Chapter 42: The Arrow Tree
Seeing this root, what happened at the bottom of the lake came to mind, and my body couldn't help but tense. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zheng Guo had always felt that the shape of this tree root was very strange, but he was in a hurry to find food at that time, so he didn't study it carefully.
Now seeing it here again, decided to look into it a little.
He walked to the bottom of the tree, and before he could take a closer look, he suddenly heard a sound from above, as if something was gnawing at the branch.
Looking up, I saw a gray figure faintly in the dense canopy.
Zheng Guo immediately shot upwards with a flying knife, hitting the target.
Hearing only the sound of "chirping", the gray shadow shook a few times, and the big head fell down.
Zheng Guo wondered when he saw it, it was a poisonous rat again.
"Why is it everywhere? It's really a rat plague. ā
"What's this, how do you all know each other?"
"Let me introduce, this is called a poisonous adenorat, an old friend, and the new sailor may not know."
"No one is amazed at the flying knife that Guo Ye just had? So handsome! ā
"Rare and strange, what is this, Guo Ye can wear Yang in a hundred steps!"
Zheng Guo retrieved the dagger and kicked the poison gland rat aside.
He didn't have a liking for the creature, and the corrosive wound on his palm still hurt.
This poisonous glandular rat was probably grinding its teeth just now, which was not surprising, but Zheng Guo stood next to this tree and suddenly had a strange feeling.
There was a thought that flashed through him just now, and he didn't catch it.
Trees?
Zheng Guo took a few steps back and looked up at the canopy.
I stared at it for a while, but I didn't notice anything unusual.
He picked up a stone and threw it at it, and the stone passed through the branches and leaves, and then fell to the ground, and a few leaves swirled down, and there was no other movement.
There are no other animals lurking in the trees, so it should be safe.
So Zheng Guo took off his backpack and put it under the tree, holding only a dagger, and began to climb the tree.
The bun rose with him, but did not enter the canopy, but remained outside to shoot.
Zheng Guo's figure disappeared among the lush branches and leaves, and then he stopped making a sound, and he didn't know what he was doing inside.
After waiting for a few minutes, the audience suddenly saw his head emerging from the canopy with a smile on his face: "Friends, I think I know what the so-called aliens are." ā
Everyone was stunned.
Know what's going on with aliens?
What do you mean? Did he catch an alien inside?
After a moment of calm before the storm, the live broadcast room suddenly exploded, a large question mark floated by, and some anxious viewers couldn't help but swipe the screen and ask him what was going on.
Zheng Guo also stopped selling Guan Zi, and said bluntly: "The rumored aliens do not exist. ā
Hearing him say this, the barrage became even more turbulent.
"Non-existent? Are you sure? ā
"What did Guo Ye find, let's say it in one breath."
"Sure enough, that guy on the Internet is lying?"
"But how do you explain the ambush that Guo Ye encountered before? What other than intelligent creatures can use bows and arrows? ā
Zheng Guo saw the questions on the screen, and he didn't know where to start answering, so he simply beckoned Baozi to enter the canopy to shoot and let them see for themselves.
In the shot, a structure resembling a vase, attached to a branch like a leaf, is pale green in color, about 30 centimeters long, and a pointed tip peeks out of the mouth of the "vase", which looks like it is wooden.
He dissected the pointed vase from the side, revealing the structure inside.
I saw a thirty-centimeter-long pointed wooden stick running through the entire vase.
The sailors suddenly realized: this is the so-called wooden arrow!
The end of the wooden arrow has numerous white fibers connected to the branches. In addition, there are many horizontal fiber bundles, which cross each other and top the end of the wooden arrow, like a full bowstring, ready to fire.
Zheng Guo felt those fibers with his little thumb, the strength was very high, and it was stretched to the extreme, it was like a tightened string, which obviously contained a lot of potential energy.
In addition to this one, Zheng Guo also saw at least five or six such structures around, hidden among the layers of leaves.
Strangely, the other "bottles" that came out of them were not pointed, but ordinary small sticks.
It's as if this tip was specially polished by someone, and you can still see the traces of rubbing.
Zheng Guo deduced that it was the poisonous adenorat that polished it to a pointed tip.
If you think about it, the tooth structure of the glandular rat fits the size and curvature of the stick.
When the venomous rat grinds its teeth, it also coats the tip with the corrosive venom secreted by the parotid gland, thus forming an "alien arrow".
Nature's creation is truly amazing. Zheng Guo couldn't help but sigh. It's nothing short of a craft.
He recounted his conjectures in general.
āā¦ā¦ I don't know if you've noticed, the plants here are very different from the plants of the earth, the evolution direction of the plants on the earth is to improve their own defense, but the plants here have active aggression. Whether it is this 'arrow tree' or the previous 'snake vine', the aggression is not lost to the animals in the slightest. ā
After listening to Zheng Guo's words, everyone was silent, and their hearts were shocked.
The so-called Gunaze aliens, it turned out to be like this?!
Some alien enthusiasts can't help but feel a little disappointed, and in their opinion, the real situation is far less exciting than the alien idea, and even a little boring. But the facts are in front of them, and they can't help but believe them.
Some people also asked: the trigger mechanism of the snake vine is to take physical damage, but what about the arrow tree? What kind of stimulus does it have to fire the arrow?
This is a very critical problem, because if there is no trigger mechanism, this attack mechanism of the arrow tree is chicken ribs and waste, which is not in line with the law of biological evolution.
Zheng Guo pointed to the tree.
"See that root-like structure? I guess it's not the root, it's the structure that triggers the arrow. ā
The reason why I think this is because of the previous encounter at the bottom of the lake.
Recall that when did the arrows go into the water? It was when he swung his knife to cut through this root-like structure.
As for whether you guessed correctly or not, you have to test it out.
Zheng Guo grabbed the branch with both hands, fell to the ground, picked up his backpack, took a few steps back, aimed at the bare root-like structure, and shot out with a flying knife.
Whoosh whoosh.
At the moment when the throwing knife was inserted into it, seven or eight wooden arrows shot down from the canopy, and whether they were pointed or not, they were all plunged into the ground several inches deep, which showed the great power.
The audience was stunned, and now they were all convinced.
"Guo Ye is as awesome as ever."
"Guo Ye has uncovered the mystery of Gu Naze's intelligent life!"
"Alas, there are no aliens, and I feel a little disappointed."
"Muzi rewarded the anchor Zheng Guo with a tuxedo, go and watch." left a message: "Zhiyong Shuangquan, watching your live broadcast is much more interesting than broadcasting by yourself, I can't get out, what should I do." ā
"If you can't get out, stay, Guo Ye will be responsible for you."
"Even the wooden goddess has fallen, this live broadcast room is poisonous!"
The sailors sent gifts to celebrate, but Zheng Guo frowned and fell into deep thought.
After a while, he shook his head and said, "Don't rejoice too soon, there's one more thing I don't understand. ā
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"Where do you not understand? I teach you. (Handsome)"
"There are times when Guo Ye doesn't understand? I'm relieved. ā
Zheng Guo walked under the tree, squatted next to the root-like structure, and said, "This structure is normally buried in the ground, but this one may have been washed away by the rain so it was exposed. The question is, if it is buried in the ground, how do you receive external stimuli? ā
The sailors were stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, it's right, how can you shoot an arrow without excitement?
For example, the snake vine hunts by attracting prey to bite it, why does this arrow tree do the opposite and hide the trigger structure?