Chapter 78 Chapter 75: The Fountain of Life

Sure enough, instead of attacking, those treants retreated step by step with heavy and slow steps, but... what is frightening is that behind them, amidst the humming, more trees pushed their huge bodies out of the snow. Pulled out, turned into a living thing... Du Wei only felt creepy. Looking at the large forest in front of him, all the trees within the range of his eyes were pulling out their roots, shaking off the snow on their bodies, and then they looked like sluggish puppets. surrounded by... "My God...how many!" Dardanelle sighed. "Genius knows! This is a forest! How big is the Frozen Forest? How many trees are there? One hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand? Damn..." Du Wei scolded, "But why didn't they attack? Instead, they surrounded there, As if waiting for something..."

Indeed, the Ents were indeed waiting. Soon, the heavy footsteps like thunder came from far and near, and Du Wei could feel the heavy vibration on the ground! Impressively, among the large group of tree people, a road parted, and a huge monster slowly walked out of the tree crowd at a low speed! Du Wei's first impression was: This guy is really fucking big! If the other treants are like giants...the biggest guy is the giant among giants! According to Du Wei's visual inspection, this thing is at least as high as seven or eight floors!The torso of the whole body is black and hard, and the old bark is mottled, as if rusted!The branches and leaves on the body are extremely lush, and when walking, the branches and leaves all over the body make a rustling sound...

What Du Wei noticed was that the largest tree man... In terms of appearance, it is the closest to the shape of a "human"! Because its root has been clearly divided into two forks, like two human legs, and the trunk on its body is also clearly divided into a shape like the English letter "Y", and the branches on both sides are like two big hands generally!The branches branched out from above seem to be fingers. Du Wei saw that in the "hand" of the big tree man, there was a huge round thing wrapped with dense tree vines hanging on the finger. From the shape... it looked like a...

horn! ? What surprised Du Wei even more was that there seemed to be a "face" on the trunk of this big tree! The sharp protrusion seems to be a nose, and under the nose, there is a horizontal opening. The bark turned up on both sides of the opening is extraordinarily thick, as if it is a lip... All the other treants seemed to be afraid of this big guy, and retreated behind it one after another... It seems that it might be the leader of the treants, Du Wei thought so. "You...you..." The leader of the tree man made a sound that seemed thick and low. Although it was very jerky, Du Wei could barely recognize that it was human language...

hell!It can actually speak the common language of Roland Continent? "You...you...for...what...mass...kill...my...companion..." The sound of every word of it echoed in the forest, still With a long tail, there was anger in the deep and deep voice. Du Wei bravely jumped out of the rock, looked at this big guy, and shouted: "You were the ones who attacked us first!!" "You...you...did...not...obey...keep...the covenant...!!" The leader of the treant was very angry, and its crown was trembling: "Evil... eye... violent... Jun, promise...yes...yes, every...ten years...will...permit...we...send people...to enter...the canyon...once...!"

Its voice seemed to be questioning: "Today! It's... the appointed day of... ten years! Why... you... want to slaughter... my... clansmen at the mouth of... the canyon! Could it be... The evil-eyed tyrant, are you going to...again...to start a...war...with...our...tree people...!" ten years?The appointed date?Evil-eyed tyrant?war? Du Wei immediately understood... It was probably a misunderstanding. Seeing that the leader of the biggest treant was about to go into a rage, Du Wei immediately stood up straight and shouted loudly: "Wait a minute! Can I ask a question first?"

The leader of the tree people looked at Du Wei. Du Wei took a deep breath, then smiled as kindly as possible: "Excuse me, what is the 'evil eye tyrant' you mentioned? I don't know that thing." As soon as this remark came out, there was silence between the tree man and the three humans.Fortunately, none of the treants had eyes, otherwise it must have been a wonderful scene of "big-eyed and small-eyed". "Aren't you... under the evil-eyed tyrant...?" "No. I've never heard the name." "Then...you...are...what?" Du Wei jumped out from behind the rock, opened his arms, looked himself up and down, raised his smile and said, "Is there any need to ask? We are human beings! Have you never seen human beings?"

The leader of the tree man was silent for a while, he took a few steps forward with his thick legs, then his huge body bent down slightly, and the tree crown was also pressed down, as if he looked at Du Wei carefully for a while, then the tree man leader Standing up straight again, there was a little joy in his tone: "Oh! You...are...humans! I...remember...human...a long...a long time ago...a...human...friend...taught...me...to speak..." Du Wei heaved a sigh of relief, but although the treant leader was slow, he was not stupid, and the joy in his tone turned into anger again: "But... you... hurt... my... companion! !"

"It was your companion who attacked us first." Du Wei seemed to have decided that these tree men were easy to bully: "We stood here well, and your companion appeared, and then attacked us first with stones." "Hmm..." The tree man leader groaned for a while, as if he was thinking, and then he said loudly, "Okay...it's...my...companion...first..." His slow way of speaking really made Du Wei a little impatient, so he said first: "In this case, can we go?" "No..." The tree man leader was not good at words, but he quickly found the most suitable word to express himself: "Compensation!!!"

