Due to the difference in life form, Liliana was extremely sensitive to living environments, second only to Jingle. However, her resistance to abnormal living environments was far weaker than Jingle's. Thus, when faced with this illusory village and the gigantic plant that covered the entire planet, Liliana felt extremely uncomfortable. This was a feeling that no one else could empathize with. It was roughly equivalent to an unbearable sense of dissonance. It was as strange as suddenly seeing ten thousand naked Billy Harringtons running towards you on the street. Even though it wasn't dangerous, I didn't believe that anyone could face such a situation safely …
In comparison, Jingle was much more indifferent. She was a genuine and highly professional Goddess of Life. Any abnormal living environment in the mortal world had zero effect on her. In fact, ever since we arrived at the planet's core, Jingle had been so bored that she hid in her pocket and didn't come out. That was because she felt that the gigantic plant in the planet's core was a lazy fellow. Even if they tried to communicate, they wouldn't be able to "speak" a complete sentence. I could feel the little one moving around in my chest pocket, which meant that she wasn't sleeping. I opened my pocket and took a look. It turned out that she was curled up into a ball and playing with a flower rope. The flower rope was made from the thin thread used to sew clothes at home. I reckoned that she would be able to tie herself up like a dumpling in another half an hour.
Liliana snuggled against my body for a long time, moaning. It was strange. Deep down, this little one was clearly a full-fledged domineering older sister. Her life experience before and after adding up was more than my sister and I. She should be a scheming and mature species. Back in Silver Moon City, when she boldly rushed over to escape from Azeroth, I could still vividly remember that her shrewd plan was still fresh in my memory. However, ever since she had been reborn and changed into this immortal demigod loli body, Liliana seemed to have completely cut off from the normal world. She even forgot that she was an adult. She became more and more adept at acting cute and shameless, snatching toys from the children at home, sneaking into the kitchen with Little Bubble to steal cakes. Sometimes, she would be accompanied by Sandora. She would never get tired of living a daily life that would have been impossible for someone of her age. I had also asked her if she had eaten something bad. In the end, the little one would bite her and she would continue to do whatever she wanted.
However, I had always treated any of Liliana's crazy actions as normal. This little one was mentally unstable, so let her do whatever she wanted. Anyway, it wasn't a big deal for me to take care of a younger sister who had a lot of problems. Even in theory, she was the older sister.
After tossing and turning for a few minutes as if there was no one else around, Liliana finally admitted defeat. She canceled her demigod form and changed from an elf loli to a human loli. This would make her feel more comfortable. The middle-aged elf was obviously shocked when he came down from the second floor with a drink and a plate of cut fruits. He couldn't understand why a member of his race would suddenly turn into an outsider.
"It's just a change of form. The people in the Inferno Heavens are all …" Liliana was about to spout nonsense, but she changed her words after being hit by her sister. "Anyway, it's my ultimate skill."
"We just arrived here, so we aren't very familiar with the situation here." The elder sister looked at the middle-aged man with a troubled expression. She didn't know how to deal with them, so she changed the topic. "Have you been living in this star … world all this time?"
"Of course. The Oasis Star is the home of the tree elves." The middle-aged man revealed a proud expression. "It's because of the protection of the Oasis Star that the tree elves are safe and sound in the Inferno Heavens. But even so, we are still very interested in the situation in the Inferno Heavens. You should know that we have a legend here. It says that the people who come down from the Inferno Heavens are invaders. They drive large ships to steal the treasures of our ancestors and burn the world to ashes. That's why we are very nervous when we see strangers wearing the clothes of outsiders. This is all because of the stories we heard when we were young. At first, I also thought that you were enemies. But you are really different from the legends. There are no large ships, and you don't kill or set fire. You look very friendly and don't seem like enemies. In fact, the people on the ground sometimes study the Inferno Heavens with very long binoculars. However, with the existence of the clouds and the sky, even the largest binoculars can only see some burning rivers. They can't even see houses. So, people don't believe in the fairy tale of the Inferno Heavens anymore. Now, people think that it should be another piece of land that has been set on fire for some reason. "
Everyone looked calm on the surface, but after a quick discussion through the mental link, they came to a consensus. The invaders he mentioned might be the Fallen Apostles who hunted down the spawns after the fall of the old Empire. The so-called descending from the Inferno Heavens and driving large ships to steal the treasures of our ancestors could very well mean that the Fallen Apostles would drive a warship to break through the armor and stratum of the Green Star to plunder this small planet in the earth's core. In that case, the legend of their ancestors must have come from the era of the old Empire. These people are the descendants of the spawns of the old Empire?
I suddenly realized that everything in front of me was not very logical, and the focus of this feeling was that everything here was a mass projection, but they did not know it.
If their original bodies were the bodies in the hibernation pods on the earth's mantle, then they should be the survivors of the disaster tens of thousands of years ago. They continued to live in the form of souls in the earth's core, but they knew nothing about it.
If they were the descendants of the survivors, they did not know anything about their ancestors and only knew some incomplete legends. That was even more wrong. How did mass projections reproduce?
