Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Poison of Time
Time passes?
Neither Du Wei nor Hussein expected that there was another spring near the Green Chūn Fountain.
Medusa was still the same cold and indifferent look, and she led the two out of the main hall, looking into the depths of the palace.
"This palace in your land is all made of the body of the Treant Clan...... Where to build?"
On the way, Du Wei asked seemingly casually.
"It's the ground." Medusa suddenly stopped and asked Du Wei, "Is there a problem?"
This time it was Hussein who spoke: "Don't you think this is a bit too cruel, although you and the Treants are enemies, at least you should respect the corpses of the enemies."
"Respect the corpse......" Medusa savored this sentence carefully, and then asked Du Wei: "Is this also a human being?"
Du Wei smiled: "Sort of."
"But I don't understand." Medusa said calmly: "I can't understand this kind of 'human xìng'. I have heard Gargamel say that there are many acts of human beings, you humans kill wild beasts, you will eat their flesh, and you will peel off their fur to make clothes and ornaments...... Why do you humans do these things and say things like 'respect for corpses'? Is there a fundamental difference between me getting the bodies of tree people to build houses and killing wild beasts and eating their flesh and piercing their skins?"
Maybe Medusa doesn't understand people, maybe she doesn't understand anything, but such a simple question makes both the erudite Duwe and the experienced knight speechless.
Oh, yes...... Is there a difference?
Medusa thought carefully for a moment, and then seemed to smile lightly: "It seems that I have summed up the characteristics of a person again, that is...... Hypocrisy: Do humans always say one thing and do another?"
He didn't know how to answer Medusa, so he could only sigh: "Sometimes...... It's the ground."
"I don't like the quality of people, and I don't like people." Medusa summed up, then ended the conversation and continued to walk forward with the two of them.
Outside the main hall, through a corridor, Medusa pushed open a small door at the end.This is a dark house, and when he walked into the house, Du Wei felt a hint of yīn cold air coming from him...... This is different from the cold of the cold outside, as if there is a damp, cold air, which can penetrate through people's clothes, through the pores of people's skin, and even penetrate people's bones, all the way into people's internal organs!
That kind of cold air enveloped his body, Du Wei immediately felt cold all over his body, as if his whole body was gently pierced by countless sharp needles, and for a while, he almost froze his fingers!
"This is it."
In the darkness, Medusa walked as usual, as if she had not been born without eyes.
"I usually sleep here, this is my bedroom." Medusa pointed to a stone slab on the ground: "Time passes, it's down there."
"Sleep here...... Aren't you cold......" Du Wei stopped as soon as he said this, and he suddenly remembered that snakes are cold-blooded animals.
Lifting the stone slab, Du Wei saw a bowl mouth earth spring below, the water in the spring flickered, in this dark room, the spring water seemed to glow automatically, but this spring, after lifting the stone slab, Du Wei immediately felt the yīn cold feeling in the air, instantly increased tenfold!
"What kind of water is this...... Why is it so cold, but it doesn't freeze?" Du Wei couldn't help but shiver a little, and his teeth began to fight.
Du Wei was worried that he would freeze if he continued like this, so he quickly twisted his body a few times, and did a set of basic movements of the starry sky that Hussein taught him, and after feeling the heat in his body float up, he slightly expelled a little cold.
However, Du Wei still found that even Hussein's knight's face seemed to be covered with a faint, thin layer of frost! The cold instantly froze the sweat on the knight's face!
"I only discovered this spring after I came here, and the Treants didn't know it existed." Medusa said lightly.
"The tree man doesn't know either,...... Du Wei sighed: "This spring water is strange at first glance, it ...... Is there anything special about it?"
Medusa didn't say anything, she smiled, and then said lightly, "That black thing on your body is used against me on your eyes, right?
Du Wei smiled wryly, pulled Hussein for a moment, and put on his sunglasses.
Medusa gently twisted one of her own hair in the palm of her hand, held it flat, and whispered a few strange syllables in her mouth, and the hair automatically twisted twice in the palm of her hand, and then quickly, transformed into a snake about the thickness of her thumb!
The snake was covered in gold, and each scale seemed to be made of gold, and its body twisted a few times, and then it quickly coiled up, and then raised its head and spat out a letter, making a sizzling sound.
"It's a young snake of the golden-eyed python.It will take decades for the golden-eyed python to grow to the thickness of a man's waist.," ......said Medusa, slowly reaching out and bowing a handful of water in the spring, carefully feeding it into the mouth of the golden-eyed python......
A miracle happened in this moment!
Medusa gently placed the snake on it, then took a step back......
Immediately, under the gaze of Du Wei and Hussein, the snake's body suddenly swelled! Its scales kept expanding, and its body quickly changed from the thickness of its thumb to the thickness of a tree trunk! Its body continued to grow longer! And its eyes, which had been closed, finally opened
It's on!
