Chapter 1018: Lost, Lost...

Sometimes, Lilina is an awkward perfectionist. Of course, this is a more literary term. Generally speaking, she may be a bit paranoid: as long as it is the standard she identifies, she will do it no matter how much effort she has to put in to achieve it. To perfection, the most direct example is the establishment of the Goddess of Life Religion: when she was just resurrected by us, she said that she would become the priest of Dingdang. At that time, Dingdang was still an absolute rookie goddess who had just tried to manage the world independently ( What's pitiful is that several of her subordinates have already become gods in several worlds). Not to mention the priests around her, there are not even any believers. Dingdang himself doesn't know how to spread the faith. He made such a fuss in the Vidis Empire back then. Big news, in the end the mortals of Vidis also believed in a broad "goddess of life" instead of her Dingdang, so everyone at the time thought Lilina was just joking: a goddess only as big as a palm, a goddess who can only eat sweets faster A goddess who has almost no advantages other than being more accurate in drilling fire rings, wants to follow such a god and establish a huge religion? And also to make this religion truly operational and become the right-hand man of the empire?

At the time, we thought this kind of thing was just a child's rant - Lilina's deceptive appearance and personality always made us treat her like a child, and that time was no exception.

However, Lilina later proved to us how capable a paranoid can be when he makes up his mind. With her own power, she simultaneously served as a priest, bishop, missionary, and even a servant of God. She wrote doctrine (although it changed every two days) and formulated the church structure (although it was directly Baidu). She figured out how to let mortals use the power of the goddess of life by giving their faith (because Dingdang couldn't help at all, she only got six points in the believer leadership exam, out of a full score of 150), and even ran to Azeroth single-handedly Recruit knights on the green dragon's territory. When she stubbornly fulfilled this promise. She went to the Undercity to preach, went to Eastern Plague to preach, gave lectures in Deathstroke Town, and went to Crow Ridge to recruit believers - well, the above efforts may be questionable, but in the end she accomplished all of them.

The Goddess of Life Cult finally spreads its wings in the macro world. The structure is weird and the teachings are nonsense. There are often chaos between believers and leaders, and it is recognized throughout the church that it is necessary to repeat prayers to the goddess several times. The religious organization is now the largest civil force in the empire. Although they never charge into battle, they are servants of the army. A ray of hope. Together with the Chief Bee and the Regeneration Factory, it is known as the three major nurse brigades in the empire, and it is the only nurse brigade specifically for mortals. Lilina deserves a lot of credit.

Now, this somewhat overly paranoid 1.09 meter girl had another stubborn idea: she had to let the tree elf get a new mother tree, and the newly completed paradise garden obviously did not meet her standards.

"The reproduction and evolution of a species are completely different from pure production and manufacturing." Lilina's expression was very enigmatic when she said these words. She looked like an expert and scholar. I would dare if she were sixty centimeters taller. Send me to Peking University to pretend to be a genius female scholar. "The former requires flexible changes and a set of processes that can improve themselves without planning. The latter, no matter how many exquisite templates are designed, will always be a dull assembly line product. The tree elves should be a race rather than a group of tools. But If they rely on the Garden of Heaven to generate a population from now on, then as long as the current generation of tree elves dies, the next generation of tree elves will all be manufactured and will never evolve. Their souls will also look the same, and even every child will end up wetting the bed. Every day is on the same date…”

Will each of her metaphors lead to a curious direction in the end?

"Then according to what you say, the Xiling Apostles will not be able to live." I rubbed Lilina's head. The little dwarf's frowning look was really strange. "Don't forget, most of the Xiling Apostles They all come off the production line.”

"But the production line of the Xiling Apostle itself has a soul. The Xiling Apostle who can produce sanity comes off a special production line. Those production lines are controlled by the Xiling host, and the Xiling host connects the spiritual network of the entire race. In the final analysis, the Xiling apostle The Spirit Apostle as a whole is a huge life. The so-called production line and mass-produced soldiers are just the organelles of this life body. When taken apart, they seem to be no different from machines, but they have a spiritual network, which creates the soul of the race. The Garden of Heaven is Without this 'racial soul', or 'soul code', every species has a 'password' after it is created. This code cannot be copied by others. I cannot create a genuine tree elf, nor can the goddess. Same, this is the limitation of the Garden of Heaven.”

Lilina said something so incomprehensible that I couldn't help but look at her differently. The little girl was stunned for a moment and looked here dissatisfied: "Boss, what's that look in your eyes? This is my specialty, isn't it? It's so difficult." Do you understand?"

"Go on, go on." I said to myself that she is indeed a genius girl with a background in psychology. She could tell what I was thinking at a glance, but then again, are genius girls a little paranoid? For example, Madame Curie...

"As long as someone talks about something you don't understand, it will definitely go off topic." Lilina sighed helplessly, then squatted down and poked at a thin gray-green vine floating over. Strangely, the thin vine shrank back when I touched it, but no matter how Lirina moved it, it was fine. "Originally, Father God was at home, and I would definitely be able to solve the problem by asking him, but I want to solve it myself. The power given to me by the Goddess of Life must be It's enough. The Mother Tree itself wants to live, I can hear its voice..."

