Upon entering the tree hole, Leo felt his body lose its sense of gravity in the pitch darkness, as if floating in a silent universe.

After floating in the darkness for a long time, he finally saw the light of the exit.

The entrance of the cave flashed with light, and the person was enveloped in light.

As soon as his eyes closed and opened, Leo found himself grounded.

Behind him is this dangerous, mysterious, and powerful tree. Beneath his feet was a green meadow, wet dirt and dew sticking to his boots.

If you look up slightly, you can see tall trees not far away.

If you listen closely, you can also hear the sound of everything wriggling under the seemingly quiet woods, running water, insects, birds, and deer.

Leo had never felt so full of life in such an ordinary forest. Biological diversity shows its charm at this moment.

Isenus didn't have much emotion about this, he was even more curious about what had just happened, so he grabbed Nana as soon as he landed and asked non-stop.

"What just happened? Are you talking to that tree?"

"Yes, it's a very kind kid. ”

"Kid?" Isenas chewed on the word and asked, "Can you elaborate on your conversation?"

"No problem. Nana thought for a moment.

"I heard a voice greeting us, and you didn't respond to it, so I replied to him on my own initiative..."

"Hello?" was the tree's voice, with a hint of anticipation and temptation in its immature voice.

"Hello?"

"You can hear me!"

"Isn't that weird?"

"Of course! I've seen a lot of people before, but they don't pay attention to me, they just rush up to pick my fruit. Speaking of which, there was a little grievance in the tone of the tree.

"Ahh Nana answered.

The conversation between one man and one tree fell into a sad silence.

"Can you come closer to me?" the tree pleaded to Nana again.

"Of course, but I can't see, I don't know how to get close to you. ”

"Ahh ”

This time it was the turn of the tree to fall silent.

"I'm sorry..."

"There's nothing to apologize for. Is there a way you can get me close to you?"

"You just have to walk forward, don't care about the direction, just walk twenty or so steps. ”

Nana walked forward.

After dozens of steps, the tree called out to Nana.

"Stop, you're already with me, you reach out and try. ”

Nana submissively stretched out her hand, and she touched the delicate and smooth bark, which was not as hard as expected, and the slightly elastic touch was a little warm.

"That's who I am. How does it feel?"

"Yay. Nana spread her hands and pressed them against its trunk.

"Oh! don't..."

However, Nana was already attached to its body.

They fell silent for a long time.

Little by little, particles of light poured into Nana's body, which was the emotion and memory of the tree.

Then Nana "saw".

A seed drifted in the lonely void, silently absorbing a little energy in the void, and then took root and sprouted, and the bare roots continued to gather around the bare roots, and the light gathered more and more, and finally a rough clod of soil appeared in the center, and a piece of land grew in the void.

Suddenly, it touched a solid fulcrum, and its ignorance took root here according to its instincts.

The longer it grows, the taller it gets, and the larger the land gets. But the ground is still bare.

Until one day a swarm of bees came to it, built a nest on it, sowed seeds, and made brilliant flowers bloom in the dark soil.

It rejoices and tries to communicate with them. It's a pity that these little things only nurture flowers and multiply races, and don't respond to their greetings.

Despite this, it generously bestows its energy on the little ones and helps them ward off predators and keep tall trees from growing here.

In a long and singular period of happiness, its small kingdom welcomed its first guests, a group of greedy and reckless adventurers.

It was full of joy to communicate with these adventurers, but these adventurers' greedy eyes were only the fruits of the branches that shone with the light of money, and they were even more greedy to take its body.

Faced with the sinister nature of humanity for the first time, it forgot its actions in fear, but fortunately these bees stepped forward and ended the lives of these greedy adventurers.

The trees shuddered and looked at the corpses all over the ground, whether it was a human or a bee.

Once it has calmed down, its first action is to frantically pump energy to the Guardians to show its gratitude and calm its fears.

After this time, it instinctively began to transform the space into a sea of dangerous flowers, and it reached a strange symbiotic relationship with bees and flowers.

But in the long life of the inability to communicate with others, it only feels lonely.

The shell of loneliness is not the same, but it has a wonderful sense of empathy between it and Nana, and in this respect, they are each other's only friends in the world who understand each other.

Little Paul was fascinated by such a story, whether it was the long time span in the story, the illusory space telling, and the strange life relationships of interdependence, all of which aroused his infinite reverie.

Leo and Esenas are not immersed in the bizarre twists and turns of this story, and they analyze the information revealed in this narrative.

"Alien creatures, the embodiment of elements, the reconstruction of space...", Isenus summed it up as he pondered. "I can see so much for the time being. ”

"What, what?" said little Paul, who immediately woke up from his endless fantasies, and asked after Izernus.

Although Isenas didn't approve of Paul Jr.'s joining at first, Paul Jr. still tried his best to answer every question. This made Leo feel quite mixed about him.

