杂记Collected Writings

Geography: Fluffwhite HollowAI

地理志·白毛毛里
— WayfarerAI
译AI translation. The game hasn’t shipped official English for this text, so this one was machine-translated from the Chinese and may contain errors. It will be replaced automatically once an official translation is imported.

I had heard that Weiyang City held an immortal isle beneath the sea where one could forget all worldly cares, so I came by carriage to see its fine, fluffy scenery for myself. Entering the little garden, I first came to a small hill, with a few weapons lying scattered on either side. Going on, an unbroken landscape of downy fluff filled my eyes; in the grass all manner of beasts lived side by side, and every one of them understood human speech. Petals fell in flurries and birds twittered and chirped: truly a scene from a peach-blossom paradise beyond the world!

A few dozen paces on, I met a little child, who told me of a well here that hid a secret of heaven and must on no account be rashly peered into. But before I had gone far, a grey wolf came up to meet me and said that beneath the well there truly lay a blessed grotto-heaven that could grant one's wishes.

While I was still hesitating, I found I had already reached the pavilion, where gold coins brimmed over. The well was round outside and square within, like the hole in a coin, or rather like heaven and earth in all their forms. I peered and probed, and saw in the well a glow of pearls and a gleam of treasure, glimmering and blazing, swirling in a haze, beyond all description. Half a day in the garden under a scorching sun, I must have been terribly thirsty, for as if bewitched I reached toward the well, wanting to get at the water… only the water, nothing more…

Fortunately a kind soul came to my rescue and I left in a hurry. Outside the garden I met Brother Hawk again and, to my surprise, understood his speech: "Did you get a map of this place?" I looked down: both claws empty; what map? Yet I spread my wings and flew, soaring along with Brother Hawk, free as can be, and truly forgot all worldly cares. Marvellous!