“...... Why are we always doing the laundry?" Jonah couldn't help but ask.

"It's a happy thing to be able to do laundry with your hands and feet, right?" Hannah said.

The lake had returned to calm, and the two sat by the lake, washing their clothes in the turquoise water. There are thick aquatic plants floating on the lake here, which are difficult to get rid of when they stick to clothes, and the lake water is not very much like a real liquid, it is much less fluid than the water in the real world, and it can slowly gather into a small ball when it falls to the ground.

"It's a strange forest. Jonah said again.

"Yes, I always feel that there is a lot of danger, but there is no real enemy. Hannah replied as she looked around.

Only when you are in the forest can you realize how tall this dense forest is, the towering trees cover the sky, and you can barely see the blue sky in the gaps between the branches and leaves when you raise your neck so painfully. A large leaf staggered and fell, and slammed into Jonah's head with a thud, covering him like a quilt.

The astrologer lifted the leaf vigorously and threw it aside, holding a meat thicker than his thighs in both hands, and said, "If it's just magnified a few times, these things are not normal no matter how you look at them." As he spoke, the worm opened its mouth and spat out a sticky purple tongue with a human face with eyebrows and eyes at the tip of the tongue, and the human face stuck out its small tongue and touched the tip of Jonah's nose, and laughed with a wink. The boy was so frightened that he hurriedly threw the bug out, and the bug crawled away with a snort.

Hannah couldn't help laughing, grabbed the wrung out clothes and threw them over: "Put it on, it's time to find out where the exit is, you can't live like this for the rest of your life." ”

The two set out to explore this strange forest from the falling lake. Passing through a thorny bush, they were both taken aback by what they saw, Hannah Stewart raised her gun and prepared to fire, Jonah quickly pressed down the muzzle of her gun, and whispered, "It's okay, these guys don't look awake yet, just larvae or something." ”

A clearing appeared in the forest, and a towering giant tree so tall that it was impossible to see its canopy and so thick that it could not be counted stood in the middle of the brown earth, crisscrossing the roots of the tree rising from the ground, and countless translucent sporangia grew in the gaps of the root veins, and through the thin, soft shell, various creatures could be seen wriggling inside. The nearest sporangia had burst, and a large bird with two pairs of wings was covered in mucus, staring at the uninvited guest who had broken into the forest with four orange eyes.

Although the creature looked strange, the two recognized it together, and they couldn't help but exchange an incredible look. "Four-winged moa?" Whether it is the female captain of "The Wind of Bactria" or the cargo friends who sail around the endless sand sea for free, they are all very familiar with this large bird that is a desert specialty. The four-winged moa likes to congregate near the large sandworms and feeds on the insects that the sandworms turn out of the desert, and the barbecue of the four-winged moa wings is a famous dish in the endless sea of sand, and of course, it is also a good dinner for birds.

The feeling of seeing familiar creatures in the other world of Forest Treasure is quite abnormal. Jonah stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the moa, confirming his judgment: "The eyes are not focused at all, this guy has just been born, but he is born in the form of an adult...... If there is a beast in each sporangium, isn't this tree doing the work of the Creator to create all the life in the world?"

"Let me make sure. Hannah walked over to the other sporangia. The spores were huge, four people in diameter, and a large black mass wriggling underneath the membrane. Stewart's contemporaries turn the barrel to adjust the Admiral to energy firing mode, and ......the red light from the magic pistol Summer's White Sakura swoops the sporang in half from top to bottom. Hannah jumped back on tiptoe, and the "...... slime" mucus poured out like a flood, and the creature inside rolled out of its spores and collapsed to the ground, opening its mouth and squeaking into the sky.

"No......" Hannah kicked the beast with her foot, her mouth wide open in surprise. At the same time, Jonah recognized the creature in the spore, a large body covered with golden scales, thick lower limbs, a pair of vestigial wings, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, which was actually a golden earth dragon. As the highest-level mount of the Zawi Empire's Dragoons, the captivity, breeding, nurturing and training of the Golden Land Dragons are firmly in the hands of the Golden Hammer Legion as a top secret, as the daughter of Admiral Finn Stewart, Hannah had seen this riding beast at the Zawi military parade when she was young, and Jonah was no stranger to it, and had a fierce battle with Choop, the captain of the Golden Land Dragoons, in the Cherry Crossing Pitchfork Squad, and the powerful oppressive power of this half-dragon is still fresh in my memory.

