Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Bell Reappears
The Tree Canyon has changed beyond recognition, the spring has cracked, and the vitality has begun to fade, and this canyon will become an ordinary canyon in the future, and it will be difficult to support many tree people.
The king of the tree was dead, the tree people were weeping, and Bray was choking on the side, he had come to his senses.
I waited a long time for it to ease its mood and get up and bend down at me, "Honorable Ysera, please forgive me for being rude. ”
I said don't worry, I'm going to find Buck, the Tree King, and I'll bother you to lead the way.
The primitive hunting area is so vast, with so many trees and mountains, it is almost impossible to find Buck without a guide, and I hope Bray can be a guide.
It didn't immediately agree, and asked with some concern, "May I ask why the dragons came here?"
I can't say this, because Buck is the wood spirit, and I want to get the wood spirit, and I don't understand the stakes and specific operations, in case I want to hurt Buck, it will be bad.
I had to deceive it first: "The Hera continent is unstable, and the mutation of the primordial hunting area has attracted the attention of the dragons, so I will come to investigate first, hoping to get Buck's help." ”
Bray breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was afraid of the dragons' bad intentions.
"You should indeed look for Buck, the Tree King, who must know what is going on in the Primordial Hunting Zone, and as far as I know, the three rulers of the Primordial Hunting Zone are working on countermeasures and suppressing riots, and those powerful creatures have a tendency to riot. ”
It's the first time I've heard that there is a ruler in the primordial hunting area, so wouldn't my path of "evolution" have to be curtailed?
I said, who are the three rulers?
Bray explained carefully: "One is Buck, the Tree King, one is the Nine-Headed Bird, and the other is Black Zero, the Mammoth. They all inhabit the center of the primitive hunting area and rule over all beasts. But we don't have a strong desire for the Terrans to rule, so we are only nominal rulers, and many powerful beasts do not agree, and there are many of them who riot. ”
I thought to myself, too, there are no countries and city-states in the primordial hunting area, and all living beings live separately, who can rule over whom?
I didn't ask much after I got aware, and asked Bray to take us to Buck. Naturally, it agreed, and said that it would have to go to Buck and ask him to investigate what had gone mad.
I inquired about the madness, and it said that it had been sleeping in the land for ten years, and that it had been awakened two months earlier, and that it had been eroded since then. It was an evil force, a power that did not belong to the continent of Hera.
This is a bit confusing, I said if it wasn't for the power of Hera's continent, where else could it be?
Bray said in a deep voice: "Deep-sea, or desert, you are from the deep sea, and even you don't know that it should not be the deep sea." Eighty percent of them come from the desert, and there is a desert in the east of the Elven Forest, which extends to the end of the east, and no one dares to set foot in it. ”
Does it mean that something has invaded on the other side of the desert?
Things seem to get a little out of control, it's far more complicated than I thought.
Bray had been worried, and immediately after burying the King of the Tree Tree, he led us to the center of the primordial hunting area.
Cangwu and I sat on its branches, and it galloped wildly, across the vast plains, into the next mountain area.
The mountains were even taller and steeper, and the plants were so thick and terrifying that I saw a man-eating flower swallow a bird directly, and after half a minute it spat out a pile of bones.
Bray advised: "This is already the territory of intelligent creatures, both animals and plants have intelligence, the killing situation is very serious, don't underestimate anything, even a grass." ”
It screamed in pain and lifted the rhizome, and there was a small blue grass stuck in its roots to suck blood, and the blue turned black.
Bray twitched a branch to smash the grass and walked with caution.
It was 100 meters high, and we could see far away from its branches, but we could not see it after passing some of the mountains, because on all sides it was a hundred meters tall trees, covered with thorns and green vines, and wriggling like snakes.
These trees also have wisdom, and when they saw Bray coming, they didn't have a good temper, but drove away: "Disgusting black wood, who let you come?"
Bray whispered, "If ordinary Kuroki were killed by them in the morning, they would actually be afraid of me. ”
These nasty treemen only curse and don't move, and they get out of the way when Ray gets close.
Cangwu couldn't help but laugh, she smiled very beautifully.
Bray opened the way, and for the time being there was no attack, and we walked out of the mountains and reached the swampy area near dark.
The swamp in front of it was as endless as the sea, and it was full of blackened plants that stenched like rotting rhizomes.
Bray didn't dare to enter at the edge of the swamp, it said it was too dangerous inside, and it was heavy enough to sink into the swamp.
I said I'll fly you over, and I can lead you with my power.
Bray shook his head: "That's not safe, I'm completely useless in the air if I am attacked." I can stretch my rhizomes and crawl over without sinking, just beware of the monsters in the swamp that will attack any creature. ”
I said that dragons can be attacked too? Bray nodded and said, "Of course real dragons can't be attacked, but you ......."
I can understand the meaning of its words, and I can't help but feel depressed, it seems that I am still too weak.
I said, what then? Bray said wait for a rain, it might rain tomorrow. When it rains, a lot of monsters will burrow into the mud and hide, they don't like rain, they only like sewage.
Can it still be like this?
In fact, we are not afraid of the monsters in the swamp, but we are afraid of their numbers, the creatures in the swamp are endless, and it is safer for us to hide them.
We stopped at the edge of the swamp to rest, Bray plunged his rhizomes directly into the earth to absorb the nutrients, and Cangwu and I ate dried meat from the leopard girl.
It's getting dark, the air is very humid, and tomorrow there will be a heavy rain.
