Shi Wanyun recalled what happened at that time.
"The equipment you gave me was indeed very useful. The Cloak of the Hider really helped me a lot. With the help of those equipment, I reached the crown of the World Tree very easily."
"... You said that the towering tree is also a world tree?" Xu Xin asked.
"Yes, it is also a world tree, there is no doubt about that." Shi Wanyun nodded, "Because the first time I came across the term world tree was on that tree."
Is that tree also a world tree
Xu Xin was increasingly looking forward to what their world tree would look like when it grew fully grown.
"Then I'll continue." Shi Wanyun got up from the bed, walked to the window, and looked outside at the World Tree whose crown had already covered a large area.
"That giant tree is basically similar to this one. Its crown is extremely lush and covers a large area. So, even though I am under the crown, I am still some distance away from the trunk."
“But at that time, I felt that something was wrong.”
…
At that time, Shi Wanyun was in a state of high mental tension.
She always pays attention to the movements of all the advanced mutant creatures around her. Once they show a tendency to observe her, she will immediately stop her actions while wearing the Cloak of the Stealer.
However, once she reached the tree canopy, she could clearly sense that the atmosphere had changed.
In the large area under the tree canopy, there are still many advanced mutant creatures walking and moving freely, and from the appearance, the blood patterns on their bodies are more conspicuous, and their eyes are almost completely occupied by blood red.
It is obvious that the closer you are to the giant tree, the stronger the mutant creatures become.
but…
For some reason, as soon as she arrived in this area, she felt that the mutant creatures around her began to no longer care about her existence.
Since entering this area, she has never been noticed by those mutant creatures and has had a smooth journey.
After walking for a distance again, she was almost certain of this guess, so she slowed down her pace, quickened her pace, and began to test it out.
Her rapid movement still attracted the attention of the mutant creatures around her. An animal about three meters tall and shaped like a small carnivorous dinosaur turned its head and looked at her.
The red eyes, sharp and messy fangs, and the dizzying red lines on the body all made her heart tighten.
Fortunately, her guess was correct.
Although the small dinosaur looked over at her and noticed her, it had no intention of attacking her.
He even tilted his big head towards her, slightly opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, made a sound that sounded half doubtful and half welcoming, then turned away and ignored her.
This scene made Shi Wanyun break out in a cold sweat, but also made her feel relieved.
After trying a few more times and finding that the mutant creatures in this area posed no threat and were even friendly to her, she gradually relaxed and continued to move towards the roots of the towering tree.
The closer to the roots, the sparser the vegetation on the ground becomes. Instead, there are roots hanging down from the crowns of giant trees, standing in the area like a bamboo forest.
These roots hang straight down, the thinnest is as thick as a human arm, and the thickest is even as thick as a human waist, forming a strange jungle-like landscape.
Of course, there are also some advanced mutant creatures among them.
The mutant creatures that arrived here were no longer just non-hostile and friendly; they could even communicate with each other in simple ways.
Just as she was moving forward, a giant wild deer at least four meters tall walked up to Shi Wanyun, lowered its huge head, and looked at her with its blood-red eyes.
Shi Wanyun herself is weak, so naturally she cannot fight against these mutant creatures whose levels are unknown.
She didn't dare to walk away rashly, for fear that the other party would think she was impolite and attack her.
Tentatively, she reached out and stroked the massive deer head.
The hair on the deer's head is very short and is also covered with bright blood-colored stripes.
The short fur looks hard, but it feels soft and warm to the touch.
The mutant wild deer did not reject Shi Wanyun's touch, and even closed its eyes and enjoyed it.
Shi Wanyun's lips curled up slightly.
The mount she signed a mount contract with is a deer, so she has a certain closeness and familiarity with deer.
Seeing that the giant mutant deer looked very friendly, she tried to speak: "I want to go to the base of the tree house. Excuse me, is there any danger ahead?"
With the intelligence of advanced mutant creatures, communication should be easy, right
The wild deer opened its eyes, turned its head slightly to look at the roots of the banyan tree, and then shook its head at her.
The gorgeous pair of antlers swayed, making people want to touch them.
"You mean, there's no danger?" Shi Wanyun asked softly, feeling slightly happy.
The mutant deer nodded slightly, then turned its head again to look at the roots of the tree house, then looked at Shi Wanyun, and then...
