Chapter 17: Tree Man and Relics

Thomas and Locke were very fast, perhaps because of the stimulation of cargo interests. Just three days later, the two tribes arrived with a group of slaves. Although the number was not large, it was mixed with creatures of various races. Judging from the whip marks and the expressions of accepting fate on the slaves, they had obviously received a good education and completely surrendered to their ruthless fate.

"Then, keep them in custody for the time being and don't abuse them." After hearing Drizzt's statistics, He Taiping nodded with satisfaction. However, after a moment of contemplation, he instructed again: "Wait, I mean don't abuse them, but don't treat them preferentially, do you understand?"

"I understand completely!" Drizzt was slightly stunned, then turned around and left knowingly. Horn followed him, still complaining about why he had to take on the task of guarding - but what could he do? Who told him that he lost to the Dark Elf every time he played cards recently and he had already owed a lot of debt.

After the two figures disappeared, He Taiping slowly sat back on the seat and began to carefully read the list handed over by Drizzt. It seemed that the Lizardman and the Cyclops conducted a major sweep, targeting all creatures that unfortunately entered their vision. So in this list, there are both powerful trolls, eye demons, lizardmen, and low-level creatures that are not suitable for combat at all...

"This is not OK. Do you plan to just fill in the gaps and get away with it?" Although the black-hearted price of two dark creatures for another weapon was offered, He Taiping still felt that he had suffered a little loss. Maybe the price should be suppressed again next, and if there are too many weapons provided, it is not good to allow the strength of those large tribes to grow too fast.

"Perhaps, it's good to exchange with weapons, and the cooking skills and kitchen utensils of flames." Thinking of this, He Taiping quickly came up with a new idea. In fact, this desert lacks entertainment - the cooking skills of flames and Alex's singing is very attractive. Even the recent card games between Drizzt and Horn attracted several Bemon to participate. These are all things that can be exchanged for slaves...

"What are you thinking about again?" Lian Jia's voice suddenly sounded outside the door. She strode with her dressed in a strong outfit, patting her palms gently and said, "Speaking of this, that guy Driste is about to win over all my cousin's personal property. This is not good news. Are you planning to rob the Bimon tribe?"

"Your cousin should be grateful that he met Drizzt, not Gutland." He Taiping smiled slightly and held up in the chair. As agreed with Lian Jia in advance, they will organize a small expedition team to search for the ruins today, hoping to get some useful things from that place.

Ten minutes later, the completed expedition team set off immediately and set off for the ruins under the leadership of Lian Jia. After about two hours of travel, they entered a rare oasis in the desert, which made everyone who had been dealing with yellow sand for several days breathe a sigh of relief, feeling like they were returning to the pastoral life in Campas.

However, although everyone was relaxed, Lianjia was still vigilant. When she saw He Taiping trying to ride into a jungle, she hurriedly shouted: "He, don't walk around, this will cause us unnecessary trouble. In fact, I'm afraid we have already entered..."

"What did you enter?" Xingtian asked curiously, but his eyes fell on the apple tree not far away. A few seconds later, Hydra, who was depressed because the fruit was plundered, immediately reacted instinctively. In fact, Alex and Flame moved faster. Two creatures that had been in the desert for a long time rushed up with green light on their eyes, pounced on the apples hanging on the branches...

"No, no!" Accompanied by Lian Jia's exclamation, the branches of the apple tree suddenly swept out, and the starry sky, Alex and the flames flew out directly, drew a wonderful curve in the air, and then landed on the ground with a bang. Then, the apple tree actually pulled out its roots, looked at this side slowly, and shouted in a low voice: "Everyone, please pay attention to your words and deeds. I am not interested in being treated as food for the time being."

"Tree, tree man?" He Taiping reacted first in his eyes, which seemed to be the oasis where neutral tree man gathered. However, this apple tree grows really interesting. If the yellow eyes hidden among the lush branches and leaves were excluded, I am afraid that anyone would treat it as an ordinary fruit tree.

