I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 533 Extremely ill
At the request of Healer Xi, the Council of Elders gave him some time.

If he fails to successfully change the habits of the red spirit flowers during this period of time, he will have to eliminate all the red spirit flowers.

"What you are doing is equivalent to preventing viruses from infecting cells, parasites from parasitizing, and bacteria from dividing... Xi, you are destined to fail. Wake up as soon as possible."

After the elders left him a message, they left and asked their companions to stay and monitor him. Once the time was up, all the red spirit flowers must be cleared.

After the elder left, Xi immediately returned to the Red Spirit Flower Valley.

"Stop releasing pollen!" He gave the order to all the red flowers.

"Father, what is pollen?" the red spirit flowers asked in confusion.

"These are the red, tiny dust particles." Xi said, pointing to the tiny pollen particles on the petals.

"That's not released by us. It grows on our bodies. When the wind blows, it will fly everywhere." The red spirit flowers explained aggrievedly. They couldn't control the spread of pollen.

"Can't you just stop them from happening?"

"No, Father, we can't do this..."

There was no other way but to put hope in the doctor's healing ability again.

"What if the act of 'producing pollen' is defined as a disease?"

Do it as soon as you think of it. Time waits for no one. Xi immediately treated some of the flowers in the Red Spirit Flower Valley.

Sure enough, after being cured, the red spirit flowers no longer produced pollen.

However, their spirits have declined a lot.

The inability to produce pollen is equivalent to completely castrating them, which will definitely affect their spirits.

"Father, I feel so tired. I want to sleep."

"I'm so sleepy, so sleepy, my petals are about to fall off."

"Go to sleep, good night, father..."

After greeting Xi, these red spirit flowers immediately fell into a deep sleep. Then, their petals began to fall and gradually withered. The flower stems also quickly withered. The originally lively red spirit flowers were reduced to a black dead branch in the blink of an eye.

The companions behind him couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and reminded the anxious Xi: "Flowers are born to spread pollen. If you cure their ability to spread pollen, you will deny the meaning of their existence. Of course, they will wither quickly. Xi, don't be too anxious..."

Only after hearing his companions' reminder did Xi realize how big a mistake he had made.

He was so anxious that he ignored the original habits of the plants and tried to use his healing power to transform everything.

Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants. If we eliminate the ability to produce pollen, doesn’t that mean that the existence of flowers is meaningless?

After experiencing a failure, Xi did not calm down. He became even more anxious and his thoughts became a mess. The Elders' Council did not give him much time. If he did not find a solution, he could only choose to eliminate the red spirit flower.

"What else can I do?"

Xi wandered anxiously in the valley, and his companions followed worriedly behind him.

Fortunately, not long after, he thought of another method:
"What if we lower the vitality of the red spirit flowers and make them the same as ordinary flowers? Then they won't spread wildly and won't become a plague!"

This time, he carried out the experiment in a hurry again.

He immediately treated a part of the flowers in the Red Spirit Flower Valley, curing "excessive vitality" as a disease. Soon, this part of the red spirit flowers were also cured.

This time, however, it was not just the spirit that was failing.

Hope, will never be able to hear the sounds of these red spiritual flowers again.

They indeed existed like ordinary flowers. The offspring of these red spiritual flowers were not as vigorous as before and became completely ordinary.

These offspring will not grow quickly, but will grow slowly out of the soil like other flowers. They will not grow so tall and will not be so fragile that they will break if the wind blows.

This weak red flower couldn't even compete with the weeds in the Hundred Flower Valley. "Is this still a red spiritual flower? It has lost its intelligence and vitality, and has become ordinary..."

Looking at these fragile "new breeds", Xi began to doubt himself.

Is it really impossible for it to "cure" the Red Spirit Flower?
His companions witnessed Xi's two failed experiments. Seeing him go from excited to lonely, and now to desperate, they could hardly suppress the guilt in their hearts.

"Xi, do you still remember why you made these red spirit flowers?"

"Because I want to help you defeat those parasitic plants." Xi answered in a daze. This was indeed his original purpose.

"What about now? The parasitic plants have been eradicated. Why do you still insist on protecting them? To doctors, they are just tools, tools used to fight diseases. No matter how deep your feelings for them are, they are just tools."

"No... they are not tools." Xi said painfully: "They can cure my loneliness."

Hearing this, his companion suddenly realized something.

"You added your personal emotions to the healing process?" he questioned Xi.

This is a big taboo for doctors. Once personal emotions are added when using healing abilities, it will lead to terrible consequences. This is expressly prohibited by the Council of Elders.

"That's why they call you father! That's why they have such strong intelligence!"

The companion shouted to Xi with great confidence.

"I...I don't remember." Xi took a few steps back in fear.

Xi's reaction confirmed this to his companions.

As his companions kept questioning him, Xi was forced to sit on the ground. Seeing this, the surrounding red spirit flowers hurried over and used their thorny flower stems to form a wall to protect Xi.

"Something bad is trying to attack Father!"

"Defense! Defense!"

"Let him see how powerful we are!"

The red spiritual flowers raised their spikes and blocked Xi's way.

The companions were at a loss and could only persuade through the thorny wall: "Xi, you still have a chance. As long as you remove all these red spirit flowers, everything will be over. Just think of it as a disease. Once you recover, everything will be over."

Xi curled up under the protection of the thorns, trembling. He couldn't remember clearly whether he had added personal emotions when creating the red spirit flower. Was his current mental state sick?
The advice of his companions and the voices of the red spirit flowers kept echoing in his mind, and he became more and more confused:

"Am I being controlled by these red spirit flowers?"

"Why do they keep thinking I'm sick?"

"Am I being parasitized? Is my mind twisted?"

"The voices I heard from the Red Spirit Flower, were they all hallucinations?"

In the constant self-doubt, Xi suddenly had an idea:
"All of this is an illusion caused by the parasitism of the red spirit flower."

At the moment he cured the Red Spirit Flower, he had already been controlled by this parasitic life. The Red Spirit Flower called him "father" just to use him, and his dependence on him was just an illusion.

The Red Spirit Flower used him to continuously spread pollen and expand on Hundred Flower Island. He had now become a puppet of the Red Spirit Flower, but he was still unaware of it.

Although the Council of Elders and his companions knew that he was ill, in order to protect him, they could only keep persuading him and let him slowly realize the truth of the matter. However, he was stubborn and still protected the culprit, Red Spirit Flower.

"That's it...that's it..."

That would make sense.

"So...I'm sick!"

(End of this chapter)