The Ring: Sell Dung Beetles in Junction

Chapter 286 The Flower of the Future

What Laya held in her hand looked like the amniotic membrane of some creature, and there was still an unformed stillborn inside.

The unformed form of the stillborn baby vaguely resembled a small snake-man with scales and limbs.

Tears spread from Laya's snake eyes, no matter how much she blinked, it was difficult to stop the tears from overflowing.

"Mother—Master Tanis, I can feel that this thing... has the breath of my biological mother in it, and I can feel that I came out from here. But you told me that I was You were born? What's the matter? Please tell me what's the matter, mother—"

The sharp eye sockets on Tanis's mask couldn't hide the sadness in her eyes. She touched Laya's face:

"Laya, this is a complicated question..."

"Aren't you willing to tell me?" Laya said, "So you really lied to me? But didn't you say that it's not good to lie to others, we volcano don't bother to disguise ourselves with lies..."

After listening to Laya's words, Tanis was even more sad. She thought for a moment, then pulled Laya into the room.

"Laya, tell mom first, how did you get in?" Tanis asked Laya, "This thing should be in the church, how did you get it?"

"I took off my clothes." Laya said, "I mixed in with those snake people like me, and passed."

"There's supposed to be one in the church—" Tanith wanted to ask again, but stopped in mid-sentence.

The church was supposed to be guarded by the nobles of the godskin, but the nobles of the godskins were sent to attack the unknown businessman.Now it is impossible to come back.

"Damn businessman..." Even though she knew that the fault was not unknown, Tanis still couldn't help feeling a little bit resentful.

Tanis asked Laya again:
"But how do you know the way to get there? How do you know there are other areas of the volcano?"

Laya paused for a moment: "I... I heard a strange noise at night, saw a strange black shadow, and I was bored at the volcano, so I found it by knocking in the mansion of the volcano."

Laya decisively concealed the nameless contribution.

What Tanis didn't know was that Wuming was indeed to blame for the death of the god-skin nobleman, but if Laya could find out about it, the blame was still firmly on Wuming's head.

"My child, my child..." Tanis patted Laya's head, "I hope you forgive mom, mom just doesn't want you to feel that you are different from others... Do you want to know the truth?"

"I think." Laya's eyes were firm, "You taught me since I was a child that I should face the bleak life. What else... He who walks on the unclean road is a hero, and will be more dazzling..."

Laya said Tanis's usual teachings as if she was reciting a text, and looked at Tanis with expectant eyes.

Tanise sighed, and began to tell the truth she concealed:

"Laya, I said that you are a miracle produced by the combination of a mother and a great king. You were born because of grace. I didn't lie to you. You are indeed a product of the combination of a mother and a great king. It's just...your mother is not me. .”

Tanise clutched her belly:
"Son, you should know that I'm just a concubine, and I'm not qualified to be blessed by my king Lakad.

"You do have many brothers and sisters, and you are the weakest one. Everyone thinks that you cannot be supported, so you are abandoned and abandoned on the ground. I look at you on the ground and think you are so cute , I think you should be my child. Laya, my only regret is that I am not your biological mother."

A tear flowed from Tanith's eye socket:
"Laya, mom loves you, this is definitely not a lie. Can you forgive mom?"

Listening to Tanis' narration, Laya also shed tears, hugged Tanis tightly, didn't say a word, just sobbed.

At this time, there was a knock on the door. Judging from the height of the knock, it was the furnace knight who had something to report.

Tanis glanced at the door, then at the snake man in her arms, and said to the door, "Wait."

There was silence outside the door.

Tanis comforted the little snake man, and it took a long time before she coaxed Laya to lie on the bed.

But the child still couldn't sleep, clutching Tanith's hand.

"Mom will never lie to you again." Tanis promised Laya the hook, and finally let Laya let go.

"Mother, I don't blame you." Laya said, "Uncle Wuming told me that people who love me will also lie to me. It is a white lie. Although it is a lie, it is also love."

"Did that businessman say that?" Tanis curled her fingers and wiped the tears from the corners of Laya's eyes.

"Well, so I won't blame mom, I know you love me." Laya said.

