"Okay, okay, I won't talk to you, they've been gone for a while, you can hurry up and keep up." The Great Cishu King also sensed the tassel's thoughts, and hurriedly changed the topic.

"No, what's the reason we're here now? It stands to reason that they would have been able to solve this problem without my interference. Tassel listened to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King and wondered about this.

"I don't know, but this is the world's World Tree that sent me a distress signal before, and I sense a sense of urgency in it." The Great Tree of Mercy replied.

King Dacishu continued: "Because of the interference of forbidden knowledge before, if the little straw bales of this world do not make a little change, the future world will not be able to continue to function. ”

Listening to the words of the Great Mercy Tree King, Tassel couldn't help but sigh: "Good guy, I haven't become a source of the virus, but you have infected other worlds before me." ”

"Who is responsible for this?" The Great Mercy Tree King said faintly: "Although I was infected by forbidden knowledge before, my mind is still such a pure sapling, and the result is that because of your arrival, my mind has unconsciously undergone such a change. ”

"Blame me? It's not your choice, I'm just triggering your true thoughts. Tassel replied with a serious face.

Listening to the tassel's words, the Great Cishu King snorted with some dissatisfaction: "Forget it, I can't talk about you, you can hurry up, I don't want to talk to you." ”

Tassel: "."

At this time, Sora and Little Straw Bale had already arrived at the cave where Apep was.

Paimon looked at the huge cave in front of him and exclaimed, "It's such a big hole, could it be that the grass dragon lives here?" ”

"You can't move forward when you get here." Empty opening.

Paimon pointed to the glowing hole in the distance and said, "yes, who knows what's in that hole." ”

"And our purpose is not just to find it, but to travel to the world inside it." The little straw bale said, "It is impossible not to win its cooperation. ”

Listening to Xiao Straw Bag's words, Paimon said helplessly, "But it's that kind of attitude, how can we make it cooperate?"

"I'll give it a try." After the little straw bale finished speaking, he turned to look at the bright hole not far away.

Xiao Caobao brewed his emotions for a moment, and said in the distance: "Apep, we have different positions, and we have different understandings of the world and order. ”

"But we were all born from elemental powers, and we were tormented by forbidden knowledge."

"We have the same essence and the same enemies to fight, so we should not cut off communication because of prejudices."

Listening to Xiao Straw Bag's words, Paimon couldn't help but ask him suspiciously, "Did the Grass Dragon really listen?" ”

"No matter what you think, who you hate, and what you have done because of your hatred, I don't care, and I don't expect your gratitude." "I'm here to save you, not just you, but your people, my people. ”

"They've been looking for a way to save you since they've left their homes, and they really want to go home."

"Now it's all over. All hatred will not help. Rather than continue to fight, you should face up to the life you have conceived. ”

Listening to Xiao Caobao's speech, the Great Cishu King couldn't help but sigh and said: "As a god, she is really qualified now, of course, except that her head sometimes can't turn around, but this will not solve the problem, but will put herself in danger." ”

"It's about the same as you." Tassel whispered in response.

King of the Great Mercy Tree: "."

"But now I'm tired, and now I don't want to be a god anymore." The Great Cishu King was silent for a moment and said to the tassel: "This is also the reason why I didn't ask you to help me manage Sumeru in the first place, because I learned about my deeds and my future from you. ”

"I feel like I've done enough for the world, and like Morax, it's time for me to rest."

Speaking of this, the Great Cishu King pondered for a moment and continued to pass to the tassel: "When you are sleeping, I sometimes still think, is it really worth it for me to do this? For the sake of a so-called commitment, endure two or three hundred years of suffering, and pay for the world even after death. ”

"I'm really tired, I'm so tired, both mentally and spiritually, it's all so tiring."

Tassel was silent for a moment and said, "Don't you just want me to handle everything in the future?"

"Hey, you've been discovered, but you're not going to be so cruel to me, are you?" The Great Mercy Tree King replied with a smile.

Tassel listened to the voice of the Great Cishu King, who gradually touched the fish, and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, just listen to you." ”

"Hehe, I knew you'd agree." The Great Mercy Tree King's tone at this time was filled with joy and satisfaction.

