Chapter 427: The Sleeper
Rose was so shocked that she didn't even pay attention to Nie Yun's conversation, and when she came back to her senses, she found that the tip of the unknown creature had opened like petals, revealing a platform for standing, and Nie Yun was waving to her.
"Hey! Your Majesty, this guy is quite welcoming, and it seems to be going to take us to his house to entertain us, come on. Nie Yun said, turned around and jumped onto the platform with a bent knee.
Rose's eyelids couldn't help jumping, why did she have an inexplicable sense of disobedience by being anti-customer......
Holding back the 100,000 whys in her heart, Rose, like Nie Yun, jumped onto the platform, and as the petal-like structure slowly closed, the unknown creature returned to its original appearance.
With a "bang", the unknown creature disappeared headlong into the magma, and the underground space returned to calm......
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About an hour later, in a huge lava lake deeper underground, a black unknown creature re-emerged, and the petals opened, revealing Nie Yun and the two standing on the platform.
Nie Yun looked around, feeling the temperature even hotter than in the underground space before, and couldn't help but scold, "The environment of your home is really bad......
Then the next moment, he was completely attracted by a huge black figure in the distance......
"This ...... This is ......" Nie Yun's eyes widened, and his head began to rise slowly, and then continued to rise......
It wasn't until his gaze was almost raised by 90 degrees that Nie Yun finally saw the top of the huge object in front of him, and he couldn't help but open his mouth slightly.
Even the well-informed Nie Yun was shocked by the scene in front of him for a moment.
Pangu held the sky with his hands and feet on the ground, supporting a chaotic world...... The picture in front of him made Nie Yun involuntarily think of such a legend.
I saw that in the middle of the lava lake, a huge black body with a height of dozens of kilometers stretched to the dome of this underground space as if it were standing up to the sky.
At its feet was a tumbling lava lake, and at the top of its torso was a forked structure like antlers, like a giant crown resting on top of its head.
The dense fork-like structure extends upwards until it submerges into the dome, as if it supports the world of this underground space.
What's even more peculiar is the huge lines on its torso that resemble a human face, although it still closes its eyes quietly, it makes Nie Yun have a strange feeling that his eyes will open in the next moment.
"This is the essence of the Immortals, and it is also the first ancestor of all Karalo on the planet, the Immortal Tree!" Rose's voice came from the side, with a kind of worshipful piety.
"Immortal trees? Wait a minute! You say it's a tree?! Nie Yun was stunned.
He looked back at the crown-like canopy, and saw that it did look like a canopy, except that there was not a single bare leaf on it, and the cover area was much smaller than that of ordinary trees, almost as thick as its own body, like a hat more than the canopy.
Rose finally regained a little sense of superiority of "I'm the tour guide", and couldn't help but point to her feet and say, "Of course, or you think ...... What's under our feet? ”
Hearing this, Nie Yun couldn't help but look down at his feet, the strange creature that had transported them over at this moment was slowly rising with the two of them, approaching the body of the Immortal Tree.
Then he found that the inside of the lava lake at the foot of the immortal tree was actually densely packed with this giant python-like "creature", but some of them were extremely huge, and the branches that exposed the lake were even dozens of meters thick.
"It's ...... Its roots?! Nie Yun was stunned.
Through the global positioning system, Nie Yun can be sure that he and Rose have just been almost moved hundreds of kilometers away, that is to say, this ancient tree that just called itself "big brother", one of its roots is actually hundreds of kilometers long, and even ...... Probably longer!
Looking at the developed root system that leads to all directions, I am afraid that the immortal in front of him has already extended his tentacles to a small half of the Kara Star, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is symbiotic with the Kara Star.
"There are such amazing plants in the world, it reminds me of a fairy tale in our hometown......" Nie Yun touched his chin and sighed in amazement.
"The Tree of Immortality is the biggest secret of Kara Star, it is the origin of the Kara civilization, and it can even be said that it was the Immortals who single-handedly created the Kara civilization......" Rose's tone was full of faith.
"Create?" Even if there was some speculation about the lofty status of this "little brother tree" in the eyes of the Kara people, Rose's use of this word to describe it still made Nie Yun feel a little incredible.
