Going to a vast and unfamiliar world requires taking certain risks. Although the protagonist is not afraid, he is not reckless either.
He climbed up the big poplar tree in advance, preparing to look at his destination in the north, and scouted the terrain in advance. Today's sky was exceptionally blue, with few clouds visible, and it was no longer as gloomy as the previous days.
The protagonist is climbing a giant tree under the blue sky and the blazing sun. In early summer, the wind is still cool, and the protagonist does not feel very hot.
This big poplar tree is very tall. Although it grows in poor soil and one side of its roots is severely impacted every year when the river floods, it still grows to a height of three stories.
However, the protagonist can also see the tiredness of this tree with the naked eye. Its branches and leaves are not dense enough, many leaves have signs of withering and yellowing on the edges, and from time to time, completely dead leaves fall.
It is caused by the accumulation of toxins caused by too much moisture in the roots and poor breathing. Big trees can only constantly sprout new leaves and replace old leaves to eliminate toxins.
Trees near water often suffer from this problem. That is to say, the metasequoia, water pine, and ash trees in the water forest have evolved adaptability and are not affected much.
Climbing on the vertical trunk of the big white poplar, the protagonist will always remember that he climbed the tree like this when he was in [Dongyang City], in order to lead a team to sneak attack on the bee nest to obtain bee eggs.
Now, in the [Xinyangcheng] warehouse, there are still dozens of bee eggs lying there quietly, including the eggs of the queen bee and queen bee, which are enough to re-germinate a bee colony. These are the remnants of our homeland.
The protagonist is like an old man who likes to reminisce. He often misses his hometown because of the familiar things. He also hates the destroyer who drove him out more and more, and he is particularly eager for power-the power of revenge.
There is no need to climb too high. The protagonist just climbed up the shortest tree branch, which was about five or six meters high, enough to tower over the nearby vegetation.
He stood on a tree branch and looked toward the land beyond the peninsula.
Not far from the poplar tree to the north, the terrain drops and turns into a dense patch of grass. The wild grass in it grows very strong, and the tallest one is two meters high. The protagonist does not know the name of its species, but it feels like it is a very common weed. The deepest impression is that the long blades of this grass are so sharp that they can even cut your hands.
This is a small basin, and for some reason no trees grow, not even arbors. The basin is like a belt, almost surrounding the aspen trees.
As for the long and narrow basin beyond the depression, although it is still dominated by tall weeds, you can occasionally see some shrubs and slender and tall trees that have just grown up.
Further north, there is a large forest of trees, completely blocking the view to the north. The arbor forest extended to the east and west sides, but did not reach the river, leaving a strip of blank space along the river.
After roughly observing the terrain, the protagonist leads the team and sets off. Looking from a distance can only give a rough idea. If you want to know the nearby resources, you still have to get closer and investigate.
There is a large open space with almost no grass growing on the north side of the poplar tree. This is because the sunlight shines from the south. The land to the north of the poplar tree has been covered by the shadow of the canopy for a long time and lacks sunlight. Only a small amount of low, shade-loving vegetation, such as moss, grows here.
The protagonist and his subordinates climbed over the grass roots protruding from the ground, bypassed a large green lawn of moss growing on tree roots and stones, and left the shadow of the tree crown at noon.
At this time, the surface began to slope downward, and some sections of the road were very steep, but this could not stop the ants who were good at climbing from going down. The protagonist and his party entered the basin they had seen before.
This basin has been roughly searched by the exploration team before, but the protagonist did not read the information packet carefully. He just knew that the ant scouts found no danger here, nor found any valuable animals and plants. Seeking magic TXT
After going underground, the protagonist understands the reason for the barrenness here.
Walking through the roots of tall grasses, the ants are no different from walking in a primeval forest. The top of the dense grass blocks almost all sunlight, and the bottom of the grass is dark, and almost no other plants can survive inside. .
Occasionally, the wind blows, causing waves in the wild grass. Occasionally, the sun shines in, illuminating the land around the protagonist and them.
This piece of land shows signs of being soaked in water for a long time. After the soil is hardened, small cracks appear, and many crystals are scattered on the surface.
The protagonist tasted these crystals and found they were slightly salty, more astringent and bitter. We can only roughly judge that these are salt-alkali crystals, mainly alkali, with very little salt content, not enough to be used as a source of salt for the ants.
The protagonist guesses that this land will be soaked in floods during the flood season, so only weeds will grow here during the dry season, and no trees or shrubs will survive. The salt-alkali crystals on the ground are gifts brought by the flood, but they are of little use.
The vegetation in this basin is single and there are not many insects. Some insects were faintly heard, but the exploration team did not encounter any insects.
It was also because they did not search this narrow basin carefully, but chose to cross it in a straight line. After all, the woods to the north were their target.
This monotonous and unknown weed basin is not big. It is only about ten meters wide, and the slope slopes up. The protagonist and the exploration team pass through a relatively obvious vegetation dividing line and enter another ecology.
Although it is also overgrown with weeds, there are many types of herbaceous plants, and it is not like one kind of weed that dominates the basin. Shrubs and trees occasionally grow.
The place is also full of life. From soft worms to hard beetles, from small insects to nodules as big as ant tentacles, to thick millipedes as long as a train, the exploration team quickly discovered a lot of life.
This place is more vibrant than both the peninsula and the basin, making it suitable as a hunting ground.
Not only is it a hunting ground, there are also many edible plant species here. There are nightshades whose fruits are edible, barnyard grass whose seeds are edible, and shepherd's purse whose stems and leaves are edible.
The ecology here is very similar to that of my hometown.
It's right to think about it. Although the ants have been wandering on the water for half a month, their speed is not very fast. They may be closer to their homeland than imagined. It is probably that humans arrived from one county to Linxian. distance.
There is no change in altitude during this distance, and there are no natural barriers such as mountains. There are no obstacles to species exchanges, and there will naturally be no ecological differences.
Thinking of this, the protagonist felt somewhat comforted, but also a little nervous.
Can the Destroyer be able to expand and bring it here?
Along the way, the protagonist also saw Bachie ants along the way. These ants did not look like they could block the Destroyer's attack.
What if the Destroyer invades all the way along the river?
Although the protagonist has decided to return to the swamp within this year, he does not want to see the Destroyer expand and grow!
