At the edge of the eternal forest, the merchant Anthony appeared due to the call.
"They have eyeballs, can they sense their location?"
Businessman Anthony shook his head.
Lu Li looked towards the depths of the forest where a slender river flowed. Did something unexpected happen to them...
Let the merchant bring Andrea and Lu Li return to the upper reaches alone.
Dozens of minutes later, he arrived at the upstream branch, and the mark was still there: the agreed twenty-one fluorescent fruits formed a spire, clear and eye-catching.
Lu Li approached the mark and noticed movement marks around the minaret mark, a line extending like the winding mud prints left by many snakes. As Lu Li followed, the source was revealed: a fluorescent plant rooted in black mud and losing its fruits.
A scene emerged in my mind: a fluorescent plant pulled out its roots, moved and left traces of movement, and approached the river, leaving its fruits to build a spire.
Remy never said they were intelligent. There was no reason for a plant to know their signs and plans.
Lu Li's eyes moved away from the fluorescent plants and fell into the darkness.
Knowing of their actions, there is only one being who would do it: the Everforest itself.
Lu Li remembered that "Tesla" in the Land of Deception once said: This forest needs life.
Maybe the Eternal Forest is telling the truth through his mouth.
Lu Li would not be surprised that a forest has consciousness. Even if he puts aside the weird dense forests in the fantasy world, he has encountered two forests with consciousness: the elm forest and the plant habitat.
Lu Li, who already knew the truth, retreated to the coast. The Eternal Forest did not stop him from leaving. This was his chance.
Lu Li summoned the merchant Anthony again on the coast and asked him to bring all the sunshine boxes. He put seventeen sunshine boxes into his stomach bag: "You and the sculpture stay here to wait for Andrea, take it on board."
After giving instructions to the businessman Anthony, he went back to the edge of the forest, released the tree whisperer, opened the sun box, and talked to the forest as the sun bloomed from the golden ocean: "I hope to make an exchange. I leave the sunshine and the future to bring the eternal forest.
Resident, in exchange for the forest allowing me to take my companions away."
Putting the sunshine box on the lawn dug out of the soil, Lu Li covered the wooden box, leaving behind a ray of light that looked like a gap in the clouds. He restrained Annie's shadow and headed upstream.
Pausing slightly as he passed the moved sign tower, Lu Li released the Tree Whisperer again and opened the second Sunshine Box, and then continued to move forward.
The change occurs at the second mark which leads Lu Li to an unfamiliar stream that cannot be navigated by ships.
Lu Li left behind the third sunshine box, and left a sunshine box next to every mark he encountered.
After driving sleeplessly along the new guideline, on the third day after passing the fifteenth mark, Lu Li finally approached his destination: a lake surrounded by fluorescent plants forming a dark outline.
A fire was lit on the other side of the lake, and a vague figure swayed in front of the bonfire.
Lu Li opened the sixteenth sun box, and the beam of light shone into the sky.
The responding torch quickly swayed on the other side. After waiting for a moment, Remi floated across the lake and landed next to Lu Li.
"You were also brought here by the forest?"
"Let's go quickly."
Remy paused for a moment, feeling the urgency under the calm words, nodded, and faced the other side of the lake. The banshee scream echoed over the temporary camp: "Pack your bags and leave immediately!"
The figures on the other side gradually swayed, and several torches stretched along the lake towards this side.
Ten minutes later, Tesla and the others approached Lu Li, but they only brought five residents with them.
"Let Huina tell you." Tesla sighed.
The middle-aged man named Hui Na said with fear and guilt: "The forest is warning us and will not let us leave."
"I made an exchange with the Eternal Forest, and I can leave now."
Hui Na hesitated, and finally hesitated to reveal the truth: "Sorry, we want to stay here..."
This lake is more suitable for survival than Paradise Valley. They don't want to go to the distant land of light, even if it is as beautiful as imagined.
Lu Li graciously allowed them to leave, leaving only four residents who chose to follow.
"I can ask them to follow," Remy said.
"no need."
A few dozen residents are of little significance to the light land that starts a virtuous cycle, and they must hurry up and leave. The more people there are, the slower the speed.
"How much time do we have?" Remy asked.
"No more than three days."
The sun boxes will not bloom forever, depending on the gaps left the sunlight can evaporate for five to six days if the Eternal Forest does not open them.
"How long did it take you to get here?"
"No more than three days." Lu Li, who was constantly on the road, told her, "But I need some time to rest."
"You can sit on Ampei's back, but the luggage..."
"Throw away everything except the crops."
Tesla knows what's important.
They discarded their useless luggage and jumped on Amp's back, with Remi floating beside them, following the multi-legged Amp into the forest, away from the people staying by the lake.
It took Lu Li nearly three days to return to the upper reaches to search for them, while Ampei only took less than half a day to return to the edge of the forest.
The directional sun boxes shed light, and the forest did not touch them.
Lu Li jumped off Ampere's back and stepped on the wet soil. He staggered slightly and was supported by Remi who floated over.
The businessman Anthony and the sculpture were not around, so Lu Li handed the last sunshine box to Remi and asked her to unfold it towards the sea to ensure that Andrea could find them.
After finishing everything, Lu Li left the sun box behind, shining into the forest like a lighthouse beam, and approaching the coast with the people walking with numb legs.
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The sound of the waves gradually became clearer as they approached the coast, and the light of a few oil lamps appeared on the dark sea surface, slowly drifting towards them.
The Twisted Cultists rowed boats to meet them.
The pagans on the boat made them uncomfortable, but thinking of the church in the Land of Light, they were allies, not enemies.
One after another, they got on the rocking wooden boats. Ampere was carried by three wooden boats lined up in a row. The twisted cultists controlled the sea water and sent it to Andrea.
"This ship, I feel it is alive..."
Remy watched the rope descend, automatically wrap around both ends of the wooden boat, and slowly rise. The Ampere wooden boat was also tied and pulled up by ropes that looked like living creatures.
"Her name is Andrea."
The raised wooden boat was parallel to the deck, and they followed Lu Li onto the deck.
"I believe what you said now." Jimmy said muffledly.
"Have you always been suspicious?" Remi looked at her brother with a bad tone.
"I thought he was tricking those people into leaving..."
The amp fell on the deck and the ropes were scattered and untied.
"Go to Nice Town."
As Lu Li spoke, Andrea swayed slightly and sailed towards the other side of the vast deep sea.
The light at the edge of the land gradually turned into points of light and was no longer visible.
The four residents and Ampere were temporarily placed in the cabin, and Lu Li took them back to the captain's cabin. Tesla was surprised by the sculpture in the corner.
