45. The question of death

"Mr. Fisher, the tree!"

Fisher pulled the fluid sword and quickly rushed out of the room, but before it could completely stop, Asuka Karazawa, who was swept by the wind and narrowed her eyes, quickly noticed that the huge tree behind Tsubaki's palace seemed to have been shaken off by a violent earthquake, and in the vast moonlight, the huge trees hundreds of meters high fell towards the city, so frightened that Asuka Karasawa hurriedly reminded Fisher.

"What's going on? What's the earthquake?! ”

Just as Fisher was standing in the courtyard looking at the giant tree that was about to fall above, Hook Kiss also got dressed and hurriedly ran out, he first glanced at the trees above, and then looked at Asuka Karasawa who was in Fisher's arms with a strange expression, and then asked,

"You two... Just slept together? ”

"Nope! No! It's just that Mr. Fisher has something to do in my room! ”

Asuka Karasawa shouted with a slightly red face, struggling to jump out of Fisher's arms, but such a pale explanation did not make Hook Kiss believe it at all, he glanced at Fisher's body, as if he saw something, and muttered,

"The kidney water is floating, the essence is restless, the heart moves first and the kidney door is on fire... His essence is like gunpowder, and he has hidden his essence for a while, and now he has a tendency to explode every minute, do you dare to stay with him, not afraid of being eaten and wiped clean...... Young people are so bold. ”

“?”

Tang Ze Asuka didn't hear what Hook Kiss said clearly, and now the ground here was shaking so badly that she glanced at Hook Kiss suspiciously, but only saw him snorting at her, as if reminding herself of something.

But the current situation was critical, and instead of thinking about Fisher's reproduction, Mihayer in the other room also walked out with a cold face and asked them,

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, it looks like there was a sudden earthquake... It's strange, the Tree Continent is all mythical and there is an earthquake, could it be that something went wrong? ”

Fisher looked at the giant tree with more and more cracks on its body, and reminded,

"That tree is about to fall, and if it falls, I'm afraid the entire capital will be razed to the ground."

"Ah, don't worry about that, after all, there are three mythical creatures here, even if you remove that bastard from Heril, Tsubaki and Hiiragi will take care of it. We just need to take care of the people of the lower rank around us now, Xiong is too old, and his righteous daughters are only stronger than humans... Ouch! ”

As he spoke, the back of his head was struck by a warm morning light, and his fourteenth-order body didn't react at all.

He hissed and looked back, only to see Helaire sitting on a beam that was still shaking from the earthquake, chewing a round fruit.

"What a bastard, what a terrible scolding... This is to let you give full play to your subjective initiative, and it is your blessing to have me, an angel, to lead you. ”

"Where did you get your fruit?"

"It's really unpalatable when I picked it up on the side of the road."

Helaire turned her head and spat out the kernel like a fiery dragon breathing fire, and the warm morning light spat out from her lips, burning the kernel to the ground in a tossing and turning, as if to verify what she said was unpalatable.

She clapped her hands and continued,

"But Hook Kiss is right, Tsubaki and Hiiragi will deal with the big tree. This earthquake is not simple, the Tree Continent is just a piece of floating soil growing on the roots of the world tree, everything here is her feedback, and the earthquake is the same... Like other elves, the elven king will also be reincarnated through a tree when he dies, but the tree he borrowed to be reincarnated is his mother, the World Tree. ”

Fisher quickly understood what was at stake, and he followed Helaire's meaning and said,

"In other words, the Elf King is likely to have died?"

"Who knows, the Elven King is a nineteenth-order existence, the first elf to be born, and the elf closest to the World Tree among all elves. Although he is nearing his life, he is very sensitive to death, and it is still very possible to continue his life for a while. ”

While they were talking, countless dense purple spots suddenly grew on the giant tree that was about to fall above, making Tang Ze Asuka, an ordinary human who was not an ordinary human with dense phobia, look a little physiologically uncomfortable, but soon, purple flowers burst out of the purple spots.

Tsubaki finally made a move.

I saw that the flower bones that grew from the giant tree all had four leaves, and after blooming, they did not stay on the giant tree for a moment, but quickly broke away from the rough bark and fell downward, and spun and fell in mid-air like a small parachute, as beautiful and dreamy as a rain of flowers.

