Chapter Seventy-Six: The Tree Man Tribe
The goal of the mission now is to find the Treant tribe hidden in the Skyweeping Forest.
From the perspective of the game, the tree man and the dryad should be two different species, and the dryad family is basically a hundred-year-old tree spirit, few of them can move, and their size can't be limited by trees.
According to Zero's description, the Treants are a complete living entity, they are creatures that are transformed from the crystallization of some kind of wood-based energy, not plants, and have a normal metabolic system in their bodies, they cannot live without their roots leaving the ground like the Dryad, and they can also walk upright like a humanoid species.
At least the fearless treant pioneer Mao Kai she met was like this, the fearless one was not Mao Kai's title, it was the prefix of its name, yes, it was not surprising that this should be the first NPC or monster with a prefix that Lin Shuai saw in this game.
Based on the above inference, the two guessed that the escalation of the Dryad in this forest would not arouse the hatred of the Treants, and the mission would not be designed this way, otherwise they would have reduced their favorability to a negative number before they found the Treant Tribe, and there would be no need to do this task.
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"It's almost certain there." Unfolding the map, Lin Shuai pointed to a point of Tianweeping Lin and said.
The two of them have gone deep into the forest for nearly a thousand meters, but on the map, it is still only the outer area of the forest, and now the monsters encountered by the two people are all level 21 shadow dryads, and if you are not careful in the dark environment, you will draw out four or five rattans, and the damage is enough to drop 700 blood in the warrior class, and other players have no ability to survive here.
A small Kong Ming lantern floated over the two of them, illuminating a 50-yard radius nearby.
The location Lin Shuai pointed to was located at a distance of about 1,500 meters between the two people, and Lin Shuai also discovered it by accident, and the forest map there seemed to be different from other places.
After adjusting the map multiplier to the lowest, you can clearly see the distribution of each tree, and it stands to reason that the forest should be chaotic, anyway, no one manages it, everyone can just find a pit to grow.
But the trees in the place Lin Shuai pointed out were like potted plants that had been pruned, neatly divided into several irregular squares, which was obviously strange.
Relatively aimless searching, two people might as well go there to try their luck.
The distance of 1,500 meters, fortunately, is to move forward horizontally, otherwise the two of them will enter the central area of the Sky Weeping Forest, where the monsters are at least level 35, and no matter how powerful the operation of the two is, they have to hang back honestly.
In this way, the pace of progress is also very difficult.
Although the level 21 shadow dryad has a lot of blood, it has 6,400 points, but under Lin Shuai's bright breath buff bonus, it is still fragile and vulnerable, but its skill shadow whipping is a bit troublesome, and if you are not careful, you will be whipped hard.
Lin Shuai's current blood volume of more than five hundred will drop more than half of it at once, if Zero hadn't taken that bottle of potion, he would have been able to beat Zero into a weak state with a whip, and he had to keep his full attention moving forward at all times, and his speed was as slow as a snail.
It took a maximum of ten minutes, and the two of them grinded for nearly 40 minutes, but fortunately, they finally reached the destination without danger.
The experience is still a little bit higher to level 15, the difference between zero and his own experience value is not very much, the two people on the Longyuan City ranking occupy the first and third respectively, and there is a mage Jiang Shui Toad in the middle, and I don't know where he is upgraded, and the speed is actually no worse than the two of them leapfrogging to kill monsters.
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Looking at the natural camp surrounded by trees not far away, Lin Shuai felt that he should have found the right place.
Less than a hundred meters away from the camp, the treemen in the camp also found the traces of the two, and a treeman ran over from a distance, waving a green flag in his hand that he didn't know what it was made of, a bit like the little whirlwind patrolling the mountains in Journey to the West......
The name on the top of the head is neutral yellow, indicating that there is no hostility towards the two and that they can have some simple conversation.
Running closer, Lin Shuai saw the appearance of the "little whirlwind" clearly, the appearance was no different from that of a human, the limbs and torso plus a head, but the skin was green, the same as the skin of the trees, there were some traces of cracking, and the expression was also very stiff, and there was a small sapling the size of a palm growing crookedly on the top of the head.
"Who are you?" I can't see his name, let's call it Little Whirlwind for the time being, Little Whirlwind asked vigilantly, obviously it was the pronunciation of the grunt, and it was automatically translated into Chinese in the ears of the two.
Zero stepped forward and took out a piece of dry bark-like thing and handed it to him, it was a token left by Mao Kai to her, it had no attributes, it could only exist for three days, and it would naturally be broken if the mission failed.
"It's a friend of the Great Elder!" Little Whirlwind took the token and placed it on the sapling on his forehead and swept it, and suddenly became very enthusiastic.
The Pioneer Maokai was the oldest and most dignified elder of their tribe, and after the death of their Great Elder a few years ago, he naturally took his place, and there was no doubt that the Great Elder's friend was a friend of the Treant Tribe.
Zero explained his intention to him, and Little Whirlwind happily said that he would take them to Grand Elder Maokai.