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?With gold coins?God, what's the use of a tree man asking for gold coins? Do you want to pay for your life? Depend on!How many trees are cut down to be sentenced to death?How can there be such a reason in the world! Moreover, no matter what he said, Du Wei felt that his side had the truth.After all, the three of us were standing here in good order, and it was these tree men who threw stones over here first—those stones that were strong enough to smash people into flesh.Then, our own side just fought back in self-defense... Could it be that the three of us just stood there and let a group of trees fall to our death?

Obviously, though, it was impossible to reason with the dull and stubborn Ent. Du Wei thought for a while, and remembered what this guy said earlier, and he immediately had an idea. "Respected Mr. Treant, may I ask, what is the evil-eyed tyrant you mentioned just now? And... I heard you mentioned... war?" ... The tree man is not a qualified narrator. Its slow and deep voice is like the old-fashioned sound player that Du Wei has seen in his previous life, and it has severely skipped discs. It is a short thing, but it fully talks about it. It was only after the sun went down that I barely made things clear. It is almost the same as what Du Wei guessed: In this land, according to the leader of the tree people, the entire frozen forest belongs to the tree people's territory... This statement made Du Wei think it was bragging.Because Du Wei has been in this forest for many days, he has never seen a tree that can come back to life before. The Treant Leader—oh, by the way, this hulking guy introduces himself, and he has a very fitting name: Wood. (Du Wei: WOOD??) In Wood's words, it was born in this land and lived in this land. It is a standard, pure-blooded treant - as for whether the treant has any so-called "bloodline", Du Wei doesn't care.But Wood's words revealed two pieces of information that Du Wei found very interesting: First of all, in fact, the large tree people standing in front of them... are not real tree people.The real Treant is only Wood.And Wood claims that it is also the last tree human race left on this land.As for the companions around it, they are all "companions" that it wakes up with the horn covered with vines in its hand. Du Wei guessed that the so-called companions probably meant "subordinates". That horn has a name "Natural Horn" that Du Wei thinks is very magical.This is a treasure handed down from generation to generation by the tree people. When the horn is blown, the surrounding trees can be awakened, making these trees become "companions" waiting for their command And the inheritance of the tree people also surprised Du Wei.They have no gender distinction, and their inheritance is also through the "horn of nature". The general way is: the "companions" awakened by the horn of nature have no intelligence and self-awareness at the beginning, they will only act according to the orders of the real tree people, simple actions. "But why did they attack us?" Du Wei asked. Old Wood's answer made Du Wei feel very sorry: because the evil evil-eyed tyrant has been killing this forest, all the trees hate that guy, and everyone thinks that the three humans standing at the mouth of the canyon belong to the evil evil-eyed tyrant My subordinates...forgive these tree-human "companions" who have no IQ, they don't know how to distinguish human beings. The awakened "companions" don't have much self-awareness at the beginning, but as the years grow, they will slowly develop self-awareness-and there is only a very small chance, very, very little Only some of them can have self-awareness, and at that time, they can become real "tree people" instead of "companions" in Wood's mouth. Originally in this forest, according to Wood, there were several real treants.Not many, about three or five.Ents have always been a sparsely populated race—well, this kind of statement made Du Wei feel very helpless. There are trees everywhere here, but there are too few people who can become real Ents.The vast majority can only stay in the unconscious "companion" class. Among the original three or five tree men, Wood was the oldest one.According to Old Wood, they live happily in this forest, and they have no natural enemies... because neither monsters nor other things will pose a threat to them. until one day... In this "beautiful and harmonious" (Old Wood's original words) place, an evil and powerful existence came. That guy is called "Evil Eye Tyrant", and he tyrannically plundered the most precious wealth belonging to the tree people : This canyon! Although this forest is infinitely vast, this small canyon is the most indispensable thing for the tree people! Because... In this canyon, there is a treasure that is related to whether the Treant Race can be passed down from generation to generation!It's a pity that that treasure was taken by the evil evil-eyed tyrant for himself! What's hateful is that when the angry tree people brought their "companions" to this evil guy to argue, the strength of this guy caused the tree people to suffer heavy losses.That evil-eyed tyrant possessed powerful magic power, and it even brutally killed Wood's people!There were three or five real tree people in the past, but now only Wood is left.The others were all killed by the evil-eyed tyrant, and the evil evil-eyed tyrant used their bodies to build his own palace, which was in this canyon. Angry Wood blew the horn of nature and summoned a large number of companions to attack the canyon, but the strength of the powerful evil-eyed tyrant was invincible to the tree people. That evil and powerful existence could use magic to drive the nearby canyon Warcraft!There are even dead bodies and undead crawling out of the ground!In the face of these monsters, Wood lost many, many "companions". But fortunately, this is a forest, and Wood can summon endless "companions" to come out, and the evil-eyed tyrant also has some scruples.Finally, under the stalemate, the two sides reluctantly reached an agreement: an armistice. Wood asked for the canyon to be returned, but the evil-eyed tyrant disagreed. In the end, the agreement between the two parties was to allow treants to enter the canyon once every ten years. "What's in the canyon?" After hearing the story, Du Wei was most interested in this. "Fountain of... life!" replied old Wood.