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The call was from Fatty.

My heart tightened and I quickly answered the phone, "Fat man, those roses..."

"Brother Qi, I saw those roses..."

We both said almost in unison, and stopped in the middle of speaking at the same time.

"Those roses turned red. It should be said that they were wrapped in red threads." I said this with great difficulty.

"What I saw is the same," the fat man said.

We were both silent again.

"Isn't it? Is the whole city like this?" The thin man exclaimed.

I was excited, "Look and see if anyone from other places has posted photos!"

The thin man turned on his mobile phone and went to social networks. After a while, he found several photos showing affection, and asked expectantly: "How is it?"

"There are red lines too." I answered immediately.

The thin man's expression froze.

"Where is this?" I also froze.

"All over the world." The thin man used an idiom to answer my question.

We stopped talking again.

"Only we can see it?" the fat man asked.

"That seems to be the case... I'll call Gu Mo." I said.

This situation is definitely not that the love tree has gotten better, but that it has gotten worse.

When Gu Mo answered the phone, he was confused when he heard what I said, "How could this happen?"

"I still want to ask you!"

"How do I know?" Gu Mo said this confidently, and then asked, "Speaking of which, what's going on here? There was no Valentine's Day ten years ago!"

"Didn't you read the news? People were celebrating the boss's wedding and doing promotions, so they came up with this holiday. They even found out a legend. Wasn't this how Valentine's Day was done in the past?" I was a little anxious.

Even if this thing is harmless temporarily or permanently, people will panic when they suddenly see abnormal scenes in reality. I didn't know how this thing could harm people, but I always felt that with such a big fuss, the love tree might have to use more tricks, and I shouldn't take it lightly anyway.

"Legend, what legend?" Gu Mo grasped this point.

"It's said that there was a couple in ancient times who got married on this day and died together on the same day a hundred years later. I don't know the details." My mind was a little confused and I felt like everything I looked at was red.

"It's possible that we have found the rightful owner."

"What?"

"Aren't there a pair of bones buried under that tree? We haven't found out their identities, and we have no clue. Maybe this is the real owner and the identity of the pair of bones." Gu Mo said.

I was stunned.

"This festival is very popular now. Many people know this legend, right?"

"I don't know, probably..." I became even more confused.

"So many people know about it, talk about it, believe it, and envy it, and it creates ideas and gives them power." Gu Mo said.

"Are you serious?" I couldn't help but ask.

"What I just said was not nonsense." Gu Mo pointed out that the sentence just now was not nonsense. I was stunned when I heard it. He had already continued: "Why were the ancient monks and Taoists so powerful? Because the gods they worshiped had many devout believers. Ordinary people would not make up things about gods and turn gods into arrogant and cute girls." He spoke in such a serious tone until the end.

I couldn't stand the way he explained it, so I interrupted: "So, the love tree became a god so easily? Because many people know the legend?"

"That's about it. It can't be considered a god, it's just more powerful than before." Gu Mo said.

"Then what does it want to do now?" I wondered.

"It originally allowed the souls of lovers to unite after death. Now, it should be more or less the same." Gu Mo no longer sounded that sure.

I turned around, but the flower shop was no longer in sight.

"All the roses are covered with red threads. Does this mean that all those who sent roses and received roses will be together after death?"

I find this very horrifying.

Because I thought about the rate of breakups and divorces in modern society.

I didn’t think much about it when I looked at the archives. Su Wan and Liu Yibai have a very good relationship. Being together after death can be said to be some kind of happiness. But what if it were someone else? There are not a few people who have "XXX loves XXX" engraved on the buildings in the scenic area, and there must be a lot of people who have picked up the leaves of the love tree. In addition, there are large-scale sales in online stores this time, and I don't know how many couples will be forced to be bound for life. Counting the roses sent out across the country today...I really shudder. It can be said to be romantic when a lover who is passionately in love appears after death; an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend who broke up on bad terms turns into a ghost and appears...

"This is to educate people today to be loyal to their feelings and not to treat it as a child's play." Gu Mo said.

"I'm not in the mood to joke." I said seriously.

"Apart from joking, what else can we do? I saw on the news that the tree was surrounded by some botanical research institute. You can't sneak in and burn it, right?" Gu Mo asked.

I am helpless.

What Gu Mo said is absolutely correct. I'm just at my wits end.

"And you can burn it once and burn it every year? Ye Zi and the others failed last time. That tree is a strange spirit. I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that the pair of bones were recorded in history. "Gu Mo said.

"Is that so... isn't that... there's no way to stop it? Is this going to happen every year?"

"You said this was started by merchants. Otherwise, why don't you talk to that merchant? Let's take a look... Longfei Group, right? Oh, he also bought leaves." Gu Mo said on the other end of the phone Non-stop, the tone is very relaxed.

"Okay, I'll hang up." I wasn't in the mood to listen to him anymore.

The good mood in the morning was completely ruined after this day.

I called Fatty again and told him about the situation.

"I think you and Xue Jingyue should stop running around today." I suggested.

"Well, I will tell her. I am going to her company to pick her up, and then I will send her home." The fat man was very frustrated.

"Hey, it's just a created copper-stinking festival, but it's nothing more than that." I comforted the fat man.

The thin man whistled.

I hung up the phone and glared at him, "Stop gloating, there will be more than one or two people involved in this."

"I know, but I can't help but imagine Zhang Long's expression when he finds out about this." The thin man spread his hands, "The festival he created ended up tricking himself. It's really interesting."

The thin man and I walked to the unit and met Chen Xiaoqiu and Guo Yujie at the door. Of course, we had to tell them about this.

The five of us, except Fatty, are all single. According to Gu Mo's reasoning, we are all quite safe.

Chen Xiaoqiu searched for that love legend and found that it really had historical records, and it was not some unofficial history. It was written in the official history of a certain dynasty, and the basic content was publicized by merchants so that everyone knew it.

"There is no name, only two surnames." Chen Xiaoqiu said.

"It's no use knowing their names. Are we going to stab the villains to deal with them?" the thin man complained.

"Did it say they were buried under the tree?" I asked.

"Not at all." Chen Xiaoqiu shook his head.

"Okay, there's nothing more to say. Are you off work?" the thin man said.

When we left the office, we saw the old leader.

The old leader asked with a smile: "You four are not friends?"

"No." As the representative of the four, I answered honestly.

"Would you like me to introduce you? I know a lot of people, and their families have people about the same age as you." The old leader said proactively.

"No need." I replied awkwardly.

The thin man shook his head repeatedly, looking like he was avoiding it.

Guo Yujie said with a smile: "Old leader, I don't date each other, I believe in fate."

Chen Xiaoqiu said nothing and silently agreed with the three of us.

"Hey, okay. If you want to be friends, just tell me. Don't be embarrassed."

"I will definitely find you when the time comes." I promised. The thin man and Guo Yujie nodded vigorously beside them.

Watching the old leader leave, I said with complicated emotions: "This festival has really spread to everyone."

It's only been three years, right? Not only young people but also old people know about it.

They didn't speak. When the four of us went out together, it felt like four singles with the same problem getting together, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

My cell phone rang at this moment, and when I saw it, it was Xue Jingyue calling.

"Something happened to Yuanguang." Xue Jingyue's voice was trembling.

Today’s fourth update~