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Zhuo Ya woke up to the smell of breakfast. The next morning, after taking a stroll around the ranch, he found his daughter sprawled across the bed, snoring loudly, emanating a faint but unpleasant odor that made his face twitch. He remembered having experienced that smell himself in the past.
"Xiong Da, come here!" he called out.
Xu Li shouted towards the door, and soon a large head poked through the doorframe, looking somewhat dazed: "Hoo hoo."
"Did you eat something in the woods yesterday?" Zhuo Ya asked.
Xiong Da nodded obediently. Xu Li frowned in thought; it shouldn’t have been possible. The giant tree they had visited before had long since withered away. He had checked it the previous year and confirmed that it would not revive, which was why he hadn’t returned.
He patted Xiong Da on the head, then went to the entrance to change into his boots and grabbed a shotgun from the storage room. "Dahua and Xiong Da will accompany me into the woods, while Xiong Er stays home with the little ones."
After giving his orders, he drove the Mighty Chariot out of the yard. Xiong Da and Dahua followed closely behind. The little ones tilted their heads as they watched the Mighty Warrior disappear into the distance. Under Xiong Er's urging, they went back inside to lie down. Da Hei glanced at the house before continuing to rest under an apple tree. Last night, it had caught a whiff of a long-forgotten odor from its young master and had pieced together some information.
A group of girls wearing tight pants and tank tops rode horses freely across the ranch, enjoying a long-awaited sense of freedom and comfort. When they saw the Mighty Chariot speeding by in the distance, they whistled and urged their horses to catch up, eager for a race.
Xu Li waved his hand dismissively. "I’m going into the woods; you all go do what you need to do."
The girls slowed their horses down and watched as the Mighty Chariot disappeared from view. Xiong Da and Dahua weaved through the herd of horses, chasing after it into the distant woods. One girl licked her lips suggestively. "Makarov is really strong; I wonder if he's as tough as he looks."
"Stop flirting, Yisha; picking two cucumbers from the greenhouse is just as easy," another girl teased.
"You're going to die," Yisha replied with laughter as they rode off.
Meanwhile, Xu Li parked his vehicle by the Low Fence, opened a modified gate, and walked into the woods with his gun in hand. Following Xiong Da and Dahua's lead, he crossed over two small hills until he finally stopped beneath that once-mighty tree he had visited before.
To his astonishment, what had been a withered giant was now lush with foliage again. This left him puzzled.
He climbed into a hollow in the tree and immediately caught a whiff of that familiar yet faint odor. After thinking for a moment, he pulled out his phone and turned on its flashlight. He set it up and lay down on the ground, using his hands to dig through the black mud beneath him; he wanted to uncover what lay below.
As he continued to dig, a section of black tree root soon emerged. He quickly cleared away more mud around it and then knelt down to pull on it with all his strength: "Heave-ho!"
With a loud slosh, more roots broke free from the mud under his forceful tugging. He kept pulling and tearing at them until he finally managed to extract that buried section of root. To his surprise, it seemed alive; it began to wriggle slowly in his hands.
"What in the world is this?"
The end of the root resembled an octopus, covered in numerous tiny tendrils. As he tugged on one of them forcefully, dark red liquid began to ooze from where it broke off—just like what he had encountered before.
As more liquid flowed out, that familiar sweet scent wafted into his nostrils once again. He started tearing off more tendrils until his eyes were red with determination. Finally, he rubbed some of the root against himself before opening his mouth and biting down: "Crunch!"
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