Chapter 1162
The boar continued to eat ravenously, despite its literal shortcoming, until it reached the size of an ant . Han Sen observed it intently, wondering why the boar might have wanted that to happen .
The consumption of one of those walnuts did not seem to impart any benefits . It merely brought pain and made the consumer shrink . And now, the boar had lost all semblance of its previous, intimidating look .
But despite having been made that small, the speed and strength of the creature looked unchanged .
Han Sen used his dongxuan aura to give the boar a scan and observe what it might have been attempting to do .
But the boar took off running through the forest . It was only a primitive creature, though, so it was no trouble for Han Sen to follow it closely .
The boar skittered its way over a distance of ten miles before coming up to another, albeit stranger, walnut tree .
The tree was of similar size to the others, but this tree had leaves that were black and red, not verdant green . Furthermore, the tree looked as if it had been made from metal . Each leaf, and even the composition of its trunk, looked to be metallic . And even stranger, Han Sen was unable to detect the presence of a lifeforce stemming from that particular tree .
If it was a tree king, there had to be a lifeforce . But if it really was a tree, it must have died a long time ago . And yet despite that, many fruits decorated the twigs and branches of the tree . That indicated it was actually alive .
The mini boar took to climbing the tree, and it went up and up until it reached a small hole on the trunk's surface .
The hole was almost as small as a needle hole, and Han Sen reckoned an average ant would have a difficult time squeezing through .
At least Han Sen knew now why the boar wanted to make itself so small: it wanted to enter that little hole .
Of course, this posed another question . Han Sen now wanted to know why the boar wanted to enter the hole so much . It had cost it a lot to do so, and all that effort had to be for some tangible result .
Han Sen scanned the whole tree, top to bottom . He could not get a look at what might have resided inside the tree, due to its only point of entry being so small .
Suddenly, though, Han Sen saw another creature approach . This time, it was a snake, but it was just as small as the boar . It climbed the tree and entered the hole just as the boar had .
"There must be something inside that tree hole . " Han Sen thought he might be able to find out by simply sawing the tree in two .
But he ultimately decided against this, preferring to wait and watch for a while longer .
Over the course of an hour, Han Sen was able to witness a number of similar creatures enter the tree . They were all tiny, just like the boar .
It was quite perplexing, and difficult to fathom why so many creatures were shrinking themselves to enter the tree hole . One mini creature even looked like a titan .
"Does a special treasure reside in there? Is that why so many are going inside?" Han Sen wondered, but then, he saw a creature exit the hole .
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