Xiao Yilan felt that he was hanging in the air, it was pitch black, and there was silence and no wind around him. He tried to shout, but he couldn't make the slightest sound. Suddenly there was a dull sound in the empty darkness, like a low trumpet. The darkness melted away like ink that melted into a clear stream, turning a pale green.

As the horn sounded one after another, this pale green light curtain was also like breathing, rippling in bursts. Gradually, images emerged behind the green curtain. Xiao Yilan recognized Li Zheng in these pictures, the people from Benhai City and Chengji Palace, as well as the two tree spirits and the beautiful girl he had seen that day. The scenes flowed by, and gradually dissipated, turning into a glimmer of light, which made Xiao Yilan unable to see it really.

The faint light faded, and the surroundings fell into darkness again, and when he regained consciousness again, he was greeted by a ceiling, very simple, made of several wooden planks of different sizes, and there were some slight gaps between the planks, so that he could see the sunlight outside. He wanted to turn his head to look around you, but found that his muscles were as stiff as stones, his sense of touch was still there, but his body seemed not to be his own, uncontrolled, only his eyes could move up and down his body, and even his lips and tongue were a little weak, and he could only make heavy breathing sounds.

A shadow was reflected in his eyes, it was Meng Laosan's adopted daughter that day. She is helping Xiao Yilan change the dressing and bandage the wound on her chest at the moment. She noticed that Xiao Yilan opened her eyes, seemed to be a little surprised, and said softly: "You are awake, I will call them." ”

Before Xiao Yilan could react to who "they" were, the girl had already run out of the room. A moment later she returned, followed by Li Zheng and the tree spirit. The dryad was tall, and it was necessary to bend down to approach the wooden house, which made the room seem a little cramped.

Xiao Yilan's lips moved, but he still couldn't speak. Seeing this, Li Zheng stepped forward and wanted to help Xiao Yilan sit up, but he was stiff, and he couldn't help him bend over and sit up after spending a long time, so he could only pat him on the shoulder and comfort: "Don't worry, we don't know why you're like this." At that time, you were bleeding a lot, and you didn't live anymore, and then, and then something very strange happened......" Li Zheng tried hard to show the strange scene of that day, but he didn't know how to express it in words for a while, and he couldn't wait to gesture with his hands.

Still the girl couldn't stand it anymore, and interjected in a low voice: "It should be another ...... The big guy like a tree saved you. As she spoke, she quietly glanced at the dryad behind her. Li Zheng hurriedly continued: "Yes, yes, it's very weird anyway......" He said, took out something from his arms and brought it to Xiao Yilan, "In the end, it turned into ashes like burned firewood, and only this thing remained, very similar to the one you bought in Benhai City at the beginning." ”

Xiao Yilan looked at the girl, then at Li Zheng, trying to open her mouth. But the lips and tongue were still powerless, unable to speak.

At this moment, the dryad that had been sitting cross-legged like a hill behind suddenly emitted a slight cyan light, covering the entire wooden house under a cyan light curtain, and the dryad suddenly became a little different from before. Xiao Yilan reacted, its original brown eyes had turned pale green, and it was not as agile as before, but ethereal and wooden, without the slightest fluctuation.

Xiao Yilan saw Li Zheng and the girl looking at him like a monster with a surprised face, and suddenly felt inexplicable. Under this blue light, he suddenly felt that the stiff muscles on his body were slightly relieved, so he raised his head with great effort, followed the gaze of Li Zheng and the others, and moved his gaze downward, but saw that under the bandage wrapped around his chest, it was like lighting a cyan lamp, and the blue light shone out through the layers of bandages, and he fell with his pulse.

It's like...... Like your own heart is not only green, but also glowing?

The dryad's lips began to twitch slightly, and the muffled hum it used to make was inaudible, but it was like a mage chanting at a human festival. Many new memory fragments suddenly popped up in Xiao Yilan's mind, and some pictures and syllables seemed to appear out of thin air, gradually piecing together in his mind, and the meaning gradually became clear.

