Do plants feel pain, or rather, do trees feel pain? It's a difficult question to answer, because it's not like animals that scream, struggle, twist their limbs, and kick around. The elves who are friends of the forest may tell you that trees are painful, so those that have been injured and left wounds on their branches will shed sap and form hideous nodules. Of course, such words may not make more sense to the ears of a lumberjack than the cries of birds. Actually, it doesn't matter, in fact, it never matters whether the creature has pain or not, the important thing is that people feel pain, so they naturally think that other creatures are pain. And now, several people, including Cheese, are feeling heartache.

What kind of torture is that, just looking at it makes the viewer feel heartfelt pain. That kind of torture, that kind of torment, can't survive, can't die, it's like 10,000 silver needles piercing all the painful nodes around the body, and there are only spasms and bitter signals left in the brain. Atta, who was the most sensitive, had unconsciously shed tears, and she couldn't tell whether the tears were for the tree or for herself who had witnessed such a cruel scene. All she knew was that she couldn't ignore the feeling and that something had to be done.

"O spirits, this is Tianmu! O spirits, why is it like this!" Batu's reaction was much more intuitive than that of Atta, and the herdsman boy covered his cheeks with his hands, muttering mad words and prayers flowing down the gaps between his fingers, and his body trembled with it, more so than that of a female swordsman.

"What is Amaki?" Cheese also felt uncomfortable, but his training and the trials he had experienced made it not as difficult to stabilize his mind as the first two. Weighing down the discomfort and the irritability that followed, the mage heard Batuu's murmur and noticed an unfamiliar word. Amaki, even the language ability that Wuqi gave to Cheese using shamanic spells does not contain this word. Or, it's because the word is so obscure that the shaman himself doesn't know it. Either that, or because the word and the thing it refers to are already equated with the spirits, the language powers given by the spirits cannot cover the name of this being, just as a person can name other creatures, but not everyone he sees.

Batu was unable to answer the mage's question, he had temporarily lost his ability to respond to the outside world due to some shock. Although a more violent impact, such as a slap or something similar, should have brought him to his senses, at this time another person answered Cheese's question, "Amaki, it's the pillar that supports heaven and earth in their minds. ”

The person who spoke, to be exact, the cat goblin, in short, Kailas jumped off Atta's shoulders, his feet firmly on the ground, the thin sword in his hand unsheathed and pointed diagonally at the ground, "In the eyes of these goat-covered guys, the world is not upward. On the contrary, while you are all thinking about the starry sky and what is beyond it, they have already made their own interpretation of what is above them, which is the spirits of their mouths. The starry sky is another grassland, a grassland that belongs to the spirits, where the land under our feet will become their sky again. So the problem is never on the head, but on the feet. ”

"Every rabbit hole leads to hell, and the guy who falls into the hole can't get out, and don't go into the springs where they come and where they end, you can hear them saying things all the time. They believe, and believe, that there is another grassland under their feet. But the steppe was not as harmonious as they were with the spirits. The grasslands of the earth belong to evil spirits, earthquakes, poisonous rivers, dry and cracked land, and they attribute them to the evil spirits underground. The spirits made a great noise in the ground every night, and they rode on horses with horns over the fields of the earth, and the ground trembled, and the blood of their killing of each other flowed into the waters, and those who drank it became sick and died. ”

"When a devout believer in spirits dies, he becomes a star in the sky as the ancestral spirit of his tribe and family. Those who are rigid or mutilated and buried will fall into the ground, never to be at peace, but to the barren earth and the biting ice water. Of course, I only know a rough idea, their actual beliefs are much more complicated than I say, and shamans will know more about these things. And among the spirits, between the human world and the underground, these three worlds and even more worlds are connected to the heavenly tree in his mouth, which is the tree we see. Its roots reach into the void of the earth's core, and its canopy is hung with stars and the Milky Way. Legend has it that as long as you climb up the heavenly tree, the living can enter the world of spirits..."

"You seem familiar with their beliefs. Cheese glanced at the cat elf, surprised at what he had learned, and if it wasn't surprising that Kairaz knew the language of the steppe people, it was a bit too much for him to learn so much about the prairie beliefs and customs just to protect Atta. In addition, this cat also understands words that herders don't know.

"The first breeder I was born was a steppe man. It's not a single Yu or a wolf master, it's just an ordinary little girl. I watched her grow up, get married, have children, and die. Unfortunately, none of her children resembled her, so I left. You're not the only one who will travel the world, wizard, and you're not the only one who will doubt it. I used to think I was just a normal cat, until I realized that the female cats in the neighborhood didn't understand what I was saying. And sometimes, I wish I was just a normal cat. Just like I want Atta to live his life as a human, even if it's short and bumpy, it must have its value, right?" said the cat fairy, putting on the hat, and he acted like a chivalrous man.

Cheese raised an eyebrow, he didn't expect Kailas to say that, but there were a lot of things he hadn't expected along the way, and there was nothing to be excited about. "That's right, I also have someone who wants him to live his life, and he's under that tree now. Therefore, even if I pull this Tianmu out, I will let him come back. ”

The cat goblin's whiskers twitched, "Crazy." ”

"Each other, each other. You see, someone has come to greet us. The mage smiled and said that he was referring to a waddled figure emerging from the shadows of the heavenly wood, holding a knot in his hand. Some of those individuals still have a rudimentary appearance, while others have turned into translucent shells, and in the body of the latter, one or more writhing fat worms can be seen.

"I guess these are the people who climb the heavenly trees. And that's definitely not the result they wanted. ”