Chapter Seventy-Five: The Fountain of Life

Sure enough, instead of attacking, the treemen retreated step by step with heavy and slow steps, but ...... Terrifyingly, behind them, more trees hummed, pulling their huge bodies out of the snow and turning them into living creatures......

Du Wei only felt creepy, looking at the large forest in front of him, as far as his eyes could see, all the trees were pulling out their roots, shaking off the snow on their bodies, and then surrounded them like sluggish puppeteers......

"Oh my God...... How much does it have to be?" Dardanelle sighed.

"God knows, this is the forest, how big is the frozen forest, how many trees are there? 100,000, 200,000, hell......" Du Wei scolded, "but why didn't they attack? instead, they gathered there, as if they were waiting for something......

Indeed, these treants are indeed waiting.

Soon, the sound of heavy footsteps like thunder came from far and near, and Du Wei could feel the heavy vibration of the ground. Suddenly, in the midst of the large group of tree people, a path was divided, and a behemoth slowly walked out of the tree crowd at a low speed.

Du Wei's first impression was: This guy is really *** big!

If the other treants are like giants...... The biggest guy is the giant among the giants.

According to Du Wei's eyes, this thing is at least seven or eight stories tall, the trunk of the whole body is black and hard, the old bark is mottled, as if it is rusty, and the branches and leaves on the body are extremely luxuriant, and when walking, the branches and leaves of the whole body make a rustling sound......

What Du Wei noticed was that this largest tree man ...... In terms of appearance, it is the closest to the shape of a "human", because its roots have been clearly divided into two branches, like two legs of a person. The trunk of the tree on the body is also clearly divided into a shape like the English letter "Y", the branches on both sides are like two big hands, and the branches that branch out on the top are like fingers.

Du Wei saw that in the "hand" of this big tree man, there was a huge round thing with dense vines hanging on his finger, judging from the shape...... It's like a ......

What surprised Du Wei even more was that there seemed to be a "face" on the trunk of this big tree!

The sharp bulge looked like a nose, and under the nose, there was a horizontal opening, and the bark on both sides of the mouth was extraordinarily thick, as if it were lips......

All the other treants, as if terrified of the big one, stepped back behind it...... Looks like it might be the leader of the Treants. That's what Du Wei thought in his heart.

"You...... ......The leader of the tree people let out a voice that seemed to be deep and deep, and although it was jerky, Du Wei could barely make out that it was human language......

Hell, it actually speaks the lingua franca of Roland?

"You...... Guys...... For...... Miscellaneous...... What...... Slaughter...... Kill...... I...... Target...... Same...... The sound of each word of the ...... echoed through the forest, with a long tail note, a deep, deep voice with a hint of anger.

Du Wei had the courage to pop out of the rocks, looked at the big guy, and shouted, "You attacked us first!"

"You...... Guys...... Not...... Yes...... Follow...... Guard...... About...... Sure!" the leader of the Treants was furious, its canopy trembling, "Evil ...... Eye...... Violent...... Jun, answer...... Should...... over, every ...... Decade...... Yes...... Allow...... We...... Send someone to ...... Enter...... Gorge...... Once...... of!"

Its voice seemed to question: "Today, is it ...... Decade...... Target...... Agreed, why...... You guys...... To ...... Canyon Mouth...... Slaughter...... It's mine...... Clansmen?...... Evil-eyed tyrant, ...... Again...... Provoke...... And...... We...... Treants...... Target...... War...... Isn't it?"

Ten years of war?

Du Wei immediately understood...... I'm afraid this is a misunderstanding.

Seeing that the leader of the largest tree man was about to be furious, Du Wei immediately stood up straight and shouted, "Wait a minute, can I ask a question first?"

The leader of the Treants looked at Dewey.

Du Wei took a deep breath, and then smiled in the most kind tone possible, "Excuse me, what are you talking about 'Evil Eye Tyrant'? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence between the tree people and the three humans, but fortunately those tree people did not have eyes, otherwise it would have been a wonderful scene of "big eyes and small eyes".

"You ...... No...... Evil Eye Tyrant...... subordinates?"

"No, I've never heard of that name. ”

"That'...... You guys...... Be...... What?"

Du Wei jumped out from behind the rock, stretched out his arms, looked himself up and down, and said with a smile: "Do you need to ask? We are human, have you never seen a human before?"

The leader of the treants was silent for a long time, his thick legs took a few steps forward, and then his huge body bent down slightly, and the canopy of the tree also pressed down, as if he looked at Du Wei carefully for a moment, and then the leader of the treants stood up straight, and there was a hint of joy in his tone: "Oh, you guys...... Be...... Humans!I...... Remember...... Mankind...... For a long time...... Long ago...... One...... Mankind...... Friend...... Church...... I...... Speak ......"

Du Wei breathed a sigh of relief, but although the leader of the tree people was sluggish, he was not stupid, and the joy in his tone turned into anger again: "But...... You guys...... Hurt...... It's mine...... Companions!"

"It was your companions who attacked us first. "We stood here well, and your companion appeared, and then attacked us with stones. ”

"Hmm......" The Treant Leader groaned as if he were thinking, and then he exclaimed, "Alright...... Be...... It's mine...... Companion...... ...... first"

His slow way of speaking really made Du Wei a little impatient, so he preemptively said, "In that case, can we go?"

"No......" The leader of the treants was not good at words, but he quickly found the most suitable word to express his meaning, "compensation!!"