If the four-winged moa is some kind of coincidence, then the appearance of the golden dragon is not to be mistaken, Jonah and Hannah look at each other, and their eyes are full of inexplicability. "Roar ......" The earth dragon suddenly roared and jumped up, biting the moa next to it, piercing the bird's chest with sharp teeth, and the newborn four-winged moa lost its life before it could fly into the sky.

"Let's go. Jonah whispered, grabbing Hannah's hand and stepping back into the forest. The Earth Walking Dragon was busy enjoying his first meal, the other sporangia did not hatch for the time being, and the branches and leaves gradually obscured the strange giant tree, and after escaping a full two thousand yards, the two of them could sit down and let out a long breath.

"At first, I encountered monsters that I had never seen in the passage, but here there are familiar creatures, and they are still creatures that can't appear outside of their native land. Jonah gasped.

"Ah, you see. Hannah held out her hand. Through the heavy foliage, you can see that the sporangia are rolling up along the giant tree in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, they rise to the height obscured by the clouds, and then disappear. "That tree isn't just making creatures, it's sending them somewhere. ”

The boy was stunned for a moment. Where is "somewhere"? There is no second answer, it is the world they live in. He didn't know how to explain what was happening in front of him for a moment, and was about to say something, but Hannah suddenly pounced and covered his mouth and raised his finger: "Shhhh ”

Silky fingers cast the boy's jaw to the left. Just now, I just didn't pay attention to the escape, but it turned out that there was another giant tree not far away, and countless translucent cysts also grew at the root of the tree. Some of the spores rose down the trunk into the clouds, while others burst out and hatched, and this time the creatures in the sporangia were easier to identify, because a moment before, Joannah and Hannah, unclothed and covered in slime, were almost identical to the newly hatched creatures.

This big tree is made of human beings.

A man slowly rose from the slime, with a bulging belly, fat thighs, wrinkled cheeks, and a half-bald head, with a pair of godless eyes sunken above the hooked nose. Jonah had never seen such eyes, and if the eyes were the windows of the soul, then there was absolutely no soul behind them, but a shell that acted on instinct, and the fire of wisdom was dimmed.

"Why did you make such an old one?" Hannah whispered. When faced with incomprehensible things, women tend to accept reality more easily than men.

Jonah replied, "I think it's because our world needs such a middle-aged man." He suddenly pushed Hannah's hand away and stood up, brushing aside the weeds around him and walking towards the tree.

"What are you doing!" Hannah was taken aback and immediately raised her gun and followed, "It's going to be dangerous!"

"Nope. The boy walked straight up to the body and stood face to face with the middle-aged man. From this distance, the crow's feet and a mouthful of scorched teeth could be clearly seen in the corners of the man's eyes, but the gray eyes only swept over the boy's face, and they were not focused at all. "Mmmm......mm "There's no soul, Hannah. Jonah turned and spread his hands, "This is just a place where bodies are made, and I guess these made bodies will be transported away, assembled in another world, the world represented by another treasure, and then cast into our world. This is the Creator's Factory, Hannah, I see, that's what the Treasure of the Forest says about 'creation'......"

Unlike Hannah Stewart, Jonah quickly figured it all out when he learned the truth about the world from Gilberto Gilbern-Geneon, his head buzzing, but the scene in front of him seemed so plausible that he couldn't think of words to refute it. "These hatched guys are all defective products, even the 'first world' guys will make substandard products, and they will be eliminated......"

With Jonah's words, the middle-aged man suddenly fell to the ground with a pop, blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, and he was motionless. The roots of the tree quickly wrapped him up and pulled him into the ground, and in the blink of an eye, there was no trace of the living human body.

"I don't understand what you're saying anymore......" Hannah said confusedly.

Standing in front of the giant tree, the two were silent for several minutes. Suddenly, Hannah turned and opened fire into the woods, a string of bullets that sent sawdust flying, "Who!" she shouted.

In the shadows of the trees, a shadow in black loomed. Jonah only glanced at it, and suddenly shouted as if he was awake, "Don't fire, Hannah!" His body froze, and the blood all over his body rushed to his head, "Ryuji, is that you?" The voice seemed to come from someone else's mouth, it sounded so weird, so hysterical, the boy wanted to run forward, but the only organ that could move normally in his whole body was a violently beating heart.

"Jonah?"

The woman in black spoke, her voice as clear and clear as a moonlit night.

Voices that have been absent for too long.