I don't know how long I moved forward, Heine felt his hand loosen, and then his eyes lit up.

He came.

A warm breeze blows, and the drunken sun shines on your face.

Overhead, a clear sky surrounded by a black wall, and in the middle of the verdant meadow stood an oak tree without color.

It has a tall trunk and a crown like an umbrella canopy.

But it seems to be stripped of color, leaving only black, white and gray, which is out of place with the surroundings.

Heine looked at the vial in his hand, the quicksand in it was almost exhausted, and only a shallow layer remained.

He stepped forward slowly, treading the soft lawn, to the colorless tree.

It's a taste from afar, and it's another when you walk under the canopy of trees that cover the sky.

Everywhere the perception passes, there is dead silence.

There are no primordial spirits, no living creatures, nothing.

Everything has been dead for hundreds of years, and in this unsullied place, it seems that there is not even dust.

But as he pressed his hand to the trunk, a somewhat weak voice sounded in his head.

"You're here."

"Quarkus?"

"It's me."

Heine held up the small vial, which was only a layer of fine sand.

"Here's what they want to say to you, and I've brought it all."

He attached the bottle to the tree.

The silver sand snapped off the cork and scrambled into the trunk, but couldn't squeeze in.

"They want to save me, but they don't need to......"

Quarcus said calmly, "Please take them all back, just take them as my request." ”

"Okay."

Heine put away the quicksand.

"You must have met Sabellia, or his friend?" Quarcus asked, "I've given him the same bottle before, and I can feel it on you." ”

"It's really on me."

Heine showed the bottle full of anger.

Unexpectedly, this bottle was left by Sabellia to Barry.

Quarcus was silent for a moment.

"Well, it looks like he didn't do anything good."

"What is this bottle made of?" Heine asked.

"Zumu is an oak tree, and the bottle comes from her gum." Quercus replied, "The elves of the Mourning Wood Valley believe that gums are the tears of trees, so they call them Wood Teardrops.

"It can feel people and carry people's emotions, just as Zumu connects the heart of every elf......"

Heine nodded.

"So what's going on here, how did it get like this?"

"If you want to start from the source, then I don't know, just like the birth of a wither, no one can tell, no one knows how to solve it......

"But if you're asking why it's getting worse here, why I'm like this, start with the net above my head......"

"Magic web?"

"Was it called that? It's really apt. ”

Heine: "What do they have to do with the three magical communication stations outside?" I mean, those three spherical Yuan Spirit Arrays. ”

Spherical ...... Circle? If you're talking about the active 'spirits,' it was there a long time ago. ”

"What!?"

Heine was shocked.

"A long time ago?"

"Yes. I'm from somewhere in the Mercury Forest, and I chose this place because of them. There is an active 'spirit' on it, which makes everyone feel comfortable. ”

Heine was secretly frightened.

He didn't expect Quercus to stay here because of those three Yuan Spirit Arrays.

“…… Through those little ones, I can connect myself to this forest, as if every tree is my eyes and my roots can extend to every piece of soil.

"But then, those people came, and they built a magic net over our heads, and it was from that day that I was tormented by pain."

Heine's heart moved: "Pain from the magic web? ”

"Yes, I am connected to the three circles, and they are also connected to the web, so the pain from the web is transmitted to me......

"If it's just a bucket of filth being poured into a small river, then I can slowly dissolve it.

"But I am not a river, nor am I a bucket of filth.

"The intense pain came to me like rotting sludge, and with it a lot of cold, dead things.

"It's the dead 'spirit'.

"My friends who lived in me sensed my pain and decided to share it for me.

"But they don't get rid of that, they feel anger, they feel hatred, they feel despair, they target the innocent.

"Filthy anger is unleashed through atrocities, but instead of satisfaction, it is a stronger counterattack and an unquenchable hunger and thirst......

"Since then, the sludge that I used to carry on my own has spread to this unsullied forest.

"Pain from the magic web fell from the sky to the earth and spread through my roots.

"It was also at this time that the withering reappeared."

Heine couldn't help but ask, "What did the first withering look like?" ”

"It's hard to describe...... The tree that should have woken up in the winter has been sleeping, the cub that should have been born has not broken its shell, and the 'spirit' that should have been quiet has grown tired of this place and disappeared or died.

"The lack of a grass, a flower, a tree is also vital to the forest, and in order to survive, more plunder and parasitism are born.

"That's the nature of withering. I couldn't solve it, I could only run away and watch things deteriorate. ”

Hearing this, Heine frowned.

"But...... Didn't the withering already exist before that? ”

The web appeared decades ago, and Quarcus said that the wither appeared at that time, which was obviously not true.

Because at that time, the communication station was established to facilitate the elves stationed here to report the observation situation to Cuiye Court as soon as possible.

In other words, the withering had already occurred before that.

Wait a minute......

Heine suddenly realized a serious problem.

It is true that the communication station was established only a few decades ago.

But this does not mean that the magic web only appeared decades ago......

I was misled myself!

According to Kaena, Quarcus was terminally ill and ready to die when the station was established.

But according to itself, when the magic net appeared above its head, it began to feel pain, and the withering appeared......

Could it be ......

The magic web appeared long before this??

Later, the so-called communication station was only "open for use" in the area of the Whispering Forest?

"Do you remember when the magic web appeared?"

Quarcus was silent for a moment.

"After Sabellia saw me for the last time...... I remember that the flame of his life was about to be extinguished at that time. ”

Really!

Sabellia went to Eagle Rank when he was dying of old age, and stayed there for more than 800 years.

By that time, the Whispering Forest had been overrun by elves, and the name was subsequently changed.

That's early!

Therefore, the mages have quietly covered the magic net here early on, causing the Whispering Forest to wither.

For more than 800 years, Quarcus was tormented.

But that's not all, as they came here decades ago to build three more communication stations, killing Quarkus completely......

Fuck your mother's Vellitas!

"You seem to be angry." "It's fine that your anger is pure, but I'm afraid I don't have time to appreciate it," Quarcus said. ”

"I'm sorry."

Heine took a deep breath.

"What happened after that?"

"As you can see, I've locked myself off and prevented my friends from sharing for me.

"So that the pollution from the overhead doesn't spread to the outside world to the whole forest, and I hope this will stop the spread of the blight."

"I've forged a wall out of those dead 'spirits', but I can still connect to those three circles through a well-developed root system to keep in touch with the outside world.

"It wasn't until later that those people reappeared, and then there was a similar contamination from the three magic circles as the magic net......

"That's when I realized that I couldn't hold on anymore while I was alive.

"Maybe you'll be able to stay a little longer.

"So, I killed myself."

(End of chapter)