The place where willow trees were first born, for some unknown reason, was not destroyed when the first wave of willow trees struck, making this place almost the only surviving city in Henan today.
However, the dilapidation here is also obvious. The apocalypse was approaching ten years ago. When the first wave of the apocalypse hit, more than 75% of the people here were reduced. Ten years later, the number had reached nearly one million people. In the city, there are only two or three thousand left.
Those who survived were lucky. The cold winter lasted for nearly four years, and nothing could be grown in the city. Everyone was forced to eat the fruits of the willow trees.
On this day, a man in his late thirties was picking fruits from the willow tree outside. If Liu Chang were here at this time, he would naturally recognize that this man was actually Wang Bin, his high school classmate ten years ago.
"A repeat high school, four classes with hundreds of students, and now only two survive - one is Liu Chang, and the other is this Wang Bin
????????????????? For ten years in the apocalypse, he has been living on his last breath every day. He has nothing to do with his family, and all his relatives have died one after another. He has been staying in the Southern Suburban Military District from the first day of the apocalypse, and he did not want to stay for ten years. It can be considered a rough life until now. He is an ordinary person, an extremely ordinary person. Without transportation, it is impossible for him to cross the dangerous forest. Therefore, he is very peaceful and has never left the city.
He had seen the overwhelming willow tree storm six years ago, and the image of landslides and ground cracking had always been imprinted in the depths of his memory, causing deep fear.
But even if the fear is still there, in the face of the pressure of survival, he still eats willow fruits for four years.
He had been eating the fruit for four years without any reaction. Just when he had become accustomed to his current life, something unexpected happened without warning.
Wang Bin, who was picking fruits today, suddenly felt a strange movement in the usually peaceful willow tree. Just as he was picking fruits, the willow tree suddenly went crazy without warning, which shocked Wang Bin - he knew that the willow tree could move. But the willow tree had not moved for several years, and this time it began to twitch violently. Just when Wang Bin was frightened and ready to run away, the branches of the willow tree withered again.
It was as if the water and nutrients had been sucked away and absorbed by something. The entire wicker, including the fruits growing on the wicker, shriveled up. Then Wang Bin suddenly felt as if there was an electric current passing through his surroundings. His whole body became numb, and then the electric current It gradually intensified and reached a point where it was visible to the naked eye, turning everything around it into a scorch.
"Has it started?"
The place where the electric current is generated is not only Kaifeng, but the entire Eurasian and African continent, including Henan and China, is blooming with a dazzling light at this moment. The light is shining so much that the entire Eastern Hemisphere can see it - because at this moment, at this moment, the entire Eastern Hemisphere The burst of light had changed the brightness of daylight, as if turning the entire Eurasian and African continent into a bright incandescent lamp, telling everyone with an unconcealable gesture that something big had happened.
"The willow tree has started!" Li Qingshui put his fingers to his eyes to avoid being stung by the light from the willow tree from the other side of the Bering Strait.
"are you ready?"
"It's been four years, and everything that should be prepared has been prepared. God has helped me in this way, isn't everything waiting for this day?" Liu Chang smiled, and his body began to undergo strange changes.
In the past four years, his body has not stopped the pace of super mutation every minute and every second. In the past four years, as the proto-core elder said, he has been extremely lucky, and his body has evolved surprisingly fast. He couldn't imagine it - any medicine he got had no side effects. With the help of the Protocore Elders, Liu Chang had evolved to a situation he couldn't imagine in the past four years.
Huge feathered wings slowly grew out from behind. The pages on the wings were covered with veins like plant veins, which seemed to be able to carry out photosynthesis. Liu Chang's body surface also gradually turned into a hard material like an ant. The muscles have completely turned into arthropod tissue like a micro-generator, and the skin is constantly wriggling, as if every cell has its own life.
"Let's try to see if we can occupy the consciousness source of the big willow tree." As Li Qingshui spoke, he sent brain waves into Liu Chang's mind, allowing the two people's consciousness to be carried together.
"You want to take this thing, too?" the Great Elder of the Original Core said, handing Liu Chang a long strip of strange material. "We, the five hundred people of the Original Core, haven't truly fused our consciousness together in several years. We have not completely energized our thinking, but we have invented this conductor, which can carry our consciousness and all our thinking energy. If you hold it, the brain waves of the five hundred of us can be conducted at any time - surpassing all electric waves. speed. If you take it with you,?It means taking us with you at all times. "
As the original nuclear elder spoke, he handed the long stone to Liu Chang.
Then everything was ready, carrying Li Qingshui's consciousness, Liu Chang's wings fluttered, and he dived into the sky before the sound of breaking through the sky.
It was as if the heaven and earth were cooperating with his movements. After Liu Chang entered the clouds, the whole sky seemed to have been poked with a hole, and it suddenly became clear.
"What's going on?" Entering the sky, the scene in front of Liu Chang's eyes gradually brightened. The thick fog around him seemed to have come so quickly and suddenly retreated. Liu Chang only felt that his field of vision was getting wider and wider.
Before the red mist comes, humans can see mountains thousands of meters away. After the red mist comes, humans can only see three or four meters in front of them. After the red mist comes, a few days ago, Liu Chang could already see five meters away. Six hundred meters away, the thick fog suddenly retreated, and Liu Chang felt that the entire land was within his field of vision.
