Preface:

"I've seen you before, really. He repeated.

Gu looked him up and down, replied with a suspicious look, "I've seen you before?" and shook his head in conviction. "In my memory, I have never met you, and I have no impression of you at all. ”

"But, I've seen you, and this thought is particularly vividly etched in the depths of my memory. He continued.

"Ah?...... I can't remember anything. Gu muttered to himself.

Body:

A traveler, whose name is: "Empty" A month ago, he heard from an old man in a village that thirty years ago, the old man saw an incomparably thick locust tree on a mountain in the village on the front road, and its torso five or six adult arms could not be hugged, and the people in the village respected the tree as a god, and every time there was a major event in the village that needed to be decided, the village chief would lead the whole village to worship, and the miraculous thing was that the big tree seemed to have divinity, and every time there was a big famine, after worshipping, it would always turn the danger into a disaster. Because of this, the people of the village are more in awe, and from then on, the people of the village will go to worship in matters of all sizes, and if anyone is sick, the people of the family will climb the branches of the tree and hang red ribbons, and whose wife gives birth, and over the years, the branches of that tree are full of red ribbons of different sizes, of different lengths, densely packed with new or old red ribbons. Looking at it from afar, it's like a huge red flag.

Hearing this, Sora instantly aroused his interest, so he geared up and went to find the rumored magical tree with great interest.

However, the road to the destination was particularly rugged and steep, the ground was uneven, potholes, and each step took more than ten seconds, and Sora did not expect that the distance between the two villages would be so far away, fifteen miles away before and after, and it was no wonder that the old man told what he had seen and heard was thirty years ago, and the road was far and steep, which was a great challenge for an adult, not to mention for an old man, and no wonder that the old man had not come to the village in front of him again.

If it was a flat road, it would take about a day to reach it, but this fifteen-mile journey, he walked for a full ten days, which shows the difficulty of the road.

When Sora saw the village in front of him, he not only sighed: "What kind of ancestors came to this precipitous place, opened up the world, survived in a desperate place, and established this village that has been passed down from generation to generation and is endless." ”

I saw that the village was surrounded by mountains on all sides, and from a distance, there was only a small point, and it was surrounded by rich green trees, which was beautiful and comfortable like a natural picture.

"Even if I didn't have that tree, I couldn't see such a view, and it wasn't in vain for me, so what was the difficulty of the journey. He stared for a long time, on the hill opposite the village.

However, Sora did not go to the village, but went directly into the mountains to look for the huge locust tree, and he first looked at the mountains on all sides, and found no tall and conspicuous trees, so he had a little doubt, but he was determined to go into the mountains to find it himself, and near noon, he went into the depths of the jungle, and for a whole afternoon he did not find the rumored tree, which made him very distressed.

"Could it be that the tree is no longer there, or there is no such tree in the first place?" he muttered to himself, sitting in an empty place.

At this time, his hand touched the uneven lines, his hollow heart tightened, and when he looked down, he saw that the place where he was sitting turned out to be a huge tree stump, its bark was like a torn earth, with a sense of heaviness of thousands of years, and touching its external lines could produce great awe.

"How huge and majestic this tree must have been when it was alive. It would take half a minute to walk around its torso, isn't this what the old man said about the big tree?But why was it cut down, didn't the old man say that it was revered as a god by the villagers?" Sora, sitting at one end of the huge stump, thought of a series of questions.

His gaze looked at the stump, as if looking for a clue, when he noticed that in a hollow place of the stump, there was a small green vegetation, which was glowing faintly, and at the top of this vegetation, there was a yellow fruit, which was also shining.

"What kind of vegetation is this, I've never seen it before. So he reached out and touched the vegetation, and at the touch of the vegetation disappeared, only the yellow fruit rolled down to his empty feet.

I picked up the small fruit with my empty hand, smelled it, and there was a faint sweet fragrance, and when I tried to bite into it, it was crisp and sweet. So he ate the rest of the fruit into his stomach.

In just a minute or so, something strange happened, the empty legs began to melt into the huge stump, and the color of the legs began to turn gray and black. Sora struggled, but it was like he was stuck in the mire, unable to move.

