Chapter 1000: The Great Patriarch
(Finally, I have moved all my belongings, so I can live in my new home with peace of mind, and my life will finally be a little regular in the future...... I tossed for three months, I didn't expect that there would be a bunch of troubles after the decoration, these two days are really big, do you want to take a long vacation to adjust and adjust...... )
Due to the problem of life forms, Lilina's sense of the life environment is very keen, second only to Dingdong, and her resistance to the abnormal life environment is much weaker than that of Dingdong, so when facing this empty village with phantoms, and the huge plants that have spread across the entire planet, Lilina feels very uncomfortable, this feeling is something that others can't empathize with, which is roughly equivalent to the unbearable sense of disobedience. It's like walking down the street and suddenly seeing more than 10,000 naked Billy Hairington run over in front of your eyes: though it doesn't hurt, I don't believe anyone can face it safely in this situation......
In contrast, Jingle Bell is much more indifferent, she is a genuine and professional goddess of life, any abnormal life environment in the mortal world has zero influence on her, in fact, since we came to the center of the earth, Jingle Bell has been bored and out of her pocket, because she feels that the huge plant on the small planet in the center of the earth is a lazy guy, even if she communicates, she can't "speak" complete words, I can feel Xiao Budian moving slightly in her breast pocket, indicating that she is not sleeping, open her pocket and take a look, It turned out that this guy was curling up in a ball and playing with the flower rope, which was made of the thin thread used to sew clothes at home, and I estimated that in another half an hour this guy would be able to tie himself into zongzi.
Lilina arched over me for a long time. Hum chirp. It's strange to say. This guy is obviously a full royal sister in his bones, and the life experience before and after adds up to more than me and my sister multiplied by two, and he should be a scheming and mature and stable breed, when she boldly rushed over in Silvermoon City in order to escape from Azeroth, that kind of shrewd plan I still remember vividly, but since she was reborn and changed into such an immortal demigod Lori body, Lilina seems to have completely broken off with the world of normal people, and even forgot that she was an adult. She is becoming more and more skillful at playing cute, grabbing toys from the children at home. Sneaking into the kitchen with Bubbles to steal cake - sometimes with Sandora, who would never seem to be able to be interesting in everyday life at her mental age, and I asked if she had a bad stomach. In exchange for a random bite from this girl, she continued to go her own way.
But I've always taken any convulsions from Lilina as normal, this guy is not in her right mind, she loves what to do, anyway, it's not a lot of pressure for me to take care of a more problematic sister: even though theoretically she's an older sister.
After tossing and turning for a few minutes, Lilina finally admitted defeat, canceled her demigod posture, and changed from an elf loli to a human loli, which could make her feel more comfortable, and the middle-aged elf was obviously very surprised when he came down from the second floor with a drink and a fruit bowl cut up: he couldn't understand why a good and decent kindred suddenly became an outsider.
"It's just a form switch. Everyone in the Flame Sky ......" Lilina was about to say nothing, but was beaten by her sister before changing her words, "It's my stunt anyway." ”
"We just came here, and we are not very familiar with the situation here," my sister looked at the drinks and fruits brought by the middle-aged man with some trouble, and she didn't know how to deal with them, so she simply changed the topic first, "You have been living in this star ...... Is it in the world? ”
"Of course, the Oasis Star is the home of the Dryads," the middle-aged man looked proud. "It is because of the protection of the Oasis Star that the tree elves can survive the scorching heat of the Blazing Heaven. But despite this, we are still very interested in the situation in the Flame Heaven, you know, we have a legend here. Those who say that they come from under the flames will be invaders, and they will come in large ships to rob the treasures of their ancestors. And it will burn the world to ashes, so we will be quite nervous when we meet strangers in foreigner clothes, this is all frightened by the stories we used to hearing when we were children, at first I thought you were enemies, but you are really different from the legends: there are no big ships, there are no murder and arson, you look very kind, not like enemies. In fact, people on the earth sometimes study the Flame Heaven, using a long telescope, but there are clouds and sky walls, and the largest telescope can only see some burning rivers, not even houses, so now people don't believe in the fairy tale of Flame Heaven, and now people think that it should be another land, for some reason there is a fire. ”
Everyone was silent on the surface, but they quickly discussed it in the spiritual connection, and reached a consensus: the invaders he mentioned may be the fallen apostles who frantically chased and killed the clan after the fall of the old empire, and the so-called came down from the burning world and drove a big ship to rob the treasures of the ancestors, it is likely that the fallen apostles will drive the warship to break through the armor and strata of the green star to plunder this small planet in the center of the earth, so the legend of their ancestors must be from the old imperial era: these people are the descendants of the former imperial families?
I suddenly realized that everything in front of me was not very logical, and the focus of these dissonances was that everything here was a projection of quality, but they themselves did not know this.
If their essence is the shells of those dormant pods in the mantle, then they are supposed to be survivors of the catastrophe that happened tens of thousands of years ago, continuing to live in the center of the earth in the form of spirits, but they don't know anything about it.
