Liberty Island.

A very safe island.

It is 5,000 kilometers away from the nearest continent, and although there are a few species of birds controlled by the god of trees, there are a few species that can fly such a long distance without stopping, but it is really difficult to kill the Lanwei people they hate, and the enemies in the sky who they hate even more, but they can't even reach it.

Because they are plants, they can't fly.

Those birds, in a vacuum, will also suffocate due to lack of oxygen, or freeze to death.

So in a way, it's an asymmetrical war, like a machine gun against a stone, a war in which one side crushes the other.

Even the gods were reluctant to make a move, for fear of overexerting force and slapping the so-called "tree god" to death at once, so they supported a chosen clan, that is, the Lanwei people, as spokesmen, and after arming them, they observed the performance of both sides in the battlefield, so as to get some information they wanted.

Even so, on Liberty Island, during the armed training, the potential shown by the million or so Lanwei people still shocked those "gods".

Because the 300,000 young and middle-aged Lanwei soldiers who joined the "Freedom Army" actually learned to fly fighters and mecha in less than three months.

Of course, those twin-propeller dragonfly-like fighters, as well as the five-meter-tall mecha that runs "Kuangci Kuangci", in order to get started quickly, are designed to be relatively easy and simple, and the power plant is simple (all gasoline and diesel are burned), the operating system is a fool's operation, and there are some shortcomings and defects, if it is Yun Xinghe, they will definitely be able to get started within fifteen minutes.

But you must know that these Lanwei people, from the cultural level, can be said to be "illiterate", for mechanics and engineering, their minds are basically as blank as a vacuum, but after three months, these Lanwei people, not only drove very slippery one by one, but some even reached the level of "old drivers", in the virtual training game, they could die in front of Gu Fan for two rounds, so that Yun Xinghe and them dropped their jaws in surprise.

In three months, from 0 foundation to starting mecha fighters, how can these Lanwei people have such a strong learning ability?

Medical Officer Yun Qiaoqiao answered this question.

"Ideas are connected. ”

"They can learn from each other in this way. ”

"According to estimates, the learning efficiency of this method is twice as high as that of the virtual teaching of the Blue Star Federation. ”

"So in the process of learning to pilot a mecha, as long as the person with the fastest learning progress is willing to share his experience, other Lanwei people with poor learning ability, after receiving these experiences, their own shortcomings in ability, excellent companions will help them make up for it. ”

"So to a certain extent, the Lanwei people also have a certain 'collective race' attribute, through those nerves on their tails, they share knowledge and experience, so as to progress faster. ”

"That's right. ”

Xianglan Meiqin, the communications officer on the side, also added: "I found that the Lanwei people lack language skills, and usually rely on all kinds of shouts to communicate, in fact, in the brainwave communicator, the meaning they can express is far more complex than we imagined, and in some aspects, it is not inferior to us humans." ”

"In other words, even if we give the Lanwei people more complex scientific and technological information, as long as the smartest of them masters it, it won't be long before this race evolves into a high-civilization race?"

Sugaru said with wide eyes, feeling that the potential of the Lanwei people was indeed a bit amazing and terrifying.

Moreover, there is a more important point, Lanwei people have a strong reproductive ability, they are multi-parity creatures, after adult women are pregnant, each litter can give birth to 3 to 5 young children, the gestation period is six months, and the reproductive period is up to 20 years.

In a word, this race has a wide range of intelligence, and its litters are like sows.

Of course, this also proves the cruelty of the competition between different species on this planet, and in front of all kinds of giant birds and beasts, the population of no more than 10 million people shows that it is not a powerful race.

Moreover, those giant birds and giant beasts also have a tail with nervous whiskers behind their tails, which shows that the intelligence of these beasts is actually not low.

But whether it is a Lanwei person, a giant bird or a giant beast, in front of the god of trees, no matter how powerful he is, it is nothing, and he has to bow his head obediently.

The old chief of the Zutai tribe, who was also the elder of the Sacrificial Tree, explained to the gods why all races submitted to the tree god.

"The god of the tree is the mother of our wisdom and the root of the survival and reproduction of all races. ”

"In the beginning, all races were unintelligent, only knew how to fight savagely and fill their bellies, and everything they did was just to survive. ”

"The god of the tree has given us the most initial wisdom, and through the vine of wisdom, the god of the tree has taught us some basic knowledge. ”

"And it gives us the ability to communicate with each other and our minds. ”

"But if we leave the Tree God, this ability will also leave us, and we can only communicate by gestures and roars, and we will not be able to understand the meaning of the other party, and no matter how powerful the clan is, it will quickly fall apart. ”

The old chief fell into deep thought, and then spoke: "Actually, I know in my heart that it is not that those powerful tribes are not religious enough to the tree god, but that being strong is a kind of mistake, and being strong will attract punishment...... In fact, many races know this. ”

The old chief's words explained the reason why the efficiency of the Lanwei people learning to master the piloting of mecha and fighters has been reduced a lot compared to before, leaving the "supply" of the tree god, the Lanwei people, it is becoming more and more difficult to communicate with each other, and the effect is getting worse and worse, and after three months, they are basically unable to connect.

