Chapter 17: Viruses

Unable to communicate with the Green Clan, Chen Lin could only rely on himself to find the secrets of this world.

He first made his way to the edge of the forest, but this time he didn't step directly into the forest, especially when he realized that these trees were likely to be the same life forms as himself.

"It's really hard to imagine that you are also intelligent beings!"

"Are you trying to devour me for food and nourishment?"

"I know you don't understand what I'm saying, but I'm going to tell you, don't be delusional, I'll figure it out!"

Chen Lin reached out to touch the trunk of the tree closest to him, muttering softly, as if it was a declaration, to vent the anger in his heart.

He was really angry, he had been killed by this group of plants so many times, it was impossible not to be resentful.

The dense branches swayed gently, and he didn't know if it was the wind blowing up, or if the plants were responding to him.

As a passive crossing type, Chen Lin knew that if he didn't solve this hidden danger one day, he would only repeat this misery in the future.

How to deal with trees?

Setting fire to the forest seems to be the best choice, but Chen Lin just walked around the village, and he didn't find any fire source at all, these green people all live a natural life where the sun sets and the sun rises, and the fire does not exist.

Moreover, Chen Lin also felt that the fire source may not be useful, Liu Gongzi in retreat said that these trees are theoretically about three-star strength, and ordinary fire is probably useless.

Chen Lin roamed around the neighborhood, trying to find some clues.

In fact, he still had a question that had been circling for a long time, that is, why were there so many withered trees in this forest?

In his memory, Chen Lin remembers that when he first came here, he saw a patch of vibrant trees, but after that, almost every day when he traveled back here, he could see more trees dying of old age, and more and more dead yellow leaves were falling.

In the last two days, this withering has begun to spread widely.

The vibrant forest became lifeless, and it felt like an old man who was dying and could sink into the ground at any moment.

A dying plant?

If this plant is really a higher life like humans, then use human thinking to empathize with why human beings die, birth, old age, sickness and death, it is nothing more than accidents or diseases.

Wait a minute!

Chen Lin's pupils contracted violently, he turned his head suddenly, looked at this forest incredulously, and muttered in his heart: Impossible, could it be because of this? However, this is a bit ridiculous.

Chen Lin was also quickly shocked by his bold idea, but for a while he couldn't think of any other better explanation, so he just tried it, anyway, even if he failed, he didn't have anything to lose.

Chen Lin approached the forest again and sniffed, because he hadn't taken any cold medicine before crossing over twice, although his spirit was better, but in fact, his cold had not healed, especially the congestion and sore throat were quite serious.

He snorted sharply, exhaled harder, and the sticky snot ran down his nostrils, and he fumbled in his pocket, but there was no tissue or anything else to wipe off, and he didn't care if it was clean or not, so he just got his hands on it and applied it to the palm of his hand.

After a pause, Chen Lin felt that it was not safe, and forcibly coughed twice towards the palm of his hand, and the pain in his throat quickly prompted dry itching, so that he couldn't help but cough violently several times in succession, and the saliva Xingzi was even more spit all over his hands.

That should be enough!

Chen Lin cautiously stretched out his palm that he couldn't stand towards a giant tree in front of him that was still flourishing as usual.

These tree trunks are still cold, and even a metal-like impact sound can be made when lightly tapped, which is also the reason why Chen Lin feels that burning with fire is not very effective, and the devil knows if it is really a tree or metal under the bark of these plants.

Chen Lin rubbed all the spittle and sticky snot in his palm on the trunk of the tree, in order to maximize the possible effect, he didn't care about his own nausea, and slowly spread out these filthy things, evenly spreading them in more places.

After doing all this, Chen Lin withdrew from the forest for a while, and watched quietly not far away.

There was a dead silence.

After a while, Chen Lin shook his head with a smile and sighed slightly, it really didn't work, even he felt a bit absurd about this idea, after all, these plants were ......

Thundered!

Before he could finish complaining in his heart, a violent vibration had already come, and he saw that the soil of the trees was suddenly broken, and countless dense roots burrowed out of the soil, stretching wildly in all directions.

Chen Lin was startled, but fortunately, in order to prevent accidents, he had already distanced himself, and he was not affected at the first time, he decisively turned around and ran all the way, until he ran out of a mile or two, tired that he was out of breath, and when his sick body was about to collapse, he stopped.

He gasped for breath as he looked back, but his eyes were about to fall off.

