In this way, it was not until the sun set in the west that it saw the true face of the ancient tree. Fortunately, the journey was safe.

The ancient tree resembles a wall, blocking China's view. It was the tallest and thickest tree that China had ever seen, and thousands of people couldn't surround it. A human face grew from the trunk of a tree, the size of several houses.

The face had its eyes closed, as if it was napping, and its entire trunk swelled as it breathed. Anna came to the bottom of the tree and sat down quietly, enjoying a moment of leisure. When the moon had just shown its face, China climbed up the trunk of the tree, and after climbing seventy or eighty feet, branches grew horizontally. The branches are thicker, thicker than ordinary trees, but they don't droop and still tend to grow higher.

Chyna continued to climb up until he reached the top of the tree, which was two thousand feet high. Here it overlooks the forest, with black trees underfoot, dark clouds and lightning in the distance.

China thought to herself: I knew this was the case, why should I look for it from the ground? Flying from the sky is not easier to find it.

The higher she stood, the more excited she became, and she howled loudly, releasing the tiredness of the day at the moon, and she screamed for a quarter of an hour. Gu Shu had already woken up, and felt that there was a little guy moving on his body, and he actually spoke in a voice with an old voice, and said, "You can't be a person, right?" I see that you have no hair on you. However, I remember that people wear clothes, and you are such a weirdo. ”

China retorted, "There are many hairless. Snakes have no hair, fish have no hair, frogs have no hair, the moon has no hair, the earth has no hair, and you have no hair. Aren't all people who grow hair? "Although it can't speak, they are all monsters and have their own ways of communication.

Yesterday, in the Nameless Palace, China struggled to communicate with people, and held back his words. When I saw the ancient tree at this time, I first chattered a few words. Moreover, it felt that the ancient tree was very friendly, much more friendly than humans, which made China want to talk.

"Nonsense. How is it that the earth has no hair? We are the hair of the earth, but you call us trees. As he spoke, the ancient trees moved, and so did the trees of the entire forest. A few monster roars were heard in the distance, and they were startled by the tremor of the entire forest, and they all ran away further away.

"I'm a wolf, and my fur is burned, so you can't see my fur." China explained.

"Who did it? Mankind? And a lot of the hairs of the earth were burned, and they did it. ”

China laughed: "There is too much in the belly of the earth, and when it comes out, it burns me." ”

"Ang, haha, you mean the volcano?"

"Yes. How did you grow so big? ”

"I've been here for a long, long time, and I haven't left a single step because I don't have feet. At that time, I didn't have so many companions around me, and I was just a little hair. There were only a few companions about my size here, and there were so many of them now. Later, I got taller and taller, and after I don't know how many thousands of years, my perception became more and more sensitive, and then I slowly grew a face. Very few creatures come to me, they think I've lived too long, they are afraid of me. And I can neither eat nor use. Only the birds accompany me every day. There have been a few humans here before, and they have slashed at me with knives and made me feel weird. Ha ha. Gu Shu smiled, "Where are you from?" Where are you going? ”

Lying on the branches of the ancient tree, he said, "I have come from another world and have come to this world to be a wolf. It's the first time I've seen a tree of your size. ”

Gu Shu didn't understand, and said, "You're talking nonsense, what other world?" How can I not understand what you are saying? ”

"I don't remember what kind of world it was." China said abruptly.

"Why did you come to this world?"

"I don't know, it's here anyway, wolf dad and wolf mom gave birth."

"What are you doing in this world?"

China was a little impatient and said, "I don't know. ”

"Oh." The old tree stopped talking.

After a while, China seemed to think about the question raised by the ancient tree, and said slowly, "I want to see the world. China stood up and said, "As a wolf, I can't do many things. ”

"Those birds make trouble every day, they are timid, they don't dare to fly up, and the world they see is so big. The bolder you are, the more you see. "Ancient Tree Road.

"Of course. You are a tree, you can't move, you can't run to the human world to experience. You are always a tree, you are not like me, I am a wolf, I have an advantage over you, I have experienced the human world. You haven't been with people either, you can't understand people's hearts. You only know how high you go, but you don't know that there is a bigger world on all sides of you. ”

"You're talking nonsense again. The beauty you say is only the beauty in your heart. I don't think so. I think it's good to be in nature, what's so good about the human world? So appealing to you? ”

"There is a little girl in the human race, named Ming Yueyi, I like her. But I'm a wolf, and I can't like her. If only I were human. Then I can go after her. China told the story to the ancient tree. After saying it, it turned out to have a sense of superiority and complacency.

