Chapter 2428
Night Wind obeyed the command and deployed his substance chains to clear the rubble behind the screen . The three of them hauled their junkie Duke along with them, moving around the screen and proceeding forward .
Blood came from every orifice of the Duke’s body . He wasn’t dead yet, but his prospects weren’t looking good . That was especially true of his eyes; they had turned entirely red, and even the whites of his eyes had been consumed by the new color .
Night Wind focused his attention on clearing the road ahead . After he cleared the path for some distance in front of them, he suddenly stopped . He looked at Miss Mirror and said, “Miss Mirror, should we change the direction of our travel?”
“Why?” Miss Mirror asked Night Wind .
Han Sen was curious about this, too . He had no clue why Night Wind had made this suggestion .
Night Wind sighed and said, “The third picture predicts that we will reach a tree . But comparing the height of the figures to the height of the tree in the picture, it suggests that the tree is very large . It would be a hundred meters tall, at least . Moving a tree like that out of our path could be difficult . ”
Han Sen understood Night Wind’s rationale now . The fourth picture seemed to indicate that they’d encounter a tree, and that tree couldn’t be moved . If they changed course ahead of time to avoid the tree, though, the prediction would be incorrect . If they avoided the tree successfully, that would suggest that it really had been someone messing with them .
“Let’s switch directions, then . ” Miss Mirror nodded .
With Miss Mirror’s approval, Night Wind changed direction and resumed digging .
If someone was trying to trick them, it would be easy for that person to guess their course since they were digging in the direction that the power was drawing them . The source of that power was their destination, after all . The mysterious trickster might have seen them, known where they would go, and then carved the pictures accordingly .
If someone was rattled by those pictures, they would probably find some sense of security in following the road they had already intended to travel . And if they encountered that tree, they would be terrified . The trickster’s plans would come together rather neatly in that case .
Night Wind made this suggestion to keep that from happening . If the trickster tried to move the tree to intercept them, he was bound to leave behind some evidence of what he had done . The trickster’s plan would fail .
Night Wind moved quickly, digging at a very fast pace . After ten minutes, they had followed Night Wind down a trench that was a few hundred meters long .
But Night Wind suddenly came to a standstill . The rigidity in his back made it obvious that he had frozen midstep, not just stopped for a breather . He stood there, staring ahead as if he had seen a ghost . He didn’t even lower his raised arms .
“What happened?” Han Sen followed Night Wind’s gaze . He saw that Night Wind had cleared half of the rocks, and a small object was now peeking out of the rubble .
When Han Sen saw what it was, his face paled as well . A twig was rising from the rocks, and several green leaves had sprouted from it . It looked like it belonged to a willow tree .
“How?” Han Sen asked uncomfortably . He peered more closely at the twigs and leaves, and they looked like the ones in the picture .
Night Wind silently used his dark substance chains to remove all the nearby rocks . More twigs appeared as the rubble was tossed away . A few minutes later, a mass of twigs and branches was showing—the whole tree had been unearthed .
It was exactly the same as it appeared in the picture . It was a hundred meters tall, and it looked like a willow tree . The flexible branches hung low, and the tree was covered with countless green leaves .
The three of them stared glumly up at the tree . They had changed course in a way that should have been unpredictable, but they had found the tree anyway . It was way too weird .
Han Sen inspected the roots of the tree . It was nestled in a flowerbed made of stone, and rich soil covered its roots .
“It doesn’t look as if someone moved it here,” Miss Mirror said while looking at the flower bed .
“Maybe there are many trees like this . If that is the case, then we were bound to encounter at least one of them . This plaza is probably walled with trees . We would have found one no matter where we chose to dig,” Han Sen said after a moment of thought .
“Right,” Night Wind replied seriously, and he moved his substance chains to dig elsewhere . He wanted to see if another tree could be found in a different direction .
“Stop digging! There will not be another one of these trees . ” Miss Mirror waved her hands to stop him .
Night Wind wasn’t going to question Miss Mirror, but he did look at her with confusion . He was waiting for her to explain that declaration .
Miss Mirror looked at the tree and said, “I think this is a requiem tree . ”
“A requiem tree!” When Night Wind heard that, he paled slightly . He looked at the tree with an expression of disbelief .
Han Sen looked at Miss Mirror and Night Wind with confusion . He had never heard of a “requiem tree” before .
Miss Mirror knew what Han Sen was wondering, and before he had a chance to ask, she explained, “When I visited the Ancient God, I saw a requiem tree once . The Ancient God say that these requiem trees are where their people go for their final slumber . The legends say that the Ancient God need to be buried next to them so that their souls can find eternal rest . ”
“If you’ve seen a tree like this amongst the Ancient God, and now there is another one here, it doesn’t sound like these things are terribly rare . Why would you say that there won’t be another one of these trees around here somewhere?” Han Sen asked, his brow furrowed . He was obviously missing something .
“I don’t know how many requiem trees there are in the universe, but the one I saw before was only two feet tall,” Miss Mirror said . “The master of that requiem tree said they only grow to a height of about three feet, anyway . Then, they stop growing . If an Ancient God dies and is buried beneath the requiem tree, it will absorb the Ancient God’s body . The tree will then grow one more foot, no more and no less . Do the math . If this tree has grown so high, how many Ancient God bodies were here? Do you think there will be multiple trees that have reached this height?”
“This is really a requiem tree?” Han Sen stared up at the tree, suddenly seeing its prodigious height in a whole new light .
Ancient Water God’s body had moisturized a few systems, bringing life to many planets and even making primitive races level up .
If Miss Mirror was speaking the truth, then that requiem tree must have absorbed a few hundred Ancient God bodies, at the least . It must have taken in an unbelievable amount of energy . It was hard to imagine how strong the tree must be . But Han Sen couldn’t feel the appalling lifeforce that should have been radiating from the tree . To him, it was little more than an ordinary plant .
“It is easy to determine whether or not it is a genuine requiem tree . If it is a requiem tree, the tree will have a requiem tree hole that holds Ancient God powers . ” Miss Mirror walked around the tree, and it wasn’t long before she came to a stop . She stared at one specific location on the trunk .
Han Sen and Night Wind walked over to Miss Mirror . They followed Miss Mirror’s gaze and found her looking at a tree hole that was the size of a man’s fist . The interior of the hole was jet black, and Han Sen’s eyesight wasn’t good enough to pierce the gloom and see if anything was inside .
“That is it! This is a requiem tree hole . I can’t tell if a requiem tree egg is there, though,” Miss Mirror murmured to herself as she looked at the tree hole .
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