He subconsciously took a step back, but heard the middle-aged man continue to say tremblingly: "...Don't hurt my wife...She's just pregnant...She's hungry..."

"She's just hungry... She's pregnant... I'm sorry..."

The middle-aged man muttered over and over again, and finally he looked at the newcomer tremblingly: "I'm sorry... but for my child..."

The newcomer felt cold all over, and just as he was about to turn around and run, the strange tree with withered branches and leaves suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream.

“Ahhhhhh!”

He was startled and stopped subconsciously. The next second, a large amount of blood suddenly seeped out of thin air on the ground.

The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly widened: "Wife! Wife!"

The strange tree let out a shrill scream. At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu crawled out from underground again. He was covered in mud and blood, and his right hand was holding a large piece of severed tree roots.

The middle-aged man shouted in disbelief: "This is impossible!"

The next moment, those who had been dragged deep underground also crawled out one by one. Tang Mianmian spat out a mouthful of mud and threw a piece of tree root on the ground: "What the hell! You actually made me eat dirt!"

"No! No!" The middle-aged man rushed over and picked up the broken tree roots with his remaining hand. The trunks were bleeding and still wriggling and struggling, as if they really had life. "Wife! Wife!"

Xiao Tangqiu patted the dirt off his body, turned around and looked at the strange tree again. After they cut off a dozen roots, the strange tree finally became much more obedient, and even seemed to be dying.

"Tell the truth about everything," he said, stepping forward and placing the crossbow against the middle-aged man's throat again. He threatened in a cold voice, "Don't pretend to be unconscious again, or I'll take action. First question, is this tree really your wife?"

The middle-aged man held the tree root with his remaining hand and looked at Xiao Tangqiu with grief and anger. However, under Xiao Tangqiu's threat of force, he still spoke tremblingly: "My wife is just hungry... She hasn't eaten for a long time... And she's pregnant..."

Xiao Tangqiu looked back and saw that, as expected, the trunk of the strange tree did seem to be a little more bulging than the other trees... But the problem was, it was a tree! Could a tree give birth to a child the same way a person would?

No! Strictly speaking, this should be... a tree man?

"Why is your wife a tree?" Xiao Tangqiu frowned and asked, "Aren't you from outside the island? What happened after you came to the island?"

Seeing the middle-aged man holding the tree roots without saying anything, Xiao Tangqiu sneered and threatened: "Hurry up and tell me, or I will chop off all the remaining tree roots."

The middle-aged man shuddered violently, then he began to confess tremblingly -

It turned out that this guy and his wife had really experienced a shipwreck, but they did not drift to this island from the sea.

"...Our boat was hit by a tsunami and capsized, and my wife and I fell into the sea," the middle-aged man continued with a numb expression. "I thought I was going to drown, but in the blink of an eye, I found myself on this island."

"Oh? We appeared on the beach in the blink of an eye?" Xiao Tangqiu asked.

"No, it's in the forest in the center of the island. To be more precise, it's under the sacred tree." When the sacred tree was mentioned, the middle-aged man began to show that expression of pious worship again. "My wife and I woke up under the sacred tree. It was the sacred tree that saved us."

Xiao Tangqiu frowned: "And then?"

The middle-aged man continued speaking with a pious expression. Next, they met the indigenous people of the island. However, those people were not indigenous people to be precise. They were also survivors of various shipwrecks and plane crashes. After surviving the disasters, they appeared under the sacred tree as soon as they opened their eyes.

They believed that it was the sacred tree that saved them, and they were very pious and worshipful towards the sacred tree. The middle-aged man and his wife were not particularly pious at first, but later they found that there was no food on the island, and the sacred tree provided them with the only food. In addition, they could not leave the island, so their worship of the sacred tree began to grow day by day.