147: Chapter 147 Life Source Liquid

"Thank you, Plant God, for your mercy in sparing our lives!" The leading Watermelon Person was overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed to Su Fan and the other two.

The other Watermelon People followed suit and kowtowed as well.

"Alright, stop kowtowing. Quickly take us to see the town," Su Fan said with a smile.

"Also, don't call me Plant God anymore. Just call me... Lord Su."

"Yes, Lord Su. Lord Su, please follow me." The leading Watermelon Person hurriedly led the way.

"What is your name?" Su Fan asked.

"Replying to Lord Su, this old man is called Xitulu," Xitulu said respectfully.

"Xitulu, tell me about this place."

"Lord Su, this place is called Wangyou Town. It has a population of about 80,000, and we have made a living by cultivating Life Trees for generations."

"Thirty kilometers north of our town, there is another town called Baili Town, which is much larger than our Wangyou Town."

"To the south of our town lies the endless Southern Barren Forest."

"To the east of the town is the Life Tree forest that we cultivate."

"To the west of the town, there is a large lake where many terrifying plants live."

When mentioning the large lake to the west, Xitulu's body couldn't help but tremble.

Su Fan listened thoughtfully, then continued to ask, "Xitulu, what is this Life Tree you're talking about?"

Hearing this question, Xitulu's entire watermelon face changed color.

"Lord... Lord Su... aren't you here to take the life source liquid?"

Seeing this, Su Fan realized that he and the others had likely exposed themselves.

"Tell me everything from beginning to end. What is a Life Tree, what is life source liquid, and have other people been here?"

"If you hide anything, all of you will die!" Su Fan's tone was ice-cold. He had already secretly notified Red Queen to aim the cannons at this location, ready to eliminate all witnesses at any moment if something went wrong!

Xitulu and the other Watermelon People were all scared to the ground. They lay trembling on the floor, pleading for mercy incessantly.

"Lord Su, the Life Tree is a special plant. After being fed by our clan, it can secrete a liquid called life source liquid, which is very precious."

"If someone from our Watermelon Clan is injured, they only need to consume some life source liquid to recover instantly," Xitulu said in a trembling voice while lying on the ground.

"A long, long time ago, a group of visitors from the heavens came here. They were cruel and brutal, guilty of countless crimes, and slaughtered many of our compatriots."

"Later, they discovered the magical effects of the life source liquid and found that only our Watermelon Clan could cultivate the Life Trees. That is how our clan managed to survive."

"However, every once in a while, we must pay a large amount of life source liquid as tribute to these visitors from the heavens, or we will be severely punished, or even face extermination!" Xitulu wailed through his tears while lying on the ground.

Su Fan's brow furrowed. Things were a bit beyond his expectations; he hadn't expected this planet to have already been discovered by another civilization.

"Those visitors from the heavens, were their ships as big as ours?" Su Fan pointed at the kongming mothership floating in the sky.

"Not that big, only about as big as that one on the ground." Xitulu pointed at the kunpeng no. 2 spaceship parked on the ground in the distance.

Su Fan's brow relaxed slightly. The kunpeng no. 2 was a ship of a Level 2 Civilization. If the opponent was a Level 2 Civilization, they were nothing to worry about.

But if this civilization parked its large ships in outer space and only sent small ships to collect tributes, then it would be hard to judge.

"How often do those aliens come?" Su Fan continued to press for information.

"They almost never come!" Xitulu explained.

"In a place incredibly far from here, there is a giant city."

"There is a divine artifact left by the visitors from the heavens there. As long as we place the life source liquid into the divine artifact, those visitors can receive the items."

Su Fan's eyes narrowed slightly. Things were even worse than he had just imagined.

This divine artifact, if he guessed correctly, should be a spatial transmission device that only a Level 4 Civilization could develop!

"These visitors from the heavens, do they have blonde hair and blue eyes, and look like this..."

Su Fan projected an image of a white person from his arm.

"Yes! They look like that!" Xitulu's fear intensified.

"Elder, it seems this place is a resource ranch of the Canglan Empire. Should we leave directly, or harvest a bit?" Su Fan asked the Great Elder.

The Great Elder paused for a moment, looked at Xia Feifei, then at Su Fan, and then pointed at his own dark arm with a smile.

"We are people of the Black Dragon Empire. Do we need to fear the Canglan Empire?!"

Su Fan was taken aback, then smiled knowingly.

The three Androids they were using had dark skin, looking just like people from the Black Dragon Empire. With someone else to take the blame, what was there to fear!

"Xitulu, take me to where you store the life source liquid."

"Yes! Yes, yes! Lord Su, please follow me! Follow me!" Xitulu stood up in pleasant surprise. As long as he wasn't killed, anything was fine!

Led by Xitulu, Su Fan and the other two slowly walked toward the town.

"Xitulu, are there only plants here and no animals?" Su Fan asked.

"Lord Su, what are these 'animals' you speak of?" Xitulu looked puzzled.

"Creatures that can move." Su Fan didn't quite know how to explain it, and because the languages were different, even with simultaneous interpretation, the translation of certain specific terms was still not very accurate.

"Oh!"

"Are you talking about Tree Demons?!" Xitulu looked like he had suddenly realized.

"Uh... let's just call them Tree Demons then." Su Fan was helpless, but this new term 'Tree Demon' piqued his curiosity again.

"Tell me about Tree Demons."

Xitulu first trembled, and then said stutteringly, "By the edge of the large lake west of our town, there are many Tree Demons. Their branches and trunks can move."

"Once someone approaches their territory, they will attack immediately. Many of our ignorant clansmen were devoured by Tree Demons!"

Su Fan nodded after hearing this. He guessed that these might be some kind of carnivorous plants similar to man-eating flowers, but he would need to see for himself what species they actually were.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at Wangyou Town.

Inside the town, groups of Watermelon People were prostrating on the ground, their bodies trembling with fear.

In the education they had received since childhood, aliens who looked different from them were synonymous with brutality.

Su Fan followed Xitulu to the center of the town, where there was a relatively large building.

"Lord Su, this is my home. All of our life source liquid is stored inside."

"Please follow me."

Xitulu opened the door and led Su Fan and the others to a room in the backyard, where there was a small jar about the size of a human head.

"Lord Su, inside this jar is the life source liquid our Wangyou Town has collected over the past ten years." Xitulu spoke respectfully, but his expression was full of deep reluctance.

Su Fan smiled slightly. Just as he was hesitating whether to step forward and check, the system's voice suddenly rang in his mind.

"Cosmic rarity discovered!"

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