bookcurios Chapter 89 Spider Wood
Chapter 89 Spider Wood
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“I’ve been trying to investigate, but I still haven’t been able to find anything.”
When Fate said this, he became more serious because the incident had happened at his school, and all the missing students were his classmates.
Human life is at stake, and if possible, he would very much like to urgently resolve this issue.
But those people seemed to have vanished into thin air; neither people nor corpses were seen.
Hearing Fate's words, Lin Tian fell into deep thought. It seemed that this incident was not as easy to investigate as he had imagined.
He had considered pinning Francis down and interrogating him, but then he thought that Francis might not be the mastermind, and doing so would only alert him.
After chatting for a while, the two went their separate ways. Ever since the Goblin Dungeon, the two had often communicated and had even gone down the dungeon together once or twice. They trusted each other completely.
After leaving the Adventurers' Guild, Lin Tian turned around and went home. It was already late, and he hadn't slept for several days, so he decided to go and rest.
Interestingly, the two people living across the hall from each other have never gone home together, and the reason is certainly not a coincidence...
But...
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"Thank you brother!"
A child who looked only a few years old smiled and accepted the candy that Fitt handed him.
Fate felt a sense of comfort seeing the child's innocent smile.
"Brother, I want one too!"
"elder brother!"
"Brother...it's me!"
Surrounding him were more than one child, both boys and girls, ranging in age from three to twelve. Most of the children had some kind of disability. Only when the view turned to the air did the words "Old Street Orphanage" appear on the signboard at the entrance.
"Fate is here again?"
An elderly woman looked at Fitt surrounded by children and a smile of contentment appeared in her eyes.
"Well, he always comes, doesn't he? It's just that sometimes he's late."
Another aged voice rang out; it belonged to an old woman in a wheelchair. The two women had once been sisters and were both abandoned orphans. This orphanage was run by them.
“I told him that if he’s too busy, he doesn’t need to come. He’s an adult now and needs to learn how to handle his own affairs.”
"Look, here comes the lecturing again! Let's go, let Fate play with those kids for a while, we two old folks shouldn't bother them."
"What did I do now? I heard that kid is at Xicheng University now, and you know he's very busy with his studies right now. He comes every day, and..."
"If you're not leaving, then I'm leaving?"
"Sigh~ Let's go, let's go!"
"I can never live without you..."
After playing with the children for more than an hour, Fate reluctantly said goodbye to the children and the headmaster. Before leaving, he stuffed most of the wages he had earned in the Adventurers' Guild into the headmaster's hands.
The dean initially strongly objected, but when the dean wasn't looking, Fate forcibly shoved himself into the wheelchair-bound old lady's body and slipped away with his youthful body, leaving only the two people behind shouting and laughing like aunties.
After leaving the orphanage, he did not go home immediately. Instead, he dragged his tired body onto a carriage.
"Go to the main street."
After paying the driver for the room, Fitt closed her eyes and lay quietly in the back seat.
This journey from the old street to the main street was his short rest period.
"Sir, we've arrived!"
Fate suddenly opened his eyes, took a deep breath, grabbed his coat from the car, and slowly got out.
The Cathedral of Holy Light is a standard feature in almost every large city. As the most widely spread religion on the entire continent, they not only possess formidable strength but also have numerous believers.
Moreover, as a fundamental profession of the Holy Light Church, priests enjoy an extremely high reputation among the common people and many extraordinary individuals due to their healing abilities.
Looking at the magnificent cathedral in front of her, adorned with carvings of the goddess of light, Fate entered without much hesitation.
Finding a secluded corner, she changed into her monk's robes and a painted mask, ignoring the nuns and priests who were praying, and headed straight into the depths of the church.
Inside the church, some highly respected nuns and priests saw him, but they did not stop him. Instead, they smiled and nodded to him.
Fate responded to each of them until they arrived at a magnificent door.
