Neither Duwei nor Hussein expected that there was another spring near the Fountain of Youth.
Medusa still looked cold and indifferent. She led the two of them out of the hall and looked into the depths of the palace.
"This palace of yours is all built with the bodies of tree people...?"
On the way, Du Wei asked seemingly casually.
"Yes." Medusa suddenly stopped and asked Du Wei: "Is there any problem?"
It was Hussein who spoke this time: "Don't you think this approach is a bit too cruel? Although you and the tree people are enemies, you should at least respect the enemy's corpse."
"Respect the corpse..." Medusa tasted this sentence carefully, and then asked Du Wei: "Is this also human nature?"
Du Wei smiled: "That's right."
"But, I don't understand." Medusa said frankly: "I can't understand this kind of 'human nature'. I heard Gargamel talk about many human behaviors. You humans kill wild beasts and eat their meat.
Their fur is peeled off to make clothes and decorations...Why do you humans say things like 'respect the corpses' while doing these things? I use the bodies of tree people to build houses, and I kill wild beasts with you humans.
Is there any essential difference between eating their flesh and wearing their skin?”
Maybe Medusa doesn't understand human nature, maybe she doesn't understand anything. But such a simple question made both the knowledgeable Du Wei and the experienced knight speechless.
Yes...is there a difference?
Medusa thought about it carefully, and then she smiled softly: "It seems that I have summarized another human characteristic, which is...hypocrisy. Do humans always say one thing and do another?"
Du Wei was smiling bitterly. He didn't know how to answer Medusa, so he could only sigh: "Sometimes... yes."
"I don't like this trait in human nature, nor do I like humans." Medusa concluded, then ended the conversation and continued to lead the two of them forward.
Outside the main hall, there was a corridor. Medusa opened a small door at the end. There was a dark house. When he walked into the house, Du Wei felt a bit of cold air coming... This was different from the ice and snow outside.
The coldness on earth is different, as if there is a damp, cold air that can penetrate people's clothes and pores on their skin. It can even penetrate people's bones and penetrate all the way into their internal organs!
That kind of cold air enveloped his body, and Du Wei immediately felt a chill all over his body. It felt as if his whole body was being gently pricked by countless sharp needles. For a moment, even his fingers were almost frozen!
"right here."
In the darkness, Medusa walked as normal, as if she was born without eyes.
"I usually sleep here. This is my bedroom." Medusa pointed to a stone slab on the ground: "Time passes. It's down there."
"Sleep here...aren't you cold..." Du Wei stopped just as he said this. He suddenly remembered that snakes are all cold-blooded animals.
Lifting up the stone slab, Du Wei saw a spring as big as a bowl below. The water in the spring flashed. In this dark room, the spring water seemed to glow automatically. But it was this spring. After lifting the stone slab, Du Wei
Wei immediately felt the cold feeling in the air, which instantly increased tenfold!
"What kind of water is this... Why is it so cold! But it doesn't freeze?" Du Wei couldn't help but tremble a little, and his teeth began to chatter.
He couldn't care less. Du Wei was worried that he would freeze if he continued like this. He hurriedly twisted his body a few times and did a set of basic starry sky fighting spirit movements that Hussein taught him. He felt the energy in his body.
After the hot air came up, the cold air was slightly driven away.
But Du Wei still found that even Knight Hussein's face seemed to be covered with a thin layer of white frost! The cold air instantly froze the sweat on the knight's face!
"I only discovered this spring after I came here, and the tree people didn't know it existed." Medusa said calmly.
"The tree people don't know either..." Du Wei sighed: "This spring water looks weird at first glance. Is there anything special about it...?"
Medusa didn't say anything. She smiled and then said calmly: "Is that black thing you are wearing on your eyes to deal with me? Now, you'd better put it on."
Du Wei smiled coquettishly, pulled Hussein's hand, and then put on his sunglasses.
Medusa gently twisted a piece of her hair in the palm of her hand, raised her palm flat, and chanted a few strange syllables in a low voice. The hair automatically twisted twice in her palm, and then quickly
, transformed into a snake about the thickness of a thumb!
This kind of snake is covered in gold, and every scale seems to be made of gold. It twists its body a few times, quickly coils up, then raises its head and spits out a message, making a hissing sound. But the eyes of this young snake are...
Not opened.
"This is a baby golden-eyed python. It will take decades for the golden-eyed python to grow to be as thick as a human waist. But..." Medusa said, she slowly reached out and bowed in the spring water.
He picked up a handful of water and carefully fed it into the mouth of the golden-eyed python...
The miracle happened at this moment!
Medusa gently placed the snake on the ground, then took a step back...
Immediately, under the naked eyes of Du Wei and Hussein, the snake's body suddenly expanded! Its scales continued to expand, and its body quickly changed from the thickness of a thumb to the thickness of a tree trunk! The body also continued to expand.
