大家突然听到身后传来的声音,不禁吓了一跳,扭头一看,在一棵大树上面,坐着一个小姑娘------绿色的衣服混在了绿色的树叶里,不仔细看都发现不了。
小姑娘一只手拿着一张网,另一只手指着天空,瞪着一对大眼睛,气鼓鼓地看着他们,埋怨道,“都因为你们,云之蝶飞走了。”
大家顺着她手指的方向看,发现天空中有一只闪闪发光的彩色蝴蝶在翩翩起舞,越飞越高,越飞越远,直到消失不见。
那小姑娘说着,从树上慢慢“飘”了下来。
是“飘”下来,悠悠一点儿也没看错!
她确实是骑在一朵云上,从树上飘下来的!
“咦?你们好像是动物,怎么会……说话?!”那小姑娘围着悠悠和小灵妖们转了一圈,惊讶地问道,“你们怎么长得这么奇怪?你们的云呢?”
“云?什么云?”小兔妖义也盯着那个小姑娘,奇怪地问道。
“我知道了。”小长颈鹿妖智突然小声地说道,“据古书记载,有个地方叫‘云之谷’。生活在这个地方的人,腿都化作了云,并且以云的颜色区分尊卑。彩色是最好的颜色,黄色第二,其余颜色没有分别,只有黑色最差。云的颜色全由心生,和富贵贫贱没有关系。善良的人是彩色的,坏人是黑色的。所以很多有钱的人,常常骑着黑云,贫穷的人反而骑着彩云。”
听完智的解释,大家不禁看向眼前的这个小姑娘,大大的眼睛,圆圆的脸,绿色的裙子下面,是一朵彩色的云。
如果像智说的那样,云由心生的话,眼前的小姑娘一定是个善良的人!
正在他们盯着彩云直看的时候,那小姑娘同情地说道,“你们的云呢?是被黄鸟吃了吗?”
“我们没有云,我们用腿走路。”悠悠说道,“我们是从另一个世界来的。”
“另一个世界?”小姑娘充满恐惧地问道,“是黄鸟守护的世界吗?”
“我来自人界,我的好朋友们来自妖界,不是什么黄鸟守护的世界。”悠悠说道,“我们不会伤害你,我们只需要一路朝南走,你知道彩云之巅在哪儿吗?”
“彩云之巅?没听说过。”小姑娘摇了摇头,用很恐惧的声音说道,“但是你们一路向南走的话,就会走到云之谷最高的山----同天山。同天山的山顶住着黄鸟,很恐怖的,你们真的要去吗?”
大家听她这么说,都面面相觑,纷纷看向智,希望得到解释。但是智也是一头雾水,摇了摇头,说道,“古书上只记载着黄鸟,说黄鸟是创世之神的爱鸟之一,帮助创世之神守护灵药,没听说它们作恶的事呀……”
“你们不懂!”那小姑娘神秘地说道,“黄鸟很残忍的,他们每年都会跑到我们云之谷抓人回去吃。为了保护云之谷的人,我们的谷主想到了一个好办法,那就是用云之蝶充当谷民,喂饱黄鸟,这样的话,我们就安全了。”小姑娘说着叹了口气,“本来每个云之谷的谷民都需要贡献十只云之蝶的,可是我只抓到了七只,明天就是给黄鸟送云之蝶的日子了,如果因为云之蝶数量不够,那就麻烦了!”
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The sound went into everyone’s ear. Everyone got a big fright. They turned around instantly and saw a big old oak tree. On top of the big oak tree, there was a little girl sitting on a green leaf. The girl wore green clothes which blended in with the leaf.
The small girl was holding a net in one hand and pointed to the sky with the other. She looked at Yoyo and the others with big angry eyes and said,“It is all because of you. The butterfly of heaven flew away.”
Everyone looked at the sky and saw a humongous bright shiny rainbow butterfly. The butterfly was floating really beautifully in the air. It then flew higher and higher, further and further until the sun’s light took it out of sight.
As the small girl was talking, she FLOATED down the old oak tree on a rainbow cloud. Yoyo couldn’t believe his eyes. He rubbed his eye a few times but it changed nothing.
The small girl was actually riding a cloud. She floated down from the tree and landed.
“WHAT???? Aren’t you animals? Why can you talk?!” Asked the small girl in a surprised voice. She then looked at Yoyo and the small demons carefully and asked,“You people are so weird, where are your clouds???”
“Cloud?? What Cloud?” Asked Yi, the small rabbit demon, while staring at the small girl.
“I remember.” Said Zhi, the small giraffe demon.“In the ancient book of arts, there is a world called Cloud Valley. Everyone who lives there has a cloud instead of legs. The cloud determines if you are a good person or bad. The nicest people have a rainbow cloud, the meanest people have a black cloud. The second nicest cloud is a Yellow cloud. All the others are fine. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor. It matter what is in your heart. Sometimes you can see super wealthy people riding black clouds, but poor people riding rainbow clouds.”
After Zhi, the small giraffe demon finished the information, everyone was looking at the small girl. She had a round face, big eyes and she wore a green skirt. Underneath all that, was a rainbow cloud.
If Zhi says is right, then this small girl must be a very kind person.
Just as everyone caught eyes on the rainbow cloud, the small girl asked,“Where are your clouds? Did the Golden Phoenixes eat it???”
“We don’t have clouds, we use our legs to travel.” Said Yoyo,“We are from a different world.”
“Another world??” Asked the small girl,“is it the world that the Golden Phoenixes are protecting.”
“I come from the human world, my friends are also from the human world. The golden Phoenixes are not guarding the world that I live in. we are not going to harm to you. All we want is the direction ‘South’. Do you know where the Heavenly world is??”
“Heavenly world? Never heard of it.” Said the small girl shaking her head. She then said in a worried voice,“If you go south, you would have to go climb Cloud valley’s highest mountain, Air Temple. After you arrive at the top of Air Temple, you would need to go through the Golden Phoenixes which is very very terrifying. Are you sure you still want to go?”
Everyone did not know what the small girl was talking about at all. They then all turned to Zhi hoping for a definition. However, even Zhi’s mind was blank. He then said,“In ancient stories, the golden Phoenixes is one of Exodus’s pets. The golden Phoenixes help Exodus protect the dream medicine. I never knew that Golden Phoenixes was evil.”
“You guys don’t understand!” Said the small girl in a mysterious voice,“The Golden Phoenixes are very terrifying. Every year, the Golden Phoenixes will go to Cloud Valley and feed on the people who they see. To protect the people, the president of Cloud Valley thought of an idea. The idea was, to feed the Golden Phoenixes with Butterfly of heavens until they were full, to stop them from returning to Cloud Valley so that everyone was safe.” Said the small girl with a sigh,“All of the people from Cloud Valley have to bring ten Butterfly of heavens to feed the Golden Phoenixes. However, I have only caught seven. Tomorrow is the due day for feeding the golden Phoenixes. We must feed it full or we are in BIG TROUBLE!!!”