After thinking for a while, the Great Cishu King slowly spoke, "On the day of the incident, even the sky turned like this."

"The seven gods except me had been summoned to the kingdom called Kanria, but I had an even more important mission."

"That's – protect the World Tree."

"Is this the cataclysm of Kanria five hundred years ago?" After listening to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King, he thought to the sidelines.

"The disaster came with the contamination of forbidden knowledge, and almost at the same moment, I noticed something strange when my consciousness was connected to the World Tree."

"The mental anguish began to torment me, and by the time I rushed under the World Tree, it was already being eroded by forbidden knowledge."

"If it weren't for the fact that thousands of years ago, I worked with the Red King to deal with the pollution of forbidden knowledge, I am afraid that I would have been at a loss at that time."

When talking about the Red King, the disdainful light in the eyes of the Great Cishu King was still noticed by Nahida who was not far away, and she didn't understand why the Great Cishu King in front of her showed such an expression when he said the Red King.

Xiao Straw Bale didn't notice this, but asked seriously at the Tree King, "What is the forbidden knowledge?"

King Dacishu explained: "It is knowledge that does not belong to this world, and it is also a truth that cannot be understood. ”

"It comes from the bottom of the abyss, and even I can't understand it."

"The world is constantly rejecting it, but it also causes the world to have all kinds of bad symptoms."

"If forbidden knowledge is allowed to continue to pollute the World Tree, I'm afraid the whole of Teyvat will fall apart."

Paimon listened to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King, turned his head to the sky and said, "There really is knowledge that even the gods of wisdom cannot understand."

"At that time, I knew that I could not banish the forbidden knowledge by my own strength, so I created a device that unified human intelligence and named it the Void."

Little Straw Bale nodded, "That's really the greatest invention in the world." ”

"Huh. Thank you. For a long time, I believed that dreams were the result of human ingenuity. ”

"It's a bit selfish to do so, but I've used the void to borrow people's dreams. I will unite the wisdom of the people and contribute all my strength."

"How did it turn out?" Paimon asked curiously.

"Thanks to the wisdom of the people of Sumeru, almost all of the forbidden knowledge has been purged from the World Tree." Saying this, the Great Cishu King slowly lowered his head and continued: "But. . . Things didn't go as smoothly as I expected. A headache gave me a bad feeling."

"I just remembered that my consciousness was connected to the World Tree, and that the World Tree brought me knowledge and wisdom, but pollution also found me."

"From the very beginning. My very existence has been tainted by forbidden knowledge. ”

Paimon couldn't help but exclaim, "Ahhh

"I've seen that pain in your mind, it's a horrible experience, isn't it?" The little straw bale asked.

The Great Cishu King shook his head and said, "Well, but in comparison, my feelings don't matter, what matters"

"Even if I die, my existence, everything related to me will still be preserved in the World Tree as memories and knowledge, and forbidden knowledge will never be eradicated."

"And I can never get rid of myself, it's a paradox."

"So, I fold off the purest branch of the World Tree as my reincarnation and leave a clue"

"Just so that you can come here and completely erase the polluted me from the World Tree."

Listening to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King, the little straw bag hurriedly retorted loudly: "Wait, no. No. That's not right!"

The Great Mercy Tree King smiled and said, "Hehe, do you understand what that means? Looks like you're smart. ”

"As you can imagine, all the knowledge and memories of this world exist in the World Tree"

"Erasing me from the World Tree would be like I never existed in this world, but. Again, this is the only way to truly save the World Tree. ”

Xiao Straw Bale looked sad, and said reluctantly to the King of the Great Ci Tree: "People love you so much, everyone has always missed you, me and me."

"How can it. I just forgot about you."

Speaking of this, Xiao Caobao looked at the Great Mercy Tree King with a look of hope and asked, "Is there really no other way?" Is there nothing else I can do? ”

The Great Mercy Tree King replied blandly, "You are the god of wisdom, Buyer, and you should know that. Other than that, there is no other way. ”

"But. . . But it's so cruel, I don't want to forget you."

