Hearing Dolan say this, the garrison commander Garanthel shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Your mission has been delayed for a long time. ”

Dolan glared at him, "Do you think this is an easy thing to do? The entire Boiling Sea has not been found for so many years, and the brothers and sisters who set off with me have not succeeded, only I have brought the secret treasure back." ”

Hearing him mention his siblings, Lukka asked, "Didn't you say that this sacred tree activates a lot of wood spirits, and they are looking for them all over the sea?"

Dolan didn't answer immediately, stared down at the wooden floor in front of him motionless for a long time, then took a deep breath and said slowly, "They...... Didn't come back alive. ”

"What's going on? It can't be a pirate encounter, is it?" Lukka was a little surprised, and after months of sailing the boiling seas, he came to the conclusion that the sea here was far safer than the Sunset Islands. Because of the absolute dominance of the black market, there are no pirates in this sea area at all, and even petty thieves are only found in towns.

Dolan shook his head, "There are very few pirates here, you are the only ones I've ever seen. ”

"Eh, are they pirates?" Garrenthal's eyes widened, and he began to wonder if the money he had received was legitimate income.

"Don't interrupt!" Daniel pushed the captain of the guard aside.

"My brothers and sisters, how to put it, their luck is not very good. Dolan said, "We were all in our initial form, and we needed to grow for a while before we could disguise ourselves as you flesh creatures, but no one wanted to wait, so we didn't think much about it, and we just went straight into the sea, trying to scatter and drift away to find clues." ”

"It's like dandelion seeds blown away by the wind. Nora seemed to understand.

Dolan glanced at her, didn't continue, but said to himself: "Everyone's initial form is different, none of us had experience at the time, and we didn't know that not all plants can survive floating in the sea for a few months. ”

"So, as soon as you set off, you drowned a large area?" Lukka summed it up for him.

Dolan nodded: "Actually, after three months, only I am left, kelp, red hairweed, two different types of seaweed, and a lettuce." ”

Phil added in a whisper, "Red hairweed is seaweed. ”

"Seagrass is not unusual, and willow branches are fine, but what the hell is lettuce?

"As soon as that guy floated out, he crashed into an undercurrent chamber of commerce boat and was picked up in the cabin, and his luck was really bad. Dolan said.

"Doesn't that sound good?" asked Ollie curiously.

"The people on the boat said that lettuce can't be stored for a long time, and that night he turned into a plate of fried lettuce, is that still good?" said Dolan, frowning.

Lukka suddenly felt that the scene was a bit bloody, and maybe he should remove lettuce from the menu of the Silent Death in the future.

"What about your two seaweed brothers, they can't be vegetables too, can they?" asked Ollie.

"Not at the time, but we always had to go ashore, and they were a little anxious, and before they could become flesh and blood, they washed up on the beach, were dried and dried goods, and probably ended their short lives on someone's dinner plate. Dolan replied.

Lukka decided to remove kombu and nori from the recipe in the future.

"Even I myself was soaked to the point of almost rotting, and after drifting to an island, I took root and grew on the shore for almost a year before I could run around like you. Dolan said.

"Wait, you just said that you are all descendants of this sacred tree?" Lukka interrupted him suddenly.

"yes. Dolan nodded.

"How can the offspring of a tree have willows, seaweed, lettuce or something?" Luca asked.

Before Dolan could speak, Garrenthel preemptively said, "I know this, I'll explain." ”

He turned around and patted the wooden wall beside him: "This sacred tree is not an ordinary plant. You can think of it as a collection of all the plants in the world. ”

"What do you mean?" Lukka narrowed his eyes.

That is, it is not any kind of plant in itself, but all plants. "It is the vine that hangs down from the middle of the tower, it is the branch that weaves the lifting basket, and it is the strong trunk." It can take on the form of any plant. For example, we harvested oranges from the branches of the fifth layer last month, and apples from the ninth layer this month, and as long as it is a plant, it can be converted at will. ”

"It's so convenient, you can eat whatever you want. Nora exclaimed.

"How else would it be a sacred tree?" said Garrenthel triumphantly.

"And these glowing mushrooms too?" Lukka asked, pointing to the flickering bright spots on the wooden walls.

"Why are you so unscientific?" Phil couldn't take it anymore, "these are fungi, not plants. ”

Dolan also shook his head: "These mushrooms are not part of the sacred tree, they are just some parasitic attachments, because they consume very little, and they can be used for lighting, so they have not been removed. ”

"Understood," Lukka nodded, "and what about then?

"I'm not brainless!" Dolan retorted, "Of course I was looking for the only witness at the time, Master Kayala, to find out the truth. ”

"What did you hear?" asked Luca.

"I learned a lot of musical skills. Dolan said.

Lukka looked at him and sighed, "I have a moment of silence for this sacred tree, the only surviving spy was delayed by the music and actually forgot his mission. ”

"Don't talk nonsense! Of course I haven't forgotten, didn't I write down all the lyrics for you?" said Dolan.

"But the lyrics are unclear. Luca said.

Dolan said, "You don't think it's clear, but it seems to me that it says at least two things: first, the Eternal Flame flew away on its own, and second, the Guiding Stone was carried out by the Eternal Flame and did not move on its own, and it sank to the bottom of the sea.

"While the whereabouts of the Eternal Flame are still unknown, the Guiding Stone doesn't seem to be completely unheard, with rumors that kobolds dug it up and later fell into the hands of the Undercurrent Chamber of Commerce. It's a pity that the Undercurrent Chamber of Commerce doesn't leak a drop of defense against outsiders, and I tried my best to rub their ship for decades, but I couldn't find anything, and it was only after meeting you that I made progress.

"You don't know, in order to find these two things, the sacred tree has given us special abilities, as long as the distance between the two secret treasures is less than two kilometers, I can feel them. ”