If they are the descendants of the survivors of the past, and they no longer know about the affairs of their ancestors, and only know some incomplete legends, then it is even more wrong: how does the mass projection reproduce?
They're just projections!
The middle-aged man brought some drinks and fruits, which looked like some kind of diluted plant juice, with a faint yellow-green color, and a sweet and earthy smell, while the fruit was not recognizable, and had been cut into even rectangular pieces, perhaps it was only a small part of a huge fruit: all the plants here were so big that they must have been the same as we have when they nibbled on apples. I was worried about what I was eating and drinking. Sandora was right. There are so many unnecessary details in the quality projections here, including the smells, but they look so real that they can really be used by us in the real world? Of course it's impossible, only Tavel can easily drink this kind of thing, she can directly break down the drink into discrete information clusters and store them in her body, and she can also increase the density of her own projection, although only a little, and I tried it but found that the cup became a phantom in my hand: a certain projection device had a bug when dealing with this kind of information exchange outside the plan, but fortunately she reacted quickly. Put the cup back before the information collapse expanded.
"Looks like you're not used to the things in the oasis," the middle-aged man smiled kindly, "The flames are burning in the sky, and there is definitely no such sap." ”
Speaking of which. What's going on with your legendary Blaze Days? My sister thought for a moment and asked very cryptically, "We live in the mantle...... I mean, behind that sea of fire, there was no flame, and we didn't know there was such a planet on the other side of the sea of fire until today. ”
My sister wanted to use this question to understand the world view of these elves, which was the first thing to do to understand a strange and strange race, and the other party could obviously understand what a planet was: the size of the small celestial body of the earth's core was really small, and there was no ocean as a moat, and the aborigines here should be able to easily perceive that the earth they live on is actually a sphere.
The middle-aged man did not doubt him, anyway, these legends were familiar to children in his world: "The legend did not have a flame heaven at the beginning. There is no oasis, everything is dark and scorching, the world is liquid, spherical, and then the ancestors came to this darkness from another place, and there was a great catastrophe in the world they came from, so they wanted to create a safe place for their children and grandchildren, so the ancestors emptied the center of the world and created a space, and the remnants of the old world were piled up on the shell of this space. Blazing, it became a blazing day, and then the ancestors placed the oasis in the center of the world, so that future generations could live in peace. The ancestors and the origin of the oasis become one and become the earth beneath our feet. The Great Patriarch is a member of the Ancestors. Every once in a while, the Patriarch will wake up and become a new Great Patriarch to lead our lives, and the original Great Patriarch will return to the earth to continue to sleep. ”
"What about before the advent of this world? Where did your ancestors come from? I think this question is very important, it is related to whether they know the existence of the Green Star of the Burning Dao, but regrettably, the other party shook his head: "The outside of the Flame Heaven is outside, we don't know what kind of place the Flame Heaven is, anyway, the shell of the Flame Heaven and the World Realm can block all dangers, we don't need to risk cutting through that sea of fire." You came in from behind the Flame Heaven, don't you know what kind of world it is? ”
It seems that these elves are unaware of the existence of the Green Star, and their knowledge of the world realm is limited to the burning mantle above their heads, and beyond that are all kinds of myths.
"By the way, aren't you curious about the world realm on the other side of the Flame Heaven? You see, we're standing here, we're from outside," my sister said with a smile, "it's actually safe outside......"
The middle-aged man was strangely silent, not only silent, as if the expression on his face was completely frozen, as if the projection that had lost the signal source was still on the last frame, and it took a few seconds before he regained his reaction and said lightly: "You can't get out, you can't get out, there's no need to go out." ”
After saying this sentence, he seemed to have something to say, but suddenly a girl's voice from outside the door interrupted him: "Dad...... Have a guest at home today? ”
The tapestry woven of plant fibers at the door shook suddenly, and then a girl wearing a green dress on a white background and a shawl with long hair flashed in.
This face...... Very familiar!
"It's the girl I saw above," my sister was the first to think about it, and said in the spirit link, "In the sleeping pod, I was hit by Lilina in the face......" Lilina's voice interjected: "Don't say it, okay!" Isn't it just landing on the ground with your face! Lin still lands on the ground with her mouth every time, why doesn't anyone say anything! ”
Looking at the green-haired girl with a puzzled and innocent smile, I felt my head grow for a while, and many of my previous conjectures seemed to collapse after the girl appeared, turning into an even more chaotic ball of thread after a messy roll.
Here is the quality projection. Are they really the shells buried in the mantle? So why do these mass projections know nothing about the Green Star? Is it that middle-aged man who is deceiving us? Or is it that the shell on the mantle is not the original owner of the Green Star? They were only sent in after the establishment of the Oasis in the center of the earth, and the original owner of the Green Star made up lies for them? So is my previous conjecture about the "biological laboratory" correct?