Du Wei was stunned...... Do you want to compensate the seventy or eighty tree people who were broken up by Hussein? How to compensate them? Use gold coins? God, what is the use of the tree people asking for gold coins?

Do you want to pay for your life? Damn it! If you cut down a few trees, you will be sentenced to death? How can there be such a reason in the world!

And, in any case, Du Wei felt that his own side had a point, after all, the three of them were standing here in good shape, and it was the tree men themselves who threw stones first—stones that were enough to smash people into flesh, and then, they only fought back in self-defense...... Could it be that the three of us humans just stood and let a group of trees crush to death?

However, obviously, reasoning with this sluggish and stubborn tree man will not work, Du Wei thought for a moment, remembered the words of this guy before, and he immediately had an idea: "Dear Mr. Tree Man, may I ask, what is the matter with the evil eye tyrant you mentioned just now? and...... I heard you mentioned it...... War?"

......

The Treant was not a proper narrator, and its slow, deep voice, like the old-fashioned and heavily skipped sound machine that Dewey had seen in his previous life, was a brief story, but it barely made it clear until the sun went down.

It's similar to what Du Wei guessed:

In this land, in the words of the leader of the Treants, the entire Frozen Forest belongs to the territory of the Treants...... This made Du Wei think he was bragging, because Du Wei had been in the forest for many days, and he had never seen a tree that came back to life before.

Treant Leader - Oh, by the way, this big hulking creature introduces himself, and it has a name that fits its identity: Wood. (Dewey: Wood?)

In Wood's words, it was born in this land, lived in this land, and it was a standard, pure-blooded treeman - as for whether the treeman also had any so-called "blood", Du Wei didn't care, but Wood's words revealed two things that made Du Wei find very interesting:

First of all, in fact, there are a large number of tree people standing in front of me...... None of them are real Treants, real Treants, just Wood. Wood, claiming to be the last remaining Treant in the land. As for the companions around it, they were all "companions" that it had awakened with the horn wrapped in vines in its hand.

Du Wei guessed that the so-called companion probably meant "subordinate".

That horn had a magical name, "Nature's Horn", which was a treasure that had been passed down from generation to generation by the Treants. When you blow the horn, you can wake up the surrounding trees and turn them into "companions" at your command.

And the inheritance of the tree people is also very surprising to Du Wei, they have no other distinctions, and their inheritance is also through the "horn of nature".

The approximate way is this: the "companions" awakened by the horn of nature, in the beginning, have little intelligence and self-awareness, and they will only act according to the orders of the real treemen, and act simply.

"But why are they attacking us?" questioned Du Wei.

Old Wood's answer made Dewey feel sorry: because the evil Evil-Eye Tyrant had been destroying the forest, all the trees hated the fellow, and everyone thought that the three humans standing at the mouth of the canyon were the subordinates of the evil Evil-Eye Tyrant...... Forgive these "fellow treants" who don't have the IQ to tell what a human being is.

Awakened "companions" are initially unself-aware, but as they grow older, they slowly develop self-consciousness - and only a very small percentage of them become self-aware, and only then can they become true "treants" rather than "companions" as Wood calls them.

Originally, in this forest, according to Wood, there were a few real treants, and there were not many of them, about three or five. Treemen have always been a sparsely populated race—well, this statement makes Du Wei feel very helpless, obviously there are trees everywhere, but there are too few people who can become real treemen, and most of them can only stay in the unconscious "companion" class.

Of the original three or five Treants, Wood was the eldest. According to Old Wood, they live happily in this forest, and they have no natural predators...... Because neither Warcraft nor anything else poses a threat to them.

Until one day......

In this "beautiful, harmonious" (Old Wood's words) place, an evil and powerful being called the "Evil Eye Tyrant", he has robbed the most precious treasure of the Treants: this canyon!

Although this forest is infinitely vast, this small canyon is the most indispensable thing for the Treants!

Because...... In this canyon, there is a treasure that is related to whether the Treants can be passed down from generation to generation. Sadly, the treasure was taken by the evil Evil Eye tyrant.

What's even more hateful is that when the angry Treants brought their "companions" to this evil guy to theorize, this guy's strength caused the Treants to suffer heavy losses. The Evil-Eyed Tyrant possessed so much magical prowess that he even brutally killed Wood's people. Originally, there were three or five real treants, but now only Wood was left, and the others were all killed by the Evil Eye Tyrant, and the evil Evil Eye Tyrant also used their bodies to build their own palace, right in this canyon.

Enraged, Wood sounded the horn of nature and gathered a large number of companions to attack the canyon, but the strength of the powerful Evil Eye Tyrant was invincible to the Treants, and that evil and powerful being could use magic to drive the demonic beasts around the nearby canyon! There were even corpses and undead that crawled out of the ground! In the face of these monsters, Wood lost many, many "companions".

Thankfully, this is the forest, Wood can summon an endless number of "companions", and the Evil Eye Tyrant is also suspicious, and in the end, the two sides reluctantly reach an agreement: a truce.

Wood demanded that the canyon be returned, but the Evil Eye Tyrant disagreed, and the final agreement was that the Treants would be allowed to enter the canyon once every ten years.

"What's in the canyon?" After listening to this story, Du Wei was most interested in this.

"Life...... The Fountain!" replied Old Wood, "the Treants...... Continuation of ...... The Fountainhead!"