I'm sprouting again

Both Bai Xiao and Zang Feng have no experience in coaxing children. After all, the two "children" in the family are quite skinny, and their crying is fake crying, and a beating is enough.

But the one in front of him obviously couldn't be solved with a beating.

So they had to wait for the child to cry enough on his own.

The child cried for a long time, and it took about half an hour before he lifted his head from his arms.He seemed to be tired from crying, and he couldn't even lift his head. Instead, he rested his head on his arm, staring at the sky outside the window in a daze, without moving his eyes to the small town below for a moment.

Bai Xiao stood with Zang Feng for a while, but found that the child had no intention of speaking again.Bai Xiao and Zang Feng looked at each other and decided that they should take the initiative.

Zang Feng took a step towards the child, and asked straight to the point: "Are you the 'core' of this world?"

The child looked lonely, ignored Zang Feng's words, and turned his head to the other side.

Zang Feng: "..."

Is he despised?

Seeing Zang Feng's dazed look, Bai Xiao couldn't help laughing.But it is good if the child responds to what they say.

If the straight ball method does not work, then we can only fight in a roundabout way.

Bai Xiao thought for a while, then walked over and sat down on the sofa next to the child, and asked the child as if chatting, "What were you crying for?"

The child's wet eyelashes fluttered, but he still didn't speak.But he didn't turn his head any more.

Bai Xiao was not discouraged either.He turned around and leaned on the sofa, looking out of the window in the same posture as the child, but he looked in the opposite direction to the child. His gaze was downward, looking at the "residents" in the small town.

Soon, Bai Xiao discovered a strange place.

That is, although the "residents" in the small town are still crowded, their range of activities is very limited.So the flow of people they form is not a "river" flowing along the street, but countless "vortexes" back and forth within a certain range.

What causes this phenomenon is a regular movement pattern.

Bai Xiao's eyelids twitched, and then he tried to concentrate the magic power in his body on his eyes, and then randomly found a small puppet on the streets of the city to aim at.

It was a small iron puppet. Compared with most of the tattered puppets, it had a high degree of completion, and even had fingers that could move freely.

Bai Xiao saw it come out of the house, carrying a rattan basket in its hand, then it went to the other side of the street and bought two screws in front of a small stall, talked and laughed with the stall owner for a while, and then jumped again. Bounced back.

But after a while, the little puppet came out again.Still carrying the basket, it walked up to the stall owner, and then he took out the screws in the basket and put them on the stall, said something to the stall owner, and ran back again.

After a while, it came out again.Still the same motion and pattern, just keep putting screws in the basket and taking them out again.

Repeatedly.

They are real "puppets".A puppet without a soul.

At this moment, among Bai Xiao's conjectures about this small town, the most unrealistic idea that he put in the corner slowly took root and grew rapidly.

If it was really what he thought, it would be... too lonely.

Bai Xiao felt a little sad in his heart, but he didn't show it.After all, what he thinks now is just his guess, and everything depends on what the child says.

The trouble is, the kid doesn't seem to be cooperating right now.

Although the roundabout combat was not contradicted, it didn't seem to have much effect.

Bai Xiao sighed in his heart, although he didn't want to, but he could only take the last resort, aggressive method.

To be honest, if it is not necessary, he is not willing to do this kind of stabbing in people's hearts.

Bai Xiao's eyes were still following the little puppet back and forth, and his voice had already overflowed from his throat.

His voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing something."Are they all dead?" he asked.

The light and fluffy words made the child's body tremble.As if being slapped by someone, his face turned pale, and then he pursed his mouth, and tears fell down again.

This knife has pierced the softest flesh of my heart.

Bai Xiao knew that the child was crying, and he could vaguely see it from the reflection in the window.But Bai Xiao didn't look back.

He is waiting.Unfortunately, after waiting for a few seconds, he still didn't get the child's answer.So Bai Xiao tightened his jaw, and could only continue stabbing the knife, talking about his guess.

Bai Xiao: "Did you make these puppets? It will take a long, long time to make so many puppets."

The child remained silent.

Bai Xiao: "You said last night that this is the last reincarnation of the ghosts. Those light balls last night are the real appearance of the ghosts, but now, they have all become black stones on the ground.

I still don't quite understand the relationship between the black stone and the ghosts, but I watched the ceremony last night-the ghosts are celebrating the birthday of the gods in the stone tree, and the sacrifice is themselves, isn't it? "

"No. It's not like that."

