"Why? Isn't it valuable? But I think it looks pretty good!"
"It's not that it's worthless, it's that it's too valuable. It's an artifact."
After hearing this, the monkey was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes were wide and round. Almost as soon as I put my front hand on it, he picked it up with his back hand and held it tightly in his arms. "Hey, it turns out to be a magical weapon. So,
This thing must be worth a lot of money?"
I nodded helplessly and said: "No matter in terms of age or shape, it is a shocking treasure. It is definitely worth the money. But this thing cannot be sold, because if it appears,
, it will definitely shock the world. This thing is too eye-catching. If you are caught, you will definitely be shot. It cannot be seen in the country, so it can only be sold to foreigners, but we can’t do such things that would be punished by God.
, this is something that belongs to us Chinese, we can’t be traitors, so it’s useless for you to take it, so just put it down!”
But the monkey hugged it tightly and refused to let go. "Tiger Head, it's okay. It's okay if I don't sell it. I can just keep it for my own fun."
When I saw him like that, I knew it was impossible for him to give up. In the end, I had no choice but to let him go. However, I still persuaded him. I said that since this thing is an artifact, there may be some truths in it.
You have to be extremely careful. Even if you take it out, it's best to cover it tightly and don't let anyone know about it, otherwise no one can protect you.
The monkey nodded quickly and said, "Don't worry about the tiger's head. If it comes, I will treat it as a biological father and mother, and I promise not to show it to anyone. That's it!"
At this moment, we suddenly heard some noises coming from behind the altar. We quickly went over to take a look, only to find that there was a mezzanine between the back of the altar and the ancient tree, a small black thing.
It was lying there twisting.
It turned out to be a little hozen. The three of us looked at each other in shock. It was obvious that this little hozen was the child of the one I killed outside. I didn’t expect that they would use this altar as a nest.
The little thing was only a foot long, but it was not afraid of anything. When it saw us approaching, it had no intention of evading it. Instead, it squatted on the ground and bared its teeth in a threatening manner.
The monkey sneered, and slowly walked over to catch him, but the little hozen pounced on him first, biting his trouser leg, tearing it apart and clawing hard with his two small paws.
"Damn, you little thing is quite fierce. Look at me, I won't kill you." The monkey laughed strangely, raised the long-handled knife in his hand and slashed at it. I couldn't stop him, and I saw the knife fell on the little hozen's head.
He was cut off and half pulled away, twisted on the ground a few times and then died.
"Monkey, why did you kill it? It's just a gadget." I looked at him in shock. If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to kill him.
But the monkey grinned and said, "Tiger Head, you are too soft-hearted. As the saying goes, eradicate the roots. These are harmful things. When it grows up, it will become another disaster. Have you forgotten the big one just now? It can cover people's clothes."
Man in leather, tell me how evil this thing must be. We are in a dangerous situation now, and even the slightest risk will be nipped in the cradle.
Shuiyue next to her now also sided with the monkey, and what she said was more convincing. There is a small one here now. If the one who died outside is a female, it means that there is at least a big one here. This thing
It is very sensitive to the smell of strangers. If this little one is left alone, it may pose a greater threat.
I understood what she meant, that if the big one came back, he would probably follow our scent and seek revenge. But having said that, I still felt a little uncomfortable. The police also need evidence when arresting people, and there was no evidence.
I'm sure this little thing can harm people. Maybe I'm too kind. I always feel that it's a very bad thing to not care about the feelings of the weak when you have absolute power, even if it's just an animal.
I sighed. Human nature is always the hardest thing to understand. I can't impose my thoughts on others. All I can do is maintain the persistence in my heart.
The monkey moved the body of the little hozen aside. At this time, we discovered that there was a hole on the altar inside. It was damaged due to time, but it completely showed that the altar was actually a
It's hollow. Is there any secret in it? Such thoughts arose in my mind.
I glanced at them, and they were also confused, obviously having the same idea as me.
"Would you like to open it and take a look?" Monkey suggested.
I nodded, of course I had to figure it out when encountering such a situation, but I felt that there should be some mystery in it, so I said let's look for it, maybe we can open it without force.