Behind the sunglasses, Du Wei could still see this snake eyes, emitting a trace of weird, golden light! Under this kind of look, Du Wei only glanced at the golden-eyed python, as if he felt a slight pain in his eyes, and then quickly turned his head!
Luckily, there are dark crystals made of sunglasses to protect it, otherwise Du Wei suspects that he has turned to stone.
Then the snake began to roll, as if in pain, its body twisted and twisted and twisted, and finally made a subtle sound of snort......
It's actually molting!!!
After molting once, it left a near-complete snake skin on its face, and the snake skin shimmered with golden light at the foot of Du Weidi, and the snake continued to grow! Finally, its body almost squeezed Du Wei and the others into the corner! In such a dark room in such a big place, the snake's body occupied almost half of it!
After that, Du Wei silently calculated in his mind that in about a few minutes, the snake molted three more times!
And then...... It's starting to age!
The huge body began to become weak, and the snake body, which was originally full of bullets and strength, gradually dried up, and even the golden light on its scales dimmed, little by little, its strength became smaller and smaller, and finally coiled together, and it didn't even have the strength to raise its head and spit letters, and its head drooped weakly......
Underneath the snake's skin, its flesh began to dry up, and finally ...... The snake died, and its body dried up rapidly, and the water drained away, and it became a dried snake, and then the snake's skin broke, as if it had been corrupted......
"A golden-eyed python, according to your human calculations, has a lifespan of about forty years." Medusa's voice sounded softly: "From birth to old age and death, it will molt four times, and after the fourth molt, it will grow to the peak of magic and power."
Du Wei felt that his earth was beating wildly!
Forty years?
But how long did it take -- 10 minutes at most? No, maybe only 5 or 6 minutes!
Within five or six minutes, a juvenile golden-eyed python has gone from juvenile to adult, then molted four times, and finally senescent...... And then to death...... In five minutes, it has completed its normal 40-year lifespan!?
"That's why I say that this spring water is the 'complete opposite' of the green chūn fountain." Medusa smiled, "I named it 'Time Lapse'."
After a pause, the beautiful beauty snake laughed: "Gargamel said that this kind of spring water, if used as poison, will be the most terrifying poison in the world!"
Du Wei and Hussein both had shock in their eyes!
Indeed, this is indeed the most terrible poison in the world!
Time!
What poison is more powerful than the passage of time?!
Du Wei thought more......
Why? Why is this "time passing", not in another place, with this green chūn fountain?
It's like nature, and all things in the world are faintly co-existing and mutually restrictive! One is to make people freeze the form forever, and the other is to pass quickly!
So, what happens when you mix these two springs together?
Or, a person who has drunk the green chūn fountain and then drank the passage of time...... What will happen?
Of course, Du Wei hid these questions in his heart, and he wouldn't say them in front of others. He just thought about it for a while and said, "Can I take some of the spring water here?"
After obtaining Medusa's consent, Du Wei immediately and unceremoniously took out all the bottles on his body, and then emptied all the magical drugs and other things inside...... You can find other things outside, but this kind of spring water, if you leave here, I'm afraid you won't find it in the whole world!
Du Wei took out all the bottles on his body, filled a few bottles of "Time Lapse", and finally shed an empty bottle, and poured another bottle of "Green Chūn Fountain".
"What are you doing with all this horrible passage of time?" Hussein frowned, "I think this kind of thing can only poison people, and it is useless in other places."
"You forgot, I'm a magic apothecary, a poisoner!" said Du Wei vaguely.
He had another note in mind.
Time passes...... What if it is used wisely?
Just now I fed a golden-eyed python a handful of water to drink, which is equivalent to poisoning it in five minutes.
So...... What if you drank less? How about diluting the spring water to a certain subtle degree? Is it possible to let it grow just right? without dying of old age?
So...... What if it's for the people of the ground outside? Is it possible to make a seedling grow into a towering tree in a short period of time?
If one sip is too much, then drink one drop! If one drop is not too much...... Then dilute a drop of spring water in a bucket of water!
Du Wei is so curious about this thing!
Even with a few bottles in his arms, he didn't think it was enough, and looked at Medusa embarrassedly: "Do you have any other containers here?"
Or did Hussein take out the things he had brought with him...... A leather bag, which turned out to be filled with wine, Du Wei took it, and slowly filled a leather bag of spring water.
Take it home and have a chance to study it slowly!
"I'm weird...... You will only evolve into the Medusa Land when you drink the Green Chūn Fountain of Youth." Du Wei said slowly: "But why don't you let other golden-eyed pythons also drink spring water?"
"Because I'm selfish." Medusa replied without changing her face: "There is only one Medusa here, and my words are the only commands....... Then, there will be war, and if there is one more group, then maybe I will die too."
