Outside the city of Doma, the foresters of Woo Woo gather beneath towering giant trees.

Dressed in rattan armor and armed with spears inlaid with emerald green crystals, they stood majestically on the undulating roots that were like mountains.

The young warriors of the forest tribes gather here, and they are the fiercest hunters and warriors in the whole forest.

Looking around—

There are not 30,000 but 20,000 people in the sea of people!

It was the first time since the day of the First Judgment that such a large army had been organized in this land.

And in the era of tribes, when writing had not yet been invented, such a huge number was unimaginable.

Looking at the military momentum that could not be seen at a glance, Tunnan only felt that his heart was surging.

Instigated by the ups and downs, standing on a high place, he tore out his strong voice and shouted excitedly towards the tiger and wolf army like Lin Hai.

"People of the Forest——!

"The sinners have not only burned our sacred tree, but also robbed us of the sacred land that the tree of Insov had given us! He also had the audacity to steal the treasures of the heavens and steal the holy relics belonging to the ancestors! ”

"In order to save the forest from calamity, and to avoid the Third Judgment Day, we must take back the holy relics from their hands! Take back our holy land! Solve the root cause of this scourge once and for all for our children and grandchildren! ”

"The grievances at the beginning of the Awakening Era, it's time to make a break!"

The deafening roar shook the entire forest and the hearts of all the foresters present.

That's the same power that the Tree of Insof gave him—

The ability to stir people's hearts!

The pupils that stared at him all ignited with boiling intent, and let out a loud roar in response to their co-leader.

"Oooooooooo!!oo

Looking at the roar of the mountain and the tsunami, the chiefs of the various tribes standing in the crowd faintly felt that something was wrong, but they all kept their faces calm and did not raise any objections or say anything.

Tunnan was right.

They have tolerated the sinners again and again, only to receive the latter time and time again.

In this case, it is better to calculate the new accounts and old accounts together, and completely solve all the troubles.

As for whether Tunnan has any other intentions......

In the face of the threat of Judgment Day III, those can be put on hold.

At least for now, they need a leader who can lead them to victory!

In the face of the surging crowd, Sakuy, a member of the priesthood, stood behind Thonnan.

For some reason, he suddenly regretted welcoming the First Ancestor into their tribe.

It may not be because of the holy relics that fell from the sky that brought about the disaster, but on the contrary, it was the ancestor who came to the earth to find the holy relics and tried to help the people on earth escape the disaster.

But it's too late to say anything.

Saquay sighed inwardly and looked at the young men who howled like wild beasts.

The tree of Insof may not be entirely a blessing for them.

Now, for example, someone is using the bridge between them to turn everyone into a beast......

……

The storm was surging outside the city of Dom, and the inside of the city, surrounded by giant trees, was also desolate.

For the Domas who were still in the tribal period, there was no essential difference between war and hunting, except that the object of the crusade was different.

The men were in charge of the war, while the women, children and the elderly were in charge of logistics.

Led by priests and maidens, the city's tribesmen tied sharp crystals to sticks of varying lengths.

The sinners of the valley are adept at using bows and swords, and they also tame the irascible and mentally retarded lizards with savagery, and javelins and spears are the best at restraining them.

In addition to this, there are many priests who have awakened their "spiritual powers" and stand in the "orchard" to pray.

It is a branch of the roots of the sacred tree, which is the place where the tree stores nutrients and incubates seeds, and the granary of the city of Dom.

They prayed for the fruit to ripen quickly on the roots, and with the help of the children, they picked it into a frame, mixed with the rhizomes of some other plants, ground into powder, and dried to make a dry food rich in sugar and nutrients.

These dry rations are military rations.

At the will of the chieftain, the entire Doma tribe completed the transformation from cash crop production to war readiness almost overnight and without causing the slightest unrest.

And this is also one of the social characteristics that "psionics" give to forest tribes.

The power of the entire society is almost monopolized in the hands of the psionics, who in turn are spiritually connected to each other.

In a sense, the Coalition has similar qualities, but in a different form and the "Vault 404 dwellers" do not monopolize the power and resources of the Coalition as a whole.

However, these esoteric sociological experiences are too early for Doma City.

They had just come down from the tree by the neutron plume, and they were simple-minded to say that they were good, but they were not very smart to say that they were not very smart, and at best they could only be used as samples to be studied.

But there are also advantages to not being smart.

Although Tunnan had a flash of inspiration for "the idea of coercing the ancestors to order the tribes", he had not yet realized that the "Tree of Insof" could actually be used to consolidate power.

