"Grandpa doesn't have anything to do here anyway, so I took Ling and his friends to the ranch?" Rick asks for Hattith's permission. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Go ahead."

"Then let's go." Rick said to Ling and Zhuge Xun. "The tree I'm talking about is behind the main peak, so we're going to go over the middle. You must follow behind me, don't get separated, out of the mountains there are our unmanned patrol aircraft and rat army, you have also seen the ability of the rat army, if you find a target they can attack indiscriminately, control them is a unique sound wave. Rick explained to the two behind him as he walked, especially Zhuge Xun, because Ling had already explained it to him when he came before, but Zhuge Xun was the first time to come, Ling said that he had been infected before, and Ling Nian had some skills so he kept it by his side, but no matter who he was in front of the rat army, he couldn't bargain.

Rick called two soldiers to follow him, and received a navigation aircraft at the door, and after setting the location, a group of five people went out of the mountain from the middle of the main peak.

"What do you do with the roots that stretch into the middle of the mountain?" Zhuge Xun asked.

"You're really observing." Rick laughed. "Although the mountain is empty, the average thickness of the mountain wall is about 10 to 15 meters, which is enough for the plants that grow on the mountain to survive, and in the mountain we have regular directional pruning to penetrate the roots of the mountain wall to let it grow horizontally, and now the roots of the three peaks are almost connected into a network."

"Just now Leary said that there is something ...... over there in the reserve area," Ling asked.

"Uncle Leary will handle everything over there in the reserve area, and there won't be any major events over there, so we don't have to worry." Rick said, pointing to the clearing below the mountain. "Did Zhuge Xun see that clearing?"

Following the direction pointed by Rick, Zhuge Xun looked over and saw a strange blank 'belt' appear in the lush forest under the corner of the mountain, dividing the forest into two parts.

"It's a firebreak, it's used to prevent wildfires, it's also to protect against enemies, and the largest firebreak is around the entire second civilian area, which is the three main peaks, and there are other firebreaks, but you can't see them from our position. There are many trees in the forest, and the trees on this side of the main peak are relatively tall, so it is easy to get lost in the woods, even if you live here, so you need a navigator. Rick pointed with his chin at the flying machine that was leading the way in front of him. So you have to follow me, don't get separated, and we'll be at the ranch in about ten minutes, and all the meat we eat is supplied from this ranch. I'm going to go find Sister Jerry first and ask her for milk for Lili. ”

Zhuge Xun noticed that there were a lot of pitcher plants growing in the low place, and there were some brightly colored poisonous flowers, and now this place is more like a primeval forest, just looking outside, no one would have thought that there would be so many people living in the mountains, and there would be such advanced technology......

"There's a ranch ahead." Rick turned around and said to Ling and Zhuge Xun behind him.

Zhuge Xun Tongling looked ahead, only to see that in front of him was a large grassland surrounded by iron nets, in which there were some free-range cattle and sheep, and there were more than a dozen military tents on the side, and workers came and went from time to time.

Rick motioned through the soldier at the doorway for the four men behind him to follow. The people entered the pasture.

Zhuge Xun noticed that some of the tents were also used to raise livestock, and after a quick look, there were pigs, chickens, ducks, and others.

"Rick, why are you here, did Dad ask you to come over?" At this moment, a beautiful middle-aged woman stepped out of the largest tent.

"Sister Jerry, I'm here to ask you for milk, Lili hasn't tasted it for the past two days." Rick said to the woman with a smile.

"Who is she?" Zhuge Xun asked Ling in a low voice.

"She's Ferry's daughter, Miss Jerry, and she's in charge of the ranch." Ling said.

Jerry notices Ling and Zhuge Xun. "Ling, long time no see."

"It's been a long time since I've seen Miss Jerry, this is my friend Zhuge Xun."

"Hello."

"Good, good." Jerry looked at Zhuge Kaoru.

"Sister Jerry, I'll come back to get it later, I'm going to take Ling and his friends to the magical tree, you help me prepare it first." Rick was about to take the two of them away.

"Wait." Jerry turned back to the tent and came out a little later with three small paper bags in her hands for each of the three people. "It's a freshly made milk biscuit, and you can take it as a snack."

"Thank you, Sister Jerry."

After bidding farewell to Jerry, the three of them joined the two soldiers who had been waiting here through the iron fence and continued to walk back.