"Why is it so festive, is it a special day today?" After entering the camp, the two were shocked by what they saw.
Mao Kai is infected by the breath of the devil, if you can't find the roots of the Elven Tree before sunset today, it may burp, and the Great Elder will hang up, why are you still putting on lights?! Look at the words of the little whirlwind, Mao Kai doesn't look like a leader who is not popular (tree)?
"Oh, today is the day of great joy for our Shuren clan, according to legend, our ancestors were created on this day by the great goddess of life, so we hold a commemorative ceremony on this day every year, and we call this day the birthday of the gods."
Little Whirlwind said in a festive tone, with a wooden smile on his face, and kept greeting the tree people walking by him and introducing the identities of the two.
The expressions of the other tree people looking at the two people suddenly became very strange, and Lin Shuai actually read this kind of envy from their stiff faces, as if to say, "Hey, the village chief's friend~"
The two of them were a little confused, even so, it was not that there was no sad atmosphere at all, Lin Shuai had seen the saddest tree man, I am afraid it was the little tree man girl who accidentally fell and spilled the strange juice in her hand.
Could it be that Mao Kai still has the ability of an unpredictable prophet to calculate that the two of them will bring a potion to save his name today? Lin Shuai speculated in his heart.
Because it was related to the safety of their eldest elder, when Zero talked to Little Whirlwind, he didn't say that he came to treat Mao Kai, but just said that Mao Kai came to them to discuss something, Lin Shuai couldn't help but glance at Zero, this is ...... Something is wrong no matter how you look at it.
"Even if Moffett and Mokai have a remote means of contact, it shouldn't be impossible to see the clue at all, Mokai should have hidden the news of its injury." Lin Shuai secretly said to Zero.
"The demonic aura on its body is very conspicuous." replied faintly, this is also the problem of Lin Shuai's doubts.
Rhodes from the Novice Village still vividly remembers that he locked himself in his house all day long because of the demonic qi entering his body, and he didn't even go out.
Moreover, even ordinary people can see the strange aura on his body, not to mention this group of tree people who are close to the breath of life, even if it is just a trace of demonic energy, in their eyes it is like a little light in the darkness, if Mao Kai is really as sick as Zero said, it is impossible to hide it from them at all.
"It's not easy to hide." Lin Shuai said thoughtfully.
The witch's test hidden mission allowed him to gain the favor of the three highest rulers of the empire, as well as a fairy and a salted fish couple, relatively speaking, a small tribe with a population of more than a thousand people, what could he compare to such a reward?
Not surprisingly, there will be a follow-up to this task.
Before he could communicate his conjectures with Zero, Little Whirlwind had already led the two of them to a wooden house.
The wooden houses of the Treants are not like those of humans, they are cut and repaired, and their houses are like a whole tree growing.
The trunk of the tree was folded horizontally at an incredible angle, and the thick branches were densely arranged around the torso, and the dense foliage blocked every crevice, and a somewhat shabby-looking room was formed. Not only can it live in people, but the house tree (RV) can still live healthily, I have to say that it is amazing.
As soon as the little whirlwind led the two of them closer, they heard a deep voice from inside, which sounded full of confidence, and it really didn't look like the tone of a terminally ill person.
"Your honored guest has arrived, and I will order two more seats for today's noon banquet." Mao Kai commanded through the cabin.
The little whirlwind hurriedly responded, saluted the two of them more respectfully, and excitedly retreated and was busy preparing.
Please eat! What do you tree people eat, there will definitely be no meat, right? Lin Shuai thought suspiciously, but it was zero, and as soon as he heard the banquet, his eyes flashed with a strange light.
"Two guests, please come in, the old man is not in good health and can't go out to greet him." As he spoke, the trunks of the trees in front of him clattered apart, revealing an entrance large enough for the two of them to walk side by side, and the room seemed to have no light at all, it was pitch black, and it looked uneasy.
I walked in front of Zero and entered the door, it was dark at first, and then my eyes suddenly lit up, not the dazzling kind of light, very soft light, and my eyes didn't feel any discomfort.
Looking in front of him, Lin Shuai was a little surprised, from the outside, this room is at most 50 square meters in size, but the space in front of him is more than 200 square meters.
On the side was a workbench similar to Moffett's, and the floor space of those devices alone was half the size of the room, and it was filled with all kinds of bottles and cans, some of which were still bubbling, as if they were going to explode in the next second.
The other half of the room is full of books, and a large number of books are neatly arranged in the crevices of the tree trunks, in an orderly manner.
I don't know where the light source refracted in the room, Lin Shuai glanced at it casually, and was surprised to find that there were no shadows in the room, and the light seemed to be everywhere, or rather, everything in this room would glow, including himself and Zero, and even the shadows could not be seen.
And on the contrary, in this large area of light, a huge black cloud abruptly shrank in a corner of the room, and a closer look showed that it was the goal of the two people.
Fearless treant pioneer, Mokai.
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