Plant Invasion [End Times]

Shen Kuo and the others widened their eyes.

More obvious than the mother tree here, the moment those irrational captains set foot on the desert, it was like stepping into concentrated sulfuric acid. Those captains instantly turned black, rotted, and then melted into a puddle. black liquid.The black liquid only persisted on the sand for a few seconds, then was absorbed by the thick sand and disappeared.

A green bean pod fell to the ground, and Shen Kuo recognized that it was a [-]-cubic bean pod of unknown species.Then the pod, like its superior, or master, quickly melted into the yellow sand, it didn't even form a black liquid, only a little black smoke appeared, and then the black smoke disappeared up.

"They turned into mother liquor in the desert?" Shen Kuo said a word uncertainly.

"Don't guess yet, this mother tree is going to die." Wei Wenhao said anxiously.

Shen Kuo and others turned their heads, and they saw that the exposed root system of the mother tree had turned into a wisp of black liquid, which slowly flowed into the sand and was absorbed.

Zhang Xiaoyi hurriedly put away the mother tree.

Lin Zhengshan took a last look at the many fruit captains and the high priest on the mother liquor who were staring at the thousand meters away, maybe they were not staring at the tiger, because they were all short-sighted, and things thousands of meters away were just some vague black dots to them.

Without looking at each other from the leaders of the two parties, Lin Zhengshan withdrew his gaze: "The task is completed, go back."

There were thirteen people when they came, but there were only nine people left when they went back. One person was lying in the medical center because of exhaustion, and three people left this world forever.

Later, Wei Wenhao, who had always been a little confused, insisted that the unlucky number thirteen caused the loss. Shen Kuo didn't take his words to heart. He felt that if someone died in the last days, it must be because he was not enough. Strong, human, is not strong enough.

One day, the threat to this place will be crushed.When leaving, Shen Kuo thought so.

As soon as he returned to the base, all the people who mainly participated in the confrontation this time fainted, and Shen Kuo had to first invite people from the medical center to deal with the exhausted people.

So in the medical center, another six people were lying next to the large ward where Chen Hao was lying.

After dealing with these people, Shen Kuo's first thing is to hand in homework to their respectable and lovely scientists.

Scientists are no doubt rejoicing.

Because of the dissolution of the mother tree in the desert, Professor Chu had to temporarily hand over the matter at hand to his assistant, and followed Shen Kuo back to the base.

He hasn't been to Professor Chu's laboratory for a few days, but his team members have been following up the experimental data he sent from the other world to conduct more research and development.According to what Shen Kuo heard occasionally, they are already trying to manufacture materials for large-capacity space appliances that can carry hundreds of cubic meters.

The sudden appearance of Professor Chu did not cause any impact on the people in this laboratory. He almost couldn't wait to push Shen Kuo away, and then pulled Zhang Xiaoyi into an empty room with a look of excitement, and then happily urged Zhang Xiaoyi Also: "Hurry up, take it out and let me have a look."

Zhang Xiaoyi looked embarrassed: "Professor, this place is too small..."

Half a minute later, Professor Chu came out with a green face.

"Although I can't see the live ones for the time being, I still have the branches and leaves of the mother tree here, which can always fit in." Shen Kuo comforted and took out the branches and leaves of the mother tree that still had mangoes hanging on them.

Professor Chu had already adjusted his expression. He pushed the frame of his glasses, squinted his eyes and looked at a four-meter-long female tree branch with eight large blue mangos hanging from it.

Although they are not yet ripe, these mangoes are more than half the height of a person, and each one is very heavy.

Professor Chu picked a blue mango, and then asked someone to find a huge flower pot, and inserted the mango branch into it.

After telling the team members here to take care of the branch, Professor Chu returned to another world.

"Plants are different from animals. It stands to reason that their branches and leaves can reproduce asexually when they are separated. You can try it with some branches." Standing outside the laboratory, Professor Chu said.

Shen Kuo took out a branch according to the words.

There were a dozen mangoes on that branch, and the branch and the mangoes began to blacken and melt violently as soon as they touched the sand. In just a few tens of seconds, a branch with fruits turned into a puddle of liquid .

Professor Chu took out a large test tube and quickly filled a part of the black liquid. Before he could fill the test tube, the remaining liquid quickly seeped into the sand. Professor Chu rummaged through the pile of sand, but he couldn't find them. past traces.

Professor Chu looked thoughtfully at the ground where nothing had happened.

"Let's go in and have a try." He dragged Shen Kuo into an empty laboratory.

