Law of the Devil

Time goes by?

Neither Du Wei nor Hussein expected that there would be another spring near the Fountain of Youth.

Medusa still had that indifferent look, she led the two of them out of the hall, and looked into the depths of the palace.

"This palace of yours was built with the bodies of tree-humans...?"

On the way, Du Wei asked a seemingly casual question.

"Yes." Medusa suddenly stopped and asked Du Wei, "Is there a problem?"

This time it was Hussain who spoke: "Don't you think that this is a bit too cruel? Although you and the Treants are enemies, at least you should respect the enemy's corpse."

"Respect corpses..." Medusa savored this sentence carefully, and then asked Du Wei: "Is this also human nature?"

Du Wei smiled: "It is."

"But, I don't understand." Medusa said very frankly: "I can't understand this kind of human nature. I heard Gargamel talk about many human behaviors. You humans kill wild animals, eat their meat, and put them Peel off the fur and fur to make clothes and decorations... Why do you humans do these things while saying respect for corpses? I used the bodies of tree people to build houses, and you humans killed wild beasts to eat them Is there any difference in essence when the flesh penetrates their skins?"

Maybe Medusa doesn't understand human nature, maybe she doesn't understand anything. But such a simple question made both the knowledgeable Du Wei and the experienced knight at a loss for words.

Yeah...is there a difference?

Medusa thought about it carefully, and then seemed to smile slightly: "It seems that I have summed up another characteristic of human nature, which is... hypocrisy. Do human beings always say one thing and do another?"

Du Wei was smiling wryly. He didn't know how to answer Medusa, so he could only sigh: "Sometimes... yes."

"I don't like this characteristic of human nature, and I don't like human beings either." Medusa made a conclusion, then ended the conversation, and continued to lead the two of them forward.

Outside the main hall, through a corridor, Medusa pushed open a small door at the end. This is a dark house, and when Du Wei entered the house, he felt a gloomy chill coming... It was the same as the icy sky outside. The coldness in the snow is different, as if there is a damp, cold air. It can penetrate through the clothes of the people, through the pores of the skin, and even through the bones of the people, piercing the internal organs of the people all the way. inside!

That kind of cold air enveloped his body, and Du Wei immediately felt his whole body was chilly, as if his whole body was lightly pricked by countless sharp needles. For a while, his fingers were almost frozen!

"right here."

In the darkness, Medusa walked as usual, as if she was born without eyes.

"I usually sleep here. This is my bedroom." Medusa pointed to a stone slab on the surface: "Time goes by, it's right below."

"Sleep here...don't you be cold..." Du Wei just stopped when he said this. He suddenly remembered that snakes are cold-blooded animals.

Lifting up the stone slab, Du Wei saw a big earth spring with a bowl mouth underneath, and the water in the spring was flickering. In this dark room, the spring water seemed to glow automatically. But it was this spring, after lifting the slate, Du Wei Immediately felt the cold feeling in the air. Instantly increased tenfold!

"What kind of water is this...how is it so cold! But it doesn't freeze?" Du Wei couldn't help trembling, his teeth started to chatter.

He didn't care much anymore. Du Wei was worried that he would freeze if he continued like this. He quickly twisted his body a few times and did the basic movement of starry sky Dou Qi that Hussein taught him. After the hot air floated up, the cold air was slightly dispelled.

But Du Wei still found that even the face of Knight Hussein seemed to be covered with a thin layer of white frost! The cold air instantly froze the sweat on the knight's face!

"I didn't discover this spring until I came here, and the tree people didn't even know it existed." Medusa said lightly.

"The tree people don't know..." Du Wei sighed: "This spring water is weird at first glance. Does it... have any special prescriptions?"

Medusa didn't say anything, she smiled, and then said lightly: "That black thing on your body is worn on your eyes to deal with me? Now, you'd better put it on."

Du Wei smiled embarrassingly, gave Hussein a tug, and put on his sunglasses.

Medusa lightly twirled one of her hairs in the palm of her hand, raised her palm flat, and sang a few strange syllables in a low voice. The hair twisted twice automatically in her palm, and then quickly On the ground, it turned into a snake about the thickness of a thumb!

The whole body of this snake is golden in color, and each scale seems to be made of gold. It twists a few times, coils up quickly, and then raises its head and utters a message, making a hissing sound. But the eyes of this young snake are not. open.

"This is a young snake of the golden-eyed python. It takes decades for the golden-eyed python to grow up to be as thick as a human's waist. But..." Medusa said, she slowly stretched out her hand and bowed in the spring water He picked up a handful of water and carefully fed it into the mouth of the golden-eyed python...

A miracle happened at this moment!

Medusa gently placed the snake on top of her body, then took a step back...

