Chapter 231 An Unexpected Journey (VIII)

After thinking for a while, King Daci Tree slowly said: "On the day it happened, even the sky turned into this color."

"At the beginning, all the seven gods except me were summoned to the country called Kanrea, but I had another more important mission."

"That is - protecting the World Tree."

"Is this the catastrophe of Kanria five hundred years ago?" Kong thought to himself after hearing what King Daci Shu said.

"The disaster came with the contamination of forbidden knowledge. At almost the same moment, I, whose consciousness was connected to the World Tree, also noticed something strange."

"The mental pain began to torture me. When I rushed to the World Tree, it was already being eroded by forbidden knowledge."

"If I hadn't managed the pollution of forbidden knowledge with the Red King thousands of years ago, I would have been at a loss at that time."

When talking about the Red King, the disdainful light in the eyes of the Great Ci Tree King was still noticed by Nasida who was not far away. She was a little confused as to why the Great Ci Tree King in front of her showed such an expression when he talked about the Red King. .

The little idiot didn't notice this, but asked the tree king seriously: "What is the forbidden knowledge?"

King Daci Shu explained: "It is knowledge that does not belong to this world, and it is also the truth that cannot be understood."

"It comes from the bottom of the abyss, and even I can't understand it."

"The world continues to reject it, but it also causes all kinds of bad symptoms in the world."

"If forbidden knowledge is allowed to continue to pollute the World Tree, I'm afraid the entire Teyvat will fall apart."

After listening to the words of the Great Merciful Tree King, Paimon turned to Sora and said: "There really is knowledge that even the God of Wisdom cannot understand."

"At that time, I knew that I could not expel the forbidden knowledge by myself, so I created a device that integrated human wisdom and named it Void."

The little idiot nodded and said, "That's really the most amazing invention in the world."

"Haha. Thank you. For a long time, I have believed that dreams are the crystallization of human wisdom."

"Although it is somewhat selfish to do so, I still use the void to borrow people's dreams. I integrate people's wisdom and contribute all my strength."

"What was the result?" Paimon asked curiously.

"Thanks to the wisdom of the people of Xumi, almost all forbidden knowledge has been cleared from the World Tree." After saying this, the Great Merciful Tree King slowly lowered his head and continued: "However, things did not go as smoothly as I expected. . A headache gave me a bad feeling."

"I just remembered that my consciousness is connected to the World Tree. The World Tree brings me knowledge and wisdom, but pollution also finds me."

"From the beginning. My existence has been tainted with forbidden knowledge."

Paimon couldn't help but exclaimed: "Ah, how could it be possible?"

"I've seen that kind of pain in your consciousness. Isn't it a terrible experience?" the little straw bag asked.

King Daci Shu shook his head and said: "Well, in comparison, my feelings are not important, what is important is"

"Even if I die, my existence and everything related to me will still be preserved in the World Tree as memories and knowledge, so the taboo knowledge can never be eradicated."

"And I can never eliminate myself. It's a paradox."

"So, I broke off the purest branches of the World Tree as my reincarnation and left clues."

"Just so that you can come here and completely erase the polluted me from the World Tree."

After hearing the words of the Daci Tree King, the little straw bag hurriedly retorted loudly: "Wait, no, no, this is not right!"

King Daci Tree smiled and said: "Haha, do you understand what that means? It seems that you are really smart."

"As you can imagine, all the knowledge and memories of this world exist in the World Tree."

"Erasing me from the World Tree would be equivalent to me never existing in this world, but... this is the only way to truly save the World Tree."

The little straw bag looked sad and said reluctantly to King Daci Shu: "People love you so much. Everyone misses you all the time, and so do I."

"How could I forget you like this?"

Having said this, the little idiot asked the Daci Tree King with hope: "Is there really no other way? Is there nothing else I can do?"

King Daci Shu replied calmly: "You are the God of Wisdom, Buyer, you should know. Other than that, there is no other way."

"But. But this is too cruel. I don't want to forget you."

King Daci Tree comforted him: "Don't be so sad, Buyer. As a wise man, you should enjoy the joy of finding the answer at this moment."

