Sure enough, instead of attacking, those tree men retreated step by step with heavy and slow steps. But... what was terrifying was that behind them, more trees buzzed, lifting their huge bodies from the snow.
It was pulled out and turned into a living creature...
Du Wei only felt horrified. He looked at the vast forest in front of him. As far as he could see, all the trees were pulling out their roots, shaking off the snow on their bodies, and then acting like sluggish puppets.
people gathered around...
"God... how much does this have to be!" Dardanelle sighed.
"Genius knows! This is a forest! How big is the frozen forest? How many trees are there here? One hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand? Damn it..." Du Wei cursed: "But why didn't they attack? Instead, they surrounded it,
It seems like you are waiting for something..."
Indeed, these tree people are indeed waiting.
Soon, heavy footsteps like thunder came closer and closer, and Du Wei could feel the heavy vibration on the ground!
Astonishingly, among the large group of tree people, a road separated, and a huge creature walked out of the crowd of trees at a slow speed!
Du Wei's first impression was: This guy is so damn big!
If the other tree men are like giants... the biggest guy is the giant among giants!
According to Du Wei's visual inspection, this thing is at least as high as seven or eight stories! The whole body is black and hard, and the old bark is mottled, as if rusty! The branches and leaves on the body are extremely lush.
While walking, the branches and leaves all over my body made a rustling sound...
What Du Wei noticed was that this largest tree man... was the closest to a "human" shape in appearance!
Because its roots have been clearly divided into two forks, like two human legs, and the trunk on its body is also clearly divided into a shape like the English letter "Y", and the branches on both sides are like two big hands.
Normally! The branches branching out from above look like fingers.
Du Wei saw that in the "hand" of this big tree man, hanging on the finger was a huge round thing wrapped with dense tree vines. From the shape... it looked like...
horn!?
What surprised Du Wei even more was that there seemed to be a "face" on the trunk of this big tree!
The sharp protrusion seems to be a nose, and under the nose, there is a horizontal opening. The bark on both sides of the opening is particularly thick, as if it is lips...
All the other tree people seemed to be afraid of this big guy, and they retreated behind it... It seemed that it might be the leader of the tree people, Du Wei thought in his heart.
"You... you..." The leader of the tree people made a sound that seemed to be deep and deep. Although it was very jerky, Du Wei could barely recognize that it was human language...
Damn it! It can actually speak the common language of Roland continent?
"Why...why...you...slaughter...my...comrades..." Every word of its voice echoed in the forest.
With a long tail note, the deep and deep voice was filled with anger.
Du Wei dared to stand out from the rock, looked at the big guy, and shouted loudly: "You were the one who attacked us first!!"
"You...you...didn't...obey...the...promise...!!" The leader of the tree people was very angry, and its crown was trembling: "Evil...eyes...violent...
Jun, promised... that you would allow... us... to send people... into... the canyon... once... every... ten years...!"
Its voice seemed to be asking: "Today! It's the promised day of ten years! Why do you... massacre my people at the mouth of the canyon! Could it be that...
The evil-eyed tyrant wants to...again...provoke...a...war...with...us...the tree people...!"
Ten years? Promised day? Evil eye tyrant? War?
Du Wei understood immediately... I'm afraid this was a misunderstanding.
Seeing that the leader of the largest tree people was about to become furious, Du Wei immediately stood up straight and shouted loudly: "Wait a minute! Can I ask a question first?"
The leader of the tree people looked at Duwei.
Du Wei took a deep breath, then tried his best to smile in the kindest tone: "Excuse me, what is the 'Evil Eye Tyrant' you are talking about? I don't know that thing."
As soon as these words came out, there was silence among the tree people and the three humans. Fortunately, those tree people had no eyes, otherwise it would have been a wonderful "big eyes staring at small eyes" scene.
"You...are not...the subordinates of the Evil Eye Tyrant...?"
"No. I've never heard of that name."
"Then...you...are...what?"
Du Wei jumped out from behind the rock, opened his arms, looked himself up and down, raised a smile and said: "Do you need to ask? We are human beings! Have you never seen a human being?"
The leader of the tree people was silent for a long time. He took a few steps forward with his thick legs, then his huge body bent slightly, and the tree crown also pressed down. He seemed to look at Du Wei carefully for a while, and then the leader of the tree people
Standing up straight again, there was a hint of joy in his tone:
Du Wei breathed a sigh of relief, but although the tree leader was slow, he was not stupid. The joy in his tone turned into anger again: "But... you... hurt... my... companions!
!”
"It was your companions who attacked us first." Du Wei seemed to have decided that these tree people were easy to bully: "We were standing here properly, and your companions appeared, and then attacked us with stones first."
"Well..." The leader of the tree people groaned for a while, as if he was thinking, and then he said loudly: "Okay... it's... my... companion... first..."
His slow way of speaking really made Du Wei a little unbearable, so he said first: "In this case, can we go?"
"No..." The leader of the tree people was not good at words, but he quickly found the most suitable word to express his meaning: "Compensation!!!"
compensation?
Du Wei was startled... Are you going to compensate the seventy or eighty tree people who were beaten to pieces by Hussein? How to compensate them? In gold coins? God, what's the point of the tree people asking for gold coins?
