Chapter 10: Sylvenia Forest

Next, they had to move on to find a place for the aliens. But the strange scene from before has been haunting Mono's mind, and it can't get rid of it no matter what. Why did tens of thousands of small points of light flow into the child's body like that, but the child was calm, and then continued to move forward as if nothing had happened?

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help but wonder what it was, and Mo Ye couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are those little points of light just now?"

"That's Enor. The child replied.

"Enor, what is Enor?" Mano didn't understand, because it wasn't the normal pronunciation of Lepelian's language at all, but to his surprise, he was able to read it aloud without any confusion.

"Enor is Enor. The child replied as a matter of course, as if this were the ultimate answer that could not be questioned.

Mono had to give up asking for the time being. After getting along for a while, he gradually understood that if he continued to ask, the answer given by the child would definitely be the same, or even the same. Maybe he should take some time to wait patiently until the day when the answer will be revealed naturally. However, he still felt a little uneasy when he thought about it, so he asked in a different way: "But why did Enor get into your body?"

"It's natural," said the child, "that they should have been here." ”

"Yes......" Mono pondered, but after all, he still couldn't understand it, so he had to give up for the time being. Ever since I met this strange child, strange things have happened one after another, and the common sense accumulated in the past thirty years is now completely crumbling and useless. However, as long as you look at the child's starry eyes, there is nothing to doubt. Perhaps, he should no longer face what is about to happen with his old knowledge.

For the rest of the trip, Mono was still a little passive, this space wrapped in the jungle was like another strange world, he had lost his sense of direction, and could only try to believe in this child and follow him. However, Moye really didn't expect that there was a mountain hidden in the depths of the forest, which was a landscape that could not be seen at all from the edge of the forest.

At this time, they were standing at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the top of the mountain, and they could faintly see some flickering lights. Mono immediately realized that it should be the settlement of aliens. However, the steep slopes and thorns here protect the mountain impeccably, leaving people with no way out. Mono looked at the flickering light on the top of the mountain, a little unsure if he would be able to reach his destination before dawn. Because, although the top of the mountain is densely wooded, there are not many trees below the mountainside that can bear his weight, or some convex rocks that can be climbed with the help of it, and the mountain wall is very steep.

Mono thought about it seriously, and felt that there was really no other way than to climb with his bare hands. Just as he turned around and was about to ask the child if he would like to let him climb the mountain on his back, he suddenly saw an unexpected spectacle.

At the child's feet, Mano saw two unknown vine-like plants, growing rapidly at a speed that could be easily observed with the naked eye. Their vines coil together and slowly weave together into a staircase that stretches consciously to the top of the mountain. As the cane grows and spreads, the new buds slowly bloom. The flowers and leaves, glowing with a faint blue or green glow, gradually illuminate this staircase woven of long vines, as if to extend a wordless invitation to them.

But when I saw the boy put his hand on the vine, his expression was happy and vivid, as if he was listening to something. When Mono was about to ask aloud, the child suddenly turned around and said, "We just need to climb up the ladder of the light vine flower, and we will be there soon." Then he climbed the flower steps on his own.

Although Moye didn't understand why the child would show an interactive look at the two plants, after experiencing all kinds of strange things, his cognitive function had been completely disrupted, and his mind seemed to be pulled by some mysterious force, and he involuntarily stretched out his hand to the flower vine. At the moment when his fingertips touched the vines, his heart was suddenly touched inexplicably, and he was surprised to find that these vines were actually warm! The sense of familiarity swept over again, very similar to the feeling when his fingers crossed the river of light before, it was not as simple as physical contact on the surface. Mono couldn't believe it, he seemed to have touched an unusually tough and strong rhythm of life, and clearly felt the ...... from the flower vine Joy?!

That's right, he confirmed again, the two vines did convey a joyful emotion to him through contact. This mystical experience has gone beyond the realm of the five senses, it is a deeper spiritual perception of the existence of life, which transcends all physical barriers and makes language superfluous. Because they are able to directly perceive each other's consciousness and touch each other's melody of life, as if there is no distance between him and them at all, let alone any difference. It was only then that it dawned on Moye why the child always used only one personal pronoun when he spoke, and never distinguished between people and things. Because in the child's consciousness, there is no difference in life, life is life, nothing more.

