Chapter 448: The World Tree
"If Gollum continues to stay by your side, sooner or later it will become a disaster for the solar system." Granny Yinxian sighed and said slowly.
It's not about justice and morality, it's the nature of the Treants, in order to grow, Gollum must constantly replenish their energy, and even if it grows slowly through photosynthesis, it will one day grow into a giant creature that the earth can't contain.
Even if Gollum can shrink his size and not need much living space, the creatures on Earth are not enough to feed him.
Mu Chen didn't speak, and continued to look at the pictures on the endless scroll.
Those seeds wandered in the universe for an unknown amount of time, some fell on scorching stars and died before they germinated, but some were lucky enough to land on planets in the habitable zone and had a chance to survive.
Soon the habitable planet became a green patch, and the Treants brought oxygen and water to these desolate planets, gradually forming an atmosphere, but there was only one creature on the planet, the Treants, until they died again, and their huge bodies collapsed, turning into nutrients to nourish the planet.
With these nutrients, the once desolate planet gradually gave birth to life, and the transformed planet is more suitable for the birth of life.
"Maybe the creatures on Earth were born because of the Treants." Mu Chen muttered to himself.
"It can be said that the vast majority of life in the universe was born because of the Treants, and in the early universe, intelligent beings called the Treants the 'World Tree' to express their gratitude and respect for the Treants." Granny Silver Instant added.
"But why is such a treant clan in decline?" Mu Chen asked curiously.
"I don't know this, the decrease in the number of the Treants is sudden, almost overnight, the Treants all over the universe self-destructed at the same time, but there are very few seeds left, the seed you found is the only one I have seen in my 10 tens of thousands of years of life." Venerable Time said.
Granny Silver Instant said: "We speculate that the Treant Race may have felt that its existence has affected the living space of other beings, so it chose to perish, and we have to say that this is a great race. ”
If this is the case, then the Treant Race really deserves the respect of all races in the universe, creating the world, but giving it to others, such dedication is no longer "selfless" can be described.
There is also a record of the war between the Treants and the Zerg in the scroll, and after the Treants came to the planet occupied by the Zerg, they quickly killed the mother worm at the location of the star core, and quickly cleaned up the swarm on the planet.
The planet that lost its core also stopped rotating, and the Treants planted their roots into the mother worm channel, feeding the planet with their own energy, turning into a star core to maintain the planet's rotation.
Mu Chen finally understood that Gollum may have been born to solve the problem of the Zerg, and Granny Silver Instant was right, this was his mission.
"Gollum is the only Treant descendant, and there may be other Treant people in the universe, but we don't have the power to find them." Time Venerable said helplessly.
Speaking of which, they are still persuading Muchen to agree to their plan.
Mu Chen suddenly felt a little irritable, and he felt unwilling for Gollum's fate.
"How can this be, is this fair to Gollum?" Mu Chen asked with a cold face.
After the incident, he went to his clothes, hid his merit and fame, and said it well, but how much helplessness and sadness there was behind this, only this hero knew best in his heart.
"I understand the relationship between you and Gollum, he is like your child, how can a father want his child to encounter danger......" Time Venerable sighed, "but this is Gollum's fate, the moment he was born, he was destined to be great." ”
"And only by constantly absorbing the energy of the Zerg can Gollum grow quickly and enter the maturity period, so that he can reproduce and the legacy of the Treant can continue." Granny Silver said bitterly.
This way of reproduction is so cruel, at the cost of life, in exchange for an illusory future, leaving only a tragic demise.
"That is, the faster Gollum grows, the faster it will die?" Mu Chen asked.
The faces of Granny Silver Instant and Time Venerable were a little embarrassed, but they nodded and said, "I'm afraid it's like this......"
Mu Chen closed his eyes in pain, he realized that he had been wrong all along, it was he who sent Gollum to fight the Zerg again and again, which was equivalent to pushing Gollum into the fire pit with his own hands.
"You don't need to persuade anymore, I will never agree to Gollum to fight the Zerg again!" Mu Chen said seriously, his eyes gradually turned red.
Self-blame and guilt filled his entire chest, at first Gollum was just one of his pets, but then gradually entered Mu Chen's heart, becoming his family and friends, and maybe children.
Although it was a very selfish decision not to let Gollum fight the Zerg, and even caused many aliens to die from the Zerg invasion, Mu Chen did not hesitate to do so.
Even if there was only one possibility, he hoped that Gollum would live longer.
The Venerable of Time wanted to persuade again, but was stopped by Granny Yinxian: "Forget it, give him some time, we are asking him to send his child to hell, whether it is out of the consideration of righteousness or not, or it is a little too cruel." ”
"But a large number of lives die every day because of the Zerg invasion, and only the Treants can completely solve this problem." Time Venerable said with a frown.
