"Can you help them?" Fang Ze looked at the two parties in the stalemate and said to Groot. "Just free that hostage."
"I am Groot." Groot nodded, indicating that there was no problem.
Just when Fang Ze and Groot were about to help, the two anti-drug policemen who had discovered the existence of Fang Ze and Groot were not idle either.
"Let's move closer quietly." Team Zhang said to his colleagues, "If they are really associates of this group of drug dealers, we will capture these two people."
"Would you like to report to the superiors first?" A colleague said to Team Zhang with a walkie-talkie.
"Just say there is a suspicious person." After Captain Zhang replied, he used the cover of the grass and began to move towards the location of Fang Ze and Groot.
At the same time, Groot also began to use his ability to control trees to rescue the hostages captured by drug dealers.
All they saw was the big tree that the three drug dealers used as cover. Suddenly, the branches began to hang down like a rope towards the root of the tree. Before the three drug dealers realized what was happening, the branches hung down one by one, tied their hands, feet, and waists, and then hung them up.
This incident happened in just ten seconds. Not to mention the three drug dealers, even the anti-narcotics police were shocked.
What is this, meeting a ghost in broad daylight? !
"Rescue the hostages first." An old drug police officer shouted decisively, "The first team goes up to rescue the hostages, and the second team keeps an eye on the tree."
Several drug police officers listened to the order and ran quickly to the hostages. While running, they observed the big tree that tied the three drug dealers to prevent the big tree from tying them up together.
But these anti-narcotics policemen did not expect that the biggest danger did not come from the big tree that looked like a spirit, but from the original target they wanted to rescue, the hostage!
"Bang!" The sound of a pistol firing sounded, and the hostage who was originally captured by the drug dealer took out a pistol from nowhere, pointed it at the anti-drug policeman who rushed at the front, and fired a shot.
Fortunately, this anti-narcotics police officer was experienced and knew that hostages caught by drug dealers in such inaccessible mountains and forests usually had problems. Therefore, the moment the hostage took out his pistol, he jumped forward to dodge, so that the gun that was originally aimed at his chest at this moment The bullet that was fired only penetrated into the shoulder.
When the hostage saw that the shot did not hit anyone, he did not try to continue shooting. Instead, he took out a grenade, opened the ring and threw it towards the place where the anti-narcotics police rushed towards him.
After doing all this, he shot at the branches where the other drug dealers were tied up, trying to rescue the other three drug dealers.
The anti-narcotics police officer who was at the front just squatted down when he saw a grenade flying towards them. He didn't know where he got the courage to reach out and caught the grenade.
Then he used all his strength to flick the grenade in the direction where no one was.
The grenade immediately drew an arc in the sky, and then flew towards where Fang Ze and Groot were.
Sure enough, being accidentally injured by friendly forces is not only common in games, but also common in reality.
Before Fang Ze had time to lie down, Groot next to him took a step forward, and then roared. His height, which had shrunk to about two meters, began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye, before the grenade flew over. , it has been restored to a seven-meter reminder.
Then the giant Groot reached out and grabbed the grenade directly in his hand. However, because it flew in the air for too long, the grenade exploded as soon as Groot caught it.
With a dull explosion, the grenade in Groot's hand turned into a pile of shrapnel, all shot into Groot's palm.
"Are you okay?" Fang Ze asked with concern.
"I am Groot."
"Oh, it's okay." Fang Ze heard that Groot was fine, and the worry on his face suddenly relieved. He said to Groot, "We must have been discovered by others now. After you heal the injury, , let’s leave quickly.”
Groot listened to Fang Ze's words and nodded in agreement. His uninjured hand reached out to grab Fang Ze and put it on his shoulder. The second injured hand grabbed a big tree next to him, absorbed the big tree cleanly, and healed the minor injury on his hand.
With a wave of his hand, he shook out the shrapnel remaining in his body, and Groot took Fang Ze and began to leave in a direction where no one was around.
"Zhang, Captain Zhang!" Captain Zhang's colleagues looked at Groot's huge torso passing by, their teeth chattering up and down in fear. "This is really a tree man."
"I saw it." Captain Zhang said as he quickly took out a compact camera and tried to take a picture of the seven-meter-tall tree man, but only the back of Groot was taken.
"Why is there a person on this tree man's shoulder?" When Team Zhang looked at the photos he took and asked himself afterwards, Fang Ze and Groot had already entered a remote village in Yunnan.
"Wow, this is my first time to see the living Nagarjuna." A seven or eight-year-old girl wearing a small ethnic hat looked at Groot and exclaimed.
