The tug-of-war between the ghost ship and the tentacles reached a stalemate. There were already six huge tentacles on the ship, but the ghost ship was still not pulled into the water.

Finally, the big octopus couldn't stand it any longer, its head surfaced, and it wanted to climb on the boat, relying on its huge body to forcibly press the fishing boat into the water.

"Finally out!" Lothar stopped chanting the spell, the Book of the Dead began to tremble, the blank page was aimed at the octopus, and a summoning spell appeared on the page and the octopus at the same time, "The extraordinary death should be a dusty memory, write down what belongs to their last words."

The summoning spell and the ghost ship disappeared at the same time, and the octopus slapped the water in confusion, as if searching for where the ship had gone.

Lothar looked at the new summoning spell on the page: "So this octopus is called the Black Water Calamity... It has killed many people before..."

Lothar recited the incantation spell of Blackwater Calamity: "The invisible tentacle, the invisible abyss, the visible drag, the still-seeing slumber."

The Bane of Blackwater heard Lothar's call, it flapped its eight tentacles, swam to Lothar, and bowed its head meekly.

"It's really obedient." Lothar touched the sucker on the tentacles of the Blackwater Calamity, and the big octopus showed no signs of attacking at all.

"The Book of the Dead is such a useful thing, Karthus actually gave it to me..." Lothar couldn't help but speculate about the intention of the dead man, "Is there any intention... Or he thinks, even if I completely grasp it The Book of the Dead can't deal with him either..."

With thoughts in mind, Lothar and the little girl stepped on the tentacles of the Black Water Calamity and headed for the island on the other side.

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Some who escaped the Broken Curse tried to dive under the waves, believing that corruption would not penetrate the bottom. They were wrong.

——The Book of the Dead Summoning Guide: Blackwater Calamity

Chapter 407 Big Tree

Lothar bypassed a dead tree and looked helplessly at the little girl who was using the dead vine as a swing: "Okay, you've been playing for a long time, it's time to go."

"I'm tired." The little girl turned her head.

"Don't lie, the dead will not get tired."

"I don't want to go!" The little girl sighed and threw her limbs around, "I thought I could meet a lot of living creatures with you, and then I could kill them and play with them, but it turned out that except for that stinky guy who was going to die. I haven't seen a single living thing! He's still hanging on that bottle of stinky water! I don't even want to get close to him!"

"So you're following me for this purpose..." Lothar raised his forehead. After spending so many days together, he thought he knew a little bit about this little girl, but he didn't expect that she was still stubborn.

Lothar suddenly remembered Syndra. Although Syndra and the little girl have different temperaments, Syndra is only extremely hostile to Ionia, and has no hostility to people in other places, just indifference, while the little girl simply They take pleasure in killing people, but it is undeniable that they have bad tempers.

"Is it so hard to guess the mind of a little girl..." Lothar remembered the little girl he had met, in addition to a mysterious girl with colorful hair, and a ninja girl from Ionia, Lothar felt that he was in touch The most is Ashe when he was a child, but he remembered that Ashe was very gentle when he was a child, and he didn't have a stubborn temper at all. "The gap between people is really big."

The little girl stared at Lothar: "It always feels like you are scolding me in your heart."

"Your illusion." Lothar pressed the little girl's head, "Okay, stop fluttering, you will see your panties."

"I'm not wearing it."

"I'm not interested in wearing it or not."

"cut."

Half-coaxing and half-deceiving finally let the little girl continue on the road. Lothar observed the island. The black fog was not very thick, and the number of undead was much less than in other places in Shadow Island. It took a long time to see one. Lonely ghosts wander aimlessly.

But like all the dead, the ghost will call Lothar by his name as soon as it sees him, as if thirsting for something.

Lothar ignored these ghosts, they were already dead with only a trace of soul left, and they couldn't communicate at all.

"Dead man... leave..." Lothar was suddenly blocked by a branch.

Lothar looked around and saw that a tree was talking.

This tree looks completely indistinguishable from the surrounding things, and it does not reveal the slightest breath of life. Lothar thought it was an ordinary dead tree, but he did not expect it to be alive.

Lothar has seen many trees in Ionia that can move and talk, but those are only found in places where natural magic is very abundant, and it is really surprising that a dead place like Shadow Island can have it.

"I'm not dead." Lothar said, "I'm still alive, but the soul has left the body."

The trunk twisted and Lothar saw the shape of a human face on the bark.

"Wow, tree man! Good..." The little girl had a disgusting expression on her face. She seemed to want to say something dirty, but Lothar covered her mouth and couldn't say it.

The tree man twisted his body and stood up with a crunch. The tree man was very tall, three times as tall as Lothar. He scratched his chin with an arm-like branch and looked at Lothar strangely: "It's not the dead man. It's strange that I don't feel the life force in you."

