Half an hour later.

After washing and bathing in the palace on Nathan Island, and then putting on a set of well-fitting clothes that Erica Joaquina had specially found, although some people still had scratches on their faces and hands, they looked the same as when they had just rushed to the beach.

Feng Baobao, Wang Ye, Lu Linglong, Zhi Jinhua, Fu Rong, Zhang Chulan, Zhuge Qing, Zhang Lingyu, Lu Lin and a certain person were not affected at all.

The initiator, the little girl and the sect ancestor, teleported together again and finally met the Queen of Nathan Island again after they had been away for several days.

But what made everyone feel strange was that they did not see the queen "Wang Shena" in the palace, but in a strange place, where she was guarded by another Nathan, that is, Elijah Jones, whom Zhang Chulan was very familiar with.

Take it with you to the place you want to teleport to.

There, everything was surrounded by fog. You couldn't see the sky, the ground, or the distant scenery around you. You could only see a small figure faintly in front of you, wearing a traditional Nason costume like a bathrobe.

And just the outline of a tree?

"Elijah..."

Looking around, and then at the blurry shadow in front of him, Zhang Chulan couldn't help but feel a little horrified.

"What is this place?"

"Your king, wants to see us here?"

To be honest, it is definitely impossible for Zhang Chulan not to feel uneasy!

If he hadn't known that the other party was not hostile and had no reason to attack them, and that their terrible Ancestor Anne and Sister Baoer were still looking around and there was no abnormal reaction at all, he would probably want to take action or run away.

The heart is there.

"certainly!"

"Look, isn't our king over there?"

Elijah Jones smiled and pointed at the small, fuzzy figure in front of him. Then, before Zhang Chulan could say anything, he added with a smile:

"Don't worry!"

"Zhang Chulan, the 'Seventeen' you asked us to find has already been watched by us."

"When your meeting with the king is over, I will take you to find him. There will be no mistakes. We have someone keeping an eye on that guy 24 hours a day."

"That's it."

With that said, without giving Zhang Chulan a chance to ask again, that Elijah Jones explained the situation and gave Zhang Chulan a calm look. Then he distorted with the space, and then the whole person disappeared in an instant.

There was no trace.

"..."

Seeing this, seeing the other party running away, Zhang Chulan had no choice but to endure, and then hurried forward.

Because, he saw that while he was saying those two sentences to that Elijah Jones, a certain bad little girl ancestor had already taken the lead and led someone forward.

"!!"

"look!"

"Is that Wang Sheenna?"

"ah!"

"It's really her!"

"etc!"

"The tree next to her..."

"Whoa-!"

"The golden branches have no leaves at all. Could it be that magical sacred tree?"

"That should be it..."

"So it turns out that 'breaking golden branches' literally means this?"

"It's really a golden branch!"

"incredible……"

"I just don't know if it's really made of gold..."

"how?"

"Master Dao is interested?"

"Why don't you go try breaking one?"

"Don't! Don't!"

"I just said casually, I want to go to you, Master Dao, I don't want to die yet..."

In this way, as everyone walked over step by step, after gradually seeing the tree and the appearance of Queen Nathan standing under the tree, except for Zhang Chulan who was trotting over behind and the people who had already been there for the first time.

In addition to Annie who ran under the tree and started looking and groping curiously, Wang Ye, Lu Linglong, Zhi Jinhua, Fu Rong, Zhuge Qing, Zhang Lingyu and Lu Lin all exclaimed, discussed, and joked.

It was a joke about the tree.

"Everyone!"

"Are you here?"

When she saw Anne walking next to her, and then looked at the nine familiar people behind her, Wang Sheenna, or Queen Nathan, she smiled kindly and nodded, without saying any more polite words, just Yanran

A smile is considered a greeting.

"Sister Nana!"

(o)

"Is this the sacred tree you were talking about?"

()

However, Anne didn't care so much. She had already run under the tree. She just touched the sacred tree strangely again and again, and then raised her head and asked in wonder.

Although, the magic power flowing from above and the golden branch had already been basically confirmed by Anne, but she still subconsciously asked for confirmation.

"Yes."

"This is our sacred tree on Nathan Island."

Nodding, Queen Nathan admitted openly.

"..."

Then she didn't rush to speak, she just raised her head with everyone and continued to look up under the tree.

