Chapter 60: The Sacred Tree and the Magic Tree

If the shock of the sinkhole and the bone cave to me is a monstrous wave, then the impact of what I see in front of me can only be described as a storm.

I can't describe what I saw, if I had to describe it, I can only say that it was a sacred tree! That's right, what shocked me so much that I couldn't even speak was a huge tree, a tree that grew in the middle of a sinkhole.

What I could see was not a complete tree, all I could see was the huge canopy of the giant tree, and the lush branches and leaves stretched out one after another, completely filling the entire sinkhole, and standing above, you could only see the branches and leaves of the giant tree that filled the sinkhole. I rely on, this way down, although the sinkhole continues to shrink, it is far from being as huge as the top, but the diameter of the pit still cannot be underestimated, not to mention that there are about twenty or thirty meters, such a large range, the canopy can completely fill the entire pit channel, how big is this tree!

I can't imagine, and what really shocked me was not the size of the tree, but the faint blue light emitted from the canopy, wasn't it the mysterious blue light I saw on the top of the sinkhole last night?

The glow of the glowflies is blue, not strong, but it illuminates the sinkhole through, the atmosphere is like a long corridor full of LED light bulbs, full of dreams and romance, if it weren't for the cool and cool breath of the cold and hard rock walls around me to stimulate my body, I would even think that I have escaped from Yeling, and I am in some ingenious lantern scene.

After a brief moment of distraction, I immediately remembered the light I had seen last night, and it was obviously the light that the tree was emitting, but why did the tree glow?

There is still some distance from the canopy, although the fluorescence reflects the sinkhole through, but this brightness is only a misty light, and the specific details of things are still not clear, and if you want to figure out what the glow is, you have to go further down.

Eager to know the secret of the blue light, I hurried up and walked down. Since the stone path is excavated around the wall of the sinkhole, although the distance in a straight line down is not much, but the distance is stretched by at least four or five times around the rock wall.

It is precisely because of the design of the stone path that I was able to observe the giant tree below from multiple angles, and I also had a clearer and more intuitive impression in my mind. The crown of the giant tree is similar to that of cedars, with a slight point in the center, and the branches and leaves are densely branched and densely foliage, and the branches and leaves are dense, and it looks like a thick blanket in the sinkhole, and I even wonder if I had fallen directly last night, I would have been caught in the canopy, if I could, the sin of the road would have been in vain.

Of course, I also know that this is impossible, falling down from a height of more than two hundred meters, even if it falls on the water, it is no different from smashing on the cement floor, not to mention that there must be the rest of the trunk branches under the canopy, the diameter of the crown is twenty or thirty meters, and the branches below are estimated to be thigh thick, and if they fall from above, they will definitely die, and it is possible that the branches will die through the heart.

As I descended, I got closer to the canopy, and the fluorescence became brighter and brighter, reflecting a psychedelic blue on my face, as if I was in an underwater world.

I took a lot of photos along the way, and I really regret that I didn't bring the camera, if I could record the discovery of the giant tree, it would be a huge discovery that shocked the world when I went out. But now it's in vain to think about it, although the mobile phone can also record, but the pixel is not good, and the second is that there is not much power left in the mobile phone, and there must be a place to use lighting when you go out.

The branches of the giant tree stretched to the edge of the stone path, less than a palm's distance from the stone path, and I could now easily step over the canopy if I wanted. I was able to do this, but I didn't mean to do it, because by this time I had seen the true appearance of the leafy canopy, and it was not the leaf I had imagined, or even a leaf at all, but a myriad of fluffy and soft flocculents, which I knew at a glance that it would not stand stepping on, and that it would break off as soon as my foot fell.

I was a little surprised, at the moment I was in a position less than half a meter from the nearest flocculent branch, and it was natural to see these leaves more clearly when I looked at them so closely. These flocculent foliage are quite beautiful, you can imagine the snowy cedars in winter, and the foliage in front of me is such a scene, except that the white snowflakes have turned into crystal clear blue, and the magnificent blue light that fills the whole sinkhole is emitted by these crystalline substances.

After looking at it for a while, I found that the so-called leaves were not really visible at all, as if the original appearance of the tree was not like this, just like the cedar after being covered with snow, its original appearance was not like this, but the branches and leaves were completely covered by snow, and people could only see the crystal snowflakes and the outline of the whole tree.

I wasn't sure what I guessed, and as I thought, I reached out to break a leaf to see if there was something inside that was sealed by the blue crystals outside. But what I didn't expect was that my hand had just touched the branches and leaves wrapped in blue crystals, and I suddenly felt a pinprick pain, I retracted my hand like an electric shock, and found that a bloody hole had been pierced on my finger, and the scarlet blood was gurgling out under the fantastic fluorescent background, which looked a little sad.

