To put it simply, the elves dug out a bubble space in the soil where the trunk and roots of the World Tree are connected, and then set up some devices here to absorb the leyline energy that has been processed by the World Tree, and then use this continuous energy to develop their own civilization. Of course, they weren't so crazy as humans to dig out the resources and absorb only a small amount each time, enough for their own use.

Even so, in Nangong Rong's eyes, these pointed ears still can't avoid the fate of being treated as a parasite by the teenager, the kind that is parasitic on the trees.

Did you get the consent of the other party to extract the leyline energy absorbed by the World Tree, and did you get the consent of the other party to dig holes and build nests in other people's bodies? No, what is the difference between that and the uninvited parasites on ordinary trees?

These words can only be lived by the young man in his head once, if he really wants to say it, Angelot will not mention the group of guards next to him, most of them will not be able to help but grab him, and communicate enthusiastically with his fists and feet, and even magic.

Fortunately, Nangong Rong's strange expression on his face due to the cloak was not seen by others, and everyone's attention was obviously not on him.

"It's beautiful. Octavir looked at the multicolored starlight in the darkness around him, and his whole person looked almost distracted, as if he had completely immersed himself in it, "Can I take pictures or videos?"

Before Nangong Rong, who looked confused, grabbed the eldest princess and asked her where she got the mobile phone, she saw her cheap sister decisively take out a thin rectangular precision instrument and click at the surrounding starry sky, and the dazzling flash almost startled the pointed ears nearby.

Nangong Rong couldn't care about Oktawir anymore, and hurriedly rushed behind Lin Weiyin with an arrow step and strangled the little girl's neck with his arm: "Is it okay to be low-key, can't you feed the dogs, who let you take pictures so blatantly!?"

"Okay, it's so painful, I can't breathe......" Lin Weiyin first struggled a few times to let the young man let go of her, and then gasped and put away the phone, "Really, it's good not to let you take pictures, why do you have to die or live?"

However, Nangong Rong was completely unmoved: "If I open my mouth to remind you, will you stop the movement in your hand and take back the phone?"

The little girl immediately replied categorically without hesitation: "Of course not!"

The boy's fist immediately fell on the top of the girl's head: "At least at this time, pretend to be a good baby for me!"

"Yada. ”

Lin Weiyin held her head high and put on a very serious appearance, as if she was rejecting the active confession of a boy with second-class attributes, which made the green tendons in Nangong Rong's temples immediately become a little bigger.

Fortunately, Angelot spoke in time to stop this intensifying daily routine: "You two are enough, do you have to let me plug your mouth with a cloth ball to calm down?" Hurry up, it doesn't matter how you want to toss after the main task, now focus on me." ”

The team quickly left the area before the staff in the distance were attracted by the flashing lights, and followed the rough bark of the roots all the way down to the surface.

Well, it may be a little inappropriate to say that the ground is in this underground world, but to be precise, it should be the feet of the boy and the others who have finally stepped on the surface of the soil. This is where the roots of the World Tree are rooted in the soil, and there is something similar to plant seeds on the surface of the root that is emitting a faint blue light in a regular manner, which should be the device for extracting the energy of the leylines mentioned earlier, but there are no staff members nearby, and I don't know if it was driven away by the guards in advance.

"This is it. Angelote, who felt a little tired after walking for a long time, casually found a place to sit down, and by the way, she scared away a creature next to her who knew if it was an animal or an insect, the light was too dim, and the other party's movements were too fast to see clearly, "If you feel tired, you can take a rest first, and it's not too late to start when your state is fully recovered." ”

Nangong Rong shook his head and squatted down and pressed his hand to the ground: "There's no need, the confrontation between me and the abyss in this regard mainly relies on spiritual power. Besides, if the abyss is nearby, it is impossible for the other party not to notice that we are so close, and they will definitely find a way to take some action, where is the time for us to rest?"

Since the young man did not deliberately cover it up this time, the young guard captain and his colleagues all heard a name, and their faces suddenly became very ugly, and their bodies trembled slightly, looking very nervous.

"If you think you can, then do it, we'll cover for you. Angellot stretched out his hand to the captain of the guard and pressed it twice to signal the other party to relax, so as not to cause some unnecessary chaos, which made him reluctantly regain his composure, "Don't worry, it's just a suspicion now, and it hasn't been confirmed that the abyss has infected the World Tree." Besides, even if he is infected, this guy has a way to clear the abyss energy, I can guarantee it. ”

The captain of the guard gestured to his soldiers, telling them to disperse and put on a vigilant posture, and then looked at the elf girl again: "Since Lord Angelot has said so, I will watch quietly from the side." But why do you suspect that the Abyss is infected? ”

"I don't know what happened, but the Tree of Life where Elder Missel is located was indeed infected by the demon pet responsible for replenishing the leyline's energy with the abyssal energy mixed within, but fortunately the danger has now been resolved. Angelot couldn't help but scratch her head as she spoke, looking very troubled, "We don't know if the demon pet in charge of transportation was touched by the abyss on the way, or if there was something wrong with the most fundamental source, so we can only check them one by one like this." ”

If you want to check, you should naturally check the most important places first, and there is nothing wrong with this, and the captain of the guard nodded decisively to show understanding: "Understood." No wonder Lord Durga would ask us to keep a low profile, and we didn't specify anything, I see. However, in my personal opinion, the biggest possibility should be that the demon pet was attacked by the abyss during transportation, and then the other party poured abyssal energy into its body, and finally succeeded in infecting the tree of life, like the source here is impossible to ......."

"I've discovered the energy of the abyss. ”

Nangong Rong's interruption made the expression on the face of the captain of the guard instantly become extremely strange, it felt as if swallowing a cockroach alive and getting stuck in his throat, and even worse, he could still feel Xiao Qiang's legs stomping indiscriminately in his throat, which was not only the level of scalp numbness, it was almost the same as the entire scalp exploded instantly.

