Mu Congyun still didn't understand.

even gave birth to a trace of grievance. It's not that he refuses to come out, it's that there is no place for him in this lively world.

He remembered his life in an orphanage in his previous life.

Probably without the protection of their parents, the children in the orphanage, regardless of their size, are generally precocious, and they have learned to form gangs and huddle together early to keep warm.

He was envious and tried to join, but for some reason, he was always the one who was excluded.

Once he took out the candy he had saved for a long time and was reluctant to eat to share, wanting to be recognized and accepted. However, the children pushed him to the ground, snatched his candy and scattered.

There are also couples who come to the orphanage to adopt their children, and after seeing him, they are very satisfied and promise to be good to him in the future. However, not long after adopting him, he began to think he was stupid and stupid.

He even remembered the couple's complaint to the director when they sent him back to the orphanage: "This child didn't say a word when he went back, did you check on him?" If you have autism or other mental problems, it is not good to be adopted as a normal child. ”

Later, the dean took him to the hospital, and the doctor asked him a lot of questions. He answered as cooperatively as he could. But when he left, the dean still didn't look at him very satisfied.

Since then, no one has adopted him.

As time went by, the children who had once made him envious were adopted one by one, and he was the only one who remained in the orphanage, still out of place with his surroundings.

The orphanage is not treated well, but it is not bad either.

He followed the rules of his class life. When he was an adult at the age of eighteen, he was admitted to a university that was neither good nor bad, and since then he has left the orphanage to become self-reliant, graduating and looking for a job step by step.

The only constant is that he still has no friends.

Classmates and colleagues privately complained that he was unsociable.

Occasionally, someone would take a fancy to his face and pursue him violently. But it usually doesn't take more than a week for the other person to completely lose interest in him.

He even once heard a person who had passionately pursued him and a friend complaining that he had such a personality and a beautiful face in vain, who would want to be confronted with a beautiful puppet who didn't say a word all day?

He didn't know what kind of character he was in the eyes of others. But he knew that he probably wasn't very likable.

He stopped making futile efforts, learned not to listen or look, and to move forward.

Although he occasionally feels at a loss about his destination, he feels safe away from the crowds.

He wanted to tell his master that he was about to live up to his expectations.

But when he looked worried about his master, he couldn't open his mouth anyway.

So he chose to accept the task and go down the mountain, trying not to disappoint Shizun.

But sometimes he feels like a student facing an open-book exam, the question is very simple, but he looks through all the information books and can't find the right answer anyway.

Mu Congyun sighed gloomily.

But because the amplitude was too small, others only felt that his expression was more cold.

Xu Yao, who was holding Jin Yi for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, suddenly froze, let go of his hand and stood up in an orderly manner, and instinctively moved behind Jin Yi, his eyelids lifted up and looked at him cautiously.

I'm so happy that I forgot that my brother is still there!

Big brother won't be angry, right?!

He secretly reached out and poked Jin Li's back.

Jin Yi slapped his hand impatiently, and said in his heart that the senior brother has a good temper, how can he be so easy to get angry. He ignored the annoying Xu Yao, and said to Mu Congyun courteously: "Senior brother, Xu Yao and I will go and move the other senior brothers over first?" ”

Rescue the Xuanling disciples first, and there will be a lot of people to rescue them later.

Mu Congyun swept over the mountains and fallen trees, and shook his head after a moment of silence: "There are too many people." ”

He was the only one in the entire Xuanling who cultivated the Compassion Sword, and the other brothers couldn't help. But if he alone did it, he couldn't save it at all.

There is a shortage of manpower in Xuanling, and it is estimated that there will be no manpower to support in a short period of time. He feared that a long delay would cause more casualties.

"Go to the source."

He thought of the giant tree in the center of the old forest, and Uncle Zhao who was nowhere to be found. Since the mutation is born from this, there should be a solution.

Jin Yi and Xu Yao naturally didn't dare to object, and followed him to the center of the old forest.

