Big tree cave, at the top of the tree root layer, in the original underground cave.
This place has turned into a hollow covered with countless thick tree roots and vines, with suspended pieces of soil and fragmented rocks everywhere.
In the previous explosion of the tree of life's root system, the expansion force brought about by the unlimited growth of countless plants opened up small cracks in the rock wall. The continuously proliferating moss subsequently weathered the surrounding broken rock blocks in a very short period of time. Turn it into soil where plants can take root. Finally, the rapidly growing and sprouting plants pushed through the soil layer that had been weathered into soil. The tree roots and vines shattered the cave hidden in the rock formation. Now there is only one thing left here that is tightly locked by the tree roots and hanging in the air. There were clumps of soil, as well as tangled thick vines and tree roots.
This forced Wu Ming to command the stealth probe to reset the teleportation beacon and re-select the teleportation point, so that he could finally land accurately on one of the thick and wide tree roots instead of teleporting to a mass of air and taking a group of people with him. Feel the thrill of free fall.
"Obviously the sudden growth of the Tree of Life has destroyed everything here..." Wu Ming looked around at the thick tangled vines and tree roots, and then pointed at a tree root that was not steep and winding upwards, "Comparing the outline map, Shabai said The light group should be at the junction of the tree root layer and the trunk layer. If you go up along the tree root, you can find the big light group."
Elizabeth also nodded repeatedly: "Yes! The big light group is very close! It's right up there!"
Mori looked at the thick tree roots that extended upward until they were submerged in the darkness, and couldn't help but wonder: "Since we are so close, why don't we just teleport there?"
"Are you stupid? Just teleport there and kill someone?" Wu Ming rolled his eyes at the little black man. "At this stage, we know nothing about there. We don't know the coordinates, nor do we know what is waiting for us there. If the other party really sets some trap or ambush waiting for us, nothing serious will happen to me, Shabai and Fei Ge, but I can't guarantee your life safety..."
"Wu Ming's worry is very reasonable." Vincent stroked his chin and agreed: "If you rush into the enemy's territory, you are likely to be ambushed, but rescuing people is urgent. We will try our best to speed up while maintaining safety. Move forward quickly..."
Harland's voice resounded in the large hollow, sending back waves of echoes: "I think the same thing!"
After making up their mind, the group continued to move towards their destination along the thick and winding tree roots.
There is a very clear dividing line between the trunk layer and the root layer, which is a huge dome platform made of plant fibers. The tree roots hang down from that flat wooden dome platform.
Although the interior of the tree cave is in darkness and no light source can be seen, only the dome platform here exudes a soft, sacred white light, as if the entire platform is immersed in the ocean of light.
What lights up this place is a sea of flowers. Pure white flowers that look like lilies, whose names cannot be called and have never been seen by anyone, cover the entire platform. Only the flower parts of these plants emit gleaming white light, interacting with each other. The radiance forms a magnificent sea of luminous flowers, lighting up the platform and dispersing the darkness of this layer.
In the center of the sea of flowers, there is a plant throne formed by countless plants twisting and growing together. The throne is covered with flowers and thorns. Under Siegfried's intervention, the short-haired girl who successfully escaped from the tree of life is now replaced again. She was wearing her favorite student uniform, sitting on the throne, swaying her fair and slender legs.
The black-robed tool man who was previously captured by the plant roots was tightly tied up by countless fine roots extending from the plant throne, making it difficult to move in the sea of flowers.
Countless fine plant roots pierced through the black-robed man's clothes and were deeply rooted in his skin. The roots kept repeating the cycle of expansion and contraction, constantly squeezing the black-robed man's life nutrients, ensuring that he was always in a state of insecurity. A state of weakness and inability to resist.
"Don't think about struggling~ You can't break free from these restraints with your weak body." The mother of disaster tilted her head and looked at the woman lying at her feet. She tried to break free several times, but was tied up by plant roots and couldn't move. , the elite guard, who could only move around like a maggot, pouted and said: "If you have the energy to struggle, you might as well accompany me to see this sea of flowers..."
The black-robed elite guard stopped struggling silently and raised his neck, as if he wanted to raise his head and look directly at the mother of disaster sitting on the plant throne. However, blocked by the roots and body position of the plant, his attempt was made again. Failing, he could only ask in a voice like a broken gong.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Hmm - let me think about it~" The short-haired girl bent forward slightly and put her hands on her white thighs. She tilted her head and looked at the elite guard who was like a maggot. She tapped her lips lightly with her fingers and thought for a while, then His eyes lit up: "Ah, yes! Let's talk about the past! Do you still remember what happened when you were just born?"
The elite guard was stunned when faced with this question: "How could I possibly remember that kind of thing?"