The giant tree that had been smeared with all kinds of snot and spittle by him had gone from a huge tree that had covered the sky and the sun to only a bare trunk in just a few minutes, and the yellow fallen leaves on the ground were fluttering in the wind, showing a sense of sadness.

Between Chen Lin and the giant tree, in the broken soil, countless roots and whiskers were frozen in the posture of extending towards him, but in the end, they all shrugged down, like a deflated ball, and never moved at all.

This is the second time Chen Lin has seen these roots with his own eyes, the last time was when he died before, and he saw with his own eyes that these roots absorbed the life force in his body, and they were the culprits who caused his death.

Sure enough, my experiment was a success!

His guess was correct!

It turned out that for these giant plant lifeforms, their sickly bodies were actually the biggest weapons, and they were almost invincible virus killers!

Chen Lin once read a piece of history, in the period of the opening of new shipping routes in human history, with the discovery of the New World of America by Columbus, various germs were also brought to this New World, causing extremely heavy deaths to the local Indians.

In addition, some seniors in the previous crossing group said that some of the newcomers who crossed also died because they were infected with diseases from the other world, so he would think about it further.

Does it mean that viruses on Earth, even the most common cold viruses, can cause damage to life in non-Earth space-time?

As it turned out, he was right.

It's just that Chen Lin didn't expect that the destructive power would be so great, according to Liu Gongzi's words, these plants were likely to be three-star lifeforms, and they were actually defeated by a small cold.

This explains why, since his arrival, the forest has been gradually withering and growing.

Chen Lin should have started to catch a cold the day after the crossing, and it kept getting worse, and it was he who brought the cold virus to this world.

He could even be more daring to speculate that these plant life were sucking themselves as nutrients every day, and they also happened to absorb all the viruses in his body, so the forest had decayed faster in recent days.

The only question remains, if even the cold virus can bring such amazing destructive power, then why didn't the other travelers who encountered this kind of life come up with a similar solution? Or is it just that Liu Gongzi didn't tell himself?

But no matter what, after knowing the big killer of the cold virus, Chen Lin can now finally stretch the tense nerves that have been tense for days.

Turning back to the village, he even took the initiative to knock on the door of those green people and made a gesture to eat, after demonstrating a few times, the little green man who was held by him trembled, finally understood what he meant, hurriedly found a few pieces of jade bamboo from home, and handed them to Chen Lin fearfully and respectfully.

"That's all?" Chen Lin frowned, this is too little, at most, it will be enough for him to eat two bites and it will be gone.

Chen Lin didn't have any likes or dislikes for these green people, no matter how they appeared here, why they were here, it had nothing to do with him.

After all, there are too many worlds he will have to travel through in the future, and this small time and space is only the starting point of his beginning, and it is definitely not the end.

Chen Lin was not polite to these green men, seeing that the other party was muttering a bunch of words that he didn't understand at all, he simply pushed away the green man blocking the door, and its little power of elementary school students couldn't stop Chen Lin at all.

Chen Lin simply went into the house to find it himself, he was indeed a little hungry, and this jade bamboo really tasted very good, he didn't eat enough last time.

The house is not big, and there is no furniture or anything at all, so there is no place to hide things at all, Chen Lin helplessly found that except for the two pieces of jade bamboo that he had already given himself, there was really nothing superfluous.

In addition to being disappointed, Chen Lin was also a little puzzled.

Obviously, there is such a large expanse of farmland outside the village, and the population of the green people is only two or three hundred people in total, plus their size, they won't eat too much every time, so where is the surplus jade bamboo?

Probably understood from Chen Lin's disappointed face, this short green man kept gesturing with trembling hands in fright, sometimes pointing to the jade bamboo in Chen Lin's hand, and sometimes pointing out the window.

After gesturing for a while, Chen Lin understood that it was referring to the forest outside the window.

He understood, this meant that more jade bamboo was given to those plant life.

So, is that what these green men are really doing here?

Taking the only two pieces of jade bamboo and leaving the house, Chen Lin went to other houses to search again, although the jade bamboo owned by each green man was very limited, but the accumulation of looting along the way was more than enough for Chen Lin.

Although looking at the shrunken green man in front of him, Chen Lin couldn't help but feel guilty that he was like a devil entering the village, but his door-to-door scraping action was not slow at all.

Because he was hungry, and if he wanted to stay in this world, he had to fill his stomach first.

Sympathy and mercy are choices that only the strong are qualified to make, and Chen Lin is far from qualified now.

Chen Lin felt that he was just an ordinary layman, and if he couldn't even solve the problem of food and clothing, he didn't want to have any kindness to a race that was not human at all.