The Midnight Owl

On the one hand, he suddenly became enlightened, and on the other hand, he was stunned.

Silently staring at each other for a long time, Qian Ai sighed, as if exhaling a melancholy smoke ring that didn't exist.

"We, probably, need an explanation." On behalf of the other two partners, he raised the white flag of love.

Xu Wang put away the letter, and didn’t need to analyze the emotional difference between the poems for these three. For the cow playing the piano, it’s faster to just answer: “This is the love between trees and flowers, plant love.”

Wu Sheng: "..."

Chi Yingxue: "..."

Qian Ai was so tired, physically and mentally exhausted: "Can you pretend that I didn't ask for this explanation..."

"It's the tree that really acts as a stand-in," Kuang Jinxin felt sorry for his little friend, and further explained, "It uses its own branches to protect the epiphytic flowers, so every time the hellfire passes, it is the branches that are scorched."

"This matches the last sentence of Epiphyte Flower - never really burned by the fire of hell -." Wu Sheng finally buckled the first link of the logic chain.

Xu Wang looked at him in relief.

"The tree is the real stand-in. It is justified and well-founded. I agree with it." Wu Junshi is not a beginner. Once he enters, he can go from point to surface and catch doubts. "But how can you be sure? It loves epiphytic flowers. , instead of Cornina?"

"This..." Kuang Jinxin was stopped by the question, and looked at Xu Wang in a bit of embarrassment.

He thought the captain was right just now, but now he thinks the military division is right.

If Shu loves Conina and is willing to be a substitute, it seems that there is no problem?

Xu Wang bypassed the confused classmate Kuang and asked Wu Sheng directly: "When we picked the flowers, what did the tree do?"

Of course this Wu Sheng remembered: "Swinging the branches attacked us inhumanely, of course, mainly to beat you."

"...That's because I stood on your shoulders and went deeper into the enemy's camp!" Xu Wang decisively ended his memories and returned to the subject, "If the tree loves Cornina, why does it stop us from picking flowers?"

"It will wish us to take the flowers away. At that time, it will protect Cornina with the epiphytic flowers, double insurance." Wu Sheng said, and finally put all the links together, "In the end, the epiphytic flowers fell by themselves, and the tree can stop them." We can't stop the flowers."

Wu Junshi doesn't understand love, but as long as someone gives him a blade of grass, he can deduce the whole grassland.

"Understood," Qian Ai clapped her hands, and concluded, "Konina and Amy like York, and York's scumbag doesn't need to think about it. The epiphytic flower saved Conina who was executed, and indirectly caused Amy to die tragically. Amy The Evil Spirit wants to kill Konina, and the epiphytic flower is willing to be a substitute, but the tree loves the epiphytic flower, so he uses himself as a substitute for the epiphytic flower."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Chi Yingxue: "..."

Kuang Jinxin: "Brother Qian..."

Xu Wang: "As expected, he is the man who experienced 2/23, the first-class Shura field on the red-eye flight."

"I have only one question left." Qian Ai was not dazzled by the praise, and looked at Xiao Kuang suspiciously. "The captain was attacked by a tree branch, and you haven't. Why can you think of the tree branch with him?"

"Obviously what was burnt was flowers, but it turned into branches every time it was burned, which is very strange," Kuang Jinxin said naturally, "I have always cared about it."

Qian Ai: "It could also be the cover-up of the epiphytic flower, right? No one has ever said how to operate the substitute, maybe it's just using the cover-up to deceive the evil spirits?"

Kuang Jinxin wrinkled his small face together, thinking seriously for a long time: "It seems that there is also such a possibility..."

Qian Ai Fu forehead.

So it's just that I didn't think so much!

"However," Kuang Jinxin touched his heart, "the first time I saw the burnt branches, it was sour here, a little sad, and I don't know why."

Qian Ai: "..."

Wu Sheng patted his teammate on the shoulder reassuringly: "The sixth sense is a very luxurious thing, just like wealth, it cannot be forced."

Qian Ai: "...the second half of your sentence is even more heart-wrenching."

"Can I ask a question?" Chi Yingxue, who had been listening quietly, frowned, and without waiting for a few people to respond, she directly asked doubts, "Isn't it strange that a tree falls in love with its own flowers? Will you fall in love with your hands?"

Qian Ai, who had already been beaten enough, looked at his cute fist, and then at Chi Yingxue: "What kind of metaphor are you talking about..."

Xu Wang and Kuang Jinxin were very quiet and tacit, and they knew very well who should be on the stage at this time of science popularization.

"The epiphytic flower is not the flower that the tree blooms, but just attached to the tree. It brings more water to the tree, and the tree provides it with a habitat." Wu Junshi knocked on the blackboard, highlighting the new teammate, "They are Two plants, free love."

