on the cigarette bag and looking at the green wheat seedlings. I was wondering if the vegetables should also be planted.

The third section finally figured out that those humans walking around in the same clothes and in groups with guns are called the army.

He doesn't like this kind of human.

They never pay a little attention. They always step on his land directly. Sometimes they step on the land after planting for more than half a year and are destroyed, but these armies will not make him hate it, because the arrival of human beings often means that the fire can be picked up and eaten.

"Wo!" A bullet flew over the shadow and announced the beginning of the war. Ying patiently waited for them to finish fighting, clean up their land with Huoer, and then farmed the land.

"Bang!" This time, a bullet hit him on the shoulder, and the shadow took the bullet in his hand and threw it to the ground.

Two armies in the fierce battle and an old farmer sitting on the pier and knocking on the cigarette bag made a strange picture.

A figure blocked the light of the shadow. When the shadow looked up, the other party suddenly rolled to the ground, and the blood spread quickly at the foot of the shadow.

"Another, two... and three..." Huoer jumped up and down and calculated, "Today I'm going to be full to death, alas..." Obviously, he sighed, but the smile at the corners of his mouth and eyes could not be concealed. He liked this kind of thing most when he had no effort and waited for food to appear in large quantities with his mouth open.

One of the troops began to retreat, and Ying knew that it was almost done, so he stood up with the hoe. The trampled crops should be helped up, the trampled fields should be repaired again, and the bodies everywhere should be collected. If the fire can be eaten, it can be eaten, and the food can be buried in the ground for fertilizer, but it can no longer be recovered. The place needs to be replanted. Almost every war is almost the same for the shadow, which also forms part of his law of life.

※※※※However, there will always be something to interrupt his regular life.

"My fellow villagers, what are you still doing here!?"

The shadow looked at the officer who asked him anxiously (he now understands that it is generally the officer who is riding on the horse, of course, except when the gun truck is dragged by the horse) and tells him truthfully, "I'm farming."

The officer had waved two soldiers before he finished speaking. They couldn't help but run until the mountains far away from the battlefield to let him go, and then hurried back to the battlefield.

When the shadow looked back at the battlefield, he saw a cannonball falling on his ground, emitting a big fire and rushing up a high soil.

"This year's wheat is over." The shadow thinks so. In addition, he had a strange idea in his mind that he hoped that the officer and the two soldiers just now would survive after today's war. Anyway, they said a few words to him, and one of the soldiers escorted him also told him that with his past experience in farming, this year's wheat harvest would be very good. So they are different from the soldiers who used to treat him as a stone and a straw.

The war ended again. When the shadow saw the bodies of the three of them on the ground, he did not let the fire touch them or bury them in the ground as fertilizer. Instead, he learned from human beings and built graves for them. Because of the years of war, there are many high and low graves in the surrounding fields, and only the shadow land is very flat, so that the shadow land is more similar to human beings.

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"Ji...guli..." The soldier moaned and said something that the shadow didn't understand.

When the shadow looked at him, he found that he was very young for human beings, "Twenty years old? Nineteen years old...maybe only sixteen or seven years old?" The shadow guessed his age.

"Mom..." A word that he could barely understand came out of his mouth. "Mom..." The shadow looked at him grabbing the embroidery from his pocket and kept screaming. His voice became weaker and weaker, and finally stopped breathing.

The shadow built his grave next to the soldier who said to himself that wheat would have a bumper harvest.

Some things will continue once they start. Now Ying is careful to bypass those graves every day by hoeing, weeding and watering. People who want to protect their comrades-in-arms but are blown up; those who don't want to be prisoners and shoot themselves; those who want to escape from the battlefield and are shot dead by their comrades-in-arms; there are also people who want to escape to a peaceful place and walk here to die of hunger; Shadow does not know when their land will become a grave in the future.

※※※※※ "Catch one."

"If you are older, you can make do with it."

"Go, go, go back to the intersection."

Suddenly, several people held down the shadow together and dragged him away.

"What are you doing?" Shadow asked puzzledly.

"I told you to leave. Don't talk so much nonsense."

"I'm farming."

" Farming? Hahaha, you don't have to plant it anymore."

"Ping-pong."

One punch knocked them all out.

"Shadow, what are they going to do?"

"It seems to be a thing called 'catching strong men'."

"What is 'catching strong men'?"

"...I don't quite understand. It seems that human beings need more people to fight, so they will pull people who are not soldiers to the battlefield..."

"It turned out to be to make food, but I'm getting tired of it." The fire wiped his mouth to find something it didn't get tired of.

The shadow continues to sit there, why do human beings want to fight? Many people will die in the war, and they will put more people into it. Why? In the mountains and forests, even the strong know that they need to avoid war, which is what they must know in order to survive. It seems that human beings don't think so. Humans, it's so difficult to figure out their ideas. Can they be more like human beings...

