The primitive bird stretched out its red head and spread its wings as hard as it could. It screamed fiercely, but its body was retreating, as if to say don't come over.
Recently, it seems to be dissatisfied with Helfas, because the quill made by Helfas came from it.
What can I say, it's very easy to use.
The ink was made by Helfas by mixing the blood of the dragon beast with the special oil secreted by the biphasic demonic insect tree form. It seems to have a special bonus to the ritual magic circle, which is also considered as his ability to gain extraordinary power.
Some experiences and gains.
Helfas walked out of the door and squatted on the ground to carefully check his bamboo basket. Still uneasy, he unfolded the cloth scroll that recorded the strange details and read it several times, and even took out the ceramic scroll.
Pull out the stopper of the ink bottle and add a few strokes.
In addition, the basket also contained the sealing ritual formation board he made. Finally, he put away the things and touched the metal mask on his face to confirm that everything was ready.
It’s time to leave next.
The farmer on the side also prepared his luggage. Helfas asked him: "Do you really want to go there too?"
The farmer lowered his head, but said in a serious voice: "Yes."
Helfas said: "It will be dangerous. I don't recommend or hope you go there."
Farmer: "Don't worry, I will follow your instructions and won't do anything unnecessary. Maybe I can help you along the way."
"But make sure you agree in advance that if something goes wrong, I won't risk your life to save you," Helfas said.
The farmer said: "Of course, dealing with weirdness is the most important thing. I also hope you won't be distracted by me."
The two set out again.
They set off at dawn, and as they walked it became increasingly hotter and hotter. The humid heat from the jungle surged up, making people feel sticky all over their bodies.
Suddenly the farmer asked Helfas a very strange question: "You said that if people were eaten by monsters, are they still in the monster's body?"
The farmer seemed to talk a lot today, and Helfas could vaguely know what the farmer was thinking. He was wondering whether the people in the tribe might still exist in weird bodies that had not completely died and wanted to be reborn.
This time Helfas did not comfort the farmer, but said:
"So what?"
"They are no longer complete. At least they are no longer the same as they were before."
"What you said seems to make sense from the perspective of the world, because everything is circulating within the world, just changing from one form to another."
"But from our human point of view, when a person dies, he is dead. The person in our eyes is the person who has the same emotional experience and the same memory, a living person."
"Instead of a lump of flesh, a lump of constantly changing matter."
The farmer said: "Yes, the world is so big, but we are so small."
Helfas: "So this time we are going to solve that weirdness. Even if those people are still alive in its body, we will completely release those people who were eaten by it from its body so that they can be safe.
The earth died."
The farmer nodded.
Then both of them became silent, Helfas was completely immersed in thinking about how to deal with the weird thing, and the farmer was also lost in memories.
Before they knew it, the two of them came to the vast breadbasket field.
Helfas took two deep breaths. This was the first time that he had to deal with a powerful monster alone. It was impossible not to be nervous.
He looked straight ahead and said to the farmer beside him.
"Protect my backpack. There are important things in it. I'm afraid it might get damaged in the battle. So when you see danger, take the backpack and run away immediately."
"Don't come near me unless I call you."
Farmer: "Yeah~"
Helfas placed the backpack outside the farmland, then stepped into the farmland, walking forward bit by bit.
From a farmer's perspective.
He saw the black-haired man wearing a mask walking across the field. He seemed to gradually exude an inhuman aura, and the breadbasket trees in the field all gave way to a path.
The human-faced tree at the end of the farmland seemed to sense the danger and woke up little by little.
The strange tree crown slowly unfolded, and the vines were waving in the sky like tentacles. The faces attached to the human-faced tree also slowly showed expressions, and their eyes opened little by little.
suddenly.
The black-haired man ran quickly. He quickly crossed the farmland, and a mysterious flame rolled up on his body.
When he calculated that the distance was sufficient, he released a fire dragon with a roar.
The fire dragon crossed the space and directly bombarded the strange tree.
"Hoo ho!"
When Helfas came, he also calculated the direction of the wind. He used the wind to release the flames. The fire spread quickly and ignited the entire human face tree.
But immediately I saw the human-faced tree responding. It whipped up a gust of wind out of thin air, and then the surrounding temperature began to drop sharply.
"Buzz!"
Helfas saw that the surrounding land was covered with frost, and he quickly withdrew from its radiation range. However, the flames covering the entire tree began to become smaller and smaller, and the magic fire of the Biphasic Demonic Insect was extinguished little by little.
"It went out."
