Chapter 83: Talisman: A room full of ghostly talismans.
Xinxue and the others had always thought that ever since the talisman on the turtle shell was crushed by Ashu using his original form.
The old man was forced to disconnect from Xin Guiye's body.
He fell to the ground, dead beyond death, and the stolen vitality dissipated into the air.
But unexpectedly, what I heard from Lu Lin was scenes from another world.
One year ago, she and five of her tribe's short-horned deer were foraging in the southern forest when suddenly an earthquake occurred.
At that time, the overlords of the southern forest were also humanoid bee colonies, but their tribe only cared about the flowers in the entire territory.
As long as they don't fight with each other and don't do anything to damage the flower fields, they won't even pay attention to them, the ordinary evolved species.
Let them live freely in the southern forests.
At that time, the short-horned deer found a safe tree hole to hide in and started eating melons, excitedly speculating whether there was trouble inside the humanoid bee colony.
They started to split into two groups and fight each other, or some new powerful evolved species entered the forest and destroyed a large area of flower fields, so the humanoid bees came out of the cave together and started targeting them.
Who knew that this fun would seem to be getting more and more wrong.
They waited for a long time but did not see the black swarm of human-shaped bees flying across the sky.
The big tree holes where the short-horned deer hid also became unsafe. The earth was torn into two, ruthlessly devouring the lives of many passing animals.
Lu Lin was the most unlucky one.
As she swayed, she lost her balance and fell into a terrible crack.
I thought I would die on the spot and be swallowed up by the earth mercilessly.
Unexpectedly, more than ten meters underground, she suddenly floated up and was attracted by a strange force into a room that seemed to have been dug out by someone in advance.
The gravity here became very light, and she kept stepping on the air with all four hooves, floating in the air.
The walls and the floor were covered with strange charms that emitted a faint glow.
Lu Lin struggled to escape from this horrible room, but she couldn't do it at all.
She heard a human voice wailing in her mind.
But at that time she was still an ordinary evolved species, not much more evolved than the average giant rat. When she opened her eyes, all she knew was to eat and find a hillside to bask in the sun.
I simply couldn't understand those complicated words.
The environment outside was still dangerous and shaking, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't escape from this room full of weird drawings.
Lu Lin thought about it with his simple brain, then simply curled up into a ball and went to sleep.
Now, based on her fragmented memories while still half asleep, Lu Lin found that the information revealed by that person sounded quite tempting.
It was as if he was constantly promising her benefits, such as gold, silver, treasures, being as powerful as a beast, and a position second only to the emperor.
All the benefits that come with evolving into humans, both imaginable and unimaginable, are brought to our sight.
Unfortunately, Lu Lin didn't understand what it meant at that time and ignored it all.
Lu Lin continued to recount her miraculous experience from a year ago: “I felt quite comfortable when I slept, and the talismans around me shone on my body, making me feel warm all over.
The turmoil in the outside world has nothing to do with me. It’s as if a lot of strength has been poured into my body out of nowhere.
By the way, I remember the voice that spoke, and it even started to get angry at the end.
He kept scolding me with harsh words and saying awful things, which made it impossible for me to sleep..."
Hearing this, Xinxue vaguely guessed something in her heart.
She asked aloud, "Is that a man's voice?"
Lu Lin opened her eyes wide and was very curious. "Yes, how did you know?"
That male voice sounded extremely scary and strange in the later stages, cold and cruel, like a demon from hell threatening to take her life.
This is also why Lu Lin is so afraid of human males.
Xinxue lowered her eyes and analyzed carefully, "I didn't expect the talisman box to be a room. It seems like this must be the old city lord's backup plan.
He left himself a passage to transport his soul to the talisman box. He looks dead here, but in fact he is not dead yet, and his soul has gone to the southern forest.
Ah Shu gnashed his teeth in anger. "It was too easy for him to die so easily before! He didn't get any benefits from Lu Lin, but after borrowing the body, he might have reached an agreement with the Evolution Tree."
When an earthquake occurred in the southern forest, the talisman boxes should have opened one by one, absorbing the flesh of the surrounding living creatures to see if there was any that could become the carrier of the old city lord's soul.
However, at that time, the old city lord suffered his first serious blow in decades, and his soul power should have been very weak.
Therefore, there was no way to occupy Lu Lin's body and be reborn without her consent.
He could only watch helplessly as the energy that had been secretly stored in the talisman box turned into a miraculous medicine for the transformation of this weak short-horned deer into a human.
Trees themselves do not have a complete soul like animals.
So since he couldn't get any benefit here, the old city lord changed to other talisman boxes.
At this point, it seems like he has definitely mastered the mutant tree's body.
The current situation in the southern forest where mutant trees are wreaking havoc and entangled with humanoid bee swarms must be due to his involvement!
Xinxue remembered something and touched the little turtle in her arms. "Ye Ye, can you remember how many talisman boxes that guy buried?"
Xin Guiye thought for a moment and replied, "I remember when we were burying the talisman box, he kept saying that nine is the ultimate number and that after nine, everything returns to one, so it should be nine."
