608 Reluctant Flowers Fall (Seven Thousand Words Chapter)
[Chapter Heading Serial·Heart Pirates 17·"Going to Petrel Island"]
[Luo (Rosinandi) and Rosinandi (Luo) explained that they had exchanged souls by the surgical fruit, but baby5 was still full of shock. You think you can just explain this casually, and others can
Accept it?!? But neither of them seemed to consider whether she could accept it. After speaking, they calmly rowed the spare boat stolen from the warship...]——
"The person who came here is not a good person."
In the underground grotto, Headless Xingtian was sitting on the ground, listening to Xianglian recounting the past thirty years ago, and hearing that after Lily failed to assassinate the previous king, the previous king actually invited Lily to the palace for a talk...
"I'm afraid this banquet is not a good one." Robin's slightly dull voice came from under Xing Tian's abdominal clothes.
Xianglian had no expression on her face, "I tried to persuade her like this, but she didn't listen and went anyway."
Bang! Bang! Bang!... There was a crashing sound in the grotto. Xiangchun frowned and looked at the mute who was banging his head against the stone wall. The latter had already been hit with blood, and suddenly he rolled his eyes and fainted.
"What happened to him?" Xing Tian turned around and took a look.
Xiangchun said disdainfully: "Who cares about him! Maybe he has done too many bad things with the black dragon, and his brain has been damaged."
Xianglian lowered her eyes and continued to tell the story from thirty years ago...
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【Land of Flowers, Capital of Water, Royal Palace.】
[Lily brought her adopted sister Xianglian to the palace for a banquet.]
[Wherever they went, within twenty steps, no palace warrior dared to approach, as if they were not two women as beautiful as flowers and jade, but a woman as beautiful as flowers and jade, and a woman with a flower-like jade as her hair.
The beast of a woman’s fart.]
[Lily holds the long sword on her waist with one hand and supports her slender waist with the other, walking calmly. 】
[Xianglian had an expressionless face and was always alert to everything around him. When he saw those nervous black-armored warriors, his eyes showed disdain, but he was also a little happy. 】
[Seeing that the female assassin actually came as promised, the king quietly breathed a sigh of relief.]
[However, the female assassin’s first words when they met were not about the banquet, but she asked with great interest: “Can I see the Divine Infant Fruit Tree?”]
[The leader of the country is wondering: "I'm afraid this won't work."]
[Xianglian sarcastically said: "Do you really think that you belong to your own family?"]
["Why are you still so persistent about things that happened three hundred years ago?" The king sighed, "If there is another dispute, it will only be ordinary people who suffer!"]
[Lily looked at the king and admitted frankly: "You are not much stronger than me, but I can't kill you either."]
[The King of the Kingdom held up his hands and complimented: "Women are not inferior to men. Lily Lily is a true hero."]
["However, you should have moved the 'Flower World' here too, right?" Lily turned around and said, "I want to see it with my own eyes."]
["Flower world?" the king was confused. 】
[Xiang Lian looked at him coldly, "It's the 'Feng Yue Palace'!"]
["Oh, it's that one." The king understood clearly, but became even more confused. He shook his head and said, "That's just a place full of skeletal figures. It can't be called a palace. There are no flowers and bushes, so it can't be called a flowery world.
.”]
[Lily said: "In the stories I heard, Princess Lily liked that place very much more than three hundred years ago, so I want to see it with my own eyes. Can't I?"
["Okay, of course." The king touched the scar on his face. There was still a wound on the top of his head after the dragon's horn was cut off by Lily. He smiled slightly and said, "As a guest, please."]
[In the corner, Prince Jin has a look of fear in his eyes.]
["Prince, why did you lie to me!?" At this time, a crying short middle-aged man rushed from a distance. He was kicked over by Prince Jin, stepped on his feet, and pulled out the short middle-aged man's tongue.
He said fiercely: "What are you yelling about? You don't want to live anymore, do you?!"]
[The short middle-aged man whimpered and wanted to shout, but could not speak clearly. Prince Jin was impatient, took out the dagger from his arms, and cut off the short middle-aged man's tongue with one blow. 】
[A drop of blood splashed on Prince Jin’s vicious cheek, slowly sliding down.]
[He looked at the figure leaving with his father, his eyes full of displeasure... This woman must not be kept!]
[If I keep this woman and wait until my father, Emperor Long, dies, I will be the unlucky one in the future...]
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〖City of Water〗
Black dragons were tumbling in the sky covered with thick clouds. People were kneeling in the streets and alleys. Dragon flag troops were passing by everywhere.
"The remnants of the Demon Alliance are still evil-minded..."
