Chapter 9: The Tree Tower

From the beginning of this era, the Weasel Clan settled in the southern border of Voyabitz, and the tree tower has always stood here and has been with it to this day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this more than 200 meters high god finger tree points to the sky, after years of precipitation, its green is also thick green, under the reconstruction of the weasel clan, it has become a tower, a taboo tower. The wonderful thing is that this tree, which has been hollowed out inside, is not dead, it is still growing.

Under the tree tower, Jonathan looked up, and for a moment he felt a sense of awe, only by looking at it so closely, would he fully appreciate its towering.

"Knorr, you mean we're going to get to the top of it?" he asked.

Noll nodded.

"I don't need those old weasels to catch me, I'll die of exhaustion on the navel of this tower!"

Knoll smiled, "No, we have this, and it will help us." He caressed the vines that hung from the ground in the tower.

"Itβ€”do you expect it to send us up?" asked Saza.

"Yes!" Knoll replied, stunned.

He tied the rattan around his waist and fastened it, "What are you still doing in a daze? At most, the patrol will pass by in half an hour!"

When Saza and Jonathan heard this, they didn't have time to ask more, and they used the branches of this vine to tie themselves up and solidify themselves like a ferret. "And then, when they come and take us away?" he asked.

"Look at me!" Noel pulled out a vial of earthy yellow liquid from his armor, pouring it all over the vines. "Ready! Cover your mouth... Wow!!"

Almost at the moment when the three of them just covered their mouths, the vines dragged them and shrank upwards frantically, and in an instant, the three of them were a hundred meters in the air, fortunately they covered their mouths, otherwise the screams would definitely attract Rin Fengwei.

Although I knew that Knorr's plan must have been unusual, it seemed a little crazy now. Saza came back to his senses and looked at his feet, his heart beating more and more uncontrollably.

The vines shrank into the tree, and the three of them were clinging to the thick body.

"How does it feel?!!" Noel asked the two excitedly, as he was the one they were all familiar with.

"If you don't want to carry us to the top of the tower in a moment, take us in. Saza didn't want to stay for a second, "So, how are you going to enter the tower?"

Noll turned his head to look at the rattan scattered across the tree.

"No! no! it won't work!" Jonathan understood what he meant, and panicked in denial.

"There is no other choice. Knorr directly cut off the rattan wrapped around his waist with his claws, which didn't take much effort, they have now turned yellow and shriveled, "I just poured a potion on this vine that can make it age quickly, and the Divine Finger Tree will shrink the withering vine back into the body, so we were brought up." If I go down, I haven't found a potion to revive it yet. ”

In other words, whether you enter the tower or return to the ground, you can only rely on climbing now.

"Don't listen to him, this mad rat is going to kill us?" Jonathan said as he turned to Saza, only to see that the other man had already slashed the rattan around his waist with his dagger. "Are you both crazy?" no one paid any attention to him, "all right! tell the old ferrets that they won't be able to gnaw my bones." ”

"Don't be so nervous, Jossen, it's easy. In fact, climbing with the help of rattan is really easy, at least for the tree climber Weasel, "A little further to the right is the window!"

"I hope so. ”

As Knoll said, it's actually very easy to climb on these sturdy rattans, and some of the thicker ones can even stand up to jumping on them. Of course, this is all based on the premise of not looking down. A gust of wind swept by, Saza couldn't help but glance down, and in an instant, the fear and nervousness that had just disappeared came back to his heart, not to mention his feet, his hands were a little trembling, but as long as he let go of his hand now, he would immediately soar high in the sky like those high-level magicians that his mentor said, although it was not for long.

"Sammy, keep up, just ahead. Knoll interrupted his thoughts.

Sure enough, I saw a windowsill, a large exaggerated windowsill, the size of two or three bedrooms in Saza, which must have been rebuilt by the Weasel Clan to make the tree more like a tower. As they got closer, Knorr jumped up, and Saza and Jonathan couldn't wait to step on it.

When I got on the windowsill, I saw a dark purple wall on the window.

"Is there a way to get through the wall?" asked Saza.

Knorr shook his head, "I can't get through the wall, so I have to tear it down." ”

"I hope this wooden wall isn't too thick. Saza said, and with Jonathan, he walked towards the wall with his dagger in hand. But he was pulled.

"I told you you don't have to do anything. The ferret took out a bottle from his whole body armor again, held his breath and walked to a position only two or three meters away from the wall before stopping, he quickly opened the seal on the bottle, put it on the ground and quickly retreated.

Saza was about to ask Knorr what he was up to, but the wall answered him first.

In just over ten seconds after the bottle was unsealed, the wall seemed to come to life, and instantly disintegrated from a whole to hundreds.

"Is this the poison whip?" Saza recognized them, it turned out that this was not a wall at all, or rather, the wall was just a weave of poison whips.