King Dacishu relieved, "Don't be so sad, Buyer. As a wise man, you should enjoy the joy of finding the answer at this moment. ”

Little bale: "??? ”

"This is the answer you have been looking for, the sentence that you want to know the whole picture... 】”

"Nahida, why don't you speak?" Ying poked Nahida, who had remained silent next to her, and asked curiously, "Don't you have any opinion on this?" ”

"It's a bit of an opinion, but I'm afraid of being beaten." Nahida replied quietly.

Ying: "??? ”

Listening to Nahida's words, a series of question marks floated on Ying's head, and she didn't understand Nahida's words a little.

"What do you mean, no one here should be able to beat you." Ying said.

Nahida explained, "It's the Great Tree King in front of you. ”

"Isn't she a consciousness? How could it hit you? After listening to Nahida's explanation, Ying was even more confused.

Nahida shook her head and said, "I don't know, but I'd better be careful, because something is wrong with this Great Mercy Tree King, and I feel that she has something to do with tassels." ”

"Huh? Isn't this the Great Mercy Tree King of another world? How can it have anything to do with tassels? You and I have nothing to do with this world. ”

Nahida replied with a tangled little face, "This is also what is strange about me, because she just warned me that if I say anything cool on the sidelines, she will directly beat me." ”

Ying: "."

Ying was silent for a while, and suddenly thought of what Tassel had said to herself before.

It was after settling the matter between Kage and Ma, and Ying secretly asked Tassel questions one night after Paimon was asleep.

"Tassel, why do you say we don't have a past and a future?"

Tassel explained: "I don't know about this, maybe it's the reason for our existence, in this case, we only have the present, the past and the future me are all illusory, even if the opponent travels to the past, it will not have any impact on the past us." ”

"Is that so? If there is no past or future, will there be no parallel world of me or the like? Ying scratched her head.

"If you say, there may still be you in a parallel world, because you are different from me, but you in a parallel world will not affect your current existence."

Ying wondered, "Why don't you have a parallel world?" ”

Tassel smiled and said: "Literally, I'm different, my existence has been subverted, because in the parallel world I have died, leaving only a consciousness, so naturally there will be no me." ”

"The Tree King of the parallel world can't withstand the pollution of forbidden knowledge, and now I am a collection of forbidden knowledge, the more forbidden knowledge I absorb, the stronger my ability will be, so this I am unique."

"I still don't understand." Ying scratched her head and said with a confused expression.

"To be honest, I don't know much, but you just need to know that there is only one me in the world."

"What do you mean?"

"Of course, it's just literal, okay, you should go back to rest."

Ying: "."

Then, scratching her head, she returned to her place with more doubts, today was another sleepless night for her, originally to seek answers, but after the passage led to more problems.

"Ahh It's so uncomfortable, I didn't ask if I knew it, and if the problem wasn't solved, it didn't matter, but now there are more questions that don't know the answer. Thinking of this, Ying buried her head in the pillow with an uncomfortable face.

"You say, could it be like that?" said Ying to Nahida from the conversation she had with Tassel.

When Nahida heard this, she asked with a surprised face, "Is this what Tassel told you that day?" ”

"Yes, I heard you say that the Great Cishu King in front of me is wrong, so I just thought of this." Ying nodded.

"According to what you say, this consciousness in front of her is likely to be a phantom of a tassel, but she doesn't know it." Nahida touched her chin and analyzed.

"Why do you say that?" Ying asked puzzled.

Nahida said with a serious face: "Because we also have the illusion of consciousness left by her in the world tree, so according to what Tassel said, there is only one existence of her in the world, and I have a bold guess, that is, no matter which world the Great Mercy Tree King, it is her, but as the ontology, she does not know, because these doppelgangers are all consumed existences, and the consciousness as a doppelganger can clearly know all this." ”

Ying: "? ”

While Ying was talking to Nahida, the plot on that side was coming to an end.

Suddenly, a breeze set off in the consciousness space, rolling up the leaves of the World Tree, and the Great Cishu Dynasty walked slowly over with a small straw bale, and whispered to her: "We all inhabit under the Tree of Wisdom and try to read the world. ”

Looking at the Great Cishu King who was walking towards her step by step, Xiao Caobao's eyes began to ooze tears, and she bit her lip and didn't dare to look at the Great Cishu King who was walking towards her.

