While Duck explores the mural with the young Spider Princess on his back in the underground palace, George is lazily lying on his bed, reading a book while sucking the honey-soaked green leaf tea provided by the Yanoma tribe with a reed tube. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Riley ran in angrily, "My esteemed dark apostle, Lord George, my brother and Sister Isabella are working hard in front, are you idle here?"

"Who said I'm idle? The soldiers have the battlefields of the warriors, and we also have our battlefields. ”

"Lying in bed?"

"No, no, no, we can't let the soldiers fight inexplicable battles, at the very least, we have to know who to fight and why. ”

"Listen to you, understand the mystery of the Tierekri tree?"

"There is a lack of strong evidence, only conjecture at the moment. ”

"There has to be a basis for conjecture, right?"

"It seems that if I don't give you a convincing explanation, you'll insist that I'm slacking off. So, let me start with the most factual direction. ”

"Listen up. ”

"According to the experience of the Yanoma tribe and the return of the scouts in the past few days, we have found a pattern, where the Tirekri tree is concentrated, there must be a spider nest nearby, and there are a large number of spiders to guard it, in connection with the inefficient reproduction and movement of the Tirekri tree, guess what's the relationship between them?"

Like a bolt of lightning striking, Riley exclaimed, "Parasitic and parasitized? impossible, there are so many spiders, and I haven't seen so many Tierekri trees!"

"Remember the grimace musicians and snakeflies of the Thundering River? The grimace musicians must enjoy the healthiest and strongest of the snakes and flies -- you have to eat something good when you have a good meal, don't you?"

"Parasitic on the elite? doesn't that mean—"

"Just dig up a whole Trecli tree and see if there are any spider remains at its roots. By the way, yesterday I told you about the true identity of the Tierekri tree, do you remember?"

"Of course, slimes. ”

"The slime is a very good decomposer, it doesn't split and reproduce without enough nutrients or magic energy, and now the Tierekri tree is popping up vigorously, you say, what else can it do besides absorbing the life force of the spider?"

Riley nodded, "That makes sense, should I talk to the two chiefs and let them make a plan for harvesting and exploring?"

George shook his head: "Now we must concentrate all our forces on defense, there is no need to stir up troops for this kind of thing." Also, what do you mean by the word 'Empress'? What about the Spider Empress?"

"In what way?"

"Social structure. ”

"Class divisions - slavery or even feudal states? No kidding, just a bunch of smarter spiders. Besides, the word was installed on it by Yanoma and the Divine Citadel, and who knows how. ”

"According to the warriors of the Yanoma tribe who previously explored the path, the spiders know how to work together, and they also know how to match and adjust the distribution of firepower in the long and short ranges. They are not the same as the spiders catching flies in Doland's dark corners. ”

"You mean the Spider Queen is an epic spider?"

"It's hard to draw conclusions about whether it's epic, but it must have a high degree of wisdom, and it is estimated that it will not be lower than us. So, the question is, how can a very clever spider leader turn a blind eye to the parasitism of the elite in the population?"

"Mutually beneficial symbiotic behavior?"

"No way. The spiders do nothing good - they are guards, they are drudgery, they are food, they lose everything, and slimes enjoy everything. ”

Riley was shocked: "Enslaved and enslaved? Spiders are slaves? How did you come up with this?"

"The legend of the Battle of the Sun and Moon. The three tribes are not affiliated with each other, but the legends are much the same, especially about the fact that the Spider Empress is a lackey of the moon god, there is almost no difference, and the betrayal of the Spider Queen is mentioned invariably. It's suspicious, what makes a slave dare to slack off?, I suspect she must have foreseen the end of the battle of the sun and the moon. ”

"She knows the power of the sun god Tenansin?"

Nice answer. It doesn't really matter whether the sun god exists or not, the key is that the power called the 'sun god' must be real. That was fire, for example, at the time of the decisive battle, the sun god Tenansin used the fire serpent to kill the moon god Koyosha. ”

"Fire ......" Riley bit her lip and thought for a moment, then suddenly clapped her small fist, "I see. If the moon god is an epic creature, then its stats must be consistent with the environment. The southern jungle is humid and rainy, with many rivers, lakes and swamps, it must be a water-attribute guy, and it must not like fire!"

As she spoke, Riley's train of thought began to become smoother and smoother, and her eyes gradually lit up: "Spiders don't like fire either! Fire will burn them, destroy their nests, and burn up the jungle they live on, but the Spider Empress knows the power of fire, so she sits back and watches the moon god Koyosha die?"

George bowed slightly: "You think roughly the same as me, but there is one thing, since the moon god can be strong enough to enslave the spider clan in a parasitic way, then how can it not know the power of fire?"

Riley was speechless for a moment: "Uh, that, the heart is more than enough but not enough?"

"That's the crux of the matter, I suspect that the legends of Atlas, Yanoma and the Citadel are deliberately misled, just to keep everyone in the circle of 'fire'!"

"Why?"

"Extreme weather in the southern jungle is frequent, with frequent storms and accompanying lightning and thunderstorms, almost three or four times a week, but we have been here for so many days, have we heard of a case of lightning hitting the forest and causing a fire?"

"Huh......? It doesn't seem to be, why? Don't tell me that the moon god can control the direction of lightning!"

"Unfortunately, exactly. Do you remember when we fought Kuruma, the Atlas High Priest, that guy's lightning spell was amazing, but we were unscathed, why?"

"Metal conducts electricity, and you sucked it away with two metal golems and introduced it to the earth. ”

"yes, so why did I turn the metal golem into a tall, skinny, completely unfit for combat?"

"Because the taller things are, the easier they are to conduct electricity......" Riley said here, suddenly taking two steps back in surprise, "I see, you, you mean, those Tierekri trees-"

George shouted: "That's it, the body of the Tierekri tree is the so-called moon god! It is a keratinized special slime hidden under the swamp, and part of the body turns into a tall and long form, sucking away the thunder and lightning to avoid causing a fire!"

Riley eagerly added: "So it's an epic creature with both feng shui and two attributes! It has a natural fear of fire, and the Spider Queen knows this very well, but because her own clan can't use fire, she sits back and watches it be divided and wiped out by fire! In this way, the spider clan can regain their freedom! But, but ......"

George looked at her with a smile: "But what?"

"But the spiders have not regained their freedom until now, and since fire is a deliberately misled direction, what was it that first defeated the moon god Koyosha, and who misled everyone?"

George smiled, "I'll answer the first question first. According to the law of development of human society, since there is already a division of labor among chiefs, priests, and samurai, the production technology will inevitably be upgraded to the corresponding stage, but there is one thing, whether it is Atlas, Yanoma or the Divine Castle, no shadow of it has been found. ”

"What is it?"

"Iron. ”

"Iron?"

"Yes. I had a hunch that danger was looming, and I had to hurry. Riley, you go to the two chiefs now, I need the elders and priests of their tribe who are the most proficient in the ritual rites, now, right now!"

"What does iron have to do with sacrificial rituals?"

"Hurry up!"