Doomsday Code

Chapter 578 Stolen Money

Just as Chen Cheng finished his words, the originally ordinary willow tree suddenly spread out its branches, and at the same time the entire Willow Mountain began to tremble.

Vines bound with charred corpses stretched out from the ground, and the waving movements looked like the surging of evil spirits in purgatory.

Countless voices in different tones emanated from these charred corpses.

"Damn humans, I will kill you all."

As they spoke, the roots began to tangle with each other, and finally a huge figure composed of roots and charred corpses, dozens of meters tall, appeared in front of Chen Cheng.

"Go to hell humans."

With a bang, the vine monster punched Chen Cheng.

However, Chen Cheng ignored his punch and showed a mocking expression on his face.

Just as the fist was about to land on Chen Cheng's head, the huge root monster immediately dissipated, and countless charred body parts fell from the sky.

"Damn humans."

These roots quickly retracted and pulled towards Sheli who had hidden beside the willow tree.

However, no matter how fast the willow roots retracted, they could not be faster than Sheli's knife.

The semi-artifact butcher knife, which was forged with void fire from everything in a desert city, was like a hot knife cutting butter when it came to chopping a platinum-level tree demon with shallow background like him.

With a swish sound, the knife flashed, and the roots that were about to retreat and explode Sheli's head in mid-air quickly lost their vitality.

A crackling sound was heard, and a tree face appeared on the willow tree trunk, with an expression of disbelief on its face.

Sheli didn't give him time to speak again. With this blow, he cut off the life of the tree demon.

The willow tree fell to the ground with a loud bang, and the roots and vines turned into rootless duckweed and fell to the ground. Soon most of the roots and vines were ignited by the high temperature.

After Sheli slashed with the sword, he quickly used the Shadow Demon's Shadow Escape to leave.

Then he walked out from the shadow behind Chen Cheng.

Sheli looked at the blisters on his arms. Just as Chen Cheng had just reminded him, he could not fight in this high temperature environment for a long time.

At this moment, Chen Cheng crawled out of the pile of charred corpses, smelled the stinking smell on his body, and said with a "Puh-Puh" sound:

"Fuck, I was pretending too much and forgot about the charred corpses that this guy was entangled with."

Then Chen Cheng looked at Sheli beside him and saw the blisters on his arms.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and then he took out a few rare healing magic crystals.

He crushed the crystal and activated the low-level healing magic inside, and soon the blisters on Sheli's arms subsided.

"Your physical strength is a shortcoming. Although you are already very old, you can still practice the Way of the Warrior with me. At least it can improve your physical strength."

However, Sheli shook his head and said:

"I've tried it. If I can draw strength into my body to strengthen it, then my knife will be useless."

Sheli drew the butcher knife from his waist, swung it a few times, and then a smile appeared on his face and said:

"And I can already feel my knife getting faster and sharper soon."

Chen Cheng didn't know how the enlightened person practiced. Perhaps, as Sheli said, he followed the path of the sword, which was the ultimate speed in sword drawing.

The way of the warrior is the way of the physical body, and perhaps there will be some conflicts between the two that ordinary people are not aware of.

Upon hearing that Sheli's swordsmanship had already touched the threshold of the next level, Chen Cheng gave up persuading him to switch to the way of the warrior.

Perhaps it was this forest fire, coupled with the fact that Liushan is located next to the Puliu River, that created a special hot and cold field here.

In the afternoon, the sky here was covered with dark clouds, followed by a flash of lightning, and then heavy rain fell from the sky.

The heavy rain caused the originally hot Liushan to cool down rapidly. The steaming water vapor seemed harmless, but once it came into contact with people, it would leave burn blisters on their bodies.

Fortunately, the rain did not last long. By the evening, the dark clouds dispersed, and only a scorched earth was left on Liushan Mountain.

Chen Cheng and his two companions, along with the wolf, did not stay here for another night. Regardless of the previous agreement with Jace or the fire today, Puliu City would definitely send someone to check it out tomorrow.

By then, it won’t be certain who owns the magic tree on the mountainside.

So after the rain stopped, Chen Cheng, his companions and the wolf walked up the mountain on the muddy road.

Arriving at the entrance of the cave on the mountainside, Chen Cheng put his upper body into the space bag as he looked at the fallen willow tree which was still crisp and green.

Then the two men and the wolf started digging the ground until all the roots of the magic tree were dug out.

And the roots of this demon tree were just as Sheli had guessed before. Their roots were no longer scattered, but showed signs of gathering together, and their shape was very much like a pair of human legs.

After collecting the roots, the two men and the wolf walked into the cave.

Take out the few remaining fire magic crystals for lighting.

The entrance to the cave is very small, but after walking a few steps, there is a very empty mountain belly.

In a corner of the mountain, more than a dozen boxes that had turned into charcoal were scattered on the ground, and the things in the boxes were scattered on the ground. When they were picked up and the blackened dirt on them was wiped off, a golden light emerged.

"This is a gold coin. It looks like this is a treasure cave."

Then Chen Cheng looked at the wooden boxes that had turned into charcoal.

Perhaps because the cave here is closed, the wooden boxes here were not burned into charcoal, but were suffocated into coke by high temperature, so some of the inscriptions on them can still be seen clearly.

The inscriptions on them are all the logos of certain water vessels.

Then Chen Cheng thought of the news about the bandits in Pulu River that he had heard from the servant, plus the charred corpses outside.

Chen Cheng has roughly guessed the situation here.

Then I thought of the two groups of adventurers and President Jace. It seemed that this was the hiding place where they disguised themselves as bandits and killed people and robbed goods.

Then, the transmission node here was damaged, and a ball of magic energy was transmitted in, which demonized the willow tree covering the entrance of the cave. Then, the corpses buried in it served as nutrients for the willow tree, and a platinum-level magic tree was directly grown in one fell swoop.

Chen Cheng thought again that the timing of the damage to the space node was too coincidental. Perhaps the damage to the node was because they accidentally destroyed the pattern of the space node when they dug a pit to bury the body.

Chen Cheng took out the space bag he had emptied earlier and directly filled it with more than a dozen boxes of gold coins.

He believed that after Hills saw the letter he had the servant send, he would send someone to investigate here. Even if Jace covered it up well afterwards, it would still be discovered.

As for the gold coins here, they will be regarded as stolen money and kept by him as the discoverer.

While Chen Cheng was collecting the gold coins, Sheli was using Shadow Demon to search for the teleportation node in the cave.

Fortunately, he had learned how to judge when he was escaping with Jamil, and he quickly found the space node here.