The little turtle blinked its eyes and spoke in human language,
"It is indeed true. When I was very young, I heard our clan talking about it..."
Wang Yue crawled a couple of steps forward, its little eyes fixed on the fruit platter on the table. It stretched its neck to look around, seemingly deciding where to start eating, while saying,
"Back then, we were all born on a shoal and lived together in the river. Some clan members met their parents and heard from them... We originally lived in the waters of the Great Abyss, where there were thousands of our kind. But one day, the ancestors of our branch suddenly left and migrated thousands of miles to live in the river..."
"Oh... why leave? Isn't the Great Abyss, being all water, the perfect place for your kind?"
The little turtle turned its little head and blinked its bean-sized eyes,
