"Get down here!" Qing Chen stood in front of the World Tree, looked up and shouted, "The little animals are all complaining that you're too scary!"
Looking up, I saw Zard had stretched himself out extremely flat, like a plaster stuck to the World Tree: "I just wanted to see if I could take it with me! But it's too big, I can't wrap it up!"
Upon hearing this, the old folks in the forbidden land were stunned. Who the hell was this lunatic who actually wanted to take their World Tree away...?
Qing Chen shouted, "Use your brain! You can't take it with you, it's so big!"
“How will you know if you don’t try? Practice makes perfect,” Zard said.
"Get down here and get to work!"
"Okay!"
Dingdong had previously built many shelters for the animals to keep them warm in winter and protect them from the rain all year round.
Although the leaves are large, they are prone to drying and rotting after falling. This is a law of nature that even the World Tree cannot avoid.
So, Dingdong spends about half the year constantly climbing up and down, picking leaves, building shelters, and repeating the same cycle.
If this World Tree weren't so dense, like a sea of stars, Dingdong probably would have plucked it all off.
When Qingchen arrived, he saw the makeshift shacks and, with Zard's help, used his abilities to build new shacks.
"If you can turn stone into sand, can you turn sand back into stone?" Qingchen asked curiously.
“Of course I can, but it’s quite laborious,” Zard said. “I fought some people before, and after I buried them with ‘Sky Burial,’ they were able to crawl out of it. So after I used Sky Burial, I re-petrified the sand on their heads and put a lid on them.”
Qing Chen was stunned for a long time; this method was truly ingenious...
He said, "I'll draw the sketches, and you can build the house. That way, Dingdong won't have to keep building houses every year."
One by one, small houses sprang up from the ground. Qingchen counted the number of small animals and sketched out plans.
Two days passed, and it seemed as if a small town had sprung up out of thin air around the World Tree.
At first, the little animals were hesitant to live in the stone house, but Dingdong went into the woods and "invited" them back one by one, putting them in the little house.
Dingdong also used burnt charcoal to draw crooked animal shapes on the huts. Outside the monkey's hut, she drew a grinning monkey, and outside the little green snake's hut, she drew a crooked little snake, in order to assign ownership and prevent the animals from fighting.
Dingdong went to the woods again and brought them suitable branches and hay. Zhang Mengqian, Sun Chuci, and Tuanzi carried the hay and made up the nest for the little animals, creating a heartwarming scene.
Zard watched Dingdong draw with amusement, laughing as he said, "It's a good thing it's not a sign with words, otherwise every house would only have the words 'Dingdong' on the outside, because all Dingdong can say is 'Dingdong,' hahaha... Isn't that funny?"
Qing Chen looked at him expressionlessly: "What kind of nonsensical joke is this now?"
"profound……"
Yangyang pulled Zard away and whispered, "Come on, build a small house for me and Qingchen too. Maybe we can come here to escape the summer heat."
If we disregard the rules and dangers of Forbidden Land No. 002, after eating that yellow fruit, this place is truly a vacation spot.
There were no poisonous insects to attack, no wild beasts to ravage it; it was like a small, independent kingdom.
The woods were filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers, and small animals surrounded them. Yangyang sang under the trees, attracting raccoons to listen to her songs.
When Yangyang's singing stopped, the raccoon would go into the woods and dig out the hazelnuts it had buried for Yangyang, seemingly asking her to sing another song.
It's like inserting a coin to request a song.
Yangyang squatted on the ground, used a twig to draw the house she wanted in the soil, and then looked up at Zard: "This is it, let's start building."
Zard paused for a moment: "Just one building? Wasn't it supposed to be your and Qingchen's house? Where's Qingchen's? Draw his too, and I'll build it for you both."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a walnut hit him on the head.
Zard glared back at the monkey and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?!"
The monkey pointed to the cemetery, meaning: The old folks told me to smash it, it has nothing to do with me.
Zard: "..."
Two days have passed, and Qingchen and the others have gotten along exceptionally well with the small animals.
