Chapter 422 (Catching Bugs)
When the slightly warm morning sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves, Yun Jinyi was the first to stand up.
Looking back at the child who was still sleeping soundly in the bed, she walked out with light steps.
This should be the first human breakfast that Mianmian has ever eaten in the true sense of the word in this memory. Yun Jinyi wants to make the breakfast as close to the elf's diet as possible.
So she ordered a lot of flowers in advance last night. It shouldn’t be too late to pick them up now and make them into breakfast.
The system squatted on the windowsill, watched Yun Jinyi's figure quietly go out in the hazy morning mist, and recorded it.
Before preparing breakfast for Mianmian, the mother seemed to have a gentle warmth even in the frosty cold morning.
Soon, Yun Jinyi came back with a large bouquet of fresh flowers of various colors.
The children in the orphanage have also woken up, and the whole orphanage is gradually becoming lively. The scene of Yun Jinyi coming back with a lot of flowers was seen by them and captured by the camera.
It has to be said that Yun Jinyi's appearance is extremely outstanding, coupled with her unique characteristics. During this period of time, there have been countless comments from netizens calling for her and her daughter Mianmian to make their debut as soon as possible.
When she walked over through the mist holding flowers in the morning light, many children and even staff were stunned.
She is like a painting that has come to life. Even if you can't see her appearance clearly, you will subconsciously marvel at her beauty.
Until Jiang Yao ran over with Mengmeng, stopped her and looked up to ask: "Auntie Yun, is Mianmian awake? Can we go in and play with her?"
Zhao Yu followed a little late, also looking up like a sunflower, waiting for an answer.
Three little sunflowers were staring at her, and Yun Jinyi seemed to be pulled from the fairyland into the human world by three children.
She took out three flowers still covered with dew from Mianmian's food, leaned over and handed them to the three children one by one, and then replied in a gentle voice: "Mianmian hasn't woken up yet. Come and play with her after breakfast."
“…Okay!”
"Thank you Aunt Yun for the flowers~"
"Wow, it smells so good!"
Three kids holding different flowers start a great morning.
The other children looked on eagerly, but no one dared to come forward to ask for it.
Chen Yueyue had never seen such beautiful flowers before. She had only seen small wild flowers growing in mud cracks. She gazed greedily at the bright and delicate flowers in the hands of the three children. The ambition in her heart devoured all her greed like a giant beast, and grew bigger and bigger.
She suddenly realized that no matter whether it was Jiang Yao’s mother, Meng Meng’s father, or Zhao Yu’s mother... they were actually no match for Mian Mian’s adoptive mother, Aunt Yun!
Aunt Yun is very generous and willing to give money to Mianmian. The money she has spent on Mianmian in the past few days alone is so much that she can’t even count it.
What impresses the children in the orphanage the most, besides the fact that she has a lot of money, is that she is really, really good to Mianmian!
Better than the beautiful image of their mother in their dreams!
She would hold Mianmian in her arms at any time and let her be willful or act coquettishly. She would prepare three meals a day for Mianmian herself and make her life comfortable. She and Mianmian were like real mother and daughter. The warm atmosphere between mother and daughter was incompatible with that of other people in the orphanage, making people both yearn for her and envy her.
Chen Yueyue wants Aunt Yun to be her mother.
Many of the children in the orphanage want Aunt Yun to be their mother.
But why did Aunt Yun choose Xiao An? Xiao An was so stupid and useless before, he couldn't do anything well.
In the past few days, Chen Yueyue had dreamt countless times of the day when Yun Jinyi first walked in front of them.
Yun Jinyi's gaze passed through them and fell on Xiao An, who was at the back and the most pitiful and embarrassed.
Then he walked over and picked her up.
In the dream, Chen Yueyue became Xiao An who was helped up and hugged again and again.
The imagined warmth and temperature made her extremely greedy, and therefore, every time she woke up from the dream, she would become more jealous and unwilling.
I wish it was me who fell to the ground covered in dust that day.
Then Aunt Yun would definitely feel sympathy and pity for me, and then she would be soft-hearted and take me to her side to take care of me personally.
I wish the Xiao An I saw that day was me.
I wish it were me!
This thought appeared in Chen Yueyue's mind again and again, and she had never thought of another possibility.
That is, no matter who falls there or who is bullying others, Yun Jinyi's eyes will only fall on Xiao An, not because Xiao An is pitiful, not because she is being bullied, but simply because it is Xiao An.
Chen Yueyue would not think so, nor did she dare to think so. Otherwise, all her longings and unwillingness would be in vain, and even the only possibility would no longer exist.
She stood under the eaves, watching Yun Jinyi leave her sight with her arms full of flowers.
The twisted jealousy and resentment in her eyes made her look like not even a child.
The system heard the noise coming from the room, and it quickly slipped in through the window that Yun Jinyi had opened, nervously waiting for the child in the bed to wake up.
However, the first thing it saw after coming in was not the new Mianmian who had just woken up.
But a bunch of... trees???
In a short period of time, the system did not even associate this tree wrapped in cloud cotton with the mother tree of life in the fairy tale world in memory.
