Not all people understand the truth of the matter.

On the surface, Greentree Group is just a company with a strong level of scientific research. In the eyes of those who do not know the truth, the oases that appear out of thin air across Ethiopia are just some science-inexplicable mysteries and superstitions of the locals.

Some well-known biological companies and some scientists are deeply interested in this and want to know the truth about the desert oasis. However, what awaited the expedition was the expulsion of the locals, who did not give them half a step closer to the heart of the oasis - the magical giant tree that produces water. Each oasis has one such giant tree, tens of meters high, with a crown that resembles a giant umbrella stretched out, and a hemispherical mushroom cap, presenting a fairly regular circle, as if it was made out of a mold. It's a pity that outsiders can only observe it through satellite pictures, and can't see its true face from a close distance.

The canopies of these trees are very large, and the initial estimate is that they may be about 300 meters in diameter, which is larger than a football field.

Around these giant trees, dense trees radiate around, forming forests ranging in size from tens to thousands of hectares, abruptly entrenched in the barren and barren land, which is unforgettable.

Victor is one of the many botanists interested in these oases, and since learning of the existence of these "water trees", he has been interested in collecting all kinds of information. But what he didn't expect was that he would have the opportunity to go to the field and study these plants face-to-face.

Sainz, the largest biochemical company in the United States, showed a strong interest in water trees and organized a group of authoritative scholars to go to Ethiopia to study this water tree. By the way, let's see if there's a chance to bring this tree back. Seeds or some tissue fragments or something. Victor is part of this squad. His mission is to unravel the secrets of the water tree.

But they were not greeted by the friendly locals, a group of indifferent villagers blocking their way, forbidding them to approach the oasis, saying it was their sacred place. Victor was quite angry about this, these damned natives, don't they know the importance of science? As long as the secrets of these water trees are solved, the whole world of scientists is likely to be free from drought.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. The stubborn villagers stopped them and prevented them from approaching the oasis. Guardian Oasis 24 hours a day. The scientific research team tried every means to enter the oasis, but no matter how coercive and tempting, the other party did not accept this set, but the hostility towards this group of outsiders continued to deepen.

When the senior management of Sainz heard about this, they were quite angry, and it can be said that they were furious. Hearing that other companies and scientific research institutions have also sent expedition teams, they have also been blocked in the same way, and everyone is angry and helpless.

Finally, after more than a month of stalemate. Sainz's top brass couldn't hold their breath and bribed a local armed force. forcibly broke through the obstruction of these villagers.

Although the will of these Oasis Guardians is quite tenacious, in the end, they are just peasants with guns, and in the end, they have never fought a wolf-like army, not to mention that these private soldiers are much more advanced than the villagers.

The battle ended within a few hours, and all but a few escaped and the remaining villagers were taken prisoner. The reason why they retreated so quickly was because the mercenaries held hostage the old and young women and children in the village, and in order to save the lives of their families, the remaining men had to give up resistance.

Except for one person......

"Old man, you're the only one left, I advise you not to resist." A local mercenary shouted at the man hiding at the foot of the water tree.

He was answered by a shuttle of bullets, which made him dare not take the lead.

"M eggs." The mercenary squad leader scolded, and tried to kill the other party, but was stopped by the employer.

"You can't shoot! Don't break that tree! Victor shouted. He looked at the giant tree in front of him, his eyes shining, as if he had seen a huge treasure.

He finally got a close-up look at the water tree—a huge, magical, tall trunk that sprang up like a giant broccoli, with countless branches spreading upwards. At the end of the branches, covered with verdant leaves, densely covered, obscuring the sky. The most incredible thing is that there is a strange plastic transparent shell on the outside of the entire canopy, and the grid on the fly's eyes is like countless glasses connected to the ends of the branches, as if a glass cover is attached to the outside of the canopy. The sunlight shone in through the transparent cover, and the air under the canopy was humid and muggy, and if you looked closely, you could see that the bare branches were wet, and the water flowed down the branches, and finally fell like a waterfall under the trunk, like a small source.

