"...Why are we always doing laundry?" Jonah couldn't help but ask.
"It's a blessing to have my hands and feet ready to wash clothes." Hannah said.
The lake has returned to calm. The two of them sat by the lake and washed their clothes in the turquoise water. There were thick aquatic plants floating on the lake here. It was difficult to remove them from the clothes. And the lake water did not look like a real liquid. .Compared with water in the real world, its fluidity is much poorer. When it falls on the ground, it can slowly gather into small balls.
"This is a strange forest," Jonah added.
"Yeah. I always feel that there are dangers everywhere, but no real enemies appear." Hannah looked around and replied.
Only when you are in the forest can you realize how tall this dense forest is. The towering trees block the sky and the sun. Even if you raise your neck so hard that it hurts, you can barely see the blue sky through the gaps between the branches and leaves. A huge leaf swayed and fell. .hit Jonah on the head with a thud and covered him up like a quilt.
The astrologer lifted up the leaf with force and threw it aside. He held a piece of meat thicker than his thigh in both hands and said to the big insect: "If it is just magnified several times, it will be different. But these things are not normal no matter how you look at it." He was saying. As he spoke, the insect opened its mouth and spit out a sticky purple tongue. On the tip of the tongue was a human face with eyebrows and eyes. The human face stretched out its small tongue and licked the tip of Yona's nose. The boy winked and smiled. I was so frightened that I quickly threw the insect out. The insect crawled away grunting.
Hannah couldn't help laughing. She grabbed the wrung-out clothes and threw them over: "Put them on. It's time to find the exit. You can't live like this for the rest of your life."
The two began to explore this strange forest using the fallen lake as a starting point. They passed through a thorny bush. The sight in front of them surprised them both. Hannah Stewart raised the big gun and prepared to fire. Jonah quickly pressed down. She lowered her gun and whispered: "It's okay. These guys don't seem to have woken up yet. They are just larvae or something like that."
A clearing appeared in the forest. A towering tree that was too tall to see the crown and too thick to calculate its diameter stood in the middle of the brown land. The crisscrossing roots of the tree protruded from the ground. Countless translucent trees grew in the gaps between the root veins. Through the thin soft shell, various creatures can be seen squirming inside. The cyst closest to them has burst. A big bird with two pairs of wings is covered in mucus. He was staring at the uninvited guest who broke into the forest with his four orange eyes.
Although this creature looked strange, the two of them recognized it at the same time. They couldn't help but exchange an unbelievable look. "Four-winged moa." Whether it was the female captain of "Bactrian Wind" or traveling around on a sailboat for free. Friends who have crossed the endless sea of sand are all very familiar with this large bird that is a specialty of the desert. The four-winged moa like to gather near large sand-eating insects. They feed on the insects dug out by the sand-eating insects from the desert. Barbecue four Winged moa wings are a famous delicacy in the endless sand sea. Of course, they are also a good dinner for birds and humans.
Seeing familiar creatures in the different world of Forest Treasure makes people feel very abnormal. Jonah stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the moa. He confirmed his judgment: "The eyes are not focused at all. This guy They are just born. But they are in adult form as soon as they are born... If there is a beast inside each cyst, then isn't this tree performing the work of the Creator and responsible for creating all life in the world?"
"Let me confirm." Hannah walked to another spore. This spore was very huge. The diameter was as high as four people. There was a large group of black things squirming under the film. Stewart's contemporary family owner turned the barrel of the gun. The "Admiral" adjusted to the energy emission mode. "Whoosh..." The red light from the magic pistol "Summer White Sakura" cut the cyst in half from top to bottom. Hannah jumped back on her toes. "Wow..." The mucus poured out like a flood. The creatures inside rolled out spores and collapsed on the ground. They opened their big mouths and let out a squeaking whine toward the sky.
"No way..." Hannah kicked the beast with her foot and opened her mouth in surprise. At the same time, Jonah also recognized the creature in the cyst. It had a huge body covered with golden scales and thick lower limbs. , a pair of vestigial wings and a mouth full of sharp teeth. This is actually a golden earth dragon. As the highest-level mount of the Zhawi Empire's earth dragon cavalry, the captivity, breeding, feeding and training of the golden earth dragon are kept top secret. It was firmly in the hands of the Golden Hammer Legion. As the daughter of Admiral Finn Stewart, Hannah had seen this kind of riding beast at the Zawi military parade when she was young. And Jonah was no stranger to it. At Cherry Crossing, the Pitchfork Team once had a fierce battle with Joop, the captain of the Golden Land Dragoons. The powerful oppression of this half-dragon is still fresh in my memory.
