Chapter 195
Yu Tu: “…”
Is there a possibility that the "weaker Big Tea Tree" you see now is actually a stronger version? Compared to the fragile state of the Nevernight Marquis at the beginning, he is now much stronger!
"Really?" Yu Tu suppressed the inappropriate complaints in his heart, "Why do you call me the Big Tea Tree?"
The Fallen Nine-Tailed Fox narrowed its scarlet and cloudy eyes: "You really don't remember anything, Jia Muying."
"Can't you see?" The giant fox stared at him. "I'm just being cute."
Yu Tu: “…”
Yu Tu: “???”
What are you talking about?!
As if his shock was too obvious, the giant fox snorted and laughed. It did not attack as Yu Tu had expected, nor did it deliberately say anything to displease him. Its body slowly shrank, and the black and red aura surging around it gradually faded. The interior of the tower truly appeared in front of Yu Tu.
The town tower is divided into two floors. The ground of the first floor has been almost destroyed by the rampant vines, but you can still vaguely see that the first floor is like an ordinary warm house, with divided rooms, a living room, sofas and carpets, but these things are covered with a thick layer of dust, and with the passage of time, they appear extremely old.
The shrunken fox jumped on the ruins formed by the vines until it reached the stairs leading to the second floor. It stopped on the first floor and looked back: "Jia Muying, don't you want to follow me and take a look?"
If the ground of the town tower was not in a mess, the walls were a depressing rusty dark red, and the dusty and rotten furniture was not tilted and missing limbs in the ruins, the subject of the invitation would look wrong... It looked like the most ordinary invitation between friends.
Yu Tu calculated the time in his mind and confirmed that such a short time was definitely not enough for Hongying and the others to run out of the Void Gate. He then caught up with the fallen Nine-Tailed Fox.
No matter what was on the second floor, it couldn't be worse than him fighting directly with the Nine-Tailed Fox.
Ninetales jumped up and down the stairs, stopping from time to time to wait for him for a while. It looked quite lively, without any of the madness that the strange beast had lost its mind.
The stairs leading from the first floor to the second floor circled along the dark red rusty wall for most of the circle. The stairs were very narrow. As Yu Tu walked up step by step, his shoulders inevitably rubbed against the wall. The rust looked very strange up close. Yu Tu would Energy gathered in his fingertips and he stretched out his hand and twisted it - that was not patina.
After the powder is kneaded, there seems to be a very faint smell of blood.
The Nine-Tailed Fox leading the way had already reached the end of the stairs. It turned around and squatted. Against the light, Yu Tu could only see the outline of a fox.
"No need to look." Kyuubi laughed briefly, "That's my blood."
If it wasn't lying, how much time and how much terrible pain would it take to form such layers of dark red inside the tower?
Yu Tu climbed up to the second floor of the town tower. The second floor was not covered with as much dust as the first floor, but it still had a gray and old feel.
There is a floor-to-ceiling window on the far right of the second floor. In front of the window is a round table made of wood. On the right side of the round table is a recliner with a blanket on it that is so old that its color cannot be identified. On the left side of the round table is a rocking chair piled with all kinds of toys that are missing limbs. Facing the floor-to-ceiling window is a simple round stool.
"Do you still remember this place?" Nine Tails raised his paw and pointed at the lounge chair on the right. "Thousands of years ago, you loved lying here in the sun with a blanket on your back."
"The rocking chair opposite is mine. The toys piled on it are all the toys you made for me." It jumped onto the rocking chair piled with toys. The rocking chair and the toys turned into powder under its movement, and fell all over it. It shook its fur, and there was a little more regret in its voice, "But now I can't touch it anymore. If I touch it, it will turn into powder."
"The big fat chicken used to covet my toys, but these are all mine." It patted the simple round stool with its paws, and the simple round stool also turned into powder. "So it can only sit on the small stool in my house."
"Look..." Kyuubi stared at the scattered powder with his crimson eyes, "In time... everything has turned to ashes."