"I see, it's transpiration!"

Looking at the transparent cover outside the canopy and the stuffiness under the tree, Victor suddenly understood the principle of the water tree to make water. The transparent cover on the outside of the canopy is used to trap the water evaporated by the giant tree, so that the inside maintains a high humidity and condenses the water vapor, and then collects this water through countless tiny branches. These water trees are natural pumping machines, using light and heat energy to continuously lift water from the ground through the power of transpiration, and to preserve the pumped water vapor through a transparent cover that is not known how to compose. It's so cleverly conceived!

It's just that this kind of tree looks unnatural, as if it was designed and manufactured by someone...... But how is this possible? Designing such a huge tree?

Victor was completely mesmerized by this enigmatic plant. The giant tree covering the sky for hundreds of meters shook his heart, and the conscience condemnation of the people on his side who killed the local residents before had been completely forgotten at this moment.

Victor suddenly hated the stubborn old guy under the water tree, and thought to himself that these people really damn it, they wanted to monopolize such a magical plant, and the water tree should be handed over to a scientist like him to study and use it for the benefit of all mankind!

"Damn. Sniper, take out that guy for me. Seeing that he couldn't fire casually, the mercenary captain became annoyed and summoned a sniper to order him to kill the enemy.

"Nope! You can't kill him, he's the attendant of the god of the tree, and you will be punished for killing him! Local residents exclaimed. Wants to stop them from killing.

Pity. These people have long been lustful. In order to get a commission, they don't care about killing. Dryads? What's that? I've never heard of it.

……

There is also a magazine.

Anzales counted his ammunition and sighed, looking at the day he would return to Mother Earth.

can't stop those people, and they can only use their lives to repent of their failures.

The reason why Anzales was able to become the elder of the Tree God Cult was that he was one of the few people who had seen the "Tree God" and his divine powers with his own eyes.

He still vividly remembers the scene at that time, that season of extreme drought, living in the fire every day. Anzales is already in his fifties. No relatives have ever died, and his only son was killed because he got into trouble with the gang, and in such a year of food and water scarcity, most old people like him can't survive.

The village where he lives is also in dire straits, several nearby water sources have long since dried up, and there is no water well within a radius of dozens of kilometers, so he has to send a truck from the village to fetch water from a water source more than 100 kilometers away at a time -- that is also the only water source for several nearby villages, and each village has a limited amount of water to get water once every three days. Each family was given only a small amount of water, and it was slowly tormented. Waiting for the rain.

On that day, Anzales went to the canyon north of the village alone to find some snakes and insects to replenish food, but he did not want to encounter a sandstorm, and he was trapped in the wilderness on the spot due to his old age and infirmity.

Just when he thought he was going to be swallowed up by the wilderness and the sand, a figure walked calmly through the storm towards him—he was dressed in a strange green garment that was close to him, like a straitjacket cut from a whole large green leaf, enveloping his whole body.

Anzales then fell unconscious, and when he woke up, he found himself under a large tree, next to a young man with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, happily roasting a strange fruit next to the flames.

"Awake? Come, drink saliva and eat a sweet potato. The young man turned to him and smiled at him, and ran to him a wooden bottle and a strange fruit called a sweet potato that he had baked.

The bottle contained sweet water, sweeter than all the water Anzales had ever drunk in his life. The fruit, called the sweet potato, was sweeter and more delicious than anything he had ever eaten in his life. Later, with the arrival of the Green Tree Group, this food called sweet potato quickly spread among the Ethiopian people. Delicious, well-grown, and fast-growing, Anceles believed that it was the food that the god of trees had given to the people of Ethiopia in dire straits.

Anceres was grateful to realize that the young man had saved him, and when asked why he had gone to such a desolate place alone, he told the young man what had happened. Knowing the difficult situation in which Anceles and his village were in a state of flux, the young man fell into deep thought.