"My name is Lothar, although I don't have a body now." Lothar introduced himself, "but I'm really not dead."

"Well..." The tree man was still not sure, "You really don't speak like a dead person... But I still can't let you go into the woods."

"why?"

"I'm the guard of this dead forest." The tree person said, "My name is Zhimu, and the big tree entrusted me to guard this place. I can't let you in."

"Big tree..." The "helper" Yorick told Lothar was a big tree, "I came here to meet the big tree, can you take me to see him?"

Zhimu's expression became even more strange: "You want to see him? No... No... Dashu hates the dead, you will be shot to death by him... No, you are already dead..."

"I said I'm not dead." Lothar found that the tree man's brain didn't seem to be too bright, "I don't need to go in, can you ask him to come out to see me?"

Zhimu kept scratching his bark, and seemed to be thinking very intensely. After a long time, he finally nodded: "Okay, I can take you in, but you need to know three things."

"you say."

"First." Zhimu stretched out a finger-like branch, "After entering, you are not allowed to touch any trees, flowers or grass, and you can't even get close."

"Are you afraid we will hurt them?" Lothar nodded, "Yes."

"Second." Zhimu stretched out his second finger, "Dashu will be in a bad mood when he sees you, you can't stimulate him."

"Understood." Lothar had already learned from Yorick that the big tree seemed to be very irritable, so he was not surprised. "What about the third?"

"Third..." Zhimu raised his third finger halfway, and he thought about it carefully, "Uh... there is no third, only two."

"It does seem to be not very smart..." Losar thought.

The little girl seemed to want to scold her, but Lothar covered her mouth with one hand and hugged her waist with the other. The tree is gone, and Lothar can't let the little girl make trouble.

"Why did you tie your companion?" Jim pulled the root out of the soil and started to lead Lothar, looking at Lothar's behavior strangely.

"Oh, she likes it." Lothar lied casually.

"That's it." Zhimu believed it easily, and a smile appeared on his rough bark face, "You two are in such a good relationship."

"Yes." Lothar said expressionlessly.

"Uuuuuu!" The little girl was still struggling fiercely.

Zhimu brought Lothar into the dead forest. Although he told Lothar not to get close to the living plants, Lothar did not see a single living one along the way. Most of them were only half dead trees. There are also some leaves growing on the top of Zhimu's head.

The little girl has also calmed down temporarily. She is not a very strong undead, and it is impossible to break free from Lothar, whose necromantic magic is getting stronger and stronger, but her eyes have been rolling around, and she is obviously still thinking about what to do. thing.

Lothar's nose moved slightly, and he smelled a little breath of life.

In the depths of the dead forest, there is a very thick old tree.

Zhimu walked to the ancient tree and said softly, "Big tree, there are people who want to see you."

The old tree turned around slowly.

Lothar saw an angry face.

The layers of bark made his face extremely twisted and hideous. He pulled out his buried hand and snarled at Zhimu: "Zhimu! I let you guard the woods! How can you put humans in there? ! Still dead!"

Zhimu shivered with fright, the leaves on his head were brushing, and he was just a baby at best in front of the giant ancient tree: "Sorry...the big tree...I...I..."

Jim was obviously terrified, he wasn't very good at speaking, and he couldn't speak now.

The anger of the ancient tree subsided a little. His sturdy tree hands gently caressed the leaves on Zhimu's head, trying his best to make his voice sound softer: "I'm sorry, Zhimu, I shouldn't yell at you, don't be afraid..."

After soothing Zhimu for a while, Gushu turned his gaze to Lothar with undisguised contempt and hatred in his eyes: "Dead man! Get out of my forest!"

The voice of the ancient tree is very loud, and it does not seem to be an ordinary voice. It has the power to shatter the soul. For the first time, Lothar felt pain in the spirit state, just because he heard the roar of the ancient tree.

The little girl he was holding couldn't take it anymore, and his eyes were so white that he almost fainted.

"Only death is eternal." Lothar chanted a spell in Ouchen language, and the black mist put a protective cover on him and the little girl's body, so that the roar of the ancient tree could not hurt them.

The expression of the "Mage" ancient tree became even more angry. He didn't even want to say a warning this time, and the huge tree hand slammed down on Lothar.

It stands to reason that Lothar and the little girl in the spirit state would not be afraid of this physical attack, but Lothar still felt a strange magical power in the ancient tree, which seemed to restrain the dead.

Lothar hurriedly threw the little girl out, but he was hit by the hand of the ancient tree.

The little girl was confused by the roar, but now she is slowly reacting. She saw Lothar's body disappearing under the giant hand of the ancient tree, and exclaimed: "Little brother!"

The little girl flew to the tree hand and wanted to kick the tree hand away: "Bastard garbage tree! If my little brother is gone, you will pay me!"

