Chapter 25: The Old Tree

"It's tomorrow." Ye Baiyu put his hands behind his back and said to himself: "That girl wants you to make a decision quickly, otherwise there will be no time." ”

With that, he took up his shovel and continued on his way.

He didn't walk fast, and almost every few steps he had to stop to make out the direction, knocking on the rocks and trees, carefully recognizing the different sounds they were making. Obviously he was walking in the open field, but he walked and stopped like a blind man, and only walked a few hundred meters after half an hour of groping.

"I guess that's it......"

Ye Bai Yu stopped in front of a tree and looked up at the lush canopy above his head.

It was a huge locust tree, about the height of a small eight- or nine-story building. The canopy of the trees stretched out like a huge umbrella, covering the small sky on this side. The dark trunk of the tree is covered with mottled and rugged marks, showing passers-by how long it has passed.

"Just say it, why are you so powerful, it turns out that you have been stained with the essence of this tree, and you have used the torso of this old locust tree as your own body."

Ye Baiyu raised his head and said to the leaves above his head.

There was no wind around, but there was a small sound in the leaves, as if someone was whispering. Ye Baiyu's ears moved slightly.

"Guess what?" Ye Baiyu lowered his head and looked at the tree trunk in front of him, and smiled contemptuously.

"Guess what I can do to you?"

As he had said this, the sound of the leaves suddenly stopped. There was a certain eerie atmosphere in the air, which made people a little restless.

A lightning bolt suddenly fell from the sky in the distance, as if the whole world was brightened.

After a while, the thunder exploded from the sky, and it lasted for a long time. It gradually quieted down.

"Am I not such a kind person?" Ye Baiyu whispered to the old locust tree in front of him: "I've always been worried about trouble, but I've never worried about hurting the innocent. ”

As he said this, he slowly raised one of his hands and gently stroked the trunk of the old locust tree.

There was a rough touch on his fingers, and Ye Baiyu closed his eyes, feeling the cracked trunk lines of the old locust tree.

His movements were very gentle. It's like stroking an old man who is dying.

The old man no longer had the strength to continue his life, and was trying to open his eyes, unwilling to look at the world that was gradually blurring in his eyes, unwilling to die.

Go ahead, don't stay here.

Your life has arrived, and no matter how much you struggle, it's useless.

Becoming one with the demon will only speed up your death.

"Don't be unwilling, let me give you a ride." Ye Baiyu closed his eyes, bowed his head slightly, and said, "I'm sorry, old people." ”

Tiny vines poked their heads out of his sleeves. Slowly followed his fingers forward, eventually landing on the trunk of the tree.

The leaves that had been rustling suddenly fell silent, and all the leaves hung downward, like countless pairs of eyes, watching Ye Baiyu's movements.

As soon as the few wisps of vines touched the trunk of the old locust tree, they began to grow wildly like chicken blood, spreading, and entwining the stout uncle. Climbing upwards.

Ye Baiyu put down his hand and quietly looked at the vines growing against the trunk. A hint of apology flashed in his eyes.

The sound of plants sprouting and growing could be heard in the air. When the sound stopped, the stout old locust tree was covered with green vines.

The tender green vines intertwine with each other, and little by little, they grow small buds.

A few wisps of vines hung down beside Ye Baiyu, and a bunch of buds were just on his shoulders, swaying gently.

The color of the vine darkened a little. And began to stick out some thin burrs and dig into the trunk of the locust tree.

Ye Baiyu sighed and closed his eyes.

The faint fragrance of flowers wafted in the wind, and the buds on the vines opened one after another. Small light pink flowers with fragile petals. As long as there is a slight shake, it will "slump" all over the ground.

Ye Baiyu stood under the tree with his hands in his hands, standing in a rain of flowers. He didn't care about the falling petals on the corners of his clothes, but listened to the sound of the petals falling to the ground, with a gentle smile on his face.

The bunch of buds on his shoulder also slowly opened, hanging in the air and swaying, shaking off the pollen on the ground.