"As Nahida said, the tassel is the best, and I like the tassel the most." The Great Tree King continued to speak to the tassel in Nahida's tone.

Tassel: "."

It only took a moment for Tassel to exchange ideas with the Great Mercy Tree King, as she lowered her head and continued to observe the people below.

At this time, Xiao Caobao's tone was a little excited, and he shouted to the hollow in the distance: "If you want to live no matter what, it means that you don't plan to give up that world!"

"Since you claim to know more than me, then what do you live for, what do you hate for, think clearly!"

Hollow: "."

The empty hole in the distance still didn't respond to the small straw bale, which made the empty and Paimon next to him also a little helpless.

Sora asked the little straw bag a little uncomfortably, "Still can't do it?"

Xiao Caobao bit his lip a little unwillingly, and continued to say something, but at this time, the change suddenly occurred, and the surrounding environment began to shake.

"Woo, whoa—it's going to be sucked away, Traveler!"

Sora hurriedly stretched out his hand to the others and said, "Hurry up and catch me, Paimon, Nahida!" ”

The little straw bale continued to take out the tinder and urged the elemental force to it: "Please, please protect everyone's thoughtfulness-"

"Send us home!"

King of the Great Mercy Tree: "."

Looking at the few people who disappeared by urging the fire, the Great Cishu King sighed and said: "That fire has failed, I didn't expect that she would completely waste the opportunity of the fire here, this may also be fate." ”

"Let's go, let's follow, go to them." King Dacishu continued.

Tassel: "."

Tassel somewhat understood the complicated feelings of the Great Cishu King at this time, although she knew it before, but when she saw what happened, she still felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

Tassel stretched out his hand and tore open a spatial crack, and his figure flashed, appearing in a dark green space.

"This is Apep's inner world?" The Great Mercy Tree King observed for a moment and then spoke.

Tassel replied, "If I didn't make a teleportation error, it should be." ”

"It's not funny at all." The Great Cishu King replied a little speechlessly: "It seems that although the forbidden knowledge on the surface of this world has been cleared, Apep still has it in his body. ”

"That's why I condensed this spark at the last time, but I didn't expect creation to make people." Saying this, the Great Cishu King couldn't help but sigh again.

"Can you please stop sighing, I'm weird to hear." Tassel said helplessly.

King of the Great Mercy Tree: "Okay."

Paimon below woke up from his coma, shook his head a little uncomfortably, and said, "Hmm."

She looked around, only to find that there was only a small straw bag around, so she asked the little straw bag with some confusion, "Huh? What about travelers? Why isn't he there? ”

"I can only guarantee that we got to this place without a hitch, but maybe the location to enter is a little different." The little bale replied.

Paimon was a little worried and suggested to the straw bale, "Well, let's go ahead and look for it, I'm worried." ”

"Well, but don't be too nervous, he can be trusted." Little Straw Bale nodded.

"I know, but I'm still not used to it." Paimon scratched his head and replied, "Let's go ahead and have a look, he might be right in front." ”

Little Straw Bag: "yes, okay. ”

The two of them headed towards the wide space in front of them, and saw a dark green heart-like thing in the middle of the roof formed by plants.

Paimon looked at the scene above him and asked in surprise, "This, this is!" ”

"This should be the [Oasis Heart], as long as you light it up with [Tinder], it can replenish the elemental power of Apep." "The damaged parts of its body will gradually heal and regain its health. ”

Hearing the words of the little straw bag, Paimon urged with an anxious expression, "Then, let's hurry up, and we'll go find the Traveler after the light is lit!" ”

"Well, I know, wait a minute." After speaking, the little straw bale took out the tinder again.

Little bale: "Ahh

The little straw bag suddenly exclaimed, because the fire in front of her suddenly disappeared under the urging of her elemental power, which was also the expected ending of the Great Mercy Tree King.

Paimon wondered, "What's going on?" Tinder"

"It's broken," the little straw bale said with some sadness, "how can it be so unstable." ”

"Why? We don't use it much, do we? Paimon couldn't help but wonder.

