CH 130.1

Chapter 130: When Miss Green Tea became the love group controller (24)

They flew in mid-air riding the phoenix bird and kept approaching the tree.

And the closer they got, the more they could feel the vastness and enormity of this giant tree. The trunk was as thick as a copper wall and an iron wall, laying in front of them like a moat.

Going up, the clouds were misty, and the end of the tree tops could not be seen.

Going down, the root system is knotted, and the exposed roots are the thinnest and one person wide.

If the Sky Eye system works on this island, this tree will definitely be one of the most conspicuous markers. But the huge fog spores interfered with all signals and blocked the sight of outside prying eyes.

The giant tree seems to have experienced an extremely long period of time. The dark brown tree lines on the trunk record its withering and blooming again and again. Bi Ming wants to get closer to see what species of small fluffy animals were climbing on the tree, but was stopped by the man behind her.

"Don't move, the airflow here is too chaotic," Phoenix instructed her, the words flowing in her ears, gentle and unquestionable, "We're going to speed up."

Immediately, the phoenix bird's wings snapped open, making a rustling sound—

"Wait..." She grabbed the man's arm, her fingers clenched, her eyes closed tightly by the violent wind.

Phoenix looked at the shivering girl in front of him. Her hair had been blown away a lot. The strands of hair slipped out of the braids several times, and they were messily attached to her neck and shoulder blades, with freesias in the hair. Fragrance of citrus enveloped the air.

From his angle, he could still see her earlobes, as white as a tiny magnolia flower. There was a thin red that was frozen by the cold wind.

He fixed his eyes, his golden-brown pupils were like a smelted river of gold, quietly flowing past her.

The blond girl looked extremely fragile, but she dared to lean out from his arms to look curiously at an altitude of several hundred meters.

Phoenix suspects at that moment that the wind will take her away from his arms as easily as a flower.

At this moment, the girl was still clutching his arm tightly, as if she was holding a life-saving straw. She took a deep breath and bit her lips again, swallowing her embarrassed exclamation.

Proud she didn't seem to want to make a fuss in front of him, so as not to appear too humiliating.

Fortunately, Phoenix didn't let her endure this kind of roller coaster fright. After a while, the speed of Phoenix bird's ascent gradually slowed down until it stopped.

"We're here." Above the sky, surrounded by stratus clouds, the dense branches of ancient trees are like huge umbrellas in the sky. The leaves shade everything, and people can only see different shades of green in their eyes.

And the surrounding fog is like a fairyland, set off around the giant tree, looking down can only find a foggy piece.

Bi Ming slowly opened her eyes, only to find that her eyes had changed a lot, and all she could see was a scene of lush foliage.

"Cough...is this the location of the canopy?" Her face was pale, and when she looked around, she only felt that the picture was like a fantasy fairy tale.

This "towering tree" in the true sense hides such a magical secret at the top - countless small houses hang from the branches like lovely "fruits". Some of them were wrapped by wall creepers, with colorful flowers blooming on the vines, which looked like romantic flower houses; some of them seemed to be bitten by insects and ants, and they were tattered, and only half of the door panel was left, revealing the inside. Weird symbols; some are made of glass, neither crystal nor translucent, covered with dust, like an abandoned crystal box…

The small houses that are hard to be counted by the naked eye, without any repetition, have different styles, but they are obviously abandoned for a long time.

They are like colorful little gifts, hanging in a random pattern on different thick branches, sheltered by this giant tree.

Bi Ming's first reaction was, wouldn't this be a ruin?

The red-haired man behind her seemed to think the same way, and the phoenix bird beneath them also got closer and closer to those treehouses as their master wished.

But when they got closer, they discovered that the dilapidated little houses were not as big as they thought, each no more than 20 square meters at most, more like a temporary lookout station.

Compared with the first underground ruins, this place is too desolate and too narrow.

"It seems that we are not so lucky, the ruins are not here." Phoenix said slowly.

"Why are you so sure..." Seeing that he was so determined, Bi Ming couldn't help but turn her head, and her body swayed with her movements.

Phoenix sighed, and straightened the green plum in his arms: "Look carefully, what's missing here?"

"Let me think about it," Bi Ming pondered, carefully recalling the difference between the seaside ruins and this place, "Is it because there is no protection system?"

"More than that, there is also a lack of believers' faith here." Christian, who was sitting behind the white fox, also came over, just in time to hear Bi Ming's words, and explained with a smile, "The ruins of this island should be from the same group, so we can only find them. The temples and statues of the gods are the most critical."

Bi Ming reacted instantly: "Yes, these treehouses can't hold statues." The goddess statue in the previous ruins was dozens of meters high.

They circled around the tree, saying it was a tour, but in fact it was more like an outing among these colorful broken houses. Bi Ming saw that there was a conical roof, and a brown-grey plush came out of the small chimney above, and the small black eyes looked at her smartly.

The animal gave her a sense of familiarity and a faint doubt: "What breed is it that can live in such a high place?"

"Highland squirrels are extremely cold-resistant." Phoenix sensed her interest. "It tastes a bit like lamb squirrels, do you want it?" While speaking, he took Phoenix and flew towards the small animal.

