Kelly’s death has nothing to do with old William
Who killed her then
Jiang Baiyan was even more confused and couldn't help asking, "What happened?"
"I went to the woods to look for someone - I got lost - that tree - I don't know - that cave - the white cave..." Old William talked in his sleep intermittently, his words unclear, "Why did I go there? Oh, it was an owl - a big owl..."
Strange memories come to mind.
Old William saw his teenage self. At that time, he was a player on the football team, a popular figure in school, and very popular with girls.
Kelly was tall and pretty, and many boys liked her. He put in a lot of effort and said countless sweet words to coax her into being his girlfriend.
However, Kelly was too proud.
She was not like other girls who always followed him around. His friends always laughed at him, saying that he couldn't handle Kelly and might be having an affair with other men behind his back.
He was very angry, so he made a bet with them that Kelly would listen to whatever he said.
At that time, he was in contact with some gangsters and sold things that had been circulated across the border in the school. A few days ago, the uncle who was a policeman seemed to notice it and warned him several times.
He didn't want to be caught by his uncle, but if he took the goods without paying, his life would be in danger, so he simply asked Kelly to help him pass it on.
The transaction took place in the forest.
For some reason, the police rarely patrolled the forest, so it was safe. But no matter what he said, Kelly refused to agree.
“There’s something in the woods that gives me the creeps,” she always said.
But William couldn't listen at all and just felt angry.
He had already spread the word that if Kelly didn't do it, he would be laughed at by everyone for the rest of his life. Therefore, he threatened Kelly that if she didn't go, she would have to collect his body.
Kelly gave in.
She went to the woods in the evening.
As night fell, William still hadn't seen her, so he was laughed at by his friends. He got drunk and heard the next day that Kelly didn't come home.
On the first day, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that she had gone back on her word and hidden away, but on the second day, the day after that... she really disappeared.
Reed came over angrily and questioned him, looking as if he was going to beat him to death. He didn't dare to say it was his fault and refused to admit it until his death.
Fortunately, he was in the bar that night, and many people could testify to his innocence, otherwise Reed might have really shot him.
But apart from this, there was another thing that worried him.
money.
The money was with Kelly, and he couldn't get a few thousand dollars in a short time. But if the money wasn't sent, no matter whether the money was with his girlfriend or whether she was dead, at least he would have to cut off his two arms.
The money must be recovered.
He couldn't go into the forest during the day because he would be discovered. On the tenth night after Kelly disappeared, he went into the forest alone, not only to look for Kelly, but also to get his money back.
However, his life changed completely.
What happened that night
His brain became confused and he could only vaguely remember a few scenes: he was lost, and while walking, he suddenly saw a cave, from which there were faint sounds.
Then... he walked in... calling Kelly's name...
The sound echoed, the red light flashed, and the memory turned into fragmented pieces, intermittent and paused.
The perspective spun suddenly, and he fell to the ground - he fell down - legs, strange bird legs sticking out, feathers, brown feathers with yellow spots.
Looking up, he saw an enormous owl looking down at him.
"Ah!!" Old William let out a horrible roar.
The next moment, he suddenly broke free from the intoxicant, his eyes bulged out of their sockets, and his swollen eyeballs stared at Jiang Baiyan.
Jiang Baiyan turned around and ran.
"Ghost stories always say that someone drowned and became a water ghost, trapped in the river. They have to pull someone down to get out of it." In the underground space, Jian Jing directly exposed Qi Tian's past. "You lured me into being a trick. Do you want me to be your scapegoat?"
Qi Tian sneered and admitted without hesitation: "So what?"
He was very confident in his methods, and exchanging lives was his specialty. As long as he could trap her here, he would be able to escape and return to his original life.
However, Jian Jing also has a hidden card.
"If you want to harm me, I will fight you to the death, and then neither of us can escape." She activated the trust card to make her argument more convincing. "Why don't we work together to solve it first, and then settle our own accounts."
He didn't answer but asked: "How do you want to solve it?"
Jian Jing pretended to think: "It's afraid of fire, why don't we burn it with fire."
"Do you think I haven't tried?" Qi Tian sneered, "My fire burned such a large area, but it only weakened it."
Jian Jing suggested: "Then, what about using bombs? I don't believe that a tree can't be killed by bombs."
Qi Tian's face twitched: "What a waste of natural resources! This is a real immortal tree. Just its amazing healing ability alone is enough to become a miracle in the history of human medicine!"
Jane quiet hehe.
All Qi Tian wanted was to get rid of the giant tree's control, but he didn't want to destroy it. He coveted its power, hoping to solve the problem and make a fortune in the outside world.
We must not let him succeed.
"What I mean is that we can't reach an agreement." Jian Jing delayed for a while, constantly calling the system in her heart.
There was no money in her storage compartment, so she had to draw it now.
System, draw cards.
The image in front of my eyes flickered, like a stuck computer screen.
System card draw!!
[system:******]
Sporadic fragments flashed by, and it seemed as if we had returned to the white cave before.
System, draw the card quickly!!!
Colors intertwined, distorted light flashed in my mind, my head suddenly felt heavy, my temples swelled, and my stomach churned violently. In extreme discomfort, the illusion of the giant statue faded frame by frame.
