I'm sprouting again

In the open wilderness, only the mournful cry of a child lasted for a long time.

Zang Feng didn't move away, he looked at the child coldly with golden eyes, unmoved by his cries.

Bai Xiao frowned and pursed her lips.The child's story and the crying at the moment made him a little unbearable, but he didn't step forward to comfort him, because as the child said just now, they are competitors.The child failed to protect the residents of the small town, but the people he wanted to protect were still there.

The sound of the child crying echoed in the wilderness, the big tree swayed without wind, and the fruits of light on the branches also trembled with a "rustling", as if whispering softly, comforting the child gently, or like that The miserable city dwellers weeping with their children.

This world is filled with a kind of powerless sadness, just being in it makes it difficult for Bai Xiao to breathe.

Just then.

"Crack."

There was a sound like an eggshell cracking.

Both Bai Xiao and Zang Feng raised their heads and looked towards the source of the voice.

It's that kid.

The child was originally very short, and kept his head down because of crying, so Bai Xiao and Zang Feng couldn't actually see his face.All Bai Xiao saw was the child's raised hand covering his eyes.

And on the back of the child's white and tender hand, on the smooth skin like porcelain, a slight crack appeared.

After that crisp sound, the crack spread quickly, and then his skin was like a fragile porcelain coating, and a piece the size of a nail peeled off from where the crack spread.

Where the skin peeled off, what was exposed was not flesh and blood, but pitch black.

Bai Xiao was slightly surprised, but quickly calmed down.Zang Feng next to him tensed up all the muscles in his body, ready to go.

The child's cry was no longer as sad as before, but it was still sobbing.

His body shook slightly with sobs, and the shaking exacerbated the cracking of his skin.

Soon, more cracks appeared on the skin exposed outside his clothes, and then the skin began to crack and peel off quickly, revealing more of the black under the skin.

At this moment, the child is like a thin porcelain doll that has been shattered, mottled all over.Soon, apart from the brightly colored overalls, all that was left on his body was the sparse "skin" that still stuck to his body like an eggshell, and even his hair peeled off along with the skin.

It was also at this time that Bai Xiao realized the child's real body - just like the residents of the small town, the child is also a mechanical puppet.

However, the degree of completion of its body is obviously different from that of the residents.It has a high degree of completion, the whole body is black, and it's hard to tell whether it's made of metal or stone. Bai Xiao guessed it should be "black stone".I don't know how these materials are put together, there are no traces of the seams at all, and it is not stiff at all when it moves.

Then Bai Xiao took a closer look and discovered the reason why it was so "alive" - ​​its body was covered with gullies, and if you looked closely, you could see that those gullies had a certain pattern.

It's a magic circle.

Bai Xiao has also seen this magic circle before, it was inside the little duckling that Gougou's parents sent him as a gift.

At this time, the sound of the wind stopped at some point, and the crying of the child also stopped.

The world became quiet again.

The child finally put down his hand covering his face, he raised his head, revealing a dark face.His facial features seemed to peel off along with the skin, and even his eyes became stone carvings.

This is a mechanical puppet.It looks like this clearly "announced".

The child's hands were hanging by his side, he seemed to be accustomed to his current appearance, and he just looked at Bai Xiao with those eyes that could not be connected with anyone at all.

The child raised his hands slightly in a show gesture.

"This is my first and last work."

"In my world, my 'soul' will not disappear, so I use myself to do experiments. But this process is difficult, because the mystery of each soul fit is different, I can't do it for them A perfect body."

The child put down his hands, and there was a calm expression in those inorganic eyes.

He suddenly turned around, facing Bai Xiao and the others sideways, and then took two steps to the side, getting out of the way to the side of the big tree.

Then he bent down slightly, made a "please" gesture to Bai Xiao, and said, "This belongs to you."

There was even a smile in his voice.

Perhaps for him, this is a relief.

But Zang Feng stretched out his hand to block Bai Xiao - even though Bai Xiao hadn't stepped forward yet.

Both Bai Xiao and the child looked at Zang Feng.Zang Feng also looked down at Bai Xiao. He listened carefully to the child's story, but he didn't feel sad, but kept thinking.

He was thinking about the "supervisor", this power, and the current situation of the child.

Bai Xiao also looked at Zang Feng, he didn't ask or blame, just a look, he understood Zang Feng's worry.He laughed: "You ask."

Zang Feng's gaze softened immediately, he put down his hand, and then looked at the child.

He asked: "You were chosen as the overseer, but you can't leave here?"

The child looked at them quietly, and understood the real intention behind Zang Feng's question. He smiled and said, "Yes, I can't leave. Because I am also a member of the contract violators."

