I'm sprouting again

"What did they wish for?"

The child looked into Bai Xiao's eyes and replied, "They made a wish and exchanged the souls of them and their descendants to kill those rulers."

Bai Xiao frowned, this wish obviously didn't come true, because the child said before that those people said they died of old age.

But the child said: "The gods agreed."

Bai Xiao was very surprised, and blurted out: "But didn't you just say that those rulers are old and dead?"

The relaxed smile on the child's face gradually changed, becoming extremely sinister.

He sneered and said, "That's right, they die of old age, because the gods can't violate their contracts. As long as those rulers don't violate the contract, the gods can't kill them. But before they die of old age, there must be no way to use them." The power is gone, so the second before the old death, the second before the soul disappears, the gods took their souls away. The gods 'killed' them."

"Look, the gods didn't violate the contract between the rulers and it, and they also fulfilled their promises to the citizens. The two souls that have been enshrined for generations are all in their pockets."

After hearing this, Bai Xiao couldn't help being angry: "How could this be!"

"Of course it can."

The child closed his eyes and laughed again, but Bai Xiao felt that the smile was more like crying.

The child opened his eyes, his eyes were full of sadness and self-mockery, and he said: "I also said just now, because the gods are very greedy. There are so many souls, more than the souls offered by the ruler, how could it be Let it go? I don’t know what you humans are like, but in Kester, the soul is the source, the purest power, it comes from the tree of life and returns to the tree of life.”

Speaking of this, the child's eyes became blank: "But it is obviously given to us by the gods, and it will eventually return to the hands of the gods. Why is it so eager to take it back? Even with its believers using such despicable means Do you not hesitate?"

There was hatred in the child's voice, but the ending was helpless and weak.No matter how much he hates, he can't do anything.

After listening to the child's narration, Bai Xiao had another idea in his mind - the great elf who performed the miracle before said that the person in charge of the Tree of Life had developed self-awareness, so he had to get his power back, otherwise he would be obliterated .

But why?Isn't the great elf himself a kind of self-awareness?And they are so afraid of the self-awareness of the tree of life because... In fact, they can't control the "tree of life"?

Bai Xiao was terrified by his sudden and bold idea. If the "tree of life" was isolated, it could be regarded as a weapon, a weapon that even higher beings could not fully control.Then the choice of the "master" of this weapon is also uncontrollable, so it is not that the "tree of life" has self-awareness, but the chosen master has a different mind from those higher beings, so they are tracked and supervised by higher beings?

In this way, the greedy god is not a real god, but a "master" who is desperate for more power.

Bai Xiao's brain is a little confused, and his cognition is still in the category of human beings. All of this is too illusory to him.

During the few minutes of silence, the child's emotions also calmed down, and he concluded this long story.

He said: "The two 'wives', no, everyone at that time, trusted the gods too much. So when they made a wish, they did not specify the specific conditions, such as the death time of the rulers. Because they Believe that the gods can understand their voices."

"They waited and hoped, but nothing happened, so they all thought that the communication with the gods had not been successful, that the gods had not heard their words, and that the secret ceremony was just their fantasy."

"Until the death of a ruler."

"The ruler was the weakest among the thirty or so people. He used the power of the gods for many years, which aggravated the consumption of his body. So he died in the second year after the two 'wives' made their wish.

And at the same time as he died, the younger sister of the two 'wives', and hundreds of people died at the same time as him.Their dead appearance was exactly the same as that of the ruler, and their corpses turned into ashes. "

"The remaining elder sister and other city residents who participated in the ceremony did not confirm until now that their wish was successful.

At the same time, they also discovered the fact that the gods had despicably deceived them. "

The child smiled wryly: "But what if you find out? That's a god."

Bai Xiao was silent.Yes, that's God.Even now, with the most powerful royal family, once the contract is violated, it will only end up as a mermaid, and even future generations will be punished by those who violate the contract.

And what about the citizens who were equivalent to slaves at that time?

The child's eyes looked far away, as if seeing a distant picture in the long river of time: "That day, the whole city was filled with finely divided ashes, as if they were deliberately swept up into the sky by the wind, turning into fog rising from the ground. It enveloped the entire city. Everyone was terrified, including the rulers."

