Chapter 12: The Priest of Sylven

Before he could make any mental preparations, Mono had to show up with the child and face everyone's surprised eyes nervously. In this case, he was really not sure how the aliens would treat them. Before going up the mountain, he had no doubts about the difference between the alien's physical appearance and the child's, but the truth was very surprising. And judging from their expressions, it didn't look like they were familiar with this child.

Another reason that deepened his unease was the many speculations he had made about his background, especially after meeting the child. These alien people in front of him, although they are also glowing and tall, these two characteristics are the same as him, and even the surrounding aura has an inexplicable familiarity. However, there was no resemblance to the outline at all, which really puzzled him. But if you think about it, in all the rumors about aliens, it has been mentioned that they look strange, does that mean that aliens may have other forms, such as children, or......

Just as the demon was thinking about it, the priest's gaze had quickly passed over him and fell on the child. An unexpected light suddenly flashed in those long, narrow eyes, which had no waves, and his gaze stayed on the child for a long time, as if he had not noticed that the child was also behind the rock.

The priest looked at the child very carefully, and no one knew what he was thinking, and the rest of the people looked at the child in disbelief, and there was a sudden silence around them. The strange atmosphere was difficult for Mano to follow, he couldn't guess the priest's intentions, and in order to avoid any misunderstanding, he tried to explain his purpose first: "I, we are ......" However, he didn't know where to start. It dawned on him that the language of the aliens was completely different from that of Lepeilian, and perhaps they would not understand what he meant. In the same way, if they ask a question, he may not be able to understand it. So Mono couldn't help choking.

As if sensing his distress, the priest immediately turned his gaze back to his face and said in the standard Lepelian language, "Do you want to know if you have any connection with us?"

That's right, that's right! There were so many things in his heart that it was difficult to clear for a while, and he was greatly relieved that the priest had asked the main point at once. Immediately remembering the opportunity of this trip, Mono subconsciously glanced at the child beside him, but saw that he had always stood aside calmly, not saying a word about the search, as if he had achieved his goal. So, Mono had no choice but to explain: "This kid suddenly appeared in Limbo City, and asked me to bring him here to find a person named Xiluo, I thought you should all know him, but it seems to be ......"

Hearing this, the priest nodded his head clearly, and instead of immediately responding to Moye's doubts, he instead gave a word to the person beside him. The man immediately turned and left, and the others left one after another. Then, the priest turned back and motioned for Mano to follow him.

Although Mono didn't understand what they were saying, it seemed that he didn't need to worry about his situation anymore, so he took the child's hand and silently followed the priest.

At the end of the festival, the bonfire burns out. It was dawn, but the sun had not yet fully risen, and the forest still looked a little dark under the cover of dense foliage. The light vine flowers that wrap around the trees glow with a faint light, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, like the rhythm of breathing. Even without a campfire, their vision would not be obstructed in any way, and they did not need the light of the fire in the first place, and the soft biolight around them was enough to illuminate them. It's not like the city created by the Lepelian civilization, with a variety of buildings and sculptures, and countless home decorations. The "bed houses" used by the aliens to rest are all alive, and they are all made of light vine flowers. The clusters of these light vines, some in the shape of nests and hammocks, hang from the thick branches, while others are shaped like stairs and hover over the towering trunks. The green meadows, tall trees, fragrant wildflowers, and a slightly moist and fresh scent are refreshing. This is a natural temple built by nature with the sky as the top, the mountains as the bottom, and the forest as the pillars.

The priest stopped under a large tree, then slowly turned around, leaned down his tall body, and knelt down in front of the little child, keeping his sight as level as possible with the child. His eyes were full of a meaning that Mono couldn't understand, he looked at the child deeply, and said softly, "I never thought that I would be able to communicate with you in this way, you know me, right?"

The child smiled suddenly, reached out and touched the priest's hair, which shone with a faint blue-green light, picked up a strand and played with it between his fingers, and then said in a familiar and friendly tone: "As soon as I saw you, I naturally knew that this was exactly what I liked. ”

They were speaking streamers, so Mono didn't understand them at all. But he saw that all the strange little beads that had been floating on the priest's head had floated beside the child, and the child was playing with them with great interest, as if he were familiar with them. Actually, as early as when I was watching the festival, Mano was very concerned, what were those bead-like little things? It looked like they were not as big as their fingertips, and they could hold them all in one hand, but they could swell to the point of incomprehension.

So, Mono asked curiously, "What are these things that look like small beads? They all seem to be living creatures, right?"

"Well," said the priest, "their name is Tingling, which means flickering in the language of the streamer. ”

"Streamer?"

"Streamer language is the language of our streamer people. ”

"I see...... "Moye now knows that this race, which has always been called an alien race by the Lepeilian people, should be the Streamer Clan, and their language is Streamer Language. "I've never seen Light Vine Flower and Ting Ling before, and I've never heard of it. ”

"It's natural, because both the Light Vine Flower and the Thunder Ring are creatures from our homeland. The priest explained, "The Thunderbolt is a living organism between an animal and a plant, without roots and leaves. They usually float in mid-air, surviving primarily by absorbing the breath released by other lifeforms in their homeland. The interval between each breath is quite long, and after inhaling once, it can be held for a long time before exhaling. The time between exhalation and inhalation is irregular, and it is entirely conscious, and if they want to, they can even be separated by hundreds of years. Tingling's movements are unusually slow, his lifespan is almost infinite, and he will shrink very small after exhaling and swell very much after inhaling. Its sound is deep and long, but it is not audible, so it can only be felt by the conscious mind. Like the light vine flowers, they are able to communicate with the streamers, and the speed of growth and breathing can also be controlled by the consciousness, and they have participated in our festivals since ancient times. ”

"What a magical life!" Mono couldn't help but sigh, "can't they breed somewhere else?"

