Chapter 586: Tree City Labyrinth
readx;?? After listening to Ansari's analysis, Lu Haikong immediately pointed in the middle direction and said, "Whoever wants to approach the dryad body must pass through the wall composed of these branches and stones. www.biquge.info I don't know why they have casualties when they have broken blades. So, we have to be more careful. β
Lu Haikong gave Lao Pan one of the two Nine Dragon Sword fragments on his body, and asked him to take care of Sanji so that he could take time out to deal with emergencies.
After the explanation was clear, Lu Haikong followed the footprints on the powder and quickly marched in the direction of "Tree City", while the others advanced steadily.
When he came to Tree City, Lu Haikong had already gone somewhere, but there was only one entrance to our side, so there was no need to worry about losing it. A few of us walked into Tree City in our original defensive formation.
As soon as I entered the entrance formed by the two boulders, the vine-like branches and leaves that were wrapped around the boulders moved.
Everyone was taken aback, and they all retreated, taking out their weapons and preparing to attack, but they were stopped by Lao Pan: "Don't mess around, if there is danger, Lu Ye will warn you, Brother An and Zhang Ye will go over and take a look first." β
The two of them stood at the entrance again, and saw the vines wrapping around like pythons, but stopped when they reached them. The ends of the vines, which looked like snakeheads, kept moving up and down in front of the two of them, as if they were observing them.
It can be seen that Ansari and the two seem to be calm now, but in fact, their whole bodies are tense and ready to go, and those thick vines emit bursts of spiritual power fluctuations from time to time, which makes me sweat for the two of them.
Fortunately, these vines did not touch their bodies, but kept swimming half a meter away, and we didn't dare to breathe for fear of alarming them.
Soon the vines seemed to be interested in them, and they returned to the rocks, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that this is a testing procedure, similar to the security check at the airport, and the person will be released after confirming that there is no danger, but it is not known what the standard of this test is.
Seeing that Ansari and Zhang Ye entered smoothly, a few of us could only go inside.
Watching these vines stop in front of me, I always felt as if I was being watched up close, and although I knew that it was unlikely that I would be attacked, I was still a little nervous.
Fortunately, the vine didn't take up much of our time, just a few dozen seconds to complete the inspection of me and Da Kui, followed by Lao Pan and Sanji.
I thought that the two of them would pass smoothly, but when the two of them stood at the entrance, these vines suddenly shook wildly, and all the vines pointed their ends at Sanchi, as if facing a great enemy.
This change made us all nervous, I don't know if the vine will attack Sanchi next, I really don't know what is different about Sanji, could it be that the vine has reacted to her special physique?
I was still thinking about whether to draw my sword and cut off the tree vines, and suddenly Sanchi exuded a powerful momentum, which made me feel very familiar, as if it was the Buddha that Sanchi summoned last time when he used the Vajra Bell so strong that I didn't dare to look at it directly, and that kind of earth-destroying aura was like this.
Sanji poked into his waist at this time, took off the King Kong bell, held it in front of him and shook it gently, "Jingle bell!" As the bell rang, a cloud of golden light burst out in an instant.
After the golden light appeared, the vines all retreated back as if they had seen something terrible, lest they avoid it, and in a blink of an eye, they all returned to the stones.
Seeing the tree vine react like this, everyone calmed down, but I was a little worried about whether the bell and golden light just now would be discovered by the people of the green snake, but the matter has reached this point irreparably, and we have to find out and eliminate them sooner or later, sooner or later will not affect the overall situation, and now it is only the difference between passive response and active attack.
When both Pan and Sanji had entered safely, I asked Sanji what was going on and how she had come up with the idea of using the King Kong Bell against the vines.
