Huaicun has existed here for a long time, but for how long, in fact, the people of Huaicun themselves do not know.

I only know that it is at least a few hundred years old.

Because after that war, almost everything in Huaicun was burned down, and the older historical records of Huaicun disappeared together.

Therefore, most of the people in Huaicun Village do not know their true origins, and the few who know do not dare to talk nonsense.

Su Ting's words are undoubtedly subverting their cognition for the current Huaicun people.

"What do you mean that our lives were saved by the old locust tree? Aren't we all alive and well? ”

"I'm the old locust tree that hurt us, right? Otherwise, how could we suddenly become a tree? ”

"That's right! Village chief, is this little girl you looking for reliable? ”

"I've never seen such a young master anyway."

……

Su Ting's words made some of the villagers at the scene feel ridiculous and began to discuss.

Wang Qiang and Wang Jianmin tried to persuade them, but these villagers couldn't accept their lives at all, and they were saved by the culprit they had always thought they had.

Su listened and looked at it, and was not surprised.

Looking past these villagers, he looked at the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, which almost obscured the sky.

sighed inwardly.

A gust of wind blew, and the branches and leaves of the old locust tree swayed slightly in the wind.

It was as if he had walked to say goodbye to Su Ting and the people in the village.

"If you want to be rescued, there is only one way, give up the old locust tree at the entrance of the village."

Su's words made the noisy square quiet for a moment.

Su listened to the crowd and continued: "In the war, your ancestors were all killed by the enemy's gunfire. The old locust tree at the entrance of the village has already had a tree spirit, and in order to save your ancestors, give up your chance to attain enlightenment and resurrect your ancestors. ”

"But your ancestors were already dead, and they should have entered reincarnation a long time ago, and after being revived by the old locust tree in a special way, they can no longer be regarded as real human beings."

"Although I still keep my thoughts, and I look no different from ordinary people, once I leave the shelter of the old locust tree, I will still die."

"Because you rely on the spiritual power of the old locust tree to continue to exist, over time, you can understand that you have been assimilated by the old locust tree."

"So after you leave the old locust tree for a period of time, your body will slowly become alienated, which is what you call treeification."

Su's words made the scene silent.

Everyone couldn't believe what they were hearing.

How is this possible?

They're all human! O living people!

How could it have been dead a long time ago?

How could it be a monster that relied on the old locust tree to survive?

Su Ting waited for a while, giving these people a chance to digest.

Wang Qiang and Wang Jianmin listened beside him, but also did not speak, and acquiesced to Su Ting's words.

After a while, Su Ting spoke again: "So if you want to lift the so-called 'curse' on your body, there are only two ways. ”

After a while, someone asked, "What way?" ”

"The root of the curse is that you are borrowing your life from the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and you want to eliminate the mutation of this tree, the first way is to ...... the life you borrowed from the old locust tree."

"Give it back."

Su paused when he heard this, observing the reaction of the people in the square.

Sure enough, hearing Su Ting say this, the villagers' expressions changed significantly.

"Go back? How to return? ”

"Doesn't that mean we have our lives back?"

"Are we going to die?"

At the mention of death, everyone's faces changed.

No one is not afraid of death, even if they are already hopeless about the world, it is inevitable that there will be nostalgia at the last moment when they close their eyes, and doubts are regrets.

This is especially true of the people of Huaicun.

Even in the face of such a strange fate as Shuhua, they are still trying to live.

Try to find a way to continue living.

Su Ting looked at the old locust tree at the entrance of the village again, perhaps it had already expected its own results.

When it decided a long time ago to give up its chances of attaining enlightenment to save those people, he left no way out for himself.

Su Ting retracted his gaze, looked at the villagers below, and replied affirmatively, "Yes, it will die." ”

This sentence "will die" completely ignited everyone's panic.

"I don't want to die!"

"What about the second way?"

"It doesn't matter if I die, but my grandson is only three years old! He can't die! ”

There was a cry at the scene, and those who didn't know thought they were going to die in the next second.

Su Ting's expression did not change, and it seemed that he had expected this result a long time ago.

"The second way is to kill the old locust tree and use its remaining spiritual power to completely resurrect you."

Su's words made the scene quiet again.

Maybe I didn't think of the second way.

Or maybe some people actually thought about it, but they didn't say it before.

And now Su Ting said the darkest thoughts in his heart in the calmest tone.