"No! Both Light Vine Flower and Ting Ling are the life of their homeland, and they can't survive alone after leaving their homeland. Unless we stay by our side all the time, we can continue to survive by relying on the breath of life of the streamers. ”

"The homeland is ......" Mono wanted to continue to understand, but at this moment, two people came up to him and interrupted their conversation.

Mano had seen one of them, for the man had stood beside the priest and the other ...... Mano guessed that he might be the Xiluo that the child had mentioned. Sure enough, as soon as Siloh saw the child, he asked in disbelief, "Why are you here......?" Swam from the South China Sea?"

"Naturally, I was here because we had to return to our homeland together. The child said, but said nothing about the way he traveled.

Siloh remembers that when he was sent to that remote island in the South China Sea by the storm, the boy did say things like, "Naturally, we are going back to our homeland...... However, at that time, he had been thinking about the people in the Western Continent, and he had never been distracted from the deep meaning and determination implied in the child's words. In addition, because the child's racial identity cannot be known, he feels that he should not be taken away easily. Although after returning from the South Seas, he also told the priest in detail about the experience of being shipwrecked at sea, and the priest was of course puzzled, but before he could come to a conclusion, the boy had already crossed the ocean and suddenly came to them. In addition to being surprised, Xiluo could only sigh: "I didn't expect you to come to such a dangerous place, but I didn't expect ......"

"Why do I always feel that this child's breath has a sense of familiarity, even so familiar that I ignore his presence, as natural as the life gas we need, without any sense of abruptness? However, his form made me clearly realize that he was different, and it was really incomprehensible......" Xiliu, who was standing next to Xiluo, looked at the child and said suspiciously.

"That's right, that's how I felt when I first met him. Silo also understands it.

At this time, the priest stood up from the child's side and said, "Your feelings are not wrong, although he is not a streamer, he is indeed from his homeland, so it is natural that there is no sense of abruptness." Moreover, Light Vine Flower and Ting Ling had already recognized him. ”

Hearing this, Xiluo and Xiliu were both shocked. Since both of them were born in the world of Lepeilian, they were still very young in terms of the lifespan of the streamers, and they didn't know as much about their homeland as the priests or other older people, after all, neither of them had ever seen their true homeland.

The priest explained, "The reason why you find his breath familiar and his form confusing is because the child is a psychic being, made up of a part of the power of the soul. Moreover, this is not his complete original form. ”

"It's just a psychic being! That is, what we're seeing is really only a part of himβ€”just an arbitrary form shaped by a spiritual force? I've always thought he was a naturally evolving being. Siloh was shocked, and only now did he understand why when the ship was being repaired, the child would suddenly develop gill clefts when he entered the water, but not on land. Because the soul power itself does not have a fixed form, it can change, imitate, or even directly create a variety of images and abilities at will according to his autonomous consciousness or environmental changes.

"Even though he is only a psychic being, don't forget that the soul itself is a part of the universe and has all the natural attributes. So, of course, he is also a natural object, but it is beyond the laws of natural evolution that we know as well. It's okay for you to be indistinguishable for a while. The priest said.

"However, life that originates from the homeland, in whatever original form, will have a complete soul. If the child is from his homeland, then it should be the same. But why do we only see his spiritual power and not feel his demonic power? Does this mean that half of him is standing in front of us and the other half is not here? Who is he and where is he in fact?" This is because the soul of every streamer contains two inseparable forces endowed to them by their homeland: one is spiritual power and the other is demonic power, and together they form their soul of life. Moreover, not only the Streamers, but also Tingling and Light Vine Flowers, and even any other life that evolved from their homeland, possessed such a complete soul that contained two powers. This is an innate trait common to all beings originating from their homeland, so it is inconceivable for a seemingly incomplete organism to be made up of only spiritual forces.

Mo Ye next to him didn't understand a word, because the above conversations were all streamers, he could only look at them blankly, and there was an indescribable sense of loneliness in his heart. In the past, he had always forced himself to be an ordinary Lepeilian, but he knew very well in his heart that he and Leipeilian were different. But when he thought that he might have some kind of relationship with the Streamers, he couldn't even understand their language, let alone the difference in appearance. The whole world seems to be isolated by himself, although it is not sad, but it still feels a little lonely.

"He is both near and far away, he seems to be everywhere, but nowhere to be found, because he is not limited by any time and space. As small as we are, we naturally have no ability to reach all of him unless he takes the initiative to present it to us...... I already know who this kid is, but I'll talk about that later. As if sensing Mono's uneasiness, the priest paused the conversation with Xiliu and Xiluo, turned his gaze to Mono, and said with some intriguing, "This Ressisi is very rare......

Mano didn't seem to understand, but it was clear that the priest was talking about him, because Xiliu and Xiluo's eyes fell on him in unison with the priest's words.

"He's a Rysers, but it seems unlikely that such a Rysersi exists, right?" the priest ...... "There are a total of twelve different groups of Streamers in different forms, but no matter what kind of physical form, even if they haven't had a chance to meet in the past, once they meet, they can immediately recognize each other's identities. This special sensing ability is the innate instinct of the Streamer people, so they have never doubted the origin of the Demon Wild from beginning to end. There is another reason why the priest said that "rare" is actually what makes Xiliu and Siloh puzzled.

The priest stared at Mono, to be precise, at his black hair and blue eyes, and then said thoughtfully, "It's not entirely impossible, but there shouldn't be a second one like him......"