Chi Yingxue: "...Thank you."

The indescribably delicate mood that has always existed since joining this team is climbing upwards step by step.

"Captain, the line of love is clear, but how can we count it as handing in the paper?" Kuang Jinxin's brows that had just been relaxed were knotted again.

"I'm not sure," Xu Wang glanced at the epiphytic flower on the ground, "but at least you have to send it back, right?"

Qian Ai did not turn around: "Where to send it back?"

"On the tree." Xu Wang said, with a dignified tone, "This is the love between the tree and the flower. If we take the flower and refuse to return it, we are forced to separate. Isn't that a legal sea?"

"..." With precise examples and metaphors, Qian Ai deliberately refuted, but was powerless.

To return the flowers to the tree, it is natural to re-enter the oil painting.

A group of people returned to 1310 at the fastest speed, and then there was no more.

This room, which caught fire at every turn, changed from the previous warm and hospitable, deserted as if no one lived in it for a long time.

The oil painting on the wall is still there, but the color is dull and unremarkable, without the vividness and weirdness that is about to come out.

Qian Ai looked at his team leader in embarrassment: "Try to drill in?"

Xu Wang swallowed his saliva, thinking about it, he already felt the pain of hitting the big wall: "It's just a pass, and there is no need to fight..."

"If you want to return the flowers to the tree, is the only way to put back the oil painting?" Kuang Jinxin asked.

Xu Wang could only think of this at the moment, but obviously, the way was wrong.

"Not necessarily." Wu Sheng, who had been silent all this time, spoke.

The four companions watched him together.

But he suddenly walked to the window, looked at the messy lawn below, and said, "Come and see."

The four of them didn't know why, so they immediately gathered together and looked out the window.

Wu Sheng pointed to the only intact piece of lawn that the excavator was approaching step by step, and asked, "Does this look familiar?"

The surviving lawn was about the size of a basketball court, and there was a big tree planted there. The tree was lush and shaded.

The point is so obvious, if the four of them don't understand Wu Sheng's meaning, they can really shake their heads and listen to the sea.

but--

Qian Ai: "Are you a bit far-fetched..."

Kuang Jinxin: "Brother Sheng, if you can't see a tree, just say it's the one in the oil painting."

Chi Yingxue recalled Wu Sheng's sense of IQ superiority in the previous discussion, raised the corners of his mouth, and deliberately imitated the other party's tone: "evidence."

Wu Sheng: "First, before the castle was built here, it was the site of the village; second, the design style of this tree does not blend with the entire front lawn, and it is suspected of deliberately highlighting to attract attention; third, take a close look at its branches, Several places are obviously sparse, and there are traces of external force fracture; four, I remember what it looks like."

From the moment it threw a branch at Xu Wang, Wu Sheng imprinted this student Xiaoshu deeply in his mind, even turning him into ashes he could recognize him.

Qian Ai rolled his eyes: "If you said the fourth item earlier, it would be over."

Kuang Jinxin was eager to try: "Then shall we go down now?"

Xu Wang restrained the urge to praise, and patted his military adviser on the shoulder deeply: "Not bad."

"..." Chi Yingxue looked at the four people in front of him, for the first time, a chill ran down his spine.

Is this kind of illogical blind trust a cult? Is it a cult?

"Boom—"

When everyone was unprepared, a new explosion occurred again!

What was blown up was the only piece of lawn left, and because the blasting point was a little closer, the shock wave directly shattered the glass in front of the five people!

The raised turf and dirt flew all over the sky in the gunpowder smoke, and the hearts of the five tightened.

The key to your plot may be just passers-by on other people's quest line, those people who dig the ground and blow up holes, don't care which tree has a relationship with you!

The friends hurriedly pushed the window open, gunpowder smoke and dust rushed in, and they couldn't see anything clearly, only vaguely heard fighting and shouting... fighting?

【Owl: Someone used <[Anti] Magic Bean> on you~~】

The sound of being locked by the armor caught the doubting friends by surprise. Before they had time to think about it, a huge green pea sprout rose from the ground outside the window. In an instant, it grew taller than their window. Promptly, like an invitation.

At the same time, most of the smoke cleared.

The remaining lawn was also blown into a hole, but strangely, only the tree was still there, together with the turf one meter square, like an isolated island in the ocean.

Its branches swayed wildly in the sun, repelling the passers-by who tried to get close to it time and time again.

Those five people had already given up the blasting flow, and sent four people to fight it, and the remaining one, driving an excavator, sneaked close to the side of the pit, and was about to approach the tree from the side!