"Yes, this is the poison whip of the Divine Finger Tree, but it was designed like this by those shrewd craftsmen. Noel looked at the black stripes that kept entanglement in front of him and said, "Speaking of the poisonous whips of the god finger tree, they are also powerful, although they are part of the tree, but each one has its own independent consciousness, to bring them together, the border city is a wall, it is really not easy." ”

As he spoke, hundreds of poisonous whips scrambled with each other, intertwining with each other and burrowing into the bottle on the ground, and it was amazing that so many poisonous whips could finally fill their tips into the bottle that didn't look big.

At this time, Noel took out a small tube of potion and smeared it on his outstretched claws, he walked over to the bottle, cut off the connection between the tip of the whip and his body with one claw, and then quickly sealed the bottle. The whip that had lost its tip all wilted to the ground, dripping with dark purple juice.

"How did you get so many strange potions?" asked Jonathan in amazement, he hadn't heard of any research on potions, but he showed three potions as soon as he came up today.

"You should know, it's not hard for me. He shook the bottle in his hand, and through the wall of the bottle, he could vaguely see the tip of the poison whip bouncing inside, "And they never lose." ”

Saza's mind instantly remembered the amiable faces of the weasels in the Rin Wind tribe due to their old age, yes, it is indeed not difficult to do business with them, as long as you are willing to suffer a little more.

"Old Weiss, they know your plans, too?" he asked.

Or maybe that was his plan. Knoll didn't hide it either.

"But why didn't he stop you? shouldn't he be with your patriarch?"

"He's only in league with his potion. Knorr looked at the bottle in his hand again, "The tips of these poison whips that have been put into the bottle have a new name. ”

"Poison Tree Tongue!" said Saza.

"The best poisonous tree tongue. Knorr put away the bottle, "Let's go, it's about the same time, just enough to avoid this wave of patrols." We'd better hurry though, they'll find out soon. ”

But even with this explanation, Saza still felt that this old Weiss was a little strange, after all, it was only for the sake of poisoning the tree tongue or other medicinal herbs, and he didn't need to risk smuggling into the forbidden land with Noll. Or he could find a helper who would just help him collect medicinal herbs, instead of a silly boy who wanted to wear the Blue Devil Forbidden Chain on the top of the tower, at least that would be more difficult to find. Even, with the relationship between Old Weiss and the Weasel Patriarch, he could directly ask the Patriarch for it, and he would not necessarily be refused. In short, his shot, in the eyes of people other than Knoll, is more or less unreasonable.

He looked up at Jonathan, who was looking at him in the same way.

There were twenty-five layers of tree towers, each nine meters high, and Knor's method suddenly brought them to the twentieth floor. This should be the highest level that can be reached with this method, and further up, the poison whip no longer grows, so what blocks the window are some high-level magic arrays, which will be activated once they get close, and then they will die without scum.

Indeed, the twentieth floor is like a dividing point of the tree tower, below the twentieth floor, most of them are patrolled and guarded by the Wind Guards by changing cycles, and the Wind Guards gradually increase from the bottom up. And after the twentieth floor, due to the proximity to the core of the Divine Finger Tree, the structure of the tree has become complex and aggressive, and even the Wind Guard is less. However, these are still small things for Knoll, who has been preparing for many years.

From one to the twenty-first floor, you can see the entire floor, whether on the ground or on the top, full of symbioses and thorn spiders climbing with tree towers. They are dense enough to leave no space for people to settle into, and if they accidentally step on one of them or accidentally touch the thorny cobwebs they have laid in the tower, they will become the target of public criticism, these spiders are symbiosis of the Finger Tree, they can first enter any part of the tree, and then nimbly rush out from any position. If it is unfortunate enough to be killed, or if it bites off its own limbs and dies without being defeated by its opponents, the body fluids it spews will fall anywhere in the Finger Tree, causing the Finger Tree to quickly grow a thorn that is extremely aggressive enough to strangle a person to death. A single thorn may not be a fear, but there are thousands of thorn spiders crawling here.

"This is probably the most humane layer of the tree tower. Knoll said. He was holding a piece of metal, and the faint reflection of the metal made the spiders who had been blocking the way obediently make way for a narrow passage.

It turns out that the reason why these spiders maintain such a large number is not only due to the nourishment provided by the tree tower, but also to the credit of the long-term breeding of Rin Fengwei. Maybe they didn't even notice it, but gradually, these spiders would consciously give way as long as they were reflected by their armor.