They were just projections!
The middle-aged man brought us some drinks and fruits. The drinks looked like some kind of diluted plant juice, with a faint yellow-green color. It had a sweet and earthy smell. The fruit was not its original shape, as it had been cut into rectangular pieces. Perhaps it was just a small part of a huge fruit. All the plants here were too big. When Jingle ate an apple, she must have felt the same way as we were now. I began to worry about the food and drinks. Shadora was right. There were too many unnecessary details in the holographic projection, including the smell. However, they looked real, but could we really use them in the real world? Of course, it was impossible. Only Tawil could easily drink this kind of thing. She could directly disassemble the drink into discrete clusters of information and store them in her body. She could also increase the density of her projection, although it was only a little bit. When I tried, I found that the cup in my hand had become a shadow. A certain projection device had a bug when it processed the unexpected information exchange. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and put the cup back before the information collapsed.
"It seems that you are not used to the things in the oasis," the middle-aged man smiled kindly. "The flames are burning in the sky. There is definitely no such tree juice."
"Speaking of which, what's the matter with the legendary flaming sky?" The elder sister thought for a while and asked vaguely. "We live in the mantle … I mean behind the sea of fire. There is no fire there. Before today, we did not know that there was such a planet on the other side of the sea of fire."
The elder sister wanted to use this question to understand the worldview of the elves. This was the first thing to do to understand a strange race. Obviously, the other party could understand what a planet was. The size of the small celestial body was really small, and there was no ocean as a natural barrier. The natives here should be able to easily realize that the land they lived on was actually a sphere.
The middle-aged man did not doubt her. After all, these legends were familiar to children in his world. "Legend has it that in the beginning, there was no flaming sky and no oasis. Everything was dark and scorching. The world was liquid and spherical. Later, the ancestors came from another place to this darkness. The world they came from was devastated, so they wanted to create a safe place for their descendants. So, the ancestors emptied the center of the world and created a space. The remnants of the old world piled up on the outer shell of this space and burned fiercely, becoming the flaming sky. Then, the ancestors placed the oasis in the center of the world so that their descendants could live in peace. Finally, the ancestors and the origin of the oasis merged into one and became the land under our feet. The chief is one of the ancestors. Every once in a while, the ancestors will wake up and become the new chief to lead our lives. The original chief will return to the earth and continue to sleep. "
"What about before this world appeared? Where did your ancestors come from? " I thought this was a very important question. It was related to whether or not they knew about the existence of the Green Star. Unfortunately, the man shook his head. "The outside of the flaming sky is the outside. We don't know what kind of place it is. Anyway, the flaming sky and the shell of the world can block all dangers outside. There is no need for us to take the risk of cutting through the sea of fire. You came from behind the flaming sky. Don't you know what kind of world it is? "
It seemed that these elves did not know about the existence of the Green Star. Their knowledge of the world was limited to the burning mantle above their heads. Beyond that, there were all kinds of myths and legends.
"Speaking of which, aren't you curious about the world on the other side of the flaming sky? Look, we are standing here. We came from the outside, "the elder sister said with a smile." Actually, it is already safe outside … "
The middle-aged man was eerily silent. Not only was he silent, but the expression on his face was completely frozen. It was like a projection that had lost its signal source and stopped at the last frame. After a few seconds, he regained his senses and said calmly, "We can't go out. We can't go out. There is no need to go out."
After saying that, he seemed to have something else to say. Suddenly, a girl's voice came from outside the door and interrupted him. "Dad … Is there a guest at home today?"
The plant fiber tapestry at the door suddenly shook. Then, a girl with shoulder-length hair in a green dress on a white background flashed in. She walked lightly into the hall and was stunned when she saw us.
This face … is very familiar!
"It's the girl we saw above." The elder sister was the first to remember. She said through the mental link, "In the hibernation pod, she was hit in the face by Liliana …" Liliana's voice interrupted, "Stop talking! She just hit the ground with her face! Lin hits the ground with her mouth every time. Why doesn't anyone talk about it! "
Looking at the green-haired girl who had a confused and innocent smile on her face, I felt a headache coming on. Many of my previous conjectures seemed to collapse the moment this girl appeared, and I tumbled around awkwardly, becoming an even more chaotic ball of yarn.
Are the mass projections here really the bodies buried in the mantle? Then, why do these mass projections know nothing about the Green Star? Is the middle-aged man lying to us? Or, the bodies in the mantle are not the original owners of the Green Star. They were sent here after the oasis was built, and the original owner of the Green Star made up a lie for them? Then, is my previous conjecture about the 'biological laboratory' correct?
"This is my daughter, Lu 'E," The middle-aged man stood up and introduced her. There was a proud look on his face, "She's been studying under the Great Clan Leader. Now that she's back, it means that the Great Clan Leader has some free time."
"Huh? The great chief's guest? " Green Calyx was pleasantly surprised. "That must be a very important friend. The great chief said that there are guests to entertain, so she asked me to come back early today … I will bring them to her."