This is a fire that cannot be extinguished by water.
Helfas did not stop. He surrounded the human-faced tree and still wanted to release flames to burn the human-faced tree.
"Boohoo!"
At this time, Helfas saw the vines of the Human Face Tree waving like whips, heading towards him.
Helfas retreated further. He moved quickly, spitting out flames from his mouth while moving, and continued to burn the human-faced tree.
But as the demonic fire spreads, the closer it gets to the human-faced tree, the weaker the fire becomes. Finally, when it covers the human-faced tree, it becomes painless and itchy.
Helfas observed the human-faced tree while avoiding the opponent's vine whip, while thinking in his mind.
"Want to get closer?"
"But once you get close, this body probably won't be able to withstand the power of the human-faced tree that extracts temperature-freezing air."
At this time, the human-faced tree suddenly released another kind of power.
"Buzz!"
He felt a force coming towards him.
Helfas involuntarily began to lean forward, and more importantly, he felt that the blood in his body was surging rapidly, and even wanted to break through the body.
The human-faced tree was extracting the water from Helfas' body, trying to turn him into a mummy.
Helfas quickly retreated again, further increasing the distance.
"Pah, pah, pah!"
When he retreated, a large number of vines fell down from where he originally stayed like whips, whipping them hard to plow ravines on the ground.
Helfas had already expected that the power of the Human Face Tree could not be solved by simple magic fire. He had to use another ability of the Biphasic Demonic Insect Face to transform into the form of the Biphasic Demonic Insect.
He stood there and looked at the human-faced tree.
He pressed his hand on the black iron mask and brought it closer to him, and the mask seemed to sense something and glowed.
"Hiss!"
Densely packed tentacles emerged from the depths of the mask, making a subtle sound, like countless tiny insects squirming.
The dense tentacles covered his body along his face and neck. This was not over yet. Finally, the tentacles turned into flesh and blood and turned into a giant insect.
"squeak!"
The terrifying demonic insect reappeared in the human world, letting out a strange and sharp roar.
That sound was not made by Helfas, but by the strange creature called the Biphasic Demonic Insect, which seemed to have come to life again.
"Snapped!"
The vines swung over unexpectedly and violently knocked the Biphasic Demonic Insect to the side. The huge insect body ran over the ground and kicked up bursts of dust.
But soon, sounds came from the dust.
"Dong dong dong dong dong!"
The terrifying demonic insect is more than ten times faster than Helfas. A large number of insect legs are inserted alternately into the ground to push itself forward quickly, tearing apart the smoke and dust.
It jumped up high and bit off a large vine that was coming towards it.
It was not afraid of the power of the vines to extract temperature and moisture, and pounced directly on the human-faced tree.
On one side, it fiercely tore at the vine branches of the human-faced tree with its mouthparts.
On one side, you can see a turbulent jet of red light flowing out from the depths of its mouth, and then covering the human-faced tree.
"ah!"
The human faces on the human face tree instantly let out fierce screams at the same time.
In an instant, the battle changed from chasing and dodging to a more cruel fight and biting, competing against each other's physical strength. In fact, this is more in line with the characteristics of Weird.
There are no bells and whistles, just fight hand to hand to see who is physically stronger.
Two terrifying monsters were fighting together, both sides beating and biting each other crazily in the flames.
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and broken branches covered the ground.
The human-faced tree continued to release its power in an attempt to extinguish the flames, but the biphasic demonic insect kept interrupting it and continued to spit out demonic fire, making it impossible to extinguish it.
The human-faced tree screamed in the flames, but the Biphasic Demonic Insect was not afraid of the flames at all, and saw its decline getting worse and worse.
Its vines and branches were burned away.
Only the bare trunk remains.
However, Herfas's mood became more solemn, because the powerful magic fire was not unlimited. At this moment, he felt that the flame was being used up.
But the strange thing called the human-faced tree still has strong vitality.
That power surges from all over this farmland, continuously making up for its losses.
The strange power of the human-faced tree was somewhat beyond Helfas's expectations. It was still in a state where it had not fully recovered. However, Helfas had been studying it for too long and had made various plans. At this moment, he immediately
Another method was used.
"Tree phase!"
Helfas controls the biphasic demonic insect and lets it begin to transform.
The tree form, which was originally considered a weakness, had a completely different effect at this moment. The Biphasic Demonic Insect's insect legs were violently inserted into the body of the human-faced tree, hugging it tightly.
At the same time, the tentacles continued to spread out, covering and freezing the human-faced tree inside.
