I became incredibly cute after dressing up as an animal!

The elephant herd suddenly fell silent.

The wind blows, the grass sways, and all around is silent.

Lan Xiaoxiao felt that every elephant around her was slowing down, its ears were no longer flapping, and its trunk was gently touching the ground.

She looked in the direction Chu Yi pointed, and in the low-lying area, a huge white skeleton lay diagonally on the withered yellow grass.

The skulls face west, some buried in the soil with only half exposed, the spines scattered segment by segment, and the ribs crookedly stuck in the soil. After being exposed to wind and sun, the skeletons remain white and gleaming.

Lan Xiaoxiao watched for a while, then lowered her head and touched Chu Yi's ear with her nose, asking softly, "Who is it?"

The first-year student didn't answer because it didn't know either.

Chief Mary had already walked up to the skeleton and stopped.

Mary lowered her head and gently touched the edge of the skull with her nose, a very light touch, as if she were touching something fragile.

It paused for a moment, then took half a step back and emitted a very low and long sound, like a sigh or a call.

Mary's daughters came over one by one and formed a semicircle around the skeleton. Each elephant lowered its head and touched the skull with its trunk, very carefully.

Angie's nose lingered longest above the skull, gently sweeping across the air above it.

Lan Xiaoxiao stood on the outside, looking at her family, and felt something very light but very heavy in the air.

They are grieving, they are missing someone.

If I'm not mistaken, this elephant skeleton should be Mary's mother. As Mary's eldest daughter, Angie was the younger generation who had the most contact with her grandmother, and she missed her grandmother very much.

Is this the legendary Elephant Tomb?

Lan Xiaoxiao had heard that elephants are the only animals that hold funerals, and they even feel sad when they see the skeletons of their own kind.

Elephants may look like giants, but they are actually very sensitive and have rich emotions.

Inside the jeep, Zhang Wang held up his telephoto camera, aimed the lens at Mary and the skull, and slowly pressed the shutter a few times.

Bud turned his head from the driver's seat: "Why are you taking this picture? To post it... on WeChat, the platform you Chinese use, to your Moments?"

Zhang Wang put down his camera: "No, it's just a record. When I'm old, retired, and no longer on the grasslands, I can look back at it."

Bud glanced at him, then turned back to look out the window: "Let's take more pictures then, so we can take more photos together. When we get old, we'll all go back to our own countries to retire, and we won't be able to see each other anymore."

Zhang Wang smiled and nodded, then pulled Badmia to take a selfie together.

The elephants lingered around the skeleton for an hour.

Mary touched the edge of the skull one last time, then turned and headed toward the water source.

The other elephants followed one after another. As Lan Xiaoxiao walked away, she glanced back at the white skeleton. It lay quietly in the depression, its skull facing west. The wind blew through the gaps in its ribs, making a very soft sound.

Two days later, the elephant herd found a water source.

The pool wasn't large, but the water was very clear. Several mimosa trees were scattered around it, their shade providing shelter from the sun.

Lan Xiaoxiao and Chu Yi were drinking water by the pool when another group of elephants came from the south. The leader was a female elephant that looked to be over forty years old, followed by seven or eight elephants, including a calf. The youngest was only about one year old and was walking with a bouncy, unsteady gait.

Two herds of elephants stopped on either side of the pool.

Lan Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at the little elephant across the water. It was grayish, with slightly curled edges on its ears and a smudged trunk.

The little elephant also saw Lan Xiaoxiao. It stopped, tilted its head and looked at her for a while, then took a few steps and quietly walked a few steps toward the center of the pool.

As soon as it reached the water's edge, a mother elephant behind it emitted a short, low-frequency sound wave. The baby elephant's ears twitched, it stopped, turned around, ran back, and disappeared under its mother's belly.

Lan Xiaoxiao laughed. The naughty child must have been scolded by his mother.

At first glance, Lan Xiaoxiao finished drinking her water, so he gently nudged her back, saying, "Let's go, don't look anymore, that little elephant isn't pretty."

"..."

Why are they still attacking each other in the first year of junior high?

Lan Xiaoxiao tilted her head to look at Chu Yi, and asked with a smile, "Are you afraid I'll go play with that little elephant?"

"Hmm." Chu Yi didn't mince words; it was straightforward and said, "Don't go play with it; it can't understand you."

"...Besides you, no other elephant can understand my chaotic frequency." This was clearly a helpless situation, but Lan Xiaoxiao didn't care. She even thought it was good. She and Chu Yi had encrypted messages and could whisper to each other without worrying about other elephants understanding.

Lan Xiaoxiao began to explain to the first-year students about the elephant graveyard from the previous two days.

After hearing this, I thought of its people. "I remember where their skeletons are. When spring comes and the rainy season arrives, we will go back. I want to go and see them."

Lan Xiaoxiao immediately snuggled up to her boyfriend, offering silent comfort, "Okay, I'll go with you."

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Author Da Long: Goodnight.