"There's one here with you and one over there with the mutant tree, so there should be seven more..." Xinxue pinched her eyebrows, feeling extremely troubled.
Ah Shu took her hand and placed it on his lap. "Xue, it is my responsibility to defeat the old city lord. Now that the southern forest has become like that, let me solve it."
"Well... I don't know who else I can turn to except you..." Xin Xue seemed much more tired in an instant.
She didn't see Ah Shu's battle with the big turtle last year, but she had fought for so long with so many people who were dissatisfied with her being the city lord, and she was already heartbroken.
Now that she has been the city lord for more than a year, those things have gradually been forgotten, and they have all grown a lot.
But I didn’t expect it to be a TV series…
Xinxue cares more about ensuring that every citizen and every evolved species has a good life.
During this year, we have been focusing on promoting welfare and have not put much effort into tackling the issue of armed forces, so there are actually not many people under our command who can be used.
Now, the guards have been completely defeated before they even really touched upon the talisman box, and they've even lost Lu Erya...
She really couldn't bring herself to ask Lin Jieyun and the others who were defending the city to go out and die.
Xinxue sighed heavily, feeling worried about Ah Shu and afraid of the uncertain future.
She looked at Lu Lin and said, "Now tell us about the mutant tree. Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle."
Lu Lin nodded in understanding, "I lived in the talisman box for more than a month. When all the energy inside was absorbed by me, the whole room collapsed and I was buried more than ten meters underground.
Fortunately, I had fully evolved into a human by then, and my physical fitness in all aspects had also been strengthened, so I was not buried alive, but instead crawled out of the soil.
But all my relatives died in the earthquake, and I found their bodies..."
Having said that, Lu Lin couldn't help sobbing twice. She took the tissue handed to her by Xinxue and blew her nose before she could continue.
“I’m sorry, those things don’t seem to be related to the mutant tree.
I thought about it, and the first time I discovered the mutant tree was probably half a year ago. That day, I was walking on the road and suddenly tripped by something. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a piece of vine pulled straight in front of my leg.
I thought someone had broken into the forest and was about to run away. But the vine chased me, like a snake, so scary..."
Having said that, Lu Lin couldn't help but look up at Ah Shu. Seeing that the latter looked normal, still with the same sour face as usual, and didn't look offended at all, she dared to continue speaking.
"I had no choice but to run left and right to dodge, but that vine seemed to have eyes, and no matter how I turned, it would catch up with me without fail.
Later, I encountered a wounded wild boar, which was attracted by the smell of blood and stopped chasing me.
When talking about this, Lu Lin still felt a lingering fear in his heart.
“Although I have become a human, I don’t know where to go. After burying my relatives, I don’t have any intention of continuing to look for other relatives.
So I have been living in the southern forest ever since. It was after that incident that I decided to leave the southern forest.”
Xinxue nodded in understanding.
Then a look of curiosity spread across his face. "Where did you go after that? Xiaoye and the others said you were also captured by a humanoid bee swarm near the southern forest."
Speaking of this, Lu Lin actually blushed a little.
“I… I actually still live near the southern forest. I found an empty house to live in, and the clothes I wear are also taken from there.
It's close to the Dawn Base, and people often come out to preach, so many houses without locks were built on the road.
I don’t stay in one place, I just wander around and live in any empty room.”
Because she has awakened the ability to foresee danger, she can always avoid disasters that have not yet happened.
Every time I look for an empty room, I stand outside the door and feel it to know whether someone will live there in the next few days.
She herself was a weak herbivore, and without her relatives by her side, she became even more cautious.
Hearing this, Xinxue sighed with empathy: "It sounds similar to me. Before I met Ah Shu, I also wandered for a while. It seems that we are both lucky and have not encountered any bad things..."
Lu Lin smiled bitterly, "It's a pity that my ability can only sense things in advance, and I can't accurately predict what will happen. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been captured by the humanoid bee swarm."
It's really unlucky.
Before being captured by the humanoid bee swarm, she did feel a sense of panic. She had moved to several uninhabited missionary huts, but the palpitations still did not dissipate.
In order to ensure her safety, she hesitated and walked towards the southern forest. As she walked, she saw several humanoid bees hovering in the air.
They flapped their membranous wings and spread out their scale powder, and soon they lost consciousness and fell asleep.
Xinxue curled her lips and smiled, comforting him, "Actually, this ability is quite useful. With our Captain Lu risking his life to help you, you have successfully left the hive now.
Don't worry, we will find a way to completely eradicate the mutant trees and restore peace to the southern forest."
Since it has been decided to send Ashu to completely solve the historical problems left over by the old city lord.
Next, the entire Free Base was preparing for this.
Meanwhile, Lu Erya was also conducting a carpet search of the forest.
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See you tomorrow, babes!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine: 3 white ones;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Le Han Man; 2 bottles of plump moth; 1 bottle of big cake, Yuan Shang Cao, and today;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
Ngi mua: haroharo, 26/06/2024 22:37
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