I didn't expect these branches to be so sharp, but from the touch of my fingers just now, the crystals outside these branches were quite hard, a bit like crusted rock covers. This proves that my suspicion is very probable, I know that there is a petrified tree in nature, which was an ordinary tree a long time ago, and then for various special reasons, the texture of the body of the tree has changed, and it has become something like a stone, but its shape and so on have not changed.

There are many causes of petrified trees, such as volcanic ash eruptions, a large amount of volcanic ash is quickly deposited, tightly wrapping the adjacent trees, and over time, the texture of the inside of the tree has undergone qualitative changes, and the volcanic ash accumulated outside has also formed a rock crust, so that a petrified tree is formed.

The tree in front of me is very similar to a petrified tree, such a huge petrified tree is really rare, and the surface of the tree is covered with such magnificent crystals, I really don't know how it was formed.

I sincerely admired the beauty of this tree in my heart, but looking at these blue crystals, I always felt uncomfortable, and I always felt as if I had seen this thing somewhere, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't recall it.

After a while, I took another photo, and then I was a little reluctant to continue walking down the stone path, just the canopy is so spectacular, I want to know what kind of scene is under the canopy.

The height of the entire canopy is about ten meters, and I was amazed as I walked, at the beginning of the tree branches and foliage were quite dense, and I could only see countless branches and leaves emitting light blue fluorescence downward, densely packed, almost completely blocking the view. As I went deeper, the dense foliage began to thin, and I had already walked through the most leafy sections, and by the time I had gone deeper than ten meters, I could already see the main trunk hidden in the middle of the countless foliage, although there were still many thick branches and scattered foliage below.

It was really quite a thick trunk, but the diameter of the crown part of the tree was probably more than four meters, let alone the lower part, and I couldn't imagine what the root of the tree should be. The main trunk is so huge, and the rest of the branches extending from the main trunk are equally thick, and the thinnest branches I can see are also the thickness of a sea bowl, and this is only the branches at the crown, and any branch below is probably much thicker than the hundred-year-old tree outside.

All the way down, the continuous shock in my heart can no longer be expressed in words, and at the same time, I also have a lot of thoughts in my mind, what will the core of such a huge tree look like? Is it hollow? Could there be someone living in the trunk of the fucking tree?

This is not my imagination out of thin air, when the expeditionary force entered Burma to fight against Japan, the Japanese army used the many petrified trees existing on the Yunnan-Burma border to dig pillboxes to organize firing points. Because most of these petrified trees are left over from prehistory, they are very huge, and the interior is hollow, which can store a large number of war materials, not to mention concealment, and are very strong, even if they are directly hit by cannonballs, the trunk will not collapse. Petrified tree bunkers like this made the expeditionary force suffer a lot, and even if the defense line was captured, as long as the Japanese troops cowering in the trees did not come out, you could not do anything about him, and they could not be blown up and burned, and they could only surrender after the other side ran out of food.

The giant tree in front of me is definitely not comparable to the petrified trees encountered by the expeditionary force, if the petrified tree encountered by the expeditionary force at that time was the grandson of the tree, then the one I am facing now is completely the ancestor of the tree, there is no comparison. With such a thick trunk, the core of the tree is absolutely impossible to be solid, and since it cannot be solid, what will be the situation in the core?

Thinking all the way, I didn't realize that I had gone down a lot. As I had just surmised, the further down the tree, the thicker the trunk became, and the fewer branches there were. In the canopy, there will be five or six main branches every half a meter, and at this time, there are basically one or two every two or three meters, and the further down the spacing, the larger the interval, but the thickness of the branches far exceeds the above, more than half a meter thick branches, if you say it, no one will believe it.

It is not only the branches that are sparse, but the leaves that extend out of the branches are becoming less and less, and the blue crystals attached to the surface of the giant tree are also becoming less and less, about thirty meters away from the top of the canopy, there is already a part of the tree surface sparsely exposed brown trunks, and further down, this sparse brown has become the main color, that is, those blue crystals have begun to disappear almost.

This is a little different from what I imagined, in my mind, this giant tree should be a petrified tree, but if it is a petrified tree, that layer of rock-like crystals must cover the entire tree, and now the crystals are gone, which means that it should not be.

Although the crystals were gone, the blue fluorescence that filled the sinkhole did not diminish by half a minute, and I was a little strange, and stuck my head out to look under the tree.

After just one glance, I was stunned, I couldn't believe my eyes, only to see that about four or five meters below, between the two thick branches, there was an identical blue ball, somewhat like a cocoon.

Oh my God, this is clearly the corpse cocoon in my dream last night, could it be that this tree in front of me is the man-eating wax corpse tree I dreamed of?