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Yan Qi was standing under a huge tree. It would take about a dozen people holding hands to hug the tree. The huge crown of the tree was like the roof of a large auditorium. The tree was full of lanterns. Yan Qi thought that this was a A giant Christmas tree, right?

"Come up and sit?"

Yan Qi looked at the source of the sound, only seeing the luxuriant branches and leaves of the big tree. He spread out the light vines to let himself reach that position, and then he found himself standing in a spacious wooden house, with a man facing away from him in front of him. He was making tea, he ran to the window, it was still late at night outside the window, the trees were too tall, the wooden house almost seemed to be built in the clouds, maybe it could overlook the entire Liufeng Forest during the day? "Qin Mo also took me to fly so high."

"Qin Mo?"

Yan Qi turned his head and saw a handsome man with a very shallow smile on his face. There were vine-like patterns on his face and hands, between blue and green, slightly greener, Yan Qi said: "I the person I like."

The other party said: "She likes you too?"

Yan Qi said, "I think so."

"I hope so." The man raised his hand, "Come and sit."

Yan Qi went to the table and sat down. The table was carved with exquisite patterns. This kind of table really doesn’t look like a daily necessities, but everything in this room is like this, and so is the window sill where Yan Qi was standing just now. , "The things here look good."

"A long time can always allow people to develop some hobbies."

"Oh, you alone?" Yan Qi touched the carvings on the table, thinking that he would never be able to cultivate such hobbies in his life.

The man drank tea quietly, "I'm alone. Strange?"

"No." This person is the most calm person Yan Qi has ever met, and it is normal for such a person to be alone. "It's those vines. There are many colors, so I thought there were many people."

"You think so?"

"Yes." Yan Qi said, "My vines are light, but yours are not."

The man put down his teacup, "I was just about to tell you, you are too flamboyant, why did you make the vines shiny, such a fancy thing..." He frowned slightly, "Could it be because that Qin Mo likes such things?" vine?"

"It's not...it was like this from the beginning, I didn't make it like this on purpose." Yan Qi let a vine of light stretch out from the back of his right hand, it looked like a vine-shaped light, "It can change In a different way?"

"Yes, you can change it."

"How to change?" The light tendril changed various postures in the air like a cramp, but the shape of the light remained unchanged.Yan Qi asked the man, "How did you do it?"

The man looked at Yan Qi's light vines, "I always thought that changing the appearance of the vines was something that Luo Yin people were born with. My vines were green at first, and gradually they could change according to the color of the environment. Like a chameleon, it's not easy to notice. Maybe a lot of practice will help."

"Okay, I'll try more."

The man said again: "Maybe you are particularly dangerous? Many eye-catching creatures are dangerous." After all, he didn't show much curiosity.

Yan Qi objected, "It's very unreasonable, isn't it. There are also danger levels within the Luo Yin clan?"

The man smiled slightly, "Of course, although we are all scary to other races, we understand our own differences. Like me, my spatial ability is good, but my time ability is not very good."

Yan Qi said: "I'm not that bad, as long as there are no accidents, everyone will be thankful."

The man's smile deepened again, "Actually, it doesn't matter if you can't change the appearance of the vines. The key is not to change the color, but to hide the vines."

"This makes sense." Yan Qi said, "Some people can see my vines, but people here in Liufeng Forest can't see your vines. I thought it was because you are much stronger than me—I think the truth is So too, but in this case maybe just because you figured out a way to hide them? How did you do it?"

The man said: "It's very simple. Hiding them in the space is like a blindfold. It looks like they don't exist, but in fact they are always there. I am not the first person to use this method. But this method is the simplest. "

Yan Qi said he would not, "How to do this?"

"you do not know any think……"

"Yes." Yan Qi admitted frankly, "I was an ordinary human being two years ago, have you heard of the drug poisoning incident? After that, I grew patterns."

The man was silent, he didn't know if he was thinking or just in a daze. After a while, he said: "Someone has manipulated you, making your Luo Yin features sleep deep in your body."

"That's okay too?"

The man said, "Okay, just stop some parts of you and keep some parts of you from growing."

"Ah? But some non-human races are acquired mutations, and I'm sure I am too." How could it be innate?

The man looked at Yan Qi for a while and said, "My name is Luo Yuan."

"Oh, hello, you can call me Yan Qi."

The person who said his name was Luo Yuan nodded slightly, and then said after drinking tea, "I've never heard of this name, do you have another name?"

"No. I said I'm a newcomer. It's normal that you haven't heard of me."

Luo Yuan said: "Unless there is no time constraint, age has no meaning. Some Luo Yin people like time travel very much. If you have this name and use glowing vines, then someone should have told me about you."

