“……”
Xia Nuo was still hesitating, for some reason, there was some inexplicable resistance in his heart, but after thinking about it, he couldn’t find a better way than this anyway.
Before he made a decision, Kan Lan’er just stood quietly by his side, neither urging nor persuading, under the calm surface was full of chances of winning – he knew he would get the result he wanted .
“Okay, then let’s go find the holy tree.” Xia Nuo said. He let out a long breath, as if he wanted to expel the indecision in his heart, “But are we going to ask the real holy tree, or its clone?”
If they want to seek help from the real holy tree, they have to go to the top of the mountain. If it’s just a clone, then they only need to go back to the place where they entered the mountain forest.
“Of course it’s the real holy tree.”
The man raised his head, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the layers of tree crowns, and he kept looking at the tall tree standing on the top of the mountain, reaching into the clouds and covering the sky.
Xia Nuo pursed his lips, and released a spell called ‘God of Light’s Favour’. The white light fell on the two of them, and Xia Nuo felt that the accumulated fatigue faded away little by little.
“Let’s go.”
The two set off again.
There were only the two of them left. No one knows if he noticed that Xia Nuo was a little depressed but the man changed his previous silence and began to introduce him to the animals and plants he saw along the way.
Under his eloquent description, Xia Nuo suddenly felt that this dark mountain forest was not as scary as he imagined.
The small animals living in the forest are jumping and running in the forest, poking their heads out to look at them curiously, and the forest seems to be full of vitality for a while.
“It’s the Gold Spotted Finch.” As soon as he beckoned, a bird with gorgeous feathers flew into his hand, and he handed the chubby bird to Shano, “They have golden spots on their feathers since they were born. The number of golden spots determines their status and popularity in the group. Look at this one, with twenty-three gold spots on its body, it will have a high status in the group and it will be easier to find a mate. “
“This is a red fruit tree. This kind of tree will decide what kind of fruit it will bear according to different seasons throughout the year, but no matter what fruit it is, the colour is red, so it got its name.”
The red fruit tree has a low body, and clusters of bright red fruits are hung on the branches. The fruits are plump and moist. The man picked out the best ones and handed them to Xia Nuo, saying, “Have a taste? At this time, the fruit it bears is the most delicious.”
Gently breaking open the fruit, the plump flesh is instantly exposed, the sweet aroma spreads out, and the taste is really delicious when eaten.
The golden sparrow stood on the young man’s hand, pecking at half of the fruit that the young man specially gave him, without lifting his head.
You must know that although the fruit of the red fruit tree is delicious, the poisonous thorns on its body are not fun to look at. Although the golden sparrow has been coveting the fruit of the red real tree for a long time, this is the first time it has actually eaten it.
Indulging in the delicious food, it didn’t notice that the crow on the young man’s shoulders was already eyeing him. The next moment, the crow swooped down, and the wind from its wings knocked it back.
The golden sparrow let out a ‘chirp’, flapped its wings, and flew away in a panic. The crow triumphantly took its spoils – the remaining pulp in its mouth, flew to the nearest branch, and slowly enjoyed it.
Xia Nuo who had witnessed everything: “…”
Is it really okay to bully the weak like this? And you are an item, items also need to eat?
He didn’t know what to say for a while, so he lowered his head and continued peeling the fruit in his hand.
The dark background did not affect the man’s line of sight. He watched the boy peel the fruit with a good eye as if replayed in slow motion. The slender white fingers formed a strong contrast with the bright red peel.
His throat was inexplicably thirsty, but the man knew that what he really needed was not water, his whole body was clamouring for the boy in front of him.
“Here.”
The man was in a trance, but suddenly hands stretched out in front of his eyes, his eyes were unconsciously focused on the exposed white fingertips, and the soft voice of the boy came beside his ear: “You eat too.”
Xia Nuo handed the peeled fruit to the man’s eyes, still wondering why he was in a daze just now.
Kan Lan’er: “…”
He lowered his head slowly and swallowed the sweet fruit.
For a moment, Xia Nuo seemed to feel a wet feeling coming from his fingertips, but this feeling came and went quickly, and he couldn’t be sure if it was his illusion.
“It’s so sweet.” The man’s voice was hoarse for no reason.
Probably only he himself knows what he means by ‘so sweet’.
“……”
The man’s straight and focused eyes made Xia Nuo feel a little flustered.
“Let’s go quickly, it’s getting dark.” He changed the subject in a hurry.