The 'Sacred Tree of the Forest King' in front of you is one of the greatest witchcrafts in the world so far. Its function is also very powerful. It not only makes everyone born on the island a strange person, but also has various other magical powers.

, it is also the last remaining and most precious asset of their forest country.

At the same time, it is also something that the North American Behemoth Company is thinking about.

Those coming outsiders, what they say about stopping barbaric rituals and stopping killings and advocating free civilization are all excuses, just like their ordinary people in North America always like to send troops and troops to oil-rich countries.

Creating unrest is the same as war. No matter how high-sounding the excuse is, in the final analysis it is just driven by interests.

And without this sacred tree, as the scholar of the Emerald Society said, the Behemoth Company would have turned around and driven away their warship, and they would never mention it again.

There is no doubt about the so-called taking over Nason Island and stopping the barbaric killing ritual.

“How amazing!”

"Not a single leaf..."

At this time, Fu Rong also came forward in amazement, her mouth full of admiration and curiosity.

"Is it really a tree?"

"Are you sure you're still alive?"

"Just because someone broke its branches, you have to hold that ceremony?"

"This is incredible!"

However, she didn't reach out and touch it without noticing anything like Annie. She just stood next to Wang Shennana and raised her head to observe and sigh.

"You don't believe it?"

"If you don't believe it..."

"You can go forward, break off a branch, and chop off my head. Then you will know whether it is true or false."

Seeing that Fu Rong still didn't want to believe it, Queen Nathan wasn't annoyed, let alone explained. She just smiled and motioned to Fu Rong to step forward, break off one and try it out.

"ah?"

"Broken branch?"

"Still beheading?"

"No! No! No!"

Hearing this, Fu Rong seemed to be frightened. She hurriedly waved her hands and stepped back quickly, indicating that such terrible things should not come to her.

"I don't want your head!"

"Don't want that broken branch either!"

"I don't want to be the king of your Nathan Island at all!"

Yes, this is indeed what Fu Rong is saying.

Although she is stupid, she is not stupid to a certain extent. After all, she knows that once she breaks the branch, she will enter the king selection ceremony, that is, enter the finals of the solo chicken game?

At that time, only one of the contestants will survive. She does not think that she will definitely be able to eat chicken, and she does not want to try to eat chicken at all, and she does not want to risk her own life.

Especially now that she has a handsome boyfriend, a high-paying job, and immortality to cultivate, she is extremely busy in life, let alone the queen of a mere Nason Island in this vast corner of the ocean.

, even if the position of CEO of Nadutong Company was given to her, she wouldn’t be surprised!

"Queen!"

"What's with all this fog?"

Seeing that Fu Rong was persuaded to withdraw, Zhang Chulan finally found the opportunity to come forward to talk and asked the question that had been lingering in his and everyone's minds since the beginning.

"fog?"

"This is not fog."

"This is a defensive measure created after we recently strengthened our defenses. It can hide the sacred tree and shield outsiders from prying or even entering."

"You also know that the sacred tree has not had any accidents for hundreds of years, but now it suddenly has its golden branches broken off..."

"Although the matter is irreversible, if possible, we still don't want outsiders to try to take advantage of it."

"It can be regarded as a way to make up for the situation, right?"

As she spoke, Queen Nathan rarely used an idiom that Zhang Chulan was familiar with to describe it, with a look of bitterness and helplessness on her face.

Obviously, although there is indeed that ancient ritual, if possible, if she could learn about it in advance, as the king of Nathan, she would never let anyone get close to this place and unknowingly put it there.

The golden branches of their sacred tree were broken off.

Because that is not in her interest, nor is it in the interest of Nathan Island and this ‘Kingdom of Gods’!

"So that's it!"

"That's right!"

"There are indeed a lot of people coming to the island recently. It's better to be a little more careful about those who want to fish in troubled waters."

"Some people have bad intentions!"

Nodding, Zhang Chulan expressed his understanding. Although it may be a little late to make amends now, and we don’t know how many people and who took away the golden branches, we should control this place and stabilize the situation for the time being, so as to prevent more new people.

It's always good when competitors appear.

"That is to say..."

"Queen, do you really want to win?"

Then, Zhang Chulan continued to ask.

"Look at what you say!"

"If I can live and continue to be a 'king' and live well, then of course I don't want to die. Otherwise, why would I make so many arrangements?"