"Hell, hell! I'm going to die here. He struggled and cried out in despair.

After struggling for a while, he stopped struggling and decided to wait for death to come, however, he couldn't accept that he was dying so bizarrely, but the situation in front of him had no other possibility than waiting for death.

However, Sora was lucky, and the day after he left the old man to go to the village in front of him to look for the big tree, Gu also came to the village, and happened to meet the old man, and heard the same story, so he also came to look for the rumored tree.

After Gu Zai was trapped in the empty for a night, he came there, and the Gu saw the empty space.

"Hey, are you still alive?" Gu said.

"Hmm?...... Man! Someone is here! I'm saved! I'm saved!" the empty pupils grew from small to large, and let out a cry of surprise.

"Ah, that's right, you can be saved, but why did your legs become like this?" Gu asked.

Sora then told the story of eating the mysterious fruit and becoming like this.

"Ah, I see, I'm afraid you have "Qujing" in your blood, this kind of spirit. ”

"Vitex is a kind of visual spirit species that parasitizes in the tree, the older the tree, the more likely it is to be parasitized by them, because they use the sap of the tree as the source of energy, generally speaking, the tree and the vitex are two mutually beneficial and symbiotic creatures, the tree can nurture the vitex, and the vitex can promote the rooting of the tree because it is parasitic on the roots of the tree, and the tree can survive more tenaciously and vigorously. ”

While Gu was talking about Qujing, he put down the wooden box and took out a small gourd from it, which contained a "spirit wine" that emitted yellow light.

"After breaking away from the tree, it will generally look for a new host, but a small part of it has mutated, which may be affected by the tree's memory, and will simulate the shape of the tree, grow into a plant-like appearance, and some can even produce bright fruits. The kind of thing you see is probably a mutant of Qujing. ”

"There is such a strange thing. Sora listened carefully.

"Yes, in the ancient texts about the spirit of record, there is a record that a man once ate something like a fruit, and his feet were discolored and could not move, and he was as straight as a tree. All I can do now is use the spirit wine to attract the thorns from the soles of your feet and get you out of here, but most of them are already in your bloodstream, so I can't expel them with the spirit wine, and your legs may be incapacitated forever for the rest of your life. ”

"Ah...... I ......" Sora was silent, showing a look of helplessness and sadness, yes, how painful it must be for a person who has devoted his life to traveling to lose the ability to move his legs.

"You don't have to be sad, it is still recorded in the copywriting that those who eat this fruit will gain strange abilities, do you feel any difference in your body now?" Gu further said.

Sora shook his head dejectedly and did not speak.

Gu also stopped talking, he knew that no matter what he said at this time, he couldn't make this man named Sora happy.

Gu spilled the spirit wine on Sora's imprisoned legs, and sure enough, fluffy visible thorns flew out from the soles of his feet, and just like that, Sora's body finally broke away from the stump.

Gu picked him up, stopped, staggered, and staggered down the hill step by step, heading to the opposite village.

After a day and a night of travel, both of them were exhausted when they arrived at the village, but fortunately the people in the village were friendly and a young couple took them into their home.

Gu Hekong rested for a day and gradually regained his strength.

On the second day of staying at the young couple's house, Gu inquired about the huge tree.

"Excuse me, has there ever been a huge tree around your village?"

"Yes, I heard my grandmother say a few words about the tree, and I heard that the tree had lived here for a thousand years, and it was full of divinity. The hostess replied.

"Divinity?" Gu asked.

"Yes, I heard that if there is a drought or a flood in the village, if you go to worship the sacred tree, everything will be averted, because in this way, some of the ancestors in our village lived to be two hundred years old. The man added.

"Ah, it's unbelievable. Gu exclaimed. At this time, Sora, who was lying on the bed, also sat up and listened carefully to the young couple's explanation.

"Then why not anymore?" Gu asked.

"That's because the tree doesn't work anymore. ”

"No more?"

