Chapter 470: Mao Kai's Wariness
Jeno's proposal surprised Mokai slightly, and after careful consideration, it gave its answer.
"I'm sorry, forgive me for refusing."
"Why?" Jeno was in dire need of clarification, and he couldn't understand why Mokai would give up this opportunity to save the archipelago.
"It's your human fault, and it's up to you humans to fix it. I just want to keep my own one-third of an acre. β
Ever since being victimized beyond recognition by humans, Mokai has stopped welcoming humans. Even though these creatures have a lot of respect for themselves, they always feel that the existence of humans will only make the current situation worse.
The most powerful undead are not human-converted, and this creature is too easy to go to extremes.
"You elm head, are you afraid of death!" Jinx placed the little dryad on top of his head and squinted at the dryad in front of him, as if mocking its timidity.
"My fear is that in the time I've been away, a new life has been born in the Twisted Jungle, only to be strangled because I'm not around it, and that will only make me hate myself."
"It's too conservative, and change always comes with sacrifice." Jeno said.
"If it weren't for this disaster, I would just be a tree that can't move and can't speak. Guard? Isn't it the duty of a tree to be conservative? And the word conservative can be interpreted as protecting and waiting, and I have not done enough to protect this jungle from being violated for hundreds of years, sparing no effort to create temporary shelters? β
It was under pressure that a tree shouldn't have. As a tree, it's too hard.
"You're not the only one who suffers from bitterness, the village where Yorick was born and the sect where he is located died in the cataclysm, becoming an innocent victim of his own selfish desires. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been unable to accept such a blow and commit suicide for a long time, but the belief in lifting the curse allowed him to survive alone, so why can't you make changes again? β
When Mokai saw that Jeno was a human, his emotions exploded. Mokai slammed into the ground and roared at Jeno:
"Because humans are so arrogant, they have carried out all kinds of research on the island, studying magical relics, studying the fountain of life, and even daring to touch the runes of the world. At that time, I knew that if I let humans continue to study like this, something would happen sooner or later, but what could I do as a tree at that time? I can't even move! β
It threw out all the thoughts that had been sitting in its mind for hundreds of years, and if it didn't say it, it felt like it would explode like a sapling sooner or later.
"Even if the curse is lifted, it will be difficult to restore the archipelago to the state I want, which is the original state when humans have not yet set foot on this land, but the reality tells me that once the curse is lifted, humans will soon occupy the archipelago again, and the disaster may take another form, but sooner or later it will repeat itself...... If I could, I would like to be able to breed plants that are not afraid of curses, and let them populate every corner of the archipelago, keeping the living out, driving out the dead, and turning the archipelago into a paradise for the living. β
"It's not realistic." Jeno smiled bitterly, "Humans are also one of the living beings, why should human beings be separated from the concept of living beings?" Humans and nature can also coexist naturally. β
"Humanity lacks a sense of reverence for nature! Your so-called harmonious coexistence is nothing but an accommodation of superiority, and you have never treated any other living beings on an equal footing except you! β
Maokai has a great opinion of humans, and if it weren't for the face of the seed, Jeno would have been slapped away by it.
"In fact, I have already experienced nature's counterattack once, and my memory is still fresh, so harmonious coexistence with nature is also a topic of great concern to us." Jeno couldn't help but think of Zyra's invasion of Leather City, a typical example of the opposite, and he also remembered that he had promised Zyra to sow the seeds of life in Valoran, and that there seemed to be little time left.
But now is not the time to think about this, the matter of Shadow Island is the priority to be solved right now.
Jeno added: "But I have found that if human beings want to develop, they cannot do without exploration and research, and there is no right or wrong power itself, what is wrong is the way in which it is used." β
"It turns out that you are not exempt from vulgarity, blame me for feeding these humans too much, if I hadn't watered the archipelago so fertile, humans would not be idle to violate the forbidden realm."
Mokai was a little disappointed, he had thought that Jano, the seed of life, would be different from others, but he still fell into the clichΓ©.
"Times have changed, my lord. You may not know that we are now under threat from the Void, and humanity is bearing the brunt of it, because humanity has the ability to resist the invasion of the Void. Mauce, you can't make us give up our magic and let the peasants fight those things with their hoes, can you? They're monsters a hundred times more ferocious than the undead! β
Where has the remote Shadow Island ever suffered from the threat of the Void, and Mokai, a spirit of nature who never leaves the Shadow Island, does not know that the terrible disasters that have occurred outside this land are not much better than the curse of the Shadow Island.
The word void was quite convincing, and Maokai's anger gradually subsided, and the restless roots gradually returned to calm.
Just when everyone thought it was still like a big tree again, Mokai slowly spoke.
"I'm too old to have the energy to get involved in your business. I'm not going to stop you from removing the curse, because it's always a good thing for the archipelago. So I will be waiting for you in the jungle, and you will always be welcome in this makeshift refuge, and if you need the fountain of life, come to me. β
After explaining this, Mao Kai dragged his lonely back, turned around and walked towards the depths of the jungle step by step, and his huge body quickly disappeared into the black mist.
"Slow down, Mokai. I will come back with good news. β
Jeno didn't keep it, the Tao is different, everything that should be said has been said and what should be done has been done, but he still can't win over Mao Kai, so he can only say that there is no fate.
He can't deny that he wants to lift the curse in order to obtain magical relics and develop Shadow Island, although he only wanted to deal with the invasion of the Eclipse Night at first in order to cement Cana's position in Bilgewater.
But turning Shadow Island back into a vibrant Fuguang Island is also one of his goals.
Even now, Mokai is wary of humans, but sooner or later Jeno will change his stubborn opinion.
Seeing Mokai walk away, Lucian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It doesn't matter if he can't win over, he always feels that with the tolerance of the undead, if the two of them get together, sooner or later they will have to fight.
As soon as Lucian jumped out of the barrier, Jeno approached him and said that he wanted to talk about the distribution of the Fountain of Life.