Rick gave his share of milk biscuits to the two soldiers, and then said to Ling and Zhuge Xun. "You can try it, Sister Jerry's milk biscuits are delicious."

The crowd walked forward for a while.

"What's the scent?" Zhuge Xun smelled a strange fragrance.

"Alas, you already smell it? We're about to get to the tree I'm talking about. Rick said.

"I smell it too." After walking for a while, Ling also smelled a strange smell, as if she was in the Red Moon Pavilion.

"Here we are. That's it, I heard grandpa say, this kind of tree seems to be called 'sandalwood' is very rare, grandpa when he found this sandalwood forest when he let people protect it, I don't know much about trees, but grandpa said that after 'that war', many plants in the world have been destroyed, and the air is not conducive to the growth of plants, it is rare to grow such a good sandalwood. Does Zhuge Xun know about this kind of tree? ”

"Thank you grandpa for protecting this forest." Zhuge Xun looked around at the sandalwood forest in front of him, and couldn't help but stroke the trunk of the tree beside him. Each of the trees here is more than five meters tall, and there should be even higher in the depths of the woods.

"The one I'm talking about is the same as these, but it's much taller than these, and you have to go inside." Rick greeted the soldiers guarding the forest, and continued to walk deeper into the woods with Ling and Zhuge Xun.

Zhuge Xun could clearly feel that he was absorbing the air here, just like a person who had been locked in a secret room for a long time suddenly breathed fresh air, and his body was breathing unconsciously.

"That's what I said." Rick pointed to a tree in front of him that was more than fifty meters tall and said to the two.

"Holy Sandal!" Zhuge Xun blurted out. I have never seen such a well-preserved rosewood.

Ling noticed Zhuge Xun's excitement. "Kaoru? Is this tree amazing? ”

Noticing his gaffe, Zhuge Xun calmed down and said to Ling. "The name of this tree is rosewood, and it also has another name called 'green dragon wood' which is one of the most valuable trees. Normally, before the war, the tree would be artificially processed into household items, so it is rare to see a rosewood tree that is more than 100 years old.

Have you seen the spring fantasy tree that grows in the second circle, that is just my hairpin, but the adult sandalwood is the same as the spring fantasy called the 'holy tree', and the sandalwood belongs to the 'red sandalwood' for the sandalwood boutique. But sandalwood is more 'real' than spring fantasy, and it can be found in specific places in the world, but spring fantasy is different, except for Miss Hongyue, at least there is no more in this world now, but now the red sandalwood that has grown for three hundred and fifty years in front of me is not an exaggeration to say that it is the only one in the world. With its protection, it is believed that this second civilian area will not be threatened by any biological world. Please keep it safe for the people of the second civilian area, and if, I say, if you don't have the ability to keep it safe, please let me know and I'll help you. Zhuge Xun said to Rick seriously. Zhuge Xun is really grateful to the people in the second civilian area for not transforming this sacred tree into furniture......

"Then doesn't the tree you said need to be planted here?" Rick asked.

"Even an adult metasequoia can't have the purifying power of this holy sandalwood, so I brought the tree I brought with me to plant it outside this sandalwood forest if you want it, but the environment here is not very suitable for the growth of metasequoia." Zhuge Xun placed a 'tree spirit' on the holy sandalwood tree without a trace, on the one hand, he could let the 'tree spirit' practice well, and on the other hand, if something happened to this red sandalwood, he could also know it for the first time. Does Red Moon know about the existence of this 'Holy Sandalwood'? However, for those who have spring illusions, she should not be interested in this tree.

(* Tree Spirit: The small god that Zhuge Xun received when he inherited the ability of the ancestors, he was a thousand-year-old tree that had just been cultivated into an elf, but because the ancestors' abilities were asleep, so the tree spirit did not get a better practice, and Zhuge Xun took it in, so that he had been living in his own snake eyes, which could lead him into the right path, and at the same time, he had always wanted to find a place for him to practice with peace of mind.) Because it is very easy for animals to become essences, but it is very, very difficult for plants, especially tree spirits, and the tree spirits that are cultivated well can be classified as 'sacred', but the tree spirits that go astray will become demons, and it takes a lot of effort to eradicate them. At present, this little tree spirit is still in the cultivation stage, so it needs to be guided well, and it will be a Shikigami with great power in the future. ）

"Do you want to see anything else? There is a banyan forest behind the mountain in the reserve area, which is spectacular, do you want to go over and see it? Rick noticed that Zhuge Kaoru liked the tree very much.

