Chapter 291: Attending the Plane Security Meeting

From today on, Shazhou had one more tree shepherd, stretching its two short legs, strolling around, occasionally circling the soil-less rice and seaweed, leisurely and content.

"Eh, where did this tree shepherd come from?" Lu Se strolled over and asked curiously, turning to greet it: "Hello, my name is Lu Se. How should I address you? Do you know the tree shepherd Na Na Geer?"

"Hello... Lu Se," the tree shepherd said slowly: "Call me... Old Tree. The Na Na Geer you mentioned, is it a war tree shepherd? If so, then I know it, the chatterbox Na Na Geer..."

"Old Tree Ba? What a strange name. Na Na Geer is so famous, any random tree shepherd knows it. By the way, what breed of tree shepherd are you? Can you grow as big as Na Na Geer?" Lu Se asked curiously.

As he spoke, he took a box out of his spatial magic tool. The box was sealed. Opening the lid, a chill emerged. One could see a miniature freezing array operating on the lid, keeping the box at a low temperature at all times.

The tree shepherd looked at the box curiously and even reached out a branch to touch it.

Lu Se introduced it: "Freezing box, creative, right? The miniature freezing array was carved by Lord Ang for me. It only needs a little magic crystal to keep the box at a low temperature. Put drinks inside, and they can stay in a low-temperature state. On a hot day, take them out whenever you want to drink—ice-cold, refreshing, cool. What do you want to drink? There's fruit juice, water, and beet juice."

The tree shepherd was a bit blank.

"Oh, this is a way to make friends. When we humans first meet, we can shake hands, salute, and drink something; that counts as knowing each other. What do you tree shepherds do when you first meet?" Lu Se asked curiously.

The tree shepherd pondered blankly. It wasn't a real tree shepherd and hadn't made friends with other tree shepherds. Thinking back carefully, it said: "When tree shepherds first meet, they exchange pollen."

"*Pfft—*" Lu Se, who had just taken a sip of fruit juice, sprayed it out on the spot and gave a thumbs up: "Tree shepherds are amazing."

Plant pollen is the genetic material of plants. Exchanging this stuff the moment they meet didn't quite fit human moral values.

Unable to refuse the hospitality, the tree shepherd finally chose fruit juice, but it didn't drink it after taking it in its hand, instead examining it curiously.

Lu Se didn't mind. He had come into contact with too many non-human things and already had experience. Different species have different behavioral patterns; a behavior one species feels is well-intentioned, another species might feel is offensive.

However, as long as it is an intelligent thing, it can feel the goodwill you express. Lu Se only needed to express goodwill. If he really accidentally offended it, he would just say so and be careful in the next life.

The tree shepherd reached a branch into the fruit juice, stirred it a few times, and handed it to Lu Se: "Not good to drink, try this."

Lu Se was stunned for a moment. This? Wasn't this the fruit juice he gave it? Could it have changed the fruit juice inside just by stirring it a few times? Uh, your branch doesn't seem to have been washed...

The fruit juice was brought to his lips, and he took a light sip. Lu Se's eyes widened suddenly, his face flushed red, as if he had sipped a strong liquor.

He endured and endured, and after a long while, he let out a long breath, looking at the tree shepherd in shock, saying: "Such strong life force! Heavens, I feel like my whole body is about to explode—refreshed, clear, full of spirit. Heavens, what did you add to it?"

"Life essence," the tree shepherd replied.

"Wow, that's really amazing, really magical. If you opened a fruit juice shop, business would definitely be good. By the way, do you like fishing?"

"Fishing? Why fish?"

"It's fun, otherwise it's too boring. Don't you usually fish? Then what do you play?" As Lu Se spoke, he set up two lounge chairs, put up a sun umbrella, and handed the tree shepherd a fishing rod.

The tree shepherd held the fishing rod, looking curiously at Lu Se's actions.

Lu Se saw that it didn't even know how to cast the rod, so it must be a novice, and immediately patted his chest, saying: "How about a competition? Whoever loses treats the other to a meal. You're a tree shepherd, do you like fertilizer? Lord has a kind of very nutritious fertilizer. If I lose, I'll treat you to some."

As soon as the tree shepherd heard this, it knew what fertilizer he was talking about. It nodded, and without using the fishing rod, extended a branch and lowered it into the water.

In the crystal-clear waterway, it wasn't long before fish were seen swimming over and biting onto the branch.

The tree shepherd fished it up, beckoned with its hand, and a water ball flew up, covering the little fish and placing it at its feet.

The branch was put back in, and in less than a few seconds, another fish took the bait.