As the flowers on the vines bloomed, the leafy old locust tree withered at a rate visible to the naked eye. The emerald green leaves fell yellow one by one, the branches dried up very quickly, and the fragile ones simply broke off and fell to the ground with the leaves.

It's like something has sucked out the life force.

After the flowers on the vines were finished, they also withered as quickly as the locust tree, leaving only the bunch of flowers on the shoulders of the white feathers still blooming.

Ye Baiyu opened his eyes, took a step back, and stretched out a hand to put it under the string of flowers, as if he was about to catch something.

When the bunch of flowers bloomed to the extreme, the petals began to fall off. At the lowest end of the flower, a little red fruit peeks out of the tiny stamens.

When the fruit grew to the size of a cherry, it stopped growing, hanging in the air and crumbling, but never falling.

"Hey...... Can I do it? Ye Baiyu said softly: "I'm begging you, don't make trouble." ”

The fruit seemed to understand him, shook it a few more times, and then fell.

It just landed in Ye Baiyu's palm.

Ye Baiyu held the fruit in his palm, and his lips moved slightly.

"Good ......"

The vines that covered the trunk of the tree had turned yellow and brittle, and both the leaves and the flowers had disappeared cleanly.

A whirlwind rose from Ye Baiyu's feet, rolled up the thick layer of petals that had accumulated on his body and underground, and flew into the sky with a whirl.

The whirlwind rolled the petals around Ye Bai Yu a few times, and then violently dispersed around, drifting into the distance with a gust of fragrant wind.

The petals that drifted away with the wind disappeared into the air little by little, as if they had never existed.

The stout tree seemed to have lost its support and fell to the ground with a bang. A cloud of dust was kicked up.

The dead leaves fluttered in the air one after another, and slowly fell, indicating the dissipation of the last bit of vitality of this old tree that had lived for an unknown amount of time.

Ye Baiyu stood still with his hands behind his back, watching the tree fall backwards until its last leaf fell to the ground.

He raised the shovel in his hand and tapped the tangled roots of the tree in front of him. Between a shovel and a tree root.

The thick roots of the tree were like hollows, and when he knocked them lightly, they shattered into several pieces and fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Look, isn't that dead?" Ye Baiyu said with a smile.

He stuck his shovel into the ground and dug down the pit under the old tree's roots.

He dug for a moment, then looked up again.

The corpse of the locust tree lay quietly on the ground, the trunk covered with withered yellow leaves, and the sky was still gloomy without the canopy.

Ye Baiyu suddenly felt a burst of irritability.

I really should have brought Xiaobei here. This kind of physical work is not for me at all!

Thinking so, he sighed melancholy and continued to dig into the dirt beneath his feet.

Part of the roots of the old tree were still buried in the ground, blending with the soil and forming a whole.

"I knew it." Ye Baiyu straightened up and looked at the whole piece of dirt mixed with the roots, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Whatever it is, if you live for a long time, it's a problem."

After he said this, his face suddenly changed. Covering his wounds, he bent over.

"I'm not talking about you." He slowly crouched on the ground, grinning in pain. Gritted his teeth and continued: "Even if you are in trouble, I will admit it, who called me ......"

He chuckled softly as he spoke, squinting at the air in front of him, and said something silently.

He squatted for a while, and felt that the wound didn't hurt at all. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, stood up, and continued to dig.

Talking while digging back.

"You say, how deep can that thing be buried? What if we can't find it? ”

"Maybe it's rotten to slag, and if you can't find it, it's even more troublesome."

"Why should I help a little girl deal with this? I don't have the money to take it. ”

"Uh-huh...... I think so, I'm doing charity right now. ”

"yes, I'm so kind."

"I don't know, girl."

"Individuals have their own lives, and we can't control what happens in the end."

"If you really want to, you can do it, but it's useless to count it now...... Or do you think I don't have enough life? ”

"Aha, that's true. However, some things are strange and boring to know the result in advance. ”

"Otherwise, let's make a bet on whether that little girl will survive in the end."

