"There are five paintings in total, four of which are mutilated. The first one is a huge tree with many small trees scattered around, so let's take a look. After speaking, Huang Hua put the picture into the projection, so that everyone could see it clearly, "According to Professor Wenger, this tree is the Mother Tree of Vitality, and we have seen the photos of the Mother Tree of Vitality with our own eyes, so we don't know." ”

When Director Zhao saw it, he said in surprise: "This tree really looks like the Mother Tree of Yuanqi, and other trees are like Yuanqi trees." ”

Others also agreed with Director Zhao's view.

Huang Hua continued: "If you look at the text below this picture, we can only decipher part of the words. There are words such as 'world', 'sphere' and 'life', but there are not enough deciphers. Assuming that the tree on the mural is the Genki Mother Tree in Banna, combined with the Genki Mother Tree's own words, 'I am the World Tree', it can be determined that the name of the Genki Mother Tree and the tree in the mural is the World Tree. ”

This reasoning was also very much agreed by everyone present.

"What is the World Tree? Let's take a look at another mural. With that, he put another mural in the projection of his head, this mural in which the World Tree towered over the planet, and it was huge.

"If the ball in this picture is a planet, you can see that the tree is very large, and it is one-fifth the diameter of the planet. I don't think it's possible that the 'person' who painted the painting deliberately exaggerated and painted it like this, but it did. However, we still have no way to decipher its text, only the words 'World Tree' and 'Vitality'. ”

At this time, the No. 1 leader spoke: "Director Zhao, you are most familiar with the Yuanqi Mother Tree, do you think that the Yuanqi Mother Tree in Banna is likely to grow so tall?" ”

Director Zhao thought about it, sorted out his thoughts, and replied: "Looking back, the Yuanqi Mother Tree only began to be discovered five years ago, but at that time it had a strange performance, that is, it directly grew from more than 40 meters to 110 meters in just a few days. If you grow up in this way, you can grow up to be so tall. ”

"Hiss......" All the uninformed people couldn't help but gasp.

"In just a few days, it has grown from more than 40 meters to 110 meters? Is this still a tree? It's a subversive of tradition!! ”

"Can you find the reason?"

Director Zhao replied, "We haven't found the cause yet, but we suspect that it is related to the evolution of the Vitality Tree. We now have 28 Genki trees in Yunbian Province, and if we divide these Genki trees according to their age, they can be divided into two generations. The Genki trees in and around the Amuro Valley are the first generation, 11 years old, while the others are the second generation, 5 years old. It is speculated that the time for the second generation of Genki trees to evolve from ordinary trees to real Genki trees coincides with the time when the height of the Genki mother tree has skyrocketed. ”

Later, Director Zhao answered some questions about the Yuanqi Mother Tree, so that all the people had a deeper understanding of the Yuanqi Mother Tree. However, if you don't grasp it well, you may have a big deal to do it...... The protagonist then moves on to Professor Huang Hua, who explains the third mural, a picture of a world tree with crystal monsters. Because of the attack of the crystal monster, everyone can understand what the mural means. In the text, only the words 'monster', 'vitality' and 'absorption' can be deciphered.

"It can be speculated that it should mean that this monster can absorb a kind of thing from the Genki Mother Tree, and we don't know exactly what this kind of thing is, but we can ask the Genki Mother Tree."

"The fourth mural was destroyed and is now being restored, and we are now talking about the fifth mural, which shows quite a horrific meaning." As he spoke, Professor Huang Hua put the picture into the projection.

"You can see in this picture, the world tree is falling, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, tsunamis, animals running and wailing, an apocalyptic scene...... and the words below the mural can only be deciphered by the words '100 years', '300 years', 'extinction', etc."

"............" all the people looked at each other, and there was an inexplicable sense of crisis in their hearts.

"What does that round thing in the center of the earth in the picture mean?" At this time, the base commander pointed to the green ball in the center of the planet in the picture and asked.

Professor Huang Hua hurriedly replied: "We don't know about this, and now we need more time to decipher more words." However, it is not visible what it is here, but it shows its importance even more. It's a pity that there are no aliens in the alien spacecraft we found, and if there is, I believe that the progress of text decipherment will be accelerated, and I don't know how the United States is now. ”

At this time, the No. 1 leader asked, "Professor Wenger, has the actual time of these murals been tested?" ”

"Looking back, the time of the mural has been tested with different chronometers, and the time is 195 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic period, that is, the time of the fourth mass extinction."

