Volume 5 Chapter 53, The Last Wood Ape (2)
As the tree trembled, the earth shook as if it were a rumbling sound.
The tremor at the beginning was very violent, the junior sister stumbled and almost fell, Chen Chen helped her, he heard what the junior sister said, but he didn't hear the content clearly, his attention was all attracted by what was happening in the giant tree in front of him.
I saw that the branches of the giant tree began to shrink, tainter, and twist, and some of the roots at my feet began to move in the same way, and the whole giant tree slowly began to shrink, and then the giant tree was submerged in the huge smoke and dust from the earthquake, but I could still vaguely see the situation inside.
After a few minutes of trembling, it began to weaken and finally stopped, and the tree did not change again when it reached a height of about three meters, but instead moved in their direction.
"Senior sister, come behind me!" Chen Chen became vigilant and blocked his junior sister behind him, although his cultivation was lower than that of his junior sister at this time, but his usual habit of protecting his junior sister still made him make a habitual move.
The Crystal Beast jumped in front of them, its eyes dark and shining, and it shook its claws at them excitedly, gesticulating a few messy gestures, its white fur covered with a layer of soot.
"Senior brother, Xiaojing is telling us not to be afraid, it said that this is its friend. ”
The junior sister walked in front of him, Chen Chen was going to grab her, but he was shocked by what he saw in front of him again, and reached halfway to find that the junior sister was also staying in place.
I saw that the person who stepped through the smoke and dust in the sky appeared in front of them, and it was actually a giant more than three meters high.
His hair was thick and unkempt, and his upper body was bare. The skin on his body was all blue, dry as a piece of bark, covered with knotted scars, and a large apron made of vines on his body blocked the key parts.
His calves were wrapped in a large patch of green moss, and the toes of his feet were the tips of several tree roots, and the sides were covered with roots.
The last thing Chen Chen saw was the eyes of the three-meter-tall giant, the yellow eyes that grew in the middle of the scars on his face were full of sadness, but after seeing the crystal beast, there was a smile in those eyes.
The huge mouth like a scar slowly opened after seeing the crystal beast, revealing the green teeth inside, and let out a low and weak voice: "Oh, Xiaojing, you are finally, uh, finally here." ”
The crystal beast jumped in front of the giant with a "whoosh", then jumped on his knees, jumped on the skirt made of vines, the giant's big hand stretched out, and the crystal beast jumped onto the giant's palm.
Chen Chen saw that the Crystal Beast was not even the size of the giant's palm, but then, with a bow on the back of the Crystal Beast, it became more than three times larger, just the size of the giant's palm.
The Crystal Beast hissed in the giant's palm and made a series of gestures.
The strange giant said: "Xiaojing, you said that you have been looking for you for more than a month, passed through most of the Shadow Forest, and also found the deserted Magic Stone Formation, and you were already disappointed, did you find it on the boulder road again?"
The crystal beast hissed and nodded.
The giant lowered his head, tears in his eyes.
"Crystal Beast, you are really my good friend, it is difficult for you to do so much for me, a dying person, but why are you bothered, even if you find those elixirs, cough ...... Cough...... It's just to prolong my life for a while, and sooner or later, I'm going to die! I've lived for nearly a thousand years, and I've lived enough. ”
The Crystal Beast's cry was rapid and high-pitched, as if blaming the giant. The giant said, "Ah, ahem...... Cough...... Don't worry, since you found the elixir for me, I won't give up on myself, but, Xiaojing, how are you going to save me?"
"Uncle Giant, you said that chaotic stone is called Magic Stone Henge?" Senior Sister suddenly asked, "This forest behind us is called the Shadow Forest, and the long boulder is called the Boulder Road?" These are also what Chen Chen wanted to ask.
The giant slowly turned his head, as if he had just noticed the two of them. When the giant's eyes looked at Chen Chen, Chen Chen felt that these eyes seemed to contain countless histories.
"Little girl, you're right!" he said, "who are you?"
"Oh, Crystal," he said, "you haven't introduced me to your human friends yet, I didn't expect to see humans again here, but I haven't seen humans in hundreds of years?"
The crystal beast jumped directly from the giant's hand, and in the process of jumping, it had become a normal size, it jumped onto the shoulders of the junior sister, arched the junior sister with its furry mouth, and then pointed at the junior sister, hissing at the giant.
The giant suddenly burst into a weak laugh: "Xiaojing, I didn't expect that you really found a master, didn't you tell me before, you won't find a master, you want to be an unrestrained little beast for the rest of your life, you won't see this little girl look beautiful." ”
The Crystal Beast looked very shy and twisted its head to the side.