There have been fewer wars. Although some people come to forcibly arrest people to join the army from time to time, now the shadow has become an old man in his 60s, so no one comes to harass him. He quietly farmed his land and harvests quietly. His farming technology is getting better and better every year by year.

Section 4 "These are to be sold, these are to be eaten." After distributing this year's harvest, he suddenly started to be stunned, "Fire, do you think I'm a little like a human?"

Huo'er originally saw that he was sorting vegetables again. He knew that it was time to eat these things again. He was about to slip away. Hearing his question, he flew back. He looked up and down and shook his head and said, "It's not like it."

Shadow stays in the ground all year round, and its understanding of human beings is not as good as the fire flying everywhere. Since the fire has said so, continue to farm. He planted the land seriously, and when the people around him loudly announced the end of the war and the establishment of a new country, it still did not affect his days. Shadow is more patient than anyone else, so he repeats the days of farming year after year, and believes that as long as there are many years of land, he will be more like human beings.

"Down with the landlord's old wealth! Down with the landlord's old wealth!" A group of people shouted past the ground.

"Cut the tail of capitalism! Cut the tail of capitalism!" Another group of people shouted and passed by.

"Great steelmaking, great steelmaking..."

“......”

A young man sat on the ground of the shadow. He was a student from the city, saying that he came from "go up the mountains to the countryside" and "receiving re-education from the poor middle peasants". He was arranged to live in the shadow's house. The shadow heard him muttering: "Where are you going?" Where are you going?"

The shadow doesn't understand what he is talking about, and he doesn't understand what the human beings around him are doing.

That night, the young student threw himself into the river. When people fished him out of the river, he was placed by the river, with his eyes wide open and his mouth slightly open. After a long time, his family did not come to deal with his afterth, so the shadow buried him in his own land.

That night, the shadow looked at the grave in his field in the moonlight and asked, "Fire, what do you think of human beings?"

"Generally, it's not delicious." The fire that had just eaten slammed his mouth.

"I think it's difficult for human beings to think about it." Ying frowned and recalled every human he had seen. "Maybe I will never become a human..." Maybe he began to feel in his heart that he didn't want to be that human.

"No, you look more like a human than before." Huo said half asleep.

Where? Where?" The spirit of the shadow is refreshed.

"I don't know. Anyway, it's just like that." The fire rolled and soon snored.

Real? I'm already a little like a human. Shadow continued to look at the graves, and this time he thought to himself: What on earth are human beings... Do they really want to become such creatures...

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"It's easy for you to say. Where are the people in the city? Can we earn money?"

"You don't understand this. The people in the city are rich, and those rough jobs have to be carried by someone. In a year, why don't they earn more than facing the loess? Who still lives to farm these days!"

Sharing has been listening to their conversation, with his left ear in and his right ear as usual, but the last sentence hit his head heavily.

"Who is still farming these days!"

Don't humans farm? Only then did Ying realize that the land around him became less and less, turning into houses, factories, farms... There were fewer and fewer people farming. This time, they left not to avoid war, but to a place called "city".

"Humans don't farm anymore..." What should I do?

"Human beings, they are all busy making 'money'." Fire is showing off his knowledge.

"Money?" Ying has some money, which he sold in exchange for what he planted. He didn't know what the money could do and piled it up in a jar together.

"They go to big cities to make money." Huoer continued to tell him.

"Go to the big city... to make money."

"Shadow, shall we go too? I'm tired of living here for decades. The fire revealed its true purpose. The monster I caught yesterday said that there are many monsters in big cities.

"Monsters also live there..." There are almost no monsters in the days of farming here. I don't know why I recall the days when I was with monsters in the mountains and forests. "Zhou Xuan..." Ying thought, even if Zhou Xuan did not guide himself and tell himself what to do, maybe he could ask other monsters for advice - big If you live among human beings, what you should do is to achieve good results...

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Shadow sat on a street lamp and looked at the endless crowd. He had never seen so many people.

"Fire, what should I do now?" - I couldn't farm in the city, and he also brought the hoe that had been used for decades.

"Shadow, do that!" Huoer pointed to the roller coaster in the amusement park and said excitedly.

Two days later, reports of major roller coaster accidents in XX City appeared in major newspapers across the country, and Yinghe Huoer hurriedly left the city.

In YY City, Huoer looked at the college classroom thoughtfully: "Shadow, you do that."

Three days later, the news that a student had seriously injured the teacher spread all over the campus, and Shadow and Fire embarked on a journey again.

ZZ City, Huoer looked at the majestic traffic police and shouted excitedly, "Shadow, go and do this!"

Four days later, the news of a series of major traffic accidents in ZZ City appeared in major media, movies and fire...

In the new market, Ying felt frustrated again. Huo'er watched the cars coming and going boredly. Suddenly, a light appeared: "Shadow, go and drive and pull me away!"

"Drive..."

"Yes, drive!"

"Then drive..."