It crouched down in front of Shi Wanyun, and swayed its huge deer head backwards.
"You..." Shi Wanyun looked at the wild deer in surprise, "Are you going to take me there?"
The wild deer's intention was very clear. It wanted Shi Wanyun to ride on its back.
The deer nodded again.
Shi Wanyun took a deep breath and made a decision: "Okay."
It couldn't be better to have such a huge deer protecting her for the last part of her journey.
Moreover, she did not dare to refuse the kindness of the giant deer. The giant deer was crouching down. If she still refused, who knew if it would suddenly turn hostile
The wild deer itself is more than four meters tall, and with the height of its antlers, it can even be more than five meters tall. Even if it crouches down, the height of its body alone is nearly two meters.
But this naturally did not pose a problem for Shi Wanyun. She jumped lightly and climbed onto the back of the big wild deer.
After she sat down, the wild deer slowly stood up and without waiting for Shi Wanyun to say anything, it began to walk towards the base of the tree house.
The speed is neither fast nor slow, but for such a huge body, even walking speed is equivalent to the speed of a human jogging.
Sitting on the wild deer's back, Shi Wanyun's vision was much higher than before, and the surrounding situation was displayed more clearly in her eyes.
A human being riding on a giant deer, which should rarely happen in this area, made the mutant creatures around, who originally had no interest in her, all look at her one by one.
Fortunately, they all had no hostility and were probably simply out of curiosity.
During the last part of the journey, Shi Wanyun did not say anything, and Julu did not make any sound or make any other movements. They simply moved towards the roots of the tree.
Shi Wanyun opened her lips slightly, but didn't say anything in the end.
She didn't know why the giant deer suddenly wanted to help her. Was it because she felt very comfortable touching it just now
Or maybe…
This giant deer knows why people like her come here, so it wants to help her complete the task
Too much talk will lead to mistakes, so it is better to remain silent.
The towering tree was getting closer and closer, and soon the giant deer stopped only a hundred meters away from the root of the giant tree. Then it stopped and slowly crouched down again.
Shi Wanyun immediately rolled off Julu.
She looked at the giant tree which was very close to her.
Seen from a distance, the thick trunk of this giant tree is indeed pointing upward as a whole, but when you look closer, you will find something different.
This tree is not one of those straight big trees that grows straight upwards. Instead, it is an old winding tree that looks like it has been baptized by time. There are all kinds of bumps and depressions on the trunk, which grows windingly upwards.
On the ground, part of the giant tree's roots protruded from the soil and were exposed, and the ground also appeared very bumpy.
Near the tree trunk, a faint purple-black light can be seen.
However, she could not see how the light was emitted, because the location where the light was emitted was blocked by the rugged soil and exposed roots.
But if it's purple-black light...
This should be her mission target this time.
There should be the entrance to the teleportation point back to her own tree house!
"Thanks… "
Shi Wanyun turned around and wanted to thank Julu for bringing her here.
As a result, when she was observing the giant tree, the giant deer had quietly walked away.
The speed was much faster than when it came. Now when I looked back, I could only barely see the back of the giant deer among the dense, dark green roots.
… Did it really just want to send her here
Although she was a little confused, the current situation did not allow her to waste too much time, so she immediately turned around and walked towards the tree trunk.
The area within a hundred meters around the tree trunk is another unique spectacle.
The closer you get to the trunk, the fewer roots hanging down, the more roots exposed from the ground, and the more uneven the ground becomes.
When you are about forty or fifty meters away from the trunk, the hanging roots have completely disappeared, but the underground roots are still sticking out unscrupulously, exposed.
The ground was so rough that Shi Wanyun couldn't move forward without using her hands to climb up.
In addition, there is another very obvious change.
There are no mutant creatures in this area.
It could even be said that from the place where she had just come down from the giant deer, there was no living creature that could move.
This made her feel something was wrong.
Are the mutant creatures not allowed to get near this giant tree
Or is it that there is danger nearby, which makes the mutant creatures around afraid and dare not approach
But there was no way, she still needed to move forward.
The rugged ground always gives people a sense of crisis. She once again gathered her strength and moved forward with full concentration.
Countless protruding and exposed thick tree roots made the ground rough, and she could only move forward using her hands and feet.