"The older sister who lost her younger sister was one of the first to understand that they had been deceived by the gods, but she couldn't be angry, she couldn't lose her composure, because there were more important things to solve - that was to explain this death to the rulers. "

"The rulers are most familiar with this way of death. This is the way of death of people who have exchanged their souls with the gods. It's just that their brains have been emptied by drinking and sex all year round. They haven't turned around yet. So that sister Swallow the pain of losing my sister, seize this critical moment, preemptively strike, and cry to those rulers."

"She said that those people prayed to the gods, hoping to serve the rulers and the ruled forever. In fact, not only them, everyone in the city prayed, and the gods heard their wishes, so When that ruler died, the gods also took some of the city's citizens as servants of that ruler."

"It just so happened that that younger sister was the 'wife' of the ruler who died. So those rulers believed it. They were also very confident that after so many years of rule, no one could resist them—these stupid citizens It is impossible to give birth to the idea of ​​​​resisting them."

"No one was punished or suspected. The elder sister and the townspeople were relieved. Then they began to face up to the ceremony with the god, and to face up to that despicable god."

The child sighed, "They are not reconciled, they have sacrificed their souls and the souls of their offspring, but they want to see those who hate them enjoy their old age in peace, and they are just a funerary object, following those rulers to die!"

"If this is the contract of the gods, then they decided to break the contract."

"But they don't have much time until the last ruler dies—at this time, they should thank the despicable and greedy gods for giving them enough time.—During this time, they have to find The method is to cut off the contract with the gods."

"Five years, ten years, 15 years... until the death of the last ruler, in decades, they finally found a way, but their strength could not cut off the contract, but a way to replace it— — hide."

The child pointed to the small town outside: "This is the place. At the center of the city, all the people in the city exhausted their wisdom and spent the rest of their lives, and erected a tree statue there.——That is The heart of the magic circle."

"I don't know the composition of this magic circle, because it is too huge. Everyone is responsible for a part, and everyone takes action. Tunnels are dug tens of meters underground to form a magic circle. When the last ruler is on the verge of death At that time, the magic circle was also completed."

"But if the ruler stays in the magic circle, the last ruler will also be protected. So, that sister and some people took the ruler, left the city, and walked out of the range of the magic circle."

"The moment they left the range of the magic circle, those who stayed in the city activated the magic circle."

"They succeeded.

The last ruler died less than a hundred meters away from the magic circle.His body, the sister who took him away, and the bodies of the townspeople were all reduced to ashes.

It was a sunset, the ashes were blown up by the wind, and a hazy phantom rose in the blood-like sunset glow of the setting sun.As long as you stand on the city wall in the city, you can see clearly. "

"People waited with bated breath until the fog cleared and no one died - including the poor little scapegoats of the rulers."

"They succeeded. As long as they don't go out of the range of the magic circle, they won't be discovered by the gods, and they can survive."

When Bai Xiao heard this, he suddenly remembered, "This area is the area you are forbidden to leave?"

The child nodded: "These descendants have been living in the range of this magic circle from generation to generation. It was not easy at the beginning. Many people died, but their souls were not taken away, and their bodies were not turned into fly ash. Later, it was not easy. Slowly, people figured out how to survive, be self-sufficient, and thrive.”

"It's been a long, long time like this. When I was born, there was already a reduced version of the concealed magic circle, which can supply us to leave this city, but there is only a three-day allowable time limit."

The story returned to the starting point, and the child slowly exhaled a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "But now it seems that the god I met is not the one before - because if it was the one before, it would not be supervised by me." right."

"The god I met said that the previous god broke the rules, and asked me to abide by the rules and exercise the power to supervise this contract."

Bai Xiao was startled: "It told you so?"

The child nodded: "Yes."

Bai Xiao stood there in a daze, without speaking.

That big elf told him the same thing.But he promised at the time that he would make the "Tree of Life" an existence that does not require a "master", a brand new, Kester's sacred tree.But the big elf didn't object.

Is there no objection, or can't object?