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Time passed, and winter began to begin here.

For some reason, this year's rainy season seems to have ended early, and after winter, there has not been a drop of rain. In the past, there used to be a light rain every few days, but now there is not a drop of rain, and Aoki is faintly uneasy.

What Aoki doesn't know is that in the Pacific Ocean, outside of the mind, El Niño is gradually intensifying, and the amount of tropical water reaching Southeast Asia is drastically decreasing.

Under the influence of various climatic factors, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has less snow cover and good thermal conditions on the plateau, resulting in a weak Indo-Myanmar trough and a weak South Asian monsoon, and the water vapor transported to Yunnan is not abundant, so that the rain cannot fall for a long time.

A winter passed, and not a drop of rain fell in the entire valley.

The water level of the two lakes began to drop, the trees in the mountains began to wilt, and the various creatures that had been active in the forest began to disappear.

"Could it be that a drought is coming?"

As if sensing the drought crisis, various trees began to work hard to store water.

As winter turned to spring, Aoki found that the drought situation was still not getting better, but getting worse. The drought continues, and the temperature is extremely high, and every day a huge amount of water vapor evaporates into the air and disappears.

The water volume of the lake has been reduced to more than half, and the area of the lake has been reduced to only 1 kilometer wide.

And that big anaconda doesn't bask much in the sun anymore and spends most of its time in the water.

The rapid decline in the size of the lake has caused many animals to huddle together to drink.

Anacondas, leopards, and golden eagles are well-deserved overlords of land, water and air, and can still enjoy those water resources, and most of the animals gather to make it easier for them to catch prey. The rest of the disadvantaged groups are in a brutal competition for survival.

Despite the dangers of the lake, in order to stay hydrated, the animals must go to the lake or stream to rehydrate.

The natural environment is really cruel, and the cruel law of survival of the strong and elimination of the weak is vividly interpreted here.

For the first time, Aoki felt the power of nature and the fragility of life. For the first time, Aoki had the idea that if he didn't work hard, he would be eliminated by nature.

In addition to his own sense of crisis, Aoki felt a great deal of grief in the spiritual world, and although these voices were faint and faint, Aoki could clearly feel their pain, which was the wail of all the creatures under his rule.

"Why do I feel sad when I hear their wailing?"

"Perhaps, they have come to regard me as the most important and precious 'priest' in their lives, and I must do something for them."

For the first time, Aoki had the idea of trying to protect them.

"Maybe I can do better, I'm a great world tree." Aoki lamented in his heart.

"I don't have an opportunity yet, and it should be soon." Aoki is firm in himself.

Aoki turned a lot of thoughts, but finally stopped thinking too much and began to think about how to get through this difficult time.

"Perhaps, I can try to see if my roots can find the underground river, and if I can solve it, it will be a little bit."

Last year, the five tentacles that went deep into the ground to absorb inexplicable things had already gone 100 meters underground, and after more than one year of development, they have now developed to a depth of 120 meters.

In the past, when Aoki studied it, he never figured out what it was, but he only knew that when Aoki evolved for the second time, he absorbed a cool breath from the ground, and finally succeeded in helping Aoki complete his second evolution. However, later Aoki found that it did not show any function, and even the cool breath was gone, and he only knew that it kept growing.

It took Aoki a while to figure out what it was for, so he gave up researching it. Now that there is a drought crisis, Aoki has to rush to the doctor, hoping that they can help.

Aoki's idea is to use this tentacle to grow directly down, quickly down, and then add Aoki's sense of thought, hoping to find the underground river.

Aoki's sense of thought is very strange, it can stretch for hundreds of kilometers in the air, but when it reaches the dirt, it is greatly reduced, and it can only be detected at a distance of 30 meters. Therefore, to find an underground river, Aoki can only reach a depth of 120 meters through his tentacles, and then release it to detect whether there is an underground river below or around 30 meters.

However, it is not necessarily useful to find underground rivers, because except for high-pressure rivers, it is impossible for rivers without pressure to spew water out of the ground more than 150 meters high. How tall is more than 150 meters? To use the metaphor of a floor, it is as high as 60 floors. Imagine how much water pressure a water utility would have to use to transport water from the ground to the roof of a 60-story building.