Gu Shu looked at the little girl in surprise. He had hardly seen any dead person who would give priority to saving others.

But the resentment of the ancient tree for the dead was not so easily reduced. He raised the tree's hand and wanted to destroy the little girl as well.

"I can't see that you still care about me." Lothar's voice appeared on the spot.

The ancient tree was stunned, and the tree hand was suspended in the air.

"Wow! You bad brother!" The little girl kicked Lothar on the head with a flying kick. "If you don't have Karthus, you will scold me to death! He won't give me candy in the future!"

"Did you worry about me for this reason?" Lothar grabbed the little girl's bare feet and hung her upside down. "It's my fault that I was touched at that moment."

"Who wants you to be moved! Let me go!" The little girl tugged at the skirt so that it wouldn't slide down.

"Hey, you really didn't wear it."

"go to hell!"

"You...why didn't you dissipate..." Gushu looked down at Lothar and said solemnly.

Lothar grabbed the little girl's other bare foot that kept kicking him in the face, and he looked at the ancient tree: "Your source of strength is the water of life, right?"

The old tree frowned.

"The water of life has a strong restraint effect on the dead. The blow you just made should kill most of the dead." Losar said, "But I am not the dead, I am just a soul out of the flesh."

The ancient tree stared at Lothar for a long time, and then scolded: "So what! You are a human mage! You are the culprit of all these tragedies!"

"Are you talking about the great change in Shadow Island?" Lothar said, "I only came to the island for a short time, and I didn't participate in that at all."

"Humans can't be trusted!" The ancient tree gritted his teeth. Although he had no teeth, the bark made a terrible creaking noise, "My children and I were living well on the island! It was because of the curse of the black mist. All the children are dead! No more children will be born! It's all human fault!"

"Do you mean that child by your mouth?" Lothar pointed behind the ancient tree.

There, there was a small patch of soil piled up with dead leaves, with a very young seedling on it.

"You can never hurt my child!" Gushu stood in front of his right, looking at Lothar angrily.

"I didn't want to hurt." Lothar said, "But the condition of the seedling seems to be very bad. Is it dying?"

Lothar's words pierced the pain of the ancient tree, his face became extremely contorted again, and even Zhimu, who had been quiet by the side, lowered his head sadly.

"It is the only seedling we have found on the island in the past 100 years. When we found it, none of its siblings survived, only it was left." Zhimu walked to the seedling, squatted down and took care of it with his hands Looking at it, "We thought of a lot of ways to make it live, but we can only make it immortal, but it's approaching the limit."

The little girl wanted to float over to see the seedling, but was stopped by the old tree, and he obviously didn't want any of the dead to get close to his child.

Lothar looked at the ancient tree strangely: "You should have the water of life in your body? Why can't you feed it?"

The ancient tree's vigilance against Lothar still did not disappear, but he did not attack Lothar again for the time being: "It's not your human fault! The water of life was originally a sweet spring flowing under the archipelago, and it was inexhaustible. , but that **** black fog ruined everything, the springs dried up! Not a little water of life left!"

"The big tree and I are among the few who survived." Zhimu also explained, "Because we have lived old enough, the water of life has completely merged with our tree sap, so we can live to this day, but other young children At once……"

"Can't you nourish it with your sap?" Lothar asked again.

"I know I know!" the little girl snapped, "You must be reluctant to give up your own sap! I understand, I understand, who likes to harm themselves and others?"

"As long as the children can survive, I'd be willing to die a thousand times!" The ancient tree was full of hostility, "but our sap water of life is not concentrated enough for the children to absorb it, so pure water of life is necessary. "

Lothar thought for a while, and it seemed that to eliminate the hostility of this ancient tree to him could only help him revive the dying seedling.

If Lothar's body is still there, it shouldn't be difficult. Except for necromantic magic, every kind of magic that Lothar has learned has powerful healing and life force. Unfortunately, he can't use it now.

But Lothar knew one more thing.

"I came to you, hoping to get you to do me a favor." Lothar said his intention.

"I won't help humans." The hatred in Gushu's eyes did not subside.

"I know where the spring of the water of life is." Losar said, "If the water of life on this island has not been completely exhausted, only that place can have it."

Gushu stared at Lothar for a long time: "Why should I trust you?"

"I hope you can go to that place with me." Rosa said, "As sincerity, I can go and fetch the water of life for you first, and then let you help me."

"I don't believe human rhetoric."

"But no one can save your child but me."

Zhimu touched the ancient tree lightly, and the ancient tree turned to look at the seedling that Zhimu was taking care of. It really couldn't hold on anymore. Such a fragile life could not survive on the Shadow Island.

"If you dare to lie to me." The ancient tree glared at Lothar, "Even if I break a few of my roots, I will hunt you down endlessly! Until your soul is left with no scum!"

"Deal." Rosa said.