The bird hunted the prey in an instant, and the brown-gray hairy rat who was still stunned was so frightened that it wanted to get back to the chimney, but it started to catch fire below, making it squeak.

"Wait—" Before Phoenix grabbed the little thing with flaming claws, Bi Ming grabbed the bamboo horse, "I have something I want to verify."

When Phoenix saw her anxiously grasping his hand, the delicate skin was rubbing against his palm, as soft as a petal.

"Well." He didn't break away from her, just looked at her quietly, "What do you want to do?"

During their conversation, the frightened little guy found that the road was blocked, and had already run along the branches to the trunk of the giant tree.

"I want to see where its home is." Bi Ming raised her head and smiled, her blue eyes sparkling, "Maybe you can find a whole nest."

Phoenix mused: "Highland squirrels generally live alone, but it is not ruled out the possibility of reporting groups to keep warm."

Christian also waited for the late Tang: "You are too slow."

The flax-haired boy seemed to recover, his expression was the same as usual: "I found something under the tree, but you are walking too fast, so I will investigate it myself."

"Um?"

"There is an air-raid shelter under the tree." Tang glanced at the phoenix who was chasing the squirrel and the pair of men and women above, "I suspect that there are underground ruins buried here."

The news made Christian settle for a moment: "Are you sure?"

"Go and have a look." The huge airflow generated by the flapping of the griffin's wings under Tang hit the phoenix above, "Hey, are you leaving?"

The phoenix jolted in the huge air current, causing the blond girl who was staring at the squirrel to cry out in fright, and then turned back angrily: "Fini, what is that guy talking about?"

"Don't pay attention to him." The red-haired man touched her head with one hand, and the other hand was firmly propped between her arm and body, as strong as a fence, "Let's go find the little mouse first."

Phoenix, who was sensitive to hearing, naturally heard Tang's words, but he was not in a hurry—

Because he saw these tree houses, he had a vague guess.

Seeing that they were still chasing a little squirrel, Tang and Christian looked at each other.

"Is he so idle?"

"It should be that, we should go test it first." Christian analyzed, "But I also suggest that you take a look at the surrounding area."

Tang raised his eyes and saw the hanging treehouses, but his attention was focused on the wooden planks extending from the door of each hut - which reminded him of the departure station of the mecha team, and the height of these treehouses was just right, it can accommodate human exoskeleton mechs to enter.

Although these "decks" are already in tatters and covered with thick colonies, both the number and the distance of distribution make Tang, a mecha expert and combat genius, extremely familiar.

"The place where the ancient humanoid mecha set sail..." Tang quickly cleared his mind and looked at Christian, "Is this why you are staying here?"

Christian smiled without saying a word. These sentries are extremely sensitive to combat facilities. The red-haired man must have also noticed the hidden functions of these small houses, when that phoenix bird circled here.

They can almost conclude that this ancient tree is inextricably linked to the ruins, and the entrance is most likely nearby.

After a while, the duo on the phoenix bird finally found the squirrel's end point - a small hole in the trunk, where it looked like its old nest was.

Bi Ming looked at the dark hole that was just big enough for one hand to go in, and said softly: "Fini, don't you think it's strange, this tree looks very hard, it doesn't look like it can be bitten by animal teeth."

"Well," Phoenix curled his lips, "You think there's something tricky in it?"

"Cough cough," Bi Ming knew that the other party understood her suggestion, and she couldn't help pursing her lips. These sentinels were really too shrewd, "You also found out that there is something wrong with this tree."

Tang also came over to join in the fun: "What did you find?"

"We want to catch a squirrel," Bi Ming grabbed Phoenix's arm and looked at Tang behind him, "Don't make trouble."

"Testai, do you think I'm so bad?" Tang snorted, and then in Phoenix's warning eyes, he stretched out his finger, "You want a squirrel, right? I'll just force it out."

A tiny cyclone was poured into the fist-sized cave.

After a while, the squirrel didn't come out, but Tang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Yo, inside... how is it empty?"

As soon as these words came out, the others became a lot more serious.

"Empty?"

"Impossible, how can such a tall tree maintain the lushness of so many branches if it is empty?" Bi Ming questioned, but in fact, she had already determined that this is the first part in the original work. Two relics - "Tower in the Tree".

This ancient tree so huge that it was almost invisible when approached, was a tower even bigger than the first underground ruins.

It was also a coincidence that this place was discovered in the original work.

At that time, Cecia was working with Arnold and Sean. When the Sentinels were hunting the aliens, she accidentally inhaled spores and had hallucinations, as if being guided to find the ancient tree.

According to the heroine's later account, she hallucinated herself as part of the tree.

The spores have no effect on the powerful Sentinels, so Sean and Arnold, who have maintained their sanity, began to analyze the problem of the towering tree.

Perhaps it is the characteristics of spiritual beasts. Their scorpions and snakes like to burrow underground, so they found an air-raid shelter under the roots of trees.

In the end, they determined that the ruins were in this incomparably huge giant tree.

And because the scorpion's venom is highly corrosive, they entered the ruins from the ground, triggered the security system of the ruins, and were forced out by the dense alien guards.

The back is the story of Cecia's suggestion to summon all the sentries to gather together to solve the aliens, sweep the ruins, and find the key.