"I definitely don't count, I just bet with you."

"Then I'll bet she'll die."

"Absolutely no tricks, you let it go...... Hey, I found it. ”

As Ye Baiyu said this, he pressed the shovel inserted into the ground hard, bringing up a large piece of soil.

After the dirt was dug up, it was slammed into the ground and shattered into many tiny lumps.

A few thin roots peeked out of the crumbling dirt.

And two dirty bones.

"Actually, there really is." Ye Baiyu said and picked up one of the bones, and held it in his hand and looked at it for a while.

It was a leg bone, densely wrapped around the roots, and seemed to have merged with the dead ancient tree.

"Tsk...... You see. Ye Baiyu shook his head and said to the bone: "Even if what you just said is so powerful, haven't you been dug up by me now?" ”

With that, he threw the bone to the ground, bent down and continued to grope around the bone that had just been dug up.

As soon as the first bone is found, the rest are quickly found.

Ye Baiyu pieced together the pile of bones at random, and watched with satisfaction as the pile of white bones he dug out vaguely formed a human shape.

He stood in front of the pair of bones and said with a smile: "Look, don't say it's you, even if your master comes, I will dig it out and beat it...... Speaking of which, it pretended to be a turtle yesterday and didn't see me. If you can see him, please tell him, if you want to find trouble, my surname Ye is always with you. ”

After saying this, Ye Baiyu raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The pair of bones in front of him quickly ignited a pale cyan flame, and within a few minutes they burned into a pile of charcoal.

"Look, isn't it easy?"

No one answered him, only the sound of "crackling" fire jumping happily on the pile of bones.

When the fire was finished, he threw the ashes into the pit under the locust tree, clapped his hands and turned his head away.

"Goodbye."

Ye Baiyu took two steps, turned back to the big tree and said a word, then picked up the shovel, took out his mobile phone and walked towards the village while walking.

A tiny finger bone was hidden in the layers of tree roots, and after Ye Baiyu walked away, it slowly fell to the ground. After rolling twice, he stopped in a crack under a stone and completely hid himself.

"Xiaobei, what are you doing?"

The sparrow knelt on the ground, took a flashlight to illuminate Xia Beifeng, looked at the mess in his hand curiously, and asked curiously: Is this thing useful? ”

"I'm making bombs." Xia Beifeng raised his head and looked at the sparrow with a loveless face.

"Ye Baiyu is simply a psychopath!"

After saying this, he reached out and pressed his neck a few times, and once again lowered his head to study the pile of things in front of him.

"Hmm......" The sparrow tilted his head and thought for a while, the words went around his mouth several times, and finally he said simply: "Then come on!" ”

When she said this, she still clenched her fist and shook it twice in front of Xia Beifeng's eyes, as a cheer. Then he quietly followed Xia Beifeng to tinker with the things in front of him, without saying a word. ”

"I'm weird sometimes." Xia Beifeng lowered his head and concentrated on his own business, but his mouth was not idle, and he asked the sparrow quite curiously: "You said, he ran around with so many things, didn't he encounter a security check or anything to arrest him?" ”

"I don't know." Sparrow shook his head cheerfully.

"Ah Yu's face mineral water can be brought into the security check, I guess other things are fine. It's you, be careful that your broken car won't pass the inspection. ”

"I know this too, and it shouldn't be a problem if it doesn't change too much. It's quite easy for my two cars to pass the car inspection. Even if there is really any problem, it shouldn't be a big deal, just change it back. ”

Your mom can't even recognize that car has been changed, okay!

You tell me what is original besides the body!

The sparrow looked at Xia Beifeng's serious appearance, and finally swallowed the complaint, and quietly lit him up with a flashlight.

The two of them were silent for a while, and the sparrow suddenly raised his hand and glanced at the top of their heads.

The boxy window still had a gloomy sky, and it didn't seem to be the same.

"Little North. It seems like something has passed. ”

Sparrow whispered.

(To be continued.) )