Leaving the poplar forest, Wei Lai took out the map, the place marked on it was very remote, a little far away from the poplar forest, but Wei Lai calculated the time, there were still some days before the start of the summer vacation, so he was ready to go to the treasure to explore. Music-Text-

Wei Lai kept telling jokes to Shen Yueying, Shen Yueying was amused by Wei Lai, and the sadness in her heart faded a lot, although Shen Yueying knew Wei Lai's intentions, Wei Lai saw that she missed her father, so she wanted to be happy with jokes, Shen Yueying was really moved, and looked at Wei Lai and became a lot more tender.

When they came to the area marked on the map, they had already walked all night, both of them were in good health, and there would be no effect if they didn't rest, Wei Lai took the map and compared it, and found that the marked location of the treasure was exactly where they were.

"Huh? This is where the treasure is, so I can't be mistaken. Wei Lai said suspiciously, he looked around, there was nothing strange here except for a withered old tree.

"Is the treasure under this tree?" Shen Yueying wasn't sure, his words were just guesses.

Wei Lai touched his chin, then walked to the old tree and whispered, "I want to know now, how did that man find the treasure?" ”

If according to what Shen Yueying said, if this old tree is a treasure, then how did that person find the treasure, you must know that the old tree looks very ordinary, and there is no special place at all from the outside.

Wei Lai walked around the old tree, did not find anything abnormal, he walked under the old tree, reached out to touch the trunk of the old tree, Wei Lai's face showed a shocked look, the palm of his hand as if it was an electric shock, quickly retracted, and away from the area of the old tree.

Wei Lai stretched out his hand and pointed to the old tree, and said to Shen Yueying: "This tree is strange, there is actually a heartbeat sound in its trunk. ”

"Could it be a dryad, or something weird?" Shen Yueying frowned, they had encountered the ghost locust in the ghost tomb, they had seen the giant demon flower in the ancestral tomb, and they were quite calm in the face of the old tree with the sound of heartbeat.

"I don't know, I'll cut the trunk and try it." Wei Lai's arm completely recovered, raised the ancient sword and walked towards the old tree, he had seen a lot of strange things, it was not strange to have a heartbeat in the trunk, what he cared about now was the treasure, but he didn't know how the person found out that there was a treasure inside.

Wei Lai walked to the old tree, keeping a distance from the old tree, he urged the soul fire on his body, and then instilled it into the ancient sword, the ancient sword is a divine weapon, and he kept exploring its use when he took it out of the tomb, and it was normal for the soul fire to be instilled into it.

The trunk of the old tree is not very thick, equivalent to the thickness of a normal person's waist, Wei Lai cut it horizontally at the old tree, without any hindrance, directly cut off the trunk of the old tree, looking at the trunk flying out, Wei Lai was a little surprised, because the sound he heard just now was very strange, not the sound of the trunk breaking, but like the sound of bones breaking.

Wei Lai didn't care about the cut part, he looked down at the remaining tree trunk, and saw that the trunk was an ordinary wood, but a small vein like a human vein, and these veins were constantly flowing with red liquid, and the veins where Wei Lai cut off were broken, and the red liquid gushed out, like human blood vessels were bleeding.

"Oh my God." Wei Lai didn't expect the trunk to be like this, he was sluggish in a short period of time, he felt his head a little numb, and his mind stopped working.

Shen Yueying came to Wei Lai's side, and she was also extremely shocked when she saw the scene inside the old tree, Shen Yueying continued: "Cut off these tree trunks. ”

The trunk of the tree looks very weird, no matter what, it can't be left, since it is said that there is a treasure inside, whether there is a treasure in it or not, Wei Lai waved the ancient sword in his hand and cut off all the trunks that were exposed on the ground.

"Click." The ancient sword was sharp, and it directly cut off all the trunks.

Wei Lai ignored the tree trunk above, and looked directly at the underground part, only to see that the underground part was even more peculiar, no longer the shape of the blood vessels, but like the human heart, but this heart did not seem to be fully developed, and in some places it was still wooden, and there were many small blood vessels on it, and the flowing blood was constantly instilled into the heart.

"It's about the same as a human heart, it's weird." Who would have thought that would be like this inside this tree.

Wei Lai had never seen such a strange thing, especially something like a heart, which made him feel very dreamy, Wei Lai picked up the ancient sword and touched it towards the heart, the wooden part of the heart was very hard, and the flesh and blood part was very soft.

"Dig it out and see?" Wei Lai said to Shen Yueying, he was very curious about this heart, the ancient sword did not react when it touched it, Wei Laixiang dug it out and studied it well.

"Well, better be careful, I feel like there's something under my heart, and we'd better hollow out the whole place." Shen Yueying pointed to the place where the heart was, there seemed to be something underneath it, but the heart was blocking it and couldn't see clearly.

Wei Lai used the ancient sword as a shovel, although the location of the old tree was remote, but it did not go beyond the scope of the desert, the soil here was very soft, and the absolute part was made of sand.

