I'm sprouting again

The child saw that Bai Xiao's expression was wrong, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Xiao hesitated for a moment, but still answered: "I was told the same thing before. But instead of asking me to supervise the contract, it asked me to exercise the power of the tree of life. But I refused."

The child froze for a moment, apparently not expecting this to happen.

For a while, the top floor of the inn fell into silence.

Soon, the child smiled: "Forget it, although I am very curious about what the 'god' is, but now... I don't have to worry about it so much. Let me finish the story, you don't care much about the machine. city?"

Bai Xiao nodded.

Child: "After I was given the right to supervise, I was actually not subject to any restrictions. Correspondingly, I didn't know how to use the power. I just felt a little trace of magic. But at that time, I didn't think about it, but Want to go home."

"I went back to the village, and then I found that no one could see me. But I saw the magic circle under the village. The magic circle, which I hadn't found before, was as clear as if it had been marked with a highlighter .”

"I'm different. I'm not hungry, thirsty, tired, and I can't communicate with them, but I can see their dreams, and I can establish a weak connection with them in their dreams.

In this way, day by day, I have been watching them, watching them live as if they were 'confined' by the invisible magic circle, and watching their yearning for the outside world in their dreams. "

"Then I couldn't bear it anymore, so I destroyed the duties of the 'supervisor'. I changed the magic circle, made the products here more abundant, and allowed the white flower grass to grow in the village. Everything gradually developed in a good direction. "

"But the strange thing is that despite all I did, I didn't get punished. The voice that made me a regulator before, never appeared again."

"Later, people's lives were no longer so miserable, and there were people who dared to communicate with the outside world, and then slowly, the place became lively, and even a caravan discovered a shortcut across the desert and developed a road .”

There was a nostalgic smile on the corner of the child's mouth, thinking that those days of watching were happy for him.

The child's nostalgia didn't last long, and soon, his smile disappeared, and then he sighed, and said: "Then, as you know, that big storm."

"It was indeed a natural disaster, but the desert monsters that came with that disaster, those monsters that broke out from the ground... They destroyed the hidden magic circle. And I didn't have time to protect the magic circle .”

"The magic circle was destroyed, and the residents of the entire small town were wiped out in an instant. And those travelers and caravans were hunted and killed by monsters."

The child took a deep breath, and his expression became sad again.

He stretched out his hands, as if he was still holding something invisible.

He said: "Even though I became a supervisor, the contract I concluded was still automatically performed. I felt it at the time, the power of that contract, and I also felt that I could touch that power, but... I is not powerful enough. I cannot erase that contract."

"Then I saw them disappear, and their souls were all recycled back to me."

The child's outstretched hands began to tremble in a small arc.Tears pooled in his eyes again.

"For the first time, I saw the appearance of the soul. One by one, like huge glass balls, glass balls that glow. They floated in front of me. There are countless memory pictures in each soul. Those past laughter and pain, sorrow and joy, as well as unspoken secrets, all presented in front of me just like that.”

"The twilight sea where the souls float is really beautiful. But it is too quiet. The soul is obviously the most precious thing of the Kesters, something that can tell the past, but they don't say anything."

The child's tears slid down, and he tremblingly said: "It's so scary, the silence is so scary."

Bai Xiao was also a little sad. He stretched out his hand and gently stroked the child's soft hair, and said, "It's not your fault."

The child didn't howl, just clenched his hands and sobbed softly.

Over the years, what he regrets the most is that he didn't protect the magic circle, didn't understand everything about the supervisor, and didn't get the power that the supervisor should have—even though he didn't know how to get it.

But seeing the people in the whole small town disappear before his eyes, and he was the supervisor who ensured the smooth operation of the contract, he felt that he was the executioner.

This taste is too painful.

It was too painful, so a solution had to be found.

After the child cried, he said in a hoarse voice: "I stayed in that sea of ​​light for two days, and on the third day, a group of people came out of the desert. A reduced version of the magic circle, so they have not been discovered by the contract."

