The most important part of the plant is definitely the roots.

Many old trees have cut off their trunks and can eventually sprout new shoots, but if there is a problem with the roots, they will definitely not live long. The mutated plant creatures in the overseas archipelago are like this, whether it is a man-eating flower or a man-eating tree, and other mutant plants that are not well known, their core focus is on the roots, and the things on the surface of the ground will basically not die if they are cut down, and it will not take long to grow.

When a plant mutates to this point, it's almost like an animal!

Although they don't have as much intelligence as animals, they still rely on their original actions, and this area is supposed to be one of the places left behind by the original catastrophe, but they don't know what is inside. With Sauron's current strength, he naturally didn't have much of a problem dealing with these things, but this kind of place was too weird, and he didn't dare to venture into it. I'll save it for later, he has a lot of things to do right now.

But.

Just as Sauron was about to seal off this place for the time being so that the others would not come close, Adele-Isabella seemed to see something, raised her hand and pointed to the other side and said, "Your Excellency, look! There seems to be something there! ”

What's the matter?

Sauron stopped, then looked to the side, and sure enough, he saw a gray-black object. He cautiously walked over, keeping an eye out for the strange trees nearby, then reached out and grabbed a corner to pick it up. However, he couldn't pull it out when he pulled it hard, and it seemed that part of the thing was still buried under the ground. In desperation, he could only make a gesture to the red-haired female pirate behind him, and then the two of them dug up the dirt with their weapons at the same time to dig out the gray-black stone.

"It's obsidian!"

A look of disbelief appeared on Sauron's face, and then he looked at the gray-black stone in his hand, because of the long-term weathering and the wear and tear of time, this obsidian no longer showed what it looked like in the past, but he could vaguely tell what part of the architectural sculpture it was. It must have been stored for a long time.

Obsidian is a very strong and durable mineral that has been weathered like this for at least thousands of years!

This is a very rare ore.

It can be used in many places, but it is most commonly used and used on a large scale, so much so that there seem to be only two places in Sauron's memory of being used for sculpture.

The first is the Golem Golem!

The second is the Wizard's Tower!!

Whether it's a golem or a wizard tower, this area was definitely the domain of powerful wizards once upon a time. There are hand-polished obsidian fragments here, so it's very likely that there is something related to wizards inside.

There may even be a wizard's tower!

Thinking of this, Sauron's breath couldn't help but shorten, even a ruined wizard tower that had lasted for thousands of years was quite tempting for him. The function of the inside is completely destroyed. Many of the things stored in it are of astonishing value. And if Sauron guessed correctly, this could be an ancient relic from the Arcane Empire. Among them, there may be data information spells from the Arcane Empire period surviving, and the value is basically difficult to estimate.

"Let's go in and have a look!"

Sauron, who had already planned to leave, was still about to go in and explore, and he instructed the red-haired female pirate behind him, "Watch around, we try not to alarm these plants, they look like they are asleep. ”

By this time it was already a little dark.

Sauron looked up at the sky, then gestured to Adele Isabella, who was beside him. The two men separated and walked around from the side. There are a lot of strange trees and flowers around, all of which look very large, a bit like an old primeval forest, and occasionally they come across some leaves. The whole plant moved a bit. But they don't seem to attack, and these strange plants seem to attack nearby creatures when they are attacked or need to eat.

This is very similar to the fact that a beast is not very aggressive when it has a full stomach!

The view ahead gradually widens.

Sauron saw a large patch of lilac flowers, and he frowned and looked at it. muttered, "Mandala? Wrong! Just looks a bit like! ”

He glanced back at the red-haired female pirate and said in a deep voice, "Be careful. Let's go around! ”

It's not like it grew naturally.

On the contrary, it is like something that was artificially bred in the past and then survived for some reason until now. There are quirky flower seeds on the ground. It seems to have been left over from this plant, but most of it didn't sprout because the land simply couldn't support so many plants. Some of the seeds have been damaged and disappeared, but some of them have remained, but I don't know what they do. Sauron sensed that these plants were dangerous, purely the instinct of an experienced wanderer, so he didn't dare to disturb them.

There are so many plants here that are just like they live!