Little straw bag: "???"

"This is the answer you have been looking for, the sentence that wants to know the whole story... [Let the world completely forget me.]"

"Nasida, why don't you speak?" Ying poked Nasida next to her who had remained silent until now, and asked curiously: "Don't you have any opinion on this?"

"I have some opinions, but I'm afraid of being beaten." Nasida replied softly.

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After listening to Nasida's words, a series of question marks floated on Ying's head. She was a little confused about Nasida's words.

"What do you mean, no one here should be able to beat you." Ying said.

Nasida explained: "It's the Great Ci Tree King in front of me."

"Isn't she a consciousness? Why would she hit you?" After listening to Nashida's explanation, Ying was even more confused.

Nashida shook her head and said, "I don't know either, but be careful, because this Great Compassion Tree King is not right. I feel that she has something to do with Liusu."

"Ah? Isn't this the Great Compassion Tree King from another world? How can it be related to Liusu? You and I in this world have nothing to do with us."

Nashida replied with a tangled face, "This is also what I find strange, because she just warned me that if I say something sarcastic again, she will beat me directly."

Ying: "."

Ying was silent for a while, and suddenly thought of what Liusu had said to him before.

That was after solving the problem of Ying and Zhen, Ying secretly went to Liusu to ask her own questions one night while Paimon was asleep.

"Liu Su, why do you say we have no past and future?"

Liu Su explained: "I don't know about this either. Maybe the reason for our existence is special. In this case, we only have the present. The past and future selves are all phantoms. Even if the enemy travels to the past, it will not have any impact on the past selves."

"Is that so? If there is no past and future, will there be no parallel world selves?" Ying scratched his head.

"As for you, there may still be a parallel world selves, because you are different from me, but the parallel world selves will not affect the current selves."

Ying asked in confusion: "Why is there no parallel world selves?"

Liu Su smiled and said: "It means literally. I am different. My existence has been subverted. Because I have died in the parallel world, leaving only a consciousness, so naturally there will be no me."

"The tree kings in the parallel world cannot withstand the pollution of taboo knowledge, and now I am a collection of taboo knowledge. The more taboo knowledge I absorb, the stronger my ability will be, so this me is unique."

"I still don't understand." Ying scratched his head and said with a confused look.

"To be honest, I don't really understand, but you just need to know that there is only one me in the world."

"What do you mean?"

"Of course it's just the literal meaning. Well, you should go back and rest."

Ying: "."

Then, Ying scratched her head and returned to her residence with more doubts. Today was another sleepless night for her. She originally went to seek answers, but after going there, she had more questions.

"Ah! It's so uncomfortable. I wouldn't have gone there to ask if I had known. It's okay if the problem is not solved, but now there are more questions without knowing the answer." Thinking of this, Ying buried her head in the pillow with an uncomfortable look.

"You say, is it like this?" Ying told Nashida about the previous conversation with Liusu.

After hearing this, Nashida asked with a surprised face: "Is this what Liusu told you that day?"

"Yes, I thought of this when I heard you say that the Great Compassion Tree King in front of me was wrong." Ying nodded.

"According to what you said, the consciousness in front of me is very likely to be the phantom of Liusu, but she doesn't know it herself." Nashida touched her chin and analyzed.

"Why do you say that?" Ying asked puzzledly.

Nashida said with a serious face: "Because there is also a shadow of her consciousness in our world tree, so according to what Liusu said, there is only one of her in the world. I have a bold guess, that is, no matter which world the Great Compassion Tree King is, it is her, but as the original body, she is unaware, because these clones are all consumed, and the consciousness of the clones can clearly know everything."

Ying: "?"

While Ying was talking to Nashida, the plot on that side was about to come to an end.

Suddenly, a breeze blew up in the consciousness space, rolling up the leaves of the world tree. The Great Compassion Tree King slowly walked towards the little grass bag and whispered to her: "We all live under the tree of wisdom and try to read the world."