If the four-winged moa is some kind of coincidence, then the appearance of the golden earth-walking dragon will never be mistaken. Jonah and Hannah looked at each other, with each other's eyes full of confusion. "Roar..." The earth-walking dragon Suddenly it roared and jumped up. It bit the moa next to it with one bite. Its sharp teeth pierced the bird's chest. The newborn four-winged moa lost its life before it could fly into the sky.
"Let's go." Yona whispered. He grabbed Hannah's hand and retreated into the forest. The ground dragon was busy enjoying its first meal in life. The other cysts had not hatched yet. The branches and leaves gradually covered the strange giant tree. After two thousand yards, the two of them sat down and let out a long breath.
"The monsters I encountered in the passage at first were indeed monsters I had never seen before. But here instead, there are familiar creatures. Creatures that are impossible to appear outside their native place." Jonah gasped.
"Ah, look." Hannah pointed with her hand. Through the heavy branches and leaves, she could see cysts rolling up along the giant tree in the distance. In a blink of an eye, they rose to a height obscured by clouds and mist. Then they disappeared. "Then. The tree not only creates living things, it also sends them somewhere."
The boy was stunned for a moment. Where was "somewhere"? There was no second answer. That was the world they lived in. He didn't know how to explain what happened in front of him. He was about to say something when Hannah suddenly jumped out. She came over and covered his mouth. He raised his finger and said, "Shh."
Silky fingers moved the young man's jaw to the left. He was just running away and didn't pay attention. It turned out that there was another giant tree not far away. There were also countless translucent spores growing at the roots of the tree. Some spores rose along the trunk into the clouds. Some of them exploded naturally and hatched out creatures. This time, the creatures in the cysts were easier to identify, because just a moment ago, Jonah and Hannah, who were naked and covered in mucus, looked almost exactly like the newly hatched creatures.
What this big tree makes is human beings.
A man slowly stood up from the mucus. He had a protruding belly, thighs full of fat, wrinkled cheeks and a half-bald head. Above his aquiline nose was a pair of sunken eyes. Approximately Na has never seen eyes like that. If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then there is absolutely no soul behind these two windows. It is just a body that acts according to instinct. The fire of wisdom is dim.
"Why do you want to create such an old one?" Hannah whispered. When faced with incomprehensible things, women tend to accept reality more easily than men.
Jonah replied: "I think it's because our world needs such a middle-aged man." He suddenly pushed Hannah's hand away and stood up. He pushed aside the weeds around him and walked towards the tree.
"What are you doing?" Hannah was taken aback. She immediately raised her gun and followed. "There will be danger."
"No." The young man walked straight to the body and stood face to face with the middle-aged man. From this distance, he could clearly see the crow's feet at the corners of the man's eyes and a set of scorched teeth. But those gray eyes only glanced at the young man's face. There was no focus at all. "Hmm..." The naked man mumbled meaninglessly, swaying his big belly and walking in the other direction. "There is no soul, Hannah." Jonah turned around and spread his hands. " This is just a place where bodies are made. I guess these finished bodies will be transported away. In another world...the world represented by another secret treasure...they will be assembled with souls and then released into our world. This is the Creator's. Factory, Hannah. I understand. The 'creation' indicated by the treasure of the forest turns out to be this..."
Unlike Hannah Stewart, Jonah, who learned the truth about the world from Gilberto Gilberto Naion, quickly figured everything out. His head was buzzing, but the scene in front of him seemed so reasonable. So that I can't think of words to criticize. "These hatched guys are all defective products. Even the 'first world' guys will produce substandard products. They will be eliminated..."
Following Jonah's words, the middle-aged man suddenly fell to the ground with a thud. Blood spilled from his mouth and became motionless. The tree roots quickly wrapped him up and pulled him into the ground. In the blink of an eye, this living human body left no trace. .
"I don't understand what you're saying anymore..." Hannah said confused.
Standing in front of the giant tree, the two were silent for a few minutes. Suddenly Hannah turned and opened fire into the woods. A string of bullets sent sawdust flying. "Who?" she shouted sharply.
In the shadow of the trees, a shadow in black clothes appeared vaguely. Jonah only glanced at it, and then he suddenly woke up and shouted: "Don't fire. Hannah, don't fire." His body froze, and there was blood all over his body. They all rushed to the head. "Long Ji, is that you?" The voice seemed to come from someone else's mouth. It sounded so weird. So hysterical. The boy wanted to run forward, but there was only one organ that could move normally in his body. A heart beating violently.
"Jonah."
The woman in black spoke. It was a voice as clear and clear as a moonlit night.