People in Xumi: I am really not the Dragon King

Chapter 432 Tree King: The future of Xumi depends on you. Hmm? What do you mean by coming back to work overtime?

In the space of consciousness, a dreamy purple light was scattered from the top of the giant tree, lingering on the cherry-pink petals and everyone present.

The Great Compassion Tree King stood in front of Lin Feng, raised his head slightly, and looked at the young man in front of him with a complicated look:

"Contain all forbidden knowledge within yourself, thereby isolating it from the world forever."

"This is indeed the best solution for the world, but it essentially means that you are giving me the burden that was originally mine to carry."

"."

I was silent for a moment. I had never imagined that I could make such a "selfish" choice.

For some reason, she always felt that if she really did that, she would inexplicably feel like she was shifting the responsibility to the other party.

"I know what you're thinking, but don't be too hard on yourself. This is what I expected."

"Although I expected it before, you are really like this little guy next to me. You are always used to keeping all the burdens and responsibilities by yourself."

I felt a sense of mission from the tree king in front of me, which is unique to people when they decide to sacrifice themselves.
Lin Feng thought that the other party might have been mentally prepared for hundreds of years, and in fact, he could understand the guilty mentality of suddenly throwing away the responsibility.

He took a step forward, lowering his body slightly in the face of the other party's unexpected gaze.

Lin Feng patted the head of this "Nashida", hoping that the same method used to appease the little grass god would also work on the other one:
"——I know you must want to be a good role model for the younger generation in your final days, but she actually needs someone who understands her to accompany her.

I am very familiar with the earth veins of Xumi, so I know exactly how much you have contributed to the people of Xumi and the desert over the past thousands of years.

The silent victims should not be forgotten. This is not only Nashida's wish, but also mine."

“.”? ?

Although it is in its infancy, I didn't expect someone to pat me on the head.
Faced with this somewhat unfamiliar feeling, looking at Nashida who was accustomed to everything beside him, the Tree King found that the negativity in his heart was actually dispersed a lot because of some emotional incoherence.

".Is this how you treat her on a daily basis? It seems like you two have a really good relationship."

I sighed slightly, feeling that the grand exit I had imagined for a long time had now completely collapsed due to a series of unexpected events.

Finally making up her mind, she did not shake off the hand on her head, but turned to look at Nashida beside her with a helpless expression as if she had accepted her fate:
".I didn't expect that after so much time has passed, I would still be nostalgic for this world. Perhaps I am not a very qualified senior."

"——Well, since the original plan is no longer useful, I'm sorry, little one, I may have to borrow your sage and knight for a while."

???

After he finished speaking, under Nashida's puzzled gaze, the Tree King, who seemed to have become a different person after making up his mind, stared into the bottomless black eyes in front of him for a moment.

Then, under Lin Feng's equally surprised gaze,
The "little grass god" took the hand that was offered to him from his head with a very frank attitude, and put his hands together and tightly pressed the hand against his chest.

？ ！！

The movement paused, and before the hands were held, he could feel the slight rise and fall of the heartbeat in the body in front of him.

Although the Tree King's current body is exactly the same as Nashida's, it won't cause any misunderstanding.
But no matter what, even for gods, such actions can be regarded as 100% trust.

"——You should be able to find that my current body is only a temporary construction, and what is left is only a small fragment of consciousness.

You are touching the core of my consciousness, the repository of forbidden knowledge."

"——Although I'm dead, I'm sorry that I've occupied the little guy's authority over the World Tree for hundreds of years.

But now that I have made my choice, it is not wise to be timid. In the next action, I will use my remaining strength to cooperate with you."

"."

He took a deep look at the tree king in front of him. He never expected that their first meeting would be like this.
It was a rare opportunity to feel the other party's strong desire to survive. Lin Feng nodded to Nashida, who was a little worried, and decided to start the plan he had prepared for a long time.

"Om-"

In the outside world, at the top of the sacred tree, is where the Jingshan Palace is located.

With the cooperation of the Tree King, as Lin Feng in the fragment of consciousness began to move, countless green veins hidden in the void suddenly appeared from the top of the sacred tree.

