The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Even Chi had to admit that the leaves of the mother tree were really bright.

It's even a little dazzling to keep looking at it in the dark.

He suddenly thought of a question and asked it directly: "Since you can speak, why don't you speak during the day?"

"Because you are a mythical beast, and he is not," the mother tree said, "I cannot transform into a human form, and... there are some other restrictions. I cannot communicate with him directly. There are many things I cannot tell him."

It sighed, "Look up."

Chi stood motionless beneath the tree, looking up. Above him, countless balls of pure white light slowly overflowed from each blue, shimmering, crystal leaf, like large water droplets falling after rain.

The mother tree's voice rang out: "These are the memories left with me by all the elves who died and reincarnated in the past. They belong to their memories from their lifetime."

“I’ve accumulated so much without realizing it.”

The sky was filled with pure white light balls, floating in the air like flying snow.

The mother tree has lived for ten thousand years, and even the long-lived elves have seen countless farewells.

In fact, most elves die far sooner than their lifespans should have allowed.

The mother tree cannot interfere with this.

It can only watch silently and wait silently.

Young newborn elves will come to receive its blessing under the leadership of the elders of the tribe, and after countless springs, summers, autumns and winters, their bodies will rot into the soil.

It carefully stored their past, watching the elves die and be reborn for various reasons, forgetting all the past. Two elves who loved each other in one life might become complete strangers in the next.

Chi was indifferent to Shu's sentimental thoughts and his eyes fell on one of the light balls.

Among all the bright lights, it was the only one that looked out of place.

It fell from the largest leaf, and its color was dull gray, like a polluted gem.

"Why does it look different?" Chi asked, pointing at the gray ball of light.

The mother tree suddenly laughed.

"Because it's the only one that isn't a relic of some elf, but a memory someone has forcibly deposited with me."

It said quietly, "That's truly rude. I'm the guiding tree that connects death and rebirth, yet he insists on me acting as his memory safe, telling his companions to come back and review it in ten or twenty years."

Chi somehow heard a hint of gnashing of teeth in this, as if after so many years, the mother tree was still brooding over it.

A tree can actually hold such a grudge.

Chi expressed confusion.

But his instinctive warning of danger prevented him from asking who this person was. Instead, he said, "So what happened to them later..."

"I never came again." For some reason, the mother tree's voice suddenly became softer, and in contrast, there was a rustling sound of the wind, which made all the branches and leaves of the tree shake violently.

It was agreed that it would take ten years, twenty years... It waited for ten thousand years, but the person who agreed to take it back never came.

Those who died died, those who disappeared disappeared, and in the end, only the most reluctant tree remembered this rogue promise.

A ball of gray light suddenly flew up and landed in front of Chi without moving.

Chi lowered his head and focused his eyes on the light.

"Take it, but don't expect too much. The memory fragments stored in it are only very short. After all, your relationship at that time was not very good."

"It can only be viewed once, and then it will be destroyed. It's up to you whether you want to open it or not."

Chi was silent for a while, half-lowered his head, with a dim light flashing in his red eyes.

He thought of the mother tree's particularly friendly attitude when it saw Jiang Liujing.

Blessings, gifts, and summoning of the source of life.

For the mother tree of the elves, it was unbelievable to show such kindness to a human.

At that time, Chi thought that it was just like other mythical beasts, attracted by Jiang Liujing's aura.

But now, he has a new guess.

"Was it him who came with me in the past?" His tone was low, but his breathing was slightly rapid. He raised his red eyes and stared at the mother tree.

"He and I knew each other before, right?"

The mother tree did not answer his question.

All the white light balls disappeared into the air in an instant, taking away half of the light, and the world became visibly darker to the naked eye.

“Even if it is the same soul, it will never be the same after it is reborn.”

“Stop chasing meaningless hypotheses and figure out what’s most important to you.”

His thin lips were tightly pursed. He didn't need even a second of hesitation to answer this question with certainty.

All his existing memories are occupied by one person. If his memory could be transformed into a stage, Jiang Liujing would undoubtedly become the center of the spotlight.

He followed him as a knight follows a king.

He longed for him as a sick man longs for medicine.

"I will protect him," he said. "I will guard him until he gets the happiness he wants."

The mother tree smiled slowly.

"Then don't leave his side again."

"You're right about one thing. That's a child who is very, very afraid of loneliness."

"Don't leave him alone again."

……

As the night fell, the hungover elves and humans woke up one after another with the morning sun shining on their faces.

Mo Ya, who had missed the tree house experience, wailed in despair as soon as he opened his eyes. He was not willing to give up and wanted to suggest to his companions that they stay for another night, but was ruthlessly rejected by them.

"Are you really treating this mission like a vacation? Finish it quickly and go back."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. I really want to see the expressions on the other groups' faces. They probably haven't found any clues in these days."

Mo Ya still looked depressed: "My tree house..."

Before the few people left, the Great Elder suddenly appeared and stopped them, reminding them that they could still receive the blessing of the mother tree.

Mo Ya was suddenly surprised and almost forgot about this!

Looking around: "Where are Xiaojing and the others... Oh, Xiaojing has already accepted it. Has Chi accepted it? Why don't I feel any changes in him? Didn't they go together?"

The Great Elder also had doubts about this. Among all the people, the Mother Tree was the only one who did not bless Chi, but the Mother Tree did not seem to hate or target him.

He repeated the mother tree's words to the others: "That child's physical condition is different from others, so blessings are basically ineffective on him."

"Is Chi so unlucky?" Mo Ya was shocked and wanted to laugh.

As the unlucky guy in the dormitory, one day I would see Chi who was even more unlucky than me. It really is karma.

"What's the difference between us humans?" Andway expressed his incomprehension.

However, since the Great Elder said that Chi himself had no objection, he had nothing to say.

The three of them followed the Great Elder and left. On the other side, Jiang Liujing was also awakened by his biological clock.

The morning light illuminated most of the room, except for the area in front of the bed, which was blocked by a shadow, allowing the boy to continue sleeping in the dim light without being affected.

As soon as Jiang Liujing opened his eyes, he saw Chi sitting beside the bed.

Seeing that Chi was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, he frowned slightly and glanced down. When he noticed a little fluorescent powder on the edge, his expression moved slightly.

"You didn't sleep last night?" The boy's voice was slightly hoarse as if the fruit was cut when he woke up.

Chi hummed, not hiding anything, and unable to hide it.

He originally wanted to continue sleeping with Jiang Liujing after returning, but his mind was full of thoughts about his past acquaintance with Jiang Liujing.

I kept thinking about it on the way, and when I came back and saw the boy's sleeping face, I couldn't control myself at all.

He almost wanted to open the gray ball of light immediately and explore his past memories. But before leaving, the mother tree reminded him that once the ball of light was opened, he would be unable to move for at least three days and must find a safe place. Obviously, the unfamiliar Canglong Mountains did not meet this requirement.

"Everyone else has gone to see the mother tree, so we can move freely in the morning." He looked at Jiang Liujing and asked, "Do you want to go find your grandfather now?"

Jiang Liujing jumped up and quickly replied, "Of course."