But soon they were on their toes again.

They didn't say it, it was the master who said it!

They just want to live, is that wrong?

If you want to live, how can you be wrong?

After hearing this, Su asked, "Now, the choice is in your hands, whether to live or ......"

Su Ting didn't finish the question, because she didn't think these people would choose another option.

After Su heard what he was going to say, he stood in place and waited quietly for their choice.

Wang Qiang and Wang Jianmin didn't speak.

This matter is related to the life and death of everyone, and although Wang Jianmin is the village head, he has no power to decide the life and death of everyone.

The villagers at the scene talked quietly at the beginning to argue loudly at the back.

Su Ting watched quietly throughout the whole process.

In fact, it is quite comforting in my heart, at least not everyone chooses to send the old locust tree to death without hesitation.

At least there are some people who are grateful for the old locust tree.

Although the end result is still the same, it is never difficult for the minority to fight the majority.

There are not so many miracles in the world.

"Have you thought about it?" Su listened and glanced at the sky, not planning to continue wasting his time.

The scene was silent.

After about a few minutes, someone finally couldn't help but say, "Master, we've decided!" ”

"Results." Su asked concisely when he heard this.

"We want to live!"

The man shouted.

None of the people at the scene refuted, just watched Su Ting silently.

A few people bow their heads, maybe they can't bear it, maybe they have a weak heart.

Su Ting was not surprised and nodded.

"Got it."

Wang Qiang's face was heavy, he looked at Su Ting and asked, "Miss Su Ting, do we need to make any arrangements?" ”

Su Ting shook his head, "No need." ”

"Don't you need to prepare anything?" Wang Jianmin also asked.

"No, it's all ready."

"Who?" Everyone was stunned.

Su Ting suddenly glanced at everyone with a mocking face, "Who do you think it is?" ”

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the entrance of the village.

Only one sentence remained: "Carry the people who have been transformed into trees into the ancestral hall, and the rest of them will follow me to the entrance of the village." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and each other's faces were puzzled and dazed.

"What do you mean?"

Wang Qiang immediately said: "What are you still doing in a daze?" Don't hurry up and do what Miss Su said! ”

Everyone hurriedly got up, carried a stretcher, and sent their relatives who had been transformed into trees into the ancestral hall.

Fortunately, the ancestral hall is big enough, otherwise so many people really can't let it go.

After putting these tree-shaped people into the ancestral hall, the relatives of these people were a little uneasy.

"Is it okay to just put them in the ancestral hall and no one to take care of them?"

"This is the ancestral hall, what can it do?"

Wang Jianmin also said: "Okay, you all hurry up to the entrance of the village to find Miss Su, I'll watch here." ”

"Aren't you going over the village chief?"

"I can't go, I'm the village head, and I have to watch the ancestral hall. Besides, I was originally a member of Shuhua, but Miss Su used a special method to help me recover temporarily. ”

Wang Qiang also said: "Okay, this is all arranged by Miss Su in advance, and the others will go to the village entrance with me now." ”

Seeing that there were still people grinding, Wang Qiang's tone became serious, "Hurry up, you're still wasting time here, do you want to lift the curse?" ”

As soon as these words were said, the villagers immediately did not dare to waste any more time and ran towards the entrance of the village.

At the entrance of the village, Su Ting stood in front of the old locust tree and reached out to stroke the trunk of the old locust tree.

Feeling the almost exhausted spiritual power in the old locust tree's body, he sighed.

"Do you regret it?"

A gentle breeze blew, and an old voice rang out.

"This world is full of regrets and unperfections, and everyone has their own way to go. Demons also have a path that demons want to choose. ”

Su Ting turned around and looked at the old man on the other side of the old locust tree.

"So that's the way you chose?"

The old man smiled kindly, "My Tao was chosen back then. ”

Su Ting looked at the smile on the old man's face, and there was no dark aura.

He accepted the result with ease.

Su sneered, "Stupid." ”

The old man was not angry, turned his head to look into the village, and saw the group of villagers running from a distance.

It was as if he saw the group of children who gathered around him many years ago and called him Grandpa Tree with a smile.

Perhaps at that moment, fate had already written the ending for him.