"I'm very happy. I urgently repaired the magic circle in the small town and let them live in it—that's what you see, the great-grandson of the old man with the goatee."

"But they were also affected by the storm, and soon after returning, some people died. In the end, only the great-grandson of the old man was left—at that time, he was still a baby in swaddling clothes."

"In order to prevent people from discovering him, I recklessly took him out of the range of the magic circle, so I decided to take care of him. I don't have a body, and the souls don't have a body, so I can only help by manipulating various magical objects."

"This phenomenon was seen by those who came to explore, probably the original prototype of the 'City of Machinery'."

"However, the time to truly become the 'City of Machinery' is when that woman comes."

Bai Xiao immediately understood who he was talking about - Gou Gou's mother.

The child leaned on the sofa and said: "At that time, it had been about 50 years since the storm passed. That child grew up safely and became an employee of the inn building. In my operation for so many years, I also discovered that the supervisor One of the powers, that is the fantasy creation in my world."

"To put it simply, it is to create a world like a dream, and let the soul insinuate in, where everything is possible."

"There I 'resurrected' the dead townspeople."

"But this 'resurrection' is just an illusion, and their behavior patterns are all planned by me, just like they are now."

The child pointed to the puppets walking around repeatedly in the small town at this time.

"But that woman is very powerful. In my world, she created a kind of black stone—the ones on the ground—that kind of stone cooperates with her magic circle, allowing the machine to have its own soul."

"Amazing!"

The child's eyes lit up, and he said: "So I made a deal with her. I used the power of the regulator to make the stone she created come true, and let her bring it out of my world. As a price, I let her She left drawings of those puppets."

"I made puppets based on those blueprints, but souls are different from puppets. It took me a long time to find a way."

"That kind of black stone is the medium between the soul and the puppets. I found a way to connect them. Then, those souls came alive. In my world, in this world where there will be no contractual constraints ,live on."

"It's just that my world is based on the projection illusion of the soul. People who can 'enter' see things related to what they think. It may be that the name of the city of machinery is too loud, and many people come in and see They are all the 'City of Machinery' they imagined."

"But you are different." The child looked at Bai Xiao and Zang Feng, then showed a cheerful smile, and said solemnly, "I had a good time today, thank you!"

Bai Xiao didn't speak, but Zang Feng thought of something and asked, "Can you possess any puppet?"

The child knew what Zang Feng wanted to ask, and nodded with a smile: "Well, this is my world, as long as I don't want to, it's impossible for you to notice my approach."

The child's smile gradually subsided, "I used to not possess them, but now, they are too weak. Remember the reincarnation of ghosts I mentioned earlier."

Bai Xiao and Zang Feng nodded.

The child lowered his eyelids and said: "The method I found is flawed. The black stone at their core is irreplaceable, and it will be consumed every year and must be repaired-this is reincarnation. Every reincarnation ghosts drop Black stones are their reduced 'lifespan'.

This time, it was the last reincarnation, and their souls were completely absorbed by me, the supervisor. "

The child stretched out his hand, pointing in the air, the environment around them changed suddenly, the three of them were standing on a spacious grass field, and in front of them was a tall low tree.

The big tree has luxuriant branches and leaves, and the branches are covered with fruit like light spots, making the whole tree look shining.

The child walked up to the tree, turned to face Bai Xiao and the others, and said, "This is all my strength."

"These are the pure power left behind after their souls return and their memories are erased."

"I can feel the increase in power, I can perceive the law of the contract, I can even clearly know that you are my competitor, I am stronger than you, as long as I devour you, I will be stronger."

Bai Xiao was startled, Zang Feng had already taken out the weapon from the space button, and stepped sideways in front of Bai Xiao.

But the child didn't move, he just stood there, and suddenly cried until he couldn't make a sound. He cried bitterly and said, "It's disgusting, the sense of satisfaction after this strength is enhanced, it's disgusting!"