"Please don't destroy this forest." Zhuge Xun said to Rick again. In fact, Zhuge Xun also knew that this sandalwood forest could actually better help the people in the second civilian area, because in addition to the tallest red sandalwood, there are rare other red sandalwood, ebony and sandalwood growing in this sandalwood forest, these trees have certain medicinal effects, and can be detoxified and cured after artificial processing, but Zhuge Xun did not tell Rick, regardless of whether Hatit knows the role of sandalwood or not, if he knows but he does not destroy these trees, it means that he does not want to harm these precious tree species, if he does not know, But if you talk about it yourself, you may bring disaster to this forest.

"Of course, Grandpa doesn't allow the forest guards to harm the trees, and our second civilian area still has to rely on these natural barriers to block those variants." Rick laughed.

"Be careful!" Ling pulled Rick along.

I saw a branch that fell from the top of the rosewood tree, broken off at the thickness of a wrist, and landed where Rick was standing. The three of them looked up, and only Zhuge Xun saw the tree spirit standing on the branch, pointing to the fallen branch and pointing at Zhuge Xun, as if asking him to accept it. Zhuge Xun shook his head secretly. As soon as he said that he couldn't destroy this holy sandalwood, the tree spirit made his own opinion.

"Haha, it seems that this is really a sacred tree, I know that Zhuge Xun likes it, so it gave you a branch. If Zhuge Xun doesn't mind, I'll give you this branch in charge. Rick picked up the fallen branch from the ground, and judging from the fracture, it should have broken naturally.

"Thank you." Zhuge Xun took the branch and carefully put it away. I happen to be missing a hairpin, this branch should be able to make a few, and the rest will be given to Miss Hongyue.

"Then let's move on." Rick said.

"Hmm." Ling and Zhuge Xun left after Rick.

Zhuge Xun walked at the back, took out the small glass beads containing the 'nutrient solution' that was supposed to be given to the metasequoia saplings from the cloth bag and bounced them into the tree. The tree spirits on the tree received it and drank it gratefully, and then disappeared into the shade of the tree.

"I'm telling you, there are still many wonders of nature in this second civilian area......" Before Rick could finish speaking, he saw the navigator flying in front of him suddenly fall to the ground, and all the lights flashed wildly.

Rick stepped forward to pick up the navigator and checked it for himself. "It's happening again."

"What's wrong? Something went wrong with the navigator? Ling asked.

"It started a month ago." Rick got up. "Fortunately, it's not very far from the ranch, and we can still walk there." That's when Rick's communicator rang.

"Rick? Are you still on the other side of the forest? Can you come back and help me? It's not good on my side anymore. On the other end of the communicator, Willy Jay's panicked voice.

"I'll go back right away." Rick didn't know what was going on on the ranch, but it was the first time I'd seen Sister Jerry, who was usually calm, panic like this.

The three of them hurried back to the ranch.

"What's going on?!"

"Rick, help me get the cows that are trying to escape, Ling and Kaoru you can do me a favor." Jerry is trying to keep the fence on the ranch to prevent the animals from escaping.

All the ranch animals seem to be crazy, the iron fence of the pasture more than three meters high has been knocked out of the gap by strong cattle and sheep in several places, the workers and soldiers working in the ranch are trying to control the crazy animals, and the small animals raised in the tents are also crazy trying to escape from their cages.

"Ling, don't use electricity!" Zhuge Xun stopped Ling who was trying to electrify the fence. Although his body borrows Kate's qi, it is not suitable for a large amount of discharge. Pull out a stack of rune paper from the cloth bag, chant a spell, wave your hand and throw the rune paper into the sky, and the rune paper in turn is attached to the ranch fence to prevent the animals from escaping. The situation has finally calmed down.

"Thank you, Zhuge Xun." Rick let out a sigh of relief. "Sister Jerry, what's going on?"

Jerry, who was gasping for air, said as she stroked her chest. "I don't know, it's all of a sudden, it's been a few times before, but it's not so intense."

"Rick? Do you hear that? ”

"Hear, is there something wrong with my father?" Rick's communicator was intermittently heard from Ferry's voice.

"Are you still on the other side of the forest? Is Ling and his friends by your side? Ferrie asked anxiously.