I couldn't sleep at all, sitting on a rock and looking out at the distant sky, which occasionally lit up, like thunder beating.
Bray explained to me, "It's the center of the primordial hunting area, and we'll have to run for about three days to get there. You can see the light of thunder here, and there must be thousands of thunderbolts beating and the sound shaking the sky. ”
The primitive hunting area is abnormal, and thunder falls from the sky, which is the biggest reason for the migration of the beasts. There must be some of the most powerful beasts of the primordial hunting area gathered over there, what are they waiting for.
Bray sighed and said, "The weak creatures have moved south, they all know the danger, but the powerful creatures don't know the danger, they feel that the heavens will send a gift, greed." ”
Bray was a weathered old man, perhaps about the same age as the Elven Queen.
I pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you know the Elven Empress?"
Bray was stunned for a moment, but showed a few smiles: "Do you mean Midorihime? Her hair is green, and her skin was also green when she was a child, and she often goes to the black wood jungle to climb trees and frolic, I really miss it." ”
And this kind of thing? I said she had changed, she was very cold, and she was trying to kill me. Bray looked incredulous: "How is it possible? She is a spirit representing nature, a child of Mother Earth, don't talk nonsense. ”
I explained it to him in detail, and he looked distressed: "It must be the evil force that infected her, poor child......"
He was easily sad, and he had been crying for a long time when the King of the Tree had died, and now he was crying again.
I quickly stopped talking to it about the Elven Empress, and looked sideways at Cangwu, who was flipping through the ancient spell books.
I said, can you see it?," a hint of wind surged across her fingers, "I can feel it, I'm trying to make out the words." ”
I didn't bother her, sitting on the stone and staring at the thunderous white light.
As the night deepened, everything was silent, and occasionally some foul-smelling bubbles came out of the swamp, drifting in with the evening breeze.
Cangwu snuggled up to my wings and fell asleep, and Bray closed his eyes and rested.
I was the night watchman, and it wasn't until about midnight that I felt a little sleepy. Bray also woke up and told me to rest.
I nodded and was about to go to sleep, but then I heard the soft, soft sound of a bell from the mountains behind me.
As soon as I moved my fingers, a string of bells rang on it.
Bray wondered, "What sound?" It hadn't seen the goblin bells.
I shushed and turned my head to look at the black mountains. The sound of bells is approaching, and someone is crossing the mountains.
Is it her?
That red-eyed girl left a deep impression on me, I knew that she was a wind whisperer, the most mysterious human race in the mainland, and mysterious women always evoked people's minds.
In a short time, the sound of the bell was close in front of his ears, and Bray raised the branch to defend it, and the bell suddenly disappeared again.
I could see the trees and plants in the darkness, all of them wise, and they seemed to be looking for the source of the bells.
But after half ringing, the bell didn't appear, and I frowned and thought, there must have been wind whisperers, right? Only they dare to enter the primordial hunting area in the Hera continent, right?
Bray said in a low voice: "Is it the Terran? I didn't expect the Terran to come, I heard that there is a Holy See of Light among the Terrans, and the people in it are all children of God, and they are very powerful. ”
I don't know much about the Holy See, but I've only seen nuns in convents, and it's quite powerful for the average person.
I said that it was not the Holy See, but some mysterious human race, called the Wind Whisperers.
Bray had apparently not heard of the Windwhisperers, and continued to look into the woods. I also looked at it for a while, but I still didn't see anything.
At this time, Cangwu suddenly pulled me: "It should be in the swamp, the wind brings the smell." ”
She woke up at some point, and Bray and I both turned our heads to look at the swamp, and we couldn't help but be stunned.
It was a girl in a red shirt, her hair tied up, her bare feet jumping in the swamp, the ribbon around her neck fluttering, and the bell on her body did not make a sound.
I only saw a back, but it was already determined to be a red-eyed girl. She was literally glowing, and her bare feet were in the muddy water of the swamp, but no matter how many times she stepped on them, her feet were still white.
She was fast, her figure getting smaller and smaller, but she disappeared at the end of the swamp in ten minutes, and we couldn't see it.
Bray was shocked, even incredulous: "What is that? Is it an undead? How could she pass so easily? Even if a dragon flies by, she will be spotted by the creatures in the swamp." ”
The red-eyed girl was light, she was more like a living magic, and it drifted by with the wind.
I couldn't explain it, looked down at the bell in my hand, and was silent in thought.
Cangwu directly grabbed my bell and shook it: "I can feel that you and hers are the same bell, why do you also wear bells?"
I was a little embarrassed to ask this, I remember when I was a pervert in the Marhai Mine, and I was very curious and adored with Terran women.
If I had to explain, I might have been fascinated by the red-eyed girl.
I said it's a male instinct, you don't understand it yet. Cangwu looked ignorant: "Really, what is the instinct of men?"
I smiled dryly, and Bray scratched his bark, "It's strange, why would Ysera like ugly Terrans?"
I said don't shout, and Bray laughed heartily, and his voice was very funny.
Cangwu seemed to be thinking about something, and then she held out her hands: "It's raining." ”
As soon as the words fell, a thunderclap exploded, the endless sky was covered with lightning, and the storm smashed madly into the swamps and mountain forests.
It was still dark, but Bray and I could see it clearly, and it was the perfect time.
Bray pulled out the rhizome, sucked the blood-sucking worms on it, and then bent down and said, "Come up, let's rush over." ”