i can hear your voice

Ruo Pu heard Pei Yannian nervously ask: "What's going on?"

The village head said: "I have told you a lot of news for free."

Ruo Pu is speechless, it was a trial version before, is there a charge now?

He turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, that is, the direction of the village chief's house. The houses in Taoyuan Village are not far away from each other, and because of the sacred tree above, there are no trees in front of and behind the house, so the view is relatively narrow. Clearly, from the side of the ancestral hall, Song Mingqing and Li Xi could be seen standing in front of the village chief's house.

Pei Yannian was silent for a moment, and said, "I have a few bank cards from the South..."

"No, no money, I want you to take some people from our village to Zhongzhou." The village chief said.

"Why?" Pei Yannian asked.

"I know that none of you have crystal essence in your body, so I hope you can take those of us who don't have crystal essence in your body to Zhongzhou. In fact, I am against everyone drinking the sap of the sacred tree—that is what you call crystal essence , but I wasn't able to stay awake all the time before, so I didn't stop many things." The village chief said with a serious tone.

Pei Yannian: "The water in the pool next to the sacred tree is not sap, but spring water, right?"

"Sometimes it's tree sap."

"Fortunately, we didn't drink." Pei Yannian said, "You said you were not sober before, so you are sober now? Was it because of the influence of the black crystal? But according to my observation, the one that snatched and absorbed the black crystal Jing's southerner is not controlled, she still looks like herself."

The village chief: "I am awake now. Before, whenever I was tired and weak, my sanity would be controlled by another thought. The person from the southern border was not controlled, probably because she was not like me, and her brain was injured.

"The meteorite fell from the sky that day and hit the sacred tree. I was under the tree and my head was hit by something. I thought I was dead, but when I woke up, I found that although there was a lot of blood on my head, there was no wound. Then I found that the sacred tree and I were connected together. Most of the sacred tree was burned down by the explosion caused by the meteorite falling to the ground, but it regained its vitality in just a few days, and then grew bigger and bigger, covering the entire Taoyuan Village...

"I once thought that I was controlled by the divine tree, but I tried to communicate with it many times, but I could only feel a very vague 'consciousness'. I knew that it should not be controlling me, but something else in my body. Something - I can feel the existence of the black crystal, it is a bit like an invisible organ of mine.

"I wanted to remove this organ, and there happened to be foreign adventurers who were interested in this organ, so I tried to contact them when I was awake, but failed the first few times - blame me, I can easily enter an unconscious state , I was very cunning in that state, and I would say without humility that my fighting power was also very strong. Almost no one could get close to me. It was very difficult to go through the dangerous forest to Taoyuan, and it was even more difficult to enter the sacred tree. Fortunately, it was not completely impossible. Method……

"I was very lucky to be able to regain my freedom. Thank you for your help in this, thank you very much."

Ruopu, who was eavesdropping, scratched his head, always felt that what the village chief said sounded weird, like you beat someone, but they were grateful.

"You mean," Pei Yannian said, "you knew the person who took your black crystal? You even said that you were in the same gang? The other party came to Taoyuan many times to look for you and tried to take the black crystal from you? "

The village chief said: "I know her or not. She can change her appearance. I'm not sure if it's her who communicates with me every time. I don't want to be tied to a tree all the time, and I don't want to be replaced by another kind of consciousness." , I am eager to find a way out, and she is also eager to help me, or she wants to get Sombra, so we all get what we need."

"Then some things I couldn't figure out before can be explained." Pei Yannian said, "No wonder she didn't give you a supplementary knife when she left, and she didn't take away your villagers—most of them were awakened Yes, it is a good fighting force, if you control Hei Jing, you will control this force, if you don't know her, she should take them away."

The village head thought for a while and said, "I'm lucky. The other party is not a vicious person. I didn't lure wolves into the house."

Pei Yannian nodded: "You are very lucky. To be hit by a meteorite, to absorb a supernatural substance as rare as a black crystal, and to successfully get rid of its influence, you should be a rare lucky person in this world."

The village chief smiled wryly and sighed, "Sacred Tree is as lucky as me."

Pei Yannian: "Can you still control the sacred tree?"

"I can't. Although I am a plant-type supernatural user, after the black crystal left the body, my ability has dropped significantly. Now there is only a weak connection between me and the sacred tree."

"Who did you first learn about Hei Jing's information?" Pei Yannian said, "You should be confused at the beginning, you don't know what's going on?"

The village chief didn't answer, and coughed lightly: "Can you do what I said earlier about taking people from our village who haven't absorbed the crystal essence to Zhongzhou?"

"how many people?"

"Including children, there are more than 40 people."

"Okay," Pei Yannian pondered, "I think you can all come with me. After arriving in Zhongzhou, I will find a way to help those who have crystal essence out of their bodies."

