"The fruit trees are tall and strong, and you cannot pluck them... ”

"If there is a priest to help, maybe it can be ......" The middle-aged man thought to himself that Hou An's retinue Xia Da was a martial emperor cultivator, and the priest was completely enough.

"No," the old man shook his head and said, "My duty is to weed, catch insects, and drive away hungry birds, and your request is beyond the scope of my duties, and besides, the fruit is not ripe, Your Majesty really can't wait for a moment?"

"I want to ...... Yes, His Majesty doesn't want to wait, he's been waiting long enough. ”

The old man thought for a while and said, "Okay, you can only wait for the rain to stop if you insist on going, but I won't help you." ”

"Lord Priest!" the middle-aged man was anxious, and glanced back at Hou An, ready to continue to talk about this stubborn old man.

The old man smiled and asked meaningfully, "Is the fruit more important or the fruit tree more important?"

The middle-aged man pursed his lips and was silent. Of course, the fruit tree is important, and if there is no fruit tree, where does the fruit come from, but the fruit is also important, and they are here to take the fruit away, and if they don't bring it back in time, they may face severe punishment.

"The other day I found twelve little birds, they are very alert, the slightest sound frightened them to fly away in a panic, who knows if the aroma of the fruit is about to ripen will attract more peeps?" said the old man softly, leaning on his cane and looking out at the rain and mist in the distance, the sudden rainstorm doused the sweltering heat in the forest, bringing coolness and a hint of cold, hoping to wash away greed and sin.

The middle-aged man noticed the information revealed by the old man, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Who dares to peek at His Majesty's fruits?!

Hou An's head jumped violently, and the priest was suggesting that they should leave the unripe fruit alone for the time being, and that it was only right to catch up and kill those peepers first. This is a great achievement, not only to please His Majesty the Pope, but also to increase the stakes for the future position of the Holy King. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the old man, and suddenly felt that the caustic impression left by the priest had faded a lot, and he had become cute and respectable.

......

The torrential rain was getting lighter and smaller, and the hazy gray-black sky was already blue, and a black shadow of a city silhouette appeared not far away.

Elaine stared at the silhouette and cried with joy, everyone couldn't help but feel ecstatic in their hearts, some people roared in a suppressed voice, and some people waved their arms to express their excitement at the moment, and they finally walked out of the amethyst forest. Hill finally had a smile on his face, the worst fears didn't happen, and just as everyone hugged each other passionately, Randall was still moving forward step by step.

A pair of gray-blue eyes were out of focus, his mouth was slightly open, his face was pale, his cheeks were flushed, and the rain was dripping down his rotten cloth, as if some kind of will was supporting his body to make walking movements. No one stopped him, he kept walking step by step, and two strings of muddy mud and water footprints were stepped on the road he walked.

"We're coming out, Randall,...... Randall!"

Hill stepped forward and called out to him, Randall slowly stopped, Mu Ran's eyes were focused, and when he saw that there was no longer a dense forest but the silhouette of a human city in front of him, the next moment he fell heavily to the ground and splashed a cloud of muddy water.

Hill walked a few steps quickly, squatted down to help Randall's head on his knees, patted him on the cheek and didn't respond, found that his hands were a little hot, and probed his forehead with the back of his hand, looked up and said to Qin Zheng, "He's having a fever." ”

Seeing that Hill looked tired, Qin Zheng stepped forward to pick up the unconscious Randall, raised his head and said, "Let's go, we have to go into the city to find a doctor to treat him, and it just so happens that you also need to have a good rest." ”

Everyone agreed that the gloom that had weighed down on their hearts had dissipated and they didn't seem to be tired, so what was the point of walking a little more? Fragrant food, hot bath water, and soft and comfortable beds all drove them to Warsong City.

Along the way, Qin Xie hid in the hood in the form of an elf to avoid the rain, wiping the rain from his face with a sad face, as well as endless losses and grievances. The rain struck the cloak with a dull 'pop' sound, and countless tiny droplets of water splashed through the fabric, and no matter where it hid, it was still drenched all over its head and face, making its whole body and wings wet and uncomfortable. The physical discomfort is not as good as the discomfort in the heart, annoyed by this sudden rainstorm, and even more annoyed Qin Zheng accepted the gem without saying a word, and there was no sign of forgiveness.

Obviously, it has already been made clear, what is wrong? Is it so difficult to get a compliment from you? Qin Xie was crying.

"What happened to you with the Rockeater?" Qin Zheng asked in a low voice, as if he had heard Hill's tone before as if he had decided that the Rockeater was dead, and he needed more definite information.

Qin Xie was stunned for a moment, making sure that Qin Zheng was indeed talking to him, his depressed mood was swept away, and then infinite grievances poured out, looking at his cold side face, tears hazy his eyes, "I smoked its soul, and I was worried that eating it would cause you trouble, so I endured it and didn't eat it." "Lest Qin Zheng don't believe it, take out the soul ball and show it to him.

