Chapter 003: Humans, Pythons

The sapling has wisdom, and no one can stop it.

Aoki unleashed 100% of his body's power and continued to grow: the leaves and branches continued to extend higher and all around, and the roots were desperately trying to take root in the ground.

In less than a month, Aoki's body has grown to a height of 30 cm, and the average diameter of the canopy is 15 cm. The roots, on the other hand, reach a terrifying depth of 120 cm and extend to a diameter of 80 cm on all sides.

Compared to the small trees next to it, Aoki grew very fast, and at this time it was already a head taller than them, savagely robbing it of the light of survival.

I ate and slept and ate and ate over and over again. Until one day, Aoki discovers that something else has appeared in this jungle.

A dull rumbling sound came from the lower reaches of the stream, and it grew louder.

Boat! 5 people!

Is there anyone here? A living person?

Foreigners, but also people carrying video cameras, backpacks, daggers, etc.

Aoki was pleasantly surprised, not because of their arrival, but because it was finally confirmed that this was Earth.

Their appearance, clothing, and props all show that this is the earth, and that it is about the same age as before they died. Or simply after he died, he was reborn directly on the sapling.

Fortunately, it's not an otherworld, prehistory, or the future, otherwise, I would be confused again.

I really want to talk to them!

Although I am a tree, my soul inevitably carries human thoughts, so I want to communicate with them.

They drove the small white boat up the wide stream, one of the men on the boat kept pointing here and there, and the camera kept pointing at him. Looking at them, it seems to be similar to the recording of science exploration programs.

Watching them paddle freely on the stream, Aoki was envious, and at this time he hated his own plant body very much.

"God, why don't you reincarnate me in a human body? Or is it reborn in an animal? I can't move now, don't you suffocate me?! ”

Watching the boat fade away, the sound faded into silence, and the jungle returned to its original calm.

"That's not right! There's something else! Oh, my God! What do I see?! Aoki was horrified, he saw a long 》》》》》-shaped ripple on the water, but the thing did not rise to the surface, and Aoki couldn't see what it was.

"Could it be the Omori Snake? It looks like crocodiles aren't that long, huh? Aoki suddenly remembered the big pythons in "Python Disaster 1" and "Python Disaster 2", and felt terrified.

At this time, he was still in the human mind, so he was very afraid of these pythons, crocodiles, etc. He didn't know that he had become a tree, and those pythons and crocodiles would not be of the slightest interest in him.

"I don't know if this python will chase after it, if it does, that group of people will be in danger."

After a long time, Aoki remembered his identity: "I'm not human anymore, and I can't control it?" ”

After calming down, he no longer cares about these human affairs and continues to develop and strengthen himself. But compared to just now, Aoki has one more thought, and that is the idea of freedom.

If it is a tree in the first place, of course, it will spend its life in a state of confusion, and there is no concept of freedom. But as a reborn Aoki from a human being, freedom is really an important thing.

It's like a healthy person who suddenly becomes a quadriplegic vegetative person one day, and can only lie in bed and can't move, that kind of aggrievedness, that kind of stuffiness, may easily make people suffocate to death.

In order to fulfill his wishes, Aoki set his sights on his ability to be the "light of life".

So: "Xiao Guangguang, hurry up and give me a function like mental power, thinking sense, scanning and detection, the master is in a hurry to use it!" ”

Aoki doesn't have the whimsical ability to walk, after all, it's still a plant at all, how can it be possible?

With this thought in mind, Aoki was soon disrupted by a swarm of ants.

At this time, ants crawled everywhere around Aoki, bustling, about a thousand. A long procession of twists and turns, marching in several columns, not scattered, black lines connecting from one point to another, carrying things back and forth.

However, there are also many ants that crawl on Aoki's body and swim around, making Aoki's body numb.

"I hate ants!"

Luckily, their target was not Aoki, but a small cedar tree about 5 meters tall 3 meters away next to Aoki.

Aoki was idle and bored, staring at them. It is easy to see that they are moving to build their nests, and the nesting site is located at the branch branch in the center of the cedar tree. I guess the nest was destroyed.

Over the next few days, the nest in the tree grew in size, from nothing to the size of a fist to the size of a basketball. Since then, they have settled here. And Aoki is one more neighbor, although Aoki doesn't like these guys.

From time to time, these ants would run to Aoki's body and crawl around, their tentacles swaying everywhere, and then they would be stuck with Aoki's 502 strong glue, unable to move, and starved to death. But there are still a lot of stunned young people who come forward one after another, constantly running over to harass them, so that Aoki is not tired of it. When more than 20 ants were sticky to death, Aoki gave up.

There's a good saying: "I never try to beat a fool because he'll pull my IQ to the same level as him and then beat me with his experience." ”

Therefore, as a new generation of intelligent trees, there is no need to worry too much about an ant with no lower limit of intelligence, that will only show that he has the same unlimited intelligence.

But what upsets Aoki is, why didn't this damn ant come sooner? If I had come earlier, I wouldn't have been devastated by those two bugs. Now that he has the means to deal with the insects, he has run out again to show his majesty. In short, Aoki has no affection for this group of neighbors at all.

And just like that, two more days later, Aoki heard a human voice coming from the upper reaches of the stream. I didn't hear the engine though, maybe the ship was scrapped, or maybe it wasn't the last group.

The voice grew louder, and after half an hour, Aoki finally saw these people. The people are still the same group of people, and there are no fewer people, there are still 5 people. They looked very embarrassed, their clothes were already soaked, and many people's clothes and faces were dirty. One of them seemed to have a foot problem and was being helped by the other two to walk. However, on the whole, their expressions are relatively relaxed, and they should not have encountered danger in the past few days, otherwise they would not have been so calm.

"Everyone, stop, let's spend the night here tonight, and while it's still dark, hurry up and set up camp and get something to eat." Seeing that the time was approaching at night, the team leader took a look at the surrounding terrain and gave this order.

The team leader is a man with more than a decade of experience in the Amazon jungle expedition, and this time he was invited by CBS to record a show about jungle survival.

Because he has more experience, he will lead the team this time. The others were all young people, and they were not very convinced, but after the arduous jungle trek in the past few days, they all began to admire him.

Two of them used nets to catch some small fish in the stream, and then collected some mushrooms, fungus and other ingredients nearby, and then picked some dry firewood to make a fire.

As they were about to light a fire and rest, Aoki was a little worried about them. Because a few days ago, I saw something suspected of being a big forest snake here, and if there really is, then these people are in danger.

But when these people did next, Aoki began to realize that he was wrong.

The leader and the other person had already begun to build their sleeping beds at this time, and they were seen brandishing machetes and slashing at the trunks of trees, one by one. Arm-thick trees were cut down, and their branches and leaves were cut off to make bed frames. Then, after a while, he extended his demonic hand to the trees with wide leaves.

Watching the familiar trees next to him being cut down, Aoki felt for the first time after his rebirth how innocent his thoughts were: "Worried about them? If they cut down a tree that includes me, why should I worry about them? ”

"So I've been wrong all along! I'm not human anymore, I've become a tree. I can no longer look at things from a human perspective. Afraid that they will be eaten by pythons? Just thinking about it makes me feel naΓ―ve. ”

Thinking of this, Aoki finally felt that his heart was much more relaxed.