Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 79 Entering the Dungeon

Ma Yuan grabbed the corner of Hong Pengfei's clothes with his left hand and pointed upwards with his right hand.

Hong Pengfei looked at the excited Ma Yuan and felt a little confused.

Didn’t you just see Gundam? What did you see now? Why are you making such a fuss? Could it be Ultraman?

Suppressing his confusion, he looked upwards in the direction Ma Yuan's finger pointed.

What came into view were the towering treetops. Looking down along the treetops, he actually found that there was a wall made of trees in front of him!
"Did you see that?"

"This city wall is actually made up of living trees!"

Hong Pengfei heard Ma Yuan's excited voice again. He swallowed his saliva and exclaimed,

"I see, this city wall is really shocking!"

"These trees are a little too tall. What kind of trees are they? How can they be so thick?"

As Ma Yuan spoke, he spread his arms, as if measuring how thick the trees were.

Upon hearing this, Hong Pengfei did not answer Ma Yuan's question immediately. Instead, he suppressed his surprise and began to look at these big trees carefully.

From top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, his eyes kept scanning all over the trees. After more than a minute, he muttered to himself with some uncertainty,
"Looking at the leaves, it looks like some kind of fir tree?"

"But the appearance seems a little off. Although a fir tree can grow this tall, it definitely can't grow this thick."

After a pause, Hong Pengfei patted Ma Yuan on the shoulder and continued,
"Don't you find these trees look weird?"

"Generally, trees become thinner from bottom to top, but if you look at these trees, half of their trunks are the same thickness, which is totally unreasonable!"

After Hong Pengfei's interruption, Ma Yuan finally calmed down from his extreme excitement and observed the big tree in front of him.

"There are indeed many strange places. How can the trees grow so strangely? They look like they were specially designed to form a city wall."

At this point, Ma Yuan seemed to remember something, his face turned red, and he asked his friend beside him in disbelief,

"Do you still remember that the Lord of Wanling City is a Wood Awakener?

Do you think this city wall was built by the city lord alone?"

Hearing Ma Yuan's question, Hong Pengfei's pupils shrank and he scanned the city wall that was several hundred meters long.

Thinking of the tree man that looked like Gundam before, although he couldn't believe it in his heart, it seemed that this was the most reasonable possibility at the moment.

Thinking of this, the two looked at each other. If the facts were really as they guessed, then the strength of this city lord was really too terrifying!

……

The transferred crowd quickly walked out of the carriages and formed three teams in an orderly manner under the command of the hunting team.

Yao Chengcheng at the front of the team nodded slightly and smiled, thinking, "It seems that everyone is still very cooperative."

"Follow me into the city!"

After the team was organized, Yao Chengcheng gave an order and took the lead in front of the team.

Passing through the tall arched tree gate, although it was still dark, Ma Yuan could still vaguely see the scene inside Wanling City.

In front of me was a tall banyan tree, more than ten meters thick and dozens of meters high, with dozens of holes of different sizes that looked like windows. To the left was a vast farmland, with seedlings more than half a meter high growing on it. Judging from their appearance, they didn't seem to be the same kind of crops.

On the right were low tree houses only a few meters high with lights on inside. This made him wonder, is there still electricity in Wanling City?

Just when he was wondering, he heard a familiar voice from his left. Just by recollecting it, he remembered that the person who spoke was the person who gave them the cherry tomatoes at the beginning.

"The big tree in front of you is the City Lord's Mansion of Wanling City. It's where I and the other two city lords live."

Upon hearing this, Ma Yuan couldn't help but wonder who these three city lords were. After just two seconds of thinking, he came to a conclusion:
There is one driving the Gundam, one is speaking now, and the other one should be the one walking in the front.

As he pondered, the voices continued to come.

"On the left is a farmland with various crops planted on it, but they are not yet mature. Your future work will include taking care of and harvesting these crops."

"The tree houses on the right are where the first residents of Wanling City lived. Your dormitories are not in those tree houses, but in the underground city not far from the City Lord's Mansion."

When Ma Yuan heard that he would have to take care of farmland in the future, he did not feel any aversion. In his opinion, working was his duty.

Otherwise, if we recruit them, are we just going to keep them here to eat and drink for free and do nothing?
There is no such good thing as pie in the sky in peacetime, not to mention that now is the end of the world with a shortage of supplies.

But when he heard that they were going to live in the underground city, he felt a little confused.
"Underground city, is it a city built underground?"

“Can people live underground?”

The voice in my ear continued to speak.

"Of course, the underground city is just your initial residence. If anyone can make meritorious contributions, or become an awakener or source warrior, they can apply for a tree house from the City Lord's Mansion and live on the ground."

This time, before Ma Yuan could continue thinking, the team slowly stopped with a shout of "We're here".

Ma Yuan stopped and saw a tree man more than ten meters tall standing next to a huge cave in front of him. The tree man was holding a thick vine in his hand, and the other end of the vine was connected to a wooden box suspended above the cave entrance.

Before Ma Yuan could figure out what it was used for, the voice came again.

"Next, you will divide into teams of 20 and follow me down the crane."

At the front of the team, after Yu Shuaikang said this, he winked at Yao Chengcheng and then took the lead to walk into the wooden box exposed on the ground.

"The first twenty people should follow in. Nothing will happen."

Yao Chengcheng looked at the crowd who were looking at each other in confusion and looked a little uneasy, and whispered to comfort them.

Ma Yuan saw that Yu Shuaikang had already walked in first, so he gritted his teeth and pulled Hong Pengfei towards the wooden box.

When Yao Chengcheng saw the two people were the first to walk out of the crowd, he couldn't help but take a few more glances. Then he realized that they were only about twenty years old. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that young people are more decisive in doing things!

Seeing that the two men had already taken action, more than a dozen people came out from behind and followed their footsteps.

After these twenty people entered the carriage, Yao Chengcheng tapped the tree man lightly three times, and after receiving the order, the tree man began to slowly loosen the vines in his hands.

Under the gaze of everyone, the wooden box slowly fell into the pit at an extremely steady speed.

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