Hearing the phrase 'Fourth Mass Extinction', people don't know why they suddenly thought of the fifth mural, and the meaning of 'extinction' in the text.

At this time, the third leader said: "Explain to us in detail what the 'fourth mass extinction' means. ”

This question was naturally answered by Professor Wenger, a veteran expert: "At the end of the Triassic period, 195 million years ago, an estimated 76% of species, mainly marine life, disappeared in this extinction. This is a speculation in the scientific community, and the jury is still out as to why this extinction occurred......"

"Inexplicable reasons?" At this time, others were even more worried.

After that, he continued to discuss other issues, and then decided to immediately send people to excavate the Kunlun Mountain cave where the murals were preserved, in order to obtain the relevant information inside as soon as possible.

In the end, a tone was set again: in terms of the awareness of the Mother Tree of Vitality-World Tree, it is necessary to strengthen education, and in addition, it is necessary to protect the safety of the Mother Tree of Vitality, especially the kind of crystal monster, and it must not be allowed to endanger the Mother Tree of Vitality.

Although they were wary of the Mother Tree of Vitality, the World Tree, they also felt a kind of pressure on the meaning of the fifth mural, and at least until they understood what it meant, they wanted nothing more than to maintain the status quo.

………………………… A month later, the Genki Research Base.

Assistant Sun came to Director Zhao's office and reported: "Director Zhao, there are 50 newly recruited staff members now, and a meeting will be held at 2 p.m., do you have time to meet with them?" ”

"Well, let's go meet you!" Director Zhao thought that there was nothing urgent, so he agreed to this arrangement, "By the way, bring a group of young people over and work together in the future, so let's get familiar with it first." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it!" Assistant Sun understood the implicit meaning of Director Zhao's words.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Director Zhao came to the conference room. Standing on the podium, I took a cursory look at the people sitting in the new employee seats, all of whom were relatively young, and most of them were women. Looking at the young researchers of the institute sitting in the audience, I found that they were all staring at these new female colleagues, with green eyes in their eyes.

"Hey, hey!!" When Director Zhao saw this, he immediately smiled meaningfully.

Why are the recruits younger? Because young people are more active in thinking and dare to fight. As long as they are under the control of the veteran professors, they will be able to conduct research more efficiently.

And why is there a predominance of women?

It is said that the proportion of men in the institute was large at the beginning, and there were many single men, so in order to create a harmonious atmosphere in the institute in the future, among the several batches of researchers recruited later, they tended to recruit women, and they tended to recruit young women.

Although I have been trying to change the situation of prosperity and decline in the past four years, it is much more difficult for women to recruit than for men. And many young single women are often snatched away by those Bing brothers, which makes the competition among the single male prostitutes in the institute quite miserable.

"Hopefully this batch will give the men in the institute a break for a while! Well, the word male prostitution is quite suitable for the current situation, and you have to learn more in the future. "Director Zhao has recently learned a few new terms, and now he is using them quickly.

Get rid of this kind of thought, and quickly turn your mind to the meeting. "Y'all introduce yourselves, let's get to know each other, well, let's ............ in seating order."

"Shouldn't there be spies sneaking in? Probably not. Director Zhao thought in his heart.

"My name is Li Yan, I am 26 years old this year, and I graduated from the Department of Biology of South Sichuan University with a master's degree. It's a pleasure to be here at the Genki Research Institute and work hard with all of you......"

"My name is Wang Li, I am 29 years old this year, graduated from the Department of Botany of Jiangnan University, and am a doctoral student. Thank you to the country for giving us this opportunity. ”

This group of new employees continued to introduce themselves on stage, and many beautiful women attracted the green eyes of the researchers in the audience below.

Because of the importance of the Genki Research Institute, there are so many big secrets involved, so the recruitment of staff is sponsored by the state. All the people who are recruited are people who have been strictly vetted by the state, starting from the interpersonal relationships of the last three generations vertically, and horizontally starting from the life trajectory and behavioral habits.

As long as people have made inappropriate remarks and crooked thoughts outside, they will be passed, and as long as they have studied abroad, they will be passed. The state has set a lot of conditions, as long as one does not meet the requirements, it will be passed directly. The Genki Research Institute is too important, so it's not an exaggeration for the state to do this.

(To be continued)