"I am Groot." Groot was not very happy with the little girl calling himself Nagarjuna.
"Brother Fang, what is the tree god talking about?" the little girl asked.
"He's saying he's happy to see you." Fang Ze misinterpreted Groot's words that he was not a Nagarjuna god.
"I am Groot." Groot looked at Fang Ze and said dissatisfied.
Although no one else could understand what he said, he could understand what others said.
"Okay." Fang Ze patted the waist of Groot, who was now only two meters tall, and said, "There are always many misunderstandings in life, so don't worry about it so much. If you weren't Nagarjuna, we wouldn't have anything to eat or drink. ”
After escaping the tracking of the anti-narcotics police, Fang Ze and Groot entered Yunnan. Occasionally, Groot's huge figure was mistaken for the legendary Nagarjuna by a Hani ethnic minority compatriot. Warm reception.
The Hani people are one of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. They believe in primitive gods, such as the god of the sky and the god of the earth.
Nagarjuna is the name of the tree god worshiped by the Hani people.
"Hey, Sister Qingzi, are you in Yunnan now?" Fang Ze teased the little girl and called Fan Qing, a temporary worker in the name of the Monster Management Bureau that he made up.
"How did you know?" Fan Qing couldn't contact Fang Ze for a long time. She thought it was because she failed the review and was directly eliminated by the Monster Management Bureau. Now she received a call from Fang Ze and was very happy.
"Didn't you post a selfie on your WeChat Moments? There's a sign for the scenic spot on the back."
"Well, yes, I am traveling in Yunnan now. Do you have any organizational tasks? I can fly back to Haiping at any time."
"The organization has a mission, but you don't have to come to Haiping." Fang Ze said to Fan Qing, "I am also in Yunnan now. I will tell you the coordinates later. See if you can find a car to pick me up."
"No problem, no problem." Fan Qing said quickly, "I have a friend in Yunnan. I will borrow his car to pick you up."
"By the way, did you encounter some difficult monsters this time? It actually requires me, a temporary member, to be dispatched."
"It's not a monster." Fang Ze didn't expect that Fan Qing's ability to associate was so strong, so he said funnyly, "There is a monster that is difficult to hide in the crowd and needs to be taken care of for a few days, and there is no reliable manpower."
"OK."
After Fang Ze and Fan Qing finished talking on the phone, they turned around and found that the little girl from before was still looking at Fang Ze's cell phone with envy and asked, "Brother Fang, is this a cell phone?"
"Yeah."
"This is the second time I have seen a mobile phone." The little girl whispered. "The first time was when Brother Posa came back from working in the village. He had a mobile phone with a similar appearance."
The Hani village where Fang Ze is located is actually quite backward and poor. On the one hand, the land here is relatively barren, and on the other hand, the people do not communicate much with the outside world and have backward ideas.
But it is precisely because of this that the Hani people here have retained many traditional things, especially their very beautiful clothing.
"By the way, what's your name?" Fang Ze asked the little girl.
"My name is Hu Ying." the little girl replied.
One characteristic of Hani people's naming is that the child is named by an elder, and the name must contain the elder's title.
For example, the name Hu Ying contains Hu, so his name was given by his aunt. In Hani language, his aunt is Ahu.
If a child's name is given by the grandmother, it will contain the word Pi. Girls are usually called Pi Song or Pi Niu, and boys are usually called Pi Cai Pi Bao, because in Hani language, the name of grandma is Api.
"Nagarjuna." An old man came over and said to Groot, "The banquet to welcome you has been prepared. Please move over."
"I am Groot." Groot was very dissatisfied with others calling him Nagarjuna, after all, his name was so easy to remember.
Even if it's hard to remember, every sentence he says introduces himself and can brainwash you.
If you don’t believe me, think about it in your mind now, what’s the tree man’s name? Definitely I am Groot.
Fang Ze pulled the pouting Groot, and then he and Groot walked into the small square in front of a big tree at the head of the village.
This is the place where the Hani people usually worship Nagarjuna. Now it is filled with simple long tables with sumptuous food on them.
After seeing the food, Groot finally stopped sulking. He sat at the long table prepared for him by the villagers at the front and drank a bowl of soup happily.
Fang Ze took a few bites of food, and then listened to Bema (a fortune teller and fortune teller among the Hani tribe) in the village say a lot of words of reverence.
At this time, Fang Ze discovered that there were only men and boys at the welcoming party being held. He did not see any women or little girls, including the girl named Hu Ying whom he met before.
(End of chapter)