Possessing complete power over the grass element, he also temporarily gained the support of Teyvat's own laws with the authority of the seven elements.
At this moment, with the highest level of permission from the two "World Tree Authority" owners,
The ultimate power combined with the ultimate authority, although not complete, he already truly possesses the ability to 'operate the world'.

At the bottom of the sacred tree, countless law veins appeared from the earth veins without being noticed by ordinary people.
As the "eyes" of God, they seem to have a clear goal. They continue to spread outward along the roots of the World Tree, absorbing the pollution from the bottom of the abyss.

The fluctuation of pure law is very hidden. Although the people of Xumi cannot detect the transfer and clearance of forbidden knowledge,
But at the same time that Lin Feng was taking action, corresponding changes were rapidly appearing in the outside world at an immediate speed on those patients who still had some symptoms of the demonic scale disease.

On the southeast side of Xumi City, there is the Grand Bazaar.

It is unclear what the two gods in the city are doing now.

Wearing two handsome arm armors and with golden highlights on the ends of her hair, Dishia was accompanying her young lady to purchase offerings to the gods.

Stopping in front of a small stall selling carpets, Dina Zedai, who was dressed in purple and had gentle brown-green eyes, nodded and looked at the goods in front of her with great satisfaction:
".The workmanship is fine and the materials used are good. The carpets here are very nice. Maybe you can consider bringing some blankets for your father to use as bedding."

The environment in Xumi has become very stable. Nowadays, caravans traveling in the country do not even need guards.
Therefore, the vast majority of mercenaries now cooperate with Liyue’s General Affairs Department through the channels of the Order of the Holy Spirit, and their footprints are spread across various countries.

He turned sideways and looked back at Dishia, who had just returned from Liyue a few days ago.
Dinazedai thought of the old friend her father often visited, and she also unconsciously mentioned her father, whom Dixia talked about every day but rarely had the chance to visit.

"Miss Hu, you know my father hasn't been released from prison yet. It's unlikely that he will be able to use the blanket if you buy it for him."

"Alas, I don't even know what to say about him. Turning himself in before could barely be considered a reformation.
But when I asked him about his childhood, he started to hesitate and refused to tell me what mistakes he made when he was out there. "

My lady is good in every way, but she is too enthusiastic.

Just now, Dina Zedai beside me dragged me to use the self-service photo machine of Miaolun Sect on the roadside for a long time.

In the end, because I didn't know what button I pressed, the group photo turned into a single photo.

Now when I come to buy things, I start to worry about my father again.

Recalling how she had previously asked her father where her mother's hometown was, but had only gotten a bunch of tasteless jokes every time, Dixia felt that it might be better for that guy who did not do his job to stay in jail for two years.

"Haha, he's your father after all, so you should go visit him more often."

"——Hey, Miss! Be careful."

Before he finished speaking, he noticed that the girl in front of the stall suddenly had difficulty keeping her balance. Dishia on the side quickly helped Dina Zedai to her side.

Worried about the potential effects of the magic scale disease, Dixia also cast a concerned look at this employer who had taken great care of her.

"Don't worry I'm fine."

"Just now I just seemed to see a little hallucination, as if a pair of gentle hands wiped away some things that made me feel very bad. Now I feel that my whole state of mind has suddenly become much better."

???

"Huh?! You're still okay after seeing an illusion? Miss, you're too careless!"

"Take a quick look at your wrist. Have those scales spread again?"

I always feel that the logic of seeing hallucinations and getting better is very strange.

Although the health center said that the magic scale disease now has almost no effect, Dishia still asked Dina Zedai beside her to take a look at her quickly.

"Don't worry, it's okay. These things haven't changed for a long time. Just think of them as painted on now."

“——Huh? No more?! When?”

He rolled up his sleeves and looked at the place where the scales were left. He found that the skin there had become as white as the rest of the place.
Not understanding what had happened from the time they put on their clothes this morning until now, Dishia and Dinazedai, who had been troubled by this for a long time, looked at each other and just stood there staring at each other for a while.

The changes in some patients are not isolated cases, and similar situations are spreading throughout the land of Xumi.

