Episode 44: The Monster of the Silver Tree Ball (1)

The patriarch said: "It will be the day of the martial arts competition in just two days, although there are monsters in the village, but everyone will still go to participate in the martial arts competition, we are preparing to pack our bags and set off for the scorching sun ruins, or you can follow us forward." ”

Meng Meng happily agreed. After a while, dozens of families in the village ran out of the round tower-like adobe houses with their bags on their backs, and everyone's faces showed expressions of horror and joy, they were worried about meeting monsters on the road, and they were happy that they could go to see the martial arts competition, and the village also sent 3 players. The black-hearted leopard-faced demon is ready to temporarily join the team of the village's contestants to win glory for the village, and by the way, find out the whereabouts of his parents.

Jiajia said to the patriarch very politely: "Old patriarch, shall we walk, how long will it take to get to the Scorching Sun Ruins." ”

The old patriarch said: "Don't look at the barren planet on the ground, our underground orbit is particularly developed. The king's and queen's palace was underground, and there were many troops and soldiers, as well as merchants, etc. ”

Everyone was very surprised by what the old patriarch said, and then everyone followed the old patriarch to an additional round adobe house, which was not close enough to the adobe houses in the other villages, and was a separate house. Everyone had entered the round adobe brick house, and it was empty. A man named Ying Nuo, a waiter next to the old patriarch, skillfully pulled out two stone slabs from a floor tile, and took a long oil lamp to take care of it, and there was a vertical passage inside that was neither wide nor narrow. Everyone jumped onto the iron platform that hung in the passageway. Two large iron chains hang from the rails on the walls on either side of the passage. I saw the old patriarch pull one of the iron chains with his hand, and the platform on which everyone was standing quickly sank down. The stone slab at the entrance of the passage had long since been closed by the promised attendant.

I don't know how long it took to go down, although the entrance to the passage was sealed, but the underground was very bright, it turned out that the people on the silver tree ball scraped the glue on the silver tree and put it in a transparent cover and embedded it on the walls of the underground passages everywhere, these glues can burn for a long time after being ignited, so they have become beautiful lighthouses. Moreover, the lighthouse made of these glues can change color, if it is the glue scraped off the immature silver tree, it is generally red and blue, and the glue scraped off the mature silver tree is mostly green and yellow. There are also female and male, generally female trees are red or yellow, while male trees are blue or green. If the oil burns out, it will take on a grayish-white glow, and it's time for the soldiers patrolling the underground to change the oil.

The iron platform finally stopped, and everyone found that the place where the platform had stopped began to become more open, although there were many twisted roots and huge hollows formed by various tree roots. Then there were many branching roads, each of which was shuttled by iron tracks. And I also saw several guards standing along the various tracks along the road. Wenwen pointed to a sign next to the root of one of the huge, hollow trees and said, "Look, there is a pattern of food on that sign, I'm hungry, I think there's a store there." ”

The old patriarch smiled and said, "Yes, there are tens of millions of shops in the underground passage, and they are all hidden in the root houses in the gaps surrounded by the roots of each tree. Well, it just so happens that the owner of the shop in front of me is a good friend of mine, and his shop is also very big, so let's go in and have a bite to eat. ”

Everyone walked into the tree root house and saw that some of these roots were hard, some soft, some thick, and some thin, all of which were arranged by the shopkeeper according to the trend and were particularly delicate and beautiful. There are also a lot of small star lanterns wrapped around the roots of the tree, which is very cute and romantic. Uncle Liu, the owner of the shop, made noodles for everyone. This is a grass-green wild vegetable noodle that is picked in the silver grove and is particularly sweet. There are also several wild vegetables, as well as wild fruits. Everyone ate with relish. After eating, Uncle Liu took a lot of sweet silver tree water from an outlet at the root of the tree, put it in a bottle for everyone, and bought water to drink on the way to the province. Before leaving, Uncle Liu said worriedly: "Old patriarch, how many people have disappeared in your village recently, there are people in my village every day, and now everyone doesn't dare to go to the forest to walk around." Many people have seen with their own eyes that two monsters have captured people, regardless of men, women and children, and those who are said to have been captured are beaten to death or eaten. The old patriarch also said with a sad face: "Hey, it is said that those two monsters have strong mana, and they have been practicing in the most hidden places of the Silver Forest for hundreds of years, and then they worshiped the tree god as a teacher, and the tree god taught him the magic skills of the forest. After hearing what the old patriarch said, Uncle Liu and the villagers of Changshou Village, the old patriarch, sighed helplessly at each other.

After eating, everyone waited for the train at a place called a road brick. The old patriarch said: "This road is to the Scorching Sun Market, and there should be a lot of people sitting in the car today." Sure enough, a large log draped in the color of tree roots drove up, and it was the strangest train that the few of them had ever seen. This train is different from the train on the Love Ball, but it is connected by huge logs, and there are many small holes in the logs to turn into seats that can be sat on. A train is generally five cars, one car can seat about 100 people, and five cars can seat about 500 people, which is almost enough to seat the population of three or four villages. Beneath the logs are two rows of iron wheels that dive into the tracks on the ground.

Wenwen exclaimed: "What a magical train, it is still open, now we can enjoy the beautiful scenery by the car all the way." Everyone burst out laughing.

Along the way, the train passed through a lot of scenery, and although there were tree roots everywhere underground, some of them were inlaid with huge diamonds in the joints, and some places were black coal and various metals. In other places, the roots of the trees are transparent, and you can clearly see a lot of liquid surging upwards in them. These are the drinking water of the people on the Silver Tree Ball. They weave day and night through the roots of the silver tree, transporting them from bottom to top in an automatic cycle to the top of the tree. The old patriarch said: "Although our planet is dry all year round, the water in the Silver Tree Ball has always been so full, and many people suspect that there is an underground ocean under the Silver Tree Ball deeper underground, so we have an inexhaustible supply of water to drink." Thank you for the greatness of Mother Earth! ”

After a long time, the train finally stopped, and everyone bypassed several branching paths, came to an elevator that was also an iron platform, and stood up, and then the old patriarch pulled the iron chain on one side again, and said, "Here you are, everyone will go out from here to the Sun Ruins." ”

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Episode 45: The Monster of the Silver Tree Ball (2)