nyslfriends Chapter 69 Want to live? Ask Ares, the sweeper, first!
Chapter 69 Want to live? Ask Ares, the sweeper, first!
"Hang them all up."
Lin Fan pointed to the pile of half-dead prisoners on the ground and gave instructions to Aldebaran.
"Yes, sir!"
Aldebaran obeyed the order, and with a wave of his large, fan-like hand, he lifted up two or three prisoners with one hand, as if catching chicks.
He tore off several tough vines and quickly tied the group of people upside down, hanging them headfirst from the trunk of a huge ancient tree.
The suffocating feeling of blood flowing backward completely panicked the leader of the "Hellfire" mercenary group.
"Spare me...spare me!"
He thought that bringing out the infamous name of "Hellfire" in the underworld would be enough to make anyone wary.
Who would have thought that the other party was not only completely ignorant of such things, but also acted with absolutely no scruples.
This is not just a dragon crossing the river, this is a divine dragon that devours the heavens and the earth!
Lin Fan, carrying a warm teacup, leisurely walked to the tree, the rising steam blurring his expression.
"Speak, what are you doing here?"
He took a small sip, his tone as casual as if he were asking for directions.
"Don't tell me you're here for a rainforest trekking adventure."
"I...we..." The mercenary leader's throat was dry, and his eyes flickered.
"Not going to tell?"
Lin Fan's eyelids lifted slightly.
"Aldebaran, go and call that sweeper over here."
"yes!"
Aldebaran turned and walked away, his steps heavy, each one causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Soon, he dragged over a man dressed in burlap with empty eyes.
It was Ares, the former God of War, who was being punished to clean and had begun to question his existence.
When Ares saw Lin Fan, his legs went weak. He thought he hadn't cleaned properly and was going to be punished by having to clean the latrine again.
"Sir... what are your orders?" His voice trembled slightly.
Lin Fan pointed his finger at the mercenary leader who was hanging there.
"Go and loosen his bones."
"Use the same energy you use to scrub the toilet."
Ares: "..."
Mercenary leader: "???"
Although he couldn't understand what kind of force was used to "scrub the toilet" in Chinese.
But he saw it.
The moment Lin Fan gave the order, a crimson light suddenly ignited in the lifeless eyes of the burly man in the burlap sack in front of him, whose eyes were empty!
An indescribable, terrifying pressure descended like a landslide and a tsunami!
That wasn't murderous intent, nor was it imposing aura.
It was an absolute suppression stemming from the hierarchy of life, the indifference of a god looking down upon ants!
The mercenary leader's blood froze instantly, and his soul trembled and howled under this divine power!
"No! I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"
His psychological defenses were completely shattered by this fleeting glimpse of divine power.
He had no doubt that if he had been a second later, the monster would have used a method a thousand times more terrifying than death to "loosen his bones."
"It's the 'Tree of Life'! A mysterious European consortium has hired us to find the legendary 'Tree of Life sapling'!"
"The reward is one billion US dollars!"
Faced with the fear of death, the mercenary leader practically screamed as he confessed everything.
"One billion US dollars?"
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow, seemingly somewhat surprised by the price.
"A sapling, but it's quite valuable."
His gaze then shifted to the indigenous chieftain beside him, who was also hanging and had turned deathly pale with fear.
"And what about you?"
"You protect this so-called 'holy mountain,' so why are you attacking them?"
Seeing that Lin Fan could communicate with these outside invaders without any hindrance, the awe in the eyes of the indigenous chieftain almost materialized.
He dared not conceal anything, and through intermittent mental fluctuations and the ancient Aztec language, he revealed all the secrets.
They are descendants of the "Sun Eagle" warrior tribe of the ancient Aztec Empire.
After the fall of the empire, their ancestors retreated into this jungle and have guarded the sleeping temple of the supreme god, Kukulkan, for generations.
That pyramid is the temple itself.
The "sapling of the Tree of Life" that outsiders talk about is actually a seed of divine power left behind by Quetzalcoatl before he fell into slumber.
Over thousands of years, the divine seed has become one with the ley lines of the temple and even the entire rainforest, and is the key to maintaining the slumber and life of the feathered serpent god.
In recent decades, there have been greedy individuals like "Hellfire" who have broken in and attempted to steal the sacred tree.
As guardians, they naturally fought to the bitter end.
Just now, they mistakenly thought Lin Fan and his group were also intruders coveting the sacred tree, which is why they launched the sneak attack.
Then, Aldebaran knocked them all down with a single punch.
"I see."
After listening, Lin Fan finally connected all the clues.
He stroked his chin, a playful smile curving his lips.
His gaze swept past the crowd and landed on the faint outline of the pyramid deep in the dense forest.
"In other words..."
"Is a living, real god sleeping inside that pyramid?"
Lin Fan's eyes suddenly lit up.
It was the kind of intense, dangerous light that only a hunter would have when he saw a priceless treasure.