As the roar and tremors gradually weakened, Lothar removed the shield he had imposed and walked out of the rubble. He watched Anub'arak shake off the rubble and dust on his body, "Is it open?"
"It's thicker than I thought, but the road should have been opened." Anub'arak replied angrily, using his sickle claws to push away the stones and debris blocking the road, "But the situation inside doesn't look promising. "
After hearing this, Lothar looked down the passage and found that the plants inside the cave seemed to be in a completely petrified state, which made him a little disappointed.
According to the information obtained from the soul of the wood spirit, although they did use hardened stone and wood to block the road, the cave where the original thorn beast seeds were hidden should still maintain a normal vegetation system. Otherwise, even if It is also difficult for the original thorn beast to survive in a cave full of inorganic materials.
Even Lothar knew that plants must at least have a water source to survive, but now the cave is dry, and the ponds that were obviously left by the wood spirits as water reservoirs have become dry land, let alone water. Lothar felt like she could step on a cloud of dust whenever she walked up.
The earth-shaking environmental changes in the outer realm seemed to be beyond the Bojing's imagination. The hidden facilities they left behind did not play their due role in preservation when the world collapsed, and Lothar also saw those who were left in the cave. Wood spirits and other plant life as guardians.
The wood spirits were sitting by the pool that was originally a water source, as if they wanted to grab the last nutrients from the pool, but unfortunately, the lost water was no longer enough for them to share, and these plant life eventually fell into the cave.
They were dry and brittle. Even if they were touched casually, they would break into pieces and dust, scattering all over the ground. The struggle between these plants and other life forms in Draenor for the sovereignty of this land lasted for countless years. In the end, they He turned into a sculpture and died of thirst in such a small space.
Kel'Thuzad also imagined that if the protection measures for the wood spirits were in place, Lothar and Anub'arak might encounter living wood spirits and other plant life. In order to avoid accidents, Lothar also brought a certain number of troops to respond to emergencies.
But now it seems that it is no longer useful.
"I don't feel any signs of life." As an undead, Anub'arak is very sensitive to the breath of the living, but now he can't feel the slightest trace of life from this cave. "Maybe we are late. .”
Lothar looked up at a pit at the lowest point of the cave. There should have been a lot of vegetation and flowers there, but now there was only a decayed and dry scene. Under the almost petrified vegetation, it seemed that There is some huge egg-shaped object.
He climbed down from the rock to the ruined scene and used his hands to peel away the branches and debris that obscured the object below.
An egg-shaped "boulder" two to three meters high was revealed, and Lothar frowned. "This should be a low-lying place where water flows. The seeds of the original thorn beast should be enshrined here. Why does it look like a stone?"
He stretched out his hand and put it on the huge rock that was suspected to be the seed of the original thorn beast, trying to explore the situation inside, but could not get any useful feedback.
"It looks like a stone... in fact, it seems to be a stone." Lothar whispered to himself. There was no life reaction in the stone. It seemed that their trip was destined to be in vain.
"Have you discovered anything, High Lord?" Anub'arak's huge body was not suitable for entering this lowland. He stood on the rock wall and asked Lothar.
"No, except for this stone-like thing, there is no useful discovery. According to the information, this thing is probably the seed of the original thorn beast."
Anub'arak also set his sights on the stone, "I will send the spider demon to get it up first, and we will talk about it when we get back to the camp."
"good."
The spider demons received the order and quickly swarmed up, wrapped the stone with tough spider webs, fixed it firmly, and then tried to pull it to the entrance of the cave.
But soon, the spider demons ran into trouble - a team of spider demons who could drag the skeleton of a giant dragon, but there was nothing they could do with this stone.
"What's going on?" Anub'arak looked at his men circling back and forth around the "boulder", but did not take action for a long time.
The spider demons quickly sent back whispers, "This stone is a little weird, it seems to be nailed in place."
"Stuck in place?"
Lothar was stunned for a moment. He first thought about whether there might be some special magic or measures left by the botany. But then he thought about it. The entire ecological environment they had set up had collapsed, and the natural magic that needed to be maintained must have remained. Not coming down.
But it is not an exaggeration to say that this seed is a sacred object of the wood spirits. They enshrine and care for such things carefully, and it is impossible to really nail it in place by some method.
During the experiment here, Anub'arak even tried to see if he could pull up the boulder. However, he gave up this idea after tearing off another bundle of spider silk and cracking a piece of ground. The stone really felt like it was nailed in place, no matter how hard I applied it, it wouldn't move at all.
But soon, the Scourge Legion came up with a way - since they couldn't take the things away, they could just take them away from where they were placed.
Of course they didn't move the entire cave, but they just moved the boulder and a platform underneath it, and there was no problem at all.
With a new course of action, the spider demons quickly took action again, but this time, their work quickly stopped.
"what happened again?"
"Master...Master, this stone has taken root."
Rooted?
Anub'arak and Lothar were stunned for a moment at the same time, but soon they both realized: Rooting, that is to say, not only did this seed not die, but it had sprouted?
The spider demons quickly followed the roots produced by the seeds all the way down and dug out. This time, they were shocked to find that the roots of the original thorn beast's seeds almost covered the entire lower part of the cave. , these roots are like the tentacles of an octopus, sucking tightly into the mountains and deeper into the ground.
It's no wonder that Anub'arak couldn't drag, because he was like a person standing on an elevator trying to lift himself up by pulling on the floor of the elevator.
After learning this, Lothar suddenly became enlightened, as if he had discovered some great secret. He ran to a dried wood spirit, and started from the wood spirit sitting on the edge of the pond with his feet inserted into the pond. Observed some clues.
"I'm afraid that the preservation measures of the wood spirits have not failed," Lothar's voice was half excited and half astonished. "The earth-shaking of Draenor is indeed beyond the imagination of the wood spirits, but the last resort of these wood spirits turned out to be themselves. .”
Anub'arak was also very interested, "How do you say it?"
"Seeing that almost all of these wood spirits were sitting on the edge of the pond before they died, I'm afraid they were not trying to replenish the water in the pond, but were preparing to turn themselves into nutrients and collect them all through the pond water to the original thorn beasts - they He doesn't care about his own life or death at all, his only purpose is to maintain the vitality of the original thorn beast."