Looking at the Great Compassion Tree King walking towards her step by step, the little grass bag's eyes began to ooze tears. She bit her lip and was a little afraid to look at the Great Compassion Tree King walking towards her.

"Read from the soil, read from the rain, and then turn into a white bird and climb up the branches."

Speaking of this, the Great Compassion Tree King walked to the little grass bag, squatted gently, held her cheek gently with his hands, and then held her in his arms.

"I am the only individual in the world who can dream."

"In my dream, everyone will fall asleep at night, and people will have strange ideas in their minds, some rolling to the ground, and some floating to the sky. It connects all things into a dazzling net."

At the request of the Great Compassion Tree King, the little grass bag stretched out her hand with a sad face, and gradually removed her from the world tree according to the other party's wishes.

"In the three thousand worlds, there are small worlds, and all destinies are boiling here."

"I gradually understand that these things that cannot be described and are constantly changing are the most profound things in the world. Only they can completely drive away those madness."

As the Great Compassion Tree King spoke, the figure holding the little grass bag became fainter and fainter.

"Only dreams can awaken consciousness from the deepest darkness."

Until her figure completely turned into leaves and disappeared, leaving behind a grief-stricken little straw bag, kneeling helplessly on the ground. Finally, she could no longer suppress the grief in her heart, and tears continued to flow from the corners of her eyes like a dam breaking.

"I am the one who proposes the question and the one who seeks the answer. Saving the world with the dreams of the world was once my answer. Now, you have also found your own answer. I will return all the dreams to the world."

The leaves separated by the Great Compassion Tree King separated from the consciousness space, like nectar, falling on every citizen of Xumi, erasing all the pain caused by the taboo knowledge.

"Goodbye, people of Xumi, may you have a good dream tonight."

Seeing that the figure of the Great Compassion Tree King completely disappeared, Ying asked in surprise: "Is it over?"

"Alas, it seems that in the end it is just like the plot. The world has forgotten this Great Compassion Tree King. After all, she is not Liusu's consciousness. No, even she will be forgotten, because this is the meaning of her existence." After listening to Ying's words, Nashida sighed and said: "However, what I didn't expect is that the original Great Compassion Tree King would be so gentle, unlike my Great Compassion Tree King. It's really hard to say."

"Any explanation?" Ying asked curiously.

After hearing Ying's words, Nashida complained angrily: "You have also seen the Great Compassion Tree King, right? There are so many things worth complaining about her, such as liking to hide in Liusu's body and being lazy, and she gets angry when she sees me and Liusu getting close, and so on. She is not gentle at all."

Ying: "."

When Nashida complained to Ying, Ying noticed something was wrong. The leaves of the Great Compassion Tree King that had originally separated regrouped behind Nashida, and the figure of the Great Compassion Tree King re-condensed.

Ying frantically signaled Nashida to stop talking, but Nashida seemed to be in the mood and didn't care about Ying's little movements at all.

Then she was miserable. The Great Compassion Tree King clenched his fist and hit Nashida's head hard.

Bang!

"It hurts!"

The head was suddenly attacked, and Nashida squatted with a painful look on her face. She was too familiar with the force of this blow. If it wasn't that person, she really couldn't feel this kind of feeling.

"What are you talking about? I'm not dead yet." After giving Nashida a slap, the Great Compassion Tree King said lightly.

Nashida covered her head and asked in disbelief: "How is it possible? The world has forgotten you, how can you still be alive? You are just a consciousness."

"Yes, I am just a consciousness, but you don't even look at whose consciousness it is. It's just a taboo knowledge. Can it stump me?" The Great Compassion Tree King said with disdain.

Nashida: "."

Ying: "."

Nashida rubbed her head and asked painfully, "Are you Liusu?"

The Great Ci Tree King shook his head and said, "No."

Nashida: "?"

The Great Ci Tree King looked at Nashida's puzzled expression and explained, "There is only one Liusu, and I am just the Great Ci Tree King. Although I have some of her memories, I am not a complete individual after all."

Nashida asked in confusion, "What about you?"

