Returning to the forest to track the imprint, the origin of the Thundermang Purple Wood is a mystery.

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This is an arrow-like symbol, and the meaning it contains is definitely not only the arrow itself, because this symbol was originally used when hunting or gathering in the forest to avoid getting lost, in a sense, this is also a unique culture of Mu Xue's ethnic group, so it is worth thinking about why it appears on the reef on the coast...... If it is a moon prayer person who crosses the sea from the south, he should not know how to use this symbol, and the local moon prayer person will not come to the coast without trouble, and because the carving tools are very simple, this symbol should be newly marked.

Then the appearance of this symbol contains a lot of information, it should not be depicted by the moon prayer people in the tribe near the moon tree, but it is very likely that it was drawn by the moon prayer people who crossed the sea this time, then first of all, it can be confirmed that there are indeed moon prayer people who have successfully arrived in the Nanyuan continent among these sea crossers, and secondly, some of them must understand the habits of the southern moon prayer people here in the forest to draw this symbol. Although it is also possible that the messengers of the past have taught it, considering that they did not stay near the coast but left directly, then Mu Xue believes in another possibility...... It was not that the sea crossers received the messenger's advice, but that among the sea crossers who successfully arrived there were moon prayer people who were very familiar with the forests of the Nanyuan Continent, and this was probably the messenger who was sent to the north and returned to his hometown again, and the lucky ones who successfully crossed the sea twice.

The success rate of crossing the sea once is already terrifyingly low, and if the sea crossing can be successful twice, then this guy's luck is simply too good to be true...... However, this is not impossible, and there have been many instances of Couriers returning home.

But since there were survivors among the moon prayers who crossed the sea, why was the body of this moon prayer left unattended in the crevices of the reef? Could it be that the corpse of this moon prayer man drifted to the shore of the Nanyuan Continent later? But what is the reason for this bizarre death...... Her back was almost completely charred, as if it had been burned by some kind of ultra-hot object.

"Let's go in this direction, maybe it's a signpost they left on purpose." Looking at Mu Xue's somewhat puzzled expression, Xing Lan finally spoke, she looked in the direction pointed by this symbol similar to an arrow, which was the depths of the dense forest, and from here, she could only see the boundless sea of forests covering everything, "What is the problem, wouldn't it be better to ask the survivors directly?" Then all the mysteries will be understood. ”

“…… Oh, yes. Although it was much more relaxed than at the beginning, Mu Xue still didn't fully trust Xinglan, but she also had to admit that this was indeed a good way, and took a deep look at the corpse, although it was said that the corpses of some unbearable compatriots were left in the wild, but if you want to catch up with the survivors who have entered the forest, time becomes very critical, and she can't have time to bury the corpse slowly, "Do you want to look for it together......?"

In the end, Mu Xue still made this choice, the living are more important than the dead after all...... And Xing Lan's appearance as if she knew a lot of things made Mu Xue feel very uneasy, if Xing Lan was also going to find the survivor of crossing the sea, it would be better to follow her and keep an eye on her, so that she could adapt to any situation in time.

This was completely unexpected by Xinglan, so she didn't show any surprise, but nodded: "Yes, the survivors who crossed the sea from the north, and no matter how you look at it, they all had unusual encounters on the way, isn't it a very interesting thing?" ”

Mu Xue frowned slightly, very dissatisfied with Xinglan's calling the life and death of these moon prayers just interesting, but she didn't say anything, but carefully looked at the symbol that marked the direction, and then quickly turned around and walked back to the dense forest when she came...... Of course, she still retains a trace of vigilance against Xinglan.

Xinglan didn't care about Mu Xue's defense, this was really normal, she stood up on the smooth reef, and prepared to enter the dense forest together, but finally turned around and glanced back at the area full of wooden boat wreckage, but this glance made her slightly startled, and she seemed to find something wrong in the area of wooden wreckage.

It was a strange color mixed in with the large shards of wood, and even if it was quite inconspicuous, it did catch Xinglan's attention.

As mentioned before, most of the forests along the coast of the Northern Yuan Continent have a lot of striated leaf trees, so most of the wood used by the Moon Prayer People to build wooden boats is also taken from striated leaf trees...... Although the leaves of this tree are highly pigmented and colorful, they are not actually toxic, and its wood is also very waterproof.

Widely sourced and fairly easy to work with, the striated leaf tree was indeed a good material for wooden boats, and its bark and wood were dark brown like most trees, but at this time Xinglan seemed to find a distinctive color in the wood fragments.