Usually, Lin Weiyin had already pointed at the other party's face and laughed wildly and spewed tears and rolled on the ground, but now everyone's attention was obviously not on the captain of the guard, everyone was staring at Nangong Rong nervously, and most of their eyes were full of doubt and disbelief.

Chenyu, as Angelott's system AI, naturally followed the boy to inspect the World Tree, but she didn't find anything: "Are you sure? ”

The golden retriever cat also said to the side: "Sao Nian, I admit that this is indeed a good opportunity to brush up on the sense of existence, but if you lie casually, it is definitely a pretty serious matter?"

Nangong Rong didn't care about this at all, and shrugged his shoulders very casually and said, "May I ask where did you two do the test?"

The two AI girls suddenly looked inexplicable: "Of course it's the World Tree." ”

"Well, I knew that. The boy patted the ground under his feet with a sure expression and said, "So, have you ever tested the soil? To be exact, the place below the soil, the river full of countless energies. ”

Angelot, who was originally sitting, immediately jumped up when she heard this, her eyes widened in disbelief and she was stunned: "You mean the leyline? Is the abyss not infected by the World Tree itself, but the leylines below?"

"Nothing is impossible, think for yourself what the world will become in the end when the abyss energy erodes to the end, even the land and atmosphere are full of disgusting breath, the entire planet has turned a strange purple red from beginning to end, everything will be affected - the leyline energy is no exception, although it is indeed a little early to be infected at this stage, but it is not something that is completely impossible. ”

After all, the opponent's erosion can creep into the body of a large target like a virus, whether that target is a living thing or pure energy. As long as they are not destroyed in the first place, they can quickly multiply and expand their power, and eventually completely transform their target into an abyss.

"I felt the presence of the Abyssal Will inside, much stronger than the one in the core of the Tree of Life, and it is estimated that the Abyss used this method to prevent the leylines from assimilating their energy. However, the control area of the abyss is much smaller than imagined, basically only the root of the World Tree, as for what the other party has for me, I don't need to say, everyone can guess. ”

The young man's words made everyone silently shut their mouths, although the auxiliary device could not detect the underground and the two AIs could not distinguish whether what Nangong Rong said was true or false, everyone still chose to believe that he was not deliberately pretending to be a ghost. Because doing so would not be of much benefit to Nangong Rong, but would delay the time to find out where the abyss really was.

Octavir had a big heart after all, and was the first to come back to her senses, raised her hand and gently patted the surface of the tree root and said, "But at first glance, it seems that the World Tree has not been affected, or is your detector out of order?"

The golden retriever cat really wanted to say a line that didn't break down, but it was a fact that she couldn't find the abyss in the previous detection, and she could only suppress the unhappiness in her heart in the end: "Who knows what's going on, anyway, this system only detected the normal leyline energy, and didn't find any traces of the abyss." It would have been fine if it was just mixed up and hidden in the leyline energy, but I really didn't find anything. ”

Angelot, as an elf, naturally has enough knowledge of the World Tree, and quickly gave her own analysis and speculation: "I think it should be the World Tree that transforms it when it absorbs energy, just as it did when it absorbed the energy of the leylines before. After all, pure leyline energy cannot be used directly, and it is possible that the abyss took advantage of this characteristic of it and eliminated its own breath in the process of transformation. Of course, it's just a matter of dissipating the breath, and there must be some way to activate it from the outside, so that it can be transformed into abyssal energy again. ”

That's why when the Chimera was infusing the tree of life with energy, the elves didn't notice anything unusual, and let it do all its work without stopping it. Because in the eyes of the pointed ears, what the other party is infused with is indeed just ordinary leyline energy, not some kind of dangerous item.

Lin Weiyin smacked her lips impatiently, obviously not liking these analyses or speculations, she preferred to put down the other party with a fist first and then slowly discuss: "It doesn't matter what happens to those things, my dear Ernie sauce, when are you going to start clearing the abyss, after dinner?"

"Of course not, it will be too late, after all, people have already noticed our arrival. Nangong Rong said and took back the hand that had been pressed on the ground, then stood up and patted it on the surface of the tree root, "However, I can't directly touch the leyline energy, so I can only make a move on the abyss hidden in the World Tree first." Let's hope these guys haven't formed much power in the World Tree yet, otherwise I won't be able to eat and walk away, after all, if I can't knock each other down with a stick, they can quickly replenish and consume by absorbing the energy of the infected leylines. ”

If it was just a simple abyss energy, Nangong Rong wouldn't be too worried, but the problem was that people still had some divine consciousness here, and he couldn't absorb energy with his special physique, at least not until he suppressed the other party's divine consciousness.

If you don't get it right, it will turn into a war of attrition that is repeated and tug-of-war, and whoever is stronger will have the last laugh at that time. Given the boy's strength close to the battle 5 scum, he didn't think he would be the one to laugh.

The abyss has the leyline energy as a backup, no matter how much Nangong Rong restrains the abyss, he can't stand the number of people to pile up. However, if the boy can quickly clear the abyss inside the World Tree in a very short period of time with the power of thunder, it is not impossible to fight with the other party.

After all, since the abyss can use the transformation ability of the World Tree to eliminate its own aura and hide it, it makes no sense that Nangong Rong can't also use this ability to give the abyss a fake trick and really destroy them all.

Therefore, Nangong Rong, who had made up his mind, decisively and without hesitation, threw his spiritual power into the World Tree - he could only scatter it, because he couldn't concentrate it even if he wanted to, and then immediately rolled his eyes and fainted under the screams of Angellot and the others.