Li Zheng waved his hand in front of him with some concern, but Xiao Yilan did not react. His eyes were kept wide, his eyes staring straight ahead as if in a daze, trying to make sense of the information that was coming out of his mind.

Tree spirits are born in the vast southern Xinjiang, born from thousand-year-old trees, and their vitality is extremely tenacious, leaving "life beads" after death or when they reproduce, just like the seeds of ordinary plants. And this "life pearl" can absorb vitality and aura in southern Xinjiang for many years, and then break through the ground again after thousands of years, and live in a cycle. The tree spirits are originally of the same origin, and there seems to be some kind of connection between them, and the aura or vitality within the life beads can be transmitted to each other. But the aura accumulated from the billions of living beings in southern Xinjiang has never been used on human beings, and he must have stiffened because he was not blessed to consume this vigorous vitality. Xiao Yilan remembered the somewhat sluggish and stiff movements of the tree spirit, and secretly prayed in his heart that he would not become like that.

But he still had a question as to why the dryad had saved himself. The fragment of memory is not mentioned, and Xiao Yilan has no one to ask.

The jade bead of unknown origin seems to be the "life pearl" that contains the vitality of a certain tree spirit, but before it could break through the ground and be reborn as a spirit, it was taken to Benhai City by mistake and fell into the hands of Xiao Chu. It's no wonder that at that time, the tree spirit was powerful and rejuvenated after absorbing that jade bead. The one in Li Zheng's hand in front of him was obviously much darker, showing a dark green color, which seemed to indicate that its former owner had run out of vitality.

Thanks to the blessing of the tree spirit, we must find time to send this thing back to southern Xinjiang. Xiao Yilan said secretly in his heart.

The girl and Li Zheng looked at the situation in front of them and looked at each other. The blue light gradually dissipated, and the dryad's eyes turned brown again, blinking, as if unaware of what had just happened.

Xiao Yilan closed his eyes, feeling the changes in his body. He could clearly feel his heart beating vigorously, blood pouring through his body, and the stiff muscles in his body gradually relaxed. Li Zheng saw Xiao Yilan close his eyes, thinking that he was asleep, so he whispered to Xiao Yilan to rest well, and then pulled the tree spirit out. The maiden followed them out, but retreated only to the door.

Outside the door, Li Zheng hugged his fist to the girl: "It's really hard to take care of the second young master these days. It's so troublesome for a girl to meet in Pingshui, these things should have been done by me. ”

The girl just smiled: "You are my benefactor, I still have to help with this little favor." What's more, I have taken care of my father's injury before, so I should still be more meticulous than you in these things. Speaking of her father, the girl's expression darkened again.

Li Zheng hurriedly diverted the topic, and after a few polite words, he pulled the tree spirit out. When he was a little farther away, he suddenly made a grimace at the tree spirit beside him: "Did you say that this girl has taken a fancy to the second young master?" ”

The tree spirit's brown eyes turned around, as if he really understood Li Zheng's words, touched his head, and then shrugged his shoulders playfully like a child, looking a little funny. Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, patted the tree spirit on the shoulder, and then laughed: "I didn't expect you to be a piece of wood!"

In the room, the girl turned her head and looked at Xiao Yilan, Xiao Yilan had already opened her eyes, but she still couldn't move, and she was a little hairy for a while. At this moment, the sunlight outside the house shone in through the door frame, shining through the ends of the girl's hair on her delicate face. Her face was not real in the golden light and the shadows of her hair, but it seemed to be shining.

Xiao Yilan's heart jumped. He tried to open his mouth again and said something, but only spit out a few cloudy syllables.

The girl understood: "I have forgotten my previous name, but my father has always called me Lin'er." ”

For a moment, Xiao Yilan felt that time stood still. At the junction of light and dark, he saw Meng Linwan smiling a little vaguely, and the faint flush on his cheeks was like a rippling glow.