But the familiar branches, the various leaves, and the conspicuous golden roots at the bottom of the trunk...
The system swallowed subconsciously, even though it had no saliva or throat to swallow.
The programs that are still running have been flooded with countless question marks.
Why do mother trees that only exist in fairy tale worlds appear?
Why did the mother tree follow Mianmian into this world?
Didn't you say that there was a gap in memory? I'm beginning to doubt it!
Why did this mother tree...turn into a mass of cotton wrapped around it?
Why……
There were too many whys and too many things that were hard to figure out, so when the system saw with its own eyes that Mianmian was slowly turning into an elf cub under the wrapping of the mother tree, the whole ball immediately crashed and fell to the ground with a thud, motionless as if it was dead.
Yun Jinyi saw the same scene when she walked in with the flower porridge.
But she wasn't too surprised.
This mother tree... was the one that had formed a soul bond with Mianmian in the first round of the world.
It’s just that the system cannot detect Yunmian’s soul, so it knows nothing.
It was also because of this tree that Mianmian was able to leave behind a body and a little bit of immortal soul after experiencing that fairy tale world and then in the increasingly dangerous world.
Otherwise, Mianmian would have been scared to death long ago. In that case, even Yun Jinyi wouldn't know how to reunite her broken soul.
Putting down the porridge in his hand, Yun Jinyi walked to the bedside, lowered his head to look at the elf cub, which was not even as big as a palm and was wrapped in the quilt by the Mother Tree of Life, his eyes full of nostalgia.
When she reached out her hand to the Cotton-Mian brand elf cub, the Mother Tree of Life that originally wrapped the elf slowly stretched out its branches, and the elf wrapped in it also changed with it and turned back into a human appearance.
There were no light golden curly hair, no small pointed elf ears, and no translucent wings pressed behind the back and difficult to unfold.
After all the characteristics of an elf faded away, the Mother Tree of Life turned back into a tender green leaf and merged into the child's body.
If the system had not crashed now, it would definitely find that the shape of this leaf is exactly the same as the companion leaf that belongs to Mianmian in the fairy tale world!
Dream.
As a forest elf who protects the Silver Moon Forest and the Mother Tree of Life, and as the princess of this generation of the elves, Yun Mian sat quietly on the branches of the huge mother tree, most of which had withered and lost their vitality. She lowered her head to look at her people surrounding the trunk of the mother tree, closed her eyes and chanted the elves' unique prayers.
The light and melodious singing slowly echoed in the Silvermoon Forest. No one knew that in the center of the Silvermoon Forest, under the huge mother tree, a group of silly elves were performing a grand sacrifice.
"Your Highness..." An elf opened his eyes and looked up at her.
Yun Mian's pointed ears moved slightly, and the next second, the scepter belonging to the Elf Queen in her hand released the same giant attack magic at the elves below under the other party's reluctant yet extremely determined gaze.
“Your Highness…”
Countless elves looked up at her.
Their slender necks, raised high, were completely exposed to Yunmian's attack magic.
Then, her attack magic silently left fatal bloody marks on the body.
The chanting continued, and the elves' gentle and reluctant gazes remained on her and never left.
The little elven princess was still a cub that had not grown up yet. Even the scepter belonging to the elven queen was taller than her, but she could drag it with magic and there was no hindrance when she cast magic.
Because this is the only relic left to her by the deceased Elf Queen.
The magical attack continues.
Finally, the light and graceful chanting was filled with many quick and painful groans.
The blood from the elves' bodies flowed out slowly from the wounds they were attacked, but it seemed to be pulled to a destination, turning into long and winding blood channels, suspended in mid-air and sent into the body of the Mother Tree of Life.
The first elf to fall was a cub like Yunmian. It had only been three years since it came out of the fruit on the branch of the Mother Tree of Life, which is roughly equivalent to a few hours after a human is born.
Its tiny body was completely dried up, and it fell helplessly under the trunk like a dead branch. Then, in Yunmian's eyes, it turned into specks of light and dissipated back into the embrace of the mother tree.
Just like the mermaids in the distant Sea of Hitanya, after the death of the elves, both their bodies and souls will return to the embrace of the mother tree.
This is the destination, as well as a sacrifice and gift.
With the first elf falling, there will be a second, a third...
Until the last one.
She is the elder of the tribe, an elder who has watched countless elf cubs grow up.
She wanted to fly up to the Tree of Life, trembling with wounds all over her body. She wanted to open her mouth and say something more to the only remaining little princess, but she could do nothing. Even the wings on her back softened and fell off bit by bit, and finally turned into new streams of light along with her exhausted body.
These light spots reluctantly lingered around Yunmian for a while, and then all returned to the mother tree, where the branches finally began to turn green bit by bit.
There was no one under the tree.
There were no corpses, no bloodstains, and except Yunmian, there was no other life in the world that could prove the existence of the forest elves.
And she, together with the scepter left by her mother, will guard this mother tree of life, which carries the lives and souls of the entire clan but is still half-dead, and become the final mourner of it and this world.
Is this considered a little extra chapter about the previous life in the fairy tale world?
The next chapter update should be around 11pm.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
1 bottle of Yansi Sheng and Canyuezi;
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