Do you have to pay with your life?
Damn it! If you cut down a few trees, you will be sentenced to death? How can there be such truth in the world!
Moreover, no matter what he said, Du Wei felt that he was right. After all, the three of them were standing here, and it was these tree people who threw stones first - those who were enough to smash people into pulp.
Stones. And then, we just fought back in self-defense... Could it be that the three of us humans just stood there and were killed by a group of trees?
However, it is obvious that reasoning with this slow and stubborn tree man will not work.
Du Wei thought for a moment and remembered what this guy said before, and he immediately had an idea.
"Dear Mr. Tree Man, may I ask, what happened to the Evil Eye Tyrant you just mentioned? And...I heard you mentioned...war?"
…
The tree man is not a qualified narrator. Its slow and deep voice is like the old-fashioned phonograph that Duwei saw in his previous life, which has seriously skipped the disc. However, it can say enough about a brief matter.
After the sun went down, I managed to explain things clearly.
It’s pretty much what Du Wei guessed:
In this land, according to the leader of the tree people, the entire frozen forest belongs to the territory of the tree people... This statement made Du Wei feel that he was bragging. Because Du Wei had entered this forest for many days,
He had never seen a tree come alive before.
The leader of the tree people - Oh, by the way, this bulky big guy introduced himself. It has a name that suits its identity very well: Wood. (Duwei: WOOD??)
In Wood's words, it was born in this land and lives in this land. It is a standard tree man with pure bloodline. As for whether the tree man also has any so-called "bloodline", Du Wei has no control over it.
But Wood’s words revealed two pieces of information that Duwei found very interesting:
First of all, in fact, the large swaths of tree people standing in front of us... are not real tree people. The real tree people are just Wood. And Wood claims that it is also the last tree people left on this land.
As for the companions around it, they are all "companions" it awakens with the horn covered with vines in its hand.
Du Wei guessed that the so-called companions probably meant "subordinates".
That horn has a name "Natural Horn" that Du Wei thinks is very magical. This is a treasure passed down from generation to generation by the tree people. When you blow the horn, you can wake up the surrounding trees and turn them into "companions" that are at your command.
The inheritance of the tree people also surprised Du Wei. They have no gender distinction, and their inheritance is also through the "natural horn".
The general method is: the "companions" awakened by the natural horn have no intelligence or self-awareness at the beginning. They will only act according to the orders of the real tree people, simple actions.
"But why do they attack us?" Du Wei asked.
Old Wood's answer made Duwei feel very sorry: because the evil Evil Eye Tyrant has been destroying this forest, all the trees hate that guy, and everyone thinks that the three humans standing at the mouth of the canyon belong to the evil Evil Eye Tyrant.
My subordinates... forgive these tree man "companions" who have no IQ, they don't know how to distinguish what is a human being.
The awakened "companions" do not have much self-awareness at the beginning, but as the years go by, they will slowly develop self-awareness - and there is only a small chance, very few and a small amount.
Only some of them can become self-aware. At that time, they can become real "tree people" and no longer the "companions" in Wood's words.
Originally, in this forest, according to Wood, there were a few real tree people. The number was not large, maybe three or five. Tree people have always been a sparsely populated race - well, this statement made Du
Wei felt helpless. Although there were trees everywhere here, there were too few who could become true tree people. Most of them could only stay in the class of unconscious "companions".
Among the original three or five tree people, Wood was the eldest one. According to old Wood, they lived happily in this forest, and they had no natural enemies... because whether it was Warcraft or anything else, they all
There is no threat to them.
Until one day...
In this "beautiful and harmonious" (Old Wood's original words) place, an evil and powerful existence came. That guy was called the "Evil Eye Tyrant", and it tyrannically plundered the most precious wealth belonging to the tree people.
:This canyon!
Although this forest is infinitely vast, this small canyon is the most indispensable thing for the tree people!
Because...in this canyon, there is a treasure that is related to whether the tree people can be passed down from generation to generation! Unfortunately, that treasure was taken for himself by the evil Evil Eye Tyrant!
What is hateful is that when the angry tree people and their "companions" came to argue with this evil guy, this guy's strength caused heavy losses to the tree people. The evil-eyed tyrant has powerful magical power, and he is even cruel
The clansman who killed Wood! There used to be three or five real tree people, but now only Wood is left. The others were all killed by the Evil Eye Tyrant, and the evil Evil Eye Tyrant also
They used their bodies to build their own palace, right inside this canyon.
The angry Wood blew the horn of nature and summoned a large number of companions to attack the canyon. However, the power of the powerful Evil Eye Tyrant was beyond the ability of the tree people to defeat. That evil and powerful existence could use magic to drive around the nearby canyon.
Warcraft! There were even corpses and undead crawling out of the ground! Facing these monsters, Wood lost many, many "companions".
But fortunately, this is a forest. Wood can summon endless "companions", and the Evil Eye Tyrant has some scruples. In the end, under a stalemate, the two sides reluctantly reached an agreement: a truce.
Wood demanded the return of the canyon, but the Evil Eye Tyrant did not agree. The final agreement between the two parties was that the tree people were allowed to enter the canyon once every ten years.
"What's in the canyon?" After listening to this story, Du Wei was most interested in this.