The feeling of weightlessness is transmitted.
Jian Jing found that she was hanging upside down on the tree trunk. The soft and flexible branches were tightly wrapped around her, just like a flytrap catching a fly... Ugh!
She shook her head to make herself more awake.
After downloading, I can finally see the system notifications clearly.
[System: Please select the card drawing method]
Jian Jing: Ordinary Card
[Card drawing (courage value x2)]
[Extraction completed]
[Name: Item Card·Fixed Bomb (3/3)]
[Description: Strong, powerful, only for use in this mission]
[Note: Special item, can consume 5x2 points of special value to set remote control]
Jian Jing was overjoyed.
She pulled out a hidden dagger and cut off the roots that were wrapped around her body. Without the blessing of illusion, those roots were just ordinary plants no matter how tough they were.
As her body fell, she rolled to relieve the impact and placed a bomb on the tree trunk.
"Don't even think about running!" Qi Tian roared angrily.
Jian Jing raised her head. Unlike her, Qi Tian was not trapped on the tree trunk by the roots. Instead, half of his body was "swallowed" by the tree.
His lower body was submerged in the amber substance secreted by the tree trunk. At first glance, he looked like a giant insect parasitic on the tree.
In this way, it seems that the tree has acquired some of the wisdom of other living things, or in other words, humans and trees have reached some kind of wonderful cooperation.
The roots began to twist wildly.
Jian Jing turned around and ran, spending special contribution points to activate the setting of the first bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.
Qi Tian saw the countdown of the timer clearly, and his pupils suddenly contracted. The amber substance began to melt, like heated chocolate, gradually melting into a semi-liquid fluid.
The body fell smoothly.
Countdown: 00:01
It’s too late!
In a panic, they could only pile up tree roots in front of them to avoid being attacked.
The next moment, the bomb exploded.
A huge amount of energy gushed out, and flames ignited, igniting the tree roots. They quickly lost their vitality and turned into dry and fragile charcoal, rustling and falling to the ground.
Although they are afraid of fire, they are very tough. Qi Tian, who was hiding on the bottom, was spared from the disaster. However, the aftermath of the explosion caused tinnitus in his ears, with a dull buzzing sound in his ears.
"Cough." He spat out blood, his eyes sinister.
At this moment, if you still don't know that Jian Jing didn't eat the tree roots, it would be too stupid. Any creature that eats the tree roots will become an addict and will be completely unable to resist the breath of the giant tree.
He is an exception.
Because what he ate was not the root, but the fruit.
The fire at that time burned away all the camouflage in the forest. All the ordinary trees died, but their roots remained under the fire, leading to a white cave.
He took advantage of its weakness and picked the fruits that were well protected by the aerial roots.
After taking it, the skin that was damaged by the fire began to regrow, and the regrown skin and the old skin were completely fused together, with no trace of repair at all.
The body that had aged due to the passage of time also returned to its prime state at the age of twenty.
Those who have never grown old will never understand the preciousness of youth.
However, if one leaves Dusk Town for 24 hours, one will experience strange changes, with an accelerated heartbeat, dizziness, and weak limbs. If one does not return to the forest within 36 hours, one will lose consciousness or even die.
He was once found unconscious in the toilet of a gas station. Fortunately, the man drove towards Dusk Town, otherwise he might have become a lunatic and been locked up in a mental hospital forever.
Qi Tian was unwilling to be controlled by a tree.
It took him ten years to find a solution.
The functions of the fruit and the roots are different. The fruit is the "children" of the tree, with strong therapeutic effects, can restore youth, and can heal injuries instantly. At the same time, it is highly dependent on the giant tree, while the roots are not like that. They are like a gecko's tail, and it doesn't matter if they break, so the dependence is not strong.
He only needs to spit out the fruit, let another person eat it, and become the target of the giant tree in his place. Then he can take a certain amount of roots and take them every day to maintain his youth.
The only tricky thing is that not everyone can swallow the fruit.
He caught a homeless man and a woman who had been in a car accident, but they died suddenly after eating the fruit.
Qi Tian guessed that the giant tree had special requirements for its host, and not everyone could survive.
Women are younger than men.
Young people are younger than old people.
The strong are better than the weak.
He once tried to find a suitable partner in Dusk Town, but most of the young people in the town had gone to big cities, and it was difficult to find the remaining ones.
Oh my god, I actually saw Jian Jing.
She was just a tourist, no one would care about her. She was young and strong, and she had ruined his plan. It was perfect to make her a scapegoat.
Qi Tian slowly got up and took out a piece of talisman paper and a bunch of hair.
The talisman had her birth date written on it. She was a celebrity, and any information about her could be found by searching. The first person cut it off when she was not paying attention during dinner.
For a master of sorcery, these two things are enough.
Please give me your life in exchange.
He muttered some incantations, and the talisman paper he was holding suddenly caught fire. Strangely, it was not the yellow paper that was burning, but the words written in cinnabar.
The flame burned out black runes crookedly.
Then, it went out.
In the part of birth date, it is destroyed.
Qi Tian was extremely shocked and blurted out: "How is it possible? A dead person?"