"I-Isn't it?" Meng Chao sounded a little perfunctory.
"There's no need to say 'isn't it?' Of course it is!"
Lu Siya extended her feather-covered and flower-covered arm and pressed down on Meng Chao's shoulder. Then, she said with a stronger tone, "Now that I think about it, the lives we lived in Dragon City were just too sinful. We were always scheming against each other and deceiving each other. All we could think about was how to cultivate and strengthen ourselves, but how to expand our forces of power and earn money that we couldn't even spend.
"Even when we fought against monsters, I asked myself if it was really for the so-called human civilization. It was all for our own ambitions!
"It was as if we were controlled by some mysterious power and unknowingly turned into its slaves. We weren't ourselves at all.
"Unfortunately, at that time, I didn't know that I was sinful. I was willing to live a life filled with competition, deceit, and killing.
"Thank goodness. What's the saying? 'I could originally endure the darkness, as long as I never saw the light.'
"Peach Blossom Town is the light!
"It's only after I came here that I realized that life can be completely different. It can be a world where everyone is equal, where it's peaceful and carefree. It can be a world where we don't need to deceive or compete with each other. We don't need to charge forward as if there's an invisible whip lashing at us from behind. We can stop and take a deep breath without any goal or sense of mission. We can just admire the scenery around us and never get enough of it.
"It's only now that I feel like I'm truly alive. Lu Siya, who struggled in Dragon City in the past, was just a puppet in the hell of fame, profit, and ambition. She was just a puppet who had no choice but to live.
"When I realized this, of course I had to tell my companions about my personal feelings and pull them out of the abyss of suffering together.
"Meng Chao, you're my comrade who shares the same ideals as me. I believe that you've experienced a lot of pain, anxiety, and frustration because of my ambition in Dragon City. But since we're already in the true paradise of light and carefree peach blossom town, we should abandon everything in the past and welcome a brand new life!"
She went forward again and hugged Meng Chao passionately.
Perhaps it was because she had truly changed and become a new person, but Meng Chao felt that her body temperature was slightly higher than usual, and her body had also become softer.
Meng Chao originally thought that she would use the hug to give him some hints.
For example, he would secretly pinch his waist or something.
But there was nothing. It was just a passionate, sincere, and pure hug.
"Oh well, I know that you've just woken up, so it's normal that you can't wrap your head around this immediately. Once you receive the enlightenment from the Wisdom Tree during the harvest festival, you'll understand what I'm saying. Now, you just need to trust me. Just trust me unconditionally," Lu Siya said to Meng Chao with a smile.
He then turned to Gu Ling and said, "Little Sister Gu Ling, it's getting late. Let's go to the harvest ceremony together!"
"Great!"
The current Lu Siya was much more likable compared to when she was the Queen Bee and was filled with ambition.
Ancient Spirit seemed to like this caring big sister a lot. She went up to hold Lu Siya's hand and skipped forward.
The order at the four forks had been restored. All the people and beasts were surging in the same direction.
It seemed to be the center of the satellite town, where the skyscrapers were the densest.
Meng Chao observed the area along the way, and he noticed that the closer he got to the center of the town, the worse the collapse and damage of the buildings became.
Most of the collapsed buildings were covered by a sea of flowers and a green wave. They looked like beautiful tombs.
The cracks between the broken walls turned into the nests of monsters.
A large number of Nightmarish Beasts and Hell Beasts moved in and out. Wolves led the way, and tigers and leopards ran amok. The eyes of the beasts shone with a light that was similar to that of humans. They looked very smug, as if they were the masters of the town.
Meng Chao even saw some humans serving the monsters.
A Tyrant Mammoth had its eyes half-lidded and was lying comfortably on the ground.
Eight humans held special tools that looked like huge wooden combs and ticklers. They were combing the lice and fleas on its fur, helping it relax its flesh and activate its tendons.
When Meng Chao saw it swinging its trunk and snorting in pleasure, he instinctively felt like vomiting.
The scene before him was even more embarrassing and disgusting than when he saw the Tyrant Mammoth using War Trample to stomp eight humans to death.
He had to use a lot of strength before he managed to suppress the urge to draw Golden Tooth Bloody Soul.
When she sensed his subtle killing intent, Lu Siya cast him a glance through the corner of her eye. Without batting an eyelid, she stood between him and the Tyrant Mammoth to block his line of sight.
"What a beautiful sight. Humans are helping the Tyrant Mammoth catch its fleas and tickle it, and the Tyrant Mammoth is also working hard for humans. It'll work hard so that the etherealized plants will bear more fruits."
Lu Siya smiled and said, "This is a mutually beneficial situation. Isn't it much better than fighting to the death the moment we met in the past?
"The harvest ceremony is about to start. The Tree of Wisdom is right in front of us. Let's go!"