Chi Yingxue was the first to jump on the blade, and when she turned her head and saw that her teammates hadn't moved, she raised her eyebrows slightly: "Aren't you going down?"

Only then did Xu Wang understand: "Your stationery?"

Of course you have to play, but will the speed of your new teammates be too fast?

Chi Yingxue smiled leisurely, skipped this obvious question, and went directly to the next link: "Excavator, leave it to me."

Simple six words, light tone, deep expectation, deep happiness.

As the last little friend stood firm on the leaves, the towering stems of the Magic Bean suddenly changed direction, and the branches and leaves grew wildly towards the battlefield!

In the blink of an eye, the four of Xu Wang and the others had been sent under the tree, even closer to the trunk than the four who besieged the tree!

And Chi Yingxue jumped on the other leaf earlier, and now the soldiers split into two groups and arrived at the excavator at the same time!

The moment he landed, Chi Yingxue jumped up, not caring whether the excavator's tracks would catch him, and jumped directly onto the back of the excavator!

The four friends under the tree didn't even see his movements clearly, when they heard a glass shattering "哗啦——"

The four people in the other team, before they figured out why they descended from the sky, were even more confused by the noise behind them. They instinctively turned around, and the little partner driving the excavator had been controlled by the person who got in through the shattered window. Living.

Chi Yingxue strangled the opponent's neck with one arm. Without using any weapons or threats, she simply said two words: "Stop."

Looking from under the tree, Chi Yingxue's expression was as gentle as if she was playing with the other party.

But the excavator literally stopped the moment he broke through the window.

"What are you doing--" the four people under the tree were anxious. In their opinion, their partner surrendered to the enemy without even struggling. It was simply inexplicable!

Xu Wang and the others didn't really understand it, but they were happy with the results.

Only the people in the excavator knew that he was almost out of breath.The ghostly assailant precisely pinned down the most vital part of his neck with the smallest force, leaving him in a dreadful state of gradual hypoxia but not death.

The softer the sound of "Stop", the more numb the scalp.

Because, the attacker's eyes were smiling.

It's not the kind of triumph of defeating the enemy, or the pure, creepy, joy.

The four people under the tree did not wait for the response from the little excavator, and hated iron for being weak, so they ignored it, and directly negotiated with Xu Wang and the others face-to-face: "You are full of food, is it interesting to intervene in our quest line?!"

"It's not interesting, but I'm sorry. This is also our mission line." Xu Wang touched the tree trunk soothingly, as if telling it that we are here.

The leader of the four had a violent temper at first glance, and he was furious immediately: "We've had a fucking hard night, you guys come here to pick up ready-made ones?!"

"Pick up off-the-shelf? Are you guys digging these holes?" Xu Wang was almost tortured to death by curiosity, "What kind of line do you guys have?"

"Career line," panting heavily, "digged the lawn and turned it into a big lake."

Xu Wang: "The front courtyard of the hotel has been changed to a big lake?!"

Temperament: "After the change, this place will be called Swan Lake Castle Hotel!"

Xu Wang: "...What kind of magical career line is this!!!"

Temperament: "You fucking ask me who the fuck I ask!!!"

"call out--"

The sound of a sharp weapon piercing the air interrupted the communication between the two teams.

However, the voice came from under the tree, but it was directed at the excavator!

Xu Wang only saw a flash of cold light, he didn't bother to grab the attacker, and shouted loudly at Chi Yingxue: "Be careful——"

But his shouts are not as fast as weapons!

Before the words finished, the cold light pierced through the front glass of the driver's cab with a "boom", and pierced directly into Chi Yingxue's arm strangling the driver!

A long nail!

The spikes were more ferocious than the one they encountered for the first time at the Tower Keeper of the Endless Sea!

Almost 4/5 nailed into Chi Yingxue's arm!

Even so, Chi Yingxue didn't move at all.

The person who was restrained had the most right to speak. The long nail was right under his nose, and it was firmly nailed into the arm that strangled him, but the strangled force did not loosen even a sliver.

Just out of instinct, he trembled a little, so slightly that it made people feel chills in the bottom of his heart.

The person being restrained suddenly didn't dare to look at the person holding him hostage. He even instinctively wanted to dissuade his teammates from attacking blindly. This person is dangerous, more dangerous than everyone he has met before.

However, none of his first-hand information could reach the tree.

"Your teammate wants to save you," Chi Yingxue stuck to his ear, whispering each word, "then you go to die."

The strength on the neck gradually tightened.

The person being restrained struggled to grab two hands and strangled his own arm, and finally even pushed the spike deep into it again!

But in the end, everything was in vain.

