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Albedo smiled at Dyne, and then began to tap the trunk of the golden tree rhythmically.
"Boom!"
The ground cracked, and a rather thick vine broke out from the ground. It grew right under the feet of the three people and carried them into the sky.
"Do you remember the fruits of the golden tree?" Everything on the ground was shrinking rapidly. Albedo looked up at the tree canopy above his head which was finally becoming clear and said.
"What's wrong? Is it cooked? Call the others, let's cut it and eat it." Yu Jin also looked up and saw a tiny white dot in the golden light.
If you don't look carefully, you might think that you are overusing your eyes and white spots appear in your field of vision.
"No, it can speak now."
Albedo sighed and said while forcing himself to hold his expression.
He felt very annoyed now. Why were all the things related to embers so strange?
Fortunately, the sound of the fruit is very small now, not even as loud as the rubbing of the branches and leaves of the golden tree.
But who knows, one day it might become a loud speaker, just like it suddenly starts speaking.
Before that, Albedo felt that he needed to find the first guardian of the Golden Tree, Ember, to come and take a look.
“???” Several question marks appeared on Yu Jin’s head. Could it be that the golden tree does not bear fruits, but its offspring?
It seems that for a tree, there is no difference between fruit and offspring? Unconsciously, Yu Jin's thoughts slipped away again.
"Fruit that can talk." Dain was a little numb. He had seen too many new and strange things recently.
……
"The world..., forgot me..."
"I poke!"
"The world -, forget me -"
"I'll poke again!"
"The world~, forget me~"
“It’s fun.”
"Senior Yujin, stop playing." Albedo pulled Yujin, who was squatting on the ground and poking, away with a frown on his face.
The white fruit was as big as a person, with emerald green light flowing through it, and the elemental power overflowing from it was almost turned into substance.
However, those grass elements were absorbed by the golden tree as soon as they seeped out, otherwise the golden tree would have suffered from hypertrichosis.
Yu Jin stood up, stroked his chin, and walked around the white fruit again and again, as if trying to see something.
Seeing that Yu Jin was so serious, Albedo handed him the notebook in his arms.
"This is my rough research, please take a look at it, senior."
Yu Jin took Albedo's notes and flipped through them briefly, but couldn't understand them. Fortunately, Albedo had thoughtfully written a summary at the end.
Throwing the notebook back to Albedo, Ember said seriously, "You mean, if this thing explodes, it might turn all of Mondstadt and parts of Liyue into a rainforest?"
"Even worse, the growth of so many trees is likely to cause climate disruption, which is a more deadly threat than the rainforest itself!"
Albedo also had a serious look on his face. When he came to this conclusion, he was shocked himself.
This small white fruit actually has such tremendous power that it can be said to be a weapon that can destroy a country.
"Yeah... I understand..." Yu Jin nodded, then he jumped up and slapped him.
"So it was you who ate the golden tree's belly!"
"The world↑, forget me↓"
Guozi's voice became louder this time.
Chapter 354 Answering Machine
2023-12-22
"What a strange sound." Yu Jin couldn't help complaining when he heard the obviously changed tone of his voice.
"What's even weirder is that it only repeats this sentence." Abedo couldn't help but said while looking at the huge fruit in front of him.
At first he was very interested in this talking fruit, and even built a long-term camp on such a high branch.
It turned out later that this thing would only repeat this sentence all day long without even changing its tone. In addition, other research still required him, so Abedo went down to carry out his own work.
"The world..., forgot me..."
As soon as Abedo finished speaking, the white fruit repeated what it had said countless times like a reminder.
"Forgot it? But I don't even know who it is, how could I forget it?" Ember patted the fruit's skin, and as expected, its voice changed a bit.
"Do any of you know about it?" Yi Yan patted for a while, feeling a little bored.
"Ask us rather than ask the golden tree."
"No, this is the first time I've seen a talking fruit."
Dain and Abedo both shook their heads. They really didn't know what this thing was about.
"I asked, but it didn't know. It said it was sucked out from the big tree underground." Yi Yan scratched his head, this was not easy to handle.
I don’t know the origin, so should I keep it or take it off?
"Big underground tree?" Dain's ears twitched. He looked around and looked at the huge golden tree in front of him.
The trees under the ground couldn’t be World Trees, right?
"It should be the World Tree." Albedo's words confirmed Dine's conjecture. According to his long-term research, the branches of the golden tree can connect to the veins hidden under the earth.
The honeysuckle tree under the Dragon's Back Snow Mountain is the best example.
Because the golden tree would release some nutrients from time to time and throw them to its newly recognized "little brother", the honeysuckle tree also looks different every day.
Besides the golden tree, the honeysuckle tree is the largest tree in the world.
"World Tree..." Dain looked at the white fruit in front of him, his face became solemn.
"It's better not to touch the things sucked out from the World Tree. The World Tree contains all the history of Teyvat. Perhaps this fruit is the crystallization of a certain period of history."
Dain warned as he recalled the information about the World Tree in his mind.
He has never seen the World Tree, but Kanria used to be deep in the earth, so he has naturally studied the World Tree.
Therefore, Dyne also knew some information about the World Tree. As for more, we have to go to Xumi to find it.
The World Tree is guarded by the Grass God, one of the seven gods. No one knows where the World Tree is except her.
"Is that so? It seems quite important." Yu Yan glanced at the Ginkgo in front of him with interest.
"The world..., forgot me..."
Then it started talking again.
"I find this thing so annoying." Yu Jin felt like his ears were about to grow numb.
Then, under the gaze of Dyne and Albedo, a bud was pulled out from the trunk of the golden tree next to the white fruit.
Then the shoot grows and its leaves unfold. At the top, a flesh-red bud bloomed, and then in addition to the talking fruit, there was an additional talking flower.
"The world..., forgot me..."
"Who are you?"
"The world..., forgot me..."
"Who are you?"
"..."
"..."
"What are you doing?" Dain saw the white fruits and red flowers singing in harmony and rubbed his temples.
Could it be that he ate some poisonous mushrooms underground?
"Answer this fruit." Yi Yan clapped his hands, very satisfied.
The people of Liyue know the quality of the corrupted morning glory.
"Look, if none of us recognize this fruit, doesn't that mean we have forgotten it? So, stop shouting!"
Ember slapped the white fruit again.
"The world..., forgot me..."
"Who are you?"
The white fruit immediately responded to Ember, but soon the red flower followed closely behind.
"I think it's so noisy." Abedo took out his ears. Originally, the sound of a repeater was loud enough, but unexpectedly there was another one.
"Same feeling." Dain nodded in agreement.
……
Descending from the towering golden branches, Ember and the others returned to Albedo's camp.
"Just ignore it?" Abedo walked out of the tent and looked up at the sky, seeming a little worried.
"No matter, the golden tree won't die anyway. If you are interested, you can go and study it."
Ember looked like it was in ruins.
"Forget it. I have so many research topics that I really can't spare the time to study a new project." Abedo smiled bitterly. Why did he feel that Yi Yan was somewhat similar to his master?
But after thinking about it, there are still many differences between Ember and Reindot.
At least he won't really ignore it. And judging from the spread of the roots of the Golden Tree, as long as Ember is not on an uninhabited desert sea, in fact he will never leave the Golden Tree.
This is very different from Reindot.
She really doesn't care about anything.
"Alas -" Thinking of this, Abedo couldn't help but sigh.
"Why are you sighing? You're too busy? Show me your research project. Maybe I can give you some direction."