If someone suddenly kneels down towards you, you will definitely be startled, and then subconsciously help the person up, but if it is not a person who kneels down towards you, but a group of people, then you will not only be startled, but will be scared silly, in modern language - confused!

Aoki is now in such a state of bewilderment. Of course, he would not try to lift the enemy up, in fact, he could not help him if he wanted to, because he suddenly found that he seemed to be unable to move.

It was as if there were roots under his feet, deep in the soft sand of the lake. The root system is like an ever-expanding neural network, constantly growing farther and deeper.

He seemed to see the black soil under the yellow sand, the grass sprouts struggling to emerge in the cracks of the black soil, and some insects lying quietly in the soil.

Further down, the dirt became dry and there were many stones. His roots shuttled between the cracks of the stones, and there were many insects in the cracks, but they were not as settled as in the soil, and they crawled in a stumbling manner.

The stone gradually became larger, darker, colder, and harder. He saw a snake, crawling up in a twisted motion.

Further down, the soil became moist again. There were only the roots of some great trees that came from afar, and along these roots they grew denser and denser, crisscrossing the ground, and above them were strong roots, and the roots broke through the earth, and the trunks of the trees formed a forest, and in the woods there were camps of savages.

The Savage Patriarch held his scepter, his eyes filled with confusion, anger, and fear. His hands trembled, the muscles on his face stiffened, and the wrinkles were like cracks in rocks, like a half-realistic, half-abstract painting.

The deeper the soil, the wetter it became, and even the stones in the soil were wet. Finally, he heard the sound of rushing water, and saw the faint flow of water rushing in the dark river, and he didn't know where to go.

Aoki knew that this was not what he saw with his own eyes, but what he saw with his spirit, and it was what his spiritual power saw when it traveled between the ground and the ground. In the past, he could have done it, but he had to be alive and conscious. For example, he can unleash his mental power to find an earthworm underground, but it is impossible to see the dirt and stones next to the earthworm.

He knew that all things have animism, and that consciousness and spiritual power are all over the world. He had also tried to sense the spirit of plants, and under the willow tree in Willow Camp Lane, he succeeded. But out of there, somewhere else, the sense becomes very weak.

Now, he sensed the spirit of all things. He was finally able to determine that spiritual power was something universal in the universe and not unique to the conscious body.

He used to think that mental power was a product of consciousness, but now it seems that it was wrong. Consciousness does not generate mental power, but it can mobilize mental power. The body is likely to be a unique mental force field, and the conscious body needs such a condensed and controllable mental force field. This may explain why those parasitic consciousness bodies are invading the earth, invading humanity.

Could consciousness itself be a product of the mental force field? It is possible from a human point of view. But the presence of the tabb makes Aoki wonder, and this inference can almost be refuted, because if a strong mental force field can produce consciousness bodies, then all of the tabs could be alive, they all have thoughts, and they are likely to be much smarter and stronger than humans.

The chanting of the savages alarmed the accomplices in the camp, and they all came out, and then fell to their knees on the shore in batches.

Aoki watched them bow in his direction and listened to their chanting, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

Strangely enough, he didn't feel anything uncomfortable at the moment, and he took it for granted that they knelt before him. When he accepted all this, he felt very comfortable, more comfortable than smoking.

He didn't know why he had such thoughts and feelings, but he didn't bother to stop them, and he didn't bother to stop the actions of the savages. He enjoyed the thrill of this spiritual opium.

He found himself slowly getting taller and growing like a tree. His arms stretched out and turned into thick branches, and his five fingers branched into more branches. His hair was growing rapidly, and he had a bird's nest on top of the treetops.

Of course, he knew that this was not true, it was just a feeling, just an extension of his spiritual power, which was extending into the air in addition to going underground.

It may be the wicker in his hand that makes him feel like a tree. Trees, if they are looking for sunlight, have to grow to high places. Therefore, his spirit kept breaking upward, and he grew himself very tall.

He looked up, and one sun burrowed behind the other, and then out from behind the other. The two suns, one large and one small, were glued together, like a burning gourd hanging in the sky.

He heard the crow croaking twice.

The gourd spewed out a flame like a fire dragon, flying in the sky.

A burning sensation hit him, so hot that every leaf on his body was about to be scorched.

It wasn't until the fire gourd turned into two suns again, and the small sun slowly moved away from the big sun, that Aoki felt less hot. The roots under your feet are slowly shrinking, and the branches and leaves in the air are slowly shrinking.

The crow croaked twice.

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Petru's eyes were in a trance for a while, and the tree was gone. A fresh breeze blew across the lake, and the hot and dry day became cool again.

He heard Mrs. Larry say, "Let's go and see!" ”

Petru looked up the beach, where the wildlings knelt and Aoki stood like a log, and it seemed that there would be no danger.

He helped Mrs. Larry over to Aoki's back. He saw Aoki slowly walk forward, and the kneeling crowd moved their knees to make way for him.

Petru suddenly remembered a movie he had seen about the last emperor of China, in which a group of people with pigtails were also like this, kneeling in front of their emperor in sheets. But the emperor was just a puppet, and he could only live in the palace surrounded by high walls, climbing up to the roof to see the outside world. And the real power of that world is in the hands of those who have guns outside the city.

"Madam, I will always avenge you." Petru gripped the gun in his chest hard.

But he immediately remembered that in this distorted time and space, it was not the gun that symbolized power, but the black scepter.

He saw the savage wizard come down the hillside in the distance with his scepter, and walk to the middle of the beach, and Aoki also walked to the middle of the beach.

They stood face to face, and around them knelt hundreds of savages, forming them in a circle.

The wildling wizard's eyes spewed fire, and his hand holding the scepter trembled. He is like an angry lion, baring his sharp teeth to drive away all the stealers and aliens who invade the territory.

Petru heard the wind whirling like a prelude to a storm at sea; The water of the lake also roared, and it was pulled by the great tidal force. He knew it was all a mental hallucination, like a dream.

Just when he thought that a spiritual battle was about to take place, he saw the once invincible savage wizard kneel, put his scepter across the palms of his hands, and raised it above his head.

The wind blew across his face, blew a few grains of sand out of the deep wrinkles, and fell to the ground in a hurry.

Aoki stretched out a hand and took the scepter.

The crow croaked twice, and the silent savages began to sing again.