Draw an NPC ID card at the beginning of the game [unlimited]

The "dining hall" that Ajia mentioned is not a building, but a transparent building material surrounded by the tree of life at first.

From the top of the thick trunk, there are many branches that wrap around the trunk and stretch out.

A gap of about two meters was originally designed between the transparent building material and the tree of life. At first, Qi Wuyuan thought that these gaps were for the convenience of humans who moved up and down between different floors on vines.

Only now did Qi Wuyuan realize that his original understanding was not completely correct.

The gaps deliberately reserved during construction are not only to leave space for people to move, but also to leave room for the branches to move——

The branches that originally grew upward almost turned all the small branches downward at this time, and went down the trunk, densely packed together to occupy the entire trunk skin, and these branches were constantly shaking together, like It is attached to the muscles that are wrapped around the bones and beating actively, making a strange and slight "swish, swish, swish" sound.

The downward branches are evenly distributed among the floors, and the shorter branches are scattered in the upper floors. After reaching the corresponding floors, these branches seem to come alive. From vertical downwards to horizontal expansion.

It is obviously a hard wooden branch, but it presents an illusion of vision as soft as a vine in front of the player.

The human base is divided into ten floors based on height. The tenth floor where several players are located happens to be the floor closest to the ground. The shortest branches of all the tiny branches on the tree of life flow around the trunk and pour into the tenth floor.

Qi Wuyuan saw that these numbers were only moving between the transparent building materials on the tenth floor, obediently obeying his own range of activities, never swimming out of the transparent building materials.

More branches poured down the trunk and continued to distribute to other floors.

As for the branches stopped on the tenth floor, it can be clearly seen that their range of motion is getting smaller and smaller, showing a tendency to gradually stop.

In addition to seeing the spreading branches appearing in the transparent building materials surrounding the tree of life, Qi Wuyuan also saw the residents lined up in ten long lines orderly in a circle.

They were not surprised by the considerable movement on the tree of life.

Illuminated by the sun, the closer you get to the tree of life, the more you can feel a cramped and sultry temperature.

Ajia took six players to find a random team and lined up.

He turned around and explained to Qi Wuyuan and the others: "The Tree of Life not only protects our base from mechanical bugs and the harsh environment during the day, but also provides us with the food and water we need to survive."

Robots in the city have no physiological needs, they don't need food, clean enough to drink water, and even there are no toilets built in the city.

Except for a few noble robots in the third ring who keep pets in their homes, and the raised humans regularly consume some food and produce domestic waste, the entire mechanical city-state cannot find any human food.

What is not in the city, there is even less in the wasteland outside the city.

The hunting team couldn't find any food when they went out, and there was no soil that could grow food crops inside or outside the base. There must be a reason why a human base in Nuoda can continue to survive until now.

The tree of life supplies the needs of human life.

Ajia said to the players: "The fruit of life bestowed by the tree of life has always been our food."

As soon as he finished his sentence, Qi Wuyuan's vision jumped over the crowd and saw the branches shaking more and more slowly, and finally stopped all movements.

The players saw the fruit of life that Aka said.

All the branches extending on the transparent building material stopped shaking, and in the next second, more and more leaves split from the middle, and quickly differentiated into two leaves with a slightly smaller area and almost identical appearance.

The split leaves continue to split, and after repeated splits two or three times, all the branches are covered with emerald green leaves, and the originally bare brown branches seem to be wrapped in a circle of thick emerald green leaves from a distance. Green plush rug.

Within a few breaths, these densely packed tiny leaves all gathered towards different points on the branches, and gradually gathered into emerald green fruits one after another.

The size of each fruit is almost the same, slightly smaller than an adult's fist, and the surface is covered with a layer of emerald green smooth peel.

After seeing the fruits on the branches, Ajia pointed to these fruits and said, "Look, this is the fruit of life."

Ajia said to the six players lined up behind him: "The fruit of life is the food for our survival. The teacher said that the fruit of life is rich in all the nutrients needed by the human body, so we can survive as long as we eat this food." Don't worry about food."

"The fruit of life is rich in water, and it only needs to be picked and processed to become drinking water for people."

