King from scratch

The scene did not know when it fell silent. The players squatted beside the devil and Dudu, forming a small circle head to head.

The players who watched the conversation between Nubida and Dudu whispered.

"Sounds reasonable, but I think something is wrong. Is the devil trying to trap us again?"

"Wait a minute, let me take a look. Lincoln is about to lose, ask the king for help, the king intervenes, Lincoln turns the defeat into victory, the internal strife in Everfree Forest ends, Lincoln returns to the kingdom, and our mission is completed? This logic seems to be okay?"

"The problem is too obvious! If we can intervene in the internal strife in the Everfree Forest, will this task be difficult for us?"

Another player pointed out the problem: "We can't even get into Everfree Forest, let alone complete the first step of this step - let Lincoln and the others lose in the internal strife. If we want to be able to control the situation of the battle, we can directly drag Lincoln and the others Wouldn't it be nice to come back?"

Nubida understands the shortcomings of players' low IQ very well, so he patiently reminded players: "Be careful when you listen to me, I didn't let you control the battle of Everfree Forest."

Dudu recalled what the devil said just now: "What you emphasize is to let them fight as soon as possible, so that Lincoln can lose as soon as possible?"

"That's right." Nubida snapped his fingers: "It will be a matter of time before Lincoln and the others lose. The crux of the problem is how to make them lose as soon as possible."

Dudu: "You just said that the reason why the tree man issued this mission is because he doesn't want to see the druids fighting among themselves, but your method..." Dudu glanced at the demon: "It's completely accelerating the druids' fighting among themselves. ?”

Nubida spread his hands: "The tree man is a fool, and I am not. Besides, I am doing this entirely for you. Do you still want to complete the task?"

Another player was not sure: "But this is completely contrary to the tree man's original intention. He will not renege on his debt by then, will he?"

"Repudiation on the king's territory?" Nubida said firmly, "He dare not."

After the player gets the demon's firm answer, he turns his attention back to the method proposed by the demon.

"Of course we want to complete the mission, but I think there is something wrong with your method," the player said: "We can't control the situation of the endless forest, let alone let them fight as soon as possible."

Nubida sighed, he really rarely encountered such stupid intelligent creatures.

"The things you can do in this are much more than you think."

"But we can't even get into the Everlasting Forest..."

"Who said you have to go in to be effective?"

Nubida's method is very simple, so simple that players can re-innovate on his basis and create new tricks.

At the border between the endless forest and the kingdom, there is an invisible line lined up by countless iron-eating ants.

Players are busy here, and there are people coming and going-most of them came to help (cross out) to join in the fun because of Dudu's new post.

A huge flag was erected outside the border, and the players were divided into several columns, and a column was placed every few hundred meters along the border. Leng used a small number of players to create an aura surrounding the entire endless forest.

However, there is only momentum, as long as players dare to take a step towards the border and step into the territory of the endless forest, they will immediately expose the essence of bluffing.

However, what they were going to do this time was very simple, and it was basically impossible for their lives to be in danger—unless the group of druids took the risk of angering the king and committed massacres on the kingdom's territory.

After the players finished checking their lines and everything was ready, Dudu took a deep breath and shook the flagpole next to his hand. The long flag unfolded with the wind, revealing the line of big characters on it.

"Lincoln Lincoln, you can do it!"

While waving the flag, Dudu took the lead and shouted: "Come on, Lincoln! Come on, Lincoln!"

The players around her followed suit and shouted in unison, and there was an instant commotion outside the endless forest.

Their shouts are like a signal, and other players who are hundreds of meters away will follow up immediately when their shouts stop.

The new flag began to wave again, "The neutral faction is the strongest!"

And the new slogan sounded again in unison: "Down with the extremist druids, we support you! Lincoln!"

One after another, the slogans spread rapidly along the border of the Everfree Forest, rendering the place extremely lively.

"Let the extreme druids eat shit!"

"We'll always have your back, Lincoln!"

"The kingdom is your strongest backing!"

"Come on, young man who pursues his ideals!"

"Nature belongs to the whole world!"

"For environmental protection...ah, no, for druids! Go!"

In the free play of column after column of players, the slogan gradually deteriorates.

Nubida watched the battle from the sidelines and found that there was a loophole in his perfect plan-if the druids decided to be unanimous because of the anger of the players' free slogans...then this would turn into a direct confrontation between the kingdom and the druids. It's war.

But this has nothing to do with me, Nubida leaned against the tree, very naturally separated, anyway, my task has been completed.

As for whether the players' missions fail or not, that's what the players should care about.

Of course, players have too many things to care about, they just don't realize it at all.

For example, the real purpose behind the devil's sudden kindness.

Demons don't have gratuitous kindness.

