Chapter 71 Chapter Seventy

I heard another voice. This time I didn't dare to turn around again. I got up from the ground and stared intently at D and Emily on the opposite side, for fear that they would disappear from my sight again. "Over there!" D, who had the keenest hearing among us, clearly pointed out a fork in the road. We immediately followed him and ran over. The sound is getting louder.This is not a sound, but a harmony of many different sounds mixed together.Not one person, not a few people, when we got to the source of the sound, I thought it was a big gathering of at least a hundred people.

Not a hundred people, at least, not a hundred "people." Suddenly, I saw a flat square.Perhaps this was the center of the labyrinth, for there were at least a hundred forks in different directions around the square.And we were standing at the intersection of one of the forked roads. We are like ants, crawling through the mud and brick cracks, and finally came to the bottom of the wide and dry well.The light suddenly brightened, and I squinted to see a tree standing in the center of the square. a big tree.Its roots are intertwined, several people embrace the trunk, and the huge canopy blocks out the sky and the sun.

The sound is coming from the tree. There are no leaves on the tree, only fist-sized fruit.There are distinct facial features on each fruit, they are tightly huddled together, hanging from the treetops with dry hair like a swing. All of them are shrunken heads. In front of us was a huge tree covered with shriveled heads. Emily screamed.As expected. But the reaction of these skulls was greater.unexpected. They scrambled to repeat Emily's scream, one after the other, spreading like an echo, and then the whole tree started screaming like a giant mandrake suddenly pulled out of the ground .

I plug my ears tightly.Emily also immediately shut up.She looked at everything in front of her in disbelief, as if she was frightened and dumbfounded. Then the screams of the heads stopped abruptly.They hung on the trembling treetops, winked at each other, and made all kinds of weird faces at us.As they stared at Emily, I saw that the poor girl was going to scream again, but she quickly remembered the serious consequences, so this time, she put her hand over her mouth tightly.Oh, good girl! I took a deep breath and stepped forward.After those horrible visions, the presence of these heads almost made me ecstatic.I'm used to dealing with them, it's nothing to be afraid of.I just met one not too long ago, and in just a few sentences I got an extremely valuable clue.Now there are a hundred heads in front of me.awesome!Any one of them can tell me the whereabouts of the fire spirits without any trouble.

"Go this way!" the shrunken head closest to me yelled at me.It swayed vigorously, clearly pointing out a fork in the right front. I looked at it gratefully, beaming with joy.Look, it's so easy!I haven't even opened my mouth yet. "This road can find the fire spirit?" D asked suddenly. "Of course." The head said confidently. "Wait a minute." D grabbed me who was about to take a step, and he asked the other head, "Is it right?" The other head sneered, "If you listen to it, you're doomed." It said, "There is a terrible tauren living on that road, and it likes to grill little human girls as snacks. I wish you a happy afternoon tea."

Emily let out another small exclamation.The sound was very small, but the heads of Half Tree still caught the sound, and they immediately scrambled to imitate it, laughing while imitating, and then laughed into a ball, and the huge treetop trembled violently again. It turns out that there really are Minotaurs here.I sighed from the bottom of my heart, raised my head and asked the third head: "Where is the fire elf?" It was a small head, and it looked the most shriveled, giving the appearance of an old man.I hope it can represent some kind of authority, stop lying to us.But it stared at me for a moment, then winked in the direction we had come.

I sighed again.It turns out that there is a gap between reality and imagination after all.I should have realized this earlier. "Actually, you don't even know where he is." D said suddenly. His words successfully angered the heads. "Of course I know!" Countless voices of different pitches answered in unison, and the buzzing answers made my ears itchy. "So how do you prove that?" D continued. "Go along this road, and you will soon see the fire spirit 'Salamanda'!" A head said immediately.But unfortunately, the second head immediately repeated the same words.Immediately afterwards, all the remaining heads opened their mouths at the same time, proving their wisdom and knowledge, not to be outdone, but each of them pointed in a different direction.

"This way, this way!" the heads yelled in unison, and the canopy shook violently. "Trust me, it's a liar!" "You are the liar! You will die if you listen to it!" "You will die soon!" In the confusion, this familiar sentence was like a needle piercing my ear, I shivered and almost jumped up.I ran under the tree desperately, raised my head, and tried to find the source of the sound. I found it.It timidly hid behind a huge tree branch, poking out a little shriveled head, looking at me furtively through the gaps in the branch. "You will die soon!" It immediately added after meeting my gaze.

"Nice to meet you, too." I answered irrelevantly, and greeted it with a smile. It grunted as if to curse something, and then reluctantly poked out its wrinkled facial features from behind the tree branch.It looks more shrunken than before - which I definitely believe is some kind of health sign for them. "I need your help." I said to it. "Why should I help you?" It raised two messy eyebrows. "Because I helped you before." I stared at it and said boldly, "If it wasn't for me, you would still be trapped in that foggy 'foyer'! Don't forget that I brought you in 'of."

"You'd be blind without me." The head flipped the dry crack representing the mouth, showing a disdainful expression, "I brought you 'in', okay?" "Then we're even," I admitted reluctantly. "How did you end up here?" "Here? This is my home!" The head said loudly, "I was born here and grew up here! Now that I've 'come in', of course I remember the way home!" I frowned. I always thought it was the goblin, or Hiss, who made this guy separate from me in the first place.But now it seems that these speculations do not seem to be based on real evidence.The head said it had "come back" by itself, when we had "crossed the bridge", or during the time I ate the goblin fruit and fell into a coma, it had "come back" by itself.Is this believable?

"We have already found the other three tokens of the elemental spirits." I collected all my patience and tried to speak again, "There is only one last thing left. I hope you can help us." I waited quietly for the other party's answer.I hope that's an affirmative answer.But the buzzing echoes of the tree-filled heads disturbed me even more. "Even if you find the last token and the four elements gather together, you will still die." The head said suddenly. My heart sank.I worry that what I've been dreading will become a reality.I worry about my inability to keep my promises.I worry that in the end I won't be able to protect the safety of my companions after all. "What exactly is the power of the four elements?" D suddenly interjected. The head glanced at me. "Didn't you tell them?" it asked me. "You're lying to me anyway." I shrugged. "I didn't lie to you." The head said seriously, "The gathering of the four elements can bring people back to life. This is a truth known to everyone in the universe."