A ferocious dragon head poked out from the dark clouds, and said coldly, "This time I swear to kill all these monsters, so as not to let the lives of this flower country suffer again..."
"The Lord of the Kingdom, Sheng Ming..."
"The Lord's grace is so great..."
A chorus of shouts came from the streets and alleys.
Among the people kneeling on the street, a little boy was shaking because of fear and was about to cry.
"Um?"
A Long Banner Army man walked up the street next to him and noticed something strange in the crowd.
The mother next to the little boy covered his mouth tightly and shouted with a louder voice: "The Lord of the Kingdom is holy! The Lord of the Kingdom has great grace..."
The Long Banner Army saw nothing unusual and then passed by.
"The Lord of the Kingdom, Sheng Ming..."
The pious voices on the ground could not calm the anger in the heart of the king.
He thought that since the woman named Lily was eliminated by him, he could sit back and relax! Who would have thought that such a thing would happen, that there would be those remnants of the demon alliance? Not only did they not give up completely, but they were so bold as to burn the gods with a fire.
Baby fruit tree…
These people are really crazy! If you burn the Divine Infant Fruit Tree, I will certainly not be able to use it. What about you? Even if you have a one in a billion chance of overthrowing the Black Dragon's rule, what will happen next? This sacred tree left over from the previous dynasty will be destroyed.
It’s really ruined!
Hateful! Hateful!
…
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【Hateful woman...】
[At the banquet, Prince Jin sat quietly on his father's side, listening to his father's conversation while eating silently. From time to time, he secretly glanced at the female assassin who was feasting, and sneered in his heart. 】
[Xiang Lian seemed to have heard something ridiculous. He supported the table in front of him and stared at the leader of the country, "Did I hear you right? What did you just say?!"]
【Lily eats generously while looking at the king. 】
[The Lord raised his cup and took a sip. He raised his chopsticks and hit the rim of the gilded bowl, making a crisp sound. He sighed: "I mean, it will not do you any good to continue to entangle your grievances and grudges like this. It will not be good for us.
People are worried, scared, and distressed. For the people of the entire Flower Country, it is even more miserable..."]
["Isn't that all your own fault?"
! Now it’s us who are causing you...the so-called 'fear'? The people are miserable..." She sneered twice, "Are they living a good life now?!"]
["Okay, okay, what's the point of talking about this now? Everyone is insisting on their own opinions!" The leader of the country waved his sleeves and sighed, "The past is over, who can tell right from wrong?"]
[Xianglian slapped the table and said angrily: "Fuck you! Why is there no right or wrong?!"]
[A pair of chopsticks stopped Xianglian, who wanted to overturn the table and chop the king to death. She angrily glared at Lily, who was holding chopsticks.]
[Bang bang, Bai Hekong clamped his chopsticks twice, looked at the king and said: "Let him finish what he said."]
[The king smiled slightly, sighed, and cupped his hands and said: "The heroine is so powerful that I'm afraid. I don't want to fight you anymore... I'm also tired. The grudges and grudges of the past three hundred years must have an end.
.So, this king proposed..."]
[He raised a finger, "As long as you can find the symbol of this country, the national treasure, flowers and fruits," pointing at the heroic Lily, "then I will respectfully abdicate and return the great treasure to..."]
[The king's eyes turned between Lily and Xianglian, and asked with a smile: "Is the bloodline of Princess Lily still alive?"]
["Maybe there, maybe not." Xianglian looked at him coldly and said disdainfully, "Do you think we will believe this kind of bullshit agreement? Don't dream."]
["Okay." Lily smiled at the side, "I will go find the national treasure, and the black dragon will get out of that seat. Is that settled?"]
["How about high-fiving as an oath?" the king said with a smile. 】
[Lily stood up, waved her hands, and walked away with Xianglian...]
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[After leaving the palace, Xianglian couldn't bear it anymore. She stared at Lily with tears in her eyes, pushed her hard, and cursed: "Are you dizzy? Do you believe that kind of nonsense!?"]
[Lily fell to the ground and didn’t answer for a long time. Xianglian was sad and disappointed, so angry that she turned around and left. 】
【"hiss……"】
[Lily was lying on the ground, covering the broken bones on her body that had not yet healed, and muttered, "It still hurts... Hey, where is the person?"]
[She sat up and found that Xianglian had disappeared.]
【Lily sat alone for a long time.】
[Xiang Lian was sulky after her life was over. When she came to her senses, she found that her step sister was nowhere to be found. 】
【She...she really left the Kingdom of Flowers?!】
【Xiang Lian is simply unbelievable.】
[It can be said that we and the black dragon are fighting to the death! Can the conflict be resolved by an agreement? How naive do you have to be to believe such a fantasy?!]