When Tanis heard what Laya said, she hugged Laya's head, buried it in her chest, and kissed her hard.

"Child, no matter what others say, Mom thinks you are the cutest, grow up well, you are the future flower of the volcano." Tanis said softly, "Now, Laya, go to bed. Mom still has something to do, Gotta get busy."

"Good night mom..."

Tanith turned off the light and gently closed the door.

In the darkness, the snake man sat up from the bed.

From the corner of the eye just after the candle was extinguished, tears flowed from the eyes of the snake man again.

"White lie, white lie..." Laya murmured, "Mother, how do I know that what you said to comfort me is not another white lie..."

Laya realized sadly that Tanis might have lied to her again.

The thing she has never mentioned, the thing she has been avoiding all the time - who is her biological mother.

Although Lord Tanis emphasized that she is a concubine and not worthy of having children, will the main wife give birth to a snake man with her father?
Laya has lived with a hidden identity for half her life, and she knows that people don't like her appearance.

Myself—the posture of this snake-man is not the posture of a normal person. How could a snake-man be born in the royal chamber of a broken monarch?
Emotionally, Laya can feel Tanis's love for her, and that emotion is not fake, but...

Laya was very scared, and she was afraid that that emotion was also fake.

Fearing that there is something terrible hidden in what Tanis deliberately concealed.

Fear of the volcanic creed preached by Tanith—the capital that made her mother proud and awe-inspiring—was also a lie.

What scares Laya the most is the virtual image of fear.

I am afraid that my ominous premonition will come true, but I am like a moth to a flame, exploring the "truth" that may make me unhappy.

When misfortune strikes, people are often too exhausted to lament and fear.But if it is a misfortune that only exists in the imagination, it will bring even greater horror.

The snake curled up together, and Laya trembled in fear.

"It's so difficult...the path of a hero. Is this what mother said about the path of a hero..."

"The road of the hero...I, I'm on it, I'm on it!" Outside the door, another person was also trembling, holding a blood-stained envelope and looking at Tanis.

Dialos' hands were stained with blood, trembling all over, with a distorted smile on his face that he didn't know whether it was excitement or sadness.

Tanis cleaned up her mood, regained her dignified demeanor, and nodded to Diaros:
"So, you succeeded."

"I... I succeeded." Diaros returned the envelope to Tanis, "I succeeded! I walked on the bloody road..."

Tanith didn't care about the envelope:
"This is for you, you don't have to give it back."

"Really? I'm sorry Mrs. Tanis, I don't know..." Diaros was nervous and cramped.

Tanis handed Diaros another envelope:
"Congratulations, this is a new mission, keep going."

Although she regained her majesty, after experiencing what happened to Laya, Tanis was really in no mood to use any provocative words to encourage Diaros.

"New mission?" Diaros froze.

"That's right, the road is made step by step." Tanith said, "Go quickly."

Diaros mechanically obeyed Tanis's words, turned around stiffly, and was about to go out.

A pair of soft arms encircled Diaros, and a feminine voice breathed in Diaros' ear with a moist breath:

"Taniss, you're too cold-blooded. It's the first time Dialos has completed a mission. This is considered stepping into our volcano. Why should we hold a celebration banquet?"

This is a rather feminine male voice with a low voice, which is rarely heard in the mansion of the volcano—at least it is rarely heard on the bright side of the volcano.

Diaros was very familiar with it. Hearing the sound, he jumped out in a jerk, broke free from the surrounding arms, raised his weapon and looked behind him.

This is a man with a scary face.

He has a horse face, and his hair is sparse and scattered from his scalp. Because strands of dark brown blood are stuck together, he looks dirty and filthy.

There were a lot of scars on the face, and the skin around many scars disappeared, exposing the pink muscles inside, which kept contracting and wriggling along with the smile on the man's face.

The man saw Diaros raised the petal whip and groaned:
"Ah, it's really nostalgic, that's it. I really miss Khosrow's long whip. It's sharp and hard. There's a lot of blood...Little Khosrow, come and whip me."

Diaros suddenly woke up from his original trance, and bowed to Tanis:

"Mrs. Tanis, I'm going to complete the task right now."