What a wonderful and touching experience! A sense of reverence for life arises spontaneously. Mono knew that if he hadn't met this child, maybe he would never have had the opportunity to discover another completely different meaning hidden in his life. So he couldn't help but say "Thank you!" to the two light vine flowers, and then stepped on this staircase woven by beautiful and tenacious life without hesitation, without the slightest doubt that the light vine flower would understand his gratitude.

They kept climbing up the ladder of light vine flowers, and the closer they got to the top of the mountain, the more bright light they came into view, and the whispers echoed faintly, which meant that the two had finally arrived at the habitat of the aliens.

Mono had never seen such a beautiful forest city, as if he had suddenly fallen into a fantasy. It is so full of life, completely painted by the rough nature of the scenery, with a soul of its own. Even if you use all the languages in this world, you can't accurately describe its charm, even if it is known as the most gorgeous city in the Eastern Continent, Garan City can't compare with it. Because, after being destroyed by the civilization of the Lepelian people, the fake natural landscape that was deliberately carved out has lost the charm and real natural value given by nature. Moreover, with the development of civilization, the Lepeilian people will lose more nature, and one day, the true natural demeanor will completely disappear from people's memory.

It's still dark below, but the city of Sylvenia Forest at the top of the hill is bright and vibrant. It's not like a typical mountaintop, it's either rocky or rugged, but it's a little bumpy at the edges and surprisingly flat inside. There is a small round lake in the center, the lake surface is not wide, the lake water is very shallow, very clear. It was a moonless night, and from the edge of the mountaintop, you could still see the stars reflected in the water, and the lake looked like another sky.

In the middle of the shallow lake, there is a smooth and flat white boulder, like an island in the water. On the shore of the lake are piles of bonfires, which are arranged in an orderly manner around the small lake, and from a distance, they look like a large firewheel around the lake. The white boulders in the lake look particularly solemn and mysterious against the backdrop of the firelight.

But it's not just the bonfires that surround the shores of the lake that light up this forest city, but also the ubiquitous light vines. They wrap around the trees on the top of the hill and quietly bloom with a soft pale blue or pale green glow. The tranquility of the light vine flowers and the blazing heat of the flames, the forest city that is blended by the brilliance, is like a mirage from the sky.

Among the "mirages", the most striking are the beautiful figures on the shore of the lake. They exude a soft biological light all around them, and their bodies are slender and graceful, with long blue-green hair and jewel-like turquoise eyes. They walked barefoot, their hairline, the backs of their hands, and the skin of their feet, showing some vein-like lines and glowing with a faint cyan glow, like flowing blood. All of them were dressed in a similar way, all of them were simple robes, white and soft like flower petals, and they looked very comfortable and lightweight, except for a small pattern on the cuffs, and there were no extra decorations around the body.

Moye never expected that the physical appearance of the alien was so elegant, which was very different from the rumored "strange shape, ugly and terrifying". When I was stunned, a wonderful music suddenly floated in my ears, a bit like the sound of blowing leaves, but there was also some sound of water, as if a fish jumped out of the water.

As soon as the signal-like music sounded, thirty figures were seen emerging from the crowd and standing in the open space between the campfires on the shore of the lake, one at every other fire. At the same time, the others stepped back and distanced themselves from them for about ten paces, and a mysterious pattern gradually formed around the shore of the lake, and all the whispers came to an abrupt end, as if they were one with the forest. They are straight, their palms folded and gently placed on their chests, their eyes are looking directly at the lake, their expressions are elegant and peaceful, and the atmosphere is sacred and solemn.

The thirty people around the campfire were dressed up a little differently from the others. The long hair was wrapped in bundles of thin silver threads, hanging loosely on the back, and the silver glow flickered between the blue-green strands. They were all shirtless, and they were wearing a pair of white loose trousers on the bottom, with the same texture, soft and simple. At the cuffs of the tightened trousers was a small pattern, the same as on the cuffs of everyone's robes, a burning sun with a strangely shaped tree in the center.

Standing on the edge of the mountain, his gaze through the gaps in the trees, even though they were far away, they could still clearly see the veins of leaves that were distributed under their skin from their graceful bodies. It suddenly dawned on him that he and the child had no other resemblance to the aliens by the lake than the self-luminescence. These phenomena have cast more mysteries over his previous speculations.

The scene in front of me is very reminiscent of those aliens who may be about to hold a grand festival that is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb, and it is not good to rush in. So, Mano quickly grabbed the child who was about to walk out of the woods, and took him to hide behind the rocks next to him, and then cautiously poked his head out and watched from a distance through the trees.