Chapter 363
On the edge between two dense forests, and in the grass that was almost as tall as a full grown human being, one or two strange human heads often popped out from the grass from time to time to watch the movements on the other side of the forest vigilantly.
“Those are Watchers, the one that was killed by the golden armored woman is also one of them. Amongst all the plants, they are the weakest. However, they are also indispensable. The Ruler Of The Forest needs them to monitor everything that happens on the edge of the forest. Although they are the weakest, you can’t underestimate them. They are not the creatures that we can mess around with.” The old man carefully hid the broken spear in his clothes and said quietly.
Chu Yunsheng didn’t pay attention to what the old man was saying. He was still thinking about how to leave this place as soon as possible. However, it seemed like he would have a little bit of trouble avoiding those Watchers.
So he could not help but look at the Watcher that was nearest to him from top to bottom, in attempting to remember all its features.
“Hissss…”
The Watcher immediately noticed that Chu Yunsheng was looking at it. It was making a hissing sound to express its dissatisfaction.
The old man quickly dragged Chu Yunsheng away. He lowered his voice and reminded Chu Yunsheng again, “young man, if you want to survive in this place, the first rule you need to remember is that you shouldn’t look at those plants at any time. They don’t like people staring at them. If they get angry, you will be killed!”
Chu Yunsheng immediately stopped looking at it and pressed down his cap. He speeded up his pace and carried on thinking for a solution.
The masked man was dazed for a second, “a mute? Those bastards! What do they think our masked man army is?… Can you write? Carve your detail on this bamboo slip.”
Chu Yunsheng took over a needle and began to randomly carve a name and his fake background onto the slip.
The masked man had already treated him as someone related to those fire energy people, so he didn’t even bother to check Chu Yunsheng’s background. He just simply took out a box that was made of soil from the tree house, threw it to Chu Yunsheng and said with an unfriendly tone, “the manual is carved onto the box, you can take a look yourself. We only give out masks here. You will receive a weapon and a shield once you are allocated into a specific unit.”
Chu Yunsheng caught the box and took a close look. There were several lines of words on it. It was very clear.
“Here is your token, take it and go to the barrack that way. Someone will tell you what to do.” The masked man waved his hands impatiently.
But Chu Yunsheng didn’t go to the barrack straightaway. Instead, he found a quiet corner and took out a light yellow mask that seemed to be made of soil.
There seemed to be different types of masks in this area, or at least the colors of masks were different. The one he had was light yellow, the masked men who took him here and the masked man, who registered him in, all had darker yellow masks.
He was holding the mask in his hands and watching it carefully. However, apart from a faint earth elemental energy fluctuation, he didn’t find anything special.
All the plants here were different from the plants in the spore forest, the energy they emitted was not a vibrant wood elemental energy. Instead, it was solid earth elemental energy.
‘No wonder the swarm could not conquer this place. Unlike the wood elemental energy, the earth elemental energy had a natural advantage over the fire elemental energy.’ Chu Yunsheng thought.
When Chu Yunsheng moved the mask close to his face, a strange thing happened. From inside the mask, suddenly appeared many small fibrous silk-like threads, reaching out towards Chu Yunsheng’s face.
In the next moment, the mask instantly stuck onto his face, and then the earth elemental energy began to flow towards him quickly.
Unlike the earth elemental energy that was able to turn a person into a soil sculpture. When the earth elemental energy went into his body from the mask, what originally quiet three forces began to fight for the energy again.
Although the energy was soon consumed completely by the three forces in his body, Chu Yunsheng noticed that the three forces seemed to be finally separated from each other. Although they had just been separated a little bit from each other, it finally gave Chu Yunsheng the hope of solving the most troublesome problem he had.
After a series of seemingly clothes-tearing sounds, Chu Yunsheng tore off the mask from his face. He touched his face, finding that everything seemed to be intact.
‘So this is the source of the masked men’s power. It can grant ordinary men powers, and make them fight like awakened human beings? But who has the ability to make this kind of mask?’
He also had the ability to produce weapons like roaring flame guns to arm ordinary people. However, he was not able to do it on this kind of scale.
Suddenly, he thought of one possibility. The old man who took him here had told him the ruler of this place had a thing called ‘Tubi’. It was said that that thing was dug out of the ground after Earth was plunged into the darkness.
‘So could that thing be the stuff that was left by those galaxy overlords that the senior practitioner mentioned?’
‘Could so-called Tubi also be a mask?’ a strange idea suddenly came into Chu Yunsheng’s mind.