Shen Yueying didn't help Wei Lai, she stood beside Wei Lai and guarded, although there was no situation here for the time being, but they had to be careful, after passing through the danger of the ghost tomb, Shen Yueying knew very well that there are many dangers that happen when you are unsuspecting, don't let your guard down when you encounter strange things, otherwise it is very likely to pay the price of your life.

Wei Lai dug along the perimeter of the old tree, and soon formed a circular deep pit, just when Wei Lai was about to continue downward, the ancient sword suddenly touched something hard, Wei Lai felt very strange, so he pushed away the soil covering it, revealing piles of tangled tree roots underneath, densely packed like wooden door panels, and the space below was completely invisible.

"Yue Hotaru, come and take a look." Wei Lai called Shen Yueying over, he had never seen such magical tree roots, these roots were particularly dense, and there was no special reason why they would not grow like this.

"There must be something underneath, the roots of the tree forming the shape of the door panel, it is the nature of living beings, and it must be to guard something important." Shen Yueying analyzed, pointed to the root of the door panel style and said.

Wei Lai agreed with Shen Yueying's statement, he raised the ancient sword high and exerted a lot of strength, the ancient sword slashed directly from the middle, and the blocked tree roots were instantly separated, Wei Lai picked it open with the ancient sword, and finally revealed the scene below.

"Huh?" To Wei Lai's surprise, it was actually empty below, and there was nothing special at all.

Due to the darkness below, Wei couldn't see it clearly, after he discussed it with Shen Yueying, the two decided to go down, such a strange scene made the two very interested, they wanted to know what was down there, and it could produce such a strange heart.

Wei Lai took out the flashlight and shone it towards the face, the hole below was the space formed by the roots of the tree, the area was not huge, only a few meters wide, many tree trunks were intertwined, and there seemed to be a passage in the space.

Wei Lai and Shen Yueying jumped below at the same time, and then began to look at the surrounding scene, their current position is very special, it is directly below the tree trunk, the weird heart is above their heads, the surrounding tree trunks are rhythmically trembling, accompanied by the beating sound of the heart, the whole space is shaking.

"So many bones." Wei Lai used a flashlight to look around, only to find that there were many skeletons nearby, some were wearing their current clothes, and some were not completely decomposed, and these bones were bound by tree roots, actually sucking the blood of the corpses.

Wei Lai couldn't believe it, he walked to the corpse that was not decomposed, and found that the trunk tied the corpse very strongly, and some went deep into the corpse, slowly absorbing the blood of the corpse, and the absorbed blood flowed very slowly, Wei Lai followed the direction of the blood flow, only to see that the blood actually flowed to the heart, and the heart seemed to be in a saturated state, not absorbing the blood, and a seedling could be faintly seen inside the heart, which had not yet germinated.

"He is transforming, and we are not attacked because this heart is giving birth to saplings, and if he succeeds, he may grow into a demon tree." Wei Lai shuddered suddenly, reminding him of the ghost locust in the ghost tomb, if the seedlings in his heart were allowed to grow, they might become a ferocious demon tree.

And Wei came here without any attack, because the heart was saturated and no longer needed any nourishment, and the roots of the tree were the weapons of the heart, tying up the people passing by, and then providing the heart to suck blood.

"Hurry up and destroy it, if it takes a few days, it will be difficult for us to get close to this place first." Shen Yueying shouted hurriedly, now is the best time to destroy the heart, if you miss it, you will be attacked if you want to get close to this area in the future.

"You're out of luck." Wei Lai was secretly glad in his heart, he and Shen Yueying happened to encounter the transformation of the heart, at this time there was no ability to attack, if it was in advance or later, it would be very dangerous, although I don't know how this strange heart was formed, but it is always a scourge to keep it, Wei Lai moved his hand without mercy.

The ancient sword was waved, the soul fire was instilled, Wei Lai slashed towards the heart on his head, the heart that combined wood and flesh was very hard, if it weren't for Wei Lai's sharp ancient sword, he might not be able to hurt the saplings inside at all.

Wei Lai kept chopping, the crack in his heart became bigger and bigger, and viscous blood flowed out of it, with a strong fishy smell, like yellow pus flowing from a dead fish, disgusting and unpleasant.

Wei Lai had no intention of sparing the saplings at all, after all, what sucked blood was definitely evil, and if they didn't eradicate it now, more people would be killed.

The heart was completely broken, and the sapling inside fell from above, Wei Lai did not hesitate, and directly swung his sword to chop at it, the sapling was not fully developed, and was directly cut off by Wei Lai, but at the moment when the sapling was cut off, the roots in the entire space trembled suddenly, and the roots that were originally bound to the bones of the corpse moved and stretched out towards Wei Lai and Shen Yueying.

"Run." Wei Lai yelled, pulled Shen Yueying and ran, now it was too late to climb up, they could only run towards the passage inside.