Chapter 163: Learning Instruments - 163
The next morning, Zhou Fan was once again awoken by the chicken.
"Brother Fan! That mean fox can speak now!" He said, looking out of breath. "She's even more rude now, you have to stop her!"
Zhou Fan got out of bed and followed the chicken into the yard without a word. There, the fox was sitting on the ground licking her paws.
"If it isn't the stupid chicken" She said, now in clear english.
"If it isn't the ugly fox." The chicken said without much confidence.
Zhou Fan walked past the chicken and the fox without saying anything. He would let them argue until they got tired and fell asleep.
In the meantime, Zhou Fan took a stroll around the manor. Although it wasn't too big, it was more than big enough for a walk.
As he arrived at the same pond as yesterday, Zhou Fan took a closer look at the water. After a while, the chicken's actions from yesterday made much more sense.
Since the entire manor had been strengthened by Zhou Fan, everything had changed. The water was now equal to the chicken in strength. That meant that it was equivalent to a normal chicken getting into normal water. As far as Zhou Fan knew, chickens couldn't swim.
Besides the water, everything else had also changed. Even with the chickens and the fox's strength, they couldn't cut down a tree. They may be able to dig a bit, but not too far down. They also wouldn't be able to fly since the gravity had increased.
Before, Zhou Fan hadn't even paid that much attention to it.
After seeing how the chicken and the fox made the manor so much more lively, Zhou Fan intended to create some more animals.
His first thought was deer and rodents. He would stay away from insects, but a mole or a rat didn't seem that bad. On second thought, a butterfly seemed like a good addition.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan decided to create a mole, a deer, and a butterfly, just to see how they fit in with the fox and the chicken.
The mole was small and brown with a white belly and claws. Zhou Fan gave it cultivation equal to the fox and the chicken, and it burrowed into the ground and moved away in order to develop its intelligence.
The deer was white and female. She didn't have antlers, and even Zhou Fan found her a bit cute. She was still a young deer, but she frolicked off in the distance once Zhou Fan gave her some cultivation.
The butterfly was the colors of a rainbow. Zhou Fan also found her somewhat cute. She flew off in the same direction as the deer once Zhou Fan gave her some cultivation.
It would take them about a day to fully develop their intelligence, so Zhou Fan headed back to the yard in front of his house.
Right where he had left them, the fox and the chicken were arguing. 30 minutes had passed and they were still at it.
As soon as the chicken saw him, he tried to bring him into their argument.
"Brother Fan, this fox just called me fat. Are you going to let her talk to your brother this way?" He said smugly.
"Yes." Zhou Fan said as he walked towards the chicken.
Before the chicken could react to what he said, Zhou Fan scooped him up and walked towards the side of the square yard in front of his residence.
"Me and this chicken are going to learn music, you're free to come with us." Zhou Fan said to the fox as he walked.
The fox didn't respond, but she followed him from afar. Just a few tens of feet from where the chicken and the fox were arguing, there was a table and some chairs. The table was rectangular and big enough to seat 16 people. Off to the side, there were a couple of stools and a big instrument.
Zhou Fan went to the big instrument known as a harp. He had been interested in trying to use Qi with music. He was also just interested in learning how to play instruments.
As he reached the stool and the instrument, Zhou Fan sat the chicken on the ground and took a seat. The chicken had calmed down from his earlier argument and obediently sat to the side, watching Zhou Fan.
Soon after, the fox arrived and calmly sat next to the chicken and licked its arms. It was more of a cat than a fox.
After he got comfortable, Zhou Fan started from the edge of the instrument and played the strings in order.
Ding! Ring! Ting! Fing!
The harps strings let out a slightly different sound each time. It went from high pitch to low pitch.
Dong! Rong! Tong! Fong!
Eventually, Zhou Fan had played all of the strings once. The chicken and the fox were still watching him silently.
Once Zhou Fan had thoroughly memorized the strings' sounds, he began to play a song. At first, it was slightly out of tune and offbeat, but Zhou Fan fixed his mistakes almost instantly.
Soon, a calming and soothing song that gave off the feeling of spring was heard all throughout the manor. As he continued, Zhou Fan got more of a feel for the instrument. After only ten minutes, he began to implement Qi into his song.
As he did so, the sound got clearer and the song felt more pleasant. Before they knew it, the fox and the chicken were moving their heads along to the melody.
Zhou Fan got better and better at playing the harp as time passed. After around an hour, some leaves shook and a new visitor made its appearance.
It was the deer that had yet to completely gain intelligence. Even so, it was attracted to the open land by the music. On the white deers head, the rainbow butterfly rested.
The way the deer walked towards Zhou Fan was in beat with the song. The butterfly on top of the deer's head was also moving its head to the melody.