Almost as soon as it was put in, it took the bait. Before long, a pile of water balls was placed at the tree shepherd's feet, with the fish inside all alive.

Lu Se was dumbfounded and asked: "What kind of bait are you using? It's too magical, lend me some."

After half a day, Lu Se had actually become familiar with the tree shepherd, leaving Lord Nai Ge tongue-tied.

"Ku Ba Da, they can even play together? I'm truly convinced. Lu Se's social ability is really amazing," Lord Nai Ge said enviously: "Sea people, minotaurs—there's no one he isn't familiar with. When he finds out the tree shepherd's identity, I hope he doesn't pee his pants."

Getting no response, Lord Nai Ge turned his head and saw Ang's arm reaching into the Palace of Rest, bulging, occasionally pulling some things out.

"What are you doing?" Reaching into the Palace of Rest to plant things was a routine operation, but why pull things out?

Look at what Ang had pulled out: two carriages, several magic tents, some swords, armor, and the like.

Ang muttered: "Organize, throw away."

"These things are to be thrown away?" Lord Nai Ge looked at those things. The two carriages were picked up from the leaders of those dragon-slaying sand bandits.

Lord Nai Ge had already forgotten what they were called, only remembering that they had had an internal conflict, killed each other, and died together. Ang had picked up two magic carriages and several magic tents for nothing.

At the time, Lord Nai Ge had been shocked; the lives of these nobles and mages were too luxurious. The carriages and tents were actually so extravagant.

But these extravagant things, looking at them now, were not worth mentioning. Ang had too many good things in his hands. Just take the weapons and armor, for example—those Holy Armor Eggs alone were much better than the vast majority of forged weapons and armor.

Ang had given Anthony a few sets, which he treated like treasures, taking them out from time to time to show off and trick his subordinates into selling their lives for him.

As for the luxury carriages, things that could only be used for pleasure, Ang had never used them even once. Taking them out now, he was clearly really prepared to throw them away.

That was too wasteful. Lord Nai Ge hurriedly greeted Lu Se: "Lu Se, Lu Se, I'll give you two luxury carriages. If any blind girl takes a fancy to you, you can invite her in to sit."

Lu Se turned his head and rolled his eyes at him: "Thank you very much. Keep them yourself. Next time there's a luxury airship, give it to me. Otherwise, I don't know where to drive them to."

Giving away carriages in the Danhai Plane—Lord Nai Ge really had the nerve to give them away. Drive them into the water?

Finally, the two carriages had their wheels removed and were placed next to the teleportation array as luxury hotels.

Ang threw out all the things that were no longer needed, clearing up space to place his recent harvest.

This trip to the main plane, Ang's harvest was very large. The biggest harvest was the hundreds of thousands of believers he had stolen.

The believers possessed by the Undead Godhead were only a few hundred thousand, but now it had more than doubled. The soul flames Ang harvested every day were now twice as much as before.

The main reason was that, being in a disaster environment, these newly stolen believers had more active beliefs.

Then there was the forest trip. Not to mention that the God of Life had been kidnapped by him, just those insect corpses alone made Ang feel this trip was super worth it. It was also because the volume of those insect corpses was too large that Ang had the idea of organizing the Palace of Rest.

Insect ash was a super useful fertilizer. When Ang conducted control experiments before, he raised a batch of insects, but the output of insect ash was simply not enough.

The main reason was that the material consumed to raise them exceeded the value of the increased production when they were used as fertilizer.

For example, using ten tons of material to feed insects, these insects are burned into ash and scattered in the fields, which can increase crop production from ten tons to eighteen tons. The increased part is only eight tons, so it's a loss.

Although he could use worthless straw, bones, hair, and the like to feed them, the total amount was decreasing, so Ang couldn't produce and sell them himself, or be self-sufficient.

With these two large-scale supplements, Ang could be self-sufficient for a longer time.

Just as he was busy, Ang suddenly received Anthony's call:

"Lord, Deity Deity Diluni is urgently convening a plane security meeting, presumably wanting to ask about the elves. What happened over at the elves? The elves have blocked the forest and cut off all communications. My high-altitude reconnaissance units saw a giant torch burning in the Elf Forest, burning half the sky red. What happened? What stance should I maintain at the meeting?"

Ang tilted his head and said: "The Tree of Life burned."

"*Pfft*... What did you say? The Tree of Life burned? Really burned?" Anthony was incredulous.

Given his degree of understanding of Ang, he couldn't even control himself from repeating the question, which showed just how shocked he was. He didn't disbelieve Ang's words; he just couldn't believe this matter.

