Chapter 51: Looting the Treasure Trove
Inside the Fili Family Treasury.
"What's wrong, Cohen?" said Serena as she walked up to Linko.
"Something is wrong," Lin Ke had a strange feeling that something was missing here, and he said to Serena, "I haven't entered the family treasury, Mom, do you think something is wrong here?"
"No," Serena said, as she circled around, "it's organized, it's so neat, it's so much better than the Mutes family's treasury, I'm a little reluctant to move back." ”
Lin Ke suddenly laughed, and gently wiped the shelves with his hand and said, "The problem is cleanliness, the Mutes family's treasure house is dusty enough, right?"
Serena is naturally a person who understands everything, and her eyes suddenly brighten up amazingly, "Treasure house, dust?!" she patted Lin Ke's head and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of it! The treasure house naturally won't let the servants enter and clean casually, such a large treasure house can be cleaned to this extent, tsk, it's really reassuring! So where do you say the place where you really put the good things?" she looked around with her eyes as she spoke, and her eyes were sharp as if she could shovel off a layer of wall skin.
"If you really don't worry, this place won't be so neat, and it won't be so clearly marked," Lin Ke pursed his lips disdainfully, he hadn't said that the servants who could enter here were also a limited number of people who were strictly controlled, but he was really a love of cleanliness, "From the entrance, all the way to the depths, the treasures stored are becoming more and more valuable, obviously trying to give people a psychological hint," he said, pointing to a smooth wall in the front of the deepest part, Probably trying to make us work on this wall a little more, but I think it's the least likely here, so we might as well try the opposite. ”
"It's the entrance in the opposite direction," Serena frowned slightly, "Although the entrance is not very large, the other locations are not very large. ”
Lin Ke smiled and said confidently, "If it's also a big smooth wall, I'm not so sure," he let the guards who had already started to move things to the more narrow and inconspicuous side of the entrance, and reached out to touch the wall, it was uneven and looked dirtier, whether it was to cover it up or really wrong, in fact, Lin Ke's heart was far less firm than he showed, but his long-term experience made him know how much help he would bring to himself and how much confidence he would give to the people around him.
Serena also unconsciously joined in, as well as Lilith, Cher and Neil, who didn't need to do manual work, the five of them were lying on the wall and groping, and after a while, their hands became dirty, just when a few people were about to give up, Cher exclaimed, and then the wall in front of the five people began to vibrate, and after a while, a narrow stone door that only allowed one person to pass through opened inward, and after a closer inspection, it was found that the seam between the door and the wall was well covered by the uneven wall!
And the switch is an inconspicuous spike in the corner!
"It's still Cher's luck," Serena said, patting Cher on the shoulder.
"If Cohen's judgment hadn't been accurate, we might have missed this vault," Cher obediently gave Linko the credit.
Serena smiled and glanced at Lin Kedao, "It's so-so." ”
Lin Ke "......"
Neil had already gone in first, followed by Lilith, followed by Linko, Serena, and Cher.
The secret passage is very narrow, but it is not long, and there are no special mechanisms, so I think the designer is confident in his design.
The secret vault is also not too big, at most a dozen meters in a radius.
A huge pearl that radiates a soft but bright enough light.
There are no multi-level shelves in the secret room.
It's just a square table.
There is a transparent glass cover upside down on each table, the cover is of different sizes, and the things placed in it are also of different sizes, but all of them are intermediate and above magic equipment, magic materials and magic medicinal materials!
There are not a few high-end and top-of-the-line ones!
But none of these were the reasons for the few people to stand on the spot.
What is striking is the contents of a huge glass cover in the center!
A green plant seed the size of a football!
It is quietly emitting a pale green light, faintly but unyieldingly depicting the breath of life, as if it has lasted forever, and it seems to have been reborn, which makes everyone a little confused about what is old and immature for a while.
I said...... Mom," Lin Ke said uncertainly, looking at the green seed that looked like a giant almond, "is this supposed to be ...... Seeds of the World Tree?!"
Hearing this, not only Serena and Cher, but also Lilith and Neil gave Lin Ke a speechless look, and Serena said angrily, "You dare to think! If his Fili family can really get the seeds of the World Tree, how can they wait until now to be destroyed by my Mutes family?!" she walked over to the huge glass cover and put her forehead close to it, "If my feeling is right. ”
"This should be the seed of an ancient tree of war!"
"War Ancient Tree?" Lin Ke couldn't help but wonder, he hadn't gotten any information about the War Ancient Tree from Cohen's memory, "Elven Clan?"