"Mu Chen is right, this is unfair to Gollum, he doesn't owe anything to this universe, and he has no obligation to fight against the Worm Emperor...... The Treants have done enough for us. Granny Silver Moment sighed.
Mu Chen left in despair, no one stopped him, just watched him return to his room.
"Sister, that Mu Chen seems to be a little unhappy." Lingyu said worriedly to her sister.
"Yes, such a choice is too painful for him." Linglong said softly, reached out and touched her sister's head, it's better to be a child, there are not so many things to worry about.
Linglong is very sympathetic to Mu Chen, and if she thinks about it from her perspective, she can understand his dilemma at the moment, on the one hand, he is like a family, and on the other hand, there are countless lives facing an existential crisis, and it will be painful to choose which side.
Mu Chen felt that he might as well be dead, if he had died in the space battlefield at that time, maybe there would not have been such a contradiction.
Gollum brings him a lot of happiness, although most of the time, Gollum is fighting with himself in a lame way, trying to mix more drinks, but there are also a lot of happy memories in the process.
Mu Chen can't count how many times when he drank stuffy wine, Gollum would smell the smell and run over to be his drinking friend.
Strangely, Mu Chen hasn't been drunk since Gollum appeared, perhaps most of it was drunk by him.
Mu Chen locked himself in his room, didn't go out for several days, ate some beef jerky in the bag when he was hungry, and picked it up from the window when he was thirsty
Stuff some snowflakes into your mouth.
He had been looking for the best of both worlds, but three days had passed, and there was still no idea.
The Treants are so determined to reproduce that there is no way to do this, and even with the most advanced cloning technology, they will not be able to create a copy of Gollum.
And Gollum can't be hungry all the time, and although photosynthesis can provide him with some nutrients, it is not his main source of food.
The problem of the Zerg is also imminent, especially now that the Cyborg have launched a full-scale attack, and the Zerg have an opportunity, and the Earth Federation alone cannot solve this problem.
For three days, Mu Chen barely slept and tortured himself to the point of madness, with a scruffy beard, messy hair, and a haggard face, as if he had been abused.
"Mu Chen, you try this, it's delicious." Lingyu said worriedly, handing over a ball of pure wind spiritual power.
The little girl may never understand that the people of the earth don't eat spiritual power, and giving Mu Chen what she is reluctant to eat is already the best she can do.
Mu Chen pinched Lingxi's little face, it was cold, there was no temperature at all, if Yaoyao asked such a question, it was estimated that he would have to go crazy, but this was the normal body temperature of a wind elemental clan.
"You can eat it yourself, I can't be blessed with this spiritual power." Mu Chen barely squeezed out a smile, this pure wind spiritual power was estimated to be able to make him suffer a lot of internal injuries.
"Then you have to cheer up, you don't look handsome now." Lingyu carefully put away the spiritual power group, lest Mu Chen suddenly change his mind, and said innocently:
"My sister said you would definitely figure it out, but I think it's so difficult."
Lingyu has been helping Mu Chen with a way these days, but her little head is about to explode, and she hasn't come up with any useful ideas.
However, her silly appearance was the only shining point in Mu Chen's heart during this time.
After getting acquainted, Mu Chen really liked this innocent elemental girl, he hadn't been in contact with such a simple person for a long time, and it was indeed a lot easier to be able to relax and let go of all defenses.
"Forget it, I don't want to." Mu Chen simply left these behind, because there was no solution at all, and there was no point in drilling the horns again.
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"Are you sure you want to return to Earth now?" Granny Silver asked.
"Yes, the family doesn't know the news that I escaped, and the light brain is broken, so I can't contact them at all." Mu Chen explained.
Granny Silver Instant reminded: "The matter of the mechanical people is not over yet, if you appear on Earth, they will definitely attack the solar system again." ”
This is something that Mu Chen has ignored, the mechanical people are obviously eyeing themselves, and they will not give up if they don't kill themselves, and now they are returning to Earth, which is no different from throwing themselves into the net.
"Okay, I'll go and bring your news back in person, and the Earth Federation seems to think you're dead......"
"You take my badge back and give it to General Soros, and he will know what to do." Mu Chen took out a metal tag from his neck, which had his identity information and exclusive anti-counterfeiting logo, which could not be better used to confirm his identity.
"Is there anything else you need?" Granny Silver asked.
"Let the Grim Reaper send me a fighter plane, and I'll meet this insect emperor for a while!" Mu Chen said with a cold face.