But even if you have only a little hope, you can't give up, right?

From this point on, Aoki found himself beginning to mature.

Aoki didn't delay any longer, and activated the functions of his whole body with all his might, transporting all the resources generated to the straightest and deepest tentacles among the five. Under Aoki's induction, the lowest part of the tentacle has the support of resources, and it begins to divide cells and grow downward. However, this speed is too slow, and it only grows one meter after one day of full growth.

There is little hope, but there is still a need to persevere, and Aoki is firm in his faith.

Time passed day by day, and not a drop of rain fell. The water level in the lake is getting lower and lower, many plants are starting to wither and gradually lose their life, and animals are starting to lose their numbers due to drought.

The survival situation is getting more and more serious.

And Aoki has been running at full power to promote the growth of tentacles, but there is still no hope.

As February approached, widespread drought began to occur in most parts of Van Bien province. The scorching sun hung high in the air, baking the earth, the earth cracked, thousands of miles of white soil, the reservoir began to dry up, and the river began to cut off. A large number of animals began to die of dehydration, and fish were even more miserable, leaving naked on the riverbed and dying of dryness.

Humanity is bleak and is beginning to pay the price for the blind deforestation that it had previously had. Long-distance water trucks, artificial rainfall, mineral water, and all kinds of disaster relief materials are constantly being transported from neighboring provinces to solve the existential crisis of mankind.

This drought is really a rare occurrence in a century, and various factors have made do with it, causing Yunbian Province to suffer a major disaster rarely seen in history.

Time passed day by day, and gradually it was March. It was as if God was against Yunbian Province, and still not a drop of rain fell.

The water level in the lake has dropped again, leaving only the 300-meter-wide lake level.

The trees on the ridges around the valley began to die, and many of the animals died from lack of water.

Soon after, herds of elephants and monkeys, which had been living in the southern jungle outside the valley, also came here en masse and occupied a place to drink.

Just when Aoki was about to be disappointed, after the tentacles probed down to more than 170 meters, Aoki followed the tentacles to the bottom, probed down 30 meters, and finally found an underground river.

It's cold, as if there is an illusion full of life.

An unprecedented sense of satisfaction, accomplishment, and joy rose in his heart, and Aoki felt the urge to cry.

"No, I can't be happy first, I don't know if this dark river has such a high water pressure."

Thankfully, the water of this dark river fills the entire channel, indicating that there is a certain probability that it is a channel with high water pressure.

Aoki had already figured out what he should do, but he scanned it under the water with his sense of thought, determined its upstream and downstream positions, and then compared the direction on the ground, and directly hammered out a hole in the jungle.

Knock out all the cameras in the vicinity.

Then, he drove two giant pangolins the size of barrels. This was something Aoki had found outside the valley the other day, just to deal with the current situation. If Aoki were to dig the hole himself, there was really nothing he could do.

The two evolved pangolins are really powerful, digging holes and flying fast. Even though Aoki asked for a hole that was countless times deeper than the one they lived in, it didn't stump them.

I saw them burrow all the way around the bend, and then Aoki continued to wrap the dirt in his mind and move it to the ground. The cave is 1 meter wide, and a large amount of earth is moved to the ground and piled up to the perimeter.

After a whole day of digging, the two pangolins finally dug up to the dark river.

Aoki quickly told them to stop and withdraw from the cave. Aoki, on the other hand, uses his sense of thought to walk through the dirt to reach the dark river, and then digs up from the dark river with his sense of thought. Soon Aoki dug the hole.

Aoki was pleasantly surprised by the pressure of the underground river, and after the hole was dug, a stream of water rushed straight up the winding hole, and finally broke through the ground, spraying half a meter into the air.

In the following time, there was no need for Aoki to dig too much, and the hole continued to expand under the continuous erosion of the water. In less than an hour, the hole was washed away by the current into a large hole with a diameter of 2 meters, and over time, it continued to expand.