On the verge of death, the captive finally heard the sound of nature——

[Owl: Baby~ I'll be on vacation early, and I'll take you home. 】

The eight people under the tree only saw the struggle of the returnee, but did not see the violence of the sender. There was no violent action, no ferocious expression, and they were indifferent from the beginning to the end. After sending the sender home, they put down the arm with the spikes , and through the glass with a small hole, he smiled and greeted.

The four of them had a bad temper, they were horrified, You Qi attacked that one with a long nail, and the soles of their feet blew cold air.

At this silent moment, a muffled sound suddenly came from under the big hole in front of the tree, and the entire hotel front yard was shaken by the potholes!

Xu Wang and the others retreated subconsciously and leaned against the tree trunk to find a sense of security.

As early as in the fight just now, the four violent tempers were thrown to the edge of the big pit by a branch. With this shock, they immediately became unstable and rolled to the bottom of the pit!

The soil in the pit was soft, and it was fine to fall into it, but before they got up, the bottom of the pit suddenly sank at an extremely fast speed, and the four of them were sucked into a bottomless black hole in an instant!

This is not over, as if contagious, all the big pits began to collapse infinitely, one after another, and finally the entire hotel front yard was connected into a huge bottomless pothole. The only survivor was Xu Wang. The small piece of land where they and the big tree are located, and the small piece of land facing the window of 1310 where the magic beans took root!

The excavator fell into it early and disappeared.

The dust has settled.

Chi Yingxue, who escaped at some point, stepped on the blade of the magic bean, pulled out the spike from her arm, and threw it into the pit casually.

His natural expression and casual movements are like peeling off a Band-Aid.

After removing the unsightly nails, Chi Yingxue rode the leaves and landed steadily under the tree.

The four friends under the tree: "..."

In those few minutes just now, who were they, where were they, what did they go through...

Wu Sheng was the first to react. He took off his backpack, dug out the medicine box, and handed it to his new teammate. He didn't bother to ask if he needed help.

With this level of combat, Junshi Wu firmly believed that he could handle it by himself.

Sure enough, Chi Yingxue's movements were skillful, he stopped the bleeding in two or three strokes, and finished bandaging. At the end, she used alcohol cotton balls to wipe off the blood stains that were not on the wound, very meticulously.

"You have to go to the hospital if you go out." Xu Wang warned worriedly.

Chi Yingxue nodded, but she didn't feel at ease when she saw the expression on her face.

"What did you use just now?" Qian Ai finally recovered a little bit from the shock of destroying his opponent.

Chi Yingxue: "<[Wu] the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed>."

Qian Ai looked at the big pit on the ground, um, it was a subsidence, and then looked up at the blue sky and white clouds: "Where is the sky falling?"

Chi Yingxue tilted her head: "Do you want to feel it?"

Qian Ai's back felt cold: "No need!"

Chi Yingxue smiled: "This is a one-time weapon. It didn't let the sky fall when I used it. If you want to experience it again, you have to wait until the next time."

Qian Ai: "..."

It can be seen that the new teammates are in a good mood, so good that they made jokes for the first time.

But Xu Wang still felt distressed. Apart from his teammates being injured, he also felt distressed about the stationery: "To deal with them, there is actually no need for such destructive weapons."

Chi Yingxue looked at him and smiled knowingly: "Okay, I will keep all the powerful stationery in the future and use it wisely."

"..." Xu Wang didn't know what to say for a while.Teammates who are not good at communication, he has a headache, teammates who are transparent about this, why are they so disturbing!

Returning to the quiet hotel vestibule, a gust of wind came from somewhere, rustling the leaves.

Xu Wang followed the voice and looked up, the shadows of the trees were mottled.

He calmed down, carefully took out the epiphytic flower from his bosom, held it in both hands, and held it towards the big tree as if returning the original.

The tree didn't move.

The rustling of the leaves stopped at this moment, like a restless person, waiting with bated breath, waiting for hope, or shattered.

Finally, the epiphytic flower slowly emits light blue light in the ray of sunlight through the gaps in the branches.

The flowers disappeared in Xu Wang's hands, and there was a blue-haired man in front of the big tree.

It walked gently under the tree, opened its arms, and slowly embraced the trunk.

The sun drew a beautiful outline on its face.

The five little friends watched its figure fade away until it disappeared.

On the tall trunk, a cluster of light blue flowers grows quietly, and the lush branches and leaves cover it, which is well protected.

【I once loved you...May God bless you, someone else will love you as much as I do. 】

The first letter of this love line is the heart between the tree and the flower.

Affectionate, desperate, but still hope that the other party can be happy.

Still, there shouldn't be a need for that "love you like I do" person.

Xu Wang quietly looked at the tree.

Your heart, it understands.