"What's wrong with me?" Richard looked at the old man Lich and asked a little strangely.
"What did you say happened!" the old Lich said angrily, "Do you know that as soon as you left without saying hello, that stupid tree suddenly rebelled and how much trouble it caused?"
"Is the trouble big?" Richard asked doubtfully, "Didn't Pandora say before that Ximu was easily solved? Could it be that... she didn't explain it clearly, could it be that you were injured?"
"Of course I..." The old Lich was about to announce the truth loudly, when he suddenly saw Pandora's disdainful glance and changed his tone forcefully, "Of course I... was not injured, and even if I was, it was only a very slight injury. However, I was just so angry because you didn’t say hello to me and I felt like you didn’t respect me.”
"Okay, okay, I will definitely say hello to you next time a similar situation occurs." Richard said helplessly.
"Hmph, it's best not to happen again." The old man Lich curled his lips.
Richard shrugged, thought for a moment and asked, "By the way, where is the heart of the tree left by the tin wood?"
"Don't ask me about that little girl of yours," the old lich said.
After hearing what he said, Richard turned to look at Pandora.
Pandora said clearly: "Wait for a moment and I will take it out for you."
After saying that, he turned around and ran back to his study, and came back soon. In his hand was a metal container that looked like an iron pot, with a heavy stone slab covering it.
Richard glanced at Pandora with a complicated expression, and asked with some suspicion: "You wouldn't stew the tin wood directly, would you?"
In his opinion, if Ximu really made Pandora angry, it would be possible for Pandora to make a dish out of Ximu.
However, Pandora's answer still made him sigh in relief.
"No, how could I stew him? I just locked him in."
"Why are you locked in here?"
"Because he often wants to run away." Pandora pouted and said with some dissatisfaction, "Anyway, you will know after seeing it." After saying that, she lifted the stone slab on the metal container.
"boom!"
The stone slab hit the ground heavily with a muffled sound, and inside the pot... well, no, the tin wood inside the metal container came into view.
It was seen that the tin wood remained in the heart of the tree at this time, like a huge emerald green gem. Many milky white roots grew out of the upper and lower ends of the gem, swinging wildly like tentacles, trying to escape from the container.
"Look, that's it." Pandora pointed towards the heart of the tin tree, reached out angrily, grabbed one of the roots of the tin tree and pulled hard.
"Snapped!"
A crisp sound sounded, and the roots broke.
Suffering from this stimulation, the tin wood seemed to be in great pain, and all the remaining roots twitched. The entire heart of the tree lay upright in the metal container, motionless, like an octopus that had died of thirst on the shore. After a few seconds, the root began to move again, but compared with before, the strength was obviously weakened.
"If I hadn't pulled her like this every once in a while, this guy would have broken the little bell's rice bowl." Pandora complained in a low voice.
After hearing this, Richard was slightly startled: Xiao Lingdang's rice bowl? He knew that the little bell was the big golden retriever dog originally raised by the old man Lich, but it was now owned by Pandora. But what does the little bell’s rice bowl mean? It doesn’t mean that this metal container filled with tin and wood is used by golden retriever dogs to eat...
"Woof woof woof!"
A dog barked, and the golden retriever dog ran over quickly.
Richard reached out and grabbed the core of the tin wood from the basin. The next moment, he saw Pandora throwing the metal basin to the golden retriever dog, who excitedly picked it up.
Well, it is really a dog bowl for golden retriever dogs to eat... The corner of Richard's mouth couldn't help but twitch, he shook his head slightly and looked at the tin wood in his hand.
At this time, Ximu didn't know if he sensed changes in the outside world, but he became extremely quiet.
Richard glanced at the other party, thought for a while, took out a half-meter square water tank from the space iron ring, poured nutrient solution into it, placed the floating board, and placed the tree heart on it.
The roots in the heart of the tree felt the presence of the nutrient solution and plunged under the floating board, quickly absorbing the nutrient solution.
"Gudong, gudong!"
There was a sound similar to the sound of humans drinking water, and the height of the nutrient solution in the water tank dropped by half in an instant.
At this time, branches began to grow from the top of the heart of the tree, intertwined with each other, and grew to a height of about ten centimeters.
"Gudong, gudong!"
As the branches at the top of the tree continue to grow, the level of the nutrient solution in the water tank continues to drop. After a while, there is only a shallow layer of nutrient solution left. As the tin wood roots absorb it with force, it makes a "squeaking" drying sound. .
The branches of the tin wood began to sway, as if urging the replenishment of nutrient solution.
Richard did not cooperate. He glanced at Ximu and said, "Okay, that's all. Whether I want to continue supplying it to you or not depends on the results of our subsequent exchanges."
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
After hearing what Richard said, the tin wood reacted. The branches that had grown to a height of 17 or 18 centimeters were braided with each other to form a miniature human face, and its eyes turned towards Richard.
One person and one tree look at each other.
You looked at me and I looked at you, without saying a word to each other. There was silence all around, and the air gradually solidified.
In the end, it was Richard who spoke up first and broke the deadlock. He chuckled and said to Ximu, "Aren't you going to say something?"
"What did you say? What is there to say?!" Ximu was obviously emotional, as if he had realized that he would not end well, and was very uncooperative.
Richard looked at Ximu, raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you want to defend yourself and explain why you want to escape from here? If I remember correctly, you were brought here by me, and the contract should have been reached in March. , now it is September, almost half a year has passed - our contract period is only one year in total, and half of it has passed. If you bear with it any longer, you can leave safely, why should you take risks midway? This is illogical."
"Hmph." Ximu made a nasal sound and said, "This has nothing to do with logic. It's my pride that makes me do this."
"I am an advanced being and an immortal species. It is already a great shame to be defeated and captured by you. How can I really be willing to serve you? Just like one day, you were bitten by a dog. Are you willing to give in? A dog enslaves?”
Ximu's voice became louder.
"When I made a contract with you, I didn't really want to fulfill it at all. I just used it as a means to paralyze you and gain your trust in exchange for the opportunity for me to regain my strength. Once I successfully regain my strength and find the right time, even if it's There is only one day left before the contract expires, and I will forcefully escape from your place.
Do you understand, boy, this has nothing to do with any logic, it is all because of my identity, my heart, and my pride, which makes me unable to bear to stay with you for any longer. I am the great wise man of trees, the source of the forest, and the immortal guardian. I am Yuktrasir Alhaydon Tinwood. I...swear not to be a slave! "