Inside the World Tree, Li Wenxi was lying on the bed with his head buried in the pillow, his hair loose, and his whole body exuding an aura that said "keep away from strangers".
In the entire room, there was a black aura that was almost visible to the naked eye!
Li Yajun stood aside, her face full of helplessness: "Wenxi, don't be angry, isn't Xu Xin going to do something important? He should be back soon."
Li Wenxi turned his head slightly, and looked at Li Yajun with one eye: "Yajun, you say this every day..."
"This... It's been so long, he should be back soon, right?"
"Ah... You said the same thing yesterday!" Li Wenxi buried his head in the pillow again and shouted in a muffled voice.
"This... By the way, our sheep gave birth to lambs. Do you want to go and see them? They are so cute, bleating!"
"Well... go!" Li Wenxi sat up abruptly and said through gritted teeth, "Ignore him! No matter when he comes back! When he comes back, don't expect me to care about him again!"
After Xu Xin and Xu Ying left, more than a month had passed in the World Tree.
When Xu Xin left, he didn't say goodbye to Li Wenxi, because she was directing miners to mine in the underground world at that time, so he left without saying goodbye.
This made Li Wenxi feel a little uncomfortable at first.
But she also understood, after all, it was serious work, so she didn't care much. But after all, they wouldn't see each other for a long time, and they couldn't even contact each other, which still had a big impact on her mood.
In fact, it is possible to contact the outside world. As long as she goes to the control console and adjusts the time flow rate to balance with the outside world, she can contact the outside world.
Or she could go out of the World Tree for a while and contact Xu Xin from outside.
But the former won't work. She can't change the speed of time flow in the entire World Tree because of her own personal affairs, right
It would not be appropriate for her to go out in the latter case, after all, she also has her own tasks.
And she didn't want to do it. She had always wanted to replenish the supplies to a very abundant level before Xu Xin came back, so that when Xu Xin came back, she could relax and move freely.
But this wait lasted nearly a month.
"To be honest, it's only been... five or six hours outside, right?" Li Wenxi stroked the lamb's head and couldn't help but sigh, "It really hasn't been that long... I won't have to wait another month, will I?"
The little lamb bleated non-stop when she touched it.
"No, no, of course not. That's too long."
"Ah, who knows? Things in the underground world are very complicated. He still has to find traitors and deal with them... Huh?!"
Li Wenxi raised her head abruptly and saw Xu Xin's face with a teasing expression.
"Ah!" Li Wenxi jumped up from the ground instantly, rushed over to hug him, looked up and said happily, "You're finally back!"
"Haha, I've basically dealt with all the big things this time, so there's no need to go out for the time being." Xu Xin laughed, then sniffed slightly, "Ah... You just hugged a sheep and now you're hugging me, there's a smell of mutton on you..."
"You dislike me just after I came back, don't you?"
"No, no, I just smelled this and I'm a little hungry."
Xu Xin and Li Wenxi teased each other and both laughed.
Li Wenxi held his arm tightly, with a smile on her face, completely different from the resentful state she had before.
Li Yajun covered her mouth and laughed, "I don't know who it was. He was just saying something like 'Don't even think about me talking to him when he comes back!'"
"Yajun!" Li Wenxi blushed. "When did I tell you that Xu Xin has only been out for five or six hours, not even half a day. I am very patient!"
“Yes, yes…” Li Yajun forced herself not to embarrass her.
I don’t know who it is, but she has had a gloomy face for the past half month. Even the survivors who were responsible for mining with her didn’t dare to talk to her.
"Hey, um... Where's Yingying? Didn't she come back with you?"
Li Wenxi immediately changed the subject and looked around.
"Why can't I see her? And where's Coco? You took Coco with you, right?"
"Yingying has gone to set up our weapons processing factory." Xu Xin pointed to the tree house jungle in the distance, "All the equipment will be put in the tree house. As for Coco, she went to play with Huihui."
As soon as he and Xu Ying came back, the little pterosaur Huihui sensed them and flew to their side.
When Xu Xin saw Huihui again, he couldn't believe that it was the same one he saw before he went out.
After a month of growth inside the World Tree, Huihui, who originally only reached his waist when standing on the ground, is now even taller than him, almost two meters.
With such a large size, its wingspan reaches a terrifying four or five meters!
"Then we can start working right away! Oh yes, speaking of Huihui, it has grown quite big now! You should have seen it, right?"
Li Wenxi clapped his hands, a smug expression on his face, and said with a raised corner of his mouth: "There is one thing you definitely don't know, that is... Huihui can now carry people! I've already ridden Huihui to fly!"
What…
This really shocked Xu Xin.
"GrayGray can now be ridden...?"
It’s only been over a month since Huihui was born, right
A little thing that's just over a month old can carry people on a flight
However... its size can't really be called tiny.
"Yeah, it was so exciting!" Li Wenxi thought of what happened before and patted his chest with a lingering feeling, "It was flying so high that it almost threw me off! Fortunately, Huihui caught me again, otherwise I would have fallen directly..."
