Chapter 381 380. It’s too late to save me!

Puji was hung in the air by the roots, with its hyphae tentacles hanging limply, looking submissive.

The two short legs occasionally twitched unconsciously, but other than that, there was no movement, as if it was just an "ignorant wild monster".

On the other side, the elf Lao Deng was still unaware of the seriousness of the situation and was still struggling.

He tried again and again to gather magic power in his body, but every time he started to gain momentum, the roots wrapped around his body would tremble slightly, instantly dispersing the power he had worked so hard to accumulate.

Several unsuccessful attempts aggravated his injury, causing blood to flow from the corner of his mouth.

"With this level of control... who are you?" Ilos' voice was filled with suppressed pain.

In the darkness, there was a faint sound of flowers and plants being trampled, and then, soft halos of light dotted among the surrounding sea of ​​flowers appeared.

What appeared in front of the man and the mushroom was a ball of... "tumbleweed" woven from various roots, vines and branches?

In the middle of the spherical body woven from various roots and branches,

Embedded in it is a structure that resembles an eye and emits a faint glow.

This is not an entity, but a projection of consciousness that exists in this special abyssal space.

Then, a voice appeared directly in Ilos and Lin Jun's minds: "You burned my tree roots and messed around in my consciousness, and you still want to ask who I am?"

The sound is quite nice, like the wind blowing through the leaves.

"The sacred tree?" Iros stared at the tumbleweed in disbelief. "Impossible! How could a sacred tree have a complete self? There's no record of this in any literature!"

The tumbleweed rolled leisurely in the flowers for a moment. "After all, there have never been uninvited guests like you who sneak in by playing tricks like that before."

Lin Jun felt that this sacred tree was quite easy to talk to and was actually willing to explain to Ilos.

The next moment, a thin branch pierced out from the wrist of his one arm, cutting the tendons. The staff and the core of the wood fell and sank into the flowers and plants below.

"The Yesheng Wood Core is not meant for you to use like this. And you..." The tumbleweed slowly rolled in front of Puji. The glowing "eyes" seemed to look at it for a long time, but there was no further response.

On the other side, Ilos was unwilling to accept defeat and hissed, "If you are truly the sacred tree, why are you trying to stop me? You should know about the Ark Project! The harm I caused you was only an accident. Everything I did was only to continue that plan!"

"Ark Project?" The divine tree's attention was indeed drawn back. It rolled back in front of Ilos, its light flickering slightly. "So, what exactly does the 'Ark Project' you mentioned look like?"

There was a hint of amusement in the tone of the tumbleweed-shaped Shenmu, which made Lin Jun, who was watching, immediately realize that there might be a fundamental fallacy in Ilos's plan.

Sure enough, after Ilos finished explaining his grand blueprint of "using the dungeon as an ark to resist the fog, and using it as a base to analyze the fog and seek the ultimate solution", Shenmu did not show any joy of meeting a like-minded person.

Several slender branches stretched out from the tumbleweeds, wrapped around Ilos's head, and finally completely enveloped it.

After a while, Shenmu seemed to understand something: "Multiple Wills LV10, it really is contaminated by information."

"What information pollution? What nonsense are you talking about?" Ilos retorted, struggling in the branches.

"The Ark Project does exist, but it has nothing to do with what you're talking about, and it failed long ago. As for you..." Shenmu's voice was filled with pity, "You're just another poor wretch who overestimated your abilities and tried to analyze the Abyss, only to have your mind etched with those distorted information."

"No... this is impossible!" Ilos' voice trembled with excitement. "Are you saying that the crisis of the fog destroying the world is also false?"

"That's true, but there's no need to worry about it!" Shenmu said briskly, as if speaking common sense. "After all... it's too late to save him!"

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"What does 'no hope' mean?" Lin Jun couldn't help it. He had only been here for more than three years, so how could the world be about to end?

"Your voice is really unpleasant." Shenmu commented with disgust.

Damn it!

If the person in front of him wasn't a Level 99 boss, Lin Jun would have exploded with it!

"It's hopeless. There's no point in using the dungeon, making sacrifices, or slaughtering people. All our efforts will only make everyone struggle ugly for a while longer. It's better to have a good sleep." As he spoke, a branch gently stroked the white and tender cap of the mushroom.

Just when Lin Jun thought that he could not escape the fate of being wrapped up, and even began to consider whether to self-destruct, the branches of the sacred tree retracted, leaving only a sentence: "You too."

What, me too?

The roots that were entangled with them suddenly loosened, and they fell onto the soft grass with a puff.

On the other side, Ilos knelt on the ground in despair, seemingly unable to accept the truth he had just heard.

He suddenly lunged forward, grabbed the sacred wood core from the ground, and roared at the tumbleweed: "You're lying to me! You're not a sacred tree at all! You just want me to give up the Ark Project!"

At this moment, Ilos activated the artifact without hesitation and injected a large amount of life energy into it.

But unlike when the Elf King used it, all of this energy was concentrated at the tip of the staff, transforming into a dangerous, destructive force.

Using the Yesheng Wood Core to attack the Divine Tree? Lin Jun looked at Ilos as if he were a fool.

Sure enough, the next moment the artifact went silent.

"Of course you won't believe it," Shenmu said calmly, "After all, those false information have become the truth to you."

The branches began to wrap around Ilos' ankles, but this time it was not a simple restraint.

The entangled part began to lignify at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the skin gradually began to show the texture of bark.

In the final moments before completely transforming into a tree, this elf, rapidly aging from the sacrifice of its life energy, simply pleaded for an answer with tears in its eyes:

"Tell me... please tell me... you just want to stop me! So many sacrifices... this can't just be..."

However, the sacred tree obviously did not intend to provide him with hospice care, but just watched quietly as he completely turned into a small tree.

Only Puji and Tumbleweed were left in the space.

Lin Jun looked at Ilos, who had turned into a wooden man, then at the tumbleweed beside him, and asked, "Are you going to kill me too?"

"What's the point of cutting off one or two of your tentacles?"

Cannon fodder Puji pushed up the voice beside him and moved closer while rubbing his tentacles: "Boss Shenmu, do you... know something?"

(End of this chapter)