Even not only the tree of Insof, but his respect for the ancestors is engraved in his bones.

Even if the Ancestor had lost the value of living, he had only thought about imprisoning him instead of killing him in rebellion.

In other words, he is a person with a bottom line, and once he has a bottom line, he is destined to become Zaid.

It's not just Tunnan.

In addition to the believers who were engulfed by fanaticism, there were still those who simply believed in the ancestors.

These people are willing to give their lives for what they believe in, not for not believing in the scriptures they read.

It is for this reason that even when the flames of frenzy are about to spread throughout the forest, their internal error correction mechanism is still working.

And it's playing a positive role.

The root of the sacred tree, the entrance to the temple.

Looking at the maids coming up from the steps, the guards on either side of the stand clenched their spears in their hands.

One of the shirtless guards stepped forward and asked angrily.

"Is the Ancestor awake?"

It was not an inquiry in the language of the forest, but a higher language given to them by the tree of Insov.

To outsiders, it sounds like a short or long bird call.

But every psionic awakened person with the same cultural background understands what the cry meant.

Dora replied in a soft voice.

"I'm awake."

The chief of the guard continued.

"What does he command?"

Dora continued in a soft voice.

"He doesn't like the food in the tribe and wants to eat the wild fruits from the south, and it has to be picked by my own hands."

To the south, it is far from the valley of the Forbidden Forest.

Dangerous beasts are alive there, but they usually can't hurt the temple maidens who can communicate with the Tree of Insov.

It was almost impossible to lie about the communication based on the heart, and the guard didn't ask much, just let the respectful head go aside.

The chief commanded.

As long as the Ancestor does not leave the Temple, no matter what the request is, the Ancestor must be satisfied as much as possible.

As long as they can do it.

And it won't threaten the safety of the entire temple......

Dora nodded slightly, passed by a group of guards, and made a direct way to the south gate of the tribe.

What she said was not half false.

I just didn't finish it.

……

At the same time that Dora left the temple, Night Ten, who was sitting in the temple, was staring intently in the direction of the temple's entrance, carefully watching the footsteps through the dark corridor.

Luckily, the fading footsteps did not return, but disappeared at the entrance to the temple.

Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief, finally relaxed his tense nerves, and lay down on the rattan bed.

"It's up to her to play."

There are many tasks he gives Dora.

In addition to picking berries to the south, it also includes finding a silver-gray research ship.

In fact, he didn't know how to describe his car, after all, whether it was the shape or the coordinates of latitude and longitude, there was nothing corresponding to it in the culture of the Doma tribe, or a "reference" that could assist in understanding.

But fortunately, at this time, Dora's "telepathy" special function came into play, and she established a spiritual connection with him who was randomly gesturing her fingers, and saw the scientific research ship through the fog of the ocean of consciousness.

It happened to be where she had been!

Ye Shi didn't know what she was talking about, but she could understand what she meant.

As long as you go to the vicinity of the scientific research ship, you can get in touch with Jiang Xuezhou, let the latter know about his situation, and help come up with some bad ideas.

Whether it is to choose a new god stick to end this war, or to broker negotiations between the Qiu people and the forest people in the name of the ancestor, there is a lot of room for maneuver.

It really doesn't work, it's okay to think of a way to get yourself out first.

It seems to be a good idea to uncover the conspiracy of Tunnan by yourself.

In short, no matter what, Ye Shi believes that Jiang Xuezhou can make the right choice.

In the hyperspace lanes that could not be observed by each other, they had also cooperated as tacitly as they did today.

"But then again...... It doesn't feel like there's anything wrong with me anymore. ”

Ye Shi, who was lying flat on the bed, stared at the fireflies flying overhead, thinking about a series of things that might happen in the future, and suddenly realized that he seemed to be in the embarrassing situation of being in the "BAN position" again, so he couldn't help but complain.

When he was in the hyperspace channel before, he was a wave of Kerry, but this time he didn't seem to be able to do anything.

In the dark, he even had the illusion that he was in a position similar to Luo Yi at this moment.

Although everything started because of him, this is destined to be solved by the later generations.

The temple maid named Dora was the one he had chosen.

And intuition tells Ye Shi that there is a similar existence in places he can't see—a group of protagonists who are either chosen by fate or coerced in them.

It will be a holy war in the name of the "Ancestors" and the "Tree of Insov".

It is also unknown how people will describe this epic thousands of years later.

Just as Ye Shi was thinking this, there was a sudden creaking sound above his head.

The sound was like the soles of leather boots on a wooden floor, but to his ears it sounded like a piercing mockery.

Of course, maybe that's just his self-righteousness.