The middle-aged man nodded in agreement. Then, Green Calyx ran to the door like a gust of wind and waved at us. "Follow me! The great chief is in the treehouse not far away. She is very kind! "
After saying this, the girl disappeared behind the tapestry, leaving us staring at each other in bewilderment.
The middle-aged man smiled apologetically. "Sorry, my daughter is a little rude. She is a lively child and has caused me a lot of trouble."
We didn't mind. A large group of people went out and found the green-haired girl waiting at the door. She looked at us curiously. Then, without asking anything, she turned around and led the way. She looked very happy. Sandora complained through the mental link, "It seems that these elves are really naive and cautious, but easy to deceive."
I nodded. "That's true. If we let Liliana go, her country would perish in half a year."
Liliana instantly jumped up and down, trying to bite us. Every time she tried, I would hit her back with a karate chop. The sound of my karate chop hitting her head echoed along the way, attracting Green Calyx's attention.
The great chief didn't stay in the village, but outside the circle of mushroom walls. There was a special wooden house. It wasn't dug out from the mushroom, but a two-story house made of wood and fiber. However, the village was really small. It only took us a few minutes to walk there. When we were about to knock on the door, Shallow Shallow finally couldn't restrain her curiosity. She asked Green Calyx, "Hey, how did you give birth?"
She probably wanted to know if Lü 'E knew that she was a mass projection, so her words were twisted like this. But that's good, at least it wouldn't arouse suspicion: the people of this world don't know what a mass projection is.
"Gave birth?" The green-haired girl had a puzzled expression. "Of course, my father plucked it from the tree. Isn't that how all tree elves are born? That's right, why are your ears so strange? "
I didn't answer her, but silently looked at the pocket in front of my chest. Jingle had already tied herself into a ball of string. It seemed that she had been tossing and turning for a long time. She had already fallen asleep in a daze. This little thing was also plucked from the plant. What was even more amazing was that she could plant herself again and pluck it again after two years!
We wanted to ask more about the 'tree elves', but we were afraid of arousing her suspicion, so we temporarily suppressed our suspicions. Green Calyx was a rather lively girl. She didn't seem to be scheming. She didn't seem to be unhappy with Shallow Shallow's sudden strange question.
She was completely different from the other one: the one lying in the hibernation pod without any signs of life.
Very soon, we met the so-called tribe leader. It was an old female tree elf. She wore ordinary gray clothing. Looking at her face, she was probably as beautiful as Green Calyx when she was younger. But now, she was a quiet and kind old lady. She wasn't tall and her grayish-green hair was meticulously combed into a bun at the back of her head. She sat behind a heavy wooden table and flipped through a scroll. She seemed like an old teacher of the older generation. She seemed to have already known of our arrival. She didn't look surprised at all. She instructed Green Calyx to go home first. Then, she stood up and offered a seat to the guest. She didn't say much, but she was very kind.
The interior of the wooden hut was quite spacious. After all, there weren't any extra rooms on the first floor. After entering the hut, there was a hall. On one side, there were many shelves, and on the other side, there was a dark fireplace. Facing the door, there was a narrow staircase, which should be the resting place of the clan leader. So, the first floor of the wooden house should be very spacious. But in reality, there wasn't much empty space. All kinds of strange items were piled up on the ground. There were lifelike animal carvings, plant-embossed wooden plant-embossed bottles and jars that seemed to be used by alchemists. It seemed that this tribe leader had a lot of hobbies in her spare time.
"I heard that there are guests. That little girl, Four-Leaf Clover, brought them here," the tribe leader said slowly. She had the calmness and calmness that an old person of her age should have. She seemed to have passed the age where she needed to be impatient. She arranged everything in an unhurried manner and dealt with it slowly. From this point, the indigenous people who called themselves tree elves — or rather, the projections of the indigenous people — were quite similar to the mentality of the people from Earth. Of course, they seemed a little too naive. This might have something to do with the isolation of their living environment. "You came down from the Blazing Sky, but you didn't bring any flames or weapons."
"You think that the Blazing Sky is a dangerous place, so anything that comes down from there is dangerous," Lin Xue said casually. Then, she began to study the pile of embossed carvings on the ground curiously.
The tribe leader looked at us for a while. Her calm eyes didn't show any hostility or friendliness. She just stared at us quietly as though she was trying to read our minds. Shallow Shallow's interest was piqued. She stared at the tribe leader. She wasn't afraid of eye contact. She knew how to control time. Almost instantly, the tribe leader rubbed her eyes and retreated in defeat. Shallow Shallow squatted on the ground with Liliana to search for ants. The tribe leader looked at Shallow Shallow in confusion. In the end, she shook her head and said, "You shouldn't be enemies. Otherwise, the oasis would have called the police and the Blazing Sky would have collapsed. But I can't say anything now. Stay in the village for a few days. The people in the oasis are very hospitable. Then, I might be able to confirm what your arrival means. "
Stay for a few days … Where would I find the time?!
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