But this excuse is too bad.
How can you see the darkness when you don’t see the sun in the mountains?
But Kan Lan’er did not expose him, and responded kindly: “You are right, let’s go.”
Even though he said that, he couldn’t see that he wanted to ‘go quickly’.
The man still introduced the interesting creatures he saw to the young man along the way. He has a thorough understanding of the mountains and forests. It seems that there is no grass and tree here that he can’t tell the history of, and the creatures here are very close to him. , Along the way, Xia Nuo has touched no less than ten birds, three deer, a squirrel, and even a little leopard cat.
God knows how surprised he was when he saw the man in front of the leopard cat’s mother, stuffing the child into his arms in a grand manner.
And all this was just because he saw the little leopard cat rolling under the tree and praised it for its cuteness.
In addition, Xia Nuo also ate more than a dozen kinds of fruits. Every time he hears the man introduce a plant and end with “its fruit tastes good”, he will consciously reach out his hand, which has formed a conditioned reflex.
Xia Nuo even had a question in his heart: Are we really going to find out the whereabouts of our teammates, not to play?
Although he was still worried about the safety of his teammates, unknowingly, that worry was gradually diluted by the various novelties the man found.
There are countless novelty things in the forest, Xia Nuo’s attention was slowly shifted to the man before he realised it.
He didn’t know that this was what the man did on purpose.
In such a perfect two-person world, how could he allow the boy to still think about other people, even if they were just the boy’s teammates.
He managed to create an environment where the two of them were alone, but he wanted to treat it as a formal date.
Seeing the atmosphere around the young man gradually becoming cheerful, the man slightly raised the corners of his lips: So far, the progress is not bad.
However, there are always some uninvited guests who insist on destroying his plan.
He looked at the black-robed woman who suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, and said in a condensed voice, “Na Duo Sha, why are you here?”
“……”
The old woman bowed down to him respectfully, but looked at Xia Nuo who was beside him with a blank face: “I’ve been waiting for a long time, but I can’t wait until the arrival of the brave men any longer, so I planned to leave here first, but I didn’t expect to meet you here.”
“We were going to find you, but we encountered an accident…”
Suddenly seeing their original target, Xia Nuo couldn’t help but feel a little complicated.
“Why were the other brave men captured by the python?” Na Duo Sha didn’t show any surprise at all.
“The python…” Xia Nuo shook his head, and he said with some expectation, “I don’t know, as we walked, everyone disappeared without a trace. Na Duo Sha, do you know their whereabouts?”
“It must have been done by those pythons.” Na Duo Sha didn’t hesitate at all, “But you don’t have to worry, as far as I know, those pythons are storing rations for the young snakes that are about to hatch, and the other brave adults are not in danger yet. “
Hearing this, Xia Nuo breathed a sigh of relief.
What he fears most is waiting until we meet again, only to find the bones of his teammates appearing in front of him. Now that he knew that their lives were not in danger, he felt much more at ease.
“Then can you take us to find them?” Xia Nuo asked.
“This…” Na Duo Sha took a peek at the man’s face, “Those pythons have prepared many burrows, but I actually don’t know where they are.”
She had seen the flowers on the boy’s chest a long time ago, and now she directly suggested: “Why don’t you ask the holy tree?”
Having been a priest for so many years, she thinks she still has some understanding of men’s minds.
Sure enough, upon hearing these words, the man’s cold face softened despite the disturbance.
The same is true of Na Duo Sha’s suggestion, Xia Nuo had no choice but to accept the fact that “there is no other way but to ask the holy tree”.
However, he quickly remembered the solution to the python disaster that Na Duo Sha had said, and couldn’t help asking: “Although I am the only brave man here, can you tell me the solution to the python disaster first?”
“Of course.” Na Duo Sha nodded, “This matter started five years ago…”
Five years ago, Zhuo Yang, who left his hometown for a long time, came back.
As the first magician to go out in the Nasuru area for so many years, his return was warmly welcomed by the villagers.
But he was not alone, and he came back with a young and beautiful woman.
Zhuo Yang introduced that she is the daughter of his mentor and has now become her wife. When they came back this time, they wanted to settle in Nasuru and conduct magic research at the same time.
The villagers did not understand what magic research was, nor were they interested.
After being lively for a while, Nasuru returned to its original calm. Zhuo Yang and his wife built a house near the forest and lived there.
