False warmth
Jiang Lin stood there without moving.
"Don't listen to her nonsense. Maybe now is not a good time to deal with her." Wen Yan was afraid that Jiang Lin would be influenced by Shenmu's ambiguous words.
"Who is He?"
"Is that you?"
Jiang Lin glanced at the small branch in her hand. It was a small branch she had just broken off from the tree trunk that Li Qi had thrown to her.
She didn't know why she did this. The small branch was too abnormal. Jiang Lin couldn't understand why Li Qi owned it.
He would suddenly appear every time she encountered a problem, and recount the two things she had encountered, as if he was an old acquaintance of Li Qi who was sent by someone to help her.
Jiang Lin is not that aloof. She accepts the help given to her by others.
Thinking about this, she slowly walked to the main body of the sacred tree, where there was suitable soil for growth. She squatted down and inserted the small branch into it.
If she couldn't kill the sacred tree, then what about this small branch broken off from the trunk?
Jiang Lin stood aside with great interest, as if waiting for a miracle to happen.
But after waiting for a long time, the twig remained the same without any change.
Jiang Lin was a little disappointed. Wasn't this small branch enough? She thought of the whole trunk in Li Qi's hand and wondered if that would work.
Wen Yan walked forward and took a look at the branch that Jiang Lin had stuck into the soil. He began to understand Jiang Lin's thoughts a little.
But this branch looks so ordinary, it doesn't look like it can defeat the sacred tree.
"Shall we go?" He glanced at Jiang Lin. The light coming through from above was getting fewer and fewer, and the sun was about to set.
Jiang Lin shook her head: "I was just thinking about how to end her life." She looked at the twig with some disappointment.
Wen Yan wanted to say that it was getting dark, but looking at Jiang Lin's expression, he swallowed the words back and stayed quietly beside her.
Jiang Lin no longer waited. The supernatural power in her hand roared out, and a local blizzard blew up in the entire cave.
The only difference is that what is being scraped away is not snow, but various sharp ice knives. These ice flakes are extremely sharp and will instantly cut blood vessels when they touch the skin.
Jiang Lin put his hands in front of Wen Yan and led him back to avoid being accidentally injured.
But just like Shenmu said, apart from a little skin breakage, there was no impact at all.
Jiang Lin's gaze did not stay on the sacred tree, but turned to look at the branches next to it and the supernatural attack she had just launched.
If it was just a superficial injury to the sacred tree, then for that small branch it was like a drizzle.
It was not damaged at all, nor was it blown down by the wind. Instead, it stood firmly on the ground, as if the terrifying supernatural storm had never happened.
Jiang Lin looked at the twig with a complicated expression. She found it hard to connect the twig in front of her with the "Him" mentioned by the sacred tree. The appearance of the twig was too deceptive.
On the other side, Li Qi rode the Maomao Grass back to his cave.
She glanced at the tree trunk in her hand. She was becoming more and more confused about the little bud that had stood on her shoulder. It seemed that He could do everything.
And most importantly, He seemed to have come for Jiang Lin.
This realization made Li Qi feel inexplicably uncomfortable. She glanced at the burning branch in her hand, then threw it aside expressionlessly.
Li Qi casually threw the branches aside in the cave, but the fire on them showed no sign of going out.
Xiaokui and Maomaocao stopped in fright.
"Why don't you leave?" Li Qi got down from the hairy grass and looked at them calmly.
Xiaokui walked clumsily to the branch and tried to lift it up with its own leaves. The hairy grass stood there and curled up into a ball, as if that would make others ignore it.
"Xiao Kui, come back!" Li Qi thought for a moment and suddenly ordered.
Xiaokui looked at her embarrassedly. Li Qi watered her every day, and they had been together for so long that they had a very deep relationship.
But Xiaokui was instinctively afraid of the small branches that Li Qi would casually throw away.
Finally, Xiao Kui walked back to Li Qi with her eyes closed and huddled together with Maomaocao.
The branch burned alone on the ground in the cave, as if it would never go out.
"Why do you do this?" Xiaoya's voice was a little angry. It was difficult for it to understand and accept Li Qi's behavior, which made it very uncomfortable.
"If you want to die, I can grant your wish right away." Xiaoya's voice was colder than ever, as if she could kill Li Qi in the next second.
"What's the difference between you and Shenmu?"
"You're essentially just using us. Can you cover up your actions with a glittering facade? What are you planning to do this time?"
Li Qi's words were blunt.
The flames on the branches surged and instantly burned the tip of her pen. The mutant was half plant, and Li Qi was instinctively afraid of such flames, but she did not take a step back.