The being who laughed may not have meant mockery, so much so that there was a hint of appreciation in his words.

“…… You little ones are so funny and never let me get bored. ”

With a ghost-like expression on his face, Yashi bounced off the bed like an electric shock, looking suspiciously to the left and right.

"Who?"

The voice disappeared in an instant, as if it had never been.

Just when Ye Shi himself began to make up his mind, wondering if it was an auditory hallucination, the complex creaking sound with a complex meaning drifted into his ears again.

Or rather, it drifted straight into his mind.

"Oh? Can you hear me? ”

The voice seemed to have a hint of surprise.

Night Ten was about to ask a rhetorical question, but suddenly felt a writhing under his ass.

The vine-woven bed board seemed to come to life, twisting the rattan and growing upwards, wrapping around his ankles and legs.

Night Ten was suddenly startled and was about to release electricity.

The slow voice seemed to anticipate his reaction, and once again drifted into his head.

"Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you...... I'm just a little curious, so let's take a closer look. ”

The vine continued to grow upward, and in just a few breaths it had crawled all over his body.

Surprisingly, the vine, despite its rough bark, did not hurt him.

"There is a familiar smell on you...... It's kind of like my kids, but it doesn't seem to be the same...... Hmmm......"

The slow voice seemed to be in a deep groan, and it took a long time before it slowly continued to speak.

"I see, I probably understand...... You eventually accepted them. ”

"Yes, yes, you're finally getting a little bit more enlightened...... It's all the same, but the process may be different. ”

He said something to himself, and it was as if he had seen something a long, long time later.

But it seems that for some reason, He didn't see through everything, and there was still something he couldn't see.

Listening to the muttering to himself, Ye Shi only felt creepy, and his hands and feet were cold.

He is awake!

And noticed him!

That was the thing that Night Ten feared the most, even more so than the bloody clash that took place between the two tribes!

After all, the only thing that can really threaten them on the entire planet seems to be that indescribable existence.

Ye Shi felt that he had been very careful, but he didn't expect that his whereabouts would be exposed in the end.

But when did it start?

Listening to Him, it seems as if He has been observing all of this for a long time......

In order to figure out the situation at the moment, he swallowed his saliva and said calmly.

"You're Gaia? Still is...... The Tree of Insov? ”

"You mean me?"

The dry voice smiled softly and continued slowly.

"What you call me is always changing, but I am who I am...... Well, how am I going to explain it to you? ”

The ambiguous answer left Night Eleven confused.

Even confused.

He thought Gaia would hate him to the core, but he didn't expect him to mean that at all.

He didn't seem to care at all about what had happened.

Even if the three-year war almost killed the planet completely......

"Actually, Gaia or the Tree of Insof...... It's all me, and it's not me. But let me explain to you specifically, it's no less difficult than trying to make that girl named Dora understand what a research ship is. ”

"It's not that I look down on you, you don't understand 'psionic energy' as well as the children living in this forest, although the 'smart people' among you seem to be already using this ability, and it is being used systematically and on a large scale...... Hehe. ”

There was a hint of mockery in his voice.

It was probably the first time he had heard the word "ridicule" in His tone in the real sense of the word, as if they had done something more boring than self-destructive.

Yes.

In His view, their self-destruction is much more interesting.

He gradually lost interest and said lazily.

"I'm not going to do thankless and pointless things, so if you're curious, find the answer that doesn't make sense to you...... It's not like you haven't made it anyway. ”

"Come on, stupid materialist."

The vines that wrapped around him faded and turned into a flat bed again.

It's like nothing happened.

It was as if the bed had come to life as an illusion on his part, like everything he had seen in the hyperspace passages.

But even so, the feeling of being bound was still clearly left between his skin and hair.

Night Twelve immediately jumped out of bed without saying a word, looking around vigilantly.

Finally, he found the source of the sound!

It's not a "sound" at all, and there isn't a single note.

It was pure consciousness from the beginning, and the source was the "frescoes" on the walls around the temple!

The moment he tried to make sense of the words, he realized His existence and made a connection with Him—

That's the ability that the perceptual attribute gives him!

He sensed His presence!

The thoughts in his mind gradually became clearer, and a flash of realization suddenly appeared in Ye Shi's heart, and he looked in a certain direction of the temple—a certain place in the mural.

It was an unprovoked instinct, and he felt that someone was watching him, whispering behind his back, saying something that didn't hurt his back when he stood up.

No, maybe it's not a person—

It's a group!

Almost subconsciously, he muttered a sentence in his mouth.

“…… I see you. ”

(End of chapter)