On the other side, a few days later.
In a lush forest.
"boom!"
With a soft sound, Annie jumped down from the air and stepped on the ground with her feet.
Then she noticed something. She looked up and looked around, and saw strong beasts appearing in the grass and trees around her, their eyes shining at her.
But she knew that these beasts were in the same camp as her and would not attack. But under the gaze of many eyes, his body still tensed subconsciously, and the magic power in his body began to become active.
At this moment, there was a "swipe" sound, and a tall gray wolf jumped out and stopped in front of her.
"Ouch!"
With a roar, all the beasts retreated.
The gray wolf turned around and walked forward to the left. After walking for a while, he stopped and looked back at her. His meaning was very clear: follow her.
Annie let out a breath without saying anything, and moved forward under the guidance of the gray wolf.
One wolf continued to go deeper into the forest. After walking for about ten minutes, the gray wolf stopped, turned around and growled at Annie, quickly ran to the side, and disappeared from sight within a few seconds.
Annie got excited and knew she was at the right place.
As expected, there was a "rustling" sound soon, and more than a dozen vines stretched out, pushing a heavy lead box in front of her.
Annie stepped forward, grabbed the lead box, turned around and left.
But she felt her feet stagnate, and when she looked down, she found that the vines had somehow wrapped around her ankles.
The vine obviously meant no harm, and as soon as Annie noticed something strange, she let go and retracted.
Annie couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, guessing something, and looked behind the dense trees in front of her.
The next moment, a strong wind blew in the face, and a low and hoarse voice sounded in the wind: "Little girl, wait a moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, a strange tree with a height of three meters and a golden body walked out of the forest with its roots as legs. There is a human face on the trunk of the tree. If you squint your eyes carefully, you can see that it is the ancient tree species Ximu.
As soon as she made eye contact with Ximu, Annie's body couldn't help but tremble.
To be honest, she knew what Richard had put in this forest, but although she knew, she had never seen it with her own eyes. This was the first time.
Seeing the complete appearance of Ximu in front of her, Annie took a deep breath, trying to stay calm on the outside, but she was extremely uneasy on the inside. After all, things like the Immortality Seed are still a bit too exaggerated for her current strength and knowledge. This also allowed her to learn more about Richard's strength.
Feeling the ancient and powerful aura constantly conveyed from Ximu's body, Annie lowered her head slightly and said, "Is it Mr. Ximu? What can I do for you?"
"Haha, you actually called me Mr. Ximu?" Ximu said, slightly surprised, "It's interesting. This little girl like you is much more polite than the other little girl I saw before. Well, not bad, very good."
"It should be." Annie said aloud, "I just don't know, Mr. Ximu, you..."
"Well, it's nothing actually. I just want you to tell Richard that the amount of raw materials I purified for him this time is one-tenth more than the stipulation. According to the agreement between me and him, the extra should be double Double reward—double reduction of our contract period. You must remind him not to forget this." Ximu said seriously.
Anne was slightly stunned after hearing this. She thought it was some big deal, but she didn't expect it to be such a trivial matter, which simply damaged the image of the Immortal Seed in her mind.
She wanted to laugh a little, but she tried to hold it back. She took a deep breath and replied seriously: "Okay, Mr. Ximu, I will tell Mr. Richard exactly what you said."
"Well, that's good." Ximu said with some vague thoughts, "Let him remember everything clearly. If he can't remember it clearly, I can remember it clearly. In short, denial is impossible, absolutely impossible."
"By the way, did Richard ask you to bring me anything?" Ximu asked again, "For example, the workload for next month?"
"This -" Anne hesitated, thought about it seriously, shook her head and replied, "Your Excellency Richard, it seems that he has not specifically said anything about this. There is no surprise. The workload for next month should remain unchanged. Oh, I remember, Sir Richard asked me to tell Mr. Ximu you when I have a chance."
"What?"
"His Excellency Richard said, I hope you will pay attention to hiding in the forest, stay vigilant, and don't be too lax, so as not to be discovered by wizards or other enemies and put you in danger. After all, he is not very close to you now. If there is real danger, he cannot rush away quickly. Arrive." Annie said.
After hearing this, Ximu frowned and said with a bit of displeasure: "Does he still need to remind you? You underestimate me! Tell him that I have controlled many beasts and trees in the nearby forest, and every one of them The trees are all my ears. If there is really an enemy invasion, I will find out before he gets close to my body.
And every beast is my eyes. I can understand things further away through them without worrying about him at all. You tell him, as long as I can stay in this forest for one day, nothing can threaten me. "
"Uh, okay." Looking at Ximu's slightly excited attitude, Anne did not dare to refute, so she nodded and said, "I will tell Mr. Richard. Well, Mr. Ximu, if there is nothing else, then I Just leave first?"
"Okay, go ahead."
"Yes." Annie lowered her head again as a salute, carried the heavy lead box, and left quickly.
Ximu watched Annie go away, turned around and was about to walk into the depths of the forest. Suddenly he seemed to sense something and subconsciously looked in one direction.
Dozens of miles away in that direction, a black bear with a faint imprint of tin wood was chasing a bee, tortured by hunger, constantly moving away from the control area.
The chasing black bear knew clearly that the bee was trying to return to the hive. If it is lucky and successfully finds the hive, it will have a feast.
The hard work paid off. After a long journey, the black bear finally saw a huge beehive hanging on a tree in an extremely remote location in the forest, more than one meter in diameter.
Without hesitation, the black bear slammed into the trees, trying to knock the hive down.
There was a "bang" sound, and the hive was extremely strong and did not move at all when hung on the tree. But the bees inside were alarmed, and with a "buzz" sound, a large swarm flew out and stung the black bear.
The black bear had rough skin and thick flesh, and was not afraid of the bees' attacks. It covered its face and continued to hit the tree.
Half a minute later, with a "dong" sound, the hive hit the ground heavily and rolled to the side.
The black bear happily approaches the beehive, ready to open the hive and share the honey.
At this moment, with a harsh sound, a purple-black bee flew out of the hive. This bee is different from other bees. It is covered with a thick carapace, has a slender and curved tail needle, and even has a barb at the end. It looks more like a scorpion than a bee.
This weird bee flapped its wings with difficulty, landed on the black bear, and stabbed down with its tail needle.
The black bear felt a slight pain in his arm, but did not take it seriously. He subconsciously waved his hand and continued to approach the hive.
As a result, after walking a few steps, his legs weakened and he fell to the ground with a bang. A large amount of black water flowed out from the place where the weird bee-tail needle was stabbed. The black bear twitched a few times and died on the spot.
"Shashasha..."
At this time, hundreds of ant-like creatures crawled out of the huge hive, with scorpion-like pincers at the front. These creatures are very powerful. Only a dozen of them can hold up a huge hive and transport it to a distant place, as if they are preparing to find a more private place to hide.
The remaining creatures cooperated together, dragging up the black bears weighing several hundred kilograms, and followed their companions, as if preparing to use them as food reserves to complete their... higher levels of evolution.
Not long after, everything in the place disappeared completely.
Dozens of miles away, Ximu said to himself in surprise: "A pair of 'eyes' lost contact?"
"Well, it seems that we have gone too far. When we get back, we should be able to get in touch again." Ximu didn't take it seriously, shook his body, gave himself an explanation, turned around and walked into the depths of the forest.