"Uncle Giant, my name is Zhao Chen, this is my senior brother Chen Chen, I will not restrain Xiaojing," the senior sister relieved the siege of the Jingjing Beast, "Although it recognizes me as the master, I just regard it as my friend, it is still free, and I can leave whenever I want." ”
The crystal beast kissed the junior sister on the face again, and saw Chen Chen's jealousy, the junior sister's face had been red after taking the clover black grass that day, which was very moving, plus everything he saw in the illusion that day, Chen Chen always felt that he was particularly attracted to the junior sister, and sometimes he would secretly observe her when the junior sister was not paying attention. After kissing his junior sister, the crystal beast jumped in front of Chen Chen and pointed again.
The giant said, "Hehe, it turns out that they are still a couple!"
"It used to be," Chen Chen corrected, "not anymore." He couldn't bear to look at his sister's sad and disappointed expression, but she had to get used to it slowly, and he himself had to get used to it.
The giant let out another low, thunderous laugh: "It's funny, it seems that this little couple is still having an awkward relationship." ”
The crystal beast seemed to remember something, jumped in front of Chen Chen and hissed, and quickly gestured, it seemed to have something very important to say, but it gestured too fast, Chen Chen didn't understand it at all, and the junior sister was immersed in the sadness of the sentence just now, and didn't look at the crystal beast at all.
Chen Chen said: "Xiaojing, don't worry, speak slowly." ”
"Little brother, I do understand what it means," the giant's tone was a little helpless, "It means that the ninth-order elixir that can prolong my life is that strange black leaf, and it is in your hands. ”
"You mean clover!" Chen Chen took out a small bag wrapped in linen cloth from his bosom and opened it, and there were still twenty-one pieces of clover black grass in it.
"You call it a clover, that's right, it's this kind of leaf!" The giant turned around slowly, ready to walk back to the place where he had just appeared, where there was a big pit on the ground, "Xiaojing, this elixir is extremely precious, ordinary people will keep it for themselves when they get it, how can it be given to me, a person who is about to die and I don't know, I think, I still return to my original appearance, just wait there to die, anyway, my people are all dead, and it is not interesting for me to live alone!"
The crystal beast "swished" and rushed to the giant to block it, it was like an ant in front of the giant, but for some reason, in Chen Chen's opinion, it was also like a giant.
"Uncle Giant, don't leave yet," at this time, the senior sister finally spoke, "My senior brother, senior brother may not refuse to save you, is it?" Seeing that the senior sister looked at him expectantly, Chen Chen wanted to agree without hesitation, but he pondered again.
The giant took the first step, and with only one step, the Crystal Beast was left behind by it.
"Xiaojing, you can't blame them, although this little girl is your master, but they are human beings after all, human beings, they are just thinking about themselves, and as long as they can improve their strength, they will not care about other people's lives or deaths!"
The crystal beast jumped in front of Chen Chen with a "whoosh", waving his hands and begging all over his face, but Chen Chen was still indifferent, and Zhao Chen was also shouting from his senior brother on the side.
Another step, the giant's pace was very large, another step, the giant had come to the pit, every time he took a step, the ground trembled slightly, Chen Chen knew that he was going to plant himself in the pit again, the crystal beast and the senior sister were silent at this time, watching the giant take his big stride and step into the pit.
"Are you the Wood Ape Clan?" At this time, Chen Chen finally spoke up, he had already suspected that he was the Wood Ape Clan, the race they had encountered in the middle layer of the Fengxin Forest since he saw this giant.
As far as he knows, this kind of clan is not afraid of any spiritual attack, the only thing they are afraid of is fire, they feed on flesh and blood, mutilating countless living beings, at that time Xiaoye was captured by them, and was almost sucked by this clan, but fortunately was saved by Saro.
The Wood Ape Clan was trapped in the middle of the Wind New Forest by the body of the previous generation of Divine Thunder, in this world, except for the Wind New Forest, there is no trace of them anywhere else, their birth came from a strange tree, which is the same as the tree they saw before, all white, but taller, more peculiar, that tree called the "Ancient White Tree" can burrow into the soil by itself, and hide its tracks in this way.
If this tree is destroyed, the wood ape family will also be destroyed, and no one can understand their race, which is so strange and strange that the heavens have created such a race.
"The Wood Ape Clan?" the senior sister exclaimed, "Impossible, didn't they disappear in this world with the burning of the Ancient White Tree?" and most of the people of the Wood Ape Clan did not have such a high level of spiritual intelligence as this giant uncle. ”
What the junior sister said is right. Originally, he also thought so, the patriarch of the wood ape clan was possessed by Yun Luo, and Yun Luo was originally ready to rely on him to resurrect, but Saro found the ancient white tree and burned the ancient white tree, Yun Luo's resurrection failed, and the people of the wood ape clan were all burned at that moment.
It's just that the giant that appeared in front of him was really too similar to that race, they could all change into the shape of a tree, and their whole bodies were blue, although this giant was much larger than the wood ape clan, but Chen Chen still felt that he was the wood ape clan, so he had this question, and because of this, he was very hesitant whether he should hand over the three-leaf black grass to this giant and help the crystal beast to save him.