"I admire your courage, so I'll give you a chance to survive. If it happens again, I won't hesitate to kill you."
When Xiao Kui heard this, she stood in front of Li Qi without hesitation and said, "Please, don't kill her."
Xiaokui's voice sounded like a baby who had just spoken, stumbling and with a strange tone.
But Li Qi felt that her heart, which had never beaten, seemed to be wrapped in hot spring water. She felt her dead heart for the first time in a long time.
But his expression was still cold, and he even pushed Xiaokui further away: "What do you have to do here? Get out of the way with Maomao."
Xiao Kui looked at her aggrievedly and walked away angrily.
"It's unbelievable. I can be so loyal to you just because we had a brief romance." Xiaoya's voice was full of irony.
"Before, my consciousness was not fully awakened. Who are you to do this to me?"
The flames burned to Li Qi's right cheek, and her right face was instantly burned black, and then quickly turned into a horrible scar.
Qu Mo screamed and protected her behind him.
"Stop!" Li Qi couldn't bear to see Qu Mo, who was always afraid of pain, get hurt again because of her.
"Are you scared now? Just follow my orders, you ignorant human."
"Oh, I forgot, you are not even a human being. Who are you? Who would take you seriously?"
"The humans are the ones Jiang Lin protects, and the mutants are all under the command of the sacred tree. Only you are excluded by both sides, and those mutant plants are your companions."
"But unfortunately, they don't dare to resist me because of you."
Li Qi sneered disdainfully: "Is this your true face? I really wronged you by pretending like that before." She didn't care about her right cheek at all.
In fact, the right side of her face was numb from the pain.
Xiaokui became anxious and sad, but it was just a plant that had accidentally mutated. It could do nothing but follow its instinct and cry for Li Qi.
Drops of water slid down its leaves, and the sunflower instantly became dry.
The beautiful corollas that Li Qi had nurtured by watering them day and night slowly withered.
"Stop crying, it's so unpleasant." Li Qi said to it viciously. She wanted to show a comforting smile, but the pain on her right cheek made her expression look weird.
And she was not good at such soft things as comforting, so it became twisted and awkward.
But Xiaokui didn't seem to be frightened by her at all, and just obediently wiped away her tears.
"I can't believe a creature like you could have won the true love of a sunflower. If it were smarter, it probably wouldn't like you."
"After all, you've done so many deplorable things, and your hands are stained with the blood of your compatriots. Jiang Lin must really want to kill you."
"Enough, enough, don't say anymore." Qu Mo covered his ears and stomped on the branches several times viciously. The flames burned his trouser legs.
But that was all, it didn't hurt his skin.
"Look, how come I'm the same as Shenmu? I didn't burn your companion to death. If it was Shenmu, he would have died long ago."
Li Qi pulled Qu Mo to his side and said, "Don't be afraid. It's nothing but a fire stick."
Such neglect and humiliation could not stand the little bud that claimed to be ten thousand times taller than the sacred tree.
Its flames approached the two men, as if to burn them to ashes.
"Are you afraid of death?" There was finally a hint of fear in Li Qi's eyes, but she was not afraid that she would die, but that Qu Mo would be afraid.
"If I'm with you, I think it's great." Qu Mo didn't want to live anymore. He lived for Li Qi. If it weren't for Li Qi, he would have died long ago.
He lived every day just to look at her.
If she is gone, what's the point of him living alone.
"It's ridiculous that someone like you can actually get true love." Xiaoya's voice was filled with naked contempt.
"Then I'll grant your wish. After all, you're just two aliens in this world, and garbage is meant to be burned."
At the last moment, Qu Mo closed his eyes, but Li Qi did not. Her eyes were wide open, as if she wanted to look at her lover even at the last moment of her life.
She must love Qu Mo, she thought.
Otherwise, I wouldn't want to take another look at him at the last moment.
But a figure that shouldn't appear suddenly appeared in Li Qi's mind. They must be enemies, she thought.
The expected pain did not come.
She looked towards the branch in confusion, but saw an unexpected person.
Jiang Lin looked at her with a complicated expression. Perhaps it was a matter of life and death, and Li Qi did not understand the emotion in her eyes.
Li Qi, who had just faced death without closing his eyes, closed his eyes peacefully at this moment.
But the next step didn't come for a long time, I just felt the temperature around me dropping rapidly.
The false warmth was gone, replaced by real cold.
The cold seemed to penetrate her bones and freeze her marrow. Li Qi couldn't help but think of a winter many years ago.
It was just as cold that day.
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