Plant Invasion [End Times]

After leaving the village, walk more than 150 meters forward, and you will see the overwhelming green.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe this so-called jungle as a green sea.

It is late autumn, and it is reasonable to say that it should be the season when all trees wither, but the trees and vines appearing in front of us are densely covered with trees, and the fat leaves are gently swaying in the breeze, showing off their exuberant vitality.

The sky is completely covered by dense leaves, entering the jungle is entering another world.

At five o'clock in the morning, before entering the forest, you can still see a little light of the morning sun, but as soon as you enter the forest, the deep darkness surges in, making people seem to reset the night.

"It's so dark." Someone said softly in the darkness.

"Don't move, wait until your eyes get used to it before moving forward." Jin Shao stood at the front of the line, with Shen Kuo beside him, and he spoke in a low voice, not worried that the 500 people behind him would not be able to hear his voice.

Shen Kuo stood on the edge of the jungle, looking into the depths of the jungle with a shocked expression.

This is a forest they have never seen before. Apart from its incomparable vitality, it is also incomparably dead.

Apart from their own footsteps, there was no other sound in such a huge forest.

For the first time, Shen Kuo felt so directly:

Doomsday, this is the real doomsday.

Except for the human beings who rely on modern civilization and are still stubbornly resisting, the other animals have all died.

"Really, is there nothing left?" Shen Kuo murmured, as if asking himself or someone else.

Someone's voice came from the darkness: "Even the Cordyceps are dead."

Shen Kuo stared: "Nonsense, isn't that a combination of insects and fungi? Why did they all die?"

Jin Shao turned around, unable to see his expression in the darkness: "The moths are all dead, who is the fungus going to parasitize? They died together."

"That's it..." Shen Kuo's mind flashed a bit of a high school biology book: predation, parasitism, mutualism...

Then there is a fragment of a popular science text in elementary school: Cocklebur mothers are different. They hang their children on other small animals to let their children travel...

"Oh my God, aren't those plants that spread their seeds by eating them extinct too?" he asked in a daze.

In the darkness, the man chuckled softly.

"What are you thinking? It's only been half a year. Even if a tree is extinct, it can still stand for many years. Even those annual plants still have half a year to live. And—" he paused, "such a After the mutation, who knows what their growth cycle will become. Instead of worrying about the future of these plants, you might as well worry about ourselves."

"Oh, yes." Shen Kuo nodded in agreement, "Speaking of which, we are the victims, so why worry about them. These plants have poisoned us and animals, and when the time comes, they will be extinct at their own fault."

"However," he raised his head, looked at the trees that gradually became clearer, and sighed, "Actually, in the end, it might be hurting others as well as ourselves, so what's the point of it?"

"Don't be sad here." Jin Shao patted his shoulder with his hand, and his voice became louder: "Okay, everyone should have adapted to the darkness."

The villagers who were suppressed and did not dare to come out gradually raised their heads and looked at the tall and straight voice in the front.

"We are now in the pear grove I mentioned, have you seen the huge tree in the middle?" He pointed to a giant tree that looked so tall in the depths of the woods, "Speaking of which, you are from the local area. People, I should be very familiar with this pear forest, but just to be on the safe side, I will say it again, there are 24 such giant trees around here, forming a five by five square array, such a big tree, It is also very eye-catching here, I believe you will not miss it, so my request is that from one to five teams, they will pick up small shoots in this pear forest, and they cannot go beyond the edge of the pear forest."

He raised his voice: "As for the six to twenty teams, continue to follow me inside."

No one responded.

Because before coming in, Jin Shao had already said that other people should not speak unless necessary.

One is to prevent his voice from being overshadowed, so that his reminders cannot be sent out, and the other is that these trees are used to a quiet environment, and the sudden appearance of a lot of noise can easily make them nervous and manic, and then they are prone to aggressive behavior.

The [-] teams were assigned yesterday. Jin Shao made it very clear that the older the team, the earlier the team would be, so that those with weaker physical strength would be in the outermost forest, and the rest would follow him to the inner part. to a fir forest.

The pear forest is closer to the village, but there are more dead branches from the fir trees. After all, many families here use the small branches and leaves dropped from the fir trees as one of the main fuels for fire.

"Set off."

More than 120 people remained in the pear forest, and the rest continued to move deeper into the forest.

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"Don't step on it!"

Shen Kuo's feet had to stop abruptly in mid-air against inertia.

"What's wrong?" Shen Kuo couldn't hold his balance, and was supported by Jin Shao before he stood still.

They had been walking for a while, and now the sky was getting brighter, and the woods were finally not so dark.

He looked down at the small pool of dark green water stains that he almost stepped on just now, and raised his eyes in confusion.

"There are algae in the water. It is highly poisonous and will corrode your shoes." Jin Shao squatted down, picked up a twig, dug a thick layer of soil to cover the water stains, and then stood up.

"Attention everyone." He raised his voice to cheer everyone up: "We are going to the junction of the pear forest and the fir forest. The plants in the fir forest are almost non-aggressive, But fir trees have almost no control over algae. These algae are highly toxic and highly corrosive, so everyone must pay attention to your feet. When you see a small pool of green water, you must avoid it. Bury it with water. Let me emphasize again, if you see a small pool of green water stains under your feet, you must not touch it, and you must bury it with soil, and it must be buried tightly to prevent others from stepping on it."

"Everyone, please raise your hands if you don't understand." Jin Shao said the kindergarten teacher's lines with a straight face.

Raising your hand may seem naive, but it is very useful when it is inconvenient for everyone to talk.

No one raised their hands.

"Okay, then I'll take it as if all of you have heard my warning."

He looked up at the tall and dense fir trees, then at the fallen branches of the fir trees all over the ground, and bent down to pick up the dry branch of the first fir tree and put it into the basket behind Shen Kuo.

"The fir forest is here, everyone is free to move around, and if they are full, they can send their things outside first. Everyone gather here in two and a half hours, let's go."