"… It sounds dangerous. You are so brave." Xu Xin flicked her forehead lightly.
“Hehe…” Li Wenxi smiled sheepishly, “I just wanted to try it out. It was so embarrassing at the time. I screamed too loudly and attracted everyone over…”
Then, she snorted softly: "It's because you've been gone for more than a month. Without you to accompany me, what's wrong with me looking for some excitement during my rest time!"
"Okay, my bad. Don't do it again next time."
"How dare I? My legs are shaking when I see Huihui..."
"Well, I'll try it next time."
Xu Xin was very interested in riding a pterosaur into the sky.
"Then you better be careful. Anyway, I don't dare to do it for the time being. Even though Huihui has grown a lot bigger, I still don't dare to do it. Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go find Yingying. We haven't seen her for a long time."
Li Wenxi looked towards the jungle of tree houses.
"Okay." Xu Xin nodded, and the two walked over there.
No one knew when Li Yajun disappeared. Probably because they hadn't seen each other for such a long time, she left to give them some space.
“By the way, quite a few people have come this time. We have brought more than 300 people up from the underground world.” Xu Xin said as he was pulled away by Li Wenxi who was somewhat impatient.
"More than 300 people? That's a lot!" Li Wenxi turned around and looked at Xu Xin in surprise, "Where are they? It's their first time on the ground, so they must be shocked!"
There were only a hundred factory workers and technicians brought with them, and the remaining two hundred or so were their family members.
Because the staff and family members of the Wei family's weapons factory had little contact with the outside world, and most of them had been influenced by the Wei family's yearning for the surface, there was basically no personal emotional resistance to bringing them up.
"Well, those people are still outside the World Tree. You know, they have never seen the sun, never seen the sky. When they first arrived on the ground, they were all stunned. Yingying and I left them outside and let them feel this vast world first." Xu Xin said with a smile.
The reactions of those people as soon as they came out of the ground were completely within his expectations.
When they came up, it was almost evening and the sky was filled with red clouds.
For those who had never seen the sky, as soon as they came up they saw not only the legendary sky of infinite height, but also the extremely beautiful sunset. Naturally they were immersed in it and couldn't extricate themselves.
Of course, what shocked them most was the infinitely high sky.
Although the sunset was very novel and beautiful to them, it was not that shocking.
Some people were even disappointed, feeling that the sun was not as dazzling as they had imagined.
In their fantasies, the sun should be so bright that it is impossible to look directly at it, and it should be able to emit light that can burn people's skin forever, and it will cause blindness if you look directly at it.
"It's already evening time, and night is about to begin."
After Xu Xin explained this to them, most of them did not understand what dusk and night were. Among them, only a small number of people knew what night was from ancient books.
There was even a hint of fear in the eyes of this small group of people.
That’s right, it’s fear, the fear of the unknown darkness and coldness in the legend.
In their ancient books, after the sun disappeared, night fell and the world fell into complete darkness. Moreover, because there was no source of heat and energy, the temperature dropped significantly compared to daytime.
What is said in their ancient books is basically true, just a little exaggerated.
People in the underground world have never experienced the temperature difference between day and night, nor have they seen the world fall into darkness, so they naturally fear the unknown.
Xu Xin did not give them any explanation. Instead, he smiled mysteriously and said to them, "When night falls, you can experience it for yourself."
They will definitely be impressed by the cool nights in the jungle and the vast starry sky.
"So something interesting happened!" Li Wenxi was a little envious, "I also want to see the sun. I haven't seen the sun for a month!"
"Um... Haven't you been out for a while? Didn't you say that you guys take turns to go out and look after the situation outside?"
"There's no place for me in that. They can't replace me in my mission." Li Wenxi pouted.
"You've been working all the time, so we have abundant resources now."
"Of course. I don't know how quickly we will consume resources after we start working at full capacity. We can only stockpile as much as possible."
"Give yourself a break once in a while. How about I take you out to meet those people?"
"Okay!" Li Wenxi immediately became interested. "Hehe, I'm looking forward to their reactions after seeing the starry sky! You and Yingying will go and bring them in, right? You can bring me along then. Ah, but..."
Li Wenxi looked up at the sky and said, "Now, the brightness of the sky inside the World Tree has also dropped. It will soon be night outside. Then here... it will soon be a long night as well."
Now, the night outside is shorter than the day. It gets dark around 7pm and gets light before 5am the next day. But even so, there are still a full nine hours of night.
If we calculate it by a hundred times the time, it would take nearly a thousand hours inside the World Tree, or nearly forty days of constant night!
Xu Xin was not very worried about this.
"Don't worry about that. Although I haven't experienced the long night myself, this morning... I mean this morning in the outside world, before daybreak, everyone except me had already come in. They have experienced the long night for nearly half a month."
"This morning..." Li Wenxi muttered to himself, and then looked at the sky inside the World Tree, which was already a little dim, "Hmm... This day has been so long..."
Isn’t it.
It was not so bad for Xu Xin and Xu Ying. They went out twice and did not stay in the World Tree for long.
But Li Wenxi has been here for a month and a half!
