Chapter 272 Delayed Looting
Even the future queen?
In this area where bloodline is more important, if even the queen and the nobles cannot obtain such a sacred object, then there is something wrong with this world.
At least that's what Theodora thought.
The others actually thought so too. They vaguely understood something and looked at Lu Sen quietly.
Alice felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, so she slowly moved behind Lu Sen.
Lu Sen was very calm and said, "In our east, there is an emperor who has united seven countries. His status is the same as your Octavian. He also wants to be immortal, so he sent a fleet of a thousand people to the sea to search for the elixir of immortality. Do you know the result?"
"What's the result?" Theodora asked curiously.
"He died. He died when his men found the elixir of immortality." Lu Sen's smile was strange, giving people a mysterious feeling.
Everyone in the Roman Empire looked at each other. After a long while, Theodora said calmly: "I don't think I will. I think I have a strong destiny and can resist such a curse."
Lu Sen gently shook the golden cup in his hand: "Who knows!"
"Grand Master, don't you believe that my destiny is powerful?" Theodora asked unhappily.
Lu Sen walked to the edge of the balcony, which was spacious and suitable for putting down the aircraft.
He turned his head and smiled, "I came all the way from the East to find what I want. If you, Princess, really have a strong destiny, you can naturally find the information I want. I will come again in a year. If you can give me an answer by then, it proves that you have enough destiny to withstand the backlash of destiny that will come with regaining youth."
Hearing this, Theodora was delighted. The other party admitted it. She asked anxiously, "Not now?"
She was eager to return to her youth and couldn't wait any longer.
Lu Sen shook his head.
"But this is the Roman Empire, my Byzantine land, and I will be the queen here. Grand Patriarch from the East, do you think you have the right to refuse?"
Lu Sen didn't say anything, and the aircraft suddenly appeared behind him.
Everyone on the balcony was stunned. This thing suddenly appeared and they were not mentally prepared at all.
Alice had already stepped in, and Lu Sen also walked in, and then said to Theodora: "Remember, I will be back in a year, Your Highness."
As he spoke, the glass cover of the aircraft closed and it gradually rose into the air.
At this time, Theodora finally reacted. She screamed, "Someone! Someone! Stop them."
In fact, there were several elite guards on the second floor, but they watched the aircraft slowly rising into the sky without making any movement, just staring blankly.
Theodora's scream also reached the garden downstairs. Almost all the guests looked up at the floating aircraft with their mouths wide open.
The originally bustling and noisy conference hall suddenly became silent, and everyone stared in a daze as the aircraft floated higher and higher and finally disappeared in the distance of the sky.
It was not until a long time later that sounds gradually began to be heard again in the banquet.
The next day, rumors began to spread in Venice and then to the entire Roman Empire, saying that the Grand Patriarch from the East was a powerful wizard (sage) with demigod blood, that although he was two or three thousand years old, he still looked like a teenager, that he could restore youth but at a terrible price, and so on.
Naturally, Lu Sen was not interested in the legends he left behind in the Eastern Roman Empire, so he returned to the Central Plains along the same route.
I haven't seen my three wives for more than a month, and I miss them very much.
Because of his experience of a long-distance flight, he knew to take a shortcut this time.
When passing through the middle of a desert, he suddenly found a strange place in the desert.
There was a round sand dune that was obviously higher than other places, and he was very familiar with the shape.
Lu Sen was a little curious. He flew the aircraft around it and then clapped his hands: "Wait, isn't this the Fusang Island of Tianjimen? So we ended up here."
Alice was also looking down. After all, she was a professional assassin, so her sight distance was much higher than Lu Sen's. "My dear, it seems that the place down there is empty. I can't see anyone."
"Then go down and take a look."
The aircraft landed and Lu Sen stepped on the sand.
The surrounding area is full of completely dead forests. The ground of Fuso Island, which originally had a lot of grass and trees, is now covered with fine sand.
The surrounding sand layers appear very flat and there are no unnatural signs.