The Nine-Tailed Fox's voice was very calm, so calm that it didn't sound like a monster that had lost its mind. It was talking about its distant memories, as if it hoped that after thousands of years, Jia Muying in the past could remember something.
Logically speaking, when facing familiar people and familiar things, even if you have lost your memory, you should still feel vaguely familiar with such scenes - but Yu Tu did not feel this way.
He just felt strange, as if he was watching someone else's story, without any emotion in his heart.
If Buyehou is Jiamuying, has he really forgotten everything like this?
"Big Tea Tree, you have completely forgotten." Nine-Tailed Fox squatted in the dust, the tuft of white hair on its ears gradually merging into the color of its fur. "When I called you like this before, you had already picked me up and combed my hair."
"Your heart is harder than the copper of Kunwu Mountain." Nine-Tailed Fox stood up from the dust. With every step forward, its body grew a little bigger. "I told you about the past, but you remained indifferent."
"What a pity..." it sighed, "Then I have no choice but to eat you."
In the past, the Nine-Tailed Fox fed on people's emotions, accepted people's offerings, and became a totem that protected them. It was an auspicious sign that people longed for. Now, the Nine-Tailed Fox has fallen, and the more emotions it feeds on, the more life it eats. If it can cause a person to have drastic emotional fluctuations related to it, then it can use the turbulent emotions to directly obtain a new body.
Among the people who came here before, the leader was particularly fragrant. It aroused her emotions and occupied her body. It was about to succeed, but when it ate two snacks and was about to taste the other four snacks, the body it occupied went crazy - the human soul, in desperate situation, can actually burst out with strength to temporarily fight against it.
It's really interesting.
In order to successfully obtain this body, it had to temporarily give up eating the four snacks. After all, the food in its mouth could not escape.
However, the body that it took a fancy to actually gave off another fragrance when its soul exploded. That fragrance was connected with the blood relationship and smelled like a delicious meal.
So it manipulated the body to meet Dacan. Everything went smoothly, except for one thing it didn't understand - it had clearly read the memory of this body, so why did Dacan look at it strangely?
Kyuubi wants to confuse the real with the fake, but he never makes mistakes.
But it doesn't matter, the mark has been planted and it can be enjoyed slowly.
Later, it smelled a fragrance more tempting than the feast, and more tempting than any emotion it had ever enjoyed. In this delicacy, it saw a lost memory. This memory was not long, only more than ten years. After it swallowed this memory, it discovered that this memory was its past with the delicacy - it turned out that it also had strong and pure emotions.
It remembered everything, but that did not prevent it from eating this delicacy. More than ten years, no matter how beautiful and sincere it was, was just a small splash in the long history of thousands of years.
It had wanted to use these memories to stir up the emotions of this delicacy. This body was more to its liking than any other it had ever seen. Unfortunately, it seemed that it had forgotten it too completely. The images in its memory could not evoke any major emotional fluctuations. Without a medium, it could not occupy the body.
Then we can only eat him, which is a bit of a pity.
In the memories of those ten years, I was quite childish. I would do stupid things, ask stupid questions, like to fight and play, and like to bask in the sun on the shoulders of this person named Jia Muying.
It usually calls "Jiamuying" and "Jiamuying", but when it is really aggrieved, angry and wants to act coquettishly, it will call "Big Tea Tree". It also knows a big fat chicken, and occasionally calls the big fat chicken "Phoenix".
That childish self always seemed to have a lot of twisted ideas. He would say that the nickname he chose was unique. When he was refuted after making excuses, he would get so angry that he would wrap himself up into a ball with his nine tails, but would coax himself back into shape soon after.
It always likes to hang on the branches of the Jiamuying prototype and ask the same question——
"Big Tea Tree, what is the most important component of a person?"
The big tea tree didn't answer, so the childish self hung upside down on the branch. From a distance, it looked like an upside-down "chicken feather brush" - the term "chicken feather brush" was also taught to me by the big tea tree.
