13 Refuse X Give in X Get Beaten

"I don't want to be a Horned Lord." Hua still felt that it was better to say it directly. No matter how tactfully she spoke, she could not convince the Yuan Ling who had her own ideas. It was like trying to communicate with the thinking of a four or five-year-old child using the consciousness of an adult. In fact, both sides could not really understand each other's thoughts.

The Yuan Ling flew around her in confusion. It didn't quite understand why the flower was like this.

"Jiao Zun, stronger." Yuan Ling finally stopped and conveyed his thoughts again.

"I know, but I will be deeply bound to the forest." Hua looked at the spirit in front of her, "It will be stronger, but if the forest is damaged, I will also be hurt."

"And what I need is that even if something goes wrong in the forest, I can still maintain sufficient combat effectiveness."

"The reason I had a fever a while ago was because someone cut down and burned a small piece of forest, right?"

Hua slumped down a bit in frustration.

"You see, I haven't even gotten that deep into the binding yet and it's already affecting my physical condition."

"If I really am Kakuzun, then it might not just be a fever."

Hua actually never figured this part out, because the relationship between Jiaozun and the forest in the game is not like this. The main operations are purification and communication, which is also how she has always felt about the relationship between her and the forest.

But it's too coincidental. When part of the forest is burned, she will have a fever. When she is too close to an area where there is damage, she will also have fever symptoms. It's hard to believe that these are coincidences.

Her physical condition seemed to be too deeply bound to the forest. It might be because she mobilized the ether too early. From childhood to now, the influence of time has deepened. It might also be the price her ether paid for affecting the environment.

Hua felt helpless. She really couldn't give up the forest because she was a local. If she really had to give up, with her body affected, she didn't know when the thunder would explode.

For her, the gift of fate has its own price, and the value of this sentence is still increasing.

But Hua's straightforward answer confused Yuan Ling. It flew around, and the light kept changing with its rotation.

Suddenly it flew in front of the flower again.

"Jiao Zun, immortal." Yuan Ling remembered that he once saw two people making love in the woods. One of them seemed to be very panicked about the aging of his body. This would definitely convince Hua.

Hua looked at Yuan Ling and suddenly felt a little helpless.

"I'm only 12 years old. If I were to become a Kakuzun now, I would always be like this child."

"While humans don't want to grow old, they don't necessarily want to be children their whole lives."

"Why don't you want me to train?"

Hua looked at the small ball of light in front of her and asked helplessly.

"Hard work." The word came faintly from the ball of light, and Hua looked at it in a daze.

Is it hard? Is exercise hard? Of course, physical training requires pushing the body to its limits, then relaxing, and then gradually improving. This repeated practice of exhausting oneself and then continuing is quite tiring.

But Hua doesn't think this is a bad thing.

She can communicate with the ether and heal others as a nurse, but what if one day she loses this ability? It's like she suddenly regained her memories of a past life, and what happens is completely out of her control.

Moreover, she was completely uneasy just relying on reading the bar.

The reading time of about five seconds is more than enough for someone to beat her up, so she must insist on it.

She was really tempted by the fact that Jiao Zun could make her stronger easily, but it was a pity that she couldn't indulge in it.

Exercising on her own is painful, and she is covered in sweat and smells bad, but every effort she makes, every time she mobilizes her body, is just for preparation, to make herself stronger.

"Thank you, but I can't accept this." Hua looked at Yuan Ling in front of her seriously. Her eyes were bright, with the luster that Yuan Ling liked, just like the sparkling stones in the stream, moist and bright.

"I want to train myself harder, not because I don't like being a Horned Lord." Hua looked at the Yuan Ling who had obviously become smaller and smiled helplessly, "It's just that I can't do it now. I need to be stronger."

"Actually, it should have been you who helped me last time." Hua thought of her last crotch kick. She was too excited at the time and felt that everything was going smoothly. But when she thought about it carefully, it was not her who was successful, but those people who were unlucky.

"But what should I do next time if there are multiple people, or if you happen to be away?"

Hua spoke slowly to the Yuan Ling. The Yuan Ling in front of her was really different from the one in the Black Forest. The kind Hua knew would drive a race out of the forest or compress their settlements, but the Yuan Ling in front of her looked very young.

It's the state of a child.

But this is not right. The lifespan of this forest is definitely not that short. The fact that it has formed into a forest means that it has been growing for a very long time. It must be bigger than her.

Mitt and Kim used to play here.

As Hua was thinking about this, she seemed to hear someone calling her vaguely. She looked around but didn't find anyone else.

"I'm here." Yuan Ling was shaking with grievance. He wondered why the person in front of him didn't listen to him. If Hua became Jiao Zun, he could directly control the forest through her, so that she wouldn't have to run around everywhere. Isn't that good?

But it couldn't explain it clearly, and it always felt that if it really explained it, the flower might be very angry.

Hua felt a headache. She felt that she was not suitable for reasoning and could not explain herself clearly.

"I know you are here...but I like this kind of exercise." Hua Jian thought about it and decided to keep it simple. It would be difficult to explain the reason, so just say that he likes it.

Yuan Ling stared at the flower and fell into silence.

Hua waited patiently for Yuan Ling to react, but she heard someone calling her again, sometimes far away and sometimes near.

She took two steps in the general direction of the sound, but was suddenly stopped by Yuan Ling.

