Elle just smiled, if it weren't for her overly pale skin, and the faint feeling that almost disappeared. I'm afraid no one will think that she is about to leave.

After she whispered something in Ah Qi's ear, she snuggled up to the tree behind her with a tired face.

"You wait for me."

After Ah Qi left such a sentence, he left in a hurry.

Until that night, there was a rumor of a demon stealing from the town. The homes of several fireworks masters were frequently burglarized, and although nothing was lost, it undoubtedly caused an uproar in this small town.

No one knew who the prisoner was or what it thought it would get, and the townspeople just stepped up their grip and found nothing.

However, on a night after a few days of calm.

The fireworks master was woken up in a dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a young man with ears standing next to his bed. Although he is not tall, his palm-colored eyes are facing the moonlight at the moment, and there is a faint hint of coldness.

It just stared at itself quietly, silently,

The fireworks master was startled and wanted to scream, but he was stared at by those eyes, and swallowed back the sound that was about to burst out of his throat.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Seeing that the person in front of him was very frightened of himself, he just said lightly.

"It's just that I have something I have to get. If you hand it over, we will be all right, and I will depart. ”

“…… What do you want? At this moment, the fireworks master had already guessed that the young man in front of him was the culprit of the recent theft.

"I want fireworks—'The Nightingale.'" Ah Qi slowly spit out these words from his mouth, but the startled fireworks master was speechless.

It's not that he doesn't want to give it, it's not that he can't do it, it's just that this nightingale is a festival firework, and it can only be set off on the day of the night festival. And the materials needed to make it are not something that can be obtained on a daily basis.

These things are only known to their fireworks masters who have been passed down from generation to generation, and they will not casually communicate with outsiders.

Seeing that he was silent, Ah Qi suddenly tore a gourd from his waist, opened the cap of the bottle and drank the liquid inside. Immediately sprayed at the green plants outside the hallway.

A flame erupted, quickly scorching the plants outside the corridor.

The pyrotechnic master was even more nervous when he saw this, but no matter what he said, he couldn't change Ah Qi's request for a nightingale.

But this master didn't live at such an age in vain.

He saw that Ah Qi didn't mean to embarrass him, so he spoke, "Nightingale is not an ordinary firework, you give me some time, and I will give it to you tomorrow night." ”

Ah Qi would do this when he was desperate, no matter how credible his words were, he had to believe them. Because, there was no other way, and Airey didn't have that much time to wait for it.

The next day, the fireworksman told the messenger and the other residents of the previous night all the events they had brought in, and finally blamed it all on Elle.

In the middle of the night, Ah Qi came to the pyrotechnic master's house to pick up the nightingale as promised, but he didn't want to be ambushed by the demon envoys.

The envoys tried to seal it with an enchantment, but they were merciless.

Although Ah Qi did not give his life here, he was also suppressed and could not get out.

Suddenly, its body froze.

At that moment, I felt as if my heart had been hit hard by something, and it was uncomfortable as if I had been pressed down by a thousand catties.

It caressed its heart, but Elle's face suddenly appeared in its mind.

At the same time, the people of the town had come to the forest. I thought that as long as I expelled Eyre from the town, there would be no more trouble.

But Ah Qi's frequent appearances finally made them decide to understand this trouble thoroughly.

Demon spirits always appear in groups, and today it was just Ah Qi who came to steal the fireworks, and even almost burned down the fireworks master's house.

Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow?

Will there be other demons who will come to this place and make more demands and hurt more people?

They don't have that much money, and they've been hiring messengers from big cities to keep Winterman safe.

The more they thought about it, the more the fear of the unknown invaded their minds.

Armed with flashlights and burning torches, countless people rushed into the forest after the festival and found the current shelter of Eyret.

In the face of the madness of the townsfolk who almost lost their minds, she only hoped that Ah Qi would come back soon.

The fire is approaching, but maybe that's how people are. Only when you are desperate will you find that those obsessions, those wishes that must be fulfilled, seem so insignificant at this moment.

Things that have not yet been done, and words that have not yet been spoken. Everything, but nothing can match the belief that you want to live at this moment, and the person you want to see again......

In the end, when Ah Qi almost risked his life to break out of the encirclement of the demon envoy and return to the forest, he was no longer there.

It should have thought of how the recalcitrant townsfolk could easily change what they called 'traditions', all of which were designed by those people.

In order to delay him, even if those envoys can do it, it would be better to get rid of themselves immediately.

