Sky Dream Ice Silkworm traced an exaggerated arc through the air. His tiny eyes spun twice, and though his belly was full of words he wanted to say, he did not dare open his mouth. All he could do was curl himself into a ball and tremble in midair.
Seeing Er Ming's dejected appearance, the helplessness in Xiao Wu's heart felt like a wad of cotton soaked through with water—stifling, heavy, impossible to sort out or shake off.
She had never intended for Da Ming and Er Ming to Sacrifice themselves for her.
Ever since her Human Transformation, those two big fools had always followed behind her.
When she went to the human world, they stayed in the forest and waited for her return. Whenever she suffered grievances outside and came back to sit by the lake, Er Ming would clumsily pick a huge pile of fruit and heap it before her, while Da Ming would silently coil beside her and gently pat her back with the tip of his tail.
She already owed them enough.
Yet these two idiots wanted to hand over their hundred-thousand-year lives to her, one after another.
Xiao Wu took a deep breath and walked over to Er Ming.
She had to crane her neck just to see the disappointment written all over his face. His yellow eyes drooped, his lips pressed into a straight line, and his thick fingers dug into the fur on his knees. His enormous body was curled into a ball, like a hill whose campfire had been extinguished by rain.
"Er Ming."
When Xiao Wu spoke, her voice was much gentler than before.
Er Ming did not look up. He merely gave a muffled grunt from deep in his throat.
Xiao Wu stretched out her hand, rose onto her tiptoes,