Because of the remoteness of the residence, the villagers could not often see the couple. After about six or seven months, Zhuo Yang’s wife appeared as a pregnant woman with a big belly.
Because of the small population, Nasuru has always attached great importance to newborns, so he naturally pays more attention to Zhuo Yang’s wife. With this attention, they found a problem.
Since Zhuo Yang’s wife came to Nasuru, some strange things began to happen here.
The chances of villagers seeing monster corpses in the wilderness are greatly increased, and the corpses are not as usual, there were no signs of fighting and biting like those dead monsters before. The reason for their death was that the blood in their bodies had been sucked dry, and their bodies were cold and dry.
Probably some blood-sucking beast came here.
The villagers guessed like this, but didn’t take it to heart at first.
But one thing happened very quickly, so that they could no longer ignore it.
A villager went out at night due to business, but was attacked by an unknown monster, and his body appeared on the wasteland the next day.
The villagers were in an uproar.
You must know that the monsters in Nasuru are under the jurisdiction of the sacred tree, no matter how much they fight with each other, they will not harm the aborigines here.
The suspicious villagers began to investigate the matter. Although their methods were not clever, the murderer obviously didn’t bother to cover up his evil deeds. They quickly tracked down the real murderer – Zhuo Yang’s wife.
Because the murderer chose to commit the crime at night, in order to avoid alarming the enemy and avoid wronging the good man, a bold young man among the villagers volunteered to monitor the woman.
——Then he saw an astonishing scene.
Zhuo Yang’s figure was not seen in Zhuo Yang’s house, there was a snow-white giant python coiled around his body, with a swollen belly, obviously he had already eaten and drank enough.
And beside the giant python lay a bone that had already withered and decayed. The white bone can no longer see its original appearance, but the wedding ring still shining on its hand clearly shows its identity.
It was Zhuo Yang who has not appeared in front of everyone for a long time.
“And then?” Hearing this, Xia Nuo couldn’t help asking, “And then?” Hearing this, Xia Nuo couldn’t help asking, “The python, was it Zhuo Yang’s wife who changed? “
“Then everyone killed the python.” Na Duo Sha nodded, confirming his guess. She sneered, “It’s a pity they didn’t expect that the baby in the python’s stomach survived.”
“……”
Xia Nuo was still hesitating, for some reason, there was some inexplicable resistance in his heart, but after thinking about it, he couldn’t find a better way than this anyway.
Before he made a decision, Kan Lan’er just stood quietly by his side, neither urging nor persuading, under the calm surface was full of chances of winning – he knew he would get the result he wanted .
“Okay, then let’s go find the holy tree.” Xia Nuo said. He let out a long breath, as if he wanted to expel the indecision in his heart, “But are we going to ask the real holy tree, or its clone?”
If they want to seek help from the real holy tree, they have to go to the top of the mountain. If it’s just a clone, then they only need to go back to the place where they entered the mountain forest.
“Of course it’s the real holy tree.”
The man raised his head, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the layers of tree crowns, and he kept looking at the tall tree standing on the top of the mountain, reaching into the clouds and covering the sky.
Xia Nuo pursed his lips, and released a spell called ‘God of Light’s Favour’. The white light fell on the two of them, and Xia Nuo felt that the accumulated fatigue faded away little by little.
“Let’s go.”
The two set off again.
There were only the two of them left. No one knows if he noticed that Xia Nuo was a little depressed but the man changed his previous silence and began to introduce him to the animals and plants he saw along the way.
Under his eloquent description, Xia Nuo suddenly felt that this dark mountain forest was not as scary as he imagined.
The small animals living in the forest are jumping and running in the forest, poking their heads out to look at them curiously, and the forest seems to be full of vitality for a while.
“It’s the Gold Spotted Finch.” As soon as he beckoned, a bird with gorgeous feathers flew into his hand, and he handed the chubby bird to Shano, “They have golden spots on their feathers since they were born. The number of golden spots determines their status and popularity in the group. Look at this one, with twenty-three gold spots on its body, it will have a high status in the group and it will be easier to find a mate. “
“This is a red fruit tree. This kind of tree will decide what kind of fruit it will bear according to different seasons throughout the year, but no matter what fruit it is, the colour is red, so it got its name.”
The red fruit tree has a low body, and clusters of bright red fruits are hung on the branches. The fruits are plump and moist. The man picked out the best ones and handed them to Xia Nuo, saying, “Have a taste? At this time, the fruit it bears is the most delicious.”
