Volume 5 Chapter 52, The Last Wood Ape (1)
The orange-red flames flickered in the night, and at dawn, when the eastern sky began to turn red, they began to fade slowly, and finally they were extinguished, and the fur of the crystal beast returned to snow-white again.
"Senior brother, you see, the flame is gone, and its fur is now so white again, is it all right?" the senior sister sat up straight. Chen Chen also stood up, he and his junior sister didn't sleep all night, guarding the crystal beast all night, at this moment he felt that his body was a little stiff, so he used his spiritual power to make his body a little more active.
His injuries had been completely healed two days ago, and his cultivation had also recovered the Xuanwu Dual, although he hadn't slept all night, he was still in good spirits.
"It should be fine!" Chen Chen was also a little worried in his heart, he had never seen a fierce beast heal like this, and the spiritual power in the inner pill actually burned through his body to the outside.
"But why hasn't it woken up yet?"
Chen Chen frowned. The crystal beast now looks better than before, its hair is dazzlingly white, it should wake up now, he leaned down, ready to visit the crystal beast's inner dan like last night, but he didn't expect the crystal beast to sit up suddenly, grimacing at him, he was startled, the crystal beast swished, disappeared in place, jumped onto the junior sister's shoulder, and then covered his stomach on the junior sister's shoulder, pointing at Chen Chen and laughing.
It turned out that it had already been healed, and just now it was just pretending to be asleep, secretly preparing to play a prank on Chen Chen. Chen Chen's stomach was on fire, and he jumped up to hit it, but it was beating back and forth on the left and right shoulders of the junior sister, and Chen Chen couldn't catch up, and the junior sister giggled.
After a while, the noise finally stopped. The senior sister smiled: "Xiaojing, why are you so bad, senior brother has now returned to the Xuanwu Dual, he just let you, be careful that he teaches you a lesson!"
When the crystal beast heard the junior sister say this, it deliberately made a scared look, of course it was not really afraid, it didn't know how many times stronger than Chen Chen, it drilled into the junior sister's arms, and the nose drilled into the junior sister's chest, the junior sister was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she threw the crystal crystal beast on the ground.
"Xiaojing......" she said coquettishly: "Why are you so bad! I wouldn't have saved you if I had known!" She lowered her head, stroked the corners of her clothes with both hands, and the blushing appearance of her senior sister's cheeks made Chen Chen stunned, and remembered the way she saw her in the illusion that day, and couldn't help but have a hot face.
He was afraid that his junior sister would see it, so he hurriedly said: "Little brute, I know that I can't beat you if I want to fight, and I can't run away from you, but don't you want to save your friend? ”
Speaking of friends, the crystal beast became serious, and hurriedly grabbed Chen Chen, who was deliberately walking forward, with his front paws, as if he was apologizing to Chen Chen, looking very funny, Zhao Chen laughed out loud again, and said: "Xiaojing, senior brother is scaring you, you are kind to us, why don't we help you?"
The Crystal Beast breathed a sigh of relief and stroked its chest. Chen Chen stopped: "But you also have to tell us, how to save your friend, you have been in a coma for the past few days, and my sister and I don't know if you have gone too far!"
The Crystal Beast nodded, its dark eyes looking around, and then it jumped onto the stone as if it had just spotted it, jumping around on it and pointing as if it had something to say.
The junior sister said: "Xiaojing, don't get excited, slow down!"
The crystal beast exhaled in a hurry, but it still slowly calmed down, it pointed to the left, and then made a few more gestures, as before, the junior sister understood what it meant first.
"You're saying that your friend put it here at the time, lest you get it wrong?"
The Crystal Beast nodded.
"So you mean that your friend is around here?"
Crystal Beast nodded again.
"Then what are you hesitating about?
The Crystal Beast walked to the feet of the junior sister, pointed to the forest next to it, and then made a frightened expression. This time, Chen Chen also understood what it meant.
"Little beast, since you are here, even if it is dangerous in the forest, we will go with you to save it!"
This time, the crystal beast jumped onto Chen Chen's shoulder with a swish, and licked it on its face before Chen Chen could react, its tongue was very rough and sticky, and it felt weird to be forcibly kissed by an animal.
Before Chen Chen could get angry, the Crystal Beast jumped off his shoulder again, and with a whoosh, it jumped down the long boulder from the left side, its movements were light and agile, and its body quickly landed on a tree near the stone wall, where it was waiting for Chen Chen and them.
The boulder was so high that when viewed from above, the Crystal Beast became a small white dot. The junior sister smiled, and jumped down with the crystal beast, the junior sister's body stepped on the stone wall, in order to slow down the force of the fall, and stepped on the branch again, and finally landed firmly on the ground, and the crystal beast jumped on the junior sister's shoulder after the junior sister stood firm.
