Chapter 493: Conflicting Races

"What happened?" Mu You asked curiously.

Fu Ya hurriedly described the experience in the game just now.

Mu You also frowned after listening. The monsters in the future have mutated and even attack fairies. It seems that they have a certain ability to spread and can turn normal fairies into monsters.

This is probably the reason why Fu Ya has never encountered monsters in the future. The monsters in the last era were not aggressive to the native creatures of Sky City. Instead, they would actively help them to exclude outsiders. There were only benefits and no harm to the fairies, so the fairies deliberately let the monsters grow wildly.

But in the Bitter Garden today, the monsters have become real "pests". Of course, the fairies can no longer ignore them. Every time they appear, they will be eliminated immediately, which creates the illusion that there are no monsters.

"In short, the only information now is this place called "Dark Cave", right?" Mu You looked at Fu Ya.

"It's just possible... that fake said that there is no such place in the Bitter Garden. I always feel that it is just a name made up to save his life..." Fu Ya was helpless.

Mu You nodded. He was not as pessimistic as Fuya. Compared with the past Bitter Garden and the future, many things have changed dramatically, just like Fallen Flower City and Glory City. What does not exist in the future does not mean that it did not exist in the past.

Thinking of this, he hurried back to his game.

[Ask the fairy girl and Tina if they know a place called "Dark Cave"? ]

[The two fairies' faces suddenly changed when they heard this, and they showed surprised expressions at the same time. ]

["Dark Cave, the full name is "Darkest Cave", is a forbidden place in Bitter Garden. Legend has it that the real hell is connected under the dark cave. All fairies who enter there will be infected with a terrible curse. It is a place where any fairies are forbidden to approach or even discuss..." The fairy girl explained carefully. ]

[Tina looked at the fairy girl with some surprise: "You are just an unknown fairy, how can you know this? This should be a secret that only upper-level fairies have the opportunity to hear..." ]

["Ah... because I used to be an upper-level..." The fairy girl lowered her head embarrassedly. 】

【"So that's how it is. You made a mistake and were deprived of your name..." Tina instantly understood the fairy girl's situation. She floated in the air, crossed her arms and said confidently: "Don't worry, now you have become Tina's companion. If Tina becomes the one in power in the future, she will immediately amend this outdated law and restore your identity."】

【"Thank you..." The fairy girl looked at Tina gratefully. 】

Mu You was delighted when he saw the conversation between the two in the text. There really is such a place!

【You hurriedly asked about the specific location of the 'dark cave'. 】

【"The dark cave is located in the south of the central square of the Bitter Garden, about 130 miles away, in a barren saline wasteland." Tina said. 】

"Huh?"

Mu You was stunned.

Others may not feel anything when they see this location description, but he immediately thought of a place: the underground city!

As the city lord, Mu You is very familiar with all the architectural layouts in the Sky City, and the location mentioned by Tina at this moment corresponds to the Dawn City, which is exactly the entrance to the underground city!

[You asked Tina, what is the relationship between the dark cave and the underground city? ]

["Underground city?" Tina looked at you with some doubts, and looked at the fairy girl, both of them were confused. ]

["There is no place called 'underground city' in the bitter garden." Tina said. ]

No underground city?

Mu You was surprised that as the creation template of all sky cities, this original sky city actually did not have an underground city? Then where do people here usually go to level up?

Wait...

Speaking of the underground city, Mu You suddenly realized a more important problem:

Their twelve sky cities are all powered by the remains of gods buried in the deepest part of the underground city.

So what is the power source of this original sky city?

You must know that this bitter garden was created when the gods joined forces to create the Star Spirit World.

At that time, the gods were obviously still in their heyday, and all the gods were there. It is impossible to kill a god temporarily and then use his remains to build a city, right?

Humans can do this because the gods have long been extinct. Without constraints, they dare to be so unscrupulous.

But in the heyday of the gods, they were a civilization that relied on faith. Using the remains of a leader as fuel is definitely not acceptable from an ethical point of view.

The question is, if it is not the remains of the gods, what else can it be?

Mu You hurriedly took out the miracle lamp and asked the lamp god to come out for consultation.

"The power of the bitter garden?"

The lamp god was a little impatient when he was awakened from his dream, but he was soon stunned when he heard Mu You's question.

"I really haven't noticed this..."

"Ah? Didn't you say that you participated in the creation of the Star Spirit Realm?" Mu You looked at the lamp god in surprise.