Up to the twenty-second floor, the sturdiest layer of the tower, this level is better wood than anywhere else in the tower. Because they have to withstand this layer of tree solution that can fall at any time. There is nothing in the way of this level, but pay attention to the vacuole overhead, which contains a tree solution that even the tree tower may dissolve by it. The tree layer at the bottom of this layer is the hardest, but the top layer is a soft floor. If you want to pass through, you must follow a specific pace that changes every day, and if you take one wrong step, the soft ground will make you sink into it, and at the same time, the tree solution in the vacuoles hanging above will be empowered. Soon, these tree solutions will turn into a new layer of soft ground. It seemed as if there was only a way to get to the next level without touching the soft ground, but Knoll dismissed the idea and said, "You can't fly over this floor." At that time, Saza still did not understand the meaning of the words.

Knoll took out a tube of transparent potion again, sprinkled it on the ground, and soon there were footprints visible, some dark and some light, the color of the new and old footprints was obviously different. He easily deduced the specific steps of the day by looking at the last footprints left by Rin Fengwei, and then the first one passed safely through the soft ground. After passing, the tree solution is slowly injected into the soft ground in a gentle way, and a new ground is started. At this point, Knoll stepped forward and filled a wooden container with a jar of tree solution. At that time, Saza only thought that it was the medicinal herb that Old Weiss had asked for.

On the twenty-third floor, as soon as you open the door of this floor, a cloud of green smoke is coming. This level is a small labyrinth, of course, this is only small compared to the famous labyrinths of the Great Labyrinth of Meberas, but it has all kinds of organs. Like the famous labyrinths, it changes the paths and redistributes traps in the maze every quarter of an hour, all of which are designed by pesky craftsmen with the functions of the Finger Tree, so as long as the Finger Tree does not die for a day, the labyrinth will continue to work like this. But Knoll said, "This is the fastest of all the towers." "Of course, the green smoke doesn't just obstruct vision, the creatures that enter will soon die here after inhaling a certain amount of them, and then merge with the smoke. Noll didn't tell Saza and Jonathan about this before making it through the labyrinth, though it was a bit of a superfluous move.

The first thing Knorr did after entering the labyrinth was to look for those dangerous traps, but unlike Saza's thoughts, he didn't look for traps to avoid them, on the contrary, all he had to do was trigger them, of course, as he said before, he was very good at dealing with these things, and none of the triggering traps could hurt them. Triggering the trap all the way, they pushed open the door to the staircase in less than half an hour.

Walking up the stairs leading to the twenty-fourth floor, Knorr told them that the special traps called the Forest Secret Traps were really not misnamed, and that they really hid a secret, that is, the correct way out of the labyrinth. He searched for traps along the way, but he only took the path that laid out the most dangerous chain of traps, because only the most correct path was the one that needed to lay down the most dangerous obstacles.

The three of them went up to the twenty-fourth floor, and to Sazar's surprise, the floor closest to the heart of the tree was completely empty, with no imaginable most dangerous mechanism, not even the shadow of the Wind Guard. "Of course, there is no Rin Kazewei here at this time. Knoll rightly said.

After a few moments, Saza realized that one of the most important things was missing: the door that led to the staircase. In other words, there are no stairs on this floor! How do you go up? Almost as Saza asked, the ground on which they were standing suddenly rose upward.

In fact, this entire layer is a giant trap that periodically rises in its entirety and mercilessly crushes the creatures inside, unless you can break the wall above your head before turning into pulp. If you do, congratulations, you've made it to the twenty-fifth floor, the top floor. It's just that if you break through the tree wall in the most brutal way, then all the magic arrays of the tree tower will tell you in the next second, their dissatisfaction.

As he approached the upper tree wall, Noel took out the jar of tree solution that was now on the twenty-second floor, because they passed through the twenty-third layer fast enough, the tree solution at this time remained liquid and did not form a soft gelatinous form, he carefully poured the solution on the top tree wall, and suddenly the hard and thick tree wall disintegrated and opened a large opening.

Therefore, if there was no jar of tree solution, even if you passed the twenty-second floor, you would not be able to reach the twenty-fifth floor, so at that time, Noel said, "You can't fly." "Because only the right steps are the only way to get the tree solution safely.

As the ground of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth floors gradually merged, the three of them passed through the top five floors of the tree tower in one go. Thinking back to Noor's well-organized explanations along the way, the tricks of the mechanism, and the understanding of the tree tower, Saza could already be sure that the purpose of the old Vis who planned all this was not simply for the so-called medicinal herbs. The time and effort spent on this plan is simply not something that a few bottles of medicinal herbs can make up for, and the cost is completely disproportionate to the return!

Saza believed all this, and Noel must have noticed it, so he kept making a move, but in the end, his friend, who was blinded by the so-called dream, still chose to deceive himself.

So what was Old Weiss's purpose? was it just a good intention, to help a group of children who were addicted to their dreams, or was it simply to be trapped? There was a strong feeling that the answer was twenty-five floors above the top of the tower. But before he can figure it out, Knoll needs to face the most brutal truth.