Yan Qi said, "I guess I'll soon learn to make my vines non-luminous and make me unobtrusive. But, have you heard of anyone else with glowing vines?"

Luo Yuan nodded slightly.

"Who is that?"

Luo Yuan said: "It happened a long time ago."

Seeing that Luo Yuan didn't want to say more, Yan Qi didn't ask any more questions. Anyway, he still had countless questions to ask this fellow clan, "You just said that age doesn't mean anything to us, why do you say that? I've been growing up, Even in the past, they didn't stop growing. Surely they will grow old and die in the future, right?" This seemed to ask for the secret of immortality, and Yan Qi was too embarrassed to ask too bluntly.

Luo Yuan said again: "You don't understand anything." Yan Qi reminded him in a low voice with a smirk, "Newcomers and newcomers." Luo Yuan went on to say, "The first important time period for the Luo Yin clan is when they are 3-5 years old. We will awaken our abilities during this time..."

Yan Qi interrupted: "Isn't one born with abilities?"

"Even if the ability is awakened at the age of 5, it is already sensible at that age, but the destructive power is still amazing. If you are born with the ability, you can imagine what will happen." Luo Yuan said, "It would be a disaster, who Will you still want to have children?"

In order to let him go on quickly, Yan Qi nodded repeatedly to express his agreement.

Luo Yuan said: "Another important time period for the Luoyin tribe is between the ages of 20 and 30. During this time period, the Luoyin tribe will have an evolution of ability."

"This is not bad." Yan Qi urged Luo Yuan to say quickly with his eyes.

Luo Yuan said: "This evolution is not entirely a good thing, it is the evolution of the soul, and it needs someone's assistance to complete..." He paused for a while, and then changed the subject unexpectedly, "The person one loves happens to love his What is the probability?"

Yan Qi was dying of anxiety, and it was not easy to rush him, "One tenth?"

"It's definitely lower than this probability. The evolution of the Luo Yin tribe requires the participation of the person we love. This is a soul evolution, which includes the part of soul fusion. After the soul fusion of the two parties, the person cannot leave unless he dies." us."

Yan Qi managed to suppress the shock in his heart, and pretended to laugh easily, "This desire for dominance is really..." Then he thought of a question, and immediately restrained his smile, "If we die, what effect will it have on the other party?"

"Some of them will die too. In fact, they die, and so do we. Some people will die, and some will survive the pain and continue to live."

Yan Qi thought for a while, "I still feel that the advantages of this evolution outweigh the disadvantages." After he finished speaking, he realized that those who would say that probably have a strong desire for monopoly...

Luo Yuan said: "Whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, we have to go back to our original question: what is the probability that the person one loves happens to also love him? Soul fusion does not necessarily require the two people to love each other, but at least There is a certain degree of liking."

Yan Qi blinked, "That is to say, even if the person he loves doesn't love him, he can still find someone to complete his evolution at once?"

"You understand it right. But there are also people who don't want to let it go."

Yan Qi said, "Then it won't evolve."

"It's a pity there's no choice, everyone has to go through this."

"Forcing to win the lottery, what happened to those who didn't want to find someone to make do with?"

Luo Yuan took a sip of tea, then looked at the ceiling again, "Dead."

Yan Qi was silent for a while, "How many people like this are in the Luo Yin clan?" He thought to himself, could this be the truth that the Luo Yin clan was almost wiped out? "Apart from the two of us, is there anyone else alive in the Luo Yin tribe?"

"There are not many such people. There are others alive, but not here, in other time and space."

That's right, if human beings want to find another person among billions of people, it is possible to find another person, but the probability of the Luoyin people meeting another of their own kind between the past and the future is definitely close to zero.Yan Qi said: "If you don't want to, you will die. No wonder you said you hope Qin Mo likes me."

Luo Yuan said: "Originally, I wanted to advise you not to like someone easily, at least give your heart slowly after you have a certain degree of confidence, but it seems that it is too late?"

"Yeah, it's too late. I liked him the year before last."

Luo Yuan shook his head, "I've seen a lot of sloppy young people's choices. Luo Yinzu's liking is based on the premise of giving their whole life, you should be more careful."

Yan Qi smiled and said, "It's okay, don't worry, he likes me too."

Seeing his relaxed appearance, Luo Yuan didn't say any more.

Yan Qi asked: "How to evolve?"

"It's our instinct, and you'll know when the time comes."

Yan Qi didn't give up, "Then what are the signs that it will start to evolve?"

"Different people behave differently. In short, it is usually when you feel something is wrong."

"..." Yan Qi said, "You describe it too vaguely."

Luo Yuan thought for a while, "You think it's possible when you're sick."

"..." Yan Qi said, "Then how will I know if I have completed my evolution?"