Immediately, under the gaze of Du Wei and Hussein's naked eyes, the snake's body suddenly swelled up! Its scales kept growing, and its body quickly changed from the thickness of a thumb to the thickness of a tree trunk! The body also keeps getting longer! And the eyes that were originally closed, finally opened

opened!

After the sunglasses, Du Wei can still see the snake's eyes, emitting a strange, golden light! Under this kind of gaze, Du Wei only glanced at the golden-eyed python, as if feeling a slight pain in his eyes, and then turned his head away quickly!

Fortunately, there are sunglasses made of black crystal for protection, otherwise, Du Wei suspects that he has turned into a stone.

Next, the snake began to roll over. It seemed to be in great pain. Its body twisted, twisted again, and finally made a small chi-chi sound...

It is actually shedding its skin! ! ! !

After shedding its skin once, a nearly complete snake skin was left on the surface. The glittering golden snake skin was right under Du Wei's feet, and the snake continued to grow! In the end, its body almost squeezed Du Wei and others into the corner! In such a large dark room, this snake almost occupies more than half of its body!

Afterwards, in Du Wei's mind, in only a few minutes, the snake shed its skin three more times!

And then... it starts to age!

The huge body began to weaken. The snake's body, which was originally full of elasticity and strength, gradually withered away. Even the golden light on its scales dimmed. Little by little, its strength became stronger and stronger. The smaller they were, the more they were coiled together in the end, and they didn't even have the strength to hold their heads up, and their heads drooped feebly...

Under the snake's skin. Its flesh and blood began to dry up, and finally... the snake died. Its body dried up rapidly. The water flowed away, and it became a dried snake! Then the snake's skin broke, like a broken leather....

"A golden-eyed python, according to your human calculations, has a lifespan of about forty years." Medusa's voice sounded softly: "From birth to old age and death, it will molt four times. After the fourth molt, Will grow to the peak state of magic and power."

Du Wei felt his heart beating wildly!

Forty years?

But how long has it been? Ten minutes at most? No, I'm afraid it's only five or six minutes!

Within five or six minutes, a juvenile golden-eyed python has grown from an infant to an adult. Then it molts four times, and finally becomes old...and then dies...within five minutes. It has completed its normal lifespan of forty years ! ?

"That's why I said that this spring is the complete opposite of the Fountain of Youth." Medusa smiled: "I named it Time Passing."

After a pause, the beautiful snake laughed: "Gargamel said that if this spring water is used as poison, it will be the most terrifying poison in the world!"

Both Du Wei and Hussein had shock in their eyes!

Indeed, this is indeed the most terrifying poison in the world!

time!

What poison is worse than the passage of time? !

Du Wei thinks more...

Why? Why is this "time passing" eye not in another place, but with this fountain of youth?

Just like nature, the natural principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint is faintly hidden in all things in the world! One is to freeze the form forever, and the other is to pass away quickly!

So, if these two kinds of spring water are mixed together, what wonderful effect will happen?

Or, what would happen to a person who drank the Fountain of Youth, and then drank the passage of time...?

Of course, Du Wei kept these questions in his heart, and he would not say them in front of others. He just thought about it and said, "Can I take some of the spring water here?"

After getting Medusa's consent, Du Wei immediately took out all the bottles on his body unceremoniously, and then emptied and threw away all the magic medicines and other things in it... The other things were still there when they went outside. I can find it again, but this kind of spring water, if I leave here, I'm afraid I can't find it in the whole world!

Du Wei found all the bottles on his body, filled several bottles of "Time Passage", and finally drained an empty bottle, and filled another bottle of "Fountain of Youth".

"What are you doing with these horrible passages of time?" Hussein frowned: "I think this kind of thing can only poison people, and nothing else is useful."

"You forgot, I am a magic pharmacist, a poison pharmacist!" Du Wei said vaguely.

He had another note in mind.

The passage of time... if used wisely?

Just now I fed a handful of water to a golden-eyed python. It poisoned it to death within five minutes.

So... how about drinking less? What about diluting the spring water to a certain ingenious degree? Is it possible to just let it grow? But not to die of old age?

So... What if it is for the tree people outside to drink? Is it possible to make a seedling grow into a towering tree in a short period of time?

If one sip is too much, then just drink a drop! If one drop is too much... then add a drop of spring water to a bucket of clean water to dilute it!

Du Wei is so curious about this thing!

He even had a few bottles in his arms, but he didn't think it was enough, so he looked at Medusa embarrassedly: "Do you have any other containers here?"

It was Hussein who took out the things he carried with him...a leather bag, which was originally for wine, but Du Wei took it and filled it with a leather bag of spring water. This was enough.

Take it back and have the opportunity to study slowly!

"I'm very surprised...you evolved into Medusa only after drinking the Fountain of Youth." Du Wei said slowly, "But why don't you let other golden-eyed pythons also drink the spring water?"