The green threads traveled throughout the earth veins, occasionally bringing with them a few strands of dark color to the top of the sacred tree as they returned.

Thanks to the patient's extreme cooperation, Lin Feng had already absorbed all the forbidden knowledge in the Tree King's consciousness from the very beginning.
At this moment, he is destroying all the search entries related to it in the World Tree.

More and more forbidden knowledge was transferred and gathered on him, the untraceable object. The ominous black aura surrounded him, but soon disappeared into his body.

Finally, at a certain moment,

Obviously, all history and memories remained unchanged, but "forbidden knowledge" suddenly no longer had any special meaning.

As the world's immune system, the World Tree instinctively rejects the pollution outside this world.
However, due to Lin Feng's powerful absorption device that does not exist in the world at all, the antigens that can be rejected by the World Tree have disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, in the tree king’s mental space.

As the existence most closely related to it, the changes in the World Tree will first affect the fragments of the Tree King's consciousness.

The fluctuation of power faded, and a breeze with the scent of flowers blew from somewhere unknown.
As the purple-red sky turned blue again, the shadow of Kanreya that had been looming over the giant tree completely dissipated.

Flowers of various colors spread out from under the feet of the crowd, making the dewdrops under the sun shine like diamonds.
Looking around, with the backdrop of the 'green cabbages' that Lin Feng had casually called in to watch, the whole world seemed as beautiful as a child's fairy tale.

".Two gods of grass? Oh, I've been eating too much mushroom lately, and my eyes are going blurry."

". Stupid brother, that is the god of the tree! If you admit your mistake again, you will have to wait for the sunset fruit to ripen a hundred times before coming out again!"

Because there were so many cabbages, the surrounding environment seemed a little noisy for a while.

Nashida, who was watching the whole process from the side, carefully maintained the barrier to prevent the little guys from going in and disturbing Lin Feng and "herself" who seemed to be not finished yet.

"."

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, her tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and her expression became relaxed for the first time in a long time.

Facing a group of chattering Lanaros, this little guy, who looked exactly like Nashida, opened his eyes, revealing a pair of emerald-green pupils as clear as emeralds.

".The memory has not changed, but the rejection reaction has completely disappeared."

". He actually did it, containing all the pollution in the World Tree with one person."

He blinked and moved the hand of his "savior" of the entire Teyvat away from in front of him. He was somewhat worried about the other party's current condition, but the Tree King did not loosen his clasped hands.

".In fact, I hate the emptiness of having nothing. The price of disappearing completely is that you no longer exist even in dreams."

".The number of Lannaro has increased a lot. It seems that children from the outside world may also have more friends."

It was like being reborn from the deepest despair. The feeling at this moment was an indescribable calm.

She did not feel the extreme excitement that came after being surrounded by danger. She looked at the flowers blooming all over the world and the Lanaros who could not help but want to jump onto her and Lin Feng. The emotion that filled her body was a faint touch of emotion.

After waiting for a while, he found that this "Adventer" who came at the right time had opened his eyes. It seemed that the remaining taboo knowledge did not affect him too much.
Although the pollution was removed, the Tree King was still very weak and looked at the other party with a bit of apology in his tone:

"You have helped me and the world, and I deserve a reward of equal value for that."

"But after hundreds of years of wasting time, I am in very poor shape and there is only so much I can do now.

Although the authority of the World Tree is not very useful to you who can check the earth veins,
But I have reopened the permissions for Nashida and you, and the future of Xumi depends on you."

No longer forgotten, but still just a remnant of soul,

Now, apart from occasionally chatting with Nashida, she couldn't think of anything else she could do to help.

".Leave it to us?"

"No, it's too early to say that now. It's far from time to retire. Nashida is still waiting for you to accompany her."

He casually threw the bunch of Lanaro that were crowding on him to the Tree King and Nashida.
Having already stopped the old man and Wendy from retiring, Lin Feng shook his head and handed an overtime application to the Tree King in front of him:
"——Please accompany us to the real world tree outside this consciousness space. I will personally break off a new branch.
You have been away from Xumi and stayed in this desolate world for so long. No matter what, it is time for you to come back."

(End of this chapter)