So he could only bite the bullet and tell the story he had spun——
"It's just... I was just collecting here, and then suddenly I found that there were fewer plants in my bamboo basket, and then I saw this person holding the plants I just collected in her hand..."
He danced while talking, and his words and deeds looked just like the real thing. Although there was another person involved who didn't speak, many people actually chose to believe Collector A.
That's the benefit of speaking first.
And he himself is the weak side, and people will always subconsciously sympathize with the weak.
In addition, the number of collectors present is twice that of the combat members. He is also a collector. He has the same identity as these people and it is easier to assume his own identity, so they will definitely be more willing to trust themselves rather than the members of the combat team.
"I'm done." After Collector A finished speaking, he glanced at Ankana in a hidden way, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.
Ankana sneered, but said nothing. She just motioned for the swordswoman to explain.
The female swordsman didn't know that Ankana had already had an idea. In her opinion, all this was a lie. But judging from the expressions on the faces of the people around her, they all seemed to have believed Collector A. She No matter what I say, it seems to be useless.
But she wouldn't blame Ankana for letting her speak second, because she also knew Ankana's concerns...
In short, what needs to be explained still needs to be explained. Whether anyone wants to believe it or not is their business.
If she couldn't do it, she took the matter to Lord Su. Anyway, Lord Su said that he would protect their rights and interests... With this mentality, the female swordsman truthfully told what happened just now.
"I saw a mutated plant over there, so I walked over there, but after I killed the mutated plant, this man suddenly said that I stole the plants he collected..." The female swordsman became more and more angry, if not She couldn't take action, she longed to kill this man with a sword.
"You will also know what happened next. These plants on the ground are the plants dropped by the mutant plants I killed."
Both of them have finished talking about what just happened. Except for the dispute about the ownership of this plant, everything else is the same. For example, collector A collected it in this place first, and then the female swordsman came over. This was acknowledged by both men.
It's just that collector A said that the female swordsman came here to steal the plants he collected, while the female swordsman said that she came here because she saw mutated plants here.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene had reached a deadlock, Ankana stepped forward, picked up the plants on the ground, and asked collector A: "You said this is the plant you collected, so why is there no acid rain on this plant?" Traces of corrosion?”
Just like the harvest of the logging team before was reduced, although the collected plants are one plant and will not decrease, the quality of the collected plants is much worse.
The worst ones are the leaves that have been soaked by acid rain and are completely rotten. The better ones also have some traces of being corroded by acid rain.
Until now, it has been almost impossible to collect intact plants.
But each of the plants in Ankana's hands was intact. The only place with a small black spot was accidentally corroded by the acid rain on the ground when it first fell on the ground.
In order to prove that she was not talking nonsense, Ankana also showed all these plants to everyone.
Collector A was a little panicked, but he was also smart and had already guessed that Ankana would ask this question, so he had already thought of his words.
"Is it strange that there is no corrosion? I picked these plants under the big trees, which are shaded by the trees. Of course, acid rain will not touch these plants!" He said while pointing to the plants he had just collected. Plant corner——
It was indeed a place tightly covered by big trees, let alone palm-sized plants. Even if a person stood there, he would not be exposed to any acid rain.
Because this tree happens to be 'Big Leaf Camphor', a tree with leaves as big as lotus leaves.
Not only that, there is a naturally formed protective film on the surface of the leaves of Cinnamomum camphora, which can resist the corrosion of acid rain to a certain extent.
"Are you trying to help this person on purpose? You can't see such a big Cinnamomum camphora here?" The more collector A talked, the more he felt that God was helping him today. Originally, C. camphora would not grow here. He is a farmer, but he didn't expect that he would meet him and be able to help him complete a lie.
Because of his words, the others began to waver in their hearts again.
However, they did not think that Ankana was helping the female swordsman on purpose, because they themselves did not notice that it was a big leaf camphor tree. After all, their focus was not here.
Facing the question from collector A, Ankana was not anxious at all, but pressed forward step by step: "Are you sure? These plants were collected under the Cinnamomum camphora tree?"
Collector A began to feel uneasy again, but he felt that Ankana might just be bluffing because he thought everything he said was perfect.
"Of course!" When he firmly gave the answer, Ankana suddenly smiled.
"Among these plants are mandrakes. Mandrakes are shrubs. You said you picked mandrakes under a large-leaf camphor tree. Did you eat such a large bush?"
After hearing Ankana's words, everyone subconsciously looked under the big-leaf camphor tree, only to see that there was nothing there except a few bare plants that had been collected, and no shadow of the shrubs could be seen at all.
Mandragora is a kind of painkiller, not uncommon, it can even be said to be relatively common.
Often when someone is injured in the wild, they will directly grab a handful of mandrake and mash it or chew it and mix it with therapeutic medicine and apply it on the wound. Therefore, most people present know about mandrake and Ankana. No explanation was needed, they knew that collector A was lying.
"No! That's not the case! I collected this mandrake over there, and I collected the other plants under this tree." Collector A was obviously a little panicked, because these plants were not He collected them, so he didn't pay attention to what plants were there at all, so there was such a big flaw.
Because of the flaws, his current explanation can be said to be full of loopholes. He even forgot what Ankana said before...
Yes, there are indeed several clumps of mandrake around here, but they are not under the protection of the big leaf camphor.
(End of chapter)