At one point, they even considered settling down here.
However, at this moment, Qingchen looked at the row of small stone houses and saw that eight statues had risen from the ground, which were actually Qingchen, Zard, Dingdong, Gudong, Yangyang, Zhang Mengqian, Sun Chuci and Tuanzi.
The eight people struck a pose of struggle, like the workers, peasants, and soldiers who bravely faced each other at the gate of a state-owned enterprise.
Qing Chen raised an eyebrow: "What are you doing?"
Zard said matter-of-factly, "Building houses for small animals is a great achievement, isn't it? So that they won't miss us too much after we leave, we can build a statue for them to remember us by. That way, we can live in their hearts forever."
Qingchen complained, "All you did was build them some houses. They don't want to commemorate you. Tear them down right now!"
“Alright,” Zard said with some regret, but he had a clever trick up his sleeve. Although the large statue was dismantled, he still managed to put up a small one in the woods.
Amidst the noise, Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes.
He slept for an exceptionally long time. Because he hadn't slept for three days and three nights and had exhausted his mental energy, he slept for more than forty hours before finally waking up. He found himself in a simple green hut with a huge leaf on top.
Hearing the commotion outside, Xiaoyu's first reaction wasn't to get up, but to reach into his shirt pocket, where he found the letter his brother had left for him:
"Xiaoyu, I'm sorry."
"Because that idiot Zard got inexplicably involved in the war, I postponed the handover this time, mainly because I was worried that you wouldn't be able to control the power of this body and would end up being killed by that idiot."
"You'd better advise that idiot to stay away from Qingchen. He's a jinx, and following him will only bring more bad luck... Never mind, I shouldn't have told you this."
"In the last return cycle, I earned you 350 points, and you used 30 of them for drinking. But don't exchange them for the Pantheon Thunder God. If you want to cultivate, I'll teach you..."
The letter was nearly a thousand words long, with two hundred words cursing Zard, three hundred words cursing Qingchen, and the remaining three hundred words explaining the situation.
The last hundred or so words belittled the weakness of the students in the college and exaggerated the strength of himself...
However, what's strange is that Da Yu didn't mention anything about the Agricultural Academy, and even congratulated Xiao Yu on finding new friends and finding something she liked to do.
It seems that Da Yu believes he can make some concessions as long as his younger brother is happy.
I can even tolerate my younger brother working at the agricultural college.
Xiaoyu read her brother's letter over and over again before getting up and leaving the shack: "Brother Zard!"
"Oh, Xiaoyu's awake!" Zard exclaimed with delight. "Come quick, come quick, your brother has prepared a feast for you!"
Qing Chen said irritably, "How is this a meal from a hundred families?"
Zard looked at the pile of fruit in front of him and said, "These were all picked by the little animals. Each little animal brought some, so it's just a meal from a hundred families. Just think of the little animals as the villagers in the village. One family brings two steamed buns, another brings a dish of pickled vegetables, and that's a meal from a hundred families."
Qing Chen was taken aback for a moment: "What you said makes a lot of sense."
This is truly a forbidden land version of a feast shared by many families...
He asked in a low voice, "How can you tell if he's Big Feather or Little Feather?"
Zard chuckled and said, "Da Yu would never call me 'brother,' he'd only make me call him 'boss.' Xiao Yu, did your brother scold me this time?"
Xiaoyu smiled and said, "No."
Xiaoyu slowly walked over and looked at the huge leaf spread on the ground, which was piled with fruit.
Actually, Dingdong picked all the fruit. Before, when Dingdong went out to fight, the little animals stole all the fruit to avenge the cold winter, leaving not a single one.
Later, they built houses for the animals, and the animals returned many of the hidden fruit.
Just then, Dingdong returned carrying firewood, carefully bending over and passing through the tree canopy.
Upon seeing Xiaoyu, he squatted down with a broad smile, opening his palm to reveal the "Early Summer" fruit he had just picked, which, when eaten, would make one's reactions quicker.