"You already have a plan?" I looked at Lilina's expression. Based on my understanding of this little girl, she probably had a plan at this time, but she didn't dare to make a decision without saying hello to me.

Lilina paused for a few seconds and said slowly: "The mother tree can no longer grow on its own, and the Heavenly Garden cannot replace the mother tree, so my original plan was to graft the mother tree and the Heavenly Garden together. What I encountered now The resistance is that the two are incompatible. One solution is to make all tree elves become believers of the goddess of life, through the reverse influence of racial individuals on the whole. The mother tree can be gradually infected with the power of jingle, and grafting will be easier. This is easier. It just takes some time. I'm familiar with the rest. The second point, this... I need something from the goddess. Putting it in the core of the mother tree can completely reverse the ownership of the tree elves. It's over." Oh, calling the tree elf from now on won't be considered long distance, right?

"You can just say no to yourself?" I glanced at Lilina strangely. She usually had a close relationship with Dingdang. In name, it was the relationship between god and attendant, but in fact the two of them were as close as sisters. Does this level of intimacy require someone else to convey the message?

"That thing is quite important," Lilina spread her hands, "I know the boss will definitely talk about me then. So I should tell you in advance. What if you misunderstand me and am messing around again? What should I do? You’ll hate me.”

Lilina tried her best to speak calmly, but I already understood this girl's mood: she must want something special from Dingdang, for fear of being misunderstood by me. I thought she had deceived the weak-minded Dingdang with her sweet words, so I took the vaccine in advance. Well, it’s really hard to understand a girl’s heart. This girl usually deceives Ding Dong a few times, in order to replenish the church's holy water reserves. I haven’t said anything yet about simmering pots and pots of jingdang soup on the grounds that I should take more baths in winter.

Maybe she was just suddenly afraid of being disliked, this capricious guy. It doesn't seem strange to feel any kind of mood suddenly. It's just that I'm more curious about what she wants from Dingdang.

"That leaf," Lilina weakly pointed to my pocket. Dingdang was not a good sleeper, and the tip of a wing poked out from the pocket and was fluttering in the wind. "Don't you have two leaves on the goddess's head? I Want one..."

I:"……"

Damn, this is really something amazing!

"Boss, I'm serious." Lilina looked here with an unchanged expression, "Anyway, I heard that it can grow again if it falls off, but if the tree elf dies, it will be gone. Please be considerate of me for helping the poor. It’s my mood, and the goddess definitely agrees..."

"I didn't say anything. It's just that what you want is too bizarre. I just realized it."

Lilina was overjoyed when she heard this, and looked at my pocket expectantly: the tip of one of the wings there trembled again.

I took out Dingdang, and the little thing was still sleeping soundly. Her level of sleepiness this time was a bit strange. Although she used to go to bed after eating, she still spent at least half of the time playing outside. But now, except when eating, she They all seem to be sleeping!

It took me a while to get Dingdang to open her eyes, including throwing her into the sky: I thought Dingdang should be like a bird, and took off subconsciously as soon as she was thrown into the sky. As a result, she almost dropped the little guy and scared Lilina. Something like that.

The little one who had just woken up - or maybe not yet woke up - sat on the palm of my hand with his legs crossed, rubbing his eyes and looking around: "Ah, you guys have come to the temple. Jun, is it time to eat?"

"It seems that something is not right with the goddess." Lilina said to the goddess while poking Dingdang's head without any respect. The little thing suddenly staggered: she hadn't sat still yet.

"Um, are you okay?" I finally felt that Dingdang's condition was more than just lethargy, and asked with concern. But then again, as a goddess of life, is there really any need to worry about Dingdang's physical condition?

"It's okay, I've just been very sleepy these past few days, and I always want to eat." Dingdang stumbled and said, and finally just hugged me and rubbed his thumb together, "Maybe he was too tired from doing experiments a while ago. Jun is looking for something. Ding dong?"

"Well, Lilina wants something from you," I hesitated for a moment, feeling that what I said was full of all kinds of things worth complaining about, "Lilina needs one of the leaves on your head to resurrect the tree elf. Mother tree.”

Dingdang nodded in confusion, stretched out his hand and pulled it out on his head, and the little leaf that was used as a hairpin was pulled off. The little thing handed the thing over and murmured: "Oh, here you go. But this leaf grows on The one on the head that can’t be pulled off says..."

Lilina and I were in a daze at the same time: "..."

Dingdang opened her eyes at this moment, and she reacted a beat slower than us: "...Ah, it's pulled out!"

It's been pulled out! This little thing said that it couldn't be pulled off, and then he pulled off his own leaf!

"Ding Dong changed the leaves?" The little goddess finally woke up and her eyes opened wider and wider. She grabbed the leaf she had just pulled out and reached out to touch the other "hairpin" on her head that had not yet been pulled out. She suddenly cheered: "Ah! Ding Dong has changed the leaves!"

