Why should Ashton be afraid of an undead manufacturing tree? He himself was undead, and how could the apples kill someone who was already dead? If anything, it might end up powering him up instead.
Ashton was confident, but there was an issue. If the apples could turn someone into an undead being, then it was best for him to turn off both the werewolf and vampire genes.
Who knows what kind of effect the apple would have on those genes? And Ashton was not interested in finding it out either. Also, since he was already 'undead', the tree or its protectors might not even attack him as technically, he was one of them.
'This fucking lake is too damn deep...'
[Frankly, I have no idea when this part was even constructed on Euphoria. The builders might have gone berserk of this one.]
