"Hey, Richard. It's time for your easter egg to be opened, isn't it?" said Reilly, gesturing to the giant chrysalis floating in the air.

"Easter egg......" The corner of Richard's eyes twitched: "I hope you can still laugh in a while." ”

At his command, the giant chrysalis slowly flew to the edge of the forest, releasing thousands of white eggs on the way they came.

Richard looked at the eggs all over the ground, and then gave the order to hatch in his consciousness. A large number of larvae burst out of their shells almost at the same time, and they looked like white bread worms, but they crawled very fast, even bringing up patches of afterimages.

These larvae eat up their own eggshells as soon as they are born and then crawl towards the forest. They eat along the way, leaving nothing in their path. If you look down from the air, you can see white lines stretching across the meadow and spreading towards the forest.

Moments later, the larvae in the front row climbed up the trees in the forest, rushed into the canopy, grabbed the leaves and munched on them. These larvae eat very quickly, their snow-white bodies quickly turn dark green, then dark green again, and sand-like excrement spills from the air, making it look like a light rain.

Seeing this, Reilly frowned. At first glance, these insects are not the product of natural evolution, their ability to eat and digest has been clearly artificially enhanced, and their metabolism is abnormally fast.

(Is it the ability to grow at a faster rate at the cost of shortening lifespan...... This is really an out-and-out tool of war.)

Trees are gnawed off at a speed visible to the naked eye, first the crown, then the branches, then the trunk, and finally the roots. By the time the bugs climbed down the next tree, the previous victims had turned into piles of excrement. By this time, the bugs were twice as large as they were when they were born.

A gust of wind blew, sending the dense sound of chewing to people's ears, and even the battle-hardened Akmund warriors couldn't help but get goosebumps. The sight of thousands of bugs growing in size before your eyes is truly creepy.

"These insects are the public enemy of all living beings. Farouk said solemnly, "Except for themselves." ”

"No, humanity is the enemy of all living beings. Reilly said lightly: "Including human beings themselves." ”

Richard's face was extremely pale, but he couldn't find the words to refute Reilly. In recent years, he has made a fortune in dimensional warfare, and at the same time, he has a profound understanding of the ferocity of humanity. If nothing else, the brood was hatched by him, a human.

Three days passed quickly, and the larvae, which were only a dozen centimeters at first, had grown to two meters now, gnawing down tens of thousands of trees and creating clearings in the lush forest.

At midnight, the insects stop eating and form cocoons on the trees. When the sun rises again, there are thousands of snow-white cocoons in the forest.

After another three days, the cocoon began to crack, and strange insects crawled out. They have eight short arthropods and a belly as large as a millstone that looks like enlarged spiders. This is the gift that the mother nest has prepared especially for woodpeckers: bird-eating spiders. At Richard's orders, these bird-eating spiders flocked to the Tree of Life like a tidal wave.

The elven warriors of Wilning frowned, and some even aimed their bows and arrows at the bird-eating spiders, but fortunately Farouk reacted quickly and persuaded them to stop.

Standing under the Tree of Life, Reilly said to Richard, "Everything is ready now, just wait for those woodpeckers to come and die." ”

Richard gently stroked the long knife in his hand, feeling a little nervous: "That's 10,000 woodpeckers, maybe there will be some accidents at that time." ”

"Ten thousand?" Reilly shook his head and said, "I don't think this data is very reliable. ”

Richard frowned and said, "That tree of life dares to lie to us?"

"It's not very likely. Reilly spread his hands and said, "I mean, the number of enemies may exceed the Tree of Life's expectations. ”

"How?" Richard gripped the hilt of his knife, and a cold sweat began to break out on his hands.

"According to the Living Tree, woodpeckers can be controlled by the World Tree. Reilly touched his chin and said, "So, what we need to consider is how many woodpeckers there are in this area, not how many woodpeckers we need to face when the general tree of life is promoted." ”

Richard took a hard breath and said in a deep voice, "You mean, the World Tree has sensed our relationship with the Tree of Life?"

"Quite possibly. ”

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On this day, the forest suddenly fell silent, and the sound of the branches and leaves that had been used to be used for a long time disappeared. All the trees did not dare to make a sound, lest they provoke some terrifying existence.

"It's coming. Reilly said lightly.

"Ahh Richard clenched the long knife in his hand.

A gentle breeze blew, but it didn't make any sound, all the branches and leaves didn't sway, and the surroundings became more and more eerie.

A cold light pierced the air and shot into the trees. The next moment, a woodpecker burst out of the woods, hit the cold light, and then fell helplessly to the ground, with a long arrow stuck in its head!

Richard's pupils shrank, the long arrow was shot before the woodpecker flew out of the woods, which meant that the shooter could spot the woodpecker hiding in the forest hundreds of meters away, and predict the opponent's next move!

Richard turned his head and looked in the direction where the arrow was flying, and saw an elven young man with a bow and arrows.

He had long, fiery red hair and an unshakable will in his eyes. His appearance is not the soft handsomeness of ordinary elves, but the fortitude full of iron and blood, this is a pure warrior!

Richard recognized this man, he was one of the three elven powerhouses sent by Selena, and his name was Gru.

By this time, the wind was already raging in the forest, and one by one the woodpeckers flew up from the depths of the forest, circling around the tree of life, and their piercing cries spread throughout the space.

Countless arrows flew out of the fortresses and rained down on the sky. One by one, the woodpeckers fell, almost all of them with arrows in the head!

There was a commotion among the crows, and angry chirpings filled the sky.

In less than half a minute, thousands of woodpeckers have been shot through the head!

The huge casualties provoked the wrath of the crows, and they directly launched a dive, pounced on the elven archers. By now, there had been three thousand woodpeckers in the group, and that's not counting the ones that had just been shot. Seeing the stance they rushed down, Reilly remembered a poem.

Black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it!

In the Green Forest Plane, Patron Elves are usually afraid to attack the Woodpeckers, and they often wait until the other party pecks at the Tree of Life. This creature has a ferocious temperament and will immediately turn its target on the attacker when attacked. When the long beak of the woodpecker is nailed into the tree, their mobility is minimized, and they are easy to kill.

As a result, many Tree of Life will be pecked at the time of promotion and will take a long time to recover. The Tree of Life says it will take ten years to enter the third stage of its growth phase, and it is also motivated by this consideration.

When the woodpeckers swept past the tree of life, the bird-eating spiders guarding here spewed out countless white spots, and they turned into large webs in the air, covering a large number of woodpeckers.

These webs look thin, but they are so resilient that the entangled woodpeckers can't break free and fall to the ground.

At this time, ordinary elven archers had already taken refuge in the fortress, while those jungle warriors with an average level of more than fifteen continued to shoot under the cover of a group of heavily armed warriors. These warriors wore fine-grade plate armor and held shields of fine-grade equipment. However, under the attack of the woodpeckers, the surface of these armors was soon covered with small pits.

The warriors who had no task of protection jumped out of the fortress, waved their shields, slapped the woodpecker that they could reach to the ground, slashed it with an axe, and then kicked it into the distance, regardless of whether their target was dead or not.