The domestic water of the entire human base is also extracted from the water absorbed by the roots of the underground tree of life.

The root system of the tree of life has a very strong ability to absorb water, and humans can extract a small part of it to come up

Ajia or the people living in the base have unparalleled respect for the tree of life.

Their lives are closely related to this tree. For human beings, this giant tree is worthy of the title of "tree of life".

Ajia enthusiastically said to Qi Wuyuan: "You can come and experience the taste of the fruit of life, this is a very convenient and nutritious food."

Even several residents who lined up nearby joined in the chat. They echoed Ajia's words and expressed their admiration for the fruit of life.

The strong recommendation of Ajia and the surrounding residents for the fruit of life directly aroused the curiosity of the audience in several live broadcast rooms.

Even the few players present couldn't help but have some expectations for the fruit of life in Ajia's words.

Although the way the fruit of life grows is a bit weird, but the weird things in the dungeon have passed, and the players don't care much.

Only Qi Wuyuan frowned.

He did not hear the description of the taste of the fruit of life from the mouths of these few residents.

It's not like an attitude that one would make when admiring a certain food, unless that food is really not good.

What Qi Wuyuan cares about is different from other players, even a little strange.

He whispered his doubts to Yu Bei, and Yu Bei laughed when he learned about Qi Wuyuan's thoughts.

Qi Wuyuan, who looked like a teenager, asked himself this question in a serious manner.

--So cute.

There was no expression on Yu Bei's face, only the flashing smile that no one caught in his eyes could slightly reveal his true thoughts.

"Is it delicious, Ah Yuan can try it later."

Yu Bei lowered his head slightly, and whispered in Qi Wuyuan's ear.

Qi Wuyuan tilted his head, his ears were slapped by his snort, and he avoided Yu Bei uncomfortably: "Are you sure it's not poisonous?"

An idea suddenly popped up in his mind—why do the details of the robot have to be so realistic, even the warm sniff of a human being is simulated exactly the same.

Hearing the ridicule in Qi Wuyuan's tone, Yu Bei said: "I scanned it, and the feedback I got from the data stream is that all the humans in the base are normal humans, and the fruits of the tree of life are also normal fruits."

Yu Bei thought for a while, and reminded: "But I guess the taste of this fruit is not very good."

Qi Wuyuan's curiosity was drawn out by Yu Bei: "Oh? Then I want to try it even more."

While chatting from time to time, several people lined up and were about to walk to the place where the transparent building materials were.

Because people walked to the transparent building materials one after another, reached out to pick up the fruit on the branch, the fruit was very easy to hold, and everyone picked a fruit of life as soon as they raised their hands.

So the queue was very fast, and just now I was about to reach the transparent building materials, and Ajia, who would be the first in line, had already gone to pick the fruit.

Qi Wuyuan was the second to pick the fruit. After he got an emerald green fruit of life, he walked out from the side road.

Qi Wuyuan felt that something was wrong, he turned his head and took a closer look at the branches of the tree of life in front of him.

There are at least ten fruits of life on one branch, and thirty or forty branches are distributed around the trunk of the tree of life. There are at most four hundred fruits grown in such a strange way.

The residents on the tenth floor have already lined up in front of the temporary cafeteria. Qi Wuyuan estimated with his eyes that there are thousands of humans living on the tenth floor.

How could four hundred fruits of life feed thousands of people?

Qi Wuyuan thought while walking.

When the six players followed Ajia out of the range of the "canteen", Qi Wuyuan seized the opportunity to look back in the direction of the tree of life.

Looking from a distance, many emerald green leaves on the branches where all the fruits have been picked began to split again, and new fruits of life soon formed.

When Ajia saw Qi Wuyuan turning his head back, he seemed to have thought of Qi Wuyuan's question, and explained: "As long as it is within a certain time frame, the branches of the tree of life can continue to bear fruit. The number so far we are There is no upper limit."

Thinking of this, Ajia took a bite of the fruit of life in his hand and said: "It's a pity that the shelf life of the fruit of life is too short. How to save it without wheels? After two hours, all the fruits of life will automatically dry up and turn into a bunch of leaves , and finally disappeared directly into the air.”