Little Straw Bale shook his head and said, "I don't know, can the fire only protect one person."

"But in that case, if I don't use my power on everyone, you don't know where you're going to go."

Speaking of this, Xiao Straw Bale pondered for a moment and said, "Even if this is the case, it will not be broken directly." Unless..."

"Unless what?" Paimon asked.

"When she made this [tinder], she was already in a relatively weak state." The little bale replied, "That's when I just saved the desert."

"No," Paimon said in some surprise, "But you said [her]?" Didn't you make this [Tinder] in the first place? ”

Little bale: "."

It's over, and the tension is so tight that she is exposed, and just as the straw bag is about to explain, Paimon's words make her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Forget it, put this aside for now!" Paimon shook his head and said, "If [Tinder] shatters, wouldn't it be pointless for us to come here?!" ”

"Nahida, is there anything else you can do? I, I'm going to think about it too."

Nahida: "I"

Hearing Paimon's words, Nahida lowered her head a little uncomfortably, because at this time she had no other means than that.

Thinking of this, Straw Bale looked up at Paimon and smiled and said, "Don't worry, Paimon, it's my responsibility." [Tinder] is, in essence, a mass of highly concentrated elemental force. ”

"Although there is a subtle difference between elemental life and my elemental power, I have already been exposed to it when I transformed into a mushroom."

"Then, by imitating that power, plus my own power, I can play the same role as [Tinder]"

Hearing the straw bale's words, Paimon asked in disbelief, "You're going to turn into a tinder?" ”

"Yes, it will take a lot of strength, although not as much as she did in the desert." The little straw bag said this, paused and said, "But maybe I'll be a little smaller." ”

Paimon wondered, "Huh? What would it be like if it was a little smaller? ”

"It becomes a grass, or a branch, which is what I was when I was born." Straw Bag smiled and replied to Paimon, "As long as I reverse the process of growth, I will be able to unleash power beyond my limits." ”

Paimon listened to Straw Bag's words and understood what she meant, and hurriedly vetoed, "But it will also lose a lot!" It's not just the appearance, but also the feelings, the memories and so on! ”

"It doesn't matter, none of this matters compared to Apepe, who is in danger." Little Straw Bale shook her head.

"No, no, there must be another way! And if you really did it, what was Sumeru going to do! Paimon said that he wouldn't agree to the straw bale's behavior.

"After that, you and the traveler, plant me on the land of Sumeru." Little Straw Bag reassures Paimon, "I can still use the forest to communicate with the world, but you won't be able to see me for a while." ”

"How can there be such a thing" Paimon looked at the little straw bale that had already made up his mind, knowing that it was useless to dissuade him now.

"If the traveler is here, he will definitely stop you!" Paimon was very angry and continued to say to the little straw bale, "No, if we knew that this is how you are supposed to be responsible, we wouldn't have agreed to it in the first place!" ”

"I'm sorry, Paimon, but we don't have that many options." Xiao Caobao said calmly: "Not all eagles that fall with broken wings can take off into the air, but if you don't take this risk, you will never touch the sky." ”

"No, what doesn't work just doesn't work!" Paimon continued to dissuade.

But the little straw bale could no longer take care of her, and she began to urge her own power to replace the effect of the fire with the energy released by the reverse growth.

Seeing this, Paimon was anxious and helpless, and suddenly she heard the sound of a fight coming from behind, and then she saw Sora rushing towards her side with the two mushrooms from before.

"The tinder is shattered.!" Paimon hurriedly flew forward and said anxiously to the air, "Nahida, she.!" ”

"I know." The elemental life in the blue land water true mushroom state before said flatly: "This is the only way. ”

Hearing the words of this elemental life in the true mushroom state of Lu Xingshui, Paimon had another bad feeling in her heart, and then she heard it continue, "But it shouldn't be the King of Grass. ”

After Lu Xingshui's elemental life in the state of true mushrooms finished speaking, he walked to the side of the little straw bale, and instead of the small straw bale, he became the tinder.

