Wu Ming sat awkwardly on the soft sand, staring closely at the masked boy in front of him who was looking around: "Can you tell me what happened here now?"
"Earth?" The masked boy looked calm and heartless. For him, the full-speed running just now was just the amount of physical exercise required for daily activities. After confirming that there were no traces of demonized plants around him, He took off the black iron sword on his back and threw it on the sand, sitting face to face with Wu Ming: "If you came to this world in response to your tragic wish to save the world..."
"It's a pity that you are late. Humanity has perished because of the tree of life."
Wu Ming was stunned: "????"
The masked boy looked up at the dark sky where the sun hung. He thought silently for a long time before slowly speaking: "I can't remember exactly how long ago the disaster happened. I don't know how this disaster happened. I don’t know, just what I’m going to say about the causes and processes of the disaster are just the speculations of those scholars after the disaster occurred and before the complete demise of mankind..."
"But even so... I hope someone can record it..."
"There is a secret society that keeps a large number of dangerous objects that could destroy the world seven times. The root of the tree of life, the main culprit of the destruction of mankind, is one of these dangerous objects. At first, no one could I didn't find that a small root of the Tree of Life had quietly escaped from the secret society's containment device. Looking back now, at that time, there were signs that plants were growing faster and yielding significantly more in various parts of the world. Most of them were affected by the influence of roots rooted in the ground. The root system of the tree of life may be affected..."
The masked boy spoke quietly, and the whole world of human destruction gradually unfolded in front of Wu Ming.
The cause of this disaster was a plant called the Tree of Life, which had the ability to transform life and completely mimic. After breaking away from the control of the secret society, it went underground and began to grow and develop again. Those who were initially affected by its transformation For those plants, this effect is harmless at first, and is even helping other plants grow stronger, making crops more productive.
Some scientists are curious about the causes of changes in plants and want to find out whether such changes are harmful to humans. However, more people are celebrating the arrival of the next millennium, never realizing that disaster has already arrived for them. Roots have taken root in the ground beneath their feet and have integrated with the plants around them - even the secret society did not connect the changes in the plants with their lost containment.
According to the speculations of the scholars from the masked boy, the Tree of Life experienced at least two transformations before it began to show aggression towards humans. After escaping from containment, it expanded its root system to establish a symbiotic relationship with the roots of surface plants, bypassing Under the supervision of major secret societies, the first transformation was completed by absorbing the weak nutrients provided by these plants, and then began to feed back these plants. The first purpose was to make these plants grow faster and better and then absorb more nutrients. To support themselves, and secondly, they can continue to assimilate and transform these plants in the process of feeding back, making the first batch of demonized plants become the eyes and ears of the Tree of Life, and at the same time, they also began to quietly invade the earth's ecosystem.
The first batch of demonized plants did not possess any means of attack. Under the influence of the Tree of Life, their branches and leaves became more prosperous and their fruits became more delicious. The Tree of Life only slightly modified them in terms of propagation and reproduction of offspring. And assimilation, grass seeds, fruits, spores and other means that plants originally used to spread and reproduce their offspring were used by the Tree of Life as a means to spread and replicate themselves around the world. Through this method, it began to assimilate and transform herbivores, and herbivores After eating them, they will be affected by the power of the tree of life. They will be weakly transformed and assimilated by the tree of life from the inside out, and use this as a springboard to further transform and assimilate carnivorous animals.
Unknowingly, the entire earth's ecosystem is being quietly penetrated by the tree of life, and humans are of course no exception.
When the roots of the tree of life have taken root near the core of the earth, and the entire earth's ecosystem has been transformed by the tree of life, the abnormality is finally discovered by various forces overt and covert, including countries around the world, secret societies hidden in human society, etc. The disaster has been brewing for a long time and changed the human world overnight.
"The huge plant roots tore through the cement earth poured by humans and towering trees rose from the ground. The demonized plants and the mimic-modified servants of the tree of life showed their fangs to humans. They were lurking around people on both sides of the road. Green belts, birds flying in the sky, pets that like to run in the greenery of residential areas, many people are caught off guard and sucked into mummies by their half-living, half-plant tentacles, and many more people are parasitized. The spores are parasitic but don't know it..."
At this point, the masked boy's mouth curled up into a complicated smile, and his voice became a little bitter.
"Although mankind once suffered heavy losses due to the sudden attack of the Tree of Life, which almost brought human civilization to an impasse, human beings also tried every means to reverse the adverse trend and even fought against the Tree of Life for a long time. The iron and steel army composed of modern mechanized troops Torrents, tracts of demonized forests burned and blown up by artillery fire reconnaissance, various supernatural organizations and armies launching multiple offensive operations against the Tree of Life, and the ultimate trump card of human technology, everyone once felt that this Humanity will definitely be able to survive the disaster, but I didn’t expect..."
"What finally killed them was nature. The high temperature and high pressure of the earth's core was drained of all energy by the roots of the tree of life and cooled down. The geomagnetic field also eventually disappeared due to the cooling of the earth's core, losing the protection of the geomagnetic field from harmful rays in the universe. and the solar wind began to wreak havoc on the remaining living things on the earth..."
Wu Ming also figured out what happened next. The atmosphere was blown away by the solar wind. Harmful rays in the universe passed through the atmosphere and directly attacked surface organisms. The result was naturally obvious. Most organisms could not survive for a long time without protection. Obviously The reason why the sky is pitch black even during the day is probably related to the disappearance of the atmosphere. Demonized plants and their servants transformed by the Tree of Life naturally do not need to worry about being exposed to cosmic rays for a long time, but human beings are different and have lost the atmosphere. As for the magnetic field, those last days must have been very difficult and extremely despairing...