Gently breaking open the fruit, the plump flesh is instantly exposed, the sweet aroma spreads out, and the taste is really delicious when eaten.
The golden sparrow stood on the young man’s hand, pecking at half of the fruit that the young man specially gave him, without lifting his head.
You must know that although the fruit of the red fruit tree is delicious, the poisonous thorns on its body are not fun to look at. Although the golden sparrow has been coveting the fruit of the red real tree for a long time, this is the first time it has actually eaten it.
Indulging in the delicious food, it didn’t notice that the crow on the young man’s shoulders was already eyeing him. The next moment, the crow swooped down, and the wind from its wings knocked it back.
The golden sparrow let out a ‘chirp’, flapped its wings, and flew away in a panic. The crow triumphantly took its spoils – the remaining pulp in its mouth, flew to the nearest branch, and slowly enjoyed it.
Xia Nuo who had witnessed everything: “…”
Is it really okay to bully the weak like this? And you are an item, items also need to eat?
He didn’t know what to say for a while, so he lowered his head and continued peeling the fruit in his hand.
The dark background did not affect the man’s line of sight. He watched the boy peel the fruit with a good eye as if replayed in slow motion. The slender white fingers formed a strong contrast with the bright red peel.
His throat was inexplicably thirsty, but the man knew that what he really needed was not water, his whole body was clamouring for the boy in front of him.
“Here.”
The man was in a trance, but suddenly hands stretched out in front of his eyes, his eyes were unconsciously focused on the exposed white fingertips, and the soft voice of the boy came beside his ear: “You eat too.”
Xia Nuo handed the peeled fruit to the man’s eyes, still wondering why he was in a daze just now.
Kan Lan’er: “…”
He lowered his head slowly and swallowed the sweet fruit.
For a moment, Xia Nuo seemed to feel a wet feeling coming from his fingertips, but this feeling came and went quickly, and he couldn’t be sure if it was his illusion.
“It’s so sweet.” The man’s voice was hoarse for no reason.
Probably only he himself knows what he means by ‘so sweet’.
“……”
The man’s straight and focused eyes made Xia Nuo feel a little flustered.
“Let’s go quickly, it’s getting dark.” He changed the subject in a hurry.
But this excuse is too bad.
How can you see the darkness when you don’t see the sun in the mountains?
But Kan Lan’er did not expose him, and responded kindly: “You are right, let’s go.”
Even though he said that, he couldn’t see that he wanted to ‘go quickly’.
The man still introduced the interesting creatures he saw to the young man along the way. He has a thorough understanding of the mountains and forests. It seems that there is no grass and tree here that he can’t tell the history of, and the creatures here are very close to him. , Along the way, Xia Nuo has touched no less than ten birds, three deer, a squirrel, and even a little leopard cat.
God knows how surprised he was when he saw the man in front of the leopard cat’s mother, stuffing the child into his arms in a grand manner.
And all this was just because he saw the little leopard cat rolling under the tree and praised it for its cuteness.
In addition, Xia Nuo also ate more than a dozen kinds of fruits. Every time he hears the man introduce a plant and end with “its fruit tastes good”, he will consciously reach out his hand, which has formed a conditioned reflex.
Xia Nuo even had a question in his heart: Are we really going to find out the whereabouts of our teammates, not to play?
Although he was still worried about the safety of his teammates, unknowingly, that worry was gradually diluted by the various novelties the man found.
There are countless novelty things in the forest, Xia Nuo’s attention was slowly shifted to the man before he realised it.
He didn’t know that this was what the man did on purpose.
In such a perfect two-person world, how could he allow the boy to still think about other people, even if they were just the boy’s teammates.
He managed to create an environment where the two of them were alone, but he wanted to treat it as a formal date.
Seeing the atmosphere around the young man gradually becoming cheerful, the man slightly raised the corners of his lips: So far, the progress is not bad.
However, there are always some uninvited guests who insist on destroying his plan.
He looked at the black-robed woman who suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, and said in a condensed voice, “Na Duo Sha, why are you here?”
“……”
The old woman bowed down to him respectfully, but looked at Xia Nuo who was beside him with a blank face: “I’ve been waiting for a long time, but I can’t wait until the arrival of the brave men any longer, so I planned to leave here first, but I didn’t expect to meet you here.”
“We were going to find you, but we encountered an accident…”
Suddenly seeing their original target, Xia Nuo couldn’t help but feel a little complicated.