Gu Shu was silent for a moment and asked, "What is it like to like it?" ”

In fact, China didn't seem to understand, but he was anxious to show his superiority in front of the ancient tree, and said in a deep voice: "It is a feeling that is both happy and painful. You will feel happy when you are with her, and you will be unhappy when you are away from her, and you will miss it occasionally. ”

"It doesn't sound like much. It seems to be quite low-level. It's strange, your wolf has so complicated feelings, I've never missed anything. There's nothing in this world that I miss. ”

"I've been human before, and these are human feelings. You can't experience these emotions, you can only know them once as a person, and my wolf clan subordinates can't experience them, only I can experience them. I've forgotten what it's like to be human, but I thought, it must be, huh...... Good. China didn't know how to accurately express this emotion, and then said: "There is still family affection in the world. Unlike me, I was born with the lives of four of my brothers. Because, if I don't eat them, they will eat me. But there shouldn't be human society......" China said at the end, a little depressed and confused. It remembered the cannibalistic theory that the Zen master had said, and couldn't help but doubt its previous knowledge.

"Not necessarily, you animals eat anything when they're hungry." Gu Shu said: "You said that you ate your brother, I don't think so. I used to have other companions around me, and we grew bigger and bigger, and finally we squeezed together, and we merged together to form a new me. You say, did I eat them, or did they eat me? Actually, we are who I am, and I am who we are. I'm nothing more than the product of a whole bunch of things we've come together. Maybe before you know that you are you, the former you have already eaten your brother, and the latter you have inherited the consciousness of the previous one. So you think it's you who ate the brothers, and in my opinion it's fusion. You are no longer you, you have become a new you. When I say that, can you understand what I mean? "The logic of Gushu's thinking is quite special.

Now it was China's turn to be silent, it had never heard such wonderful words, not even the Zen master. The sense of superiority just now was swept away.

Quina had always felt guilty, and if it had been a pure wolf, she might not have those feelings. It is precisely because it has a human soul that it feels guilty of its sin. It had eaten its own brothers, and they had the same blood in them, and China shuddered at the thought of it.

The more he thought about it, the more remorseful he became, and he thought: If I hadn't eaten them, but had let them eat me, I might not have felt guilty. It seems that being alive is the greatest punishment for me. Heaven has punished me by spending my whole life in repentance. It thought again: Just now the ancient tree said that this is a fusion. According to its theory, whether I eat my brother or my brother eats me, the ultimate me is us. That is, I become me, and this result is inevitable.

The more she thought about it, the more frustrated she became, feeling that the question was too advanced for her. So it simply didn't want to think about it, shook its head vigorously, and broke free from its emotions. Jumping to the ground, it said with some irritation, "I'm here to get your juice." ”

"Oh. If you can take it, you can take it. Gu Shu smiled.

"How? That's what you agree with? China said in amazement.

"Just uncover the bark. But you'd better break that fork for me, it's been bothering me for a long time, I want to grow taller, I'm going to pierce the sky, I'm going to look out of the sky, and I'm not tall enough right now. It looked up, gesturing to the location of the branch in China.

China looked in that direction, and it was a very thick branch, more than ten feet in diameter. It grows horizontally and has grown hundreds of feet. It's different from other branches, which grow upwards and it grows downwards. It seems that the nutrients are too concentrated there, and some of them restrict the upward growth of the trunk of the ancient tree.

"How tall do you have to be to pierce the sky?" China asked.

"I don't know, but one day I'll be able to grow that tall."

China nodded, "I can cut it off for you." ”

"If you cut it, the juice will flow out, but you have to push a little harder, and it's strong. I've been fighting it for 20,000 years, and there's nothing I can do about it. You cut it off for me, and I'll get what you want. ”

Lost its caution in the Nameless Palace, it felt the tree could be trusted. Without thinking about it, it jumped on the branch, and with full strength, the wolf's claws popped out, and with a sharp swing, a powerful ice blade slashed at the branch. A crack was cut in the branch. Full of juice stored in it, China is overjoyed, and if there are more than ten times, this branch will definitely break. However, before China could recharge another blow, the twig's wound was miraculously healed.

China gave it several more skates, and it turned out to be the same.

If you want to break the bark of an old tree, you need to charge up, and it takes time to charge, and the recovery time of an old tree is shorter than its charge time. Therefore the China chopped the branches of the trees. But he promised the old tree to help him cut off the branches and help him grow taller, so he couldn't take the juice and leave.

Now China was dumbfounded. It could have been a wolf who didn't keep his word, took the juice and walked away. However, it had a sense of superiority over the ancient tree before, and put his posture very high, and he talked so much with the ancient tree, and he had a feeling of sympathy, so he was embarrassed to do so, and said embarrassedly: "My current strength is not complete, I'm afraid I can't cut it off, I have to wait for another me to give me the power." ”

"Another you?" Gu Shu wondered.

"yes, one of my doppelgangers, it went to collect medicine, and it was in some trouble."

"Oh." Gu Shu said: "Do you want to continue to wait here, or do you want to help it?" ”

"I didn't have time to help it solve the problem, and when I rushed over, the trouble would probably be solved. I can only wait here. As long as it comes, I'll help you solve your troubles. After saying this, China regretted it, and said in her heart: What's the matter? I was so careless in front of the ancient tree, it was really evil.

"That's great!" The ancient tree is overjoyed.