When it can no longer hold on, it falls to the ground, and is then skillfully caught by the roots or branches of a large tea tree and placed on the ground aside. Then it is combed and its tail is dried, which is repetitive and boring.
The memories of more than ten years were too light in the long thousands of years, and returning did not have much impact on it. The fallen Nine-Tailed Fox walked forward step by step and turned into the huge fox surrounded by black air.
The town tower had been used by it for a long time, and the delicacy before its eyes had walked into its cage.
Depravity and weirdness have prolonged its life. In boring time, eating humans mixed with the emotion of longevity is indeed a good way to kill time.
The Nine-Tailed Fox opened its fangs and bit into the delicious food in front of it. It tasted blood and the delicious feeling filled its mind.
From the moment the Nine-Tailed Fox began to grow larger, Yu Tu's vigilance and defense were raised to the highest level. The entire town tower was a prison in the void. Yu Tu almost used up all of his remaining energy here, and only then did he barely take control of a small wall of the town tower - the floor-to-ceiling window in the corner that the Nine-Tailed Fox had introduced before.
Without alerting the Nine-Tailed Fox, Yu Tu slowly moved towards the floor-to-ceiling window, but unexpectedly it suddenly bared its fangs, as if with an invisible attraction. Yu Tu's eyes were dazed for a moment, and when he reacted, the Nine-Tailed Fox's fangs had already bitten through his arm, and the severe pain brought him awake.
Yu Tu no longer had time to hold back. The "bill" that he had finally settled began to pile up again, and several whirlpools took shape like a gold-eating beast. After suffering a few new injuries, he approached the floor-to-ceiling window. The things in front of the window had been turned into powder in the aftermath of the fight, and nothing was left.
Yu Tu calculated calmly in his mind and decided to abandon the defense in front of him, use all his energy to impact the French window, and break the prison as quickly as possible - the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox was constantly increasing, and the longer the time, the worse the situation would only get.
With a dull cracking sound, the floor-to-ceiling window disappeared. The Nine-Tailed Fox's claws tore his shoulders to chest, causing blood and flesh to turn inside out. Despite such a serious injury, Yu Tu was slightly stunned.
Judging from the trajectory of Kyuubi's attack, this wound should not be so light. He was prepared for the possibility of ribs being shattered or even internal organs being dug out.
Yu Tu thought the Nine-Tailed Fox would rush out of the tower with him, but it didn't.
Through the huge hole in the wall of the town tower, Yu Tu saw the scarlet and turbid eyes of the Nine-Tailed Fox. Its teeth and claws were still stained with Yu Tu's blood. Black air was lingering around its blood-red fur, but the tuft of red smart hair on its ear seemed to be slightly white.
Not sure if it was Yu Tu’s illusion, but he seemed to hear a very soft voice in his mind. However, the voice was intermittent and sounded like mumbling, and he couldn’t make out what it was saying.
He fell rapidly, the sound of wind whistling in his ears. Yu Tu raised his hand, and the last of the borrowed energy was injected into the formation he had set up since entering the town tower. The silver-white formation began to spread from the rusted bottom of the tower, climbing along the dark red wall like a vine.
He opened the Gate of Void and connected the coordinates of the Nine-Tailed Fox with the real world. The fallen Nine-Tailed Fox cannot leave the void where it is, otherwise it will only bring terrible disaster.
Yu Tu poured all his energy into the formation. When he landed, he staggered and almost fell to his knees, but he couldn't stop.
The silver-white array gradually enveloped the entire town tower. The silver was tinged with light green, fighting against the red and black. Under the collision of energy and weirdness, the blue-gray sky began to collapse with the town tower as the center. The road extending from the Void Gate also began to shatter.
This means that this void coordinate is on the verge of annihilation.
The black void followed him like a shadow, chasing him all the way. The moment he rushed out of the gate of void, Yu Tu finally heard clearly the very light voice that sounded like a whisper.
[I think I understand.]
[The most important component of a person is not the soul, but the memory.]