"What happens if I eat it?"
"You'll know once you eat it."
"If you won't tell me, I won't eat it."
Yan Luo: ...Never had it seen anyone so spineless.
"Once you eat it, you can go to Yellow Springs."
"Why would I want to go to Yellow Springs? I'm alive and well, and I'm about to become a councilor. A councilor, understand? A very important official."
Xu Le gestured a little, but Yan Luo merely thought his head was full of shit.
"Going to Yellow Springs doesn't mean dying."
"All right, but eating an extra fruit is dangerous. Have you considered the risks?"
"This is what the Mother Tree expects of you. She gave you this fruit because she wants you to gain this power. Since you have her approval, of course you can eat it."
"All right."
Xu Le glanced at the fruit in his hand. He had already eaten the Lightning Fruit. Although anyone who had eaten a Fruit of Fate could eat additional fruits, there was still a catch.
Chi Xiao had once told him that he had to judge for himself exactly how many he could eat. Eating too many would kill him, just as eating two fruits would kill an ordinary person.
Right now, he felt nothing at all and had no idea whether he could eat this thing.
What if he died after eating it?
"You're not trying to screw me over, are you?"
"Are you sick in the head? Why would I screw you over?"
"Maybe because I don't want to build a harmonious Guyinduo society with you, you want to stab me and find someone else?" Xu Le blinked.
"You fucking..."
Yan Luo moved to beat him. It figured it had been a long time since it last beat him, and