The child finally stopped being silent, he denied Bai Xiao's guess, his voice was crying.

Bai Xiao also breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that the child would still not say anything.

Bai Xiao withdrew her gaze and turned to look at the sobbing child.

The child cried miserably, the tears splashed like heavy rain, and wet a small piece of his sleeve.

Bai Xiao sighed, then took out a towel from the space button, and wiped the child's crying face clean.

The child didn't refuse, and let Bai Xiao move.

Bai Xiao's movements were very slow and light. After Bai Xiao wiped his face clean, the child's emotions gradually stabilized. His expression became numb, which was the emptiness after venting his emotions.

Looking at such a child, Bai Xiao couldn't bear to continue after all.

Bai Xiao took out a piece of snack from the space button—not the grass-flavored snack in this small town, but the cupcake he made before he set off.

Bai Xiao handed the cake to the child and asked, "Do you want to eat it? I made it myself and stored it with a space button. It's still fresh."

The child raised his head and glanced at Bai Xiao first with his big wet eyes.Bai Xiao smiled at him.Then the child turned his gaze back and glanced at the cupcake in front of him.

He had seen this kind of cake before, but his memory was too long ago, and all the pictures faded to withered yellow, and then merged into one, blurred and indistinguishable.

A tempting aroma came from the tip of his nose, and he could also create such an aroma, but he felt that this smell was different from the one he created.Because it gave him an appetite.

What does this cake taste like?

He has forgotten.

The child stared blankly at the cake for a few seconds, and then he stretched out his hand, took the cupcake, and bit off the thick cream and half a strawberry in one bite.

So sweet.

At the moment of entrance, the child's eyes widened, as if he had eaten something incredible.His eyes fogged up again, but instead of letting the tears fall, he started gobbling down an entire cupcake in two or three bites.

"Don't worry, there are many more."

Seeing this, Bai Xiao thought he was really hungry.So he took out a lot of food from the space button.There are all kinds of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty.There are also quite a few drinks, ranging from fruit juices to drinks-although the person in front of him is a child.But it just looks like a child.

The child never refused the food that Bai Xiao brought out.His stomach was like a bottomless pit. After eating everything, there was no sign of being full.

After drinking the last bit of milkshake, the child smacked his mouth twice.His expression finally recovered a bit of freshness, no longer numb, nor empty.

The child put down the empty milkshake cup, then looked up at Bai Xiao.This time, his eyes finally had a different look.

That look is scrutiny.

Putting it on a child's face is a bit against the law.

But Bai Xiao didn't feel scared, nor did he flinch.He put the empty cup in the child's hand back to the space button, then looked up into the child's eyes.

The child looked at Bai Xiao for a while, then looked away, lowered his head, and said in a lonely voice: "You are right, they are all dead."

Bai Xiao's heart skipped a beat, he finally pried open the child's mouth with excitement, and felt sorry for the child's lonely expression.

The child asked Bai Xiao again: "What do you know?"

Is this the answer to the start of the exam?

Bai Xiao took a deep breath quietly, adjusted his emotions, and then said: "From the very beginning when we entered this world, we have been thinking about what you would want us to do - because when we were awakened by the power before , we met a... a more mischievous guide."

"Before us, you enriched the image of the world by letting so many people into the world and making the world in their heads come true through this world. But from the beginning to the end, you didn't hurt anyone, Even gave someone what she wanted."

Bai Xiao said his conclusion: "So I think, you don't seem to plan to do anything to us."

The child made no objection.

Bai Xiao then said: "Our guess is that you want us to understand this world, but looking at it now, I think you want us to participate in it and accompany these ghosts through their last reincarnation."

The child pursed his lips, with a look of sadness on his face again.Then he laughed again, pulled the corners of his mouth weakly, and said, "Why do you think so?"

After Bai Xiao, he asked the latter guess.

So Bai Xiao replied: "Because those ghosts before, they are very vivid, and they all have memories, these are not only created by our imagination - plus the comparison of the puppets in the small town now , I don't think you can create it either.

So I think, the people who disappeared in the storm more than 200 years ago were all saved in this world by you, right? "

Hearing this, the child finally raised his head, but smiled miserably: "I didn't save them. I was just... curious."

Seeing him answering, Bai Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "I can't guess the specific details, but do you want to tell us your story?"

The child looked at Bai Xiao, seeming to be struggling. After a while, he nodded.