[Flower Burial Valley, Xianglian was angry alone here, cursing her sworn sister in the cold moonlight for her brain is broken.]
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…
"This is it."
It was dark at night, and Grandma Psychic and Ayu took Lin Qi and Robin to a valley.
The valley is so dilapidated that there are not even a few weeds.
The cold wind is faint, like weeping and complaining, and the cold penetrates into the bone marrow.
Robin glanced at the bottom of the valley and said blankly: "Where is this place?"
Ayu crossed her arms, trembling a little. Seeing this, Robin knelt down and gently hugged her.
"This is it..." Ayu closed her eyes tightly, but finally opened them again. Soon, a phantom flew out of her body. It was those ghosts, bones, and corpses... stacked like mountains, filled with a great terror.
There was great ruin, great sadness, and a great desolate atmosphere. In Robin's eyes, the sight of these mountains of dead souls fit perfectly with the valley in front of him, as if they were originally here.
The psychic grandma sighed: "This is the Flower Burial Valley. The place where everything is buried..."
Robin looked at the thin little girl in his arms, "Did you hear the stories here, come here out of curiosity, and inadvertently stimulate the shadows of those ghosts?"
Ayu nodded.
The psychic grandma walked to the bottom of the valley, "More than three hundred years ago, there was a city here, which was the capital of the Kingdom of Flowers at that time, also known as the Capital of Flowers..."
Lin Qi followed behind with Robin holding Ayu's hand, passing by desolate rocks, ruins, embers, and the gradually dissipating phantoms of bones, corpses, and ghosts created by Ayu.
"Later, the black dragon destroyed everything here, and moved everything away..." The psychic grandma sighed as she walked, "No more, nothing is gone, and in the end there is only such a desolate valley with nothing left.
Over the past three hundred years, the blood and corpses of countless martyrs of the Bamboo League have been buried here... and perhaps their aspirations for sacrifice, everything is buried here."
"That's why this place is called Flower Burial Valley..." Robin followed, "But, 'move'? Can the black dragon move a city?"
"It's not a city, it's mainly because the palace was moved away." The psychic grandma looked into the distance in the dim night, "That's the current palace in the Water City..."
She shook her head and said, "For mortals, it is naturally impossible to move mountains. But for the black dragon, which is a mythical creature, it seems that even moving an island into the sky is nothing."
Robin nodded wordlessly.
Looking at the quiet Flower Burial Valley in the night, she couldn't help but take Lin Qi's hand and hold it gently.
Lynch didn't express anything. In fact, he didn't talk much along the way. Robin couldn't even see much sadness in his eyes, as if he was just a bystander.
"Let's go down and have a look." Lynch said after reaching the bottom of the valley.
The psychic grandma was a little surprised. After carefully sensing the qi underground, she discovered something. She nodded and sighed: "They are indeed here... and this is the only place they can stay."
Only Ayu looked confused, and Robin looked at their feet. Under the ground dozens of meters away, there was the underground grotto where the headless Xingtian she controlled was currently located.
At this moment, through the flower ears in Xingtian's collarbone, Robin clearly heard Xianglian's scolding voice containing anger and resentment in the underground grotto...
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"Idiot! Idiot! What an idiot!"
After Xianglian finished telling the story of that year and Lily's leaving without saying goodbye, she was still flushed with anger and cursed angrily, "You're stupid and naive! You actually believed in that bullshit agreement. Thirty years later, it never happened again."
When you come back, you are just like a bastard!"
Xiangchun advised: "Okay, eldest sister, it's been so long, don't be angry..."
Xianglian glared at Xiangchun angrily, and the latter immediately shut up.
The underground grotto became quiet again, with only the sound of Xiang Lian's angry breathing and the moans of the mute slowly waking up from the pool of solidified blood.
No one paid any attention to the mute for the time being.
Robin sighed softly, controlled the flower mouth on Xingtian's abdomen, and said slowly to Xianglian: "Lily is dead."
All sounds stopped suddenly.
Xiangchun turned to look at the headless monster. Xianglian was completely stunned. Her whole body felt like being struck by lightning. Then her eyes gradually turned red, which was the appearance of bloodshot eyes. Her teeth creaked and her breathing became heavier.
A few words squeezed out of the gap: "This, no, can"
Xing Tian stood up and sighed: "He died of illness. That was almost ten years ago."
"This is impossible!!"
