After resting under the tree for a while, Luo Binhan returned to the tree house a little head-heavy. Lan Que poured him some hot tea and then gave him the bottle in his hand.
"This is a soothing medicine made from mud leaf fruits. It can reduce the side effects of smoking flowers and leaves." Lan Que said, "You'd better continue to use it for a few more days. Apply it under your nose, or eat it."
Luo Binhan took what it handed and took a look. The container containing the medicine was made of crystal, with a delicate and round shape, like a perfume bottle. It was obviously not something belonging to savages. And the medicine inside is not so lovable. The dark paste was thick and smelly, reminiscent of tar and feces. Luo Binhan put a little bit under his nose and immediately felt short of breath and dizzy. It was much more uncomfortable than the first time he smelled leaf smoke.
"Is this medicine made from the fruit of Muye?" He asked feebly, "You make your own poison and detoxify it, and you have a one-stop service?"
"This is a very common breeding strategy." Blue magpies explained, "They use flowers and leaves to addict animals and insects in spring and summer, so that when the leaves fall in autumn, animals who want to relieve their pain have to eat a lot of them. The mudleaf fruits are then spread out through their feces. This mechanism also works on carnivores, so the mudleaf has an advantage in the sowing range."
"Do animals also dream when they eat leaves?"
"Theoretically yes, but it will take more experiments to know because some species are more sensitive to specific plants... Do you remember the dragon on your ship? Did you release it?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"The night before yesterday, it ran into the field and ate a large piece of mud leaves. Almost sixty plants were chewed up by it. The aborigines were a little angry, but the priests decided not to pursue the matter. You'd better keep an eye on the other side. Young dragon."
Luo Binhan was speechless, and in the end he could only promise to tell Yaleriga about the matter. He didn't pay too much attention to the dispute between the young dragon and the wild people. He was more thinking about the dream he had the night before.
"Precognition dream." He rubbed his head and said, "Does this mean that everything in the dream will become reality?"
"That's not entirely true, it depends on the specific content - so what did you dream about last night?"
Lan Que's tone revealed an unconscious expectation, and Luo Binhan didn't feel the need to hide this matter. He briefly talked about the content of the strange dream, hoping that Blue Magpie could give him some inspiration. Rain of blood, sea of flowers, women... He never believed that these things would appear in the real world. If this was really a so-called precognitive dream, then what he saw could only be some kind of symbolic metaphor.
The quill began to write on its own as he spoke, rapidly recording every word he spoke. Skeletons wrapped in linen robes were spinning around the room.
"Well, a very enlightening dream. The natives told me that the mud leaf can only foresee the short term, unless you smoke it on the night of March being full. Only the green moon and the blue moon were full last night, which means that you What you dreamed about will happen in the near future——"
"If it really happens." Luo Binhan interjected.
"Of course it will happen, because you are an ancient law. You are the most sensitive to the color of dreams. Your dream must refer to some kind of change that will happen in the near future. I have to think about how to interpret it... Blood rain, no What a good sign, but it could also be a sign of life coming... Flowering tree? Now that spring has passed, that can't appear in reality, it should represent recovery, good luck, love... And then you dreamed of a woman? She What does it look like?”
"It's probably quite beautiful. I didn't see clearly."
The blue magpie clapped its hands happily and made a clicking sound of bones.
"You're about to have a love affair," it declared confidently.
After hearing this, Luo Binhan's first instinct was that this person had been bribed by Marin. He reviewed the major spell subjects that Lan Que had filled out: Basic General, Plant Research and Life Treatment.
"You don't understand damn prophecy at all, do you?" He reminded kindly.
The blue magpie reacted violently and floated up to the ceiling.
"But I have taught myself! That was the first subject I filled out when I became an apprentice, but... well, there are too few instructors willing to teach this system, and they are also very harsh in selecting apprentices. I want to wait until I become an official mage There will be more choices in the future.”
This is something new to Luo Binhan. He never knew why Blue Magpie embarked on this path of seeking the Dharma without any loss of life.
"Why do you want to learn prophecy?" he asked strangely, "If something is destined to happen, what's the use of knowing it in advance?"
The two eye holes of the skeleton flashed guiltily.
"No, the kind you are talking about is a 'certain prophecy', which is also called an 'oracle', 'apocalypse' or 'fate'. But there are other types of prophecies, such as 'possibility prophecy', 'choice' Sexual prophecy', or 'cursing prophecy'. The latter are closer to conventional spells, and have a lot of room for manipulation. If you master the latter few spells, it means that you are qualified to become the spire of a school tower. Mage."
