Chapter 20: Dreams
This time, Chen Lin did not travel through the chaotic darkness of the space-time tunnel after dying like the previous times, and then woke up on the earth again.
Before he woke up, he had a dream, a long, long dream.
Dream is an exceptionally beautiful world, the green of the trees and the colorful colors of the flowers dot almost every corner of this world, and it is beautiful, like a fairyland.
And these trees are also the masters of this world, the main race that makes up this plane, they have advanced wisdom after tens of thousands of years of evolution, but they themselves do not have the ability to move freely.
I don't know how many years have passed, but one day, a group of strange creatures suddenly broke through the sky, breaking the peace and tranquility of this world, these monsters are extremely ugly, a little like fish, and a little like people, they speak strange language, and they hold weapons that do not belong to this time and space at all.
Then there is destruction, wanton destruction and killing. Because these monsters want to collect some kind of energy, and this energy only exists in plants with intelligence and self-awareness.
Vast swaths of trees have fallen, and these plant races have not evolved the ability to move like the treemen in some planes, because they don't need such abilities in a once-quiet world. But at the moment, it made them lose the ability to resist.
At that time, this plane was still very large, almost half the size of half a world, and the number of monsters that came to this plane was too small, and they would often disappear suddenly, and it would only reappear after a while.
Therefore, this killing lasted for a long time, even decades or even nearly a hundred years apart, which also gave the plant race more time to breathe and give this plant race a chance to evolve.
Finally, in order to resist those monsters, the first evolved tree was born, which was almost exactly the same as the towering trees that Chen Lin had seen when he first crossed over.
Evolved trees have thicker trunks, and underneath their bark a protective film that is almost equivalent to a high-strength metal, allowing them to finally defend themselves against the sharp weapons of the monsters.
But this is not enough, just passive defense is far from enough, so these plant races continue to evolve in the groping, and it is difficult for them to regrow their hands and feet that can move freely, but they have found another way to find another way to replace it.
They extract some kind of energy from their bodies, that is, the natural energy that those monsters are collecting, and constantly condense and condense to form something similar to a stand-in, that is, those green points of light that are very similar to fireflies, which are actually the source of life for these trees.
In layman's terms, it's a bit like an out-of-body experience.
The source of life is almost the same as the life of a tree, and if you lose your origin, the corresponding tree will also die.
However, this did not make the plant race vulnerable, but rather became more powerful because of the ability to move freely, and began to gradually vent the resentment and anger that had accumulated over the years.
When the monsters break through the sky again, the time for the trees to take revenge has also come.
The way the life source attacks the enemy is very peculiar, they can directly absorb the vitality of these monsters through some magical ability, and then transform it into the body of the trees, turning them into nutrients, making these trees bigger and more lush, and gradually forming the kind of giant trees that Chen Lin saw later that covered the sky and the sun.
The monsters were wiped out without incident, and the trees couldn't stop after their first taste of power.
Because they find that nourishing the body by absorbing the life of others is far faster than growing slowly through photosynthesis.
They have also learned from these monsters an ability, that is, the ability to find the peculiarities of time and space, break through time and space, and invade other planes.
So, thousands of years after that, the long invasion began, and this time the invaders became these trees, just as they were once killed by those monsters, and the trees invaded other planes through the source of life, and absorbed the life of other planes.
During this time, they also encountered resistance.
In order to make themselves stronger, the life source of these trees continued to evolve during the invasion, and over time, even their original world gradually changed.
The tree race, including their original world, has finally evolved from the original two-star plane to a rare three-star plane!
The evolution of the plane is more difficult than the evolution of individual races, but this race has succeeded, and they have become more powerful and more comfortable in the invasion.
However, all this was also the beginning of their demise.
What the trees didn't expect was that while their evolution had brought strength, it had brought with it another very serious side effect, that they could no longer give birth to new larvae.
Despite countless attempts by the trees, to no avail, the absence of new larvae meant that the race was beginning to decline.
Trees that have grown old are slowly dying, and adult trees are aging.
I don't know how many years have passed, the entire tree race has entered the aging stage, and their strength has been greatly reduced, and they no longer have the ability to travel through time and space, but fortunately, they have been prepared for a long time, and in the last crossing, the trees found a cowardly race called the green people and abducted them to their own world.
This time, they did not absorb the life of the green people, because the green people have a very magical thing, that is, jade bamboo, the natural energy contained in the jade bamboo is what the trees crave the most, not only to maintain their lives, but even hope to use the jade bamboo to restore their ability to produce naturally.
Therefore, these green people were kept in captivity, and were surrounded by trees in the middle of the forest, watching them grow jade bamboo to worship the trees.
Yuzhu did play a role, delaying the aging of the tree race to a certain extent, but this is a palliative rather than a cure after all, and although the decline has been slowed down, it is still slowly progressing.
Later, the trees were horrified to find that with the decline of the race, even the plane of the local plane began to collapse and decline, and the most obvious feature was that the world began to slowly shrink.
The world, which was once as big as the earth, has since become the size of an ordinary county town.
The three-star plane that was once at its peak has declined to the point where it is only equivalent to the newborn one-star plane.
And those vanished worlds, along with the trees in them, are all classified as chaos and darkness, and no one knows why the world has shrunk, and no one knows where the vanished worlds and their people have gone.
But all the trees are aware that the final end of the world is coming soon.
Later, a very strange creature suddenly appeared in this world out of thin air, and that creature was Chen Lin.
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And then everything happened to Chen Lin himself these days, and the long dream came to an abrupt end.
Chen Lin opened his eyes suddenly, and slowly got up from the bed in the hotel, he was still a little dazed when he just woke up, the dream just now was too long and realistic, so that he still reminisced about it, and he didn't come back to his senses for a while.
After a long time, Chen Lin exhaled a long breath, staggered up, unscrewed the hotel's own mineral water, and poured it into his mouth in a big gulp, he felt that he was so thirsty that his mouth was about to burst into flames.
God knows how long this dream lasts, it is almost the entire life of a race, from birth to growth, from prosperity to destruction, that is an unknown number of thousands of years. Although the whole dream is almost like the fastest movie, it is constantly passing through my mind, it is also a sea of information, and it takes a long, long time to savor before I can slowly digest it.
It wasn't until Chen Lin picked up his phone and looked at the time that he realized that he had slept for two days!
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Chen Lin frowned and pondered, he was recalling everything that happened before he fell unconscious, and at the same time he was thinking about that dream.
Is this dream really all that is on the other side?
Or is it just my own self-fantasy after I am unconscious?
Chen Lin, who was concentrating, suddenly moved slightly in his heart, as if he felt something, and involuntarily opened his right palm, and in a moment, an oval object similar to a jewel actually slowly drilled out of his palm, stopped a few inches away from his palm, and was quietly suspended above his palm.
Looking at this strange object, Chen Lin's mouth that gradually opened in surprise could even be stuffed with a whole egg, and he lost his mind for several minutes before he suddenly came back to his senses.
He remembered, the familiar thing in front of him was clearly the mysterious object that emerged from the ground at the moment of the final destruction of the plane and plane, after all the earth had collapsed?
However, what the hell is this, not only did it not disappear with the destruction of that world, but it actually followed Chen Lin and returned directly to the earth!