Chapter 3: Ancient Trees
"Oops, I haven't been here for a week, and I feel like the whole store has a new look!" Xiao Longbao, dressed in a white princess dress, stepped on 8-centimeter heels, twisted his waist, and pushed open the door of the store.
"Wangwang!" "Ice Cream heard Xiao Long Bao's voice and pounced on him from far and near, "Ice Cream, calm down, calm down, don't scratch Auntie's new dress!" Xiao Long Bao grabbed the two little fat claws of Ice Cream and kept them away from him.
"Yo, isn't this Mr. Long, I haven't seen you for a week, you're getting more and more rounded, this skirt is L size, right?" Yun Xizi walked out with Xixi in his arms.
"It's M-size!" Xiao Longbao said indignantly. "Oh, then this skirt must be on the big side. After speaking, he pulled the hem of his skirt, "Well, it doesn't seem to be elastic, you have to keep your figure, otherwise you won't be able to squeeze in at that time, so you can only play with my clothes cut into dolls." "When Yun Xizi is interested, he will also make clothes for the dolls by himself.
"Hmph, there won't be that day!" Xiao Long Bao puffed out his cheeks and ignored Yun Xizi after speaking. Seeing that the chat was dead, Yun Xizi took out a pair of Orleans chicken wings from the refrigerator, heated them in the microwave and sent them to Xiaolongbao.
"Don't eat it, you say I'm fat!" Xiao Long Bao was still angry. "It's just two chicken wings, eating it won't make you weigh two pounds, and if you don't eat it, it won't make you lose weight immediately into a little dragon girl. Yun Xizi pushed the chicken wings forward again. Smelling the fragrance of chicken wings, Xiao Long Bao still stretched out his white chubby hand to the chicken wings after some entanglement.
"You're fat!" Hee Hee muttered as she rolled her eyes. As if feeling Xixi's contemptuous eyes, Xiaolongbao turned his head to look at Xixi, as if he had discovered a new world: "Huh...... There's a new doll, you just bought it?"
"Well, I searched for a long time before I found it, it looks like the one I used to have!" After speaking, he stroked the bangs on Xixi's forehead. "It's pretty cute, and there are dimples, and you're so cute to dress her up, like a little Lori. "Xiaolongbao is also a fan of the bustling Yan Quan. "Hehe, with vision, I retract what I just said. Xixi muttered in her heart with satisfaction, and her praise of Xiaolongbao was quite useful.
"I've been busy lately, the school has expanded its enrollment, and the number of new students in my class is a quarter more than the previous one, and it takes more than ten minutes longer than usual just for each roll call. Xiao Long Bao spit out a chicken bone and said. "If there are more students, not all of them will be of good quality, and if this continues, I don't know how long the signboard of the Normal University will shine. Yun Xizi sighed that the reputation of the Normal University seems to have deteriorated in recent years.
"No way, only when there are more students can you make money, do you think that the current university is still the same as before, just to teach and educate people, now it is an economy and society, no matter what you do, the ultimate goal is to make money. After speaking, Xiao Long Bao had already solved one chicken wing, and stretched out his fat hand to the second, and then continued: "By the way, the students have expanded, and the school area is also expanding. ”
"Are you talking about the ghost buildings next to the playground?" After all, Yun Xizi has been in the Normal University for six years, and he is still very familiar with the environment around the school. She remembered that there were a few unfinished buildings next to the playground, but for safety reasons, the school didn't allow them to set foot there, so they just stood on the playground every time to look at it. But the more this happens, the more curiosity is aroused. Some of the brave students have been there secretly, but all the students who have been there will come back with a serious illness, with symptoms similar to a severe cold, fever, cold sweat, and gibberish. Although they got better after about 10 days of hospitalization, they couldn't remember anything when I asked them what they had experienced. As a result, the school did not allow students to approach, and erected four or five meters high iron fences outside the buildings, and installed cameras in some corners for monitoring, although there was nothing unusual, but the "ghost building" still spread to every corner of the school. Every time Yun Xizi looked at it in the playground, he felt gloomy and didn't dare to look at it for a long time.