"Then you have to listen to me..." The short-haired girl shook her head regretfully.
The elite guard clicked his tongue and turned his head: "???? I don't want to hear it..."
"Just think that I am talking to myself..." The short-haired girl did not pay attention to the attitude of the elite guards, and began to recall the past by herself: "You know? With you, relying on knowledge, experience and memory The resulting personality is different. Although I know that my personality is actually a product of imitating the person in my dear memory, when I opened my eyes to welcome the 'birth', seeing my dear hug me and crying with joy, it was like It was the expression that looked like the shortcomings of many years have finally been made up for. When I saw him calling me eldest sister like a child and then crying, all the doubts and thoughts were thrown away before they could even be born. Even if For his sake, I feel that I must not live up to his expectations this time."
"Live, no matter what happens, live. This is one of the expectations He made for me when He created me."
"Do you want to say this to gain sympathy?" The elite guard snorted disdainfully, "Killing innocent people indiscriminately to save yourself? Don't you know how many people you have killed over the years?"
However, facing his question, the short-haired girl suddenly showed an innocent smile: "Do you count how many slices of bread you have eaten?"
The elite guard's expression gradually became one of astonishment, and then he struggled violently and turned over, trying to turn his head, staring at the short-haired girl sitting on the throne shaking her legs with eyes full of hatred and anger.
The short-haired girl turned a blind eye to his gaze that seemed to be burning with fire, and chuckled: "You may have made something wrong. As far as I am concerned, the relationship between you and me is just that of a predator and a prey. Just like foxes eat rabbits in nature, and rabbits eat grass, just like in the old days when there was no Wishing Network, you would domesticate and raise fresh plants and animals in order to eat them.”
"I need to eat you to supplement nutrition, to survive and evolve better, to fulfill the expectations my dear left for me when I was created. And you will also fight back in order not to be eaten by me, and try every means to get rid of you. Get rid of me - this is essentially a confrontation about survival, so in my eyes there is no moral obstacle or right or wrong."
The elite guard's face turned red and his eyes widened: "You!"
"Later, after my affairs were exposed, my dear ones who knew a lot of things that shouldn't know the truth completely alienated me." The short-haired girl did not delve further into this issue and brought the topic back without leaving any trace, " I know that he has a grudge, especially after learning that I am not her, he has been feeling guilty for the series of actions that created me, and trying to make up for it all..."
"Actually, I've always wanted to tell him..."
But before she finished speaking, the short-haired girl suddenly changed her expression and turned to look to the right. At the same time, she waved her left hand, and countless vines and thorns grew from the plant throne. In a hurry, a wooden shield was formed to block the two of them, and then broke through There was only a muffled sound when the sound of the sky came, and a thick black iron sword flew towards me under the impetus of strange power, piercing the wooden shield. The remaining power on the sword still broke free with the wooden shield. The surrounding fixed vines nailed the entire shield and sword to the plant throne!
In the distance, there was a faint voice.
"Hey! Mr. Toolman, are you okay? We are here to rescue you!"
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Big tree hole, bottom of trunk layer.
"Pollution is quietly spreading from the Internet." Lin Baihe, the web weaver, suddenly stopped moving forward, with a look of surprise on his face, "How is it possible... that the source is actually the carrier of the wishing network!?"
Nick, who was walking in front, stopped when he heard this and turned his head with doubts on his face: "Wait a minute...haven't we already been blocked? How did you do it?"
Luther also shook the restraint handcuffs in his hands: "We are all still being shielded. How did you find out?"
"The restraint only blocks the transmission of power..." Lin Lily did not answer their questions directly. Most of her attention is now focused on monitoring the status of the wishing network, and only a small part of her mind is left in reality. Posing a seemingly unrelated question, "Remember the otherworldly transformation we received?"
"Well... I remember it was a craniotomy..."
"I'm familiar with this, after all, it's the project I'm responsible for..." Luther interjected: "We took part of the carrier's body, weakened it and cultivated it for three or four generations before completing the process of eliminating uncontrolled activity and harmlessness, and Make it into the special nerve cords that our brains physically connect to."
"The nerve cord implanted in the brain is equivalent to a receiver, receiving messages from the wishing network..."
Luther's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he seemed to realize something and stopped himself completely.
Seeing that he had realized the problem, Lily Lin said calmly: "Yes, the effect of the restraint device is at best blocking signal interaction, but we have not removed the nerve cords in the brain..."
"This means that we have been hanging on the wishing network..." Luther added with a solemn expression.
Lily Lin tapped her head lightly with her fingers: "The pollution has begun to try to break through the shield and enter my brain. Although I discovered the problem in advance, and the restraint can still hold on for a while..."
"But we don't have much time left."
