Exotic Endangered Species

Moving forward, the surrounding trees are still tall and dense, but the dense darkness no longer exists, it is pushed away by the soft light, and the delicate flowers emitting faint blue light are like small decorative lights scattered on the ground. I found a small path leading to nowhere and only allowed one person to pass. The butterfly flew around twice and refused to move forward.

Carl nodded to it and walked slowly up the path.

Lin Heng babbled at the monkey on the tree for a long time. Finally, it couldn't stand this nervous orc female, twisted its buttocks, and crawled away lazily.

"Hey, hey, Brother Monkey!" Lin Heng wanted to keep this ruthless little guy with some sadness, but he was completely ignored.

The monkey who was about to leave couldn't be stopped after all. Lin Heng lay on the hay and sighed leisurely, but suddenly found that the singing stopped suddenly.

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Karl approached this tree that glowed light green in the dark. Its branches were so thick that a dozen orcs couldn't hold them together. The rough bark was wrinkled like the face of a dying old woman, but its The branches and leaves are dense and crowded, full of vitality.Its height is not outstanding among all the trees, but it is as high as 20 meters.

It looked at Karl silently, and Karl looked at him silently.

This ancient tree, whose branches could not be shaken by violent storms, and whose leaves would not be shaken by light rain or breeze, when Karl came to stare at it, all the leaves 'swirled' sounded like a salute.

Carl stretched out his hand, touched its branches slowly, as if recalling something, whispered: "I've seen you..."

In the heritage...

The leaves swayed even more, as if they were very happy, and the green light it emitted became stronger with the shaking of the branches and leaves, lighting up all the silent and boundless night.

And the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects that had been hidden with Karl's arrival suddenly sounded as if they had received some signal!

And those tens of thousands of fireflies hidden in the leaves also flew out with their thin wings shaking.

This is a grand feast. The Milky Way pours out from the branches of the ancient trees and rushes into this quiet and beautiful forest in an unstoppable manner, just to welcome a long-awaited guest.

Every falling star is joy, and every emotional singing is miss.

Carl looked up at the scene, his straight lips relaxed slightly, and his voice was gentle: "Thank you."

Carl touched its branches again. He had never been in the tree family when he changed the salt before.Since he became an adult, it has been intermittent, hazy, and even just some fragments of inherited memory. As Lin appeared in his life, the veil gradually began to be lifted, and it became more and more clear.

Everything is like a switch. From the moment he is pressed, a force pushes him in an unknown direction, and the invisible thread will unravel all the doubts he once hid...

If this is fate...

Carl lowered his eyes, and he readily accepted.

"You are here." The old voice suddenly sounded.

Karl looked around, and an old tree tribe was looking at him, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

He looked at Carl, sighed and said with relief: "You are finally here."

His green hair is already mottled, but his green eyes are still so clear that they are not cloudy. He is leaning on a cane, and he wears a tree priest's headdress on his head. The folds are as deep as the bark he is touching.

Karl turned around and faced the tree priest: "I came as promised"

The priest nodded. Although he was old, he was full of energy. He smiled and looked at the ancient tree: "I expected you to come, but I didn't expect to wait so long."

It wasn't until some time ago that he calculated the approximate date of the arrival of the god-favored one, and then handed over the carved bones to Ye Zi.As long as they are the real gods, the so-called last bereaved family, they will definitely be able to hear the call of the ancient tree, and they will definitely be able to find the difference in the bone pattern.

The tattoo Karl felt was different from the previous one, calling to him without pain.

"Are the bone tattoos fake?" Carl asked after following the priest.

The priest shook his head: "No, I don't know much. When your father and mother were still alive, they came here on purpose. We, the Tree Clan, closed our eyes and listened, so we couldn't participate in anything."

"It's been a long time since I learned the news again. At first I couldn't predict anything, thinking that the God-favored ones were extinct, but Raoul told me that the God-favored ones have not disappeared."

Raoul is the old tree.

"It told me that your ancestors planted it with their own hands, and it gave birth to this forest."

"The butterfly is actually Raoul's emissary. He has lived here for thousands of years. I was lucky enough to see Raoul when I was young. When I grew up, I became a priest of the tree tribe. Raoul sleeps most of the time. It woke up once when your father and mother first came here. It also woke up once after they had an accident and asked me to find the remains of your loved ones, and then fell asleep again. You come today, it It's the first time I've woken up in a long time."

"Raoul's sleeping time is getting longer and longer," the tree priest said a little sadly: "I can feel that its power is getting weaker and weaker..."

"The power of the tree clan is too weak. I only got one bone, which is on the leaf." The priest of the tree clan led him to a small wooden house, which was actually built behind Raoul.

"They lived here. It was built by your parents."