We searched the entire tree cave and found nothing special. Finally, we focused our attention on the bronze statue on the altar. If we want to say the most special thing here, it should be this bronze statue.
.
Sure enough, when the monkey turned the bronze statue in a circle, a hole suddenly opened on the left side of the altar, more than one meter high and wide, with a staircase going straight down.
I was a little excited. It seemed that we had found the secret entrance. But when I stretched my head and took a look inside, I was stunned. I couldn't believe that what I saw was real.
This staircase is made of wood, and it is cut out of the body of this huge ghost locust tree. It is dark and cannot see the end below, but it is obviously that the space is very large, which means that the ghost locust tree we see
It's just a section of it, and there's a thicker place underneath.
I suddenly thought of something and quickly turned around and ran outside. Shuiyue and Monkey didn't know what I had discovered and followed closely.
I walked to one of the locust trees that was as thick as a bowl, took out the tools and dug at the roots. There was a layer of hard soil on top, but when I dug half a meter deep, hard rock was exposed.
The ghost locust tree emerged from under the rock. Because of its growth, the surrounding rocks were squeezed and cracked, forming dense gaps like spiders.
"Hutou, what are you doing?" the monkey couldn't help but ask.
I took a deep breath and slowly told the two of them what I had discovered. These ghost locust trees all grow up from below. I suspect that this entire forest is actually one tree. There are many ghosts.
The locust tree is just a branch. The location we are now is actually at the top of this tree. There should be a larger trunk and space below.
They all stared at me with wide eyes. This suspicion was so shocking. Such a forest was just one tree? How huge must this tree be?
Not only they couldn't believe it, but I myself couldn't believe it, but I felt that my guess was correct. I said it was very simple to prove this, as long as we went down from the hole and took a look.
When we walked down the cave, my suspicion was finally confirmed. We were still in this huge locust tree, and the stairs were winding down around the inside of the trunk. From the inside
Look, the dark brown tree trunk is almost completely decayed, but we have just seen its lushness, so we have no doubt about its vitality, but we don't know how big and tall it is.
After walking down for about fifty meters, a hole appeared in the tree trunk next to the stairs. It was not like a man-made hole but was formed naturally over time.
I asked them to stop, and then I drilled in along the entrance of the hole. The tree hole soon came to an end, and there was darkness ahead. I illuminated it with an electric light, and what I saw was extremely shocking.
There were smooth stone walls about ten meters in front of me, and I popped out of the tree trunk like a tiny moth, surrounded by countless huge branches extending in all directions, some of which had already stuck along the stone walls.
I went in, and each branch was almost several meters in diameter, covered with holes of all sizes, and below, except for the larger branches, was endless darkness. The light in my hand was like a firefly in the night sky.
Generally small and not worth mentioning.
I feel that this huge ghost locust tree is like a towering giant with countless hands, but it is surrounded by rocks. It is trying hard to break through these rocks. I don’t know how many years it has gone through.
It still stands, standing tenaciously in this endless darkness.
At this time, the monkey also crawled along the tree hole, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help shouting.
"Oh my god, is this a fucking tree? Fortunately, it grows underground. If it were on the ground, I doubt even a plane can fly over it."
This is true. We have only walked a little way down, but the space inside the tree hole is more than twice as big as the top. I don’t know how deep it is further down, but it is definitely beyond my imagination.
I suddenly had a very strange idea. We had seen many tunnels in some buildings outside Stone City before. The colors around those tunnels were very similar to the color of the tree trunks. Are those tunnels all inside these branches? Even
, this entire stone city is actually built on this giant tree?
This idea is very bold, but it is not impossible. At least I think this giant tree is fully capable of carrying the stone city. It is too big.
We returned to the tree cave and continued walking down. The further we went down, the larger the space became and the more holes we encountered. In the end, almost the entire tree cave was surrounded by holes of all sizes, as densely packed as a honeycomb.
After walking for hundreds of meters, we could hardly see the other side of the tree cave. At this moment, the stairs suddenly came to an end, but it was not the end. What appeared in front of us was a piece of rotten wood.
Like the stone forest we encountered before, the sharp parts go upwards, and each root is like an independent existence. There are only small gaps and uneven places in the middle for us to continue walking down.