After a moment of silence, the village chief said, "Not everyone wants to take out the crystal essence."

Pei Yannian came to a sudden: "Oh, you also want to take out the black crystal because it has too much side effect on you..."

The village head admitted frankly: "Yes, that black crystal made me suffer too much, and I was tied to the sacred tree. I have no freedom in mind or body. It can be said that I can't die even if I want to... But other than that, it does give me great power, and if it weren't for those deadly side effects, I might not be willing to give up this power."

"I understand." Pei Yannian said, "You are from the southern border, and I have no reason to ask you to remove the crystal essence in your body. How about this, I can take all the people in your village who are willing to go with us, and I will give them back. Arrange accommodation and so on."

"Thank you very much."

Pei Yannian: "Then let's continue to talk about the previous question. Who popularized the knowledge of crystal essence to you? Is this person also the one who reminded you to guard against a certain alienated person?"

The village chief didn't evade again: "Yes, that is a very gentle man, it is difficult to judge his age, he is young and mature, just like the kind of person who does not look old no matter how old he is, I guess he may be in his forties age.

"He told me that crystal essence can awaken talented people's abilities, black crystal can control crystal essence, and black crystal can also create crystal essence...

"He said that the combination of me and the sacred tree is almost invincible, but there are still a small number of people who can restrain me, such as the powerful fire-type abilities, and some people with very powerful destructive powers, but he also said that now At this stage, I don't have to worry about those people. At this stage, I only need to worry about one person. That person can block my abilities and kill me.

"I didn't believe it at the time—my other 'wisdom' didn't believe it, and fought with him. But today, I really felt the feeling of the ability being blocked. Mr. Pei, the person with the ability to block the ability It's your teammate, right?"

Pei Yannian was noncommittal, and said, "You said earlier that the man left you something for self-defense?"

The village chief: "Yes, he said that the person with the shielding ability has a shortcoming, he can't use the ability when he is in the alienated state, so as long as he becomes the alienated state, he is no longer a threat to me.

"But he was wrong. Although your teammate has become an alienated state, his shielding ability has not failed. Is it due to an upgrade?... Otherwise, I wouldn't have been hacked twice, almost cut into several pieces block."

Ruopu thought vigilantly, this village chief won't bear grudges against Shiyan, will he?He suspects that what the village chief wants most is physical freedom, that is, to get rid of the sacred tree. As for the crystal essence, he may love and hate it.

Next, before leaving here, be careful.He looked at the big cat next to him. The big cat was looking up at the people gathered at the ancestral hall.

Realizing that Ruo Pu was looking at him, Big Mao leaned towards him: "What's wrong?"

Ruopu said in a low voice: "Now you can use abilities even in the alienated state."

"Well, just today." The big cat didn't seem to take its "breakthrough" seriously. It looked around and said, "Maybe more contact with nature is good for my physical and mental health."

"..." Ruo Pu said, "But you can't become a human yet."

"Tomorrow should be enough. It doesn't matter to me if I change people, anyway, I can use the ability in the alienated state now."

Ruopu: "..."

He was a little anxious, did Shi Yan like being a cat more than a human?Cats are good, but it's better to turn back into a human.Man and man are at least the same species, man and cat...

While Ruo Pu and Shi Yan were talking, the village chief said, "He gave me a supernatural substance, which he said could promote the alienation of alienated people. After beating him away, I absorbed that substance, no, It should be that the sacred tree absorbed that substance, and then it can emit that substance by emitting a smell..."

Ruopu understood, so it wasn't the peach blossoms that had a problem, but the sacred tree itself.

Pei Yannian: "What do you think is the real purpose of that man looking for you? It's not just to selflessly teach you the knowledge of crystal essence."

"I think he came here for Hei Jing. How should I put it? It's like he is the owner of Hei Jing. Hei Jing is only temporarily stored with me. He can come and take it away at any time." The village chief said, "But His superior attitude didn't last long, my other 'shenzhi' had a bad temper, which drove the strange tide and made him very embarrassed, and he was very angry at the time."

Pei Yannian: "I want people to have a look at your memory. I want to see who the man who took the initiative to teach you about crystal essence is, is that okay?"

The village head hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed.

After Song Mingqing looked at it, he found that the man was their long-time acquaintance: Mr. Jin.

After staying in Taoyuan for another night, the Zhongzhou Adventure Team left with some materials presented by Taoyuan, including the remains of the meteorite, which is the star iron, kept by the village chief, and some Taoyuan people who had agreed to take away. , and brought a few corpses excavated from the hole of the sacred tree—they were Wancai's former teammates. They wanted to take all the corpses away, but the Taoyuan people refused.

Those corpses may not all be from Zhongzhou, they may also be from the southern border, and Taoyuan itself belongs to the southern border, not Zhongzhou, so Pei Yannian finally compromised.