Chen Chen stood on the edge of the boulder, looking down. Now that his cultivation has recovered somewhat, this height is nothing to him, and it is still down, not up, he jumped down directly, without borrowing strength on the stone wall, and fell directly on the branch, his cultivation is currently lower than that of his junior sister, but his body is more peculiar than his junior sister, he fell next to his junior sister, and saw the approving gaze of the crystal beast.
He and his sister followed the crystal beast through the forest. There are also forests in the middle and outer layers of the Fengxin Forest, and the trees in those forests cannot be said to be not thick, but compared to the trees here, they are still too small, almost every tree here requires three people to hug it, and they have just passed a tree that requires seven people to hug, and the trees here are some trees that he can't name, most of the leaves are oval, and some are even diamond-shaped. The branches are connected to each other, and the ancient trunks are covered with various vines.
Chen Chen really hoped to find some more three-leaf black grass, but after walking for a long time, he didn't even see the shadow of the three-leaf black grass, many tree roots came out of the ground, the pale roots were covered with dark green lichen, and the crystal beast walked on it silently, like a white shadow, from the speed of the crystal beast, Chen Chen knew how eager it was. He and his sister had to struggle to keep up with it.
The woods are shady and quiet, it seems that no one has been here for thousands of years, a kind of antiquity permeates the woods, Chen Chen saw that there are many plants recorded in the oldest ancient books of the family, the outside world has long been extinct, but it is still growing luxuriantly, some trees have white leaves, and pure black trunks, which caused the senior sister to marvel again and again, because he knew that there might be danger in the woods, Chen Chen paid attention to the movements around him all the way, but the strange thing is that there seemed to be no other animals in this forest, empty and lifeless.
Chen Chen secretly wondered, where did those dangers, those high-level fierce beasts go, it is said that there are three-headed pterosaurs, giant pythons, golden lizards and other terrifying beasts in the inner layer of this Fengxin Forest, but until now, after entering the inner layer of the Fengxin Forest, Chen Chen has found nothing except this lovely crystal beast.
After entering the forest, the Crystal Beast had been walking westward, and then it turned north, and after a while, it suddenly opened up in front of it, and it turned out that it had reached the end of the forest, and between the forest and the towering mountains in front of it, there was a large clearing, and a strange tree grew in the center of the clearing:
The whole body of this tree is white, the trunk, branches, and roots are all white, very high, the top of the branch is more than 20 meters above the ground, the bare branches stretch out in all directions, there is not a single leaf, the trunk is thick, it needs to be hugged by seven people, and the dense roots are exposed to the ground, like many thick arms.
Looking closer, Chen Chen found that the tree was a little withered and lifeless, and the white bark revealed a gray color.
The Crystal Beast stopped here and remained silent, tilting its head and staring at the tree in amazement.
"I've never seen a tree like this!" the younger sister was as surprised as he was, "how can there be a tree that is white in color from the root to the bark, even if it is a dead tree, it can't be like this, is it coated with lime, and besides, how can this tree have no leaves?"
"It's not that there are no leaves," Chen Chen said, "It's gone, you see......" Chen Chen pointed to the huge rotting leaves piled up on the ground.
"Sure enough, it's gone, but shouldn't this season be the time when the leaves are at their most luxuriant?"
"Maybe it's a dead ......"
At this moment, the crystal beast was pointing at the trees and screaming. It was very excited, as if it was talking to the tree.
"Xiaojing, what are you doing?" the junior sister asked, "Let's hurry up and save your friend, although this tree is strange, now is not the time to care about it!"
Chen Chen saw the crystal beast turn around, and pointed excitedly at the tree, and then pointed at himself, and the senior sister was stunned in place, and there was no reaction for a long time.
Chen Chen didn't understand what the Crystal Beast was talking about. Seeing that neither he nor his junior sister reacted, the crystal beast jumped in place in a hurry, pointed at himself again, and then pointed to the huge strange tree in front of him, and then ignored himself and his junior sister, and screamed excitedly at the tree.
Seeing Senior Sister's stunned and surprised expression, Chen Chen couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sister, what did it say?"
Zhao Chen turned around and said, "It, it said, this tree is the friend it wants to save!"
Chen Chen looked back at the tree in surprise and said, "You mean, it brought us all the way to save a tree?"
The junior sister said with some uncertainty: "Also, perhaps, its friend is hiding on this tree." ”
"The leaves of this tree are bare, and there is nothing to hide on it, wait! Look, it's moving!"