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“You don’t even want to dig for seafood yourself anymore?” the Daoist said this as he stepped down from the celestial crane.
“...!”
Lady Calico stared at him with a dead-serious face, fixing her gaze on this clueless Daoist who just opened his mouth and started spouting nonsense. She stared for a long moment, then finally looked away and returned to combing the beach.
A fish near the shore had been hiding from predators and, by mistake, swam into the shallows. It thought it had escaped danger, but then, two feet splashed into the water with a sharp slap. Before it could react, a hand snatched it cleanly out of the sea.
No matter how slippery its body was, or how much it struggled, it was all in vain.
Boom!
The celestial crane suddenly burst apart into a cloud of black smoke, like a thundercloud hitting the ground, and then it rushed into Lady Calico’s banner.
About two hours later…
They were still at that same beach, perhaps even beneath the same coconut tree. A small stove had been assembled from stones on the sand, with a pot set over it. Two figures, one big and one small, and a single swallow sat around the stone stove and pot, eating as the sound of distant waves reached their ears. Compared to that day...
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