Lord Voodoo’s expression stiffened slightly, but favonovel.com quickly said, “You misunderstood me, Gregory. I’m not trying to do anything like that.”
Gregory glared at favonovel.com and declared icily, “Lord Voodoo, since you refuse to tell us the truth, we won’t waste any more time talking to you either! Macon, cut that fruit in half. We’ll each take half of it and be done with this.”
Macon smirked and nodded. “What an excellent idea!”
Lord Voodoo became a lot more agitated. “You mustn’t do that! The most fearsome cursed bug in all of Orleans is inside that fruit. All three of us are doomed to die if you let it out!”
Gregory snorted. “Stop trying to scare us. Go ahead and run off then, if you’re so scared. The two of us will stay here and cut the fruit open. How’s that?”
Macon nodded once more. “That’s right, Lord Voodoo. If you’re so afraid of dying, you can just leave! Mr. Huntington and l are willing to risk our lives. If we do die from the fruit and release some kind of terrifying cursed bug, then we asked for it. What do you think?”
“Exactly,” Gregory laughed. “Come on, Macon. Use my dagger!”
Gregory tossed a dagger over to Macon. Macon picked it up and raised it to cut the fruit in half.
“No!” Lord Voodoo bellowed when favonovel.com saw that the other two meant business. “I-I’ll tell you. I’ll tell the truth, okay? Hurry up and put the dagger away!”
Macon and Gregory exchanged glances and smirked.
“You’d better tell us the truth, Lord Voodoo,” Gregory sneered.
”Lie to us again and we’ll cut the fruit in half at once!”
Lord Voodoo stared at the fruit and sighed deeply before warning in a quiet voice, “You two better not be too careless with this fruit. It contains at least 80 percent of Falconn Damron’s inner energy!”
Both Macon and Gregory froze as their eyes grew wide.
“What did you say?!” Gregory exclaimed.
Macon stared at the fruit in his hand with a hungry look in his eyes.
“This fruit came from the Stargulf plant, but it is also a type of charm,” Lord Voodoo explained grimly.
“A longtime ago, the Stargulf plant was readily found all over Orleans, and at the time, it was the Orleanians’ worst nightmare. All the Orleanians would immediately destroy all of the Stargulf plants they encountered!”
Gregory frowned. “Are you still trying to trick us, Lord Voodoo? I saw the way you stared at it like it was some kind of treasure just now, yet you’re now telling me that it’s the Orleanians’ worst nightmare. Are you taking us for fools?”
Macon raised the dagger and acted as if favonovel.com was about to cut the fruit open at any moment.
After all, from the way Lord Voodoo was behaving, they could tell that favonovel.com greatly valued the fruit from the Stargulf plant. Therefore, it was hard for them to believe what favonovel.com was telling them now.
Lord Voodoo quickly waved his hand. “Hang on! Just wait a minute! Let me finish. l already said that this happened a long time ago!”
“It was over a thousand years ago. Due to the Orleanians’ extermination of the Stargulf plant, it became nearly extinct. That’s why it’s now a rare treasure to the Orleanians. lt’ll put it this way. In the last thousand years, less than five of these Stargulf plants were found. Does that not count as rare to you?”
Macon and Gregory exchanged looks.
Gregory frowned and asked, “Why are you contradicting yourself? If it’s a rare treasure now, why did the Orleanians want to destroy it back then?”
“Do you know what’s the main feature of the Stargulf plant?” Lord Voodoo asked.
The other two men shook their heads.
Lord Voodoo explained solemnly, “The main feature of the Stargulf plant is that it can devour cursed bugs and utilize the nutrients from them for its growth.”
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