She Doesn't Understand the Antler Serpent's World

Grace couldn't imagine what had happened back then, but what she did know was that these two things—the Dimensional Bracelet and the jade slip—must have been in this cave all along...

But now, the Dimensional Bracelet was gone.

This gave Grace a very strange feeling.

It felt as if... the reason the Dimensional Bracelet was missing was because she had taken it in her previous life.

And the reason the jade slip was still here was because she hadn't discovered it in her previous life...

But how could the timeline from her previous life possibly continue into the present?

The more she thought about it, the messier her mind became...

Just as she was lost in confusion, she saw the little Antler Serpent looking very busy, wrapping its body around a stone on the ground and bouncing into her Sanctum.

"Hmm? What are you doing?" Grace asked.

The little Antler Serpent ran out again, wrapped up another stone, and continued moving things into her Sanctum.

"Cutie, what are you doing? Why are you moving all these rocks inside?" The cave was littered with rocks of all shapes and sizes, and she had no idea what it was up to.

The Antler Serpent completely ignored her and kept working.

Grace picked up a rock to take a closer look.

Upon inspection, she suddenly realized these rocks were actually quite different from normal ones.

They had a bluish tint and looked extremely hard.

She tried every method she could think of to break one open, but nothing worked.

"What kind of rocks are these?" Grace asked her little cutie. "You want them?"

Her little cutie nodded.

"Alright, I'll help you gather them all up." Grace collected all the rocks into her Sanctum.

The little Antler Serpent went inside and piled up the rocks, looking very satisfied.

The world of the Antler Serpent was a mystery to her.

Grace shook her head and left the cave.

This was the deepest part of Eastwood Forest. If she wanted to walk out on foot, it would take at least ten days or half a month.

That would be the death of her...

She sighed and resigned herself to trudging out.

But to her surprise, the Red-crested Golden Eagle was still there.

When it saw her come out, it walked over and crouched on the ground, as if waiting for her to climb on.

Grace was completely baffled.

Can someone please tell her what the heck is going on here?

......

The sounds humans can hear are actually quite limited.

There are plenty of sounds in nature that people simply can't hear.

For example, when Evan Xiao was in the Sanctum, he ordered the Red-crested Golden Eagle to save Grace and fly over here—but Grace couldn't hear any of that.

Even now, she couldn't hear Evan Xiao telling the Red-crested Golden Eagle to carry her out.

She just stared at it, totally confused.

Seeing her hesitate, the Red-crested Golden Eagle shuffled a few steps closer, crouching in front of her until its wings brushed her feet.

This was way too weird—Grace took a small step back.

Even though she knew it wanted to take her up into the sky, she just couldn't quite bring herself to do it.

I mean, that's flying!

One wrong move and she'd be smashed to pieces!

After waiting for ages and getting no response, the Red-crested Golden Eagle suddenly lunged at her with its beak.

Grace was startled and tried to dodge, but the eagle grabbed her by the collar and tossed her onto its back. The next thing she knew, it had already taken off into the sky.

"Ah!" Grace clung to the eagle's neck for dear life.

She finally managed to steady herself, and when she looked down, she realized she was already way up in the air!

Jumping off would be instant death!

She could only comfort herself through tears: this Red-crested Golden Eagle was a good bird with a sense of duty. It just wanted to take her back to where she came from.

It definitely wasn't planning to feed her to its chicks. Definitely not!

Thankfully, it really was flying toward the edge of the forest.

Grace felt much better, took a few deep breaths, and forced herself to calm down.

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