The closer to the center, the denser the fallen trees become. When you get to the back, you can't even pass from the ground, so you can only shuttle through the air with Edgeworth.

Mu Congyun was the first to arrive at the center, and saw that the giant tree that still had its main trunk left before didn't know what had happened, and only half of the stump was left protruding from the ground. And the missing Uncle Zhao held the wooden statue in his arms and sat by the stump, looking gloomy.

"Lao Linzi's mutation has something to do with you?" Mu Congyun stepped forward with his sword, his eyes fell on the wooden statue he held in his arms, and his tone was very determined.

He felt a similar spiritual power on the remnants of the stumps and wood carvings.

Uncle Zhao lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, his face, which was still in good spirits before, was shrouded in huge sadness at this time, and he even seemed weak to speak: "It's too late." ”

I don't know if it's about myself or them.

Mu Congyun didn't answer, and walked around him to carefully inspect the remaining stumps.

After a long time, he spoke again, and his tone was firm: "This is the Soul Restoration Tree." ”

According to the Persona of the West, a tree grows in the shade of the mountains, three feet tall, with a canopy like an umbrella, grayish-brown bark, and rare human face rings. It is said that this tree can communicate with the spirits, and if you make a wish to it, it will be granted. Hence the name of the prayer tree.

However, "Persona from the West" also records a kind of resurrection tree, which likes to grow in the buried bones of deep resentment. Because it is yin, it often attracts resentful spirits to stay in it. Someone once encountered the Resurrection Tree and was tempted to make a wish for the resurrection of their loved ones, only to have their dead relatives resurrected but turned into man-eating monsters.

Under this record, the author also deliberately marked a line of small characters: This tree can gather souls, and it is evil in nature. If you ask for it, the price will be 100 times greater. Or the same species as the prayer tree.

"Persona from the West" is originally a record of the author's experience or hearsay, and it is difficult to verify whether it is true or false. Mu Congyun also occasionally uses it to relax when he is tired from practice.

It wasn't until he saw the rings on the stump that he saw the rings that looked like human faces, and he was sure that the alien tree recorded in the "Persona of the West" actually existed.

He explained the origin of the giant tree in one word, and even Uncle Zhao couldn't help but look at him in surprise, before he shrugged his eyelids and said, "But it was originally a prayer tree." ”

The Prayer Tree and the Resurrection Tree are different states of the same tree.

It can not only communicate with the gods, but also naturally through demons and evils.

Those who are through the gods are called praying to the gods, and those who are through demons and evil are called resurrections.

This one that grows in the old forest of Nanhuai Town was originally a prayer tree.

It's about feeling that hope is cut off, and there is nothing to hide. Uncle Zhao finally opened his mouth: "When I was five or six years old, it was growing in the old forest. The hunters who come and go to the old forest all the year round will more or less bump into the prayer tree several times and inadvertently make a wish. Later, after a long time, this kind of unintentional attention was noticed by people with intentions, and the news that there was a sacred tree in the old forest that could fulfill wishes gradually spread, and the people in the town had to go to the old forest to try their luck if they had anything to do. And when I met the person who prayed to the gods, the wish I made did come true. ”

The fame of the sacred tree is growing, and the number of people who want to find the sacred tree to make a wish is increasing.

But human desire. There is no end to hope.

After all, the Prayer Tree is just a tree that gives birth to spirits.

It fulfills people's small wishes, and then draws strength from people's beliefs to cultivate and grow. It's a win-win. But as the fame of the sacred tree grows louder and the legend becomes more mysterious, the townspeople who had been blessed by the sacred tree to grant their wishes began to breed even greater ambitions.

They began to make greater wishes, never considering that they would outweigh the capabilities of the Prayer Tree.

Prayer Trees, which are unable to fulfill people's wishes, no longer appear and no longer respond to the wishes of the townspeople.

But the townspeople, who had already grown their appetites, refused to believe this fact, and some of them went crazy looking for traces of the prayer tree in the old woods.