"Very well, you already have at least a little bit of people." Du Wei laughed: "Because if nothing else, human beings, in general, are the most selfish creatures in the world."
After a pause, Du Wei smiled and said, "Okay, then, Your Majesty, what next?"
We make a deal, and I'm willing to teach you everything...... Are you, then, going to go with us, or are you going to stay here and come back to you when I'm done with my business?"
Medusa's choice surprised Du Wei and the others.
"I'll leave with you." Her Majesty replied without hesitation.
Du Wei was stunned: "You ...... You mean you're joining our team?"
"No, not to join your ranks, to leave with you, not you." Medusa said lightly, "I don't like humans, and I don't trust them. I heard from Gargamel about the behavior of humans. It seems that most humans are not used to keeping their promises, so I will follow you."
Then, this peerless beauty, who was extremely indifferent, suddenly laughed, and she said softly, "Moreover, I have been here enough! You should have seen it when you came in, and this place ...... There are rats everywhere! and I'm a snake, and the rats I hate the most!"
Du Wei smiled.
Yes, in the biological chain, snakes are natural enemies of rats and earth!
The other companions in the group were a little jealous of the queen, and even Du Wei was a little skeptical that his actions would cause a catastrophe to mankind.
It's none other than the most terrifying monster in the legend, Queen Medusa! As long as she comes to the human world, she opens her eyes and looks around...... Then it's a massacre!
"Your Majesty......," the rat prime minister suddenly threw himself at her feet, "What will I do with Gargamel if you leave!
"Then don't block it." Medusa didn't seem to leave any message about her "kingdom", she said lightly: "This canyon was originally their land, and it's nothing to give them back."
Out of the canyon, the old Wood, who was waiting outside, was already walking around restlessly, and his huge footsteps were still pitted on the ground, and he shook the canopy from time to time.
Seeing Du Wei and the others come out, Old Wood suddenly let out a cheer, and then as if in response to it, countless treemen "companions" behind him let out a whirring roar.
"Mr. Wood." Du Wei and Yan Yue walked up to the Tree Man Land: "We have convinced the Evil Eye, and from today onwards, she will return the canyon to the Tree Man Clan...... But there's one condition, a simple condition, that I need to get the promise of the Treants, and I believe that the good Treads will not break their promises."
What else is there to say about this? Old Wood immediately agreed.
"The canyon is back to you, and the Green Chūn Fountain of Immortality is also in it.But ......" Du Wei said slowly: "In the innermost part of the palace, there is a black house, and that side is forbidden, I ask you to promise that you Treant will guard that side and will not let anyone in! You will not let any creature get close, including yourself. If there are other creatures, whether it is a monster or a human, anything! You must do your best to stop it! Other than that, I have no other requirements."
Before coming out, the powerful knight used his golden fighting spirit to split the palace with a few swords, revealing the original inner hall, revealing the location of the Green Chūn Fountain of Youth.
The leaders of the Treants could no longer express their gratitude in words, and the kind and generous Treans did not envy the Evil Eye's grudges against them for hundreds of years, and they could regain the guarantee of their own people's inheritance: the Green Chūn Fountain of Immortality, and there was nothing else to ask for.
Wood assures on the spot that the Treants will keep their promise to protect this party from outsiders.
"Respectfully...... Guest...... Give you the land...... That piece of ...... leaves, also ...... Are you there?"
Du Wei was stunned for a moment, touched it in his arms for a while, and found out the golden sè leaf that Old Wood gave him before entering the canyon, and after entering, he thought it would be a big battle with Medusa, but it didn't work, he touched it out, and said with a smile: "Oh, I almost forgot, I'll give this back to you."
"No! you ...... Keep it." Old Wood's deep voice trembled a little, with gratitude, and then he stretched out a branch, and gently twisted the leaf, twisting a few branches, and rolling the leaf back and forth and folding a few times, until it curled into a golden ...... Bugle!
Old Wood then tells Dewey a surprising secret!
This golden ground leaf is a ground leaf that bears fruit from the vine of the ground tree vine, the treasure of the Treant Clan's land town clan, "Nature Horn"!!
This pure gold leaf, folded into a small horn, is blown after the ......
As long as there are trees around, you can wake up those big trees and become ...... Treant "companion" (although Dewey feels that this is simply a "slave" of the treant).
"You...... OK...... Driven...... They...... ...... for you Do...... Any...... things." Old Wood explained: "But...... Yes...... Time...... Limitations."
The so-called time limit is that when the sun goes down in the mountains, they will turn back into trees.
"In other words, the time to wake up is only one day at most." Du Wei smiled.
He was smiling so happily!!
If...... If I could dilute the water of the spring to a certain extent...... So what does it represent?
As long as I carry a handful of seeds with me!
Then when I go to any party, I will be carrying a large group of giant bodyguards with me!!
It's been sent!