Xianglian blurted out, took a deep breath, and looked at the headless weirdo coldly, "Death of illness? Who are you fooling? She won't get sick at all, how can she die of illness?!"
Xing Tian said: "She was buried on the island in the Western Sea closest to the Grand Route..."
After telling Xianglian the address of the small village, Xingtian said, "Her tomb is over there. There are some wild flowers around, which she should like very much."
"I said, I don't believe it." Xianglian's expression was very cold, "Who are you?"
"Sister..." At this time, Xiangchun suddenly spoke, his voice trembling.
Xianglian stared at her, only to see that the second sister's face was slightly pale, staring blankly at the mute little old man sitting in a pool of solidified and sticky blood, moaning and beating his blood-stained head...
"Sister, why would he help us?" Xiangchun murmured, "I thought he was just greedy for life and afraid of death... But from now on, whenever we talk about Lily, he hurts us like crazy.
Own……"
"...!?" Xianglian's pupils suddenly tightened.
"Ah!" The little mute old man shrank up when he heard the words, and tried to grab the ground with his head.
Suddenly, an arm appeared from the ground and held down the mute's head to stop him.
The mute looked at the hand growing on the ground as if he had seen a ghost, and screamed "ahhhh" in a hurry.
Xiang Lian seemed to have seen something incredible and stayed where she was in disbelief.
"National treasure, flowers and fruits..."
Such a voice came from under Xing Tian's clothes, and then his whole body disintegrated, turning into petals all over the sky, and scattered in the underground grotto.
"Lily has indeed been found." The voice of the second half of the sentence came from elsewhere.
In the secret passage leading to the Flower Burial Valley, the psychic grandmother, Ayu, Lin Qi and Robin slowly walked down. The second half of the sentence was exactly what Robin said.
The petals were fluttering, the mute's face was in panic, Xiangchun was in a daze, Xianglian's lips were trembling, tears suddenly welled up, Ayu was also stunned, and looked up at Robin, who just smiled and touched her head, Lin Qi
There was no reaction, but the psychic grandma looked at the flying petals, burst into tears for a while, and sighed, "Flowers and fruits, flowers and fruits... national treasure, finally returned to the land of flowers, flowers and fruits...
…Princess Lily, have you seen it?”
The old woman knelt down tremblingly and cried sadly.
Xiang Lian and Xiang Chun looked blankly at Xu Lun, who was coming out of the crowd. The latter raised her hand, and many petals surged up, and several long, white and slender arms spun out from her elbows.
Robin said: "As you can see, I am the one with the ability of flowers and fruits."
Before anyone could react, she reached out and pointed at the hurried and frightened mute. Next to the mute, a large group of petals rose from the ground and condensed into another identical little mute old man.
"What a pity, it is indeed a flower and fruit!" the psychic grandma cried, "This is the power of the national treasure... the world of flowers..."
"His tongue was severed a long time ago, and there is no way to recreate it completely..."
Robin said, removing the severed tongue from the mute mouth of his Hua Zizai clone and flying it into the mouth of the stunned mute body, "But in this case, I can barely speak again."
The psychic grandma wiped the corners of her eyes and sighed: "Xianglian, I probably understand why you resent Lily... I can't help you not to hate her and never come back, but what I can tell you is that she has been a
The little beggar who goes around begging for food has already seen a lot of human kindness and warmth in the world when she was as old as Ayu... I only raised her for a year, but I know very well that she is not the kind of childish person who puts her hopes in
An innocent girl in a man who clearly cannot be trusted..."
"..." Xianglian's lips trembled and there were tears in her eyes. She couldn't help but take two steps back.
Xiangchun asked the mute, "Why on earth are you willing to help us?"
The mute's mouth was trembling and he was in pain.
"I discovered it when I first met you..." Lin Qi rarely spoke at this moment. Everyone in the cave also looked at him. He pointed at the mute old man and said strangely, "You seem to have noticed
Are you scared when you touch my face?"
The mute's body trembled, and he tried to hit his head against the wall again, but was caught by Xianglien who came out of nowhere.
Xianglian's face was ferocious, as if she wanted to eat someone, she glared at the mute fiercely, gritted her teeth and asked: "What on earth... happened... tell me quickly!!"
"me……"
The mute really spoke. Although the half of the tongue attached to it was not suitable and his words were a bit tongue-tied, he did speak clearly, "It's pollen...it's pollen..."
"pollen?"
Robin was surprised. As far as she knew, it was a secret medicine used by the Dragon Banner Army to fight for their lives, a poison that overdrafted vitality in exchange for explosive power.