"My unruly son is one of them."

When the old man mentioned it, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

Their family had been hunters for generations, and he dared to drill into the old woods when he was five or six years old. Compared to other townsfolk who had to try their luck, he saw the Prayer Tree almost every time he went. He has a withdrawn personality and has no friends, and when he hears people talk about praying for a god and a spirit, he sees it as a friend who will not respond, and will confide in him about good and bad things.

Over the decades, it has become a deeply ingrained habit.

It was probably because he had never made a wish to the Prayer Tree, and even if the Prayer Tree stopped responding to the others, he could still find the Prayer Tree in the old forest.

"That rebel gambled and owed a lot of money. He couldn't pay off his debts, and he knew that I often went to the old forest to look for the sacred tree, so he sold the news to Chen Yuanwai in the town. When I went to the old forest again, he secretly led someone to follow me and found the location of the prayer tree. ”

However, they were not greedy enough and rightfully did not get a response.

Chen Yuanwai, who didn't get a response, was anxious, thinking that he had done something to deliberately want to monopolize the Prayer Sacred Tree, and actually took his little grandson, who was only three years old, to threaten him.

After that, everything became very chaotic.

"My daughter-in-law has a fierce temperament, and they chase them desperately. As a result, a scuffle broke out and was beaten to death by the people brought by Chen Yuanwai. Lingshan was already in poor health, and his mother was frightened again, so she lost her life. ”

"The unfilial son saw that something happened to his daughter-in-law and son, and then he regretted it, and he also crashed into the tree and died." Uncle Zhao raised his head, and the old man's face was full of bitter hatred: "That group of miscellaneous people saw that there was a death, so they panicked." I didn't dare to ask for the Divine Tree anymore, so I hurriedly ran. ”

His family was ruined overnight, and he didn't want to live anymore.

But Prayer God Wood responded to him for the first time.

Uncle Zhao lowered his head and patted the wooden statue in his arms lovingly: "It left the soul of Lingshan and gave it back to me." ”

The townspeople said he was crazy, but he knew he was sober.

Not long after that, two people died in the town. The two people who died also happened to be the people who participated in the search for the sacred tree at that time.

And Chen Yuanwai was also scared after learning the news, and united with the people in the town, shouting that he wanted to invite the immortal master to punish the evil. He found someone from nowhere, and after some practice, he said that he was going to cut down the old forest.

"After I heard the news, I secretly went to the back mountain overnight and brought out the tree spirit of the Prayer Tree. I originally wanted to wait for this matter to pass before sending it back, but I didn't expect something to happen halfway, and the old forest was covered in gray fog, and it couldn't go back. ”

The old man's face was mixed with hatred and pleasure: "It's also evil and evil retribution, after the old forest had an accident, more and more people died in the town." The first to have an accident was Chen Yuanwai's family. ”

The Prayer Tree that lost the tree spirit was occupied by resentful spirits, and when the eclipse fog infiltrated and caused a mutation, it became the soul revival tree that is now in trouble in Nanhuai Town.

didn't expect that there was such a murder case hidden behind this, and Jin Yi looked at the wooden statue in the old man's arms, and felt that it was not so weird. It's just that I'm still puzzled: "What you're holding now is the tree spirit of the Prayer Tree or your grandson." ”

If it's just a wisp of dead soul, it shouldn't have such a strange ability.

Uncle Zhao just patted the swaddling clothes, but did not respond to him.

"Lingshan said that the gray fog on the mountain has dispersed, and I originally wanted to send it back."

The enemies have all received retribution, and he does not know who to hate again. I just didn't expect to enter the mountain, but I found that the tree had been destroyed.

The dryad spirit could not leave the prayer tree for a long time, and without sustenance, it would soon disperse.

Uncle Zhao hugged the swaddling clothes tightly and said in a low voice: "This is all retribution." ”

It is the retribution of Nanhuai Town, and it is also his retribution.