The Great Ci Tree King replied, "It's just a tiny consciousness. If you hadn't suddenly come to this world, maybe I would have really disappeared, because this is my duty."

Speaking of this, the Great Ci Tree King touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "But now I can do a lot of things I want to do, and it is not impossible to become a new individual in the end."

"You can't do this. There is only one Liusu, and there can only be one Great Ci Tree King." Nashida said hurriedly.

"Then replace Liusu." The Great Ci Tree King said indifferently.

Nashida: "!!!"

After hearing what the Great Compassion Tree King said, Nashida said with a serious face: "I won't let you succeed."

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. It's boring and you can't stand it at all." Looking at the suddenly serious Nashida, the Great Compassion Tree King shook his head and sighed: "You only have Liusu in your heart. It's obvious that I made you, really."

"I'm not made by you. You made this little straw bag, not me." Nashida shouted angrily.

The Great Compassion Tree King shook his head and said: "I don't know whether you were made by me? The little straw bag you are talking about was not made by me."

Nashida: "???"

"Are you confused?" Looking at Nashida's confused expression, the Great Compassion Tree King said with a smile.

Nashida nodded with a tangled look on her face: "Yeah."

"Because what you just saw was fake, the World Tree is both in the consciousness space and not in the consciousness space." The Great Compassion Tree King explained: "When you appeared here, she had already located this place."

"You mean, Liusu knew this place?" Nashida said in surprise.

The Great Compassion Tree King nodded: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have come here, it's really too much, saying that I can experience the atmosphere of saying goodbye to Xumi, because I can't experience something in that world, and she knows that I don't want to experience this, so the matter is resolved."

"You are really the Great Compassion Tree King!" Ying shouted in surprise.

"Of course, because the time over there has been suspended because of your departure, and she and I are the only ones in the world who are not affected by the world, and then she took this opportunity to throw me here."

"Why didn't she come herself?" Nashida asked in confusion.

After listening to Nashida's words, the Great Compassion Tree King glanced at her and said, "Are you stupid? If she comes over, who will locate her? This is not a time travel. If she comes over, then we don't have to go back, just settle down here."

Nashida: "."

"Forget it, I won't use your body shape. I feel that if I use it too much, I will become as stupid as you."

After saying that, the Great Compassion Tree King's body shape changed back to the appearance that Ying and Nashida were familiar with.

"You can't say I'm stupid, I'm very smart." Seeing the changes in the Great Compassion Tree King, Nashida also knew that the other party was really her tree king, and she defended herself with some lack of confidence.

The Great Compassion Tree King said disdainfully: "If you are not stupid, who else is stupid? No matter which world you are from, you are so stupid, not to mention this little straw bag."

Speaking of this, the Great Compassion Tree King sighed with a sad face: "Why did I break off the least intelligent branch at that time? No wonder, only the stupid people are the purest, and the smart ones are infected by the taboo knowledge."

Nashida: "."

Stop scolding, stop scolding, who would say this to their own children, only you, thinking of this, Nashida looked at the Great Compassion Tree King in front of her with a faint look.

The Great Compassion Tree King said to Nashida with a smile: "Oh, you have made it? Dare to look at me with this look?"

Nashida quickly retracted her eyes and defended: "No, no, this is your illusion."

"Tsk." After hearing Nashida's words, the Great Compassion Tree King looked at her with disdain.

Nashida: "."

Ying next to her tried hard to hold back her laughter. Looking at Nashida who dared to be angry but not to speak, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud if she was not careful. The reason why she held back her laughter was that the three people on the other side looked sad, and if she laughed out loud, it would definitely ruin their atmosphere.

"King Daci Tree, when will you take us back?" Nashida asked King Daci Tree after feeling uncomfortable for a while.

King Daci Tree said: "Well, wait, let's help the little straw bag here solve the problem first. She has not grown at all because of your interference. If we leave directly, I'm afraid she won't survive."

Nashida: "."

Who did you learn this method of pointing fingers at others? You are talking about the little straw bag here, but your eyes never leave me! Do you think I'm so stupid that I don't know who you are implying?