The tentacles spread down and penetrate deep into the earth.
It seems to be connected to something.
A steady stream of firepower poured out from deep underground, and at the same time, the biphasic demonic insect in the form of a tree also cut off part of the connection between the human-faced tree and this farmland.
The firepower continued to move upward along the roots and veins, exploding layers of sparks on the tree-shaped Biphasic Demonic Insect, and the human-faced tree was also burned bit by bit inside.
No matter how much the human-faced tree struggled or shouted, it had no effect.
that's all.
The entire remaining trunk of the big tree was burned to ashes bit by bit amid the fiery flowers.
In the end, only a bunch of roots were left crawling under the ground. Those roots connected the farmland and were also the core strength and basis of existence of the farmland.
This whole field of breadfruit trees is actually a weird thing. They are connected together through the root system and are inseparable.
Helfas stared at the wriggling roots, and suddenly discovered that it was still gathering strength to turn into a human-faced tree again.
It doesn't want to be a breadbasket farm.
"Still want to live?"
"It's impossible."
He looked at the farmer in the distance, now was the time to start sealing.
——
Bread bread field edge.
The farmer first watched in shock as Helfas released terrifying flames, and then turned into a huge insect fighting with the human-faced tree. If he hadn't known about the miraculousness of Helfas in advance, he would have
He probably turned around and wanted to run away now.
"Is this a person who has mastered strange powers, or..."
And as the battle became more intense, he became more and more nervous.
Finally, he saw another weird fire tree growing out of the depths of the farmland and wrapping around the human-faced tree. Apart from the sparks, he could no longer see the details of the picture.
And this kind of quiet tranquility also made the sweat on the farmer's palms overflow faster.
It was also at this time that he heard Helfas's voice.
"Throw over the board in my basket."
Then, the other party added another sentence.
"Although it is trapped by me, you should not get too close. It is not completely restrained yet and is still struggling to come back to life and become a human-faced tree again."
The farmer immediately ran over. He pushed aside the branches and leaves of the bush, but because of his anxious and fast movements, he was still hurt by the branches and leaves.
At this time, he couldn't care so much. He was only afraid that if he was too slow, he might delay Helfas's affairs.
But as he ran, as he got closer to the human-faced tree, some strange sounds suddenly appeared in his ears.
"Come and save me!"
"I don't want to die!"
"I'm still alive, I don't want to be burned to ashes."
Gradually, a familiar voice appeared.
"I know you, I remember you."
"You are my son."
"Son, you are finally here."
"You came to see mother."
Suddenly, he stopped.
Many pictures appeared in front of his eyes in an instant.
He saw himself as a child standing under the tree with a human face, his mother talking to him.
With the tribal buildings lined up behind him, he innocently asked his mother: "Why can't we get out of here?"
The mother calmly said cruel words: "We have eaten its fruits, and this is the price we have to pay."
He was a little scared and said loudly: "We don't want to be eaten by it. Why don't we resist?"
His mother touched his face: "They are the laws of this world, and people cannot resist the laws."
When he was a child, he began to say some rebellious things.
"Then do we have to accept our fate?"
Memories seem to overlap with reality.
He raised his head and saw his mother's figure again.
The other party was standing under the tree, waving to her enthusiastically, and more and more familiar figures appeared behind her. They were people who once belonged to the tribe.
Everyone stood under the tree and shouted at him vigorously.
"Come on, we are all here."
"It's hard to live alone, come and join us!"
"Let go of everything, let go of all the constraints, and be with us."
At this time, Herfas also noticed something unusual about him. Although he didn't know what the farmer saw, he knew that he should have been affected by the charming power of the human-faced tree.
"That's weirdness tempting you. Any images you see are just illusions and not real."
The farmer stared at the vision.
like a statue.
Just when Helfas thought he was completely controlled by the human-faced tree, the farmer suddenly started to move.
He showed a happy smile, as if responding to the people under the tree.
But he was talking to Helfas.
"I see."
"I just can't bear to see her again."
After saying this, the farmer no longer hesitated at all.
He threw the ritual spell board in his hand hard towards Helfas, but his eyes were still fixed on the phantom figure under the tree.
Even if he knew that the other party was just an illusion, even if he knew that the illusion was about to be shattered, at this moment he still wanted to take one last look.
I can't bear to miss a single thing.
And after the farmer cast the ritual magic circle.
Helfas quickly recited the incantation that he had recited countless times, started the ritual, and sang out all the characteristics of the weird bread tree.
