190: The Blood Elf Forest and the Blood Elf Heart!

Pat! Pat!

Su Lie noticed the danger coming from above his head, and he quickly turned and retreated along the path he had taken.

Once he had fully retreated back to the Blood Grass Wasteland.

The oppressive feeling brought by the blood-sucking tree, as well as its gnarled branches resembling bony hands, quickly receded.

"There's something wrong with this blood-sucking tree!"

Su Lie said solemnly.

He took out the Invisibility Cloak and immediately entered the Invisibility state.

When he came back under the blood-sucking tree.

This time, the blood-sucking tree remained motionless.

"Hoo!"

Su Lie let out a breath and poured the Exorcism Holy Water from the glass bottle in his hand directly onto the base of the blood-sucking tree.

Following this action.

The blood-sucking tree let out a painful squeal.

The sound was like the painful pleading of a child, making the listener's heart tremble, involuntarily imagining a scene of a child being beaten.

This flashback scene from memory replaced the view before his eyes.

Su Lie fell into a state of angry emotion, wanting to stop the child abuse, just as he was about to step forward.

The scene before his eyes suddenly cleared.

The next second.

He suddenly realized he was already standing right in front of the blood-sucking tree, just one step away from crawling into a hole split open on the blood-sucking tree's trunk.

Inside this large hole, layers of teeth were growing.

Furthermore, numerous white, root-like tentacles were extending small hands and swimming inside the blood-sucking tree's wide-open mouth.

"Hiss! I almost fell for it!"

Su Lie took a sharp breath; he had not emerged from the Invisibility state, which allowed his tense emotions to relax slightly.

He looked up.

And saw.

The blood-sucking tree right in front of him had transformed from a gnarled ancient tree into a terrifying monster covered in small, bark-like hands.

Su Lie swallowed, taking the Woodcutting Axe out of the ruyi pouch.

The Woodcutting Axe was a God-tier axe, possessing special effects such as Indestructible, Great Critical Hit, Absolute Luck, One Axe Two Halves, and Burst Kill.

At this moment, he also materialized from the Invisibility state.

Bang!

With just one swing of the axe, the blood-sucking tree, which had been doused with Exorcism Holy Water, let out a mournful shriek.

Amidst groaning sounds as if overwhelmed, it fell backward.

Just as it was about to hit the ground.

Poof!

The blood-sucking tree burst into a cloud of blood mist, transforming from an old tree with a canopy like an umbrella and gnarled roots and branches into five segments of logs covered in small, withered hands.

At this moment, the other blood-sucking trees around began to press toward Su Lie again.

Moreover, vines dangling from the other blood-sucking trees coiled toward the materials Su Lie had just chopped down, like spiritual snakes.

Seeing this, Su Lie charged forward fiercely, swinging the Woodcutting Axe repeatedly, severing the vines one by one, and then quickly collecting the logs and the broken, curling vines.

As the sky around them was about to darken.

Su Lie entered the Invisibility state once more.

The large, withered hands hanging down brushed past the invisible Su Lie, but they failed to grasp anything.

The blood-sucking tree grove let out a violent tremor.

Afterward, everything quieted down again.

"Keep moving forward!"

Su Lie did not stay to continue chopping down the blood-sucking trees; he strode deeper into the forest.

The deeper he went into the jungle.

He noticed that the color of the trees and weeds changed from bright red to dark red.

When he reached the boundary between dark red and black-red, he saw a patch of black-red fruit trees.

Beyond the fruit trees was a massive stone castle reeking of blood.

"There's life here? Are they Survivors?"

Su Lie raised an eyebrow.

He did not advance rashly but instead used his Talent, Wood Speaker.

This Talent allowed him to communicate with the surrounding plants.

In that instant.

He heard miserable and mournful wails coming from behind him.

"So hungry! I'm starving! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"Ah! That hurts so much!"

"Ah! Ah! Ah! My baby! Where are you, baby?"

... All kinds of voices made Su Lie feel irritated.

After he stopped using the Talent.

The quietness was restored once more.

Su Lie sighed, "It seems I can only try again after entering the forest ahead!"

Pat!

Su Lie walked into the dark red fruit grove ahead.

The tops of the trees in the grove were covered with blood-red fruits of various sizes.

Every fruit was shaped like a heart and was constantly pulsating.

Only then did Su Lie use the Wood Speaker Talent again.

This time, he heard various complaining voices.

"Sigh! The fruits are already ripe! Why haven't those guys from the castle come to harvest them yet?"

