"We lost from the beginning. The cannon fodder troops composed of a large number of mimic creatures and demonized plant communities, the endless parasitic spore infiltration offensive, this kind of accustomed legion-type battle, and the tree of life deliberately weakened its own strength and destroyed itself. This positioning of being a commander who focuses on producing and adjusting military units, as well as controlling the battlefield, makes us underestimate the power of the Tree of Life itself."
"Even though our advisory group fully considered the upper limit of the Tree of Life's strength when formulating the plan and set a limit that they thought was sufficient, when we actually fought, we discovered that it could easily defeat the power displayed by Nidhogg. It exceeded our expectations.”
The dead tree man glanced at Siegfried with some worry. The latter was in such a dumbfounded state that he couldn't relax. However, as the captain of a team, he could still understand the priorities clearly. After a pause, there was really too much to tell the other party, but due to time constraints, he could only make a choice. After sorting out the extremely important information in his mind that needed to be communicated as soon as possible, he continued.
"Be sure to be careful of the Tree of Life. If you go further, you will already be in the area where its power takes effect. In that area, it can silently transform your body and induce mutations in your body without you knowing it. , turning you into a ghost like me, or a terrifying aberration covered with growths and twisted limbs. I don’t know how it did it. We were destroyed under the attack of the Tree of Life and Nidhogg. It was too fast, and there was no way to sum up the method of confrontation..."
"Remember, you must always monitor your physical condition. Even induced mutations and transformations are a step-by-step process. Becoming an aberration will first lead to the growth of some hyperplasia-like flesh masses on the body, or the limbs may suddenly become Incomparably strong, the changes at this stage are very obvious, and are basically harmless and may even produce positive effects. However, the occurrence of these symptoms means that your body is undergoing irreversible changes. In just two hours at most, the Tree of Life will Extend your claws to your brain..."
"Treatman syndrome, which is what I look like, will unreasonably cause your body tissues to become vegetative..."
"The only way to deal with tree-man syndrome is to cut off the lignified and phytofibrotic affected areas. This stupid method can delay the transformation of tree-man. This disease also has no solution. If the alienated parts at the beginning are internal organs, Then everything would be over. I was relatively lucky. I survived until I got here by cutting my flesh. The exposed bones of my hands and feet even started to turn lignified. By then, my luck had also run out, and I didn’t have time to escape back to the human race. The internal organs of the World Reporter were alienated, and finally turned into this ghostly appearance..."
By then they had been defeated and their communications equipment had been damaged. In order to stay away from the radiation range of the power of the Tree of Life and pass on the information obtained by the lives of the members of the Dragon Knight Brigade who died in the battle, the Dead Tree Man took advantage of Nidhogg's negligence and organized the surviving members to evacuate the battlefield. , holding on for a breath and dragging the infected and alienated bodies into three groups to escape. On the way to escape, people kept falling down, turning into monsters or tree-men. Those who are still alive can only step on the corpses of their companions, or throw down their tree-human companions and move on. As long as one person can rush out alive and bring information back to human society, their sacrifice will not be in vain.
But the only person who could reach this point in the end was the Kushu Man.
Even he couldn't escape. The tree-man syndrome was much more difficult than he imagined.
"The black dragon Nidhogg has not come back for a long time since he left that time. Five years? Or ten years? After turning into this ghostly appearance, I lost the ability to recognize time normally, so there is no way to determine how long it has been away. , we don’t know when it will suddenly come back, so you must act quickly..."
"Remember! You must find the core of the tree of life! Only by attacking the core can you knock down the tree of life! Just damaging its huge and bloated body will not have any effect. No matter what kind of wound it is, it can recover quickly. Researchers It has been speculated that the core of the tree of life may be a "brain"-like existence to the tree of life. As long as the core is broken, the tree of life may be paralyzed or even killed. However, we have not been able to explore the inside of the tree of life. We do not know what the core is. Where is it hidden..."
The Dead Tree Man obviously regarded the small team in front of him as the last strength of mankind. After all, organizing a beheading operation would not require only four people to participate, and it was impossible not to bring any decent supplies or weapons. In fact, when the Withered Tree Man witnessed the black dragon Nidhogg leaving the Tree of Life a long time ago, he already had some bad guesses in his mind: The black dragon Nidhogg went to wipe out the remaining power of mankind, and now Siegfried has only a few The human beheading team confirmed his suspicion.
Humanity has indeed been forced into a desperate situation where even an elite team cannot gather together. I am afraid that the clothes in the pre-apocalyptic style are the result of transformation using extraordinary power.
The Kushu Man, who was subtle and capable of misunderstanding, told Wu Ming all the information he could think of in order of importance.
After listening to the report of the withered tree man, Wu Ming nodded with an expression that said, "I have spent ten minutes to fully understand what you said." "I roughly understand it. Put aside the more useful information other than body alienation." In addition to information, what you want to convey to us is that the tree of life needs to be killed by special means, right? What does that sentence mean...Only a storm can knock down a big tree? If you want me to complete the plot kill, then you first You have to give me the Storm Controller to knock down the big tree easily."
"Do you really understand? It's not the storm! It's the core! Only by attacking the core can you knock down the tree of life!" The dead tree man felt that the guy in front of him didn't understand what he wanted to say at all, and even felt that he was still trying to take advantage of him. The meaning of joking was inside, and he suddenly became angry: "Besides, what is the Storm Controller? If I have such an easy and convenient thing to kill the Tree of Life, why should I wait for you to come?"
"Old Zhao, Elizabeth, let's go." Wu Ming called out to Zhao Sida who was watching on the side and Elizabeth who was lying on the ground playing with dirt, and then pulled Siegfried, who had changed from a dazed state to an autistic state, and walked towards The sparse dead forest behind the dead tree man. As long as he passes through the forest in front of him, the tree of life is right in front of him. As he gradually goes away, the dead tree man can vaguely hear Wu Ming whispering, "This Brother Shuren has such a bad temper..."
"Manager, according to the sensory sensitivity of a transcendent, he can still hear you talking bad about him from this distance."
"Oh...ah, I'm sorry about that tree man brother. Let's talk about it later when I'm far away."
The dead tree is filled with anger.