"It seems that no one has been active here for a long time."
Lu Sen took a look and walked to the center of Fuso Island based on his memory, and saw the "Fuso Tree" with only a huge trunk left.
Even a dead hibiscus tree still gives people a feeling of being a giant.
It is very hot here, the sun is high in the sky and the light is extremely harsh.
Lu Sen had the transformation system to protect him, so there was naturally no problem. Alice put on the black robe she had prepared long ago, and even covered her head with a hood.
"My dear, please wait here for a moment. I will go and look around to see if there is anything worth exploring."
"Be careful on your own."
"Don't worry." Alice patted the little thing on her shoulder: "With it, no one can match me except the few people at home."
That’s true!
Lu Sen was no longer worried about Alice's safety. He walked around the hibiscus tree and suddenly had an idea. He took a pickaxe and started hitting the tree trunk.
Sure enough... wooden blocks fell from the hibiscus tree one by one.
High-grade wood materials: Essence materials extracted from special plants, which can be used as high-grade building materials, and can also be used in some synthetic formulas that require wood materials, which can effectively enhance the effects of items produced by the synthetic formula.
nice one!
Lu Sen looked at the huge hibiscus tree and laughed.
Then it was time for the hard work of logging. Lu Sen started digging from the bottom, circling the tree, and then after half an hour, the trunk of the hibiscus tree fell to one side with a loud bang, raising a lot of dust.
"My dear, are you okay?"
Hearing the loud noise, Alice came running over from a distance. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw a familiar figure in the dust. Then she looked at the fallen huge tree trunk and clicked her tongue.
If an ordinary person wanted to cut down this giant tree, it would take at least two or three hundred people, but Langjun could do it by himself, and he was worthy of being her 'master'.
Lu Sen turned his head and smiled: "It's okay, did you find anything over there?"
"Yes." Alice said, "I entered a large house and saw many words written in red paint on the walls. Most of them were cursing my husband, and some were words of despair and sadness."
Lu Sen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head helplessly and said, "Besides those words, there is nothing else?"
"Yes, there are some furniture inside, and also some mummies." Alice paused and said, "Some of the mummies have tooth marks on them..."
Lu Sen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "It seems that the Tianji Sect is finished. Not only are they killing each other, they are also cannibalistic!"
How could they do this if they were not at the end of their rope?
Alice smiled and said, "This is already considered good. At least I only suffered some injuries. When I was training in the Assassins organization, I saw many worse things than this."
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Lu Sen took out a pickaxe from the system backpack and handed it over: "Come with me to divide this tree, finish the work earlier and return to Hangzhou earlier."
"OK."
Although it is very fast to hit something with a pickaxe, and a wooden cube will pop out after three hits with the pickaxe, the hibiscus tree is really too huge. The two men worked from noon to dusk, and only knocked off one-fifth of the volume of the hibiscus tree.
"Let's take a break first." Lu Sen looked at the gradually darkening environment and set up the small system home: "Stay here tonight, and we will continue tomorrow."
"I'll listen to you, my dear." Alice smiled, sat on a chair, stretched, and drank a sip of honey water: "It's really pleasant to have a drink after work."
Lu Sen thought so too.
If you simply drink honey water, you won't feel anything. But after working hard, if you have a cup of this, you will feel a sense of satisfaction and comfort, and your whole body seems to be sublimated.
The nights in the desert are very cold, and the wind howls through the densely packed dry trees around, producing a strange sound like the howling of ghosts and wolves, which is extremely creepy to listen to.
However, sitting in the system home, it is as warm as spring, and even if I hear such strange noises, I won’t feel too uncomfortable.
After eating and drinking, Alijie clapped her hands and said, "My dear, I'm going to walk around and see if I can find something valuable!"
"It's so spooky and scary around here, aren't you afraid?"
Alice picked up a bright glass lamp and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid. One of the Assassins' training is to stay with a large number of corpses. I remember that place was a very large basement of a monastery, with countless skulls and skeletons piled up inside, forming a huge maze of bones."
