Twisted Woodland, a place with an eerie atmosphere.

It has a completely different ecology from the outside world, and stepping into it can even give the illusion of accidentally falling into an alien forest. There are no green plants in the woodland, and the leaves of all the flowers and trees have a slightly metallic purple red glow, which looks beautiful at first, but after a long time, it will feel very strange. Most of the plants in the forest grow tall and twisted, and one kind of bush is even a one-man tall that spirals like a flame. Under the bushes and in the thick humus soil, strange fungi can be seen growing along the terrain, which looks a bit like a combination of mushrooms and mosses: large lilac coats cover the surface of rocks or other plants, and this coat abruptly grows an umbrella-like structure. These mushrooms thrive in shady corners and have bright forms, but I don't know if the world also follows the rule that "the more beautiful the fungus, the more virulent". The woodland is littered with fallen leaves and other plant remains, all of which grow according to the most natural rules, showing a pristine appearance that is rarely disturbed.

With the exception of the dwarf, forest-related plants, there was only one kind of tree in the whole twisted woodland: a tall, crooked broad-leaved tree, with iron-grey bark and no branches in the lower part, and its trunk grew in a slight spiral arc to the air, and then suddenly burst into large branches at great heights, and the crown was covered with purple-red oval broadleaves. These broad-leaved trees are found throughout the forest and are almost identical in appearance, with the difference in size suggesting that they are almost copied and pasted in the twisting of their trunks, the shape of their branches, and even the distribution of each branch. Hao Ren immediately noticed the anomalies of these trees, and he carefully observed the canopy of two strange trees that were far apart. It was finally confirmed that their branches were 100% identical.

Now the group is walking on the "official road" in the twisted woodland, which was created by the church hundreds of years ago with a lot of manpower and material resources. Many generations have devoted their lives to maintaining this modest forest road. Now, centuries later, the ferocious beasts of the twisted woodland have become accustomed to the existence of the road, and have taken the initiative to stay away from the outposts near the road: the road has become part of the woodland ecosystem, and the forest has retreated beside the man-made road.

This allows travelers through the woodland to get the most basic level of security, as long as they don't go too far from the boundary line drawn by magic lights on both sides of the road.

"These trees don't have a scientific name, because they're just part of the giant creature of the 'Twisted Woodlands', like the hair on the beasts, but the mercenaries and adventurers have given them the common name 'Spiral Tree', which is quite figurative." Betsy noticed that Hao Ren's eyes had been on those strange trees, and took the initiative to introduce, "All trees are one, they grow together in the ground, and the surface part is only used to receive sunlight. It is said that the Twisted Woodland was the goddess's backyard before it was destroyed, and the Elven Magic Emperor Lorisa stole the life factor of this woodland and copied the Tree of Life with the roots of the Twisted Woodland. However, the Tree of Life had been burned to the ground in the flames of destruction, and it was unknown how much they had in common. ”

"Hmm. You said before that this whole forest is a plant," Nangong May said with a snort, and the woodland was full of water vapor, which made the Siren girl feel a lot more comfortable. "But it's such a big forest...... How big does it have to be? ”

"I don't know, but it is said that the roots of the twisted woodland spread westward to the center of Beintz's blood lake and east to the foot of the Dragonspine Mountains. The entire land is supported by the roots of the twisted woodland. There is also a legend that more than a hundred years ago, a group of dwarven miners wanted to mine the glowstone in the Dragon's Back Mountains, and they dug the mine too deep. As a result, a huge black tendrils were dug up in the mine tunnel towards the side of the Blood Lake, and all the miners were half insane on the spot - the church later explained that the forest was still under the wrath of the goddess from her death. It would take thousands of years for the roots of the forest to be digested, and it would be forbidden for anyone to dig a mine west of the mountains, and even a well would have to be approved by the church. ”

Hao Ren looked at the towering trees around him in amazement, just from the surface he could hardly imagine how a huge life form was lurking under this land, and it just emerged from its body with some tentacles for breathing to form such a vast forest, but he knew that what Betsy said should be right, because the striking resemblance of those trees in appearance is difficult to explain by other means, this is not a natural phenomenon, it can only be attributed to the fact that they are organs of the same organism.