When you put your hands on the exposed roots, you don’t feel cold, but rather a warm touch, which even makes you feel a little comfortable.
Although the ground was rugged, there was only a distance of a hundred meters. Soon, Shi Wanyun arrived at the roots of the tree, climbed up the highest protruding root, and looked down.
"This is… "
The place emitting purple-black light was not a portal as she imagined, but a gem.
A gem containing purple-black energy.
"… the purple-black tree house core?"
She looked around again, and except for that, every other place was normal, and there was no strange light.
This orb is her mission target.
She didn't know why, but she just felt this way.
So she slid down from the highest root, squatted down, reached out and picked up the gem.
Before she could take a closer look at the gem, suddenly, the gem in her hand emitted a bright purple-black light!
She instantly felt a wave of tiredness coming over her, and after that, she knew nothing.
…
When she woke up again, she was lying on the bed in the bedroom.
The soft bed was so comfortable that she sank into it and didn't want to get up.
She tilted her head slightly, looked around, and then...
Suddenly he jumped up from the bed!
"Where is this?"
When she opened her eyes, she saw the wooden ceiling. Shi Wanyun thought she had returned to her tree house, but it turned out to be a strange room!
…She hasn’t completed this mission yet
She surveyed the room.
A simple small bedroom with clear and familiar textures on the wooden walls and ceiling, clearly telling her that this was a tree house.
But not her tree house!
The doors and windows of the room were closed, so she immediately walked to the window and reached out to push it open.
The window was not locked and was easily opened.
The view outside the window surprised her.
Outside the window is a dense, dark green tree canopy that is completely opaque to light and air.
The moment the window was opened, some of it even rushed in, squeezed on the inside of the window, and even drooped to the ground.
She reached out to try to push aside the dense leaves and branches, but it was no use. The tree canopy was very thick, and even if she pushed aside one layer, there was still the tree canopy behind.
This was indeed a tree house, but it was different from her own tree house, from the survivors' tree house.
In the survivors' tree house, the tree canopy outside the window will not affect the sight of people inside the house. People inside the house can look directly outside through the tree canopy.
But that obviously doesn't work here.
Since one couldn't see the scenery outside through the window, Shi Wanyun immediately walked to the door and reached out to open it.
"Ka... Crunch—"
The door opened slowly.
But she wasn't the one who opened it. Before her hand even touched the door handle, she saw it twist.
She immediately took a few steps back and subconsciously reached for her backpack, only to find that her backpack was also missing.
Even... her clothes had been completely changed, into a set of clothes she had never seen before.
The door was pushed open and a head poked in from the crack.
It was a girl younger than her age.
…human
The girl also saw her immediately and said in surprise: "Ah, you are awake? How are you? Are you feeling comfortable? This is the room I prepared for you."
"…Very comfortable, thank you. Excuse me, who are you? Where is this place?"
Seeing the friendly human, Shi Wanyun relaxed slightly, her expression softened, and she asked softly.
"Huh? Don't you know where this is?" The girl didn't enter the room, but continued to look at her, asking in surprise, "You don't know where this is, and you dare to come here?"
Shi Wanyun's eyes moved slightly.
Judging from the girl's tone, she should know a lot of things.
"... You've been standing at the door like this, aren't you tired?" Shi Wanyun smiled softly, "Why don't you come in? I really don't know much. We can sit down and talk. Can you tell me what's going on now?"
"Oh, of course! But you don't even know where this is. How did you get close to here without being eaten by the mutant creatures outside..."
As she spoke, the girl moved closer to her.
… Only the head came closer to her.
The door was still only a crack open.
A very long, white neck stretched out from the crack in the door, winding its way, bringing her head and her face to Shi Wanyun!
… ah
Shi Wanyun's eyes suddenly shrank and her body stiffened!
Cardiopulmonary arrest in an instant!
Her breathing stopped and she almost slapped him!
"Oh! Sorry!" The girl looked back, then apologized, and then quickly turned her head back to the door.
Then, the door was pushed open, and a normal girl walked in, apologizing, "Sorry, I'm used to it."
But Shi Wanyun stared at her, her eyes filled with shock and a hint of fear.
She subconsciously took a step back.
What kind of monster is this girl?!