The priest stood outside the door without moving, but pushed open the door to signal Karl to go in alone.

The room is very narrow, and there are four pillars under the wooden planks cut from thick branches, covered with animal skins, which seems to be a sleeping place.There are several small wooden piers beside them, some high and some low. There are some strange utensils on the wooden piers. The things inside have turned gray and black, probably because they have been placed for too long.

As soon as Karl turned his head, he was attracted by a painting painted on the wall of the house. He could guess that the painting must have had color in the first place, but it just faded away. Perhaps those containers contained paint.

A huge beast hugged a female loosely, and he looked down at his female, defending him in a protective posture, but his back was relaxed and docile on the ground.

That pair of strong and powerful, beautiful and elegant huge wings stretched out from his back, spreading flat on the ground, as if bathed in warm sunlight, its posture was extremely gentle, half-raised one front paw seemed to be Is it to touch your lover or your own child...

The female laughs happily, and his happiness is vividly presented in front of every viewer through this painting, making people unable to help but want to laugh with him.There was a little furry guy lying on top of his head, with his eyes wide open, looking forward innocently, except that he had no wings, he was simply a miniature version of a big beast...

There is no doubt that this is a painted family portrait, and they are very... very happy.

And Karl was very sure that the male orc's eyes must be sea blue, the same sea blue as his.

His eyes trembled, and this trembling quickly spread to his fingertips and his whole body. He wanted to control his trembling, but he couldn't do anything.

He pressed his fingertips, took a deep breath, sat on the wooden pier, and slowly buried his head in his palms.

A pain deeper than touching the bones burned in his heart. They swept through his limbs and bones, swept through all his doubts, and wanted to shatter his weak first half of his life.

There is no truth in memory and incomplete inheritance, and he hates this uncertainty.

-

"It's almost dawn."

Carl moved his body and gave a soft 'huh'.He stood up, but he was a little reluctant to take a step. His eyes turned to the painting on the wall, but he noticed that there were a few small symbols written in the lower left corner of the painting.

Carl took a closer look.

Long time no move...

"Are you alright?" the tree priest outside urged.

Karl walked out of the wooden house, and the priest closed the door. He seemed to have aged a lot overnight. He looked at Karl and said, "You can come back anytime later. I know you have something important to do now, so it's inconvenient to stay for a long time. Raoul and I are in this room. Be sure to watch over you."

The tree priest looked at Raoul again. Raoul had already fallen asleep. Among all the trees, it became sparse and ordinary, without any light or spirituality.

"The time it wakes up is getting shorter and shorter. Last night was the longest time. It used to say a few words before suddenly falling asleep." The tree priest touched Raoul's bark.

He looked at Carl and relayed Raoul's words: "Raoul said he was sorry, because your ancestors moved to another continent very early to survive, and the scope of its roots is too small, and it can tell you too little."

"But..." the priest was silent for a while, his heart was not peaceful, but he told Karl truthfully: "It said that there is no...beast god in this world."

In this world where the beast god is the supreme god, there is actually no strongest beast god at all.

-

When Carl returned, Lin was still fast asleep.

He put the fruits he picked aside, and pulled the fire to make the surrounding temperature even higher.

Then he approached the sleeping Lin Heng, and carefully wiped off the remaining blood on his leg.

Following Lin Heng's example, he skewered the mushrooms, smeared them with fruit juice, and roasted them on the fire.

The little monkey who was scared away by him last night was attracted by the smell and ran over again. The little monkey thought that the female orc was going to fulfill his promise last night.As a result, it ran over and saw that the one who grilled the skewers turned out to be the male who was so scary that he hit a tree!

Karl looked up at it, and it flinched in fright, trying to run away.

Carl didn't speak, but raised his hand and handed the mushroom string in the direction of the little monkey.If he remembered correctly, it was this little monkey that was scared away by him yesterday, and Lin was about to hand it this mushroom skewer.

Seeing that the little monkey refused to come over, Karl was used to the fact that animals were afraid of him.He stood up with the mushroom skewers and walked under the tree.The monkey on the tree swished away, looking like an enemy, but stopped on another tree, and looked at Karl warily.

Carl stood on tiptoe, grabbed a branch, carefully stuck the mushroom skewer on the branch, and then sat back by the fire without looking sideways.

The little monkey observed for a long time, scratched its ears, carefully jumped back to the original tree, and climbed down hesitantly. After one step down, it looked at Karl, climbed another step, and looked at Karl again.Until it finally touched what it had been thinking about all night, it happily rushed to the top of the tree, intending to enjoy it.

Lin Heng's joking voice suddenly sounded: "I promised to give it two strings."

Carl paused for a moment, then nodded silently, holding the freshly baked mushroom skewers, stood up and wanted to stuff the little monkey between the branches like just now.