Queen Nathan was a little amused by Zhang Chulan's words, then shook her head and asked with a smile:

"In your words..."

"Why don't I just lie down and die, then eat and wait to die?"

Of course, it is impossible to eat and wait for death, it is just a joke between friends.

From Queen Nathan's point of view, she and these people in front of her should be considered friends. After all, they are one of the very few people who know each other and have a bond with each other outside of this island.

"..."

However, after staring at the other party for a while, it seemed that she did not see any worry, anxiety or fear on the face of Queen Nathan in front of her. She only felt waves of peaceful Zhang Chulan frowning, and finally became bold and a little bit nervous.

Asked strangely:

"You don't seem to care about your life or death?" He didn't know why he felt that way, but anyway, he just felt that Queen Nathan in front of him was a little too calm.

"certainly!"

"If there is no external intrusion, I will happily accept all this."

"I won't even ask for your help again."

Speaking of this, Queen Nathan gave a rare sigh and directly revealed the fact that she was meeting Zhang Chulan and others here today to seek help.

"..."

However, Zhang Chulan did not talk to him.

He just deliberately pretended not to understand what the other party said, and then continued to look up at the sacred tree in front of him that had golden branches but no leaves.

"I don't understand, what is the inheritance of a 'king' like you?"

"Why can it be influenced by just a tree?"

"Can you tell me about it?"

After looking at it for a while, Zhang Chulan, who didn't understand it at all, suddenly asked with some anxiety, and was mentally prepared to be rejected by the other party.

"sure!"

Surprisingly, Queen Nathan responded generously.

"Actually, our 'Sacred Tree of the King of the Forest' is an ancient witchcraft, and it is also a contract."

"Its function is so powerful that all babies born on the island are aliens. It also has various other magical powers, such as the teleportation you have seen before, and anyone can be passive as soon as they land on the island.

Being sensed by me, and monitoring the actions of anyone on the island, etc."

"Of course, that's not absolute. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened before that someone sneaked into the island and suddenly disappeared and took away the golden branches."

At this point, she stopped.

Then after waiting for a while, she found that except for Zhang Chulan who was asking questions, everyone, even Feng Baobao and Annie, who was just groping around under the tree, were looking at her curiously. She thought

After thinking about it, he continued:

"Being a king will not only obtain various privileges granted by the sacred tree, but also inherit the sacred tree and maintain the will of the ancestors who founded the kingdom of gods for thousands of years."

"That's a great existence!"

"That will will drive the 'King' to pass on the Kingdom of God and the Sacred Tree at all costs, as well as the Nathan Guard, but the specific situation is much more complicated."

"how?"

"How do you disagree with that?"

Just after she finished speaking, before Queen Nathan, who looked like a pilgrim, could continue, she saw Zhang Chulan's frown and strange expression, so she couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and then stopped explaining.

and asked with some surprise.

"!!"

"No!"

"No!"

Zhang Chulan was agitated, quickly frowned, pretended to be stupid and shook his head with a smile.

Then, facing Queen Nathan who was still calm but staring at him with a half-smile, Zhang Chulan pondered for a while before speaking out his thoughts with a weird look on his face:

"It's just that I listened..."

"It's like you were enslaved by the sacred tree and became puppets because of some kind of contract?"

"certainly!"

"I'm just saying casually?"

Yes, Zhang Chulan just had that weird illusion, always feeling that the Queen Nathan in front of her didn't seem to match her age.

The other person was like some people he had seen before. They looked normal and would think and answer questions like normal people. However, they acted as if they had been brainwashed and turned into that kind of fanatical religion.

Molecules without knowing it?

"puppet?"

"No!"

"I don't think..."

After smiling, Queen Nathan shook her head and expressed that she disagreed with Zhang Chulan's point of view.

"We don't feel dominated, really!"

"If you don't believe it, you can break a branch and kill me. When you become the king of Nathan, you will know that what I said is true."

Then, by some strange combination of circumstances, she actually encouraged Zhang Chulan again.

"!!"

It's a pity that what she didn't know was that her words that never left the golden branch and death made Zhang Chulan feel more confident.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Similarly, Zhuge Qing, Wang Ye, Zhi Jinhua, Lu Lin, Lu Linglong and others also felt that something was wrong, but they had no intention of disturbing the two of them. They just listened and analyzed and pondered silently.