Qingchen had already eaten nine pills, and he felt that his reaction speed had increased even more.
If the motor reflex used to take 0.2 seconds, it now takes 0.1 seconds.
It might not be necessary in a fight between ordinary people, but between experts, a reaction speed that is 0.1 seconds faster is enough to result in a crushing defeat.
At the same level, your enemy's punches will never hit you, and you will always be faster than them.
Qingchen told Zard and the others to finish the fruit and leave the pits behind. These were the new varieties he was going to bring back to the Agricultural College: Early Summer and Asking the Cold.
Xiaoyu was a little scared when she saw the giant in front of her, but Zard next to her said with a smile, "Eat up, Dingdong is a good person."
Xiaoyu was relieved and timidly picked up the fruit from the giant's hand.
Qing Chen watched this scene silently, because Ding Dong had the giant race's talent of telepathy, so he wanted to know how Ding Dong would evaluate Huan Yu.
However, Qingchen noticed that Dingdong was stunned: "What's wrong?"
"Ding-dong!" Ding-dong said.
(His body was inhabited by three souls: a child, an adult, and a wicked villain.)
Qing Chen was also stunned, and he looked at Zard.
You know, the other party only said that Huan Yu had two souls, not a third, and Ding Dong wouldn't make a mistake!
"Ding-dong!"
(The child is awake, while the other two are asleep. But be careful of the bad guy among them; he has malicious intentions towards the child.)
The first Huan Yu that Qing Chen encountered was a madman and evil one, who was also the eccentric guy that Qing Chen found disgusting.
However, the Huan Yu that Qing Chen has been in contact with recently doesn't feel the same as before. Although he is very proud, he can't be described as particularly evil.
Moreover, surprisingly, no one mentioned the idea that "whoever finds whom first must become their slave."
This sense of being torn apart accompanied Qingchen, leaving him completely baffled.
Qingchen has now confirmed that this is a trio of personalities!
Qing Chen looked at Zard: "What exactly happened?"
Zard scratched his head: "Xiaoyu was hospitalized because he found the murderer who killed his parents and then killed the murderer in a cruel way. After this happened, the police filed a public prosecution, but he was eventually locked up in a mental hospital due to mental problems."
Qing Chen gasped.
Xiaoyu listened silently to the side, looking somewhat pitiful and helpless.
Zard continued, "Xiaoyu has always had a dual personality; we'll call him Zhongyu for short. Zhongyu committed that murder... After the time travel incident began, the dual personality suddenly became a triple personality, and Dayu appeared. But Dayu is special; he didn't appear because of an illness, but rather he suddenly merged in, and he also carries memories from the other world. Dayu is a core member of the Chen family conglomerate in the other world. He discovered this and believed that one of the personalities would pose a threat to the main body, so he found an opportunity to write a letter to Xiaoyu, and the two of them locked up the second personality together... Although I don't know how they locked it up."
Zard said, "Da Yu seems to have mentioned this as well. He also wrote a letter to the second personality, explaining their situation. It's not suitable for the second personality to come out and move around right now. I don't know how he managed to convince the other party. However, Da Yu also said that if one day he has no choice, he will release the second personality on his own initiative. It's a personality that can drag the whole world down to hell with him."
Qing Chen: "I see that you and Da Yu have a pretty good relationship. According to what you're saying, he must be a native of the Inner World, and you didn't have much interaction with him before, right?"
Zard: "Da Yu didn't like me at first, nor did he like Xiao Yu or Zhong Yu. Later, I don't know how, he started to treat Xiao Yu like a younger brother, and then he became a little nicer to me because of Xiao Yu."
Xiaoyu stood to the side, her eyes red: "Does this mean I won't be able to play with you guys anymore?"
Qing Chen paused for a moment, then patted the other person's head: "Don't be afraid, it's alright, we won't be afraid of you because of this. Have some fruit first, and we'll take you to the World Tree to watch the sunset later, it's very beautiful. By the way, the academy has accumulated quite a few tender tea buds from the Jingshan Mountain waiting for you to roast them."