I'm sprouting again

Bai Xiao picked up the photo and looked at it carefully.

Because the focal length of the photo is focused on the little girl, the background is a bit blurred. With the eye-catching holographic projection in the sky and the surrounding lights, everything looks very blurred.

Bai Xiao can only be sure that the shadow is white, with some neon glimmers in the night, about the size of Bai Xiao's palm.

But judging from the outline, it doesn't look like a little person, but a shape like a jellyfish.

But it may also be because it is sitting on the signboard and its legs are blocked by the signboard.

Just judging from the appearance, it is completely different from the guardian spirit in the miracle, but it is probably the same thing.

Of course, it may just be misinformation caused by the light and shadow in the photo.

Bai Xiao looked away from the photo, looked at the sheep-bearded old man in front of him, and asked, "Is there only this photo?"

The sheep-bearded old man pointed to the photo on the counter and said, "I don't have good eyesight, look for it yourself."

So Bai Xiao and Zang Feng looked through it.

These photos are all photos of the small town before it was destroyed. There are dozens of photos in total, and each one is very warm.

The protagonists of the photos are almost all from the same family, and Bai Xiao also saw the Baihua grass field that he and Zang Feng saw on the second floor curtain wall before.

Then Bai Xiao saw the sheep-bearded old man standing there with his hands behind his back and squinting and smiling at the edge of the grass field.

Bai Xiao: "??!!!"

Bai Xiao looked at the photo, then at the old man in front of him, and in the end he was still not sure, and asked, "The one in this photo is you?"

"Hahaha!"

The sheep-bearded old man seemed to know which photo Bai Xiao had seen, and immediately burst into laughter, very cheerful.

After laughing, the sheep-bearded old man patted his leg and said proudly, "Like it!"

picture?

So it's not the same person.

Bai Xiao took a closer look, looking back with a definite answer, and found a difference—the person in the photo is younger, with a round face, different facial features, and seems to be taller.

The sheep-bearded old man waited for a while, and found that Bai Xiao was still looking for a difference, so he revealed the answer.

"That's my great-grandfather."

Probably laughed too hard, and he was a little out of breath when he spoke.

Bai Xiao guessed that they were relatives, they were too similar.

But Bai Xiao was still a little curious: "Is there a rule in your family that you have to look like this when you get old?"

In fact, if the bushy goatee and the grass-like hair were removed, but all the facial features were exposed, then Bai Xiao would not be mistaken.

But the person in the photo has the same shape as the sheep-bearded old man, even the length of the beard is similar.

Hearing this, the old man with the goat beard was confident and proud: "Of course I keep this look because it looks better."

Bai Xiao: "..."

He can't say whether it looks good or not, but it is quite distinctive.

Bai Xiao then ended the topic and turned to look at Zang Feng: "I didn't find it here, where are you?"

Zang Feng shook his head at Bai Xiao, but he didn't find any other clues either.

Bai Xiao sorted out the photos and returned them to the old man with the mustache.

The sheep-bearded old man took the photo, held it in his hand, squinted his eyes at Bai Xiao and Zang Feng, and asked, "Why, you still don't believe in the land of ghosts?"

But Bai Xiao smiled: "We believe it. But for ghosts, you probably have to see it with your own eyes."

The goatee old man snorted. It seemed that although he had never seen a ghost with his own eyes, he firmly believed in its existence.

Bai Xiao smiled, feeling that although the old man looked rickety and old, his temper was still very "young and energetic".

Bai Xiao changed the subject again, and asked: "But I heard that the legendary land has now become a city of machines. Have you seen this city of machines again? Many people have said that they have been in the city over the years. , Is what they said true or false? Have you ever been in there?"

The sheep-bearded old man shook his head: "I don't know about that. Those people said that they went in, some said they were in a dream, and some said they really went in. But without exception, they all went in at night.

You said that on this big night, the guests are all in their rooms, even if they really went in, I don't know. "

When Bai Xiao thought about it, it was the same reason.

Seeing that they were so interested in the legendary land, the old man with the goat beard said, "Hey, as the first ones to see the origin of my pot of white flower grass, let me give you a hint."

Bai Xiao's eyes lit up immediately, and he put his hands on the counter and asked, "What's the hint?"

The old man with the goat beard said: "There is a sacred tree wishing pool in this small town. It is said that as long as you make a sincere wish there, the ghosts will hear it and take you into the ghost land.

But the wishing pool was also destroyed in that storm, so I don't know if it still works now. "

Bai Xiao thought for a while and asked, "It worked before?"

The sheep-bearded old man nodded: "Of course."

Bai Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked suspiciously, "How do you know? Didn't you say that you never went in? You haven't even seen a ghost."

The old man with the sheep beard froze, and then he became angry from embarrassment, panting heavily, probably wanting to scold someone, but he didn't know what to scold.

Bai Xiaosheng was afraid that he would get angry, so he quickly apologized and pretended to be good, and asked, "Oh, it's great to have this reminder, so can you tell us where the wishing pool is?"

The sheep-bearded old man became more angry now, pursed his mouth as if in trouble, and reluctantly said the position.