"I participated in the creation of the Star World, but only a very small part of it. To be precise, I was only responsible for the design of the world's lamps. The rest is not my responsibility..." The Lamp God was a little embarrassed when asked. Such a huge project as creation could not be handled by one or a few gods. To be precise, except for a few special gods, most of the gods only participated in some minor work.

"But it's true. Your Sky City is powered by the God's Remains. The Bitter Garden should also need something of the same level as a power source. What could it be... Who was in charge of the Bitter Garden at that time... No, it's been too long, I can't remember..." The Lamp God muttered to himself and tried to recall, but unfortunately he didn't recall any useful information in the end.

Mu You had to give up and return to the game. Since he didn't get any results from asking the Lamp God, he might as well go to this "dark cave" in person to take a look.

And the future saint seemed to have disappeared here. His intuition told him that this place might be the key to solving this mission.

But before leaving, he was going to meet the old woman who had shouted at them to fight and kill.

This person saw through their fool identity at a glance and was so excited. Obviously, she knew something.

Originally, he should have been the one fleeing in the enemy's territory, but Fuya's actions just now gave him inspiration. Sometimes you don't need to be so disciplined.

Half an hour later, in Mu You's game.

【Tina passed by the door, wandered around for a few circles, and after confirming that no one was following her, she hurriedly waved to the darkness behind her. 】

【The night watchman carried an unconscious woman on his shoulders, walked out of the darkness, quickly entered the building, and put the elderly woman on his shoulders down. 】

【"Alas, I am a pacifist. This kind of immoral thing should obviously be left to No. 2..." The night watchman muttered, looking at the unconscious woman on the ground, his face full of guilt. 】

【"Nagging! How can a grown man be more nagging than a woman? Tina doesn't want her dependent to be an indecisive person!" Tina put her hands on her hips and glared at the night watchman with dissatisfaction. 】

Mu You smiled at the prompt in the game.

Just now, he arranged for the night watchman to follow Tina to kidnap this woman.

He turned a traitor, and a powerful traitor, against the government. Kidnapping a high-ranking official in the Fairy Country, which was originally almost impossible, became extremely simple in an instant.

At first, Mu You was worried that Tina would be reluctant to do such a thing that would cause internal strife among the fairies. It turned out that he was overthinking. When he proposed the kidnapping plan, the fairy saint even showed her expectation, agreed to it immediately, and took the initiative to set off with the night watchman.

In just half an hour, she used her saintly identity to walk into the old woman's mansion openly, knocked her unconscious and kidnapped her, without causing any suspicion throughout the process.

As for the identity of this old woman, he had also heard the fairy girl explain that her name was 'Olmedo'. It was said that she was the contracted dependent of the previous fairy king. She had lived in the Bitter Garden for more than 3,000 years and was the oldest human here.

At the same time, Olmedo was the only remaining 'gardener' in the fairy country, responsible for taking care of and cultivating the 'bitter mother tree'.

The bitter mother tree is the sacred tree of the fairy clan, and its status is no less than the world tree of the forest elves, because this tree is the birthbed of all fairies.

Fairies do not have the concept of marriage and childbirth. They are not born by female fairies, but "fruited" from trees.

Every few years, the bitter mother tree will produce a batch of buds. When these buds are fully mature, they will "bloom" and reveal the fairy larvae bred in them.

The role of the "gardener" is to rely on superb cultivation technology to ensure the healthy growth of the bitter mother tree, so as to stably produce population for the fairy tribe.

It is said that in the prosperous period of the fairy tribe, there were many famous gardeners at the same time. Under the joint care of the gardeners, the mother tree grew rapidly, and the population in the fairy country also exploded. Unfortunately, as time goes by, fewer and fewer humans have mastered the gardener technology, until now only Olmedo is left.

In this case, her status is naturally needless to say. Although she does not have any formal position in name, in terms of reputation in the fairy country, Olmedo is even higher than Tina, the saint.