Call ~
Fate took a deep breath and then slowly pushed open the door. What came into view was a large area of spider plants.
Spiderwood is a plant native to the Western Regions, known for its tenacious vitality and beautiful foliage; it can also be found in the gardens of some nobles.
The spider trees in front of Fate were all very lush, and they were located on both sides, like rows of knights with swords, which made Fate feel a little pressured.
He walked along the path amidst the spider trees, like a suspect heading to court; the feeling of impending trial made his breathing slightly rapid.
At the end of the path was a small round table and two chairs. An old man dressed in a bishop's robe occupied one of the chairs. He was holding a pair of exquisitely crafted scissors and slowly trimming the branches and leaves of a spider plant.
Hearing the noise behind him, he didn't turn around, but slowly spoke in a deep tone:
"You know what? In my eyes, spider trees are very beautiful plants. They can thrive with just a little water."
"Each spider tree has different genes, so the final size it can grow to is also different."
"The larger they are, the more beautiful they are, because they often have many branches and leaves, which means that their growth path is smooth."
"The small branches and leaves are scattered and look bare, which is not pleasing and no one cares about them."
“When I first came to West City, Francis gave me ten spider trees. I liked the plant very much and secretly bought fifty more.”
"However, as it turns out, just like people, the higher the starting point, the greater the achievement of spider trees."
“The ten spider trees that Francis gave me are clearly of much better genetic quality than the ones I bought privately. They are the ten most outstanding plants in my entire garden. Their growth rate, size, and foliage density far surpass those of the other spider trees.”
“I grew to like these ten pots more and more and started paying more attention to them, while the other fifty pots were left to grow freely.”
"These ten spider trees did not disappoint me. They are all very strong and they are competing with each other. Sometimes one grows taller than the other, and sometimes one grows more than the other!"
"I'm very happy to see this!"
One day, something happened in my garden that caught my attention.
"Among the fifty plants I purchased, one spider tree has grown beyond the others."
"I was quite surprised by this, but at the same time I paid a lot of attention to it."
"This spider tree has also lived up to my expectations. It has grown vigorously under my care. Although it is not as strong as the ten strongest plants, it is gradually getting closer to them."
“I feel a deep sense of pride because I was the one who purchased this spider.”
"However, the growth of the lowly spider tree is not always smooth sailing."
“Once I was practicing in the garden, and perhaps because the environment was so nice, I was able to quickly immerse myself in it.”
"Then an accident happened. During my cultivation, I made a mistake, and a surge of spiritual energy accidentally spilled out of my body."
"Although this psionic shock was not strong, it was a devastating blow to the weak spider trees."
"The ten strongest ones are probably because Francis not only gave me the best spiderwood at the beginning, but also the best flowerpots. Those flowerpots have a special effect that made them immune to destruction in this psionic shock."
"The fifty potted plants I purchased were all destroyed in this accident because of my negligence and lack of proper protection in their pots. Some died and some were injured."
"This naturally includes the one that I've been paying close attention to. Thanks to the spider tree's tenacious vitality, it didn't die in this accident."
"But it also exhausted its potential, and it could no longer grow upwards, remaining in a state of limbo."
"This also disappointed me greatly, as I purchased a lot of 'good' spider wood after that devastating disaster."
“I discarded all the damaged pearl trees and kept this one, perhaps because it was once glorious.”
Even so, I still put it in the corner, and it just sat there, unnoticed by anyone.
"However, one day, as I was passing by that corner, I glanced at it casually and discovered something that surprised me greatly."
"Next to the spider tree that had stopped growing, a new shoot has emerged."
"After years of planting experience, I could see that this bud had great potential, which surprised me greatly. Later, I checked the information and found that spider trees can reproduce, but the probability is extremely low."
"This new turn of events shocked me greatly. I carefully removed the tender shoot and planted it in a beautiful flowerpot. Looking at the thriving green shoot, I sighed inwardly..."
"This is a..."
"New life!"