“Why were the other brave men captured by the python?” Na Duo Sha didn’t show any surprise at all.
“The python…” Xia Nuo shook his head, and he said with some expectation, “I don’t know, as we walked, everyone disappeared without a trace. Na Duo Sha, do you know their whereabouts?”
“It must have been done by those pythons.” Na Duo Sha didn’t hesitate at all, “But you don’t have to worry, as far as I know, those pythons are storing rations for the young snakes that are about to hatch, and the other brave adults are not in danger yet. “
Hearing this, Xia Nuo breathed a sigh of relief.
What he fears most is waiting until we meet again, only to find the bones of his teammates appearing in front of him. Now that he knew that their lives were not in danger, he felt much more at ease.
“Then can you take us to find them?” Xia Nuo asked.
“This…” Na Duo Sha took a peek at the man’s face, “Those pythons have prepared many burrows, but I actually don’t know where they are.”
She had seen the flowers on the boy’s chest a long time ago, and now she directly suggested: “Why don’t you ask the holy tree?”
Having been a priest for so many years, she thinks she still has some understanding of men’s minds.
Sure enough, upon hearing these words, the man’s cold face softened despite the disturbance.
The same is true of Na Duo Sha’s suggestion, Xia Nuo had no choice but to accept the fact that “there is no other way but to ask the holy tree”.
However, he quickly remembered the solution to the python disaster that Na Duo Sha had said, and couldn’t help asking: “Although I am the only brave man here, can you tell me the solution to the python disaster first?”
“Of course.” Na Duo Sha nodded, “This matter started five years ago…”
Five years ago, Zhuo Yang, who left his hometown for a long time, came back.
As the first magician to go out in the Nasuru area for so many years, his return was warmly welcomed by the villagers.
But he was not alone, and he came back with a young and beautiful woman.
Zhuo Yang introduced that she is the daughter of his mentor and has now become her wife. When they came back this time, they wanted to settle in Nasuru and conduct magic research at the same time.
The villagers did not understand what magic research was, nor were they interested.
After being lively for a while, Nasuru returned to its original calm. Zhuo Yang and his wife built a house near the forest and lived there.
Because of the remoteness of the residence, the villagers could not often see the couple. After about six or seven months, Zhuo Yang’s wife appeared as a pregnant woman with a big belly.
Because of the small population, Nasuru has always attached great importance to newborns, so he naturally pays more attention to Zhuo Yang’s wife. With this attention, they found a problem.
Since Zhuo Yang’s wife came to Nasuru, some strange things began to happen here.
The chances of villagers seeing monster corpses in the wilderness are greatly increased, and the corpses are not as usual, there were no signs of fighting and biting like those dead monsters before. The reason for their death was that the blood in their bodies had been sucked dry, and their bodies were cold and dry.
Probably some blood-sucking beast came here.
The villagers guessed like this, but didn’t take it to heart at first.
But one thing happened very quickly, so that they could no longer ignore it.
A villager went out at night due to business, but was attacked by an unknown monster, and his body appeared on the wasteland the next day.
The villagers were in an uproar.
You must know that the monsters in Nasuru are under the jurisdiction of the sacred tree, no matter how much they fight with each other, they will not harm the aborigines here.
The suspicious villagers began to investigate the matter. Although their methods were not clever, the murderer obviously didn’t bother to cover up his evil deeds. They quickly tracked down the real murderer – Zhuo Yang’s wife.
Because the murderer chose to commit the crime at night, in order to avoid alarming the enemy and avoid wronging the good man, a bold young man among the villagers volunteered to monitor the woman.
——Then he saw an astonishing scene.
Zhuo Yang’s figure was not seen in Zhuo Yang’s house, there was a snow-white giant python coiled around his body, with a swollen belly, obviously he had already eaten and drank enough.
And beside the giant python lay a bone that had already withered and decayed. The white bone can no longer see its original appearance, but the wedding ring still shining on its hand clearly shows its identity.
It was Zhuo Yang who has not appeared in front of everyone for a long time.
“And then?” Hearing this, Xia Nuo couldn’t help asking, “And then?” Hearing this, Xia Nuo couldn’t help asking, “The python, was it Zhuo Yang’s wife who changed? “
“Then everyone killed the python.” Na Duo Sha nodded, confirming his guess. She sneered, “It’s a pity they didn’t expect that the baby in the python’s stomach survived.”