Listening to the cries one after another, Nubida was very satisfied with the fact that the players could always unite in inexplicable places, and then the response became unexpected.

The demon's eyes fell on the Everfree Forest from the players outside the border, and he smiled triumphantly as if he saw something interesting.

Inside Everfree.

Because the forest has existed for too long, it almost blocks out the sun, layers of trees cover the sky, and ubiquitous plants build a primitive forest environment, full of danger and murderous intent.

Because not long ago, the neutral druids and the extremist druids failed to communicate, and the two sides retreated strategically to the other end of the endless forest, leaving enough buffer zone for each other, and tentatively carried out several times. attack.

But this did not destroy the original appearance of the forest. To be precise, it was precisely because of the confrontation and even tentative attacks between them that the forest vegetation became more lush and aggressive.

Although the players outside the border were shouting slogans in a lively and orderly manner, the Everfree Forest maintained a consistent calm. Except for the chirping of insects and birds, no sound made by intelligent creatures could be heard.

The area of ​​the Everfree Forest is extremely vast, and those sounds that sound lively outside the Everfree Forest, falling into the Everfree Forest are like drops of water that have merged into the ocean, making no waves, and even unable to be deeply absorbed by the Everfree Forest. where the existence heard.

But that refers to the normal situation, and the situation outside the border of the iron-eater ant Chen Bing obviously cannot be called a normal situation.

At least no one will ignore the existence of iron-eating ants.

The druids paid more or less attention to this, and the constant death of the players, including the comments of the players and the current slogans one after another, were accurately conveyed to their ears through the plants.

This is commonplace for druids, who have an incomparable connection to nature, especially Everfree.

If you say something next to the Everfree Forest, you should be prepared for it to be conveyed to the druid's ears by the plants.

Of course, the players definitely didn't have this preparation before, but after Nubida proposed his method, the players became clear about this.

Because the 'good way' of Nubida is based on the druid's ability.

Among the densely packed plants, druids are almost indistinguishable from them, and there is no product of civilization among the green plants.

This is the habit of extremist druids, who are hostile to intelligent beings, including civilizations created by those intelligent beings.

In their eyes, it is not science and alchemy, but the mottled bloodstains of nature, and it is the iron evidence that intelligent creatures continue to destroy nature.

Therefore, extremist druids live in nature in a primitive way. They do not need the products brought by civilization. Intelligent creatures are members of the natural ecological cycle. They follow this ecological cycle and transform themselves into Be part of nature.

That's why the devil said Lincoln was bound to lose.

Although the concept of extremist druids is very biased, at the same time, this concept and way of life allows them to build a closer connection with nature.

Due to different philosophies, some of the neutral druids would roam the continent regularly, which was enough to make them distinct from the extremists in their close connection with nature.

Druids' abilities come from nature. They don't strengthen themselves by exploring the ether or using spells. They drive everything in nature for their own use by establishing a close connection with nature.

The ether plays the role of connection with nature, the force that drives nature.

As an existence that was only discovered and defined in the fifth era, before the fifth era, ether had multiple identities. As a basic element, it evolved into different forms of existence because of different ways of use.

Even today, most intelligent creatures recognize the identity and role of ether as a basic element, but they still have different ideas about how to use ether.

This variety of usage methods may be the reason why the races in this world are so powerful.

They have dug out how ether is used in different fields, and they have explored to a sufficient degree.

Only by contending among a hundred schools of thought can there be room in the end, and the dominance of one family can only come to an end.

Norman Jin listened attentively to the voice that came back naturally, and quickly frowned.

"Lincoln..." He read out the name that was constantly mentioned in the slogans of the players, without hiding his anger: "He has been inclined to those guys who destroy the environment from the beginning!"

"As a Druid, you are simply a traitor!"

"Norman Gold..." The druid on the side was even tougher than Norman Gold: "We have to do something, otherwise they might think we are just talking."

"In the beginning, we gave up the entire continent and let it be claimed by those stupid barbarians, and now they are looking at the Everfree Forest!" Norman Jin became more and more angry: "I knew that those guys didn't know how to They will not restrain themselves, they will only greedily take everything, destroy everything, and destroy everything in exchange for wealth and even power."

"That's right! We can't retreat any longer. The Everfree Forest belongs to nature, treemen, and druids, but it will never belong to those barbarians who destroy nature!"

The other druids spoke up one after another.

"We have to give them a little warning."

"Don't let Lincoln think we're just joking with them!"

"It's because we didn't do anything that those neutrals who are used to compromise will compromise with the barbarians!"

The druids around Nuoman Jin yelled for a while, and the scene was filled with the militant atmosphere of fighting the enemy bravely.

Amidst the yelling, a druid whispered, "But the tree man..."

The air suddenly froze, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

Norman Jin showed a complex expression that could not be explained in words: "The tree man... is still awake?"