"That's ...... What the? She took a few steps forward, bent down and tossed a few times in a mass of brown striated leaf tree heads, and then pulled out the object of different colors from under a plank, it was a stick that looked a little rough like a normal twig, and the difference was that its outer skin took on a faint and strange purple color, which seemed out of place in the surroundings, "This is definitely not a branch of the striated leaf tree, and I have never seen this purple wood on the Arashi......"

There is no doubt that this is indeed a branch of some kind of tree, because the section of this slender wooden stick can be seen in the unique pattern of tree rings, but the feeling of getting it in his hands surprised Xinglan a little, because the pressure brought by this wood is very heavy...... It is very dense and almost comparable to some metals.

Not only was it heavy, but the texture of the stick itself was also very hard, and Xinglan tried it a little, but it was probably enough to break the head of a tree with the same thickness and fine leaves, so that this strange purple stick could only be slightly deformed. Unfortunately, it was just a twig, and it wasn't enough for her to deduce more information and scan DNA to determine the morphology of the species...... She's not in a hurry at all, wouldn't it be boring to do that?

This is definitely not a native species on this side of the Nanyuan Continent, Xinglan, who has been here for decades, can be sure of this, if it is some kind of rare animal, she may not have encountered it, but the immobile nature of the plant itself is already destined for them to form a large cluster near the place of growth, even the Moon Tree that is revered as a divine messenger by the Moon Prayer People is not a single one...... It's just that the other moon trees next to it aren't that tall. This is not a fantasy novel, naturally there will not be any fairy grass fairy tree that is rare to encounter once in a thousand years, and as for saying that this happens to be some kind of endangered plant, the probability is too small, almost negligible, plus this purple wooden stick appears in the fragments of the wooden boat here, Xinglan is almost certain that it was definitely brought from the north, and judging from its shape, this wooden stick is obviously not a part of the wooden boat, so what is this wooden stick used for?

In such a life-and-death event as crossing the sea, it is definitely not a good idea to carry sundries, and every kilogram of load may cause the sea crossers to die at the bottom of the sea, so they do not even dare to bring more of the most important food, and generally bringing three or four days' rations and drinking water is already the limit, let alone bringing irrelevant things on the ship, it is simply a joke with life.

Xinglan had a faint hunch that this purple wooden stick might contain a big secret, and the situation of crossing the sea this time was also a little wrong, it seemed that some unknown influencing factor had appeared, and it began to gradually get out of the original control: "That guy who passed away, what the hell is he doing, there was no such ...... in the original plan"

"What's wrong? Did you find anything strange? At this time, Mu Xue, who had re-entered the forested area, turned around with some confusion and shouted when she saw Xinglan squatting on the edge of the reef.

"No, it's nothing...... Xing Lan narrowed her eyes slightly, her fingers nimbly stuffed the purple wooden stick into the bag around her waist, and then stood up again and walked towards the forest, "It's just that I feel a little surprised that I might encounter something unexpected this time." ”

However, even Xinglan didn't notice that when she put the strange purple stick in the bag, some of the bare chemical fibers at the opening of the bag stood up neatly like fried hair after the stick was moved nearby, and it took a long time to recover.

What kind of magic this mysterious purple stick from the north possesses, perhaps only those who left it here know......

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Lanxing, an undersea plateau with a depth of 400 meters, is the place where the holy city was built.

It was a dark abyss, hundreds of meters deep that no sunlight could penetrate and shone here, but the darkness and horror of the past were long gone.

Since the first batch of underwater robots and giant containers were transported in place decades ago, this dark world has been illuminated by bright light, and the light-emitting devices that are far brighter than the photobacteria have been laid on the ground to form a criss-crossing light path, and a large nuclear fusion power station is constantly transmitting electricity to them at a depth of 100 meters underground, and the transportation of resources from outer space makes it almost non-existent in fuel shortage, and can continue to operate.

At this point, however, there was only a large number of automata coming and going in the vicinity of these optical paths, which were constantly extracting metals and various elements from the nearby undersea veins, and then transporting them to the manufacturing plant to provide enough raw materials for the expansion of the sprawling undersea city.

A very old-looking sea giant sat on a rocky ocean floor staring at the automata not far away, his skin wrinkled with age, and a bone staff made of the bones of an unknown animal, barely moving even after a long time, just staring, not knowing what he was thinking.

Until a sudden voice in the empty sea interrupted his gaze, Xinglan's tone, although not very angry, could still clearly hear a trace of unhappiness in it, and she didn't beat around the bush anymore, but said directly: "The wind is gone, I think I need an explanation." ”