Yuan Ling blocked Hua from going anywhere, which made Hua feel very unhappy.

"Don't stop me."

"I can't, I can't go."

Hua and Yuan Ling returned to their previous positions, standing face to face. Hua looked at the ball of light that seemed to be breathing and grew and shrank, feeling very angry.

Yuan Ling seemed to sense her anger, and turned around nervously, then suddenly disappeared.

The flowers became even angrier. What was going on?

She then walked in the direction where she heard the sound, but still didn't see anyone. Hua was about to leave here, but when she lowered her head, she saw a narrow hole close to the ground. She compared the width of her shoulders with the width of the hole, and then gave up and went in.

Where is the exit?

Huahuan looked around and forced herself to calm down. Anger would cause serious problems in her judgment, and she needed to leave this place.

She started walking along the wall and found many small holes on it, but none of them were accessible to her. You know, it's unknown where these wild holes lead to, and there's a chance that the inside is too narrow. She could get in, but get stuck and couldn't get out.

Hua looked at the current snow wall. The holes here were relatively small but dense. Such a smooth snow wall would normally be impossible to climb, but with holes like these, she could try to climb up.

Hua did it as soon as she thought of it. She started to climb up. She kept using the strength of her upper limbs to pull herself up. When she reached a certain height, she felt her hands sweating and had no choice but to stop. This time she felt a slight soreness.

When approaching the top, I could clearly feel the airflow, but I couldn't see a clear opening. After looking for a while, I found that there seemed to be more dense small holes on the top, as if something had grown here or drilled here.

She can't get over it.

Hua climbed down silently, clapped her hands, and started searching again, but before she had taken a few steps, she heard the call again. This time she clearly found it, it came from above her.

"Am I a fool?" Hua slapped her forehead with her palm. She was originally pulled down by the ground, but she never expected that her exit should be underground.

But it was actually quite dangerous to hold on to the wall. She couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't get hurt if she fell from four or five meters. So she turned around again and saw some tree roots that were obviously hanging down next to the wall. This was a good location.

The distance between the tree roots and the wall is very close, and there is even a place at the top where people can sit.

This makes the flower look complicated.

Because she had just been here, and there were not many tree roots at that time.

The flower could guess that it was the Yuan Ling who was doing this. You have to know that she could not influence the plants, just like two separate individuals, but the Yuan Ling could have an influence, and it came from the consciousness born from the entire forest.

Hua climbed up grunting and pulling with his hands, feeling it was relatively stable, so he sat firmly and began to dig at the soil on top.

Unexpectedly, the soil was very loose and large chunks fell off with just a few taps.

Hua felt even more complicated. This was definitely the influence of the Yuan Ling. Everyone knew that this deep soil was relatively solid and not loose like sand. The soil fell down and made her head and face look messy.

Hua shook her head and started to pull hard.

The Yuan Ling below was hiding carefully under the tree roots. It didn't want to send the flower away. When it regained consciousness, the first thing it felt was the flower. Every subsequent danger was when the flower rushed towards it.

Are those humans more important than it?

If it is more important than that, then why would the flowers rush over?

The Yuan Ling didn't understand why the flower treated it like this, but it also noticed that the flower wanted to leave. There was no entrance or exit here, so it brought the flower in by pulling it in with soil.

The soil clods fell to the ground with quite a crackling sound. Hua stood where she had been sitting before and looked back at the ground with a bit of helplessness.

Even with her arms stretched out, she couldn't reach any higher, so she could only try and see if she could rush up.

Just a spirit...

“…” She hesitated for a moment and wanted to say something to Yuan Ling, but she gave up in the end.

Hua slowly squatted down, fully mobilized the muscles of his thighs, and before jumping up, he activated the ether and rushed towards the dug hole like flying.

The forest at night was actually not as dark as Mitt imagined. She still remembered that she once got lost in the forest. She felt dark and scared at that time until Jin found her.

At that time, she certainly didn't expect that one day she would look for Hua who had not returned home for a long time at night. Even the guests were kind enough to come to help, but it was too late, so Mitt asked them to go first and she would do it herself.

Mitt kept calling the flower's name. After searching for a long time, his voice became hoarse.

The more she looked, the sadder she felt. She even felt that it was because she had forced Hua to stay that Hua was reluctant to go home, and that Hua was resenting her.

Thinking of this, Mitt hunched over. She didn't know what to do. If she let Hua go with Xiaojie, would Hua stay home? Mitt regretted it very much. She regretted why she didn't let Hua go with them.

As the tears fell to the ground, a black shadow jumped out from the ground at a very fast speed, and there was a loud sound when it broke through the soil.

Mitt couldn't help but look over, and saw the dirty flowers.

"Flowers!" Mitt hugged the little girl in front of him tightly.

"Aunt Mitt!" Hua hugged her back excitedly. Although she didn't know why Aunt Mitt was here, she didn't care and hugged her first.

The two people's happy embrace lasted for a while, and Hua was so happy that she was about to fall asleep.

"Hua." Mitt's hoarse voice sounded above Hua's head.

"Aunt Mitt..." Hua responded in a daze, and suddenly felt her whole body being lifted up. She opened her eyes and saw that it was Mitt who picked her up and spanked her butt with her hand.

It is said that there was the howling of some animal in the forest that day, and the sound could be heard from far, far away.