But it didn't care about its injuries at this time, it was just crazy. Search the woods for Eyre's traces.

Eventually, in the middle of nowhere, deep in the woods, it found a charred mark. And a wreckage that it couldn't see as an animal for a long time, or maybe it didn't dare to think about it at all.

Tears flowed uncontrollably, and even though it tried its best to deny it, it couldn't lie to itself anymore.

A beastly roar suddenly resounded through the mountains and forests, and the frightened birds and beasts scattered.

Anger caused Ah Qi to lose all his senses, and when he released all the spiritual power in his body, it would become even greater than what it should be.

It rushed out of the woods, and at this moment there was only one belief in the mind, ruined them! Destroy this town, and everyone who lives here!

It's going to make everyone in the town pay for what they've done!

But just as it was about to leap out of the forest, an invisible wall stopped it. The walls were covered with dense barbs, like thorns everywhere.

Neither the flames nor its own impact could break through the strength of the knotted rope.

In this way, Ah Qi was trapped in the forest.

As a wraith, it cannot get out, and unless someone breaks the knotted rope from the outside, it will be imprisoned in this forest forever.

So in the following days, Ah Qi just drank the wine on his back in the woods.

blaming himself, he is already hundreds of years old, but he is still so useless. are not defeated by the group of people in the town, old and cunning.

"Hiccup......

It hiccuped, its gaze wandering, but it felt that the charred black earth on the ground seemed to have become a little different.

Staggered over, not wanting to fall under my feet!

The long, dark path was surrounded by layers of candles, and the scenes from its acquaintance to the end of the acquaintance.

Up to the last level, it was unaware of what Eyre had experienced when he was in the woods with the townspeople......

Ah Qi only felt that the sky was falling apart, but it was useless.

That sense of powerlessness, and self-blame for its own incompetence, made it suffer repeatedly.

When it finally fell into the depths and touched the ground again, it stumbled through this dark space like a corpse.

Until it came to the deepest part and saw the big tree......

Under the tree is a small elegant young bud, Ah Qi doesn't know what it is, but simply feels that this place, this new sprout, makes its restless heart gradually calm down.

And as time passed, the bud began to grow and even bear a small fruit.

In the translucent fruit, Ah Qi faintly saw the figure of Ai Lei. And the lush tree behind him was like a spokesperson, teaching Ah Qi what to do step by step in order to make Eire reborn.

What should be done so that the people in the town can get the punishment they deserve.

There will be no more nightfall festivals, and the last wish of Elle at the beginning, the nightingale fireworks that he could not see after all. Even if she can't get it, those people definitely can't!

As a result, there was a strange heavy snow in Dongman Town, and countless magic envoys came in to investigate, but in the end, nothing happened when they woke up.

……

Time returns to the present, and these pictures of the marquee in front of me all reveal Ah Qi's thoughts about Ai Lei.

But this longing eventually turned into an obsession, and the big tree in front of it was used as a way for it to obtain nutrients.

Under the tree, Ai Lei is nothing but an illusory shadow, reflecting the shadow that Ah Qi's heart strongly desires.

After the slender pivot tube was severed, the hand that was holding on to Rin gradually loosened as the memory emptied.

Rin Rin is sincere, and wants to take Ah Qi to escape from here and leave this illusory place that doesn't exist at all.

Because in her eyes, what this little teenager experienced was very much like her once powerless self.

However, now for that tree, Ah Qi's use value has reached its limit.

Or, for so long, the tree has absorbed enough nutrients.

But no matter which one it is, it is doomed that this false and absurd thing will come to an end.

"Talos, let's go." In the end, Rin just said this sentence slowly.

Because she knew that the appearance of the marquee had already foreshadowed Ah Qi's life, and it would soon be completely submerged along with this illusion.

Talos hugged Rin in his arms tightly, but before they could get up, countless vines suddenly grew wildly, completely sealing the way out.

Talos swung his knife away, but the vines were densely intertwined, and they were as hard as steel.

"This is Elle's last wish, you obediently, become part of my nourishment!"

Suddenly, more vines erupted from the tree behind him, swaying wildly, the leaves colliding and rubbing, like a low-voiced roar.

Talos was unable to move because he was holding Rin, but he was just blocking the sharp vines.

But Ah Qi on the side was not so lucky.

It had already exhausted its physical strength, and it had absorbed too much spiritual power from the dryad, and now it was just lying there with only one breath left.

I saw a few wisps of vines gathered in it, stabbing towards Ah Qi, who had lost the ability to resist on the ground!