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Chapter 151 - 67 How does Merlin’s Xiao Wa still recognize the way?

Chapter 151: Chapter 67 How does Merlin’s Xiao Wa still recognize the way?

The Eco-friendly Frog not only boasted a patch of green atop its head that looked environmentally friendly, but it also practiced environmental concepts by setting an example.

Every time this little frog went out, it neither stole nor robbed, it just picked up trash that others had discarded.

According to Hephaestus, it operated randomly within a three thousand square kilometer area centered around its master’s mark.

Simply looking at the numbers, many people might not grasp the concept of three thousand square kilometers.

Let’s put it into perspective with a few examples. According to Baidu Baike, the area of Hebi City is 2140 square kilometers, Jiaozuo is 3972 square kilometers, and Shanghai is 6340 square kilometers.

The three thousand square kilometers lay right between Hebi and Jiaozuo, about half the size of Shanghai, so it’s quite a large area and the trash it could bring back was purely by luck.

With the time of ascension approaching, Li Yu had not gone out anymore and temporarily set the mark in the Third Epoch.

As for the Eco-friendly Frog’s nest, Li Yu had repurposed the empty pigsty next to the brick house by sealing off the area completely and adding soil, water, and some aquatic plants to turn it into a small pond.

It was a pity there were no lotuses in the western territories; otherwise, transplanting a few lotuses would have made it look even nicer.

Later, Li Yu found Carpenter Nine Fingers and asked him to build a miniature treehouse by the pond, placing inside it a tiny bed given to him by Hephaestus that was only half the size of a palm, and considered the job done.

The next day, the Eco-friendly Frog appeared without any signs in the clearing in front of the treehouse, much to the surprise of the little maid who got up early to boil water.

Remembering Li Yu’s instructions before he left, she didn’t disturb the little tree frog but went out to catch some grasshoppers and small shrimp and placed them on the little table in the treehouse.

After that, Clara wasn’t able to concentrate all morning, periodically running to the front of the treehouse to check.

She found that the tree frog was either sleeping soundly on the bed or staring blankly by the pond, but the food on the table remained untouched.

The little maid was worried whether those items were not to the Eco-friendly Frog’s liking, but when she went to check in the afternoon, the food had disappeared along with the little frog.

Clara rubbed her eyes and searched carefully around the yard again but nowhere could she find the Eco-friendly Frog, making her slightly panicky.

She even ran to ask the neighbor Alvo, but he also said he hadn’t seen any frogs.

The little maid said with a pained expression, "Oh no, I’ve lost Prophet Merlin’s little frog."

Alvo, however, didn’t seem very anxious. Putting down the axe he was using to chop wood, she belonged to the minority among the lizard people who were eager and able to calmly commit to learning.

After hearing Li Yu teach the doctrines of the Double Rest Sect and understanding that the ultimate goal of the Double Rest Sect was to establish the Land God Kingdom, this lizard girl sharply realized that her tribe might not be able to continue their past self-sufficient, enclosed lifestyle in the future.

Therefore, although Li Yu had not yet started language classes to popularize the reading and writing of Universal Language, Alvo was already beginning to learn how to speak it.

After more than two months of effort, she had made some progress and was now able to speak some simple phrases in Universal Language, though she still stumbled a bit. She asked Clara,

"Prophet Merlin... before he left, did he tell you... to, to look after that little frog?"

The little maid recalled, "Not really, he just said when I see the little frog appear, to just prepare some food for it and not bother with anything else. And Alvo, you should have said ’look after’, not ’look good’ before."

"Then you don’t need to cry over it. All of this should be part of Prophet’s arrangement, just like his plans for us," Alvo consoled.

Clara thought it over and also felt that what Alvo said made sense.

Li Yu hadn’t specified that Xiao Wa had to stay by the pond, but Clara still found herself unable to concentrate on her writing lessons in the afternoon, eventually using the excuse to go outside and look for Xiao Wa.

In the end, she did find quite a few frogs, but none were the "Eco-friendly Frog."

Clara wondered if Li Yu had ever seen that particular frog, thinking that if she randomly brought one back to the pond, she wasn’t sure if he would be able to tell the difference.

However, the little maid eventually gave up on this somewhat tempting idea.

She just wandered around the territory of the Double Rest Sect, touching things here and there, observing until sunset before heading back to her residence.

As soon as she walked in the door, she heard a chorus of croaks.

Following the sounds, Clara ran to the front of the little treehouse and peered inside, where, sure enough, she saw the green frog perched on its little bed.

It actually came back?! The little maid marveled, astonished. She had seen many frogs, but this was the first that could roam around and find its way back.

Clara quickly noticed something strange on the empty ground next to the treehouse.

It appeared to be a chair.

However, the little maid had never seen a chair like this before—it was significantly larger than ordinary chairs, legless, sitting directly on the ground with a curved back, though slightly peeling, it still looked quite nice overall.

Two footrests, however, were positioned under the chair, designed to completely enclose the legs of the person sitting in it.

The little maid pondered it and felt it resembled the iron stools used in the dungeons of Teacup Castle for interrogating prisoners, designed to restrain them and prevent escape, indicating it was probably some form of torture device.

Realizing the purpose of the chair before her, Clara immediately lost interest in it.

However, the little maid’s curiosity about the frog inside the treehouse continued to grow.

The style of the torture device next to it clearly belonged to the Divine Country’s aesthetic typical of a Saturday, certainly not something the lizard people could come up with. Given that Li Yu was absent, its appearance here was likely related to the little frog.

But how had such a heavy item been brought here by the small frog?

With this puzzle in mind, Clara prepared more food for Xiao Wa, hoping to observe it heading out again, but this time, the frog showed no signs of leaving and just hopped around the pond until it was time for her to go to sleep at night.

Unable to stay awake any longer, the little maid had to go to bed, sleeping until well past dawn the next morning.

The first thing she did after getting up was rush to the pond, and, as expected, the mysterious little frog had disappeared again.

This time Clara wised up and didn’t leave. She just grabbed a small stool and sat there, staring at the door.

Except for Alvo coming to correct her pronunciation, the entrance remained quiet all morning.

Just as it was nearing lunchtime, the little maid heard the croaking sounds again.

Clara turned back, looking towards the open space in front of the small treehouse. This time she saw a round object and the little frog perched on top of it.

Both seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

The Eco-friendly Frog croaked a few times, as if notifying its owner of its return, and then, without minding the little maid who stood agape, it leapt from the round object and swam off in the pond.