"Yes, they're still there, what's wrong? We're on the ranch now, and something happened on the ranch......" Rick replied.

"Don't talk about that, you go to Jessna, there is chaos in the rat army over there, you go and help."

"Rat Army? Okay, I'll be right over...... But the ranch is ......," Rick looked at Jerry.

"Rick, is there something going on over there with Jacego? You go over with Ling, there should be nothing wrong with the ranch side, the animals have calmed down, thanks to the kind of paper that Zhuge Xun pasted, Jace's side is more important. Jerry said.

"Miss Jerry, this is the 'Soul Suppression Talisman', which can only be used to stabilize the madness of the animals temporarily, I will leave some for you, and if the talisman paper is damaged, I will paste it again." Zhuge Xun took out another stack of rune paper from the cloth bag and handed it to Jerry.

"Then let's go." Rick said to Ling and Zhuge Xun.

"You bring a few soldiers over, Jasbrother is more troublesome over there, if the animals on my side are crazy, then the situation of the rat army is believed to be similar to this side, I will find out the reason, if there is something to contact." Jerry confessed to Rick.

"The two of you are following me, Jasgo's is far from here, and we're going over a mountain." Rick said.

"Let's take a closer approach, I think this time things shouldn't be so simple, the rat army and the animals in the ranch went crazy at the same time, something should have happened." Ling opens the door of time by his side and enters Larik.

Rick was able to see 'Time Travel' for the first time, and after leaving the space of the Time Gate, he was already in the base camp of the Rat Army managed by Jace. The sight before him left Rick with no time to lament the magic of time travel.

I saw that there were many soldiers around the base camp of the rat army blowing their whistles at the same time to control the manic rat army, but the usually well-trained rat army seemed to have recovered its animal nature at the moment, and did not listen to the control at all, and the injured personnel who had already appeared.

"Kaoru." Ling glanced at Zhuge Xun.

Zhuge Xun also threw out a number of 'soul suppression talismans' to temporarily calm down the mad rat army.

"Why are you coming alone?" Seeing Rick appear, a distraught soldier complained.

"I was also on the ranch with Ling, and I received my father saying that you asked for support here, so I came here. What happened? ”

"I didn't know, these rat armies were suddenly like this. Alas? Ling, are you here? ”

"Jace, we just came from Jerry's, and the animals over there are going berserk too." Ling said. "Do you know why?"

"I don't know, I'm just routinely training the rat army, and not long ago I asked Rick to call out some of them, and a few died, so I reorganized them here, but suddenly these rat troops started to go berserk and didn't listen to orders. However, this has happened a few times in the past month, but it is not as intense as this time, and the chip in the rat army's body has been checked, and there is no abnormal response, so the specific cause of this has not been found. Jace took the towel from his hand and wiped the dirt off his face and body.

"How long has this been going on?" Zhuge Xun asked.

"Who is this?" Jace asked Rick.

"This is Ling's friend, Zhuge Xun, who was on the ranch just now thanks to his help to calm down the crazy animal." Rick said.

"The beginning of the rat army and the commotion should be about a month ago, occasionally there are a few who don't listen to orders, and in addition to my rat army, there are some other animals in the mountain, and there are also some abnormal situations." Jace recalled.

"Do you know why?" Ling asked the contemplative Zhuge Xun.

"Hello? Rick, can you hear me? Rick's communicator heard Ferry's voice.

"Can I hear you say, I'm here with Jace now, what's the matter?"

"Is Ling by your side?"

"Yes."

"You go back to the work area with Ling, there are some things you want to ask Ling for help, we are waiting for you here at the clock." Hattitt's voice came from the other side of the communicator. "Also, let Jace come back with you, because the survival of the rat army is at stake."

"Kaoru? Do you have something in mind? Seeing that Zhuge Xun's expression was very serious, it seemed that he should know the reason for the strangeness of the ranch and the rat army.

"Ling, if I'm not mistaken, this second civilian area may be destroyed...... Zhuge Xun said in a heavy tone

"The catastrophe of destruction?" Rick asked at the same time as Jace.

"Let's go back to the mountain, I believe Hatit should have discovered the truth of this strange thing." Zhuge Xun looked in the direction of the holy sandalwood.

"Let's take a shortcut." Ling opened the door of time again, and a group of four people entered the door.