"Floating stone, is the floating stone element, at the end of the nerve whiskers, plays the role of a bridge, and the floating stone is a normal temperature superconductor isolated from gravity, the effect is huge, but it is very volatile, the sacrificial tree or the leaves of the tree god, it is a pity to absorb the floating stone element in the air or soil, and then supplement it to the Lanwei people or other creatures, if you lose the source of the floating stone element, the Lanwei people will lose the ability to communicate with each other. ”

"That's about three months. ”

The words of the scientific officer Lan Xiulong made everyone breathe a sigh of relief again, fortunately there is this weakness, otherwise if the Lanwei people grow too fast and are beyond their control, after defeating the tree god, they still want to wrestle with the gods, it is better to directly grasp the weakness of the tree gods and control the planet.

In short, we must still grasp the balance, we must not completely kill a certain party, we must maximize the value of this planet!

……

Soon after the establishment of the Free Army, under the leadership of the leader Zutai, an elite detachment of 50,000 Lanwei people, driving 5,000 "Dragonfly" transport racks and carrying 40,000 "Fury" mechas, crossed the sea and launched a military operation with the information and logistical support provided by the gods.

The operation was codenamed "Dig Up by the Roots".

To be precise, it is to dig a "sacrificial tree" to Liberty Island to see if it can be used to restore the ability of Lanwei people to "communicate with their minds".

Lanwei people who have lost the ability to communicate with their minds, just like losing their hands in daily life, all kinds of inconveniences, some high-level people can communicate normally through the "brainwave communicator" provided by the gods, but this kind of thing, it is impossible to be cheap enough to issue one per person, among the 50,000 people who went out this time, only people above the level of squad leader are equipped with this kind of helmet, a total of about 5,000.

The "Sacrificial Tree" is the most faithful servant of the tree god, distributed all over the mainland, the number is more than one million, but the species are not the same, most of them are the tree of life, but it may also be the fluffy tree, the crystal tree, the color light tree, these trees all belong to the potential "wisdom" tree species, is the carrier of knowledge, is the node of consciousness transmission, is the disseminator of wisdom.

The vast majority of the "Sacrificial Trees" are not self-aware and belong to the clones of the "Tree God", but there are also some older sacrificial trees that have evolved self-consciousness and are faced with two choices: surrender to the Tree God, or be destroyed by the Monster Legion?

Naturally, the wise will definitely choose to surrender, and the unwise, it is estimated that the roots of the tree have been cut clean by the monster.

In addition, the Sacrificial Tree, which was slightly distracted, or that threatened the Dryad, was also destroyed, even if it did nothing.

Therefore, the target of the "Root Digging" operation is a super large sacrificial tree that is more than 100,000 years old, according to the Lanwei people of a tribe living near this tree, this sacrificial tree, as if it has self-awareness, if it is moved to Liberty Island, not only the Lanwei people's ability to communicate with their minds can be restored, as the sacrificial tree that should know the tree god best, if it can be persuaded to join the rebel camp here, the tree god will definitely be finished soon.

Even if this sacrificial tree has no self-awareness, as an important transmission node of the tree god's consciousness on the eastern coastal land, once this tree is uprooted, there will be at least 100,000 square kilometers of land, which will no longer be controlled by the tree god, and this land is the first advance base for the Lanwei people to return to the continent and conquer the continent!

"Rush!"

"Pay attention to air defense, shoot out the big bird in the sky first!"

"Pay attention to coordination and cover, there are too many monsters, and every defensive surface can't let your guard down. ”

"I can't hold on, there are more and more monsters, and I can't kill them all!"

"Hold on for another two hours, and the tree is two-thirds dug and will soon be able to be lifted. ”

"The 8th Regiment has been completely wiped out, the 9th Regiment has run out of ammunition, and is fighting with monsters hand-to-hand! The 10th Regiment has faced a large wave of monsters, asking for support!"

"Ahh

"Ahh

"I can't stop it! 70% of the fighters have crashed, and there are more and more monster air forces!"

"Celestial, help us! My legion can't hold on!" Faced with the scene of the whole front in an emergency and about to be defeated, the leader Zutai could only put his begging gaze on the Celestial God above his head.

"What the hell has this battle become? Fight blindly, obviously there are advanced weapons, but there is no cooperation at all, and I have been learning to be a dog in those three months!"

Sugaru, who had hoped that the Lanwei people would be able to fight a good battle, wanted to hit those fools on the heads with that hammer at the moment.

"It's because we expect too much from them, good training in peacetime doesn't mean that the battlefield performance is good, the psychological quality and coordination are not up to standard, and finally, we overestimate the power of the weapon and underestimate the madness of the monster...... This operation should be regarded as a failure. ”

"Gu Fan, go down and support them, cover them, and dig out the sacrificial tree!" Yun Xinghe gave an order for support.

"Yes!"

……

Although the sacrificial tree, which was finally proved to have no self-awareness, was dug up and successfully lifted to Liberty Island by hundreds of large transport planes, in the face of nearly 40,000 heavy casualties and the defeat of more than 10,000 remnants of the army, the entire Liberty Island was shrouded in an extremely depressing atmosphere.