After speaking, he ran away, and disappeared in a flash.

This is the metamorphosis that Diaros once mentioned to Wuming, and he was the first to dismount when he came to the volcano.

At the beginning, he came to the volcano aggressively with resentment and anger, and this guy endured all his resentment and anger, and made him hide in the guest room for a month without daring to take revenge.

"Unfortunately, I won't be able to taste his whip." The man looked at Dialos' figure going away, stretched out his tongue that had been cut in two, and licked his mouth that was half missing his lower lip.

Tanis looked at what was happening before her eyes, her tone was very serious, and even threatening:

"What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here."

"Okay, okay, I'll leave it to you." The man raised his hands in fear and surrendered, "Whoever makes you look good, my king will spoil you. I'm so jealous..."

The man approached Tanise:
"But you didn't take care of the volcano on the bright side. Why are so many bugs running to the back?"

"How did I hear that it was your people who were not good at doing things, so they were kidnapped and ignored?" Tanis said.

"Who knows..." The man propped his face, his jagged dirty nails poked into the exposed muscles of his face, "Are you in a bad mood?"

Tanith ignored the man.

The man stared at Tanis:
"I don't usually have such a big hostility, why? What you care about... Ah, I see, it's about Xiao Laya, right?"

Tanis suddenly looked at the man, with murderous intent in her eyes, she was about to jump from the throne, her hands were clutching the armrests of the chair, turning white.

"Oh, it's scary." The man said, "We are all servants serving Lord Lakad, don't be so fierce. Even if you are jealous of me, but you have to understand, the important thing is our love for my king .”

Tanise let out a deep breath, slowly let go of the armrest, and leaned back on the back of the seat.

But the man suddenly jumped out, and moved his face in front of Tanis, as if he was going to press her on the chair:
"But I'm very disappointed. Your love for Lord Lakad is not wholehearted enough. You have wasted too much affection on that little snake man."

"I wasted too much time on you." Tanis said with cold eyes, "Send him back."

The furnace knight's big hand grabbed the man's neck, carried him away from Tanis, walked all the way back to the interior of the volcano, threw him back, and turned to leave.

The man got up, and the immature body without skin protection was bleeding from the impact.

"It's really rude..." The man patted his body and stood up, "Unfortunately, I can't control the child..."

He squinted his eyes, and saw a cowering figure in the distance, showing a ferocious smile.

The man ran over shyly, and greeted happily:
"Little Laya, what are you doing here? Let me show you around. If you want to know anything, I can tell you—"

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Lienia, Calia's Study

After Wuming and Patch came out of the study full of satisfaction and harvest, they saw the pit where Alexander was buried.

"Shall we go to Pot Village?" Patch asked.

"No need?" Wuming said, "What's so interesting about a pot village?"

"There seems to be a lot of flowers in Pot Village," Patch said. "There are also all kinds of living pots, which are precious. Didn't you hear Alexander say that these are the flowers of the future?"

"A lot of flowers? How many flowers can a village have." Wuming lay beside the cliff and raised his binoculars.

Just lifted it up, put it down again, and pointed back at Patch:

"Don't kick me."

"Why am I kicking you?" Patch said, "Tin ass, kicking is no fun."

"Isn't Alexander's pot bottom hard?"

"It's mainly because I'm tired." Patch said, "If I kick you to the end, I'll kick it without saying a word."

"Okay." Wuming was relieved, and looked at Hucun with a binoculars.

On the other side of the telescope, a pair of big eyes suddenly enlarged and spread to the entire lens.

This unremarkable little pot village is full of all kinds of flowers, some unknown, some unseen, some common and some rare.Some are beautiful and some are oddly shaped.

The number is more than the gardens used by several perfumers that Wuming has seen dedicated to cultivating medicinal materials.

Wuming put down the binoculars and said solemnly:
"Let's go and see the future flowers in the junction. There are many small pots in Hucun, and we must establish correct values ​​and outlook on life for them. We are duty-bound to educate the next generation."

"You're right." Patch nodded, kicking Wuming down.

(End of this chapter)