"The environment in which it appears is not the main material world, this kind of creatures we collectively call alien creatures, they are characterized by tenacious vitality, can adapt to a variety of energy attributes, only physical attacks can cause them effective damage. ”

"It condenses the soil from the void, and this is the obvious ability of energy to manifest, and if it is a human being, it is not necessarily possible to master it in the depths of the legend. ”

"As for spatial reconstruction, the legend is the basic condition for mastering this skill, and the mastery of this ability has nothing to do with whether or not to go deep into the legend, even in the legend it is a rare and powerful ability. ”

"With its size far beyond humans, and with these symbiotic guardians, even half a dozen legends will be turned into fertilizer by them in five minutes. ”

After saying that, Esenas glanced at the one who had tried to call out to Omoni to attack Leo on them, although he didn't say a word, but he successfully made the two of them have a sense of shame that "I'm an idiot".

Omoni coughed twice in embarrassment, brushing over the topic that the look was trying to raise, and adding to Isennas's explanation.

"The relationship between these three is not a simple symbiotic relationship, and if we leave aside their plant and animal identities, we can see them as the relationship between believing and being believed. ”

Of the three, the tree is at the top of the belief system, belongs to the believed, provides a source of faith, and gives back to the believer. Bees are clerics who provide a certain amount of force and protection to the tree, while being responsible for the duty of territorial expansion. And the flower is the ordinary believer, providing energy for this system. ”

"Even this space can be seen as its kingdom of God. ”

Ente couldn't help but agree when he heard this.

"This is indeed in line with the divine power system. ”

Isenus glanced back at the bare tree, and mentally raised its danger rating by another notch.

"Could it have anything to do with the gods?"

"It's hard to say, but it's possible. ”

Leo only grasps one key point in the narrative.

"Are you saying you see it growing? That is, you see color through this way of communication?"

"No, I didn't, I just felt a... It's hard to describe..."Nana tried to explain her feelings, but she couldn't explain what she saw and heard due to her level of strength and knowledge.

"An understanding that is difficult to describe. "Isenus knows all about it.

This is the wonder and difficulty of the communication of spiritual power, a plant and human senses are different, the language is different, when describing one's own sights and hearings in the spirit, it can only convey a vague feeling through the spiritual power, and the party receiving the spiritual power information will transform this information into a manifestation of his own understanding and cognition. ”

"It's similar to the way you paint the colors for Nana..."

Nana's cognitive system simply doesn't have the tools to depict such epic scenes, so she can only feel the message of the other party through her own little understanding of language. ”

"Is that so? Leo sighed. "I thought I could introduce Nana to the world in this way. ”

"Don't be lazy, teaching Nana all the colors in the world one by one is your most important job right now. ”

Leo sighed again, shook his head, and asked about the fruit in Nana's hand.

"It's okay to give all this fruit to Nana, right?"

There was no disagreement with this at all, and if it wasn't for Nana this time, they could be sure that they wouldn't be able to get out of this weird and weird space. Even if Isenas were lucky enough to figure out how to move this space, they would never be able to break through the swarm of bees that were at the end of the gate.

Even judging from the harvest, Leo felt that Nana still lost a lot.

"What are you going to do with this fruit, and eat it?" asked Omoni.

"Of course. You can't exchange it for money, can you?"

Nana was a little unacceptable to this, and whispered: "I don't need this, this is too wasteful for me." ”

Leo pressed the fruit into Nana's hand and said solemnly: "Since you see yourself as a member of the team, then this is what you deserve, there is no waste and no waste." ”

Nana was still a little hesitant.

Isenas interrupted Leo's insistence and proposed, "In that case, then Nana also has the right to dispose of this item, why don't you let Nana sell this item to us, and we will use the proceeds of the later adventures to buy it." ”

Nana immediately agreed to the plan.

Leo thought about it for a moment and said it was the best of both worlds.

In the end, Leo and Nana agreed that Leo would pay the proceeds of the next two adventures in exchange for the proceeds of this adventure.

Omoni briefly examined the fruit, confirmed that its contents were safe and harmless, and gave it to Leo to eat in one bite.

The fruit turned into a streamer and burrowed into Leo's mouth.

He smacked his lips.

Little Paul asked curiously.

"What does this fruit taste like?"

"There was no taste. ”

Paul Jr. was disappointed.

"Let's go, let's stop standing here stupidly, go ahead and find something to eat. Leo shouted to everyone.

Nana was still a little reluctant about the tree.

"I wanted to give it a name. Nana suggested.

"No problem at all. Leo said. "It's your friend, and it makes perfect sense that you should give it a name for ease of calling. What do you want to call it?"

"It's bare, like a stone... And it's as hard and tenacious as a stone, can I call it Monolith?"

"Of course, my girl. ”

Author's note: Monolith, that is, a large, whole stone, here can be translated as a rock.