When Lu Sen heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"And I found that many skulls looked like children's." Alice sneered: "It's easy to guess what those so-called servants of the Lord did. I stayed there for more than a month and never saw any ghosts or demons, never!"
Because the biggest demons are actually the monks in the monasteries.
Lu Sen sighed subconsciously.
"I am guilty of disturbing my husband's mood by saying these things." Alice walked out with the glass cup in her hand: "I will be back soon."
Watching the circle of light gradually disappear into the darkness, Lu Sen moved out a bed and prepared to lie down and have a rest.
But suddenly, he heard a rustling sound, like something rubbing on the sand.
At first he thought it was Alice who came back, but then he found that it was not her. Instead, not far away, there were several pairs of green eyes looming.
"Ghost?" Lu Sen touched his chin, "Or something else? Oh no, Alice is outside, will something happen to her?"
Lu Sen was worried about Alix, so he immediately began to prepare the equipment to leave the system home protection. Just as he was about to go out, he saw these green eyes rushing towards him at an extremely fast speed.
These things were moving incredibly fast. Just when Lu Sen was stunned, he found that these pairs of green eyes had rushed in front of him, only separated from him by a fence.
Then... he was surprised to find that these green eyes were a kind of very strange round spheres. Under the light in the system home, Lu Sen found that they were green all over and wrinkled, like a bunch of cowpea leaves.
However, these little things did not take the next step. Instead, they looked at Lu Sen pitifully with a pair of glowing green eyes.
Lu Sen hurriedly called up the system interface, and after the system's analysis, the identities of these little things jumped out.
Tree spirits: The product of the souls of some special divine plants that have died and then melted and cut and regenerated. They like to live in the woods and prefer to stay next to special divine plants all year round. They are beneficial insects! Harmless.
beneficial insects?
Could this thing be a bug?
But it's so ugly... If a tree elf is this ugly, it's so wrinkled that it's uncomfortable to even look at it, let alone touch it.
But then Lu Sen discovered that these floating tree elves had a small suffix: extremely weak!
They seem to want to come in?
Lu Sen thought about it and decided to let it in since it was harmless.
Then Lu Sen gave these little things temporary authority, and then they all flew in.
After coming in, it fell to the ground with a plop, and rolled around on the grass. Its pair of little green eyes narrowed into long slits, and it seemed extremely happy.
Things in the system home grow very fast. Although it has only been more than two hours, a layer of green grass has already grown here.
Lu Sen looked at these little things rolling around on the ground and heard some gurgling sounds. For some reason, he seemed to find them cute.
It's just wrinkled all over and doesn't look very good.
Lu Sen ignored these little creatures and let them roll around on the ground.
Not long after, Alice came back, holding a glass cup in her left hand and a wooden box in her right hand.
She came back happily, but when she saw the little balls rolling on the ground, she couldn't help asking, "My dear, what are these?"
"Tree elf."
Tree elves? Alice was a little surprised: "Aren't tree elves monsters that look like humans, but are small and ugly, with sharp claws and teeth, and will harm humans who stray into the depths of the forest?"
"But this thing is the real tree spirit."
Alijie looked at these little things for a while and couldn't help but say, "How ugly."
Afterwards, she no longer cared about these little creatures rolling on the ground. Her husband must have had his reasons for letting them in.
She put the wooden box on the table and said with a smile, "My dear, I found this in a room. Guess what it is?"
"The secret book of Tianji Sect."
"How can you know that, my dear?"
"This box is usually used to store books." Lu Sen pointed to the dark red wooden box and said, "This kind of wood is very precious, so most people don't have it. It's normal that you haven't seen it, Alijie."
Alice was speechless. This was not a matter of knowledge, but the financial oppression of the rich over the poor.
Lu Sen has three boxes of this style at home.
When three women got married, each of them had one in her dowry, which was very valuable.