"We've all grown on a long journey, and if we grew up to get home, it was a good idea." After saying that, the elemental life in the true mushroom state of Lu Xingshui had turned into a plant, and many of their kind emerged from the ground and transmitted their power to its body.

"Can you help us?"

Hearing its words, the little straw bag stretched out her hand with some sadness to transmit her strength, and said to it, "You expected it a long time ago."

"The knowledge, language, and emotions you have learned will degenerate into pure elemental power, and there will be no trace of you in your new home."

"No one will remember you... Is this really, your dream homecoming? ”

The elemental beings who followed a few people on the side, in the shape of floating wind mushrooms, sensed the loss of the little straw bale, and stumbled and comforted her, "King of grass." Saddened. No. ”

"Your home. Over here. No. ”

"We. Went home. ”

"The King of Grass. Also. Go home. ”

Seeing that all elemental life was gone, the little straw bale tried to urge the elemental power to help them, and at the same time shouted to the heart of the oasis immersed above, "Please, feel our wish, wake up!" ”

The tassel above looked at all this with a blank face.

The Great Cishu King also noticed the tassel that had no fluctuating emotions, and she sighed a little complicatedly: "Tassel, alas. ”

"What's that tone of voice?" Hearing the sigh of the Great Mercy Tree King, Tassel said with some dissatisfaction.

The Great Cishu King was silent for a moment and replied, "I, it's nothing, I've seen this, but I'm just a little stunned. ”

"Don't worry, I saved them, although I don't like to be nosy, but if I can help them, then help them." After Tassel finished speaking, she waved her hand in front of her, and those elemental beings appeared in front of her eyes again.

"Hehe, I knew you would never let me down." Looking at the tassel's actions, the Great Cishu King showed a gentle smile in the tassel's consciousness space.

"The King of Grass? What are we? Are you growing? Lu Xingshui's elemental life in the true mushroom state said to the tassel in surprise: "No, this breath is, the breath of [Doomsday], you?" ”

The tassel, which deliberately revealed his breath, replied lightly: "It doesn't matter, it's okay." ”

"However, this is the breath of [doomsday], and even our homeland cannot bear it." The elemental life of the land walking water in the true mushroom state continued.

The elemental life in the shape of a floating wind mushroom stumbled and said, "The King of Grass. [Doomsday]. Homeland. No. It's painful. ”

"Your power can't save the current Apepe." Tassel continued.

The elemental beings in Lu Xingshui's true mushroom state asked a little anxiously, "Then, what should we do?" ”

"Wait." Tassel replied.

After the tassel finished speaking, he silently looked at the life that was revived by the fire with several people below - [Sauerkraut Dragon].

Lu Xingshui's elemental life in the true mushroom state looked down along the tassel's gaze, and also saw the small straw bale, and its thoughts paused for a while, it didn't understand why there were two grass kings.

But it saw the ominous, doomsday-scented tassel on its body, and it didn't ask again.

After a while, with the efforts of Sora and Little Straw Bag, the sauerkraut dragon was finally solved, and the space was restored to another kind of green that was different from the dead Moros before, a green that represented vitality.

"Hey, can you still hear me? If you can hear it, say yes! Paimon called out to the place where they disappeared with some sadness, "You said that the form is not important, so tell us that you are okay."

"King of Grass, shall we go down?" The elemental beings in the state of the true mushroom of the land walking water asked at the tassel.

Tassel bowed his head and said, "Hmm." ”

"Paimon, Lord of Grass, we're here." Lu Xingshui's elemental life in the true mushroom state appeared in front of Paimon and Sora with all the elemental lifeforms and said.

"You're really okay, great!" Paimon shouted excitedly.

"You, you?" The little straw bale shouted in surprise, "Didn't you contribute all your strength? Why?"

"It was the King of Grass who saved us, but something wasn't right with her." The elemental beings in the state of the true mushroom of the land walking water replied.

"The King of Grass?" Paimon wondered, "Isn't Nahida right here?" ”

Just as Paimon was confused, Apep's voice rang out in the space, "King of Grass, since you're here, why don't you show up?" ”

(End of chapter)