"Look! Look! There's something ahead!"
Just when Wenzi was in a good feeling and was deeply intoxicated in it, Muyi's sharp voice pulled him from his "self-hypnosis" imagination back to the speeding motorcycle hovercraft.
"Ah, what is it? Let me see."
Wenzi poked her head out from behind Muyi, like a curious mother's baby. She stretched her neck and looked ahead. She saw a layer of dark lines on the horizon that seemed to never change in the distance. The hull of the boat is advancing rapidly, and it is getting thicker and darker, getting bigger and bigger————
"It looks like it's a tree!"
Wenzi felt that these dark lines should be a huge black forest. Although they were scattered in height, the overall edge connection was very close to the skyline formed by the forest.
"I also think it's a tree, but why are the trees in this village black instead of green?"
Muyi knew that photosynthesis could only be achieved with the presence of green pigment; could the black tree species here use melanin to synthesize oxygen? This is unscientific!
"Or maybe their synthesis mechanism doesn't require photosynthesis at all? Do you remember that near the active volcanoes at the bottom of the deep sea, those creatures can survive without photosynthesis at all. Or maybe, these also Not a tree, but an unknown creature that looks similar to a tree?"
Wenzi's thinking is never led by appearances. He always pays more attention to the essential characteristics of things.
"Well, then we'll figure it out when we get closer. Hold on tight, I'll speed up!"
Muyi saw that the target was close in front of her eyes. The visual error of "looking at the mountain and running to death" would never make her rational and lose her accurate judgment of the actual distance. She could accurately estimate: it would be less than 20 miles away. In minutes, you can reach the foot of the "Black Forest" over there.
The whistling wind filled his ears, and Wenzi could hear the strong wind leaking in from his neck through the helmet. He knew that the speed was faster, and he quickly hugged Muyi's slender but strong waist tighter.
These big black guys finally appeared: not a tree, but a large group of black rocks that looked like "tree fossils".
These "tree fossils" maintain a certain posture: the leaves are scorched, the branches are peeled off, the bark is exposed, and some tree roots are also turned out of the ground, revealing extremely rare tree roots that are all curled and intricately intertwined—— - This is a scene of a primeval forest being burned by a fire, and all of them were carbonized by unknown forces, and under the action of time, they solidified into tree-shaped stone sculptures with a hard rock texture. .
"How weird! These trees were burned, but before they were completely burned, they were solidified by a force and carbonized rapidly - but the length of time it takes from 'carbonization' to 'petrification' should How could they still stand after such a long time? Could it be that they were placed in a vacuum during the period before they were 'petrified'? Without being reshaped by any external force, if you want to directly Being 'petrified', what kind of sudden pressure environment had to be 'reprocessed', and it seems to have been handled with great care, for fear that the original appearance could not be completely preserved for - us to see?"
After Muyi and Fumiko got off the motorboat, they took off their helmets and started walking forward and backward among these black guys. Although the ground here is still quite elastic, the texture is a little harder than when I first stepped on it, and it is much more stable when I walk on it. Muyi walked quickly and was the first to express her thoughts.
"For us? Are you saying that these scenes were formed under the influence of a conscious force similar to man-made ones, and were specially and carefully 'processed' just for the two of us to see?"
Fumiko was frightened by the idea that "someone might be controlling all this".
No wonder everything here is inconsistent with common sense. So where does this "intentional" consciousness come from? Are they conscious beings like us humans?
"You mean, it's possible that something is 'playing with us'?" Muyi was affected by Wenzi's thoughts and immediately returned to her normal logic, "Even if what you said is true, then It also needs evidence, and it has to be proven before it can be considered true. At present, this kind of burned petrified forest is just a phenomenon for the time being. We still need to go further to see if there is other evidence. In short, it cannot It’s too early to jump to conclusions, right?”
"Well, never mind it, let's go in and take a look first!" Wenzi felt that as long as Muyi was with him, it wouldn't be a problem to go anywhere. He was a very safe companion!
"By the way, didn't you say that you wanted to dig out what's under this vast desert wasteland? If we go into the forest now and go back out, we might waste a lot of time. How about we finish this matter first and then go inside?"
Mu Yi was just about to enter first, but then she remembered that the previous research and sampling had not been completed yet: she hated doing half of the work the most, with no beginning and no end: since she arrived here, she first hung in the dark forest, and then went to The investigation of the whereabouts was not completed; the hot air balloon ride at the back was swept back and forth by a black brush, and I did not understand it; the study of the gate pillars and the "Thousands of Snakes Emerging from Their Shells" was not completed again; when we arrived in this vast wilderness, okay? It's easy to escape, but before you understand what's underneath, you're ready to dig into the fossils in the Black Forest - this is too much like "a bear breaking corn", you've seen everything, but you haven't understood anything.
"Well, okay! It's hard not to be disturbed by other activities or sudden forces. I have to seize the opportunity to do a real 'scientific expedition'. Then I have to trouble you to get a drilling tool out?"
Fumiko agreed to slow down the rhythm a bit and get back to a rhythm they could control.
"Okay, you choose a location and I'll do it there."
Muyi turned around and faced a large empty land. She didn't know where was the best place to take samples.
"Haha, thank you for your hard work. Jump a few times to find the point with the best elasticity. Let's use it as a sampling location for our exploration!" Wenzi felt that the most elastic place would have a higher water content, just like choosing garlic sprouts. , it is always a tender place, easy to pinch off, and it should also be the easiest for the skin to be broken.
"Um!"
Mu Yi took out a bright red solid lipstick from her pocket, turned it out, applied it on the soles of her feet, then put it away and put it back; she then used the helmet in her hand as a basketball, and while shooting, "Go forward to the court." "Attack", dodging the invisible "opponent defender", with clever footwork and perfect steps, she quickly jumped half the distance of the basketball court, as if she was "playing half court", and found a shot that she thought was position, suddenly made a "three-step cross-basket" - then raised the helmet in his hand in the air and swung it in a big circle, turned around and smashed it to the red footprint that he had just jumped over:
"That's it!"
