When the first ray of morning light shone through the primitive and simple window onto Xiao Tangqiu's face, he opened his eyes instantly... He heard a rustling sound.
The rustling sound was very slight, like the sound of branches and leaves trembling in the wind. He got out of bed and walked to the window, then saw an astonishing scene - a dozen trees gradually moved in from the village entrance. The way they moved was very strange. First, they pulled up a few roots, exposing some of the roots to the air, and then let these roots take root in the land in front, followed by the remaining roots.
They continued to pull out the roots and take root again, moving forward in this strange yet seemingly normal way.
When these strange black thorn trees entered the village, they gradually changed. The originally rough and hard bark turned into human skin, and the roots gradually turned into human legs. When they each returned to their homes, they had completely turned into humans, but everyone had their eyes closed, as if they were sleepwalking.
Xiao Tangqiu saw that the middle-aged man had also returned. He also turned from a tree back into a human the moment he stepped into his own door. Although he was not wearing any clothes, he stepped into the house with his eyes closed as if sleepwalking, and he actually found a piece of clothes to put on automatically, as if he had done the same action hundreds of times.
——Of course, if this guy really turns into a tree unconsciously every night, and his body remembers to take off his clothes before turning into a tree, and then finds a place around the village to dig his roots, and then turns into a human again and returns home after dawn, he will definitely remember to put his clothes back on automatically.
Aside from the few newcomers who weren't on their guard, everyone else woke up one by one. They stared silently at the middle-aged man in front of them, who seemed to be sleepwalking with his eyes closed. They looked at each other for a while, and finally Duan Hongzhen took a step forward, reached out and slapped the middle-aged man's shoulder: "Hey! Time to wake up!"
The middle-aged man woke up instantly. He looked at Duan Hongzhen in front of him in disbelief, then turned his head to look at Xiao Tangqiu and others beside him, and then looked down at his hands and legs in disbelief - in just one night, his broken arm grew back, just like a tree that will grow back again after a while no matter how many branches are pruned off.
Xiao Tangqiu said calmly: "It seems that you still remember what happened last night."
The middle-aged man blurted out subconsciously: "No! Impossible! This is impossible!"
He subconsciously resisted, as if refuting Xiao Tangqiu, but also as if asking and answering himself: "How is this possible? How could I turn into a tree? No! This is impossible! This must be a nightmare! This must be just a nightmare!"
"Why not?" Xiao Tangqiu said calmly, "If you can accept your wife turning into a tree, how can you not accept the fact that you have also turned into a tree?"
"No! This is impossible!" The middle-aged man reacted violently. "If I really turned into a tree, why can I change back? If I can change back, then why can't my wife change back? Why is she still a tree?!"
This was indeed a question. Xiao Tangqiu pondered for a moment and then asked, "Aren't you... the same species of tree?"
The corners of the middle-aged man's mouth twitched violently. At this moment, Xue Junli suddenly said, "You can change back, but your wife can't. Isn't it because your wife is dead?"
The middle-aged man suddenly choked, but he still shook his head frantically: "No! Impossible! How can I turn into a tree? I can't turn into a tree!"
"Why?" Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously felt that the middle-aged man's attitude was not right, and immediately asked, "Do you know something? Or were you normal at first, but mutated not long ago? Do you know the consequences of this mutation?"
The middle-aged man fell to his knees with a thud, trembling. "No... Impossible... I can't turn into a tree... I've seen... I've seen those people..."
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