"This is my daughter, Green Calyx," the middle-aged man stood up and introduced, with a proud look on his face, "She is studying knowledge by the side of the Great Patriarch, and she is back, which means that the Great Patriarch is also free." ”
"Huh? A guest of the Great Patriarch? The green calyx suddenly looked very surprised, "That must be a very important friend, the patriarch said that there are guests to entertain, so let me come back in advance today...... Then I'll take them there. ”
The middle-aged man nodded in agreement. Then the green calyx ran to the door like a gust of wind and beckoned to us: "Come along!" The Great Patriarch is in a treehouse not far away, and she's kind! ”
After saying this, the girl disappeared behind the tapestry. Leave us staring wide-eyed.
The middle-aged man smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, my daughter is a little rude, she is a lively child, and she has caused me a lot of trouble." ”
We didn't care, a large group of people went out to find the green-haired girl who was waiting at the door, and the other party looked at us curiously, and then turned around and led the way without asking anything, always very happy. Sandora complained in the spirit link: "It seems that these elves are really simpler than the other, cautious, but easy to deceive. ”
I nodded, "Yes." Let Lilina go over, and she will die in half a year. ”
Lilina jumped up and down trying to bite, but each time I hit her back with a knife, the crackling sound of the knife touching her head made a lot of noise, causing the green calyx to turn back frequently.
The place where the patriarch stayed was not in the village, but outside the mushroom wall, there was a special wooden house on its own: not out of mushrooms, but a two-story house made of wood chips and fibers, but the village was small enough, and it only took us a few minutes to walk there. When he was about to knock on the door, he finally couldn't restrain his curiosity. He said to the green calyx, "Now, how did you give birth?" ”
She may have meant to wonder if the green calyx of the Dao Dao understood the identity of her mass projection, and as a result, the words were distorted like this, but fortunately, it was not so bad as to arouse suspicion: the people in this world did not know what the quality projection of the Dao was.
"Born?" The green-haired girl looked confused. "Of course my father plucked it from the tree, isn't that how the tree elves are all born? That's right. What are your ears so strange? ”
I didn't answer, just silently looked at my breast pocket, where Clank Bell had tied herself into a ball of thread, probably tossed for a long time, and now she fell asleep in a daze, and this little thing was also plucked from the plant - and even more amazingly, she could plant herself again, and pick it again in two years!
We wanted to ask something more about the "tree elf", but we were afraid of arousing suspicion from the other party, so we temporarily suppressed the doubts in our hearts, Green Calyx is a pretty lively girl, and she doesn't seem to have any scheming, and she doesn't have the slightest sense of being unhappy about the strange questions that suddenly pop up in the shallow.
It's completely different from the other one: the one lying in the hibernation pod, lifeless.
Soon we met the so-called Great Patriarch, an elderly female tree elf, dressed in an ordinary gray robe, and looking at the face when she was young, she may have been a beauty like the green calyx, but now she was a quiet and kind old lady, her stature was not high, her gray-green hair was meticulously combed into a bun and coiled behind her head, sitting behind a heavy wooden table and looking at a book, like the old teacher of the old generation, she seemed to have known our arrival in advance, With no surprise on her face, she told the green calyx to go home first, and then got up to give up her seat for the guests, not much to say, but very kind.
The space in the cabin was still very large, after all, there were no extra rooms on the first floor, and the entrance was the hall, with multi-compartment utility shelves on one side, a dark fireplace on the other, and a narrow staircase facing the door, which should be the place where the great patriarch rested. So the first floor of the wooden house should be very spacious, but in fact there is not much spare space here, all kinds of strange miscellaneous things are piled up in the open space, there are vivid animal carvings, there are relief wooden boards of plants, and there are bottles and jars that seem to be used by alchemists, and it seems that the great patriarch has a lot of hobbies in his spare time.
"I've heard that a guest has come, brought by the little girl from Clover," said the patriarch slowly, with the calmness and unhurriness that an old man of this age should have: she seemed to have passed the age when she needed to be anxious about something, and arranged everything slowly and slowly, and from this point on, the projections of these natives who called themselves dryads, or aborigines, were still very close to the mental patterns of earthlings, and of course, it seemed that some were too simple, which may have something to do with the isolation of the living environment," You came down from the fiery heavens, but you did not take with you fire or weapons. ”
"You think Blazing Days are dangerous places, so anything that comes down from there is dangerous." Lin Xue said casually, and then began to study the reliefs that were placed in a pile on the ground curiously.
The patriarch looked at us for a while, the calm eyes couldn't see hostility or friendliness, just stared quietly, as if to see what we were thinking in our hearts, shallow also came to the interest, and the patriarch stared at each other, she was not afraid of the eyes, she would grasp the time, so almost instantly, the patriarch rubbed his eyes and retreated, shallow squatted on the ground with a smug face and looked for ants with Lilina, the great patriarch looked at the shallow with all kinds of confusion, and she shook her head after the last day:" You shouldn't be enemies, or the oasis would have called the police, and the blazing sky would have collapsed, but now I can't say anything more - stay in the village for a few days, the people of the oasis are still very hospitable. Then I may be able to determine what your presence means. ”
Stay for a few days...... Where did you get that idle time! (To be continued) RQ