[You reach out and release the holy light spell towards the unconscious Olmedo. 】

【Under the warmth of the soft holy light, the old human female eyelashes moved slightly and slowly opened her eyes. 】

【After waking up, Olmedo subconsciously covered her swollen head and looked around. Soon she realized something, hurriedly and nervously retreated, leaned against the wall, looked at you warily, and said angrily: Fool, it is you, what do you want to do? 】

【"What do you know about the Fool?" You asked. 】

【Olmedo ignored you, but scanned between you one by one, and finally stopped at Tina. 】

【Looking at Tina standing with you, Olmedo's face turned red and white, and he said angrily: "Saint Tina, do you know what you are doing? Why do you choose to go along with these fools? Do you want to betray your race?"】

【Faced with the old man's questioning, Tina just smiled contemptuously: "Haha, Tina is of course loyal to the goblins, but the ideas of you old antiques are outdated. Tina is just saving the goblins in her own way."】

【"Saint Tina, you must have been deceived by these foreigners. Believe me, they will only bring us disaster!" The old man hurriedly advised. 】

【"Foreigners? Olmedo, have you forgotten that you are also a foreigner!" Tina sneered. 】

[The old man was stunned when he heard this, clenched his fists, and his face flushed: "I have worked for the fairies for a full three thousand four hundred years! In these years, I have never left the Bitter Garden. In my heart, I have already regarded this place as my home, and I have already regarded myself as a member of the fairy tribe! Your Highness, have I ever done anything to let the fairy tribe down in the past three thousand years?"]

[Faced with the old man's tearful accusation, Tina just looked at her calmly. After she finished speaking, she said coldly: "Eight hundred years ago, the last fairy king Orenzi Blesser, your contracted fairy, disappeared for no reason."]

["And just one month after the king disappeared, you went to the gardener's place and went to the gardener's place. In the name of the "cradle plan", it was announced that all the newly born fairies would be gathered together for unified secret training, on the grounds of preparing talents for the future of the fairies. "】

【"Out of respect for your hard work and contributions over the years, no one doubted you at that time, and everyone silently supported your decision. But now so many years have passed, what are the results of your training?"】

【"Why has no one seen the young fairies you collected? Where did you hide them? Why did the king disappear in the first place? Who is betraying the fairies?" Tina said a lot of secrets in a clear and orderly manner, pointing the finger of suspicion directly at the old man.】

Mu You raised his eyebrows as he looked at the text that kept popping up, as if he had caught up with the scene of eating melons.

He now understood why Tina had chosen to support them so decisively before. It turned out that the Fairy Kingdom had been in a state of leaderlessness since a long time ago.

And judging from Tina's doubts, this woman did have a lot of problems.

【The old man was stunned for a long time after hearing this. After a moment, he suddenly showed an extremely tired bitter smile: "Is it really impossible to hide it..."】

【"Hide?" Tina stared at the old man condescendingly and snorted: "Olmedo, are you admitting that you are lying? Then confess the truth quickly. Where have you hidden all the newly born fairies in recent years?"】

【"Your Highness, I have never hidden anyone privately..." The old man sat on the ground dejectedly and sighed: "The reason why no one has ever seen these new fairies is because... they don't exist at all..."】

【"What do you mean?" Tina frowned. 】

【"The bitter mother tree stopped growing eight hundred years ago, and no fairy has been born since then..." The old man said bitterly. 】

【"What?" Tina was shocked. The fairy girl not far away also covered her mouth in surprise. 】

"Oh?" Mu You was surprised.

The mother tree of the goblin tribe does not bear fruit, which means that the population of the goblin tribe stopped growing eight hundred years ago. At the same time, goblins are not immortal. Goblins die every day for various reasons. With only an outflow and no inflow, the population of the goblin tribe is destined to decrease.

This mother tree is the only source of population for the goblins. Once it stops growing, it is equivalent to fundamentally depriving the goblin tribe of its reproductive ability. For a race that has lost its reproductive ability, extinction is an inevitable result.

[“Why did it suddenly stop growing?” The night watchman asked out of curiosity. ]

[But the old man sneered at him: "Shouldn't I ask you fools?"]

["Ah?" The night watchman was stunned, scratched his head, and said awkwardly: "Sorry, I didn't quite understand. How can the mother tree of your fairy tribe be related to us fools?"]

["Because, eight hundred years ago, the day when the bitter mother tree stopped growing was the time when your first fool was born... At the moment you were born, we just started to perish. Do you think there is any connection?" The old man snorted coldly. ]

["Ah, this... could it be just a coincidence?" The night watchman said. ]

["Coincidence? Then four hundred years ago, one of your fools first landed on the bitter garden. The moment he landed, the bitter mother tree immediately began to wither rapidly. No matter what I did, I couldn't stop it. It wasn't until the fool left that the withering stopped. Is this a coincidence?" The old man sneered. ]

["This..." The night watchman had nothing to say. ]