Pu Meng, who was walking aside, heard this and said, "So that's how it is."

"May I ask when is the specific time? We can hurry there and don't have to trouble you to call us next time."

Ajia waved her hand: "The specific time is starting at 10:[-] am, [-]:[-] noon, and [-]:[-] pm every day. Fruits of life will be produced within [-] minutes."

Qi Wuyuan remembered the three time points in his heart: "Thank you."

Soon Ajia took them back to the house originally arranged for the three members of Pu Meng's team.

There is room for just six people in the second-floor building, which is much larger than other places.

Originally, Ajia wanted to take Qi Wuyuan and the others to visit again, and then arrange other residences.

But under the meaning of the Yuanyu team, Ajia was asked to go back temporarily on the grounds that he wanted to take a break for a while. There was no need for Ajia to take them on a tour, and there was no need to arrange a residence. They could live here with the Pumeng team. up.

Ajia left after a few polite words, leaving only six players sitting in the living room to observe the emerald green fruit in their hands.

Pu Meng said directly: "What do you think, that tree of life?"

Players with eyes will not think that this giant tree is as simple as A Jia said, these are superficial evaluations.

Just watching how the fruit of life is produced and operated in the whole process today left a big impression on people.

Qi Wuyuan found a chair to sit on, and asked Pu Meng: "What do you think?"

Pu Meng didn't care too much, she took the lead in expressing her thoughts: "I don't think it's like a tree, but the tree of life feels more like..."

She thought for a while and continued, "It's more like a creature with independent thinking."

After listening to Pu Meng's feelings, Qi Wuyuan nodded in agreement.

It's just that his concept is still somewhat different from Pu Meng's.

"Do you see these split and gathered leaves on the branches of the tree of life, do they look like uncontrollable cancer cells after mutations in organisms?"

When Qi Wuyuan said this, Yu Bei hooked the corner of his mouth.

His and Qi Wuyuan's guesses overlapped again, and they really understood each other very well.

Pu Meng immediately reacted after hearing Qi Wuyuan's words: "Infinite proliferation? This is indeed somewhat similar."

This idea gradually formed in Qi Wuyuan's heart when he saw the way the fruit of life bears fruit.

——If the leaves are cancer cells, the tree of life is a tumor attached to the wasteland.

Human beings can effectively stop the spread of cancer cells after tumor removal, and even recover to health.

So……

Qi Wuyuan looked through the window at the huge trees that stood out in the distance.

If the tree of life is destroyed, will the weird weather on the wasteland and the unsuitable environment for living due to the barren grass and no water source disappear?

Like a patient recovering from a tumor removed.

Human beings rely on the tree of life to survive, which seems to have solved the problem of food and housing necessary for life, but in fact, with the passage of time, the disadvantages of relying too much on the tree of life have gradually emerged.

——Human beings are locked in the possibility of continued growth and development by the tree of life on which they depend.

If we continue to rely on this giant tree, all human technology and development will be locked at this level. Living in an underground base, maintaining the status quo has become the best future.

Qi Wuyuan didn't express his thoughts.

No one could tell that the expressionless boy had a crazy and bold idea in his heart.

Qi Wuyuan is seriously thinking about the feasibility of destroying the tree of life.

Qi Wuyuan didn't speak, the room became quiet at this moment so as not to disturb his thinking.

He looked down at an emerald green fruit of life that he was holding in his hand. From the outside, this fruit looked very good-looking, and it could arouse people's appetite just by looking at it.

Qi Wuyuan raised his hand and took a bite of the emerald green fruit called the fruit of life by the base people.

Just after entering the mouth, a dizzying special metallic taste mixed with the pungent smell of engine oil drilled directly into the nose from the mouth.

It was like taking a mouthful of inferior oil mixed with molten metal, Qi Wuyuan directly spit out the pulp that he had just held in his mouth without chewing.

Yu Bei immediately took out a bottle of water from the space and rinsed Qi Wuyuan's mouth.

Qi Wuyuan said the first sentence after rinsing his mouth: "It's not delicious."

Other players/viewers: Wait, that doesn't seem to be the point, does it?