The light from the ritual array continued to spread along the ravines of the wooden planks, and finally reached the foot of the tree.
In an instant.
A ray of light fell from the sky and turned into an phantom pillar made of light.
Helfas looked at the pillar, imagined an image of a tool, and pronounced a name at the same time.
The light swallowed up the roots of the core power of the breadfruit farmland little by little. You can see that the roots were twisted and entangled together, and finally turned into a hat. To be more precise, it was more like a bamboo hat.
[Sealed Artifact·Oilbread Farmer’s Hat]
[Ability 1: This is a farmer's hat. Wearing it can control and cultivate the bread tree farmland, control all the growth conditions of the bread tree farmland, and control the bread tree to naturally divide, but the division has a maximum limit. 】
[Ability 2: You cannot leave the boundary of the farmland when wearing it.]
At the same time, the illusion before the farmer's eyes was completely shattered.
The woman waving to the farmer gradually disappeared into the depths of the breadbasket field.
——
The seal ends.
But the problems faced by Helfas, who borrowed the power of the demonic insect, are not over yet. He has released the opponent's complete power, and it will not be so easy to get the opponent back.
At this moment, the terrifying demonic insect was trying its best to attack Helfas's consciousness, trying to break free from the seal.
"Zhizhizhizhi~"
"Hiss~"
Helfas was not moved at all, he kept chanting a name in his mind.
"The Face of the Biphasic Demonic Insect!"
Not only that, the special font that the name was turned into was also imprinted in his mind.
The Bipolar Demonic Insect used its madness to erode Helfas, wanting him to fall into madness, and then forget to give it its true name.
But Helfas knew exactly what he should do. He knew that as long as he still remembered this name, this guy would never be able to escape the seal.
Sure enough, as Helfas remembered the other party's true name, his consciousness did not fall into madness due to the backlash of the bipolar demonic insect.
The power of the demonic insect began to recover little by little.
Its body began to dissolve, and the densely packed tentacles began to retract, returning little by little to the black iron surface.
And Helfas's body fell to the ground little by little, and he opened his eyes.
He quietly picked up his hat and walked towards the farmer.
The farmer looked at the location of the disappeared human-faced tree with a disappointed expression.
Helfas didn't say anything, he just sat on the ground with him and looked at where the human-faced tree was.
But at this time, he faintly saw something strange.
"what is that?"
The farmer looked at Helfas in confusion, and Helfas's gaze extended from the ground to the heights little by little.
He asked the farmer: "Did you see it?"
The farmer opened his eyes wide: "What did you see?"
Helfas said: "The balls of light emerged from where the human-faced tree was originally, and then floated into the sky."
Helfas looked hard and walked forward, only to see the light and shadow flowing on those light balls.
On the colorful and shiny bubble walls, he vaguely saw someone laughing.
I saw some people shouting, some dancing under the bonfire, and some basking in the sun on the roof.
The farmer took a step forward and looked at the sky carefully. He still couldn't see anything, but as Helfas spoke, he suddenly understood something.
The farmer shouted: "They are from the tribe."
Helfas nodded: "I think they finally broke free."
The farmer looked up at the sky: "Where will they go?"
Helfas looked at the sky.
Blue sky, pure white clouds.
Each bubble of life's dream floats into the sea of clouds in the sky, recording everyone's memories.
It's so beautiful and dreamy that it makes you want to lie down on the ground and take a nap.
He said: "I must have left here and gone to a beautiful place. I don't have to cycle endlessly in this world and enjoy the peace quietly."
The farmer suddenly felt relieved after listening to Herfas' words.
This was what he really wanted to come here for, to see the faces on the trees truly liberated, and the two of them just quietly looked at the dream in the sky.
suddenly.
Helfas raised his hand and asked the farmer to raise his hand as well.
The farmer said: "What is this?"
Helfas said: "This is farewell!"
"When you say goodbye to someone, just wave your hand like this to let the other person know that you value the time you spent with them, and there will be no regrets."
The farmer also imitated Herfas and made the same gesture.
Perhaps this farewell wave spread little by little from this moment on, and finally became imprinted in everyone's heart like a mark.
But as he waved his hands, the farmer suddenly couldn't help it, and tears kept flowing from his eyes.
Helfas: "What's wrong?"
The farmer choked and said, "Thank you."
"Thank you very much, black-haired man."
He didn't know whether he was thanking Helfas for teaching him to say goodbye, or thanking Helfas for solving the problem of the human-faced tree and releasing all the dreams of life trapped in the tree.