"Yes," it was Xue'er who answered him, "The War Ancient Tree is a large war weapon used by the elves for defense, it is said to be an ancient tree, but it is better to say that it is a tree man, the mature tree people are more than a hundred meters tall, they are rooted in the earth, regulate the leylines, and can gather magical energy, they are the partners that every elf tribe must have, plus it has a strong detection ability and ' Throwing stones' powerful long-range attack ability, the long-lived War Ancient Tree can even turn part of its torso into several battle tree people seven or eight meters high, and its combat effectiveness is quite strong, and it has shined in almost all elven battles in history. ”
Lin Ke couldn't help but yearn for it, I don't know if it was the desire for nature in his previous life, or the closeness of the elven blood in this life, or both, he naturally had a different kind of affection for elves and plants, "Since it is unique to the elven race, and it is such a powerful race, how can there be seeds scattered outside? Or is it that the ancient tree of war has a strong ability to reproduce?"
It was Serena who answered him this time, "On the contrary, the reproduction ability of such a powerful existence as the War Ancient Tree is extremely weak, usually only the War Ancient Tree of more than a thousand years, and it is possible to give birth to no more than three seeds without suffering excessive damage, and the only reason why they can reproduce so far is the love of the elves, and the elves are also the most important way for them to reproduce, because," she shook her head lightly, and reached out to caress the huge glass cover," If you want to activate a War Ancient Tree, in addition to having an extremely precious and rare Ancient Tree Seed, you also need another kind of heaven and earth wonder - Life Spring!"
"Fountain of Life ......," Lin Ke muttered silently, "then if you don't get irrigated by the Fountain of Life for a long time, this seed will die?"
Serena nodded solemnly, "The Life Spring is a low-level Heaven and Earth Wonder, but its rarity in the Human Realm is even more than that of some other middle-level Heaven and Earth Wonders, the reason is that the Life Spring Water will only be produced next to the World Tree, although the production is large enough, but even for the elves themselves, it is not rich, you can imagine how scarce the Life Spring Water is outside, and the seed in front of you can no longer last long." ”
Lin Ke was slightly silent for a while and said, "At most, how long will it take?"
Serena shook her head and said, "I can't perceive it exactly," she continued after glancing at Cher, who also had her forehead attached to the glass cover, "It's probably only two or three years, or even shorter, and it is almost impossible to get the Fountain of Life in such a short period of time, with the current human and financial resources of the Mutes family." ”
"Then we can only watch it run out of vitality and die?" said Lin Ke in a low tone.
"Or give it back to the Elves," Cher said with a wistful look at Serena.
Serena nodded silently.
"Why don't you let your grandfather ask your grandmother for some water from the spring of life?" Lin Ke suddenly asked Serena, but saw that the latter's face darkened, and he knew that he was probably asking a stupid question.
"Well, you've grown up too," Serena said with a sigh, "The arrogance and stubbornness of the elves are beyond our comprehension when we grew up in the human world, your grandmother," she paused and glanced at Cher before arriving. Including Cher's mother, they are the most traditional pure elves, they value the forest above all else, they can give their lives to protect the forest without hesitation, but they are never willing to step out of there, although in the end, your grandfather and Cher's father chose to leave there and return to the human realm, but in the eyes of your grandmother and Cher's mother, this is probably a betrayal. ”
Lin Ke was speechless, he was really a very individual person.
"Then maybe there are some other ways to spawn it?maybe some other spiritual liquid can also achieve the purpose of activating the ancient tree?" Lin Ke still can't give up, if he has the protection of a powerful war ancient tree, Nausicaa will become rock solid, and it will not be unimportant to the family's business.
"It's not for nothing that the Ancient War Tree is forcibly activated, but compared to the softness of the Fountain of Life, those methods are more like overdrawing the vitality of the Ancient Tree, and the Ancient War Tree that is forcibly activated with magic or other potions generally doesn't live for two hundred years, you know, a normal Ancient War Tree will not have a problem surviving for two thousand years," Cher replied.
"At the same time, it will also provoke the elves," Serena added, "The seeds of the war ancient trees that have been outflowed from the elves are not without it, but all the families that use abnormal means to activate the ancient trees have been retaliated by the elves, hehe, sometimes the elves who don't show too much resentment even if the territory is invaded, will not hesitate to kill you after seeing you hurt a tree, my son, it is a very strange race." ”
Lin Ke was silent, he could feel that his mother Serena had always had a very obvious resistance to the elves, even if she was a pure half-elf herself.