"Elder Daren, I'm disturbing your rest!" Regardless of He Taiping's enthusiastic observation, Lian Jia had rushed to the apple tree and bowed and said, "Please forgive me. This is the first time my friends have seen the tree man, so there is inevitably some misunderstandings. In fact, we just passed through here and planned to go to the ruins."

"Well, then you go, remember not to destroy every grass and tree here." The tree man called Deren seemed to have no temper. While it was slightly slight, it had re-drained its roots into the ground and returned to the normal state of the fruit tree. This time, no one dared to pass by him again. The expedition team avoided this "fruit tree" far away, and even changed his slut in talking about the "tree" during the subsequent journey...

"Actually, don't worry too much. The Dark Treemen are not fierce, but they have a weird temper and a little bit withdrawn." Seeing everyone's reaction, Lian Jia couldn't help but smile and comfort her, "They can be said to be the indigenous people of this desert, and they have always lived in this oasis and remain neutral. So, if someone intends to make up their minds, it's better to give up as soon as possible."

"Oh, I'm just curious." When someone talked about the central thing, He Taiping shrugged helplessly and gave up the idea of ​​selling a few tree people. At the same time, the expedition team had gradually left this oasis and re-entered the hot and boring yellow desert. At the hottest time at noon, they finally found a small piece of silver in the vast sea of ​​sand - the only sign of the underground ruins exposed on the ground.

"A good news, a bad news, which one do you plan to listen to first?" After a brief check of the magic pattern on the stone door, Angel slowly stood up and hugged his arms, "The bad news is that this ruin has nothing to do with me; the good news is that it seems to belong to my friend's private property, so if you are lucky, you should be able to open it."

"Then, if you are not lucky..." He Taiping swallowed. He wanted to know if there would be danger if you are not lucky. However, before he asked a question, Lian Jia, who was shining with golden light in front of him, was already urging Angel to take action. So a few minutes later, the pattern on the stone door suddenly turned slightly, and gradually emitted blue light, turning the entire stone door into a blue light screen.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Angel walked towards the light screen first and disappeared silently. Everyone looked at each other, but they could only follow each other with their teeth and gritted their teeth. After a few seconds of trance, they found that they were in the dim underground ruins. Angel was checking a stone tablet not far away. When they saw them arrive, he nodded slightly and said, "Stand in place first and don't move, wait for me to check the way this magic circle runs."

As soon as he heard the word magic circle, He Taiping immediately stood there like a javelin, for fear of touching any mechanism. For a moment, dozens of creatures turned into puppets at this moment, and could only stare at Angel wandering near the stone tablet. Fortunately, this process did not last long. As the blue light slowly emanated from the stone tablet, Angel finally relaxed and nodded, "It's okay, fortunately I still remember the magic tricks my friend told me. Then follow me and don't touch anything."

Needless to say, He Taiping had already followed with tactfulness, and was so close that he almost touched Angel's back. Constance and Lianjia looked at each other, and suddenly snorted coldly, reaching out to grab the man back to his side. Almost at the same time, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded not far away, and five or six winged feather snakes flew out of the passage, and several wind blades shot in an instant...

"Don't worry, that's just the guardian of the ruins." Angel smiled slightly, opened the blue light curtain to block the wind blade. Her left hand had landed on the stone tablet beside her, quickly writing symbols of unknown significance. A few seconds later, the group of feather snakes that had originally rushed toward suddenly stopped attacking and slowly landed on the ground. Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. They were unwilling to fight such a meaningless battle...

"It looks like these feather snakes are good and should taste very good. Dear, can I let the flames grill them?" Although I was joking about feather snakes and asking He Taiping in a coquettish tone, Constance's eyes fell on Lianjia, full of provocation. In fact, the proud black dragon had slowly stepped forward, intending to catch a feather snake - because according to her memories, a seemingly carefree woman feared the most in her life.
Chapter completed!