Zang Feng's eyes moved slightly, and he continued to ask, "You said earlier that you violated the rules of the existence that chose you to be the supervisor, but you were not punished. Therefore, the only thing that can really restrain you is the 'contract'."

The child laughed, his mouth opened a cartoon arc on his flat mechanical face, "Yes."

Zang Feng turned his head to look at Bai Xiao. Bai Xiao was a little dazed at first, and then slowly, his eyes widened, and he understood the meaning behind this answer.

——Bai Xiao's situation is the same as that of the child. The only difference between them is that Bai Xiao did not sign any "contract" before being selected as the "seed".In other words, that mysterious existence cannot restrain him.

That existence also knew this, so when Bai Xiao said that he wanted to break the existing rules of the royal family and the tree of life and become a "new tree of life", he didn't stop it.

Because as Bai Xiao thought before, it cannot be stopped.

The reason why the royal family has not been able to become the master of the tree of life for so many years is because their connection with the tree of life is maintained by a "contract". From the very beginning, they have established a master-slave relationship.

Bai Xiao was stunned by this guess. He remembered the feeling of oppression given to him by the big elves. At that time, the two messages of "I am restrained" and "What I say here must be obeyed" followed A huge sense of oppression burned into his subconscious.

If Zang Feng hadn't brought it up at this time, Bai Xiao would never have thought of this level.

And what does this mean?It means that Bai Xiao can become the new "god", a god who is not bound by any contract.

But Bai Xiao was still worried.It may be that this power came too strangely and easily.

Bai Xiao hesitated for a moment. Although he knew that he might not get an answer, he still asked, "What is the existence that gave you the status of supervisor? What's the purpose?"

"I do not know."

The child shook his head bluntly, "The god who signed the contract with us at the beginning is not the current one. The royal family also knows that the tree of life has a nirvana every thousand years. The feeling should not be obvious, because the 'contract' of the royal family is passed down from generation to generation, no matter which god controls this power, the 'contract' is this one and will be strictly enforced."

"As for the existence of guarding this power, choosing a 'god' for this power, and giving me the status of a supervisor—maybe the guardian beast of the tree of life or something, the 'supervisor' of this power."

The chicken cub who has been in a daze and listened to the story: "..."

It refuses this pot.

However, Bai Xiao didn't doubt Chicken Cub at all. He didn't dare to talk about the guardian beast in the past, but the current Chicken Cub... Forget it, family ugliness should not be exposed.

Seeing that Bai Xiao was unmoved, the child also laughed, "This is just my guess, and the purpose of that supervisor, or that group of supervisors...who knows. It may be as you humans once guessed." , this universe may be just a marble played by a certain life. The same is true for this planet."

Neither Zang Feng nor Bai Xiao refuted this seemingly absurd statement.

Like a mayfly dying at night, Xia Chan doesn't know her age; just like human beings can't imagine what the civilization of the universe is like before they are caught in the space rift and make an emergency landing on Kester.

The same is true for the existence they are facing now.

Bai Xiao and Zang Feng were no longer entangled in this.

Zang Feng still had doubts about the child voluntarily giving up his power. He looked at the child suspiciously and said: "After the power of the tree of life is complete, it has the ability to 'break' the contract. If you get a little power, you can Release the contract on yourself."

The child nodded: "Yes. But I don't want it."

The child saw Zang Feng's vigilance, and this vigilance was for Bai Xiao next to him.

The child rolled his eyes around Bai Xiao and Zang Feng, and laughed again: "You are very lucky."

The child put his hands on the chest of his dark torso, and said: "From my birth to now, my world has only this small town, and those ghosts are my family. My life is too long, what gods and gods rule me?" No, I just want to be with them."

After the child finished speaking, his fingers suddenly pierced his dark torso, and then his arm trembled, as if he was grabbing something.The grooves in his shell glowed with a pale blue light.

The child showed one last smile to Bai Xiao and Zang Feng, and said, "Thank you for coming to the City of Machinery, thank you for this pleasant day, and wish you happiness."

"Crack!"

The child's ending was submerged in a crisp sound, and in the next second, the dark mechanical puppet turned into powder, and the bright light dust floated towards the big tree, becoming a member of the fruit of light.

At that moment, Bai Xiao heard the laughter coming from the big tree in a trance, and it gradually went away.

And when the laughter disappeared, all the fruits of light of the big tree fell off the branches and floated in the air; they were like round light fish, swimming slowly in the air, and came to Bai Xiao's side.

Bai Xiao looked at the ball of light that was close at hand, took a deep breath, then stretched out his finger, touching the radiance.