No squeak.

"You're crazy!"

"How come you never leave the golden branch?"

"Do you know what will happen to you if we really fail?"

Fu Rong had just said that when she was talking to him, and now she was doing this again with him. It would be impossible for Zhang Chulan to say that he was not scared by the other party!

Therefore, when he looked at the woman in front of him, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it clearly.

"no way."

"As I said just now, I also want to continue to be a 'king' and live on. However, apart from the privileges given to me by the sacred tree, I have no power. Can any of you defeat me?"

"and……"

"What I have never said to the outside world is that whether it is Nathan Wei or Wang, if he hesitates about his mission, he can choose to give up."

"If you are the last one standing in front of me, then I may choose to give up my mission and directly let you or someone among you take my place. That way there will be no punishment."

"Only one person can win, and that doesn't necessarily mean death. In fact, it can also mean surrender?"

"only……"

"Now, I can't confirm who the challenger is. Coupled with the external invasion, I don't want someone with ulterior motives to occupy this place, so I have to grit my teeth and persist and try to find the opponent and kill him..."

As she spoke, Queen Nathan couldn't help but sigh quietly.

"I see……"

Zhang Chulan nodded, expressing his understanding and basically confirming some things.

"Feel sorry!"

"We still don't want to participate in the Nathan Island matter, please understand!"

Yes, he still felt that King Nathan in front of him was a bit weird. It was like...some dominated existence. It reminded him of the three guys who brazenly attacked him when he used a trick to lure out Ma Xianhong.

.

He always felt that Queen Nathan in front of him seemed to be controlled or brainwashed by this broken tree. The method was very similar?

"so……"

"Now can you tell us your real intention of meeting us here?"

"Just say it!"

Finally, after greetings and a basic understanding, Zhang Chulan took a deep breath and asked hurriedly, no longer trying to hide the irritability in his heart.

"..."

Now, it was Queen Nathan's turn to be silent.

She first sighed softly, then looked around at the people around her, and finally sighed sadly:

"Seriously."

"If possible, I would naturally like you to break the golden branch. After all, you all have great potential..."

"But since none of you are willing..."

"Then can I ask for your help, or let me hire you?"

"certainly!"

"You don't need to reply immediately. You can follow me to the palace for dinner first. I have prepared a banquet for you..."

As she said that, Queen Nathan looked to the other side, and sure enough she saw that a little girl's eyes lit up instantly after she heard her saying that she had prepared a banquet.

"After the banquet, Elijah will take you to find the 'Seventeen', and then after you have completed your mission, you will slowly consider what I just said?"

"alright!"

"Now that you have seen the sacred tree, let us go back. The banquet should be ready."

Seeing the astonishment on Zhang Chulan's face and the vaguely embarrassed expression of wanting to refuse, Queen Nathan didn't mind. She just signaled Zhang Chulan not to refuse in a hurry, then she smiled and stretched out her hands towards Anne and Zhang Chulan respectively.

, motioning to the two and others to catch her.

"Very good!"

(｀)

"Let's go eat!"

*.(ˊ▽ˋ*)*.

Seeing that it was time to eat, Anne didn't care so much, she just cheered loudly, and then was the first to step forward and eagerly stretched out her hand to grasp the other person's palm tightly.

"..."

Zhang Chulan stared at the smiling Queen Nathan and opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything more, but motioned for others to come forward.

Swish——!

Soon, as the space distorted, the group of people, including Queen Nathan, quickly disappeared without a trace.

Until more than an hour later, the banquet hall of Nathan Palace...

"It's not good!"

"king!"

"Something happened!"

Just as Annie, Zhang Chulan and others were feasting in the ancient-style hall of Nathan Palace, unexpectedly, Erica Joaquina teleported to the banquet scene, and then ignored Annie and Zhang Chulan who were present.

Waiting for a large group of outsiders, they looked at their king with frightened expressions and exclaimed:

"Sacred tree!"

"Something happened to the sacred tree!"

"it……"

"It's bald!"

"All the golden branches have been broken off by others!"

“There’s not a single one left!!”

That's it, as Erica Joaquina finished telling the story, everyone, including Queen Nathan, was either shocked, disbelieving, or slowly stopped holding their hands as if they had seen a ghost.

action.

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Chapter completed!