"Wait a minute, I'll leave first." Hao Ren suddenly remembered something, and ran to the side with his daughter's pot, and Betsy shouted from behind: "Where are you going?!" Danger out there! ”

Hao Ren waved his hand and shouted: "Go and go back, you won't run too far!" ”

Betsy looked a little worried, and Lily helped Hao Ren explain when she saw this: "The landlord must have gone to the toilet, he has a bad kidney......"

Vivien was taken aback: "How do you know he has a bad kidney?!" ”

"Didn't you still have a urine crash in the mountain people's village a few days ago?"

Everyone: "......"

Dare to love this girl's thinking circuit has always stayed at that time, and she hasn't turned a corner!

But said that at this time, Hao Ren had already run outside the official road and found a place where Betsy couldn't see, but he didn't dare to run too far, there were magic lamps made by the church with magic crystals on both sides of the official road, and the places outside the radiation range of these magic lamps were still the world of monsters. He opened the girl's pot behind a bush, and Doudou immediately poked his head out of it and happily patted the water to greet Hao Ren.

Hao Ren poked the little guy's head to show intimacy, and then beckoned to the terminal: "Come out and scan it, high-power." ”

"You've got a bit of a work ethic." The number of jù terminals snorted and floated out of the kettle, rising into the air in Doudou's curious gaze, and then the blue light around him was great.

High-intensity radar signals began to penetrate deep into the ground, deciphering the subsurface structure of the forest.

"The discovery of an unprecedentedly large plant root system really made that little girl say that the forest is one." Hao Ren saw that the scene under the forest was really amazing: there were huge plant roots everywhere, and the roots could be seen radiating from the forest for many kilometers, and they were entangled and grown into a whole underground, like a flattened ellipsoid full of ravines, and a bit like a crooked walnut.

It's disgusting to watch.

"If these roots disappear, a hole will form in the ground of the twisted woodland and a considerable area around it, enough to sink every qiē into the ground, you can imagine how big this thing is." In addition, the little girl also said something that was not quite accurate: the range of the forest root system extending westward is not only the center of the blood lake, it has already crossed the blood lake, and it is about to grow under the crystalline plain on the other side of the lake and the mountains further west, but it may be that there is a problem with the soil quality of the crystalline plain, and a large area of the root system that extends to the past is dead, and it should not continue to grow. ”

"I didn't expect the underground part to be so much bigger than the aboveground part." Hao Ren was amazed, not by the "miracles" of antiquity, but by the wonders of nature—as miraculous as ravens 12345.

"There's one more thing that the machine has discovered in addition to the underground root system, which should be more valuable for research," said the number of terminals suddenly, "this forest ...... Well, it should be that the ecosystem of the entire Beinz Blood Lake area is actually incompatible with the outside. ”

Hao Ren didn't understand for a while: "Incompatible? ”

"This is the topography of this area," the terminal switched to a hologram from above, "You can see that the whole Beinz Blood Lake area is actually a closed environment, with the Dragon's Back Mountains on the east side, the Mountain Mountain on the west side, a large rift valley on the north side, and the ocean on the south side, and the rift valley and the ocean can also play a role in separating the ecological region more or less. Surrounded by this series of topography, the Beinz region forms a closed ecosphere, where the plants that grow - in the case of those detected by the machine - are not adapted to the external environment, and they use nutrients in a peculiar way that only the Beinz blood lake can provide them with. ”

"Completely unable to adapt to the outside environment? Can't survive at all? ”

The number of jù terminals is categorical: "I can't live at all." ”

Hao Ren became more and more curious about the Beinz Blood Lake.

It maintains an ancient ecological environment, what is in the lake? (To be continued......)