"Thank you. Let's go and have a look then."

Bai Xiao stood up straight, finished talking happily, and then walked out with Zang Feng.

However, after only two steps, he turned around and asked, "By the way, have you ever made a wish?"

Old man with sheep beard: "..."

He was out of breath again.

Bai Xiao pursed his lips, but before the corners of his mouth turned up, he felt hit on the head.

The force is very light, more like covering the palm of your hand.

Bai Xiao looked sideways at the owner of the hand standing beside him, a little puzzled and a little surprised - why did you hit me?

With a smile and helplessness in Zang Feng's eyes, he said softly, "Don't be naughty."

Bai Xiao blinked, and then an inexplicable sweet feeling flooded her heart.

Obviously, the two of them have kissed and slept together, but now such a behavior that can be called "ungentle" makes Bai Xiao feel more intimate than any previous contact.

"Oh."

Bai Xiao obediently responded, then obediently said goodbye to the sheep-bearded old man again, and went out with Zang Feng.

After leaving the inn, the ruins were not empty this time. It was probably lunch time, and many hunters who had gone to the desert came back one after another.

Bai Xiao saw that some of them were carrying some monster materials, dripping blood along the way. The blood fell on the stone pavement and seeped into the clean cracks of the stone, which was particularly eye-catching.

Looking at the blood-stained road, Bai Xiao was slightly taken aback.

"What's wrong?" Zang Feng noticed Bai Xiao's distraction and asked.

Bai Xiao turned his head, pointed to the bloodstain on the road, and said, "Although there are few travelers here, there are many hunters who come to the desert to hunt. Hunters come and go every day, but this road is still so clean.

——In the inn building just now, I didn't see many staff members, and those shop owners wouldn't be responsible for cleaning. "

Bai Xiao paused as he spoke, and then continued: "Your Highness, do you think there are ghosts who come out to take care of this ruin every night?"

Zang Feng: "It is possible."

Bai Xiao: "..."

Zang Feng smiled: "Just treat them as guardian elves."

Bai Xiaoyou said: "Those little ghosts are fine, but the old man with the goat beard said that the people who died in that storm were also included in the ghost town—these are real ghosts."

Zang Feng was helpless, he didn't know how to comfort Bai Xiao, so he said, "Let's go, let's go to the Wishing Pool."

■

In front of the wishing pool.

Xiong Lie and Gou Gou were there.

"Hey, Your Highness, Bai Xiao?"

Xiong Lie saw them first, and was a little strange, "Why are you here?"

Bai Xiao: "The old man at the counter said that people from the small town used to come here to make a wish before entering the legendary land, so we came here. How about you?"

Gou Gou: "Master Xiong took me to see this small town, and I just came here—you said this is a place for making wishes? Is it a temple?"

Bai Xiao shook her head: "No, it's the wishing pool."

As he spoke, he pointed to a circle in the relatively empty space ahead: "It should be that one."

The old man with a goat beard told them that the wishing pool of the sacred tree is on the square of the small town, which was the center of the original small town.

Now, this central point is also a ruined building.

The circular pool in the middle is not big, with a diameter of three meters; the square is surrounded by high-rise buildings. When the storm hit, the high-rise buildings collapsed, and broken stones, bricks and tiles were piled up in the square.

It may have been cleaned up during the search and rescue, and many places in the square were emptied, but the wishing pool was used as a temporary garbage dump, and a lot of wreckage of buildings accumulated.

Beneath the wreckage lay a sculpture—a statue of a tree in pieces.

Obviously Xiong Lie and Gou Gou also saw it clearly.

Xiong Lie was surprised: "So this is a wishing pool? I always thought it was a garbage dump."

Bai Xiao: "..."

Not bad though.

Gougou was very excited, he pointed to the statue of the tree that was crushed under the wreckage.

"That is a sculpture of a tree statue. Kester is very strict about the establishment of tree statues, and generally the tree statues built have the function of praying for blessings. city!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Bai Xiao again, and asked like a cannonball: "How do I make a wish? Is there any ceremony? Do I need to say a fixed prayer word? Do I want to sacrifice something?"

Bai Xiao was stunned, then blinked, and laughed dryly, "I really forgot to ask this. But the old man said to be sincere."

"Oh, it's my heart!"

Gou Gou looked suddenly enlightened, and then he was full of confidence, "Aside from anything else, I have no problem with this."

Bai Xiao: "..."

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"Let's go, let's make a wish!"

Gou Gou couldn't wait to go to the wishing pool.

The remaining three also walked over.Bai Xiao didn't know the procedure of Kester's prayer, so he did it like a dog, and closed his eyes to pray.

"I hope we can successfully enter the city of machinery and get the seed power."

When Bai Xiao finished saying this in his heart, he heard a "dong dong" sound from a distance, which was different from the guardian elf's voice, it was soothing and long-lasting.

Bai Xiao opened his eyes and looked, and found that it was the sound of the wind chimes upstairs in the inn.

After the wind bell rang, a gust of wind blew up in the ruins.