Chapter 64 My Partner is Fruit 9

Time flies by in a leisurely and carefree manner, and summer is already halfway over.

That day, Yunzhen was planning to go down the mountain with Yaojin and the others for a stroll.

Having grown accustomed to the hustle and bustle of modern life, Yunzhen inevitably felt bored, so she would wander around the foot of the mountain every few days.

But just as they reached the foot of the mountain, they were stopped by people from the Fog Sect.

Yunzhen arrived at the cave in the fog, completely bewildered.

As you approach, you see dozens of tree maidens waiting outside. Looking into the cave, you can see other tree maidens from the village, filling the once spacious cave to the brim.

It seems something big has happened.

Unless absolutely necessary, Fog will not summon all the tree girls in the village; at least not once in the months since she arrived.

"You all stay outside and keep watch; you don't need to come in with me."

"Yes, Master."

Upon seeing Yun Zhen arrive, the tree maidens on the periphery stepped aside to make way for her.

Yunzhen walked inside and saw a man lying unconscious in the center. His body was covered with wounds, each one shocking to behold. Many of the wounds were filled with dirt, grass clippings, and other filth, and the surrounding skin was swollen and red.

This is clearly due to a wound infection.

Yunzhen looked at Wu, whose face was pale, and asked, "Wu, what happened?"

Upon seeing Yunzhen, Wu's expression softened somewhat.

"Yunzhen, you've arrived. This is someone from the Linglan tribe; he's here to ask for help."

The Linglan tribe is another tree spirit tribe, only five days' journey away from their Lingze tribe.

Because the distance wasn't far, the two tribes would occasionally travel between them to exchange goods.

"Help?"

Wu nodded and pointed to the man on the ground.

"Yes, according to him, the Linglan tribe has now been occupied by a tree tribe. He has imprisoned all the tree women and is using them to blackmail the other tree tribes. Because the tree women are being held hostage, the tree tribes have no choice but to obey his orders."

That tree kept a close watch on people; he only managed to escape by faking his death.

To fake death, one must genuinely be seriously injured to fool others.

He was also lucky to have made it to Lingze Village under such circumstances.

Yun Zhen exclaimed in surprise, "What? A tree spirit would actually dare to do something like this? Where is his tree maiden?"

"He also locked him up, and he was kept in solitary confinement. No one could get close except for that tree."

"this……"

Yun Zhen frowned, sensing that something was amiss.

She still knows a lot about trees.

In the hearts of the Tree Clan, the Tree Maiden is supreme, the faith and pursuit they worship throughout their lives, the culmination of all their desires, and her importance far surpasses their own lives.

They would never betray the Tree Maiden.

For the Tree Followers, betraying the Tree Maiden was something they wouldn't even dare to think about, let alone do.

Even if this tree woman is extremely cruel and takes pleasure in torturing the trees, the trees will not resist or betray her. They will only silently endure it, turning this pain into a blessing, and accepting it as sweetness.

But now a tree spirit has betrayed its tree maiden, something that is unprecedented in the world. Looking ahead, it is unlikely that such a bizarre thing will ever happen again.

Yunzhen looked at the man on the ground: "Is his information accurate?"

The speaker was a tree girl named Fumang: "He probably wasn't lying. He really is from the Linglan tribe. I saw him and his tree girl when I went to the Linglan tribe. I'm afraid something really happened in Linglan Village, otherwise he wouldn't have come here in such bad condition."

Unless there are unavoidable circumstances, the tree spirits will never leave their tree maiden's side. If they are seriously injured outside, their first instinct will be to rush back to their tree maiden, even if it means dying close to their master.

"How could there be such a tree? How dare it do such a rebellious thing?"

Some of the tree girls were puzzled and sighed, but they did not question the news.

Tree spirits live by hunting and can only support a limited population within a certain area, so they live scattered.

Furthermore, the Tree Spirits are naturally peace-loving and spend most of their days having fun with the Tree Spirits. There are few barriers between the Tree Spirits and the Tree Women of the same tribe, let alone invading neighboring tribes.

The very fact that this tree originated from is so bizarre that it has gained a degree of credibility.

"Did he come to ask us for help in rescuing the Linglan tribe?"

"Actually, it wasn't just a request for help; he also brought another message." Wu said with a grim face, "He said that Tree was planning to bring people to attack us at the end of summer."

Xing asked疑惑地问道, "Attack us? What exactly does he want to do?"

At this moment, the man on the ground slowly woke up and weakly answered Xing's question:

“He wants to be emperor. I’ve heard him say that more than once. He wants to conquer all the tribes, he wants all the women to kneel at his feet, and he wants to establish a kingdom that belongs to men.”

"What utter nonsense."

All the tree maidens were puzzled, but Yunzhen's heart was filled with turbulent waves.

Yunzhen quickly pressed, "Did he really say that?"

“Yes, he often told us that men are born to be high above and in control of everything, and that bowing down to women is a great disgrace for men. He said that women are appendages of men and can only depend on men for survival, and that he is now correcting the wrongs. He even punched and kicked the tree girl in front of us, and after he finished, he emphasized that women must be suppressed and that they must never be allowed to ride on men’s heads.”

At this point, the man's eyes reddened.

He couldn't understand what the tree was saying; he just wanted to rescue his tree girl.

His tree maiden was also dragged to that high platform and beaten, but he could only watch from below, unable to do anything.

The tree maidens of the Lingze tribe didn't quite understand these words either. They just felt that they were strange and illogical, but they still felt a fire burning in their chests.

One of the tree women questioned, "Didn't you ever resist?"

"It's no use. As long as someone dares to resist, he will kill the corresponding tree woman directly."

There was a time when a tree stalk rebelled and tried to save the tree woman, but the tree woman was killed and her stalks also died as a result, and the rebellion ended there.

Yun Zhen was basically certain that this man had traveled from another world, but she didn't know what kind of world he came from before, whether he came here by chance, or whether he had some special encounter.

Yunzhen continued, "Have you ever seen this tree before?"

A flicker of confusion crossed the man's eyes: "I know him. His master is a good friend of my master's. I remember he used to love his master the most, and he just wanted to stick to her all the time..."

"Do you remember when he started to change?"

“A year ago…yes, a year ago, I occasionally heard him complaining about his master, muttering something about how he, a grown man, had to grovel before a woman.”

That man had been here for a year, much longer than she had.

Yunzhen had a clear idea of ​​what was going on, and now she needed to figure out whether this man had any special abilities.

"Tell me in detail about the changes in your tribe, starting from when that tree changed."

The man was already exhausted, but he still managed to say in broken sentences:

"He...he led us out of the cave. He made something called bricks to build houses, and he also made something called cement...and he also discovered a kind of stone, which he called iron ore, and said it could be forged into something called a knife..."

Yunzhen's heart skipped a beat, and she asked anxiously, "Has he finished forging it?"

The man's voice grew even weaker: "No, no, he said he'd start attacking you once it's forged..."

Before he could finish speaking, the man fainted again.