"Read from the soil, read from the rain, and then become a white bird and climb the branches."

Saying this, the Great Mercy Tree King walked up to the little straw bag, squatted down gently, gently held her cheek with his hand, and then held her in his arms.

"I'm the only person in the world who can dream."

"In my dreams, everybody falls asleep at night, and there are wonderful ideas floating in people's minds, some rolling to the ground, some floating to the sky, which connects everything into a dazzling web."

At the request of the Great Mercy Tree King, Xiao Caobao stretched out her hand with a sad face, and gradually cleared her from the World Tree according to the other party's wishes.

"Among the three thousand worlds, there are small worlds, and all fates are boiling here."

"I have come to understand that these indescribable, ever-changing things are the deepest things in the world, and only they can completely drive out the madness."

As he spoke, the figure of the Great Cishu King holding the small straw bales became fainter and fainter.

"Only dreams can awaken consciousness from the deepest darkness."

Until her figure completely turned into a leaf and disappeared, leaving a small straw bale with a grief-stricken face, and fell to her knees helplessly, and finally she couldn't suppress the grief in her heart, and tears continued to flow from the corners of her eyes.

"I am the one who proposes and the one who solves it, saving the world with the dreams of the world, which was the answer that belonged to me, and now, you have also found your own answers, and I return all my dreams to the world."

The leaves separated by the Great Mercy Tree King separated from the consciousness space, like nectar, and fell on the bodies of every Sumeru people, erasing all the pain caused by their forbidden knowledge.

"Goodbye, people of Sumeru, may you have a sweet dream tonight."

Seeing that the figure of the Great Cishu King had completely disappeared, Ying asked in surprise, "That's it, it's over?" ”

"Alas, it seems that in the end, just like the plot, the world has forgotten this Great Mercy Tree King, she is not a tassel consciousness after all, no, even she will be forgotten, because this is the meaning of her existence." Nahida listened to Ying's words, and also sighed and said, "However, what I didn't expect was that the original Great Mercy Tree King would be so gentle, unlike my family's Great Compassion Tree King, which is really indescribable. ”

"What's the point?" Ying asked curiously.

Listening to Ying's words, Nahida complained with an indignant face: "You have also seen the King of the Great Ci Tree, she has more places worth complaining about, such as what likes to hide in the tassel's body and be lazy, and she is very angry when she sees me being intimate with the tassel or something, not gentle at all." ”

Ying: "."

When Nahida complained to Ying, Ying sensed that something was wrong, and the original differentiated leaves of the Great Mercy Tree King reunited behind Nahida, and the figure of the Great Mercy Tree King recondensed.

Seeing this, Ying frantically signaled to Nahida to stop talking, but Nahida seemed to be talking about it, and she didn't care about Ying's small actions at all.

Then she was miserable, and the Great Tree King clenched his fist and slammed it at Nahida's head.

Boom!

"It hurts!"

The head was suddenly attacked, and Nahida squatted down in pain, this time the force was too familiar to her, not that person, she really couldn't fight this kind of taste.

"What are you talking about, I'm not dead yet." After a violent shudder at Nahida, the Great Mercy Tree King said lightly.

Nahida covered her head and asked in disbelief, "How is that possible?" The world has forgotten you, how can you still be alive, you are just a consciousness. ”

"Yes, I'm just a consciousness, but you don't look at whose consciousness it is, it's just forbidden knowledge, can it be difficult for me?" The Great Cishu King said with a disdainful expression.

Nahida: "."

Ying: "."

Nahida rubbed her head and asked with a pained expression, "Are you tassel?" ”

The Great Mercy Tree King shook his head and said, "No. ”

Nahida: "? ”

The Great Mercy Tree King looked at Nahida with a puzzled expression on her face and explained to her, "There is only one tassel, and I am just the Great Mercy Tree King, although there is a part of her memory, but after all, I am not a complete individual. ”

Nahida wondered, "And what are you?" ”

King Dacishu replied, "It's just a small consciousness, and if it weren't for your sudden arrival in this world, maybe I would have really dissipated, because that's my duty." ”

Speaking of this, the Great Cishu King touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "But now I can do a lot of things I want to do, and it is not impossible to become a new individual in the end." ”

"You can't be like this, there is only one tassel, and there can only be one of the same Great Mercy Tree King." Nahida hurriedly said.

