If Tao can control his appetite now, what about in the future!
What will he face after the wanderer arrives in an unknown form?
Cheng Shuang nervously licked her lips. "Did you eat something you shouldn't have in the future?"
Although Tao had lived a long life, his experience was far from sufficient. He simply couldn't hide his gaze; his purple eyes widened instantly and then suddenly locked shut.
The little girl exhaled slightly, indicating that she had indeed eaten it.
"I...I'm so hungry, I'm going to sleep for a long time!"
Tao gave a tearful explanation.
With just one sentence, a picture suddenly appeared in Cheng Shuang's mind.
Deep in the green mountains, the little boy with red hair and purple eyes was fast asleep, but his vibrant Garden of Eden was about to suffer a fatal blow. He was forcibly awakened and, in a daze, devoured all the invaders.
Faced with a desolate, gray landscape, he stood alone and bewildered on the eerily empty planet, feeling utterly helpless and pitiful.
Cheng Shuang quickly shook the strange image out of her mind, but Tao continued, "After I was forced to wake up, I found that many gray particles were falling from the sky and sticking to all people and things. Gradually, they all changed..."
Tao is not human, and his learning ability is exceptionally strong. The more he spoke, the smoother his words became. "They ate all my food reserves. I hadn't even had a chance to appreciate the new and wonderful civilizations created by humans. They collapsed and became chaotic. The totems I liked were all murky. Everything, everything, all changed. My food reserves became sick and injured, extremely painful, and became inedible. I was very angry, very angry, and I started eating them."
"The more I eat, the sleepier I get; the more I eat, the more uncomfortable I feel; the more I eat, the stronger I become!"
As she mentioned the last sentence, Cheng Shuang noticed a gray-black, tadpole-like shadow flash across Tao's angry purple eyes. Alarmed, she grabbed Tao's head and covered his mouth, saying, "Don't say it, don't think about it!"
In the warm embrace, Tao seemed to suddenly come to her senses, her little face deathly pale as she frantically shook her head, "No, I don't want to!"
Seeing that he calmed down quickly, the girl let go of him and carefully observed his eyebrows and eyes.
That night on the Ferris wheel, she was so engrossed in visual mosaics that she didn't notice anything unusual about the red-haired girl's purple eyes. But now, Tao's behavior has given her a lot to think about.
If the wanderers entering this planet take the form of sticky gray particles, they will devour and pollute native organisms by attaching themselves to them.
Similar to a source of infectious diseases.
In his rage, Tao devoured the homeless, who were like a source of disease. So, in some way, has Tao already been corrupted?
The future him is both him and not him.
That's why I feel no disgust when facing Tao at this moment.
"If this is a food street, then the animals living near Qingshan are the strays of the food street? No, they should be called polluted native animals, and maybe even people?" Cheng Shuang murmured absentmindedly, sorting out the thoughts in her mind. The reason Tao could foresee the future, the reason they could travel from the future to the past... A light flashed in her mind, and the little girl caught it just in time, her peach blossom eyes shining brightly, "Tao, is your ability related to time!"
Tao Wei was taken aback, but instead of answering, she made no attempt to hide her feelings and instead offered her actions.
He extended a finger, and a large, brightly colored butterfly immediately fell from its tip. The butterfly fluttered its wings, the frequency of which gradually slowed down. The wings visibly contracted and became moist, retracting into its shell, and then degenerated from a pupa into an ugly green caterpillar...
When the caterpillars emerged from their cocoons and flew away from Tao's fingertips, Cheng and Fang breathed a sigh of relief.
What just happened was somewhat surreal; it was a scene that could never be seen outside the realm of death. Even a powerful being who could manipulate time at will couldn't stop the wanderer from destroying his own world.
The little girl lowered her eyes slightly, which could only mean one thing: Tao could accelerate or rewind time at will, but he could not change the established facts.
His abilities are already quite formidable. He will become even stronger after devouring the bacteria-like wanderers. Facing the red-haired little girl head-on, the girl felt that she might turn from a half-grown girl into a baby in the blink of an eye, and then from a baby into an embryo.
She leaned against the tree with an uncertain expression, quietly gazing at the unconscious boy not far away, lost in thought.
Tao tilted his head and whispered to comfort her, "Don't be afraid!" Then he leaned closer to Cheng Shuang, standing on tiptoe to try and pat the little girl's head.
Cheng Shuang turned her body away, avoiding his touch, and bluntly refused, "You can't just touch a young lady's head! If you do, you have to tell me your secret!"
“I have no secrets!” Tao sighed, his expression filled with extremely complex emotions. The little boy seemed to have grown into an adult in an instant. He comforted him again, “Don’t think too extremely. Maintaining harmony in a domain requires a lot of effort. And it’s not just the domain, but also the prey that were once normal creatures. The gray particles helped them develop intelligence, but they also unleashed their most ferocious and ruthless side. If we don’t work hard to maintain it, there will be no difference between inside and outside the enclosure.”
"Gray particles are everywhere. If we're not careful, we'll be wiped out." Tao held Cheng Shuang's arm, his voice extremely soft. Weariness gradually crept into his eyes and brows. He couldn't help but yawn, as if he could fall asleep on her shoulder at any moment.
"Don't give her a chance to hurt you. Without a chance, she can't afford to be distracted!"
With each sentence, Tao's voice became lower and hoarser.
"If we could manipulate time, we could also erase a certain event from a certain period of time, and then nothing terrible would happen. So remember, what is set in stone cannot be reversed, and time is also uncontrollable."
Cheng Shuang's mind went blank. What was set in stone could not be reversed. Tao's ability was not to manipulate time!
The little girl was intently pondering the profound meaning of the sentence when she suddenly felt a weight on her shoulder. Turning her head, she saw Tao softly resting his head on her shoulder.
If Cheng Shuang hadn't been supporting him, he probably wouldn't have been able to support himself. His purple eyes were so sleepy that they were slightly narrowed, making him look like a lazy cat.
However, the little girl's mood was far from pleasant; it was quite possible that after Tao fell asleep, what awaited her was that corrupted red-haired little girl.
She wasn't afraid to confront the mastermind behind the food street, but she was worried that her negative emotions would affect her judgment.
This was her worst guess. Another possibility was that Tao had been asleep for thousands of years, and she was helplessly trapped in this time period and unable to escape.
Cheng Shuang's biggest worry is that after communicating with Tao, she will not be able to completely separate the red-haired girl from Tao. They are different, but they are essentially Tao.
Although Tao now observes the ups and downs of life around him with detachment, he is still able to empathize with it.
The red-haired little girl of the future is full of wickedness, but she bears the burden of life and safety for all the food that was once her reserves in a deadly realm.
The grain reserves have turned into monstrous wanderers, but at least they still retain a sliver of sanity.
The belief that all things possess a spirit is precisely what allows them to distinguish themselves from the killing 'machines' outside the fence.
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