The floor of the laboratory is paved with alloy, separated by a thick layer of alloy, a small branch that Shen Kuo took out quickly melted into a black liquid again, but with the barrier of the alloy floor, the liquid was not absorbed by the sand , were finally put into large test tubes by Professor Chu.

Professor Chu looked at the two large test tubes containing black liquid on the test tube rack, pondered for a while with a serious face, and then took out a blue mango.

It was the one he picked up in the base laboratory.

The huge cyan mango lay quietly on the alloy floor, and Shen Kuo and Professor Chu squatted on the ground to observe.

Five minutes later, Professor Chu put away the green mango and said, "I see."

"???" Shen Kuo was confused.

"What do you know?"

Professor Chu smiled at Shen Kuo. Although there are rumors that Professor Chu is cold and strangers should not enter, this great professor likes to say a few words in front of the young people he admires: "Shen Kuo, do you think we When doing scientific research, how do you draw an accurate conclusion from countless conjectures?"

Shen Kuo thought for a while: "Do the experiment? Well, how many times do you want to do it?"

"It's so-so, right? To be precise, it is to set up a control group based on different conjectures, conduct controlled experiments, and eliminate wrong conclusions one by one."

Shen Kuo quickly put on an expression of listening carefully.

"There are many possibilities for the mother tree to dissolve in the desert, and there are many possibilities for Captain Mango to dissolve, but once you said that the pods of Captain Mango also dissolved in the desert, I knew something was wrong." Professor Chu didn't finish his sentence. Instead, he looked at Shen Kuo, showing an expression where you guess what's wrong.

Shen Kuo thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something: "Ah, I brought other plant soldiers into the desert before, but they didn't dissolve." Then, he looked at the huge pod with a large capacity that he carried with him. .

"Tell me, what do you think is the difference between the plant soldiers you brought and the dissolving mother trees or fruit captains or pods? Oh, and the mango I just took out, what do they have in common? difference?"

"They have all had contact with me." This was Shen Kuo's first thought.But immediately he shook his head, and he blushed a little, because he remembered that he also took out the two branches that just melted.He is just used to pulling it on himself first when there is something abnormal.

"Hmm..." Shen Kuo pondered for a while, and slowly expressed his judgment: "It should be that these plant soldiers have all been to the earth, not the ones who stay in the pod space and cannot come out, but have been taken out. "

"Yes." Professor Chu smiled, "To be more precise, the plant soldiers you gave me before all appeared in my laboratory, and the mango just now was picked by me in the laboratory. down, but we haven't tried it elsewhere and can't specifically assign it to my lab.

The earth is very special, which must have been foreseen by you and me, otherwise there are countless planets in the vast universe, and those aliens would not have to choose our earth from such a distance.And after the invasion of those aliens, everything that happened on the earth, whether it was the appearance of Gaia, or the extremely huge carrot soldier after activation, proved this point. "

Professor Chu adjusted his glasses with a smile, "According to the mother solution you gave us before, we have recently researched some results, but they are not considered results, and they are not too mature. I can only say, let's guess now."

"We believe that there is a special energy on the earth itself that we have been unable to detect and use. It is conceivable that this energy must be very precious and huge. They have been sleeping all the time, just like those fuels that have not been ignited. And the special energy transmitted from the other world is its kindling, and they mix together to become a terrifying force that promotes biological mutations on the earth. I don’t know if it is the aliens who planned in advance to let that kind of special energy flow into the earth in advance ok, but as you can see, the influx of those energies has made a huge difference to our beings on earth, even though we are suffering, we have to say that this energy itself is moving us all towards the good The only thing that changes direction is that plants receive more benefits than animals. And from the biological forms of those aliens in the other world, it can be seen that this kind of energy is indeed more suitable for plants."

"Perhaps inadvertently, the actions of those aliens led to the extinction of almost all animals on the earth except humans, and put the only intelligent creature, humans, in a desperate situation. This has greatly weakened the The strength of the earth's creatures, but on the other hand, they made the earth produce a new overlord—mutated plants, and Gaia is the most terrifying representative of them. This is all brought about by the energy of the earth itself. I think we have always mastered We are holding a certain huge treasure house, but we can’t get in because of lack of keys. And those special energies from other worlds are our keys.”

"From a certain point of view, this is not only our disaster, but also our opportunity, an opportunity to open the door of the treasure house. Before the end of the world, the energy on the earth has reached a certain dangerous edge, and we have been unable to find it. To better and cleaner energy sources other than fossil fuels. The development of a civilization and the leap forward are often related to the discovery of some new energy. The discovery of steam kinetic energy led to the first industrial revolution, and the discovery of electric energy It has contributed to the second industrial revolution. We have not yet been able to capture the energy of this artifact, but they have produced their effects after all, and who dares to say that our civilization will not make a new leap because of them?"