The old man looked back at Su Ting, he was not angry at Su Ting's impolite words, he looked at her with a smile everywhere and said, "Xiaoyou, maybe my choice is stupid in your opinion, but I think it's worth it." Maybe one day you will meet that person, or a group of people, who will make you give up your persistence and make you willing to give everything for it. ”

"What is the Tao? My way is, go with my heart. ”

Su Ting rolled her eyes, too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

has lived for thousands of years, but the result is still like a "love brain".

When the love brain is still sober, this old locust tree is good, and he is obsessed with it until death.

"I'm too lazy to care about your way, since you're going to die, then I'll accept your ontology and have no opinion on you, right?"

The old man looked up at his body, "Xiaoyou, can you not take it all?" At the very least, leave them with some thoughts. ”

Su Ting wanted to roll his eyes again.

I want to say that even if you want to stay, they may not want to.

But after glancing at the old locust tree's old face, he thought about it and still didn't say anything.

Anyway, the whole tree must be hers in the end.

"Miss Su!"

Su Ting looked back at Wang Qiang and the others who came behind him, "Arrived?" ”

"It's all right!" Wang Qiang nodded.

"Hmm."

Su Ting looked back at the old locust tree behind him, and the old man was gone.

Su paused when he heard the action, and once again couldn't help but curse "stupid" in his heart.

No matter when, Su Ting felt that sacrificing himself for the sake of mankind was the most stupid decision!

And this old locust tree obviously saved these people, but in the end, he didn't even dare to see these people.

Stupid and cowardly.

"Let's begin, everyone, sit cross-legged around the old locust tree hand in hand."

Su was obedient, and although everyone was puzzled, they still did it.

After everyone was seated, Su Ting stood beside the thick trunk of the old locust tree and looked up at the branches and leaves of the old locust tree.

"I'll give you one last chance to regret it, I give them a chance to choose, you also have a chance to choose, if you are not willing to continue to sacrifice yourself to fulfill them, I will stop."

Su's words made the villagers sitting down commotion.

But Su Ting didn't care at all, she just waited for the old locust tree's answer.

Just when the villagers were about to lose their seats, an old voice sounded.

"I don't regret it, let's get started."

Su Ting was silent for a moment, "Okay." ”

"Thank you."

After the old locust tree said thank you, there was no more sound.

After hearing the sound of the old locust tree, the villagers quieted down one by one.

Now after listening to the conversation between Lao Huaishu and Su Ting, his face was full of surprise, looking at Su Ting's appearance of wanting to ask but not daring to ask.

Su Ting didn't explain to them, but just said, "It's started." ”

In the next second, everyone saw Su Ting clasping his hands together and in front of him.

Ten fingers fly, and the speed is getting faster and faster.

Everyone's eyes could only catch an afterimage, and they couldn't see her gestures clearly.

The last gesture ended, and a golden light spread out from Su Ting's fingertips.

"Scatter!"

Su listened to a shout and opened her arms.

The golden light quickly spread, enveloping the old locust tree.

Everyone only felt that the golden light was dazzling, and subconsciously closed their eyes.

After the golden light fell on the old locust tree's body, it paused for a moment, and then shrank inward at great speed.

When the golden light was compressed to the limit, it exploded.

In an instant, the golden light soared into the sky.

Su was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly set up an enchantment, enveloping the changes in the entire Huai Village.

Even if the speed was fast enough, it still made the people outside discover the anomaly at that moment.

"What was that?"

"It seems to have been made by Huai Village next door."

"Go see? Is there any treasure? ”

"That village is very evil, could it be some kind of evil?"

"Just go and take a sneak peek from afar, if you don't go in, you'll be fine!"

……

The mutation of Huai Village has attracted the attention of people in several surrounding places, although they are afraid of Huai Village, there are still people who are not afraid of death, and they want to be rich and dangerous.

At the same time, the four major families also discovered changes and began to explore the specific location.

In Huai Village, Su Ting knew that the situation just now must have attracted the attention of others, and secretly scolded this old locust tree pit father, while speeding up the movements of his hands.

The enchantment blocked the mutation of Huai Village, and Su Ting injected his spiritual power into the trunk of the old locust tree.

The golden pillar of light slowly collapsed, and the golden light fell from the sky like gold dust that had been scattered.

It fell on the people of Huai Village.

Fall on every piece of land in Huai Village.

Falling on the roof of the ancestral hall.

Everyone only felt empty in their minds, and then a long-term picture was imprinted into their minds like a movie picture.

That was the beginning of the bond between the old locust tree and the people of Huai Village.

……

(End of chapter)