Luo Binhan thought of the "Yongguang Prophecy". He said casually: "Is this why you want to learn prophecy? Do you want to become a spire mage?"
Lan Que muttered a few syllables vaguely, as if acknowledging Luo Binhan's speculation. But its voice sounded very insincere.
Luo Binhan felt that it was not telling the truth, but he did not intend to dig into the details. He took some more ointment and applied it under his nose, and then asked: "So what kind of prophecy did I see last night? What kind of prophecy is the eternal light prophecy?"
"The predictions of major phenomena are all deterministic predictions." Lan Que said conclusively. "It is completed by prophets from different star layers and different systems, which means that there is almost no possibility of failure. As for the dream caused by the mud leaves ...I'm still researching this matter. The aboriginal priests showed me the divination records left by their ancestors in the caves. It seems that they have not encountered a situation where the prophecies have failed, but I am not sure yet. Recently, They are worried about the things prophesied.”
"What are you worried about?"
"Of course it's the Eternal Light Prophecy. It's obvious that they misinterpreted part of it, so they believed that darkness would come here a thousand years after the prophecy was issued. However, the double star revelation and light messenger they were waiting for have not appeared. Now they are so far away from that The time is very close, so they are trying desperately to convince Romo to eat the dark world across the way."
Luo Binhan almost forgot that there was this problem. He felt that he hadn't seen Momoluo for a while, and he guessed that the Ten Doing Good Deeds Plan was not being promoted very smoothly among the savages.
He thought for a while and said a little confused: "So, their prophecy is just wrong? Nothing will happen when this thousand years are over? Will they continue to kidnap the people on the other side and eat them?"
"I can't say for sure. Maybe their interpretation of the dream was wrong. Maybe the prophecy of 'the same day in March a thousand years later' happens to be when the tenth month rises. According to the time conversion here, it is about ...Twenty days later?”
Luo Binhan stared at it: "Are you saying that the Eternal Light Messenger will appear in twenty days?"
"I'm just talking about a possibility! But that doesn't really make sense. I think it's still a matter of their interpretation."
In the end, nothing came of their discussion on prophecy. Luo Binhan didn't care very much, because he didn't believe from the bottom of his heart that any earth-shattering changes could happen in just twenty days, causing this well-functioning planet to suddenly usher in the end of the world - even if such a natural disaster did occur, it would definitely not happen. Maybe it can be solved by eating all the people in the other world.
"Let's wait and see, whatever is supposed to come will come," he said.
Lan Que was not satisfied with his careless attitude. It was about to say something, but then a mushroom grew from the root of the tree at the corner of the table. Luo Binhan watched helplessly as it began to expand from the size of a soybean, and in the blink of an eye it became as fat as a big green vegetable, standing there swaying.
"Oh, wait, someone is looking for me outside."
The blue magpie immediately floated upwards and penetrated the roof formed by the dense canopy of trees. Luo Binhan also climbed out by leaning on the hanging vine in the corner. He watched the blue magpie talking to a wild man on the side of the field. The two communicated very harmoniously, maybe because the blue magpie didn't have any flesh on its body.
This thought made him feel bad, and he kept thinking about what the hell was going on. Mud leaves and drowned leaves, could that be just a coincidence caused by the close proximity of history?
The blue magpie soon returned to the treehouse and hovered next to him.
"They asked me to provide more spices so that they can be used to entertain other tribes when they come to gather." Lan Que said, "Where did we talk just now? Yes, about the prophecy. In fact, I have other ideas. That’s not consistent with mainstream opinion, so you’d better not say it outside.”
Luo Binhan glanced at it, expressing with his eyes that he had no idea what it was talking about. This seemed to reassure the blue magpie. It hesitated and said: "I once chased someone. She was...a mage who belonged to a special sect. She told me a lot of secrets about that sect when I was very young. ——In short, she believes that deterministic prophecy is also a spell that can be broken. Just like the cursed prophecy, if you master a certain power, you can break through the fate announced in the prophecy."
Its words made Luo Binhan sit up straight unconsciously. He held the branch with his hand and asked nervously: "What power?"
"Love," Lan Que said hesitantly, "but it must be true love."
Luo Binhan cut off the branch in his hand and almost fell from the top of the tree.