"Well done. ”

Qin Xie was overjoyed when he was praised, and threw himself on Qin Zheng's cheek for a wild kiss.

Qin Zheng stopped its intimacy, the corners of his lips were slightly curved, Qin Xie's behavior of killing the insect made him feel inexplicably happy, and suddenly remembered that the people of the Temple of the Rising Sun were so nervous about the rock-eating insects, and even did not hesitate to kill people, and his smile suddenly changed. "Ciel, how much do you know about the Life Diamond?"

Hill heard Qin Zheng call him, but he didn't hear what he said, in order to save a little strength, he trickled through the puddle to Qin Zheng's side and walked side by side.

After Qin Zhengfu asked, Hill said, "This starts with the natural elves. ”

"Nature spirits love life, sing about life, nurture life, and no one knows nature better than them. When people knew that the Life Diamond was found in the forest, they thought it was the life crystallization in the body of the Nature Elves, and gathered an army to invade the territory of the Nature Spirits, plundering and slaughtering their homes, just to snatch the Life Diamond. The predators disdain to open their hearts to understand them, do not want to listen to their whispers to life, and go home empty-handed without any injustice, and do not respect life as unworthy of eternal life. ”

"But there are always exceptions...... Hill said sarcastically. "The secret guarded by the nature elves is finally known, and the rock-eating insects are the makers of the life diamonds. ”

"Maker?Rock Eating Worm?" Qin Zheng was surprised, the Life Treasure Diamond was made by it?

Hill nodded, "No one wants to believe that the disgusting and ugly-looking rock-eating worm is the maker of the Life Diamond, which doesn't match the dazzling Life Diamond at all." The rock-eating insect is a very special kind of monster, with perverted self-repair ability and fusion ability, low intelligence, and very simple expression of likes and dislikes, as long as it is given something delicious, it will remember the breath and chase what it wants to eat. ”

"That's why it's chasing after you?"

Hill's face was slightly red, a little embarrassed. "The rock walls of the big pit are slippery and covered with moss and vines, and we have to watch out for not only sneak attacks that may appear at any time, but also attacks from below...... We dug a hidden tunnel ourselves, avoiding weak places and some dangers, and I was nervous during the climb, fearing that the high-level demonic beasts would be annihilated...... In the darkness only I could see everything around me, and there was no danger that was not me, but I had to lead my companions through them carefully, and each of them was important to me,...... I, I can't help but be nervous. ”

Qin Zheng listened to what he said, and immediately understood what Hill cared about, and said with a smile: "You don't have to feel self-blame, I can imagine how difficult it is for you, if it were me, the result might be annihilation." "Without modesty, the center of the Amethyst Forest is not a place he can set foot in at the moment, especially in the dark, it is no different from a blind man, with Qin Xie here, he can only protect himself at most. Like Hill can guarantee that no one person will be damaged, Qin Zheng admits that he can't do it, and immediately thinks in his heart that he will lead the tomahawk to dig the ruins of the city in the forest half a year later, will it be a little inconsiderate?

"I made a low-level mistake. Ciel's heart was gritty, he couldn't forgive himself for being too nervous and losing his staff.

Qin Zheng shook his head. "Who hasn't made a mistake? There's nothing better than knowing that a mistake can be corrected. ”

Listening to the words of reassurance, Ciel felt a lot better, glanced at him gratefully and said, "There is my breath on the staff, except for the rock-eating insects, no magical beast will be interested in the staff. It can turn the soil, rocks, gems, ores, metals, grass roots, etc. it eats into magic, and after hundreds or hundreds of years to give birth to the Life Diamond, the Twilight Moon Temple has spent hundreds of years trying to figure out why the Rockivorous Worm can give birth to the Life Diamond, but in the end it still found nothing, so it had to follow the method of natural elf cultivation to raise the Rock-eating Worm in captivity. ”

"Wait, that rock-eating insect chasing us was bred in captivity by the temple?twilight?Rising sun?" Qin Zheng said in a daze, unintentionally picking the fruit that the temple had worked so hard to cultivate, and this hornet's nest was too ...... He didn't want to be targeted by these two behemoths just yet.

"The rising sun. Hill's tone was firm. "At that time, they were the main force attacking the territory of the Nature Elves, and the ruins of the main city were still silently accusing them of their evil deeds in the Amethyst Forest. The survivors, who exchanged the Life Diamond for the protection of the Temple of the Twilight Moon and migrated to the forests of the East, have lost their former glory. ”

The main city of the nature elves is the city in the forest of thousand-year-old relics?

Qin Zheng hesitated for a moment and said, "If the people of the Rising Sun Temple find out that you have been there-"

"Anyone who peeps into the diamond of life deserves to die, this is their righteous logic. Hill interrupted Qin Zheng's unfinished words, his eyes staring ahead, and undisguised disgust appeared on his good-looking face.

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