Babel Tree

"Wow, my head hurts. "I woke up from the darkness with a splitting headache, and after about half an hour, the pain began to subside, and I began to observe this new environment.

There are stone walls all around, but this place is very bright, this is the world behind the stone gate?

At this time, a hand patted me on the shoulder from behind and said, "Awake?"

At this time, my consciousness was still a little trance, and I immediately thought that the person behind me had bad intentions, and I turned around with a punch, but someone blocked it.

"What, you just woke up and want to move your muscles?" Hu Xin sat on the side and said to me with a smile.

At this time, I saw clearly the person who was filming me behind my back, Old Man Bai, we had actually introduced each other before, his name was Bai Kun, and he was the thinnest of the five, but his strength was very great.

"Where is this?" I asked them.

A few of them sat around me, watching my fist being grabbed by Bai Kun in his hand, and each of them had a little smile on their lips.

"This is the most important place for us in Shixin Town. As he spoke, he pushed the wheelchair and walked to the brightest spot behind him, beckoning us to follow.

This is a stone room, about the size of two brick kilns on the other side of Shanxi, and there is no light source around, I don't know what illuminates this place.

Hu Xin led us (well, just for me, they don't know how familiar they are here) to the center of the stone chamber, and if there is something special in this stone chamber, it is a stone wide tree in the center of this stone chamber. It runs through the stone chamber like a pillar, visible only to the trunk of a tree, and the roots under the stone chamber are even deeper, and on top of it, a huge rune is attached.

When we walked around it, some colorful light emanated from the trunk of the tree, from the bottom to the top, into the rune on the top of the stone chamber, at this time, the rune gradually lit up, the lighted rune was like the branches and leaves of this tree, the stone chamber was only more than three meters high, and the glowing rune seemed to turn the entire stone chamber roof into a boundless galaxy, looking up from the trunk, as if the tree had touched the stars. As the "branches" gradually expanded, the "leaves" of the tree began to blur, turning into scattered dots, and then condensing again, turning into many strangely shaped fruits hanging from the branches.

At this time, Hu Xin spoke: "This is the core of Shixin Town, it is our real guardian. ”

"A tree?" I asked curiously.

He replied, "Our town didn't exist, but it was our town that changed hundreds of years ago, and this tree has grown here ever since." It may not be unusual for a tree to grow for a hundred years, but what if it grows underground? We used to feel its roots, and with our five divine senses, it is not difficult to go 100 meters underground, but we can only feel the increase in vitality, and we cannot reach its roots. ”

What he said didn't catch my attention, not that roots 100 meters deep weren't rare enough, but that I was more curious about the part above the trunk in comparison. What are those lighted runes that are like branches, leaves, and fruits?

Hu Xin, an old fox who has lived for a long time, guesses other people's thoughts, and guesses accurately, he may see me only looking up, and before I can ask him, he pushed a wheelchair to me and said to me: "The branches and leaves on this are real, and what you see now is a charm left by our ancestors, and you can see the situation on the top part of the trunk through this rune." Then he also pointed to the fruit on it, "See? Every fruit here represents a person in the town, and their soul has the imprint of this tree, which can enhance people's abilities in all aspects of their bodies, and even if they have mana at birth, it is not necessarily, and after everyone dies, the soul enters reincarnation, and a trace of the soul in this world returns here along the imprint, which is a reincarnation here." At this point he paused, as if to focus on the point, and pointed to some dim fruits, "And since not so long ago, some remnant souls have not returned here, and these dim fruits are the souls that have disappeared. ”

"Could it be that it's too far and it will take some time to get back?" I asked him.

He sighed and said to me, "No, we can feel their place based on this tree, even on the other side of the world." We arrested you yesterday because a child had just died in the town, and his remnant has not returned. ”

Just as I was wondering whether the other end of the clock would be the United States or the underworld, he suddenly patted me and said to me excitedly: "Son, I want you to help me find them, even if it's just their whereabouts, but I have a hunch that this thing must be very dangerous, and if you don't want to, I won't force it." The seal of your wrist chain has been changed by me, and as soon as you leave this town, your abilities will be restored. With that, he pointed to the surrounding stone wall, and a stone door opened on the stone wall, and all of them had their backs to me, and it was obvious that it was opened for me.

"Promise them, in exchange. The monkey's angry voice sounded in his head again.

Then the deep voice of another person rang out: "You need to grow, be yourself, have your own past." ”

Danger, I don't care, although I don't have the ability to fight the heavens and the earth, how many people in this world can hurt me.

"I'm willing to do it, but it's ......"