"Huh? But that's what Village Chief Sister taught us when we were little."
"Why do you have to add 'kind' at the end? It sounds strange, like grass seeds growing in a field."
Looking at the innocent face of "Ci Shui," who knew nothing of the changes in cause and effect in the outside world, the glimmer deep in Zhou Heng's eyes flickered again.
His intuition told him that perhaps, before the Boundless Court was established, before various affixes and databases classified all beings into different "race codes," at the source of years even more distant than the ancient era, humanity's true name had simply been the dignified "Human Race."
The so-called "Human Kind" was nothing more than a cold brand that later players of the game had forcibly stamped upon all beings to make management and harvesting easier.
With these thoughts in mind, Zhou Heng was just about to ask "Ci Shui" for more specific details about this world.
Just then, however, an ethereal, tranquil, and gentle female voice slowly rang out from the woodland path nearby.
"You're awake?"
Accompanying that soft voice, a Water-Bearing Race woman in a pale blue, water-patterned dress stepped into the courtyard.
Her body was likewise composed of water and transparent bone, but compared with "Ci Shui's" pure water body, her bones and water were fused more perfectly and evenly. She resembled a crystal statue polished smooth and flawless in the long river of time, her face dignified and gentle, her bearing carrying the steadiness and kindness unique to a village chief.
She held a transparent basket made entirely of flowing water, containing several strange fruits that gave off a multicolored glimmer. Their delicate fragrance was precisely the scent Zhou Heng had smelled in the wooden house.
Seeing that Zhou Heng was not only