"We have studied the mother liquids in the laboratory. Whether it is from the zombie empire or the plant kingdom, their essence is actually the same, they are all water."

"It's fun, their elemental composition, atomic structure, are all water, ordinary water. I hear you, that huge lake of mother liquid, in your opinion, is just a huge lake of water, and the things in it are from On the surface it looks like any water lake you've seen before. Well, it turns out, you're right."

"Then how can they be called mother liquor and have the ability to construct new objects? I remember correctly, right? You said that their high priest controls the entire mother liquor lake, and according to his personal consciousness, he can create new ones at will. Plants. Is that how rice soldiers and rice soldiers came about? Just because of a small suggestion from you, the high priest immediately changed his creation, and without difficulty, he made a lot of rice the next day. "

Shen Kuo nodded in shame.

"Don't bow your head, Xiao Shenzi, it's not your fault. They deceived you, used you, and you just lived for you and those people in your village. If we didn't have that experience, we wouldn't be able to see you , and there will be no chance to enter in advance to destroy their plans."

"I know, I'm just ashamed, why didn't I notice this in advance. I can obviously..." Shen Kuo said painfully.

"Hey, hey, it's fine not to say anything to my old man." Professor Chu slapped Shen Kuo on the head.

"Are you stupid? If there was regret medicine, I would have bought it long ago. Since what has happened cannot be changed, what is the use of saying it again? Can you change history by soaking in regret? Blame the past What's the use of yourself, you have to look to the future, young man."

Shen Kuo lowered his head.

"Oh, it's all your fault, I digressed. Look at you, this is the disadvantage of being immersed in the past, do we have time to waste? No, but just now, the old man's precious scientific research time was wasted by your shitty regrets .”

"Let's go on, hey where did I say that? Oh, yes, creation."

Professor Chu cleared his throat, and his expression became serious: "Have you ever thought about why the high priest can use this kind of thing that is exactly the same as water to make structures at will? What does he rely on?"

Shen Kuo showed a "?" expression.

"Think about it, what is the difference between plant soldiers and our supernatural beings, and then think about the difference between their entire civilization and our earth? Think again, what is the difference between the creatures on our earth before and after their invasion? "

the difference?That's too much.They are all plants, we are animals, they are extraterrestrial creatures, we are earth creatures, they are transformed from mother liquid, we are born of mothers, they have absolute affiliation, distinct levels, and cannot be crossed, and our relationship is like this Complicated... Shen Kuo fell into chaotic thinking.

"It's not difficult for you, little guy." Professor Chu knocked on Shen Kuo's forehead with a smile, then crossed his arms and leaned against the test bench.

He showed a relaxed and confident state of an elder, which reminded him of his grandfather again.

Maybe all wise elders are like this?Shen Kuo was distracted thinking about it, and then he thought of Lin Zhengshan who secretly competed with Wei Wenhao...

Shen Kuo looked at Professor Chu seriously, like every time he was at his grandfather's house listening to his grandfather patiently telling him about his crops and doomsday survival plan.

"Scientific research, in essence, is a process of summarizing. We choose a direction from countless chaotic and complicated appearances and facts, and then continue to extract relevant information from the real world around this direction, and combine them After sorting them out one by one, keeping the useful ones and excluding the irrelevant ones, and then through a lot of experiments—hypotheses, experiments, comparisons, comparisons, deduction, reasoning, and various means, finally, we finally found the wide-spread cocoon from the mess. The truth of the spectrum. This requires us to have strong information processing capabilities, sensitivity to special factors, some people call us sentient computers, well, there is a certain truth.”

"There's so much nonsense, it's just for explanation. Even though there is no real evidence, why do I tell you with such certainty: It is mental power that determines all these changes."

"Whether it's the plant kingdom or the zombie empire, they all have a common way of communication—communication with spiritual fluctuations. You can ask Lin Zhengshan, isn't he the most spiritual person among us humans? You ask Ask him if he can use spiritual power to communicate."

"Whether it's the plant kingdom or the zombie empire, their main combat forces are plant soldiers and zombie soldiers, and their attack methods are mental attacks. Of course, zombie soldiers are a little different. They can tear devils with their hands when they are in a hurry, but just like us The first thought of writing is to use hands instead of feet, mental attack is their orthodox attack method."

"Whether it is the plant kingdom or the zombie empire, they all have a strict hierarchy. What do they rely on to maintain such a strict hierarchy? Why do they go to die if the high priest tells them to die? Who doesn't want to live? I can make an educated guess , their hierarchy is based on a strict level of spiritual power."