Lilina and I were puzzled, but Dingdang had no intention of explaining. She had already started scurrying back and forth in the air, doing somersaults back and forth as if she had taken more than half a kilogram of stimulants. It didn’t take long for Lilina and me to get dizzy. It took a full five or six minutes for the little thing to turn itself around. He fainted and stumbled down, grabbing my thumb and swinging it around: "Arjun, Arjun, Dingdang has changed its leaves! Dingdang has become an adult! From now on, Dingdang will be an adult!"

I took the leaf handed over by the little guy in a daze. When this leaf was on Dingdang's head, nothing could be seen. When he held it in his hands, he realized that it was really small, less than half a centimeter in length. From a distance, it looked like a smashed mung bean. The roots of the leaves were also very ordinary petioles. It was completely impossible to tell that this thing had grown together with Ding Dong before. I handed this strange thing to Lilina, Ding Dong looked even weirder. Finally reacted: "Adult? Hey, let me go! I remembered, the goddess of life changed her leaves for the first time, and this is the first time that Dingdangqi changed her leaves!"

"Hmm, um." The little thing jumped up and down happily, "I feel so relaxed after picking off a leaf. I'm not sleepy at all. It turns out that this is why my head has been feeling groggy in the past two days. Ding-dong is so powerful - Ding-dong I need to report this good news to Father God! Arjun also wants to come with us, and Lilina also wants to come with us!"

Lilina and I looked at each other dazedly, and when we reacted, Dingdang was gone: this impatient little guy opened a portal directly and returned to the outside world. She was quite attentive and didn't close the portal to leave any traces. The only pity is that neither Lilina nor I can use this door - the radius is not as big as a biscuit.

Father God is reading in the yard in the sun at this time. When he has nothing to do on weekdays, he seems to have a hobby that is reading. He reads all kinds of books, from the pile of tomes that Bingtis carries with him to the textbooks that Saeko uses for class. , Father God could hold it and study it for a long time. Dingdang suddenly appeared in front of him with chirping, which made Father God stunned for a moment, and then he quickly understood what was going on with this happy little guy.

Soon everyone in the family was attracted by Ding Dong. After hearing the news about the little thing changing leaves, most of them seemed to understand but vaguely understood what was going on - the leaves on the head of the goddess of life represented What, we have heard a little bit about it.

"So, Dingdang was still underage before?"

Qian Qian's mind was wandering, and the first thing that came to her mind was this question.

"No, in terms of age, Dingdang is already an adult among the goddesses of life," Father God said with a gentle smile on his face, gently touching Dingdang's head, "Well, of course, he looks like all the goddesses of life. They don't grow up, but Dingdang is indeed an adult like this. However, because the Gods have unlimited lifespan, there are several criteria for determining the maturity of the Goddess of Life. One is the standard age, the other is the completion of the basic knowledge and practice of the Goddess of Life, and the other Even when changing the blades for the first time, the three judgments are of great significance to them - although I don't know why they are significant. These little people usually live in a haze, so we don't want to delve into the details."

"Changing leaves, changing leaves..." Dingdang happily lay on Lilina's head, looking at the little one so happy, even if I don't know why changing leaves can be used as a criterion for adulthood, I also think this is very important to Dingdang. It should indeed be a joyful thing. She has already given one leaf to Lilina, and now there is another leaf on her head. It is said that the two leaves of the goddess of life need to be replaced at the same time. So, the other leaf can also...

While thinking this, I stretched out my hand and gently grabbed Dingdang's head... The second leaf fell off.

... Damn it, it really fell off as soon as I touched it!

I was stunned, as were my sister and the others. What happened from now on was abnormal, but what I am doing now seems to be the most inconsistent of all abnormal things: I actually put The last leaf of Ding Dong was removed.

"Eh?" Dingdang felt his head was empty, and immediately touched his head subconsciously. Then he saw the small leaf in my hand, and he didn't mind. He just climbed up and grabbed the leaf: "I can only give one to others. This Dingdang wants to Keep what you use.”

Father God looked at me with a particularly strange expression: "The leaves of the Goddess of Life, especially the leaves that are replaced for the first time, are very important. Apart from them picking them off themselves, only the closest people can..."

At this point, he glanced at Dingdang, who was completely unaware, and coughed twice: "Ahem, forget it, it seems that she is closer to you than to me. Female students are not allowed to stay in their own right. Don't bully you in the future. Her." Why do I always think this is weird?

"Ding Dong Ding Dong," Qian Qian was the only one who was not affected by the surrounding environment. She was also busy teasing the little one, "Will you grow new leaves in the future?" "Of course, new leaves will grow soon!" Dingdang clapped his fingers and thought for a moment, "It will be very fast anyway."

Bingtis also came over: "Dingdang, what are you going to do with this leaf?"

Dingdang thought for a long time and clapped his hands: "Plant it! Plant a little Dingdang and we can play together in the future!" (To be continued)