"Yes, one year, there was a sudden landslide on the mountain, and most of the trees planted by the villagers were buried. Because our village has relied on planting trees and cutting down trees for generations, selling them for money to make a living, and without trees to cut down, we have lost hope of living. But the amazing thing is that only the big tree is standing, and someone in the village proposes that we worship it every day, and it has not blessed us with abundant food and clothing, and now we have no hope of living, so we can simply cut it down, and at least we can live for a while. ”

One person proposed, and everyone responded, so they cut down the tree that had lived for thousands of years. ”

"Ah, what a pity. Gu sighed.

"I heard from my grandmother that something strange happened before the tree was cut down. ”

"What?" Gu asked.

"Thousands of yellow beings emerged from the huge trunk of the tree and flew into the distance, and Grandmother told them that they were the gods they had always worshipped. ”

Gu was contemplative. Didn't speak.

Suddenly, Sora spoke: "I've seen you before. ”

Gu looked back in surprise.

"I've seen you before, really. He repeated. 

Gu looked him up and down, replied with a suspicious look, "I've seen you before?" and shook his head in conviction. "In my memory, I have never met you, and I have no impression of you at all. ”

"But, I've seen you, and this thought is particularly vividly etched in the depths of my memory. He continued. 

"Ah?...... I can't remember anything. Gu muttered to himself.

"That was eighteen years ago. When the grandmother of the hostess was young, she came to pay her respects to me, and I was very impressed by her. Sora muttered.

Gu looked surprised and frightened, thinking that he was crazy, his current age is only a little over twenty, going back eighteen years, the two of them are dolls, it is impossible to meet, and even if they do, they have long forgotten everything.

"I can even think back to hundreds of years ago, when this village was first established, and I can see the thousands of people who walked around me, and I can see the dozens of catastrophes that this mountain has experienced, those landslides and cracks, those violent storms, everything is coming to me more and more clearly. "It's as if the void has changed a person, or is controlled by someone, and says something incoherent.

The couple showed fear, and Gu, suddenly, came to their senses.

Sora shook his head again after saying this, and his mind was clear.

At this time, Gu walked up to the empty one.

"Sora, you probably have the memory and soul of the tree. ”

"Huh?" sat on the carpet, full of doubts.

"Qu Jing parasitizes in the body of this thousand-year-old tree, sucks its sap, and imperceptibly has the thousand-year-old memory of the tree, so you said some strange things just now. ”

Sora replied, "Did I say anything strange just now?"

"It appears that the body's control by the tree's memories is ephemeral, and it is independent of each other, and does not remain in the host's brain. "Gu seems to be saying to the air, and it is like saying to himself. He took out the scroll of the Ancient Spiritual Master's record of spirits, and supplemented his new discoveries in the chapter on Qujing.

Then, on the third day of his stay in this village, Sora had a terrible dream: his eyes were full of terrible images of the earth falling and the mountains cracking, only to see houses being submerged by the mud flow that had invaded them, only to see trees buried in the mud, people's faces were written with pain and screams, and everyone was crying, it was a terrible scene of broken homes and people.

Sora woke up sweaty with nightmares and said, "It's coming again, it's coming again!"

In the morning, Sora told Gu about the dream.

Gu pondered for a moment: "What I saw in my dream should be the memory of this big tree, it may give you again, no! ”

So Gu discussed with the young couple and mobilized all the villagers to move to a safe place ten miles away from the village in the next few days.

Sure enough, on the night of the second day when it was moved to safety, a huge landslide occurred on the mountain where the village had not been seen for decades, and the entire village was buried, and Sora saved the village because of the memory of the thousand-year-old tree.

The villagers thanked Sora for his advice, and when they repaired their home, they built a house for Sora, and Sora became a member of the village.

After a while, Gu Xiangkong said goodbye: "Although you have lost your legs, but you have the memory of a tree, I'm afraid you have stories in your brain that you can't even recall, after all, these stories are a thick book accumulated over more than a thousand years, and in this regard, you are also lucky." ”

After Gu finished speaking, he turned around and walked away.

"It turns out that even non-human beings have powerful memories, and in a sense, they are more divine, and humans are still too small compared to them. ”

Gu sighed.

"When I was very young, an old spiritual master took me to see a huge tree, which was so tall and dense that it looked at me from a far, far away place. So, I've seen it. ”