Sanji gave me a fierce look and said, "Do you think everyone is like you, carrying a bunch of magic weapons at all times?" I only have the King Kong Bell, don't use it like this? β
Seeing that I was robbed, Da Kui shrugged his shoulders and forced a smile on the side, I rubbed my nose curtly: "That, why do those vines have such a big reaction when they see you?" β
Sanchi frowned, "I don't know, but I could sense that the vines seemed to be very afraid of meβthey were warning me, but they gave me the impression that I was hurting them." β
Her answer was somewhat unexpected, and it was unbelievable that the vine would be afraid of her. You know, these vines are actually branches or rhizomes of the Dryad, and it can be known from the spiritual power they exude that this Dryad is extremely powerful, but how can it be so afraid of a little girl?
However, the fact was that although the vines were all back on the stones, the ends of the eyes were always facing Sanchi, and changing direction as she moved, which was enough to prove that Sanchi's words were true, because these vines were obviously wary of Sanchi, but they did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.
Forget it, if you can't figure it out, just put it aside, it's better to encounter something ahead. Once I had adjusted to the light in front of me, I began to take a closer look at my surroundings.
The first thing I felt here was that it looked like a temporary headquarters of the field army, with vine-woven walls everywhere, and even the top of the head was covered with a thick layer, and a little green light could be seen above the dome in the gaps.
Inside, there is a pillar-like boulder every few meters, and from the outside it seems to be a battlement, and although the wall is made of branches, no one dares to underestimate its power.
It looks like an artificial labyrinth no matter how you look at it, and it is impossible for the dryad to come up with such a humanized design, because it does not have this need. This made me even more suspicious.
Who can set up such a big scene? If you want to do this, you need at least the cooperation of the dryad to do it, and what kind of power this person is, I can't help but think of those legendary gods in ancient times.
The stone pillars are not separated by trees and vines, there are three roads to choose from at the entrance, one in the middle and one on the left and right, Zhang Ye stood in front of a stone pillar and said: "Here is the circle code drawn by Lu Ye, he is taking the middle road, let's hurry up and follow." β
When I stepped forward, it was a circle the size of a coin, similar to the three-ring mark he had left before, and it seemed that he was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to carve too many marks.
When everyone was about to catch up, Ansari suddenly said: "There is a situation on the left, I'll go over and take a look." β
I was just about to say something to stop him, but he had already jumped out of the way, and I don't know what he had found, because I didn't have a thermal imager, I could only see a few meters in front of me, and beyond it was dark.
Because they were not familiar with the terrain, the others did not dare to move, and they all stood in place and waited. Soon, Ansari came back and said to me in a deep voice: "There is a dead man behind the stone pillar on the left, who is also the Onmyoji of the Green Snake, and he has not been dead for a long time, and the corpse is still warm. β
At this time, I realized that he was holding a golden mask in his hand, and thinking of the golden-faced man I had just met, I whispered, "How did this person die?" β
Sure enough, Ansari said: "There are no wounds all over his body, his face is pale, and he looks the same as the man in black before." β
Zhang Ye asked on the side: "Pan Ye, should we catch up from the left and have a look?" β
Lao Pan pondered for a moment and said: "Don't chase first, the terrain here is complicated, and you may not be able to catch people, let's go to Lu Ye to meet first, if you get separated, it will be very troublesome." β
I didn't think it was the time to make a difference, so I echoed him: "I also agreed not to chase them for the time being, the green snake killed two onmyoji in succession, it should be the dryad's doing, I don't know what they do, it will provoke the dryad." If it was a labyrinth here, it would be difficult for them to get out, after all, the dryad was the one who controlled it. β
Everyone walked forward according to the guidance of Lu Haikong, and after not going far, there was a fork in the road again, but they soon found the marks left by Lu Haikong. I walked for more than half an hour, and there were countless forks in the road, but I could find the code, and I didn't encounter any obstacles and dangers along the way, and I didn't find any trace of the green snake.
Turned another stone pillar, but this time there was no secret signal from Lu Haikong, and when everyone was worried, Da Kui pointed to the side and shouted: "Look, there is an exit here!" β