"Exactly! All my nutrients went into these fruits, and I couldn't absorb any myself, which severely affected my intelligence!"

"It's driving me crazy! I've visibly lost weight! Why are these damned fruits still growing on me!"

... Hearing the voices of these trees, Su Lie's eyes lit up: "These must be the blood fruit!"

Saying this.

He reached out and grabbed toward the blood fruit hanging there.

Su Lie's hand passed right through the fruit, startling him: "Huh? What's going on? Why can't I grab it? Is this fruit illusory?"

At this moment, he heard the voice of the Blood Elf Forest again.

"Holy crap! Idiot! You can't use your hands on the blood elf heart! You have to say the password, and then they will automatically fall. Only after they fall can the blood elf heart transform from an illusory fruit into a real fruit!"

"If this thief had that common knowledge, how could he have possibly walked in here!"

"Exactly! Exactly! He doesn't even know the password! Ah! Ah! Ah! He also doesn't know the taboo of the Blood Elf Forest: all life is forbidden from entering here before the fruits are harvested! And he certainly doesn't know that after the blood elf heart turns into a real fruit..."

"Cackle! I know! They must be taken away from the Blood Elf Forest within 10 minutes! Otherwise, we will wake up from our brief slumber!"

"And they must be collected using a storage pouch with preservation capabilities, otherwise the blood elf heart will rot and become a Rotten Heart possessing Deadly Poison!"

"We know all that!"

"Although the thief came in, we can't see it! We can't sense it either! And we can't get an extra meal!"

"Shh! Everyone shut the hell up! This thief must be wearing an Invisibility Cloak. We need to wait quietly until the moment he exposes himself, then it will be time for us to eat!"

"Haha! How many years has it been! We finally got this chance again! Hehe!"

... The trees of the Blood Elf Forest communicated cheerfully.

After listening, Su Lie's eyes flickered, and he slowly retreated outside the Blood Elf Forest, whispering awkwardly, "That kind of shouting is too embarrassing!"

However.

In order to get the blood fruit.

He still decided to give it a try.

"Ah! The guys from the castle are finally here!"

"Awoo! So sleepy! I hope this place is clean and tidy when I wake up!"

"Peh! I hope this place is piled high with blood food when I wake up!"

... The trees of the Blood Elf Forest began communicating again.

Accompanied by continuous yawns that sounded and then faded into silence.

He saw.

Large numbers of blood elf heart on the branches of the fruit trees in the Blood Elf Forest fell to the ground one after another.

After the fruits landed.

They slowly stopped pulsating.

Seeing this, Su Lie quickly entered the Blood Elf Forest and collected all the piles of blood elf heart.

About five minutes later.

Su Lie stood on the other side of the jungle.

He turned his head to look at the Blood Elf Forest, which had not yet woken up, and an impulse welled up in his heart: "Should I chop one down and take it back to examine?"

"This tree definitely has some value!"

Thinking this.

Su Lie took out the Woodcutting Axe again.

Bang!

With just one axe swing, he cut down a blood elf tree.

The large tree let out a wail: "Mama! My head has been chopped off!"

The stump left in the ground started yelling and squealing chaotically.

Su Lie looked at the fallen tree and was about to collect it.

But he saw a flash of blood light on the fruit tree.

It instantly transformed from a lush, leafy fruit tree into a winter melon-shaped head, about 1 meter high and 50 centimeters in diameter.

The head had only a single eye, with no nose, mouth, or ears.

Seeing this, Su Lie quickly collected the strange head.

At this moment, the tree stump started shouting again: "Thief! It's that thief..."

Splash!

After Su Lie collected the head, he poured the Exorcism Holy Water onto the stump.

"Ah..."

The stump let out a mournful wail.

In just a few seconds.

The stump, under the irrigation of the Exorcism Holy Water, shriveled into a patch of dark black ash.

Rumble!

The stump, along with its root system, vanished entirely, causing the ground to collapse into a large pit about 1 meter in diameter and 1.5 meters deep.

Su Lie looked into the pit.

He saw the earth beneath the dark black ash slowly wriggling, and the collapsed area was gradually "healing" itself through this movement.

"How truly magical!"

Su Lie's eyes lit up upon seeing this.

Just then.

A series of footsteps came from behind the spherical bushes in front of him.

It was accompanied by a cheerful voice: "A'Ku! Although the harvesting work in the Blood Elf Forest is late this time, we've been granted permission to eat the fruits! We must eat our fill before reporting back! This job is absolutely wonderful!"

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