It grew longer! And the eyes that were originally closed finally opened!
Behind the sunglasses, Du Wei could still see the snake's eyes, emitting a strange, golden light! Under this look, Du Wei only glanced at the golden-eyed python, as if he felt a slight pain in his eyes.
.Then he quickly turned his head!
Fortunately, he was protected by sunglasses made of black crystal. Otherwise, Du Wei suspected that he had turned into stone.
Next, the snake began to roll, as if it was in pain, its body twisted, twisted again, and finally made a small hissing sound...
It's actually shedding its skin!!!!
After shedding its skin once, a nearly complete snake skin was left on the ground. The golden snake skin was at Du Wei's feet, and the snake continued to grow! In the end, its body almost overwhelmed Du Wei and others.
It's squeezed into the corner! This snake takes up almost half of such a dark room!
After that, Du Wei calculated in his mind that in only a few minutes, the snake shed its skin three more times!
Then...it starts to age!
The huge body began to become weak. The snake's body, which was originally full of elasticity and strength, gradually shriveled up, and even the golden light on its scales dimmed. Little by little, its strength became stronger and stronger.
They got smaller and smaller. Finally, they were entangled together. They even lost the strength to hold their heads high and speak out, and their heads drooped feebly...
Under the snake's skin, its flesh and blood began to wither. Finally... the snake died. Its body dried quickly, the water drained away, and turned into a snake trunk! Then the snake's skin broke, like a dead skin...
"A golden-eyed python, according to your calculation method, has a lifespan of about forty years." Medusa's voice sounded softly: "From birth to death of old age, it will shed its skin four times. After the fourth molt,
It will grow to its peak state of magic and strength."
Du Wei felt his heart beating wildly!
Forty years?
But how long did it last? Ten minutes at most? No, maybe only five or six minutes!
Within five or six minutes, a young golden-eyed python completes its transformation from childhood to adulthood, then sheds its skin four times, and finally ages...and then dies... Within five minutes, it completes its normal life span of forty years.
!?
"That's why I said that this spring is the 'complete opposite' of the Fountain of Youth." Medusa smiled: "I named it 'Time Passage'."
After a pause, the beautiful snake laughed: "Gargamel said that if this spring water is used as poison, it will be the most terrifying poison in the world!"
Du Wei and Hussein both had shock in their eyes!
Indeed, this is indeed the most terrifying poison in the world!
time!
What poison is more powerful than the passage of time?!
Du Wei thought more...
Why? Why is this "time passing" somewhere else but with this fountain of youth?
Just like nature, there is a hidden natural principle of mutual growth and mutual restraint among all things in the world! One makes people solidify their form forever, while the other makes people pass quickly!
So, what wonderful effects will happen if these two kinds of spring water are mixed together?
Or, what would happen if a person who drank from the Fountain of Youth drank the passage of time again...?
Of course, Du Wei kept these questions in his heart and would not say them in front of others. He just thought about it and said, "Can I take some of the spring water here with me?"
After getting Medusa's consent, Du Wei immediately and unceremoniously took out all the bottles on his body, and then emptied and threw away all the magic medicine and other things inside... The other things were still outside.
We can find it again, but this kind of spring water may not be found anywhere in the world if we leave here!
Du Wei found all the bottles on his body, filled several bottles of "Time Passage", and finally drained an empty bottle, and filled another bottle of "Fountain of Youth".
"What are you doing with these terrible passages of time?" Hussein frowned: "I think this kind of thing can only poison people and has no other use."
"You have forgotten, I am a magic pharmacist and a poison master!" Du Wei vaguely explained.
He had another concern in mind.
Time passes...what if it is used wisely?
I just fed a handful of water to a golden-eyed python, poisoning it to death within five minutes.
So... what if we drink less? How about diluting the spring water to a certain clever level? Can we just let it grow up without dying of old age?
So... what if it is given to the tree people outside? Can a seedling grow into a towering tree in a short period of time?
If one mouthful is too much, then drink a drop! If one drop is too much...then add a drop of spring water to a bucket of clean water to dilute it!
Du Wei is so curious about this thing!
He even had a few bottles in his arms, but he still didn't think they were enough, so he looked at Medusa sheepishly: "Do you have any other containers here?"
It was Hussein who took out something he carried with him...a leather bag, which turned out to contain wine. Du Wei took it and filled it with another leather bag of spring water, and then he was satisfied.
Take it back and study it slowly if you have the chance!
"I'm very surprised...you evolved into Medusa only after drinking from the Fountain of Youth." Du Wei said slowly: "But why don't you let other golden-eyed pythons drink the spring water too?"
"Because I am selfish." Medusa replied calmly: "I am the only Medusa here, and my words are the only orders. If there is one more... then there will be a war. If there is one more group,
Then maybe I will die too."
