Chapter 467: Greed for Spiritual Energy
Chapter 467: Greed for Spiritual Energy
After they passed by some cabins, the little people in the cabins came out, gathered in groups of three or four, and discussed them behind their backs.
"Young Master, why are you taking humans with you?"
"The direction they were heading seemed to be the direction of the sacred tree."
"The holy tree is so noble, how can we allow outsiders to touch it? The purpose of our tribe is to protect the holy tree. Young Master must know this!"
"Young Master must have been coerced by this human! Let's go find the clan leader! You must act according to circumstances and don't let humans touch the sacred tree!"
"..."
In an instant, these participants had come up with a plan for countermeasures.
Some of the ginseng ran to the largest wooden house with the door tightly closed, while the other part of the ginseng followed closely behind Ruan Xihe and Lu Shen, ready to act when the opportunity arose.
Ruan Xihe could naturally notice these tiny movements.
But she didn't care.
Not long after walking, Lu Shen led her to the half of the big tree, "We're here."
Only when he stood under the tree in person did Ruan Xihe truly appreciate how big the tree was.
Even the smallest branch at the top is more than ten meters thick, and the trunk is even thicker. Although half of the trunk on the left is missing, it is still several dozen meters thick.
There was a spiritual fence under the tree, so they naturally stood outside the fence.
Ruan Xihe could see that inside the fence, not far from the tree, there was a young man lying face down on the ground.
And this young man was the human being that the little participants had just carried and thrown into the sky.
Ruan Xihe inexplicably felt that the young man's profile looked familiar, but she was sure that she had never seen this person before.
"You were trying to lure me here before?"
"Yes..." Green Ginseng stirred his hands, pouted, and glanced out with a guilty look, "No..."
Green Ginseng clenched his fists and blurted out all the words, "There is a trap I set under the tree at the entrance of the cave just now. I wanted to lead you there."
"Once you fall into my trap and pass out, I will call my tribesmen to come out and drag you in here."
"So in terms of the results, it can be considered here."
Ruan Xihe raised an eyebrow and looked at it.
Oh, it was organized and premeditated.
"Bring the man in and then kill him?" She raised her chin and pointed at the motionless boy lying on the ground inside the fence.
"how come!"
Green Ginseng immediately clenched his fists and raised his head to refute.
"We, the Shen clan, have always been peace-loving. We don't even want to step on flowers and plants, so how could we kill people? He was just knocked unconscious by us. After a while, we will naturally send him out!"
after a while?
And judging from the familiar tone in Green Ginseng's voice, it seems that they have done this many times.
"Then why did you knock him out and leave him here?"
When Green Ginseng heard this, he started stuttering again.
It swallowed, lowered its head and thought, and answered hesitantly, "This...that..."
Seeing that it couldn't utter a word for a long time, Ruan Xihe understood.
The spiritual fence was nothing to her, so she wanted to go forward and check on the boy's condition first.
But just as Ruan Xihe took just one step towards the fence, countless attacks came towards her from all directions.
"Stop! Don't even think about getting close to the sacred tree! Back off!"
"Human! Let our young master go! Young master, we are here to save you!"
"If you want to touch the sacred tree, you have to step over us first!"
"that is!"
"..."
All around, the young men rushed towards Ruan Xihe with aggressive looks and clenched fists.
Lu Shen wanted to explain and stop it, but it was obviously too late.
Ruan Xihe didn't even try to hide.
She just reached out and grabbed the leaves on the heads of these small ginsengs, and picked them all up with one hand.
The scene looked a bit funny.
At this moment, Ruan Xihe also had a clear understanding of the attack power of the group. The attack power... was almost zero.
Although they were captured, these little guys refused to admit defeat.
"Let us go if you can, human!"
"Don't be afraid, young master. We have sent someone to ask for the clan leader."
"That's right! When the clan leader arrives, we will have something to eat!"
"..."
Green Ginseng: “…” It wants them to shut up now.
It looked at Ruan Xihe eagerly and pleaded for them: "I'll tell you why we brought them here, please let them go."
Hearing this, the participants became anxious.
"Young Master, you must not tell these secrets to outsiders, let alone selfish and cunning creatures like humans!"
Ruan Xihe raised his eyebrows and shook the radishes of different sizes in his hands, "Be quiet."
Green Ginseng continued: "You promised me not to attack them."
"Young Master, think twice before you act. The clan leader will be here soon. You must not surrender to humans, otherwise we will die to prove our integrity!" The other members of the group became even more anxious.
Green Ginseng rarely gets angry with them, "Don't talk!"
At the same time, the green ginseng moved its roots at the bottom in a place where Ruan Xihe could not see.
This action is to convey a message to the other members of the San tribe, a secret language that only they can understand.
The secret of the sacred tree must never be revealed to outsiders.
Upon seeing this, the group suddenly became quiet.
Ruan Xihe pretended to think for a while before letting go of the ginseng in his hand.
"Go ahead."
As soon as the little ginsengs landed on the ground, they ran behind the green ginseng and looked at it nervously to make sure if it was injured.
They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the green ginseng was safe and sound.
Green Ginseng said: "We lure people here, and then confuse them and bring them in, just because we covet a little bit of spiritual energy from them, it won't hurt their lives.
After we take some of their spiritual energy, we will send them back outside, and when they wake up, they will feel that they just had a dream. "
Upon hearing this, Cangqun looked at Lu Cang nervously.
Didn't we agree not to tell the truth? Why did you tell the truth anyway?
The green ginseng stomped the ground rhythmically with its roots, and a vibrating secret message came out, signaling the ginsengs to rest assured and just wait and cooperate.
"Take spiritual energy?"
Ruan Xihe crossed his arms and glanced sideways at the young man in the fence.
She did find that there were fluctuations of spiritual energy around the boy, but they were much weaker than those of a normal person, so she didn't know whether the boy was dead or alive at first.
Green Ginseng nodded, "As you can see, there is no spiritual energy in the valley, but we are a group of ginseng, and we need spiritual energy to survive, so we have to resort to this desperate measure."
Ruan Xihe knew at once that this was a lie.
She curled her lips, her delicate face curved with a smile, squatted down and supported her face with one hand, and asked with a smile: "There is no spiritual energy here, so why don't you go to a place with spiritual energy?"
Green Ginseng suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Although as a ginseng, it had no expression to speak of, but Ruan Xihe did see an expression called bitterness on its face at this moment.
It hesitated again: "This is because..."
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