The mute former palace physician shed tears of blood, held his head and said in pain: "The prince said it was for research, in order not to let the soldiers die in such pain... So he asked me to reduce the toxicity of pollen... In the end, I made a failed product, not only
It cannot inspire stronger power, and it is also a chronic poison...if you take it, you will definitely die after a few years..."
"What did you say!?"
As if struck by thunder, Xianglian's body swayed twice, staggered backwards, and fell to the ground, muttering to herself, "But...at that time...I also ate those..."
"It was painted on..." The mute beat his bloody head in pain, "on her tableware..."
"Sister..." Xiangchun looked worriedly at Xianglian, who was sitting on the ground blankly, her eyes empty and silent for a long time, as if her soul had been drained out of her.
At this moment, Robin picked up a broken stone and quickly traced the appearance of a woman laughing brightly on the ground.
Xianglian, who was sitting blankly, moved her eyes at this moment. When she saw the woman's appearance outlined in a few strokes on the ground, she let out a sad sob deep in her throat and choked.
"This is what Lily looks like in the photo on her tombstone..."
Robin leaned over and touched Ayu's head, "Can you please use your ability to summon her phantom? If it is a phantom fruit, it should be able to bring Lily's shadow back briefly, even if it is only for a few seconds.
…”
Ayu silently looked at the laughing woman's face outlined in a few strokes on the ground, and nodded vigorously.
She squatted down, gently reached out to touch, and then pursed her lips...
Suddenly, a phantom flew out of her body like moonlight and appeared in this underground grotto.
The mute was so frightened that he screamed and rubbed his back on the ground.
Xiangchun was stunned, "This is my sister's sister..."
The psychic grandma looked at the phantom and sighed.
"Thank you." Robin hugged Ayu, who raised his head, opened his eyes wide, and looked at the phantom of the woman he had summoned.
Lily in phantom form was much younger than the one Robin saw on the tombstone, more youthful and energetic, and more energetic... However, she didn't seem to be in a good mood.
Lily in the phantom seemed to be looking back at something. She raised her foot and stepped on something in the air. Judging by the amplitude of the shaking, it seemed to be the edge of a small boat.
This was a reenactment of the moment when she left the Kingdom of Flowers... Robin had a realization in his heart.
Phantom Lily looked back, scratched her head and said to herself: "Really... is Xiao Lianlian so unsure of me?"
"Of course I won't believe the black dragon's lies... However, if I stay in the Kingdom of Flowers, I can't improve my strength any more. I have to go out and try my luck!"
She clenched her fist and hummed, "Damn black dragon, just wait for me! When I come back, I will definitely beat you to pieces!"
"But..." Phantom Lily jumped to the side, as if she had boarded the boat. She opened her arms and looked into the distance with a bright smile, "What is the national treasure that Princess Lily has not been able to find? I do have it too.
Interested! Hehe... maybe next time I come back, I will bring a handsome and powerful son back. Who knows what will happen in the future? Right..."
"Ranger Lily..."
The flower-like woman looked back and waved her finger gently on her forehead, "Today I am going to a farther place to do chivalry! Hehe..."
The last smile on her face gradually disappeared as the phantom...
Behind the dissipated phantom was Xiang Lian, whose face was already full of tears. She was crying so much that it was difficult to breathe. Next to her, Xiang Chun wiped the corners of her eyes, hurriedly supported her eldest sister, and patted her back gently.
"Sister Lily...Sister Lily..." Xianglian cried bitterly. Xiangchun had never seen her eldest sister so fragile, so helpless, and crying so pitifully, like a little girl who regretted something she had done wrong.
He cried loudly, "I'm so sorry for you!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh where foraaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Xianglian beat her head desperately, wishing that she would be slapped to death with one palm.
Sounds like weeping and crying echoed in this underground grotto.
The psychic grandma wiped away her tears, sighed deeply, and murmured: "My good girl..."
Bang, bang, bang! Xianglian slapped her head, and Xiangchun was at a loss. At this time, Robin reached out and grabbed Xianglian's wrist and sighed: "Don't do this..."
Xianglian cried so hard that she couldn't help but let her hold her.
Robin wiped the corner of his eyes, turned around and said: "Lin..."
She was startled. She didn't know when Lin Qi was no longer in this underground grotto.
Ayu timidly said: "He went out just now when you were painting her... Doesn't Brother Giorno want to know these things?"
"No……"
Robin showed a complicated smile, "I think that's because he is very similar to Lily... so he can know what Lily was thinking at that time without seeing the phantom appear..."
"Eh?" Ayu was surprised, "Why is this?"
"Because..." Robin said softly, "his name is actually Lynch, and he is Lily's child."