"Because I am selfish." Medusa replied without changing her face: "Here is only me, Medusa, and my words are the only orders. If there is one more...then, there will be a war. If there is one more group , then I might die too."

"Very well, you have at least a little bit of humanity." Du Wei laughed: "Because, let alone other things. Human beings, generally speaking, are the most selfish creatures in the world."

After a pause, Du Wei said with a smile: "Okay, then... Your Majesty the Queen, what's next?

The deal we reached, I am willing to teach you everything about human nature... So, are you ready to go on the road with us? Or stay here and come back to you after I finish my business? "

Medusa's choice surprised Du Wei and others.

"I will leave with you." Her Majesty replied without hesitation.

Du Wei was stunned: "You...you mean you joined our team?"

"No, I didn't join your team. I left with you, not you." Medusa said lightly, "I don't like humans, and I don't believe in humans. The various behaviors of humans I heard from Gargamel seem to be very big. Most humans aren't used to keeping promises, so I'll follow you."

Then, this peerless beauty who was so indifferent to the extreme suddenly smiled, and she said softly: "Besides, I have already stayed here enough! You should have seen it when you came in, here... there are mice everywhere! And I am a snake , I hate mice the most!"

Du Wei laughed.

Yes, in the biological chain, snakes are the natural enemies of mice!

The other companions in the same company were a little afraid of the queen, and even Du Wei doubted whether his actions would bring a catastrophe to mankind?

This is not someone else! It is the scariest monster in the legend, Queen Medusa! As long as she came to the human world, and opened her eyes casually to look around...then it would be a massacre!

"Your Majesty..." Prime Minister Mouse suddenly threw himself at her feet: "If you leave, what will I, Gargamel, do? If those treants barge in, I can't stop them!"

"Then you don't have to stop it." Medusa didn't seem to say anything about her "kingdom", she said calmly: "This canyon was originally their land, so it's okay to give it back to them."

After leaving the canyon, the tree-human Old Wood who was waiting outside was already walking around anxiously. Its huge footsteps still stepped on the pits and pits on the ground, and it shook the tree crown from time to time.

Seeing Du Wei and the others come out, Old Wood suddenly let out a cheer, and then as if responding to it, the countless treant "companions" behind him roared.

"Mr. Wood." Du Wei walked up to the tree people with Yan Yuese: "We have persuaded Xieyan, and from today onwards, she will return the canyon to the tree people... But, there is one condition. A simple condition, I need to get The promise of the tree people, I believe that the kind tree people will not violate their promises."

What else is there to say? Old Wood readily agreed.

"The canyon will be returned to you, and the Fountain of Youth is also inside. But..." Du Wei said slowly: "In the innermost part of the palace, there is a dark house, and that place is forbidden. I ask you to promise that you tree-humans I will guard that side, and will not let anyone in! I will not let any creature approach, including yourself. If there are other creatures, whether it is a monster or a human, anything! You must do your best to stop it! Besides, I Ask for nothing else."

Before coming out, the powerful knight used the golden grudge to split the palace with a few swords, revealing the original hall inside, revealing the location of the fountain of youth. As time passed, it was quietly buried in the innermost preserved Completely dark house.

The leaders of the tree people could not express their gratitude in words. The kind and generous tree people did not resent Xieyan's grievances against them for hundreds of years. They can regain the guarantee of their clan's inheritance: the fountain of youth, there is no other place asked for.

Wood assured on the spot that the Treants would keep their promises and protect this place, preventing outsiders from entering.

"Respect...the guest...is the...that leaf...is it still there?"

Du Wei froze for a moment, touched his bosom for a while, and took out the golden leaf that Old Wood had given him before he entered the canyon. He came out and said with a smile: "Oh, I almost forgot, I will return this to you."

"No! You...keep it." Old Wood's thick voice was trembling with gratitude, and then he stretched out a branch and gently twisted the leaf. Several branches twisted and twisted This leaf rolled back and forth and folded a few times, and finally curled into a golden...horn!

Old Wood then told Du Wei an amazing secret!

This piece of golden leaf is the leaf that grows from the tree vine on the "horn of nature", the treasure of the Shuren tribe! !

This pure gold leaf, folded into a small horn, after blowing...

As long as there is a tree land around, those big trees can be awakened and become... "companions" of tree people (although Du Wei thinks that this is basically a "slave" of tree people).

"You...can...make...they...do...any...things...for you....but...there is a...time...limit."

The so-called time limit is: when the sun goes down, they will turn into trees again.

"That is to say, the awakening time is only one day at most." Du Wei smiled.

He is smiling so much! ! !

If... If I can dilute the spring water of the passage of time to a certain extent... then what does it mean?

As long as I carry a handful of seeds with me!

Then when I go to any place, I will bring a large group of giant bodyguards with me! !

sent! Here it goes! ! .