Purple spots continued to appear on the falling trees, until the trees that were hundreds of meters high and dozens of meters wide were completely transformed into flowers that they had seen before, and floated lightly towards the capital.

“......”

Fisher saw the elves' methods for the first time, but like Tsubaki's gentle character, he was as romantic and elegant as a gentle drizzle.

"It's beautiful... By the way, that Heliel angel, I've been hearing you say that you were 'caught up by death', is there a problem with the translation? Tang Ze Asuka looked at the rain of flowers in the sky and couldn't help but admire, but suddenly she thought of something and asked Heriel.

"No, cutie..."

Helaire jumped down from the beam of the house, and explained to Tang Ze Asuka the world's method of reckoning with the death of high-level species, and when he heard the rigid mechanism like a program, Tang Ze was stunned for a long time before he understood; Hurier also explained to Fisher about the liquidation process of the natural death of the immortal species.

When the life span of the Immortal Seed is about to run out, death will slowly lock him, and it will not enter the same liquidation process as Fisher until the life span is completely exhausted; The higher the rank, the more they can feel this sense of chase, and they will try their best to slow down the passage of longevity and make death come later.

"Oops, what's the earthquake?!"

Just when a few people in the courtyard were talking, the people in Shangqing's mansion also ran out, Xiong had no one to serve, it seemed that he was resting alone, and he heard the movement outside and hurriedly ran out, looking at the people in the courtyard and said.

At this glance, Fisher's Tong Kong shrank slightly, not only him, but even Mihayin and Hook Kiss took a step back vigilantly, not to mention the already timid Tang Ze Asuka,

"Xiong... What happened to you? ”

"Me? How am I..."

Looking at the slightly stunned state of the guest in front of him, Xiong himself didn't seem to realize what was happening, until he looked down, only to see that his hands were completely devoid of flesh and blood, only osteoporotic bones remained, but his face was still attached to the flesh and skin, and it looked like a skeleton with only a face.

"Ahh How do I... Am I dead? ”

"Father, are you alright... Ahhh

In some other rooms, Xiong's righteous daughter also ran out, and when she saw Xiong's appearance as a stickman at this moment, she was also shocked, and she was so frightened that she was stunned in place.

Helaire held his stomach and laughed unseemly, but Hook Kiss and Fisher's expressions became more and more serious, Fisher felt the strong aura of death in each other's body, and Hook Kiss was completely from the doctor's point of view,

"There is no breath of life in your body, your original health is not good, although death has noticed you, it should not be a problem to live for a few more years, but now..."

Hook Kiss suddenly stretched out his hand, and as a flickering fluorescent silk thread gently wrapped around the other party's skeleton-only arm, the expression on his face became more and more weird, and said to him,

"You're from the Tree Continent, I'll tell you in words you understand... There are three fundamental ways in which the elves view living things, namely essence, qi, and god, and they are also known as the Three Treasures. Jing is the mother of qi, and rebirth depends on qi, which is the root of your soul's ability to attach to your body. But now, your spirit is empty, and you should have died directly, but now God still exists beyond common sense, it's amazing..."

Fisher, who is quite familiar with the theory of the soul, seems to have roughly understood the medical theory of the elves, the soul and the body are dependent on each other and independent, but in any case, the body is the carrier of the soul, and now Xiong's body has died, but the soul has not been taken away by death and returned to the spirit world, and has changed into this strange appearance.

"How so... Am I the only one, or... Wait, I'm going to make sure there's anyone else in the capital who has been affected. ”

Xiong is a native of the Tree Continent, of course he understands the meaning of the hook kiss, he hasn't come to his senses yet, but there was a lot of noise in the night outside after the aftermath of the earthquake, and he didn't care about his current state, as the secretary of the Chun Kingdom, he hurriedly dragged a skeleton and ran outside.

He had just broken out of the gate of Shangqing's Mansion, but he saw that the outside of Chun was in a mess in the earthquake, and many people who were lost in the earthquake crawled out of the ruins of the building in a daze, dragging a skeleton, and looked around blankly, as if he hadn't realized what had happened, and he didn't know that he had died...

