Chapter 37 The Awakened Tree
"Don't worry, Madam, Butler Hu is still in the tower."
The Baroness believed that Butler Hu could deal with Payne even better than her own mother.
"Hu Zhi, we can't have breakfast in the restaurant today. You go and have the kitchen prepare some breakfast and deliver it to everyone's room. Don't forget the portion for Dr. Golf's family."
"Yes ma'am" Hu Zhi turned and left.
The Baroness looked at Payne, who was shouting across the drawbridge in the south tower, and charged the account to Mary.
"As soon as Huntington wakes up, I give Mary Johnny Knight's pension and kick her out of the house."
The area on the hillside is not very large, and Wallace's gunners are experienced veterans.
Almost all the shelling landed accurately on the hillside. Those trees were effective against lead bullets, so there was nothing these shells could do.
Not long after, most of the big trees on the hillside had turned into pieces of broken wood.
A huge tree on the beach kept frowning.
The history of this big tree is much older than Huntingdon Castle.
Hundreds of years ago, there were no human footprints in the entire Demonic Ruins.
The entire Demon Ruins has fertile land and abundant rainfall, and the roots of big trees extend along the land in all directions.
When the roots extend to a certain distance, a sapling will emerge from the ground and form a new big tree.
The longest root of the big tree even crossed the strait underground and reached the place now known as Crown Island.
After hundreds of years of growth, the descendants of the big trees are everywhere from this beach to Crown Island.
If humans hadn't crossed the sea to come to the Demonic Ruins, the big tree might have been the entire Demonic Ruins now.
But the power of civilization brought humans from the continent across the sea to the Demon Ruins and Queen's Island.
Nothing makes these humans happier than cutting down big trees.
At first they used big trees to build houses and make bigger boats.
Later they cut down the big trees just to carry the wood far to the mainland.
Every day, one or dozens of large trees are cut down.
The connection between the big tree and its descendants was severed piece by piece.
But it is just a tree, what can it do?
It has no ability to resist and no right to vote against it.
For hundreds of years, the big tree with no ability to move can only silently bear everything that people do.
All this until last night.
The blue clouds that floated up from the exploding pirate ship contained a large amount of death dust.
When the wind carries the death dust to the beach, the death dust falls from the sky.
The one that absorbed the most death dust last night was not the goblins, but the big tree on the beach.
Compared with any animal, big trees are the best.
The power of the death dust did not even allow the tree to be judged as good or evil.
It is directly absorbed by the big tree and gives the big tree some very powerful power.
Dashu didn't notice the changes that had happened to him at first.
It looked numbly at the mess of humans and goblins on the other side of the wooden house who were suddenly injured.
Ever since humans first landed in the Demon Ruins, they have been repeating similar activities.
It's just that this is the first time I've seen a big tree like a goblin, and the bustle today seems to be a lot more interesting.
It was surprised to find that it could control its own branches and live like humans and other animals.
The big tree was very confused at first. He was a tree, how could he turn into an animal?
It began to carefully study the changes that had happened to itself.
He also randomly grabbed a human for research.
The unlucky guy just didn't add ice.
This human being called Bubing was very interesting, and Dashu asked him all kinds of things he wanted to know.
The tree was not prepared to harm this human being, nor was it prepared to imprison him indefinitely.
It has been planned that when there is nothing more to ask, it will be released without ice.
No ice is what I think, if the big tree finds that it can't answer its question.
My life is coming to an end, so I can't show my ignorance no matter what.
Save your own life first, then wait and find a way to escape.
Over the centuries, Dashu has seen all kinds of things happen.
But he only saw it and did not understand the cause and effect and rich connotation of the matter.
Now it not only has the ability to control body movements, but also has the ability to think.
Its thinking gradually became active.
Not long after it used all its strength to open the stone that was thrown at it and sent the stone away.
It made an even more shocking discovery.
Wherever that stone flew, something extraordinary seemed to have happened.
The feeling of a big tree continues to extend along with the stone.
It was pleasantly surprised to find that it had contacted many of its descendants that it had lost contact with.
Where the stone flew, the roots that had been cut off for many years were restored to life in a way that the big tree could not understand.
The roots did not regenerate, but connected to each other with a force similar to the electric current that falls before a thunderstorm.
They share all feelings and powers.
But these are limited to those places where big trees and rocks fly by.
That is from the beach to the place where the stone fell to the ground.
The big tree has more descendants scattered across the Demon Ruins and Crown Island.
It has already planned to get more rocks and throw them everywhere in the Demon Ruin.
That way, I can contact my descendants who have been cut off from contact for many years.
Every one it has ever felt was born and grew, and there is no telling how many have now escaped human deforestation.
Before Dashu could implement this plan, the shelling on the hillside began.
There are more than ten descendants of big trees growing on and around the hillside.
Several of them were damaged or even shattered by shells.
The consciousness of a big tree can be attached to the entire root, or to any of its descendants.
It felt very painful and very angry.
But apart from its main body, it is still unable to make these descendants take action.
One of the big trees is not far from the cannon.
Watching helplessly, the cannon continued to fire out flames and iron cannons, destroying the descendants on the hillside.
The big tree can't do anything about it.
Only two of the five puppets are relatively complete, and the rest have returned to the earth.
Little Lockerbie knew that procrastinating like this would do him no good at all.
Sooner or later, he will be torn into pieces by those shouting cannonballs.
Although it likes this kind of shooting game, it thinks about its own life.
It's time to decide to give up doing what you're not good at.
You must start doing what you do best as soon as possible.
Not only can you win easily that way, but you can also get more coats and puppets.
It doesn't take long to organize an army consisting of a large group of puppets.
Chapter completed!