"Well, if it weren't for the fact that there was really no place to choose, I don't think the school would pay attention to the ghost building, which is the biggest taboo in the university. Miraculously, nothing happened to the construction workers when they went in, but when they dug the foundation, they dug up a very large tree. Xiao Long Bao said with a half-gnawed chicken leg.
"Tree, what tree?" Yun Xizi couldn't remember what tree was there. "I don't see any varieties, but I heard horticultural professionals say that it looks like a mulberry tree, but the branches don't look like the branches of a mulberry tree. At present, only part of the excavation has been excavated, and the large tree is lying horizontally, and it is unknown whether it has been cut down or grown. The branches of the tree are numerous and dense, tangled and coiled around the tree like tentacles, as if to protect it. Xiao Long Bao said as he recalled.
"How big?" Yun Xi asked curiously. "At present, the excavated part is about 20 meters long, and the largest diameter of the tree is about 5 meters, and the age of the tree is unknown, but it must be less than a hundred years and more than a thousand years, otherwise how can it grow into such a behemoth. Xiao Long Bao gestured with his greasy hands.
"Then what is the school's plan? will it continue to dig, or will it give up this place and find another place?" Yun Xizi asked curiously, holding his chin. "The school is also struggling with what if it is a species that even a professor of horticulture can't be sure of, and if it is a species of ancient tree that has long been extinct, if that is the case, the place will be circled and handed over to the state. If not, it would be a big job to excavate, after all, it has not yet been surveyed how big the tree is and how deep it is buried. Xiao Long Bao sighed while answering Yun Xizi's question.
"What is the current state of this tree, is it dead or alive?" Yun Xizi began to become more and more curious about this tree. "It's still alive or dead, you think it's human. Xiao Long Bao took a bite of chicken skin and continued: "But it's strange to say, this tree has been buried for so long, and it hasn't completely withered, and some parts are still very fresh. ”
"Do you have any pictures? show me and let my eyes help you determine if this is a demon tree. Yun Xizi circled his finger and compared it in front of his eyes. "I don't have anything to do to take a picture of a tree trunk, there is it on the school's Weibo, go and see for yourself." Finally finished nibbling on the two chicken wings, Xiao Long Bao licked his fingers with a satisfied face.
Yun Xizi swiped the Weibo of the Normal University and saw a photo of the big tree, the photo should have been taken from a distance, and it was not very clear, only a bunch of construction workers and a few people who seemed to be school leaders were talking around the big tree. The large tree lay horizontally in the ground, the dug part of it was gray-green and gray-green, and the branches surrounded the trunk, layer upon layer. Except that it was very large and had many branches, Yun Xizi couldn't see any difference. However, through the photos, Yun Xizi could always feel a cold aura coming to her face, so she quickly closed the page.
After finishing this topic, Xiao Long Bao began to talk about the gossip of this class of freshmen......
At night, instead of watching the "hustle and bustle" as usual, the mysterious man came to the big tree.
"I didn't expect you to see the light of day again," the mysterious man seemed to be talking to himself, as if to the tree.
"Fortunately, your seal has not been completely broken, I will add another layer to you, lest your demonic energy run around and attract other little demons to do evil. As he spoke, he heard a man-like whimper coming from under the tree, accompanied by a gust of wind.
"Hehe, it's useless to resist. The mysterious man said disdainfully, then closed his eyes and whispered a few strange words, and in the process, the whimpering gradually subsided, and the wind slowly stopped. When the mysterious man opened his eyes again, he bit his index finger and sprinkled the blood on the tree, but what he didn't expect was that a drop of blood on his index finger split into countless drops of blood when it was sprinkled on the tree. When the blood dripped onto the tree, the whole tree actually shook, but not very often, only the surrounding soil churned. In less than two minutes, the blood melted into the tree, and the tree stopped shaking, and then as if it had withered, it turned gray in color, and the whole thing shrank in half.
"Go on," said the mysterious man, who turned away and disappeared into the night......