"The world is really beautiful." Standing thousands of meters high in the sky, the red mist suddenly retreated. Liu Chang's first reaction was not to find out the reason - because the reason why the red mist came is still a mystery, but the field of vision suddenly became vast. , letting the entire earth come under his eyes, Liu Chang discovered that after the red mist receded and the gray clouds in the sky receded, the entire earth turned out to be so charming.
The sunlight no longer shines unobstructed, and everything seems to have returned to life at this moment. The surrounding temperature began to gradually rise. Liu Chang looked around and saw both sides of the Bering Strait, whether it was North America or Russia. What he saw was no longer high-rise buildings, but the competition of all things to survive.
Biological prosperity, flowers, trees, grass, fish and insects are abundant and abundant, a hundred times more than the land in the past. Looking through the ice, the interior of the ocean he saw was even more fascinating.
It's just that all of this - was covered up by another radiant thing - as if a sun was suddenly added to the most beautiful landscape painting, and the consequence of destroying the balance is - everything is no longer so beautiful. .
"Why did the red mist suddenly retreat? Didn't the first Cambrian period last for two million years?" After being shocked by the beautiful scene in front of the world for a minute, Liu Chang woke up and brought his thoughts back to reality. .
"I don't know." Li Qingshui responded to Liu Chang in his thoughts, "The first Cambrian period was so long, no one knows whether this super-evolved red mist existed intermittently or always existed Maybe the sky is about to change, and Liushu has touched some rules. These things cannot be answered by analysis and guessing. You have to wait until you see Liushu to find out what the specific situation is. He is over there "
Following the direction guided by Li Qingshui's consciousness, Liu Chang saw something like a thunderball on the horizon. The energy of the thunderball came from the earth below. The giant body of the willow tree on the earth spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, like a moth's body. Like cocoon silk, it continuously delivers energy to the thunder ball in the sky, causing the energy in the thunder ball to continue to surge. Then Liu Chang saw what you were transforming inside.
No longer hesitating, he flapped his wings and flew towards the thunder ball. The moment he had been waiting for for four years was the only possibility for him to deal with Willow. Time did not allow him to think about why.
Liu Chang, who was in the air, was very fast, approaching the thunderball at several times the speed of sound. Then he followed his own feeling and plunged into it without asking.
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My mind is completely empty.
Liu Chang once again entered that mysterious world - there were white fog all around, and inside the white fog was a huge ball of light. There was a thin line on the ball of light, connecting to the unknown sky above the horizon.
Liu Chang was very familiar with this place after entering it several times - this is the world of the source of consciousness - he didn't understand why he came here after entering the body of the willow tree. He just looked around blankly. He knew that since he was here Here, he would definitely meet the opponent that made him despair.
"Hello, Liu Chang." A deep voice sounded in the air, and then the image of a human old man was generated in the space of the source of consciousness - the image of the old man was blurred, because any image was not his representative, because this was just an illusion - ¡ªBecause he is a big willow tree.
"Hello." Liu Chang didn't know what to say in the face of this enemy whom he had not really masked for ten years but wanted to see every day for ten years.
"Isn't it strange why you are here?" Willow said, there seemed to be no hostility in his voice.
"Well, you are transforming outside. Naturally, I came here to destroy you. What do you want to say when you bring me in to have a heart-to-heart talk?"
"I didn't drag you in. After all, this is the core of my consciousness source, and you are the only person in the world who can see the source of consciousness. Letting you in is tantamount toThere is no way I can do this with my dirty hands on your dagger. "
"Who are you? Teacher Li? He obviously doesn't have this ability. Or the Proto-core Elders Group? If they could do this, I think they would have done it long ago. Do they need to wait until today?" Liu Chang also had questions.
¡°It¡¯s not Li Qingshui, it¡¯s not the proto-nucleus, it¡¯s the Gaia you call.¡± Da Liushu¡¯s voice was still strong.
"The rules will not attack people proactively. Smart and passive counterattacks, or rebounding under pressure." Liu Chang said what Li Qingshui once told him.
¡°But what if Gaia is not a rule?¡± Big Willow smiled.
"Isn't it a rule?" Seeing that Da Liushu didn't have the same emotions as before the war, Liu Chang seemed to be led by him and thought along his train of thought, "You mean, Gaia is a living thing?"
"Well, the creature that truly touches the source of consciousness, the thing that binds all life, is the master of the marionette above our heads." When Willow said this, he pointed with his finger at the light ball that linked the source of consciousness to the sky. Wire.
Seeing this thread, Liu Chang once again thought of the scene he saw after touching the crystal tree on the mysterious Fire Lake island when he entered the sea for the first time - that day he saw a glowing red energy, the energy was like the sky. The white clouds are condensed together in groups, with thunder and lightning flashing inside. The thunder and lightning seem to contain endless wisdom.
"Gaia is a creature. I didn't know that it was a super life that was born in the last two million years of the Cambrian. It was also a creature from outer space, but now it seems that the life that was born in the last Cambrian was The possibility is greater After all, two million years is too long. Even if the life base is lower, there will always be hypermutated organisms, and judging from the fossils of higher organisms excavated in our later generations, that era The level of life that was born is not low, but the best species are all inexplicably extinct"
"Gaia did all this?"
"should be."
"What's his purpose?"
"Fight the rules." Willow said: "My opponent is Gaia, and Gaia's opponent is the rules. You are the second creature that can see the source of consciousness. I think if you don't target me, we can unite together. , can become Gaia¡¯s real opponent.¡±
"I don't believe you."
"You don't need to believe me. I said these words just to let your consciousness know the existence of this." After Willow said this, in the white space, the energy of the light ball exploded