Chapter 164: Dinner - 164
As the deer walked towards Zhou Fan while moving its head, the chicken and the fox finally noticed them.
Despite the new people, the chicken and the fox were too attracted by the music to pay them any attention.
The deer and the butterfly on its head were the same, ignoring the fox and the chickens presence.
Once she had come within ten feet of Zhou Fan and the harp, the deer curled up its legs and layed on the ground while listening. The butterfly remained on its head.
As the deer and the butterfly listened more and more, they seemed to be gaining intelligence faster. Zhou Fan could only guess that the song was clearing their minds and speeding up the intelligence-giving process as a result.
Instead of almost an entire day, the deer and the butterfly's eyes cleared up within an hour. Still, they simply sat and listened to the music.
Not long after, what seemed like moving dirt made its way towards the harp. As the dirt reached within ten feet of Zhou Fan, it stopped moving. Then, a head popped out of the dirt pile. The mole left its lower body below the ground while its head moved to the rhythm of the song. It too gained intelligence within an hour.
By that time, Zhou Fan was ready to stop for the day. He soon struck the last note of the song and stopped moving his fingers.
After a minute, the animals around him left their trance.
"Wow, that was really good!" The deer said, speaking her first words.
"I agree!" The high pitched voice of the small butterfly said.
"Same." Said the deep voice of the mole that gave the illusion it was bigger than it actually was.
"It was okay." Said the fox.
"I think it was absolutely enthralling." Said the chicken.
Although Zhou Fan wasn't much for flattery, he couldn't help but enjoy hearing the chickens' words.
"Thank you all. Would you three like to stay for dinner?" Zhou Fan asked while looking at the newcomers.
"Sure!"
"Sure!"
"Sure."
The three newcomers spoke at the same time. Zhou Fan walked through the path that led towards the waterfall with the 5 animals following behind him.
"Here is some water. I will go prepare some food for each of you." Zhou Fan said before walking back through the path and heading to his main house. Although he could have instantly brought it over, he wanted to let them get to know each other.
While he was gone, the five animals started speaking to each other.
"My name is chicken. You all can call me Big Brother Chicken." The chicken said proudly.
"Ok big brother chicken." The deer and the butterfly said in unison. The mole simply nodded.
"My name is fox. You all can call me Miss Fox." The fox said arrogantly.
"Yes miss fox!" The deer and the butterfly said in unison. Once again, the mole merely nodded.
"We don't have names, do we make them ourselves?" The butterfly asked after realizing that they couldn't introduce themselves.
"Just ask brother Fan when he returns. I'm sure he has a name for all of you." The chicken said.
"That sounds good! Should we also call him brother Fan?" The deer asked.
"Just call him whatever you want. I'm sure he doesn't mind." The fox responded.
"What do you call him miss fox?" The butterfly asked.
"I just call him mister Fan." The fox said.
The deer and the butterfly thought about it for a while, but they eventually spoke. "I think Brother Fan sounds good." The deer said, speaking for both of them.
After some chatting, Zhou Fan returned with two plates. One was full with meats, while the other was filled with plants. Naturally, Zhou Fan had avoided using the meats of certain animals such as chicken or deer.
"Here you go. Try some of both." Zhou Fan said.
Although butterflies weren't usually meat eaters, these animals were different. They had yet to choose between meat and plants, or both. It wasn't in their genes like it was in most animals.
As the butterfly came up to try the meat, Zhou Fan cut it into tiny pieces so that she could fit it in her mouth.
Before she took a bite, she asked Zhou Fan a question. "What's my name?"
Zhou Fan thought for a second before he answered. "Your name is butterfly."
The butterfly nodded happily and ate the meat bits.
The other animals also came up, with the mole and the deer asking for their names. "Your name is deer, and your name is mole." He had said.
After a couple minutes, the animals had eaten their fill. Surprisingly, every single one of the animals liked both meat and plants. He didn't know why some animals on earth had evolved to not like meat, but he assumed that it was because it was hard to get for them.
Before they left, Zhou Fan grabbed the chicken and forcefully cleaned it with the water. It struggled for a while until it realized that it was hopeless. If Zhou Fan hadn't strengthened the space, it would have been shattered from his resistance.
Afterwards, he grabbed the fox, who hissed at him, and forcefully gave her a bath as well. She struggled much less, but the brief anger on her face showed how mad she was.
Sensing their impending doom, the butterfly, the deer, and the mole started to run away. Sadly, Zhou Fan caught them all and dragged them back. He first gave a bath to the deer, who accepted her fate.
Next, he cleaned the mole. It was by far the dirtiest since he had been digging underground before. He too accepted his fate and got cleaned.
As for the butterfly, Zhou Fan simply gave her a couple drops of water since she wasn't dirty at all. He only did it to be fair.
By the time he was finished, there were 5 wet and upset animals glaring at him.
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