"Yes, burned," Ang said.

"And then? What is the situation with the elves now? Won't the elves go crazy? Who burned the Tree of Life? Have the elves found the culprit? Are they preparing for a holy war?" Anthony asked several questions in one breath, each one hitting the mark.

If the elves went crazy and wanted to avenge the Tree of Life, the entire plane would be plunged into war. He had to prepare as early as possible.

Anthony instantly brainstormed several response plans.

Either organize humans to fight a war with the elves and wipe out the crazy elves, or find the culprit and attract the elves' anger to a small group of culprits, killing these culprits to vent the elves' anger.

Or...

But before he finished brainstorming the plans, Ang's one sentence almost made him vomit blood: "I saved it, the elves are planting trees."

"*Pfft*... You mean, you saved the Tree of Life?" Anthony asked: "What does 'the elves are planting trees' mean?"

Ang nodded: "Planting the burned tree."

"And then? What is the situation with the Tree of Life now? How are the elves' emotions?" Anthony asked.

Ang scratched his head and said: "The God of Life, left. The Tree of Life, became World Tree."

Anthony didn't understand and forced a smile: "Lord, where did Lord Nai Ge go? How about you pull me in to chat with Lord Nai Ge?"

Anthony, who had explosive comprehension ability, superb brainstorming ability, could draw inferences, and see the big picture from small details, was still confused by Ang.

Entering the consciousness space, after some communication, Anthony was still scared: "What!? You kidnapped the God of Life? Heavens, won't the elves go crazy?"

Lord Nai Ge smiled bitterly: "Not for the time being, because of their business last time, the old tree was angry, expelled them, and then didn't pay attention to them anymore. Now they can't distinguish between the Tree of Life and the World Tree, and still think the old tree is angry with them. But one day they will find out. I don't know if they will come looking for us then."

Anthony understood and summarized: "That is to say, the elves have lost their god, but they don't know it yet. The Tree of Life has been burned, and what is alive now is just a World Tree, not the God of Life. Is that what you mean?"

"Yes."

"Good, I know what to do," Anthony said.

Lord Nai Ge smiled bitterly: "Don't let it slip and tell people we kidnapped the old tree."

Anthony said righteously: "Lord Nai Ge, you're wrong there. The God of Life has hands and feet; how can you call it kidnapping? It just happened to pass by and stayed as a guest."

Lord Nai Ge's eyes lit up: "Right, right, right, here as a guest, here as a guest. We are very warmly entertaining it. If the elves come looking for us, they have to pay our hospitality fee."

Lord Nai Ge, who could draw inferences, and Anthony looked at each other and revealed knowing smiles at the same time.

Anthony retreated after speaking. He still had to rush to attend the plane security meeting.

Lord Nai Ge had just retreated when he immediately saw a yellow figure pounce in front of him, its giant head arching him several times.

"Stop, stop, stop! Nai Aili, be careful not to shake me apart," Lord Nai Ge shouted repeatedly.

Nai Aili glared with her dragon eyes: "Are you looking down on me because I'm big?"

"No, no, I'm saying be gentle, my bones are broken," Lord Nai Ge hurriedly explained and changed the subject: "Are you looking for me?"

"Oh, right, Bu Lusike used bloodline summoning to ask me to ask you if you know what happened in the Elf Forest, saying there's some plane security meeting to be held." Nai Aili remembered the purpose of coming.

Lord Nai Ge thought for a while and said: "Tell him the elves' Tree of Life burned, but it was saved. The elves are now busy with post-disaster reconstruction."

Lord Nai Ge didn't tell Bu Lusike the detailed situation. It wasn't that he didn't trust this grand-nephew, but the dragon race was isolated overseas, and the elves' business didn't have much impact on the dragon race. Knowing too much was not good.

"Oh, got it, let me rub against you." Nai Aili used her head to bump Lord Nai Ge a few more times, then ran to the side to use bloodline resonance to contact Bu Lusike.

Lord Nai Ge had just climbed up from the ground when he saw Ang pull out a magic communicator for him. Clicking it open, he heard the voice of Death Star Au Benli:

"Lord Ang, I remember you have a good relationship with the elves, so do you know what happened in the Elf Forest? Lord Deity Deity Diluni is preparing to convene a meeting, but we don't even know what happened. If you have news, I hope you can share it with us."

Lord Nai Ge had a very strange feeling. Of the seven people at the plane security meeting, three had come to them to ask about the elves' news. Was this security meeting held by them?

"No, we have to listen to this meeting too. Ang, let's project onto Anthony and attend the plane meeting with him." ===== CHAPTER 292 =====