"Very good. At least you have some humanity." Du Wei laughed: "Because among other things, human beings, as a whole, are the most selfish creatures in the world."
After a pause, Du Wei smiled and said: "Okay, then, Her Majesty the Queen, what's next? The deal we reached. I am willing to teach you everything about human nature... So, are you ready to go on the road with us? Or are you ready to go on the road with us?
Why don't you stay here until I finish my own business and then come back to you?"
Medusa's choice surprised Du Wei and others.
"I'll leave with you." Her Majesty the Queen replied without hesitation.
Du Wei was stunned: "You...you mean you will join our team?"
"No, I'm not joining your team. I'm leaving with you, not you." Medusa said lightly: "I don't like humans, and I don't believe in humans. The various behaviors of humans that I heard from Gargamel seem to be very...
Most humans are not used to keeping their promises. So I will follow you."
Then, this extremely indifferent beauty suddenly smiled, and she said softly: "Besides, I've been here enough! You should have seen it when you came in, here... there are rats everywhere! And I am a snake.
, what I hate most are rats!”
Duwei smiled.
Yes, in the biological chain, snakes are the natural enemies of mice!
Other companions who were traveling with her were a little wary of the queen. Even Du Wei was a little doubtful whether his move would cause a catastrophe to mankind?
This is none other than the most terrifying monster in the legend, Queen Medusa! As long as she comes to the human world, and then opens her eyes and looks around...then it will be a massacre!
"Your Majesty the Queen..." The Mouse Prime Minister suddenly fell at her feet: "If you leave, what will I, Gargamel, do? If those tree people break in, I can't stop them!"
"Then there is no need to stop it." Medusa seemed not to say anything about her "kingdom". She said calmly: "This canyon originally belonged to them, and there is nothing wrong with giving it back to them."
After leaving the canyon, the tree-human Old Wood who was waiting outside was already walking around anxiously. His huge footsteps touched the potholes on the ground. It also shook the tree crown from time to time.
Seeing Du Wei and the others coming out, Old Wood suddenly let out a cheer. Then, as if in response, countless tree man "companions" behind him roared.
"Mr. Wood." Du Wei walked up to the tree people with a pleasant look: "We have convinced Evil Eye. From today on, she will return the canyon to the tree people... But there is a condition. A simple condition. I need to get it.
The Shuren Clan’s promise, I believe that the kind-hearted Shuren Clan will never break their promise.”
What else is there to say? Old Wood immediately agreed happily.
"The canyon is returned to you, and the Fountain of Youth is also inside. But..." Du Wei said slowly: "There is a black room at the innermost part of the palace. That place is a forbidden area. I ask you to promise that you tree people will guard it.
No one will be allowed in that place! No creature will be allowed to come close, including yourselves. If there are other creatures, whether they are monsters or humans, anything! You must stop them with all your strength! Apart from that, I have nothing else
Asked for it."
Before coming out, the powerful knight used golden fighting spirit to split open the palace with a few swords, revealing the original main hall inside and the location of the fountain of youth. As time passed, a preservation was quietly buried in the innermost part.
Complete dark house.
The leader of the tree tribe cannot express his gratitude in words. The kind and generous tree tribe does not resent the evil eye's hundreds of years of grudges against them. They can regain the guarantee of their tribe's inheritance: the fountain of youth, and no other.
Requested.
Wood assured on the spot that the tree people would keep their promise and protect this place and prevent outsiders from entering.
"Is the leaf that the distinguished... guest... gave you... still... there?"
Du Wei was stunned for a moment, and after groping in his arms for a while, he took out the golden leaf that Old Wood had given him before entering the canyon. After entering, he thought he would have a battle with Medusa, but it didn't work.
He came out and said with a smile: "Oh, I almost forgot, I'll give this back to you."
"No! You...keep it." Old Wood's rich voice was trembling with gratitude. Then he stretched out a branch and gently twisted the leaf. Several branches twisted and twisted the leaf.
The leaf rolled back and forth several times, and finally curled into a golden...horn!
Old Wood then told Duwei an amazing secret!
This golden leaf is grown from the vines on the Tree Tribe’s treasure “Natural Horn”!!
This pure gold leaf is folded into a small horn, and after being blown...
As long as there are trees around, those big trees can be awakened and become... "companions" of the tree people (although Du Wei thinks this is basically a "slave" of the tree people).
"You... can... force... them... to do... anything... for you." Old Wood explained: "But... there is... a time... limit."
The so-called time limit is: when the sun goes down, they will turn into trees again.
"That is to say, the time to wake up is only one day at most." Du Wei smiled.
He smiled so happily!!!
If...if I can dilute the spring water of the passage of time to a certain extent...then what does it mean?
As long as I carry a handful of seeds with me!
So wherever I go, I will be carrying a large group of giant bodyguards with me!!