"Basically, they all woke up from their slumber," another druid said with a dazed expression. "It's never happened before that such a large number of treants woke up at the same time."

Another druid was dissatisfied: "They don't support our conflict with the neutral faction."

"But the Ents also don't support the neutrals' proposal that Everfree join the kingdom."

Norman Jin's expression became more and more indescribable: "Too many tree people have awakened."

It's not that druids have any unknown conflicts with tree people.

It's just that the tree people are a very powerful and almost immortal race, their long lifespan has not brought them the experience they deserve, and their thinking logic is still more inclined to plants than to intelligent creatures.

"I'm a little worried that they will do something unexpected." Another druid said: "For example, go to the kingdom to find the barbarian king to do something."

Compared with treants, extreme druids can be regarded as the trendiest of the times.

The sleep cycle of the treants is very long, and the last time they woke up on a large scale was in the Dark Ages.

When the world was on the verge of collapse, the treants awakened the entire Everfree Forest - and then took them to the non-collapsed area to avoid the destruction of the Everfree Forest.

A mass treant awakening is a dangerous and unmanageable event.

Because one treant might just be able to be defined as powerful, but all treants?

They can bring the entire Everfree Forest to life in a true sense.

Norman Jin just said "too many tree people have awakened", which is the root of all problems.

The tree people are isolated from the world and sleep for a long time. They know nothing about the changes in this world.

The extremist druids were not worried about the king's life and safety. What they were worried about was that after the tree man took the lead, the situation would get out of control.

Norman Jin took a deep breath, and once again heard the shouts of those players from the feedback from the forest, this breath was completely unbearable.

Norman King was easily caught by the devil's "good way": "Let's go find Lincoln..." He said angrily: "We won't be afraid of them."

The extremist druids came out in full force and walked towards where Lincoln and the others were.

In the environment of the forest, it is very stupid to try to conceal your whereabouts. The earth knows every step you take, and if they know it, it means that the Druids know it.

Almost as soon as Norman Jin and the others moved, Lincoln and the others knew each other's whereabouts immediately.

"Norman Gold is enraged." Druid said: "He is always like this, and he doesn't know what restraint is."

"If the extremists know restraint, then they are not extremists." Another druid turned to look at Lincoln: "The demon is right, the kingdom has demonstrated their benevolence, and of course, they have also given their threats , we can no longer compromise with the extremists, the kingdom will not leave us a way out."

The other druids agreed with him: "It's not a good idea to anger the kingdom, and Normankin and the others really..." He thought about the wording: "It's too much."

"While they are clamoring for the protection of nature, they refuse to resurrect extinct creatures in the Everfree Forest. It is just a friendly cooperation with the kingdom to bring those extinct animals and plants back to life. Isn't this a favorable condition? ?”

"They rejected it too quickly, as if they regarded the Everfree Forest as theirs." Druid said: "Of course, I don't say who owns the Everfree Forest, it's just that we compromised for too long, So much so that the extremists feel that now they have the final say."

Lincoln sighed: "It doesn't matter who decides..." He remembered the king's eyes that seemed to see everything, and muttered: "What the king wants to do will not fail."

"Get ready, Norman King is coming for real this time."

Having said that, no druid has any fluctuations in the upcoming battle. Death is a link in the ecological chain, and the druid accepts it well.

It’s just that I can’t help complaining about Nuoman Jin: “Seriously, can’t he change his temper? Even players can easily use this to achieve their goals…”

"The devil is behind the scenes." Regarding this, Lincoln is still sure: "Players don't know so much about druids."

"Devil..." The druids all showed expressions of disgust, and didn't even continue the discussion.

It's pointless to think about why the devil does this, because normal people simply can't keep up with the devil's brain circuits.

Lincoln patted the shoulders of the other druids: "Father God is with us."

The druids said in unison: "Father God is with us."

Accompanied by their words, the surrounding vegetation seemed to come alive, raising the vines and sticking out the leaves, and quickly prepared for a battle.

But there was an episode that interrupted them.

"Are you done talking?" A voice came from behind them.

A rough human face grew out of the ordinary trees behind them, and there was a special sound when the mouth was closed.

"I've been waiting for a while," said the other party.

The druids reacted: "Treant?"

The other party introduced himself: "Inz, I have been asleep for tens of thousands of years, you probably don't know me..."

It is true that Druids are not long-lived species. For short-lived species, their lifespan is considered long, but for real long-lived species, they are just existences that will disappear in the blink of an eye.

Lincoln was a little surprised by the appearance of the other party: "I remember that the sleeping treant has been taken care of by Norman Jin and the others?"

Inz said slowly, "I have something to ask you."

Lincoln had a premonition.

"Are you compiling a list of extinct animals and plants for the recovery of the kingdom?" Inz said, "Give it to me."

