"By the way, Xiaoqing, what year is it in the last days?"
"Four years of the last days."
Four years?
My parents are gone, and I have just developed supernatural powers in this life.
"Xiaoqing, do you know where the Zhengyang base is?"
"have no idea."
Tian Jing was a little disappointed, but upgrading is the most important thing now, "Xiaoqing, I'm going to dig crystal cores to upgrade."
"You know how to use crystal nuclei? Then why is your superpower so low?"
"The world that Xiaosong lives in not only limits it, but also limits me."
"I, you..."
Xiaoqing hesitated to speak, which made Tian Jing secretly happy, "If you have something to say, just say it."
"I want to go with you, is that okay? I also want to use wood crystal cores to upgrade. The crystal cores of human superpowers are so messed up that it's useless for me to eat them."
"Eating their flesh and blood is not as much energy as the plant energy I got from you just now."
It's set.
"Then you arrested me because I have wood-type powers?"
Xiaoqing admitted, "Yes, if you hadn't mentioned Xiaosong, who is similar to me, you would have only skin and bones left buried under my roots."
Tian Jing was not convinced, "That's not necessarily true. I can absorb your energy. You have a lot of energy. I can at least reach the fourth intermediate level."
"If you pull the energy around you and raise it to the fourth high level, you can mine your crystal core."
The whole pine tree trembled, "Humph! You humans are the worst."
Tian Jing retorted, "Don't generalize, I'm not that kind of human being."
"I can take you away, but how do you leave?"
Tian Jing's words made Xiao Qing feel happy.
"You dig up my taproot from the grave. I can become smaller by myself, plant it in a flower pot, and then I can follow you."
Pointing to the small mound next to the pine tree, Tian Jing asked in surprise, "Is this a grave?"
"Yes, otherwise, why would there be pine trees behind the village?"
"How old is this tomb?"
"It's been more than a hundred years, right?"
Well!
It couldn't be someone's ancestral grave, right? She wouldn't dig up other people's ancestral graves.
As if he understood what Tian Jing was thinking, Xiao Qing added a few words, "It's been eight or ninety years since anyone came to burn paper. Otherwise, the grave would not be so low that you can't recognize it."
Tolerate!
In order to trick Xiaoqing into becoming her bodyguard, she would dig up the ancestral grave no matter whose family it belonged to, even if it belonged to her own family.
I just hope there are no zombies dug up.
Pressing his hands on the ground, the mound quickly turned into a big pit.
An intact coffin in the middle of the pit.
There are some human bones with flesh and blood around the coffin.
Seeing the condition of the coffin, Tian Jing could only think of holding the grass.
"Xiaoqing, why does your taproot pass through the middle of the coffin?"
"I don't know, I was unconscious at that time."
"Then, why is your taproot wrapped around the coffin?"
"I don't know either. It's been like this since I woke up. This is why I can't leave here."
"Your lateral fibrous roots are so flexible, why can't the main root shrink on its own?"
"Tiantian, you have so many questions. If you open the coffin and take a look, won't you know?"
I went back to the village to find tools such as iron rods and kitchen knives, and untied the several loops of tap roots wrapped around the coffin.
Tian Jing fiddled with it for a while before prying open the coffin lid.
There were no rotten bones as imagined, only half a coffin with blinding gold bricks.
Most of the fibrous roots on the main root of Xiaoqing are wrapped around the big gold brick.
Is this a money-grubbing tree?
Seeing Tian Jing in a daze, Xiao Qing urged, "Tian Tian, hurry up and help me untie those fibrous roots."
Tian Jing had a question to ask, "Xiaoqing, you look like someone deliberately made you look like this."
"Is that person worried that you have run away, or is he worried that the coffin has been lost?"
"I don't know."
Tian Jing asked again, "Xiaoqing, you have eaten so many humans, do you feel so violent in your heart that you want to destroy the world?"
"No, I just don't think it tastes good."
"Then why don't you eat other plants?"
"Because they don't have crystal nuclei, I won't absorb energy like you do."
Tian Jing picked up the iron rod and kitchen knife on the ground, "Xiao Qing, I don't want to be your enemy. After all, you and Xiao Song are so similar."
"I also really want to take you away. I think in this end of the world, humans are unreliable, and it would be nice to have a partner like you."
"But my friendship was wrongly paid once again, and you actually lied to me."
"I don't!"
Xiao Qing became anxious, "I have almost exposed the crystal core in front of you now. I really don't know why it is like this. I really feel like this as soon as I wake up."
"real?"
"Really, really."
Xiao Qing responded repeatedly, "Look carefully, my fibrous roots are all knotted. Can I do this by myself?"
Tian Jing approached the coffin and picked up a fibrous root. There was also a gold brick hanging under the fibrous root.
"It hurts, it hurts, Tiantian, put it down quickly."
Hearing Xiaoqing's cry of pain, Tian Jing hurriedly stretched out her hand to hold the gold brick.
"Thank you Tiantian."
Xiaoqing's voice was filled with grateful excitement, "This is why I can't shrink back to my main root."
"If I discarded all these fibrous roots, my taproot would be injured and I might not survive."
"Even if I survive, I will lose a lot of my powers, and I may even lose consciousness."
Listening to Xiao Qing's words, Tian Jing looked at the knots on the gold bricks.
This should be man-made, but I don’t know if it’s the early days of the end of the world or the period when this coffin was buried.
"Just wait, I'll open it and try it. If it's not right, just say something."
"Uh-huh."
Tian Jing tried many methods, but couldn't open the knot with her hands, because Xiao Qing always cried out in pain.
"Xiao Qing, you are not allowed to absorb my supernatural power. I will try to use my supernatural power to relieve it."
"good."
Xiaoqing's voice was weak, it hurt too much.
Tian Jing only dared to deliver a small amount of superpowers.
The solution was to untie one. Untying this one not only made her very tired, but also caused Xiaoqing pain.
Everyone is resting.
Tian Jing inquired about some information by the way, "Xiao Qing, there is no one in this village, why are there no zombies?"
"have no idea."
"You don't know the answer to anything I ask you, can't you think about it carefully?"
"Perhaps something happened when you were unconscious? Maybe there are clues to unravel these knots in your mind?"
Xiao Qing thought and thought carefully, and finally thought of something for it.
"Before I woke up, I felt particularly comfortable for a while. I sucked in and out greedily, as if I was being taken out and sent back again."
Take it out and send it back?
Energy exchange?
Is it the female wood-type psychic?
How could she forget that person? That was the noble white lotus.
Tian Jing stood up and sat next to the trunk of Xiaoqing's tree, "Xiaoqing, I'm here to try extracting and sending it back. You must not absorb energy privately."
"When you can leave with me, how much energy do you want? Right?"
"Yeah, I know."
Xiaoqing's voice was choked, "Thank you Tiantian, I understand why Xiaosong can become good friends with you, because you treat us as a living being of flesh and blood."
She actually cried? Tian Jing changed the topic embarrassedly.
"After you become conscious, you have flesh and blood and emotions, but it's just different from us humans. Okay, I'm about to start, please hold on."