"Then replace the tassels." The Great Cishu King said with an indifferent face.

Nahida: "!! ”

Nahida listened to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King, and said with a serious face, "I will not let you succeed. ”

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you, it's really boring, no tease at all." Looking at Nahida, who was suddenly serious, the Great Cishu King shook his head and sighed: "You only have tassels in your heart, obviously I made you, it really is." ”

"I didn't make it by you, you made this little straw bale, not me." Nahida shouted angrily.

The Great Mercy Tree King shook his head and said, "I don't know if you made it by me?" I didn't make that little straw bale. ”

Nahida: "??? ”

"Isn't it confusing?" Looking at Nahida's bewildered expression, the Great Compassion Tree King said with a smile.

Nahida nodded with a puzzled expression, "Hmm." ”

"Because what you just saw is fake, the World Tree is both in the consciousness space and not in the consciousness space." King Dacishu explained, "When you appeared here, she had already positioned this place. ”

"You mean, Tassel knows this?" Nahida said in surprise.

King Dacishu nodded and said: "Naturally, otherwise I wouldn't have come over, it's really too much, what to say let me experience the atmosphere of saying goodbye to Sumeru, because I can't experience anything in that world, and she doesn't know that I don't want to experience this, so the matter is solved." ”

"You are really the King of the Great Mercy Tree!" Ying shouted in surprise.

"Of course, because the time over there has been suspended because of your departure, and only me and her are not affected by the world in the whole world, and then she took this opportunity to throw me over."

"Why didn't she come by herself?" Nahida wondered.

Listening to Nahida's words, the Great Tree King glanced at her and said, "Are you stupid?" If she comes, who is positioned, this is not a crossover that can be crossed back and forth, if she comes, then we don't have to go back, just settle down here. ”

Nahida: "."

"Forget it, I don't need your body shape, I feel like I'll become as stupid as you if I use it too much."

After saying that, the figure of the Great Cishu King changed back to the familiar appearance of Ying and Nahida.

"You can't call me stupid, I'm smart." Seeing the changes in the Great Mercy Tree King, Nahida also knew that the other party was really her own Tree King, and she was a little unconfident and defended.

The King of the Great Cishu said disdainfully: "You are not stupid, who is stupid?" No matter what world you are, you are so stupid, let alone this little straw bag. ”

Speaking of this, the King of the Great Ci Tree sighed sadly and said, "How did I break off the most unintelligent branch at that time, no wonder, only the unintelligent are the purest, and the wise are infected by forbidden knowledge." ”

Nahida: "."

Don't scold, don't scold, how can anyone say this about their children, it's only you, thinking of this, Nahida looked at the Great Cishu King in front of her with a faint look in her eyes.

The King of the Great Mercy Tree smiled at Nahida and said, "Yo, it's out?" Dare to look at me like that? ”

Nahida hurriedly withdrew her gaze and excused, "No, no, it's your delusion. ”

"Tsk." Listening to Nahida's words, the Great Tree King looked at her with disdain.

Nahida: "."

Ying next to her tried to hold back a smile, looking at Nahida who dared to be angry and dare not speak, she was afraid that she would not pay attention to laughing out loud, the reason why she couldn't help laughing was that the three people on the other side looked sad, and if she laughed out loud, it would definitely ruin their atmosphere.

"King of the Great Mercy Tree, when will you take us back?" Nahida was uncomfortable for a moment, then asked the Great Tree King.

King Dacishu spoke: "Well, wait, let's help the little straw bag here solve the problem first, she hasn't grown a little because of your interference, if we leave directly, I'm afraid she won't survive." ”

Nahida: "."

Who did you learn the means of scolding Huai? It's talking about the little straw bales here, but your eyes haven't left me at all! Do you think I'm too stupid to know who you're talking about?

(End of chapter)