Night Wind obeyed. He continued to use his substance chains to clear the rubble behind the screen. The three of them picked up the Duke, who looked like he was addicted to drugs. They climbed over the screen and continued forward.
The Duke was bleeding from every orifice. He wasn't dead yet, but he didn't look well. His eyes were red, and it was impossible to tell the whites of his eyes from the whites.
Night Wind continued to clear the path. After a while, Night Wind suddenly stopped. He turned to Miss Mirror and said, "Miss Mirror, should we go in a different direction?"
"Why?" Miss Mirror asked, looking at Night Wind.
Han Sen was curious, too. He didn't know why Night Wind would suggest something like that.
Night Wind sighed and said, "In the third picture, we will run into a tree. Judging from the scale of the picture, that tree will be very big. It will be at least one hundred meters tall. Moving a tree like that will be difficult."
Han Sen understood what Night Wind was getting at. The third picture predicted that they would run into a tree, but the tree couldn't be moved. If they went around the tree, the picture wouldn't work. Someone had to be behind it.
"Let's go in a different direction, then." Miss Mirror nodded.
Night Wind nodded, and they started digging in a different direction.
If someone was really playing tricks, it was actually very easy to predict the direction of their excavation because they were attracted by that force and kept digging in one direction. That person could easily determine what they would encounter along the way and directly show it on the painting.
If it had been someone less courageous, they would have followed the original route. If they really saw the big tree, they would have been a little scared. At that time, it would have been easier for their schemes to succeed.
Night Wind's suggestion was to prevent that from happening. If that person had the power to move the tree, they would have left behind some clues. That way, the plan wouldn't work.
Night Wind dug quickly. After ten minutes, Han Sen and the others had followed Night Wind for a few hundred meters.
However, Night Wind suddenly froze. He was really stunned. It was not as simple as just stopping.
He stood there, staring blankly in front of him, as if he had seen a ghost. He even forgot to put down the arm that he had raised.
"What happened?"
Han Sen looked from Night Wind's side. Not far in front of Night Wind, half of the rubble had been cleared. Something was sticking out of the rubble.
When Han Sen saw what it was, his expression changed. What stretched out from the rocks was actually a branch with tender green leaves. It looked a bit like the branches and leaves of a willow tree.
"How could this be?" Han Sen felt a little uncomfortable. Looking at the branches and leaves, they seemed to be very similar to the tree in the painting.
Night Wind's face changed, and he swung his dark substance chains to move the rocks away. More and more branches emerged from the rubble, and soon, the entire tree was exposed.
It was exactly the same as the one in the painting. The trees were about a hundred meters tall. Some of them looked like willows with drooping branches. The trees were full of young leaves and grew very densely.
Han Sen and the others looked glum. They had changed the direction they were digging, but they had still managed to dig up the tree. It was very strange.
Han Sen looked at the roots of the tree. There was a black stone flowerbed there, and the flowerbed was filled with dirt. That was where the tree had taken root.
"It doesn't look like it came from somewhere else," Miss Mirror said, looking at the flowerbed.
"Maybe there are many trees like this here," Night Wind said. "It wouldn't be strange for us to run into one.
It's like a plaza that has trees around it. No matter which direction we dig, we will run into these trees, "Han Sen said after a moment of thought.
"Not bad."
Night Wind nodded seriously. He started to dig to see if there were other trees like this one.
"Stop digging. There can't be a second tree like this." Miss Mirror waved her hand to stop Night Wind.
Night Wind didn't dare question Miss Mirror. He looked at her with confusion, waiting for her to explain why she said there couldn't be a second tree like this.
Miss Mirror looked at the tree and said, "This should be a requiem tree."
"A requiem tree?" Night Wind's face changed when he heard that. He couldn't believe it, and he looked at the tree again.
Han Sen looked at Miss Mirror and Night Wind with confusion. He didn't know what the requiem tree they were talking about was.
Miss Mirror seemed to know what Han Sen was thinking. Before he could ask, she explained, "When I went to the Ancient Gods, I saw a requiem tree like this one. The Ancient Gods said that this tree was the final resting place of the Ancient Gods. If the Ancient Gods were buried under this tree, their souls could rest in peace."
"If you saw a tree like this in the Ancient Gods, and there is another one here, that means it shouldn't be hard to find. Why do you say there can't be a second tree like this?" Han Sen didn't understand.
Miss Mirror said, "I don't know how easy it is to find a requiem tree, but the one I saw was only two feet tall.
According to the tree's owner, the requiem tree can only grow to three feet tall.
After that, it won't grow any further.
If an Ancient God dies and is buried under the requiem tree, the requiem tree will absorb the Ancient God's body.
Then, it will grow another foot, no more, no less.
Do the math. How many Ancient God bodies did this requiem tree need to grow this tall?
Do you think there could be a second one? "
"Is this really a requiem tree?" Han Sen looked at the tree in front of him with shock.
Back in the day, Ancient Water God's body had nourished a few systems. It had given life to those planets, and it had promoted the evolution of primitive creatures.
If what Miss Mirror said was true, then this requiem tree had absorbed at least a few hundred Ancient God bodies. Its power had to be unimaginably strong. But Han Sen couldn't sense any scary lifeforce coming from it. It looked just like an ordinary tree.
"It's easy to figure out if this is a requiem tree. If it is, then there must be a requiem tree hole where the Ancient God's power is gathered."
Miss Mirror walked slowly around the tree. Soon, she came to a stop. She stared at a certain spot on the tree.
Han Sen and Night Wind walked over to Miss Mirror. They followed her gaze and saw a fist-sized hole in the tree. It was dark inside, and even with Han Sen's eyesight, he couldn't see what was inside.
"This is right. That is the requiem tree hole. I wonder if the requiem tree egg is still there," Miss Mirror mumbled to herself as she looked at the hole.