As he walked around the strange flowers, some ruined silhouettes of buildings appeared in front of him, weathered so badly that they were overgrown with all sorts of strange plants and trees that Sauron's experience could not tell what they were. Even, he couldn't find an entrance to the building in front of him, and naturally he couldn't judge the situation based on the outside. Not all underground ruins will leave you an entrance, or even a tunnel to explore.

In the more high-end or older places, many underground ruins will not even leave you with a hole.

What to do at that time?

Dig!

Dig it yourself!

Dig out a hole, dig out a tunnel, high-end adventurer teams often dig out this way, many sunken cities in the desert collapse at every turn and pour in quicksand, how many people dug all the way to find treasure. When Sauron saw the surface of the ruins that didn't even leave him with a hole, he knew that today's exploration could only end there. The building has completely sunk into the ground, and it is filled with seawater, which can happen anyway.

You can't get in at this point!

Sauron had to open the passage here, then arrange for men to dig it up, and finally find a tunnel that could be entered together.

He took a look at the spot for a moment.

I was about to remember my surroundings and some iconic features, but at this moment, the red-haired female pirate suddenly said, "Your Excellency! Look at the corner of that wall, it looks like there's something wrong! ”

The search ability is so strong!?

Sauron glanced at the red-haired female pirate next to him with some surprise, and then headed towards the position of the wall, this woman didn't know if it was because of her high intuition or her basic skills, and she seemed to be a little stronger than him in terms of discovery ability. Sauron saw a plant that looked a bit like a lantern plant, and he didn't dare to get too close, so he walked far behind, and then saw a strange gray crack.

"Spatial rifts!?"

Sauron's expression was a little surprised, and he just glanced at it and muttered, "Shadow Plane?!" The buildings here are also connected to the shadow plane? It looks like a permanently cured plane crevice! Could it be that the owner here opened up a fixed teleportation channel in the past? ”

Shadow plane.

One of the immaterial planes that Sauron was most familiar with.

He only glanced at the spatial crack in front of him, and guessed the approximate effect and reason, and he was sure that he had a more than ninety percent chance of being right.

It's not arrogance, it's his self-confidence!

He'd traveled through the shadow planes too many times in the past, and he had survived the shadow planes for a while.

"Let's go."

Sauron looked up at the sky and said slowly, "Come back later, it's too dangerous to rush in now." ”

The shadow plane cannot be broken into.

Because although the shadow plane is connected to the material plane, the environment of the two is not the same, and there may be some ancient and dangerous creatures. Moving in the shadow plane, you may encounter monsters of the third order or higher at any time, and the ratio of quasi-legendary special life to legendary-level monsters is quite large, much larger than that of the material plane.

And there are also shadow dragons in many places!

………………

The two men cautiously retreated, and by this time the camp was almost finished.

Although it is still very simple, after all, it has only been a day, and Sauron has not imposed anything, what he found in the strange jungle today is the focus of Sauron's consideration. The slaves were driven together by the pirates, and after a long day's labor, they received some food, which was very coarse and inferior, but at least it would fill their stomachs. Sauron is not a stingy person, and they have no strength to work without feeding their slaves, a simple truth.

The night passed quickly.

Just as Sauron woke up and was about to think about how to explore that strange place, the half-elf first mate with an ugly face walked in briskly and said in a condensed voice, "Your Excellency! Three slaves sneaked away last night! ”

What the!?

Sauron's face turned blue in an instant.

The half-elf first mate noticed his expression and hurriedly said, "But two of them were caught by us as soon as they ran out, and the other escaped into the jungle, and I have already sent someone to arrest him." ”

"All who fled were natives!"

"Your Excellency, I have built yì to work with these natives in shackles, they are much more disobedient than other slaves!"

Sauron's face was very gloomy.

After hearing the words of the half-elf first mate, he shook his head slightly, and then said with a cold expression: "No! Deliver my command, that two crosses should be prepared, and that the two escaped slaves should be crucified on them, and that the shelves should be erected in the place where the slaves were working. ”

Hearing this, the half-elf first mate showed a cruel smile, and immediately nodded: "Okay! Excellency! ”

"I'll do it right away."

They are pirates.

Pirates are not a benevolent profession, and these slaves must be feared!

……………… (To be continued......)