Luo Yuan said: "At that time, you will definitely know. Leaving aside the issue of your ability improvement, at that time, because you have carried out soul fusion with the person, then you must be able to communicate with the other person to a certain extent."

"Is it limited by time and space?"

Luo Yuan said: "No. One of the benefits of the second evolution is that the other half of the Luoyin tribe will act as an anchor for them. With the anchor, the boat will be more stable, and the Luoyin tribe will be lost in time and space. There are not many people, but after evolution, this situation will no longer appear.”

Yan Qi thought for a while, last time he was trapped in Kunyu, maybe after evolution, this situation will not happen again?At least he can return to Qin Mo's side, or bring Qin Mo to be his company?

Luo Yuan looked at Yan Qi, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing." Yan Qi shook his head, recalling quickly, "We seem to be talking about growing up and dying at the beginning?"

Luo Yuan said: "After the soul evolution of the Luo Yin people, the body will stop growing—unless they subconsciously force themselves to continue growing."

"Amazing! But why force yourself to grow, or force yourself to grow old?"

Luo Yuan said: "Because the person Luo Yin falls in love with is not necessarily Luo Yin, and some Luo Yin will synchronize their time with the other's time."

Yan Qi immediately asked: "How do I adjust this?"

"It's easy to do after you can easily manage the timing."

Controlling time... Yan Qi then remembered something, "We seemed to be talking about space at the beginning, and you were about to tell me how you hid the vines."

Luo Yuan got up again to make a pot of tea, and then slowly said: "Many races can teleport, but they are fast, while the teleportation of the Luo Yin race is not based on speed, but cutting space."

Yan Qi said: "I know, the space gate."

"Yes, we will always stand inside or outside the door, and take a small step forward to reach another space. Those vines of mine are behind the door, and most people can't see through the space, so they can't see them either."

Yan Qi said, "I can see it."

"Because you are a Luo Yin tribe and are very familiar with this kind of trick."

"I'm not familiar with it, but I will practice more in the future." Yan Qi said, "Your vines are behind the door, which means that if someone breaks out and you want to stop them, it will take time for the vines to go from behind the door to the front. So as long as the escaped person is fast enough, he can escape?"

"There's no escape. They have marks on them. Once they leave, I will know, and then they will be teleported back to where they should be."

Yes, Yan Qi himself can move an item from one place to another, "How do you mark a specific item?"

"Each district has a protective shield made of my vines. The vines in different districts use different colors. Every criminal can have one of my vines on him. That vine is closely related to its big family. Once it is too far away , it will bring that person back to a place close enough.

Yan Qi said: "Sounds a little scary, I'm going to see how those vines grow on those people tomorrow."

Luo Yuan said: "Grow on people? No, they only grow on us. On those people, they look more like necklaces with tracking functions. Humans sometimes wear trackers on special criminals. Here I am It just popularized the practice."

Yes, criminals can still live freely here, but the living circle is smaller, but everyone has to wear a colorful vine-shaped collar... Fortunately, they don't know about it, otherwise some people would rather die than surrender.

Yan Qi asked: "Since the vines can be hidden, can the patterns on our bodies also be able to?"

"There's no way around that. The patterns are one with us. Hiding them is equivalent to hiding yourself."

"it's a pity."

Luo Yuan smiled, "There are gains and losses."

Yan Qi said: "But it's also interesting to hide ourselves. Can we become invisible?"

"Can……"

Yan Qi quickly added, "Don't hide in the space, we won't be able to see what happened if we hide in the space."

Luo Yuan said: "Then hide in time. As long as your time is slower than this world, no one will see you."

Yan Qi thought for a while, "Does that mean we put ourselves in the past state?"

Luo Yuan said: "Take your Qin Mo as an example, you follow him, but you keep your time one second slower than his time, what will happen then?"

"I could see everything he did - I couldn't see it except for that one second."

"Yes, if you are proficient, then you can compress that second to a ten-millionth of a second, the effect is the same, he can't see through time, so you don't exist to him." Luo Yuan smiled, "We Stalking at its best. You'd better not tell him about it, he'll be freaked out."

Yan Qi nodded earnestly, this almost frightened him, stalking Qin Mo is very attractive to him, but being a stalker is not fun.

Yan Qi looked out the window, the sky was slightly bright, "Your house can't be seen by others? Are you using time or space?"

Luo Yuan said, "Can't you notice it?"

"Is it all used?"

Luo Yuan nodded, and also looked out the window, "It's almost dawn, shall I take you back?"

"No, don't worry, can I stay here longer?"

"No problem, welcome anytime."

"Great." Yan Qi said, "Then can you send a letter to my teacher for me?"

"You can't do it yourself?"

"I only tried to take things, don't try to send things."

"Then you can just practice..."