"Alas, it's not easy for African brothers...... Maybe I can help them...... Well, it's decided, let's just think it's doing good. The young man muttered to himself for a while in a language that Anceres did not understand (and later Anceres learned that it was the language of the people of the Far East, called Chinese, and from then on he was full of affection for the people who came from that land), stood up, and then performed a miracle.

The ground shook suddenly, accompanied by the roar of something breaking through the ground, and I saw that the big tree beside the young man began to rise rapidly, thickening, and becoming larger, covering the sky and the sun, and in the blink of an eye, it grew into a super tree covering a radius of hundreds of meters.

Then, in Anzales' stunned gaze, around the giant tree, one by one trees broke through the ground and grew rapidly. The trees radiated in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, they grew into a dense forest.

The whole process, in just a few minutes, a tall forest appeared out of thin air in the wilderness, and Anzales only felt as if he had experienced a time and space transition, and came to the tropical rainforest of South Africa.

The shaking of the ground slowly stopped. During the whole process, the light on the young man's body that glowed with a faint green glow disappeared. He turned to Anzales and smiled, "Okay, old man, you and your villagers will just come here to get water in the future." ”

"I'm gone, remember to protect this tree, it's your source of life." After saying that, the young man left leisurely like a rested traveler and disappeared into the depths of the forest.

It was only when a cool drop of water fell on Anzales' face that he recovered from the shock, looked up, and saw that the drops of water began to drip from the branches of the giant tree, falling tricklingly......

It's raining, it's raining in the desert, it's raining under the trees!

Searching, the young man's figure has long been gone, only this towering wood, proving that what he has just experienced is not a dream.

From that moment on, Anzales was convinced that he had met a god, the young man, who he meant - but he was not a god in any legend that Anzales knew, so he called him the god of the tree.

Then, when Anzales and the villagers came to the forest, everyone was shocked.

And when Anzales told his story in a vivid voice, everyone believed seven or eight points, and the image of a god was instantly established in their hearts.

Under the auspices of the fanatical Anzales, the villagers formed a guardian team and decided to guard the miracle, the bestow of the tree god - but also the source of their own life and their homeland. Later, the villagers moved around the forest one after another, guarding the forest at all times.

Over the next few days, the villagers heard about similar strange forests elsewhere and became even more convinced of the legend of the tree god. Refugees have flocked to the forest to survive the difficult dry season.

The giant tree in the middle of the forest is also treated with awe by the residents, who pray and pray for blessings like a god. Gradually, a loose sect organization called the Tree God Cult was formed, and they took pride and duty in their guardian tree, and gradually formed a fixed ritual of sacrifice to thank the tree god for his gifts.

When the rainy season arrives, the giant trees produce more and more water, and the forest grows and accumulates more rainwater. Later, as outsiders called the Green Tree Group brought crop seeds, local residents built up large areas of arable land around the forest, planted sweet potatoes and other high-yield and high-resistance crops, and finally ushered in a bumper harvest after half a year of hard work.

Seeing that he can say goodbye to a miserable life from now on, although he knows that these ill-intentioned foreigners want to covet the sacred tree that everyone depends on for their livelihood!

How can the sacred tree that we regard as the tree of life and our parents be given to you to study and destroy at will, absolutely not!

In Anzales' mind, no one but the Dryad himself could hurt or even touch the sacred giant tree that had saved him and his people. No matter how noble and beautiful the purpose, he only knew that the tree could not be defiled.

Therefore, even if he was alone at the moment, surrounded by a group of mercenaries who killed people without blinking, he was fearless and vowed to defend the sacred tree until the last moment.

……

Anzales changed his magazine, plucked up his courage, and poked his head out to look around—huh, why did these guys retreat? Is it to give up?

Anzales' doubts only lasted half a second, and suddenly, with a force, he struck him in the forehead, sending him backwards and falling.

"Forgive me, God, for not keeping the hope you have given us......"

The last of Anzales' thoughts, along with the blood of death, dissipated in the wind. Bright red blood spilled on the giant tree behind him, and the water silently carried the once scorching liquid back to the land. (To be continued......)