"Hey! You two!"
At this time, a familiar voice came from behind them.
Xu Xin looked back and saw Lou Feier standing there, waving at the two of them.
"Fei'er, you're here!" Li Wenxi pulled Xu Xin over.
"Long time no see?" Xu Xin said with a smile, looking at Lou Feier, who was wearing casual clothes.
"... It's been a long time since we last met!" Lou Feier looked at him and blinked, then sighed, "But it shouldn't be that long for you."
Li Wenxi was a little surprised, "Didn't you go to help Xiao Taozi make weapons?"
Lou Feier pointed to the watch on her wrist: "Xu Ying just contacted us to gather at the tree house. Didn't you receive the message?"
Xu Ying’s information
Xu Xin raised his hand to check his watch and was surprised to find that Xu Ying was actually in the explorer group.
Xu Ying: "Everyone, come to the tree house forest. I have installed all the manufacturing equipment."
Wang Lei: "What?! Brother Xin and Yingying are back?"
Wen Guixin: "It's been over a month. You guys are finally back! I'll be there soon."
Ji Chaoyang: "I'll be there soon."
Qi Xuefei: "Wait a moment, I'll be there in fifteen minutes."
Qin Yunlong: "My brother and I are still in the underground world, wait for us!"
"I really didn't see it... Then let's go together!"
Li Wenxi let go of Xu Xin's hand, took Lou Feier's hand and walked over there.
"Hmm... Have you two become much closer?"
Xu Xin asked as she looked at the two of them who were like best friends.
"Of course!" Li Wenxi pointed to a villa not far away, "That's her house, it's right next to mine. Moreover, she and Zeng Tao have been living next to me all this time."
"Wow..."
Wow, it turns out they are living together!
And Zeng Tao also lives with them.
"Hehe, now Wenxi and I are closer than you!" Lou Feier glanced at Xu Xin proudly, then hugged Li Wenxi's arm, "Let's go with Wenxi, and ignore this person who has not been heard from for more than a month."
"good!"
These two guys...
Xu Xin shook his head and followed the two of them, constantly greeting many survivors who saw him, and finally arrived at the edge of the tree house.
“Here, here!”
The three saw Xu Ying waving at them from the window of a tree house not far away.
"Isn't that your tree house?" Li Wenxi turned and said to Xu Xin.
"It's mine, let's go."
Entering the tree house, all the explorers are here, except for the Qin Yunlong brothers who are still in the underground world, and Zhao Xiaochuan who is standing guard outside the world tree.
As soon as he came up, Xu Xin saw a whole floor of machinery.
Xu Ying didn't even know what method she used to make the floor between the first and second floors disappear, turning the first and second floors into one large space, providing space for those large machines.
Xu Xin also saw that Ma Hongwei was looking at a machine of unknown power carefully with shining eyes.
"Hmm... these machines look like a headache."
Zeng Tao also came over to him and sighed to Li Wenxi and Lou Feier, "I feel like my life is going into hell again... Wow! Xu Xin, why are you back?!"
The moment Zeng Tao saw Xu Xin out of the corner of her eye, she almost jumped up.
"What are you talking about?" Xu Xin rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Yingying is back, how can I still be outside?"
"Oh...that's right!"
Zeng Tao's originally depressed spirits improved a lot the moment she saw Xu Xin, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but smile: "Hey, let's calculate the time, it's been more than a month, right? You're finally back. Sister Wen Xi is so tired of waiting! She's been complaining to us all the time!"
"Little Peach!"
"whee!"
It can be seen that the relationship between the three is indeed very close now.
"Long time no see, Brother Xin, I missed you so much!" Wang Lei also came over, "You were out for a long time this time."
"For me, I was only out for six or seven hours, half a day," Xu Xin said with a smile.
"We have made a lot of progress in these six or seven hours." Ji Chaoyang also came over and said with a smile.
"Haha, I saw that. With you guys here, I'm very confident about the development of this World Tree."
When Xu Xin came back, he was shocked by the development of this place.
He was also sighing at the time that this feeling was really great. Every time he came back, there were big changes that made him feel new and surprised.
At this time, two more people entered the tree house.
It’s Shi Wanyun and Jin Yue.
These two people are now recognized as core members by everyone.
When they saw Xu Xin, the two girls opened their eyes and walked over here.
"It seems that your outing was very successful." Shi Wanyun looked at Xu Xin, then at the strange machines around them, and said in her unique soft voice.
"Of course we came back after completing our goal. Ah... But, we may go there a few more times."
"Ah?" Li Wenxi's eyes widened. "Still going? No, if you want to go, you must take me with you next time!"
"Ah, this..."
"Alright, alright!" At this time, Xu Ying, who had been standing aside, clapped her hands and shouted, "Everyone, look at me! Don't gather around my brother, he doesn't know anything! Look at me!"
Xu Ying's words made everyone present laugh.
After laughing, Xu Ying walked to a piece of equipment, clapped her hands and said, "Everyone has seen these equipment. From now on, we can start mass production of weapons and prepare for our goal!"