She grabbed Meng Chao's wrist, which was pressing down on Golden Tooth Bloody Soul, and dragged him forward.
When they turned into the next intersection, a … No, there were one hundred strong fragrances that crashed into Meng Chao's nose like a tidal wave.
"This is …"
When Meng Chao saw the sea of people in front of him and the buildings that were one hundred times more majestic and beautiful than the human wave, he was shocked.
This should be the center of the high-tech industrial area that Dragon City had developed on Earth.
There were two landmark buildings that were more than three hundred meters tall. They looked like Gemini Stars and were surrounded by dozens of buildings that were one to two hundred meters tall. They formed a huge square, as if they were stars surrounding the moon.
Unfortunately, most of the buildings had been broken and turned into graves and tombstones.
The two lonely "Twin Stars" that pierced through the clouds became even more apparent.
But if anyone observed them closely, they would notice that the Gemini Stars had a golden exterior, but they were rotten inside.
Their internal structure had long since been destroyed. Only the empty outer shell was left, and it was still standing.
Instead of saying that they were two skyscrapers, it would be better to say that they were two swaying chimneys.
The only thing that prevented them from collapsing like the buildings around them were the vines that wrapped around the Gemini Stars.
Countless slowly squirming vines and branches that also squirmed like organs covered the green tide. They replaced the original reinforced concrete and filled up the internal structure of the Gemini Stars.
They also stretched out their tentacles through the shattered windows of the Gemini Stars. They intertwined with each other, and like the thickest ropes and rebars, they bound, covered, enveloped, and devoured the Gemini Stars.
The vines intertwined with each other so densely that not a single crack could be seen. They were like a towering tree that had a diameter of one hundred meters that supported the Gemini Stars into the sky.
When the Gemini Stars were three hundred meters in the sky, it surpassed the height of the Gemini Stars. Without the support of the buildings, all the vines spread out like a goddess scattering flowers. They spread out like the crown of a super banyan tree and landed on the roofs of the buildings around it. They continued spreading and entangling with each other to form a huge umbrella that covered the sky.
Meng Chao had heard that some ancient banyan trees on Earth could cover a circular area of a few kilometers. Their branches and roots continued growing and entangling with each other to form a lush forest. They were known as the "lone tree that formed a forest".
The "tree" in front of Meng Chao, if it could be considered a tree or even a plant, was dozens of times taller and more lush than the largest banyan tree on Earth.
Besides, it was not a monotonous shade of green. Instead, it was like all the animals and plants in Peach Blossom Spring. It was filled with too many pigments and was too bright.
It was covered in a carpet of colorful fungi.
Colorful flowers and fruits were growing on the branches and vines that hung down from the tree.
Quite a number of the buds even released sparkling powder that was as dazzling as phosphorescence.
As the wind blew gently, the pollen that was as fine as sand drew dazzling pictures in the air. Then, it slowly landed on the heads and shoulders of the humans and monsters.
It made every person, monster, and the entire world feel as beautiful as a fairy tale.
"Is this the Wisdom Tree?"
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and gathered his spirit energy to stimulate his cerebral cortex like an icicle so that he could withstand the mental impact brought by the dream-like picture in front of him.
He looked at the plant … which was a collection of fungi, spores, moss, lichens, vines, branches, flowers, and fruits. It was an incomparably gorgeous and bizarre plant-like lifeform, and he asked Gulling.
"That's right."
Ancient Spirit spread her arms and sucked in a deep breath. Her face was covered in a lot of sweet pollen.
The girl licked the pollen at the corners of her lips with an intoxicated expression. She nodded and said, "This is the Wisdom Tree that allows humans and spirit beasts to coexist peacefully and brings us happiness!"
The Wisdom Tree was like an enhanced version of the UHV transmission tower covered in a green wave.
It was shaped like a large plant, but it breathed like an animal and had a rhythm that was similar to a heartbeat.
As the rhythm spread through the air, the colorful pollen rose and fell like a tidal wave.
The people who bathed in the pollen wave were as intoxicated as Ancient Spirit.
In fact, some people eagerly plucked the colorful, crystalline fruits and fungi from the vines hanging down. They did not even wash them and just swallowed them.
The people who ate the fruits were fine.
The people who had eaten the colorful parasol were like drunken monkeys. Their skin became colorful, and they started to moan and dance with joy.
The people around them were not surprised. They also surrounded them and sang and danced. They used all sorts of strange postures that made them look like they were imitating the postures of monsters and worshiped the Wisdom Tree.
There were a lot of monsters in the crowd too.
They also ate the intoxicating fruits and hallucinogenic fungi.
Instead, it stood up like a human, like a bear bowing with its hands folded in front, twisting various human movements in a slightly comical manner.
It was as if humans had turned into monsters through the Wisdom Tree, and monsters had turned into humans!
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