The scene in front of him was so bizarre that Xiong, who had been in contact with a mythical species like the elf species, was overwhelmed for a while.

"What's going on? I'm going to see Tsubaki, he must..."

Fisher, on the other hand, quickly realized something, and the feeling of the heart had never been far away, thus reminding him of the culprit who had caused all this horrific change.

The rules of death, it seems that something is wrong.

......

......

"Tsubaki! Tsubaki! Oh no! ”

I'm afraid that Yixiong's original body couldn't smoothly run from his Shangqing Mansion to Tsubaki's palace, but since he turned into a skeleton, he didn't feel tired anymore, and when he and Fisher arrived at Tsubaki's palace, they didn't feel tired at all.

Half of Tsubaki's palace collapsed, and occasionally some skeletons could be seen stretching out their hands between the broken bricks and rubble to call out for help, Fisher rolled up the fluid sword in his hand and rescued one by one, seeing that they were frightened by their terrifying posture at this moment before they began to congratulate themselves on surviving, Fisher did not open his mouth to explain to them, but followed Xiong to the back of the main hall, where Tsubaki lived.

The back of the main hall was wide, but at this moment it was all covered with the strange four-leaf purple flowers, and when Xiong and they arrived, Tsubaki was sitting on the stairs in a daze, until he heard Xiong's shout, and he turned around "jingling" because he was wearing a lot of metal earrings.

When he saw Xiongxiong, whose whole body was full of skeletons, his eyes shrank imperceptibly for a moment, and then revealed a visible apology.

"Xiong, did you also die from the earthquake?"

Of course, the mythical species could see the aura of death surrounding him, but Xiong Wenyan smiled indifferently and arched his hand,

"I didn't die from the earthquake, I seemed to die of illness... But I don't know why, I'm still sober. Tsubaki, none of this matters, why did the earthquake happen, the Tree Continent is supported by the World Tree Lord, and now we have become this weird appearance. Also, my lord, Tsubaki is broken, what about the [metamorphosis branch]? ”

As mentioned earlier, after death, elves need to plant trees on their bodies in order to be reincarnated, and the tree implanted in the corpse of the predecessor is called [Transforming Branch], which is the branch dropped by the World Tree. Once it is implanted in the corpse, it will remain in the corpse, and the corpse will become a towering tree until a new spirit emerges from the tree four years later.

The metamorphic branches will always exist in the tree, and if the elves die again, they can also cut down the giant tree and take out the metamorphic branches and plant them in the elven corpse again for the next reincarnation cycle, but so far all elves have only been reincarnated once at most.

"So... I don't know why the earthquake. I removed the entire tree when I performed the spell just now, and the metamorphosis branches should have disappeared, but it's okay, I'll go to the royal capital to get it later. ”

Tsubaki seemed to be a little absent-minded because of the sudden disaster in front of him, and it wasn't until Xiong reminded him that he could not think of it, but soon he shook his head and instructed Xiong,

"Xiong, you should go to the disaster relief now, I have something to talk to the envoys from the Holy Domain."

"Yes, Tsubaki."

Tsubaki watched Xiong, who was dressed in a skeleton, slowly run away, as if he was much faster and more relaxed than when he was old, but Tsubaki's expression didn't seem to change significantly, he looked at Helier and said,

"The earthquake must have been caused by Lord World Tree, at the same time as the earthquake just now, all of our elves received a decree that they should not leave their own kingdom, and the method originally prepared for you to go to the royal capital can only be done by yourself, but fortunately, the destination is not far from our Tsubaki country."

Hellier said not a word, and Fisher sighed and said to Tsubaki,

"You're telling us to find someone who can help us get to the royal capital?"

Tsubor gave Fisher a deep look, then shook his head and said,

"Not one person, but a group of people, a race. They have a very good relationship with me, they are my friends who do not belong to Tsubaki, and they are the only ones who can take you to the royal capital during the lockdown of the legal order. ”

"They are the phoenix species, a great race."

Fisher was slightly stunned when he heard this, and for a moment he seemed to feel the biting cold wind in the north after 10,000 years.