"What do you want this for?" Lincoln didn't refuse—he didn't need to refuse, he reached out and took out a record file from his personal space, and handed it to the big tree in front of him.

The branches of the trees swayed, trapping the stack of files in the branches.

The other party complained: "Why use paper? It's too brittle and easily broken."

But it's convenient... Lincoln didn't say this, changed the subject, and asked again: "What do you want this for?"

"Oh, we're going to visit the Kingdom." The big tree in front of Lincoln shook one after another, passing the stack of files from Lincoln's eyes to where it should go.

Inz was not here. The big tree in front of Lincoln was just an ordinary tree temporarily awakened by the other party.

To treants, the entire forest is part of them.

"What?!" Lincoln subconsciously stood up straight: "Are you planning to go to the kingdom? How many tree people?"

The trees in front of him shook and informed Lincoln: "Norman King and the others are here."

"Lincoln—" Norman King stood on the vine and swept towards him, followed by a group of druids and various plants. Obviously, they were ready to fight.

But the scene in front of him stopped the rapidly extending vines, and Norman Jin stood on the vines and looked at the trees with facial features.

"Tree people?"

Inz greeted him: "Norman King, wait a moment."

The extremist druids who came here full of fighting spirit really waited for a while—it is impossible to wait, and the tree man is the mentor of the druids, which means that there is a huge gap in strength between them.

Druids drive plants, but to treants, plants are part of them.

Inz continued to talk to Lincoln: "Most of the Ents, some are too lazy to move, so they don't plan to go, besides, they still have to watch you." The Ents made a joke that wasn't funny: "You can't let You are all dead."

"This..." Lincoln gestured to Norman King to say something: "Why don't you wait until we finish fighting?"

Norman Jin reacted quickly: "Where are you going? To the kingdom? Wait until we finish fighting," he said very firmly, "It will be over soon, and it won't take much time for you."

"You hit you, let's go and see the extinct animals and plants in the kingdom." Inz said nonchalantly, "It's two different things."

No, it's totally the same thing.

Lincoln coughed: "The kingdom may not necessarily welcome you."

Inz was unfamiliar with the word: "Welcome?"

"The territory of the kingdom has rejected us," Lincoln told the tree man of his previous experience: "The nature of that land is not open to us."

Inz: "Surprisingly, what did Father God do?"

Norman Jin hurriedly reminded him: "Father God has fallen."

"Oh, I almost forgot, He has already fallen..." Inz's mood became depressed, and he stopped discussing this with them: "You can fight now."

After leaving these words, the facial features on the tree gradually disappeared and returned to their original appearance.

Lincoln and Norman King looked at each other, both worried.

Lincoln: "Can you stop them?"

Norman King: "You think someone can stop them?"

That's really impossible. Lincoln got the answer and looked at Norman King again: "Then shall we continue?"

Norman Jin glanced at the noisy border in the distance: "Just let them pass like this?" Are you sure the kingdom will not directly go to war because of overreaction?

"That's hundreds of Treants," Lincoln didn't understand the subtext of his words: "No matter what we do, it won't help."

Norman Jin's expression faltered: "Actually, there are not only a few hundred."

Lincoln raised his voice subconsciously: "What?!"

Norman Jin then raised the volume: "What can I do, the tree people wake up one by one, can I let them go back to sleep again?"

"So, how many tree people are there?"

"Almost all..." Norman Jin lacked confidence: "Wake up."

Lincoln took a deep breath. This number of Ents is completely beyond the scope of their influence, and their argument is obviously meaningless, because it is always the Ents who count the words between Druids and Ents.

"I'll contact the king, you wait." Lincoln ordered some Norman gold, with the air of a bully not leaving after school.

Norman Jin stood on the vine and urged the other party: "Then hurry up, the tree man is not slow."

Chiqing streaked across the sky and stopped on Lincoln's shoulder. A leaf quickly grew out of Lincoln's hand, and words appeared on the leaf—as if there were these writings when it was growing, the huge leaf was stuffed into Chiqing. in the bird's beak.

Chi Qing flew away, under Lincoln's anxious urging, leaving only a flashing trace in the sky, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The word that should be passed on to the king has already been spread, and the subsequent situation is not part of the druid's intervention.

Lincoln was too lazy to talk nonsense with Norman Jin, the vine under his feet suddenly branched out, and stopped in front of Norman Jin: "Come on, fight."

"Hurry up," Norman Jin said urgently, "Maybe the tree man will cause trouble in the kingdom."

When the extremist faction and the neutral faction finally officially started fighting, beside the bustling and noisy border, the players ushered in unexpected "guests".

Player: "Fuck, has the endless forest grown legs?"

The dense trees stretch out from the endless forest, seemingly endless.