A tree, creating a civilization?
"Yes, without the Immortals, there would be no Kara civilization today!" Rose seemed to hear Nie Yun's incomprehension, but still nodded categorically.
"Kara, in our ancient language, means 'immortal', and the word represents the origin of our civilization.
More than 3,000 years ago, because of the harsh living environment on the planet, we Kara people were still a nomadic race that drank blood and lived in pursuit of water and grass, not only with low intelligence, but also with an average life expectancy of less than 30 years.
Until our ancestors found the water of life by chance in the burning zone...... Most of what I told you before is true history.
It's just that the ancestors not only discovered the lake full of the water of life, but also the immortal seedlings in the center of the lake! ”
Nie Yun realized at this time, looking at the root system of the immortals rooted in the lava lake, the fire resistance is so high, it is not difficult to create a green belt in the burning area, and the water of life alone does not have this cooling effect.
"At that time, the Immortals had just been born into consciousness and were not yet able to communicate with our ancestors, but after the ancestors opened their minds, they still worshipped the Immortals as a sacred tree and took care of them.
And in his old age, our ancestors suddenly awakened the ability to communicate with the immortals, and the two sides communicated for the first time. ”
Nie Yun nodded, according to what this immortal had just said, it seemed that only people with strong souls could hear its psychic communication.
So, Rose's ancestors probably drank too much water of life and strengthened their souls?
Well...... Then a big pool of water of life, a pig should be able to evolve into a second senior brother.
Rose didn't know what Nie Yun was thinking, and continued to speak, "After the two sides established communication, through the knowledge imparted by the immortals, we have a better understanding of nature and life, and gradually become a highly intelligent race on Kara.
And not long after, by cutting the branches of the Immortals, Caralo was born!
It provided us with a mobile settlement where we could permanently hide from the burning zone, and opened our transition from a nomadic civilization to an agricultural civilization, which led to the later era of social and technological development and the birth of the brilliant Kara civilization! ”
Nie Yun couldn't help but be amazed, it turned out that the sacred plant Karaluo in the eyes of the Kara people was actually the cuttings of the immortal in front of him.
But why do the two only look a little similar? Can cuttings also have genetic mutations?
"Wait! According to you, this immortal can be said to be your reborn parent, but why is there no mention of this in your history books? Nie Yun asked.
Nie Yun had already copied the information about the Kara civilization collected by the Gemini Stars, among which the discipline of "Kara History" was at least at the level of a senior doctoral supervisor!
But the name "Immortal" has never appeared in the official history, let alone the official history.
Even if it is thousands of years old, it is too old to cause the material to be lost, but the royal family of Kara obviously knows a lot about it, and the inheritance has not been broken, so why not promote it?
This kind of behavior is light to say that it is a number of books and forgetfulness, right?
And you said that you, as a tree, don't stay on the ground to soak up the sun and rain, and by the way, brush your face to collect faith, you have to go underground to eat soot, and you have chosen such a harsh living environment, and you are too long to eat and support?
"Because of evolution!" The sound of rolling thunder rang in her ears, interrupting Rose's explanation.
Nie Yun turned his head to look, and the rising roots that were holding them had unconsciously brought the two of them to the tree pattern that looked like a human face, and the sound came from the tree pattern.
You can actually speak ventriloquism?!
It seems that this guy does not only grow savagely like ordinary plants, but it actually has a certain ability to control and transform its body, which can be seen from its flexible roots and simulated vocal organs.
"My body has evolved and grown over time, and my image has changed dramatically from what it was 3,000 years ago.
As my body grew larger, my every movement or movement would fall apart, and the nutrients I needed were so amazing that as long as I put down roots, the soil would be barren, turning from fertile black soil to ashes.
Such an existence will cause great damage to the natural environment on the surface, and I am no longer the patron saint of children, but the destroyer of nature, so I chose to move to the underground and fall into a long sleep......
In order to keep me undisturbed, my first and only friend, Tata, promised me only by word of mouth that after more than 2,000 years, only his descendants would know of my existence.
I prefer to call myself a ...... rather than an immortal The Sleeper! ”